Hearing Qi Wei's words, everyone became excited again, because in their opinion this test seemed very simple.
Especially Qian Xilai who was standing on the pleasure boat, he had originally thought that he might have to fight with the previous selected candidates.
Although he felt that his strength was no weaker than the selected candidates, as long as there was a battle, there would inevitably be winners and losers, and he was actually very afraid that he would lose.
There was nothing wrong with what Qi Wei said just now. The reason why he failed to become famous was indeed because he avoided fighting most of the time.
He was considered a talented and capable young man in the Qian family, but ever since he won first place in the family competition with a slight advantage when he was a teenager, he had been very afraid of losing and afraid of losing this reputation.
Therefore, his opponents are almost always weaker than him, and he rarely takes the initiative to challenge anyone, always maintaining an attitude of not fighting if possible.
This time, because of some things that happened around him, he hoped to prove himself by taking the city entry trial.
Qi Wei's way of testing was exactly what he wanted. He would rather avoid fighting than fight. Now he just had to listen to the music and climb up the ship, which didn't seem to be too difficult.
However, Ye Li, who had heard Dongfang Caiyi play the piano, did not think it was a simple matter. The first time he heard Dongfang Caiyi's piano, he knew that her piano was not simple.
That power, which is different from the power of the soul but can directly penetrate into the soul, is not so easy to resist.
Moreover, Dongfang Caiyi is obviously stronger now than before. If Qi Wei dares to let Dongfang Caiyi play the piano to test everyone, it will definitely not be easy.
Those who did not know this all showed an eager look on their faces. After hearing the content of the test, many people even stood up, hoping to fish in troubled waters and gain the qualification to enter the city for the trial.
Qi Wei didn't care about it at all. He just nodded to Dongfang Caiyi next to him, indicating that she could start.
Dongfang Caiyi glanced around briefly, without saying much, she stretched out her slender hands as white as mutton-fat jade and gently stroked the strings of the zither.
An extremely pleasant piano sound rang out, as if a spring breeze was blowing across a grassland, raising a green wave, absolutely beautiful and moving.
The moment the piano music sounded on the river bank, the people participating in the trial around them all took action in unison.
Talisman masters who have reached the Spiritual Pill Stage or above can use their spiritual essence to keep themselves on the water without falling into the river. Although everyone cannot use spells, talismans, or talisman tools, they are not restricted from using spiritual essence. They all gathered their spiritual essence at the bottom of their feet and began to walk on the water to approach the building ship.
Qian Xilai, who was on the pleasure boat next to the tower ship, was even more excited. He was closest to the tower ship, and the moment the sound of the piano rang out, he jumped directly from the boat into the Gilded River and rushed towards the tower ship.
After everyone moved, Dongfang Caiyi's piano sound immediately changed. The originally soft piano sound suddenly became slightly harder.
A circle of green wood-type spiritual energy had unexpectedly gathered on the guqin in Dongfang Caiyi's hand without her noticing.
As the wood element's spiritual energy condensed, Dongfang Caiyi's piano music suddenly became more penetrating. With the sound of the strings, a green light flashed before the eyes of the people approaching the ship. At this moment, they seemed to have entered an endless and lush forest.
The sudden change startled everyone, and they immediately realized that they were trapped in an illusion.
Concentrating and gathering one's spiritual power as much as possible, the images before everyone's eyes flickered continuously, constantly switching between reality and illusion.
Like travelers lost in the woods, they began to move quickly through the forest, hoping to find a way out.
Although Ye Li's strength is only in the late stage of the Spiritual Pill Stage, due to the awakening of the power of soul movement and the power of the soul jade he swallowed from the mysterious organization before, his spiritual power and soul power are far superior to those of the same level of talisman masters.
Even if he didn't use the power of his natal talisman to see through illusions, he could still find the way to the building ship in this world that looked like a forest.
The spiritual energy under his feet condensed, and his body moved neither hurriedly nor slowly, stepping steadily on the river water towards the ship.
Qian Xilai was quite good here. After being slightly affected, he quickly calmed down.
However, because he was closest to the building ship, he was most affected by the sound of the piano. The illusions in front of his eyes flickered, and his originally very fast steps were forcibly slowed down. He could only slowly approach the building ship.
Among the other talisman masters around, a large number of them fell into the river when the sound of the piano changed. The sound of the piano penetrated directly into the depths of their minds, and soon they could not even control their spiritual energy.
In their eyes, the surroundings seemed to have really turned into a vast forest, and they could only struggle in the forest but could not see any roads.
The onlookers were standing far away, so although they could hear the piano music, it did not affect them much. They just thought the sound was pleasant and beautiful.
However, after seeing the reactions of the crowd, they realized that the sound of the piano was not simple, so many people gave up the idea of approaching the ship.
After the piano music had been playing for a while, it had already screened out a group of people, and those who had been soaking in the water for a long time gradually woke up.
They discovered that more than half of their spiritual power had been consumed in just a short period of time, and now they felt completely dizzy.
Not knowing what to do, they could only try their best to swim to the shore. With their spiritual power consumed too much, it was very difficult to control their spiritual energy to lift themselves to the surface of the water.
After some people withdrew, the rest finally resisted Qin Yin's attack and began to approach the ship.
Ye Li was quite far away from the building ship, but because he walked steadily and relatively quickly, he quickly approached the building ship.
At this time, Dongfang Caiyi's jade fingers slightly rotated, and the strength of her plucking suddenly changed, and the original piano sound that was like a dense forest also changed.
A huge mountain stretched out before everyone's eyes. The mountain seemed to be a thousand feet high. On the mountain, a huge waterfall fell from the sky, like the Milky Way hanging upside down.
As the sound of the zither rang out like the sound of flowing water in the mountains, a group of earth-type spiritual energy and a group of water-type spiritual energy gathered on Dongfang Caiyi's zither one after another, giving the sound of the zither an attribute that was completely different from before.
The sound of the piano was so pleasant to the ears that it went straight into everyone's minds. Everyone seemed to be standing under an inverted Milky Way, feeling the impact of a waterfall.
The strength that enabled the crowd to withstand the impact of the waterfall did not come from their bodies and spiritual energy, but from their souls and spiritual consciousness.
Ye Li, whose soul and consciousness were extremely powerful, walked upstream against the waterfall. The spiritual power emanated from Ye Li's body. He seemed to have turned into an incomparably sharp blade. With an unstoppable momentum, he broke through the impact of the water flow and walked steadily against the waterfall towards the mountain.