Night Flight - Part Three is the seventy-eighth chapter of Mo Dao Zu Shi.
Synopsis []
Lan Wangji arrives shortly after Wei Wuxian leaves the cultivators by the city gates. He frees the cultivators from the Ghosts and learns that Wei Wuxian has gone to Nightless City.
In Nightless City, Jin Guangyao offers wine to the clan leaders. Jin Guangshan leads them to pour it on the ground in remembrance of those who died during the Sunshot Campaign. Jin Guangshan then scatters the ashes of Wen Qing and Wen Ning, to the cheers of many in the crowd.
Jin Guangshan declares that tomorrow, they will besiege the Burial Mounds and slaughter the remnants of the Qishan Wen Clan alongside Wei Wuxian. Suddenly, laughter echoes throughout the gathering.
The cultivators realize that there is an extra heavenly beast perched on the roof of the Sun Palace.
Wei Wuxian notes that three-thousand people are present, and that he has taken on such numbers during the Sunshot Campaign. He says that he has saved them the trouble of finding him, and Nie Mingjue accuses him of arrogance.
Wei Wuxian then confronts Jin Guangshan on his promise to end his crusade against the remnants of the Qishan Wen Clan if Wen Qing and Wen Ning turned themselves in, but Jin Guangshan maintains that Wen Ning's sudden attack during surrender negated his goodwill.
When Wei Wuxian points out that he was the one ambushed on Qiongqi Road, a disciple retorts that he should not have been so brutal. After the disciple replies that many of those killed were innocent, Wei Wuxian replies that the Wen remnants are innocent, too.
Another disciple scoffs at the notion of any Wen as innocent, and another accuses of Wei Wuxian of fancying himself a martyr. Wei Wuxian attempts to protest his innocence in casting the Thousand Sores and Hundred Holes Curse, but it is apparent that the crowd has already judged him guilty. As the argument goes on, Wei Wuxian realizes that no one is listening, and everything he says will be used against him.
An archer shoots towards him. Wei Wuxian stops the arrow and sends it back into the archer's chest, killing him. The archer's brother screams, and crowd views it as more proof of Wei Wuxian's cruelty.
Jin Guangshan assembles a battle formation, and Wei Wuxian finally uses Chenqing to revive the Fierce Corpses in Nightless City. Lan Wangji arrives and attempts to play Purification Tone with [Wangji]]. Wei Wuxian merely declares that he knew they would cross swords some day, and invites him to fight.
Just then, Jiang Yanli's voice cries out from the battle. Panicking, Wei Wuxian rushes into the fray to find her. Jiang Cheng attempts to find her as well.
Jiang Yanli is injured by a Fierce Corpse, as Wei Wuxian finds himself in too much distress to control it. While Jiang Cheng cradles her, Jiang Yanli asks Wei Wuxian why he ran from Golden Carp Tower so quickly. She says she is here to tell him something, but that he should first stop the corpses.
Wei Wuxian agrees, and with great difficulty, he is able to concentrate enough to begin subduing the corpses.
Suddenly, the archer's brother rushes up behind him, and Jiang Yanli strikes Wei Wuxian, sending him hurtling backwards while a sword pierces her throat.
Jiang Cheng holds her body in shock while Wei Wuxian strangles the brother to death with a terrible expression on his face. After Clan Leader Yao lambasts him for his cruelty and reminds him that it is all his fault, the crowd's shouts against him rise higher and higher.
Mad with grief, Wei Wuxian raises the two halves of the Yin Tiger Tally and places them together, commencing the Bloodbath of Nightless City.[1]
Characters[]
In order of appearance:
- Wei Wuxian
- Lan Wangji
- Jin Guangshan
- Nie Mingjue
- Lan Xichen
- Jiang Cheng
- Jin Guangyao
- Wen Qing (mentioned)
- Wen Ning (mentioned)
- Jin Zixun (mentioned)
- Clan Leader Yao
- Jiang Yanli
- Jin Zixuan (mentioned)
- Jiang Fengmian (mentioned)
- Yu Ziyuan (mentioned)
Events []
- Wen Ning's rampage at Golden Carp Tower (mentioned)
- Deaths of Jin Zixuan and Jin Zixun on Qiongqi Path (mentioned)
- Sunshot Campaign (mentioned)
- Massacre of Lotus Pier (mentioned)
- Bloodbath of Nightless City
Locations[]
- Nightless City
- Burial Mounds (mentioned)
- Qiongqi Path (mentioned)
- Golden Carp Tower (mentioned)
Creatures[]
Cultivation Abilities[]
Cultivation Tools[]
References[]
- ↑ Novel, Chapter 78