The moon hung high in the sky.0

Chu Liang had finally managed to explain everything clearly. Thankfully, Senior Sister Jiang was not the kind of girl who would make a fuss over unreasonable things. If not, this would have dragged on for three to five days with the chance that this might be brought up at every New Year's festival in the years to come.1

After everything calmed down, Chu Liang took out the Demon-Binding Rope and frowned.0

The Demon-Binding Rope was a very effective movement-restricting enchanted tool. However, the tortoise-shell bondage method had caused him endless trouble. Over the years, he had lost count of how many times people had mistaken him for a pervert because of it.0

A sudden thought struck him—if he were to awaken a spirit within the rope today, could it gain self-awareness and no longer be limited to just the tortoise-shell bondage method?3

The only problem was that he wasn’t sure if it would work. After all, when he had awakened the Demon-Revealing Brick, its intelligence seemed far from sharp. Just last night, he had spoken to it, and it only responded this morning. He had no idea what was causing such a severe delay, but it made normal communication impossible.0

Would the Demon-Binding Rope end up the same way? Well, there was only one way to find out.0

With that thought in mind, Chu Liang channeled his cultivation...0