𝓑𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓼𝓸𝓶 𝓛𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓪 𝓕𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻 (MDZS fanfic) ||COMPLETE||

Chapter 19 - Malice part 4

Lan WangJi, "The details, please."

Sitting down, his polite words were almost as powerful as a threat. Nie HuaiSang finally startedhis explanation.

He began, "HanGuang-Jun, you know that we, the Nie Sect, are different from the other sects.Because our sect's founder was a butcher, the other sects cultivate using swords, while our sect,on the other hand, cultivates using sabers."

This was known by everyone and was by no means a secret. Even the sect motif of theQingheNie Sect was the vicious head of a beast that resembled a dog or a pig. Nie HuaiSangcontinued, "Because our cultivation method was different from those of the other sects' and ourfounder was originally a butcher, it was only natural for blood to be shed. The sabers of our pastsect leaders were all heavy with hostile energy and killing intent. Almost every single sect leadermet a sudden death from a qi deviation explosion. Their irritable tempers also had a lot to dowith this."

Wei WuXian raised a brow, "Now, this is getting quite close to demonic cultivation."

Nie HuaiSang quickly defended, "It's different! Demonic cultivation is only demonic cultivationbecause it uses human lives. But, instead of human lives, our sect's sabers use the lives of thoseevil spirits and beasts. Throughout their whole lives, they've been killing such things, so if theyaren't able to kill them any longer, they'd cause trouble and disrupt the sect. A saber spirit onlydeems one person as its master, allowing nobody else to use it. It's not like we later generationscan melt the sabers. First, it'd be disrespectful to the ancestors; second, it's possible that evenmelting them won't solve the problem."

Wei WuXian commented, "Quite full of themselves, aren't they?"

Nie HuaiSang, "Indeed. The sabers who fought and cultivated alongside our ancestors are indeedin a position to be full of themselves."

He continued, "As the generations went on, the sect leaders had higher levels of cultivation, andthe problem also worsened. That is until the sixth sect leader came up with a solution."

Wei WuXian asked, "To build the Man-Eating Castle?"

Nie HuaiSang, "No, no. Although they are connected, this solution only appeared later. The sixthsect leader did this: he built two coffins for his father's and his grandfather's sabers, then dug atomb. Inside the tomb, instead of any valuable treasures, he put hundreds of corpses that wereabout to transform."

Lan WangJi frowned slightly. Nie HuaiSang immediately blurted, "HanGuang-Jun, I canexplain! They weren't killed by our sect's people! We had to gather them from place to place!We also bought a bunch of them at high prices. The sixth sect leader said that, if the saber spiritswanted to fight with evil beings, then give them evil beings for them to fight forever. The pretransformation corpses were buried along with the sword-containing coffins like they wereburial goods for the saber spirits. The saber spirits would suppress the transformation of thecorpses and, at the same time, the corpses would calm the sword spirits' desire and fury. Thesituation would go on as they were, with the two sides keeping each other in check. Only by thismethod did the future generations attain peace."

Wei WuXian asked again, "Then why was a stone castle built afterward? Why were the corpsesburied inside the walls? And, didn't you say that it did eat a few people?"

Nie HuaiSang answered, "These questions are actually the same question. I guess... you can saythat it did eat people. But it wasn't on purpose!!! Our sixth sect leader constructed the saber tombin such a way that it looked like the average tomb, and the future generations followed how hedid it. But, about fifty years ago, the tomb was dug up by some grave robbers."