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Chapter 539

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The reason why so many people were needed to play together was because the girls wanted to pursue the best effect of this piece.

"Cloud Palace Quick Tune" contains too many sounds, too mixed, such as: psychedelic bouncy electronic music, bass guitar; Chinese guzheng, pipa, chime bells; Western trumpets, violins, harps and other orchestral instruments; rhythmic five-tone row drums; ethereal, heavenly soprano... But so many sounds blended together, yet not chaotic at all, instead making the instruments and human voices of different styles rise and fall like mountains, each doing its own thing but in an orderly manner, combining strength with elegance and softness.

Finally, all things return to one, ending with a harp, smooth as flowing water, beautiful, solemn, and grand. It can be called a work of supernatural craftsmanship, an all-encompassing arrangement.

Even people who haven't seen "Journey to the West" would feel very amazed when hearing this piece!

It is worth mentioning that because the music creation concept was too avant-garde, "Cloud Palace Quick Tune" was rejected by the leaders at the time shortly after it was created.

In the 1980s in China, musical concepts were very conservative.

It was Director Yang Jie who defied all opinions, withstood the pressure, and saved this song, making it the theme song of the '86 version of "Journey to the West," which is why it became a childhood memory.

What few people know is that the opening sequence paired with "Cloud Palace Quick Tune" was also edited by Director Yang Jie herself, and it can even be said that Director Yang Jie participated in the editing of the entire series throughout.

Back to the point.

On Blue Star, the girls didn't have so many restrictions and worries.

They had money and copyrights, and they had a system to cheat, so they could play however they wanted.

And below the stage, there was a buzz of discussion.

"Holy crap! So many people? What a big formation! Is another big scene coming?"

"Are they really going to follow up their own act? Defeat themselves?"

When they saw so many musicians appearing on stage, the entire audience was startled.

People's thoughts were mostly confusion.

Chinese traditional instruments.

Western orchestral instruments.

And some strange things, Xu Youyue even picked up a conductor's baton? This is completely the configuration of a concert, what on earth are they going to do?

Seeming to see the audience's confusion, Xu Mingyue picked up the microphone and said: "Earlier, my sister and I wrote a book called 'Journey to the West.' I wonder if everyone has read it?"

Immediately, countless loud voices responded: "Read it!"

"The Great Sage Equal to Heaven!"

"Monster, eat my staff!"

"..."

Xu Mingyue's question instantly made the audience on all four sides excited!

As "Journey to the West" became popular all over the internet, and even won the "Yunxiao" award, being determined by the Literary Association as a "contemporary masterpiece," with consistent praise at home and abroad... against this background, a hot "Journey to the West fever" was set off in the country.

Nowadays, saying you haven't read "Journey to the West" is already embarrassing to go out and greet people.

Among the audience at the venue, even if some people haven't read the whole book carefully, they know some characters and plots.

Especially the four protagonists: Sun Sun Wukong, Tang Seng, Zhu Zhu Bajie, Sha Seng.

Xu Mingyue smiled and said: "The piece performed next is the theme song we wrote for the 'Journey to the West' TV series, a 'Cloud Palace Quick Tune' dedicated to everyone!"

Xu Mingyue didn't say much, but the amount of information was huge.

Whoosh!

The scene was in an uproar:

"The theme song of the 'Journey to the West' TV series? Holy crap!"

"The calls for adapting this novel into a film and television work have always been high, but I remember, it hasn't been approved yet, right?"

"Yes, that's right, it hasn't been approved yet. However, 'Cloud Palace Quick Tune'... even the theme song is out, I guess it's coming soon!"

"Looking forward to it, they can film Xianxia so well, their level of filming mythological stories shouldn't be bad either!"

"My Great Sage is about to be born!"

"Am I the only one who likes the goddess and female demons in the novel?"

"Hehe, me too."

"..."

Just at this moment.

Suddenly.

Fifty meters above the stage, spectacular special effects appeared.

It was an endless ocean, the waves rolling constantly, and near a mountain steaming with clouds and mist by the sea, a stone more than two meters high had experienced sun and rain, tides rising and falling, not knowing how long it had stood there.

Dongsheng Shenzhou!

Huaguo Mountain!

Heaven-mending Stone!

The picture was presented in a traditional Chinese comic style.

Seeing this scene, the audience who had read the original work understood in seconds, their eyes fixed on that Nuwa stone with fanaticism.

This is before the Great Sage was born!

But at this moment, as Xu Youyue waved the conductor's baton, the music sounded.

"Xiu xiu~~"

"Diu diu diu~~" As the dreamy electronic music sounded, the picture also began to move. A monkey jumped out of the stone, then did a somersault, and then, as it flipped, it went from being bare with only monkey hair to wearing the clothes of a Taoist apprentice...

This is exactly the opening scene of the original "Journey to the West" TV series, only the style presented is Chinese comic style.

All the audience looked at the special effects in the air, suddenly excited beyond measure.

"It's the Great Sage!"

"The Great Sage Equal to Heaven is born!"

"He jumped out of the stone!"

"Brother Monkey!"

"..."

Some people covered their mouths, eyes full of disbelief, some even stood up in excitement.

There was no Journey to the West in this world originally; it was only after the girls wrote this novel that the Journey to the West world existed. Because of copyright reasons, there were no film and television works about this world, and everyone could only rely on their own imagination to construct and fantasize... And now, Xu Mingyue used animation special effects to present the Journey to the West world and Sun Sun Wukong, showing them to everyone!

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