Vol 4 Chapter 24.2 (2/2)
While learning the zither, Qin Shang had told him that a good zither could hear the notes of other zithers and resonate with them. This resonance could only be heard by Divine Music mages as well along with the quivering tunes.
At this moment, within the notes of the Moon and Tides’ Clear Brilliance Zither, he caught a kind of sound from inside the treasury, as expected. That zither resonance was very crisp. The majority of zithers’ m.u.f.fled humming were different. Ye Yin Zhu was confident in himself, however, and confident in the impossibility of him mishearing. Although the guzheng and the pipa were also stringed instruments, such a resounding and sinuous guqin note echoed from far away. What kind of guqin could this be?
Following the zither sound, Ye Yin Zhu quickly reached a corner of the treasury. Ma Liang curiously followed behind him. There were several display shelves with all kinds of magic items arranged atop them, emitting faint halos of light. None of those shelves, however, held a zither.
Ye Yin Zhu withdrew the Moon and Tides’ Clear Brilliance once more, liberally relying on his own magic to reinforce his hearing. Paying extremely close attention to the crisp zither notes being emitted, he approached its source.
At last, he caught sight of the zither notes’ origin. It was unexpectedly a ring. Definitely a ring. The topaz ring’s style was very simple. The gem’s l.u.s.ter was glossy, but it didn’t emit light. That hum of zither notes actually originated from this source.
Ye Yin Zhu immediately determined the ring’s attribute; it was a s.p.a.ce ring. At the same time, he held great alarm in his heart. Even though he was not in contact with the s.p.a.ce ring, he could still hear the zither’s musical resonance.
What kind of guqin could this be?! It was too inconceivable. Regardless of whether it were his five ranked guqins from the Zither Sect he’d lost or his current Moon and Tides’ Clear Brilliance, it would be impossible for him to sense them if they were within a s.p.a.ce ring. This guqin differed, which could only prove that the zither within the s.p.a.ce ring was incomparable to any other guqin Ye Yin Zhu had ever seen.
Picking up the ring, Ye Yin Zhu sent out his spiritual force to link with it. Generally speaking, if the s.p.a.ce ring didn’t recognize a master, it wouldn’t have a spiritual imprint. Any mage could then link up their spiritual force with the ring, acquiring all of its contents.Of course, if a mage’s s.p.a.ce ring held no spiritual imprint, it was unlikely that the mage had deposited precious things in it. Before his eyes, this s.p.a.ce ring was clearly unique.
Ye Yin Zhu easily obtained his objective as a spiritual connection surged into existence. With a spark of light, a guqin appeared out of nowhere above his hands.
The guqin’s entire body was orange with a simple style. Seven sparkling and translucent strings pa.s.sed through its body, their composition unknown. A layer of faint orange light circulated around it. A mere glance at the light encompa.s.sing the zither formed the notion that it was emitting a sorrowful air. The zither’s resonance was still continuing, seemingly sobbing and moaning. Although none of its strings were plucked, the zither music’s clarity and rawness caused the mind to become completely intoxicated, making one lose all sense of self.
With one hand propping up the zither and the other lightly caressing it, Ye Yin Zhu’s body looked listless. At this very moment, his eyes brimmed with tender sentiments. Naturally, he had lost himself to the zither—completely.
Ma Liang stood behind him, not disturbing him at all. Although Ma Liang didn’t have a high understanding of zithers, he realized that the current Yin Zhu had already entered an extraordinary state. This bizarre guqin had drawn him into this state. The guqin didn’t have any elemental wave energy, but it held an aura.
Regardless of whether they were weapons, armor, and any other kinds of magic items, from weakest to strongest, they were cla.s.sified as mundane devices, essence devices, spiritdevices, soul devices, and divine devices—these five grades. Among these, a soul device and divine device’s most defining attribute was an aura. The presence of aura indicated the existence of a soul within the soul and divine devices.
The Six Components of the Silver Dragon was the highest quality soul device and possessed the grandeur, power, and tyrannical aura of a Silver Dragon. As of this moment, however, this orange guqin possessed the richest aura Ma Liang had ever seen. Even his Six Components of the Silver Dragon could only be distantly compared with it. When all was said and done, even if he didn’t know anything, he understood that Ye Yin Zhu had indeed found a treasure this time.
As Ma Liang thought this, Ye Yin Zhu had already immersed himself completely into another realm. His mind entered an orange s.p.a.ce. He was no longer able to sense his surroundings, instead only able to hear the soft song of the orange guqin.
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