"Brother Fang, please drop a drop of blood." Shi Tang said.
"Oh? Piano lacquer requires drops of blood?" Fang Yun had never heard of this.
Shi Tang smiled and said, "Ordinary harp paint naturally does not require blood drops, but this is Thunder Stone paint, which is a rare treasure in heaven and earth. Combined with other rare treasures, it is enough to paint the holy harp. There is a layer of Thunder Stone paint on the 'Jiaowei', one of the four holy harps, which also uses the method of dripping blood. Rare treasures have spirits. If blood is dripped into them, the battle song can be more powerful. If there is a great opportunity, it can even stimulate the full power of the Thunder Stone and make the battle song even better."
"I see. Then I will drop a drop of blood."
Fang Yun took out a needle and pricked his finger, squeezing out a drop of blood.
The bright red blood fell into the stone mortar and slowly dissolved without any change inside.
Shi Tang looked a little regretful and said, "Alas, there is no change, no thunder. I'm afraid the effect of this thunder stone paint is mediocre, but it won't lose its effect."
"oh."
As soon as Fang Yun responded, the thundering stone mortar inside suddenly vibrated, and then the entire mortar exploded, emitting a ball of blinding white light.
Fang Yun and Shi Tang immediately closed their eyes and quickly retreated, followed by a deafening dragon roar.
"Ah..."
The two of them frowned immediately. It was so loud that their eardrums hurt a little.
Fang Yun opened his eyes slightly and saw a three-inch-long lightning dragon floating in the air, howling towards the sky, then flicked its tail and dived into the Zhendanqin.
“Sizzle…”
Lightning flashed on the Zhendanqin, and countless threads of lightning were moving on the surface of the Zhendanqin.
"Buzz..."
The seven strings vibrated at the same time, making a sound like a drum, which made people panic.
Then the lightning disappeared, and silver lines of lightning appeared on the surface of the piano, like cracks in the piano paint.
Shi Tang's eyes widened in disbelief, and he said, "Only the blood of the ancient sages can give life to the lacquer of the zither and enter the body of the zither. How could you do that? It's incredible! Fang Yun, do you need a concubine? You can choose any unmarried woman in our Shi family. As long as you are willing to let the child born by the daughter of our Shi family change his surname to Shi and continue our Shi family's lineage, we can give you the Shi family's great scholar's treasure 'Si Fang Qin'."
All the monsters and barbarians in the village were alarmed by the dragon's roar and the sound of the piano.
"Who dares to act wild here!" a demon general roared loudly.
"It looks like a dragon."
Many demons came out of the cave, their blood boiling, and the barbarians came out of the tents, holding weapons and with red eyes. The rest of the candidates were also frightened, and they woke up by force with their literary courage, and rushed out without putting on their clothes. Some people even subconsciously recited the "Yishui Song" to summon the shadow Jing Ke.
Niu Shan came over naked with a big axe on his shoulder, staring at him with big bull eyes, "Your Majesty, what's going on? Is someone trying to hurt you? I'll chop him to death!"
Fang Yun was extremely helpless. He hadn't expected that a drop of blood or a smear of paint could cause such a big commotion.
Fang Yun had no choice but to shout: "It's okay, it's thundering in the sky! Go to sleep quickly."
Everyone looked at Fang Yun with half belief and half doubt, and were reluctant to go back to sleep.
Seeing that he couldn't persuade him, Fang Yun stopped worrying about it and walked to Zhen Dan to observe him carefully.
Not only the body of the instrument, but also the seven strings had a layer of extremely faint light, as if it contained a special power.
"Is this lacquer on the strings?" Fang Yun asked.
"Of course!" Shi Tang looked at Zhen Dan with envy.
"What?" People not far away came running over, some of them were barefoot.
"A zither with thunder patterns? You painted the zither with thunder-patterned stone paint on the Jinshi Wenbaozither? You... are simply wasting nature's gift! If zither players in the world knew about this, they would vomit blood. They would be so angry that they would die!" said a Jinshi.
"It's more than just a waste of resources! It's simply insane!" Li Fanming laughed.
The big rabbit nodded vigorously, but it was not because it agreed with Li Fanming. It was because it was frightened by the dragon's roar just now.
"It turns out that the lacquer has been etched into the strings. This seems quite extraordinary. There may not be three or five examples in a hundred years." Han Shoulu said.
"What was that dragon roar just now?"
Shi Tang kept silent. The matter of the blood of the great sage was too exaggerated. If it were to be spread out, it would be enough to make Fang Yun go straight from the Hanlin hunting list of the demon clan to the great scholar hunting list, and he might even be ranked in the top 20!
Fang Yun pretended to be stupid, silently observing the new Zhendanqin, and ignored the people's chatter.
Those monsters who didn't understand the art of playing the zither fell asleep one after another when they found out that there was really nothing wrong. However, those scholars, who had some knowledge of the art of playing the zither, couldn't sleep when they saw something new and came to look at the zither, marveling at it.
"Fang Yun, next time you participate in a piano competition, don't take out this piano, otherwise I can't guarantee that you can leave the competition alive." Li Fanming joked.
"I want to do it now! One Thunder Stone can be exchanged for at least ten Jinshi cultural relics! If I have the Thunder Stone, I will have all the mechanical beasts from Jinshi to Hanlin." Ma Xiong said.
"It's too late to play the piano now. You must play a piece for us tomorrow morning. Don't wake us up in vain!"
"No! How can we just let it go after waking us up? We have to play it now!"
"Those demons are all asleep. If you ask him to play now, wouldn't that harm both the demons and him?"
"If a musician plays a song at night that makes people hate him, then he is a failed musician! Fang Yun, do you dare to play a song that will prevent those monsters from looking for you?"
Fang Yun smiled and said, "What if I pop out?"
"If you can play it, I will take you as my teacher!" Jia Jing'an said with a smile.
"It's a pity that I have too many disciples. I don't need any disciples. I'll change to someone else." Fang Yun said.
Jia Jing'an immediately looked at everyone and said, "If anyone doesn't have a teacher, please stand up. I don't believe Fang Yun can really play that kind of music. If anyone has a teacher, please come and recognize Fang Yun as your teacher."
Li Fanming looked at Fang Yun who showed no fear at all and said, "Don't underestimate Fang Yun. He might be able to bounce it off."
As a result, Shi Tang laughed and said, "Don't forget that this is the Minglei Qin. Unless it is covered by a special Wenbao or blocked by the power of Wendan, once it is played, the sound will spread a mile. This is also the reason why Minglei Shiqi is so powerful. It can greatly increase the range of the war music. The sound of the new Zhendan Qin contains thunder sounds. Those monsters will not be able to sleep. It's good enough if they don't scold him. Who knows, they might come up and beat him!"
"Haha, since the genius of the number one zither master said so, then it must be true! I join in too, Fang Yun. If you dare to play, I will take you as my mentor. If you don't dare to play, after we leave the Holy Ruins, please treat us to a dragon banquet at the most expensive restaurant in Kongcheng!" said Li Fanming.
Fang Yun laughed and said, "You are asking for too much. A dragon feast costs 100,000 taels of silver. What I am eating is not money, but my blood!"
"What? You don't dare anymore?" Everyone started to make a noise.
Fang Yun wanted to refuse and not play with them. But he suddenly remembered a piece of music. He had now reached a certain level in the art of playing the zither. He could quickly adapt that simple piece of music into a zither piece. Although it would require careful polishing in the future, it would completely achieve the effect of not making the demons angry in a short period of time. So he said, "You really want to bet with me? Who of you wants to participate? Step forward."
As a result, everyone except Xun Ye stepped forward.
"We, the children of aristocratic families, have always had to wait until we become Jinshi before we can formally look for a teacher to teach us, because our literary rank is not high enough and we don't know the direction of our own path. When we become Jinshi, we can find a great scholar or even a semi-saint to be our teacher. If you can really play music that the monsters will never get tired of, you will definitely be a master of the fourth realm of the art of zither in the future. Why wouldn't it be a problem for us to take you as our teacher!"
"Yeah! So you agree?"
Everyone looked at Fang Yun with a smile.
Xun Ye looked at these people as if they were crazy, unable to appreciate the friendship that had developed after they fought side by side.
"Okay! Give me a quarter of an hour!"
Fang Yun finished speaking and closed his eyes.
No one believed it at all. They just talked and laughed, and some were even ready to give Fang Yun a good beating.
"You have to eat the dragon tendons! I've tried them, and they are so delicious. I still savor them now!"
"The dragon neck meat is not bad, but it's a bit expensive."
"What's the big deal? Fang Yun will pay the bill. He can just take out something from the Yinjiangbei with his eyes closed. It will be enough to pay the bill."
"Then let's just order the Dragon Whip!"
"You are so cruel. The dragon whips for the twenty of us cost at least ten thousand taels each!"
"Can I have the 20,000 taels Jiaolong whip?"
"Hahaha… "
Everyone laughed and continued chatting.
Soon, someone shouted, "It's the quarter hour! Fang Yun, stop pretending to be asleep, get up!"
Everyone looked at Fang Yun with a smile.
Fang Yun still had his eyes closed, but he stretched out his hand, placed it on the strings, and then gently plucked them.
"Buzz..."
The sound of the piano, which contained a hint of thunder, instantly spread over a mile, countless times faster than ordinary piano sound.
Many people were startled because the noise was so loud, and there were also some sounds of rolling over coming from the monster's residence.
Fang Yun continued to play.
The melody of the piano was unusually simple, with a few hiccups, and because it was so loud, it annoyed many demons who were about to fall asleep.
Many demons and barbarians endured for a moment, and were about to get up when they heard the piano music had not yet faded away. But suddenly, all the demons and barbarians were stunned for a moment, because the piano music became extremely soft, containing a kind of warmth that only a mother can give, and they couldn't help but relax.
The melodious piano music continued to float above the village. The expressions of many monsters relaxed, and finally they lay down with a smile and closed their eyes. Every monster thanked the person playing the piano in their heart, thinking that this was the most wonderful sound in the world.
Even the monsters who were originally asleep had a smile on their lips, as if they had had a sweet dream.
All the candidates opened their mouths and yawned involuntarily, a few even stretched themselves, and everyone felt their eyelids were heavy and wanted to sleep very much.
Suddenly, Shi Tang said, "Hurry up and use your literary courage to resist! Fang Yun actually created a never-before-seen sleeping war song! It's similar to the sleeping bird in the demon world!"
All the candidates immediately shook their literary courage to resist Fang Yun's power.
"Fang Yun, okay, we lost, what song is this?"
"Master! Please stop!"
Fang Yun then stopped, glanced at everyone, and said with a smile: "This is called a sleep song."
But he thought to himself that this was called a lullaby.
The tune of the lullaby was short and beautiful, soft and sweet, and it was almost repeated constantly, so Fang Yun used the Strange Book of Heaven and Earth to adapt it into a piano piece within a quarter of an hour. Although it had some flaws, with his talent and the effect of the Wenbao Qin, it was enough to make everyone drowsy.
"Oh, my dear master, please accept my disciple's greeting!" Shi Tang knelt on one knee helplessly.
When the others saw someone kneeling, they had no choice but to join in becoming disciples.
"Please accept my disciple's greeting!" (To be continued...)
ps: Some people said that they couldn't find the four words "Three Merits of Confucius". This is my own summary, but the things are all true, not made up. Keywords: The Cockfighting Incident, Zhongdu Zai and Da Sikou, the Jiagu League, and the Fall of the Three Capitals.