by Feng Yue
The skinny old man looked like a madman with his red eyes, holding an axe in his hand.
Wearing a heavy armor-like proximity suit, he hacked the cooling device on the cut-off brake again and again. He broke the crack open bit by bit, even if the terrible torrents that spurted out had lit his suit.
The thick steam had swallowed him, and only the roaring voice came out from it.
“Whoever the f**king bitch is, never try to destroy my enchantment!”
He snarled, “Don’t even think about it!”
Boom!
The explosion sounded.
The cooling device completely collapsed like a close-up engine explosion. The horrible air waves swept through, smashed the suppression system, and blasted Albert away.
He fell to the ground and rolled, his proximity suit already torn apart.
The broken glass of the mask plunged into his face, and the heat and debris destroyed half of his face. The remaining half looked like a twisted demon’s.
“Bishop!”
“Mr. Albert!”
The subordinates rushed up, “Call the doctor! Rubens! Get the medical team down here!”
On the ground, Albert held the twisted axe as well as the wall and stood up.
“Ye Qingxuan, now I give the Sacred City enchantment to you…”
He stared into the quiet moonlight in midair, and the hollow eye on his incomplete face was leaking blood.
“Please, protect it.” He lowered his head, sacrificed his dignity, and pleaded, “Only you are able to protect it.”
The moonlight shone for a long time, like the staring of Ye Qingxuan.
“Okay,” he said. “I promise you.”
Albert smiled, and he fell to the ground.
At the last moment, he saw that a moon rose into the sky, and flew above the Sacred City along the relighted route.
“So beautiful…” he whispered and closed his eyes.
506 You Think You Can Easily Win?
Ye Qingxuan’s mind changed into a ray of moonlight and left the alchemy array in the Moving World. He was flying across the huge boundary and heading to the outside of the enchantment.
In the blink of an eye, he arrived at the Sacred City and hid in the dark.
The outflowing layer in the enchantment was already full of the music theory of the abyss. When Ye Qingxuan entered this layer, he woke up some of the figures whose minds were also in the outflowing layer.
Inside the music theory of the abyss, these figures sensed and scanned across Ye Qingxuan’s music theory. The next minute, they began to gather around Ye Qingxuan.
In the pure darkness, there was only a shred of moonlight.
One, two, three, four…
There were six demogorgons who came from the abyss in total! These demogorgons were in fact musicians of the school of the School of Abstinence. Just like Ye Qingxuan, they integrated their Symphony of Predestination into the enchantment, and in this way, they could continually transform the soil of the Sacred City into an abyss.
When that day came, the whole Sacred City would become Hyakume’s Holy Kingdom on the ground!
The twisted music theories intertwined with each other and formed a steady structure, a structure Ye Qingxuan did not know about.
The structure was rather complex and was made of pure Aether. It was clearly dead, but was also lively at the same time.
The structure was actually a “vesicle.”
Numerous vesicles were growing on the surface of the enchantment of the Sacred City. They formed a complex forest by absorbing energy from the enchantment,
Ye Qingxuan reached out his hand and penetrated the vesicle that was closest to him.
The vesicle was broken. Ye Qingxuan found that there was an inchoate aether circulation. It was an embryo made of aetherized blood and flesh, and had already grown some scales and horns.
Inside the countless vesicles, there were numerous embryos like this, and they were all alive.
The seeds from the abyss were sprinkled on the enchantment; they would begin to grow by absorbing energy from the enchantment, and then they would breed devils!
In a word, the outer layer of the enchantment had been changed into a micro “Dark Gaia” by these demogorgons from the abyss. Or a nest that could continually breed monsters; a nest that could turn a living creature into a monster and transform a musician into a black musician.
The moment Ye Qingxuan broke a vesicle, the aether wave produced by these vesicles gathered and made a huge sound.
Immediately, hundreds of thousands of vesicles broke. Countless invisible dogs crawled out. They were licking the aether left on the ground and quickly producing the poisonous liquid of the abyss.
Wherever they went, all the music theory was polluted by the music theory of the abyss, and grew evil and dark.
These invisible dogs were the guardians of the vesicle forest.
In the outflowing layer of the enchantment, one could only exist in the form of aether music theory, and it would be an nightmare if he came across the invisible dogs that were born to erode other’s music theory.
What was worse was that they usually hid behind those demogorgons. If Ye Qingxuan was not careful, an invisible dog would crawl into his body and eat him alive from the inside out.
The six demogorgons began to resonate with each other, and a huge sound of music could be heard in the outflowing layer.
The dark energy was stirring up, and God knew how many more demogorgons were resonating with the six in the far distance, which was a very frightening idea to even think about.
The invisible dogs emerged in large numbers, and the poisonous liquid gathered together and had a physical form.
“Another one?” a hoarse voice came.
Suddenly, the music theories of the abyss began to change. They intertwined and gradually formed a new structure. The new music theory then reached to Ye Qingxuan.
Ye Qingxuan felt like he was being observed by hundreds of thousands of eyes. The six demogorgons saw through Ye Qingxuan’s aether form. When they sensed the void which Ye Qingxuan’s mind was in and the magnificent Symphony of Predestination embedded within it, they were wild with joy.
“What a treasure he is! I never thought there was someone like him in the Sacred City.”
In the distance, many other demogorgons had also knew of Ye Qingxuan’s existence via the Eye of Dark.
Ye Qingxuan could feel they were arguing with each other. After a while, he could only feel the aether wave of the six demogorgons.
It seems that these guys are the ones who won that argument. Congratulations to them!
Ye Qingxuan coldly stared at them and touched them with his Bolero perception thread, and the demogorgons instantly initiated attack.
In the blink of an eye, the perception thread vanished. But Ye Qingxuan still managed to get an abundance of information about the change of music theory.
There was the same music theory in each aether wave. It seemed that this music theory had been written into the Symphony of Predestination.
When the aether wave of the six demogorgons resonated with each other, this music theory would become an invisible chain. They were held tightly by this chain and could not move freely.
All six invisible chains would become one chain when the whining tune was played by the Whining Musician.
Which meant that the six demogorgons were actually a whole, and the whining musician in the middle was their real master.
Ye Qingxuan sighed. “I am really bored of this trick now. I am afraid that apart from the musician standing in the middle, the rest of you have been forced to turn into the demogorgons, right? Your sanity has been wiped out and you have all been tied to the Symphony of Predestination by the invisible chains. It seems like you are all independent, but in fact, your consciousness has been replaced by the spirituality of the music movement of abyss.”
“You are just like Ludovic; you are just a group of puppets made of mud. Sorry, you are ev
en worse than the mud.”
When these demogorgons came to the Sacred City, they felt like they had walked into a house full of treasure and everything they saw was as precious as delicious fruits or agate.
“How should I call you?” Ye Qingxuan flipped his finger and sent out a wave.
The other five demogorgons did not reply, but the musician in the middle gave a peculiar laugh. “You will know soon.”
Before Ye Qingxuan realized, the five demogorgons began to resonate with each other. The spirituality of the music movement of the abyss suddenly started to gather together.
Replacing the demogorgons’ consciousness with the spirituality seemed not a very good idea, since it would consume lots of energy. The five demogorgons could be considered as the musician’s five doppelgängers. When they resonated with each other, the spirituality would gather together and the energy of the Symphony of Predestination would increase more than five times.
If this whining musician were not trapped inside the abyss, he would have already upgraded to the class of scepter.
If they all died here tonight, they would become the hands and eyes of Hyakume and the horrible stories about them would prevail in the Physical World. When that time came, there was a good chance that they might reach the highest level of music theory.
The five demogorgons worked together and made a huge sound. The sound wave almost dimmed the moonlight.
“You think you can easily win since you have more people?” In the blink of an eye, Ye Qingxuan was drowned in the darkness.
Then, the five demogorgons’ Symphony of Predestination began to disassemble, and the chains extended out.
Normally, the structure of the chain adopted the music theory of the School of Summoning. After being polluted by the music theory of the abyss and rebuilt by numerous black musicians, the chain could now be used to control both devils’ and humans’ consciousness.
Even Ye Qingxuan did not know how to react in this situation. He sighed. “Well, it seems that you will probably win.”
Ye Qingxuan stopped fighting back and defending himself as well. The music theory embedded in the chain began to erode him and the music theory of the abyss shrouded his Symphony of Predestination.
He was now being watched by hundreds of eyes of the abyss, and every move he made would be easily detected. Thus the demogorgons did not worry if he was plotting something. They began to transform Ye Qingxuan.
Although the moonlight could well resist the energy of the abyss, Ye Qingxuan’s consciousness had been locked since he had been dragged into a vesicle.
Now it was only a matter of time before he was brainwashed.
“The Physical World is really a good place. He is really a treasure and we are so lucky to get him. While the abyss in the Aether world is such a barren land…”
The whining musician finally revealed his true identity.
They all abandoned their bodies in the outflowing layer and got into it in the form of the incarnation of music theory. In particular, the music theory of the whining musician sounded a bit like the roaring of a beast.
Soon, the spirituality changed into a physical form. It neither looked like a human nor a beast, and there were some scales on it. Obviously, it was a terrain dwarf that was rarely seen in the Physical World.
It looked a bit like a lizard and a bit like a semi-dragon. This race was very different from their distant relatives. Still, they were all the faithful followers of Hyakume.
They did not have too many peers, but each of them was very talented in music. When they grew a few hundred years old, almost every one of them could become a musician of Resonation class. Among them, there were many demogorgons that had the Symphony of Predestination.
This sort of demogorgon usually mastered the trick of sound of heart of domination. The whining musician was one of them. When he came to the Sacred City, in less than a few hours, he had managed to catch some puppets and his power increased by a few multiples.
“Although you are just a Master, you have got great potential. Which school do you belong to?” The land-walking dwarf stared at Ye Qingxuan, while suppressing his hunger. “You are so perfect! If I make you the shelter of my elements, there is a chance that I can upgrade to the class of scepter.”
Hearing this, Ye Qingxuan watched him and gave a strange smile. “Oops,I forgot to tell you that there are fifteen more!”
507 I’ve Been Tired
Snap!
In the vesicle, the Symphony of Pedestination of Ye Qingxuan suddenly collapsed and disappeared like a bubble, leaving only the scattered light to drift away.
Disappeared?
The terrain dwarf froze, and the music theories around his body immediately floated to the surrounding area as if it had gone crazy.
Then he saw…
Fifteen wispy bright moons rose from his side. They overlapped each other and turned into a huge moon which was real and strong. In the moon disk, the Symphony of Predestination revolved with numerous music theories rubbing each other and spewing out resounding melody.
Unexpectedly…
Close at hand!
With no time for him to react, the horn roared, and reverberated through the entire outflowing layer of the enchantment.
The iron-clad melody shook countless vesicles, as if it awakened the terrible memories that slept deepest in their heritage, leaving all the demons feeling terrified from their hearts.
Immediately afterwards, Ye Qingxuan’s will emerged from the moon and, with a pleasant smile, drove a glorious melody that seemed to announce the coming of dawn toward the dwarf.
The dwarf resisted the inexplicable fear and snarled with joyous and frenzied melody bursting out.
Five puppets resonated and echoed with him, skyrocketing his power.
In an instant, in the outflowing layer, the abyssal music theory boiled and fell on him. He almost inflated into a giant monster and weighed down angrily on the moon in front of him.
In the next moment, countless frantic changes in music theory ended abruptly, and somehow a fatal gap appeared.
This gap shouldn’t have appeared.
Even an apprentice wouldn’t make such a silly mistake!
It was not until the music movement had stopped that the terrain dwarf discovered that the five puppet demons had stopped reacting and fallen into silence.
They had been bound by the intangible music theory at an unknown time and couldn’t even move a bit, as if they were beasts trapped in a cage. It was like being crucified by an invisible hammer and a silver cone on a burning post!
In the impassioned melody of horn, Ye Qingxuan’s music movement had been condensed.
The music movement carried fanaticism inside, and countless music theories fluctuated, like a flame burning fiercely.
Looking upon it now, the dwarf discovered the true colors of that thing…
“Barren, barren mountains…”
No one had ever heard the big demons screaming in such panic.
Their voices were full of great fears, as if they saw their enemy of destiny. “How could it be… the Night of Barren Mountain?”
In the next moment, Ye Qingxuan, who had incarnated into a moon, boomed the last roar of horn.
As a result, the horrible “purifying fire” burst from the Symphony of Predestination of the five puppets.
The Symphony of Predestination soaked in the abyssal music theory and met the Night of Barren Mountain as if a rat with kerosene on its butt ran into a torch. In an instant, the fierce purifying music theory broke out from the very core, cruelly and madly, and fought with the abyssal music theories.
Once the music theory that seemed to be simple and pure operated, it became crazy enough to eliminate the enemies even with its own death. In the Symphony of Predestination, every note was experiencing unprecedentedly fierce changes and fell apart in turbulence.
Only such drastic changes could give spectators the illusion of “burning.”
The flame was
like a living creature, sucking all the power from the five puppets. When it had expanded itself to the limit, the Tide of Flames had already been formed.
Immediately after Ye Qingxuan’s guidance, the Tide of Flames flowed upstream and rushed into his deity along the chain music theory manipulated by the puppets.
Broke out with a loud sound!
At that moment, in the outflowing layer of enchantment, all the big demons who had stayed there heard the loud sound which was like the horrible screaming of brutally tortured people.
They saw the purifying music theory dancing fiercely like the rising of flames.
At the same time, they felt the fear of flames for the first time!
They recalled the burning posts all over the mountains in the memory of their heritage, which burned the sky with dark and crazy flames.
Then, spontaneously, they burst out the unprecedentedly…
Strong intention to kill!
Since the first instant of entering the outflowing layer, Ye Qingxuan had hidden most of his power in the clothes of original sin.
Paganini’s Changing Music Theory was the best among the profound theories in the School of Modifications.
Instead of rigidly adhering to material changes, it had mastered the profound changes and changed with them. The changes might be holy or filthy, great or small.
As long as it was there, the users could freely change their own music theories without any restrictions. Otherwise, Paganini wouldn’t have sent it to assist Ludovic.
Its power was obviously strong in that Paganini had hidden his identity for years in the Sacred City, even when he had fallen into the abyss in the past. Unfortunately, the Changing Music Theory could never change the nature completely.
Paganini had been delving it in the abyss for many years, but there was still a step away from the total “renewal.”
This step was a far cry.
Now, Ye Qingxuan got the clothes of original sin, which could instantly cover all of his music theories and enable him to blend into the abyssal music theories freely.
Many big demons had checked, but none of them had discovered the true trace of Ye Qingxuan.