Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin followed Shi Mo from Haotian Tower’s Yunzhou City branch to an abandoned ruin, where they learned he had been helping a hidden group. The group promised to make him the branch’s true power holder if he attended Emperor Lord Yunhua’s birthday celebration and spoke in their favor.

• Nie Yun persuaded Fairy Miaoyin to help him follow the young man who had caused trouble at his shop, and they waited for him to leave Haotian Tower’s branch.
• Fairy Miaoyin recognized the man as Shi Mo, a branch official she had once driven away from Jade Pavilion.
• Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin secretly followed Shi Mo through the city to an abandoned ruin, where he waited for a contact.
• A black shadow confronted Shi Mo about the failed scheme against Nie Yun, and Shi Mo insisted the failure was not his fault.
• The black shadow told Shi Mo to attend Emperor Lord Yunhua’s birthday celebration in one month and speak in his master’s favor, promising him control of the branch if he succeeded.

Nie Yun captured the shadow who had conspired with Shi Mo and forced him to reveal that Ye Xin had arranged the attack on Nie Yun Medical Hall. Learning that Ye Xin had invoked Prince Duobo’s name, Nie Yun suspected Ye Xin had pledged allegiance to the prince.

• Shi Mo agreed to help with Emperor Lord Yunhua’s birthday celebration, while Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin learned about Yunhua’s standing among Yunzhou City’s Great Emperors.
• Nie Yun sent Fairy Miaoyin to capture the shadow who had met with Shi Mo, then forced a Yin Yang Severing Pill down the captive’s throat.
• When the poison began tormenting him, the shadow confessed that Prince Duobo stood behind him.
• The shadow clarified that Ye Xin had asked him to arrange Nie Yun Medical Hall, and Prince Duobo knew nothing about it.
• Nie Yun reasoned that Ye Xin might have used Prince Duobo’s identity because he had become one of the prince’s close attendants, and wondered whether Ye Xin had pledged allegiance to him.

Nie Yun realized Ye Xin had likely joined Prince Duobo and used Old Immortal Nanhua to poison Ye Tao. After forcing Prince Duobo’s confidant Wu Xun to take a deadly poison, Nie Yun left him alive as an undercover informant.

• Nie Yun connected Ye Xin, Prince Duobo, Old Immortal Nanhua, and the Yin Soul Poison, and decided Ye Tao likely already knew of Ye Xin’s allegiance.
• Nie Yun gave the shadow an antidote that delayed the Yin Yang Severing Pill’s effects for one month, then warned that only he could remove the poison he had added.
• Nie Yun revealed Old Immortal Nanhua’s corpse, convincing the shadow that he had killed the famed detoxification expert.
• The shadow identified himself as Wu Xun and agreed to serve as Nie Yun’s inside man near Prince Duobo.
• Nie Yun gave Wu Xun a jade token for sending messages and ordered him to return without drawing suspicion.

Nie Yun met the ascender Emperor who had come to seek treatment for Yaoshuang and discovered that the man suffered from a serious hidden ailment caused by protecting her. The Emperor’s condition was worse than Nie Yun had expected, and the story left off as Nie Yun recognized the lengths the man had gone to keep Yaoshuang alive.

• Fairy Miaoyin praised Nie Yun for killing Old Immortal Nanhua, then grew angry when he left her behind to travel to the medical clinic.
• Nie Yun met the middle-aged man, who offered to take him to Yaoshuang’s ascender lover so the Emperor could decide whether to trust his treatment.
• The middle-aged man teleported Nie Yun from Cloud Province to Yellow Dragon Mountain in Yuezhou.
• The young ascender Emperor asked whether Nie Yun could treat Yaoshuang, and Nie Yun identified the hidden ailment that caused him pain every full moon.
• Nie Yun explained that the Emperor’s incomplete soul and forced breakthrough had left him more seriously injured than expected, and recognized that he had risked everything to keep Yaoshuang alive.

Nie Yun asked two Great Emperors to lend him their power so he could refine the True Spirit Lamp and save Yaoshuang. He reached the Perfected Emperor Realm temporarily but failed to fuse the final medicinal liquid, and prepared to try again.

• Nie Yun asked the middle-aged man and the young man to help him reach the Perfected Emperor Realm temporarily, and they agreed.
• The middle-aged man infused Nie Yun with power while the young man guarded him, allowing Nie Yun to break through to the Perfected Emperor Realm.
• Nie Yun fused eighty medicinal liquids for the True Spirit Lamp, then asked the young man to help with the final ingredient.
• The final fusion failed and turned to ash because Nie Yun could not control his power precisely enough.
• After resting, Nie Yun took out the remaining medicinal liquid and prepared to attempt the refinement again.

Nie Yun successfully refined the True Spirit Lamp, enduring a dangerous infusion of power from the two Emperor-level powerhouses. He prepared to use the lamp to revive Miss Yaoshuang, and the young man began the delicate procedure at dawn.

• Nie Yun fused the final medicinal liquids and refined the True Spirit Lamp with power borrowed from the middle-aged man and the young man.
• After the lamp appeared, Nie Yun let his cultivation fall back to the Perfected King Realm and secretly stored the borrowed power in the Storage World.
• Nie Yun asked the middle-aged man to bring Miss Yaoshuang in her ice coffin and explained that the young man had to remove her soul seal while sending the lamp into her sea of consciousness.
• The young man carefully reviewed the procedure and calmed himself while Nie Yun and the middle-aged man waited.
• At dawn, the young man rose and said they could begin.

Yao Xuan successfully used the True Spirit Lamp to preserve Yaoshuang’s undying true spirit, allowing her to manifest and speak with him and her father. Nie Yun explained that she could recover fully in ten years, and her father and Yao Xuan promised their gratitude and support.

• Yao Xuan sent the True Spirit Lamp into Yaoshuang’s sea of consciousness, and Nie Yun confirmed that the attempt had succeeded.
• Nie Yun drew the True Spirit Lamp out and used medical Dao energy to make Yaoshuang’s face appear in its flame.
• Yaoshuang recognized Yao Xuan and her father, and Nie Yun explained how the lamp would nourish her soul until she could be healed.
• Yaoshuang’s father promised not to oppose her choices again, while Yao Xuan spoke with her before her weak soul had to rest.
• Yaoshuang’s father and Yao Xuan thanked Nie Yun and vowed to stand by him against anyone who targeted him.

Nie Yun accepted Yun Yan and Yao Xuan’s offer of brotherhood, treated Yao Xuan’s illness, and prepared to leave with Fairy Miaoyin. Ye Tao then arrived with news that something had happened to the old master.

• Yun Yan and Yao Xuan promised Nie Yun their personal support and asked him to address them as brothers.
• Nie Yun gave Yao Xuan a prescription for a Heart-Calming Pill and said it should cure him in about half a year.
• Yun Yan returned with Yaoshuang’s ice coffin to search for medicine that could restore her soul, while Nie Yun returned to his clinic.
• Fairy Miaoyin waited angrily for Nie Yun, who agreed to arrange the clinic before they left.
• Ye Tao hurried to the clinic and told Nie Yun that something had happened to the old master.

Nie Yun learned that the Soaring Heaven Flute Score had always been kept by Fairy Miaoyin’s sect, and traveled with her to ask the sect master to lend it to him. The score’s presence there complicated Nie Yun’s hopes of improving his Immortal Sound and achieving Qin-Xiao Harmony.

• Ye Tao told Nie Yun that the old master had suddenly fainted and grown twice as ill, but could not get access to him because the Southern Heaven Medical Saint had barred visitors.
• Nie Yun told Ye Tao not to act rashly or clash with Ye Xin, then arranged for Yuan Jiu to guard the medical hall while he left with Fairy Miaoyin.
• Fairy Miaoyin flew with Nie Yun for eight days in her flying zither, then revealed that they had arrived at her sect to seek permission to borrow the Soaring Heaven Flute Score.
• Fairy Miaoyin explained that Luo Ya had left the score with her sect because he and its founding ancestor had been lovers, and Nie Yun asked whether she meant to borrow it.

Nie Yun learned that Fairy Miaoyin needed him to pose as her boyfriend to access the Soaring Heaven Flute Score held by the Immortal Sound Sect. Unwilling to fake a romance, he chose the sect’s dangerous Three Palaces trial instead, which could let him take the score if he succeeded.

• Fairy Miaoyin revealed that her sect, the Immortal Sound Sect, guarded the Soaring Heaven Flute Score because its founder had been Master Luo Ya’s disciple and lover.
• Fairy Miaoyin asked Nie Yun to pretend to be her boyfriend so they could borrow the score, but Nie Yun resisted because he already had a wife and a beloved confidante.
• Fairy Miaoyin explained that Nie Yun could challenge the sect’s mountain gate and pass the Three Palaces to earn the right to take the score, though even she faced less than a thirty percent chance of surviving.
• Nie Yun chose to attempt the Three Palaces trial, leaving Fairy Miaoyin stunned.

Nie Yun accompanied Fairy Miaoyin to the Immortal Sound Sect, where she sought out her master at Moon Gazing Palace. Her master appeared healthy, but Nie Yun noticed something unusual as he looked at her.

• Nie Yun chose to attempt the trial, angering Fairy Miaoyin, and followed her back to the Immortal Sound Sect.
• The sect’s female disciples mistook Nie Yun for Fairy Miaoyin’s young companion or illegitimate son, and Fairy Miaoyin ordered them to practice their qin.
• Fairy Miaoyin learned that her master had stayed in Moon Gazing Palace since returning, though the disciples did not know why.
• Fairy Miaoyin led Nie Yun to Moon Gazing Palace and introduced him to her master as the soulmate she had mentioned before.
• Nie Yun examined Fairy Miaoyin’s master and frowned after noticing something unusual.

Nie Yun asked the Immortal Sound Sect’s Sect Master to lend him the Soaring Heaven Flute Score, but she demanded that he marry Fairy Miaoyin and threatened to kill him when he refused. Fairy Miaoyin explained that Nie Yun had become her Soulmate through music without studying flute, leaving her master incredulous.

• The Sect Master offered Nie Yun the Soaring Heaven Flute Score on the condition that he marry Fairy Miaoyin.
• Nie Yun refused, explaining that he already had a wife and had met Fairy Miaoyin only once.
• The Sect Master grew furious and threatened to kill Nie Yun, but Fairy Miaoyin stepped between them.
• Nie Yun rebuked the Sect Master for trying to control his choice of whom to marry.
• Fairy Miaoyin explained that Nie Yun had reached Lingering Melody without studying flute and wanted the score to learn from it.
• The Sect Master doubted Fairy Miaoyin’s explanation.

Nie Yun learned that Qin-Xiao Harmony required complete trust and a soul-deep bond akin to marriage, so he refused to perform it with Fairy Miaoyin and chose to leave rather than become entangled with her. His decision stunned both Fairy Miaoyin and her master.

• Fairy Miaoyin told her master that Nie Yun had learned to play Forgetting All Sorrows after seeing the score once, and Nie Yun offered to reach the Lingering Melody realm in a day.
• The woman in palace dress explained that Qin-Xiao Harmony required complete trust and caused the performers' souls to merge, making it tantamount to a marriage bond.
• Nie Yun realized the consequences of Qin-Xiao Harmony and told Fairy Miaoyin he would rather not proceed, wishing her luck in finding a true Soulmate.
• Nie Yun declined to learn the Soaring Heaven Flute Score, clasped his fists to the woman in palace dress, and announced that he would leave.
• Fairy Miaoyin and the woman in palace dress were stunned by Nie Yun's refusal.

Nie Yun refused to join the Immortal Sound Sect or pursue Qin-Xiao Harmony with Fairy Miaoyin, then revealed that her master was dying from the Blood Fiend Palm. Fairy Miaoyin admitted she had known the Dark Star Sect was responsible and begged Nie Yun to save her master.

• The woman in palace robes offered Nie Yun the Soaring Heaven Flute Score if he became an Immortal Sound Sect elder, but he refused and left.
• Nie Yun warned the woman that the Blood Fiend Palm would destroy her meridians and kill her within five years.
• Fairy Miaoyin questioned her master, who denied the Blood Fiend Palm at first but revealed her distress when Nie Yun described its symptoms.
• Fairy Miaoyin admitted she had secretly discovered that the Dark Star Sect had injured her master and had sought a breakthrough to protect the sect.
• The woman in palace robes confessed she had less than five years to live and told Fairy Miaoyin to take the junior sisters into hiding.
• Fairy Miaoyin knelt before Nie Yun and begged him to save her master.

Nie Yun assured Fairy Miaoyin and her master that the Blood Fiend Palm could be cured, despite the many physicians who had failed. With Fairy Miaoyin playing the zither, he began treating her master using golden needles, leaving her impressed by his precise acupuncture.

• Fairy Miaoyin begged Nie Yun to save her master, while her master prepared her disciple to flee and seek revenge after her death.
• Nie Yun said the Blood Fiend Palm had only entered the woman’s bloodline and promised to cure it within half an hour.
• Fairy Miaoyin offered to become Nie Yun’s servant, but her master instead promised the Immortal Sound Sect’s Soaring Heaven Flute Score as compensation.
• Nie Yun asked the woman to relax and told Fairy Miaoyin to play music to calm her during the treatment.
• Fairy Miaoyin played the zither as Nie Yun fired golden needles into the woman’s acupoints with precise Aerial Acupoint Recognition.

Nie Yun treated the woman in palace robes by drawing the Blood Fiend Palm’s resentment out of her body and destroying it with the Shen Nong Hundred Herbs Scripture. The woman awakened, cured, and thanked him for saving her.

• Nie Yun placed Golden Needles in the woman in palace robes’ acupoints and asked her to release the Blood Fiend Palm’s suppression.
• The woman in palace robes released the suppressed force, and Nie Yun used more Golden Needles to draw its Killing Intent into a demon head.
• Fairy Miaoyin played a calming melody, which drew the demon’s hostility toward her as it grew stronger.
• Nie Yun brought out the Shen Nong Hundred Herbs Scripture and sealed the woman’s acupoints to stop the demon from returning to her body.
• The Shen Nong Hundred Herbs Scripture destroyed the demon and healed the woman, and Nie Yun removed his Golden Needles.
• The woman in palace robes awoke several dozen breaths later and thanked Nie Yun for saving her.

Nie Yun cured the palace-robed woman’s Blood Fiend Palm and received the Soaring Heaven Flute Score. He fused the score with his Immortal Sound Dantian, gaining the power to erase weaker opponents with a word.

• The palace-robed woman realized Nie Yun had completely removed the Blood Fiend Palm’s Killing Intent and gave him the Soaring Heaven Flute Score.
• Fairy Miaoyin urged Nie Yun to learn the score so they could perform together, while she and her master doubted he could master it quickly.
• Nie Yun studied the score in his Storage World but could not understand its profound contents.
• Nie Yun merged the Soaring Heaven Flute Score into his Immortal Sound Dantian, advancing it to just below the Heavenly Dao Dantian.
• Nie Yun felt his Immortal Sound Qi grant him the ability to erase anyone weaker than himself with a single sentence.

Nie Yun demonstrated that he had mastered the Soaring Heaven Flute Score by playing music that revived withered plants and summoned birds. The palace-robed woman explained that he and Fairy Miaoyin needed the Immortal Path Chant to perform Qin-Xiao Harmony, and the two flew to the ancestral underground palace to seek it.

• Nie Yun claimed he had mastered the Soaring Heaven Flute Score in a dozen breaths and proved it by playing music that revived flowers and grass and drew birds to him.
• The palace-robed woman and Fairy Miaoyin accepted that Nie Yun's understanding of the Immortal Sound Great Dao surpassed theirs.
• Fairy Miaoyin asked to perform Qin-Xiao Harmony, and the palace-robed woman explained that it required trust, preparation, and the Immortal Path Chant.
• The palace-robed woman said Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin had to gain the ancestors' recognition in the back mountain's underground palace to obtain the score.
• Fairy Miaoyin took Nie Yun's hand, and they flew toward the underground palace.

Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin entered the Immortal Sound Sect’s underground palace, where ancestral music and successive trials guarded the Immortal Path Chant. After learning about the palace’s lingering Melody Fragrance and the realms of the Immortal Sound Great Dao, they headed toward the first Sacrifice Altar.

• Fairy Miaoyin played her qin to open the underground palace’s sealed stone door, while Nie Yun heard stagnation in her music and realized her Loya Physique had become an inner demon.
• Fairy Miaoyin explained that the fragrance inside came from the founding ancestor’s music and that it benefited cultivators of the Immortal Sound Great Dao.
• Fairy Miaoyin described the Immortal Sound realms and said only Senior Luo Ya had reached Great Dao Harmony.
• Fairy Miaoyin told Nie Yun that the underground palace had three halls, each with a Sacrifice Altar that had to be passed to reach the Immortal Path Chant in the rear hall.
• Nie Yun learned that they had to pass the first two altars before they could reach the score needed for Qin-Xiao Harmony.

Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin entered the Immortal Sound Sect’s ancestral trial halls, where music revealed the path past the ancestors’ tombstones. Fairy Miaoyin passed the first altar, but Nie Yun’s performance at the second stalled when no tombstones lit up, leaving him uncertain whether he could continue.

• Fairy Miaoyin explained that the Immortal Path Chant score was protected by a trial of understanding and led Nie Yun to the first altar.
• Fairy Miaoyin played the zither, illuminated the tombstones, and revealed a passage into the central hall.
• Fairy Miaoyin said she could pass only the first altar, and Nie Yun proceeded to the second altar to try his flute.
• Nie Yun played as the ancestors’ wills scrutinized him, but discordant wind disrupted his rhythm.
• Nie Yun used the Soaring Heaven Flute Score to block out the wind and steady his music, but none of the tombstones lit up.