Sounds 1

That one surgery was all the time Zhuan Shan had for his work today, and in a sense, it was already impressive that an elder would spend almost ten hours doing work. At least it was for Xiao Fan, who thought Zhuan Shan would want to use his time to do other things.

¨Does every elder spend so much time doing work for the sect?¨ Xiao Fan got curious and decided to ask.

¨Wait? What do you think¨ Zhuan Shan looked at him weirdly while both of them were walking the stairs leading out of the sickbay.

¨I'm just curious that is everyone in the sect this productive¨ Xiao Fan explained his question.

However, it would seem that this wasn't the thing Zhuan Shan was confused by, he was confused that shouldn't Xiao Fan already have the answer?

¨Do you see your master working much?¨ He noted.

Indeed, if everyone worked as much as Zhuan Shan, then Meng Chin's day time job would have to be sleeping or guarding her own house against intruders.

¨Oh, so you do so much work for?¨ Xiao Fan changed the question after noting how idiotic his first one had been.

And this time he got an actual answer to his question, for Zhuan Shan gave him a lecture that lasted till they needed to go separate ways.

¨When you are young. You want to go out and fight, and the stronger you get, the more you want to do it. It is just at some point you start noting that people who had gone with you begin to lessen¨

¨Lesses, and lessen, until you notice that you have two or three good friends who are still with you. Where did the others go? They died when you went to fight with them¨

¨When I realised that the only friend who I truly enjoyed to go out and fight anyone in the world was Fei Peng, I decided to stay inside the sect and leave fighting for others¨

Was the short version of his story.

Zhuan Shan told him a story, which Xiao Fan understood to be a warning and a grieving story how young people like him go out and fight simply for the thrill of it. And exactly like he had narrated he was doing the same, though he wanted to hide somewhere gain strength at a steady pace doing so was hard.

For who could handle the feeling of a breakthrough where you felt like a god amongst men? There was no explanation one simply wanted to go out or anywhere where one could bash some heads together, in that there was no deeper meaning. Well, the best explanation for that might be Qian Ki.

Qian Ki was a woman, who actively tried to get into fights, she loved them and yearned for them, the difference was how for her it was a constant feeling, as for others it only came up with frustration and with the feeling of power after a breakthrough. There was also a difference that Qian Ki's pressure was much higher than anyone else's, so when she did so, it needed to be done with a bang, not some small skirmish with a few men injured as a result.

¨Thank you for everything today!¨ Xiao Fan said to Zhuan Shan and his hand waived for him; currently, it was their time to walk different paths to home.

¨Try to remember what I said and think about it yourself¨ Zhuan Shan didn't say any goodbyes, only reminded him of his story and that there was a meaning inside of it.

Zhuan Shan, himself was sceptical if Xiao Fan had heeded his warning, so he had done so, it would be to his advantage if Xiao Fan wouldn't be going out taking those risky trips. Fei Peng telling his trip with Fei Sun was enough for him to fear that Xiao Fan like so many others would fall over dead somewhere one day.

Also like Fei Sun, Zhuan Shan was in the mind that Xiao Fan might not be a character made for solo travelling. Moreover, the man seemed to have no male friends? At the least he had had Fei Peng's and so many others back during his travel yet, he only had women? Weird, and not the winning strategy, he knew, as it could and would lead to some irrational thinking during the fighting.

Xiao Fan having walked someway alone shelved the idea of Zhuan Shan and going outside to fight, he had grasped that meaning, but not the other meaning that Zhuan Shan was concerned about.

Not understanding the slightest bit of brotherhood Xiao Fan continued his return to Meng Chin's courtyard without never bringing up this notion of having a male friend.

When at Meng Chin's place, he walked the path that was now cleaned into the building where he should find the owner of the house, and, well, his life currently. Weirdly, however, as he took a step inside the house, Meng Chin didn't call for him? Usually, this would be the last moment she would speak out from somewhere ordering him to do something.

However, not to let Xiao Fan be too excited from the thought of having some free time, he heard that someone was doing some odd-job inside the house. 'She is doing something and so hasn't noticed my presence?' He figured this should be the only reason.

'If so... I should use it to have a sneak peek' He thought that if given a chance he would go and try to sneak up on her, try, for the gap between them was so big that it shouldn't be possible. Still, hoping for it he sneaked inside the house towards the direction from which he heard, singing?

'Singing? Can she sing? I didn't know that' Xiao Fan remarked when the noise that was coming from the was loud enough that he could discern what it was.

Though from it, he only became more interested, and to maximise this opportunity, he stopped a few corners from where she should be. He didn't want to stop her from singing, for it was good, okay, he might not know much, but to his ears? It was good. Even when he turned his ears to work with extreme precision, the sound wasn't worsened, it actually became better?

'Singing can also be done so that only the ear of a cultivator can hear the correct version' He pondered around the corner listening to the melody that when concluded continued from the start again.

Indeed, he was right, for when he turned the power of his enhanced hearing off, he didn't hear every note, plus, now the melody would be broken without listening to it accurately enough.

Then when the pondering had finished Xiao Fan, of course, didn't get out and stop her, he listened to the song for one more time before deciding to continue with his sneaking operation.

Turning around the final corners, he felt that even if he wasn't making a single noise that Meng Chin would have heard him already, and it was a reasonable assumption. The body Reunion realm where she was got another hearing enhancement, so how did he know what her sound world was?

Assumptions aside, however, he had made his way just behind her singing on a balcony looking downwards into the lower sect and then the rest of the world. And as he had successfully gotten this far, it should be possible to surprise her completely.

To do this, he came behind her so that they were separated by one step from him, then as he was going over with his hands the leg that should take the last step took it, but it delivered it loud as feasible.

*Thump*

It was loud enough thump to be heard even by the neighbours, and high enough that Meng Chin was sent into a small shock from it. Surely it was the even better hearing of her which amplified this noise many folds.

Furthermore, that was the only thing scaring her, as he had leapt on her at the same moment when he had made that noise.

¨Bastard!¨ Meng Chin was still somehow the first one to react to his ambush, verbally by saying this.

Xiao Fan's ¨Got you¨ Really came, only after she had already spoken, and he was the ambushing side 'Scary reaction time' Was the only thing he thought of it, for now.

Nevertheless having her captured with his hands, Xiao Fan acted not too faced by her monstrous reaction speed ¨What? Someone got scared?¨ He taunted.

¨Who got scared? Do you want to know how loud that sound would be to you?¨ Meng Chin was disturbed by his sudden show, or the part of it which was still ringing inside of her head, as like mentioned before, for her it was a world-ending bang.

¨First, you got scared. Second, no thank you¨ He responded to her pouting accusations and then continued ¨You know how to sing?¨

Meng Chin slowly feeling the ringing noise going out of her head spoke something along the lines of ¨Of course, I can. Listen to this with your full hearing¨

Which he did.

However, doing so was a grave mistake since the woman was trying to make him go deaf with that high of a pitch. This time it was Xiao Fan being sound tortured by Meng Chin, who didn't even let him pick up his two hands from around her to cover his ears.

Thankfully, for Xiao Fan, she ¨sang¨ that noise only for a few seconds, yet those seconds had been like hours for Xiao Fan, who having no more power when coming out of it, wobbled to the bench she had been on the whole time.

¨At least I know what sound warfare is now, thank you, master I guess¨ He chuckled when he got his back leaning onto something.

¨Hah, that's what you get for trying to surprise your own master¨ She went along with his way of calling her master, well, for her, it was an easy decision since Xiao Fan literally called her master, which she definitely liked to hear more.

¨Tell me, is there a third level to that song?¨ Xiao Fan decided a question that would ease the situation a little.

¨Yeah, but I don't know the words for it¨ She spoke little regretfully.

¨You don't the song that you are singing?¨ Xiao Fan wasn't getting it, she sang the song, but she didn't know all the words for it? What type of trickery was that?

¨Singing has its own subculture here on the Ohin Continent. For you, it is easy to explain in terms of cultivation. You have noted that people are stuck in their cultivation because they don't know how to advance, correct?

Xiao Fan nodded. That was indeed the case.

¨The same thing applies to singing. I know how to sing the first level and second level of that song, the second level means that you can hear it, but you couldn't hear the third level¨

¨Where do you get the third level of the song? Someone hides it, or you need to pay for it? Because if its pay, I can pay¨ Xiao Fan reasoned that from what she had said.

¨You can't pay for the third level; it is the secret type¨ Meng Chin spoke, not too sad when talking about this anymore.

¨Why would someone keep a song in secret if one can make money by selling it? They get some moral high ground from having it only to themselves?¨

¨If you had listened to either song correctly while you were trying to ambush your master or just now you would have already grasped what those songs were doing. Moreover, it was only the second level of both¨

Confusion and frowning ensued from Xiao Fan, who for once was leaning onto Meng Chin, seeing as he was still down from of the song. The wolf he had fought against with Fei Sun had had a similar effect to him when shouting as her song had had now.

¨The sounds have power over cultivators¨ Meng Chin eased Xiao Fan's growing confusion.