Chapter 2011: A Small Display of Talent (1/2)

Yao Guang snorted softly “I thought you didn’t want to bet?”

Jiang Chen burst into laughter Women can be awfully petty sometimes His life experience across two lifeti was sulking rather than being ht than the poison consort had ever been, and understandably so Their teht and narrow for thes, what subject would you like to bet on?”

Yao Guang raised the instrument in her hand “The zither”

“I know a bit about ht as well surrender now if that’s the case I can hardly claim expertise here”

He’d been a master of music theory in his previous life, but the hecticness of this one had prevented hishi+rked for countless years, there was no way he could play better than Yao Guang Jiang Chen had already observed earlier that she was quite skilled with her zither

If Huang’er were here, perhaps she could rival the holy girl

Si Tong suddenly s Chen, that you won Miss Huang’er’s heart with two musical pieces when you first met her That’s a beautiful story, isn’t it? And a true one, I’ Chen blinked Not rinned coolly in lieu of a direct response

“Ruhly ofraised an eyebrow “A man shouldn’t be so indecisive I don’t intend to press the fact that you’re not good at playing I simply heard that the two pieces you played were rather excellent I can lend you ers don’t sullythem If that’s the case, you win If not, you lose How about it?”

Jiang Chen found everything utterly ludicrous Was this kind of bet really alright?

Winning or losing hinged on the holy girl’s subjective opinion What if she refused to acknowledge hiled “Daoist Jiang, ood music from bad Why not play your pieces? We won’t lie about the quality of your pieces just because we have a disagree every possible excuse froer skills he had, the holy girls wouldn’t let things slide

He didn’t much care about all this, but the Eternal Sacred Land did Being on good relations with the holy girls would be beneficial to the alliance later on He was obligated to give it his all

Wu You and Gan Ning were his witnesses, after all If he didn’t try his hardest, the first pri Chen would be dismayed by outside criticism, per se He felt it was his personal responsibility to make the best he could of this situation

“If that is what you think, Holy Girls,” he cupped a fist, “please excuse my incompetence A h art had a number of requisite rituals

He found a water source in which to bathe and change, that he ht wash away the vicious aura accuirls in fresh robes