Zither Melody (3)

Yeah, that's quite the show-off!

At this moment, Li Yue had the same thought. She felt that Ye Lang was just stalling for time and that nothing was being forced out of him.

"Alright then! I'll show you what regret is!" Ye Lang said calmly, pressing a few acupoints on Li Yue's body and sealing several pressure points.

"Huh?" Li Yue was a little confused by Ye Lang's actions. At the same time, she felt that she had lost her hearing again. She looked at Ye Lang with a puzzled expression.

At this moment, Li Yue saw Ye Lang take out a Guzheng, which puzzled her. What was he trying to do? Did he really have the mood to play the zither at a time like this?

"Huh?" Moya and his hundreds of thousands of people were also puzzled. They had no idea what Ye Lang was going to do. He took out the Guzheng. Did he really want to play the Guzheng? Was he just amusing himself or them?

At this moment, hundreds of thousands of eyes were on Ye Lang. They saw that Ye Lang actually sat down, placed the Guzheng on the instrument stand that was taken out at the same time, and played it a few times, seemingly tuning it and finding his rhythm.

"Haha, kid, are you crazy?!" Mo Ji and hundreds of thousands of others started laughing. Ye Lang's behavior was just too funny.

"You don't actually think we'll be moved by your music and lay down our weapons, do you? Have you been reading too many chivalrous tales? How could such a thing possibly happen?!"

"Haha, that's hilarious... Is this kid an idiot...?"

In an instant, a barrage of ridicule came at Ye Lang, but Ye Lang completely ignored it, focusing instead on testing the sound, as he hadn't played this instrument in a long time.

"Ye Lang, what are you doing?" Li Yue, who was standing to the side, could not hear the others' mockery, but she could see it. She asked Ye Lang nervously, but for a moment she forgot that even if Ye Lang answered her, she would not hear him, because Ye Lang had blocked her hearing.

"Play the piano and kill people!" Ye Lang replied, but he forgot that Li Yue couldn't hear him.

"Murder? Can playing this kill someone?" Li Yue actually "heard" it. Actually, it wasn't that she heard it, but that she deduced what Ye Lang was saying from the shape of Ye Lang lips.

"Just watch, let's start with a piece of 'High Mountain Flowing Water'..."

Ye Lang began to play, starting with the flowing water section. The delicate sound of flowing water immediately filled everyone's hearts, and at that moment, their souls seemed to be cleansed.

At this moment, they felt that Ye Lang did indeed have superb piano skills that could move people, but that was far from enough!

However, they did not know that Ye Lang's actions were just the beginning, and what would follow would be something they could not even imagine.

As is widely known, "High Mountain Flowing Water" was recorded on the gold record of an American space probe and launched into space on August 22, 1977, to search for a new "soulmate" in the vast universe.

But this is only part of "Flowing Water", and it is a qin piece, which is completely different from a zheng piece!

Although the zither piece "High Mountain Flowing Water" is found in various schools of zither playing across China, they are quite different. The Zhejiang school's version of "High Mountain Flowing Water" is the most frequently studied and performed version in recent years.

This piece first appeared in the earliest extant collection of guqin music in China, "Mysterious Secret Score". The book states in its preface. "Originally, 'High Mountain Flowing Water' was only one section. During the Tang Dynasty, it was divided into two identical pieces without sections. In the Song Dynasty, it was divided into four sections for 'Gaoshan' and eight sections for 'Liushui'."

The piece is based on the famous ancient Chinese musical story of "Bo Ya breaking his zither to thank his soulmate," expressing a realm that is "lofty like a high mountain and vast like a river and sea."

The entire piece is mainly played with a clear, open string, and consists of two parts: high mountains and flowing water. The first half uses a "large pluck" with glissando across two octaves, creating a rich and beautiful tone that depicts the majestic and vigorous mountains. The second half of the piece uses a large number of ascending and descending glissando techniques while simultaneously using glissando, which delicately portrays the different forms of flowing water, from the gentle trickle to the magnificent scene of a river flowing into the river.

"High Mountain Flowing Water" is a work that vividly depicts a landscape, with a melodious and smooth tune, an elegant and refreshing style, a simple and refined tone, and a profound and lingering artistic conception.

The above are some of the things that people know, but there are also some secrets that people do not know. This book, "The Mysterious Secret Score", is on the surface a collection of ancient zither scores compiled by Zhu Quan, the son of the Ming Taizu Emperor, but in reality, it is a secret manual that Zhu Quan accidentally obtained in the martial arts world.

However, he did not know that this was a secret manual. It is understandable that he did not know, because all he had obtained was the musical score, and the techniques for using it were not written in it.

Ye Lang obtained the entire secret manual from the Martial Arts Treasury, and he mastered it all. But what kind of martial arts technique required playing the zither?

Ye Lang will soon make the world understand this; it is a terrifying technique!

"Kill him!"

The spiritual cleansing of "Flowing Water" did not seem to wash away the bloodlust of Mo Ji and the others. After hesitating for a while, they still decided to kill Ye Lang and rushed towards Ye Lang as fast as they could.

At that moment, Ye Lang's zither music suddenly changed, from the delicate "Flowing Water" to the powerful "High Mountains," and the majestic and vigorous sound struck the hearts of the listeners.

At that moment, they felt their blood boiling. They wondered, was this kid encouraging them?

But soon they realized something was wrong, because their blood was boiling too much, and if this continued, their bodies wouldn't be able to handle it.

That's right, this technique is the Sound Wave Skill, the strongest group-killing technique in the Martial Arts Treasury, capable of annihilating even a thousand troops.

Those who fall victim to this technique almost always meet a terrible end, either dying with blood flowing from their seven orifices, becoming an idiot, or suffering permanent deafness.

This only applies to those with some skill; if one reaches the highest level, the only outcome is death!

The highest level of Sound Wave Skill is not to kill a person with sound, nor to generate sonic energy, but to use the vibration of air to cause the person's body to resonate until that person is killed.

Of course, if you have exceptional skills or special methods to resist, you can avoid it, but this is not something ordinary people can do.

However, Ye Lang was only using sound this time; he didn't want to go too far. But even so, not many of the tens of thousands in front of him could withstand him.

"Everyone be careful! Cover your ears! Don't listen to this kid's music!" Mo Ji shouted in alarm.

"It's a zither, not a qin!" Ye Lang smiled, then his fingers suddenly sped up, making the zither music even more perfect, more powerful and resonant.

This also means that his Sound Wave Skill attack will be enhanced!