Chapter 571: This Drama Has More Than Just the Theme Song

At this very moment, the other cultivators and warriors watching The Legend of the White Snake happened to reach this exact scene.

An episode had come to its end, and a group of people from the Ultimate West Realm, such as Thea and her companions, who had originally only intended to test how this new series in the shop fared, now found themselves involuntarily drawn into this wondrous and bizarre world.

"Ah ya ya! How can this episode just end here!"

Immediately following their cries, a strain of singing drifted through the air.

These cultivators and warriors, who but a moment ago sat before their computer chairs watching the drama, took off their virtual headsets and exchanged looks; at this time, including the few individuals from the Ultimate West Realm, their minds were entirely echoing with "Ah-haha~ Ah-haha~"

...

Just as Su Tianji feared there would be no next episode, she suddenly caught sight of what followed...

Could there actually be fragment after fragment appearing?

It looked just like those brilliant cinematic highlights shown during the esports tournaments held by Boss Fang.

"How can there be such a thing?" she muttered, quickly focusing her attention to watch intently once more.

Zhuge Yu was also watching The Legend of the White Snake, accompanied by Fairy Qingyun.

"I asked the boss," Fairy Qingyun spoke up, "The boss said that those exceptionally brilliant clips shown when the tournaments begin are called edited highlights. Who would have thought that this Legend of the White Snake would have them too?"

Originally, taking the perspective of a great demon who had cultivated for over one thousand seven hundred years and was on the verge of achieving her immortal fruit was already immensely attractive to these cultivators. Now, seeing these subsequent fragments—the fleeting glimpses of bones returning to life, the eerie Black and White Impermanence, heavenly soldiers and divine generals, gods, immortals, ghosts, and monsters—Zhuge Yu’s eyes stared completely straight: "How incredible..."

"I wonder who penned these lyrics," Fairy Qingyun remarked in astonishment. "Spring rain is like wine, willows like smoke... looking closely, it possesses such a profound artistic conception. Merged with this beautiful scenery of West Lake and the March spring breeze, it does not feel the least bit inappropriate."

Although the System’s version of The Legend of the White Snake had completely restored all the emotions, scenery, and spells within the drama, the plot itself was still primarily based on the most classic version from before Fang Qi’s transmigration. Fang Qi had not expected that the System would even include the ending theme song, and furthermore...

"After listening to it once, it seems it doesn't feel out of place at all?!"

After all, the lyrics and melody themselves were classics, and a product of the System was a masterpiece among masterpieces.

Listening to the melody and watching the drama at this moment felt as if one were boating upon West Lake; within the cabin, the hearty singing of a man and the soft, beautiful voice of a woman echoed across the mist-shrouded lake surface. This scene and setting made it feel, for a moment, as if one were truly standing by the edge of West Lake, catching sight of that honest and simple scholar and that white-robed lady who carried an oil-paper umbrella, smiling with charming grace.

"Oh? How is there still a song?!" On Su Tianji’s desk sat a large, newly purchased bag of potato chips. Her fair, slender fingers pinched a chip and took a bite, eating with extreme elegance. At this moment, having finished listening to "Crossing Sentiment," she continued to listen to "Waiting for a Thousand Years."

In passing, she continued to watch the wave of highlights.

In truth, regarding these bizarre and fantastic legends, some old players had heard a fair share of them back in The Legend of Sword and Fairy.

For instance, in Sword and Fairy 1, a mountain god had told Zhao Ling'er the legend of "Nüwa Mending the Heavens."

In this world, matters regarding immortals and gods were already tales of a past lost for countless eons, mostly buried within the long river of time; only in those extremely rare, occasionally preserved ruins could one glimpse a single brick or a shard of tile.

Hence, there arose a deep yearning for the things of legend.

And those fragmented scales and claws of legends heard and seen in The Legend of Sword and Fairy were actually seen again in these fleeting, flashing clips...

For no reason at all, a strange, inexplicable throb stirred within their hearts.

Su Tianji, Nalan Hongwu, and the others could not wait to begin watching the second episode.

"The spells of this Bai Suzhen are actually so powerful?! She can even view a person’s past lives?!" Several clan heads had only just stepped off the "Pirate Ship" today, so they naturally had free time to come to the shop. At this moment, they were all gathered together, watching The Legend of the White Snake with rapt attention, letting out bursts of exclamations.

"She can even view several lifetimes; her attainment in spells is actually so incredibly high!"

"This Xiaoqing just loves to tease her elder sister. Hey? She’s playing tricks on Xu Xian again, how mischievous!" Over on Jiang Xiaoyue’s side, she was also watching with immense delight.

"Xiaoqing, wouldn't you say so?"

Mu Qing: "Hmm??? Ah?"

These cultivators were not merely curious about what would happen in the mortal realm to a great demon with nearly two thousand years of cultivation who was about to become an immortal; they were even more curious about...

"How is she supposed to get along with a mortal..." At this time, the head of the Tang Family, Gu Tingyun, and the others all watched with faces full of wonder.

"A mortal actually becomes husband and wife with a great demon who has lived for nearly two thousand years?"

"To think such a thing could happen?"

At this very moment, they desperately wished to be a mortal, to run up into the mountains and try herding a cow.

Nearly two thousand years of cultivation was no great matter; take a certain low-profile rogue cultivator like Han Yue, who possessed over two thousand years himself.

But comparing people only brought vexation; she, with nearly two thousand years, already had hope of becoming an immortal.

What was an immortal? To the cultivators and warriors of this world, there was no established standard. In their cognition, reaching that realm allowed one to break away from this world and ascend to another.

But in truth, the high-cultivation Shushan Sect cultivators in The Legend of Sword and Fairy could likewise traverse other realms, and Jing Tian had even been to the Immortal Realm, yet he was not an immortal either.

Perhaps to them, it had long since become a collective term for those realms of superior experts that were visible yet unattainable.

It was the same principle as mortals viewing cultivators as immortals.

And now, looking at the spells displayed so casually in this Legend of the White Snake—spells that called forth wind and rain, or moved mountains and filled seas—they themselves had still not even stepped across the threshold of an "immortal."

Only thus did they gain a more profound understanding of the word "immortal."

And the glimpses of spells and methods of cultivation revealed within were clearly of considerable assistance to a certain segment of people.

For example, a certain large white deer.

Staring unblinkingly at the white snake transforming into human shape, it muttered, "Why won't they show the whole thing! It’s vexing this deer to death!"

They followed the story all the way from the white snake descending the mountain, watching the amusing tales of the bookish Xu Xian getting along with Bai Suzhen, this thousand-year-old great snake demon, and could not help but find it quite entertaining.

Soon, they saw Bai Suzhen, in order to help Xu Xian open a medicine shop due to a lack of funds, command Xiaoqing to steal the silver from the Qiantang treasury.

"For a snake demon with several centuries of cultivation to take the silver of a mere mortal, is it not as easy as reaching into a pocket?!" Although it was entertaining to watch, a few people from the Ultimate West Realm, such as Thea, felt this was far too simple, a matter with absolutely no difficulty whatsoever.

"Suddenly, it doesn't feel as interesting anymore..."

Seeing this, Nalan Hongwu also felt that with these two great demons coming to the mortal realm among a crowd of mortals, would they not command the wind and summon the rain at their whim?

"This is a bit too leisurely..." The head of the Tang Family shook his head, watching Xiaoqing lead several small ghosts to frantically carry away the treasury silver, and his interest suddenly waned by a large margin.

Just as they were hesitating whether or not to continue watching, they saw before their eyes Li Gongfu complain to the Treasury God hanging on the window: "You old senior ought to manage things a little..."

At this very moment, they suddenly saw the hanging portrait fly out, transforming into a Treasury God holding a golden whip, leading heavenly soldiers to block the path before Xiaoqing!

"Oh—!" The group of people from the Ultimate West Realm, who had just been thinking it was no longer interesting, practically jumped up.

The head of the Tang Family, who had just been hesitating whether to keep watching, widened his mouth: "It can even be like this?!"

These people from another world were all frozen on the spot, completely struck with awe.

At this moment, this world where immortals and demons coexisted, and where divine spirits governed the order of the mortal realm, also revealed a corner of its iceberg before them like a grand and magnificent scroll.