Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into the Blood Rain Demon Venerable, Fang Yang found his power and memories gone and relied on the demon’s diaries to learn about his predecessor. With the cult growing restless during the Demon Venerable’s prolonged seclusion, Fang Yang struggled to conceal his weakness and keep his position.

• Fang Yang read the Demon Venerable’s diaries, which recorded his womanizing, his five disciples, and his many enemies.
• Fang Yang recalled that the Demon Venerable had died after a month of secluded cultivation and that he had taken over the body yesterday.
• Fang Yang discovered that he had lost all his internal energy and memories, leaving the diaries as his only guide to his predecessor.
• Fang Yang realized that members of the Blood Rain Pavilion had begun to grow restless during the Demon Venerable’s unusually long seclusion.
• Fang Yang had bluffed his way past two groups who came to ask after the Demon Venerable, but he feared he could not hide his weakness for long.

After transmigrating into the dead Demon Venerable Fang, Fang Yang practiced imitating his mannerisms so he could conceal that he had lost all his cultivation. He left the secret chamber to face the visiting Princess Consort of Zhennan and his returning disciple Ye Qinghong.

• Fang Yang rejected the narrator's suggestion to pursue dual cultivation and practiced copying the Demon Venerable's bearing and lustful gaze.
• A subordinate announced that the Princess Consort of Zhennan had come to visit and that Ye Qinghong had returned from a thousand li away to see Fang Yang.
• Fang Yang emerged from the secret chamber, intimidating the kneeling subordinates with his cold expression and killing aura.
• Fang Yang slapped a subordinate who questioned why he had not punished the guards, then spared them this once for standing watch during his seclusion.

The Princess Consort of the Southern Pacifying King planned to escape her captivity by pretending to win Fang Yang’s trust and killing him with a hairpin. Fang Yang emerged from secluded cultivation, reflecting on how his predecessor’s body remained powerful even though he had not fully adopted the man’s ruthless mindset.

• The Princess Consort of the Southern Pacifying King recalled being abducted three years earlier and imprisoned at the Blood Rain Tower.
• She remembered learning that Fang Yang was psychologically impotent and kept lurid fantasies in his diary to conceal his condition.
• With Fang Yang in a month-long sealed seclusion and rumored to be near death, she resolved to feign affection and stab him in the throat with a hairpin.
• Fang Yang emerged from the secret chamber and recalled slapping a servant, noting that his tempered body remained strong despite his scattered cultivation.
• Fang Yang reflected that he still lacked his predecessor’s ruthlessness.

Fang Yang met Han Lingxuan, who tried to lure him into lowering his guard so she could attack him with a hairpin. He instead embraced and kissed her, leaving her stunned before he told her to wait in the rear courtyard and walked away.

• Fang Yang recognized Han Lingxuan as the Southern Pacifying King's Princess Consort and approached her.
• Han Lingxuan pretended to welcome Fang Yang while secretly planning to exploit his hatred of women and strike him with her hairpin.
• Fang Yang misread Han Lingxuan's flushed, trembling appearance as a desire for affection and embraced her.
• Fang Yang slapped Han Lingxuan's curves and kissed her, shattering her composure.
• Fang Yang told Han Lingxuan to wait in the rear courtyard for him that night, then strode away.

Han Lingxuan interpreted Fang Yang’s forced kiss as a way to hide his impotence and planned to seduce him again for revenge. Fang Yang worried that his eldest disciple, Ye Qinghong, could see through his condition, while Ye Qinghong waited restlessly in the grand hall with a red petal stuck to his sleeve.

• Han Lingxuan reasoned that Fang Yang had kissed her to conceal his impotence from nearby Demon Cult disciples and decided she had planted an inner demon in him.
• Han Lingxuan resolved to seduce Fang Yang more boldly that night, while the White Snow Lion Cat yowled in heat in her arms.
• Fang Yang noticed a marriage affinity reading of 1 and set it aside as he headed to the grand hall to meet Ye Qinghong.
• Fang Yang feared that Ye Qinghong’s talent and keen intuition would expose the changes in him.
• Ye Qinghong waited in the grand hall, tried to settle his sword heart, and discovered a red petal on his sleeve.

Fang Yang tried to maintain the Demon Venerable’s domineering facade when Ye Qinghong returned, but Ye Qinghong suddenly drew his sword and aimed to kill him. Ye Qinghong realized the attack had failed and that his master’s apparent weakness had been another trap.

• Fang Yang approached Ye Qinghong and pretended to be touched that he had hurried back to the sect.
• Ye Qinghong drew his blue-green sword and thrust it toward the point between Fang Yang’s brows.
• Fang Yang remained motionless and stared at Ye Qinghong without changing his expression, causing Ye Qinghong to falter.
• Ye Qinghong recalled that he had returned to assassinate Fang Yang after hearing he had been in seclusion, but recognized that his master had anticipated the attempt.

Fang Yang spared Ye Qinghong the Rear Mountain Water Prison and ordered him to lie over a chair, then struck him, causing the sword on his back to tremble and his glazed sword heart to nearly shatter. Ye Qinghong was left radiating a bone-deep chill.

• Ye Qinghong admitted his offense and asked Fang Yang to punish him.
• Fang Yang rejected the idea of personally punishing Ye Qinghong and chose a lesser penalty instead of sending him to the Rear Mountain Water Prison.
• Fang Yang ordered Ye Qinghong to lie face down over a chair and lower his waist.
• Fang Yang struck Ye Qinghong, making the sword on his back tremble and nearly shattering his glazed sword heart.

Fang Yang drove Ye Qinghong away by threatening his junior sisters, then searched for a way to grow stronger before the Demon Gate Grand Banquet in three months. His cheat revealed that he had gained two Fated Bond points, and he suspected one came from Ye Qinghong.

• Fang Yang slapped Ye Qinghong and threatened his four junior sisters, forcing him to leave the great hall.
• After Ye Qinghong departed, Fang Yang worried that he would soon see through the act and resolved to increase his strength before the Demon Gate Grand Banquet.
• Fang Yang studied the Demon Venerable's martial texts and tried to cultivate the Heavenly Demon Art, but found no quick solution to his weakness.
• Fang Yang checked his cheat and saw that he had two Fated Bond points, leading him to wonder whether Ye Qinghong had given him one.

Fang Yang explored the mind-space created by his cheat and discovered that Ye Qinghong and Han Lingxuan were bound to him as Silk Binders. After drawing a powerful cultivation technique and an absurd skill, he learned the Profound Heaven Strategy and began absorbing it.

• Fang Yang entered the mind-space and saw lifelike replicas of himself, Ye Qinghong, and Han Lingxuan connected by red threads.
• Fang Yang inspected Ye Qinghong and Han Lingxuan, learning their cultivation details, constitutions, and hatred for him.
• Fang Yang spent matchmaking points to draw the Profound Heaven Strategy and Han Lingxuan's advanced underwear-washing skill.
• Fang Yang examined the Profound Heaven Strategy and crushed its jade slip to absorb the technique.

Han Lingxuan planned to seduce the fiend and exploit his supposed impotence to trigger a cultivation deviation, giving her a chance to assassinate him. She prepared to wear revealing clothes, convinced her scheme would succeed.

• Ling'er noticed Han Lingxuan returned with two pairs of underpants to wash and asked why they had gotten dirty again.
• Han Lingxuan blamed the fiend inwardly, then denied knowing why Little Snow had been crying.
• Han Lingxuan chose a sheer silk undergarment, shocking Ling'er because she had previously despised it.
• Han Lingxuan decided to seduce the fiend that night, believing his inability to perform would provoke his inner demons and leave him vulnerable to her hairpin.

Han Lingxuan tried on translucent undergarments and studied an erotic illustrated book, claiming she wanted to learn how to tempt Fang Yang and drive him into cultivation deviation. After she left to bathe, Fang Yang emerged from a month of secluded cultivation radiating greater power, leaving the guards wondering whether he had broken through.

• Han Lingxuan changed into translucent undergarments to study the ways of the vixens, then struggled with the desire they stirred in her.
• Han Lingxuan remembered that Fang Yang was incapable of performing as a man and calmed herself, then read an erotic illustrated book with the White Snow Lion Cat.
• Han Lingxuan went to bathe and wash her undergarments, while the White Snow Lion Cat followed her.
• Fang Yang emerged from the Demon Venerable Pavilion after a month of secluded cultivation, radiating a stronger and more mysterious aura than before.
• The cultist guards speculated that Fang Yang had broken through, despite rumors that he had suffered cultivation deviation.

Fang Yang worried that the Demon Venerable’s suspected injury could expose him, and went to visit the Princess Consort of the Southern Pacifying King to maintain his disguise and seek Fated Bond points. Meanwhile, Han Lingxuan prepared to assassinate him, and the chapter ended as they faced each other at Wutong Courtyard.

• A Demon Cult follower realized Fang Yang’s slap was weaker than before and rushed to warn the guardian that the Demon Venerable might be injured.
• Fang Yang decided he needed to visit the Princess Consort of the Southern Pacifying King that night to preserve his persona and gain a chance at Fated Bond points.
• Han Lingxuan told Ling'er she planned to kill the demon while he was at his weakest, but Ling'er refused to abandon her.
• When Fang Yang’s footsteps approached Wutong Courtyard, Han Lingxuan hid Ling'er under the bed and prepared her hairpin for an ambush.
• Fang Yang arranged his domineering, cold expression and looked toward Wutong Courtyard as Han Lingxuan prepared to act.

Fang Yang visited Han Lingxuan while pretending to be the Demon Venerable, and both mistook the other’s attraction for proof that their own deception was working. The chapter ended with Han Lingxuan moving closer, convinced she would kill the fiend that night.

• Fang Yang arrived at Wutong Courtyard and interpreted Han Lingxuan’s warm welcome as evidence of her conflicted feelings for the Demon Venerable.
• Fang Yang embraced Han Lingxuan, while she privately resolved to use her revealing undergarment to make the fiend lose control.
• Fang Yang and Han Lingxuan sat together at the bedside, each waiting for the other to make the next move.
• After noticing the White Snow Lion Cat watching them, Han Lingxuan lay down and slipped her dress halfway off.
• Fang Yang mistook Han Lingxuan’s display for proof that his act had succeeded, while Han Lingxuan believed his reaction showed that his cultivation was spiraling out of control.
• Han Lingxuan pressed closer to Fang Yang, convinced her plan to avenge herself by killing the fiend was going perfectly.

Han Lingxuan’s plan to kill Fang Yang backfired when she believed he had recovered from impotence and was violated instead. She awoke in despair, then went to the Back Mountain Hot Spring and renewed her resolve to take revenge.

• Han Lingxuan approached Fang Yang with a hairpin, but he overwhelmed her during the night.
• Han Lingxuan woke in Wutong Courtyard as Ling’er tried to comfort her and urged her to stop provoking Fang Yang.
• Han Lingxuan realized that her assumptions about Fang Yang’s hidden ailment had led her into his grasp.
• Han Lingxuan went to the Back Mountain Hot Spring, where the White Snow Lion Cat watched her resentfully.
• Han Lingxuan considered her difficult life in the prince’s residence and decided to devise another plan to kill Fang Yang.

The Princess Consort of the Southern Pacifying King devised a plan to seduce Fang Yang and kill him, while Fang Yang drew a powerful combat card and focused on strengthening himself and raising her affection. He remained in the Demon Venerable Pavilion, aware that the Devil Palace would soon test his apparent weakness.

• The Princess Consort of the Southern Pacifying King decided to study a booklet of positions so she could seduce Fang Yang and strike when he let his guard down.
• Fang Yang saw that Han Lingxuan's affection had risen by five points and used the matchmaking points to make several unsuccessful draws.
• On his final draw, Fang Yang obtained Ye Qinghong's Peak God-Shocking Sword Use Card, which granted her peak combat power for ten minutes.
• Fang Yang stayed in the Demon Venerable Pavilion to practice, anticipating that members of the Devil Palace would probe him after learning of his cultivation deviation.
• Fang Yang resolved to strengthen himself and treat the Princess Consort of the Southern Pacifying King gently to raise her affection and gain more draws.

Fang Yang summoned a Spring Passion Hall member to obtain its latest erotic booklet, but the terrified subordinate mistakenly thought the Demon Venerable wanted his wife. After Fang Yang exposed the misunderstanding and demanded the booklet, the man fled in fear.

• Fang Yang used the Profound Heaven Strategy to project an intimidating aura and summoned a Spring Passion Hall member.
• The subordinate arrived in wedding robes and offered his wife to Fang Yang, believing he had been summoned for that purpose.
• Fang Yang demanded Spring Passion Hall's latest booklet so he could criticize it, but the subordinate misunderstood and began removing his robes.
• Fang Yang blasted the man with pressure from the Profound Heaven Strategy and ordered him to hand over the booklet or die.
• The subordinate agreed and fled after Fang Yang dismissed him.

Four Demon Cultists plotted to kill the Demon Venerable, but none would risk checking whether he was truly gravely injured. The beautiful wife approached the lecherous swordsman to break the deadlock, leaving her intentions unclear.

• Fang Yang received Spring Passion Hall's booklet, toys, and virility pills, then eagerly studied the booklet.
• Four powerful Demon Cultists met in a hidden cave and discussed killing the Demon Venerable and dividing his treasure.
• The old man offered extra treasure to anyone who would investigate the Demon Venerable's condition, but no one volunteered.
• The lecherous swordsman warned that no Demon Cultist could be trusted, and the group remained at an impasse.
• The beautiful wife pulled her husband aside and approached the lecherous swordsman, drawing his attention.

A young woman poisoned a jade slip to control a sleazy swordsman and sent him to investigate whether the Demon Venerable was injured, while he passed the dangerous mission down through his subordinates. The chapter then shifted to Fang Yang arriving at Wutong Courtyard, where the Princess Consort prepared to assassinate him.

• The young woman offered the sleazy swordsman a copy of the Sword Canon and a night with her in exchange for investigating the Demon Venerable Pavilion, and he accepted after taking the jade slip as a deposit.
• After the swordsman left, the young woman told her husband that the jade slip was poisoned and that she planned to control the swordsman once the poison took effect.
• The swordsman ordered a trusted subordinate to infiltrate the Demon Venerable Pavilion, then privately revealed that he was using the subordinate to probe the Demon Venerable's strength for a Heaven Tier technique.
• The mission passed through the subordinate to an inner-court disciple and then to a kneeling outer-court disciple, each offered a lower-tier cultivation technique.
• Fang Yang arrived at Wutong Courtyard confident that he had mastered a move from a booklet, while the Princess Consort practiced poses from the Fox Enchantress Booklet and told her maid that she planned to assassinate him that night.

Fang Yang and the Princess Consort of the Southern Pacifying King each tried to deceive the other while secretly pursuing their own plans during a second night together. As they acted on the Booklet’s instructions, Ye Qinghong’s statue gained the attribute “[Watching the battle].”

• Ling'er worried that the Princess Consort would be bullied, but the Princess Consort hid her beneath the bed and prepared to meet Fang Yang.
• The Princess Consort welcomed Fang Yang, pretending to cooperate while planning to assassinate him, and Fang Yang acted relaxed to conceal his own plan to build affection.
• Fang Yang took two Pills before he and the Princess Consort retired for the night, while she hid a Hairpin in her sleeve.
• The Princess Consort and Fang Yang followed the Booklet’s first page, each mistaking the other’s actions for something familiar.
• Ye Qinghong’s statue glowed as the red thread trembled, and the attribute “[Watching the battle]” appeared above it.

Ye Qinghong’s sword cultivation was disrupted by a vivid vision of his master embracing Han Lingxuan, the Princess Consort of the Southern Pacifying King. He tried to dismiss it as an inner demon, but the image repeatedly broke his glazed sword heart, leaving him unable to resume his practice.

• Ye Qinghong felt increasingly unsettled while cultivating at the pinnacle of the great grandmaster realm.
• A strange sensation brought him a clear vision of his master holding Han Lingxuan in her bedchamber.
• Ye Qinghong recognized Han Lingxuan and wondered why his inner demon showed his supposedly impotent master embracing her.
• He watched the figures draw close and merge after the lamplight went out.
• Ye Qinghong repeatedly tried to enter the glazed sword heart state, but the Azure Shadow Sword dimmed each time and his cultivation failed.