Chapter 218 The Fourth and Sixth Tones (6K)
She didn't know why, but standing in front of these hundreds of eternal notes, Hevinia felt a great sense of oppression.
She had to take two deep breaths to get rid of the feeling, and then looked at Phoenix with a smile.
"So, as long as you see this Eternal Note, you will be officially admitted to the First Academy?"
Phoenix smiled and nodded: "Yes, the melody played by these eternal notes is not only for the Lord, but also for those 'outsiders' who are entering the First Academy for the first time and setting foot on the Holy Mountain for the first time. Only after experiencing the baptism of such a pure and perfect movement can they be accepted and qualified to enter the Holy Mountain."
"Well." Helvinia shook her fist. "I feel like I've been baptized hard."
Phoenix laughed out loud at Hevinia's humorous words, and then moved aside again to lead Hevinia: "Then let's continue."
Helvinia followed Phoenix with a smile.
But before leaving the front hall, she turned back to take a look at these eternal notes, and then she couldn't help but think of a question.
The timeless notes here number in the hundreds.
And in the entire Holy Sound, only one golden sound player emerges every few years.
That combined with the history of the Holy Sound, which has just passed a thousand years, that is to say, since the birth of the Holy Sound, the vast majority of Golden Sound players,
It’s all here.
Are they all voluntary?
This was obviously a very disrespectful question that could not be asked to Phoenix, so Hevinia could only keep it in her heart and quickly followed Phoenix.
After walking out of the front hall, you have officially entered the First Academy.
Finally, more people came.
Those coming and going were mostly students in uniform, which finally made Hevinia feel like she was still in college.
However, unlike the three academies she was familiar with, the players of the first academy were obviously much better than those of the three academies in terms of the quality of their notes. At least after seeing dozens of them in a row, she didn't see any bronze players, but all of them were silver players, and the timbre of the silver players was extremely good.
But just like the three academies, it was currently a grand ceremony, so the performers here were busy, and not many even greeted Phoenix.
This is completely different from the treatment Phoenix received in the Third Academy.
Hevinia looked at Phoenix, and Phoenix guessed what Hevinia was thinking, shrugged and said, "This is how the First Academy is. Don't forget that the two most powerful forces here are the Taichu families. Many of the students you see are descendants of the two Taichu families."
Helvinia immediately showed an expression of "I see," and then said with a smile: "It seems that you can only get the same treatment as them after this grand ceremony is over."
Phoenix smiled and said, "Then I will take your kind words."
Then, Phoenix brought Hevinia to the door of the girls' dormitory in the first courtyard.
"Although I would like to discuss the preparations for the ceremony with you right away, after going through so much these days, it would be too much if I don't even give you a night to rest peacefully." Phoenix said with a smile, "So, have a good rest tonight, Miss Hevinia. I have also been on that ship, and to be honest, it's not a very good feeling. I don't think I can sleep well on a ship like that."
Hevinia naturally thanked Phoenix, and after Phoenix told her the room number he had prepared for her, she thought for a moment and asked, "Mr. Phoenix, I have a question I don't know if I should ask... Well, I'll ask it anyway. Are there only the two of us in the orchestra now?"
"Well... I think you should ask." Phoenix said with a smile, "Don't worry, there are not only the two of us, but also a golden fourth tone who has agreed to join us."
Golden Fourth Tone?
Helvinia raised an eyebrow.
What a coincidence! What she lacks now is the fourth tone.
To be precise, they are the three notes "two", "fourth" and "sixth".
Therefore, Hevinia's primary goal now is to find these three notes.
However, since Phoenix is the "two" note, what Hevinia is actually looking for are "four" and "six".
But now, Phoenix has helped her bring the number four to her doorstep.
So she smiled and said to Phoenix: "That couldn't be better."
…
"Karen Newcomer."
As Hevinia went upstairs, she thought about the information that Phoenix had just told her about the fourth player.
In fact, the name is not the point, the surname is.
"First time visitor".
The other of the two great families at the beginning of time.
This is what puzzled Hevinia.
Isn't the Lawrence family, where Phoenix belongs, meant to compete with the two Taichu families? Why did they bring in the performers from the two Taichu families?
And it was pulled in so quickly.
You have to know that it has only been a few days since Hevinia killed Tupac, and Phoenix left a day later. So how did he manage to instigate a player from the Taichu family to rebel in just a few days?
Hevinia was very curious, but Phoenix did not give a clear explanation, but just said something meaningful to Hevinia.
"Karen is a special person. No matter what the situation is, you should not meet with him alone. It is best to communicate with him when I am on the scene."
Hearing what Phoenix said, Hevinia could naturally guess that this guy named Karen must be a very troublesome guy.
But we still have to meet him in person to know what kind of trouble it is.
But it's always a good idea to mark it first.
The golden second tone is Phoenix Lawrence, and the golden fourth tone is Karen Chuke.
Now the only thing missing is the golden sixth note.
From this perspective, the previously thought goal of finding the right target is not that difficult.
After all, the First Academy is not comparable to the Third Academy. If you think about it carefully, the only eligible golden voices in the Third Academy are Hevinia and Olenna who later successfully upgraded.
But there are too many in the First Academy.
It was previously announced that the first, second and third colleges were divided according to their different musical temperaments, but this turned out to be untrue.
At least not all of them.
Hevinia thought so.
Then she suddenly felt something was wrong.
Why...is she still going up the stairs?
Helvinia paused.
The dormitories in College One are also different from those in College Three.
There was a huge spiral staircase running across the center, and Hevinia's room was on the seventh floor, so she didn't think much about it at the time and went straight up the stairs.
But now I have been walking on the stairs for more than ten minutes, but still haven't arrived.
No branch paths leading to other floors were found along the way.
She looked up and saw that the stairs were still going up, reaching the ceiling at the end.
Isn't it this staircase?
Is this just a decoration?
Hevinia was about to go down with some suspicion, but before she took two steps, she found that the stairs leading downwards had disappeared.
The fracture was more than ten meters above the ground on the first floor.
What's going on?
Hevinia subconsciously grasped the staff in her sleeve.
Could it be that her identity has been exposed and someone is attacking her?
Hevinia's vigilance instantly reached its maximum.
But when she looked around, she couldn't find the enemy.
And apart from the abnormality of the stairs, she didn't notice anything else wrong.
Just as Hevinia was hesitating whether to use her left eye to observe the surrounding situation, she suddenly felt an itch in the palm of her hand.
So she lowered her head and found that it was the middle finger of her left hand that was gently scratching the palm of her right hand.
"...Mr. Visas?"
Hevinia remembered that Bai Wei was still looking at her, and then she also remembered Bai Wei's previous instructions to her.
Here, try not to use Visas' power.
Also, in some special places, Bai Wei would not directly tell her what to do with words, because it might cause unnecessary situations.
So, this is the "special place" that Bai Wei mentioned?
Helvinia's heart tightened.
She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she always felt like someone was watching her.
Fortunately, if it weren’t for Bai Wei’s reminder, she really wanted to use the power of her eyes.
But now it should be... huh?
Helvinia's palms itched again.
It was Bai Wei, of course, who tickled her again.
Aren’t the reminders over yet?
Helvinia was confused.
But she soon discovered that Bai Wei's scratching was not random, but very regular, as if he was writing something on the palm of her hand.
"I will try to use short sentences to contact you in the future."
Bai Wei's previous words echoed in her mind again.
Is this a short sentence?
Hevinia felt it carefully and found that it was not a short sentence, but a...note.
Seventh note.
Why the seventh note?
Hevinia looked around in confusion, but didn't find any marks related to musical notes.
Is it the music?
Just like in the front hall, a certain melody was also echoing in the dormitory.
In other words, is the focus on the seventh note contained in this melody?
But how to do this?
Hevinia tried hard to recall the knowledge about music.
Is it to remove the seventh note from this melody?
Helvinia took out her staff and tapped the air twice.
The magic ripples slowly.
But the melody remains the same.
The stairs did not change at all.
It's not this.
Hevinia murmured in her heart, "Does that mean I want to incorporate my music into this melody?"
This is difficult.
Helvinia wasn't sure she could succeed.
But there is no other way now. Since Bai Wei can't help, she can only rely on herself.
So she raised her staff again and started trying.
But there is still no change.
Just as Hevinia frowned and tried hard to think about what else she had forgotten, she heard Bai Wei's low sigh in her mind.
"It's not that complicated. I just want you to play your own seventh note."
Helvinia's hand trembled, and the seventh note in her body began to play.
The resonance of the seven sounds suddenly came from somewhere in the dormitory.
Then, a straight ladder stretched out from there and landed smoothly at Hevinia's feet.
Hevinia stared at the stairs in silence for a long moment before she spoke.
"I thought you couldn't speak."
"I didn't intend to tell you." Bai Wei continued to sigh, "But I really couldn't bear to watch it anymore. I'm not a real riddle teller. You should just think about the simplest aspects of the clues I gave you. If it really comes to that critical moment, would I still let you think of ways to decipher it?"
"……knew."
Bai Wei did not respond again, as if this prompt was just a preliminary simulation.
The simulation results are not satisfactory.
Hevinia adjusted her mindset a little, then stepped onto the ladder and walked towards the other end that resonated with the seventh note.
If she was not mistaken, the reason why her floor was number seven was because it corresponded to the seventh note.
This spiral staircase allows the player to play his or her own note and then reach the corresponding floor, which is why the same note resonates at the other end.
I have to say, this is a very clever design.
When Hevinia stepped onto the seventh floor, she saw a person sitting at the end of the floor, and the seventh note that resonated with her came from this person.
Hevinia thought that it was the stairs that the other party helped her connect, so she immediately stepped forward to thank him: "Hello, I am..."
He couldn't finish his sentence halfway through.
Because the other party also looks like a sculpture, and at first glance it looks the same as the eternal notes in the front hall.
But unlike those eternal notes, this "sculpture" was obviously a living person, wearing a clean and straight robe, and judging by age, it was not much older than Hevinia.
However, he remained in a meditation posture with his eyes closed. He did not respond to Hevinia's call, as if he was fast asleep. Only the musical notes responded to Hevinia.
And when Hevinia left the stairs and stepped completely onto the seventh floor, the resonance of the notes slowly stopped, and the stairs behind her slowly retracted.
But he still didn't open his eyes.
...What is this?
This time Hevinia really had no idea. She greeted the other party again, but the other party still did not respond.
So she slowly approached the other person, and then found that the other person's face was as shiny as if it was waxed, which looked a little weird.
After hesitating for a moment, Helvinia reached out her hand towards the other person's face.
Then, he was interrupted by a mature female voice behind him: "Don't disturb the tuner."
Helvinia turned around immediately and saw a tall, elegant woman standing behind her with a smile.
...When did she come?
Helvinia was surprised, for she had not noticed anything.
Although she didn't dare to use Visas' Eyes here, after possessing several golden sounds, her strength was far beyond that of ordinary players. But even so, she didn't sense the opponent's approach at all.
A very powerful person.
Helvinia made a mental judgment.
But she didn't show it, and asked curiously, "What is a tuner?"
"It's a great profession that only one academy, or in other words, only the Holy Mountain, can have." The woman smiled and stood beside Hevinia, explaining to her, "As the name suggests, it's the person responsible for tuning. You should know that the seven tones were created by the Lord, and the seven tones created by the Lord are also the most beautiful and standard. The tones passed down by later generations still have some deviations after all."
"Do you mean the Golden Sound and the Silver Sound?"
"No, no, no, that's the scale. I'm talking about the timbre." The woman said with a smile, "Even the lowest level of bronze scale can produce a more pleasant melody than the gold scale. This is because the timbre of the bronze scale is better than the gold scale and is closer to the original seven tones created by the Lord."
Hevinia understood: "So, the purpose of tuning is to make your voice more and more in line with the original seven notes, so that it will become more and more perfect?"
"You can understand it that way." The woman nodded slightly, and then looked at Hevinia with interest, "You are the golden seventh tone that the Lawrence family brought from the third hospital, right? I think your name is... Hevinia? Haha, I just saw you hesitating on the spiral staircase for a long time, and I was a little wondering who it could be."
"……Feel sorry."
"There's nothing to apologize for." The woman shook her head and said with a smile, "It's obvious that Phoenix forgot to tell you the rules here, but it's not his fault. The rules of the girls' dormitory and the boys' dormitory are different. But you are still very smart. I wanted to help you, but you guessed it yourself."
Hevinia blushed. "I just tried it out randomly."
"Haha, you've climbed up there on your own, that's a real talent. Many freshmen would be stuck up there for a whole morning if no one told them when they enrolled, crying and jumping up and down in desperation, but there was nothing they could do." The woman paused, "Back to the topic just now, you just discovered that when you play a note, the tuner resonates with you and opens the corresponding step, and this is how the tuner tunes the notes."
"...Ah?" Hevinia obviously didn't understand.
But the woman was not in a hurry and continued to explain to her in a soft voice.
"Why are the original seven tones the most perfect, but become increasingly deviated when they come to later generations? The reason is simple, because humans are impurities."
"If the original seven notes are compared to the purest water, then humans are the impurities that affect the water. Desire, greed, good and evil, preferences, everything will affect the timbre. This is why the notes are the most perfect when they are just formed. As humans age, the notes will fade because they are interfered with by too many such factors."
“And the tuner is going the opposite way.”
"They used secret methods to block their five senses, used persistence to erase good and evil, and placed their souls in endless darkness. In simple terms, they were isolated from the outside world."
"The only thing that can communicate with the outside world is the musical notes."
“The only thing they’ll respond to is the same note.”
"And their notes will be cleansed through repeated responses and resonances. Thus, they will become purer, more perfect, and more... otherworldly."
The woman spoke softly.
"Until finally, it becomes the real, original note."
“And only then will they finish tuning and wake up from their long sleep.”
Hevinia opened her mouth, as if she was shocked, and couldn't speak for a long time. It was not until she heard the woman finally say "awakened from a long sleep" that she breathed a sigh of relief: "You can wake up. I thought you couldn't wake up, just like those eternal notes in the front hall."
“Hehe, tuners are still different from eternal notes.” The woman said, “They can indeed wake up, but… the percentage of those who wake up is very small. Among ten tuners, at most only two or three can wake up, and the rest are mostly sleeping forever in the void.”
Helvinia was stunned.
"Why is that?"
"Because isolating yourself from everything is risky in itself." The woman said softly, "Letting the soul leave the body is essentially like flying a kite, and it's a big kite with only a thin string in a strong wind. The longer you fly it, the greater the risk. The moment the string breaks, there's no way back."
Hevinia opened her mouth wide again, showing the shock of an ignorant girl very well.
But this shock is indeed not false.
"Then, then, then these tuners..."
"It's all voluntary." The woman guessed what Hevinia wanted to ask and answered with a smile, "No one would force them to do this. They have long forgotten about life and death, and just want the purest notes. Even most tuners can feel whether the thread holding the soul is becoming weaker and weaker when they are tuning. But until the last moment, they still don't want to end it like this, because there is only one chance to tune, and once it's over, it's really over."
Hevinia didn't know what to say. She was silent for a while before she said softly, "Indeed...very impressive and admirable."
"Haha, yes." The woman smiled and said, "The purest melody is so desirable. The closer you are to the Lord, the more you can feel this... You will understand it in the future. Just like every golden note wants to become an eternal note at the end of its life, leaving the last sound for the Lord and the world. You are the same, and so am I."
Helvinia heard the point in the woman's words.
The same for her?
Doesn't that mean she is also Jin Yin?
Helvinia asked, "Are you also the same as me, the Golden Seventh Note?"
“No, no, no.” The woman smiled and shook her head. “I am indeed the Golden Sound, but not the Seventh Sound. You are the only golden Seventh Sound at the moment. The reason why I can reach this level is because…”
She pulled out a key.
"I'm the dormitory manager, so I can come and go freely on the floor... I don't think I've introduced myself yet. My name is Anita, and I live downstairs from you. If you have any questions, you can come to me."
"Okay, okay, Teacher Anita!" Hevinia bowed in fear and trepidation.
"Haha, don't be so reserved. I'm not much older than you." Anita shrugged. "Well, I should go too. I hope you have an unforgettable ceremony, Miss Hevinia."
After saying that, Anita lightly waved the key in the air, and a staircase leading downwards appeared out of thin air. She then left via the staircase.
Hevinia looked at Anita's back and didn't think of anything at first, but when the stairs disappeared and she was about to go back to the room, she suddenly realized something.
Anita, who lived downstairs from her.
Doesn't that mean...
Hevinia's pupils narrowed slightly.
Gold…Sixth Tone.
Just found it like that?
(End of this chapter)
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