Chapter 569: More Than Just the Theme Song in This TV Series
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
At this moment, other cultivators and warriors who were watching the Legend of the White Snake had also finished the first episode.
After watching it, the people of the Ultimate West Realm who had only intended to see what this new TV Series was about found themselves drawn into a world full of unique wonders.
“Ahh! How come this episode ended so soon!”
Then, they heard a series of tunes.
…
While Su Tianji was worried that there were no more episodes, she suddenly saw short clips playing after the post-credits.
They looked like the video clips shown at the opening cinematics of the E-sports compet.i.tion.
“What are these?” She quickly watched them intently.
Zhuge Yu was also watching the Legend of the White Snake with Fairy Qing Yun.
“I asked the shop owner about it,” Fairy Qing Yun said, “He said that the exciting video clips at the beginning of the E-sport compet.i.tion were the highlight montages. I’m surprised that the TV Series Legend of the White Snake has them too.”
The cultivators were already interested in this story that was told in the perspective of a big demon who had cultivated more than 1,700 years and would soon become an immortal. After watching the clips showing the resurrection, the chilly Black and White Impermanence, heavenly generals and soldiers, and immortals and monsters, they were even more enthralled. Zhuge Yu widened her eyes and said, “So powerful…”
[TL Note: Black and White Impermanence are two deities in Chinese folk religion in charge of escorting the spirits of the dead to the Underworld.]
“I wonder who wrote the lyrics,” Fairy Qing Yun said in surprise, “Spring drizzle is as sweet as wine, and the willow trees with new spouts look like mist… the words perfectly reflect the beautiful scenery at West Lake in March.”
The System had recreated all the scenes and spiritual spells in Legend of the White Snake while following the original and cla.s.sical plot of the story. Fang Qi was surprised that the System even included the ending theme song, and he found that it was quite good after hearing it; it wasn’t awkward or cringy.
After all, the lyrics and music were cla.s.sics, and the System made them even more beautiful than the original version since everything that the System made was top-tier.
Listening to the song and watching the clips, the viewers felt as if they were sitting in the boat that was floating on West Lake. In the boat, the brisk male singing voice and the soft female singing voice drifted above the lake in a light drizzle. They seemed to be standing on the bank of West Lake and were watching the honest and dull scholar and the white-clothed woman who was holding an oil paper umbrella and had a charming smile on her face.
“Ugh? There’s a song at the end!” Su Tianji picked up a potato chip with her white and slender fingers, and she nibbled it very elegantly. She just bought one big bag.
She continued watching the highlight montages.
In fact, the old players were no strangers to these weird legends since they had encountered some in the Legend of the Sword and Fairy.
For example, in the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 1, a mountain G.o.d told Zhao Ling’er the story about Nuwa patching up the sky.
In this world, the memories and historical records about immortals and G.o.ds had been mostly lost in the long river of time. Only a few of them remained in the relics from the ancient times.
It was why these warriors and cultivators were drawn toward things that existed in the legends.
In these short video clips, they again encountered the fragments of legends that they had seen and heard in the Legend of the Sword and Fairy.
For some reason, they felt moved inside.
Eagerly, Su Tianji, Nalan Hongwu, and the others began watching the second episode.
“Bai Suzhen’s spiritual spells are so powerful?! She can even see people’s previous lives?!” The masters of the big families had just come down from the Corsair. Now, they all gathered together to watch the Legend of the White Snake.
“She can view what happened in a person’s previous lifetimes. Her skills in spiritual spells are indeed great!”
“This girl Little Qing likes to tease her big sister. Ugh? She is even playing tricks on Xu Xian as well! So naughty!” Jiang Xiaoyue was enjoying the TV Series a lot as well.
“Little Qing, what do you think?”
Mu Qing was a little confused. “Mm??? Ugh?”
Watching the story of a big demon who would soon become an immortal after cultivating for almost 2,000 years, the cultivators were curious about her life in the mortal world.
“How can she live among the mortals?” The Tang Family Master, Gu Tingyun, and the others looked astonished.
“A mortal married a big demon who had lived for almost 2,000 years?”
“Such things can happen?”
At this moment, they wished that they could become a mortal who took care of cattle in the mountains.
It wasn’t unusual for the cultivators to have over 2,000 years of cultivation strength. After all, Han Yue, the low-profiled independent cultivator, had cultivated more than 2,000 years.
However, comparisons between people induces anger and envy. The white snake in this story could soon become an immortal after cultivating for only about 2,000 years.
For the cultivators and warriors in this world, there wasn’t a clear definition and standard for immortals. In their mind, once a cultivator became an immortal, they could leave this world and ascend into another world.
However, even though the high-level cultivators of the Shu Mountain Faction in the Legend of the Sword and Fairy could travel to other realms, they were still not immortals. For example, Jing Tian in the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 3 even traveled to the Immortal Realm, but he wasn’t an immortal.
For the cultivators, immortals were just people who had reached the high realm that ordinary cultivators could never attain.
Likewise, the mortals also regarded cultivators as immortals.
Even though this woman in Legend of the White Snake easily used the spiritual spells that could summon wind and rain and move mountains to fill oceans, she was still outside the gate of the world of immortals.
Now, the cultivators began to have a deeper understanding of immortals.
The spiritual spells and cultivation methods shown in the TV Series in glimpses were quite beneficial to some of them.
For example, the big white deer kept looking at the screen. In this scene, the white snake changed into her human form.
“Why doesn’t it show the whole process to us?! That’s infuriating!”
They followed the white snake down the mountain and watched the many interesting incidents between Xu Xian, the scholar, and Bai Suzhen, the big snake who had lived for close to 2,000 years. The viewers were entertained.
Soon, they came to the part in which Bai Suzhen told Little Qing to steal silver from Qiantang Vault so that Xu Xian could have enough funds to open a pharmacy.
“It’s a piece of cake for a demon snake who has hundreds of years of cultivation strength to steal money from mortals!” Despite the fun they had while watching this incident, Sia and some other people of the Ultimate West Realm thought that it was a task too easy for them.
“I suddenly feel like it isn’t as interesting anymore…”
Nalan Hongwu also thought that the two big demons could easily get whatever they wanted in the mortal world.
“It looks too easy and relaxed…” The Tang Family Master shook his head, losing interest when he saw Little Qing moving silver from the vault with some small ghosts.
While they were hesitating if the TV Series was worthy of their time, they saw Li Gongpu complain to the Vault G.o.d in the picture that was hung on the window, “My lord, you must do something…”
Suddenly, the picture flew out and transformed into the Vault G.o.d. With a golden whip in his hand, he blocked Little Qing with heavenly soldiers.
“Oh-!” The people of the Ultimate West Realm who had felt a bit bored almost jumped up.
The Tang Family Master who had been hesitating if he should continue watching opened his mouth wide and gasped, “What’s this?!”
These people in this world were shocked and all froze.
At this moment, a brand-new world unraveled before them like a grand picture, revealing the tip of an iceberg. In this world, there were immortals and demons, and the human world was governed by G.o.ds.