Peacock County Advances, Kong Wenxuan Emerges from Seclusion
As it turns out, the Fifth Tier Fifth Tier food and brew bestowed by the Vermilion Bird King were indeed very powerful and long-lasting.
After completing the refinement and enhancement of the "Black Water Divine Sword" and the "Yellow Earth Divine Sword" three years ahead of schedule, Kong Wenxuan chose to continue refining and enhancing the "Crimson Fire Divine Sword." The spiritual power of the spiritual food and wine continued to work within him for two years, greatly accelerating his refinement and enhancement of the "Crimson Fire Divine Sword" and his cultivation progress.
In other words, the Fifth Tier Fifth Tier food and spirit wine bestowed by the Vermilion Bird King had been working in his body for a full five years. During these five years, his efficiency in sword forging and cultivation basically doubled, which shows the power of these spiritual food and spirit wine.
When the last bit of spiritual energy belonging to the spiritual food and brew in his body was exhausted, Kong Wenxuan felt a void in his heart. He looked up at the sky with some lingering desire, truly wanting to go up to heaven again and enjoy the spiritual food and brew of the "Vermilion Bird Royal Court".
If such spiritual food and wine could be freely supplied to him, he might be able to refine and upgrade all five "Five Elements Five Elements Divine Swords" to the level of Third Tier Treasure Artifact within a short period of ten years, and raise his own cultivation to the peak of the Third Tier Purple Mansion Stage.
"In the path of cultivation, wealth, companions, methods, and environment—wealth is indeed ranked first."
Kong Wenxuan lowered his head and sighed with some regret.
Although the Kong Household has developed very rapidly, in just over thirty years they have transformed from a Lineage of servants who had no control over their own lives into Eighth-Grade True Spirit Lineage. The Peacock County Lineage control has just completed an expansion war and now controls a territory of three thousand miles.
Among them are various spiritual objects, resources, materials, and lands, which represent considerable wealth.
Ultimately, they were all low-level items of the first to Third Tier. While they were helpful to many Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment disciples of the Kong Household, only some Third Tier spiritual items and resources were useful to Kong Wenxuan.
As for the Fifth Tier spiritual food and spirit wine served at the small court banquet, not to mention the Kong Household, even in Bifang Commandery City, they are rarely available.
After all, the Bi Household, known as "Bifang True Spirit," is only Sixth-Grade True Spirit Lineage. The highest cultivation level in the family is only Fifth Tier Nascent Soul True Lord. Even if they can make some Fifth Tier spiritual dishes and spirit wines, it is probably only enough for the Bi Household's own Nascent Soul True Lord to enjoy and consume. They would never sell them.
Therefore, Kong Wenxuan could only sigh, shake his head, and temporarily put aside his idea of taking a shortcut.
Now, the spiritual food and wine bestowed by this small court assembly have saved him most of the time in refining and upgrading the "Crimson Fire Divine Sword". He has already refined seven of the Third Tier "Three Yang Metal Fire", and there are still two left. Even without the spiritual power of the Fifth Tier spiritual food and wine, he will only need a little over a year to devour and refine the remaining two Third Tier "Three Yang Metal Fire" and complete the advancement of the "Crimson Fire Divine Sword".
Therefore, he naturally doesn't need to be in too much of a hurry.
However, Kong Wenxuan temporarily stopped devouring and refining the remaining two "Three Yang Metal Fire," and retrieved the "Crimson Fire Divine Sword," which had already been refined and enhanced to the point of near perfection, into his Purple Mansion for nurturing. He then got up and left the "Peacock Secret Realm."
Two more years have passed, and the Kong Household's war to expand "Peacock County" has been going on for eleven years. Now the expansion has finally been completed, and the three thousand miles of territory has been completely brought under the control of "Peacock County". "Peacock County" has now been successfully promoted from Subordinate Ninth Rank -rank county to a medium-grade eighth-rank county.
This expansion war, although it took a long time, almost twice as long as the previous war to open up and establish Peacock County.
However, during the entire eleven-year expansion war, Kong Wenxuan did not have to lift a finger. The entire process was carried out by the Lineage and the forces of the servant Lineage under his command, which successfully conquered the newly expanded two thousand miles of territory. This shows the strength and power of the Kong Household now, which has made Kong Wenxuan much more relaxed, allowing him to focus on his cultivation, sword forging, and improvement.
However, now that the war of expansion has ended and the new territory of Peacock County has been established, he, as the magistrate of Peacock County, cannot remain completely hidden from beginning to end. There are still some follow-up tasks that he, as the magistrate, needs to complete.
Therefore, although the "Crimson Fire Divine Sword" had been refined and improved by more than half, he still paused the refinement and cultivation, ended his seclusion, left the "Peacock Secret Realm", and returned to the "Peacock County Seat".
His main purpose in leaving the pass this time was threefold: first, to relocate the "Peacock County Boundary Stele"; second, to reward those who had made significant contributions in the war of expansion by granting them their Bloodline Lineage lands and incorporating them into the Kong Household's subordinate Lineage.
The reason why the expansion war in Peacock County went so smoothly without Kong Wenxuan having to lift a finger was not only because the Kong Household itself was strong and powerful, but also because the Bloodline Lineage that came to join them contributed significantly.
Since the Kong Household successfully advanced to the Eighth-Grade True Spirit Lineage, they have been waging an expansion war for eleven years. Nearly a hundred Bloodline Lineage have come to join them. The Kong Household treats them all equally. If you want to settle in Peacock County and become a servant Lineage of the Kong Household, you can send your Lineage's forces to join the expansion war in Peacock County. Based on the size of your merits, you can exchange them for Lineage land and become a servant Lineage of the Kong Household.
Now that the war of expansion has ended, these Bloodline Lineage who came to join us have contributed greatly and made many contributions during the war. The Kong Household should naturally keep its promise and grant them clan lands according to their merits, and take them in as servant Lineage.
All of this required Kong Wenxuan, the magistrate of Peacock County, to step in and issue them "land deeds" to allocate clan lands.
Finally, the third thing is the expansion of the "Peacock Secret Realm".
The opening of all "True Spirit Secret Realm" by the "True Spirit Lineage" mainly relies on two forces: the power of the "True Spirit Star" and the power of the mountains and rivers of the territories occupied by the "True Spirit Lineage".
Now, the Kong Household's "Peacock True Spirit Star" has advanced to the eighth rank, and the power of the "True Spirit Star" has greatly increased; the territory controlled by Peacock County has also expanded from a radius of one thousand miles to a radius of three thousand miles, and the power of the mountains and rivers contained therein has more than doubled.
The corresponding "Peacock Secret Realm" can naturally continue to expand, reaching a wider area, thereby planting and cultivating more and higher-level Spirit Plant, spiritual grains, spirit medicine, spiritual materials, and spiritual objects.
The expansion of the "Peacock Secret Realm" is unlike the expansion of the "Peacock County," which cannot rely on the power of its numerous servant Lineage. Moreover, the number and strength of the "Devil Creature" enemies encountered in the "Origin Sea" are not as well-known as in the "South Lake Mountains," which Kong Wenxuan had already figured out long ago.
Therefore, with the expansion of the "Peacock Secret Realm," Kong Wenxuan, as the strongest member of the Lineage, naturally could not continue to sit back and enjoy the benefits. Instead, he also needed to take action, even as the main force.
Just then, ever since he completed the refining and upgrading of the "Black Water Divine Sword" and the "Yellow Earth Divine Sword" and mastered the "Mountain and Mountain and River Sword Momentum", he had been looking for suitable targets to test the power of the Third Tier Treasure Artifact sword and the power of the "Mountain and River Sword Momentum".
This expansion of "Peacock Secret Realm" might be a good opportunity.
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