Dragon's Origin

Chapter 446: Inspiration from Music (Part 1)

A band consists of a conductor and various musicians who collaborate to perform a complete piece of music. The sound of each instrument is a necessary and organic component; the absence of any one would create a deficiency.

The Nine Character Incantation should be the same. Previously, when Wang Sheng and Old Daoist Ling Xu used the Nine Character Incantation, they used each character individually. Each character had its own function and effect, using the corresponding incantation for whatever situation arose.

When needing to calm the mind, the 'Lin' incantation was used; when needing to strengthen the body, the 'Bing' incantation was used; when needing indomitable fighting spirit, the 'Dou' incantation was used; when needing to recover from physical damage, the 'Zhe' incantation was used; when needing control abilities for taming beasts or hypnotizing enemies, the 'Jie' incantation was used; when needing to drive away insects and summon affinity, the 'Zhen' incantation was used; when needing to heal and drive away inner demons, the 'Lie' incantation was used; when needing to enhance spiritual control, the 'Qian' incantation was used; when needing to deal with formations, the 'Xing' incantation was used.

This is like a single instrument that can play a complete piece of music, but it lacks the beautiful harmony of an ensemble, the timbre isn't complete and rich, and relatively speaking, it isn't perfect.

Even the king of instruments, the piano, sometimes needs the auxiliary ensemble of an orchestra during a solo performance. What would happen if the ensemble of instruments were applied to the Nine Character Incantation?

What if all nine characters of the Nine Character Incantation were used every time, with one having the primary function and the others assisting? Wouldn't that make it more harmonious, smoother, and extraordinarily powerful?

As soon as this thought emerged, Wang Sheng almost couldn't sit still. Fortunately, he knew he was at a concert, and any disturbance he caused would affect everyone's mood, so he forcibly restrained himself and remained seated.

However, though his body didn't move, nine combat consciousness avatars within his Yuan Soul space had already separated to deduce the comprehensive use of the Nine Character Incantation.

Having gained inspiration, Wang Sheng lifted the veil in front of his inspiration, feeling extremely comfortable, and he became even more engrossed in enjoying the music.

Pushing his hearing to the limit, Wang Sheng closely captured the resonance of the instruments in every note, every measure, every melody, even listening to the sounds of the audience holding their breath in quiet listening. Watching Master Yu's precise beat conducting, Wang Sheng felt a very strange sensation, as if everything was related to him, as if he was the biggest conductor hidden behind the scenes, and everything was operating according to his gestures.

Speaking of which, even though his cultivation had dropped to the unranked realm, besides the number of apertures and the Yuan Soul space not decreasing, he hadn't lost his previously enhanced senses of sight, smell, hearing, and taste, still maintaining their previous sensitivity. The fact that these remained unchanged was Wang Sheng's greatest source of confidence in not caring about the drop in cultivation.

Although his realm was unranked, each aperture seemed to have shrunk to the limit. He felt that the apertures, originally the size of basketballs, had become the size of ping pong balls after dropping to the Third Realm, and now in the unranked realm, they had become like grains of rice.

But the consequence of the shrinking apertures was that the yin and yang energies within each aperture became more balanced. Although yang energy still had the upper hand, the yin energy absorbed from Sister Rose was still slightly insufficient.

Sometimes Wang Sheng would greedily think, 'If only Sister Rose had more yin energy.' But when he thought of the pain Sister Rose would have to endure for this, Wang Sheng shook his head and gave up the idea.

The piece Master Yu was conducting the entire band to play was no longer the score Wang Sheng had originally provided. During the rehearsal process, Master Yu had revised some parts for some instruments. The main melody hadn't been changed at all, but the coordination of some instruments had been altered to better suit the characteristics of each instrument and make it even more perfect.

In terms of understanding each instrument, Master Yu was far superior to Wang Sheng. These revisions brought the beauty of each instrument to its fullest. If the score Wang Sheng had provided was worth eighty points, then after Master Yu's adaptation, it was worth at least ninety-five points.

The Nine Character Incantation should be used together, and so should Tai Chi. Since there were yin and yang energies in the apertures, why should Wang Sheng waste this opportunity? During the operation of the Daoist Canon of Tranquility, the spiritual energy would transform into two strands of yin and yang energies, yin generating yang and yang generating yin, yin and yang combining, and cultivation would definitely be twice as effective with half the effort.

Just as Wang Sheng was immersed in the beautiful music, and these thoughts unconsciously涌出(emerged) from his mind, the spiritual energy within his body seemed to be attracted by something, and began to flow slowly according to the circulation path of the Daoist Canon of Tranquility.

What Wang Sheng didn't realize was that the flow of spiritual energy was actually very in tune with the music being played. When the music was melodious and graceful, the spiritual energy was slow and elegant; when the music was慷慨激昂(impassioned), the spiritual energy was also violent and unrestrained. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow, sometimes moving, sometimes still, sometimes yang, sometimes yin, stable, calm, and irresistibly flowing.

The people upstairs and downstairs were now completely immersed in the beautiful melody, listening with rapt attention. Especially since everyone knew that Wang Sheng had contributed a large part of the music being played, they were completely captivated and couldn't extricate themselves.

Only Old Daoist Ling Xu, who was sitting next to Wang Sheng, keenly noticed a slight change in the spiritual energy around him. When he realized that the source of the change in spiritual energy was from Wang Sheng, he was extremely surprised.

While quietly observing and probing these changes in spiritual energy, Old Daoist Ling Xu also enjoyed the music and helped Wang Sheng protect him.

In the process, the old daoist discovered that the change in spiritual energy caused by Wang Sheng was so subtle that if he hadn't been sitting right next to Wang Sheng, even a few seats away, he wouldn't have been able to detect Wang Sheng's movements here.

Only a cultivation like Old Daoist Ling Xu's could sense the turbulent frenzy hidden beneath the calm and weak spiritual energy fluctuations on Wang Sheng's side.

Of course, Old Daoist Ling Xu knew what Wang Sheng's spiritual energy fluctuations were like before. Such a change could only mean that Wang Sheng had truly gained a blessing in disguise and had a real opportunity for transformation.

If anyone were to look at Wang Sheng's private room at this time, they would definitely find that Mei'er was watching the performance on stage with rapt attention, listening to the beautiful music. But Wang Sheng was closing his eyes, as if listening to every note. As for Old Daoist Ling Xu, he was smiling and nodding from time to time, like a true music connoisseur.

At this moment, 'Horse Racing' was being played to its climax. The next piece of music was still Wang Sheng's work—'General's Command'.