Seeking the Dao in the Mortal World
Chapter 690

No One Believed I Had Become a Dog

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Qiu Niu's appearance left Qin Yi unsure whether it possessed an extraordinary sensitivity to music or had simply been eavesdropping all along.

It was of the Formless realm; no matter how mysterious something was, it seemed unsurprising when it happened to him. Qin Yi could not be bothered to investigate further. He picked up the saxophone and studied it for a while.

Before crossing over, he had known nothing about music.

Everything he knew about music had come from Ju Yunxiu's enlightenment.

He could not recreate every foreign Western instrument. Take the piano, for example: he had no idea what its internal structure looked like. If he did not know, then he did not know; even creating something from nothing could not produce an object he knew nothing about. Wind instruments were comparatively easier. Once one understood one, one could understand them all. With his current knowledge, he could work out their structure, so a saxophone was not much of a problem.

String instruments such as guitars and violins, as well as percussion instruments like drums, were not much of a problem either.

Keyboard instruments like pianos would probably be somewhat difficult and require further research.

Different instruments expressed different styles and needed suitable pieces to bring them out. After receiving enlightenment, he had become thoroughly versed in music theory and could play a little of any instrument, but he did not know many pieces suitable for the saxophone.

It could be said that he knew only one: the famous saxophone piece, "Going Home."

This piece was practically essential on trains. Even in everyday life, one could hear it in most restaurants that played light music. Even without having studied it, he had heard it often enough to recreate it perfectly.

The notes of the saxophone drifted softly into the

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