Grey Scale

Intentions

Lan Nianzu stiffened, vision blurred. It's him, that thing.

Then, among the distance, a shriek could then be heard. A crowd formed, and it only thickened.

"What's going on?!"

His crooked voice made Lan Nianzu want to eradicate it, pretty thoughts were suddenly nonexistent.

"I said what's going on?! What could be more important than me visiting this rat hole of a place?!"

A man in ragged clothes scattered towards the man.

"I'm so sorry Second Young Master Wen, a man started coughing up blood-"

"Brother!"

The attention was now turned to Wei Wuxian, Lan Nianzu quickly got back to his senses and made his way through the crowd.

Wei Zhouhui was on the ground, coughing up blood, and with a sinister look on his face.

"Hak! Heh, it's good this damned illness got to me before I did something about that first."

Glaring daggers at Wen Chao, who was approaching with his arrogant face, that also was the most punchable thing in the world in Wei Zhouhui's eyes.

"Eh? What is this? How dare a rat of no purpose dare disturb my visit? it's the most significant thing you people will ever witness, so look carefully!"

He spit on the ground, and reached for Wei Zhouhui.

Heh.

"And what significance do you hold?"

Wen Chao stopped, "What did you say?"

Wei Zhouhui coughed out the last of his boiling mass, "I asked for what significance you hold. Specifically to this, so called rat?"

"H-how dare you talk back to me? Wen Chao, son of the most powerful sect leader, and a clan member of the best out of all clans?"

Zhouhui laughed hysterically, "But do tell me, why should I care about you? You hold no significance, not even to that puny clan of yours."

Wen Chao reddened, he gritted his teeth and raised his hand, flicking it.

Purple lightning flickered for Wen Zhuliu, but Wei Zhouhui could only laugh even more. He raised his hand, but was stopped.

Three bunches of herbs were shoved into his mouth, "You didn't take your medicine," Nianzu's face darkened.

Now that, is what scared Wei Zhouhui, oops.

Jiang Wanyin and Wei Wuxian rushed in, "I'm sorry Second Young Master Wen, he is of the Yunmeng Jiang Sect and isn't in the right mind, he is ill. I'm sure he didn't mean any bad intentions, please don't mind his words."

"Heh. If he didn't mean it, why not he at least be punished? Better for him to remember not to do it again, Wen Zhuliu!"

Purple lightning flickered brightly from Wen Zhuliu's hand, everyone around gasped. But that was quickly quieted down.

"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you can't take his golden core."

Wen Chao spit, "And why not? He insulted the great Wen clan! He should know as a cultivator that we are the greatest, yet he still spat such falses!"

"Young Master, you can't take his golden core. He doesn't have one."

The man's eyes widened, then he grinned widely, "So he's a mediocre? A cultivator that lost his purpose? Hah! What an arrogant rat! I will be telling this to my father then!"

Wei Zhouhui found this too humorous, the sky was bright, Wen Chao was here, and his thoughts were a mess, one more word and he would have someone else's blood on his hands.

It seemed that Lan Nianzu detected the murderous thoughts, because he tuned up his voice.

"He does hold meaning, but of course someone of such [low] stature of yours can't see it's significance."

Picking up Wei Zhouhui with one arm, he quickly ran out of that premise. You'll have to kill him later Wei Ying.

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"What were you thinking?!" Jiang Wanyin smacked Wei Zhouhui over his head. "Why would you do something so stupid?"

Wei Zhouhui shrugged, "Just tell your parents get ready the barrier on Lotus Pier, I'll defend. Knowing that brat, he'll burn it down like last time."

"Last time?!"

"They had burned down Lotus Pier before, and yet you still provoked them?!"

Wei Zhouhui popped in three medicinal herbs in his mouth, "I mean, I'm probably stronger than the entire Qishan Wen Sect, and I have no weakness against Wen Zhuliu either. Plus, with Lan Nianzu's help, we're practically unstoppable."

Wei Wuxian and Jiang Wanyin paused, "I'm going to be more powerful than the Wens when I grow up?"

Wei Zhouhui contemplated, "Maybe, not through my methods though," I can't allow for him to rely on demonic cultivation.

"Hey, Wei Zhouhui, why were you coughing up blood earlier? And what does the eldest Young Master Lan have with you?"

Wei Zhouhui stopped to think again, what does he have to do with me? We're not friends, why does he care so much about my well being?

"He's... A good friend of mine in the future, I don't know what's wrong with me though, I just cough up blood a lot without this medication I got when I was missing, no one really told me why this is happening. Do know that I won't let anything happen to Lotus Pier this time."

The two quietly accepted that.

Wei Zhouhui looked at the two sworn brothers of Yunmeng, in the future, you two are essentially strangers.

He looked down at his hands, the blood of everyone he killed, formed in his vision. Each voice bellowed through his head, the heart wrenching cries, the thousands of last words he had heard in his life. Before, they disgusted him, but now, the constant cries seemed so far away, they no longer bothered him.

He clenched his fists, I'll kill Wen Rouhan and his two hell spawns later, before the Wen Clan is completely despised by the cultivation world.

The sun was about to set, Zhouhui reached for Chenqing, tracing over the carvings. Small ghosts floated among the many bright stars.

He raised Chenqing towards the sky, I won't let fate decide for them, I will change everyone's miserable destiny. I will build them a path to walk, in which everyone can be happy. Then I can rest, I'll let whatever happens to me, happen. It's for the good of everyone.

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Welcome to the universe of universes my child, Lali here!

How did you feel about this chapter? The whore of whores has appeared, and only wish for his death already, I mean, I originally wanted Zhouhui to do more than just taunt, so... that's that. I may not post anything for the next two weeks, maybe more, the stack of schoolwork is becoming larger, and I won't have any free time, thus no time to write. Thank you so much for reading this fanfiction.

And goodbye good children! See you in the next chapter!