MDZS Characters Watching the Future

97. The Fall of Lotus Pier

A mad roar rang from Jiang Cheng’s throat as he continued to struggle, “Why won’t it break?! Why won’t it break?! Break! Break!”

"It won't break." said Madam Yu.

"Stop struggling." she added.

Wei WuXian had just been whipped over ten times by Zidian. His body was still hurting. He knew that they wouldn’t be able to struggle out of this and that all of their effort would go to waste. Remembering that Jiang Cheng was still injured, he spoke through the pain, “Jiang Cheng, calm down first. Facing the Core-Melting Hand, it’s not for sure that she’d lose. Back then, didn’t she hold Wen ZhuLiu back?”

Jiang Cheng roared, “How do you want me to calm down?! How could I calm down?! Even if Wen ZhuLiu is killed, that despicable woman has already sent out the signals. What if the Wen-dogs saw them and are leading people to lay siege on our sect?!”

"Well, we can't really expect him to calm down. It was his mother after all." said Jin Zixuan.

"We will see how Lotus Pier will fall to the ground." laughed Wen Chao.

"You're the only one enjoying this." said Wen Xu.

Wei WuXian knew as well that there was no way for them to calm down. But, between the two, one of them had to have a clear head. Just as he was about to continue, his eyes suddenly lit up. He shouted, “Uncle Jiang! It’s Uncle Jiang coming back!”

As he had said, a larger boat sailed toward them over the river.

"Finally, a-die can free us and we will come back together." Jiang Cheng said and got out of his mother's embrace making him sit on her lap.

"I don't think so." said Jiang Fengmian.

"Why?" asked Jiang Cheng.

"I think you already know the answer to that." said Jiang Fengmian.

Jiang FengMian was standing at the head of the boat. Around a dozen disciples was also standing on the boat. He was staring in the direction of Lotus Pier, robes flapping in the wind. Jiang Cheng shouted, “Father! Father!”

Jiang FengMian saw them as well. He looked somewhat surprised. One of the disciples rowed the oar, and the boat approached. Jiang FengMian still didn’t know what had happened as he mused, “A-Cheng? A-Ying? What happened to you two?”

The boys at Lotus Pier often played strange games. Even lying in the water with faces covered in blood pretending to be floating corpses wasn’t out of the norm. Thus, Jiang FengMian couldn’t immediately decide if they were playing some new game or not. He didn’t pick up on the severity of the circumstances. Jiang Cheng, however, was so happy that he almost cried. He hurried to explain, “Father, Father let us go!”

"Yes, yes. Let us go." said Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Fengmian just gave him a look.

"Seriously?! You guys play something like that? Acting like floating corpses?" Nie Huaisang asked in disbelief.

"You still grasped that information?" asked Jin Zixuan.

"I just can't believe it. No wonder they knew a lot of scary pranks." said Nie Huaisang.

"Uncle Jiang, you'll let us go, right?" asked Wei Wuxian.

"How? That's Zidian." said Jiang Fengmian.

"I can control it." he added and they understand at once. Zidian can only recognized its master and clearly, Jiang Fengmian isn't.

Jiang FengMian, “This is your mom’s Zidian. Zidian knows its masters. I don’t think it’d let me…”

As he spoke, he touched Zidian with his hand. However, just as he came into contact with it, Zidian retracted obediently. It immediately turned into a ring and wrapped itself around one of his fingers.