Chapter 32: Chapter 32: Matchless Under Heaven
[Even though I really like Jiang Qin, I have to agree with the person above.]
[Yeah, couldn’t she just perform two soothing sessions and then sing? Why replace the soothing with singing?]
[People have complained about this before, but she still hasn’t changed. You can tell she’s just desperate for the spotlight.]
[But I heard that singing is a form of Spiritual Soothing for Jiang Qin.]
After all, it was just a large-scale Spiritual Soothing. As long as she could control her spiritual power, it would be fine.
And looking at the live stream, the entire bar was packed with more than twenty thousand people.
A C-level female couldn’t even purify much in a one-on-one session. With this many people now, she could drain her spiritual power completely and it wouldn’t even make a ripple.
[If they’re really going there for purification, then you can only say these males are idiots.
It’s obvious the Moonlight Bar isn’t suitable for people wanting purification anymore. With so many people, you’d need at least an A-level female to have any effect.]
[And I hear this crappy little bar only has one soothing master.]
[No way, there can’t be people that stupid, can there? Going to a bar with that many people and only one C-level female for purification?]
[Exactly. Have all the other bars closed down or something?]
Of course they hadn’t.
Some customers who hadn’t noticed they were being purified had indeed given up on the Moonlight Bar today and gone to other bars instead.
Only those who had discovered something unusual persisted in coming to Moonlight.
As it turned out, they had made the right choice.
After listening to "Beauty’s Song," their Riot Value had been purified by 0.2.
Although it was much less than before, to still achieve 0.2 with so many people was enough to prove that this young female’s purification ability was now comparable to a B-level female’s.
However, not many people knew this yet.
***
In the corner, Gu Tianyou had been feeling irritated, but now he had calmed down.
He hadn’t wanted to come here in the first place. After all, seeing that long line of people was enough to drive anyone crazy.
But he had no choice; his two best friends had insisted on coming.
There had been a change in their mission, so they had to stay in Langor City for a while. Naturally, they needed to buy some extra Inhibitors to have on hand.
Buying them at a bar meant they could also gather some information on the side.
The problem was, this feeling of being packed to the gills was absolutely terrible. He really didn’t understand what his two friends found so appealing about this place.
’They can’t have come for the young female, can they?’
If that was really the case, he’d probably have to knock them out and drag them away. He didn’t want his friends to do something so irrational.
Still, he had to admit, the young female’s singing was truly beautiful.
This song in particular felt like a small brush gently tickling his Spirit Sea.
"Hey, this bar... aside from being a little small, having too few soothing masters, and the female’s Level being a bit low, it seems there’s nothing wrong with it."
Bai Mufeng shot him a cool glance, while Lan Shaoyu said with a smile, "Weren’t you just insisting on going to that place down the street?"
"What choice did I have? That place down the street has a B-level female."
"So what if she’s B-level? It’s not much use to us."
"Didn’t the Lan Family say they could set you up with that A-level female from the Cai Family? Why don’t you just give in and go for her?" Gu Tianyou teased, wiggling his eyebrows.
"Hah. If you’re so envious, I’d be happy to give you my spot."
Gu Tianyou quickly waved his hands in refusal. "No, no, I’m not worthy of such a good thing."
Seeing him back down, Lan Shaoyu didn’t say anything more.
"Brother Feng, isn’t your family also pressuring you to find a partner? What are you planning to do?"
Bai Mufeng calmly sipped his Inhibitor. "My destiny is to die on the battlefield."
From the day he entered the Federation Military Academy, he had been prepared to die.
That was why he had never controlled his use of spiritual power. Now, at only twenty-five, his Riot Value had already reached 75%.
It would only be a few more years before he completely degenerated into a beast.
’Since I’m going to die sooner or later, why bother finding a female I don’t even like just to grovel and scrape by?’
’It’s better to live life to the fullest, doing what I want, and then face death alone with composure.’
As his best friends, Gu Tianyou and Lan Shaoyu naturally understood him.
But it still pained them. They wished their friend would come to his senses, find a partner, rest for a few years, and then return to the battlefield.
After all, they were still young. Even if he rested for a few years, he’d only be around thirty by then.
Many people couldn’t even graduate by thirty, so thirty wasn’t late at all.
But they didn’t dare try to persuade him openly.
They could only secretly look for a suitable female and then surreptitiously arrange a "chance encounter" for the two of them.
And here in Langor City, there happened to be a suitable female.
Gu Tianyou and Lan Shaoyu exchanged a look. Even though they had tested their friend’s attitude once again, they still didn’t want to give up.
’Maybe they’ll just hit it off!’
They simply couldn’t stand by and do nothing as they watched their friend walk slowly toward death.
"Forget it, forget it. Let’s not talk about all this messy stuff. The young female is about to start her second song."
***
For her second song, Jiang Qin prepared to sing "Unrivaled Under the Heavens."
During the break, she had changed her outfit. Although it was a modern-style white dress, it was very flowy.
She had also let down her pinned-up black hair, tying a white ribbon into a bow midway down its length.
The holographic scenery on stage had also changed to a dim, gloomy cave.
Faint white light trickled in from above, like moonlight.
"Through all the sorrow and joy of the mortal world
I wander, my heart close to yours
Piercing the endless green hills and desolate lands..."
This song was completely different from the last. One was about the mortal world, the other about seclusion.
Her ethereal voice and the drifting white gauze made it seem as if the person on stage might ride the wind and follow the white silk away...
"Such music can only be from the heavens; how rarely is it heard in the mortal realm..." Lan Shaoyu murmured.
"What did you say?"
His voice had been too quiet just now, and Gu Tianyou hadn’t heard him clearly.
Lan Shaoyu shook his head. "Nothing. I just suddenly understood an ancient saying."
He had never really understood why his grandfather was so obsessed with excavating and exploring ancient culture. At this moment, he felt like he finally got it.
Ancient culture was truly wonderful.
And ancient musical instruments were magical.
Thinking about his own old man’s adoration for all things ancient, Lan Shaoyu chuckled and raised his Light Computer to start recording.
It was a pity he hadn’t started recording from the beginning.
"In this life, I am mad for you
This love is unrivaled under the heavens
The shadow of a sword, the glint of water
Are but the past, merely the past~"
The accompaniment also included the crisp sound of water dripping on stone in a cave, making many feel as if they were in the midst of nature.
The desire to take a lover and leave behind the noisy, bustling world—to wander, to see the flowers and the grass, and to find a beautiful, secluded place to spend the rest of their lives together—welled up in their hearts.
Wen Xueli closed her eyes, lost in the intoxicating song. Suddenly, her Spiritual Body shot out from between her eyebrows!