E Shengfan and Venerable Jue had fought tooth and nail for years, entangled in a bitter struggle—enemies from a past life, adversaries in the next.
In the end, Venerable Jue had failed to destroy him completely and believed that he would inevitably come storming back years later. E Shengfan was a large part of the reason he had left behind the Demon-Slaying Treasure Record.
His zeal for slaying demons had been too fierce, and every disciple under him had fallen victim to demons, the greatest culprit being E Shengfan. The Demon-Slaying Treasure Record was meant to help liberate his disciples' future reincarnated bodies, but none of those disciples was fit to inherit his mantle. He could only seal it within the rock wall opposite Master Fentuo's Dragon-Elephant Nunnery at Yitian Cliff, leaving later masters of the Buddhist Sect to choose another successor for the book.
After several elders of the Buddhist Sect reached their final agreement, the successors they chose were the Two Maidens of Xiandu.
Nun Xinru had previously gotten hold of the Xie sisters and used certain methods to extract the contents of the Demon-Slaying Treasure Record from their memories. Now she passed it on to E Shengfan, the great demon who had harmed Venerable Jue's disciples and was meant to be the first destroyed, intending to settle this karmic entanglement as well.
As a demon of long standing, E Shengfan naturally understood Nun Xinru's intentions. Moved to streaming tears, he loudly praised her divine might and virtue.
Then he said to Nun Xinru, "That Sinful Dragon's powers reach the heavens. After surviving his Heavenly Tribulation this time, his powers advanced considerably again. The Demon God Scripture is bound to my very life. Though my Buddha brought me here with her unsurpassed divine might, my connection to that