Chapter Summaries

Xu Changxing overwhelmed Cangqiu Daoist with his music-based Great Dao Formation Diagram, impressing the Golden Immortals and prompting the Longevity Immortal Elder to recognize his potential as an Immortal Monarch. The Elder stopped the duel, and Cangqiu Daoist left the trade fair in disgrace after Yan Guyin berated him.

• Xu Changxing’s great Dao music broke through Cangqiu Daoist’s defenses and destroyed or disabled several of his magic treasures.
• Yan Guyin told the other Golden Immortals that Xu Changxing had broken through only a few thousand years earlier, while the Longevity Immortal Elder privately wondered if Xu had the makings of an Immortal Monarch.
• The Longevity Immortal Elder intervened and asked Xu Changxing and Cangqiu Daoist to pause their sparring so Fairy Qiongyin could complete her trade.
• Xu Changxing stopped playing and returned to his seat, and Cangqiu Daoist prepared to speak up for himself.
• Yan Guyin rebuked Cangqiu Daoist for provoking Xu Changxing and losing, and Cangqiu Daoist flew out of the venue without support from the other Golden Immortals.

Xu Changxing sold the Immortal-Swaying Banner for fifty Origin Crystals after Fairy Qiongyin outbid Immortal Huangmei, and received a Communication Jade Pendant from her. He used sixty-four Origin Crystals to start a Special Simulation, where High Person Sanshou did not enter seclusion as he had before.

• Yan Guyin praised Xu Changxing for defeating the old cultivator, and Golden Immortals began bidding on the Immortal-Swaying Banner.
• Immortal Huangmei offered thirty Origin Crystals for the banner, citing Xu Changxing’s Great Dao Music, but Fairy Qiongyin outbid him with fifty.
• Xu Changxing received fifty Origin Crystals and a Communication Jade Pendant from Fairy Qiongyin, then watched the trading gathering end.
• Xu Changxing traveled to a remote location, concealed himself with a formation, and began a Special Simulation using sixty-four Origin Crystals.
• Xu Changxing’s simulated self earned High Person Sanshou’s favor and obtained the Immortal Sacred Body Pill recipe, but High Person Sanshou did not enter seclusion as he had in the previous simulation.

Xu Changxing failed to draw Immortal Lord Leyou by relying on High Person Sanshou, so he used his pill-refining and musical talents to meet Leyou and learn from him. After visiting Leyou years later, Xu heard how Leyou’s old friend had died by his own sword, leaving Leyou unable to fulfill his final request to find a flying sword.

• High Person Sanshou praised Xu Changxing’s Immortal Sacred Body Pills and discussed the Dao of alchemy with him, then left without showing him a special pill.
• After more than two centuries refining pills at Sanshou’s Daoist field, Xu decided to attract Immortal Lord Leyou by displaying his musical talent.
• Xu refined unusual Immortal Pills beneath seven-colored clouds and played music that formed a Great Dao painting, drawing Leyou to visit him.
• Leyou exchanged insights on music and other Great Daos with Xu, then watched him refine pills; Xu advanced in music and alchemy before Leyou departed.
• Xu visited Leyou and asked about his regrets, and Leyou recounted his former friend’s change of path, suicide, and final request to find a flying sword.

Xu Changxing discovered that the Immortal Music Sword could help awaken Immortal Lord Leyou, and High Person Sanshou intervened when the Tianyan Sect Illusion’s strangeness threatened him. He cultivated the fusion of supreme Great Daos, gained guidance from Daoist Wuchen on time and space, and returned to seclusion.

• Xu Changxing learned that the Flying Sword Immortal Lord Leyou sought was identical to the Immortal Music Sword Daoist Tianlu had given him.
• Xu Changxing inadvertently revealed that he had seen the sword in another world, and High Person Sanshou’s intervention shielded him from the Tianyan Sect Illusion’s strangeness.
• Xu Changxing realized the Immortal Music Sword might awaken Immortal Lord Leyou and wondered how the Immortal Sacred Body Pill had restored High Person Sanshou’s clarity.
• Xu Changxing secluded himself and began fusing life with the Way of Destruction, creating a slight overlap that greatly strengthened his body.
• Xu Changxing visited Daoist Wuchen for guidance, and Daoist Wuchen explained that mastering time and space would lead to the Way of Space-Time before sending him away.
• Xu Changxing decided to continue his seclusion rather than rely on others to unravel the illusion.

Xu Changxing returned to the Abyss and fought Zhu Lu for five hundred years, eventually defeating him with a formation built across the layer. After gaining profound insights into the Ways of Destruction and Life, he returned to the Tianyan Sect and paused the simulation to travel.

• Xu Changxing entered the Abyss and clashed with Zhu Lu, repeatedly retreating and regrouping as their battle continued.
• Xu Changxing and Zhu Lu fought for centuries, ravaging the Abyss and driving its Demonic Beasts into hiding.
• Xu Changxing activated a Domain Formation linked by Magma Marks and severely wounded Zhu Lu, who fled to the next layer.
• Xu Changxing reached the Golden Immortal Fifth Stage in the Way of Destruction and entered seclusion to consolidate his gains.
• Xu Changxing observed the Abyss recover and gained insights into the Way of Life before returning to the Tianyan Sect.
• Xu Changxing paused the simulation and used his Authority Dao to leave the Tianyan Sect and travel.

Xu Changxing watched the simulation reveal that High Person Sanshou had partly resisted the eerie corruption, then chose to view the scenes and learn more about the Great Dao of Music and Dao fusion. After two hundred years of practice, he reached the Golden Immortal Fourth Layer in Music, made the Life Great Dao and Way of Destruction overlap, and advanced his Flesh Realm to the Golden Immortal Fifth Stage.

• The simulation showed High Person Sanshou retaining some of his features as Daoist Wuchen and Immortal Lord Leyou attacked Xu Changxing, who died under their combined assault.
• Xu Changxing chose to view the simulation scenes and studied Immortal Lord Leyou's insights into the Great Dao of Music and fusing Great Dao Laws.
• Over a hundred years of seclusion, Xu Changxing advanced his Great Dao of Music to the Golden Immortal Fourth Layer while struggling to fuse the Life Great Dao and the Way of Destruction.
• After the simulation passed four thousand years, Xu Changxing used his accumulated insights to create a slight overlap between the two Great Daos, nearly doubling his physical strength and advancing his Flesh Realm to the Golden Immortal Fifth Stage.

After digesting his gains from a simulation, Xu Changxing advanced in the Space Great Dao and contacted Fairy Qiongyin with music. Qiongyin grew intrigued by the notes and questioned whether Xu had truly made a breakthrough in the Way of Music.

• Xu Changxing reached the Golden Immortal Eighth Layer after a century of seclusion and considered how to gather enough Origin Crystals for another simulation.
• Xu Changxing remembered Fairy Qiongyin's Message Jade Pendant and sent her a few notes using his Way of Music.
• Fairy Qiongyin heard the notes, felt a fleeting inspiration, and sent Xu a message asking what he wanted.
• Xu Changxing claimed he had spent three hundred years in seclusion and shared his new insights because he had few friends.
• Fairy Qiongyin doubted that Xu could have made a major breakthrough so quickly, but the notes continued to echo in her mind.

Xu Changxing cultivated Fairy Qiongyin’s interest in his musical talent and received five hundred Origin Crystals by promising to make music-enhancing incense. After refining the incense and a stock of Golden Immortal-grade Immortal Pills, he set off for Fairy Qiongyin’s Daoist Field.

• Xu Changxing used the Message Jade Pendant to discuss the Way of Music with Fairy Qiongyin, and they spent hours talking.
• Over the following months, Xu Changxing hinted that he lacked Origin Crystals to make music-enhancing incense, and Fairy Qiongyin sent him five hundred Origin Crystals.
• Xu Changxing refined Immortal Pills that could be crushed into incense, using methods he had learned from Immortal Lord Leyou in an earlier simulation.
• Xu Changxing spent fifty Origin Crystals on materials and spent thirteen years refining Golden Immortal-grade Immortal Pills for emergencies.
• Xu Changxing flew toward Fairy Qiongyin’s Daoist Field.

Xu Changxing returned to Fairy Qiongyin with six kinds of incense made from Immortal Pills, proving he had not swindled her. After the incense inspired her music and she advanced her cultivation, Xu Changxing resumed contact with her and hinted at his interest in flying swords.

• Fairy Qiongyin learned that Xu Changxing had come to visit and reluctantly agreed to see him.
• Xu Changxing showed Fairy Qiongyin six kinds of Immortal Pills that could be crushed into incense to aid comprehension of the Way of Music.
• Fairy Qiongyin opened a jade bottle and felt the incense revive her musical inspiration, while Xu Changxing soon departed.
• Over the following years, Fairy Qiongyin played constantly, and ten years later her zither music traced auspicious clouds above the mountains.
• Thirty years later, Fairy Qiongyin contacted Xu Changxing, who told her he had once been a Sword Cultivator and liked collecting flying swords.

Xu Changxing unexpectedly obtained the Immortal Music Sword from Fairy Qiongyin and began another simulation. During the simulation, the sword’s hidden dao patterns appeared in reality as Immortal Lord Leyou examined it, and Xu Changxing’s simulated cultivation later advanced to Golden Immortal ninth stage.

• Fairy Qiongyin gave Xu Changxing the Immortal Music Sword, and he left Zhiyun Mountain after giving her his refined incense and saying he would enter seclusion.
• Xu Changxing began a special simulation and spent centuries building his standing in the Tianyan Sect before attracting Immortal Lord Leyou with his skill in the Way of Music.
• In the simulation, Xu Changxing showed Immortal Lord Leyou the Immortal Music Sword, and its hidden dao patterns began appearing on the real sword as the simulation stalled.
• After the patterns spread across the blade, Immortal Lord Leyou returned the sword and withdrew to his cultivation chamber.
• Xu Changxing assimilated Immortal Lord Leyou’s guidance, reached the Golden Immortal fifth stage in the Way of Music, and later broke through to the Golden Immortal ninth stage in cultivation.
• After encountering a bottleneck, Xu Changxing planned to cultivate his other great dao and identified the Abyss as the best place to cultivate the Way of Destruction.

After defeating Zhu Lu in the first layer, you entered the Second-Layer Abyss to advance your comprehension of the Way of Destruction and turned its overlord against him. When Zhu Lu escaped and the overlord finished venting his fury, you attacked the overlord yourself.

• You defeated Zhu Lu after a century of fighting, forcing him to flee into the Second-Layer Abyss.
• You entered the Second-Layer Abyss and found Zhu Lu hiding and recovering from his injuries.
• You exposed Zhu Lu's presence to the Second-Layer Abyss's overlord, provoking the two into battle while you studied the Way of Destruction.
• You repeatedly saved Zhu Lu from lethal blows, then realized that Zhu Lu and the overlord were baiting you into joining their fight.
• You stayed hidden as Zhu Lu escaped toward the Third-Layer Abyss, then struck the overlord with a Spatial Storm when it finished venting its fury.

Xu Changxing's simulation showed him defeating the second-layer Abyss Overlord, then leaving the Abyss after slaughtering most of its Demonic Beasts. He later refined the Tianyan Pearl and, when the Tianyan Sect was attacked again, withstood Daoist Wuchen's red-light strike but realized he still could not defeat him alone.

• Xu Changxing used a Domain Formation to destroy the second-layer Abyss Overlord and spent months grinding away its remaining flesh while comprehending the Way of Destruction.
• After reaching the Golden Immortal Seventh Layer, Xu Changxing discovered that the Overlord's lair had been looted and slaughtered most of the Demonic Beasts in the Abyss layer before leaving.
• Xu Changxing decided that prolonged exploration of the Abyss risked erosion by the Abyssal Rule, then continued the simulation and searched for a treasure to refine the Tianyan Pearl.
• Xu Changxing obtained the treasure and gave it to Daoist Wuchen, and the Tianyan Sect later faced the Way of Destiny, a Heavenly Tribulation, and a Human Tribulation again.
• After the Immortal Venerables disappeared and Daoist Wuchen attacked with eerie red light, Xu Changxing withstood the strike but realized he could not match Daoist Wuchen alone; High Person Sanshou stood nearby with sparse fine hair covering his face.

After the simulation ended with Xu Changxing’s death, he chose to view its scenes and gained breakthroughs in his spatial, destruction, and music laws. He discovered that eerie corruption had spread into the Immortal Music Sword and High Person Sanshou’s revived corpse, then began another special simulation to investigate.

• Xu Changxing saw that High Person Sanshou had tried to help him resist Daoist Wuchen, while Immortal Lord Leyou fought the corruption, but Daoist Wuchen’s red light overwhelmed them and killed him.
• Xu Changxing chose to view the simulation scenes and, after a century of comprehension, advanced his spatial law to the Golden Immortal ninth layer; a further century brought breakthroughs in destruction and music.
• Xu Changxing noticed pitch-black eerie markings on the Immortal Music Sword and suspected that the Tianyan Sect’s corruption had spread beyond its illusion.
• Xu Changxing visited the revived corpse in the silent Small World and found that eerie laws and hair had appeared on it, leading him to conclude High Person Sanshou had transferred corruption from his soul onto the corpse.
• Xu Changxing deposited two hundred and fifty-six origin crystals into the system and began another special simulation to observe the corpse and Immortal Music Sword.

Xu Changxing discovered that the weirdness affecting High Person Sanshou and Immortal Lord Leyou was linked to the Immortal Music Sword, and decided to stop running special simulations until he was strong enough to face the dangers behind the Tianyan Sect Illusion. After assimilating his gains, he left the Immortal Music Sword hidden in a valley and began looking for a new source of Origin Crystals.

• Xu Changxing observed the Immortal Music Sword and High Person Sanshou's corpse during the simulation and saw their weirdness grow when High Person Sanshou and Immortal Lord Leyou entered seclusion.
• Xu Changxing concluded that the two Immortal Monarchs were trying to transfer the weirdness out of themselves and that an enemy behind their affliction might emerge if they were freed.
• Xu Changxing decided not to clear the Tianyan Sect Illusion or run more special simulations until he could withstand the risks.
• Xu Changxing chose to view scenes from the simulation, then emerged from seclusion with his flesh realm at the Golden Immortal seventh layer.
• Xu Changxing hid the Immortal Music Sword in a valley, left the Dead Zone, and reached the Golden Immortal third layer in the Life Great Dao after another thirty years of seclusion.
• After spending all five hundred Origin Crystals from Fairy Qiongyin, Xu Changxing wondered where he could obtain more and turned his attention away from asking her again.

Xu Changxing visited Yan Guyin to ask about the hidden Profound Demons, but learned that maidens from a mysterious immortal sect wanted him to give a discourse on the Great Dao of Music. He accepted their invitation for ten years later and received a deposit of five hundred origin crystals, then faced Yan Guyin's question about why he had come.

• Xu Changxing returned to the Moonflower Sect and learned that Yan Guyin had been looking for him for decades.
• Yan Guyin explained that female immortals wanted Xu Changxing to give a discourse and demonstrate his Way of Music.
• Xu Changxing learned that the maidens had pooled a thousand origin crystals, with five hundred already sent as a deposit, and suspected the mysterious Immortal Music Pavilion was involved.
• Xu Changxing agreed to give the discourse ten years later and accepted the Storage Ring containing the deposit.
• Yan Guyin asked Xu Changxing whether he had come to see him about something important.

Xu Changxing prepared for and began his first Dao lecture, using music to demonstrate his understanding of the Great Dao. As his music stirred the laws of the Small World, it captivated the female immortals in attendance.

• Xu Changxing asked Yan Guyin for the locations of hidden Profound Demons so he could temper his Great Dao, and Yan Guyin warned him about their numbers and strength.
• Yan Guyin told Xu Changxing that Cangqiu had gone into seclusion after his defeat, and Xu Changxing returned to his Daoist Field to prepare for his lecture.
• Xu Changxing organized the Great Dao he intended to demonstrate, then traveled with Yan Guyin to a Small World that was actually an unopened Immortal Music Pavilion.
• Xu Changxing turned away visitors seeking guidance until the day of the lecture, when Yan Guyin introduced him to the gathered female immortals.
• Xu Changxing began plucking at the Great Dao, and his music set the Small World's laws in motion and captivated the audience.

Fairy Qiongyin learned that Xu Changxing was preaching at the Immortal Music Pavilion and worried the gathering was meant to lure her father, Daoist Tianlu. As Xu Changxing’s music moved the gathered immortals, Daoist Tianlu arrived and confronted Yaohua and Feng Yuan over their trap.

• Fairy Qiongyin heard that the Immortal Music Pavilion had paid Xu Changxing a thousand Origin Crystals to preach, then flew to Daoist Tianlu’s deserted Daoist Field and realized he was gone.
• Xu Changxing played the Great Dao Music for a day and a night, guiding the Small World’s laws and drawing many female immortals into sudden enlightenment.
• Yaohua and Feng Yuan watched the gathering and revealed they had arranged it to draw out Daoist Tianlu.
• Daoist Tianlu tore open the Small World’s sealed entrance with his killing intent and entered.
• Daoist Tianlu recognized Yaohua and Feng Yuan, challenged Yaohua over her trap, and accused her of acting hypocritically.

Daoist Tianlu fought Feng Yuan while trying to kill Fairy Yaohua, and Xu Changxing’s music kept their battle from tearing apart the Small World. As the laws grew too violent for Xu Changxing to contain, Yan Guyin sheltered the frightened fairies in a barrier.

• Feng Yuan revealed himself as a Golden Immortal Ninth Layer Sword Immortal and clashed with Daoist Tianlu, whose thunder and slaughter laws nearly matched his Sword Dao.
• Xu Changxing’s Great Dao of Music calmed the battle’s shock waves while his lecture continued, and Fairy Yaohua wondered how many laws he had fused into his Dao.
• Daoist Tianlu sent his afterimages toward Fairy Yaohua, but an old man emerged to protect her and warned Tianlu to give up.
• Tianlu vowed to take Yaohua with him even if he died, intensifying the slaughter laws until Xu Changxing’s music faltered and the fairies awoke in fear.
• Yan Guyin raised a barrier of laws and drew dozens of fairies inside to protect them from the storm of laws.

Xu Changxing watched Daoist Tianlu battle Feng Yuan and Zhike over Fairy Xinyu’s death, then saw Fairy Yaohua trap Tianlu and the newly arrived Fairy Qiongyin inside the Small World. As the fighting destabilized the world, Yan Guyin’s protective barrier shrank and crowded the immortal maidens together.

• Xu Changxing pieced together that Fairy Xinyu had died in a clash involving the Immortal Music Pavilion and Fairy Yaohua, prompting Daoist Tianlu to seek revenge.
• Feng Yuan and Zhike gained the advantage over Daoist Tianlu, who kept trying to reach Fairy Yaohua instead of retreating.
• Fairy Qiongyin entered the Small World, and Fairy Yaohua played her Immortal Zither to turn it into a cage trapping her and Tianlu.
• Fairy Yaohua sent strands of zither music to ensnare Fairy Qiongyin, who countered with the Way of Music and sent the Small World’s laws into chaos.
• Yan Guyin shrank his barrier around the immortal maidens as the floating mountains lurched, reassuring the frightened crowd despite the crush.

Xu Changxing realized Fairy Yaohua had orchestrated the battle and uncovered signs linking the Immortal Music Pavilion to Immortal Lord Leyou. As Fairy Qiongyin began to falter, Yaohua tried to turn Xu Changxing against her and provoke Daoist Tianlu with cutting voice transmissions.

• Xu Changxing inferred that Fairy Yaohua had drawn Yan Guyin and Fairy Qiongyin into a carefully planned scheme to trap Daoist Tianlu.
• Xu Changxing recognized a distinctive tremor in Yaohua’s zither playing from Immortal Lord Leyou’s musical teachings and suspected the Immortal Music Pavilion descended from Leyou’s deceased friend.
• Xu Changxing saw Fairy Qiongyin losing ground to Fairy Yaohua and heard Qiongyin call on him for help.
• Fairy Yaohua secretly urged Xu Changxing to stay out of the fight while telling Qiongyin and Daoist Tianlu that Qiongyin was foolish to rely on him and that Tianlu should take his own life.
• Xu Changxing deciphered Yaohua’s transmissions and realized she had used similar taunts to provoke Tianlu in the past.