Chapter 159: Seven-Colored Magnificent Qi! Two-in-One Big Chapter

  "Are you asking me to go and help you get that nine-piece stone tablet?" Xiao Yun was taken aback. Didn't the Yellow River have nine bends? How did it become nine songs here at Lele's place? And they're even ancient relics!

  Lele nodded and then shook his head, "It's helping me, it's also helping you. The nine stone tablets have the scores of nine songs carved on them. I originally had records of these nine songs, but they were lost. If we can recover these nine songs, I will definitely be able to restore a lot, and the ancient legacy sound, you should know its value too."

  "Where is the stele?" asked Xiao Yun.

  Lel shook his head, "Your current strength is too weak, entering the Yellow River will only lead to death. Let's wait until you've increased your power a bit more before we talk about it again. I'm not in a hurry anyway!"

  "Hmm..." Xiao Yun hesitated, unable to believe she was being looked down upon again.

  "Will the stone fall?" Lelie asked Xiao Yun, putting aside the matter of the Yellow River's nine bends.

  Xiao Yun nodded, "Don't worry, it won't fall."

  "That's good, I'll pass on the method of opening the Tai Shan stone to you first, so you can become stronger sooner." Lele said.

  "By the way, if possible, can you give me a method for refining musical instruments?" asked Xiao Yun.

  "Do you want to refine your instrument?" Lele asked.

  Xiao Yun replied, "That's right, I have some materials on hand and want to give it a try!"

  "Even if I were to give it to you now, you wouldn't be able to use it. Oh well, I'll just give it to you anyway. It won't take long before you can become a musician. Although you can't refine musical treasures, refining instruments isn't difficult."

  As he spoke, Lele snapped his fingers and two beams of green light shot into the Seven Sound Divine Image.

  Immediately. Two streams of information flooded into Xiao Yun's mind, one was the method to open the Tai Shan stone, and the other was the method to refine musical instruments. Xiao Yun immediately closed his eyes and made an effort to analyze and integrate the information that Le Le had passed on to him.

  The message flow was not very large and was soon integrated and understood by Xiao Yun.

  "Give it a try!" said Lele.

  Xiao Yun nodded and immediately opened his eyes, taking out the Tai Shan stone and placing it in front of him. He didn't care about Zhou Mingxuan sleeping beside him, and instead focused on stimulating his Qi. His hands moved swiftly as he formed complex hand seals, which were directly taught to him by Lele. These hand seals were deeply ingrained in his mind, so forming them was not difficult for him at all, just like he had practiced them countless times before. The only thing required was a considerable amount of Qi.

  Xiao Yun's two hands moved swiftly, with bright runes flashing in his hands and revolving around them. Xiao Yun's forehead was also covered in sweat, as the seal he had given Lele was extremely draining on his vital energy. In just a short while, more than half of the vital energy inside him had been consumed.

  "Hmmph!"

  With a final burst of effort, Xiao Yun let out a low growl and used all his strength to press his right hand onto the Tai Shan Dare-to-be-first Stone.

  A mysterious text sank into the Tai Shan stone. The Tai Shan stone crackled, and its surface presented a web-like crack, with colorful rays seeping out from the cracks. Xiao Yun's eyes widened, he could feel an enormous power bursting forth.

  "Crack! Crack! Crack!"

  The stone skin peeled off like eggshell fragments, and in front of him was replaced by a piece of stone radiating five-color halos. Xiao Yun's breathing became slightly rapid, with an inexplicable excitement in his heart. As the symbols disappeared into the stone one by one, the five-color halo gradually dimmed, and Xiao Yun felt a vague connection appearing between him and the colorful stone in front of him.

  "Rainbow Stone, Music Saint's Relic!"

  Looking at this stone, Xiao Yun's mood is more turbulent than the Yellow River. This is the treasure left by Xi Zong, the first sage in the world.

  He turned around cautiously and saw that Zhou Mingxuan was still snoring, sleeping soundly. This guy was too tired, and the distant Yellow River water sounded like thunder, so the noise made by Xiao Yun didn't affect his sleep at all.

  "Alright, now that the Daring Stone has revealed its true form, it has acknowledged you as its master. With your current abilities, you can now harness the sacred energy within the stone to cultivate yourself." A cheerful voice echoed in his mind.

  Pressing down the turmoil in his heart, Xiao Yun reached out and picked up the Daring Stone. With a thought, a strand of colorful energy seeped out from the stone and flowed along his hands towards the Lingtai Music Hall.

  Sacred energy entered the mansion, vast and boundless. After being transformed by the divine image, the five colors turned into seven colors. The nearly empty Haogei Pool was almost instantly filled to the brim. The white Qi with a hint of green was faintly coated with a layer of seven-colored light. These energies drifted out from the Lingtai and flowed along the meridians towards Xiao Yun's limbs and body.

  "Boom!"

  Enormous power, like the Yellow River bursting its banks, struck Xiao Yun's meridians and tendons, causing them to shatter into pieces. Xiao Yun felt as if his entire body was being inflated with air, the surging power almost bursting his body apart. Wherever the seven-colored majestic energy passed, every cell was boiling and burning, and Xiao Yun could even hear a hissing sound.

  Muscles burst, and then quickly repair, condense, expand, and grow under the nourishment of robust energy. At this moment, Xiao Yun feels a mix of pain and pleasure, truly experiencing what it means to suffer and enjoy at the same time.

  Seven-colored aura repeatedly flushed through Xiao Yun's body, forcing the impurities inside him out of his body. If Zhou Mingxuan were awake at this moment, he would definitely see a fantastic scene: Xiao Yun's skin was covered with a faint seven-colored glow, frowning and stretching alternately. The clever child standing on his shoulder was also quietly lying down, with colorful lights flowing all over its body.

  The sky is bright at dawn.

  Xiao Yun slowly opened his eyes, and a seven-colored halo flashed deep in his pupils before disappearing.

  "It's just a small thread of sacred power, yet it allowed me to break through to the late stage of Musician, and what's more, I can break through to the realm of Maestro at any time. This... this sacred power is truly terrifying!"

  Looking at the stone in front of him, Xiao Yun was both surprised and delighted. Just by absorbing a wisp of sacred energy, his cultivation had made great progress, not only had his realm risen to the late stage of Leigong, but his physical body had also been tempered to be much stronger than before. Although he hadn't slept for a night, Xiao Yun felt invigorated and full of energy, with power surging throughout his body. He lightly clenched his fist, and his joints crackled with a popping sound. His strength was at least twice what it was before.

  In the Haqi Pool, the originally white-with-green Haqi suddenly transformed into a faint seven-colored color. Even the Seven Sound God Image underwent a strange change. Activating the ancestral sound spirit, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, each one separated out a color, merged together, originally transforming into white-with-green Haqi, now also changed into a faint seven-colored color.

  Although the colorful light was weak and imperceptible, and the two colors produced by the two gods of the minor palaces were even more diluted, it was indeed a seven-colored one. Xiao Yun could feel that the majestic aura of these seven colors was now stronger than his own refined aura by at least an order of magnitude.

  The majestic energy has actually assimilated the sacred power! Xiao Yun's heart was turbulent, wasn't it that his future cultivation would all be sacred power? Sacred power, that is the unique power of Le Sheng, although the sacred power he cultivated was very thin and had a heaven and earth difference with the true sacred power in the Dare Stone, but to know, he was only at the Le Gong realm!

  This time, Xiao Yun Xi was overjoyed and couldn't help himself. He looked up to see that the east had already lit up with a fish-belly white color. It was almost dawn, so he quickly put away the Five-Colored Stone. This stone was undoubtedly a huge treasure trove for him. Le Le had said before that the sacred power within it not only helped increase his own strength but also made it a powerful musical instrument in and of itself.

  If one day I can absorb all the holy power in it, I really don't know what level I can grow to. Xiao Yun's heart was filled with expectation, but he knew very well that with his current ability, he couldn't absorb much, and a night's work had only absorbed a small wisp of it, which almost burst his body, and even now, he still hadn't fully absorbed it.

  Although it feels easy to break through to the musician, recently, Xiao Yun has not been preparing to absorb the holy power again. After all, the realm has just broken through and needs to be stabilized for a period of time. Otherwise, if you rashly absorb again, the realm will be promoted too quickly, and it may backfire.

  No wonder Lele let Xiao Yun absorb the holy power during the Le Gong realm, at this time Xiao Yun is in the foundation-building stage of music, and the level of Hao Qi inside his body is very low, it's easier to be assimilated by the holy power. If he reached the Music Master realm, the Hao Qi would be sublimated, and it wouldn't be so easy to assimilate again.

  "What? What smell is this, it's so stinky?"

  The first ray of sunlight on the horizon shone on Zhou Mingxuan's face, and Zhou Mingxuan woke up from his beautiful dream. As soon as he opened his eyes, he smelled a pungent odor that made him feel nauseous.

  "Xiao brother, you didn't fall into the toilet pit, did you?" His nose twitched and Zhou Mingxuan found the source of the smell, which was coming from Xiao Yun's body.

  Xiao Yun snapped back to reality, hearing Zhou Mingxuan's words, and couldn't help but sweat, his body covered in a layer of greasiness, emitting waves of foul odor, which was the bodily impurities tempered out from last night's cultivation.

  "Last night I practiced for a while, didn't expect it to end up like this. I'll go find a place to take a bath and change my clothes!" Xiao Yun smiled awkwardly and stood up, walking towards the depths of the reed marsh. He didn't dare to wash in the Yellow River, but he remembered seeing a pool around here yesterday.

  "What the hell, your cultivation speed is too fast!" Zhou Mingxuan rubbed his eyes, his face full of incredulity. He knew that Xiao Yun had only broken through to the middle stage of Lesheng a few days ago, but now he was already at the late stage of Lesheng after just one sleep.

  This speed is simply unbelievable, Zhou Mingxuan patted his face and only then realized that he seemed to have missed something after finishing.

  These days, Lele has fallen into hibernation again. It is said that this hibernation will take a long time, at least three to five months, to repair the damaged Taoist machine. Xiao Yun also did not go to disturb her again.

  Along with Zhou Mingxuan, they traveled upstream along the Yellow River, stopping and starting, a half-month journey that took them nearly a month. During this time, Xiao Yun finally solidified his boundary in the late stage of Leshan, and that strand of sacred power had also been completely digested by him.

  "Haha, Longcheng, I'm here!"

  Under the high city wall, Zhou Mingxuan looked up at the big "Dragon City" on the gate and couldn't help but shout loudly. The two of them had been traveling in the wind and dust for more than half a month, and finally arrived at their destination.

  "Come into the city!"

  Xiao Yun was also very hungry and wanted to go into town to find a place to have a big meal.

  "What a prosperous city this Dragon City is! It's truly beyond comparison with our humble Pingyang Town!" As they entered the city, Zhou Mingxuan looked around in all directions, his face filled with wonder.

  Pingyang City is located in a remote area, and this was his first time coming to Longcheng. In terms of prosperity, Pingyang City couldn't even compare to Longcheng. After all, Longcheng was the capital of Xia Kingdom, the political and economic center of the entire Xia Kingdom. There were only a few cities that could rival Longcheng.

  The spacious street is filled with people, all sorts of shops dazzling the eyes, and stalls lining both sides of the street. There are food, drinks, and games everywhere, accompanied by the loud calls of vendors, creating a lively scene that's hot and bustling.

  "Let's find something to eat first, then look for a place to stay. I'm almost starving!" Xiao Yun was so hungry that he didn't have the mood to appreciate the prosperity of the capital city anymore. The prosperity he had seen before was not something that Long City could compare with.

  "Go, go, go, I'm starving to death!" Zhou Mingxuan responded with a sound, and Xiao Yun each led the horse, shuttling through the vast crowd. Looking for a place to eat.

  Juxian Building!

  "What would you like to eat, gentlemen?"

  Sitting on the windowsill of the second floor, a young servant walked over.

  "What's delicious and what's good to drink? Bring it all up!" Zhou Mingxuan patted the table, with a lavish and luxurious demeanor.

  "Alright!"

  The attire of the two men was such that it was clear they were wealthy. The young servant responded with a laugh and immediately ran off.

  Xiao Yun was so hungry that he was getting anxious. He also didn't feel like ordering, and let Zhou Mingxuan take charge instead. Anyway, Zhou Mingxuan was the young master, and when it came time to pay the bill later, it wouldn't be his turn anyway.

  "Xiao brothers, after we finish eating, where are we going?" Zhou Mingxuan's fingers lightly tapped on the table, waiting for the dishes to be served while he asked Xiao Yun with a relaxed tone.

  Xiao Yun raised an eyebrow, "Of course we're looking for a place to stay, what else did you think?"

  "Brother Ming Xuan said, 'My dad has a few friends in Long City, let me come to Long City and visit them later. After finding a place to stay, you can accompany me, okay?'"

  "What's going on?" Xiao Yun was somewhat speechless. "You'd better go yourself, I'll rest here for two days and then head back to Bo Ya Mountain."

  "Goodbye!"

  As soon as Xiao Yun's words fell, he was met with strong opposition from Zhou Mingxuan. He had been hoping that Xiao Yun could introduce him to Prince Liufeng, establish a good relationship, and it would be of great help when he inherited the title of Pingyang Hou in the future. This time, letting him follow Xiao Yun was also for this purpose.

  "It's just a few days before the princess recruitment day, since you've come all this way, why leave? We should at least go and try our luck!" said Zhou Mingxuan.

  Xiao Yun Bai's eyes rolled, "Under the vast sky, there are countless experts. Do you think we have a chance with our abilities?"

  "It can't be said like that, what if all the guests are just a bunch of nobodies? Since you're here, then just stay, it's not easy to come across such a grand occasion, I don't care about you, but you must wait until the matchmaking meeting is over before you can leave." Zhou Mingxuan said.

  "Alright, have it your way!" Xiao Yun shook his head, feeling hungry and too lazy to say more. Anyway, they couldn't delay much longer. Since they had come to Long City, they might as well take a look at that rare grand event.

  The image of Xiāo Yuè's beauty flashed in his mind, and Xiao Yun's mouth curled up into a faint smile. What a rare gem of a woman! Unfortunately, he had no idea which young whippersnapper would end up getting lucky with her!

  Xiao Yun replied, and Zhou Mingxuan also smiled.

  The young servant brought up the wine and dishes, just about to leave, when Zhou Mingxuan called out to him, excitedly asking, "Young fellow, I've heard that Long City has a Chunfeng Pavilion, do you know where it is?"

  Xiao Yun wiped his sweat, this guy is really embarrassing enough.

  "Are you from out of town, sir?" asked the young servant.

  Zhou Mingxuan nodded slightly.

  "Recently, there are really many people coming from outside!" The young servant sighed and immediately put on a smiling face. "Sir, Chunfeng Pavilion is renowned throughout Longcheng, the girls inside are all as beautiful as heavenly immortals, their looks, figures, voices... they're simply to die for..."

  "Alright, alright, wipe your drool. Where is the Spring Breeze Pavilion?" Looking at the young servant's excited expression and drooling mouth, Zhou Mingxuan hastily interrupted him.

  "Ah!" The young servant wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and hastily said, "The Chunfeng Pavilion is on Zhuque Avenue, Chunfeng Alley. That place is expensive, ordinary people can't afford it."

  "Hmph, do you think we can't afford it?" Zhou Mingxuan said somewhat displeased.

  "It's not possible!" The young servant hastily nodded and bowed, "I heard that two days later, on the Lower Yuan Festival, Chunfeng Pavilion will hold a singing party. At that time, the top courtesan of Chunfeng Pavilion, Mingyu, will also appear. If you can win her favor, you may even get to spend a spring night with Mingyu."

  "Miss Ming Yu?" Zhou Mingxuan's eyes lit up, although he had never seen her in person, but just the title of Spring Breeze Pavilion's top courtesan was enough to give him endless fantasies.

  Xiao Shuai said, "Miss Mingyu's beauty is renowned throughout the land, and I've only caught a glimpse of her from afar. Her appearance has left an indelible mark on my mind to this day. Moreover, Miss Mingyu is a chaste courtesan who sells her art but not her body. The entire Dragon City doesn't know how many talented scholars are eagerly waiting for the chance to get close to her."

  Zhou Mingxuan rubbed his hands together, "Xiao brothers, when the time comes, we'll have to go and try our luck!"

  Xiao Yun's eyes narrowed slightly, "Zhou brother, is a courtesan worth it? Don't forget the purpose of your trip to Long City, don't let a small matter ruin everything."

  "Huh? What's wrong with the courtesan? Haven't you heard that Mingyu is a clear and chaste person who sells her art but not her body?" Zhou Mingxuan said.

  Xiao Yun shook her head, "I don't look down on courtesan girls, it's just..."

  "What's going on?" Zhou Mingxuan asked.

  A chaste and virtuous courtesan, how could she suddenly sell herself in this way? Thinking about the upcoming Princess Recruitment Conference, many talented and wealthy people have gathered in Long City. It seems that the girl either wants to take advantage of this opportunity to find a good family to marry into or wants to use the momentum to raise her own value.

  Perhaps it was just his own thoughts that were too much, Xiao Yun opened his mouth, but ultimately didn't say anything.