Yin And Yang Story

New Sword Spirits

Qingfeng – Nie Huaisang, Chilie – Jiang Yanli, Yingyu – Mianmian (I kind of change her name from the photo because this one sounds more feminine and had a better meaning)

Suibian

"So, he really fear dogs?" Sandu asked the young sword spirit who was paying attention at the sounds of the forest, just in case, wild dogs indeed were around.

"Ah, yeah... it's a long story, but true nevertheless." Suibian answer.

"Still, he is quite powerful." Chilie said quite impressed.

"He is an idiot." Senlin said, sighing.

"You truly are exactly like my Master Sister." Huanying said not doubting it for a second.

"And I'm proud of it." Senlin said with obvious pride.

"Better be careful around her... if she can immobilize a mystical dragon, we don't have a chance." Qingfeng whisper, earning a laugh from Suibian but a hard stare form Senlin. Qingfeng, shiver under her gaze and hide behind Shuanghua, who was not blindfolded this time.

"She can stare as scary as Bichen, huh?" Sandu whisper.

"Hey, that's rude! Take it back." Suibian protested, but it only make Sandu laugh.

"We have a love sick boy." Sandu said.

"He is cute like that, leave him alone." Yingyu said, sighing.

"Oh, do you like him?" Chilie asked.

"I wouldn't dare. Bichen will kill me." Yingyu whisper.

"I don't think she likes him much..." Fuxue said.

"Hey, that's not true!" Suibian protested again and the team of swords spirits laughed.

"Oh, she will, don't worry, Suibian." Shuanghua said smiling at him.

"At least, a sensible one." Suibian told him back.

"Don't take them seriously, they are just joking." Huangying said softly.

"You are a true friend, Huangying." Suibian told him as he passed one arm around his shoulder.

"I was wrong before, you both are idiots." Senlin said and Sandu laughed.

"Hum... excuse me, Lady Senlin, but do you always wear that hat on night hunting's? Doesn't that limit your sight?" Chilie asked quite intrigued, but Suibian put his hand over his mouth to keep him from asking further about it.

"I advise you to never ask her to take it off. She really mean business when she does. Just like Wen Qing, she is also a healer, thus the hat keep her from doing serious harm, if she ever takes it off, then she is in for a kill." Suibian told him seriously.

"Does this even counts as a night hunting? It's more like a dog hunting if you ask me, thus no need to have a better look here." Senlin said, ignoring Suibian and Sandu smiled.

"I guess this is a dog hunting, my Lady." Sandu said, giving her a small bow that actually make her blush.

"I guess she can also acts like a woman." Suibian whisper to Huangying.

"I hear that Suibian." She gave him yet another hard stare.

"I miss Bichen, why we don't go back now? We haven't seen or hear any dog close to the camp. I think is safe to assume, the cost is clear for now." Suibian said.

"He just want to stare at the snow white beauty." Qingfeng said.

"But she is indeed, beautiful, right?" Suibian asked.

"Just like her Master, that she is so devoted, to a point she will not leave his side even for a short walk. Kid, you have it hard." Sandu said and Yingyu smiled.

"He will have his chances. Lan Wangji does seems a bit interested in Wei Wuxian. He even let him rest his head in his lap... and he kind of unconsciously combed his hair while listening to our Masters stories and when he became restless, it was so lovingly cute." Yingyu said, almost squealing.

"He will have a hard time with him thought, he is a womanizer." Suibian said.

"Oh, I'm not so sure about that, but yes, we should head back and make sure their fire doesn't go out. It's quite cold here and no dog will interrupt Wei Wuxian sleep now." Shuanghua said and they turned back to the camp, to look after their Masters.

Wei Wuxian

The next morning, Wei Wuxian miraculously wake up a bit before sunrise. His head was resting on something warm, but the rest of his body was laying on a hard surface, so when he open his eyes, he wasn't expecting to see the pure white fabric of a long robe that ended with white shoes. Close by, the rest of the team was fast asleep near a campfire.

"You awake earlier." A deep voice said from above him and Wuxian look up, finding Lan Zhan handsome face looking at him. His heart skipped a beat, but his mind went into panic, realizing he had sleep on Lan Zhan's lap, probably all night. He suddenly moved up and smiled nervously at him.

"Ah.... Lan Zhan... I... did I cause you trouble?" Wuxian asked and Wangji thought of what happened during the course of last night.

Back then, Wei had moved over his lap quite a lot, gabbed his robes, his leg, murmuring something about dogs, then hugging his torso at times for dear life and let go to mumble some more. His restless murmuring had make most of the spirit swords go out and scout the surrounding forest, just to make sure no dog will wake him up when he was already having a troubled sleep.

"No." Wangji said, considering the hassle was not all that bad and in the end he didn't mind it. Closing his eyes Lan Wangji go back to his meditation. It was still early for the others to wake up and if he was lucky Wei Ying will also consider make some meditation too. However...

"Damn, I feel so drained and hungry... we didn't really eat anything yesterday... wow, wait... we camp near the Cold Lake? Lan Zhan! Did you heard dogs bark nearby?" Wei Ying asked, getting closer to him, while graving his long sleeve.

"No dogs are nearby. Rest some more." Wangji said calmly, but Wuxian simply moved closer to him.

"Are you sure? The locals said they came almost every night." Wie Ying insisted.

"They were probably getting away from the dragon." Wangji said, most certainly the wild dogs were trying to get away from the dragon when it got out at night and trying to seek refuge in the nearby houses that were closed with tall fences, thus the marks of claws.

"Wait... dragon? Oh hell, we need to go back to the islands. I have very important information to pass on to your brother of Lord Zheng. It's about Yin and Yang and what really happen in the war that destroyed the balance of the energy centuries ago." Wei told him and Lan Zhan open his eyes to look at him. Wei Ying expression was death serious, so he didn't doubt Wuxian had indeed something urgent to tell them.

"I will wake the others." Suibian said, getting out of his blade, to gently wake Wei Ning and the others and as soon as everyone was fully awake, they teleported back to the floating islands.

Once in there, Lan Zhan guided them to his brother resting room, in which he was meditating at that early hour. He called his brother and give him a very short explanation of the night events and to their surprise, Lord Zheng showed up, taking them to a sealed realm, so they could have a long talk without fearing for someone unwanted to spy on them.

They sat in a semi-circle of two rings. The first one made with the students, the second behind them, made of the swords spirits with Lord Zhang and Xichen in front of them all.

"Alright, spit it out kid, we are all ears." Lord Zhen said seriously.

"While I was in the Cold cave, I experience empathy with the dark energy and feelings left behind in the place. This happens to me when placed had a very violent history, as I am more sensitive to spiritual energy than others. I saw many images that with all honestly overflowed inside my mind making me sick. Lan Zhan can verify the information if you need proof." Xichen then looked at Wangji, who assented.

"He is right." Wangji simply said.

"The first images were of the war, a mad Sage called Rohan wanted to control Yin's dark energy to dominate the cultivator world. He went to the sacred mountain that connected heaven and earth, which was the home of the two immortal opposite spirits, Yin and Yang. The other cultivators found out about his plan and try to stop him, thus the war begin at the foot of the sacred mountain."

"Seen he was about to fall, Rohan summon one of the four evil creatures know to the world, Taotie." Most of the present were completely shocked when hearing that, because the name of Taotie was well known in their culture no matter in which area you were born. Every child grew up hearing the parents threat 'if you do bad things, Taotie will eat you', because the beast was the epiphany of greed, to the point it will eat literally anything in its path, including his own body.

Although most parent used the threat with mischievous child's, no one actually knew how to summon Taotie or had the required energy to do so, because summoning the evil creature involved a sacrifice of the body and soul. Lord Zheng looked even paler than usual and Xichen was even more shocked.

"Taotie? Then, we are lucky there is still a world..." Lord Zheng whisper.

"What happen to Yin and Yang?" Xichen asked next.

"The beast went in a rampage, destroying the sacred mountain, these islands are actually the remnants of that, saved because they had retained the magic released in the destruction. With the mountain gone, Yin's black dragon try to protect the sacred immortals that gave balance to the energy of the world, but Taotie eat it too, soon after. He found Yin first and ungraded, he begin to eat up her black energy, but Yang, stood in between and was almost sucked dry in her place."

"Without someone to help her control her dark energy, because Yang became too weak, Yin went mad and disappeared, probably teleported somewhere else, leaving Yang alone. His white dragon, thought, new they didn't had the chance to defeat the beast, thus he took Yang away, greatly weakened by the draining of his white energy. This, completely upsetting the perfect balance of the energies, thus making the world enter in a state of chaos, called the dark world. Taotie ate his own body, filled with huge amounts of both energies and kill himself soon after, but the damage was already done."

"Centuries later, you guys found Yang, I presume and sacrifice your spiritual energy to restore a bit of his, giving back a hint of balance, that unfortunately only reached the north. But... as I saw it, for there to be a perfect balance, the two immortals needs to be with each other, because Yang controls Yin's infinite dark energy, transforming it to white in a never ending circle, giving birth to the Yin/Yang symbol, the Lan Clan use in the islands." Wei said quite sure that was the complete puzzle his head had absorbed from the tainted cave and to their surprise, Lord Zheng begin to laugh.

"Lord Zhen?" Xichen asked, worry for the white spirit.

"I asure you, what I said its nothing but the true. You can even find Yang's dragon under the Cold Lake, in a huge cave that was part of the sacred mountains before they were destroyed." Wei assured him.

"Ah, Wuxian, I'm not doubting you. I know about Yinse, the white dragon sleeping under the lake. It's just that we were all wrong and she was right." Lord Zheng said, making Xichen curious.

"She? She who?" He asked.

"Meng Shiyu. The only human immortal alive to this day. Back then, we thought that giving out our strong energy will help Yang to wake up for his long sleep and she told us that the problem of the world was not Yang losing his white energy, but Yin been missing from his side. She had told us that a fish could not swing without water, but we ignore her and go ahead with our plan, while she call us fools and went in search of Yin. Although our sacrifice did wake Yang, at least partially, it didn't resolve the problem, as he could only spread his white energy to the north." Lord Zheng said.

"But did she found Yin?" Jiang Cheng asked.

"About that we don't know." Xichen said.

"She is somewhere in the east." Wuxian added, earning surprised stares from all.

"What do you mean?" Wangji, sat by his side asked.

"Just like the white energy in the north is the strongest, because of the presence of Yang, the same applies to her and where is the dark energy the strongest?" Wei asked in general.

"The east." The rest echoes unconsciously.

"There you had your answer." Wei said.

"Then tell me kid, in where in the east the dark energy is the strongest?" Lord Zheng asked.

"The Burial Mounds." All three, Wei Ying, Wen Qing and Wen Ning said at the same time. Making the rest of the presence quite restless.

"I was afraid you will said that, damn." Lord Zheng said. "Alright, take this day free and have your deserved rest. I need to make some changes in your coming training, because I need you all at your strongest." Lord Zhen said.

"Wait, you are not training us to go looking for her, right?" Nie asked with visible fright. He knew the stories about the Burial Mounds, a place of death no one returned to.

"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid so..." The white spirit said and Huaisang fainted on the spot.

AN: LOL. Poor Huaisang. Alright, the story is beginning to take shape now. Rohan is not a Wen here, but guess who is a descendant of him? And another guess who will join him soon, telling him all the info he needs? Yep, you probably guess right. By the way, Taotie did exited in Chinese culture, you can type the name and lots of info will show. Until next time, please take care.