A Way to Heal

Part 68

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Jiang Cheng broke out, "Mom!"

Madam Yu had already stood up. Zidian had turned into its whip form, sizzling between her hands of cold jade. She shouted, "Jiang Cheng, move out of the way, or you'll be kneeling too!"

Wei WuXian tried to get up, pushing against the ground, "Jiang Cheng, move over! Don't worry about me!"

Madam Yu lashed out her whip again, forcing him back onto the ground. She ground her teeth together, "... I've said long ago, that you... you unruly thing! Would bring trouble to the Jiang Sect, sooner or later!"

Loud gasps could be heard all over the cave. Freezing on to their spots, they couldn't move a single finger. When a sect is in danger one most important thing for every member of that sect is to stay together AND FIGHT TILL THEY WIN OR DIE. There is no in between. So obviously nobody needed to tell them how to act in front of an enemy who was waiting to destroy them. And No one in the cultivation world would have an opposite opinion on how strong and skilled cultivator Yu ZiYuan was. But this one act of her, in front of another sect member, undoubtedly proved how easy it was to destroy the Jiang Sect. A little Triggered ego and the job was done. It was like the madam of the sect handing out the fuel to burn down her own sect and people. She was abusing their head disciple, one of the most important titles in a sect. If there is to be a fight right now, he should be the one who is supposed to lead the disciples. What was she even expecting by injuring him until he can't stand on his own.

With a horrified look they turned to Wei WuXian who was looking at anything but not them. The knuckles in Lan WangJi's fingers were pale white by clutching his palm tight and Wei Wuxian had no doubt, the inside of his palms were already bleeding. Jiang Cheng felt the burning eyes on him and didn't need to tell from whom they were. They could see how distressed he was and how he tried to stop his mother from her wrath.

"I tried", he said in a broken voice. "Nobody could stop her once she got mad. Not even father. I was helpless". At that moment sect leader Jiang turned into that 17 year old boy who couldn't do anything but pray for his brother who was getting wrongly punished.

Wei WuXian pushed Jiang Cheng away. He clenched his teeth as he suffered, unspeaking and unmoving. In the past, although Madam Yu had always come at him with harsh words, she had never truly been cruel to him. The most that he'd been through were two or three strikes and being grounded. He'd also be let out by Jiang FengMian soon later. This time, however, he endured dozens of heavy strikes. His back burned and his entire body was numb with pain. He couldn't bear it, but he had to bear it. Today, if the punishment didn't satisfy Wang LingJiao, the matter at hand would never end!

"Even after the punishment, the matter never ended", reminded Jiang Cheng. "They never wanted it to end"

Lan Xichen watching all this said, "Yes. Even if you didn't insult Wen Chao, they would have still found a way to suppress Yunmeng and Jiang Sect under their control. Remember the attack in Cloud Recess? We didn't do anything but still they tried to destroy us"

"That time", Lan QiRen remembered, "Wen Rouhan was determined to make all other sects under Qishan Wens. So one think or the other, they would have made it happen"

"But why didn't he attack the Jins?", Jin Ling asked. "Uncle Wei was not the only one who stood against Wen Chao. Han Guang-Jun and my father also did"

"Because of your grandfather", Lan WangJi gritted his teeth. As if he was analyzing the whole situation now, Nie HuiSang nodded his head, "They decided to take it out on the Jiang sect because Cloud Recess was already burned down leaving the Lans with a demised sect leader and a missing heir. As for your Jin sect", HuiSang let out a quirky laugh, "Jin GuangShan never intended to make them an enemy and the Wens were more than sure of that. That man was a very good politician"