Chapter 915 - 830: Playing with the Plum Blossoms
Qingcheng’s voice was fierce as she spoke, her beautiful eyes distorted and driven to madness by jealousy!
She had once made a bet with the one at The End of Myriad Paths, to guard Yin Zun’s Corpse through the eternities until this lifetime, when someone would come to continue the journey for her.
Now, Nan Feng had arrived.
She truly saw the Ultimate Celestial Phenomenon and beheld the supreme sanctuary of the Music Path.
But it was a road she could not travel.
Among the myriad Musical Dao, her own was far too narrow; resentment and hatred had trapped her, unable to escape.
Especially when she saw Nan Feng’s Dao.
Nan Feng’s Dao was built on a foundation of love and warmth, forging a Supreme Dao heart and achieving the Ultimate Celestial Phenomenon.
Yet her life was a tragedy through and through.
At the age of seven, she had already experienced the darkness of the human world.
She entered the courtesan house, trading her body and beauty for a powerful ladder.
Until she finally took the Ascendant Path and annihilated the entire world.
All she had was hatred.
She despised this world; to her, this world was too filthy and indifferent, its people too vile and repugnant.
She could not walk Nan Feng’s path.
Therefore, at this moment, she was nearly driven to madness, determined to destroy everything.
The scene of mountains of corpses and seas of blood emerged instantly from Immortal Melody Mountain with her music, unleashing across ten thousand li.
It was the overlapping wailings of countless worlds, the interweaving lamentations of myriads of beings, forming a vision of multilayered apocalyptic destruction.
These visions were not mere illusions, but had actually taken place.
Qingcheng had once slaughtered too many beings; in the Grey Mist Sea, she was known as a peerless calamity.
Now, the entire Music Desolate Realm was enveloped by such scenes!
Every being was panicking, their scalps tingling with fear, and their livers and gallbladders lost to horror.
Imagine, witnessing the end of days and destruction of many worlds with your own eyes, who could not tremble with fear?
This despair and terror even surpassed the emergence of the Blood Curse Great Formation.
“What is going on… How could such terrifying scenes appear on Immortal Melody Mountain…”
“No, the Ultimate Celestial Phenomenon had just appeared, is Music Desolate facing a great catastrophe, doomed to be exterminated?”
“I feel the breath of destruction; no one will be able to survive, not just Music Desolate, but this catastrophe belongs to Four Domains Eight Desolations, even to the True Ancestor World!”
The cries of the common people resounded, tears flooding the ground.
…
Even beyond Music Desolate, throughout the Four Domains Eight Desolations, and as far as the distant True Ancestor World, people felt it.
“Has Music Desolate been destroyed?”
“Such terrifying power of annihilation?”
“This presence… Could it be an Ultimate Being making a move in Music Desolate? I can feel the sky-high despair of dying beings!”
People were taken aback, with attention from all quarters, many worried and concerned.
And at the Sacrificial Temple.
“Haha, destruction has come, the entire Music Desolate will be exterminated, and the soaring blood will test the authenticity of Blood Rush Mist Sea!”
Ning Tianji laughed heartily.
“I didn’t expect the Ban Explorers’ Blood Curse Great Formation to be so terrifying…”
Elder Grandson Changqing, however, spoke softly,
“This might, almost as if the Ultimate has come into the world, we… have vastly underestimated the strength of the Ban Explorers.”
The many Ultimate Beings present all wore solemn expressions on their faces.
—In their view, the current scene must be the effect of the Ban Explorers’ Blood Curse Great Formation.
The Blood Curse Great Formation, with eighteen Array Flags activating simultaneously, was to unleash the power of annihilation, exterminating all living beings in Music Desolate, and then using their blood to assault the Chaos Fog.
That Chaos Fog, which was extracted from Ning Tianji’s “Inner Scene,” could cover everything, the terrifying fog that obstructed the paths of Ning Tianji and the others, trapping them within the Ultimate, with no way to advance further.
Once this battle concluded, they would know for certain if the heart method transmitted from the Grey Mist Sea was true or false.
“The origins of the Ban Explorers are not simple.”
Ji Wulu stated coldly,
“It seems now, they must have some relation to the Grey Mist Sea… but it’s not important.”
“Our goal now is to find the law of proving Dao; Grey Mist Path… is our only choice!”
The many Ultimate Beings inevitably nodded in agreement.
Although it was said that in the Martial Desolate Realm and the Music Desolate Realm, great daos had emerged that could reach the heavens, such as the Martial Path and the Sound Dao, to them, this meant nothing.
Firstly, Sound Venerate and Martial Honor were beings from The Era of the Ancient White Mist.
Their Martial Path and Music Path also belonged to The Era of the Ancient White Mist. Now, in the Era of the Latter White Mist, even if they could trigger the Ultimate Celestial Phenomenon, it wouldn’t prove anything.
Over the eons, within the True Ancestor World, powers such as the Sacrificial Temple had unearthed many ancient laws that were claimed to reach the heavens, but ultimately, they all ended in failure.
Because times had changed, the daos of The Era of the Ancient White Mist had already lost their foundation.
This world no longer contained the pure White Mist Origin.
One had to either choose the Nine Laws or opt for the Grey Mist Path.
Secondly, even if they wanted to try, they had no opportunity. The cultivation paths were different. For someone on the Martial Path to access the heavenly dao, only a warrior with outstanding talent would dare to attempt it lightly.
Especially at their level, following the Martial Path meant abandoning their current foundation of dao.
So… there was no choice.
“Hehe, if this ‘Blood Rushing Through the Fog Sea’ is indeed real, then the Ban Explorers need to speed up…”
Ning Tianji spoke.
They were all anticipating!
…
Music Desolate.
Immortal Melody Mountain.
“What’s going on here? Has this person on Immortal Melody Mountain gone mad? They see the Ultimate Celestial Phenomenon and still won’t submit?”
Seeing that towering sea of blood, Big Black Dog also stood on alert, his eyes full of concern, and said,
“She’s a killing star, this sort of thing, if not suppressed, could truly bring about a catastrophe!”
“Woof, too bad my Imperial Path Dao Fruit is not with me, otherwise I’d have killed her!”
Beside him, perched on Jiang Li’s shoulder, Little Turtle seemed contemplative, and said,
“I seem to remember now…”
“In the Grey Mist Sea, she was called a killing star, a woman whose single performance of Qingcheng could end worlds…”
“Back then, she was already fierce, and now her strength has advanced even further from that time, it’s terrifying.”
But Zi Ling said,
“I’m going to find Sister Nan Feng!”
She waved her brush, and as it moved, so did space, and in an instant, she too appeared atop Immortal Melody Mountain.
As soon as she arrived, she saw endless musical notes surging madly towards Nan Feng.
—The current Nan Feng, relying on her past life’s dao, had already grasped the essence of music, but the gap in realm between her and Qingcheng remained like a gaping chasm, insurmountable.
After all, Qingcheng had already become one of the strongest on the Ascendant Path, and had even progressed very far along that path!
Nan Feng had not yet grown so much.
“Sister Nan Feng!”
Seeing this, Zi Ling shouted toward Nan Feng.
At this moment, Nan Feng, looking at the countless Sound Dao assassinations launched by Qingcheng, waved her hand indifferently.
The qin in Zi Ling’s hand instantaneously flew in front of Nan Feng.
Nan Feng placed her bare hand on the qin strings.
“I didn’t want to use this qin… but alas, you are stubbornly unenlightened.”
Nan Feng flicked her finger.
Plum Blossom First Move!
Moved to tears!
The paulownia wood body of the qin made the music sound exceptionally clear, as if it didn’t belong to this world.
Previously, Nan Feng had been continuously practicing the first of the Ten Eternal Sounds: High Mountain Flowing Water.
Now, she directly played the second piece, Plum Blossom Three Moves.
Yet it sounded so harmonious, so natural.
Like clear water flowing through pine forests, like autumn winds sweeping down yellow leaves.
Person and qin, nearly fusing into one!
Wherever the qin music went.
Instantly, Qingcheng’s numerous soundwave attacks, seas of corpses and blood, all crumbled and dissipated due to this qin music!
Even Qingcheng, who had been using her own hair as qin strings, was suddenly startled, watching incredulously at the qin in Nan Feng’s hands!
“What… what kind of qin is this!?”
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