binnovel Chapter 189: The Banquet
Chapter 189: The Banquet
Qin Muyue knew in her heart that if she wanted to shine at the Juexian Banquet, the harmonious performance of Yue Guanxue and Lin Qingyin was the key.
That night, Qin Muyue found Lin Qingyin, with a hint of cunning in her eyes.
"Ms. Lin, I know that your zither music and Yue Guanxue's piano music match perfectly, but have you ever thought about what the consequences would be if you made a mistake at the Juexian Banquet?" Qin Muyue said softly.
Lin Qingyin was stunned. She didn't understand why Qin Muyue asked such a question, but she still answered: "If we make a mistake, we will definitely not be able to become the first string."
Qin Muyue nodded, she took out a bag of crystal clear top-grade spirit stones from her sleeve and placed it in front of Lin Qingyin.
"These are just the first part of the reward. If you can deliberately make mistakes at the Juexian Banquet, I will give you another bag." Qin Muyue's voice was full of temptation.
Lin Qingyin looked at the spirit stone, a trace of nightmare flashed in her eyes, and she took the purse with a smile.
"Thank you, Miss..." Lin Qingyin was completely turned into a puppet by the nightmare.
Qin Muyue could see that the nightmare had changed Lin Qingyin's actions. She heard Shi Nishang's body continue to say, "On the day of the Juexian Banquet, you were the first to play Thousand Mountains Snow, leaving Yue Guanxue with nothing to play."
Lin Qingyin agreed and turned and left.
At this time, the mirror in Qin Muyue's hand flashed, and the dream-weaving insect had moved into Lin Qingyin's body. Now Lin Qingyin was her puppet.
"Oh, even if you, a lowly person, enter the sect, you can never raise your head under the hands of the aristocratic family. Yue Guanxue should be trampled under my feet for the rest of her life." Qin Muyue looked at "Shi Nishang" reluctantly while speaking the lines.
After finally regaining control of his body, Qin Muyue moved his limbs and turned around to see a figure.
Yue Guanxue, dressed in light blue disciple uniform, looked like a handsome male ghost, looking at her dimly.
Qin Muyue looked at the nightmare spirit that was stirring around her. She understood that waking up the dream master would cause all his experiences to reappear.
Then the situation she created would no longer exist.
Secondly, Shi Nishang must have a reasonable set of behaviors for the bad things she did, and Qin Muyue cannot go against the character of the evil daughter, otherwise Yue Guanxue will also return to the first meeting.
Qin Muyue secretly envied Yue Guanxue for being able to run around, which meant that he could ignore the rules of the nightmare.
Yue Guanxue's eyes were full of disappointment, and his voice was trembling: "Miss, are you approaching me intentionally? If you just wanted to kill me, you wouldn't have to go through so much trouble."
Qin Muyue also wanted to explain, but she couldn't say anything under the surveillance of Nightmare.
"Yue Guanxue, I..." Qin Muyue was interrupted by Yue Guanxue before she could finish her words.
"That's enough, Miss. If you wanted to stop my cultivation from improving, you should have attacked my Dantian that day," Yue Guanxue's voice was filled with a hint of determination.
He turned away coldly. "Since I still have the ability to compete with you, the children of aristocratic families, from today on, there will be no connection between us."
Qin Muyue felt helpless. She played with the Dreamweaver Mother Gu on her fingertips and turned away.
The next day, the Juexian Banquet was held as scheduled.
The bell sounds of the Juexian Banquet echoed in the morning mist. Yue Guanxue stood on the edge of the Konghe Terrace, gazing at the mountains in the distance.
His heart was filled with mixed emotions. He was so miserable because of being deceived by the rich girl. But no matter how angry and disappointed he was, Yue Guanxue still composed himself and walked to his seat and sat down.
He looked at Lin Qingyin next to him and nodded, then turned to look at the instrument in his hand.
The scenes of yesterday echoed in his mind. The girl's words, her eyes, her every move, all made him feel deeply betrayed.
How could the young lady play with his true feelings like this? Yue Guanxue thought about it all night but still couldn't figure it out.
He didn't understand why the young lady hated him so much and yet gave herself to him that day. If it was hatred due to the difference in status, then she would not have allowed him to take her from the beginning.
His heart was filled with doubts, but more of pain.
Yue Guanxue took a deep breath, trying to suppress these chaotic emotions.
He knew that today's Juexian Banquet was of great significance to him. Once he won the Juexian Qin Score, he would be able to comprehend the sound of the Great Dao that belonged to him.
By then he will have the ability to compete with those children from aristocratic families.
However, when he searched the crowd but couldn't find the girl, a sense of loss welled up in his heart.
Does the lady really hate him so much?
He had fantasized countless times that when he became an inner sect disciple, the girl would wear a red dress, with her unique sly smile, sitting at the Juexian Banquet and listening to his music.
Yue Guanxue had mixed feelings. He didn't know why the girl didn't come. Was it because she no longer needed to pretend in front of him and had already made no secret of her contempt for his identity?
The music cultivators showed off their own songs one after another, as well as the Taoist sounds within the songs.
The music practitioners demonstrated their own great ways in music one after another, and each of them took the stage after playing the eight musical instruments.
But in Yue Guanxue's heart, there was only the arrogant girl in red.
He adjusted his strings to make sure the tone was right.
He looked at Lin Qingyin again, and the woman nodded to him.
Lin Qingyin played Thousand Mountains Snow first, and Yue Guanxue was stunned to find that the other party was playing the accompaniment. Listening to the accompaniment, he couldn't help but play the main song of Thousand Mountains Snow, and the two pieces sounded in harmony.
Lin Qingyin did not betray him at the critical moment. He could tell that she wanted to play with him just by listening to the sound of the zither.
Yue Guanxue's eyes gradually darkened, only the young lady was indeed scheming him.
Yue Guanxue's fingers gently plucked the strings of the zither, and Lin Qingyin's fingers were also dancing on the zither.
The harmonious sound of the zither and the harp, like a piece of music that is too high to be appreciated by the few, amazed the hearts of everyone present.
The music is like a painting of thousands of snowy mountains, slowly unfolding, with wind and clouds surging, and every snowflake frozen in the air, as if captured by the harmonious music of the zither and the harp.
Everyone at the Juexian Banquet was drawn into this state of mind by the sound of the piano.
“The sound of the heart is the prototype of the sound of the Tao. The future of these two people is promising. The heaven and earth are the bones of the zither, and the heart and soul are the strings. If they can get the Juexian zither score, they will surely reach such a realm.” Among the several great sound cultivators on the high platform, the Zither Saint who was in the middle stroked his beard and praised.
A woman in red clothes beside him, with a bit of demonic charm between her eyebrows and eyes, was obviously a demon world music cultivator. She snorted lightly: "Hmph, although the ensemble of Yue Guanxue and Lin Qingyin is indeed good, it is still far from being comparable to me alone."
A middle-aged man in gorgeous clothes, with a gleam in his eyes, nodded and said, "Since ancient times, there have been geniuses with extraordinary talents who have obtained the first position of the string, but the cooperation between Yue Guanxue and Lin Qingyin is perfect. Their harmony is rare among all the people who have achieved the Tao."
An old woman, with a kind smile on her face, placed her skinny fingers on the fifty-string zither. The zither made of human bones gave off bursts of evil chill.
The Evil Zither Ghost Princess nodded and said, "Yue Guanxue and Lin Qingyin are both outstanding in music cultivation. Their harmonious music makes an old woman like me feel the vitality of youth."
A group of low-level music practitioners were listening silently. There was no good or evil in the way of music, the only difference was whether these old monsters could taste it or not.
If one wants to perform strange and clever techniques, he must play the music in a way that does not disgust the powerful ones, otherwise he will be slapped to death by those things in the judging panel.
Finally, when the last note of the song fell, the whole audience fell silent.
The Master of Qin slowly stood up and announced the result.
In the end, Yue Guanxue and Lin Qingyin's performance won the championship of the Juexian Banquet.
Their harmonious music won the recognition of all music practitioners, and their strength was enough to compete with those children from aristocratic families.
Yue Guanxue and Lin Qingyin obtained the rubbing of the Juexian Qin Score at the same time, and the two agreed to come out and compete again.
He took one last look at the main peak where the rich young lady lived and slowly closed the door.