With a light tap of her toes against the ground, she became a shadow and swept up the mountain.
She moved swiftly, vanishing into the night before long.
Not long after leaving the cave, she let out a long sigh of relief.
She looked much more relaxed.
In truth, her reason for having Protector Wang stay behind was certainly not to provide support.
The fiend was in the four-leaf Dharmakaya realm.
Moreover, he had already attained unity of heaven and man.
Under such circumstances, once he discovered her, it would inevitably be a fight to the death. Whether anyone was there to support her made no difference.
Ultimately, she was simply afraid that Protector Wang would discover her secret.
The shadow moon sacred body belonged to the Shadow Moon Convent.
It could indeed be controlled; that much was true.
But the problem was...
Controlling it was not so simple.
She had to face him completely naked.
After all, people came into this world bare and unencumbered. Only by stripping away these restraints...
And sensing the shadow moon sacred body in her most natural state...
Could she make that seed take root and sprout, thereby turning the Demon Venerable into her puppet.
This plan was, of course, excellent beyond excellent, ingenious beyond ingenious.
But it was simply too embarrassing.
She did not want anyone to know that she had once faced the fiend stark naked.
And so...
She wove her way onward.
With her cultivation at the level of a two-leaf Dharma body, few could catch sight of her.
Just like that, she drifted past the Blood Rain Cult's mountain gate, swept through corridor after corridor, and soon arrived before the Demon Venerable Pavilion.
The fates of the Shadow Moon Convent's disciples were all controlled.
Although Huang Fuling was her only