Honghuang: A Soul-Severing Tune, I Prove the Primordial Dao with My Suona

After transmigrating to the Primordial World, Gu Changqing discovers that he has become a mutated spiritual bamboo rooted in an ancient battlefield of gods and demons, feeding on endless baleful energy. To suppress the baleful energy, he breaks off his own body, wraps it in a piece of battered bronze, and fashions it into the king of all instruments: the suona! Just as the Three Pure Ones become saints, the Jade Void Palace opens its gates to new disciples. The formation testing candidates rejects Gu Changqing because of the baleful energy clinging to him. Furious, he blasts his suona, shattering the illusion formation with a wild melody, then presents his philosophy to Yuanshi Tianzun: "The sacred music of the Great Dao teaches the virtuous, while the Underworld's soul-severing song restrains the wicked. The Chan Sect needs light, but it also needs a ruler to measure the limits of its rules." His words strike at the heart of the Chan Sect's teachings. Yuanshi Tianzun, who values rules above all, is greatly impressed. He immediately makes an exception and takes Gu Changqing as a personal disciple, granting him the title of the Chan Sect's hidden blade, independent of the Twelve Golden Immortals! Within the sect, whenever one of the Twelve Golden Immortals grows arrogant or falls prey to inner demons, Gu Changqing plays a song of great joy to cleanse their Dao hearts by force, sternly sending them off to reflect in seclusion. Against outsiders, any great demon bold enough to cause trouble on Kunlun Mountain, relying on its powerful origins, is sent straight to its doom with a funeral dirge of great sorrow, its soul and spirit extinguished on the spot. When the calamity of the Investiture of the Gods begins, killing intent fills the air before the Myriad Immortals Formation, and the immortals of the Chan Sect are locked in fierce battle. Dressed in a neat Daoist robe from the Jade Void Palace and carrying a black-and-green suona, Gu Changqing strolls into the formation. The suona's piercing wail resounds through heaven and earth. A procession of ghosts summons endless Yin soldiers, while its rampaging sound waves ignore every magical treasure's defenses and tear through the peerless killing formation, stunning the saints of the heavens. Facing the Western Teachings' attempt to take advantage of the chaos with their converting sacred chants, Gu Changqing plays his most brutal soul-severing dirge. The Eight Hundred Side Doors of the Western Teachings immediately suffer a backlash of vital energy, and their Dao hearts crumble. One song ferries gods and demons across the Underworld; one sigh throws the workings of heaven into chaos.