[Year 248, you were 265 years old.] [You ended several years of secluded cultivation. Feeling that your magical power had advanced another step, you emerged from your cave abode refreshed and clearheaded.] ["Hmm?"] [You heard beautiful, mysterious zither music drifting leisurely toward you.]
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``` ["Yan'er..."]
[Your expression shifted slightly.]
[Your cultivation grounds on the fourth-tier spirit vein in Nine Li Valley extended over a hundred li. Beyond the fourth-tier cave abode at its very heart, there were extensive grounds for growing spirit flowers and spirit plants.]
[The entire cultivation grounds were enveloped by a fourth-tier formation, sealing them off from the outside world.]
[Other than you and Li Yan, there were only a few puppets patrolling the grounds.]
[There was no need to wonder where the zither music came from. It was Li Yan.]
[Yet, as a Nascent Soul True Lord, you immediately sensed something special about the music you were hearing.]
[It sounded like heavenly music, drawing in the mind. Even you could easily become immersed in it if you stopped resisting.]
["Fourth-tier musical arts..."]
[You closed your eyes and listened carefully.]
[Only fourth-tier musical arts could produce zither music capable of affecting a Nascent Soul True Lord like you, especially one with such a powerful soul.]
[Ever since you had advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm, Li Yan's third-tier upper-grade musical arts had barely been able to affect you. The gap between your levels was too great.]
[You listened for a moment.]
[Your figure vanished.]
[When you appeared again, you were standing in a bamboo grove with a little bridge over a flowing stream.]
[Li Yan's dreamlike figure sat at the center of the bamboo grove, gently playing her zither.]
["Master..."]
[You had not concealed your aura when you arrived, and