The Bone Flute's Lament

Seventeen-year-old Aiyu has always heard phantom music by the haunted river, but she never expected her silent zither to start responding to the dead. When she discovers her family name has been deliberately erased from every record, she realizes the spirits aren't just calling to her-they're trying to tell her something the world has forgotten.
With the reluctant help of Liang Yue, a reformed Lan disciple hiding his grief, Aiyu uncovers the ruins of a lost cultivation sect and learns the forbidden art of Harmonic Soul Cultivation. But someone has been working in the shadows to keep the past buried, and Hei Chao, the Ash-Walker, will stop at nothing to ensure some truths stay dead.
As Aiyu's power grows and her zither transforms into something far more dangerous, she must confront not just the conspiracy that stole her heritage, but the possibility that uncovering the truth might destroy everything she's come to love.
Some songs are meant to wake the dead. Others are intended to put them to rest.
A tale of lost history, forbidden cultivation, and the music that bridges life and death.