“What’s happening?”
“What’s she doing?”
“Is the song she is playing also ‘The Overlord Takes Off His Armor’?”
Some players of the Twin Dragon Mount fort who watched the battle were confused.
“Seriously? Is she a two-faced liar who can’t abandon her past with this Zhong guy and wants to deal with Chu Yin together with him?”
Even Mister Bug, who was fairly close to the battlefield, also remarked with his bulged eyes.
“Don’t remark on things you don’t understand.
“Musician Cao has chosen the most dangerous way. She puts herself in the vibe of the enemy song and turns herself into ‘Consort Yu’ to interrupt the Overlord, the Zhong guy’s representation in the song…” Pei Xingnu said anxiously.
“What? You can do that?”
Several players of the Twin Dragon Mount fort who thought exactly like Mister Bug were rather embarrassed.
“Consort Yu and the Overlord…”
Ji Ye slightly frowned. He looked at the green-dressed pipa woman who was playing The Overlord Takes Off His Armor determinedly.
“Neither of the two parties has launched an attack yet. They’re only gathering their power by arranging formations.
“By disrupting the Overlord as Consort Yu, Consort Yu would distract the Zhong guy and stop him from fully preparing himself.
“However, it’s very dangerous for Musician Cao to do this because she has melted herself into the enemy’s music vibe and will be prone to the music.
“Also, in The Overlord Takes Off His Armor, Consort Yu will kill herself in the end. By then, Musician Cao will be severely hurt if not killed… Why is Musician Cao doing this?”
Pei Xingnu was rather sad.
A tear even rolled past the mole at the corner of her eyes.
“Isn’t the reason obvious?”
The core players of the Twin Dragon Mount fort didn’t say anything.
However, that might be a solution.
Because the Cao-surnamed pipa woman didn’t have enough mental power to perform a full song, she could only play Consort Yu’s part, who was closely associated with the Overlord.
Even though her choice was partly based on a selfish reason, and she really wanted to say goodbye to the Overlord, that was not really important!
The pipas were played, and it sounded as if pearls were falling on jade plates and a cold spring was flowing under the ice…
The “Overlord” and “Consort Yu” joined their performances and began to maul each other in the Chu camps.
Clang, clang, clang…
Chu Yin, who had finished gathering her troops, focused on “Ambush From Ten Sides”.
One battalion after another marched close from the dark night and gradually surrounded the Chu army’s camp!
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The Purple Stone Pipa in Zhong Zhou’s hand inevitably played more rapidly.
Pa!
All of a sudden, one of the strings on the green-dressed pipa woman’s pipa cracked, and a bloody mark appeared on her neck.
Then, she passed out on the ground.
“Zhong Zhou has changed the flow of the music and jumped straight to the ‘Farewell My Consort’ part of The Overlord Takes Off His Armor.
“Consort Yu whom Musician Cao played killed herself, so she passed out because of the connection,” Pei Xingnu said with tears on her face.
She stopped crying upon seeing that the green-dressed pipa woman was still breathing, but she then looked at Zhong Zhou with even more hatred.
“Really? She’s the only one who passed out?
“Something must be wrong with this woman’s head. That man was brutal enough to use her as bait while he ran off. He wouldn’t mind seeing her kill herself again.
“Great. She’s now unconscious after a pitiful performance, and Chu Yin has to challenge the enemy alone!”
Mister Bug, however, grumbled in dissatisfaction.
“That’s not true at all.
“Musician Cao disrupted the Zhong guy’s power accumulation at the cost of her life.”
“Now, Musician Chu has finished preparing Ambush From Ten Sides. The Zhong guy has lost the initiative in the war of Chu and Han!” Pei Xingnu explained with tears on her face.
While the pipa woman had collapsed, Zhong Zhou was also sweating profusely and breathing hastily on her opposite side.
Clang, clang, clang…
Exactly at this moment, the style of Chu Yin’s music suddenly changed.
“Attack!”
Horns and drums were echoing. Thousands of soldiers who had set up an ambush charged at the Chu camps at the center of the battlefield.
It was just the soundwaves from the pipa, but when the audience heard them, it sounded like the battle noises between two armies.
Metallic noises, drumming, roars of human beings and horses…
Many new players at the fort who had never been to a real battlefield were frightened!
“My king, we’ve lost…”
The Chu army was overwhelmed due to the lack of preparation. It was disorganized by the troops that were coming from all sides.
“Not good!”
“Boss Zhong is severely affected!”
The Musical House players all changed their expressions.
“She was reborn in a settlement that’s set in Water Margin. How can she be so good at sound attacks?”
The middle-aged suona player stared at Chu Yin with his expression changing nonstop.
Zhong Zhou was as important to the Musical House players as Ji Ye was to the Twin Dragon Mount fort.
They had believed that he could win even though he was fighting two on his own!
It was because the Musical House was the highest music agency in every dynasty, and the heroes who arrived there were all good at music even though they weren’t famous.
Since Zhong Zhou was picked as a beta tester, it was unnecessary to reiterate his talent in music.
His expertise in pipa was definitely among the top on Earth.
Although the Twin Dragon Mount fort had many famous and popular Perfect and Superior heroes, nobody in Water Margin was as good at music as the heroes in the Musical House were except Yan Qing, so it would be hard for Chu Yin to hone her skills.
What those people didn’t know was that Ji Ye accepted Chu Yin’s request both because he respected her personal choice and because he was confident that Chu Yin didn’t have any disadvantage in terms of music knowledge.
While the Twin Dragon Mount fort was unrelated to music, Chu Yin had learned music from Huang Yaoshi, the owner of the Peach Blossom Island who was adept at music, on the last round of Battlefield of Providence.
Who was Huang Yaoshi?
He was undoubtedly the enhanced Transcendent version of Yan Qing.
He was familiar with astrology, geography, divination music, painting, agriculture, economy, and even military strategies.
While he wasn’t the strongest martial artist, he was definitely qualified to challenge a Transcendent Perfect offering like Yan Qing did.
He made great achievements in music too. His Melody of the Rising Tide could control seawater that weighed dozens of tons. It was almost as good as Ji Ye’s Flood Dragon Bloodline. His Jade Flute Sword Art was a combination of martial arts and music where a flute could be used as a sword!
Because the Twin Dragon Mount fort helped Huang Rong and Guo Xiang, Huang Yaoshi had specifically taught Chu Yin and Nie Xiaoqian music.
In particular, Chu Yin was appreciated by Huang Yaoshi for her modern music knowledge. He almost taught her all his ultimate skills.
For that reason, Chu Yin was completely qualified to fight Zhong Zhou who was above her level!
However, Zhong Zhou was still a beta tester, and few people were as good at pipa as he was.
Although Chu Yin took the initiative, and Zhong Zhou retreated in defeat for more than ten seconds in a row with blood flowing on his lips, his pipa performance wasn’t disrupted at all. In fact, it was even stabilized in the end.
Although Chu Yin’s “Ambush From Ten Sides” successfully took shape, and a lot of Han soldiers managed to break the Chu army’s camp, the Overlord that Zhong Zhou created with The Overlord Takes Off His Armor was so strong that he marched back and forth on the battlefield. Not a single soldier or general could survive one attack from him!
“Why is this happening? I thought she was winning!”
Qin Yueyu found it hard to believe.
“It’s not strange.
“Initiative doesn’t guarantee victory. The attack of musical instruments is mostly based on mental power.
“Even the treasures that contain Transcendent power can only be used as supports and controlled with some attention.
“So, what they’re really competing with is their skills and mental levels. Chu Yin and Zhong Zhou have both just advanced, but there is a one-level gap between them.
“In terms of skills… Zhong Zhou is a beta tester, and he has the best musical talent in the younger generation. I don’t really think Chu Yin is better than him.”
Li Qing saw things very clearly.
“On the other hand, Zhong Zhou is the leader of a settlement. While Chu Yin has a parrot, Zhong Zhou might have his own pet to assist him!”
Guo Wei nodded.
Pei Xingnu thought of something and said quickly with worry on her face, “Our settlement completed the Ten-Species Competition on the last day. He entered the City of Humans. He didn’t enter the Battlefield of Providence, but he exchanged the two special items that we got for destroying the alien settlement for something.
“Also, none of us know what he has exactly.”
Even Pei Xingnu didn’t know what Zhong Zhou’s Transcendent item was.
“It must be an item that can transform the pipa music into the sound of other musical instruments…”
But the keen observers such as Ji Ye and Li Qing already noticed something from the battle.
It was because while the Overlord was fighting, some drumming was working with the pipa performance, which was the source of his extraordinary combat ability!
Now that the green-dressed pipa woman had “killed” herself, it almost looked like Chu Yin was fighting two enemies on her own.
As the battle went on…
Clang, clang, clang…
Chu Yin’s pipa performance was gradually suppressed by Zhong Zhou.
Correspondingly, the soldiers created by Ambush From Ten Sides were all “slain” by the “Overlord” in everybody’s senses.
Clang!
Finally, after the last sound of the pipa string with the echo of drumming, the Overlord swept his spear and annihilated the last ten soldiers.
“Ambush From Ten Sides” was broken!
