42 Chapter 42
The fans' cheers were like thunderous roars, and it was not until exotic music came out from the stage that the audience finally quieted down and watched the performance attentively.
A ray of pink light was cast on the dark stage. Liu Pianpian and Lu Wu were each imprisoned in a cylindrical golden cage. They were wearing clothes commonly worn by evil cultivators from the Western Regions, and their gorgeous faces were faintly revealed through the red veils.
Lu Wu sat in a cage, strumming the pipa in her arms to the accompaniment, while Liu Pianpian was dancing gracefully in another cage. Her fair and slender waist swayed gently with the dangling golden pendant, and her white and tender small feet rose and fell with the dancing notes. Red roses bloomed on the golden railings. Liu Pianpian lifted her veil, slightly opened her red lips, picked up a rose and held it gently in her mouth, raised her eyes and showed the audience a charming smile.
I heard that wealthy families often buy dancers from the Western Regions back home for banquets and viewing. I guess this is the scene Liu Pianpian wants to replicate. The beauty in the golden cage is indeed as breathtakingly beautiful as a rose!
The audiences in the audience also relaxed their minds and immersed themselves in this unique banquet with drowsy eyes like guests who had just had three rounds of drinks.
At this moment, Lv Wu, who was trapped in the cage, suddenly sped up her piano playing, and Liu Pian Pian's dance steps became more and more sexy and charming. No one noticed that her arms under her skirt were practicing and accumulating strength. Everyone stared at her in fascination with more and more excitement.
Finally, the rapid sound of the pipa was as sharp and high-pitched as the explosion of a silver bottle. When the atmosphere of the stage was pushed to its climax, the golden cage that trapped Liu Pianpian suddenly exploded with a bang. The audience was still immersed in the decadent atmosphere just now and couldn't recover from it. Everyone looked at the dancer who broke free from the cage in astonishment.
She still had the rose in her mouth, her flushed cheeks as delicate and charming as petals. The ripe, sweet and greasy scent of the rose seemed to still linger in the guests' noses, but Liu Pianpian's sexy and enchanting figure already revealed a hint of danger.
She took the flower from her mouth with her slender white fingers and swung it hard. The rose grew thorny stems and leaves and turned into a flexible whip in her hand.
The sound of the pipa was like the clanging of swords and spears, and the rapid and urgent drum beats were like the guests' heartbeats gradually out of control. Liu Pianpian raised her red lips slightly to reveal a cold and murderous smile, and then used a whip as a weapon to dance a sexy and murderous fast-paced dance in the center of the stage.
Unlike the whip with spikes and the light and flowing sleeves, you can hear the sharp sound of breaking through the air every time it is waved, and it seems that the sharp spikes are brushing against the audience's noses. The trembling sense of crisis makes people's scalps tingle and their heartbeats accelerate.
Finally, all the guests who were feasting and having fun seemed to have fallen under the dancer's whip without exception. The originally clanging sound of the pipa finally slowly quieted down again, as if the originally panicked voices had disappeared. Only a dead silence remained in the ballroom. Liu Pianpian waved the whip for the last time, and with a snap, it broke the cage that trapped Lu Wu.
Then, the thin and hazy veil once again covered the cold and beautiful face, with fluttering clothes and light fairy belts. Liu Pianpian in a red dress and Lu Wu in a green dress rose up in the wind. They flew away from the stage freely and beautifully, looking like a lifelike mural.
"Ah... this is..." someone exclaimed in surprise.
The red flowers are beautiful, the green leaves are lush, and the way they fly away finally forms the pattern of a rose.
“Pah pah pah pah…”
The audience's applause rang out like a tide, and most people's faces were still flushed with excitement. After watching such a magnificent dance feast, everyone's emotions were brought to a new high.
“Ahhh! It’s beautiful! So pretty!”
"I simply can't describe in words how shocked I am!"
"Ms. Pianpian! You are the undisputed champion of the competition!"
The audience couldn't help but stand on their stools and cheer. If the studio hadn't imposed a ban, these excited monks might have followed Liu Pianpian into the air.
In the backstage, Zi Xiao hugged Ning Shu's shoulders and looked at the excited and enthusiastic monks through the big screen. He gave Ning Shu a thumbs up in admiration:
"You were right. The audience actually really liked this stage. Your vision is still so accurate."
When Liu Pianpian designed this dance, she actually had the intention of revenge for the past. She really wanted to beat up the brothel owner and men who did not treat her as a human being in the past, break free from the shackles and move towards a new life.
Just like Shangguan Huaijin proved himself through solo dance, every contestant wants to express some of his or her own emotions through the stage of the finals.
However, Zixiao was not optimistic about Liu Pianpian's idea at first. After all, it was very risky for a dancer to do this. If she angered the audience, all the fans she had accumulated in recent days might be wiped out.
In the end, Ning Shu was very optimistic about Liu Pianpian's new attempt, and helped persuade Zixiao to teach her this whip technique that combined beauty and lethality.
"But I still don't understand why they are so crazy about a woman who is waving a whip at them with murderous intent? Aren't they afraid?" Zixiao looked at Ning Shu in confusion.
"Well, there's more than just one kind of beauty, and people have different preferences. Just like some people like gentle jasmine flowers, while others like cold, arrogant, and thorny roses, the more powerful and beautiful a woman is, the more she can arouse their desire to conquer and win." Ning Shu replied with a smile. As usual, she had anticipated this situation.
"And some people are just so mean, they just want the whip to hit them directly."
The answer is that his masochistic nature has awakened, and he is simply unable to resist a cold and beautiful woman wielding a whip.
Zixiao showed a disgusted expression when he heard this: "Pervert?"
Ning Shu shrugged helplessly: "That's true, and the longer a person suppresses their emotions, the more dangerous their mental state becomes."
In this way, every contestant on the stage of the finals tried their best and presented the audience with a series of wonderful performances with climaxes one after another. The monks in the stands watched with great concentration until their voices were hoarse from shouting, and then the monks woke up a little from their extremely excited state.
"Senior Brother, how many groups are there behind us?" The younger sister wiped the sweat from her forehead and took a breath. Her body was already weak, and now she had been cheering with everyone for almost an hour, so she felt a little sleepy.
"There's only one group left, it seems to be Ye Baobao and Tieying." The eldest brother took out a handkerchief and handed it over: "Can you still hold on? Or should we go back and rest first?"
"Yeah, there's nothing interesting about this group anyway. Baby Ye is kind of likable, but Tieying isn't popular with anyone except those physical cultivators, right?" Second Brother also tried to persuade him, looking at the sweat-soaked forehead of the younger sister with a hint of worry in his eyes. "They can't compare to the other groups, why don't we go back first?"
"No, don't go back!" The little sister's eyes were surprisingly bright, and her hands tightly grasped the armrests of the chair. Her cheeks were flushed, and her tone of voice was more cheerful than ever before:
"I'm not tired at all! Really! I feel so good right now. All the depression in my heart has been released! This feeling is really amazing, it's like... it's like I've come back to life!"
Watching the contestants' performances through the screen and watching them live are really two completely different experiences. She shouted, danced and sang with the contestants. Those stage performances seemed to have magic. The little sister absorbed a kind of vigorous power from those contestants. She had never experienced such vigorous vitality before.
It’s as if as long as I stand here, my life is as vivid as the stars on the stage.
The younger apprentice sister didn't want to leave at all. She turned around and looked at the stage, demonstrating her persistence with her actions: "Didn't they say in the last episode that Baby Ye had come up with a solution? Maybe their performance will be amazing too?"
The other contestants were not only stunningly beautiful, but also danced, played music, and sang beautifully. Given Tieying's qualifications, how could they possibly be more stunning? The seniors hesitated, glancing at each other before deciding not to disturb the younger sister's interest.
Other audience members held the same opinion about this final group, and they all did not think that such a combination had any hope of advancing.
"The last group is just here to make up the numbers, right?"
"Yeah, the other groups are simply god-level stages. I really can't imagine how Ye Baobao and Tieying's group can win."
"Yes, Baby Ye alone can't reverse the decline."
"Why did Ye Baobao choose her in the first place? Her good luck is probably over now." They all shook their heads and sighed.
In fact, not only the audience, but even the contestants themselves are not very confident.
Standing backstage before going on stage, Tieying listened to Ning Shu's announcement from the front. She nervously grasped the hem of her clothes and said, "Baby, is this okay? The previous groups performed so well, and we..."
"It's okay! Our performance will be fantastic too! And we've been preparing very hard! It'll be absolutely fine!" Baby Ye, wearing a flowing, wide-sleeved fairy dress, firmly grasped Tieying's hand to cheer her up: "Young Master Ning Shu is also very optimistic about our performance, isn't he? So this performance will definitely amaze the audience!"
No, I don’t think my appearance has anything to do with being stunning... Tieying felt very uneasy.
But the two of them had come to this point and the arrow was on the string that had to be shot, so Tieying also shook Ye Baobao's hand tightly. After the two girls encouraged each other for the last time before going on stage, Ye Baobao went on stage first.
"The demon army invaded our Divine Fire Pass, and the people suffered terribly, and the flames of war ignited.
The general has fought a hundred battles and is drunk on the battlefield. I have traveled a thousand miles to find him and deliver his tasseled spear to him!"
Baby Ye, wearing a blue flowing fairy skirt and carrying a red tasseled spear, appeared on the stage reciting a poem. Before everyone had time to take a closer look at her outfit, they were immediately shocked when they heard the familiar poem.
"How does she pronounce this poem?"
"Ah? Who will play the role of Huoli Fairy? Tieying?"
"What are we going to do next? How can Tieying, in that state, even remotely resemble the demeanor of Fairy Huoli?"
It's no wonder that everyone is so impatient. This poem is a must-recite poem for children in this world when they go to school. It praises the story of a brave and warlike female fairy who defeated a million demon troops during the great battle between gods and demons.
Legend has it that this female cultivator was in a stalemate with the demon army at the Divine Fire Pass for several months. Even though the city was besieged by the demon cultivators and had run out of ammunition and food, the general refused to surrender. Just when the general was about to die for the city, his close friend, the Fairy Lan Yue, forged a peerless magic weapon for him and risked her life to deliver it into the city.
The general relied on this magic weapon and worked together with his best friend to defeat the demon army. After peace was restored to the world, he retired with his relatives and friends, leaving behind only this vague legend and poem to be passed down as a beautiful story.
It could be considered a fairy tale about cultivating immortals. Ning Shu had heard it before going to bed when she was a child. For thousands of years, this legend has been adapted and performed countless times by folk opera troupes and storytellers. The original prototype is no longer traceable, but without exception, every version of the Fire Glass Fairy is an incomparably beautiful beauty.
Just when everyone was puzzled, the "Moon-Grabbing Fairy" on the stage had already turned lightly a few times, and finally the background of the stage changed from a dim grassland to a ruined city. In the puzzled and inexplicably shocked eyes of everyone, the female war god was finally about to appear.
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