Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun learned that Fairy Miaoyin sought a soulmate to perform in harmony with her and break the blockage between her constitution and the Immortal Sound Great Dao. He offered to help if they could find Luo Ya’s lost Soaring Heaven Flute Score, leaving Fairy Miaoyin excited by the possibility.

• Fairy Miaoyin explained that she remained in the pleasure house to resolve the conflict between her constitution and Great Dao and to seek a soulmate.
• She described an ancient method in which a flutist and qin player performed together to break established ideals and eliminate the blockage.
• Nie Yun recognized the method’s potential, while noting how difficult it would be to find a suitable flute player.
• Fairy Miaoyin said she planned to attract and nurture flute players, though finding one could take years or longer.
• Nie Yun said that finding Luo Ya’s Soaring Heaven Flute Score would let him complete the joint performance in three days, and Fairy Miaoyin excitedly asked if he was certain.

Nie Yun examined Fairy Miaoyin’s zither score to prove he could reach her level of musical cultivation, and his Immortal Sound Great Dao advanced significantly. He left the score’s illusion confident that the Soaring Heaven Flute Score could help him advance further.

• Fairy Miaoyin doubted Nie Yun could master the flute music in three days, so he asked to inspect her zither score and explain his understanding of the Immortal Sound Great Dao.
• Fairy Miaoyin lent Nie Yun her sect’s precious zither score after sealing the surrounding space.
• Nie Yun used his Heavenly Eye and Heavenly Ear Talent to enter the score’s Melody Illusion Realm and copied its contents into his Storage World.
• The copied insights advanced Nie Yun’s Immortal Sound Dantian from the fiftieth rank to seventeenth and deepened his understanding of the Great Dao.
• Nie Yun left the illusion and told Fairy Miaoyin he had finished reading the score.

Nie Yun quickly read Fairy Miaoyin’s qin score, but she accused him of boasting and ordered him to leave. When he played her self-composed piece, Forgetting All Sorrows, with uncanny accuracy, she realized he might truly have read and memorized the score.

• Nie Yun said he had finished reading Fairy Miaoyin’s qin score, and she accused him of boasting and told him not to return to Jade Pavilion.
• Nie Yun drew Fairy Miaoyin’s jade qin to himself and set it down using the Miaoyin Sect’s Three Styles of Dropping the Qin.
• Fairy Miaoyin recognized Nie Yun’s qin technique and reconsidered whether he was truly a qin master.
• Nie Yun played Forgetting All Sorrows, drawing Fairy Miaoyin into an illusion before she broke free.
• Fairy Miaoyin realized Nie Yun was playing her self-composed piece with matching pitch, timing, and rhythm, and wondered if he had memorized it from the score.

Nie Yun impressed Fairy Miaoyin by playing her zither score with extraordinary skill, then agreed to help her obtain the Soaring Heaven Flute Score. Fairy Miaoyin left Jade Pavilion to seek news of the score, while Nie Yun was surrounded by young masters eager to hear what had happened.

• Nie Yun played Forgetting All Sorrows so powerfully that its music lingered around the beams, stunning Fairy Miaoyin.
• Fairy Miaoyin asked about Nie Yun's flute music, and he promised to surpass his zither skill within three days if she found the Soaring Heaven Flute Score.
• Fairy Miaoyin explained that only a true inheritor of Luo Ya's flute music could obtain the score, exchanged communication jade talismans with Nie Yun, and asked him to search with her.
• Nie Yun left the pavilion, and Fairy Miaoyin told Xiao Shu she was leaving Jade Pavilion before flying away.
• Several young masters surrounded Nie Yun on the street and pressed him to tell them what Fairy Miaoyin had said and teach them his ways.

After escaping the crowd fascinated by his encounter with Fairy Miaoyin, Nie Yun returned to Ye Estate with Ye Tao and learned that Ye Xin had brought the Southern Heaven Medical Saint to apply for the vacant Venerable Grand Elder position. Ye Tao feared that the appointment would give his rival enough influence to block his claim to become the family heir.

• Nie Yun left Jade Pavilion with Zhuo Yang and Ye Tao, then told them Fairy Miaoyin had mistaken his qin skills for a sign that he was her soulmate.
• Nie Yun and Ye Tao returned to their residence, where Liu Hao reported that Ye Xin had brought someone to seek the Venerable Grand Elder position.
• Liu Hao identified Ye Xin's guest as the Southern Heaven Medical Saint, whom Nie Yun recognized as the famed physician who had challenged Xuanji Hall.
• Ye Tao explained that the Venerable Grand Elder could control the retainers and veto the Elder Council's decision to name him heir.

Nie Yun learned that Ye Tao had recruited him to help compete for the Ye Family heirship by treating the ailing old master. Nie Yun agreed to join the family as a retainer but refused a powerful title, and he suggested that curing the old master could settle the contest.

• Nie Tao explained that the Ye Family heirs were seeking Medical Masters because the old master's worsening condition threatened the family's stability and the heirship depended on finding a cure.
• Nie Yun agreed to become a Ye Family retainer, but declined Ye Tao's offer to recommend him as a Venerable Grand Elder.
• Ye Tao worried that Nie Yun's lack of reputation would prevent him from competing with Ye Xin's candidate, the Southern Heaven Medical Saint.
• Nie Yun pointed out that curing the old master could make the Venerable Grand Elder position easy to obtain.

Ye Tao learned that the Southern Heaven Medical Saint had a pill to ease the old master's pain and was seeking to become a Venerable Grand Elder, putting Ye Tao at a disadvantage. Nie Yun decided to seek Elder Yue's help to gain access to the old master, despite warnings about Yue's dangerous temperament.

• Liu Hao reported that the Southern Heaven Medical Saint had a pain-relieving pill and that the clan elders would decide on his application by the next day.
• Ye Tao worried that Ye Xin's swift moves had left him no time to prepare and was advised that he could not attend the elders' council.
• Nie Yun suggested examining the old master, but Ye Tao explained that visitors needed the family head's approval.
• Ye Tao named Elder Yue as the only person who could take them to the old master without restrictions.
• Nie Yun asked Ye Tao to take him to Elder Yue, and Ye Tao agreed after warning him to flee if Yue attacked.

Nie Yun and Ye Tao went to Elder Yue’s courtyard so Nie Yun could examine his chronic illness, but Dong Xin initially refused to let them see him. After hearing of Nie Yun’s medical reputation, she began to reconsider, while Liu Hao’s explanation of Nie Yun’s past treatment of Ye Tao left Ye Tao embarrassed.

• Nie Yun reassured Ye Tao that he could handle Elder Yue and agreed to visit him with Ye Tao and Liu Hao.
• Ye Tao explained that Dong Xin, Elder Yue’s adopted daughter, had planted the flowers in the courtyard and warned that she was strong.
• Dong Xin blocked the visitors and accused Nie Yun of being a fraudulent physician who would only worsen Elder Yue’s condition.
• Nie Yun argued that Dong Xin should let him examine Elder Yue, and she paused to consider his confidence and offer to investigate without giving medicine.
• Ye Tao and Liu Hao cited Nie Yun’s medical achievements, but Liu Hao’s mention of how Nie Yun treated Ye Tao’s poisoning made Ye Tao blush.

Nie Yun noticed a Moon Gazing Pearl Flower in Dong Xin’s courtyard and suspected someone had planted it to worsen Elder Yue’s illness. When Dong Xin confidently misidentified it as Pearl Grass, Nie Yun realized she did not know its true nature.

• Dong Xin agreed to take Nie Yun and Ye Tao to see Elder Yue, warning Nie Yun not to prescribe a harmful formula.
• Nie Yun recognized that the courtyard’s flowers were medicinal plants that could soothe the spirit and help calm Elder Yue.
• Nie Yun discovered a Moon Gazing Pearl Flower near a pavilion Elder Yue might visit and realized its scent could provoke his episodes.
• Nie Yun suspected the flower had been planted deliberately to harm Elder Yue, but doubted Dong Xin was responsible.
• Nie Yun asked Dong Xin what the flower was, and she said it was precious Pearl Grass, revealing that she had mistaken it.

Nie Yun examined Elder Yue, whose headaches and unexplained actions had resisted treatment, and found that his pulse suggested a healthy body. After examining Elder Yue’s eyes, Nie Yun’s face turned ashen, leaving his discovery unexplained.

• Nie Yun followed Dong Xin into the inner courtyard, where Elder Yue recognized him as a physician without turning around.
• Nie Yun offered to examine Elder Yue, who agreed to let him take his pulse despite doubting that the young physician could help.
• Nie Yun found Elder Yue’s pulse indicated no illness, drawing Dong Xin’s scorn and prompting Elder Yue to question how that explained his symptoms.
• Nie Yun examined Elder Yue’s eyes, then turned ashen after appearing to discover something.

Nie Yun diagnosed Elder Yue’s chronic illness as a Heart Demon Gu planted in his sea of consciousness, not the mind damage and memory hallucinations other physicians had suspected. As he explained that the Gu could survive its host and seize control of the body, Nie Yun suddenly recognized something that shocked him.

• Nie Yun asked what diagnoses Elder Yue’s previous physicians had given, and Elder Yue said Medical Saint Jiu Hua and others had blamed the illness on an injury to his mind.
• Nie Yun rejected that explanation and asked whether Elder Yue had fought an expert skilled in heart demons before his illness began three thousand years earlier.
• Elder Yue said he had never fought Heart Demon Great Emperor or the other renowned heart demon experts, though Heart Demon Great Emperor had descendants.
• Nie Yun concluded that someone had planted a Heart Demon Gu in Elder Yue’s sea of consciousness, causing periodic madness and attacks on his soul.
• Nie Yun explained that the Heart Demon Gu could survive its host and take control of the body, then abruptly stopped speaking in shock.

Nie Yun used a medical technique to examine Elder Yue and revealed a small, demonic figure hidden in the elder’s head, supporting his claim that Elder Yue had been infected by Heart Demon Gu. Dong Xin remained doubtful even after seeing it.

• Nie Yun said he could prove the existence of Heart Demon Gu, and Dong Xin brought him a jade bowl of water.
• Nie Yun used Elder Yue’s blood and a medical Great Dao technique to form a reflective image of the elder’s body in the water.
• Elder Yue recognized Nie Yun’s technique as the legendary medical Qi Gazing Method and explained how it revealed the balance of a person’s body.
• Nie Yun led the group into the pavilion, where the water in the bowl churned and the image of Elder Yue’s head became chaotic.
• A tiny, pitch-black demonic face appeared inside the image of Elder Yue’s head, but Dong Xin still suggested Nie Yun might have fabricated it.

Nie Yun used Golden Needles to suppress Elder Yue’s Heart Demon Gu when it threatened to flare up, then explained that it could be cured through gradual treatment. Elder Yue agreed to take Nie Yun to see the old master, whose health was also failing.

• As the little devil in the jade basin grew stronger, Elder Yue began suffering the onset of a Heart Demon Gu backlash.
• Nie Yun refused to leave and injected Golden Needles into Elder Yue’s head, suppressing the illness before it fully erupted.
• Elder Yue recovered, and he and Dong Xin realized Nie Yun had saved him, though the effort left Nie Yun exhausted.
• Elder Yue lent Nie Yun his power to help him recover, then asked whether the Heart Demon Gu could be cured.
• Nie Yun said Elder Yue’s illness required gradual treatment, and Dong Xin offered him any request if he could cure it.
• Nie Yun asked to examine the old master, and Elder Yue agreed to take him there.

Nie Yun diagnosed Elder Yue with a Heart Demon Gu, prescribed daily medicine and acupuncture, and warned him that the Moon Gazing Pearl Flower in the courtyard had stirred the Gu. Elder Yue agreed to hide the treatment and investigate who planted it, then noticed that Nie Yun was unfazed by his killing intent.

• Nie Yun gave Elder Yue a prescription and said daily acupuncture and medicine should cure him in about half a month.
• Nie Yun identified Dong Xin's plant as a Moon Gazing Pearl Flower and explained that it had provoked Elder Yue's Heart Demon Gu.
• Dong Xin said she had obtained the plant from the Southern Heaven Medical Saint's master, and Elder Yue added that the Medical Saint had once cultivated under Old Immortal Nanhua.
• Nie Yun warned Elder Yue not to let the person who planted the Gu discover its removal, and Elder Yue said he would ask the old master to block the Gu's connection and investigate its source.
• Elder Yue released a fierce killing intent, then noticed Nie Yun remained completely calm.

Nie Yun accompanied Elder Yue to the old master's residence, where Ye Xin had barred entry while the Southern Heaven Medical Saint treated him. Ye Xin recognized Nie Yun as Ye Tao's physician and tried to make them wait outside.

• Elder Yue praised Nie Yun's composure and took him to see the old master, leaving Dong Xin and Ye Tao behind.
• Two guards stopped Elder Yue and Nie Yun at the courtyard gate, citing Ye Xin's orders and the Medical Saint's treatment.
• Elder Yue forced his way past the guards, and one guard hurried to notify Ye Xin.
• Ye Xin met Elder Yue and Nie Yun inside the courtyard, recognized Nie Yun's name, and asked them to wait until the Medical Saint finished treating the old master.

Elder Yue defended Nie Yun against Ye Xin and his guards, then led him into the hall where the Southern Heaven Medical Saint was examining the old master. Nie Yun arrived just as the examination continued, while Ye Xin followed with anger concealed.

• Ye Xin tried to stop Elder Yue and Nie Yun from entering, warning that disturbing the old master could bring serious consequences.
• Elder Yue struck both guards with a swift slap and sealed their mouths after they threatened Nie Yun.
• Elder Yue forced Ye Xin to clear the corridor, and Nie Yun followed him inside while Ye Xin suppressed his fury and came after them.
• Nie Yun reached the hall and saw the old master seated with his eyes closed as the Southern Heaven Medical Saint checked his pulse.

Nie Yun warned that the Southern Heaven Medical Saint's tonic could worsen the old master's Senile Decay Sickness, despite the physician's confidence in his diagnosis and treatment. The Southern Heaven Medical Saint challenged Nie Yun to a bet over whether the pill would harm the old master.

• The Southern Heaven Medical Saint diagnosed the old master's condition as Senile Decay Sickness and offered pills to ease his pain and slow his aging.
• Nie Yun recognized that a powerful tonic could harm someone with Senile Decay Sickness and stopped the old master from taking the pill.
• Elder Yue introduced Nie Yun as the physician who had cured his chronic headaches, earning the old master's interest.
• The Southern Heaven Medical Saint angrily defended his medicine, and Nie Yun warned that it could cause weakness unable to accept tonics.
• The Southern Heaven Medical Saint challenged Nie Yun to bet on whether the pill would harm the old master.

Nie Yun warned that the Southern Heaven Medical Saint’s One Breath Returning Yuan Pill was too potent for the frail old gentleman, but the old gentleman trusted the famous physician and swallowed it. The chapter ended before anyone knew how the pill affected him.

• The Southern Heaven Medical Saint challenged Nie Yun to let the old gentleman take the pill and test its effects.
• Nie Yun identified the pill as a One Breath Returning Yuan Pill and warned that its powerful surge of Origin Energy could harm someone frail with Senile Decay Sickness.
• The Southern Heaven Medical Saint argued that the old gentleman’s strong cultivation made the pill safe, while the old gentleman chose to trust him over Nie Yun.
• When the old gentleman’s illness flared up, the Southern Heaven Medical Saint urged him to take the pill, and the old gentleman swallowed it.

Nie Yun tried to examine the old man's pulse after the Southern Heaven Medical Saint's pill unexpectedly eased his illness, but Ye Xin and the Medical Saint persuaded the old man to refuse. Nie Yun used the Qi Gazing Method as the old man left and discovered why the pill had helped, though the effort left him weakened.

• The Southern Heaven Medical Saint's pill quickly restored the old man's breathing and complexion, prompting Ye Xin to request that he be appointed an honorary Venerable Grand Elder of the Ye Family.
• Nie Yun asked to perform Pulse Diagnosis, but Ye Xin and the Southern Heaven Medical Saint accused him of ulterior motives and warned the old man against the examination.
• The old man refused Nie Yun's request, declared the Southern Heaven Medical Saint qualified for the honorary position, and ordered Chanyue to make the arrangements.
• Nie Yun used the Qi Gazing Method to inspect the old man as he walked away and realized the pill was letting him drink poison to quench his thirst.

After the Southern Heaven Medical Saint secured the Venerable Grand Elder position and the old master refused Nie Yun a chance to examine him, Nie Yun decided to leave Ye Estate rather than become entangled in the Ye Family’s conflict. Elder Yue gave Nie Yun a valuable property on Pu Tian Avenue, and Nie Yun departed with Dong Xin to inspect it.

• Elder Yue learned that Nie Yun had exhausted himself using the Qi Gazing Method, and they returned to his courtyard.
• Elder Yue and Ye Tao told Nie Yun that the Southern Heaven Medical Saint had won the Venerable Grand Elder position and that Nie Yun had not been allowed to examine the old master.
• Nie Yun declined Elder Yue’s offer to become a Consecration Elder and announced that he would leave Ye Estate.
• Elder Yue gave Nie Yun his vacant property on Pu Tian Avenue, which Nie Yun accepted.
• Elder Yue asked Dong Xin to show Nie Yun the property, and Nie Yun left Ye Estate with her by carriage.