The Path In-Between

The Beginning Sneakpeak

Wei WuXian raised his hand in front of him, floating the object that immediately captured the complete attention of all the cultivators below him. He laughed. Not the sunshine laugh that his Shijie deaddeaddead would tease him for. Not the laugh he would give maidens and vendors as he flirted to get an offer on their goods. This laugh was maniacal. More akin to everyone's perception of the villainous Yilling Laozu. His eyes were red, tears flowing, and yet there was a brilliant smile on his face for there would sooner be no Wei WuXian than there would be no smile.

"Wei Ying"

Wei WuXian looked to the source of the voice. The only one who would speak his birth name so fervently, so venerably. 'Lan Zhan'.

For the first time, Wei WuXian saw an expression as clear as day on the white-robed man's face. Fear and pain in its purest form. It was an expression unbecoming of the great Hunguang-Jun.

He looked away, refocusing on the iron floating in front of him. He had enough energy left to begin its destruction. The backlash would inevitably kill him in the process. Just as he wanted, of course. He had nothing left to live for after all.

Faces and splintered memories flashed in his mind as he grabbed the Yin Iron, ready to destroy it.