Chapter 129 - 122: Reward "Divine Ghost Seven Kills Sound

Chapter 129: Chapter 122: Reward "Divine Ghost Seven Kills Sound

Chen Sha looked at the clay statue before him.

It depicted a woman sitting cross-legged in a temple, cradling a pipa in her arms. But the most striking feature was her eyes, which seemed entirely devoid of emotion.

Divine Maiden Bu Feiqing...

Just like Zhang Daoxuan and Sister Taie, she was a legendary figure of the Great Vajra Realm who had ascended from the True Realm to the First Heaven.

He stared at this legendary woman for a moment and thought, "Enter the scene."

Suddenly, his figure vanished from the spot. The painfully familiar stretching and zooming of light and scenery approached... The world and space-time shifted.

He found himself on a bustling street, though it was already late into the night.

Chen Sha appeared out of thin air, looking ahead at a brightly lit pavilion at the end of the long street.

Drunken Smoke Tower.

At that moment, words cascaded from the Southern Heavenly Gate in his mind:

"The Sect Leader has arrived at the first section of the Bu Feiqing Chapter: ’Drunken Smoke Red Tower, Mute Girl’s Lute Sound’..."

"Key figure in this scene: Mute Girl Feiqing."

"The Sect Leader must defeat the key figure in this scene to clear the level and unlock the next section, ’Bone Pavilion Platform, Beidou Killing Body’..."

Reading the lines of text in his mind, Chen Sha mulled over the information.

"To think that this Great Vajra who ascended from the True Realm was actually a mute girl..." he thought.

That she could cultivate to the Great Vajra Realm despite such a physical deficiency showed just how immense her innate talent was.

This Cosmic Light Fragment scene took place on a massive street. A rough glance revealed countless households, leaving him to wonder where the master of this scene could be. His first instinct was to look toward the pavilion at the end of the street, adorned with colorful silk drapes and red lanterns.

Just then, Chen Sha’s eyes flickered.

About three hundred feet away, a black shadow almost entirely concealed by the night darted rapidly across the rooftops, soon leaping into the Drunken Smoke Tower. It was only because he had cultivated the "Eye God" Spiritual Firmness of the Great Yellow Court that he could see so clearly in the dead of night from hundreds of feet away.

With his target confirmed, Chen Sha flashed forward and followed right behind.

A few breaths later, he was tailing the man in black. With a brief sense of the man’s aura, Chen Sha estimated his martial arts cultivation. In this "Ninth Tribulation" period of the scene, the man was at the Lower Innate—equivalent to a Grandmaster in the Divine Land World.

Trailing behind someone with such cultivation, Chen Sha was practically a ghost; the man couldn’t detect him at all.

Chen Sha watched as the man hung upside down from the roof of the Drunken Smoke Tower, tapped on a window, and left a note on the sill, weighted down by a stone. Once finished, the assassin melted back into the night and fled into the distance.

Chen Sha didn’t attack him. Instead, he stood nearby out of curiosity, watching the window that had just been knocked on. Shortly after, it slowly opened to reveal a breathtakingly beautiful woman in a plain cyan dress, who picked up the note from under the stone.

In that instant, Chen Sha’s "Eye God" caught a glimpse of the few lines on the paper:

"Tonight, kill all guests at the Drunken Smoke Tower."

Below the message was a skull insignia.

Chen Sha’s eyes flashed as he thought, "So in her early life, this Divine Maiden Feiqing was an assassin for some organization."

Obviously, she was the protagonist of this scene. He recognized her at a glance; she looked just like the Divine Maiden in the temple, only with a more youthful face.

He wasn’t in a rush to directly confront this "young Divine Maiden." He had already sensed that in this first section, her cultivation was only at the Middle Innate, which was the Grandmaster Realm. With a realm like that, clearing the level would be incredibly easy for him.

However, having gleaned quite a bit of information from Zhang Daoxuan’s Chapter, Chen Sha felt it would be better to first watch this crucial fragment of Divine Maiden Feiqing’s life to understand her story.

After taking the "kill all" secret missive, the future Divine Maiden—currently the Mute Girl—shut the window. Chen Sha moved to stand just outside. Through the pane, he watched her make her preparations and begin tuning the strings of her pipa.

"Bu?"

Chen Sha noticed a jade pendant hanging from the tail of her pipa. Carved onto the ordinary-looking jade was the character "Bu."

"Bu Feiqing. Bu is her last name..."

Just as Chen Sha was silently piecing the clues together, there was a knock on her door.

"Miss Feiqing, all the guests in the tower are waiting for you tonight. Come out quickly."

Hearing this, Chen Sha went downstairs and boldly entered the Drunken Smoke Tower through its main doors.

Inside, the place was packed with men. The scent of rouge and powder in the air was so thick it was almost tangible. Standing near the entrance, Chen Sha could clearly see that the seats closest to the second floor were occupied by the rich and powerful.

"Miss Feiqing!"

"Beauty!"

A chorus of excited shouts erupted from the pleasure-seeking men below. Amidst their cheers, the stunning woman in the plain dress emerged on the second floor, cradling her pipa. She gave a deep bow to the crowd before taking a seat.

Chen Sha could hear the myriad of conversations echoing through the hall:

"Even though she’s a mute, this face, this figure... tsk, tsk."

"I really don’t know how Drunken Smoke Tower found such a top-grade woman. I just happen to love the ones who can’t speak."

"As if you’d ever get a turn? Didn’t you see all the prominent figures of Yong’an City sitting in the front? Word has it that even the City Lord is here in disguise, mingling in the crowd..."

Chen Sha listened to their chatter expressionlessly, keeping his eyes fixed on Feiqing.

On the platform, the peerless beauty lowered her head and plucked the strings. The initial melody was soft and plaintive, like a pitiful woman standing at the bow of a ship, recounting her tragic past...

As the tune progressed, the notes of the pipa grew increasingly desolate, akin to the pattering of autumn rain. Then, the tempo surged, transforming into a violent downpour!

The guests below immediately grimaced in discomfort.

Chen Sha had already anticipated the outcome. Feiqing, still seated, slowly raised her head. The sheer vibration of the sound waves sent her hair fluttering in the air!

THRUM!

A sound heavy with killing intent, reminiscent of armored warhorses crashing into battle, poured into everyone’s brains like a death rattle.

PFFT! THUD!

"AHHH!"

"My ears!"

"Protect the City Lord..."

"Master, Master..."

"Teacher..."

Empowered by a formidable killing intent, the terrifying pipa notes became a demon sound that pierced their minds. The moment it spread, every guest in the hall instantly bled from their seven orifices.

The girls of the Drunken Smoke Tower, who had been standing on the second floor, seemed completely unaffected. Seeing all the guests bleed to death, they shrieked in terror and scattered in a total breakdown.

"Murder!"

"People are dead!"

Chen Sha noticed six Lower Innate martial artists in the crowd. Even they couldn’t resist the attack; they simply sat rigidly in their chairs as blood flowed from their eyes, noses, and mouths.

Instant death!

It was an absolute massacre.

From the moment the lethal pipa sound rang out, Chen Sha had concealed himself on the sidelines to watch events unfold.

It wasn’t until every single guest who had come to the Drunken Smoke Tower was executed by Feiqing’s song that she slowly stood up from her chair. Cradling her pipa, she floated down gracefully and headed straight for the door, evidently planning to leave the establishment now that her mission was complete.

Yet, Chen Sha felt things weren’t quite so simple.

Just as she reached the door, Feiqing seemingly caught sight of something important. She turned back around to look at one of the corpses in the pile of dead men. The young man was clutching something in his hand. In his final moments, as he was being killed by the pipa’s melody, he had raised his arm high, as if desperately trying to show her what he held.

Feiqing stared blankly at the young man’s body. Almost involuntarily, she walked over to him, reached for the item in his hand, and slowly pried his fingers open...

It was a jade pendant.

Carved upon it was the exact same character: "Bu."

"Ah... ah... ah..."

Feiqing opened her mouth blankly and shook his corpse, but could only force out helpless, fragmented syllables.

Watching from the shadows, Chen Sha could hear the fierce, violent emotions contained within those simple syllables.

"Ah!" "AHHH!!"

He watched the future Great Vajra Realm Divine Maiden untie the pendant from her own pipa. Gripping both jade pendants in her hands, her eyes overflowed with tears as she stared at the young man, constantly letting out those cries. "Ah... ah..."

Frantic, sorrowful, devastated.

Chen Sha sighed inwardly. Although he didn’t know the exact history between the two pendants or her relationship with the young man, he could guess the gist of it.

In the hall, as Feiqing held the young man’s body, Chen Sha’s eyes glinted. A black silhouette flashed past the doorway and entered the room. Seeing the floor littered with corpses, the man said in pleasant surprise, "Worthy of being the Bone Platform’s number one silver-rank assassin. Truly clean and effici—"

It was the very same man in black who had delivered the "kill all" order.

However, his sentence broke off as he noticed her holding a corpse. Frowning, he asked, "What are you doing?"

"AH!"

A high-pitched, agonizing wail from the woman formed a terrifying sound wave that actually condensed into a blood-red spear, piercing straight through the assassin’s chest!

Feiqing’s black hair suddenly turned blood-red and whipped upward into the air. An inexplicably powerful, horror-level killing intent coalesced around her...

The man in black stared dumbly at his chest, then looked at the killing intent enveloping her, which faintly formed a star chart in the air. He murmured, "To think I would see the legendary Beidou Killing Body before I die..."

"Beidou Killing Body?" Chen Sha repeated the words in his mind. "Is it a constitution or a martial art?"

Although he didn’t know how powerful this killing body was, for it to be an ability wielded by someone who would eventually reach the Great Vajra Realm, it couldn’t possibly be weak.

He recalled that the name of the second section included those four words. As long as he cleared this first stage, he would witness the power of the Beidou Killing Body for himself.

He just wondered if this killing body would drop as a reward after he cleared the level.

He then looked at the mute girl sobbing over the young man’s corpse and let out a soft sigh. "What a rough life..."

With a flick of his sleeve, his Qi Power swept over the area.

Everything in this first section instantly collapsed. The Drunken Smoke Tower vanished... The floor full of corpses disappeared...

"Congratulations to the Sect Leader for clearing the first section of Bu Feiqing, ’Drunken Smoke Red Tower, Mute Girl’s Lute Sound,’ and unlocking the second section, ’Bone Pavilion Platform, Beidou Killing Body’."

"This scene has dropped the Great Innate Level cultivation technique: Divine Ghost Seven Kills Sound."

"Proceed to the second section scene, ’Bone Pavilion Platform, Beidou Killing Body’?"

Chen Sha looked at the manual of the "Divine Ghost Seven Kills Sound" that fell into his hands after the scene shattered. To his surprise, it was a Great Innate Level cultivation technique—and a sound skill, at that.

No matter where one went, this type of martial art was considered an area-of-effect killer move, much like the Celestial Dragon Roar or the Lion’s Roar. Once mastered, fending off ten thousand people at a martial arts conference—just as Xie Xun had done—would be effortless. It was the fastest martial art for clearing out grunts.

To drop such a generous reward after only the first section... Indeed, legendary figures of the Great Vajra Realm carried nothing but the best.

"Continue. Second section," Chen Sha said to himself.