MDZS Characters Watching the Future

17. Cloud Recesses

After a few minutes the screen lighted up again.

The residence of the Lan Sect was located in a remote mountain outside the city of Gusu.

Mist constantly enveloped the white walls and black roofs of the buildings, which stretched along the picturesque garden of the waterside pavilion, as if it was an ocean of clouds in the immortal realm. At dawn, the first rays of the morning sun shone through the hazy billows of mist that drifted far and wide, perfectly complementing its name—the “Cloud Recesses.”

"What a beautiful place." said a few cultivators.

"Of course our home is the most beautiful." said Jingyi with pride.

"Aren't you breaking your sect's rules." commented Wei Wuxian.

"What about that?" asked Jiang Cheng.

"What an overprotective mother you are, ChengCheng." tease Wei Wuxian.

In such a tranquil place, one’s heart would be like still water. Only the echoes of the bell tower could be heard vibrating through the air. Although it was incomparable to a holy temple, the cold mountains still send forth a lonesome air of Zen.

"I want to go in this kind of place." said a female cultivator.

"Only if you knew." said Nie Huaisang.

However, the ambience was suddenly shattered by a long wail, giving a few shudders down the backs of the disciples who were training or doing their morning readings. They couldn’t help but to glance at the direction of the main entrance, where the sound came from.

Wei WuXian was crying in front of the entrance, clinging onto his donkey. Lan JingYi spoke, “Stop crying! You said that you liked HanGuang-Jun yourself, so what are you wailing for, now that he has taken you back?”

"Everyone laughed at the sight of Wei Wuxian.

"I agree with with my son. If you have gone with me then maybe it wpuld be more cruel." said Jiang Cheng.

"Maybe I have my reason why I don't to go back to that place." said Wei Wuxian.

Wei WuXian pulled a long face.

He never had the chance to summon Wen Ning again, after the night at Dafan Mountain. Neither did he have any opportunities to find out why Wen Ning was unconscious or why he had appeared in this world again, before he was carried back by Lan WangJi.

"You have plenty of time for that." said Nie Huaisang.

"If Lan Zhan will allow me to go out." said Wei Wuxian.

"Why would he lock you?" asked Jiang Cheng.

"Because we were enemies." said Wei Wuxian.

"Wei-qianbe that's not true." said Sizhui.

When he was in his early youth, he had came to study at the Lan Sect for three months, along with the disciples of other clans, so he had experienced the GusuLan Sect’s dull, boring atmosphere in person. In fact, he still shuddered at the thought of the three-thousand-or-so sect rules which crammed onto the Wall of Discipline. As he was tugged up the mountain, he passed by the rock wall again, and saw that a thousand more were carved on. Now, there were more than four thousand. Four thousand!

"Four thousand? Can they still live with that rules?" asked Wei Wuxian in disbelief.

"I change my mind, I won't to go there anymore." said the female cultivator earlier.

"How is that possible?" asked Qingheng-jun.

"It is the elders who made that rules, fuqin." said Lan Xichen.