Chapter Summaries

Fang Yang traveled toward the Shadow Moon Convent with Huang Fuling while Ye Qinghong scouted ahead, and the Azure Shadow Sword tried to keep them apart. Fang Yang revealed that a gathering at the convent would address the upcoming Demonic Dao Grand Ceremony and those who had provoked him.

• Ye Qinghong flew ahead to scout the road, while Yuan Heng saw him leave without the Azure Shadow Sword and feared for Huang Fuling.
• Huang Fuling offered Fang Yang her fox-fur undergarment, but the Azure Shadow Sword intervened and Fang Yang instead fed it the Profound Heaven Strategy’s aura until it fell unconscious.
• Huang Fuling used her massage techniques on Fang Yang as the Flying Carriage crossed thunderclouds, and both later composed themselves before Ye Qinghong returned.
• Fang Yang told Huang Fuling they were heading to the Shadow Moon Convent, where its abbess had invited southern Divine Sects to discuss the Demonic Dao Grand Ceremony and deal with him.
• Fang Yang explained that Divine Sects and body sects distrusted each other and that their gatherings often centered on targeting one another.

Fang Yang’s carriage headed to Shadow Moon Convent for a gathering of Demonic Path sects, while Huang Fuling worried that her secret identity might be exposed. Ye Qinghong returned to find his master and Huang Fuling apparently behaving properly, but discovered the Azure Shadow Sword had been mysteriously nourished again.

• Fang Yang explained that Shadow Moon Convent’s Gong Yajun had gathered the Divine Sect’s factions to choose a leader ahead of the Demonic Dao Grand Ceremony.
• Huang Fuling feared Fang Yang knew she was a Shadow Moon Convent spy and wondered whether her master had arranged the gathering because she had fallen for him.
• Yuan Heng overheard that they were going to Shadow Moon Convent and rejoiced, believing its abbess and formations would kill Fang Yang.
• Ye Qinghong returned after finding the Azure Shadow Sword dazed and saw Huang Fuling and Fang Yang sitting properly in the carriage.
• Ye Qinghong recalled that the sword had previously become lively after Fang Yang held it and accused his master of sneaking a bite behind his back.

Ye Qinghong suspected Huang Fuling had done something intimate with Fang Yang and demanded the same treatment from his master. Fang Yang reluctantly agreed, and Ye Qinghong reached beneath his robes, leaving their encounter about to begin.

• Ye Qinghong questioned Huang Fuling about what she had done with Fang Yang, but she gave an evasive answer and left the Flying Carriage.
• Ye Qinghong enclosed the Flying Carriage in a soundproof barrier and confronted Fang Yang.
• Fang Yang tried to reassure Ye Qinghong and dissuade him from imitating Huang Fuling.
• Ye Qinghong insisted that he could not lose to anyone else because Fang Yang had painstakingly nurtured him.
• Fang Yang gave in, and Ye Qinghong closed his eyes and placed a trembling hand on Fang Yang's leg beneath his robes.

Ye Qinghong kissed Fang Yang and insisted he had outdone Huang Fuling, but Fang Yang’s Formless Demon Body flared as he watched his disciple leave. He stopped Ye Qinghong under the pretense of examining a curse, and afterward Ye Qinghong claimed the curse remained and flew off to a cold pool.

• Ye Qinghong massaged Fang Yang, kissed him at length, and proudly declared that he had surpassed Huang Fuling.
• Fang Yang’s Formless Demon Body activated as Ye Qinghong prepared to leave, and Fang Yang sealed the Flying Carriage and ordered him to stay.
• Fang Yang embraced Ye Qinghong and searched his body for Yingui High Person’s curse, finding no trace of it.
• Fang Yang said he had cleared the curse, but Ye Qinghong insisted it was still there and asked him to examine it again in the future.
• Ye Qinghong dressed and flew down to a cold pool in an ancient mountain forest.

Ye Qinghong considered marrying his master so his junior sisters might trust his defense of him, while Lian Yue resolved to marry the master herself and use a Love Gu to get close to him. The chapter ended with the rival demonic sects gathering at Shadow Moon Convent ahead of the Divine Sect assembly.

• Ye Qinghong, submerged in the Cold Pool, reflected on his feelings for his master and decided that becoming his master's wife might persuade his junior sisters to believe him.
• Ye Qinghong asked Lian Yue through the communication jade whether an old friend should marry her master to overcome her junior sisters' hatred, then cited The Return of the Condor Heroes as an example.
• Lian Yue urged Ye Qinghong not to trust the master, but Ye Qinghong refused to share the story his master had told him and stopped replying.
• Lian Yue decided to marry the master first, believing it would shock Ye Qinghong into seeing the master's true nature and let her approach him to plant a Love Gu.
• The leaders of the Hehuan Sect, Heavenly Demon Sect, and Ghost Lantern Sect gathered at Shadow Moon Convent to vie for representation at the Divine Sect's Demonic Dao Grand Ceremony.

Gong Yajun struggled with her desire for the Blood Rain Demon Venerable and longed for his attention from the Shadow Moon Convent. She contacted him with an update and sent him a private recording containing secret convent movements.

• Gong Yajun tried to calm her restless feelings by reciting the Heart Sutra, but her longing for the Demon Venerable grew stronger.
• She wondered why she still desired the man who had defiled her in the hot spring and imagined returning to serve him.
• Gong Yajun lamented the distance between the Shadow Moon Convent and the Blood Rain Cult and used a jade carving of the Demon Venerable to ease her loneliness.
• She sent the Demon Venerable a report on her progress through a Communication Jade and indirectly expressed how much she missed him.
• Gong Yajun sealed a private Water-Mirror Secret Technique recording in the jade, including secret movements known only to the convent's abbesses.

Gong Yajun eagerly received a summons from the Demon Venerable and rushed to meet him, wondering whether he was the prophesied master of Shadow Moon Convent. Meanwhile, Fang Yang’s entourage camped by Mirror Lake, Ye Qinghong guarded the area, and Fang Yang sensed his Purple Moon Mark trembling near the convent.

• Gong Yajun made and labeled recordings of herself, then received Fang Yang’s message ordering her to meet him at Mirror Lake and set off with handcuffs and an iron chain.
• Gong Yajun recalled Shadow Moon Convent’s prophecy that a destined being would become its master and lead it to greatness.
• Four hours earlier, Fang Yang’s Flying Carriage landed beside Mirror Lake, where Blood Rain Cult Disciples speculated about his intentions toward Shadow Moon Convent.
• Ye Qinghong stopped female disciples from approaching Fang Yang’s carriage, then left to guard the area and wondered whether he could cure his master’s supposed impotence.
• Fang Yang cultivated inside the Flying Carriage and sensed the Purple Moon Mark in his Profound Heaven Strategy trembling near Shadow Moon Convent.

Huang Fuling went to Mirror Lake intending to give herself completely to Fang Yang, and she revealed her seductive true self after initially presenting an innocent disguise. After they became intimate, she felt that she finally belonged to him, while Fang Yang reflected on the aftermath.

• Fang Yang went to Mirror Lake and considered beginning his conquest of Shadow Moon Convent by targeting Yingui High Person.
• Huang Fuling approached Fang Yang in an innocent-looking disguise and decided to offer herself to him rather than try to draw her master into his cause.
• Huang Fuling told Fang Yang she wanted to be herself with him, then revealed her body bound in red cords and adorned with bells and stockings.
• Huang Fuling later washed in a pool, retied her braids, and rejoiced that she had given herself completely to Fang Yang.
• Fang Yang frowned on the shore after using the Great Might Heavenly Dragon Method to subdue Huang Fuling.

Fang Yang’s Profound Heaven Strategy absorbed a second Purple Moon from Huang Fuling, triggering a transformation that advanced him to the Threefold Summit of the Great Grandmaster Realm. Huang Fuling then confessed that she was the Shadow Moon Convent’s Saintess, sent to infiltrate the Blood Rain Cult, and awaited Fang Yang’s punishment.

• The Profound Heaven Strategy extracted Huang Fuling’s pale Purple Moon and merged it with Gong Yajun’s moon, binding a strand of Huang Fuling’s spirit within the book.
• The Profound Heaven Strategy entered Fang Yang’s body, and the Formless Demon Body transformed him as a black sun and Purple Moon appeared within his eyes.
• Fang Yang emerged from the painful transformation at the Threefold Summit of the Great Grandmaster Realm and wondered about the connection between the Formless Demon Body and the Shadow Moon Convent.
• Huang Fuling came to Fang Yang at Mirror Lake and hesitated to reveal her secret, fearing he would reject her.
• Huang Fuling confessed that she was the Shadow Moon Convent Saintess and had infiltrated the Blood Rain Cult six years earlier on her Abbess’s orders to investigate Fang Yang’s rise, then begged him to punish her.

Huang Fuling accepted Fang Yang’s punishment by chanting the Water Dragon Art, while Gong Yajun sensed the encounter through her Purple Moon and believed her disciple was competing with her for Fang Yang. Gong Yajun arrived at Mirror Lake furious, where Huang Fuling knelt before her and mistook her anger for concern about the convent’s dignity.

• Fang Yang stroked Huang Fuling’s head and ordered her to chant scriptures and demonstrate the Shadow Moon Convent’s techniques until dawn.
• Huang Fuling recited the Water Dragon Art underwater, and Gong Yajun felt the sensations through the connection between her Purple Moon and Huang Fuling’s Shadow Moon Sacred Body.
• Gong Yajun concluded that Huang Fuling was competing with her to serve Fang Yang and hurried toward Mirror Lake, intending to punish her disciple.
• After Huang Fuling warned Fang Yang that Gong Yajun might use the Mountain-Protection Array, Fang Yang said he trusted the Shadow Moon Convent’s loyalty.
• Gong Yajun appeared beside Mirror Lake, and Huang Fuling knelt before her, mistaking her furious expression for anger at the humiliation of a convent Saintess begging for affection.

Fang Yang confronted Gong Yajun after finding Huang Fuling wounded, and used the Demon Finger to force the abbess to kneel before him. Gong Yajun declared herself his slave and asked to be punished, while Huang Fuling realized her master was a dangerous rival for the Demon Venerable’s attention.

• Huang Fuling stood between Fang Yang and Gong Yajun, insisting that she had acted on her own.
• Gong Yajun grew jealous of Huang Fuling and prepared to strike her, but Fang Yang’s Demon Finger made her collapse in pain and shattered her Dharma Form.
• Fang Yang asked Gong Yajun what her place before him was, and she crawled toward him and knelt at his feet.
• Huang Fuling watched her master’s humiliation and recognized that Gong Yajun was secretly pleased, seeing her as a greater threat than Ye Qinghong or the Princess Consort.
• Gong Yajun called herself Fang Yang’s slave and asked him to whip her as punishment, while casting a faint glance at Huang Fuling.

Fang Yang forced Gong Yajun and Huang Fuling to compete in chanting sutras to dispel the killing intent in his body. Both women exhausted themselves, and his eyes cleared as the night-long contest ended.

• Huang Fuling knelt and offered to take Gong Yajun's punishment, but Gong Yajun insisted on becoming Fang Yang's slave instead.
• Gong Yajun revealed herself beneath her robes and challenged Huang Fuling to watch her skill at chanting sutras.
• Fang Yang silenced the two women and declared that both would become his slaves and take turns dispelling his killing intent.
• Gong Yajun went first, and she and Huang Fuling began a sutra-chanting contest beside Mirror Lake.
• The two women dispelled Fang Yang's killing intent, restoring clarity to his gaze, while both ended the night exhausted.

Fang Yang learned that every major Demonic Path sect planned to challenge the Blood Rain Cult at the assembly in three days, and he heard about the powerful Lin Yanran, his former lover. He then confirmed that Yin Gui Ancestor was at Shadow Moon Convent and prepared to eliminate him.

• Huang Fuling left after Fang Yang showed her a rare sign of affection, while Gong Yajun noticed their bond had deepened through their shared ability to dispel killing intent.
• Gong Yajun reported that all major Divine Sect factions harbored murderous intentions toward the Blood Rain Cult and intended to contest leadership at the upcoming assembly.
• Gong Yajun described the major sects and warned Fang Yang that Lin Yanran had taken control of the Heavenly Demon Sect after rising to the three-leaf dharmakaya realm.
• Fang Yang remembered that Lin Yanran had been close to the former Blood Rain Demon Venerable and worried that his intimate companions might expose his identity.
• Fang Yang confirmed that Yin Gui Ancestor was at Shadow Moon Convent and resolved to kill him.

Fang Yang learned about the Demonic Path sects and planned to surprise them at the coming assembly, while Guan Qinghan secretly worked to seize control of the sects and destroy the Demonic Path. The Ghost Lantern Sect master prepared to target Shadow Moon Convent’s abbess as rival leaders maneuvered for power.

• Fang Yang questioned Gong Yajun about Shadow Moon Convent’s secret method, then asked her to dispel his rising killing intent.
• Guan Qinghan revealed she had killed the Heavenly Demon Sect Holy Maiden, infiltrated the sect, and planned to lead the Divine Sects before destroying the Demonic Path.
• Guan Qinghan froze a shadowy intruder holding a ghost lantern and recorded Shadow Moon Convent’s layout for a future attack.
• The Ghost Lantern Sect master failed to connect Lin Yanran’s soul to the Soul-Burning Lamp and shifted his focus to the Abbess of Shadow Moon Convent.
• The Ghost Lantern Sect master used the Soul-Burning Lamp to form a mark on the Hehuan Sect Master’s Wife and vowed to become leader of the Divine Sects.

The Hehuan Sect master and his wife used spiritual intercourse to subdue Demonic Path disciples and plotted to win the Divine Sect Selection. After Gong Yajun visited Fang Yang at Mirror Lake, Ye Qinghong saw her leave and mistakenly suspected she and his master had shared a secret tryst.

• The Hehuan Sect master and his wife revealed that they had drained and brainwashed disciples from Shadow Moon Convent and other Demonic Path sects, then planned to seduce leaders to secure the Divine Sect Leader Position.
• The Sect Master's Wife boasted that her Great Joy Rhapsody could control even the Demon Venerable, while her husband warned her not to fall for him.
• Gong Yajun left Fang Yang at Mirror Lake exhausted but longing for another visit, and Fang Yang examined the jade she had given him.
• Ye Qinghong patrolled near Fang Yang's Flying Carriage and saw a black-robed woman depart Mirror Lake in a disheveled state.
• Fang Yang emerged afterward with rumpled clothes and a faint smile, leading Ye Qinghong to suspect his master had secretly met the woman.

Fang Yang read the Demon Venerable’s diary entries about Lin Yanran and considered using the Great Yin-Yang Bliss Formula to defeat her rival and gain control of the Heavenly Demon Sect. Meanwhile, the Demonic Path sect leaders gathered at the Shadow Moon Convent to contend for leadership of the Divine Sect.

• Ye Qinghong suspected that his master had recovered and decided to watch him closely and test him when he had the chance.
• Fang Yang searched the Demon Venerable’s diaries for Lin Yanran and found detailed accounts of her past relationship with the Demon Venerable.
• Fang Yang considered using the Great Yin-Yang Bliss Formula to daze Lin Yanran’s rival and seize an opportunity to kill him.
• The sect masters and guardians of the Demonic Path gathered at the Shadow Moon Convent’s Purple Moon Tower for the leadership struggle.
• The Corpse Controlling Sect’s sect master arrived carrying a black coffin and declared that the Ghost Lantern Sect would claim leadership of the Divine Sect.

At Shadow Moon Convent, Gong Yajun welcomed the gathered Demonic Path sects and urged them to choose a strong leader for the coming Grand Ceremony. As the factions assembled, Fang Yang studied the imprints of those present while the Holy Maiden Lin Yanran arrived and drew everyone’s attention.

• Gong Yajun addressed the sect leaders and disciples, warning that the Grand Ceremony and its secret treasure were vital to the Divine Sect’s fortune.
• The Ghost Lantern Sect and Corpse Controlling Sect arrived, prompting accusations over stolen intimate garments and a disciple’s ancestor being turned into a flying corpse.
• The Hehuan Sect master plotted to hypnotize Lin Yanran and unite the Demonic Path under his control.
• Fang Yang examined the diary and imprints of the gathered cultivators while considering how difficult it would be to master the Great Bliss Rhapsody.
• Lin Yanran entered Shadow Moon Convent in a white dress, frost forming beneath her steps as she regarded the gathered crowd with disgust.

At Purple Moon Tower, the sects debated how to slay the Blood Rain Demon Venerable before choosing a new leader of the Demonic Path. Lin Yanran and Guan Qinghan condemned the Demon Venerable, while Gong Yajun quietly recorded the factions and hoped they would weaken one another.

• The gathered sects agreed that the Blood Rain Demon Venerable had to be dealt with before anyone could become the new leader.
• Guan Qinghan accused the Demon Venerable of abusing his disciples and swore that she and the Heavenly Demon Sect would kill him.
• The Ghost Lantern Sect claimed it had made a mental mark of the Demon Venerable that it could detonate when he arrived.
• Several sects declared support for killing the Demon Venerable, while others chose neutrality or opposed the plan.
• Gong Yajun recorded the gathered factions as they declared their positions, intending to let the Demonic Path sects destroy one another.
• Lin Yanran swore that she would kill the Demon Venerable and asked the gathering whether they had eaten.

Fang Yang arrived at the Demonic Path gathering after the assembled sect leaders accused him of abusing women and vowed to kill him. His appearance silenced the crowd, while Ye Qinghong watched him closely and resolved to investigate his condition within two days.

• Lin Yanran accused Fang Yang of defiling her and blamed his debauchery for the Demonic Path's decline.
• Gong Yajun recorded the names of those who slandered Fang Yang or plotted against him.
• Fang Yang arrived at the Purple Moon Tower in a Black Jade Flying Carriage, with Ye Qinghong at his side.
• Ye Qinghong threatened the women staring at Fang Yang by releasing Sword Qi that cut a lock of hair from each of them.
• Gong Yajun, the Hehuan Sect's Sect Master's Wife, and Guan Qinghan were visibly affected by Fang Yang's arrival.

Guan Qinghan’s forbidden technique erased her recent memories, leaving her to believe her own notes that the Blood Rain Demon Venerable had violated her. Fang Yang used details from Lin Yanran’s diary to confuse her further, then kissed her and claimed he was returning a kiss she had asked for three years earlier.

• Guan Qinghan lost her recent memories when her forbidden technique reversed and found notes claiming the Blood Rain Demon Venerable had defiled her and stirred her heart.
• Fang Yang appeared, embraced Guan Qinghan, and told her that her undergarment was still with him.
• Guan Qinghan believed she might have lost her chastity to Fang Yang and wondered if he was the calamity foretold in her destiny.
• Fang Yang recalled using Lin Yanran’s diary to prepare his words and brought up the undergarment to awaken Guan Qinghan’s memories.
• Fang Yang kissed the dazed Guan Qinghan and said he was returning the kiss she had asked for three years earlier.