Chapter 1513 1506: Origins: Wei Si

Chapter 1513 Chapter 1506: Origins: Wei Si

1513 Chapter 1506: Origins: Wei Si

"I was sent here to kill you."

They were just seven words. By themselves, they were nothing special in the world, and even together, they were very commonplace that many could say in their lifetime, such as Zuhei, Ying, Su Mei, or Wei Wuyin himself, but not in a thousand years, not in a billion years, not in the vast history of the starry skies did Wei Wuyin expect those seven words to be said to him by Wei Si!

His pupils constricting was an instinctive response brought about by sheer disbelief and chaotic confusion. Sent here? To kill? Within the three or so seconds of silence, Wei Wuyin's mental energy was consumed greedily by his mind as he formulated all sorts of ideas and possibilities. In the end, he received nothing.

Wei Si's thick fingers were embedded within the mountain's surface as he trembled with his head down. It was like soft clay to his fingers. Every twitch caused the mountain itself to shake.

"I'm sorry," Wei Si spoke again. His voice was laced with despondency, but the context of his words allowed Wei Wuyin, who was unable to grasp Wei Si's mental fluctuations with his senses, to understand all his earlier apologies. He wasn't just sorry for not meeting Wei Wuyin over the decades, he was sorry for his very existence!

Plop.

Wei Wuyin slowly reached out and placed his hand on Wei Si's lowered head. Wei Si's entire body quivered. Even if Wei Wuyin wanted to kill him here, even if his entire body and soul fought against it, he would definitely not make any move. He would allow it fully.

The cold feeling of anger and death was not there as that warm hand tenderly rubbed his bald head. There was only familial love.

"Didn't Auntie warn you not to put on such scrunched, ugly faces? You'll only give yourself more wrinkles in the future. She definitely wouldn't want that." Wei Wuyin chuckled as he removed his hand with a pat.

The tears flowing from Wei Si's eyes stopped abruptly as they widened in shock. He looked toward his silver-eyed cousin in shock. "Yo-you...Cousin Wei, I..."

"Enough about all that. Even if you were given a million years, you'd still be far too weak to deal with your big cousin. Didn't Uncle tell you that? I'm simply that great," Wei Wuyin laughed carefreely as if the statement earlier did not affect his mental state. Bai Lin watched quietly too, and her heart relaxed as well.

"..." Wei Si's eyes only grew softer and wetter as time passed by. He eventually just sat there in silence, sobbing and hiccuping. The giant of a man who could bring fear into the hearts of grown men with a single glance was releasing rivers of tears like a young child. And before his older cousin, he truly felt safe to act in such a way.

Wei Wuyin didn't forcefully demand Wei Si to explain or rush him in processing his emotions. While he didn't seem affected outwardly by Wei Si's words, he was considering every single angle of their relationship and interactions. However, not once was he able to deduce who could potentially send Wei Si after him. Moreover, he was just a child when Wei Si was found, similarly a child.

How did he develop enemies? Was it a type of Temporal Reincarnation or Temporal Regression of the timeline? Did someone send him back? However, Wei Si didn't seem to be out of place. He had visited the River of Time and sensed San Yongli's strange temporal aura, having felt the aura of those out of time, but Wei Si was not either. He was normal.

Moreover, if an expert was that powerful, why not take action directly? He was merely a child when Wei Si was found by the river by his Uncle. It would be a simple matter to breathe on a low-leveled Blessed like him and exterminate him entirely.

An entire sixteen minutes passed before Wei Si finally stopped crying. With a deep breath, he anxiously clenched his hands into fists. "I'll tell you everything I know."

Wei Wuyin's spine straightened a little as he sat up. "There's no restrictions? If you have to harm yourself to tell me, then don't." That gentle head pat earlier was Wei Wuyin's attempt to enter Wei Si's Sea of Consciousness and directly extract his knowledge, but he couldn't enter at all. He knew that even his true body would find no success. That mind was guarded by some unfathomable strength. Furthermore, it didn't seem foreign but innate.

"I don't," Wei Si shook his head. Wei Wuyin couldn't tell if he was lying or not by relying on mental fluctuations, a feeling he felt out of sorts to have, but just from his knowledge of Wei Si's facial expressions and tendencies when he lied, Wei Wuyin could tell he was being honest.

"..." Wei Wuyin waited. The inaugural upload of this chapter took place via B1nN0v3l.

After another three minutes, Wei Si finally began: "I didn't know who I was when I arrived here—in this world. Uhhh...I don't know where to begin." Despite trying to gather his thoughts, Wei Si was never the best at storytelling. He scratched his bald head with a silly expression.

Wei Wuyin chuckled amusingly. Regardless, Wei Si was Wei Si. This brought great comfort to him. "Let's keep it simple first. Who sent you to kill me?"

"Right..." Wei Si slowly nodded, "My people."

"Your people?"

"Huuuu!" With a sharp inhale, Wei Si expelled a breath of turbid air that caused the sky to surge. "Haaaa! Yes. My people. I was born far, far, far away from here. To people who believed in the absolute principles of fighting, war, honor, and death. When we're young, we're sent out into the unknown, with only the faint idea of a type of living existence. We're meant to hunt and kill that existence. Then, and only then, are we allowed to return."

"As an infant?" Wei Wuyin was stunned. Wei Si was nothing more than a child found by the river, barely a toddler, more of an infant. Not even his unique physique had manifested yet, he seemed no different than a normal

human, and his Uncle had taken him as an abandoned child by a struggling or depressed mother. He pitied him and took him in as his own.

Wei Si nodded, "As an infant. Until we complete our hunt, we can't return to our homeland."

"So you have to kill me to go back to your homeland or you're stuck here?" Wei Wuyin grasped this detail and couldn't help but glance at the vast starry skies.

Magi...Fuxi...Spartan...

In his alternate life's time, Wei Wuyin had awakened his memories of Magi very early on after rushing to the Mystic Ascendant Realm using ample alchemical products, but he had never met Wei Si again. Because those memories were stripped from Wei Wuyin by Fuxi, there was a strong chance that the Wei Wuyin of that time had killed Wei Si or...no, Wei Wuyin felt that no matter the timeline, no matter the circumstances, he would never, ever, ever do such a thing.

Since Debonair Wei Wuyin hadn't tried to use Wei Si to urge Wei Wuyin to ask questions he shouldn't in the River of Time, then that likely meant Wei Si wasn't harmed.

Wei Si shook his head. "I can go to my homeland...anytime. According to this," he gestured toward the plaque, "I've completed the hunt. I am officially a Spartan. A true Spartan." A tinge of pride was laced in his voice. It was hard to hide, but also the sadness accompanying it was distinct as well.

"Who did you kill?"

Wei Si took another deep breath, turned to Wei Wuyin, and said firmly: "You."

"..."

"..."

The two just stared at each other for a long, long while.

"When I heard the news of your death in the Scarlet Solaris Sect, my plaque just...succeeded. I went berserk. I inadvertently summoned my Spartan Idol and it sent me spiraling across the starry skies. I eventually found myself in an unknown world. It was only after I cultivated the Spartan's Cultivation Method that was within the plaque that I could reach this level and eventually awaken my memories. But I didn't understand how I was the one who killed you after I did. It just didn't make sense," Wei Si confessed.

"How do you know you killed me?" Wei Wuyin was intrigued by this.

"When we find our target, we intuitively mark them. Upon their deaths, our plaque activates its inherent formation and validates it. As long as we're responsible for it, it'll consider the hunt successful and we can return to our homeland."

"What's the parameters of 'death'?"

"I don't know..." Wei Si replied.

Wei Wuyin laid down flat on the mountain. This probably had something to do with his soul, Bloodline of Sin, or his strange series of mental episodes in the Eden Earth Sect. It could be any number of things. Whatever the case, Wei Si had inadvertently succeeded in his rite of passage by some loophole that even the Spartans hadn't considered.

"So you think you killed me?" Wei Wuyin laughed after discovering where the majority of Wei Si's guilt originated from. Or at the very least, why the loveable oaf didn't dare to meet Wei Wuyin for fear of verifying the plaque's announcement. "Did you think I was an imposter or something?"

"..." Wei Si nodded sheepishly. He truly did!

"What about now?"

"..." Wei Si stared at Wei Wuyin intensely as if inspecting him on a fundamental level. After a long while, he answered without the slightest doubt in his expression: "You're my cousin!"

Wei Wuyin smirked. "Damn right I am!" As for Magi or Spartan, he didn't care about either of those things when it came to family!

Bai Lin's eyes glinted excitedly.

If those from the vast world beyond knew that a Spartan and Magi sat upon a mountain proclaiming their familial bond proudly, the ensuing chaos would be no small matter.

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Far off in a world entirely white, a lone figure was scribing away in a small silver notebook and a golden pen.

The figure looked up from his notebook and out into the vast distance. A faint smile hung on their lips that could placate the raging heart of a world-eating leviathan. "What an interesting development."

After saying just four words, they continued writing. Suddenly, the world's color changed entirely into magenta.

"Curious."

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[Author's Note: Looking WAYYY back, Wei Si's plotline was meant to happen earlier, but man plans and the heavens laugh. You can probably tell based on all the info though. Anyways, I had to choose what to include and not include so the chapter isn't MASSIVE! But more about Spartans will definitely come!

Also, yes! SPARTANS!]