Chapter Summaries

Fang Yang crushed the middle-aged man and his disciples with the power of his five-leaf dharma body, then healed Ling'er. Ling'er’s sleep-talking exposed Han Lingxuan’s secret visits, and Fang Yang conjured the bed from the Parasol Tree Courtyard, leaving her shocked.

• Fang Yang’s five-leaf dharma body shattered the middle-aged man’s cultivation and bones, then crushed him and his disciples to death.
• Fang Yang noticed his Formless Demon Body reacting to the Illusory Moon Tower but suppressed its urge to approach.
• Fang Yang carried the injured Ling'er into his arms and healed her with spiritual energy.
• Ling'er sleep-talked about the shaking bed, making Han Lingxuan realize that her secret had been exposed.
• Han Lingxuan denied knowing anything while Fang Yang conjured the familiar bed from the Parasol Tree Courtyard, shocking her.

Fang Yang and Han Lingxuan dual cultivated in the snowbound Parasol Tree Courtyard, greatly increasing both their cultivation. Afterward, Fang Yang wondered whether his second disciple had arranged the encounter, while Han Lingxuan plotted to keep cultivating with him and surpass him.

• Fang Yang pulled Han Lingxuan into his arms, and they began dual cultivation inside the snow-covered courtyard.
• Inside the Illusory Moon Tower, the little girl glimpsed Han Lingxuan with Fang Yang, then spotted Guan Qinghan and Ye Qinghong with Lian Yue, and counted them as her mothers.
• Ling'er woke beneath the bed and found Han Lingxuan flushed and Fang Yang contemplating his cultivation; Han Lingxuan claimed Fang Yang had insisted on bullying her.
• Fang Yang realized his cultivation had reached the Dharmakaya Realm and suspected his second disciple, the Heavenly Calculation Heir, had arranged the encounter.
• Han Lingxuan reached the second-rank high stage and privately planned to seduce Fang Yang and cultivate in secret until she surpassed him.
• The White Snow Lion Cat grew anxious and used charm and dual-cultivation techniques on Fang Yang.

Fang Yang gave the White Snow Lion Cat a Divine Beast Pill in exchange for protecting the Princess Consort and her maid, and the pill triggered her transformation. A snow curtain concealed what followed, leaving the Princess Consort furious and the Hehuan Sect Master convinced Fang Yang was being weakened for their planned attack.

• Fang Yang sensed the White Snow Lion Cat's cultivation and gave her a Divine Beast Pill, asking her to protect the Princess Consort and the little maid.
• The White Snow Lion Cat swallowed the pill, began glowing, and transformed into a woman who flew toward Fang Yang as a curtain of snow concealed them.
• The Princess Consort saw the naked woman enter the snow curtain and, unable to break through it, grew furious at Fang Yang.
• The Hehuan Sect Master and other Demonic Path leaders arrived and mistook the sounds inside the curtain for his wife serving Fang Yang.
• The Hehuan Sect Master stopped himself from breaking the curtain after hearing his wife's plea, and believed the encounter would weaken Fang Yang before their Four-Demon God-Slaying Array attack.

Ye Qinghong knocked Fang Yang unconscious and carried him to a hidden cave, intent on keeping him for himself. Meanwhile, Lian Yue arrived at the snowy plain, found the Immortal Rod, and realized something had happened to Fang Yang and Ye Qinghong.

• Fang Yang left the Princess Consort and the others behind with a protective formation and flew toward the Illusory Moon Tower, followed by Ye Qinghong.
• The White Snow Lion Cat woke and demanded that the Princess Consort tell her where her man had gone.
• Ye Qinghong used the Immortal Rod to knock Fang Yang unconscious, then carried him to a hidden cave in the snowy plain.
• Lian Yue arrived where Fang Yang and Ye Qinghong had stopped, searched for them, and found the Immortal Rod on the ground.

Lian Yue feared Ye Qinghong would act impulsively and hurried toward Fang Yang’s cave, while Fang Yang watched as Ye Qinghong kissed him and began preparing to take their relationship further. The chapter ended with Ye Qinghong removing his hairpin beneath the candlelight, intent on taking responsibility for Fang Yang.

• Lian Yue sent a crimson gu insect toward the cave and followed through the snow, worried that Ye Qinghong would harm himself through the tangled cultivation connections.
• Fang Yang revealed through his thoughts that he had pretended to be knocked unconscious and watched Ye Qinghong from within the cave.
• Ye Qinghong kissed Fang Yang, then lay beside him and savored the moment, believing his master’s love could still belong to him.
• Ye Qinghong undressed Fang Yang and then himself, while Fang Yang worried that accepting him now would undermine his plans to resolve their misunderstandings naturally.
• Ye Qinghong arranged red candles and vowed to take responsibility for Fang Yang, offering to marry him and provide lavish betrothal gifts.
• Ye Qinghong pulled the green bamboo Hairpin from his hair beneath the candlelight.

Fang Yang lost control as the ancient divine skills linked him to Ye Qinghong on their wedding night. Lian Yue arrived and chose not to kill Fang Yang, leaving Ye Qinghong and the unconscious master bound by the mysterious connection.

• Fang Yang and Ye Qinghong embraced in the cave, but a green thread and five-colored lotus appeared and left both of them possessed by violent, vacant impulses.
• Lian Yue arrived and recognized the signs of the five divine skills being forced together, a process that could plunge both Fang Yang and Ye Qinghong into chaos.
• Lian Yue approached Fang Yang with a dagger, but lowered it after recalling his tenderness and Ye Qinghong's devotion to their wedding night.
• Lian Yue decided against killing Fang Yang, fearing his protective qi and the harm his death would cause Ye Qinghong.
• Lian Yue noticed the green thread between Ye Qinghong's brows and the lotus on Fang Yang's chest, then spoke softly to Ye Qinghong.

Lian Yue severed the green thread binding Fang Yang to the Five-Colored Lotus, then linked the lotus to herself and endured a candlelit night with her master to stabilize him. She left the cave resolved to remain at the Blood Rain Cult and kill Fang Yang if he mistreated Ye Qinghong, while Fang Yang awoke with no clear memories and Ye Qinghong discovered their wedding night had failed.

• Lian Yue used the Red Dust Gu to snap the green thread connecting the Five-Colored Lotus to Fang Yang, suffering a backlash and spitting blood.
• Lian Yue connected a red thread from her brow to the Five-Colored Lotus and transferred red dust aura into Fang Yang before walking toward her master.
• After the candles went out, Lian Yue woke weakened, gathered the scraps of clothing, erased her traces, and left the cave.
• Lian Yue vowed to stop competing with Ye Qinghong for Fang Yang but promised to kill him if he treated Ye Qinghong like a plaything.
• Fang Yang awoke with hazy memories, found his cultivation and Formless Demon Body greatly strengthened, and wondered who had been with him.
• Ye Qinghong woke, realized his wedding night with Fang Yang had failed, and froze when he saw his master standing at the cave entrance.

Ye Qinghong tried to force a wedding night with Fang Yang, but Fang Yang stopped him by raising the unresolved massacre of Ye Family Village. Fang Yang promised to uncover the truth, and the two left the cave for Illusory Moon Tower with Ye Qinghong still holding his hand.

• Ye Qinghong approached Fang Yang with the Clear Shadow Sword, intending to knock him unconscious again and proceed with their wedding night.
• Fang Yang turned around and confronted Ye Qinghong, who insisted he meant to lay his master, not slay him.
• Fang Yang reminded Ye Qinghong of the massacre at Ye Family Village, where suspicions about the Blood Rain Demon Venerable had left a lingering doubt in Ye Qinghong's heart.
• Ye Qinghong said he believed Fang Yang, and Fang Yang promised he had sent people to investigate the massacre and would seek an answer.
• Fang Yang and Ye Qinghong left the cave and flew toward Illusory Moon Tower, where Ye Qinghong quietly took Fang Yang's hand.

Before the Illusory Moon Tower, Fang Yang tested Lian Yue to learn whether she had been involved in what happened in the cave. She concealed the truth, but after he left, an inexplicable ache settled in her heart.

• Fang Yang questioned Lian Yue about what had happened in the cave, but she pretended not to understand and teased him about wanting a private rendezvous.
• Fang Yang offered Lian Yue a piece of jade to illuminate the dark cave, testing whether she would react as someone who knew what had happened there.
• Lian Yue remained motionless, and Fang Yang found no flaw in her expression before leaving to question Guan Qinghan.
• After Fang Yang walked away, Lian Yue felt a sudden, inexplicable ache in her heart.

Lian Yue concealed her worsening injuries and entered the Illusory Moon Tower to protect Ye Qinghong as the sect leaders began their trial for the Divine Sect Leader. After they entered, the Princess Consort and her companions arrived at the square.

• Lian Yue suppressed her pain as she watched Fang Yang and Ye Qinghong leave, then realized her injuries might leave her little time and resolved to protect her Eldest Senior Sister.
• Gong Yajun gathered the sect leaders and explained the Illusory Moon Tower’s Heart-Questioning, Heart-Confusing, and Heart-Slaying stages before opening its entrance.
• The sect leaders, including Guan Qinghan, entered the tower, and Fang Yang went in with Ye Qinghong following close behind.
• The tower shuddered with delight when Fang Yang entered, a reaction Gong Yajun sensed before she entered herself.
• Lian Yue entered the tower after the others, while the remaining Demonic Path members stayed outside and watched its doors close.
• The Princess Consort arrived at the square with her maid and a provocatively dressed Burning Cat, then complained about the cat’s insults.

Han Lingxuan, Ling’er, and the White Snow Lion Cat were swept into the Illusory Moon Tower, where Ye Qinghong faced its Heart-Questioning trial. The trial revealed that his heart was fixed on Fang Yang, then drew him into a mirror world with his memories erased.

• Han Lingxuan argued with the White Snow Lion Cat, which insisted they should be sisters and serve the Demon Venerable together.
• The Illusory Moon Tower opened and drew Han Lingxuan, Ling’er, the White Snow Lion Cat, and everyone else in the square inside.
• A little girl with pigtails entered the tower, eager to see which of the women loved her Daddy most.
• Ye Qinghong saw hundreds of mirrors reveal Fang Yang as the answer to every question about his true heart.
• A mirror pulled Ye Qinghong into a world where he had become a gifted young sword cultivator, with no memory of his former life.

Ye Qinghong passed through successive mirror worlds in the Illusory Moon Tower, rejecting lives of achievement whenever they lacked his master. Lian Yue entered the same trial and, after losing her memories, became a feared Gu Dao practitioner who searched for people she somehow knew were important to her.

• Ye Qinghong shattered mirror worlds in which he became a celebrated swordsman, empress, sage, and other figures, declaring that their achievements meant nothing without his master.
• A little girl with Yangjiao Braid watched Ye Qinghong inside the mirrors and affectionately called him dashing.
• Lian Yue entered the Illusory Moon Tower while gravely weakened, saw an image of her fellow disciples, and stepped into the mirror without noticing a black-robed figure gradually appearing behind her.
• Lian Yue lost her memories and became the young leader of a Jianghu sect, but her sect was slaughtered and she was left weak and alone.
• Lian Yue cultivated the Gu Dao Demonic Art, found the people responsible for her sect’s destruction, and tortured them to death with Gu Insects.
• Lian Yue wandered in search of people she felt were important to her, finding a renowned female chess player and two others, confirming each was happy before continuing her journey.

Lian Yue watched a happy swordswoman and her companion for ten years, unable to explain why she still felt pain after her obsession faded. In the Illusory Moon Tower, Fang Yang encountered naked enchantresses who surrendered to him and a tower spirit who called him Daddy.

• Lian Yue secretly watched the blue-robed swordswoman and a black-robed man, then built a cottage nearby and observed them for ten years.
• Lian Yue realized her obsession had faded but she still felt pain, then collapsed in the snow.
• Fang Yang entered the Illusory Moon Tower and found its halls peaceful, with mirrors lining the stairways.
• Fang Yang reached the second floor and found naked fairy maidens in hot springs; they approached and begged him to favor them.
• Xiao Yue appeared beside Fang Yang, identified herself as the tower spirit, and called him Daddy.

Fang Yang learned that the Illusory Moon Tower’s spirit had waited over five hundred years to meet him, then watched its tree-demon fairies devour an intruding Demonic Path Disciple. The spirit showed him the Heart-Questioning Pass illusions of Han Lingxuan and a little maid, leaving him to wonder how the others were faring inside.

• The Tower Spirit told Fang Yang she had waited over five hundred years and believed he was the father she had been told would come for her.
• A Demonic Path Disciple entered the tower’s second floor, where two fairies revealed themselves as tree demons and drained him dry.
• The Tower Spirit showed Fang Yang Han Lingxuan’s illusion, where she played with a maid and Burning Cat before secretly studying illustrated albums of herself with Fang Yang.
• The Tower Spirit admired Han Lingxuan for retaining her memories in the Heart-Questioning Pass, while Fang Yang privately concluded that she was foolish rather than clever.
• The Tower Spirit showed Fang Yang another illusion in which a little maid served a poor scholar and his wife, working hard without complaint.

Ling'er resisted the illusion’s temptation to replace her Miss, sacrificing her health to save her, while more people escaped the Heart-Questioning Pass. The survivors reached the second floor, where a false sense of safety gave way to a bloody battle against disguised demons.

• Fang Yang watched Ling'er refuse to take her Miss’s place, and the Tower Spirit warned that she might lose herself to temptation.
• Ling'er chose to keep serving her Miss, prayed to Lady Houtu, and helped her recover, though she was left gravely ill.
• The Three Great Sect Masters, the Princess Consort, Ling'er, and Guan Qinghan reached the second floor; the Hehuan Sect Master had destroyed his wife’s spiritual consciousness after discovering her obsession with the Demon Venerable.
• The survivors mistook the second floor for a peaceful immortal realm and relaxed their guard as beautiful fairies approached.
• The fairies revealed themselves as demons, slaughtered several disciples, and attacked the survivors amid a storm.
• The Demonic Path disciples rallied to fight their way through the demons, believing survival would let them claim the Divine Path Leader position.

Fang Yang learned that Ye Qinghong and Lian Yue were still trapped in the Illusory Moon Tower’s trials, and watched Ye Qinghong repeatedly enter new illusions to strengthen his bond with his Dao heart. In one illusion, Ye Qinghong won a cultivation technique but realized it meant nothing to him, leaving his true obsession unresolved.

• Fang Yang asked the Tower Spirit where Ye Qinghong and Lian Yue were, and she showed him mirrors of the two disciples still struggling in the illusions.
• The Tower Spirit explained that repeatedly passing the Heart-Questioning Pass could strengthen a person’s bond with their Dao heart, and Fang Yang watched Ye Qinghong enter another illusion.
• Gong Yajun saw Fang Yang enter an activated water mirror and concluded that he was the Illusory Moon Tower’s long-awaited master.
• In a snowy Jianghu illusion, Ye Qinghong found a tomb containing a cultivation technique and killed the martial artists who tried to seize it.
• Ye Qinghong realized the cultivation technique had not stirred his heart, though he remembered something someone had once taught him.

Ye Qinghong faced the Imperial Court’s army in the snow before Fang Yang appeared and destroyed the soldiers and emperor. His arrival restored Ye Qinghong’s memories and reunited him with his master, while Lian Yue also recovered her memories in another Water-Mirror World.

• Ye Qinghong left the tomb with the box and confronted a thousand armored soldiers sent to seize the Cultivation World Technique.
• The emperor declared that he would claim Ye Qinghong as his consort, but Fang Yang appeared and killed the soldiers and emperor with overwhelming power.
• Fang Yang’s arrival restored Ye Qinghong’s lost memories, and Ye Qinghong welcomed his master back.
• In another Water-Mirror World, Lian Yue saw the reunion between Ye Qinghong and Fang Yang and began to cry.
• Lian Yue regained her memories and remembered that she had entered the Heart-Questioning Array to protect Ye Qinghong and ensure her sisters were safe.

Lian Yue remained trapped in her Snowfield illusion, suffering from worsening injuries as she questioned her feelings for Fang Yang. In the Mirror World, Fang Yang reunited with Ye Qinghong and brought him out, while Lian Yue continued watching Fang Yang and her Eldest Senior Sister together ten years later.

• Lian Yue, badly injured and unable to leave the Snowfield, wondered whether she was hurt by Fang Yang and her Eldest Senior Sister being together or because she had fallen in love with Fang Yang.
• Fang Yang found Ye Qinghong in the Mirror World, embraced him, and punished him for believing a foolish rumor; Ye Qinghong admitted he would still do it again.
• The Tower Spirit Xiao Yue appeared and called Fang Yang and Ye Qinghong “Dad” and “Mom,” and Ye Qinghong decided she was a good Tower Spirit after making her repeat the names.
• Fang Yang shattered the Water Mirrors and took Ye Qinghong out of the Mirror World despite Ye Qinghong wanting to keep testing their bond of destiny.
• Another ten years passed in Lian Yue’s illusion, where she remained in Snow Valley and silently watched Fang Yang and her Eldest Senior Sister together.

Lian Yue remained trapped in the Illusory Moon Tower’s Heart-Questioning Pass rather than betray her master or Eldest Senior Sister, until Fang Yang arrived and shattered the Mirror World. She emerged from the Water Mirror injured but composed, and found Fang Yang surrounded by several women.

• Lian Yue spent thirty years in the snowy illusion, refusing to strengthen her Dao Heart by harming Eldest Senior Sister or giving in to her feelings for her master.
• After her master and Eldest Senior Sister in the illusion died, Lian Yue kept vigil at their graves as her strength and consciousness faded.
• Fang Yang appeared in the snow, rescued Lian Yue, and told her he would keep her safe because he was her master.
• Fang Yang slashed open the heavens and shattered the Mirror World, freeing Lian Yue from the Heart-Questioning Pass.
• Lian Yue returned from the Water Mirror with dark hair and concealed injuries, then saw Fang Yang standing with the Princess Consort, the maid, Burning Cat, Guan Qinghan, and Ye Qinghong.

Fang Yang remained unharmed in the Illusory Moon Tower while demonic sect leaders battled through a horde of tree demons and assumed he would die. When they reached a pavilion, they found the tree demons serving him instead, while Han Lingxuan watched jealously and wondered how to win him back.

• Lian Yue stood beside Fang Yang as her eldest senior sister prepared to fight for their master, while Lian Yue felt both relief and bitterness.
• The Hehuan Sect Master, Ghost Lantern Sect Master, Corpse Controlling Sect Master, and their followers fought through the tree demons, suffering wounds and exhausting their strength.
• After the tree demons vanished, the demonic cultivators assumed they had passed the trial and headed toward a pavilion expecting wine and immortal maidens.
• The sect leaders entered and found Fang Yang relaxing on a throne as the tree demons served him and danced for him.
• Han Lingxuan watched the women attending Fang Yang with jealousy, muttered about serving him herself, and glared at the tree demons.