Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun blended the wind’s whistle into his flute performance, earning the tombstones’ recognition and opening the passage to the rear hall. There, he and Fairy Miaoyin found two statues but no altar or Immortal Path Chant, and suspected they would need to win the statues’ recognition to reveal the score.

• Nie Yun realized the wind’s whistle had disrupted the tombstones’ appreciation of his music, so he incorporated it into a new piece.
• Nie Yun played the revised melody, and the tombstones lit up to reveal a passage.
• Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin entered the brightly lit rear hall and found statues of a flute-playing man and a guqin-playing woman, but no altar.
• Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin searched the hall but found neither a passage nor the Immortal Path Chant.
• Fairy Miaoyin suggested that playing music for the statues might reveal the Immortal Path Chant, and Nie Yun agreed that it was possible.

Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin discovered that the rear hall required them to play Qin-Xiao Harmony together to reveal the Immortal Path Chant. Their souls fused through mutual trust, and Fairy Miaoyin broke through to the realm of Myriad Revival and Hundred Birds Paying Homage.

• Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin each played alone, but their music did not affect the rear hall.
• Nie Yun realized the statues of Luo Ya and the Immortal Sound Sect's founding ancestor depicted Qin-Xiao Harmony.
• Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin played Forgetting All Sorrows together, and their souls fused as they opened themselves to each other.
• Nie Yun let Fairy Miaoyin see his memories of Tantai Lingyue and Luo Qingcheng, and she understood why he had little interest in her.
• Fairy Miaoyin's heart opened, and her guqin playing broke through to the realm of Myriad Revival and Hundred Birds Paying Homage.

Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin reached the Myriad Fragrance realm while performing Forgetting All Sorrows, but the restriction revealed no score. The founding ancestor Fairy Yinzi appeared through her statue and told them that Immortal Path Chant had never existed as a musical piece or score.

• Fairy Miaoyin understood the true essence of Forgetting All Sorrows, and she and Nie Yun performed together in the Myriad Fragrance realm.
• Their performance triggered the underground palace restriction, and Nie Yun's soul strength advanced to the Emperor Realm.
• Nie Yun concluded that the restriction contained no score for Immortal Path Chant, and Fairy Yinzi's voice praised his insight.
• Fairy Yinzi revealed that she was a strand of consciousness preserved by Melody Fragrance, and Fairy Miaoyin paid respects to her.
• Nie Yun explained that they had come seeking Immortal Path Chant so Fairy Miaoyin could break through, and Fairy Yinzi said the piece and its score had never existed.

The founding ancestor told Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin that the fabled Immortal Path Chant had never existed and that they would need to find their own music by understanding each other. They entered the Music Realm to seek inspiration, and Nie Yun agreed to spend half a month there with Fairy Miaoyin, leaving their outside attachments behind so she could try to save the Immortal Sound Sect.

• The founding ancestor explained that she and Luo Ya had broken through with music born from their own hearts, not a written Immortal Path Chant.
• The founding ancestor opened the Music Realm, and Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin entered the independent world for half a month.
• Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin watched an illusion of Luo Ya and Fairy Yinzi live together and perform music that suited only them.
• Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin realized they had to understand each other and create their own music rather than imitate the illusion.
• Fairy Miaoyin asked Nie Yun to forget his wife and confidantes during their time in the Music Realm, and he agreed after she pleaded that the Immortal Sound Sect needed him to break through.

While Nie Yun remained unreachable in the Music Realm, his medical hall received an invitation to Emperor Yuan Yang’s birthday banquet, leaving Liu Zhu and Yuan Jiu anxious about his return. Ye Tao arrived seeking Nie Yun’s help because the old master was critically ill.

• Nie Yun’s absence from the medical hall fueled rumors, while Yuan Jiu kept troublemakers away.
• A gilt invitation to Emperor Yuan Yang’s birthday banquet arrived at the medical hall, and people speculated about why Nie Yun had been invited.
• Several groups offered to buy the invitation, but Liu Zhu declined because Nie Yun was absent.
• Liu Zhu, Yuan Jiu, and Chaos King worried that Nie Yun could not be contacted and might miss the banquet.
• Ye Tao visited the medical hall and told Liu Zhu that the old master was critically ill and he wanted Nie Yun to examine him.

Ye Xin turned the Ye Estate’s old master against Nie Yun by claiming the healer was a fraud with hidden motives, while Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin perfected their qin-xiao performance in the Music Realm. Their music resonated with the Great Dao, and they reached the highest realm of the Immortal Sound Great Dao: Great Dao Harmony.

• Ye Tao asked Liu Zhu to tell Nie Yun that the Ye Estate’s old master was growing weaker despite the Southern Heaven Medical Saint’s treatment.
• Ye Xin persuaded the old master that Nie Yun was an untrustworthy healer from the Ten Lands, and the old master refused to receive Ye Tao.
• Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin performed their newly created qin-xiao harmony, entering the realms of Myriad Revival and Myriad Fragrance at will.
• Their music resonated with the Great Dao, drawing birds and beasts into its influence and reaching Great Dao Harmony.

Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin achieved breakthroughs after performing Great Dao Harmony in the Music Realm, then returned to find an invitation from Emperor Yuan Yang and the Immortal Sound Sect eerily silent. The chapter left them suspecting that something had happened at the sect.

• Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin completed their performance and each assessed their progress in the Immortal Sound Great Dao.
• Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin left the Music Realm, bowed to the stone statues, and watched the realm and Fairy Yinzi’s lingering will disappear.
• Nie Yun discovered Liu Zhu’s messages, including an invitation from Emperor Yuan Yang, and decided he needed to return to Yunzhou City soon.
• Fairy Miaoyin and Nie Yun noticed the Immortal Sound Sect was completely silent and feared that something had happened.

Fairy Miaoyin brought Nie Yun to Moon Gazing Palace, where Sect Master Ru Ye refused An Ming’s demand to merge Immortal Sound Sect into Four Friends Sect. Ru Ye revealed that she had recovered from An Ming’s Blood Fiend Palm and faced Mo Xu in battle, leaving An Ming shocked by her recovery.

• Fairy Miaoyin hurried Nie Yun to Moon Gazing Palace after sensing trouble there.
• An Ming, Mo Xu, and the Tu Yun Sect master pressed Ru Ye to merge the four sects under Four Friends Sect, but Ru Ye refused to surrender Immortal Sound Sect’s supreme treasure or inheritance.
• An Ming ordered Mo Xu to force the merger, and Mo Xu advanced with the Yu Chang Brush as Ru Ye’s disciples prepared to fight.
• Ru Ye brought out the Calamity Tail Guqin and clashed with Mo Xu, whose brush intent pressed her disciples back.
• Ru Ye announced that she had dispelled An Ming’s Blood Fiend Palm and attacked Mo Xu with the Calamity Tail Guqin, leaving An Ming stunned.

Sect Master Ru Ye fought Sect Master Mo Xu, but Sect Master Tu Yun joined in and injured her. She warned that Sect Master An Ming planned to take the four sect-defending treasures for himself, while An Ming denied it and defended the merger.

• Sect Master An Ming warned Sect Master Mo Xu that Sect Master Ru Ye was using a secret art, but Mo Xu found her strength steady and realized her Blood Fiend Poison might truly have been cured.
• Sect Master An Ming sent Sect Master Tu Yun to help Mo Xu, and Tu Yun attacked Ru Ye with the Immortal in Painting.
• Sect Master Mo Xu struck Ru Ye with the Spring and Autumn Brush, leaving her badly injured despite her disciples’ attempts to protect her.
• Sect Master Mo Xu urged Ru Ye to accept the merger of the four sects, and Sect Master Tu Yun claimed it would benefit them.
• Sect Master Ru Ye accused Sect Master An Ming of seeking the four treasures to pursue the Great Emperor realm and warned that the sects’ inheritances would be at risk.
• Sect Master An Ming rejected Ru Ye’s accusation and insisted the merger would strengthen the sects.

Sect Master An Ming used his Heaven as Chessboard, Stars as Pieces realm to overpower the injured Sect Master Ru Ye and move to kill her. A guqin note and a xiao joined in Qin-Xiao Harmony, blocking his attack and leaving the battle unresolved.

• Sect Master Ru Ye reminded Sect Master Mo Xu and Sect Master Tu Yun that An Ming may have killed Dark Spirit Elder, making them question their alliance with him.
• Sect Master An Ming summoned his chessboard and overwhelmed Ru Ye, whose Calamity Tail Guqin could not break through his attack.
• A guqin note pierced An Ming's spatial blockade, and Ru Ye suspected Fairy Miaoyin had reached Myriad Fragrance.
• An Ming pressed his attack despite the new music, determined to kill Ru Ye before more opponents arrived.
• A xiao joined the guqin in Qin-Xiao Harmony, and their combined great Dao stopped An Ming's chessboard and chess pieces.

Fairy Miaoyin and Nie Yun used the Qin-Xiao Harmony to wield Great Dao Harmony against Sect Master An Ming, Sect Master Mo Xu, and Sect Master Tu Yun. After the three sect masters combined their treasures and forced the musicians into view, Sect Master Ru Ye sent the Jiaowei Qin to Miaoyin, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Fairy Miaoyin and Nie Yun’s Qin-Xiao Harmony formed a Great Dao river that struck Sect Master An Ming and sent him flying.
• Sect Master Mo Xu and Sect Master Tu Yun joined Sect Master An Ming, and their three treasures stalled the Qin-Xiao Harmony.
• Sect Master Ru Ye explained that the harmony’s power would vanish when the piece ended and feared Miaoyin could not withstand the backlash.
• Sect Master An Ming persuaded Mo Xu and Tu Yun to hand over their treasures, then combined all three to overpower the Qin-Xiao Harmony.
• Sect Master An Ming’s treasures forced Fairy Miaoyin and Nie Yun out of hiding.
• Sect Master Ru Ye sent Miaoyin the Jiaowei Qin, which Miaoyin caught and refined.

Fairy Miaoyin’s Jiaowei Qin failed to strengthen her and Nie Yun’s Qin-Xiao Harmony enough to withstand Sect Master An Ming’s three-treasure attack, and their Great Dao Harmony collapsed. As An Ming’s next strike rushed toward them, Nie Yun stayed and asked Miaoyin to hold the enemy off for three breaths while he prepared a way out.

• Fairy Miaoyin refined the Jiaowei Qin and resumed the ensemble with Nie Yun, but their combined strength barely increased because Nie Yun remained weaker.
• Sect Master An Ming’s attack overwhelmed the pair, injuring Miaoyin and disrupting their music until the Great Dao Harmony vanished.
• Miaoyin urged Nie Yun to escape, but he refused and asked her to hold off their attackers for three breaths.
• Miaoyin played the Dragon Burial Chant, summoning an enormous Black Dragon to charge at the river formed by the three treasures.

Fairy Miaoyin used the forbidden Dragon Burial Chant to hold back Sect Master An Ming’s fused treasure attack, while Sect Master Ru Ye feared the melody would leave her with a deadly baleful aura. Nie Yun then summoned an Immortal in Painting to break apart the fusion, stunning everyone with the painting’s apparent power and possible Painting Spirit.

• Sect Master Ru Ye explained that Dragon Burial Chant left a lingering baleful aura and had caused the sect’s founding ancestor to die young.
• A disciple reminded Sect Master Ru Ye that Fairy Miaoyin had used the forbidden melody to survive, and Ru Ye recalled that Nie Yun might be able to cure its consequences.
• Fairy Miaoyin’s Black Dragon briefly resisted the Great Dao river formed by Sect Master An Ming’s three supreme treasures before it began to collapse.
• Nie Yun told Fairy Miaoyin to keep playing and attack Sect Master An Ming while he destroyed the Great Dao river.
• Nie Yun summoned an enormous Immortal in Painting, which threatened to force the Ink Dot Sect’s treasure out of the fused attack.
• The onlookers speculated that Nie Yun’s painting could devour things and might contain the spirit of its creator.

Nie Yun used Elder Hao Yuan’s Immortal in Painting to break apart Sect Master An Ming’s fused treasures, prompting Sect Masters Tu Yun and Mo Xu to abandon him and flee. Nie Yun and Fairy Miaoyin combined their music to overwhelm Sect Master An Ming, who turned to ash.

• Nie Yun’s Immortal in Painting released flames, struck the fused treasures, and forced them apart, leaving Sect Master An Ming injured.
• Sect Master Tu Yun reclaimed Tu Yun Sect’s treasure, withdrew from the conflict, and apologized to Sect Master Ru Ye for his earlier actions.
• Sect Master Mo Xu seized the Spring and Autumn Brush and fled as well.
• Nie Yun pressed the Immortal in Painting against Sect Master An Ming while his flute music merged with Fairy Miaoyin’s Dragon Burial Chant.
• The combined music summoned black and white dragons that stripped Sect Master An Ming of his power and turned him to ash, and the uncontrolled chessboard fell to the ground.

Nie Yun helped the Immortal Sound Sect defeat the Dark Star Sect, then returned to Yunzhou City with Fairy Miaoyin. Back at the clinic, he learned Ye Tao wanted him to treat the Ye Family’s old man, but Nie Yun refused and asked about Emperor Yuan Yang’s birthday banquet instead.

• Nie Yun took the chessboard after Sect Master An Ming died, treated the unconscious Sect Master Ru Ye and Fairy Miaoyin, and prepared to leave.
• Fairy Miaoyin joined Nie Yun aboard the Weaver Girl Shuttle and flew him back toward Yunzhou City, arriving on the sixth day.
• Liu Zhu told Nie Yun that Ye Tao had been waiting for him at the clinic.
• Ye Tao asked Nie Yun to examine the Ye Family’s old man, whose attacks had become more frequent, but Nie Yun refused.
• Nie Yun asked Ye Tao about Emperor Yuan Yang, and Ye Tao began explaining that he was one of the nine emperors of the Pu Tian Dynasty.

Nie Yun learned about Emperor Yuan Yang and accepted Ye Tao’s eager request to bring him to the Emperor’s birthday banquet. After refining the Heaven and Earth Net chessboard, Nie Yun struggled to choose an appropriate congratulatory gift for Yuan Yang.

• Ye Tao told Nie Yun that Emperor Yuan Yang was a reclusive, immensely powerful ally of Puntian Great Emperor, while Nie Yun wondered why he had been invited.
• Nie Yun asked Ye Tao about Great Emperor Yun Yan, but Ye Tao said no such Great Emperor was among the Nine Emperors.
• Nie Yun offered to take Ye Tao to Yuan Yang’s birthday banquet, and Ye Tao hurried off to prepare a congratulatory gift.
• After treating patients and hearing Liu Zhu’s report, Nie Yun returned to his room and refined Sect Master An Ming’s chessboard into his chess-path dantian.
• The chessboard, named Heaven and Earth Net, raised Nie Yun’s chess-path dantian to around the top fifty, and he then fretted over what gift to give Emperor Yuan Yang.

Nie Yun chose Monkey Heart Wine as a gift and traveled with Ye Tao to Emperor Yuan Yang's birthday banquet. At the residence, they met Zhuo Yang, and Feng Miao arrived as Zhuo Yang was criticizing him.

• Nie Yun decided to bring Emperor Yuan Yang several bottles of Monkey Heart Wine because he could think of no more suitable gift.
• Ye Tao urged Nie Yun to leave early, and they traveled by carriage toward Emperor Yuan Yang's residence.
• Nie Yun and Ye Tao got out before reaching the residence and walked the remaining distance to show respect.
• They found hundreds of guests gathered outside the gates, including Zhuo Yang, who praised Nie Yun for receiving an invitation.
• Feng Miao arrived and interrupted Zhuo Yang as he criticized him.

Nie Yun and Ye Tao attended the Emperor’s birthday banquet, where Old Master Ye Xuan and Ye Xin challenged Ye Tao for coming without permission. Nie Yun defended Ye Tao and openly scolded Ye Xuan, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Nie Yun reunited with Li Su, Cheng Qian, and others at the banquet while elders learned of his reputation and noticed he had brought Ye Tao.
• Old Master Ye Xuan arrived with Ye Xin and the Southern Heaven Medical Saint, then demanded to know why Ye Tao had come.
• Ye Xin accused Ye Tao of defying the Ye Estate, and Nie Yun explained that he had invited him using his invitation.
• Ye Xuan ordered Ye Tao to leave, but Nie Yun insisted that Ye Tao would stay and insulted Ye Xuan for his arrogance.

Nie Yun confronted Old Master Ye Xuan after refusing to yield to his threats, and Ye Xuan attacked him outside the Emperor Yuan Yang's Mansion. Old Man Jie Mo intervened, warned Ye Xuan that Nie Yun was the Emperor's distinguished guest, and left the onlookers questioning Nie Yun's status.

• Nie Yun rebuked Old Master Ye Xuan and told him to leave if he disliked Nie Yun treating Ye Tao.
• Feng Miao and Zhuo Yang warned Ye Xuan that attacking Nie Yun, who had the Emperor Yuan Yang's invitation, could bring the Emperor's wrath.
• Ye Xuan ignored the warnings and struck at Nie Yun with a powerful palm.
• Old Man Jie Mo appeared, destroyed Ye Xuan's attack, and sent him flying with a palm of his own.
• Old Man Jie Mo called Nie Yun the Emperor's distinguished guest and warned Ye Xuan to stay silent or face death.
• Ye Xuan stood up, shaken by Jie Mo's warning, while the onlookers wondered why Nie Yun received such favor.

Nie Yun learned why Emperor Yuan Yang had invited him after Old Man Jie Mo stopped Duke Ye from retaliating, and he entered the mansion with Ye Tao. At the gift registry, Nie Yun discovered that only unusual presents would be sent to the rear hall for the Emperor to rank.

• Old Man Jie Mo told Nie Yun that Emperor Yuan Yang had ordered him protected, and Nie Yun decided to ask the Emperor about the invitation at the banquet.
• Nie Yun urged Ye Tao to enter the mansion, explaining that winning the Emperor's favor could protect him from the Ye Estate's old master.
• Nie Yun and Ye Tao followed the guests into the mansion and reached the birthday-gift registration area.
• Guests admired the lavish gifts from several ducal estates, including a Kirin cub, but learned that the ordinary treasures had not been sent to the rear hall.
• Nie Yun heard that unusual gifts could catch Emperor Yuan Yang's attention and be ranked for rewards.