Recaps

The Du Household used A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix to drain avian demons and demon gods in the Demon Race Secret Realm, while the Bi Household blocked anyone from stopping them. Their ritual revived the Cuckoo False Phoenix, which rose to the Fifth Tier after swallowing the Cuckoo True Spirit Star's Star Stone, as tribulation lightning gathered.

• The Bifang Commandery governor stopped the Bi Household forces from attacking the Du Household, and the Du Household unleashed A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix.
• Birds, avian demons, demon-blood cultivators, and demon gods were compelled to bow toward the Phoenix Terrace, then exploded as the ritual harvested their blood and essence.
• Demons accused the Du Household of deliberately bringing the Bi Household army to the secret realm, while the Bi Household forces prevented them from intervening.
• The ritual's seven-colored nirvana flames healed and revived the Cuckoo False Phoenix, raising it to the Fourth Tier.
• The Fourth-Tier Cuckoo False Phoenix swallowed the Cuckoo True Spirit Star's Star Stone, reached the Fifth Tier, and drew tribulation lightning.

The Du Household completed its forbidden ritual and raised its Cuckoo False Phoenix to the Fifth Tier, but flames from the Extreme South Forbidden Land descended and destroyed the household and its allies. Kong Wenxuan watched the Bi Household remain protected by the Bifang True Spirit Star’s starlight.

• A Du Household cultivator taunted the Bi Household and sent demonic light into the reborn Cuckoo False Phoenix, which unleashed seven-colored flames across the secret realm.
• Kong Wenxuan used the Five-Colored Divine Light to shake off the Phoenix’s suppression, then was protected when the Bifang True Spirit Star’s starlight pushed back the flames.
• The Du Household poured more power into the Cuckoo False Phoenix, but the Commandery Governor of Bifang waited for the fire clouds gathering above them.
• Kong Wenxuan recognized the fire clouds as connected to the Extreme South Forbidden Land, and the Du Household cultivator tried to shield the False Phoenix with its flames.
• Crimson flames engulfed the Cuckoo False Phoenix, Phoenix Terrace, mountain, Du Household, and Cuckoo Demon Race, destroying them all.

The Bifang Commandery Governor weakened the Demon-Summoning Banner to force the Demon Race to contact the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven. When the banner’s immense shadow suppressed the secret realm, he endured its power and declared that he had found the grotto-heaven.

• Kong Wenxuan watched the Du Household destroy itself with A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix and resolved to warn his patriarch against using the forbidden technique.
• The Bifang Commandery Governor attacked Demon God Halls with Tricolor Calamity Fire, killing the Red Fox Demon God and other Demon Gods.
• The surviving Demon Gods flew into the weakened Demon-Summoning Banner, which gathered its power and sent a beam into the Origin Sea.
• The Bifang Commandery Governor followed the beam with his spiritual light, seeking the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven.
• A vast banner shadow appeared over the secret realm and crushed Kong Wenxuan to the ground, while the Five-Colored Divine Light protected him.
• The Bifang Commandery Governor raised his Official Seal and announced that he had found the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven.

The governor of Bifang Commandery activated his Official Seal, unleashing the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram and turning the battle against the Demon-Summoning Banner. As the diagram transformed the Demon Race's secret realm, it seized the banner's projection and began drawing the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven out of the Origin Sea.

• The governor of Bifang Commandery activated his Official Seal and sent the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram across the secret realm's sky.
• The diagram trapped and suppressed the Demon-Summoning Banner, freeing Kong Wenxuan, the Bi Household cultivators, and the Bifang Dao Soldiers from the banner shadow's pressure.
• The diagram's sunlight, moonlight, and starlight began transforming the secret realm toward the True Spirit Realm, while Kong Wenxuan summoned his Peacock True Spirit Star to restore his strength.
• The diagram's light surged into the Origin Sea, seized the Demon-Summoning Banner's true-form projection, and traced its connection to its source.
• The Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram suppressed the banner shadow and began pulling the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven out of the Origin Sea.

Kong Wenxuan witnessed the True Martial World attack the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven and shatter the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram protecting the Demon Race's secret realm. True Martial cultivators poured into the realm, and a group of Lesser Giant Spirits charged toward him.

• Kong Wenxuan used the Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit to see the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven being drawn toward the Demon Race's secret realm.
• Twelve figures appeared above the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven and summoned a projection of the True Martial World with twelve True Martial Halls.
• The True Martial World projection sent chaotic light through the grotto-heaven toward the Demon Race's secret realm, where the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram met it in a violent collision.
• The collision scattered Kong Wenxuan's consciousness and tore apart the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram, allowing more than a hundred beams of chaotic light to enter the secret realm.
• True Martial cultivators emerged from the chaotic light and attacked throughout the secret realm, while a group transformed into Lesser Giant Spirits and charged at Kong Wenxuan.

Kong Wenxuan joined the defense against True Martial World invaders and released his Third Tier black tiger battle beast to hold off a powerful attacker. He discovered the invaders were vulnerable to spiritual illusions but had prepared helmets to counter them, then charged their remaining fighters with his sword formation.

• The Bifang Commandery governor ordered everyone to kill the invading True Martial cultivators and prevent them from reaching the True Spirit Realm.
• Kong Wenxuan summoned the Peacock True Spirit projection to strengthen and replenish himself, then released his Third Tier black tiger battle beast with the White Tiger Command.
• The black tiger engaged the leading Third Tier Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivator and used its speed to keep the stronger, slower opponent occupied.
• Kong Wenxuan attacked the remaining Second Tier Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivators with his Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation and Peacock Spreads Its Tail illusion.
• The illusion briefly trapped the martial cultivators, but light from their helmets freed them, and Kong Wenxuan drove his sword formation straight at them.

Kong Wenxuan trapped a force of Second-Tier Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivators in his Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation and unleashed its full power against them. He killed their leader, proving that the True Martial cultivators could be slain despite their formidable bodies and armor.

• Kong Wenxuan found that the Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivators’ bodies and divine weapon armor resisted his sword formation like the defenses of Third-Tier Demon Beasts.
• Kong Wenxuan drew the attackers into his sword formation and chose to rely on his own strength and the Peacock True Spirit Star rather than call for help.
• Kong Wenxuan merged the Five-Colored Peacock illusion into the formation and gathered its five-elements Sword Qi into the Black Water Divine Sword.
• The Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivators identified a critical node and battered the formation, but the Five Elements Divine Swords and Peacock True Spirit Star’s power kept it intact.
• Kong Wenxuan’s strongest strike cleaved the leader’s armor, and Golden Light Sword Threads killed him.
• Kong Wenxuan understood the leader’s final cry and grew more certain that the languages of the True Martial World and True Spirit Realm shared an origin.

Kong Wenxuan fought the remaining Lesser Giant Spirit True Martial cultivators, but their battle formation manifested a Third Tier Giant Spirit True Martial that shattered his sword formation and injured him. He evaded its attacks until it targeted the Third Tier black tiger beast, which he saved from a killing blow at the cost of half its tail.

• Kong Wenxuan used the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation and the Second Tier Black Water Divine Sword to kill three more Second Tier True Martial cultivators.
• The nine remaining Lesser Giant Spirit True Martial cultivators formed a battle formation, summoning a Giant Spirit True Martial that broke Kong Wenxuan's sword formation and injured him.
• The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit restored Kong Wenxuan's magic power, Spiritual Consciousness, and injuries as he recognized that the battle formation relied on the cultivators' own strength.
• Kong Wenxuan rode the Crimson Fire Divine Sword around the slow Giant Spirit True Martial and harried it with his other swords, forcing its formation's cultivators to exhaust themselves.
• The Giant Spirit True Martial attacked the Third Tier black tiger beast, and Kong Wenxuan deflected its axe just enough for the beast to dodge, though the blow severed half its tail.

Kong Wenxuan repeatedly used the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation to hold off the True Martial Battle Formation until the exhausted Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivators collapsed, then killed them. He joined the injured black tiger beast against the third-tier Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivator and slew it after breaking its armor.

• Kong Wenxuan repeatedly rebuilt the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation as the Giant Spirit True Martial smashed it apart, enduring severe injuries while the Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit restored him.
• The Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivators could no longer sustain the True Martial Battle Formation, which collapsed before its next axe strike.
• Kong Wenxuan used the sword formation to kill the exhausted second-tier Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivators.
• Kong Wenxuan joined the injured black tiger beast against the third-tier Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivator and battered the opponent's divine weapon armor with repeated strongest sword strikes.
• Kong Wenxuan and the black tiger beast killed the third-tier Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivator after its armor shattered.

After defeating a group of invading Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivators, Kong Wenxuan witnessed the governor of Bifang Commandery and his Bifang Dharma Idol overwhelm and kill a Fifth Tier invader. The Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram held back the True Martial World's reinforcements, leaving the invader without help.

• Kong Wenxuan and his Third Tier black tiger beast killed the invading Third Tier Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivator after a difficult battle.
• Kong Wenxuan surveyed the Demon Race Secret Realm and saw Bifang cultivators and Dao Soldiers burning the remaining invaders with Calamity Fire.
• The governor of Bifang Commandery summoned his Bifang Dharma Idol and two flaming saber Spirit Treasures to attack a Fifth Tier martial cultivator with Three Heads and Six Arms.
• The governor called upon the Bifang True Spirit Star projection, whose Calamity Fire destroyed the invader's armor and several of his heads and arms.
• The wounded invader tried to summon reinforcements as the True Martial World attacked the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram from beyond the Secret Realm, but the defenders held the formation.
• The governor and his Bifang Dharma Idol burned the unsupported invader to death with Calamity Fire.

After the Bifang Commandery Governor killed the Fifth Tier invader, its Dao transformation began corrupting the Demon Race secret realm and weakening its celestial barrier. Kong Wenxuan and the governor purified the corruption with their official seals, the remaining invaders were slain, and the invasion began to end amid heavy casualties.

• The fallen Fifth Tier three-headed, six-armed martial cultivator's Dao transformation corrupted the secret realm, triggered disasters, and weakened the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram's barrier.
• The Bifang Commandery Governor ordered Kong Wenxuan to raise the Peacock County Magistrate's Official Seal and help call down celestial starlight.
• The governor and Kong Wenxuan used their official seals to summon the sun, moon, and stars, suppressing and purifying the True Martial World's power and stabilizing the secret realm.
• The Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram regained its strength and drove back the True Martial World forces outside the realm.
• The Bi Household cultivators, Bifang Dao Soldiers, and others killed the remaining invaders, while Kong Wenxuan recognized the heavy casualties suffered in the battle.

Kong Wenxuan received a reward from the True Spirit Realm’s Origin Sea for helping repel the True Martial World’s invasion, and the resulting starlight propelled the Peacock True Spirit Star upward through the Ninth-Grade True Spirit Heaven. The chapter explained how True Spirit Stars advanced and left the star rising toward the Eighth-Grade True Spirit Heaven.

• Kong Wenxuan sent his consciousness into the Peacock True Spirit Star, where the Five-Colored Peacock manifested as starlight gathered around it.
• The True Spirit Realm rewarded Kong Wenxuan’s contributions, especially his resistance to the True Martial World’s invasion and the slaying of its martial cultivators.
• The Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram transformed the reward into starlight that strengthened the Peacock True Spirit Star and drove it upward.
• The chapter described two paths for advancing a True Spirit Star: a bloodline cultivator could propel it through personal strength, or a lineage could use external forces.
• The chapter explained that lineage development was a slow external path, while rewards from the True Spirit Realm’s origin could rapidly propel a star upward.

Kong Wenxuan’s Peacock True Spirit Star rose to the peak of the Ninth-Grade True Spirit Heaven but stopped just short of advancing to the Eighth-Grade. He resolved to break through to the Third Tier Purple Mansion Stage first, then complete the star’s advancement himself.

• The chapter explained five external methods for improving or advancing a True Spirit Star, including lineage power, merits, treasures, assistance from a higher-ranking lineage, and rituals or techniques.
• It recounted how the Azure Luan Luan Household had helped Ancestor Jianling complete Star Inlaying, while the Azure Luan lineage had later refused to help the Kong Household advance its Peacock True Spirit Star.
• Kong Wenxuan’s Peacock True Spirit Star stopped at the zenith of the Ninth-Grade True Spirit Heaven after the gathered starlight ran out.
• Kong Wenxuan concluded that he had earned too little merit in the Demon Race Secret Realm to push the star into the Eighth-Grade True Spirit Heaven.
• Kong Wenxuan decided to reach the Third Tier Purple Mansion Stage before personally pushing the Peacock True Spirit Star through its final ascent and advancement.

Kong Wenxuan confirmed that the Peacock True Spirit Star had reached the peak of Ninth-Grade True Spirit Heaven and examined the Kong Household’s Golden Crow Imperial Dynasty merit account. He discovered that the imperial treasury offered another way to obtain a Seventh Tier Heaven-Mending Pill, though the household still needed far more merit points.

• Kong Wenxuan summoned the Peacock True Spirit Star and sensed that its stronger starlight further enhanced his combat strength.
• Kong Wenxuan entered the Golden Crow Imperial Dynasty’s online network through his county magistrate’s seal and reviewed the Kong Household’s merit records.
• Kong Wenxuan saw that the household had earned merit for its battles, county duties, discovery of the Demon Race’s secret realm, and resistance to the True Martial World’s invasion.
• Kong Wenxuan checked the imperial treasury and learned that a Seventh Tier Heaven-Mending Pill cost ten thousand merit points.
• Kong Wenxuan recognized the merit system as another possible way to obtain the pill for the Second Elder, though the household’s listed total remained below a thousand.

Kong Wenxuan began his breakthrough to the Third Tier Purple Mansion Stage atop Longevity Mountain, relying on the Peacock True Spirit Star and his lineage’s bloodlines to strengthen his chances. He successfully united his Dantian’s sea of Qi and Sea of Consciousness into a Purple Mansion, with Spirit Law beginning to form.

• Kong Wenxuan entered seclusion on Longevity Mountain after five months of recovery and preparation, while his relatives surrounded him with protective formations and prepared to stop him if he became a Demon Beast.
• The chapter explained how bloodline cultivators gained better odds by attempting breakthroughs within their lineages and how the Purple Mansion and Golden Core stages separated the union of Qi, spirit, and essence.
• Kong Wenxuan checked his sea of Qi, Law Power, Sea of Consciousness, and Spiritual Consciousness, while his Five Elements Divine Swords replenished their strength with spirit materials.
• Kong Wenxuan circulated the Five Elements True Scripture and used the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation to unite his sea of Qi and Sea of Consciousness.
• Kong Wenxuan formed a Purple Mansion as his Law Power and Spiritual Consciousness began merging into Spirit Law.

Kong Wenxuan broke through to the Third Tier Purple Mansion Stage and faced the backlash of his Peacock Bloodline’s demonic nature. He suppressed and killed the demonic Five-Colored Peacock with the Great Five Elements Sword Formation, leaving the Kong Household’s preparations for disaster unnecessary.

• Kong Wenxuan broke through to the Third Tier Purple Mansion Stage without pills or spiritual incense.
• A Third Tier demonic Five-Colored Peacock emerged inside his Purple Mansion and attacked, while Kong Wenxuan held back the Five-Colored Divine Light to face it himself.
• Kong Wenxuan trapped the demonic peacock with the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation, strengthened by Five-Colored Starlight from the Peacock True Spirit Star.
• The Kong Household prepared its formations, weapons, and tamed beasts in case Kong Wenxuan succumbed to the backlash.
• Kong Wenxuan transformed the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation into the Great Five Elements Sword Formation and killed the demonic peacock, ending the backlash.

Kong Wenxuan successfully advanced to the Third Tier Purple Mansion Stage and demonstrated the power of his Great Five Elements Sword Formation. He sensed that the Peacock True Spirit Star needed to attempt its rank advancement immediately, and learned that the entire Kong Household could join the trial.

• Kong Wenxuan tested the Great Five Elements Sword Formation in his Purple Mansion and considered how refining his Five Elements Divine Swords into Third Tier Treasure Artifacts would make it stronger.
• Kong Wenxuan emerged at Longevity Mountain, where his family celebrated his successful advancement and confirmed that he had suppressed the Demonic Nature Backlash.
• Kong Wenxuan sensed that his new cultivation could drag the Ninth-Grade Peacock True Spirit Star downward if he delayed its attempt to reach the Eighth-Grade True Spirit Heaven.
• Kong Wenxuan realized the whole Kong Household could help drive the Peacock True Spirit Star's advancement and asked whether the Lineage was ready.
• Kong Changgeng assured Kong Wenxuan that everything was ready for the Rank Advancement Trial.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household began the Peacock True Spirit Star’s trial to ascend from the Ninth-Grade to the Eighth-Grade True Spirit Heaven. As Kong Wenxuan fueled the star’s ascent, the Household’s forces fought off waves of low-tier Demon Beasts and demonic birds.

• The Kong Household gathered most of its fighting strength on the Peacock True Spirit Star while Kong Changlan and others stayed behind to guard the Peacock County Seat.
• Kong Changgeng ordered the descendants and Peacock Dao Soldiers to form defensive lines around the star.
• Kong Wenxuan poured his Third Tier Purple Mansion Stage power and Third Tier Peacock Bloodline power into the Peacock True Spirit Star, beginning its ascent toward the Eighth-Grade True Spirit Heaven.
• Demon Beasts and demonic birds surged from the surrounding chaos to attack the ascending star.
• The Kong Household’s battle formations, Five Elements Divine Swords, talismans, and Peacock Dao Soldiers slew the attacking creatures as Kong Wenxuan continued fueling the ascent.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household defended the Peacock True Spirit Star during its advancement trial, first destroying waves of low-tier Demon Beasts and then confronting third-tier beasts and members of the Demon Race. The trial grew more dangerous as Kong Wenxuan trapped the third-tier beasts in his sword formation while the Lineage fought the Demon Race.

• The Kong Household and Peacock Dao Soldiers killed waves of first- and second-tier Demon Beast apparitions, whose starlight strengthened the Peacock True Spirit Star.
• A third-tier peacock Demon Beast overwhelmed the patriarch and the others, so Kong Wenxuan used his Five Elements Divine Swords to kill it.
• More third-tier Demon Beasts and members of the Demon Race appeared, revealing that the advancement trial was harder than Kong Wenxuan's Star Inlaying trial.
• Kong Wenxuan used the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation to trap and grind the third-tier Demon Beasts to death.
• Kong Changgeng, Kong Yushuo, Kong Yuyin and the Lineage forces fought the low-tier Demon Race, which proved harder to defeat than the Demon Beast cannon fodder.

During the Rank Advancement Trial, Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household fought waves of demons to advance the Peacock True Spirit Star. After Kong Wenxuan defeated a third-tier Peacock demon and rescued his family from its illusions, the star ascended into the Eighth-Grade True Spirit Heaven.

• The Kong Household used the Peacock Soul-Bewitching Scripture to trap and kill waves of low-ranking demons, whose starlight helped raise the Peacock True Spirit Star.
• A third-tier Peacock demon overwhelmed the Kong Household with illusion techniques and attacked them while they were helpless.
• Kong Wenxuan protected the cultivators with the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation and used his own illusion technique to awaken them.
• Kong Wenxuan transformed the formation into the Great Five Elements Sword Formation and killed the Peacock demon with its fifth Destruction Sword Light.
• The Peacock True Spirit Star absorbed the resulting stardust and ascended into the Eighth-Grade True Spirit Heaven.

The Kong Household’s Peacock True Spirit Star advanced to the Eighth-Grade True Spirit Heaven, making the Lineage an Eighth-Grade True Spirit Lineage and restoring its members’ strength. Kong Wenxuan warned that the Rank Advancement Trial continued, and new martial cultivators appeared to attack them.

• The Eighth-Grade Peacock True Spirit Star restored Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household members’ resources, healed their injuries, and strengthened them with its starlight.
• The Kong Household celebrated advancing to Eighth-Grade True Spirit, while Kong Changgeng thanked Kong Wenxuan for fulfilling generations of the Lineage’s dream.
• Kong Wenxuan explained that passing the trials against Demon Beasts and the Demon Race had only completed the basic stage and that more trials could make their star a superior Eighth-Grade star.
• Kong Changgeng ordered the Kong Household members to reform their ranks and prepare for the next trial.
• Armored martial cultivators wielding divine weapons appeared in the Eighth-Grade True Spirit Heaven and charged the Peacock True Spirit Star.

During the Rank Advancement Trial, the Kong Household faced martial cultivators manifested by the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram for the first time. Kong Wenxuan let his clansmen fight on their own so they could learn how to face the real invaders threatening the True Spirit Realm.

• The Kong Household members watched the strange martial cultivator figures appear and wondered about their forms and abilities.
• Crimson Fire Divine Swords struck the attackers, killing some but failing to penetrate the defenses of others.
• The Kong Household joined the fight with divine swords and talismans, then combined their Peacock Soul-Bewitching Scripture into an illusion attack.
• Kong Wenxuan withdrew his Great Five Elements Sword Formation and left the clansmen to fight without his guidance.
• Kong Wenxuan recognized that the trial was meant to prepare True Spirit Lineages for future invasions by martial cultivators and weapon cultivators from beyond their world.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household fought through successive waves of martial cultivators and other enemies in the Rank Advancement Trial, suffering devastating losses but ultimately raising the Peacock True Spirit Star to an Eighth-Grade Upper-Class True Spirit Star. Fewer than twenty Kong Household cultivators survived, and every Peacock Dao Soldier was lost, as the victors prepared to receive their glory.

• Kong Household cultivators were caught off guard when martial cultivators resisted their illusions and killed many of them, until Kong Yushuo formed two Lesser Five Elements Sword Formations to protect and rally the survivors.
• The Kong Household adapted and defeated the first- and second-tier martial cultivators, while Kong Wenxuan easily slew a third-tier Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivator with the Great Five Elements Sword Formation.
• When soldier cultivators charged in led by a third-tier general, Kong Wenxuan joined the battle; the Kong Household killed the attackers, but one Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation was destroyed and many clansmen and Peacock Dao Soldiers fell.
• Kong Wenxuan fought a third-tier sword cultivator while the remaining Kong Household forces battled an assortment of cultivators, eventually defeating them all at great cost.
• Fewer than twenty Kong Household cultivators survived and the Peacock Dao Soldiers were wiped out, but the survivors completed the trial and advanced the Peacock True Spirit Star to Eighth-Grade Upper-Class rank.

The Kong Household's Peacock True Spirit Star advanced to the eighth grade, drawing attention across Bifang Commandery. Governor Bi Zongcheng promptly secured Kong Wenxuan's promotion to eighth-grade magistrate and Peacock County's expansion, and Kong Wenxuan accepted the upgraded official seal.

• The Kong Household successfully advanced its Peacock True Spirit Star from the ninth grade to the eighth, stunning the factions of Bifang Commandery.
• Bi Zongcheng reflected on Kong Wenxuan's achievements and considered supporting the Kong Household despite its possible ties to the Central Domain and Azure Luan Luan Household.
• Bi Zongcheng used his governor's official seal to request that Peacock County become a middle county spanning three thousand li and that Kong Wenxuan be promoted to eighth-grade magistrate.
• Starlight descended into Kong Wenxuan's official seal, upgrading it and granting him authority over the expanded county.
• Kong Wenxuan learned that Bi Zongcheng had arranged his promotion and bowed in gratitude to the Vermilion Bird Constellation and Bifang Commandery City.

After the Kong Household celebrated its advancement to an Eighth-Grade True Spirit Lineage, Kong Wenxuan considered how to refine his Five Elements Divine Swords and advance his cultivation. He was summoned to receive Ya Zhaoying, whose visit marked the start of congratulations from other lineages.

• Kong Changgeng and Kong Wenxuan presided over the ancestral rite, and the Kong Household celebrated its new rank.
• Kong Wenxuan weighed refining the Black Water Divine Sword and Yellow Earth Divine Sword together with scarce third-tier Crystal Stone, which could take ten years or more.
• Kong Changgeng summoned Kong Wenxuan to receive Ya Zhaoying of the Fire Crow Ya Household, the first visitor to offer congratulations.
• Kong Wenxuan and Ya Zhaoying exchanged greetings and discussed their cultivation before the Kong Household arranged lodging for her party.
• Ya Zhaoying told the Kong Household that other Bifang Commandery lineages, including the Bifang True Spirit Bi Household, would likely send congratulations, so the Kong Household began preparing a banquet.