I love the idea of him being a rogue cultivator and using musical cultivation and the veil is just a little fun thing that I put there because why the heck not?
Summary: The Wens are safe, the tiger amulet is out of Jin Guangshan's hands, and Wei Wuxian is going to cooperate when Hanguang Jun puts him down like a rabid dog. It's not the end to his story he wanted, but it's one he can accept.
Mojo's comments: In which the Yiling Patriarch gives himself over to the Lan Sect for 'cleansing', even knowing (as they do not) that their method will be a death sentence for him.
(Aha, another story for lovers of Decay by antebunny.)
Excerpt: The song got more complex as it went along. There was a secondary melody layered under the first, first reinforcing and then gradually altering it, turning it harsh and dissonant, a whip full of barbed hooks. It would dig into his meridians and rip the source of his power out at the roots. It would leave him flayed open, with the paths of spiritual energy unbalanced enough to induce a qi deviation.
Of course a powerful cultivator might be able to use his golden core to rebalance his qi. But even then the ritual was going to be dangerous, and likely to leave him crippled if it didn't kill him.
Without a golden core, it was a death sentence.
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"I accept," Wei Wuxian said.
The Wens would be safe, the tiger seal would be out of Jin Guangshan's hands, and Wei Wuxian was going to cooperate while Hanguang Jun put him down like a rabid dog.
canon-divergence, fix-it, everyone lives/nobody dies, misunderstandings, golden core reveal, jin zixuan lives, ambush at qiongqi path, pov wei wuxian, musical cultivation, protective lan wangji, happy ending
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Would it be possible to add the pipa (ancient guitar) or xun flute (ancient ocarina) to the options for musical cultivators?
I looked up both and I'll add the pipa to the list. Xun flute is unfortunately too similar to dizi flute. I want to make each instrument feel distinct from each other. Thank you for your ask!
What would it be like if people in your community looked out for you?
What would it look like if people outside your most-texted friends and closest family knew you and were invested in your wellbeing and were willing to make deliberate effort to contribute to it?
What would a healthy supportive community, full of a wide variety of people who aren't all necessarily friends, look like?
What would make your community more like that?
What structures or opportunities already exist that might enable that? Are they sufficient? Why or why not? If you don't know what kinds of organizations etc exist in your community, how could you find out? If they aren't sufficient, what could you do to contribute or create new opportunities for relating with each other?
What barriers interrupt opportunities for healthy connection and support in your community? What would effectively addressing those barriers look like?
What would be the easiest possible first step that one busy person could take to start to make your community more connected? Can you think of anything that you personally could do?
What kinds of skills or ideas would be necessary that you can't provide? How could you find people with those kinds of skills or ideas who are also interested in community care and who might be willing to work together?
You're probably marginalized by at least one form of oppression. Most people are. You're probably busy and tired. Most people are. What would make it possible for you to contribute anyway? What would make it possible for other busy tired people to contribute?
If you want your community to care for you—if you need that, as I'm convinced all people do—you might have to figure out how to care for your community first. If you wanted that, how would you start?
I for a while now have been thinking about a scum villain fanfiction idea again.
SY would be Isakied instead of transmigration, and still having a limit to how long his life is because of pre-existing illness. He is a very short time to make an impact in his web novel may it be the one he hated the most.
He quickly learns that modern music makes fast money and begins to perform the village gaining traction before he decides what he wants to do to make his impact. And one day, it comes to him after spending years of his life reading that hellish web novel he would now help half demons in and out of the human realm.
In the way he does this is by creating a travelling orchestra. All his staff from the outside would just be ordinary staff, but from the inside demons and half demon alike, escaping. 
Then, after some time, the cultivation sects Would catch wind of an organization going around in funneling, half demons into the demon realm through the borders and would try to shut it down to spite it not harming anyone because they’re just absurd like that.
And a team of disciples are sent to do recon and get to witness a wonderful, breathtaking play(heavy in your arms by Lawrence + the machines) before it gets interrupted by another cultivation sect, and the play vanishes in the blink of an eye like no one had ever been there. 
I did a post once with Wei Wuxian's vast array of possibilities in demonic musical cultivation, and now my lovely mutual @wangxianswuji has taken my crudely put-together pics and made them into fantastic Yiling Laozu Horror Propaganda!!!! >w<
You think Hanguang-jun's killer strings were the meanest chord instrument out there...
You know no fear until you hear the Scottish Rendition of Chenqing's greatest hits
This thing doesn't need air to be played. No lung capacity is required. Wei Wuxian has been going at it for hours nonstop, Wen Ruohan has begged to surrender.
Terror made flesh: Wei Wuxian with Vuvuzela. The dead rise out of sheer annoyance!