147 Moonligh (2/2)
Ye Qingxuan pulled himself up. He watched as the rain washed the blood away in silence. He lowered his head, disappointed. ”I’m sorry. I had some questions to ask.”
”He clearly didn’t know anything.” Bai Xi eyed him. ”I’ve seen a lot of people like him, stupid people who think they’re clever and work so hard for the people who betrayed them.”
”…” Stunned, Ye Qingxuan chuckled bitterly. ”Cousin, why do I think that you’re using him to scold me?”
”Ha.” Bai Xi knocked the back of his head. ”What are you still waiting for? There might be some stuff left over.”
Shaking his head helplessly, Ye Qingxuan walked into the room and scavenged through the ruins. All he could find were some common performance material. The alchemy material had either shattered or broke. There were no other clues.
On the other hand, Bai Xi cheered. She had found a high grade aether ball and stuffed it into her bag without hesitation. It was an extremely precise aether ball unique to the School of Revelations. They had to be custom-made by special alchemists and were extremely expensive. It would be a waste to throw away. She could take it back and reuse it!
”Ah, what a pity.” When Bai Xi finished searching, she still felt that it was a pity. Why couldn’t this guy be more like the Indians and be loaded with treasure?
Just as she was moping, she kicked something and a white bone flute rolled out from the dust. Her eyes brightened and she picked it up. After washing off the blood in the rain, she studied it and her face brightened with surprise. She did not care anymore that Ye Qingxuan had almost got himself killed.
”Cousin, look at this!” she called, showing her discovery. ”It’s an ecliptic instrument! And it’s a high grade replica. He probably put all his life savings into this thing! In the black market, it’s worth more than a hundred times its weight in green gold!”
”You know what this is?” Ye Qingxuan took it in confusion and studied it.
”Of course!” Bai Xi wagged her finger. ”See, this is made of bone, but it’s an ecliptical instrument, so it must be precious material taken from the corpse of a natural catastrophe. The effect is actually better than metal.
”And I don’t know what powers the alchemist had put on it, but if it enters the market, all the Resonance musicians will kill each other for this!”
”It’s that powerful?”
”Of course.”
Just as Bai Xi began calculating the value in her mind, continuous pops came from Ye Qingxuan’s hands. She turned in shock to see an equally dazed Ye Qingxuan. A crack had appeared in the bone flute.
Wait! A crack?! This was a rare instrument! It was sturdier than green gold and could withstand the force of aether! It should not have just broke like that!
But the cracks did not stop. Instead, more and more appeared. The bone flute shook and a hole began to appear. The bits of bone that fell turned into powder and landed in the puddles. Through the hole, one could see the complex runes carved inside. One would need a magnifying glass to see the markings clearly, but now, all the runes and music scores were disappearing, like faded ink…vanishing without a trace.
Crack! Crack! Crack! The Silver Virgo shook continuously as if it was dying and could not defend itself… In the end, it cracked in half.
As if an urn had broke, starry light floated from the crack and floated into the air like dust before surging into the offender…
”What’s going on?” Bai Xi asked, her eyes wide.
”To be honest, I’m not really sure.” Ye Qingxuan was a bit dizzy too. ”I never knew that it had this function…”
At his fingertip, Jiu Xiao Huan Pei glowed dimly. It sucked the Silver Virgo’s essence without stop, like a greedy and starving beast. As it hummed lightly, it delicately and familiarly broke the Silver Virgo apart, bit by bit. Jiu Xiao Huan Pei did not return to its original shape until the Silver Virgo was turned to dust.
Ye Qingxuan flipped it around, still not sure what had just happened.
Bai Xi moved over too. After studying it for a long time, she looked up. ”Do you think it broke? What if it broke?”
”No way!” Ye Qingxuan gasped. According to his father, Jiu Xiao Huan Pei had been passed down from his great-great-grandfather. If he broke it, he would be a shame to his ancestors!
He quickly expanded Jiu Xiao Huan Pei. After trying to play some measures, his expression changed. ”Uh…” he trailed off.
”What’s wrong?”
”I don’t know why but…I suddenly remembered an extra section.” He looked at Bai Xi with a strange expression. ”Black Friday should only have five parts, but now there’s suddenly an extra part and it’s totally different.”
”An extra one?”
”Yeah.” Ye Qingxuan nodded. ”I think even the name has changed.”
”What did it change into?” Bai Xi had not processed it yet.
”Moonlight,” Ye Qingxuan murmured. ”Its name is Moonlight.”
”…Cousin.”
”Yeah?”
”Your dad really knows how to be dramatic.”