Legends of the Music Sage

Guiguzi Xianshi

No rating yet

Word count: 1.5M words
Chapters: 35

Summary

Legends of the Music Sage is an Eastern fantasy novel by the web author Guigu Xianshi. It was serialized on Qidian from 2015 to its completion, totaling roughly 1.5 million Chinese characters across more than 550 chapters. Its most distinctive premise is "cultivation through music": on the Tianle Continent, heaven has its Five Movements and Six Qi, and music has its Five Tones and Six Pitches. Only music can resonate with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, drawing it into the body and transforming it into heroic qi. Cultivators therefore advance through realms such as Music Child and Music Master, binding cultivation tightly to music theory. The protagonist, Xiao Yun, was once a gold-medal musician in the Chinese music scene, skilled in every kind of instrument. He collapses during a marathon and wakes inside a dilapidated "Temple of Ancestor Xi," now inhabiting the body of a boy who shares his name. In a world where only the Five Tones exist, he draws on his past life to grasp the "Way of Seven Tones," turning familiar melodies into battle songs: "Po Zhen Zi" shatters every formation, "Tan Te" overawes hordes of foes, and "Xiao Ao Jiang Hu" sends heroic qi soaring to the heavens. Rising from humble beginnings, he ventures through sacred ruins, the wars of music notes and scores, and the feuds of the eight tribes, breaking through realm after realm, until at last he seals the Heavenly Demon with the Fuxi Zither and ascends to the title of Music Sage. By fusing music theory and instruments into its cultivation system, the novel stood out sharply amid the homogenized leveling stories of its day.

Editor's review

在玄幻修真几乎全靠「功法＋丹药＋境界」堆叠的年代，《乐尊》换上了一层相当大胆的外衣：把修行体系直接建立在音乐之上。五音六律对应灵气，乐童、乐师是境界，乐符、乐谱成了丹药与秘籍，连布阵、攻伐都要靠一首曲子完成。这个设定并不只是装饰，作者确实把宫商角徵羽、十二律、古琴钟磬这些元素编进了战斗逻辑里，读起来有种别处少见的「秩序感」。主角萧云是穿越而来的金牌音乐人，把《破阵子》《忐忑》《笑傲江湖》这类曲子当作杀手锏，对中文读者来说天然带一层熟悉的趣味——看前世的旋律在异界炸开场面的反差，是本书最上瘾的桥段。当然也要坦白地说：它的节奏偏平，人物刻画称不上精细，文笔与对白较为朴素，本质上仍是「换皮升级流」，后期更趋向套路化的打怪、夺宝、多方混战。因此它更适合作品荒时的「口味调剂」，而非精读的经典。但对音乐爱好者、对设定新奇度敏感的读者，150万字的完本量足以陪你度过一段相当畅快的时光。

Who it's for

A good fit for

喜欢设定新颖、看腻了传统功法升级流的玄幻老读者
有音乐基础或对乐理、古琴钟磬等国乐元素感兴趣的读者
想找一本已完结、可直接一口气读完的长篇网文的读者
喜欢穿越主角用现代知识「降维打击」异世界的爽文爱好者

Not a good fit for

对文笔、人物塑造和情节逻辑要求较高的严肃文学读者
不习惯网络小说快节奏打怪升级与多女主套路的读者
希望读到严格考据的古代音乐史、乐理专著的读者

Reading tips

把它当作轻松爽文来读，重点欣赏音乐设定与前世代曲目碰撞的巧思，不要用传统文学标准苛责。
可备一份简单的五音十二律常识，读到考音律、乐符、曲谱之争时更容易体会设定趣味。
篇幅较长且中后期趋于套路，建议分段阅读，遇到重复的打斗段落可适当跳读。
读完后不妨顺手去听听书中出现的《破阵子》《高山流水》等曲目，会多一层代入感。

Chapter 1 Xiao Yun!
Chapter 2 The Music Child Realm!
Chapter 3 Boya Mountain, and Root Bones!
Chapter 4 The Five-Tone Wheel Is Broken?
Chapter 5 The Classic of Music!
Chapter 6 Innate Music Child?
Chapter 7 A Heaven-Granted Divine Skill!
Chapter 8 Who's There?
Chapter 9 High Mountains and Flowing Water!
Chapter 10 Will You Teach Us?
Chapter 11 The Spirit Medicine Hall!
Chapter 12 Conflict!
Chapter 13 Song of the Crouching Dragon!
Chapter 14 Just a Battle Song!
Chapter 15 Borrowing The Classic of Music!
Chapter 16 A Movement Battle Song: Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon!
Chapter 17 The Ghost Child's Epiphyllum!
Chapter 18 Mount Jinyun!
Chapter 19 Selling Scores!
Chapter 20 Music Notes!
Chapter 21 A Rag!
Chapter 22 The Dwarf!
Chapter 23 Encountering the Enemy!
Chapter 24 The Power of Music Notes!
Chapter 25 A Monotone Score?
Chapter 26 The Elite Assembly!
Chapter 27 A Chicken Among Cranes!
Chapter 28 Sect Master Xie Tianci!
Chapter 29 Testing the Modes!
Chapter 30 A Clash of Zither Music!
Chapter 31 Top Three!
Chapter 32 Time for a New Zither!
Chapter 33 Oddballs Every Year!
Chapter 34 A Quarrel Sparked by One Exam Paper!
Chapter 35 Lu Jianfeng!

FAQ

《乐尊》这本书有正式出版的纸质版吗？

目前可查到的信息显示，《乐尊》是2015年在起点中文网连载并完结的网络小说，未见正式出版社的纸质出版记录，也没有可核实的ISBN。市面上的「全本」「校对版」多为读者自发整理的电子文本。

《乐尊》一共多少字、多少章？

据百科类资料，全书约150余万字，共约555章，最新章节为「大结局」。不同电子版本在章节编号与统计口径上可能有细微出入，以起点原始连载为准。

主角萧云的修炼体系为什么叫「七音之道」？

书中世界通行的是五音之道，修士以五音与天地灵气共鸣。萧云凭借前世音乐人的积累，在五音之外另辟宫商之外的变音路径，形成所谓「七音之道」，因此他能弹出这个世界无法理解、也无法防御的战曲。

这本书属于「后宫文」吗？

书中确实安排了多位与主角结为道侣的女性角色，但感情线并非作品主轴，主线仍是音乐修行与势力争斗。若你是冲着纯粹的感情戏来读，可能会觉得比重有限；介意多女主设定的读者则需留意。

This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.

About the author

Guiguzi Xianshi Author

Guiguzi Xianshi is a Chinese web-fiction author whose real name, nationality, dates of birth and death, and other public information remain limited; 11 of the author's works are currently included in the library. Judging from representative titles such as I Returned from Studying in the Heavenly Realm, Super Study God, Urban Giant Spirit God, Music Sovereign, and A Scrap Recycling Station Drifts into My Mind, the writing is mainly concentrated in the boys' fiction field and also spans urban fiction, supernatural powers, Eastern fantasy, and fantasy fiction, with some works categorized as premium fiction. The overall style tends to use urban life as a backdrop while incorporating supernatural settings and fantasy imagination, covering a fairly wide range of themes—from light campus study-god narratives to surreal concepts with mythological color such as returning from the heavenly realm and the Giant Spirit God. Because the author's background has not been made public, readers' understanding still depends mainly on the works themselves.