Musical Arts are one of the Ten Immortal Arts, a profoundly deep and esoteric discipline.
It is notoriously difficult to begin learning, and even harder to master, demanding exceptionally high innate talent.
Powerful divine Musical Arts can not only resonate with the natural world but also shake the Nine Heavens above and awe the Nine Netherworlds below.
Profound Musical Arts can similarly resonate with all living things in creation, making flowers and trees bloom, causing butterflies to dance gracefully, and immersing listeners as if they were physically present, dreaming across millennia.
Having been passed down to the present day, Musical Arts have long become a spiritual necessity for many cultivators.
The 'Little Blue Flower Language' composed by Su Hua belonged to the category of melodies that could make people resonate with the natural world's flora.
This piece appeared simple on the surface, yet it encompassed everything, employing almost all the fundamental techniques of Musical Arts. Precisely because of this, 'Little Blue Flower Language' was revered by many as a textbook-level musical score.
'Little Blue Flower Language' consisted of over seventy melodic phrases. Each different phrase required distinct techniques in fingering, application of Spiritual Arts, and Divine Sense guidance.
Su Hua had once believed that for each of the over seventy phrases in her 'Little Blue Flower Language,' the techniques, Spiritual Arts, and Divine Sense contained within were not only perfectly integrated but also flawless. It was only when she picked up the score revised by Gu Qingfeng that she realized this perfection was merely her own assumption.
In the 'Little Blue Flower Language' revised by Gu Qingfeng, the structure remained unchanged, the melodic phrases were unaltered, and even the rhythm stayed the same.
However, the techniques, Spiritual Arts, and Divine Sense contained within each melodic phrase had all changed. To be precise, they hadn't so much changed—as the revisions were minimal—but rather, it was the interplay and coordination between the various techniques, Spiritual Arts, and Divine Sense that had shifted.
The first melodic phrase, named 'Winter into Spring,' originally employed three techniques such as Moving-String Locking Finger and Swift Glide Touch Tone, utilized seven Spiritual Arts including the Flower-Leaf Windless Art, and employed Divine Sense guidance like Upper-Bearing Hook Harmony...
After Gu Qingfeng's revision, the melodic phrase remained unchanged, still 'Winter into Spring,' but the techniques became Moon-Embracing Finger, Moving-String Locking Finger, coordinated with the Flower-Leaf Windless Art, then followed by the Swift Glide Touch technique paired with other Spiritual Arts...
Moon-Embracing Finger was merely a simple basic fingering technique that anyone learning Musical Arts would know. However, Su Hua had never imagined that Moon-Embracing Finger could be combined with Moving-String Locking Finger and the Flower-Leaf Windless Art for performance, then further coordinated with Upper-Bearing Hook Harmony Divine Sense to guide other Spiritual Arts, progressing in sequence...
This revision appeared chaotic and disorderly, as if several completely unrelated elements had been haphazardly pieced together, yet the piecing was oddly neat and orderly.
It truly was so.
Su Hua originally didn't believe it, but when she tried to deduce it in her mind, it really was orderly, without any discomfort. What astonished her even more was that not only was it orderly, but it was also simpler, more perfect, and more profoundly mysterious than before.
How was this possible!
Setting aside the shock in her heart, Su Hua continued reading. The second melodic phrase, the third melodic phrase—all the phrases revised by Gu Qingfeng were similarly chaotic and disorderly, a messy jumble of various elements pieced together haphazardly. Yet, these jumbled phrases were all simpler, more perfect, and more profoundly mysterious than her own painstakingly crafted originals.
Many fingering techniques, Spiritual Arts, and Divine Sense applications were as incompatible as horses and oxen, yet Gu Qingfeng had seamlessly linked them together. Su Hua had never imagined that these chaotic techniques and Spiritual Arts could be connected. No, it wasn't that she hadn't thought of it—she had never even considered the possibility. It was like no one would think to connect an ant with a rat, or to link a rose with a refined flower.
Because in most people's eyes, ants and rats seemed fundamentally impossible to connect.
But now, Gu Qingfeng had linked these chaotic techniques, Spiritual Arts, and Divine Sense together, just like connecting an ant with a rat, then adding an elephant, and further linking a rose.
No one could have imagined such connections were possible.
Yet Gu Qingfeng had done exactly that, and moreover, connected them perfectly.
An entire 'Little Blue Flower Language,' with over seventy melodic phrases, was all like this.
The more Su Hua looked, the more shocked she became; the more she looked, the more incredible it seemed; the more she looked, the more bewildering she found it.
After finishing, she was utterly dumbfounded, her beautiful eyes wide open as she stared at Gu Qingfeng as if looking at a monster.
This revised 'Little Blue Flower Language' completely disrupted Su Hua's ingrained mindset. It was like discovering a new world, a new realm, filling her with excitement and excitement.
Beside her, Ouyang Ye, Ouyang Feiyue, and even Qian Shan had no idea what was happening. When they inquired, Su Hua remained silent. Master Wenzhu took the musical score from her hands, fixed his gaze upon it—first frowning, his expression blank, then puzzled, followed by doubt, and finally disbelief. He hurriedly took out his guqin and tried to play...
What he played was precisely Gu Qingfeng's revised 'Little Blue Flower Language.'
Master Wenzhu played very slowly, not because he couldn't read the score, nor because the revised score was too chaotic, but because he simply couldn't believe that these chaotic connections could still produce melodic phrases.
However.
When he finished playing the piece, Master Wenzhu also froze in place, his whole being like a fool.
If Gu Qingfeng's revised 'Little Blue Flower Language' had shattered Su Hua's ingrained mindset, then for Master Wenzhu, it was equivalent to overturning centuries of Musical Arts knowledge he had learned and destroying the world of Musical Arts he had experienced.
Ouyang Ye, Ouyang Feiyue, Qian Shan, and even Little Jin'er all had some understanding of Musical Arts. Witnessing Master Wenzhu play a more profoundly mysterious 'Little Blue Flower Language' by following Gu Qingfeng's revised score, the four of them also understood what was happening.
But understanding was one thing; accepting it was another matter entirely.
Especially for Su Hua. The impact of Gu Qingfeng's revised 'Little Blue Flower Language' on her was simply too great, so immense that her heart could barely bear it. Her own painstakingly composed 'Little Blue Flower Language,' revised countless times and deemed perfect by herself before being presented to the world...
She had never imagined that her painstakingly crafted 'Little Blue Flower Language' could be casually revised with just a glance by this seemingly lazy, arrogant playboy standing before her.
It was at this moment that she realized Gu Qingfeng hadn't been boasting. He had truly pointed out the deficiencies in 'Little Blue Flower Language.' Not only had he pointed them out, but he had also revised it to be simpler, more perfect, and more profoundly mysterious.
It was at this moment that she realized when Master Huode had began to persuade her earlier, he and Gu Qingfeng weren't playing some double-act trick. He had genuinely been persuading with good intentions. When he said Gu Qingfeng's Musical Arts talent was high and his attainments terrifyingly profound, when he said that if Gu Qingfeng claimed 'Little Blue Flower Language' was full of holes, then it truly was full of holes—he wasn't joking. This was real.
It was at this moment that Su Hua realized Master Huode had driven away the crowd not to preserve Gu Qingfeng's dignity, but truly to protect her own reputation.