Chapter 206: Pointing to the Moon with the Left Hand

Behind Ruthless Empress, the screen showed a bright, round moon.

Dressed in white as snow, she stood before the round moon, adding a touch of celestial aura.

After she nodded to the live band.

Subsequently.

The song's prelude sounded.

Drums, chords, and vocals appeared alternately, rising and falling.

An artistic conception of a vast earth and a dark night sky was instantly displayed, giving people a feeling of magnificence and grandeur.

Immediately after.

The prelude vanished all at once, and the accompaniment was left with only the guzheng and guqin, highlighting the word "stillness."

This compositional technique of shifting instantly from grandeur to extreme stillness was extremely stunning.

One could see many judges in the professional panel showing shock.

At the same time.

Ruthless Empress picked up the microphone, and her ethereal singing voice instantly resounded throughout the studio.

Her voice, through various electronic devices, also rang in the ears of the audience at this very moment.

"Left hand holds the earth, right hand holds the sky,

Palm prints crack with lightning from ten directions,

Exchanging time in a hurry for years,

Three thousand worlds, as if never seen..."

The ethereal singing voice was like a celestial sound descending from the nine heavens, as if a fairy from the nine heavens was singing.

In an instant, countless viewers felt their scalps tingle, and goosebumps broke out all over their bodies.

"Holy crap!"

"This voice... these lyrics!!!!"

"Front row warning, please protect your crown chakra!"

"The voice is so ethereal, Ruthless Empress is a different voice again!"

"Ahhhhh, it sounds so good!"

"Not high notes, but it sounds so good it explodes!"

"I have already exploded!"

"I'm listening until I'm wet!"

"..."

Just the first four lines, and the comments were already crazy.

Coupled with the improper empathy talent.

Many people actually heard traces of Zen from the singing.

In fact.

"Pointing to the Moon with the Left Hand" was originally a song with quite a bit of Zen; the "pointing to the moon" in it didn't mean literally pointing at the moon.

In Zen, "pointing to the moon" refers to "pointing directly to the human heart."

The singing continued.

"Left hand pinching a flower, right hand dancing with a sword,

Ten thousand years of snow fall between the brows..."

Again, extremely beautiful lyrics.

Again, an ethereal singing voice.

Countless viewers showed expressions of enjoyment; this top-tier audiovisual feast felt truly wonderful.

They didn't want to miss even a single second.

And musicians who understood lyrics were shaken, showing shock.

Pinching a flower, Buddhist language!

Represents the religious and spiritual world!

Dancing with a sword, represents force and secular power!

A woman in white as snow pinching a flower with her left hand and dancing with a sword with her right... this was an incomparably beautiful scene, yet extremely dominant.

——To hold both spirit and flesh in one's hands!

Ten thousand years of snow fall between the brows...

Also an extreme contrast!

How could ten thousand years of snow fall on such a small space between the brows? It seemed incongruous, but in fact, a specific writing style was used, instantly making the scope of this lyric extremely large.

A feeling of magnificence and grandeur erupted once again.

The difference was that before it was the accompaniment, and this time it appeared in the lyrics.

Paired with the extremely still accompaniment, it was perfect.

But at this moment, an incomparably smooth but extremely high-pitched singing voice rang out.

"A tear, ah ah ah."

"That is me, ah ah ah."

Ruthless Empress closed her eyes and sang to her heart's content, her clear and ethereal high-pitched voice echoing endlessly in the venue.

Vibrato was displayed in the high notes.

It shook the audience's hearts and spirits.

At the same time, this moment.

The stage effect was also burning.

One could see layers of blue ripples rippling under the feet of Ruthless Empress, who was dressed in white as snow.

In the air, special effects appeared.

Blue butterflies circled the stage, sometimes fluttering around Ruthless Empress.

Extremely beautiful!

"I'm gone!"

"My crown chakra has been blown away!"

"Ah! I'm dead from this vibrato!"

"High notes, Ruthless Empress also sang high notes!"

"Like a lark, what kind of god-tier voice is this! Loved it!"

"Thank you for your hard work, fairy!"

"If these high notes were live, I'm afraid the whole of Jin Ling could hear them!"

"It sounds so good, holy crap!"

"Kneeling."

"I don't even dare to turn up the volume!"

"..."

The comments scrolled across the screen again in an instant.

This was even while countless viewers were immersed in the singing and didn't want to post comments.

And on site.

Many audience members were already silly, staring blankly at the stage, listening to the beautiful singing in their ears.

The professional judges' eyes were almost simultaneously filled with brilliance; Ruthless Empress's transition from stillness to high notes was so smooth! So smooth that it felt dreamy, and they almost didn't react in time.

The celebrity guests looked at each other, expressions of disbelief on their faces.

[Queen of Hearts] is high notes, [Lonely Tree] is high notes, [Ruthless Empress] is actually high notes too!?

Is this a contest of high notes against high notes?

Ruthless Empress is domineering!

Backstage.

Purple Flower Rabbit was incomparably surprised, exclaiming: "Momma."

The steady Robot blurted out: "Holy crap!".

Wandering Mage let out a scream!

Even [Queen of Hearts] and [Lonely Tree] stood up from the sofa; although they didn't speak, both of them exuded a sense of gravity.

Ruthless Empress, a formidable enemy!

The audience in front of the screens didn't care about the thoughts of these masked singers; they just wanted to hear the rest of the song.

They didn't have to wait too long; the rest came.

Ruthless Empress's ethereal yet powerful singing voice broke through space again, resounding in thousands of households across the land of China.

"Left hand flicks a finger, right hand plucks the strings,

The boat ferries across the waters of the River of Oblivion,

When worries can bloom into a red lotus,

Do not stop, give me distractions.

Left hand points to the moon, right hand takes the red thread,

Bestowing upon you and me a fated love,

In the moonlight, ah ah ah,

You and me, ah ah ah..."

The beautiful lyrics continued the aesthetic of the beginning; from the singing, one could hear that the song's emotions were progressing layer by layer.

At this time.

The camera focused on several professional judges; they weren't the atmosphere group in the show, but truly capable musicians.

At this moment, they almost said the same thing with their lip movements.

Because the sound wasn't recorded, there was no sound and no subtitles. But from their lip movements, the audience saw at a glance what they were saying.

——"Holy crap! Awesome!"

At the same time.

The comment section on Penguin Video was also scrolling with this same sentence.

"Holy crap! Awesome!" almost dominated the screen.

This was posted by those musicians who were watching the show!

Precisely because they understood music, they were so shocked.

Su Xue was one of them, her fingers like scallion roots typing rapidly on the keyboard, explaining: "This is a one-part song! Never expected that a one-part song would be sung by her with such layering! Awesome! Awesome exploded!"

Su Xue was incomparably excited, her chest heaving violently!

The so-called one-part song is a song formed by a single musical phrase.

The number of lines varies; four, six, or eight lines are relatively common.

A musical phrase can shape a musical scene; many songs are one-part, such as "Kangding Love Song," "Jiu'er," and the "Happy Birthday" that everyone is very familiar with, etc. And one-part refers to the melody, not the lyrics; lyrics can have many parts, but the melody only has one repeating part.

The greatest difficulty in singing a one-part song with layers lies in the key change and emotional progression, which tests the singer's vocal skills and control over the entire song.

The final high-pitched climax is actually built on this extremely strong sense of layering.

Without the layer-by-layer progression and the exquisite sense of layering, the big climax wouldn't be able to erupt.

This is the reason why many singers find it difficult to cover "Pointing to the Moon with the Left Hand."

When Su Xue finished explaining, the comment section was another wave of shock, forming a vast ocean.

Suddenly.

On the screen.

"Ya ya ya ya ya..."

"Ya ya ya ya ya..."

The camera moved quickly; the program's vocal chorus team was chanting in unison.

The climax of the song had arrived.

The last paragraph of lyrics appeared.

As the blue butterflies danced, the live band also acted together.

With strings as the base, guzheng embellishments, and the aggressive rhythm of bass and percussion, it was pushed to the song's big climax.

On stage, Xu Youyue's hand gripping the microphone tightened suddenly, and the microphone moved further away from her lips.

Next, she would go all out, exerting the full strength of her master-level vocal skills.

Bringing the microphone too close would easily cause feedback.

This is also the reason why some national-level singers move the microphone away when singing high notes.

"Left hand turns into feathers, right hand becomes scales,

One life in the clouds, one life in the forest,

Willing to follow you in the form of a speck of dust,

Appearing in all the dust of the world..."

Boom!

Completely erupted!

The singing was passionate!

Amidst the high notes sweeping the venue, the stage had completely exploded!

The emotional buildup reached an extreme!

And just when people thought it was over, a high note seemed to ring out from the depths of the soul, instantly piercing the eardrums!

The extreme high notes, with an ethereal and powerful timbre, brought an unprecedented surge!

"I pick you up with my left hand, put you down with my right hand,

When palms are joined, you are all taken back into my heart,

A stick of incense, ah ah ah,

You are my one and only, no other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The highest note of the whole song arrived!

The emotion and momentum condensed in the whole song erupted completely here!

The singing voice rushed straight to the crown chakra, pierced through the entire venue, rushed toward the night sky, and echoed endlessly in the night sky!

Backstage lounge.

[Queen of Hearts] went limp!

Her high notes, which she was so proud of, were completely crushed in this instant!

[Lonely Tree]'s mentality also exploded!

His proud high notes were knocked down to the mortal world, directly crushed, without mercy!.