Chapter 34: Hearing the Heavenly Wind and Pine Snow Again

The fifteenth day of coming to the Jin Xiang Sect.

It was also the day of parting.

This morning, pipa music came from the Wind Lotus Abode.

After a song, Cheng Yunqi clapped and praised, "Jiang Nan's attainment in music cannot be said to be not high."

The "Wang Hui Thanking the Master Song" that Jiang Nan carefully selected had a melodious and crisp melody, delicate string sounds, sometimes low and gurgling like sobbing, as if feeling sad about parting, sometimes high and bright like laughter, as if feeling happy about mastering the skill.

Cheng Yunqi sighed, "It's much higher than anything else."

Jiang Nan was ashamed and couldn't lift his head.

Cheng Yunqi turned to say, "This is 'Wang Hui Thanking the Master Song', right? My mother is also good at pipa, but my father likes the zither, so my mother often plays the zither with him, so I don't hear her play the pipa much."

Jiang Nan replied, "So Uncle and Aunt are both masters of the music path."

Cheng Yunqi waved his hand. "Can't be called masters, just idle and nothing to do, cultivating sentiment."

Then, as if remembering something, he asked again, "What song did you use to attack the Thin Daoist that day? I haven't heard it. It sounds fierce, as if there is a fierce bird fighting in the sky, but I haven't heard it."

Jiang Nan replied, "It is 'Haiqing Taking the Swan Song', a song from the north of the former Yuan."

Cheng Yunqi nodded. No wonder.

Nanjing looked at the pipa in his hand and said:

"Actually, I also like the zither, but the zither is more about meaning than technique, and it is much more difficult to practice, so I usually use the pipa as a self-protection object."

Cheng Yunqi looked at the pipa panel, which was yellow and greasy, the color like persimmon meat, the texture like ivory, so he asked, "What material is your panel?"

"It is Elephant Jade Yellow Sandalwood, taken from Qiongzhou Island. The sandalwood texture is tight and dense, suitable for music, and it has beautiful patterns, so it is also called music wood. Paulownia wood is also like this, so the famous pipa and zither in the world are mostly made of sandalwood and paulownia."

Cheng Yunqi nodded. He knew these too.

"However, I heard that there is a famous zither in the world, neither sandalwood nor paulownia, but it is also ranked among the top ten famous zithers. Does the benefactor know?"

Cheng Yunqi shook his head.

"Speaking of which, there is a famous zither maker in Shu, the Lei family, who has been famous since the Sui and Tang dynasties. The zithers made by the Lei family are called Lei zithers, which are unique."

The Lei family has been making zithers for generations, and there are more than ten famous masters. The 'Nine Heavens Ring Ornament', 'Great Saint Legacy Sound', 'Flying Spring White Waterfall', 'Withered Wood Dragon Chant', and 'Colorful Phoenix Singing Qi' among the top ten famous zithers are all Lei zithers.

"There are many paulownia zithers among the famous zithers, but there is a fairy craftsman in the Lei family who became famous in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He is Lei Wei, and is also respected as Lei Xian."

Lei Xian never sticks to one pattern when making zithers, often having strange ideas, so he is called a fairy craftsman, and the zithers he makes are called fairy products. Currently, four of the top ten famous zithers have been verified to come from his hands, and other legendary famous zithers are either unverified or far-fetched, so they cannot be counted for the time being.

"Among the three fairy products mentioned just now, there is another zither made by Lei Xian among the top ten famous zithers, which is known as a fairy treasure."

Saying this, Jiang Nan seemed to be immersed in it, telling eloquently:

"That was the prosperous Tang Dynasty, when Lei Xian was famous all over the world. Lei Master had a close friend, a dragon species Green Chi. One winter day, heavy snow blocked the mountains. As a close friend of Lei Xian, this Green Chi was naturally a master of music. After getting drunk, he invited Lei Xian to make a zither."

Lei Xian happily agreed. The two were drinking and singing in the pine forest at this time. Lei Xian took his axe and walked in the forest of snow. Every time he saw a pine tree with a strange appearance, he would stop under the tree and listen to the sound of the wind blowing the pine tree.

After such selection, he found an ancient pine that made a continuous and melodious sound in the wind, like sobbing, so he cut down the pine and made a zither on the spot."

The zither was made in the Fuxi style and named 'Heavenly Wind and Pine Snow'."

Jiang Nan shook his head, as if entering the snow mountain and pine forest. Cheng Yunqi was shocked!

It was actually 'Heavenly Wind and Pine Snow'!

In Mount Sanqing, in the Songluhu, the ancient zither carried by the young Green Chi had four characters engraved on the bottom of the zither, which were 'Heavenly Wind and Pine Snow'!

That Green Chi was young and could not possibly be Lei Xian's close friend. Then how did it come to Mount Sanqing? What is the relationship between the Green Chi who was Lei Xian's close friend and the young one in Songluhu? Where is he/she?

Cheng Yunqi's heart was surging, but he was still light and breezy on the surface. He asked curiously, "'Heavenly Wind and Pine Snow' is so special, I really want to hear the fairy sound. May I ask when was the last time 'Heavenly Wind and Pine Snow' appeared and was played?"

Jiang Nan shook his head. "'Heavenly Wind and Pine Snow' hasn't appeared for a long time. However, I heard that sixty years ago, there was a big battle in Shu, which was the siege of a Green Chi by the Daoist sect in Shu, but I don't know if it was the owner of 'Heavenly Wind and Pine Snow'."

Cheng Yunqi's heart was shocked again, only saying,

"So that's how it is."

After the song, after a few casual chats, two strong servants of the Jiang family carried a wooden box to the small abode.

The servants opened the wooden box.

Cheng Yunqi glanced at it, and inside was a full box, not the nail snails he had expected in advance, but stacks of talisman arrow arrow shafts that were hollow and had no prohibitions on the arrow shells!

Cheng Yunqi looked at Jiang Nan.

Jiang Nan was a bit nervous. "Benefactor, you don't know, my family has been doing the business of talisman arrows. The master wanted the Small Curled Ear Nail Snail, which is almost useless except for making talisman arrows. We naturally guessed the benefactor's intention. Benefactor, rest assured, although my family's business is not big, taking this thing out is truly a drop in the bucket, and it's not a precious gift, so I just ask the benefactor not to blame me."

Cheng Yunqi let out a long breath, really not knowing what to say. This Jin Xiang Sect is so luxurious, is it gold of the five elements or gold of money?!

He was still calculating the talisman arrow of the Thin Daoist, and even "Autumn Water" was calculated. Everything was ready, only the magic snail was missing, and as a result, people directly prepared everything.

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This is like spending so much effort to make a big dish, but missing salt, and borrowing salt from someone, but people are too generous and directly served a table of dishes!

The taste in it is truly strange.

Cheng Yunqi bowed to thank, then channeled his magic power to take the wooden box over. The box suddenly disappeared when it approached the Cave Stone on his wrist, as if it had fallen into an inexplicable space.

"I have been bothering you a lot recently, so I will say goodbye."

Cheng Yunqi said to Nanjing.

Nanjing nodded and led Cheng Yunqi out.

At the ferry on the lake of Mingguang Hall, Jiang Yanxing, Jiang Yuexing and his wife, and Daoist Xianjing were all there.

Cheng Yunqi bowed to say goodbye one by one and summoned the "Dragon Carriage".

Jiang Yanxing stepped forward and handed out an object, which was a jade slip.

"Since the Daoist insists on not letting us send you off, please accept this object. This is a map of the Poyanghu territory, which records the boundaries of various sects and powerful families, as well as the markings of secret realms and dangerous places. The Daoist is a high disciple of Mount Sanqing, so naturally you are not afraid of the questioning of sects and families, but for some secret realms, it is better not to take risks. Please accept it."

Cheng Yunqi accepted it, feeling in his heart that the Jin Xiang Sect could stand on Poyanghu until today, it really had its own merits.

After putting away the jade slip and saying goodbye to everyone, Cheng Yunqi stepped on the "Dragon Carriage" and rode the clouds toward the south. He was originally going west to the Southern Wilderness, so now he was naturally returning to the original place to go west.

Poyanghu was vast and incomparable. When he came, he was carried by a Second Realm expert to ride the wind, but now he returned alone on the clouds, plus seven turns and eight turns, it actually took four or five hours.

Cheng Yunqi returned to the place where Jiang Nan met the Thin Daoist, and seeing no one around, he put away the cloud carriage and plunged into the lake. ===== CHAPTER 35 =====