Recaps

Xu Changxing noticed that a broken zither string in Fairy Yaohua’s Storage Ring differed from its simulated version and refused to include it in the ransom. Fairy Caixin returned the ring to Yaohua, whose worsening divinations had left her increasingly agitated.

• Xu Changxing told Yan Guyin that two thousand Origin Crystals would redeem everything in Fairy Yaohua’s Storage Ring except the broken zither string.
• Fairy Caixin offered another five hundred Origin Crystals for the string, but Xu Changxing refused and accepted two thousand Origin Crystals for the rest of the ring.
• Xu Changxing left the Moonflower Sect after speaking with Yan Guyin, while Fairy Caixin returned to the Immortal Music Pavilion with Yaohua’s Storage Ring.
• Fairy Yaohua worried over her increasingly unfavorable divinations and finally saw Fairy Caixin arrive.

Fairy Yaohua learned that Xu Changxing had taken a zither string from her Storage Ring, while he discovered that playing it with the Great Dao Laws stirred the Time Great Dao. Fairy Caixin realized the string belonged to the Immortal Music Zither, the Immortal Music Pavilion’s supreme treasure, and Yaohua ordered her to claim that nothing had been missing.

• Fairy Caixin returned Fairy Yaohua’s Storage Ring and admitted that Xu Changxing had taken one zither string.
• Fairy Yaohua inspected the ring, found the string missing, and demanded that Caixin recount every detail of her meeting with Xu Changxing.
• Xu Changxing plucked the string with a zither formed from Great Dao Laws and discovered that its note stirred the Time Great Dao.
• Fairy Yaohua heard Xu Changxing’s zither note and lost hope that he would fail to discover the string’s secret.
• Fairy Caixin recognized the string as part of the Immortal Music Zither, and Fairy Yaohua ordered her to say that Xu Changxing had returned everything.

Xu Changxing used an Ordinary Simulation to plan around the zither string Fairy Yaohua wanted back, establishing Cloudwatch Mountain and constructing a powerful Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation. The simulation ended with him killing an eighth-layer Golden Immortal who attacked his stronghold, though the person behind the attack remained unknown.

• Xu Changxing spent 256 Origin Crystals to begin an Ordinary Simulation and decided to establish a Daoist Field before confronting the Immortal Music Pavilion.
• Xu Changxing built Cloudwatch Mountain and strengthened its Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation over the years.
• A Profound Demon attacked Xu Changxing, who trapped and defeated him before learning that someone had paid ten Ageless Golden Cores to test his strength.
• Fairy Caixin returned to negotiate for the zither string, but Xu Changxing told her Fairy Yaohua could try again in ten thousand years.
• An eighth-layer Golden Immortal attacked Cloudwatch Mountain, and Xu Changxing trapped him in a World Domain Killing Formation and destroyed his Great Daos.

After killing several powerful Golden Immortals, you seized the Time Zither from the Immortal Music Pavilion, but it refused to sound. Centuries of attempts failed, and poor relations across the Immortal Realm left you short of origin crystals as you sought a new place to cultivate.

• You fought Wei Shentong for months with the Time Zither String, drawing the Immortal Music Pavilion’s attention to its missing string.
• You lured Feng Yuan into the Abyss, revealed your true strength, and killed him after sealing his escape.
• You killed Zhike, Fairy Yaohua, and another Golden Immortal, then broke into the Immortal Music Pavilion and took the Time Zither, which rejected you.
• You spent centuries trying to activate the Time Zither and imbuing it with your laws, but it remained silent.
• You traveled the Immortal Realm seeking origin crystals, but your reputation made Golden Immortals reluctant to trade, so you abandoned the effort and prepared to enter seclusion.

Xu Changxing reviewed a simulation in which he struggled to refine the conscious Time Zither, gained insights into the Time Great Dao from Fairy Qiongyin, and ultimately failed to break through its core restrictions. After choosing to view the simulation scenes, he studied Fairy Qiongyin’s music and began examining a broken zither string.

• Xu Changxing spent millennia trying to refine the Time Zither, but only managed to break through its outer defenses and play Great Dao Music.
• Xu Changxing learned Fairy Qiongyin had become the Immortal Music Pavilion’s master, visited her, and found that the Time Zither responded to her playing.
• Xu Changxing cultivated at the pavilion and gained insights into the Time Great Dao, but Fairy Qiongyin stopped playing for him after learning he meant to forcibly refine the zither.
• Xu Changxing broke through most of the Time Zither’s restrictions during seclusion, but remained unable to overcome its core restrictions before the simulation ended.
• Xu Changxing chose to view the simulation scenes, carefully studied Fairy Qiongyin’s music, and then took out a broken zither string as the surrounding Great Dao Laws emerged.

Xu Changxing used the insights from his simulation to make the Time Zither respond from afar, strengthening his resolve to claim it. At the Immortal Music Pavilion, the elders chose not to enter the forbidden grounds, while Fairy Yaohua prepared to recover the string from Xu Changxing by force and then sensed a sudden disturbance.

• Xu Changxing played a broken string with his Great Dao and stirred the distant Time Zither, realizing that his simulated experience worked because he had not harmed the pavilion's disciples in reality.
• Fairy Yaohua and Fairy Caixin watched the Immortal Music Zither sound continuously, alarming the Immortal Music Pavilion.
• Zhike, Fairy Yaohua, Feng Yuan, and the other Golden Immortals decided not to open the forbidden grounds and assigned Yaohua to monitor the zither.
• Fairy Yaohua told Caixin that Xu Changxing would likely refuse to surrender the string and that they might have to take it by force.
• As Fairy Yaohua prepared to send Caixin to seek help from a Profound Demon, her heart suddenly palpitated and her hand froze.

Xu Changxing used his attempt with the Zither of Time to uncover Fairy Yaohua’s secret and waited for her to negotiate over its string. After Caixin failed to persuade him, Xu Changxing settled at Cloudwatch Mountain and awaited Yaohua’s next move.

• Fairy Yaohua sent Caixin to find Xu Changxing and learn his terms for returning the Immortal Music Zither’s string, using divined coordinates instead of contacting him through Yan Guyin.
• Xu Changxing waited in the location Fairy Yaohua had sensed, having realized she was secretly refining the Zither of Time and hoping she would negotiate in person.
• Caixin asked Xu Changxing how many Origin Crystals he wanted, but he insisted that Fairy Yaohua come herself to redeem the string.
• Fairy Yaohua listened through spiritual sense attached to Caixin and grew unsettled when Xu Changxing left without saying more.
• Xu Changxing traveled to Cloudwatch Mountain, where he began establishing his cultivation grounds while waiting for Fairy Yaohua to respond.

Xu Changxing revealed to Fairy Yaohua that he knew the Immortal Music Pavilion’s supreme treasure was really the Time Zither and claimed its founding ancestor had left him a legacy. He left Fairy Yaohua questioning her sect’s origins as she asked what Xu Changxing truly wanted from her.

• Xu Changxing spent three years building Cloudwatch Mountain and established himself as its Mountain Master.
• Fairy Yaohua sent a fox-shaped vessel carrying her divine sense to Cloudwatch Mountain and asked why Xu Changxing had invited her.
• Xu Changxing asked why Fairy Yaohua could not openly refine the Time Zither, and her shock revealed that the Immortal Music Pavilion knew the treasure only as the Immortal Music Zither.
• Xu Changxing said he had received a legacy and discussed the Dao with an Immortal Monarch, then claimed that the Immortal Monarch had not considered the Immortal Music Pavilion his successor.
• Xu Changxing told Fairy Yaohua that the pavilion’s founding ancestor had belonged to another sect that faced destruction after a great upheaval, and Fairy Yaohua asked why Xu Changxing had really summoned her.

Xu Changxing provoked Fairy Yaohua to make her refine the Time Zither faster, hoping to exploit an opening in it during a future simulation. He then resumed his cultivation and began another ordinary simulation, which showed that Fairy Yaohua had not greatly accelerated her refinement.

• Xu Changxing warned Fairy Yaohua that the coming calamity would draw the Immortal Music Pavilion into ancient karma and that the Time Zither would eventually be reclaimed.
• Fairy Yaohua rejected Xu Changxing’s claim to the Time Zither but began to suspect that a parent sect existed above the Immortal Music Pavilion.
• Fairy Yaohua returned to her true body and resolved to refine the Time Zither before the ancient Immortal Monarchs returned.
• Xu Changxing explained that he had provoked Fairy Yaohua to create an opening in the Time Zither that he could exploit through repeated simulations.
• Xu Changxing spent a hundred years digesting insights into the life great dao, then began another ordinary simulation.
• In the simulation, Xu Changxing found that Fairy Yaohua’s refinement had not accelerated much and completed Cloudwatch Mountain’s Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation by the thirtieth year.

Over thousands of years, you repeatedly entered the Immortal Music Pavilion’s Forbidden Grounds to study the Time Zither while secretly preparing to take it from Fairy Yaohua. You eventually stole the zither, escaped pursuit, and refined it in a sealed Small World, gaining control in the 9,900th year.

• After a century of playing the Time Zither, you negotiated with Fairy Yaohua and secured ten-year visits to the Immortal Music Pavilion’s Forbidden Grounds every five hundred years.
• You repeatedly visited the Forbidden Grounds, signed new Great Dao Pacts with Fairy Yaohua, and studied the zither while removing the aura she had left on it.
• On your tenth visit in the 6,000th year, you analyzed the Forbidden Grounds’ restrictions and then helped Li Changge avert his impending calamity.
• In the 8,000th year, you seized the Time Zither and broke through the Forbidden Grounds as Fairy Yaohua watched in despair.
• You escaped Feng Yuan and Zhike, took the Time Zither to a prepared Small World, and sealed its exit before entering seclusion.
• In the 9,900th year, you finished imprinting your Divine Sense on the Time Zither and sensed different laws of time through it.

Xu Changxing used repeated simulations to refine the Time Zither and rapidly improve his understanding of the Time Great Dao and the Great Dao of Music. He confirmed that his simulated insights worked on the real instrument, but Fairy Yaohua’s accelerated refinement threatened to shorten his window to take it.

• Xu Changxing watched the first simulation’s scenes and advanced his Life Great Dao insights to the Golden Immortal Eighth Layer and his Time Great Dao insights to the Golden Immortal Fourth Layer.
• Xu Changxing played the Time Zither with its string and confirmed that his simulated understanding of its laws worked on the real instrument, though he suspected the Tianyan Pearl had reconstructed the ancient Time Zither’s laws.
• Xu Changxing began another simulation, used his earlier experience to decipher the Time Zither faster, and took it before Fairy Yaohua ended their cooperation.
• Xu Changxing completed his refinement of the Time Zither in the simulation, then used it to make rapid progress in the Time Great Dao before viewing the simulation scenes and absorbing his gains.
• Xu Changxing completed a third simulation and reached the Golden Immortal Sixth Stage in the Time Great Dao and the Golden Immortal Eighth Layer in the Great Dao of Music.
• Xu Changxing learned that Fairy Yaohua would sever his connection to the Time Zither after only thirty years in the third simulation, and began considering how to obtain it without leaving future trouble.

Xu Changxing played Great Dao Music for more than eighty years, awakening countless Spirit Beasts around Cloudwatch Mountain and gaining partial control of the Time Zither. When the music reached the Immortal Music Pavilion, Fairy Yaohua realized how far his mastery had surpassed her expectations.

• Xu Changxing used the Time Zither's string to play Great Dao Music after Fairy Yaohua acted ahead of time.
• Xu Changxing's music continued for over eighty years, awakening many Spirit Beasts that gathered and formed tribes around Cloudwatch Mountain.
• The Great Dao Music reached the Time Zither in the Immortal Music Pavilion, and Fairy Yaohua failed to stop it with her hand seals.
• Fairy Yaohua awakened her avatar in a little fox outside Cloudwatch Mountain and flew toward the mountain.
• Fairy Yaohua saw the vast numbers of intelligent Spirit Beasts and wondered whether Xu Changxing intended to establish a kingdom of myriad demons.

Xu Changxing used the divine sense Fairy Yaohua placed on a fox to disrupt her and activate the Time Zither from Cloudwatch Mountain. After it fled the Immortal Music Pavilion, he intercepted Feng Yuan’s attempt to stop it, but Feng Yuan then attacked him with his sword.

• Fairy Yaohua visited Cloudwatch Mountain and demanded that Xu Changxing open the gate and discuss the Time Zither.
• Xu Changxing used zither music to suppress the fox carrying Fairy Yaohua’s divine sense, disrupting her control of the Time Zither.
• The Time Zither flew out of the Immortal Music Pavilion, and Fairy Yaohua urged Feng Yuan to pursue it.
• Feng Yuan chased the Time Zither and swung his sword at it, but Xu Changxing appeared and used its strings to neutralize the sword light.
• Feng Yuan recognized Xu Changxing as a thief stealing the sect’s treasure and launched a sword attack at him.

Xu Changxing used the Time Zither to freeze time and suppress Feng Yuan and Zhike, demanding that the Immortal Music Pavilion return to its ancient parent sect. He left both elders struggling as his Time Great Dao broke their laws and threatened their divine souls.

• Xu Changxing stopped Feng Yuan's Flying Sword with the Time Zither and asked Fairy Yaohua to explain his origins to the elders.
• Fairy Yaohua recounted Xu Changxing's claims that the Immortal Music Pavilion had once been a branch of an ancient immortal sect, while concealing the matter of the zither string.
• Zhike demanded that Xu Changxing return the Time Zither, but Xu Changxing refused and declared that the elders were former servants who had rebelled against their master.
• Zhike scattered Golden Immortal spirit seeds to attack, but Xu Changxing's zither music froze everything around them except Zhike.
• Zhike tried to resist, but Xu Changxing's Time Great Dao twisted and broke his laws, while Feng Yuan struggled to keep his sword intent and divine soul intact.

Xu Changxing defeated Feng Yuan and Zhike with the Time Zither, then convinced the Immortal Music Pavilion elders to accept him as the overlord sect’s envoy and pavilion master. With Fairy Yaohua’s support and both men bowing to him, he prepared to take charge of the pavilion and its resources.

• Xu Changxing used the Time Zither to scatter Feng Yuan’s Great Dao and suppress him after defeating Zhike.
• Fairy Yaohua apologized to Xu Changxing and urged Feng Yuan and Zhike to acknowledge him as the overlord sect’s envoy.
• Fairy Yaohua cited the Time Zither’s choice of Xu Changxing and warned that returning ancient Immortal Monarchs could threaten the pavilion.
• Xu Changxing promised Feng Yuan and Zhike they would remain elders and would not be summoned unless the pavilion faced danger.
• Zhike and Feng Yuan bowed to Xu Changxing, and Fairy Yaohua invited him to take charge of the Immortal Music Pavilion.
• Xu Changxing accepted their submission and told them to take him to the Immortal Music Pavilion.

The Immortal Music Pavilion’s elders welcomed Xu Changxing as their new Pavilion Master after the Immortal Music Zither fled, shocking the sect’s disciples. Elder Liu Jinghan challenged the appointment and demanded an explanation from Feng Yuan and Zhike.

• Immortals in the Immortal Music Pavilion speculated about the Immortal Music Zither’s escape as Feng Yuan, Zhike, and Fairy Yaohua returned and opened the Mountain Gate.
• Fairy Yaohua bowed to Xu Changxing, and Feng Yuan and Zhike followed, leaving the Pavilion’s disciples stunned.
• Fairy Yaohua, Feng Yuan, and Zhike announced Xu Changxing as Pavilion Master and invited him into the sect.
• Fairy Yaohua rebuked the confused disciples and ordered them to pay their respects, prompting many to bow to Xu Changxing.
• Liu Jinghan flew up and demanded that the elders explain why they had appointed a Pavilion Master without consulting her.

Xu Changxing used the Immortal Music Zither to halt the elders’ fighting, and Fairy Yaohua declared that the treasure had chosen him as the Immortal Music Pavilion’s master. After Liu Jinghan was forced to kneel and Chen Xiyue bowed to Xu Changxing, Yaohua privately explained that she had backed him to protect herself.

• Fairy Yaohua attacked Liu Jinghan, and Chen Xiyue joined Liu Jinghan after she warned that Yaohua might target them both.
• Xu Changxing played the Time Zither, freezing the three fairies’ battle and preventing them from using their Great Dao.
• Fairy Yaohua announced that the Immortal Music Zither had chosen Xu Changxing as Pavilion Master, but Liu Jinghan tried to persuade Feng Yuan to oppose him.
• Feng Yuan remained silent as an outside Great Dao sealed Liu Jinghan and forced her to kneel before Xu Changxing.
• Chen Xiyue bowed to Xu Changxing, and Fairy Yaohua welcomed him as Pavilion Master.
• Xu Changxing asked Yaohua why she had helped him, and she said she had acted to avoid being punished by Liu Jinghan and Chen Xiyue.

Xu Changxing took charge of the Immortal Music Pavilion and agreed to announce his appointment with a ceremony thirty years later. As Fairy Yaohua prepared invitations across the Immortal Realm, Yan Guyin learned of Xu Changxing’s new position and began planning congratulatory gifts.

• Xu Changxing questioned Fairy Yaohua about Fairy Xinyu’s death, and Yaohua explained that Xinyu had died when she tried to escape the pavilion’s restrictions with Daoist Tianlu.
• Xu Changxing completed the Immortal Music Pavilion’s procedures to become its Pavilion Master, with Yaohua shortening the ceremonies.
• Xu Changxing agreed to invite friendly Golden Immortals to a ceremony thirty years later, deciding that a public announcement would quell rumors about the pavilion.
• Xu Changxing returned to his Daoist Field to enter seclusion while Yaohua sent invitations throughout the Immortal Realm.
• Yan Guyin received an invitation, discovered that Xu Changxing had become Pavilion Master, and ordered his Dao Attendant to spend ten years selecting three fine congratulatory gifts.

Fairy Qiongyin learned that Xu Changxing had become the Immortal Music Pavilion’s master and decided to attend the pavilion’s gathering to see how he had won the position. The Longevity Immortal Elder concluded that Xu Changxing might wield the Immortal Music Zither and considered whether he could help them survive the coming great tribulation.

• Fairy Qiongyin’s maids discussed the Immortal Music Pavilion’s invitation and revealed that Xu Changxing had become its new pavilion master.
• Fairy Qiongyin suppressed the urge to destroy the invitation, then decided to go and see Xu Changxing for herself.
• The Longevity Immortal Elder told his immortal deer that the Immortal Music Zither could make Xu Changxing powerful enough to overwhelm the pavilion’s Golden Immortals.
• The Longevity Immortal Elder warned that the zither’s appearance could bring ancient Golden Immortals back and usher in another great tribulation.
• The Longevity Immortal Elder said he might find the right person to help them endure the tribulation, and the immortal deer wondered if Xu Changxing would take it as his mount.

Xu Changxing explored the Immortal Music Pavilion treasury and collected its origin crystals and many treasures. He then found Chen Xiyue and Liu Jinghan in the forbidden grounds and asked Chen Xiyue to show him the place used to temper Dao hearts.

• Xu Changxing opened the Immortal Music Pavilion treasury and discovered it was filled with heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
• Xu Changxing spent several days gathering origin crystals and other treasures until his Storage Ring was full.
• Xu Changxing toured the pavilion and discovered that Chen Xiyue had joined the imprisoned Liu Jinghan in the forbidden grounds by choice.
• Chen Xiyue explained that she had come to accompany Liu Jinghan and temper her own Dao heart.
• Xu Changxing entered the cave and asked Chen Xiyue to take him deeper to see the Dao Heart Tempering site.

Xu Changxing entered the Immortal Music Pavilion’s cavern to study its Great Dao Ripples, hoping they might help counter the Weirdness in the Tianyan Sect Illusion. After twenty-nine years of seclusion, he emerged for the pavilion’s grand ceremony, leaving Chen Xiyue and Liu Jinghan surprised by his single-minded cultivation.

• Chen Xiyue explained that the cavern’s Great Dao Ripples cleansed divine souls and tempered the Dao heart, then offered Xu Changxing her meditation chamber.
• Xu Changxing went deeper into the cavern to investigate the ripples, but found no treasures or clues and began contemplating the laws.
• Chen Xiyue prepared her chamber and waited for Xu Changxing, expecting him to emerge after only a few days.
• Twenty-nine years later, Xu Changxing emerged brimming with vitality and said he would have stayed a century if the grand ceremony were not beginning.
• Xu Changxing invited Chen Xiyue to attend the ceremony with him, and Liu Jinghan emerged from a crevice, astonished that he had spent decades there only cultivating.

Fairy Yaohua discussed the approaching succession ceremony with Caixin before Xu Changxing welcomed Yan Guyin and other Golden Immortals to the Immortal Music Pavilion. At the ceremony, the Longevity Immortal Elder presented his Everlasting Immortal Deer, leaving the guests speculating about Xu Changxing’s influence and background.

• Fairy Yaohua asked Caixin about the Pavilion Master’s absence and said she did not fear Chen Xiyue because she had helped Xu Changxing take over the Immortal Music Pavilion.
• Xu Changxing welcomed Yan Guyin, who congratulated him on becoming Pavilion Master, and hosted him in a temporary Daoist field.
• Several invited Golden Immortals arrived over the following months, and Xu Changxing exchanged greetings with them at his succession ceremony.
• The Longevity Immortal Elder arrived riding his immortal deer and presented it as a congratulatory gift to the Immortal Music Pavilion.
• The Golden Immortals marveled that the Elder had given away a supreme immortal beast and speculated that the deer had joined Xu Changxing because it sensed something extraordinary.

Xu Changxing received the Longevity Immortal Elder’s immortal deer as a congratulatory gift, drawing speculation from the Golden Immortals. Fairy Qiongyin arrived intending to confront him, but his music changed her mind, and the deer confirmed that he had chosen to seek refuge with Xu Changxing.

• The Longevity Immortal Elder gave his immortal deer to the Immortal Music Pavilion, and the deer fawned over Xu Changxing.
• Fairy Qiongyin arrived playing a sorrowful zither melody, but Xu Changxing answered with music that eased her resentment.
• Fairy Qiongyin interpreted the Elder’s gift and the Golden Immortals’ whispers as signs that Xu Changxing faced an unspoken hardship, then congratulated him and took her seat.
• The Golden Immortals speculated about why Fairy Qiongyin had changed her attitude, while Xu Changxing asked the deer why it had sought refuge with him.
• The immortal deer praised Xu Changxing’s insight and disparaged the Longevity Immortal Elder, who composed himself and went to greet the guests.

Xu Changxing accepted an immortal deer seeking refuge as an elder and appointed Fairy Qiongyin as the Immortal Music Pavilion’s sixth elder. He then assigned her to reform the Pavilion’s branches across the Immortal Realm.

• The old deer told Xu Changxing that the Longevity Immortal Elder sensed an approaching calamity and asked to settle at the Immortal Music Pavilion.
• Xu Changxing welcomed the old deer as a prospective elder and had Fairy Yaohua arrange a cultivation ground for him.
• Fairy Qiongyin asked to join the Pavilion and offered to handle its internal troubles; Xu Changxing agreed, provided she set aside her grudge against Yaohua.
• Xu Changxing told Fairy Qiongyin to turn the Pavilion’s branches into ordinary places of commerce, and she agreed.
• The elders unanimously approved Fairy Qiongyin and the old deer as new elders, after which Xu Changxing proposed reforming the branches.

Xu Changxing reorganized the Immortal Music Pavilion’s branches and used seclusion to create the Immortal Music Flaw-Cleansing Art, which could sweep away but not eradicate the Weirdness. After using it on a contaminated sword, he discovered that the strange laws had contaminated him as well, and he remained nearby to contain their spread.

• Chen Xiyue supported Xu Changxing’s plan to reform the Immortal Music Pavilion’s branches, and the other elders did not object.
• Xu Changxing assigned Fairy Qiongyin to lead the reforms and told Fairy Yaohua to cooperate; the reforms were completed without obstruction.
• Xu Changxing developed the Immortal Music Flaw-Cleansing Art, which could expel Weirdness but not destroy it, and tested it on the contaminated Immortal Music Sword.
• Xu Changxing realized the strange laws had contaminated him, cleared them from his body, and searched for the Weirdness he had swept away but found no trace of it.
• Xu Changxing kept watch for over five hundred years, eliminated corrupted cultivators and Demon Beasts, and failed to find a way to eradicate the strange laws except by crushing them with his Great Dao.