The starting point is auspicious; the fiancée will not call off the engagement.

Ye Ninghan stayed until dark before leaving.

Fang Zhou wanted her to stay overnight, but Ye Ninghan ignored his pleas, left him some spiritual herbs that would help with Xuan Dan cultivation, and then turned and ran away.

What's with the way you're treating me like some kind of monster?

Fang Zhou shook his head and closed the door.

"Hey, Xiaoyue, am I supposed to go to school tomorrow? Could you go for me?"

Fang Zhou held up Xiaoyue and asked it.

"Meow?"

"Fine, I wasn't expecting anything from you anyway. How about we skip class? Even if it's one day on, two days off, I still don't want to go to school."

Fang Zhou sighed deeply; as expected, he had a deep-seated fear of going to school.

Fang Zhou put Xiaoyue on the table and suddenly remembered something.

"Hmm, I think I was going to make a magic weapon for you."

"Meow?"

Xiaoyue looked at Fang Zhou with a puzzled expression.

"I didn't tell you this before, so is this a reward for you?"

Fang Zhou was pondering what kind of magic weapon he should train for Xiao Yue.

After taking a closer look at Xiaoyue, well, a Moon Shadow Cat, it should have both a moon and a shadow, right?

Fang Zhou reached out and grabbed at the ethereal moonlight, which seemed to come into being and was held in his hand.

Fang Zhou gently tossed the tangible moonlight in his hand, and silvery-white shards of light fell softly from between his fingers.

Xiaoyue tilted her head back from the table, her amber eyes following the ball of light up and down, her tail swaying slowly halfway behind her.

"Don't rush." ​​Fang Zhou didn't turn his head, but stretched out his other hand, his five fingers loosely clenched.

Something was pulled out from the shadows in the corner.

A faint black line, as thin as a hair, silently coiled and swirled around his fingertips, tentatively searching for a direction to cling to, like a living thing.

Moonlight and shadows, both are present.

Fang Zhou placed them side by side on the table, with moonlight on the left and shadows on the right.

He rested his chin on his hand and stared at them for a long time, his brows furrowing deeper and deeper.

Moonlight is light, and shadow is shadow. Although light and shadow are interdependent, they are essentially mutually exclusive.

If you force them together, either the moonlight will melt away the shadows, or the shadows will devour the moonlight.

"Light and shadow, they both give rise to and restrain each other." Fang Zhou muttered to himself, his fingers unconsciously tapping the table. "Interesting."

He thought about it and didn't rush to take action.

He wasn't actually good at weapon crafting. During his eighteen years in the Fang family, he spent most of his time cultivating and reading novels. Occasionally, he would flip through a few beginner books on weapon crafting on a whim, but he had never seriously crafted a magic weapon.

But it doesn't matter, for him, as long as he wants to, he can do it.

Xiaoyue sat on the table, her tail gracefully wrapped around her front paws, quietly watching him.

Fang Zhou stared at it for a moment, then suddenly reached out and tapped its forehead.

What kind of attack magic weapon does a kitten need? As long as it can run away, that's enough. If it can't beat someone, it can go to its parents.

Fang Zhou reorganized his thoughts and prepared to train it to create a functional magic weapon.

Fang Zhou opened his palm, and chaos appeared in his hand.

Hmm, that's too domineering. Let's try a gentler approach.

Chaos dissipated, and the Yin and Yang of Tai Chi flowed in his hands.

He cast the moonlight into the sun and the shadows into the yin.

As Yin and Yang interact, Yang gives rise to Yin, and Yin gives rise to Yang.

Light and shadow constantly merge.

"It's done." Fang Zhou breathed a sigh of relief.

The yin and yang were compressed, eventually forming a ball of light the size of a fist.

The ball of light slowly rotated on the table, its surface sometimes flashing with silvery-white moonlight, and sometimes disappearing into the inky black shadow.

He picked up the ball of light and weighed it in his hand. It was almost weightless and had a slightly cool touch, like holding a pebble soaked in moonlight.

"Just one last step."

Fang Zhou mobilized the power of the laws within his body to add a boundary to the ball of light, preventing it from easily dissipating.

At this moment, the ball of light had transformed into a crystalline pendant.

Hmm, something's still missing.

Fang Zhou thought for a moment, and an invisible power began to flow in his hand; this was his Dao.

He poured that power into the pendant.

"Perfect."

Fang Zhou nodded in satisfaction. It was a perfect demonstration of turning the illusory into the real. He would probably be able to do even more once he reached the Holy Domain.

Fang Zhou turned to look at Xiao Yue and found that the cat had been lying on the table for a long time, its chin resting on its front paws and its tail slowly swishing back and forth behind it.

"Here." Fang Zhou pushed the pendant in front of it.

Xiaoyue stood up, circled the pendant halfway around, and then sniffed it.

Then it raised one of its front paws and gently pressed it onto the pendant, just as it had when it first recognized its owner.

The pendant trembled slightly under its paw, then transformed into two streams of light, one bright and one dark, which climbed up its front leg and circled around its neck.

After the light faded, a small pendant appeared around Xiaoyue's neck. It was silver-white with fine dark patterns on the surface, which moved with the light, like a living shadow.

"Meow." Xiaoyue looked down at the pendant around her neck, then looked up at Fang Zhou.

"Let me take a look around."

Xiaoyue gracefully twirled on the table, the pendant swaying gently with its movement. Moonlight and shadows shimmered alternately on the pendant's surface, making its silvery-white fur appear even more lively.

"Good, it seems to have been a success." Fang Zhou reached out and scratched its chin, explaining to Xiao Yue, "This magic weapon has two functions: the first function is that it can store energy. It can be charged by sunbathing and moonbathing, and can be used directly when needed. It's like a backup hidden energy source? Something like that."

The second function is that it will automatically trigger Shadow Cloak when you encounter danger, hiding you in the shadows and allowing you to escape. Attacks from those below the Dao Infant level cannot reach you. I also added a personal touch: when you encounter danger, you can use it to summon my projection, which has roughly the power of my full-force attack. Use it carefully.

Xiaoyue tilted her head and exclaimed happily.

"Alright, go ahead and try. See if you can put your pendant away."

Xiaoyue blinked, and the pendant flashed with light before disappearing into its body.

"Hmm, not bad, as expected of the magic weapon I crafted."

Fang Zhou nodded in satisfaction; this way, it shouldn't be stolen anymore.

Fang Zhou patted Xiaoyue's head, telling her to go to sleep.

Xiaoyue meowed softly, then leaped down and walked gracefully to her cat bed, curled up into a ball, closed her eyes, and prepared to sleep.

Fang Zhou leaned back in his chair, looking out the window at the night view of Cheng'an City.

The streets were already quiet, with the occasional sound of patrols passing by in the distance.

The faint light of the spirit array flowed slowly between the buildings, like the city's breath.

Fang Zhou looked down at his hands, then got up and lay back down on the bed.

"Not bad, quite interesting. Should I make another pair of rings? Or should I wait until I break through to the Saint Realm? I feel like the right time is almost here. Don't disappoint me, villain." He muttered to himself, yawned, and the lights went out.

Moonlight streamed in through the window and fell directly on Xiaoyue.

The pendant around its neck shone faintly in the moonlight, its silvery-white light flashing as if in response to something.

Xiaoyue rolled over in her sleep, lying on her back with her four paws in the air, exposing her belly, and her tail swayed gently in her sleep.