"Master?"
Li Ye set down the Heartfelt Melody and cried out in surprise.
The cultivator before him, dressed in a white Daoist Robe and gentle as polished jade, was clearly his Nascent Soul-level master.
"You played it very well." Su Xing Zhenren smiled at Li Ye, leaning casually against the mound of earth. His gaze burned as he watched the giant deer Yuan Yan had become in the distance.
"The Yuan Sheng Deer Clan."
"This race actually has some ties to our Four Seasons Sect."
The True Person casually tossed over a yellowed book, gesturing for Li Ye to read it.
The book contained very little.
It was merely a simple story.
It told of the mountain goddess, the Mountain Spirit, waiting to meet her lover—only for him to break their appointment in the end, leaving the goddess to lament in sorrow.
Wasn't this... the chapter "Nine Songs: Mountain Spirit"?
He vaguely remembered this story.
"This is a special inheritance of our sect," Su Xing Zhenren said. "Each piece within Nine Songs represents the inheritance of a great power from long ago."
"Yet these inheritances were not passed down by the deities within Nine Songs. Rather, one of our Four Seasons Sect's patriarchs created them based on their divine abilities."
"The Heartfelt Melody is one of them. Our Four Seasons Sect patriarch specifically created this inheritance because he wished to help the Mountain Spirit untie the knot in her heart."
"There was a Yuan Sheng Deer by that patriarch's side back then. It had likely heard quite a few Heartfelt Melodies."
"The Mountain Spirit's inheritance lies in understanding the emotions of all things, and in controlling celestial changes—the rolling and scattering clouds, the rising winds and falling rain. I intend to give you this inheritance."
The True Person watched Li