"Can't carry a tune? Going off-key onstage is a disaster?"
Lin Ge, a music college senior about to graduate, had one great ambition: to open a little music shop and take it easy. Instead, armed with his phone's music library and a little half-baked music theory, he tumbled headfirst into a cultivation world where the strong prey on the weak.
Things went badly from the start. He ended up in the body of a fellow disciple with damaged vocal cords, a ruined dantian, and the lowest standing in the sect.
Just as the sect ordered him to get lost, he desperately tried to sing a few notes... Porcelain?
A miracle happened: a withered spirit plant sprouted new leaves!
The elder was stunned. "Infusing spirit energy through sound waves? Impossible! That was lost ten thousand years ago!"
What scales? What rhythm? What sound-wave frequencies? He didn't understand any of it!
All Lin Ge knew was that the thousands of songs on his phone seemed to be... an incredible cheat in this world?
From then on, the cultivation world's style took a sharp turn:
While sword cultivators were still laboring to master their sword aura, he set up a guzheng on a mountaintop. One performance of Ambushed on All Sides drew in sharp Geng Metal energy to temper his body.
While alchemists fretted over balancing medicinal properties, he brought out a row of ocarinas and played Compendium of Materia Medica to speed up the growth of immortal herbs.
While talisman and formation masters wore themselves out setting up arrays, he took out an erhu. As Horse Racing played, spatial nodes shifted and rearranged themselves...
Even more absurdly, the Forget Worries Sect choir he formed could make everyone's spiritual energy resonate endlessly with a single song, Unity Is Strength?
The elders beat their chests in anguish. "Unorthodox nonsense! A disgrace to proper learning!"
The demon king's princess stared, eyes shining. "This song is amazing! I want to hear The Most Dazzling Folk Style too!"
Lin Ge: "Don't rush. Get in line and pay with spirit stones to request a song!"
