Chapter 101: Water, Which Benefits All Things Without Contention
Qin Feilong walked past Ming Zhaoshuang.
He had listened to Shen Liqian play music for five years, so his control over sound blades was stronger than any of them.
He reached out, wanting to pull Ming Zhaoshuang up during the lull in the music.
But Ming Zhaoshuang didn’t need it; she climbed up with one hand while waving the other at Qin Feilong.
“Continue…”
Continue moving forward, continue passing the trial.
Let Shen Liqian see that they were also advancing.
Seeing this, Qin Feilong didn’t bother with her anymore and continued forward, enduring the sound kill.
As for Ming Zhaoshuang, she was still climbing upwards.
Climbing up bit by bit.
Shen Liqian naturally saw Ming Zhaoshuang’s actions and was so heartbroken that she actually vomited a mouthful of blood.
Emperor Yiqi saw this and seemed touched, his music slowing down slightly.
Unlike the other guardians of the formation, she had a wisp of her divine sense left here, which is why she looked at Shen Liqian with such admiration and pity.
As fellow musicians, she could naturally feel that Shen Liqian’s attainments were very high. That was why, when she saw Shen Liqian fighting her in vain, she unhesitatingly struck her down again and again to protect her hands.
The hands of a musician were of utmost importance, yet she was willing to give them up just to challenge something impossible to defeat.
She had experienced such friendship before.
She looked at Shen Liqian’s face, and seemed to see her past self in her.
Emperor Yiqi said, “Your spirit root is water, isn’t it?”
She said it seemingly casually, but Shen Liqian suddenly froze.
Shen Liqian’s fingers stopped on Su Nu Chou.
Her spirit root was water.
Water benefits all things without contention.
The highest good is like water.
Why did she have to fight Emperor Yiqi for a win or loss?
Why did she have to compare herself to a mountain, to see who was taller, who was harder?
There was no such logic.
In the next instant, Shen Liqian touched the strings again.
Her ten fingers were connected to her heart, let alone the fact that her bones were already exposed, and with every slide, her fingers felt almost numb with pain.
But this time, it was different from before.
The music from her fingertips was no longer murderous, nor filled with malice.
Her music began extremely high-pitched, as if mountains were collapsing before her eyes, torrential rain was pounding the rocks, and scorching sunlight was baking the earth.
But as time went on, her Konghou music gradually grew lower, like light clouds encircling green mountains, raindrops wetting flowers, and sparse sunlight flowing forward with quiet streams.
Slow, but continuous.
Sitting behind Emperor Yiqi, she was like a young attendant accompanying her music, but unknowingly led Emperor Yiqi’s music in another direction, no longer appearing sharp or so lonely and indifferent.
Instead, it was a realm that belonged solely to Shen Liqian.
A realm of highest good like water.
If the mountain does not come to me, I will go to the mountain; I will change the mountain until it comes to me.
This is water, which can contain all things, can change all things, yet does so silently, imperceptibly.
Under the influence of Shen Liqian’s music, Emperor Yiqi’s music quietly changed; the killing intent vanished, and the malice was no more.
The sound blades were still powerful, but they no longer aimed at Ming Zhaoshuang and the others.
In this environment, Qin Feilong took the lead and went straight to the center of the pavilion.
“Qin Feilong of Ao Tian Sect, trial passed.”
Following him were Fei Changxiu and Ming Chenxing. They still didn’t know what had happened, only that the sound blades had suddenly changed, and they immediately seized the opportunity to rush directly into the pavilion.
“Fei Changxiu of Ao Tian Sect, trial passed.”
“Ming Chenxing of the Ming Family, trial passed.”
Without the obstruction of sound blades, three hundred meters was nothing for the youngsters.
But only Ming Zhaoshuang was still more than ten meters away.
Her flesh and bones were shattered and could no longer support her. Even though Shen Liqian had changed her music, she could only crawl with her hands.
Shen Liqian’s music continued unabated, creating a safe environment for Ming Zhaoshuang.
Ten meters, nine meters, eight meters… until three meters, two meters, one meter.
The music stopped, and a hand covered in blood appeared before Ming Zhaoshuang, who grasped it.
“Ming Zhaoshuang of the Ming Family, trial passed.”
A sound rang out, and the youngsters all collapsed on the ground.
The fourth trial, while not as gloomy as the second, nor as winding as the third, could even be said to be somewhat tender. However, such tenderness was indeed built upon absolute strength, absolute power, and absolute invincibility.
No wonder no one could pass this trial.
After all, those who didn’t understand music theory could only fail, and those who did understand music theory would be eliminated in the earlier rounds.
Shen Liqian’s spiritual power slowly swirled around, but instead of tending to her own hands, it was transmitted to Ming Zhaoshuang.
Although Ming Zhaoshuang was protected by Ou Ziye’s spirit tool, she had chosen to confront Emperor Yiqi head-on, resulting in her body being covered in blood and her bones breaking inch by inch.
If not for the system’s cheat, she might have died long ago.
Ming Zhaoshuang’s chest rose and fell, and she said to Shen Liqian, “Qianqian, you should take care of yourself first.”
Ming Zhaoshuang remembered that the fifth trial was an illusion, and for someone like her, it would be a brief rest.
After all, she had always acted with a clear conscience and had no obsessions.
This way, she could buy the system some time for treatment.
Shen Liqian nodded in silence.
Qin Feilong was the least injured among them. Looking at the two wounded girls, he tried to distract them, saying, “Junior Sister Zhaoshuang, when did a mole grow on your left eye?”
Fei Changxiu immediately leaned over to look and said, “It really is there. I remember when I first saw you, your left eye was clean.”
Ming Zhaoshuang glanced at Fei Changxiu and said, “What can you see? You just beat me up.”
She replied casually, but her heart couldn’t help but drift far away.
The original owner’s left eye indeed did not have a mole, but hers did.
Living in the 21st century, when she first transmigrated, she had repeatedly compared her appearance to the original owner’s. She only remembered that they were very similar, and the only difference she could find was that she had a small red mole on her left eye, but the original owner did not.
But why, did she now have that red mole?
What was her relationship with the original owner? Why, despite being in different time and space, could they look exactly the same and have the same name?
Why did she appear in the original owner’s body? If, as the system said, she was swept over by the massive energy generated by Xiao Bai’s tribulation crossing.
But why was it her who was swept over, and not someone else?
What exactly was the system? What was its purpose in helping her without conditions?
Most importantly, where did the original owner go? Would she return to her own body?
And this novel, “Ao Tian Feilong,” was it really just a novel? Why was Shen Liqian controlled by the plot, why were Qin Zhi’s experiences so different from the original novel, and why was Shen Liqian and Qin Feilong’s relationship not as unbreakable as described in the original novel?
Why was she gradually forgetting the content of the original novel?
Ming Zhaoshuang thought a lot. She also realized that many plots in the novel she had repeatedly reread were not even clear to her anymore. She vaguely remembered the names of a few supporting female characters and their general plotlines with Qin Feilong, but she had forgotten the specific details of their interactions.
Ming Zhaoshuang asked herself that although she couldn’t remember everything perfectly, it was still easy for her to recall a novel she had read a few months ago.
At first, she could even remember minor characters like Xu Qingfeng, Yue Xunzhu, and Zhao Congmo, who were supporting characters among supporting characters, and cannon fodder among cannon fodder. But later, she had no impression even of the sisters Sun Qianshan and Sun Qianhe, who had a romantic storyline with Qin Feilong.
Why was this?
