Wangxian Prompt/Self-fill Dump

Like a Phoenix, I rise Pt 1

Prompt:

What if during the Siege of the Burial Mounds, Lan Zhan was killed to save him from 'being bewitched by the Devil's Whore?' What if not long after this, Wei Ying's very soul shatters and throughs the balance of everything out of whack? Well a pair of certain Gods are not happy and have opted to fix that.

The real question is: Is Lan Zhan willing to do whatever it takes to correct the sins of the past, to ensure that Wei Ying's life is better than it was the first time and keep him safe and happy? Will he become a monster to protect his beloved and the future they never got to have?

If you have to ask, then you do not know Lan Zhan.

Snippet:

"LAN ZHAN!!!!"

It was the last thing he could hear, the last image burned into his eyes and mind before the heavy ax was dropped onto his neck, was of his beloved, struggling against the arms of purple clad guards, his silver eyes a dull grey now that he could hardly see, pale and sickly, but still so beautiful. He burned the image into his memories, his very soul so not even Death could take it away from him. And then nothing...

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Curious...

So very curious

How is it you have such a strong will to live?

When you are so very much dead?

Why bother fighting anymore?

Give in....

Give in to us....

Give into me....

GIVE IN LAN ZHAN!!!!!

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Golden eyes snapped open in total darkness before the demons and soul eaters suddenly screech and are blasted away as he sits up, his hand moving to his neck and he blinks, feeling the scar where his head had been chopped off. He looks around the still dark room but no he can see past the oppressive black. He is surrounded by polished ice, almost like mirrors and he can see he is naked, scars lining where his body had been chopped to pieces postmortem. He is confused. He is dead and yet he is not.

"A finally awake..." he turns and sees a short strange woman, her skin is pale white and her eyes burn a bright green in the dark. She is dressed in a long black dress with a long veil that covers hear hair and hides the rest of her face. "Your end was not meant to happen, but it seems that idiots, divine or not will always be idiots... Lay down and let me finish my work... sadly your mortal life was ended and your body was shamed in death so I cannot bring you back as who you once were... though you will be someone new..."

"W--" He chokes and she pushes him flat, sucking her teeth as she goes.

"Do not speak... it's every hard to put someone back together when they've been chopped up and burned, fed to wild animals and the like... my brother was most upset when one of his favored people was killed before their time..." She sighs, grabbing a strange tool that looked sharp and terrifying, but as she cut, nothing happened. No pain; no blood. He can only stare at her. "You are quiet dead, but I'm going to fix that... you see, I am an entity, much like my brother, who is neither made nor born. I simply exist. I am the Law and Order of the land, but I am also the Chaos and Mayhem that runs rampant. I am what you call Karma. And you've spent your whole life building up good Qi so it was bound to end in a good ending for you. Marrying the love of your life, having children and achieving immortality with your beloved... but some one had to go and break the chain... broke a single link and it all came crashing down because with all that Good Qi, there is an equal amount of Bad waiting to happen and it is spiraled too fast that by the time I caught it and stopped it, it was too late..."