Immortal clouds wreathed the skies above the Weaving Cloud Mountain Range.
Faint melodies echoed softly through the mountains.
At that moment, Fairy Qiongyin had not flown into the clouds. Instead, she sat in a valley, playing toward the flowing water nearby.
The spray raised by the flowing Immortal Spring swayed in time with the zither music in the valley, making the immortal qi throughout the valley increasingly dense.
Yet a closer look at the spray thrown up by the Immortal Spring would reveal that, once its momentum was spent, it did not fall back into the spring. Instead, the zither music crushed it into mist that rose into the clouds.
This scene added a measure of killing intent to this immortal paradise.
When the piece ended, Fairy Qiongyin's fluttering sleeves slowly settled, temporarily concealing the killing intent around her.
Her thoughts, however, still drifted with the music she had just played.
More than a decade ago, after giving Xu Changxing five hundred origin crystals, she had been waiting eagerly for the incense that could aid her comprehension of the Way of Music.
What she had never expected was that Xu Changxing would disappear after receiving the origin crystals.
At first, she had merely thought that Xu Changxing had not contacted her because he was developing the incense.
Then, a few years ago, she had asked about his progress through the Message Jade Pendant, only to receive no reply at all.
Her heart had gone half cold on the spot.
She had finally realized that Xu Changxing had most likely swindled her.
Over the past few years, Fairy Qiongyin had come here from time to time to play the zither and vent her resentment.
Yet after finishing her piece today, she still felt ill at ease and could not help murmuring