Chapter 63 (2/2)
Wei WuXian feared that the brothers would begin an argument over this, “Sect Leader Lan!”
It wasn’t that he couldn’t understand Lan XiChen Watching Jin GuangYao froJue, he had seen all of his craft and his aYao had always shown Lan XiChen his disguise, there was no reason for Lan XiChen not to believe in his sworn brother and instead one of the most infamous people
Lan XiChen nodded, “Young Master Wei, no need to worry Before the truth is entirely revealed, I will not be partial to either side or reveal your whereabouts Or else, I would not have alloangJi to take you to my Hanshi+ or helped with your injuries”
Wei WuXian, “Sect Leader Lan, I’ave -Zun’s head is inside of Jin GuangYao’s secret cha but true Not only have I seen it, I’ve seen soy of resentment Maybe this could offer some proof?”
Lan XiChen replied cals indeed However, you cannot prove that you saw those things within the secret chamber of Koi Tower”
Wei WuXian, “H else? The direct cause of ChiFeng-Zun’s death was a qi deviation, but, Sect Leader Lan, don’t you think that the tis of the sword spirit ht that there ht be another cause to it?”
Lan XiChen, “What do you think the cause is?”
Wei WuXian, “The Song of Clarity”
Lan XiChen, “Young Master Wei, did you know that his Song of Clarity had been taught by me personally?”
Wei WuXian, “Then, Sect Leader Lan, could you please listen if there’s anything strange with the song?”
His flute was right by the bed Wei WuXian held it up and began to play after a fewwas finished, he spoke, “Sect Leader Lan, this song really is the one you taught Jin GuangYao?”
Lan XiChen, “It is”
Wei WuXian was somewhat surprised, but he kept his co?”
Lan XiChen, “The song is na the heart and steadying the mind”
Wei WuXian, “Cleansing I’ve heard of many of the cultivational world’s famous compositions Why don’t I have any memory of either its name or its melody?”
Lan wangJi, “The song is obscure It is difficult as well”
Lan XiChen, “Precisely”
Wei WuXian, “Did Jin GuangYao choose this piece himself?”
Lan XiChen, “That is correct”
Wei WuXian, “Is it really that difficult? Then why did Jin GuangYao choose this piece instead of so easier?”
Lan XiChen, “Because I have told hi is difficult tois indeed difficult Young Master Wei, you played one of its sections wrong as well, did you not?”
Hearing this, Wei WuXian felt so click inside of hi?”
Lan wangJi, “One of its sections is wrong”
Wei WuXian grinned, “No, no It’s not that I rong Jin GuangYao is the one rong! When the resentful energy attacked me, this really was how he played it I can pro without any mistake at all”
Lan XiChen see? That… would be impossible”
Wei WuXian, “That would indeed be i-Zun is that clever His ood, how could he re? It’s likely that it was on purpose I’ll play it again Sect Leader Lan, HanGuang-Jun, this time, please listen carefully to the section that I ‘played wrong’”
He did play it again Near the end of the second section, Lan wangJi spoke, “Stop”
Lan wangJi, “It is the section that has just passed”
Wei WuXian withdrew the flute from his lips, “It really is this section? But I don’t find this section different at all”
Lan XiChen, “It does not sound different indeed However, it definitely is not part of Cleansing”
If it was a normal mistake, it wouldn’t blend so sea This melody had to have been purposely polished before it was put in here And this unfa but Jue’s death
After a while of thought, Lan XiChen spoke, “You two can follow me”
As they went out of the house, Wei WuXian was somewhat surprised
It was a secluded little cottage within some hidden corner of the Cloud Recesses The Lan Sect’s residence was inside of the rew endlessly Most of the plants were trees and grasses It wasn’t that there were no flowers, but that the floere ardenia, and white chrysanthelimpses Yet, the area before this house was filled with purple gentians The buds were s the love of whoever passed Under the light, it seelow softly, as beautiful as a dream, an illusion
Wei WuXian knew that this place was definitely different frolance at it It was already past nine Most of the people within the Cloud Recesses had rested long ago It was extrele person passed their way as Lan XiChen led them to the Library Pavilion
The Cloud Recesses had once been burnt down by a fire The Library Pavilion wasn’t the Library Pavilion from back then However, after it had been rebuilt, the interior setup was no different fronolia tree outside of the the pavilion After the three walked inside, Wei WuXian suspected, “Sect Leader Lan, would we be able to find the source of the melody here?”
Lan XiChen, “Not here”
He walked before a row of books, lowered hiround before he took off a piece of wooden board, “We would be able to here”
Below the wooden board was a secret door
Lan wangJi, “The room of forbidden books”
Under the door was a flight
was a flight of stairs over fifty steps low The three walked down one by one What caround room made of stone The sound of footsteps echoed emptily Rows and rows of bookshelves stood within the roo the shelves They were covered in dust, as though nobody had flipped through the time
Lan XiChen led them to one of the bookshelves, “This section is all books of strange songs”
There was a desk in the rooJi took fro brush and paper that hadn’t been used in years He wrote down by memory three copies of the ot to work Each was responsible for a few dozens of books They compared the e by page, searching for parts that matched
However, four hours had passed, and none of the three found a score that was the same as the melody This meant that they didn’t find its source
Wei WuXian scanned the scores as quick as he could, thinking to hi section of the Lan Sect’s room of forbidden books don’t have the melody? But that’s impossible If even the Lan Sect didn’t collect it, other places wouldn’t have either Would it be that Jin GuangYao created such a re himself? If so, then it’d be a pain The only way to verify that soet so for h he’s clever, he never had a solid foundation He couldn’t be so clever as to be able to create…
Wei WuXian stared for quite a while at the tightly-packed characters His eyes felt somewhat tired He still had a few books left, so he decided to look at theJi had already finished the stack that he was responsible for In silence, he took over the books that Wei WuXian left and continued to flip through Lan XiChen lifted his eyes Watching the scene, he see
Suddenly, Lan wangJi spoke, “This one”
He passed over the book in his hands Wei WuXian was ies that Lan wangJi had opened to, co them to the score in his hand, “It’s not the same at all?”
Lan wangJi stood up and sat beside hies”
Their heads pressed close together, and Lan wangJi’s voice was right by his ear, low and htly The book had almost fallen off He finally steadied hiJi’s long, white fingers He concentrated on coes”
At first glance, there didn’t seee with the score book However, those familiar with music would be able to tell with just soe that it flipped open to, the melody on the former side wasn’t connected to that of the latter side