BROKEN

MORTALS ARE NOT ALLOWED

On hearing the man call the masked man as 'Wei Ying', the four mortal guest cultivators went into a shock.

 Lan Wangji couldn't believe that the man standing in front of him was his Wei Ying, his love, his confidant, his cultivation partner, his everything. He still wanted to be sure that this man was his Wei Ying, his Wei Ying was still alive and he was still standing in front of him. Lan Wangji wanted to embrace him and kiss him but he controlled himself because of the presence of others. 

So, Lan Wangji tried his best to control his emotions and call him, but his emotions refused to stay contained and they burst out the moment he uttered, "Wei Ying". Those two words were filled with Lan Wangji's admiration for his lover, his longing for Wei Ying, his pain that he has suffered in the past 5 years missing and pining for his soulmate.

Lan Wangji expected his Wei Ying to respond to his call, but Wei Ying did not respond to him, he did not even pay a glance to Lan Wangji. 

Wei Ying, Love, do you...do you really hate me to the extent that wouldn't even acknowledge my presence? Love, I'm sorry, please, please look at me once, please don't ignore me. A-Ying, you can shout at me and give me any punishment you want, I can bear any punishment you want to give me but please...please my Wei, please don't give me the silent treatment, please don't disregard my existence. Love, I'm sorry. Lan Wangji repeatedly mumbled this in his mind.

The four cultivators were shocked to the core because the Wei Ying they knew revolved around Lan Wangji no matter how cold and stoic Lan Wangji was to him, but this Wei Ying didn't even look at Lan Wangji when Lan Wangji poured his heart out while called him.

Jiang Yanli then politely called her baby brother, "A-Xian is it you? Where were you for the past 5 years? Why didn't you contact us?"

The man in question looked towards her, he gave a slight formal bow and raised himself, "Madam Jin, thanks a lot for your concern and thank you for raising me and loving me like a family member. Last night I was informed (by the man with whom Wei Ying was talking to in his room) that you have taken the reign of Jin Sect and are also cultivating, I really admire you. I owe you a lot if you ever need any help, please feel free to contact me." 

Then he gave a crystal bell-like thing to Jiang sect founder who took it and passed on Jiang Yanli, she took it and then looked back at him and asked, " A-Xian why are you speaking to me like that? Why are you being so formal? You are not like a family, you are my family, my younger brother and I will always love you. What is this that you have given?"

Wei Ying looked at her with no emotions in his eyes and said, "when you are stuck in any difficulty, ring the bell thrice and you will be able to speak to me."

Wei Ying/ Wei Wuxian used to give evryone hope with his bright and blinding smile, but now he has become emotionless, he doesn't feel anything, what have we done? Why didn't we believe in him? What actually happened to Wei Ying/ Wei Wuxian in these past five years? Does he really hate us that much that is he is not even going to acknowledge us as his family/ friend/ soul mate? Will he again leave us and go back to where he was in the past five years?

Wei Ying turned towards Lan Sect founder who was still in a bow and asked him to rise.

 Wei Ying then asked both the sect founders why they were really here, Jiang Sect founder replied, "something big is going to happen, the Demon Lord is planning something destructive for the mortals, he is even luring mortals into his trap and filling their minds with resentful energy. And as you are aware that our heirs, the selfish sect leaders of the five major sects have refused to pass down their complete knowledge of the elemental cultivation, so, now the present generation of cultivators only know a part of the elemental magic and even by combining their powers, they can not even compare to even half of the power that Demon Lord can release in the mortal realm. And since you are the Crown Prince and know the Demon Lord better plus you have also cultivated in all the five elements so, we were hoping that you could teach one cultivator from each of the five major sects, so that they would be able to defend the Demon Lord's power in the mortal realm."

Wei Ying spoke each word dipped with sarcasm, "unfortunately, because of the intelligent and respected cultivators,  descendants of all the cultivation sects are not alive."

Jiang Yanli, Jiang Wanyin, Lan Wangi and Lan Xichen were patiently listening to each and every word carefully as they were not aware of what the others were speaking about. 

'Why were they referring to Wei Ying as the Crown Prince? How did Wei Ying know about elemental cultivation? How does he know the Demon Lord?' was all that was going on their minds. 

On hearing, Wei Ying's sarcastic comment on the annihilation of the innocents of the Wen Sect they bowed their heads down in guilt, but then Lan Wangji said, "at least one descendant from each of the five sects is alive, even from Wen Sect." 

This caught Wei Ying's attraction and he looked at Lan Wangji and waited for him to continue, Lan Wangji further spoke, "Wen Yuan from the Wen Sect is still alive, I adopted him as my son after the siege in Nightless City". 

Lan Wangji expected Wei Ying to smile at him or at least show some emotion, but the way Wei Ying reacted shook Lan Wangji to the core and made him think if this man was really his Wei Ying.

Wei Ying questioned Lan Wangji, "Why did you adopt him? A seven-year-old child who had survived such a huge trauma, couldn't you just live him alone. He would have been fine within a few years, with trauma in mind he would have learnt how to survive in this world, but you had to adopt him just so that you could torcher him and make him feel that he has committed a mistake by taking birth in the Wen family, a mistake in which he had no choice. You, cultivators, are really something."

(A/N:  guys I have increased Wen Yuan's age in my story from three to seven. During the siege, he was seven and now he is twelve years old)

Wei Ying's statement made the four cultivators speechless, they thought how could you think so low of us? Wei Ying, don't you know us? How could we harm a child? But then again you can't be blamed for thinking like that we all really wanted to slay and eventually did kill the innocent, old and young Wens, who were nothing but farmers and medics.

Lan Wangji wanted to shout, 'Wei Ying, I adopted him because you said he was your son, I adopted him thinking he was who you entrusted me with, I adopted him thinking of him as a token of our love as our son. I would never think of harming him, I would give my own life to protect him. Wei Ying, why are you saying like this, don't you know me? ', but chose to stay mum as Wei Ying has already turned his attention to the two Sect founders. Wei Ying questioned them, "why can't grandpa teach them, he is a lot better at teaching than me?"

The man who had not spoken a word since Wei Ying calmed down finally broke his silence and said, "Wei Ying, you know I can teach only the immortals, besides since I'm here I would like to spend some with my wife." The man then held Baoshan Sanren's hand and smiled, Wei Ying just shook his head and spoke, "the lovesick God of War". 

Hearing, 'God of War' the four mortal cultivators stood still, their brains just stopped working. They just focused on listening, ignoring the Lan and Jiang Siblings, Wei Ying questioned, "where will I teach them? I can't teach them here, the Demon Lord would recognise me as soon as I use even an ounce of power, nor can I teach them in grandpa's Kunlun mountains, every time I step a foot in there it recognises me a spreads more of its energy declaring to the unwanted population of my presence."

The God of War then said, "take them where you live, take them to your home."

Wei Ying bluntly spoke, "mortals are not allowed."