Cultivation Online novel Chapter 177

Chapter 177 - Otherworldly Music

"Anyway, since I’ve missed half of today’s practice, let’s do something different. I had planned on doing something similar to our practice yesterday, but alas..." Fei Yuyan sighed.

And she continued, "Do you remember what I said about last competition’s final part— where you must follow the judge and play their song alongside them? This is what we’re going to be doing today. I will play a song and you’ll play alongside me."

Yuan nodded, and he asked afterward, "Are we going to play a new song?"

"Of course. The judges will create a new song just for the competition so nobody besides themselves would know the song beforehand, as that would give the participants an unfair advantage and we don’t want that."

"Anyway, I will play the song once, and you’ll have 10 minutes to prepare..." Fei Yuyan suddenly paused, and she said in an awkward voice a moment later, "But you’ve already been doing that even for yesterday’s practice..."

"Ah... What should we do now? I was going to ask you to use new songs so I can follow you but do you even know any new songs?" Fei Yuyan asked Yuan, as she has been the one teaching him new songs this entire time.

"Hmmm..." Yuan pondered for a moment before nodding, "I think I can do that."

"Eh? Really? You know songs that even I don’t know?" Fei Yuyan stared at him with a gawking look on her face, as she truly didn’t expect that from him.

Yuan nodded and said, "I know a few songs from my hometown. Although I’ve never played them on the zither, it’s not my first time playing the same song on different instruments."

"That’s great! Let’s hear one of them!" Fei Yuyan said with her interest piqued, silently wondering to herself what kind of music Yuan had prepared for her.

"Give me a moment... It’s been a while since I’ve played those songs." Yuan closed his eyes and proceeded to recall some of the songs that he’d played in the real world when he was still active as a musician.

A few minutes later, with his eyes still closed, Yuan placed his fingers back on the zither and began playing the song from his memories.

"T-This... What kind of music is this?" Fei Yuyan’s jaw dropped to the ground when she heard this song that was like nothing she has ever heard of before, almost like it was otherworldly.

While it’s only normal for songs to not sound similar to each other, they mostly followed a similar theme or feeling, yet the song played by Yuan right now did not follow such rule and sounded oddly foreign.

As for Xuan Wuhan and Min Li, while they don’t know much about music, they knew instantly how unique this song sounded purely from the atmosphere it created.

Hell, even the disciples gathered outside the area were dumbfounded by such a drastic change in music, feeling like they’d suddenly been tossed into another world.

A few minutes later, Yuan stopped his movements and turned to look at Fei Yuyan.

"What do you think?" he asked her.

"Uhh..." Fei Yuyan stared at him with a speechless look, clearly taken aback by the unfamiliar music.