Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation / Mo Dao Zu Shi / 魔道祖师

第109章 藏锋 3 封棺
Original novel written by 墨香铜臭

MDZS Chapter 109 Trump Card - Sealing The Coffin (English Translation)
By @chiaki_himura on IG

Lan Xichen had been pushed back several steps and had not yet registered exactly what
had happened in the flash of the moment when Lan Wangji shot behind the majestic and
beautiful Guanyin statue and struck it forcefully. The Guanyin statue instantly shifted and flew
straight towards the coffin. Nie Mingjue was still analyzing the dead body in his hand and could
barely respond as the Guanyin statue came flying towards him and smashed into him with such
great force that he toppled over into the broken coffin beside him.

Wei Wuxian immediately reacted, leaping onto the stone bust of the Guanyin statue.
Since the coffin was already broken, he could only use the Guanyin statue as a coffin
replacement to forcibly suppress Nie Mingjue. Nie Mingjue was hammering his fists under the
statue, roaring in an attempt to get out. Wei Wuxian’s body shook as the statue shook,
threatening to shift. Swaying dangerously, he realized that he was simply unable to draw the
array properly and shouted, “Lan Zhan, quick, quick, quick, quickly come over her with me and
add an extra person’s weight to the statue. If not the statue’ll be done for in one or two more
strikes from him……”

Before he could finish speaking, suddenly, Wen Wuxian felt his body and line of vision
tilt violently. Lan Wangji had already held onto the the coffin and lifted it, meaning to say, that
with just his left hand, he had lifted the dense and heavy coffin, the two dead people in the
coffin, the Guanyin statue on the coffin, and Wei Wuxian who was on the coffin, cleanly off the
ground.

Wei Wuxian was dumbstruck.

Even if he had always known that Lan Wangji had terrifying strength, this was simply
too…...terrifying!

Lan Wangji’s expression did not change as he pulled out a silver zither string from his
robes with his right hand. The zither string zipped swiftly through the air, rounding the coffin and
the Guanyin statue ten times and binding the two objects tightly together. He repeated the
action with a second string, a third string…… Finally, after ensuring that Nie Mingjue had
already been bound permanently, he let go. The coffin fell with a deafening thud as Wei Wuxian
fell with it. Lan Wangji leaped forward to catch him in his bosom and landed gently back on the
ground. The arms that displayed terrifying strength just moments earlier was now wrapped
around Wei Wuxian in a most gentle embrace.
 Lan Xichen stared numbly at the coffin that had been bound by seven zither strings, his
expression in shock. Nie Huaisang reached out and waved his hand in front of Lan Xichen,
stuttering, “......B-big Brother Xichen, are you alright?”

His eyes still fixed on the coffin, Lan Xichen asked, “Huaisang, earlier, was he really
trying to attack me from behind?”

“I...I seem to have seen that……”

Hearing his hesitation, Lan Xichen pressed, “Think about it carefully.”

“If you ask me like this, I wouldn’t dare to confirm…...I really seem to have seen
that……”

Frustration clouded Lan Xichen’s eyes as he exhorted, “Don’t tell me you seem to have
seen! Did you or did you not see it?!”

Flustered, Nie Huaisang responded, “......I don’t know, I really don’t know!”

Whenever he was forced in a corner, Nie Huaisang only knew how to repeat that line.
Lan Xichen buried his forehead in his hand as though he had a splitting headache. He did not
want to speak any longer.

Suddenly, Wei Wuxian called, “Brother Huaisang.”

“Ah?” Startled, Nie Huaisang turned around.

“Earlier, how did Su She hurt you?”

“He was carrying Third Brother…...carrying Sect Leader Jin and tried to escape, I was
blocking his path, so he……”

“Is that so? I seem to remember that your standing position earlier was not in the way of
their escape.” Wei Wuxian’s eyes narrowed.

Looking away, Nie Huaisang responded, “It can’t be that I intentionally went up and hurt
myself right?”

Wei Wuxian laughed.

“I did not say that.”

“Then, what are you trying to say, Brother Wei?” Nie Huaisang’s voice held a hint of
impatience.
 “Nothing, I just suddenly managed to make sense of certain things.”

“What things?”

Wei Wuxian circled around Nie Huaisang slowly, saying, “Jin Guangyao said that
someone had given him a letter threatening him to reveal everything in seven days. Let’s
assume that he was not lying and was speaking the truth. That that person was simply doing
something unnecessary.”

As he circled behind Nie Huaisang, he continued, “If you wanted to expose someone for
his crimes, why didn’t you do it in the open, but rather tell the perpetrator that you have
evidence on his crimes?”

Nie Huaisang’s expression was uncomfortable as he replied, “Didn’t Third

Brother…...Sect Leader Jin already say that the person wanted him to end his own life to pay for
his crimes?”

Wei Wuxian retorted, “Wake up already, even if you used your toe to think you would
also know that Jin Guangyao would never choose to commit suicide, so where’s the meaning in
such an action? It seems like there’s no meaning. However, would someone who was able to
dig out all of Jin Guangyao’s misdeeds all these years make such a useless move? This
unnecessary move must have had an objective to achieve something, to instigate something.”

Hearing that, Lan Xichen responded in surprise, “Instigate? Instigate what?”

Lan Wangji responded solemnly, “Jin Guangyao’s killing intent.”

If this were ZeWu-Jun on a regular day, he would never have not been able to infer as
much, but at this point, he had been too affected by what had happened to analyze the situation
thoroughly.

“Indeed,” Wei Wuxian said. “It was precisely this letter that brought forward and elevated
Jin Guangyao’s killing intent. Didn’t it state that he would die within seven days? Then he would
just act first and kill all the cultivation sects at the burial mound and see who dies first.”

Lan Xichen asked, “Are you saying that, that was the objective of the person who sent
the letter? Just to instigate him to make the first move?”

“That is what I think,” Wei Wuxian replied.

Lan Xichen shook his head. “......Then what is the person who sent the letter thinking?
Was he trying to get rid of Jin Guangyao, or was he trying to eradicate all the cultivation sects?!”
 “It’s very simple. Look at what happened after the ambush at the burial mound failed.
When everyone was at Lotus Pier and emotions were at their peak, Si Si and Bicao suddenly
appear------I don’t think that the appearance of these two witnesses was a coincidence. It was
the cumulation of everything that had happened, and it intensified.”

Wei Wuxian paused for a moment before continuing, “What he wanted was not simply
for Jin Guangyao to lose his reputation and suffer defeat; he also wanted Jin Guangyao to
become public enemy number one, and even after he died------there would definitely be no
chance for revival.”

Nie Huaisang suddenly interjected, “From the sound of it, this person must have been
planning this for a long time.”

Wei Wuxian looked at him, suddenly saying, “Oh yes, wasn’t Sect Leader Nie the one
who was entrusted with ChiFeng-Zun’s body?”

“Originally I was the one in custody of it. However, I received the message earlier tonight
that my Big Brother’s body was running around at Qinghe. That was why I was rushing to
Qinghe, and get caught by Su She along the way……”

Wei Wuxian asked again, “Sect Leader Nie, I heard that you often travel between the
Gusu Lan sect and the Lanling Jin sect, am I right?”

“That’s right.”

“Then do you really not recognize Mo Xuanyu?”

“Ah?” Nie Huaisang’s face twitched slightly.

“I remember that the first time that I met you after my soul had been offered into his body
successfully, you acted as if you completely did not recognize me, and even asked HanGuang-
Jun who I was. Mo Xuanyi had been harassing Jin Guangyao during that time was able to
access even his secret collections, and you often went to find Sect Leader Jin to complain. Even
if you and Mo Xuanyu were not familiar with each other, did you really not see him before at
all?”

Nie Huaisang scratched his head, saying, “Brother Wei, the Golden Pavilion is so huge, I
can’t possibly recognize everyone, even if I’ve seen them I also can’t remember. Moreover……”
Looking rather awkward, he continued, “You know about Mo Xuanyu’s identity back then, it’s
slightly…...the Lanling Jin sect had tried their best to hide it, so it wouldn’t have been surprising
if I had never met him before. Even Big Brother Xichen may not have met him before.”

“Oh, that’s true. ZeWu-Jun did not know who Mo Xuanyu was either.”
 “Right! And what I don’t understand is, even if I had seen Mo Xuanyu before, why would
I pretend not to recognize him? Was there such a need?”

Wei Wuxian laughed and replied, “Nothing much, I just thought it strange and was
casually asking.

However, he thought, “He was simply trying to see if the ‘Mo Xuanyu’ he met was the
real one or not.”

For someone who was said to have been cowardly and weak, where would Mo Xuanyu
get the courage to sacrifice himself and offer his soul?

And as for ChiFeng-Zun’s left hand, why was it discarded? It couldn’t be that Jin
Guangyao would accidentally lose it.

Moreover, why was it that it happened to appear right at the Mo family residence, just as
Wei Wuxian who had been reincarnated, but not somewhere else?

If ChiFeng-Zun’s body had been buried by the Qinghe Nie sect, would Nie Huaisang,
who had always respected his older brother, not notice that his body had disappeared all these
years?

Wei Wuxian was inclined to believe an alternative situation.

Perhaps that while Nie Mingjue was alive, Nie Huaisang was indeed unaware about
anything. However, after Nie Mingjue passed away, he found out about everything, including
that Nie Mingjue’s corpse had been switched, including the truth about the Third Brother that he
trusted.

He tried to search for his older brother’s body, but after many years of effort and
anguish, he had only managed to find a left arm.

He had been stuck at this point, unable to think of the next step. Moreover, the arm had
been extremely demonic and was hard to suppress, if he kept it by his side it would only cause
bloodshed and misfortune. Hence, he thought of a single person. A person that was best at
dealing with such things.

The Yiling Patriarch.

But the Yiling Patriarch had already been utterly destroyed, what could be do?

As such, he thought of another person; Mo Xuanyu, who had just been kicked out of the
Golden Pavilion.
 Perhaps in order to let Mo Xuanyu listen to him, Nie Huaisang had already spoken to
him before and heard from an upset and anguished Mo Xuanyu that he had seen one of Jin
Guangyao’s scrolls of forbidden spells recording a certain ancient demonic spell. He then took
advantage of Mo Xuanyu, who was filled with anger and shame to perform the spell as revenge.

And which fierce corpse would he summon?

Naturally, he would summon the Yiling Patriarch.

Unable to bear the days of humiliation any longer, Mo Xuanyu finally drew the array, and
Nie Huaisang also took the chance to throw out the hot potato that was burning his hand:
ChiFeng-Zun’s left arm.

From there on, his plan had begun and he no longer had to spend his own time and
energy to find Nie Mingjue’s remaining body, leaving the dangerous and troublesome job to Wei
Wuxian and Lan Wangji. All he had to do was watch their actions closely.

When Jin Ling, Lan Sizhui, Lan Jingyi and the other youths encountered the strange cat-
killing incident, clearly someone was intentionally baiting them. Moreover, they had also
encountered the “hunter” that did not exist at the village. Without a doubt, the objective was to
lure this bunch of unsuspecting disciples into Yi City. Come to think of it, if Wei Wuxian and Lan
Wangji had been a step later and failed to protect them, if something happened to the youths in
Yi City, it would probably have been blamed on Jin Guangyao as well.

In summary, the more crimes Jin Guangyao committed, the better. More crimes meant a
higher chance for the naturally cautious villain to be careless, and the more mistakes he left the
better. It would only make him die and even more terrible death.

Using the tip of Bichen to flip over the black box, Lan Wangji scanned the array drawn
inside it before looking at Wei Wuxian and said, “Head.”

This box had probably been originally used to store Nie Mingjue’s head. After Jin
Guangyao moved the head away from the Golden Pavilion, he probably buried it here.

Wei Wuxian nodded at him before turning to Nie Huaisang and asked, “Sect Leader Nie,
do you know what this coffin was used to store originally?”

Nie Huaisang replied, “How should I know about that? But, judging by Third
Brother…...Ah, no, Sect Leader Jin’s reaction, it must have been something important to him.”

- End -
Translator’s note: Does anyone else love Wei Wuxian bby being all Sherlock??? What a smarty
hehe no wonder Lan Er Gege is so taken by him.