Now Everyone Thinks I Support the Yílíng Patriarch?

GooseGooseGoose

Replying to WellDressedAndDistressed

oh to be op and not know who the yiling patriarch is

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StillWaters

Replying to WellDressedAndDistressed

during the sunshot campaign he would reanimate the corpses of his enemies and make them fight against their friends and allies for him

which is uh PRETTY FUCKED UP

anyway people think you support him cos red and black are his colours

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RiseAboveTheMud

Replying to WellDressedAndDistressed

The Yiling Patriarch truly is a sad case of how heroes fall. He used to be one of the most promising sword cultivators of his generation, and a hero of the Sunshot Campaign. Now, he’s forsaken the sword path for the demonic one, and joined forces with the wen-dogs he once fought against.

I would be ashamed to be thought his supporter.

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ComeRideMySword

Replying to WellDressedAndDistressed

Hey, rogue cultivator here!

I used to be scared of the Yiling Patriarch’s reputation, but then I met him and the Ghost General on a night hunt, and they’re actually really friendly!

I didn’t realise who they were at first, they’re just like regular people. The Ghost General doesn’t seem like a fierce corpse at all—I would have assumed he was a timid disciple if I hadn’t seen him fight!

As for the Yiling Patriarch, apparently he’s been researching talismans, and coming up with some super innovative stuff. He shared a prototype of his ‘spirit lure flags’ with us—they’re flags which lure resentful creatures towards them, which means you can draw your prey to you, rather than having to go searching for it. Need I say, this is absolutely game changing!

So yes, he’s a revolutionary cultivation genius. I can’t wait to see what else he comes up with!

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DemonVictory21

Replying to WellDressedAndDistressed

i tried to join the yiling patriarchs sect cos I think controlling corpses would be cool but he wouldnt have me

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GhoulHater

Replying to WellDressedAndDistressed

sects are bullshit they ignore anyone who cant afford their stupid bribes there have been water ghouls in my familys lotus pond for years and the jin did nothing the jiang did nothing the yiling patriarch was right to leave them wed be better off learning demonic cultivation and taking care of the ghouls ourselves

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StayOutOfMyLake

Replying to WellDressedAndDistressed

That Wei Wuxian, he never could keep his nose out of trouble. He was always trying to steal lotus seed pods from my lake as a boy. I think everyone is overreacting about the ghouls, though. They’re not the smartest, but they’re mostly still people. I’ve had one helping me in my lotus lake for years now. Wei Wuxian tried to get rid of her once, and I gave him a right telling off for it! I’m glad he’s moved past that, and learned that ghouls, like people, just want to be helpful.

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OnAndOn

Replying to WellDressedAndDistressed

Ooh boy

So, I’m also (as of recently) a rogue cultivator, and I’ve also met the Yiling Patriarch. This was back when I was a member of one of the (fairly minor) cultivation sects, before the Yiling Patriarch was the Yiling Patriarch. Then, he was still Wei Wuxian, Yunmeng Jiang head disciple.

Now, as GhoulHater says, sects are bullshit. They’re full of stuck up men who think they know everything and are above everyone and are oh so logical and everyone who thinks even a little bit differently from them is silly and mistaken and emotional. Just generally a lot of unbearable people.

My first impression of Wei Wuxian was that he was one of these arrogant shitheads—barging in and acting all flirty then demanding I give him a perfume pouch, ugh >_<

This was before he slayed the Xuanwu of Slaughter.

I’m not sure how familiar everyone is with the start of the Sunshot Campaign, but the series of events went something like this:

Wen burn down Cloud Recesses (home of Gusu Lan Sect) > Wen hold young cultivators from all the sects hostage > Wen massacre Yunmeng Jiang Sect > the Sunshot Campaign proper begins

I met Wei Wuxian when we were being held hostage by the Wen.

During this time, we (the hostages) were largely left in the care of Wen Chao (horrible second son of the wen clan—I hear he was tortured to death during Sunshot) and his lackeys. He would drag us off on night hunts so he could take credit for everyone’s kills.

One day, he set his sights on the legendary Xuanwu of Slaughter.

If you’re not familiar with the stories, picture a tortoise the size of a building, with a snake as wide as a person is tall for a head and neck, and a craving for human flesh, ok? ok.

So, we’re off in the woods searching for this creature (which, I might add, hadn’t been seen in, like, a hundred years or something at that point) when Wen Chao et al push us all down into this damp, dark cave. He’s CONVINCED the monster is down their somewhere.

Note: there is a lake in this cave, with a big rock in it, and leaves floating on it. This will become important.

Well, no evil Xuanwu jumps out at us, so he decides we need to lure it out. And how do you lure out a bloodthirsty monster? With blood! Who’s blood? Well, Wen Chao’s horrible mistress has decided she just fucking hates me for some reason, so she suggests my blood!

There was a while there where I really was convinced I’d be stabbed, and left to bleed out as murderous turtle bait. At least one of the other hostages tried to grab me and hand me over to Wen Chao et al. It’s quite possible I only made it out because Lan Wangji (now better known as Hanguang-jun (yes, that Hanguang-jun)), and Jin Zixuan (Jin sect heir, a much better man than his father, though that bar is unbelievably low) stood between me and him.

Things got a bit chaotic. Next thing I knew, Wei Wuxian had grabbed Wen Chao, gotten him onto the big rock in the lake, and has a sword to his throat.

Then, the rock moved.

Did I say rock? Yeah, turns out that wasn’t a rock, it was the shell of the great big fucking EVIL XUANWU.

If things were a bit chaotic before, once the Evil Xuanwu started moving, they became VERY chaotic.

Remember Wen Chao’s horrible mistress who just fucking hates me for some reason? Yeah, she carries this branding iron around with her, and amidst this chaos, she has some Wen goons grab me and tries to BRAND my FACE.

This time, it’s Wei Wuxian who jumped in front of me (I swear he came out of nowhere). He took a branding iron to the chest to protect me.

Not long after my second brush with, if not death, then traumatic injury at the hands of the Wen that day, they all skedaddled, getting the hell out of the Evil Xuanwu infested cave, and SEALING THE ENTRANCE with all us hostages STILL INSIDE.

YEAH.

Things calm down a bit after that. The Wens are gone, and the Xuanwu goes back to napping in the lake. So, the smarter among us got to thinking about how to get out of there.

(I will admit I was not one of the smarter among us)

Now, remember those leaves I said were floating on the lake? Because I wouldn’t have, except Wei Wuxian said, “Of course! Those leaves weren’t by the entrance to the cave, they must have come in another way!” (I paraphrase) (note: pretty sure he wasn’t the first to say this, just the loudest)

So, Jiang Wanyin (current Jiang sect leader, and more importantly a strong swimmer) went into the lake, and found an underwater exit. Great! A way out!

But what about that giant Evil Xuanwu still chilling in the lake?

The plan was: Jiang Wanyin (again, strong swimmer, knows where the exit is) leads everyone out of the cave via the lake, while Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji (the strongest cultivators among us, willing to put themselves in harms way to protect others) stay behind to lure the Evil Xuanwu away.

We escaped.

The next I heard of Wei Wuxian, people were celebrating him and Lan Wangji slaying the Xuanwu of Slaughter.

The next I heard after that, the Jiang sect had been massacred by the Wen, and Wei Wuxian was missing.

The next, he had appeared on the fields of the Sunshot Campaign, controlling the dead with his ghost flute, and yin tiger tally.

Skip to the end of the Sunshot Campaign. Lanling Jin are having one of their big fancy get-togethers. There are a lot of cultivation big shots there. And me, awkwardly hanging around the edge of the party.

Wei Wuxian storms in. Demands to know where some Wen clan members are. Threatens the Jin (which, gotta be honest, takes as much bravery as fighting an Evil Xuanwu). Eventually someone tells him, and he storms out again.

We later hear he’s killed some Jin cultivators (and possibly cultivators from other sects working with them?), and freed a bunch of Wen prisoners, and taken them to the burial mounds (hill of corpses) of all places.

I heard he had a personal connection to some of the Wen (I think Jiang Wanyin said something about their help during Sunshot?), and that the Wen prisoners were being abused.

Naturally, all the cultivation big-shots are freaking out (though I’m sure they wouldn’t put it like that). They start accusing Wei Wuxian of indiscriminately killing. Now, this doesn’t sound quite right to me. So, from where I’m still awkwardly hanging around the edge of the room, I say I don’t think ‘indiscriminate’ is the right word. He’s getting revenge for the Wen he cared about being abused, right?

It is not what the cultivation big-shots want to hear. They accused me of, like, condoning murder, and saying Jin cultivators deserved to die, and things like that.

Then, of course, someone remembers Wei Wuxian saved me from the branding iron that time. So it becomes ‘oh, she’s been seduced’ ‘she’s a silly woman’ ‘her judgement’s been clouded by her emotions’. I just said I didn’t think it was fair to call his killing ‘indiscriminate’!

At this point I’ve had it, and I storm out! And officially secede from my stupid sect!

I will say, though, on my way out, Lan Wangji/Hanguang-jun stops me, and says I was right, and everyone else was being unreasonable. So at least there’s ONE reasonable cultivator out there.

Anyway, I’ve been busy since trying to make it as a rogue cultivator, and haven’t been keeping up with sect gossip, so that’s all I’ve got.

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LookingUpwards

Replying to WellDressedAndDistressed

lol one time someone tried to convince me this scruffy guy selling daikons in yiling was the yiling patriarch

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RedLikeFire

Replying to WellDressedAndDistressed

Is that red wool still for sale?