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After ten years of seclusion and Yan Wushi was excepting this shift in power.
The legendary Beta leader Qi Fengge has passed away. His only true rival has passed while he was away….pity. Yan Wushi had hope for one more fight but life decided for him.
“His disciple, Shen Qiao took over.” Yu Shengyan said as he followed his master’s every step as they crossed the rocks of what Yan Wushi describes as a place to train one’s self.
Then a body fell from the cliff. Yan Wushi watched it land and then nod for his student to check it out.
The man turned out to be Shen Qiao of Mount Xuandu and Yan Wushi only got interested when he felt the foundation of the volume held by Mount Xuandu. A volume that hasn’t been shown in decades and here comes an opportunity falling right at his feet.
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He ‘saves' the blind man at Chuyun temple from the female disciple of Harmony Sect. Yan Wushi sees all these opponents and sees none that can truly match him. After going after Kunye for a fight, he was hoping a rival to appear to actually challenge him. But here he is months later bored out of his mind and this turns into the most entertainment he had since coming out of seclusion.
He then gets Shen Qiao to read the Strategy of the Vermillion Yang.
Now to see if this Shen Qiao can heal with the knowledge of two volumes in his Daoist heart.
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Yu Ai was a Beta male through and through. Yan Wushi watches from the shadows as Shen Qiao leaves his martial brother only for Yu Ai to chase him.
Yan Wushi shakes his head.
“Qi Fengge has died and this is his legacy. Disciples that betray each other for greed.” Yan Wushi laughs as Shen Qiao falls to the ground coughing up blood.
Shen Qiao clears his throat. “Sect Leader Yan, Please don’t get into other sect business.”
Yan Wushi ignores his comment as Yu Ai put two and two together to realize who he was.
He then proceeded to teach this Beta a lesson.
Shen Qiao then asked him to take him away and Yan Wushi was glad to leave the sect that was once so promising.
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A choking Shen Qiao landed on the ground as Yan Wushi came back to his senses. It seems that the man, who can still barely see tried to protect him in the few hours he needed to heal.
He picks up the man and heads to an inn. Perhaps heal him but it was mostly to place the seed for a Demonic Heart.
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Yan Wushi has never courted anyone that Bian Yanmei and Yu Shengyan have seen in the years they’ve trained under the leader of the Cleansing Moon.
But if the two had anything to say, Shen Qiao was the closest to being courted by the Alpha Sect leader. Sure the rumors of other towns saying the two look more like a master with his boy toy didn’t know the two. Yan Wushi would give everything that is part of a courtship and Shen Qiao would politely accept or decline the Alpha.
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Yan Wushi was not an affectionate Alpha, anyone who had witnessed his past relationships could attest to that. But here he was glad that Shen Qiao escaped from Sang Jingxing. The chances that the Daoist broke his values and used the Demonic Heart inside him to get away sent a thrill through him.
He then heard the rumor of the ambush that would lead to his death…… They could certainly try to kill him.
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The Alpha spits up blood and manages to getaway. Standing on a slightly higher platform to see his would-be assassins.
He bellows out a laugh, feeling his injuries creek. He hasn’t had this thrill of a match in a long time.
Then the old bald donkey hits him upside the head with his palm.
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In and out of conscious thought Yan Wushi tries to wake up but can't.
A taste of lamb soup on his tongue along with something sweet.
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“Ah-Qiao.”
Shen Qiao enters with new soup, night has fallen.
“Sect Leader?” A throbbing in his head and he lays back down….
“You didn’t use the Demonic Heart.” Yan Wushi could tell just by feeling the limited qi that Shen Qiao was using to soothe his own.
A scent went up his nose and the Alpha froze.
“Sect Leader Yan? Are you in pain? Do you need more medicine?” Shen Qiao said, already reaching for a bottle.
“No….Ah-Qiao.” He then curled up. Yan Wushi didn't know that the poison was hiding Shen Qiao very nature from the world.
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“Call me Ah-Yan.” Shen Qiao didn’t expect another personality to come forward. It could be worse with their current situation. Traveling in the middle of a desert to a city for some miracle cure.
A nose buried into his neck and breathed in deeply. It took everything in the Daoist not to shudder.
“You smell nice.” Yan Wushi’s, admittedly well-defined chin, settled on his shoulder. Then the Alpha was out again.
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Xie Ling fought to the surface as Yan Wushi tried so very hard to leave behind Shen Qiao.
Thoughts that made him feel vulnerable…..
Xie Ling turns back and rushes to Shen Qiao who was in a stalemate with Chen Gong and the last of his men.
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He carries Shen Qiao into the temple. Yan Wushi kisses away the tears that build up in those eyes that have become so much more clear than before.
Yan Wushi wasn’t going to allow Shen Qiao to follow him this time. The Alpha was barely in top form and Shen Qiao was near the end of his rope. Sang Jingxing wanted to sink his claws into Shen Qiao.
Yan Wushi wasn’t going to allow him that chance.
He lets his alpha scent off just a little. To try to calm down the man. Shen Qiao continues to struggle as Yan Wushi pushes the Bubba statue in place and he is left to himself.
He leaves the scene after drenching the area with his own scent….
So no one would know of the distressed Omega that lays within the temple walls.
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Yan Wushi helps a drunk Shen Qiao to bed and the Omega passes out soon after.
He clears so hair from his brow and lays one kiss on his forehead…
Oh, he so wanted to court Shen Qiao properly. He wasn’t going to hurt the Omega anymore as he leaves the room. He wanted to give Shen Qiao at least one pleasing memory of him before he went to his death.
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Yan Wushi falls to his back and he bleeds. Rain falls and the water mix with his blood and of his foe.
Hulugu was the last of the generation of Qi Fengge and soon he would follow….
He coughs up blood and his eyes blur. His eyelids shut and he lets his senses shut off.
At least he got one last moment with Ah-Qiao without the Daoist pushing him away.
In the back of his mind, he knows he is being lifted in a lap. Someone is cradling him and rocking back and forth with him.
A sweet scent enters his nose… and it’s slowly getting sour.
“If Sect Leader Yan wakes up…. He can do whatever he wants.” A forehead knocks with his own and warm tears land on his face.
Yan Wushi opens his eyes and weakly lifts his hand to hold Shen Qiao’s cheek.
“Whatever I want?”
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Shen Qiao didn’t expect Yan Wushi to transform into a loving Alpha but here the Sect leader of Cleansing Moon was, giving him all the affection in the world.
The Alpha had recovered enough only to run after the Omega who had just made it back to Mount Xuandu before one of his disciples said the Sect Leader of Cleansing Moon had collapsed at the entrance calling for ‘Ah-Qiao’.
None of the Betas wanted to help the Alpha as soon as Shen Qiao enter the scene to see Yan Wushi being stubborn.
Then as soon as they got to Shen Qiao’s room, the Alpha thought it would be funny to just lay his full weight on the Omega and just scent him all over.
That’s how the courtship had started and only ended after Yan Wushi bared his fangs into Shen Qiao(Though to show his full devotion to the Omega, Yan Wushi practically served his own neck on a golden platter before he did the same to him).
Shen Qiao thought this was nice.
He and Yan Wushi may not ever be true rivals but they were each other’s emotional equal.