Within the flames, some musical scores burned to drifting ash, while others left behind only a single note or a short passage of melody.
Only a very few, blossoming with auspicious signs of every color, were recorded within the Music Wind Score.
The greatest beneficiary of this grand ceremony was not Ling Qing.
He had merely taken the opportunity to prune away the dross and preserve the essence of his own Dao, putting it in order.
The ones who gained the most were Prince Changqin and Tian Ying.
Everything Zhurong had done was for Prince Changqin's sake.
His strength was formidable, no weaker than Chi You's, yet his overall power was still inferior to Chi You's.
Especially after Li Ju and his seven other brothers successively advanced into Great Shamans, the Nine Li Tribe had leapt to become the third greatest force, after the Blazing Mountain Kingdom and Bear Kingdom.
Meanwhile, in the southern Zhurong Kingdom, aside from himself and his younger brother Wu Hui, there was practically no high-level strength to speak of.
Using Prince Changqin's request to gather the musical airs of the world, he intended to use this opportunity to pave a path for him.
Prince Changqin was skilled at playing the qin, and had drawn over the huang, luan, and phoenix—three five-colored birds. He himself was also exceptionally gifted in musical rhythm.
This Music Wind Grand Ceremony, which gathered the sounds of the world, was meant to use the music of heaven and earth to forge his Dao.
In Prince Changqin's eyes, everything had lost its original colors and forms.
The myriad phenomena of heaven and earth were all transformed from individual notes, passages of melody, and sheets of music.
And he could comprehend the artistic conception contained within them and manipulate their transformations.
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