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【Dragon-Inducing Zither】
Quality: Platinum.
Type: Instrument set.
Characteristics: Empathy towards dragons.
Effect: When playing music using this item, you can infuse your emotions into the music, allowing listeners to empathize with it. The music's pleasingness increases by 50%, the probability of a perfect performance increases by 30%, and the effect is doubled on dragon-like creatures.
Hidden effect: Collecting both pieces of the instrument set will activate the set's special effect.
Price: 3000 points.
Xia Zhi glanced at the page next to this item and saw another beautiful flute.
【Dancing Phoenix Flute】
Quality: Platinum.
Type: Instrument set.
Characteristics: Paired with Phoenix, Illusion Dance.
Effects: Automatically becomes a dance master; when using this item to play music, the music's pleasingness increases by 50%, the probability of a perfect performance increases by 30%, and the effect on phoenix-type creatures is doubled.
Hidden effect: Collecting both pieces of the instrument set will activate the set's special effect.
Price: 3000 points.
This xiao (vertical bamboo flute) is another instrument in the guqin (ancient Chinese stringed instrument) set, and its price is the same as that of the guqin.
3000 points isn't that expensive for him right now.
After thinking for a moment, Xia Zhi bought the [Dragon-Guiding Zither].
After obtaining the item, the system's voice sounded in his mind.
"The host already possesses the [Exquisite] trait. The set requirement for the [Dragon-Guiding Harp] set items has been reduced by one. The set can be considered complete, and the set trait is being activated."
"The set bonus [Heavenly Melody] has been activated."
"【Celestial Music】: The music played has a special effect of immersion. During the performance, the immersion effect increases by 1% for every second the performance time increases, up to a maximum of 200%."
This is the highest quality set item that Xia Zhi has obtained so far.
Following the rule that set bonuses are of a higher quality than the original set items, the bonus [Heavenly Melody] is considered a Diamond-tier bonus.
Xia Zhi closed the system panel and glanced discreetly at Wendy, who was drinking over there, from a god-like perspective.
With its three main characteristics—[Dragon Connection], [Empathy], and [Heavenly Music]—the [Dragon-Guiding Harp] should easily surpass the [Sky Harp], a divine artifact.
The contestants took turns going on stage, and each only received a consolation point.
Before long, it was Xia Zhi's turn to take the stage.
Charlene loosened her grip on his arm, looked at him with her big eyes, and shouted, "Go, Daddy!"
"Go, Mr. Xia!" "Go, Boss!" "Go, Big Brother!" "Go, Cousin!" "Go, Younger Cousin!" "Go, Master!"...
Xia Zhi smiled and nodded, took out the [Dragon-Guiding Zither], and walked towards the stage.
Wendy took a sip of her drink, then stared blankly at the guqin Xia Zhi was holding.
Right?
Wasn't that the guitar he was using just now?
Why did you suddenly switch to the guqin?
Wendy felt that things had taken a bit unexpectedly.
At this moment, the host was introducing his basic information on stage, mentioning that the reason he was wearing sunglasses was because he was blind.
The judges' and audience's opinions of Xia Zhi then changed slightly.
Compared to the other contestants who were considered "normal," the judges were more lenient with him. Even if he played the same game as them, his score would definitely be higher.
Xia Zhi stood on the stage and first smiled and bowed.
Then, he sat cross-legged, placed the guqin on his lap, and prepared to begin playing.
He learned the "Wind Whisperer" skill from Wendy, and with his mastery of the zither, playing the guqin was a piece of cake for him.
With a slight movement of the fingers, the first note of the piano was produced.
The audience and judges only found the notes ethereal and beautiful, but Wendy and Grandma Ping in the audience had already changed their expressions.
Wendy exclaimed in surprise, "This..."
Grandma Ping exclaimed softly, "How could this be?..."
Liu Yun looked at her and asked, "A-Ping, what's wrong?"
Grandma Ping ignored her, and just looked at Mr. Xia, who was casually playing the strings on the stage, with an incredulous look.
Tvalin is still soaring in the sky.
It had been asleep for five hundred years and only awoke last year. After that, it suffered from a curse, but now that it has finally been freed, it wants to stay in this lively place a little longer.
The only pity was that, apart from Barbatos's relatively pleasant piano playing, the music played by the others was rather lacking.
After listening to several people play, Dwarin was getting a little bored and was preparing to fly back to its nest when it suddenly heard a strange melody coming from the ground.
This piano sound was unlike any music it had ever heard before.
Although it was very light and faint, it had an inexplicable and strange attraction to it, and seemed to be even more beautiful than the music played by Barbatos.
Tvalin couldn't help but stay.
It wanted to hear the whole piece of music.
Although this competition is ostensibly an instrumental competition, singing is actually required as well.
Barbatos had sung it before; he was a bard, so it was standard practice for him.
Xia Zhi can also sing; he possesses the [Enchanting Voice].
This time he chose to use [Voice of the Elf].
As for the song, it's the same story as Wendy's, about Dwarin, but he used the characteristic of empathy.
To protect Mondstadt, Dvalin willingly swallowed poisonous blood and slept for five hundred years. Tormented by a curse, it sought help from humans, but they had long forgotten its existence and even feared and loathed it...
Xia Zhi perfectly incorporated this feeling of grief and indignation into the guqin music.
The giant dragon in the sky flew slower and slower, and lower and lower.
As the music ended, Dvorin fell from the sky.
It carefully avoided all buildings and people, lowered its head, and made a low sound.
Wendy stared blankly at her companion: "Dvalin... is crying?..."
Chapter 468 A perfect score is the limit of the competition (4K)
Creatures who love music are often more sentimental.
Although Dvalin is a little more mature than Dulin, he is still just a child at heart, fragile and sensitive. When he is wronged, he also hopes to receive understanding and comfort from others.
Barbatos should have done this five hundred years ago, but at that time he had exhausted most of his strength because of the Battle of Canria and the Battle of Durin.
In order to maintain the stability of the climate in Mondstadt, He had to fall into a deep sleep and had no time to help Dvalin.
Later, Dvalin awoke, but unable to bear the torment of the poisonous blood, it flew to Mondstadt hoping to seek help from humans. However, the people of Mondstadt at this time regarded it as a calamity and avoided it at all costs, which broke its heart.
Tvalin couldn't understand why the country and people he had risked his life to protect had become like this.
It felt betrayed by Mondstadt and its companions, which led to its mind being warped under the influence of the Abyss Order, causing the "Dragon Plague".
Although Barbatos, with the help of the blond adventurer Ying, cleared up the misunderstanding with Dvalin last year and even removed the giant spikes formed by the poisonous blood, the emotional wounds are far harder to heal than the physical ones.
A small thorn still lingers in Tvalin's heart, which will require Barbatos much longer to melt and dissolve.
Of course, typical psychological problems like this can be resolved more quickly with the intervention of a psychologist.
Xia Zhi then essentially took on the role of a psychologist.
He used the "Empathy" melody played on the "Dragon-Drawing Lyre" to easily lower the defenses of Tvalin, making it feel that it had finally found someone who could understand it, listen to it, comfort it, and help it.
Dvalin flew down from the sky, bowed his head in front of Xia Zhi, and made a low whimper.
To ordinary people, this was just a dragon's roar with no clear meaning, but Xia Zhi was fluent in the language of monsters and could understand that it was crying out to him about its grievances.
He reached out and touched the scales on Dvalin's face, gently comforting him, "It's alright, it's not your fault..."
These words seem to have no effect.
Dvalin seemed to have found an outlet for his venting, and his whimpers became even more ferocious.
There's really nothing we can do with this young dragon, which is overflowing with water element.
Xia Zhi continued to stroke it with his hands and patiently soothe it with words.
From his God's-eye view, the glittering diamond progress bar on Tvalin's body was slowly increasing.
Of course, that doesn't matter. The main reason is that as Wendy's best friend, he should share her burdens and solve her problems.