"Do not fear death. Do not fear the sword that brings it." She brings her lips to my ear. "It's the fear, not the sword, that will kill you in the end."

Lin Jia is sent away to study the ways of the immortals; powerful cultivators who bend the very world around them. She steps into the Flowing River Sect, a place with a long history, and discovers The Twelve Requiems of Illusion.

The Requiems guide her music, pulling her into powerful illusions that twist the very world around her. Each note is a battle fought long ago, each melody is a lesson from immortals who had lived and died thousands of years before her time.

She will need the power of these illusions to protect her against the demons both inside and outside of her sect.