Chapter 582: Don’t Expect the System to Reward Anything Good
The Music Immortal’s divine sense had the cultivators who failed the third test leave, keeping Jiang Li and the others behind.
The Music Immortal’s divine sense looked at Luo Ying: “I can see that although you try hard to conceal it, you still carry an aura of killing intent about you. In recent years, you should have been cultivating your character to control this killing intent.”
Having spent ten years in the apocalypse, where people’s survival probability was only one in a thousand, Luo Ying not only survived but rose from an ordinary high school student to the position of Shadow King. How many people and zombies he killed during this process, Luo Ying himself couldn’t even count.
The killing intent was generated during this period.
“Here is a musical score. You can practice it when you have time—it should help you.”
“As for the Dao of Melody, you truly have no talent for it. No matter how much I give you, it would be useless. I can give your sister double the rewards instead. What do you think?”
Luo Ying naturally agreed.
The Music Immortal’s divine sense then said to Luo Zhu: “Your talent in music can be considered quite good. I have here the Music Immortal’s famous composition ‘Music to Break Formations’—a rare piece with combat power that works against single targets or groups. If you can fully master it, fighting above your level won’t be difficult.”
An ancient scroll appeared in Luo Zhu’s hands, which she carefully stored away.
Before leaving, the Music Immortal’s divine sense called Luo Ying back again, telling him to take those little frogs with him.
After bidding farewell to Jiang Li and Yu Yin, the Luo siblings left the secret realm, and the other trial passers also departed.
Only Jiang Li, Yu Yin, and the Music Immortal’s divine sense remained in the secret realm.
“So what are a Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator and a big shot of unknown level doing here?” The Music Immortal’s divine sense came to an area with gentle water flow, stepping barefoot in the river and laughing happily.
The secret realm opened once every five hundred years, so the Music Immortal’s divine sense hadn’t heard of the Human Sovereign Jiang.
“I heard there’s a Music Immortal’s musical score in the secret realm that can calm the mind and spirit, allowing quick entry into the state of harmony between heaven and humanity.”
The Music Immortal’s divine sense said matter-of-factly: “There certainly is—it’s precisely the ‘Music to Break Formations’ I just gave that young girl. The Music Immortal said ‘Music to Break Formations’ can make enemies calm their minds and spirits, quickly entering harmony between heaven and humanity, dying early for early reincarnation.”
“If you want it, I can give you a copy too. I have quite a few backups here.”
“You’re this easy to talk to?”
“Because I can’t beat you.” The Music Immortal’s divine sense answered without hesitation.
The Music Immortal’s consistent principle was to categorize anyone she couldn’t see through into the “can’t beat” category, and her divine sense thought the same way.
The “Music to Break Formations” that Jiang Li received—he seriously flipped through it for a long time, feeling that the Music Immortal truly had talent, writing something extremely profound.
Overall, the thing was good, but he couldn’t learn it.
“And you, a full Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator, what are you doing in the secret realm?”
“I’ve encountered a problem in the Dao of Painting—I can’t express sound through images. So I wanted to study the Dao of Melody, and in the Nine Provinces, the one most familiar with the Dao of Melody is you.”
“It’s fine to teach you. After all, your talent in the Dao of Melody is outstanding—you could even inherit the Music Immortal’s legacy.”
The Music Immortal’s divine sense bent down, picked up a stone from the stream, cast a spell, and imprinted knowledge of the Dao of Melody into the stone.
“Here, this contains knowledge about the Dao of Melody. For the person beside you, it would be obscure and difficult to understand, but for you, learning it shouldn’t be hard.”
Jiang Li glared angrily at the Music Immortal’s divine sense.
As soon as Jiang Li stepped out of the secret realm, Bai Hongtu contacted him using a communication talisman.
“Jiang Li, Patriarch Yin-Yang Heaven Seal has thought of a method to allow immortal artifacts to cultivate, and he needs your help. Come over, I’ll treat you to hawthorn juice, no charge.”
The Yin-Yang Heaven Seal had been staying at the Dao Sect, secluded in contemplation about spiritual treasure cultivation methods and immortal artifact cultivation methods. Currently, the spiritual treasure cultivation method had achieved significant results, but the immortal artifact cultivation method showed no progress.
Now there was finally some movement.
“Oh, Yu Yin is here too? Perfect timing. Bring the Wishful Gourd to the Dao Sect to try Patriarch Yin-Yang Heaven Seal’s method.”
Bai Hongtu was surprised to find Jiang Li and Yu Yin together, feeling it was very convenient since he didn’t need to contact them separately.
Jiang Li and Yu Yin naturally agreed.
On the way to the Dao Sect, Jiang Li settled the system rewards.
[Reward: One Heavenly Star Zither]
[Heavenly Star Zither: A grade-less spiritual treasure that changes according to its owner’s mastery of the Dao of Melody, can be enhanced into a top-grade Dao artifact]
Top-grade Dao artifacts were existences second only to immortal artifacts. For example, Bai Hongtu’s Rainfall Sword and Holy Maiden Jingxin’s Twelve-Petaled Azure Lotus belonged to this category.
“Changes according to my mastery level of the Dao of Melody?”
Jiang Li tried plucking it a few times. The Heavenly Star Zither sensed Jiang Li’s Dao of Melody and instantly transformed from stone to wood, then from wood to rotten wood, finally becoming a puddle of water that Jiang Li couldn’t even hold.
“…What garbage reward.”
[Reward: One turtle shell divination board]
“The turtle shell divination board—I remember it originated from Luo River immortal arts. You burn the turtle shell and deduce the desired answer from the crack patterns.”
“This time it really gave something good. But reading the crack patterns requires professional knowledge—there probably isn’t anyone in the Nine Provinces who masters this knowledge.”
“Let me ask first anyway.”
Jiang Li burned the turtle shell and asked cheerfully: “Where is the Immortal Realm?”
The front of the turtle shell cracked, forming several characters: “Don’t know, ask another question. The back can answer one more time.”
The turtle shell was very user-friendly, directly cracking into characters so he didn’t need to find a professional translator.
Jiang Li turned to ask Yu Yin: “I obtained a divination turtle shell. Do you have any questions you want to ask?”
Yu Yin casually asked: “When will Jiang Li find a Dao companion?”
Jiang Li saw the back of the turtle shell crack, forming a sentence:
“Let’s just talk about the Immortal Realm coordinates instead.”
The turtle shell continued cracking, writing: “The Immortal Realm has obscured heavenly secrets. The most recent time was a thousand years ago when the Immortal Realm revealed a trace of heavenly secrets. This is the Immortal Realm’s position from a thousand years ago.”
The turtle shell displayed a string of static void coordinates.
“…The Immortal Realm now moves faster than I do. What use is knowing its position from a thousand years ago?” Despite saying this, Jiang Li still stored the turtle shell properly, planning to visit the coordinate location when he had time.
[Reward: One copy of ‘Combat Techniques of the Melody Dao’]
Jiang Li flipped through it and quickly understood the core principles of combat through the Dao of Melody—rhythm and elegance.
As a cultivator practicing the Dao of Melody, one must display elegant posture during combat and pay attention to appearance.
The combat method uses music as melody, making body movements relaxed yet controlled, capable of both offense and defense.
Jiang Li couldn’t really evaluate the method of fighting with music as melody, but this elegant posture…
Jiang Li remembered when fighting the Idle One, the Idle One took out an immortal sword that wasn’t even as hard as himself, which Jiang Li shattered with one punch.
The Idle One was probably influenced by this “Combat Techniques of the Melody Dao.”
Regardless of combat power, maintaining elegant posture during battles like this could indeed attract female cultivators.
The image of a white-robed sword cultivator was recognized by everyone as handsome and dashing.
“Do you want this thing?” Jiang Li handed the techniques to Yu Yin.
Yu Yin flipped through it, looked somewhat disdainful, and returned it to Jiang Li: “Don’t give me garbage you don’t want. Fighting in this way, I couldn’t even beat Bai Hongtu. Moreover, my combat style is already established—there’s no need to change it again.”
Jiang Li had no choice but to store the system’s garbage rewards in his storage ring.
The two landed and arrived at the Dao Sect entrance.