"I'm serious, Lan Zhan. If the kids saw this..." Wei Ying slipped his hand away from Lan Zhan's grasp, "Your reputation will be ruined!"
Wei Ying hopped on the roof and Lan Zhan followed him. He used his sword to stop Wei Ying, "Look. Doesn't this remind you of the days back when we were studying at the Cloud Recesses? Me, holding a jar of Emperor's Smile, and you, trying to capture me to punish me"
Wei Ying twirled around and was behind Lan Zhan, who of course did the same thing and tried to reach out for him. Wei Ying ran and hopped to another roof and Lan Zhan still pursued, like how it was 20 years ago.
Lan Zhan reached for his sleeve again.
"More?"
Lan Zhan pulled out a jar of He Home-brew. Wei Ying laughed, "Lan Zhan, you're amazing when you're drunk" Lan Zhan tilted her head and Wei Ying took the jar from his hand.
"Lan Zhan, be good and stay here. When I settle matters here, I'll go back to Gusu with you, all right?" Wei Ying drank his wine, "Trust me" he smiled at Lan Zhan.
Lan Zhan pulled out another jar and started drinking it down. Wei Ying activated his cultivation at that moment, "I summon the spirits of the dead. Come forth" he tried to summon spirits around the Guanyin Temple, but they were blocked off completely.
"Even that wasn't enough to summon them?" Wei Ying questioned. Lan Zhan leaped to a higher roof, "An array" Wei Ying leaped next to him, "As expected. This is also an array taken from my manual on demonic cultivation. This must be why the culprit behind the cat corpses led us to Yunping City. This array may be complicated, but with the right derivation, one can still find its crux. Lan Zhan, do you have a piece of paper?"
Lan Zhan tilted his head and Wei Ying sighed. He reached in Lan Zhan's sleeve and pulled out paper, he found a stick and started scribbling on the papers. It only took him a minute and he said "All done" the papers were spread out.
As Wei Ying was about to reach them, wind started blowing the papers away and some small objects were targeting him. Lan Zhan threw his jar and it shattered as it stopped those small objects from reaching Wei Ying. More of them appeared and Lan Zhan was able to fend them off completely with Bichen despite him being intoxicated.
Lan Zhan bounced off more of them, one in particular was a smoke bomb. Him and Wei Ying were able to leaped away, but the person who ambushed them took the papers away.
"Oh, my. He sure got away fast. He stole something of mine. Aren't you going after him?" Wei Ying winked at Lan Zhan, "It is an act. I will not go after him" Lan Zhan answered.
"Not bad, Lan Zhan. Even in this state, you could still tell that I was pretending. These people want to use me to find the crux of the array. But the person who set up the array is also highly skilled. It'll take more than a day or two to find the crux. However..."
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A Third Jade {Mo Dao Zu Shi}
FanfictionLan Mei, or her courtesy name, Lan Anhe, is the youngest sibling of Lan Wangji and Lan Xichen. She is deemed as the most beautiful woman in her clan and is an extremely talented cultivator along with Lan Wangji within both their generations. Unlike...