Lifebound Treasure Mountain-Sea Pearl (Second Update)

Eastern Wasteland, Azure Lotus Estate, a certain secret chamber.

Wang Ruyan sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion, her eyes slightly closed. Countless blue notes floated around her, hazy blue as though formed from vapor.

Wang Ruyan's breathing had a distinct rhythm. As she inhaled and exhaled, thousands of Blue Notes produced different sounds, vaguely forming a melody.

After a while, dazzling blue light bloomed from Wang Ruyan's body. Thousands of Blue Notes whirled around her, arranging themselves in orderly formation.

A celestial melody rang out. Thousands of Blue Notes produced different sounds, forming a moving piece of music.

After the time it took to drink a cup of tea, the celestial music vanished. Thousands of Blue Notes turned into specks of blue light and disappeared. Wang Ruyan opened her eyes, a trace of delight appearing in them.

She had spent nearly thirty years, but she had finally cultivated the Heavenly Sound Sea-Turning Art to the Seventh Layer. She had yet to cultivate it into a Spiritual Art.

The Heavenly Sound Sea-Turning Art was a Musical Technique that could kill without a sound, provided she had enough time to finish playing the piece.

Unlike other techniques, the Heavenly Sound Sea-Turning Art relied on listening. Birth, aging, sickness, death, joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness—the cultivator had to listen to all kinds of sounds and witness the many forms of life, expressing them through music.

There were two paths of cultivation in the Cultivation World: material cultivation and spiritual cultivation. Material cultivation emphasized external objects and often relied on them for assistance, such as Medicinal Pills and Magic Treasures. Spiritual cultivation, on the other hand, emphasized comprehension, with cultivation relying mostly on enlightenment. The Heavenly Sound Sea-Turning Art leaned toward spiritual cultivation and did not depend heavily on external objects. Otherwise, Wang Ruyan