ILSITM Chapter 39

“Collect!”
Several people holding gourds pointed the gourd openings at the black fish demon and shouted.
However, these gourds seemed to have lost their magic power and couldn’t do anything to the black fish demon. These people couldn’t help but take two steps back.
Old Lin stood at the front. When he was only ten meters away from the black fish demon, he put a bamboo flute to his lips and began to play.
I can play the bamboo flute and have also heard modern flute players perform, but I feel that the flute music played by Old Lin is somewhat different.
The flute music is melodious like celestial music, crisp and cheerful, making people feel like they are bathed in the spring breeze, as if welcoming distant friends, as if calling good companions. Listening to it is like washing away the dust and dirt, and you don’t know where you are in a trance. It also feels like the flute music is suddenly erratic in the night sky.
I don’t know when, the flute sound suddenly changed, from high-pitched and bright to low and lingering, like weeping, like a jade beauty singing softly, like a wanderer longing for home, moving the listeners.
After not seeing him for many days, Old Lin has a bit more of an ethereal, otherworldly air about him.
The black fish demon stopped about ten meters away from Old Lin and didn’t move forward anymore, as if it was intoxicated, or as if it had been fixed in place by Old Lin’s magic.
Why did they call this dark mass a black fish demon? Is it because this thing looks like a black fish?
This dark mass is an oval, three meters high, and about two meters long and wide, like a mixture of mud and gas.
While listening to Old Lin playing the bamboo flute, I also observed that this dark mass seemed to be gradually shrinking.
It seemed to be slowly melting, turning into a clear spring, flowing on the village road, shining and sparkling under the light of the torches.
The accumulated water on the village road became more and more, and finally flowed into the small river next to it.
This sparkling water, after flowing into the small river, transformed into black fish fry.
These fish fry happily wagged their tails in the small river and swam towards the upper reaches of the river.
Before long, the black fish demon completely melted into a clear spring, then flowed into the small river, transforming into black fish fry.
Old Lin stopped playing.
When everyone saw that the black fish demon had been melted by Old Lin’s flute music, they were pleasantly surprised and rushed forward to thank Old Lin.
At this time, the east was already showing the white of the fish’s belly.
The villagers invited Old Lin and the three of us to be guests in their homes, but Old Lin refused them all.
Old Lin said that the fifteenth day of the seventh month was in a few days, and he had to rush to subdue demons and eliminate monsters in these few days. Otherwise, after the fifteenth day of the seventh month, these demons and ghosts would be difficult to deal with.
After the villagers dispersed, Old Lin looked at the three of us and said, “I’m going to take you to a bamboo forest now.”
“Old Lin, are you going to take us to subdue demons and eliminate monsters? Apart from Tian Dong, who is a martial arts expert and can help, I and Wen Rourou are afraid that we can only be a hindrance,” Old Zhang said with a chuckle.
Old Lin smiled, noncommittal.
With a single leap, Old Lin flew into the air.
Old Lin waved to us in mid-air.
“This Old Lin is really amazing, he can actually fly,” Wen Rourou said with a smile.
“Why don’t we try it too,” I said, and then jumped into the air.
Incredibly, I actually lifted my legs off the ground and flew into the air.
Wen Rourou and Old Zhang looked up at me from below, both feeling incredible.
“Shifu, I just jumped up, how did I suddenly fly into the sky? Did you control it?” I asked with a smile.
“I didn’t even have time to control you, and you already took the lead and ascended to heaven in one step,” Old Lin said with a hearty laugh.
“If I want to fly from the sky to the ground, how should I do it?” I asked, looking at Old Lin, who was only a few steps away from me in the air.
“Move your body as you wish,” Old Lin replied concisely.
After preparing to descend from the sky, I silently recited the word “descend” in my heart, and sure enough, I flew to the ground all at once.
When Old Zhang and Wen Rourou saw that I could switch freely between the sky and the ground in just a short while, they applauded for me.
“Come on, you two try it too. How do you know you can’t do it if you don’t try?” I encouraged Old Zhang and Wen Rourou.
I hooked my left arm around Old Zhang and my right arm around Wen Rourou, and the three of us jumped up at the same time, and we all flew into the air at the same time.
Old Zhang and Wen Rourou were a little scared when they suddenly flew into the air, but they were also very excited.
“It turns out that the three of us have already cultivated into immortals. Not to mention riding the clouds and driving the fog, even subduing demons and eliminating monsters is a piece of cake, but we just didn’t know how powerful we were,” I said with a chuckle.
After I said this, Old Zhang and Wen Rourou also gained confidence and quickly mastered “moving their bodies as they wished”, following Old Lin and soaring freely in the air like birds.
After flying in the air for a while, we saw a vast bamboo forest below.
Old Lin took us down to the bamboo forest, saying that he was going to make a magic weapon for each of us.
Of course, it would be more accurate to say that it was a musical instrument rather than a magic weapon.
Old Zhang liked to play the xiao, so he took half a bamboo stalk, chiseled a few holes, and made a xiao.
Wen Rourou liked the tone of the hulusi, so she used several bamboo tubes and a gourd to make a hulusi.
I used more bamboo tubes and tied them together to make a simple sheng.
The musical instruments we made were all instruments that we knew how to play.
Because the hulusi and sheng also needed reeds, Old Lin took us to a copper smelting workshop and asked the shop assistants for a thin copper sheet.
Then he asked him to cut the copper sheet into more than a dozen reeds. One reed was stuck on the hulusi’s blowpipe, and the other reeds were used on my sheng pipes.
After the musical instruments were made, we returned to the bamboo forest and began to try playing them.
We are no longer mortals, and the air blown into the musical instruments is all immortal energy.
Because the music is blown out with immortal energy, this kind of music is naturally immortal music, and it is naturally different.
Old Lin said that the musical instruments in our hands are magic weapons for subduing demons and eliminating monsters.
Every note we play carries immortal energy, like a bullet, which can effectively strike demons and ghosts.
“What kind of tune should we play when we encounter demons and ghosts?” Wen Rourou asked, looking at Old Lin.
“There is no good or bad tune. No matter what type of tune, it can subdue demons and eliminate monsters,” Old Lin said affirmatively.
Wen Rourou nodded.
“However, demons are divided into large and small. If you want to subdue a large demon, you must increase your magic power,” Old Lin continued.
“Then how can I increase my magic power?” Wen Rourou continued to ask.
“You can increase your magic power by playing a piece of music to perfection,” Old Lin replied seriously.
“Of course, we also need to practice ensemble. Only ensemble can maximize the effect of subduing demons and eliminating monsters,” Old Lin said, looking at us thoughtfully.
After we each played a few of our best solo pieces, Old Lin led us to play two ensemble pieces. Although the level of tacit understanding was not very high, we could feel that the bamboo forest was filled with a powerful aura.
While everyone was immersed in the sound of the ensemble music, they suddenly heard a strange laughter in the air.

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