Xiao Gou and Music

Shen Shuibi suddenly realized something... something of a natural nature.

She raised her head and saw the phantom figures in the sky. As the flute's music faded, those phantoms gradually fell asleep, their bodies slowly returning to the earth and sky.

Just now, her flute had moved these beings of natural spirituality—in the era of the ancient Shamans, they had also been regarded as a kind of deity.

But in truth... they were genuine deities. Later, the Shamans called them "Earthly Deities," corresponding to the "heavenly gods" of Haotian and the Ziwei Heavenly Court.

Later, "Human-Ghosts" were added among the gods. That was another Dao Path entirely.

These spiritual beings were called mountain spirits, water spirits, or something else. They were manifestations of nature's essence. As "Earthly Deities," they were pure, but precisely because of that purity, they were proud and wrathful, easily swayed by emotion into extreme deeds. Some embodied extreme good, sacrificing themselves for all living beings of a mountain. Others embodied extreme evil, destroying every mortal thing before their eyes. Yet none of that was their true nature. Their true nature was "purity."

They were like mirrors. If mortals treated them kindly, they returned kindness. If mortals treated them viciously, they returned destruction.

And just now, Shen Shuibi's flute had stirred their passion, causing all these sleeping deities to rise and listen to the lingering echo of creation.

Yet once the Jade Flute shattered and its sound stopped, these deities bent down once more, preparing to sink back into the earth.

Watching this scene, Shen Shuibi thought of the primordial sound of creation. What connection did it have with the Shamans' "Earthly Deities"?

If it was connected to Earthly Deities, then the great outer world pursued by the Shamans was linked to the primordial ringing sound.

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