Dual Devotion

Chenqing

In the moment he move out from Wei Ying's dark energy, he knew there was something odd. He could feel the Yin Metal, but the presence of the ones who should be using it was not as clear. The Yin Metal effect range was wide and it looked that some spell was used in order to hide the exact location. He had to give that bastard Xue Yang, that he did a good job in concealing their presence. Ordinary cultivators and spirits would not even notice they were there somewhere in hiding, but unfortunately for them, he was no ordinary spirit and darkness was his domain.

He hide behind a big rock, as there were many of them in that valley and just like Wei Ying had done before, he spread his consciousness from where he stood to further out in front of him in a semi-circle. He concentrate hard in the place he felt the strongest dark energy of the Yin Metal, then harder around the area. The others were distracting the two that were controlling the strings of the game, which make it a lot easier for him to finally find them.

His vessel been a flute, make him more sensitive to sound and he soon find out two voices, behind a big group of rocks and one of them, he was sure belonged to the traitor, Meng Yao. He was going to run their way and fight them both, or at the very least steal away their Yin Metal, but as he hear them talking about Wei Ying, he simply waited, just in case he could find something useful on their hushed conversation.

"They took the bait... aren't you glad we acted sooner? Waiting for them to go find Yin was going to take too long, now, what about if you take them both. Wei Wuxian will not agree to sacrifice his soul in exchange of Rouhan's to transmigrate into his body without someone he deeply cares about. The kid is not here, but his lover is showing off so much, I'm afraid the corpses will not last for long, nor will the tortoise." Xue Yang said.

"Haste is not a virtue. Wei Wuxian is smart, he will not show off, exposing himself without care. What we need to be wary of is Yin's flute Chenqing." Meng Yao explained.

"For what I can see, Wuxian have it in his hand and even has started to play it... this is a good chance to catch him with that wicked sound of yours." Xue advised, already itching to snatch him away.

"Let's wait until they almost finish. Their guard will be lower then. There is something odd in the way they came, it was too sudden and I will like to observe them some more." Meng Yao said as he watched the fight from afar.

"Maybe they used teleportation. The cultivators in the east are all proficient with that and Wuxian is no exception." He insisted.

"No matter how talented Wixian is, a teleportation from that far is beyond his capabilities... unless he reached another level." Xue laughed.

"That brat? At level ten? Ah, come on... not even a genius like me can reach that level in such a short amount of time. The difference between level nine and ten is just like the earth and heaven. Becoming a sage in his way to immortality is no walk in the park and even for Sanren, it will take most of her life to reach that level." Xue added.

"Someone who can use Yin's flute is no ordinary person." Meng Yao insisted.

"Then let's change plans and give me Wuxian to play with and you take Lan Wangji for Rouhan." Xue mocked, but Chenqing had just enough of their wicked plans and he flashed forwards, sending a killing wave toward both of them, only to be stopped by Jiangzia, who sensing the killing intent, go out of his blade and shielded both his Master Xue and Yao.

"Get back Master! Chenqing is here!" Jiangzia yelled as he came to intercept him, giving them time to react, as both spirit engaged in a deadly battle. However, Wei Ying was not the only one that could manipulate dark energy, he could too all on his own, so he moved the dark energy on their feet and try to trap them both on it.

However, they jumped away into a rock at the same time that Meng Yao's sword spirit went out to fight him too. Two on one was nothing for him, not even if Xue Yang and Meng Yao joined in as well, but unfortunately for Chenqing, the wicked traitor had another weapon on him and a song that could put even him on his knees, thus as he fought three at once, Meng Yao used the distraction to take his flute out.

He knew by memory the sound he learned from a collection of dark songs that were scripted when the demons shared the world with the humans. That such book had ended in the hands of the Lan Clan ancestors was a strike of luck on his part and that one of such dark sounds could kill and control in a very short time, it was even more so, as Chenqing was too dangerous to let him free for long.

He jumped into a higher stone, to get away from the energy that was chasing him and immediately started to play his red flute. This one was not a cultivator's flute, although it was not an ordinary flute either, it was a treasure weapon he found sealed on an abandon ruins that had been once the dark Clean Sky Sect, that had helped some members of the Nether Tribe to escape from their seal several centuries ago, leaded by the strongest of demons Jiang Shili.

The effect of his tune was almost instantaneous, because he could see Chenqing lose his focus and the dark energy he was controlling to get away from his grasp. The flute had a resonating effect that could magnify the radius for wide enough to reach Wei Wuxian as well, however, just when he thought that he had a good hold on Chenqing and an effect on Wuxian, Chenqing was summon back, escaping from his effect and the others teleported somewhere else safely.

"Ahhhh!!" Meng Yao yelled in frustration as both his pray had escaped of his grasp, using an unknown force that took him by surprise.

Back in the temple, Chenqing retailed what happen on his end, including what he had heard about the plans of the traitor, as well as the sound that could affect both of them, if they were not protected against it.

Lan Wangji

Even in his current weak state, as he heard Chenqing explanation of his previous statement, he couldn't help but feel enraged. Rage because Wei Ying was precious to him and they knew it, rage because they wanted to use him to get Wei Ying to agree to something he would not otherwise, rage because no one mess up with his family, with neither his brother, husband or son and live to tell the tale.

In such rage, the energy in the temple became active again, moving around the floor in a circle and once again gathering inside of him. He wanted to send his energy in a raging wave, right to where he could sense Meng Yao's energy. He had mess up with his brother already and that had been bad enough, but messing with his lover was something he will pay for it with his blood.

"Lan Zhan! Stop it, you just swallow the seed a short while. Overusing it will only harm you, stop gathering it." Wei Ying told him, but he was basically blinded by his deep anger. They were so bonded that anyone who try to harm his Wei Ying, needed to be punished as soon as possible in order for him not to get away to try again, but as he haste the energy inside his core, he felt a wave of intense pain and puck more blood.

"Lan Zhan! Please stop!" Wei pleaded as he grab him even closer and repelled the gathered energy with his own in a gale of dark pressure that make the white mist covering the floor to dispel and go out, as the now crowded temple got rid of all the dust accumulated by the years of sealing, making Jiang Cheng and a lot of others to caught.

"Wei Ying... no one harms you... and lives..." Lan Zhan said seriously and Wei sighed. His Lan Zhan was the best, but he really needed to take better care of himself, because there would be no point if he got hurt while trying to protect him. He loved his Lan Zhan just as much as Wangji loved him and he also wanted him safe first.

"My Lan Zhan... it's okay. We will get Meng Yao and Xue Yang in another time. You just awaken to the seed, let's go back, you need to rest and stabilize before you can do anything else." Wei said softly and Sanren smiled, quite charmed by the devotion of her son-in-law for his son.

They were indeed meant to be with each other and she was more than pleased with it, because her son had not only gained a wonderful husband, but a knight in shining armor that will always put his safety first and love him like no other. She couldn't ask for more in that lifetime and she will gladly pass to her beloved son-in-law, the responsibility she knew he will fulfil as well as she had done for since his birth.

"You should really take him back, Sanren and I will take care of things here and tomorrow we will discuss about the rebels goal. You can transfer him back, right, Wuxian?" Wei smiled.

"Of course." He assured her.

"Then, take your lover as well as your friends and go back to the entrance of town. There, enter the town again and you will find the girls. I put them under a spell, so they will not know you have been gone for a few hours and after you have them, walk back to the Clan. Worry not about been found by Lord Lao, Sanren will handle him once back." Xiao Man said and Wei felt relieved, the same as the others, who honestly feared Wei Lao's punishment more than those in their own Clans.

"Got it, I leave father to you mom." He said smiling at her, then gathering his dark energy to teleport back to the entrance of town.

Once the deed was done, Wei Ying held Lan Zhan close, who was now really tired and told the others to get the girls, because Lan Zhan's white robes were stained with his blood, so it was better if no one else saw him like that and they all agree, taking separate ways back to the main Clan and when out of sight, Wei Ying took his wonderful husband back to their room. Suibian and Bichen went out to bring something that will help Lan Wangji to recover faster, although they knew he will be just fine in Wei Ying's arms, but the excuse was as good as any to let the love birds alone for a long while.

"Come, let's put you to rest..." Wei Ying whisper as he helped his lover to walk toward their bed with a bit of difficulty.

"Maybe I should carry you bridal style. We more or less marry today after all." Wei joked.

"Nonsense." Wangji protested.

"Why not? You had carry me a few times already, why can't I carry you too?" Wei Ying refuted.

"I weight more..." Wangji simply said as he sat at the border of their bed and Wei Ying laughed.

"That's not a real excuse, I am a man too. I assure you, my Lan Zhan that I can carry you to bed anytime you want me." Lan Zhan simply blushed, making Wei Ying laugh more.

"Wei Ying... I won't let them have you..." Lan Zhan changed the topic, as Wei Ying took a small towel and wet it in a basin full of water.

"I wasn't expecting they were going to use me as a vessel for Rouhan's soul. I knew about the summoning and that they want me, but never imagine I was the key to their plan. I guess my secret is still unknown to Meng Yao, otherwise he would had known that my body can't be used into a transmigration sacrifice because it already had two spirits inside." Wei Ying said as he kneeled in front of Wangji, to gently clean the blood on his face and neck.

"Tell me more." Wangji demanded, as he close his eyes, letting Wei Ying clean him so tenderly, then taking off his belt to have further access.

"Xuanyu lives inside of me, sealed on my own core dimension, adding his black one to mine. In a way, I had Xuanyu's black core inside my golden one and even if I were to be forced to go through the sacrifice curse, in the moment my soul leaves the body, Xuanyu will takeover it, as he is already inside, making the transmigration a failure." Wei Ying explained as he open Wangji's robe, to clean down his chest and discard the bloody robe.

"Then, he can't use you, no matter what, right?" Wangji wanted the reaffirmation.

"Yep, not for that at least. I'm sure Xiao Man gave me the seed of darkness for more than saving my life when I was a kid. By giving me the ability to use Xuanyu so early and then sealing him inside of me, she was also preventing for my body to be taken by the mad sage Rouhan. As a seer, she most had seen through their plan, she was not even surprise when Chenqing told us what he heard." Wei Ying softly said, as he gave his half naked lover a kiss.

"Lan Zhan... you were awesome just now. So powerful, so stunningly beautiful..." Wei whisper as he parted, but Wangji was a turmoil of emotions, concentrated in the man he had in front of him and he was simply unwilling to let him off his arms, so he grab Wei Yin by his waist and pull him over him as he let himself fall backwards over the bed and Wei over himself.

"I need you..." Lan Zhan whisper as he kiss his Wei Ying for good, open himself to him in a way he had not done before. Wei Ying was his world now and if he was fated to follow his man for life, then he was ready to become a wanderer, a man bound to nowhere only to that bright soul, he had waited for long years, because despite he had not meet with Wei Ying before he came to his Clan, he had longed for his soul to come find him almost since childhood.

"Wei Ying..." He turned on the bed to be over his lover and had a better look at those mischievous eyes that had him so captivated.

"Lan Zhan... seriously, you need to rest..." Wei try to think in his lover health, but a set of hands were making it impossible at the moment.

"You said not to blame you for been all over me. I don't." Lan Zhan remsined him and Wei laughed.

"My Lan Zhan, you are learning to tease back." Wei said with a bright smile.

"Did you ask for the new oil?" Lan Zhan asked, as the one they had used before to make it easier for Wei, was now gone.

"And getting bolder, are you now trying to seduce me with the soothing of lube, my dear husband?" Wei tease him, making Wangji blush. Perhaps he was indeed seducing the lovely troublemaker, but then again, it was now on his nature, as he needed Wei Ying, the same way he needed the air.

"Mn... yes?" Wei laughed.

"Then by all means, keep going... your balance can wait a few more hours..." Wei said as Wangji sat over his lap and open his black robes in need to touch more of his porcelain skin, as his face was even more on fire.

"Not hours, all night long, remember?" Wei laughed again, as his husband was turning to be quite literal, but that was his charm and his body, certainly belonged to Wangji whatever for a night of passion or for entire days, he didn't mind.

As recently turned sages, their resistance had also increase, not to mention that the relink of the seeds will keep their fire burning for a lifetime. As Wangji kissed Wei Ying and seduce him to a delicious oblivion of ecstasy, Yin stirred in her madness inside the Burial Mounds, sensing the reborn of the seeds and with it, a wave of fierce corpses headed toward the seal of the entrance.

It was only a matter of time before they break lose the seal and went out in the direction of the Clan barriers. Also, back in the north, Yang went down to the Cold Lake to meet with his dormant dragon that had been cleansed of Yin's energy. He had also felt the reborn of new generation of them that will help them restore the balance faster than they could do it on their own.

Yang touched the white scales of the dragon, making it open his eyes to stare at his old Master with golden eyes. The time had finally come to reunite with his other half. His solitary life had been too hard to live on his own, making him sleep for centuries in order to prevent his own madness.

"Yin... the seeds had been planted... we will see each other soon, very soon..." Yang said as his dragon got the message, leaving the cave he had sleep for so long and went outside of it and into the air for the first time in centuries in the direction of the east. The world needed the healing of the lands and the balance to be restored once and for all.

AN: Thank you my darling, yet another long one, but the end is near now. Our boys had grown and soon they will be ready to make their fateful quest to find Yin and reunite it with Yang. Also, the reason why Xuanyu was sealed inside Ying is now clear, yet how will it end, is still a mystery we will find out together. With all my love, take care until next time. 😄❤💖💞🌷