Chapter Summaries

Xu Changxing captured Fairy Yaohua by exploiting a flaw in her Great Dao, then questioned her about the origins of her inheritance. As Zhike approached but stopped short of rescuing her, Xu Changxing insisted they discuss the Immortal Music Pavilion’s lineage first.

• Fairy Qiongyin struggled against Fairy Yaohua while Daoist Tianlu’s anger briefly strengthened his fight against two Golden Immortals.
• Fairy Yaohua attacked Fairy Qiongyin with a high-frequency sound beam, but Xu Changxing’s music dispelled it.
• Xu Changxing appeared behind Fairy Yaohua and sealed her Great Dao with vibrations from his palm, capturing her alive.
• Fairy Yaohua demanded to know how Xu Changxing had broken through her laws, while he asked which patriarch had passed down her inheritance.
• Zhike approached, asked about Xu Changxing’s origins and why he had attacked Fairy Yaohua, and Xu Changxing insisted they first discuss her inheritance.

Xu Changxing recaptured Fairy Yaohua after breaking through Zhike’s law barrier, while Daoist Tianlu, Feng Yuan, and Zhike escalated their battle by burning their souls. The Small World began collapsing under the clash of their Great Dao Laws.

• Fairy Yaohua revealed that the Immortal Music Pavilion had no records of the vanished patriarch behind her inheritance, leading Xu Changxing to suspect a connection to Immortal Lord Leyou.
• Zhike tried to rescue Fairy Yaohua, but Daoist Tianlu and Feng Yuan disrupted his efforts as Xu Changxing dragged her through the law barrier by her hair.
• Xu Changxing carried Fairy Yaohua to Fairy Qiongyin, prompting Feng Yuan and Zhike to reveal their trump cards and stake their lives to stop Daoist Tianlu.
• Daoist Tianlu burned his soul and unleashed overwhelming Slaughter Laws, suppressing Feng Yuan’s sword and Zhike’s Immortal Soldiers.
• The three peak Golden Immortals’ battle tore apart the Small World as its mountains fell, the earth split, and cracks spread across the sky.

Xu Changxing helped Fairy Qiongyin and Daoist Tianlu end the battle by capturing Fairy Yaohua and giving her the Flowing Light Shuttle so she could take Feng Yuan and Ke Rong away. Afterward, Fairy Qiongyin rewarded Xu Changxing with a thousand origin crystals, and he gave her two pills to heal Divine Soul injuries.

• Fairy Qiongyin urged Xu Changxing to separate the fighters, and Fairy Yaohua offered to use her Flowing Light Shuttle to take herself, Feng Yuan, and Ke Rong away.
• Xu Changxing handed the shuttle to Fairy Yaohua, who activated it and left with Feng Yuan and Ke Rong.
• Daoist Tianlu questioned why Fairy Yaohua had been allowed to leave, but Fairy Qiongyin and Xu Changxing convinced him to stop burning his Divine Soul and wait until he reached Taiyi to seek revenge.
• Fairy Qiongyin offered Xu Changxing a gift of thanks, and he accepted a bundle containing a thousand origin crystals.
• Xu Changxing gave Fairy Qiongyin two Immortal Pills that could heal Divine Soul injuries.

Xu Changxing gave Fairy Qiongyin two Immortal Pills, then inspected the spoils he had taken from Fairy Yaohua and gained nearly three thousand origin crystals. He began another ordinary simulation, which left him preparing to enter seclusion after traveling the Immortal Realm.

• Xu Changxing gave Fairy Qiongyin two Immortal Pills before leaving her Small World, and Daoist Tianlu warned her that Xu Changxing was devoted to pursuing the Dao.
• Xu Changxing inspected Fairy Yaohua's Storage Ring, collected its valuable treasures and origin crystals, and sealed the ring.
• Xu Changxing deposited 256 origin crystals into the system and started an ordinary simulation.
• In the simulation, Xu Changxing met Yan Guyin, accepted one thousand origin crystals from him, and handed over Fairy Yaohua's Storage Ring.
• Yan Guyin told Xu Changxing that the Immortal Music Pavilion had become low-key and that its top-tier branch had closed its gates.
• After traveling the Immortal Realm and gaining insights, Xu Changxing prepared to enter seclusion again.

Xu Changxing discovered that contemplating the law fragments in origin crystals helped him cultivate the Way of Fusion, though the method consumed vast amounts of crystals. Later, he earned a thousand origin crystals from Fairy Qiongyin by refining Soul-Returning Pills and a defensive Magic Treasure, then left Zhiyun Mountain.

• Xu Changxing spent over three hundred and sixty years crushing more than two thousand origin crystals and studying their law fragments, gaining methods to fuse Great Dao Laws and glimpsing the embryonic Way of Life and Death.
• Xu Changxing exhausted most of his origin crystals and decided to travel in search of fresh inspiration.
• Fairy Qiongyin invited Xu Changxing to Zhiyun Mountain and explained that Daoist Tianlu needed more Immortal Pills to recover from his injuries and alleviate the backlash from his secret technique.
• Xu Changxing sold Fairy Qiongyin thirty Soul-Returning Pills for six hundred origin crystals, charging twenty crystals each while she supplied the ingredients.
• Xu Changxing refined Fairy Qiongyin's Magic Treasure Prototype into a defensive Magic Treasure and charged her four hundred origin crystals for the work.
• Xu Changxing left Zhiyun Mountain with a thousand origin crystals after Fairy Qiongyin paid for the pills and Magic Treasure.

Xu Changxing cultivated the Ways of Life and Destruction, ventured into the Abyss to defeat its overlord, and later rescued Li Changge after he was grievously wounded. After Xu Changxing avenged Li Changge by killing three Golden Immortals involved with the Demonic Gate, Fairy Qiongyin warned him that several Immortal Sects were condemning him, and he decided to lie low.

• Xu Changxing used his growing understanding of the Abyss laws to resist their corrosion, entered the Second-Layer Abyss, and killed its overlord after a prolonged battle.
• Xu Changxing cultivated the Ways of Destruction and Life, reaching the Golden Immortal eighth layer in Destruction and the fifth stage in Life.
• Xu Changxing received Li Changge's message, found him poisoned by a law that was corroding his divine soul, and stabilized his injuries with Immortal Pills.
• Li Changge told Xu Changxing that a Righteous Path Golden Immortal had betrayed him during a battle against the Demonic Gate, so Xu Changxing attacked the traitor's Immortal Sect.
• Xu Changxing killed the sect's three Golden Immortals and learned through torturing their souls that all had secretly dealt with the Demonic Gate.
• Fairy Qiongyin warned Xu Changxing that several Immortal Sects condemned him for destroying the sect, and he decided to hide for a while.

Xu Changxing ordered the simulation to meet any attackers openly, then founded Two Saints Mountain with Li Changge and repelled the Immortal Realm’s allied army. After Xu Changxing defeated three top Golden Immortals and routed their forces, he wondered whether his current strength could sweep through the Immortal Realm.

• Xu Changxing paused the simulation and instructed it to fight anyone who came looking for trouble.
• Xu Changxing and Li Changge occupied an immortal mountain, established Two Saints Mountain, and drank together to celebrate.
• A Heavenly Immortal died at the mountain after Xu Changxing refused to hear his plea, and a popular zither piece helped spread accusations against Two Saints Mountain.
• An Immortal Monarch of the Exquisite Immortal Sect organized an allied army, which besieged Two Saints Mountain and failed to break through Xu Changxing’s formations.
• Xu Changxing defeated three top Golden Immortals, trapped and killed them with the Kongwei Compass, then stormed the allied army and routed its Golden Immortals.
• Xu Changxing questioned whether his strength was enough to sweep through all the Immortals of the Immortal Realm.

Xu Changxing’s simulation showed him surviving Feihong Immortal Lord’s attacks before dying in a killing formation at the Abyss entrance. After choosing to review the simulation, Xu Changxing studied the Immortal Monarch’s spellcasting.

• Xu Changxing learned that Feihong Immortal Lord pursued him until he escaped into the Abyss, then trapped him in a killing formation when he returned to the Immortal Realm.
• Xu Changxing questioned whether Feihong Immortal Lord was weak or the Immortal Realm’s laws restricted Immortal Monarchs’ strength.
• Xu Changxing chose to view the simulation scenes and gained insights into the Way of Life and the Way of Destruction.
• Xu Changxing slowed the playback to study Feihong Immortal Lord’s spellcasting and finished watching the battle three days later.

After confirming that ordinary simulations did not worsen the Weirdness in the Tianyan Sect, Xu Changxing returned to the Moonflower Sect and negotiated with Yan Guyin over Fairy Yaohua’s Storage Ring. In another simulation, he delayed meeting them and spent over two centuries cultivating, gaining insights into several Great Daos and the Way of Time before deciding to see Yan Guyin again.

• Xu Changxing inspected the Small World and confirmed that ordinary simulations did not cause the Weirdness in the Tianyan Sect to spread.
• Xu Changxing met Yan Guyin, who offered five hundred origin crystals on Fairy Yaohua’s behalf to redeem the female immortals’ items in her Storage Ring.
• Xu Changxing rejected the offer, and Yan Guyin blamed Fairy Yaohua for trying to swindle him.
• Xu Changxing left the Moonflower Sect and began another simulation, where Yan Guyin invited him back after only five months.
• Xu Changxing suspected that Fairy Yaohua’s Storage Ring contained a crucial item, but delayed responding and continued his seclusion.
• After more than two hundred years of cultivation, Xu Changxing had comprehended several Great Daos, learned more about fusing their laws, and gained some insight into the Way of Time.

Xu Changxing watched a simulation in which he negotiated with Yan Guyin’s group for Fairy Yaohua’s Storage Ring, then investigated the Golden Immortals colluding with the Demonic Gate and became trapped in the Abyss. After assimilating the simulation’s insights and advancing his cultivation, he received another message from Yan Guyin and headed to the Moonflower Sect.

• Xu Changxing’s simulated self sold Fairy Yaohua’s Storage Ring and six ornaments to Caixin for three thousand Origin Crystals after negotiating with Yan Guyin.
• Xu Changxing had his simulated self investigate Golden Immortals colluding with the Demonic Gate, provoking Feihong Immortal Lord and forcing him to flee into the Abyss.
• Xu Changxing’s simulated self searched the first two layers for an exit, then killed the Third-Layer Abyss Overlord but found no way out before the simulation ended.
• Xu Changxing chose to view the simulation scenes and spent more than two hundred years assimilating its insights, reaching the Golden Immortal Ninth Layer in the Way of Destruction and the Golden Immortal Fifth Stage in the Life Great Dao.
• Xu Changxing crushed an Origin Crystal, comprehended its time-law fragments, and advanced the Time Great Dao to the Golden Immortal Second Layer.
• Xu Changxing received another message from Yan Guyin and rode his Escape Light toward the Moonflower Sect.

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.