The Light of Righteousness is Offline

As the head disciple of the Wanxiang Dao Sect, Ming Jing possessed stunning sword talent, born with innate sword bones, her cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds. She dominated the Spirit Combat Grand Ceremony, hailed as a prodigy and the beacon of righteousness. Yet, this peerless genius was branded as a collaborator with the demonic faction. Her cultivation was crippled, her sword bones shattered, her tendons severed, and she was cast off a cliff. At the brink of life and death, Ming Jing heard an ethereal voice whisper in her ear. The voice said she had the makings of a protagonist, but was merely cannon fodder in a "Chasing Wife to the Crematorium" script—her fall merely the prelude to the plot. It continued: she was supposed to plummet into a thousand-year frigid pond, drift with the undercurrents into a dark cave, where her corpse would aid the cave's master in breaking a seal, thus kicking off the script's true leads—the Wanxiang Dao Sect's Daoist Master and their crematorium pursuit. Clinging to her last breath, Ming Jing ignored it. Bypassing the frozen currents, she dragged a trail of blood and crawled into the dim cave. Inside, a woman clad in red, bound by blood-red chains, stood amidst the shadows. With an eerie, sanguine allure, she drawled, "Cultivate with me. I'll save your life." The voice urged frantically: "Quick—refuse her righteously, then end your life before her." Ming Jing, her face deathly pale, curved her bloodstained lips in a grin. "Alright." This is the tale of how the beacon of righteousness fell into demonhood, became the ruler of the demonic path, and incidentally stole herself a wife along the way. ① Ming Jing falls to demonhood; she no longer practices the sword. ② The Wanxiang Dao Sect's Daoist Master is female. ③ The CP was originally the protagonist of the "Chasing Wife to the Crematorium" script. ④ Heavy creative liberties; tropes are simple; mix of gratification and torment.