"How is that possible?"
"A demon saved us and many mortals?"
"And he seemed to have used some secret method to burn his lifespan to kill that demon cultivator!"
A dozen disciples from the immortal sect looked at each other in bewilderment.
"Why?" The young man surnamed Xu flew back to Xu Sheng and asked with complicated eyes.
After all, Xu Sheng suddenly appeared and kidnapped his wife and daughter to threaten him!
In his heart, he naturally thought of Xu Sheng as a somewhat strange evil monster.
"Your wife and daughter are..." However, Xu Sheng did not answer his question directly. He was afraid that he would die suddenly of old age, causing the young man's wife and daughter to be trapped there, so he told the young man the specific location of his wife and daughter.
The young man surnamed Xu was also stunned.
After telling the location, Xu Sheng realized that he was not completely dead yet, so he said to the young man of the Xu family: "Let's go, go find your wife and daughter."
While speaking, Xu Sheng felt that the power brought by his burning lifespan had not yet dissipated, so he simply reached out and grabbed the young man named Xu and flew away.
After a while, Xu Sheng brought the young man named Xu to a cave deep in the mountains.
Not long after, the young man surnamed Xu was reunited with his wife and daughter who were unharmed.
Xu Sheng looked at the happy face of the family of three and just smiled slightly before turning around and flying away.
"senior!"
And the young man Xu Sheng shouted at Xu Sheng again in confusion from behind: "Why???"
He still didn't understand why Xu Sheng was willing to sacrifice his own life to save them, the immortal disciples and mortals!
However, Xu Sheng still did not answer and just flew away.
Although Xu Sheng didn't have much time left to live, he didn't think it was a big deal.
Because he has already accomplished the goals he was supposed to accomplish in this life.
After overcoming his inner demons and meeting Mu Hongling, he had originally planned to find a place to hide and practice until he died of old age, wait for his reincarnation in the next life, and come back to wake Mu Hongling up when he grew up.
Now that I have encountered this evil cultivator and burned my life span, it has only accelerated the process of the end of this life.
Xu Sheng even felt that there would be nothing wrong in dying earlier, reincarnating earlier, and being able to meet Mu Hongling earlier with a younger face.
However, after thinking it over, Xu Sheng did not choose to find an uninhabited place to practice until death as he had previously thought.
After all, he is so old now and he probably won’t be able to practice for a few more years.
However, in this world of cultivating immortals where one may practice for decades or even hundreds of years, it is difficult to achieve any results in just a few years.
Therefore, Xu Sheng felt that there was no need to use the remaining life span to practice.
He flew to another mortal country outside Da'an Kingdom and disguised himself as an old mortal man.
Prepare to enjoy a simple mortal life for a while, relax yourself, and then die of old age.
In the blink of an eye, another month passed.
That day Xu Sheng came to an art house in the mortal kingdom called "Chunyu Tower" where people performed art but not their bodies.
The entertainment industry in this mortal country is no longer just a low-level sex trade.
The mortals under the rule of the Immortal Sect would basically not suffer tragic mass deaths unless they encountered special situations like the previous rebellion by the demon cultivators.
After all, there is no need for mortal countries to fight against each other.
This has led to the fact that the lives of countless mortals in the mortal world of the immortal cultivation world are relatively peaceful and comfortable.
A peaceful and comfortable life will naturally make people pursue more spiritual life.
Therefore, cultural and entertainment activities became prosperous.
As a result, artists in the Mortal Kingdom have a pretty good income.
Although there is no Internet communication like on Earth, the popular artists here do not receive the same exaggerated "star-chasing" treatment as on Earth.
However, there are already quite a few art studios that focus on "selling art but not selling oneself" and the market is quite receptive to this.
Xu Sheng, who is already very old, just wants to drink a little wine and listen to some music.
So he came to Chunyu Tower.
On this day, one of the top girls in Chunyu Tower, Miss Shishi, was playing the piano and reciting a song for Xu Sheng.
However, after listening to this kind of lyrics and music for a while, Xu Sheng got tired of it.
So Xu Sheng copied a song from Earth and handed it over, saying, "Miss Shishi, we won't sing these songs today. I wrote a song and music for you to sing..."
Xu Sheng didn't expect that a month had passed and he still hadn't died of old age.
Suddenly remembering a song from Earth, he decided to revisit the old song.
Although the Earth's popular songs seem a little inappropriate to be sung in this environment that is similar to the ancient mortal world.
But Xu Sheng, who is rich and willful, just wants to hear what others can say. He is not prepared to make others like him, but just to enjoy himself.
"Hair like snow?"
Miss Shishi took the paper with the lyrics and music written on it, looked at it and asked in a daze, "What kind of song is this? Did you compose it yourself, sir?"
However, Xu Sheng poured himself a glass of wine and drank it without answering.
Miss Shishi continued to read the paper.
"Why are these lyrics a bit... um? Common?"
Then she frowned slightly and asked in surprise, "Sir, are lyrics like this really okay?"
Since Xu Sheng, who had spent quite a lot of money to listen to Miss Shishi singing ancient music during this period, was usually quite easy to talk to, Miss Shishi did not speak too smoothly at this time.
That's right.
The song that Xu Sheng copied now is "Hair Like Snow" by Earth.
It was simply because Xu Sheng suddenly wanted to listen to it that he wrote it down.
The song "Hair Like Snow" is already an ancient song on Earth and its lyrics are relatively ancient and rhythmic among pop songs.
But in this mortal country of the ancient immortal cultivation world where people used to sing ancient lyrics and songs like "Palaces in Heaven and Earth", it seems a bit like vernacular.
"Don't worry about it."
Xu Sheng continued to drink while casually waving his hands and finally replied: "I want to listen, just sing it!"
"Yes, sir."
Miss Shishi nodded and said, "But..."
She said she needed some time to get familiar with the tune!
Xu Sheng naturally agreed to this.
The status of an artist like Miss Shishi who performs in Chunyu Tower but does not sell her body is much better than that of a geisha who sells her body.
But after all, here is not like Earth where we have the Internet to amplify the influence of artists by hundreds, thousands, or even millions of times, so that the artists are naturally praised very highly.
Even though Miss Shishi was one of the top performers, she still had to play the piano and music for wealthy guests like Xu Sheng.
Customers like Xu Sheng who are easy to talk to, have no lecherous intentions and are generous are the good customers that these girls like.
So even though Miss Shishi felt that the lyrics and music written by Xu Sheng were a bit strange, she still obediently started to learn to sing.
Although the music scores in this world are not the five-line scores on Earth but are more ancient, Xu Sheng, as a cultivator who has lived for so many years, naturally understands this kind of thing easily.
Therefore, Miss Shishi could directly understand the music scores written by Xu Sheng at this time.
Then Miss Shishi looked at the paper and hummed softly:
[Wolf Tooth Moon Beauty is Haggard
I drank up the snowstorm
……】
However, a simple short section of the main song was not enough to move Miss Shishi.
She continued to hum:
【Prosperity is like three thousand east-flowing waters
I only take a scoop of love to understand...】
When she sang to this point, Miss Shishi’s expression finally changed slightly.
Because she felt that both the lyrics and the melody of this song were strange and she had never seen them before.
But at this moment, I actually felt that it sounded quite nice.
However, Miss Shishi did not stop, but continued to hum the chorus:
[…Your hair is like snow, tears are flying
Who am I waiting for when I grow old?
The years of being drunk in the world
I will carve a monument of eternal love for you with no regrets]
When humming this part, Miss Shishi's eyes changed completely.
Of course she still didn't say anything to Xu Sheng, but continued to hum the song several times.
"gentlemen!"
Then Miss Shishi looked at Xu Sheng with slightly moist eyes and asked, "Did you write this song for your deceased friend?"
After all, Xu Sheng, who was sitting in front of her, now had a head full of snow-white hair.
This made Miss Shishi think about the song called "Hair Like Snow".
After taking another sip of wine, Xu Sheng looked at Miss Shishi in front of him.
At this time, he didn't know that Miss Shishi was deliberately pretending to be surprised and conquered in order to please him, a generous guest.
I still really think that this earth pop song with half ancient and half vernacular lyrics, which is completely different in style from the ancient lyrics she sang before, is nice to listen to.
“It’s just a song.”
Xu Sheng didn't bother to think about it any further. He took another sip of wine and waved his hand, saying, "Now that you've learned it, sing it for me."
Miss Shishi just nodded when she heard this.
After a while she said she had learned it well.
Then she sang the song "Hair Like Snow" to Xu Sheng over and over again with the accompaniment of the guqin.
Xu Sheng lay there with his eyes closed and listened, feeling as if he had returned to Earth. He opened the music player on his computer and was playing popular songs.
Yes, at this time Miss Shishi was just a human music player with Xu Sheng turning on the single-song loop mode.
The Guzheng version of "Fa Ruxue" sounds pretty good.
However, after listening for a while, Xu Sheng opened his eyes and suddenly found that there were several more maids in the room, standing side by side by the wall with their ears perked up, listening to Miss Shishi's piano and singing with rapt attention.
并不是擅自进来的这些侍女本就是给许升的厢房送进了新鲜蔬果与酒水等东西的工作人员。
只不过之前她们都是送完东西就走，如今却竟然赖在这里不走了。
许升见此不由愕然了一下。
没想到这些侍女也喜欢听。
之前许升闭着眼睛的时候也没有用法力来探测周围。
毕竟用法力探测周围会有可能被正巧路过附近的仙门弟子察觉到。
当然此时这群侍女见到许升张开眼睛看过来后也自觉好像这么多人留在这里不太合适便想要告退。
而见此许升则说无妨且还问了一下她们是否也喜欢听？
“先生，这是您写的词曲吗？”
“太好听了！”
“我们第一次听到这样奇怪的歌，咳，虽然奇怪，但挺好听的！”
由于容貌跟身材都比较普通从而并不能够成为艺人只能在春雨楼里打杂服侍师师姑娘等人的几个侍女都连连说着。
“先生！”
听闻侍女们这般说的师师姑娘看着若有所思后小心翼翼地问许升道：“小女子有个不情之请，不知道……”
具体是说她们行业即将要举办一次大会。
主要就是春雨楼与其竞争对手们各自派一些姑娘去比赛。
而师师姑娘就是要代表春雨楼去比赛的人之一。
因此师师姑娘想将这首歌曲作为自己的比赛的曲目之一。
希望能得到许升这个词曲作者的同意。
当然她说比赛的时候她肯定会表演不止一个节目。
她也还没有想好一定要表演这首歌。
只是想把这首歌作为备选节目之一。
“无所谓了。想唱就唱吧。”
许升闻言只是摆摆手又道：“继续给我唱吧。”
“真的？”
师师姑娘闻言则大喜道：“多谢先生。”
转眼便是三个月后。
离开了春雨楼又在凡人国里的其他地方游**了一圈却仍旧没老死的许升这天又回到了春雨楼。
“是许老先生！”
没想到整个春雨楼里的姑娘们以及下人们认出许升后顿时就宛如被投入了一个巨型炸药般直接沸腾了。
一个个春雨楼的姑娘们甚至直接丢下了自己的客人们蜂拥跑来热情地迎接许升。
许升此时也不由愕然了一下。
以前就出手阔绰的他也并没有过这种待遇。
当然许升很快就了解到原因是师师姑娘把他写的歌拿去比赛了且居然直接在比赛中一炮而红了。
名气直线飙升的师师姑娘直接成为最红的清艺人且连带着整个春雨楼一跃成为了城内最热门的清艺楼。
转眼便是半个时辰后。
许升成为了春雨楼所有人瞩目的中心！
因为在热情的春雨楼的姑娘们的恳求之下的许升答应会再些几首歌！
其实主要也是许升自己想换个歌听。
这些姑娘们不过是许升无情的人肉播放器罢了。
许升一口气在众人的注目下抄了地球的好些首经典的古风流行歌曲。
《青花瓷》、《**台》……等等一首首地球歌曲在众人的围观下被许升陆续地抄了出来！
成为了修仙者后许升发现自己的记忆力好得很，地球听过的歌曲的所有旋律与歌词都完全记得。
“七步成曲！不愧是许老先生！”
“竟然一口气写了十几首！”
“太强了吧！”
“而且虽然歌词都稍微有些通俗，但都好听啊！”
而春雨楼里的姑娘们看着许升写出来了的词曲则是兴奋地纷纷议论。
连春雨楼的背景莫测的女强人妈妈桑雨妈妈都跑出来维护现场秩序。
普通的下人以及客人们乃至是普通的春雨楼的姑娘都无法上前靠近许升。
“【天青色等烟雨而我在等你！】……这句也太美了吧！”
“【**残满地伤你的笑容已泛黄】……这也太悲戚了吧？”
“可是大半歌曲都是悲情的！”
“许老先生到底经历了什么？”
“他当初一定很爱某个姑娘！”
“可能那姑娘出了什么事情死了！而老先生而为她终身不娶，如今仍旧孤身一人！”
能看词曲的姑娘们一个个在疯狂自我脑补中自我攻略得眼眶湿润。
“快唱啊，姑娘们，快唱！”
“让我们也品品许老先生的新曲如何！”
“是啊，快些！”
只能遥遥围观的客人们更已心痒难耐。
不过雨妈妈开口阻止了姑娘们直接公然对众演唱的想法。
毕竟这是很大的商机，若今天一下子将歌曲泄露光了，对春雨楼的好处是没那么大的。
所以雨妈妈立即让春雨楼最红的姑娘们与许升进入包厢后轮流给许升献唱。
看许升更喜欢谁唱的哪首歌的哪个版本。
只想饮酒听歌的许升自然也并没抗拒这些安排。
而不出意料的是许升写的这些歌曲在春雨楼卖关子似的营销中再次爆火了。
因此导致春雨楼的生意火爆。
故而许升如今来春雨楼得到了最好的待遇且完全不用付钱。
甚至雨妈妈还想给许升很多钱让许升再给她们多写几首歌。
不过根本不在意这些凡俗钱财许升拒绝了。
他写歌只是自己想听而已。
雨妈妈虽失望但也没勉强。
这些写歌的小事许升都不怎么放在心上。
不过没想到的是因此却让城里的另外一个名为‘红玉楼’的清艺馆的妈妈桑却带着其楼里的姑娘们来找到了许升。
她表示要给许升双倍的价码请许升给红玉楼也写一些歌曲。
“抱歉，没心情！”许升毫不犹豫地拒绝了。
但没想到这时居然有一群彪形大汉拦住了许升。
“先礼后兵，你不吃礼，那我只能上兵了！”
红玉楼的妈妈桑眼神微冷间风情地摇着扇子说道：“先生，我是真的想跟您交这个朋友，您给我们写词曲，我们给您钱财！这不是挺好的吗？何必不给面子呢？您说是不是？”
“哈哈哈哈。”
而此时许升则不由得笑出了声说道：“你这是在威胁我吗？”
“老先生，我们不想对老人动手！”
这妈妈桑手下的这些彪形大汉高手们也说道：“识时务者为俊杰！”
“就凭你们？”
当然许升这时一挥手间武道内劲炸裂出去直接将这群大汉全部扫飞的同时道：“也配威胁我？”
这让没有想到许升这样一个垂老将死的老头竟然武功这么强的在场的所有人都震惊得瞳孔收缩。
“不要再来惹我！”
而许升只是背着手又说道：“这次是给你们的警告！下次再惹我，就是死！”
说话的同时许升的武道内劲凝聚为一个隐约的手掌一巴掌扇在那红玉楼的妈妈桑的脸上把这妈妈桑扇得整个人当空飞起旋转了三圈才狼狈落地。
本来许升以为这件事情就这么结束了。
可令许升没有想到的是这个名为红玉楼的古代娱乐公司居然并没有把他的警告听进去。
在许升第二天又来到春雨楼点了师师牌的人肉音乐播放器后正悠然地听着歌的时候一群穿着捕快服装的人马蜂拥而来说要抓捕许升。
罪名就是许升之前打伤了红玉楼的那些下人们。
不由都有些担忧的师师等春雨楼的姑娘们立即就通知了雨妈妈。
雨妈妈能开春雨楼自然背后也不可能没人！
“这红玉楼简直不要脸了！”
雨妈妈对许升说道：“先生您放心，虽然您是外地来的，但是您是我们春雨楼的贵客……”
“无妨。无需你们出手。”
当然这时许升却摇摇头打断了雨妈妈的话轻笑说道：“这些蝼蚁惹我，我自己出手惩治即可！”
春雨楼的众人听着许升的话都不由一愣。
“先生！”
雨妈妈连忙道：“我知道您武道高强，可是与官府对抗是很不……”
不过雨妈妈刚说到这里许升的法力已经直接涌动出去直接将这群凡人捕快全部镇压地一个个跪在了地上。
满地的捕快齐刷刷跪倒的场面令雨妈妈与师师姑娘对人看得鸡皮疙瘩都起来了。
“红玉楼，我的警告你们既然听不进去，那就是找死，我就成全你们！”
而更随之再开口的许升的声音随着法力涌动直接又传播了出去。
“嗡嗡！”
随着法力两声震**。
许升的法力直接摄取了躲藏于几百米之外的楼阁之上正看戏的那红玉楼的妈妈桑以及她背后的中年男子贵人。
“呼呼呼！”
随后妈妈桑与贵人中年男直接被擒拿着飞到了春雨楼前的空中。
“怎么可能？这是法力？”
“那许老先生是一位修仙者？”
“这这这？”
无数的春雨楼的姑娘们以及下人们还有客人们都再次被震惊。
“饶命，老先生饶命！”红玉楼的妈妈桑脸色苍白间浑身颤抖着求饶。
“你疯了，你怎么敢用法力来干涉凡俗？”那贵人中年男则郎声道：“你这是要触犯仙门仙规吗？！”
“你不敢杀我！你一旦杀我，就是彻底触犯仙规！”他厉色道：“我家族中祖上有人在仙门中当值，仙规我很清楚！我劝你回头是岸，现在放了我们，还不算触犯仙规！”
Countless people outside Chunyu Tower couldn't help but hold their breath as they witnessed this scene.
Everyone in Chunyu Tower was waiting with bated breath for Xu Sheng's choice.
"You're right, but others are afraid, but I'm not!"
Xu Sheng just drank and laughed while listening to the middle-aged man's words: "So what if the magic power interferes with the mortal world? So what if it violates the immortal sect's immortal rules? I'm already so old, and you still think I dare not kill you? Ridiculous!"
Hearing Xu Sheng's words, the middle-aged nobleman turned pale and looked terrified.
But he didn't wait for him to say anything to beg for mercy.
He and the madam of Hongyu Tower were directly crushed into two balls of blood rain by Xu Sheng's magic power.
"ah……"
"ah……"
The two of them only had time to let out two short screams before they died completely.
All the mortals inside and outside Chunyu Tower were completely shocked again when they heard the screams.
"Girls, it's over!"
At this time, Xu Sheng took another big sip of wine, stood up and said with a smile: "Goodbye!"
Then, with a burst of magical power, his body soared into the sky in Chunyu Tower and soon disappeared into the sky.
Although Xu Sheng is very old, he is not afraid of death at all.
But after all, using magic power to kill mortals in the street violates the rules of Wanxianmen.
The strong men from Wanxianmen will definitely come to hunt him down.
He was not afraid of death and did not want to hurt the disciples of Wanxianmen, so he had to leave immediately. Xu Sheng had heard enough.
The entire Chunyu Tower was silent for the first few minutes after Xu Sheng left.
Everyone was in shock for a moment and couldn't recover.
It was like a scene from a paused TV show.
After a while, the pause seemed to be cancelled and a heated discussion broke out.
Naturally, these mortals cannot see that Xu Sheng’s origin in this life is a demon.
In their eyes, anyone who has magical powers and a human body is considered a cultivator.
"What? That old man is actually a cultivator and his magic power is so strong!"
"So those songs we sang before were actually composed by immortals?"
"I wonder why it is so special and beautiful!"
“I didn’t expect it to be a fairy song.”
All the mortals were shocked and added another layer of filter to the songs.
After leaving Chunyu Tower, Xu Sheng was not stopped by the strong men from Wanxianmen.
Xu Sheng, who had escaped from pursuit by relying on the Great Invisibility Technique, came to a cave deep in the mountains.
He was tired of playing in the Mortal Kingdom during this period and no longer chose to travel there.
He planned to practice until he died of old age and then return to Wanxian Mountain to find Mu Hongling at the beginning of his twelfth life.
In the blink of an eye, three years passed.
That day Xu Sheng died of old age in the cave.
Listening to the reminder sound of Wanshishu, Xu Sheng fell asleep again.
But in the Chunyu Tower in the mortal world, the scene was quite different.
Because of Xu Sheng’s contribution on that day three years ago, these two songs have become full of legendary colors and everyone has given songs like "Fa Ru Xue" and "Qing Hua Ci" the filter of fairy lyrics and music.
Therefore, it became popular not only in several local cities but also in the entire mortal country and other mortals.
Many wealthy mortals from other mortal countries even traveled long distances just to come here to listen to the music.
This made Chunyu Tower's business much more popular than before.
Although the noble middle-aged man was killed by Xu Sheng before arriving at Chunyu Tower that day.
However, Chunyu Tower, which has the support of people from the government, will naturally not be defeated because of this incident.
On the contrary, Miss Shishi and others have become the most popular artists of the contemporary era.
In the blink of an eye, another thousand years passed.
It was useless for Shishi and other girls from Chunyu Tower to be so popular when they were alive.
Because they have all disappeared and turned into earth in the passage of time.
Only the songs written by Xu Sheng are still circulated among the mortal countries.
And on this day, Xu Sheng regained consciousness on a high mountain surrounded by white clouds far away from Chunyu Tower after another successful reincarnation!