Chapter 5

Soon, under the arrangement of that little girl, Gu Qingfeng followed a young servant of the villa and went to take a bath .

It had to be said that this villa was very comfortable . Even the bathing places were well decorated and not only were there hot springs where you could soak in but there was also a light rain formation hanging on top of the place . After the formation was started, it was as if you were standing under a rainy sky outside .

“The people from the present really know how to enjoy themselves . ” Gu Qingfeng sighed as he thought about his cultivation years from the past .

Back then, the world’s spiritual energy was very meager, the spiritual veins were dominated by the big sects, and even spiritual stones were an extravagant thing . Sometimes he had to go through very arduous fights just for a spiritual stone, but the people from the present had it good .

After the tribulation ended, it was as if the world was reborn, and all lives began to recover, spiritual veins appeared everywhere, and people no longer cared about the number of spiritual stones that were required to keep formations up and running .

After taking a bath and changing clothes, Gu Qingfeng was in a much better mood and his spirit was refreshed . He took a few Vitality Pills and although his body was still weak, it was much better than when he had just awakened, and his vitality was gradually restoring .

The new clothes brought by the young servant fit him well, and after putting them on, he had a strange feeling as he looked at himself in the bronze mirror .

In the bronze mirror, his figure was tall and straight, with long black hair that scattered haphazardly, and white face with very sharp, cold and handsome features, as well as a pair of narrow eyes, silent and deep as the abyss .

Gu Qingfeng stroked his face and an inexplicable feeling appeared in his heart .

Cultivation knew no years .

Honestly speaking, it had been so long since Gu Qingfeng looked in a mirror after he had refined his flesh with the Underworld ancestral fire, so long that he had forgotten what he really looked like .

“I think back then I was a really handsome fellow in the surrounding area but nowadays…sigh! I’m old…”

Although he looked as if he was his early twenties and was also wearing a very young and brand new white robe, he still did not have the vigorousness of a young man, but only that serene and obscure bearing .

It was true that after cultivating to Golden Core, you could stay young forever, but that only applied to your appearance, not your heart . No matter how young you looked, you could not hide the traces left by the years in your heart .

While waiting for Ouyang Ye, Gu Qingfeng ate the fruits and melon seeds that the young servant brought, but he got bored after waiting for so long and seeing that Ouyang Ye was nowhere to be seen, he went out and wandered around the villa .

Earlier, Ouyang Ye said that a music gathering would be held here and many musicians from the Bluesun Domain seemed to have come here . However, as Gu Qingfeng walked thorough the villa and heard all kinds of messy songs, he simply shook his head . In his opinion, everything he had heard was a poor display of singing .

“These are the so-called masters? I was better than this when I first started playing music . ”

If a mysterious tune was capable of producing a concept, it could make people dream back throughout times, but if it couldn’t, then it was just torture for people . After all, music could easily resonate with someone’s spirit .

The villa was full of gardens, and it seemed that there were people playing the zither in each garden . Gu Qingfeng couldn’t help but stop in front of a garden, not because the music inside was very beautiful . On the contrary, the music coming from that garden was very ordinary, making it clear that the person was a beginner .

Gu Qingfeng stopped because he was amused by the music inside .

The sound of the zither was intermittent, and the person who sang seemed to be practicing . Every time he made a mistake, he stopped and started from the beginning, only to make a mistake again . He went back and forth in this way and made mistakes more than a dozen times, but the person who played the piano seemed to be very persistent and continued singing and making the same mistake in the same place every time .

“What a stubborn fellow . ” Gu Qingfeng couldn’t listen anymore and went in looking person who singed and to his surprise, it was a seven or eight-year-old short and cute blue-haired girl who played the zither .

At this moment she was standing in the pavilion playing, with her little head twisted . Every time she made a mistake, the little girl looked very depressed and muttered, “How come every time I arrive at this part, I end up making a mistake…My zither fingering style is obviously correct, the strings are also right and the rhythm is also good . Could it be because I’m using the spiritual art in the wrong way?”

Since music was one of the ten immortal arts, it wasn’t as simple as just playing it bare-handed . Playing your zither with nothing but your hands could indeed produce a beautiful song, but using spiritual force, gave the spirit an even more vivid and profound feeling .

Music was capable of intimidating demons due to the spiritual force the was poured while playing the zither, and a formidable song’s power was not inferior to a terrifying magical ability .

The little girl was very persistent and seemed a bit foolish, but also lovely . She has made the same mistake in the same place for a dozen of times, but she was still really determined .

Gu Qingfeng walked over and smiled, “Little sister, your fingering style is not wrong, your strings and rhythm are good too, but you’re using your spiritual art in the wrong way . ”

“Ah!”

Hearing someone speak, the little girl cried out in surprise . When she saw Gu Qingfeng, the little girl became more shy than surprised, her face immediately turned red and asked shyly, “You…who are you?”

“I, hmm, I was just passing by but when I heard you singing, I came to take a look . ”

“Oh . ” The little girl, seemingly remembering what she had just heard, then raised her little head again and asked, “Big brother, what did you just say? Did you say I used my spiritual art in the wrong way?”

“You just used the Four-stringed Young Feather Art, which is a bit heavy for the song just now . ” Gu Qingfeng walked into the pavilion and sat down, “Why don’t you switch to the gentle-plucking style and use the Three-stringed Recovery Art to see what happens . ”

“Gentle-plucking style and Three-stringed Recovery Art?” The little girl opened the sheet music in her hand and looked at it, then said, “But…it doesn’t look like that on the sheet music . ”

“The sheet music is already set, but you are flexible . How would you know it if you don’t try?”

The little girl crooked her head and opened her big eyes wide open . After thinking for a while, she was still a bit skeptical but still gave it a try .

When she got to the part that she kept getting wrong, she changed her fingering style to the gentle-plucking style and used the Three-stringed Recovery Art, and to her disbelief, she actually succeeded in her first try .

Perhaps it was because she didn’t expect it to go this smoothly, or because she didn’t dare to believe it, she tried one more time, and this was another success .

The little girl looked at the sheet music then stared at Gu Qingfeng . She couldn’t believe that she succeeded in playing the song using a different method than the one on the sheet music .

“Big brother, are you a musician from here?”

“Me?” Gu Qingfeng shook his head, indicating that he was not .

“Then you must know a lot about music, right, big brother?”

“Indeed, I played for a while in the past . ”

“Then your musical attainments must be very high, right, big brother?”

“Of course,” Sitting in the pavilion, Gu Qingfeng crossed his legs, threw a melon seed in his mouth and laughed, “Back then when I played music, if I said I was second, no one would dare to call say they were first . There’s no song in this world that I can’t play . ”

“Ah! Really, big brother? Then can you play ‘Heartless Falling Flowers’?”

Heartless Falling Flowers?

Gu Qingfeng has not heard this song .

“What about Upsurge of Purple Clouds?”

Gu Qingfeng shook his head, he has not heard this song either . After that, the little girl said a dozen songs in a row, but he didn’t know any of them .

Gu Qingfeng’s expression was rather embarrassed when he saw the doubt in the little girl’s eyes as she looked at him, thinking that he was just talking big .

“Big brother, didn’t you say that there is no song in the world that you can’t play? Why can’t you play any of elder sister Su Hua’s famous songs?”

Gu Qingfeng thought about this name for a while but it was unfamiliar to him, “Who is Su Hua?”

“Elder sister Su Hua is the musician that I, Jin’er, admire the most!”

Gu Qingfeng thought that this Su Hu was a musician who emerged only in recent years .

“Big brother, then what kind of songs do you usually play?”

“Usually…” Gu Qingfeng thought seriously and said, “The songs I usually play might be a bit old for you . I don’t know if you’ve heard them, for example, Ancestor Devil Cliff, Granny Dark Zither, Sima Xingkong are all powerful songs that I can play . ”

“Ancestor Devil Cliff, Granny Dark Zither, Sima Xingkong…they are all seniors of the Near Ancient Era, right? The little girl crooked her head for a moment, blinked her big eyes, and said, “Out of the powerful songs of the seniors from Near Ancient Era, Jin’er only likes the ones from Worldly Empress and Sovereign Bloodheaven . ”

“Sovereign Bloodheaven’s songs?” Gu Qingfeng raised his eyebrows and grinned, “As it happens, what I most excel at are Gu Tianlang’s songs . ”

“Big brother!” The little girl stared at Gu Qingfeng with a frown had a very skeptical look, “You don’t even know how to play elder sister Su Hua’s songs, and you claim to be good at Sovereign Bloodheaven’s songs? Sovereign’s songs are much more difficult than elder sister Su Tranquil’s songs . ”

“Hahahahaha! I can’t guarantee for other people’s songs, but when it comes to Sovereign Bloodheaven’s songs, I can play them with my eyes closed and bring the concept out of all of them . ”

“Big brother, you’re bragging again, my grandfather has pondered on the Sovereign’s songs his entire life and yet still doesn’t dare to say that he can bring out the concept of even ten songs . ”

“What, little girl, you still don’t believe me?”

Gu Qingfeng got up, stuffed the spiritual fruit in his hand into his pocket, patted his hands and laughed, “I’m in a good mood today so I’ll show you . ”

After receiving the zither from the little girl, he tried to play a few songs, but perhaps because he had not touched a zither in ages, he was a bit rusty .

“Big brother, what are you playing? This is all a mess . And why are you playing bare-handed? Why don’t you use spiritual arts? The little girl reminded him, “If you don’t use spiritual force, then your song won’t have a soul, it won’t be alive and you won’t be able to bring out the profound concept within it . ”

“Oh, you know quite a lot of things for someone so young . ”

The little girl’s zither was a banana-leaves styled one and there are some broken lines on top of it, which indicated that it was quite old .

Gu Qingfeng plucked at the strings and said, “But not all songs required you to use spiritual force to bring out the profound concept . Sometimes the essence of a song can be brought out just by playing with your bare hands . ”

After trying to play a few more songs, he started to play a song called ‘Drunken at the Blue Sea’ .

The reason why he wanted to play this song was just because he purely liked it, and he was in a similar situation as he was when he wrote this song .

At that time, he was young and crazy and he offended many people and was injured more times than he could count, including eight or nine times when he lost his cultivation base .

One time, he was besieged by the experts from the Immortal Dynasty and his primal soul waned and he nearly lost his life . Back then, he hid at the Blue Sea as a drinker . That’s why he created ‘Drunken at the Blue Sea’ .

And now, his Grand Dao foundation was destroyed, the immortal and devil thrones were seized, and his cultivation base was lost . It was like going back to the beginning .

Now that many years had passed, he felt very emotional playing this song again .

And that was exactly what was so wonderful about music, it was easy to tug at memories and it touched the deepest emotions of one’s heart . This was also the fundamental reason why Gu Qingfeng was so addicted to music in those days .

Along with the end of the song, his thoughts returned to the present .

Gu Qingfeng let out a sigh and shook his head slightly, somewhat unsatisfied: “It’s been a long time since I played this song, I can’t find the feeling from those years at the moment . ”

The little girl next to him had been listening carefully, and her little face looked extremely amazed . She was staring at Gu Qingfeng with wide eyes as if she was looking at a monster, and as if she had lost her soul and froze there in astonishment .

“This truly broadened my horizons!” An astounded voiced resounded, and when Gu Qingfeng looked over, he discovered that somewhere along the line, an old man appeared inside the garden .

Soon, under the arrangement of that little girl, Gu Qingfeng followed a young servant of the villa and went to take a bath .

It had to be said that this villa was very comfortable . Even the bathing places were well decorated and not only were there hot springs where you could soak in but there was also a light rain formation hanging on top of the place . After the formation was started, it was as if you were standing under a rainy sky outside .

“The people from the present really know how to enjoy themselves . ” Gu Qingfeng sighed as he thought about his cultivation years from the past .

Back then, the world’s spiritual energy was very meager, the spiritual veins were dominated by the big sects, and even spiritual stones were an extravagant thing . Sometimes he had to go through very arduous fights just for a spiritual stone, but the people from the present had it good .

After the tribulation ended, it was as if the world was reborn, and all lives began to recover, spiritual veins appeared everywhere, and people no longer cared about the number of spiritual stones that were required to keep formations up and running .

After taking a bath and changing clothes, Gu Qingfeng was in a much better mood and his spirit was refreshed . He took a few Vitality Pills and although his body was still weak, it was much better than when he had just awakened, and his vitality was gradually restoring .

The new clothes brought by the young servant fit him well, and after putting them on, he had a strange feeling as he looked at himself in the bronze mirror .

In the bronze mirror, his figure was tall and straight, with long black hair that scattered haphazardly, and white face with very sharp, cold and handsome features, as well as a pair of narrow eyes, silent and deep as the abyss .

Gu Qingfeng stroked his face and an inexplicable feeling appeared in his heart .

Cultivation knew no years .

Honestly speaking, it had been so long since Gu Qingfeng looked in a mirror after he had refined his flesh with the Underworld ancestral fire, so long that he had forgotten what he really looked like .

“I think back then I was a really handsome fellow in the surrounding area but nowadays…sigh! I’m old…”

Although he looked as if he was his early twenties and was also wearing a very young and brand new white robe, he still did not have the vigorousness of a young man, but only that serene and obscure bearing .

It was true that after cultivating to Golden Core, you could stay young forever, but that only applied to your appearance, not your heart . No matter how young you looked, you could not hide the traces left by the years in your heart .

While waiting for Ouyang Ye, Gu Qingfeng ate the fruits and melon seeds that the young servant brought, but he got bored after waiting for so long and seeing that Ouyang Ye was nowhere to be seen, he went out and wandered around the villa .

Earlier, Ouyang Ye said that a music gathering would be held here and many musicians from the Bluesun Domain seemed to have come here . However, as Gu Qingfeng walked thorough the villa and heard all kinds of messy songs, he simply shook his head . In his opinion, everything he had heard was a poor display of singing .

“These are the so-called masters? I was better than this when I first started playing music . ”

If a mysterious tune was capable of producing a concept, it could make people dream back throughout times, but if it couldn’t, then it was just torture for people . After all, music could easily resonate with someone’s spirit .

The villa was full of gardens, and it seemed that there were people playing the zither in each garden . Gu Qingfeng couldn’t help but stop in front of a garden, not because the music inside was very beautiful . On the contrary, the music coming from that garden was very ordinary, making it clear that the person was a beginner .

Gu Qingfeng stopped because he was amused by the music inside .

The sound of the zither was intermittent, and the person who sang seemed to be practicing . Every time he made a mistake, he stopped and started from the beginning, only to make a mistake again . He went back and forth in this way and made mistakes more than a dozen times, but the person who played the piano seemed to be very persistent and continued singing and making the same mistake in the same place every time .

“What a stubborn fellow . ” Gu Qingfeng couldn’t listen anymore and went in looking person who singed and to his surprise, it was a seven or eight-year-old short and cute blue-haired girl who played the zither .

At this moment she was standing in the pavilion playing, with her little head twisted . Every time she made a mistake, the little girl looked very depressed and muttered, “How come every time I arrive at this part, I end up making a mistake…My zither fingering style is obviously correct, the strings are also right and the rhythm is also good . Could it be because I’m using the spiritual art in the wrong way?”

Since music was one of the ten immortal arts, it wasn’t as simple as just playing it bare-handed . Playing your zither with nothing but your hands could indeed produce a beautiful song, but using spiritual force, gave the spirit an even more vivid and profound feeling .

Music was capable of intimidating demons due to the spiritual force the was poured while playing the zither, and a formidable song’s power was not inferior to a terrifying magical ability .

The little girl was very persistent and seemed a bit foolish, but also lovely . She has made the same mistake in the same place for a dozen of times, but she was still really determined .

Gu Qingfeng walked over and smiled, “Little sister, your fingering style is not wrong, your strings and rhythm are good too, but you’re using your spiritual art in the wrong way . ”

“Ah!”

Hearing someone speak, the little girl cried out in surprise . When she saw Gu Qingfeng, the little girl became more shy than surprised, her face immediately turned red and asked shyly, “You…who are you?”

“I, hmm, I was just passing by but when I heard you singing, I came to take a look . ”

“Oh . ” The little girl, seemingly remembering what she had just heard, then raised her little head again and asked, “Big brother, what did you just say? Did you say I used my spiritual art in the wrong way?”

“You just used the Four-stringed Young Feather Art, which is a bit heavy for the song just now . ” Gu Qingfeng walked into the pavilion and sat down, “Why don’t you switch to the gentle-plucking style and use the Three-stringed Recovery Art to see what happens . ”

“Gentle-plucking style and Three-stringed Recovery Art?” The little girl opened the sheet music in her hand and looked at it, then said, “But…it doesn’t look like that on the sheet music . ”

“The sheet music is already set, but you are flexible . How would you know it if you don’t try?”

The little girl crooked her head and opened her big eyes wide open . After thinking for a while, she was still a bit skeptical but still gave it a try .

When she got to the part that she kept getting wrong, she changed her fingering style to the gentle-plucking style and used the Three-stringed Recovery Art, and to her disbelief, she actually succeeded in her first try .

Perhaps it was because she didn’t expect it to go this smoothly, or because she didn’t dare to believe it, she tried one more time, and this was another success .

The little girl looked at the sheet music then stared at Gu Qingfeng . She couldn’t believe that she succeeded in playing the song using a different method than the one on the sheet music .

“Big brother, are you a musician from here?”

“Me?” Gu Qingfeng shook his head, indicating that he was not .

“Then you must know a lot about music, right, big brother?”

“Indeed, I played for a while in the past . ”

“Then your musical attainments must be very high, right, big brother?”

“Of course,” Sitting in the pavilion, Gu Qingfeng crossed his legs, threw a melon seed in his mouth and laughed, “Back then when I played music, if I said I was second, no one would dare to call say they were first . There’s no song in this world that I can’t play . ”

“Ah! Really, big brother? Then can you play ‘Heartless Falling Flowers’?”

Heartless Falling Flowers?

Gu Qingfeng has not heard this song .

“What about Upsurge of Purple Clouds?”

Gu Qingfeng shook his head, he has not heard this song either . After that, the little girl said a dozen songs in a row, but he didn’t know any of them .

Gu Qingfeng’s expression was rather embarrassed when he saw the doubt in the little girl’s eyes as she looked at him, thinking that he was just talking big .

“Big brother, didn’t you say that there is no song in the world that you can’t play? Why can’t you play any of elder sister Su Hua’s famous songs?”

Gu Qingfeng thought about this name for a while but it was unfamiliar to him, “Who is Su Hua?”

“Elder sister Su Hua is the musician that I, Jin’er, admire the most!”

Gu Qingfeng thought that this Su Hu was a musician who emerged only in recent years .

“Big brother, then what kind of songs do you usually play?”

“Usually…” Gu Qingfeng thought seriously and said, “The songs I usually play might be a bit old for you . I don’t know if you’ve heard them, for example, Ancestor Devil Cliff, Granny Dark Zither, Sima Xingkong are all powerful songs that I can play . ”

“Ancestor Devil Cliff, Granny Dark Zither, Sima Xingkong…they are all seniors of the Near Ancient Era, right? The little girl crooked her head for a moment, blinked her big eyes, and said, “Out of the powerful songs of the seniors from Near Ancient Era, Jin’er only likes the ones from Worldly Empress and Sovereign Bloodheaven . ”

“Sovereign Bloodheaven’s songs?” Gu Qingfeng raised his eyebrows and grinned, “As it happens, what I most excel at are Gu Tianlang’s songs . ”

“Big brother!” The little girl stared at Gu Qingfeng with a frown had a very skeptical look, “You don’t even know how to play elder sister Su Hua’s songs, and you claim to be good at Sovereign Bloodheaven’s songs? Sovereign’s songs are much more difficult than elder sister Su Tranquil’s songs . ”

“Hahahahaha! I can’t guarantee for other people’s songs, but when it comes to Sovereign Bloodheaven’s songs, I can play them with my eyes closed and bring the concept out of all of them . ”

“Big brother, you’re bragging again, my grandfather has pondered on the Sovereign’s songs his entire life and yet still doesn’t dare to say that he can bring out the concept of even ten songs . ”

“What, little girl, you still don’t believe me?”

Gu Qingfeng got up, stuffed the spiritual fruit in his hand into his pocket, patted his hands and laughed, “I’m in a good mood today so I’ll show you . ”

After receiving the zither from the little girl, he tried to play a few songs, but perhaps because he had not touched a zither in ages, he was a bit rusty .

“Big brother, what are you playing? This is all a mess . And why are you playing bare-handed? Why don’t you use spiritual arts? The little girl reminded him, “If you don’t use spiritual force, then your song won’t have a soul, it won’t be alive and you won’t be able to bring out the profound concept within it . ”

“Oh, you know quite a lot of things for someone so young . ”

The little girl’s zither was a banana-leaves styled one and there are some broken lines on top of it, which indicated that it was quite old .

Gu Qingfeng plucked at the strings and said, “But not all songs required you to use spiritual force to bring out the profound concept . Sometimes the essence of a song can be brought out just by playing with your bare hands . ”

After trying to play a few more songs, he started to play a song called ‘Drunken at the Blue Sea’ .

The reason why he wanted to play this song was just because he purely liked it, and he was in a similar situation as he was when he wrote this song .

At that time, he was young and crazy and he offended many people and was injured more times than he could count, including eight or nine times when he lost his cultivation base .

One time, he was besieged by the experts from the Immortal Dynasty and his primal soul waned and he nearly lost his life . Back then, he hid at the Blue Sea as a drinker . That’s why he created ‘Drunken at the Blue Sea’ .

And now, his Grand Dao foundation was destroyed, the immortal and devil thrones were seized, and his cultivation base was lost . It was like going back to the beginning .

Now that many years had passed, he felt very emotional playing this song again .

And that was exactly what was so wonderful about music, it was easy to tug at memories and it touched the deepest emotions of one’s heart . This was also the fundamental reason why Gu Qingfeng was so addicted to music in those days .

Along with the end of the song, his thoughts returned to the present .

Gu Qingfeng let out a sigh and shook his head slightly, somewhat unsatisfied: “It’s been a long time since I played this song, I can’t find the feeling from those years at the moment . ”

The little girl next to him had been listening carefully, and her little face looked extremely amazed . She was staring at Gu Qingfeng with wide eyes as if she was looking at a monster, and as if she had lost her soul and froze there in astonishment .

“This truly broadened my horizons!” An astounded voiced resounded, and when Gu Qingfeng looked over, he discovered that somewhere along the line, an old man appeared inside the garden .