Fairy Yaohua remained silent for a long time before finally taking flight in a streak of escape light, her expression grave, and continuing toward Cloudwatch Mountain.
The nearby spirit beasts had long regarded Cloudwatch Mountain as sacred ground. Almost none dared fly so openly into that holy mountain.
The moment the little fox's escape light appeared, it drew the gazes of all the surrounding spirit beasts.
Those gazes held surprise and admiration, as well as anger at the little fox's desecration of the holy mountain.
Under those gazes, Fairy Yaohua's emotions surged once more.
Naturally, it was not the gazes of these ordinary spirit beasts themselves that stirred her emotions.
She simply had not expected Xu Changxing's zither music to raise these spirit beasts' intelligence to such a level in a mere hundred years.
This made her vaguely realize that she could no longer contend with Xu Changxing at all in the Way of Music.
Amid these tangled emotions, the little fox possessed by Fairy Yaohua knocked directly on Cloudwatch Mountain's Mountain Gate.
Fairy Yaohua had thought that, since she had taken the initiative to visit, Xu Changxing would surely open the Mountain Gate and let her in.
To her surprise, however, Cloudwatch Mountain's Mountain Gate did not budge.
She froze for a moment, then could not help transmitting her voice:
"Fellow Daoist Xu, I have come to discuss the Time Zither with you.
Please open the Mountain Gate!"
Yet her words still received no response.
It was as though he had not heard her voice transmission at all.
A trace of anger appeared on the little fox's face as she continued transmitting her voice:
"Xu Changxing, your talent in the Great Dao of Music is indeed unmatched by anyone I have seen in my life.
But to think you