Chapter 1266: Chapter 1058: That Moment Is Just Like This Moment

“No!”

“What is this rhythm!”

“It’s Nocturne again!”

“From triplets to sixths, then from sixths to octaves!”

“At least eight Nocturnes, maybe even more!?”

“Is this the Blue Songlympics?”

“Are you sure this isn’t Xian Yu’s concert?”

“Not just a concert, but a special event dedicated to Nocturnes!”

“Ah!”

“Crazy!”

It really is crazy!

Everyone has gone mad!

The showdown between Abigail and Yang Zhongming, how many days have people been looking forward to this, but now with Xian Yu’s sniping, is it possible that the Middle State contestants won’t even make it to the finals!?

Fuck!

This is beyond outrageous; it’s like outrageous opened the door to its granny’s house and went straight in!

…

The Middle State live broadcast room.

The whole room felt as if it had frozen over, none of the four commentators said a word, feeling the piercing chill in the air.

The two guest coaches from Middle State looked at each other with the same dumbfounded expression.

Only the barrage of comments remained explosive.

“Can someone tell me what the hell this actually is!”

“Have all these people gone mute?”

“Commentators, will you die if you say something?”

“The two Master Bishops, stop playing dead!”

“Why?”

“I can’t take this anymore!”

“Is there no fighting spirit at all?”

Amidst the explosion of comments from Middle State, Zhang Mei finished her performance.

The judges began scoring.

Zhang Mei, 96.9 points!

Higher than Gu Xi and Nie Yan!

At this moment, the entire Middle State’s live broadcast room despaired!

Even a fool could understand that if Xian Yu really had more than eight Nocturnes, and each maintained this quality, then Middle State might really not make it into the finals!

This point.

The Middle State commentators and guests all understood, yet they couldn’t bring themselves to say it, how could they utter such words?

“This is only the first round.”

“That’s right, only the first round.”

“There are eight spots for advancing in the first round!”

“Let’s wait and see the outcome in the second round!”

“Don’t lose heart!”

“We can’t be discouraged!”

“There will definitely be hope!”

Finally, commentators and guests started speaking up, despite being on the edge of their luck, but what else could they do?

…

Finally.

The first round has ended.

According to the Blue Songlympics rules.

Eight contestants advanced to the second round.

All three of the Qin Continent’s contestants advanced, and they advanced with the top three scores!

Two contestants from Middle State advanced.

However, neither of these two Middle State contestants scored above ninety-five points in the first round, their performance far behind the three from Qin Continent.

Fortunately.

The competition is not over yet.

The second round of the women’s piano solo has just begun.

At this moment.

People of Middle State at least still held a few hopes.

What if the Qin Continent’s contestants make mistakes?

What if Middle State’s contestants explode under adversity?

What if the quality of the following Nocturnes declines?

Backing up ten thousand steps!

So what if we lose the women’s piano solo?

Isn’t there still the men’s piano solo competition afterward?

No matter how many Nocturnes Xian Yu writes, could she still dominate every single piece in both events!?

At this moment.

The drawing for the second round begins.

Gu Xi draws the second lot.

Zhang Mei and Nie Yan respectively draw the fifth and eighth lots.

As the first contestant of the second round finishes playing, Gu Xi once again steps onto the stage and sits down at the piano.

…

Thump thump thump!

Abigail could hear her own heartbeat.

All the Maestros from all continents fixated their gaze on the stage.

Every broadcast room also stared intently at the big screen.

Suddenly!

Everyone looked on in shock!

Displayed on the big screen on stage was the piece information:

Piece: Nocturne in C Minor (Final of the series, Nocturne Twenty-One)

Composer: Xian Yu

Performer: Gu Xi

Final piece, Nocturne Twenty-One!

This was a number that drove everyone to despair!

Abigail’s vision darkened, feeling the world spinning around her!

…

Onsite!

The live broadcast room!

The coaching teams from all continents!

Countless people were dumbfounded!

“The finale!”

“Twenty-one!?”

“Nocturne series totaling twenty-one pieces!?”

“Doesn’t that mean the men’s solo piano competition will be overrun by Nocturnes too!?”

“What’s even the point of competing anymore!?”

“What happened to the anticipated showdown between Yang Zhongming and Abigail?”

“What happened to the battle of the titans they promised us?”

“If all the Nocturnes have this quality, the Middle State contestants might as well pack up and go home now!”

“But the thing is, all the Nocturne series that appeared so far are of that caliber!”

“Are you sure it’s not just a bluff?”

“If there are twenty-one pieces of this quality!?”

Doomed!

Is this even a proper way to compete?

Xian Yu is simply disregarding the martial ethics!

Using all Nocturnes for the piano category!

Such a strategy is indeed formidable, but do you know nothing else besides the Nocturne genre, monopolizing with one trick?

And yet.

No one can crack this move!

Nocturne is a new classical piano genre created by Xian Yu, a genre he personally conceived and has thoroughly mastered!

…

On the stage.

Gu Xi starts to perform.

It’s still the uncompromising quality of Nocturne.

The same genre, yet with distinctive characteristics.

In fact, even though Chopin’s series of Nocturne works are consistent in genre, their content is extremely varied, never exhibiting stylistic redundancy–such is the power of Earth’s top piano masters!

Following Gu Xi.

Zhang Mei does the same.

Zhang Mei plays the Nocturne in G Major, the twelfth in the series, inspired by Chopin during a sea voyage, replete with the sensation of the ship’s movements and the shimmering water, like a helmsman’s song.

Nie Yan is no different.

Nie Yan performs the Nocturne in F-Sharp Major, based on the tempo of a lullaby in ternary form, with a central section resembling a fantasy.

After these three competitors finish.

The contestants from Zhong Continent exchange glances, seeing in each other’s eyes helplessness and regret–their competition is over.

Indeed, it is over.

The second round has ended.

Gu Xi, Zhang Mei, and Nie Yan, the trio, enter the finals, filling up all three spots, even using Nocturnes for the entire final.

Ultimately, Zhang Mei wins the championship.

Nie Yan takes the silver medal.

Gu Xi claims the bronze medal.

The women’s piano solo finals turned completely into an internal competition for Qin Continent!

…

The coaching team of Zhong Continent.

Watching the situation deteriorate irreversibly, Abigail trembles, so frustrated she almost wants to vomit blood!

“Xian Yu!”

Abigail hisses these two words through clenched teeth!

The surrounding main coaches of Zhong Continent want to comfort Abigail but don’t know where to start, their hearts equally shattered!

Who could have foreseen this?

In the women’s piano category, Yang Zhongming never even made a move, and Abigail’s pieces didn’t even get a chance to be showcased!

It was all Xian Yu!

All Nocturnes!

The Blue Songlympics was competed for eighteen days, through a total of one hundred and eight categories, and not a single category had seen anything like this!

Women’s piano solo.

This Xian Yu alone monopolized all of Qin Continent’s competition pieces, securing the advancement of all three contestants into the finals, so that the category turned into an internal battle for Qin Continent!

“This is stifling!”

“So goddamn stifling!”

“Although the quality of Xian Yu’s three final pieces is high, the piece prepared by our head coach, ‘The Return,’ is clearly stronger than those three!”

“And yet, our contestants didn’t even make it to the finals!”

“Without reaching the finals, there’s no chance to perform the piece from Head Coach Abigail!”

“Eh.”

“Had I known earlier, I would’ve had the contestants play ‘The Return’ in the second round!”

“It’s meaningless!”

“If they played the head coach’s piece in the second round, what would we use for the finals?”

“Unsolvable!”

“Now is not the time to fret over this issue. We need to think about how to approach the men’s final. Xian Yu is bound to continue bringing out the Nocturne series– he has a whole twenty-one of them, enough for two events. Therefore, we must find a way to counter this move!”

“There’s no way around it.”

“Unless Chris performs beyond expectation and squeezes into the third round with sheer skill, the quality of the Nocturnes is just too high.”

In the midst of this fervent discussion.

Abigail gradually calmed her emotions.

She took a deep breath, then said: “We can’t pin our hopes on the players exceeding expectations. For the men’s piano solo, have Chris play ‘The Return’ in the second round. Although he hasn’t practiced it much, I believe in his ability.”

“Eh?”

“Right!”

Everyone had a moment of realization!

We had just fallen into a thinking trap.

Because the Middle State side hadn’t anticipated that none of our female contestants would make it to the finals.

In our envisioned scenario:

Abigail and Yang Zhongming would confront each other in the women’s competition, and then again in the men’s solo piano.

Who could have foreseen the current predicament?

If the final piece prepared for the women’s group is not used, wouldn’t that mean Chris from the men’s group could play that piece in the second round?

Besides ‘The Return’.

Abigail had also prepared a piece for Chris for the finals, implying that Chris also had the capital to contend with ‘Nocturne’ in the finals!

…

Others, of course, were not privy to the Middle State coaching team’s decision.

When the Qin Continent’s women’s piano division concluded, the related discussions on the internet had already exploded!

“Middle State is done for!”

“Qin Continent’s internal competition secures all three medals!”

“Father Yang didn’t even intend to make a move!”

“Xian Yu’s battle is destined to shock the world!”

“Say, doesn’t this scene feel familiar to you all?”

“You mean?”

“The first day of the Blue Songlympics!”

“Back then, in the bel canto category, Middle State wreaked havoc, seizing all the gold medals on the first day, even the weakest contestant from Middle State surpassed the strongest from other continents!”

“Now that you mention it, it’s true!”

“That day, even Qin Continent was left scrambling to pick up their teeth after Middle State’s beating!”

“That day was all about Middle State, the entire Qin Continent despaired, actually, all the continents despaired. The celebrated Land of Music was powerless before Middle State, as insignificant as chickens and dogs.”

“Today, the same scene is replayed.”

“That moment then is like this moment now.”

“The difference is that this time, the leading role is no longer Middle State, the positions on both sides have reversed, Middle State is experiencing what Qin Continent felt that day.”

Indeed.

The last day of the Blue Songlympics.

Yet the audience dreams back to the first day.

Not just the audience from all continents.

Even the Maestros on site thought of the first day of the Blue Songlympics.

The Middle State of that day is the Qin Continent of today, swallowing the mountains and rivers, reigning supreme over all.

And all of this now seems like a dream of yesterday.

Does this scene indicate a reversal of roles–

Is Qin Continent, this Land of Music, slowly taking over Middle State’s position in Blue Star’s music realm?