"This melody belongs only in heaven; how many times can it be heard in the mortal world? Did Auntie play well, my little Caiyi?" Xu Kun held up Xiao Caiyi, who seemed to understand and waved her tiny arms and legs excitedly.
The one performing onstage and testing the zither at this moment was none other than Xu Kun's sworn younger sister, Su Xiaoxiao.
The piece she played was the Azure Sea Tide Song, which she had now mastered. The notes drifted and surged with the momentum of the rolling sea.
Before Su Xiaoxiao, all the Human race powerhouses who could play the zither—and those who could not—had already gone up to try. Though all had received the Fuxi Zither's calming benefits, none had truly made it acknowledge them as its master.
Only a few members of Xu Kun's team remained at the end.
Hao Jian, Sikong Ting, Shen-bao, and Zhan Rourou had all tried, yet there was still no response.
That left only Su Xiaoxiao and Yang Yao.
The reason Xu Kun had placed his own people last, aside from respecting the elderly and caring for the young, was because he felt that Su Xiaoxiao—who had been obsessed with zither music since childhood and had forged her own path in the art—was the most likely person to make the Fuxi Zither acknowledge her as its master.
But...
The melody lingered through the hall. Even after Su Xiaoxiao stopped playing, it remained unceasing in everyone's ears.
This was also a trait of the Fuxi Zither that everyone had discovered during the testing.
The Fuxi Zither seemed to produce string notes best suited to a person's current zither skill and state of mind. How long the resonance of its strings lasted appeared to reflect that person's present condition.
Though it seemed