Recaps

Patriarch Kong Changgeng used Ten Thousand Laws Reach the Heavens to kill a Fourth Tier golden-eyed giant ape, then joined his tamed beasts to kill a wolf and an eagle. His Black Water Talisman Slip was badly damaged, so he left Kong Wenxuan to defend Demon-Suppressing Pass while he recovered and repaired it.

• The golden-eyed giant ape broke through Patriarch Kong Changgeng’s attacks while his Earth Dragon and Flame Sparrow engaged a wolf and an eagle.
• Patriarch Kong Changgeng used a Fourth Tier Gui Water Divine Lightning talisman to disrupt the giant ape, then trapped it in a Black Water Grand Formation.
• The formation unleashed Black Water Law Techniques, Law Treasures, and Spirit Pills until they broke the giant ape’s golden armor and killed it.
• Kong Wenxuan recognized the attack as Ten Thousand Laws Reach the Heavens, and Patriarch Kong Changgeng explained that his Third Tier Black Water Talisman Slip could not fully unleash the technique and was now severely damaged.
• Patriarch Kong Changgeng and his two tamed beasts killed the wolf and eagle, then he entrusted Demon-Suppressing Pass to Kong Wenxuan and went into seclusion to recover and repair the talisman slip.

Kong Wenxuan used his own battlefield merits to secure two months of cultivation in the Pseudo-Innate secret retreat, then entered the Myriad Fires All-Encompassing Origin-Fortifying Grand Array to refine the Crimson Fire Divine Sword. The chapter ended with him beginning his secluded cultivation on the array’s central fire island.

• During the Kong Household’s four-month watch at the Demon-Suppressing Pass, Kong Wenxuan slew Fourth Tier enemies and earned enough merits for two months in the Pseudo-Innate secret retreat.
• Kong Wenxuan declined to spend merits earned by Kong Changgeng, the clansmen, and servant cultivator lineages, preserving their ability to exchange for resources.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng comforted the returning cultivators and arranged support for the dead and wounded.
• Kong Wenxuan visited the Garrison Residence and asked True Person Bi Qingqing to arrange his entry into the secret retreat.
• Bi Qingqing verified Kong Wenxuan’s merits, activated the array’s subarray, and gave him a Bifang Jade Token to enter the retreat.
• Kong Wenxuan crossed the sea of fire to the array’s central fire island, sat down, and began refining the Crimson Fire Divine Sword with Nirvana Spirit Fire.

Kong Wenxuan cultivated in the Bi Household’s array core, where the fire-rich environment doubled his cultivation and sword-refinement speed. After leaving, he learned that the array came from an inheritance available only to middle-grade true spirit lineages, leaving him eager to earn merit points and advance his household.

• Kong Wenxuan refined the Crimson Fire Divine Sword with Nirvana Spirit Fire and found the array core’s extreme fire environment suited his cultivation without disrupting his Five Elements balance.
• After two months, Kong Wenxuan left the formation eye and estimated that his progress had been twice as fast as in an ordinary environment.
• Kong Wenxuan resolved to earn more merit points by slaying members of the Demon Race, Demon Beasts, and martial cultivators.
• Kong Wenxuan returned to the survey hall and discussed the benefits of the array with Bi Qingqing.
• Bi Qingqing explained that the Bi and Geng Households’ arrays came from the Myriad Phenomena Grand Array inheritance, which only middle-grade true spirit lineages governing a commandery could access.

Over three years, the Bi, Kong, and Ya Households kept the Mystic Crane Secret Realm battlefield under control while the wider invasion spread across the True Spirit Realm. The Shrike Lao Household distinguished itself in battle, switched allegiance to the Bifang Bi Household, and became a Ninth-Grade True Spirit Lineage, taking over Black Crane County as Shrike County.

• The Demon Race and martial cultivators pushed their invasion into the True Spirit Realm as battles in the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram largely ended.
• The Bi, Kong, and Ya Households repelled attempts to overwhelm Demon-Suppressing Pass, destroy the battlefield with arrays, and widen the rift to the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven.
• The servant-cultivator and ordinary bloodline families suffered heavy casualties but earned spoils and battlefield merit to exchange for resources from the Bi Household treasury.
• The Shrike Lao Household used its Heart of Slaughter bloodline ability to kill enemies in battle and earned the Bifang Bi Household's support.
• The Shrike Lao Household betrayed the Fire Crow Ya Household, joined the Bifang Bi Household, and succeeded in Star Inlaying with its help.
• The Shrike Lao Household took over fallen Black Crane County, renamed it Shrike County, and was left to establish its own Shrike Secret Realm.

After three years of war, the Kong and Ya Households had grown stronger, and Kong Wenxuan had nearly refined all the Fourth Tier Nirvana Spirit Fire needed to advance his Crimson Fire Divine Sword. The battlefield suddenly shifted when a Dijiang True Martial manifestation attacked and widened the rift to the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven, prompting Bi Yanhong to warn that they were in trouble.

• The Shrike Lao Household's Star Inlaying encouraged vassal and ordinary bloodline cultivators to join the war, stabilizing the battlefield and boosting morale.
• The Fire Crow Ya Household gained a third Golden Core True Person, while the Kong Household added two Purple Mansion cultivators and increased its numbers despite heavy casualties.
• Kong Wenxuan refined eight of nine portions of Fourth Tier Nirvana Spirit Fire and planned to earn more battle merits to advance his Crimson Fire Divine Sword.
• Kong Wenxuan returned to the map hall and spoke with True Person Bi Qingqing before sudden rumbling and tremors shook the Mystic Crane Secret Realm.
• Bi Qingqing activated the array to stabilize the secret realm as Kong Wenxuan saw a Dijiang True Martial manifestation tear open the rift to the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven.
• True Person Bi Yanhong identified the manifestation and warned that the enlarged rift would bring stronger enemies into the battlefield.

Dijiang martial cultivators widened the rift into the Mystic Crane Secret Realm, forcing Bifang Commandery to prepare for a battle of life and death. Two Nascent Soul True Lords arrived to defend the realm, and True Lord Bi Zongcheng’s Calamity Fire struck the Dijiang True Martial image.

• True Person Bi Yanhong explained that Dijiang martial cultivators had widened the rift and ordered every household to commit all available forces to the battlefield.
• Kong Wenxuan, Ya Zhaoying, and the others contacted their lineages to convey the conscription order, and cultivators across Bifang Commandery began mobilizing.
• Kong Changgeng agreed to lead the Kong Household clansmen in battle while Kong Wenxuan hunted Fourth Tier enemies alone, and the lineage gave him its Space-Breaking Talisman.
• True Lord Bi Zongcheng and another Nascent Soul cultivator from the Bi Household arrived from the Outer Heaven Battlefield, steadying the defenders’ morale.
• True Lord Bi Zongcheng used his feather fan Spirit Treasure to send Calamity Fire through the spatial defenses and strike the Dijiang True Martial image.

The enemies tore open the breach to the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven and poured into the Mystic Crane Secret Realm in overwhelming numbers. Kong Wenxuan and the other county leaders agreed to activate the Myriad Fires All-Encompassing Origin-Fortifying Grand Array as the battle escalated.

• True Lord Bi Zongcheng burned away the Dijiang True Martial form and the Dijiang cultivators who had summoned it.
• A Bi Household True Lord failed to retake the breach after a Fifth Tier martial cultivator and a Fifth Tier Demon Race member repelled her attack and tore the breach wider.
• A Fifth Tier Gonggong martial cultivator and a Fifth Tier black flood dragon led more than a hundred thousand enemies through the breach, including over a hundred Fourth Tier fighters.
• Kong Wenxuan recognized that Bifang Commandery's Golden Core cultivators were badly outnumbered, while True Lord Bi Zongcheng summoned the Commandery Governor's Official Seal to call down the Bifang True Spirit's Calamity Fire.
• The Bi Household requested that the counties activate the grand array, and Kong Wenxuan and Ya Xinghe activated the sub-arrays in Peacock County and Fire Crow County.
• The Bifang, Fire Crow, and Peacock True Spirits answered with their cries as a phoenix's cry rang out and a sea of fire descended.

The Bi Household’s Fifth Tier grand array trapped the invading forces in a sea of fire, but two Fifth Tier enemies unleashed their domains to suppress it. With the Bi Household True Lords engaging them and the fire restored, the invaders charged Demon-Suppressing Pass, where Bi Yanhong rallied the defenders to fight to the death.

• The Fifth Tier Gonggong martial cultivator unleashed a Great Flood, and the Fifth Tier black flood dragon added a domain attack that battered the sea of fire.
• True Lord Bi Zongcheng and the female True Lord joined their domains and sent their Bifang Dharma Idols against the attackers, then engaged the two Fifth Tier enemies directly.
• With the enemies occupied, the grand array’s flames surged back and attacked the invading Demon Race, Demon Beasts, and martial cultivators as they charged toward Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Bi Qingqing drew on the sea of fire to shield and stabilize the shaking pass.
• True Person Bi Yanhong ordered the defenders to stand and fight, and the cultivators answered, “Victory or death!”

The True Spirit Lineages and invading Demon Race and martial forces fought across the sea-of-fire battlefield outside Demon-Suppressing Pass. As the formations and troops clashed without either side gaining the upper hand, True Person Bi Yanhong promised double merits and fivefold compensation before leading a charge.

• Bifang True Spirits and other True Spirits scattered starlight that strengthened the True Spirit Lineages and their allies while suppressing the invading forces.
• True Person Bi Yanhong ordered the households’ flying boats and chariots to attack, and they met the Demon Race flying boats and True Martial Chariots outside the pass.
• The two sides’ flying boats and chariots exchanged attacks, while the invading Ten Thousand Demons Formations and True Martial Battle Formations advanced through the sea of fire toward Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Bi Qingqing and the other formation masters used the pass’s grand formation to defend the flame barrier and attack the enemy formations as the ground forces clashed beneath them.
• True Person Bi Yanhong promised double merits and fivefold compensation, then leaped from the city wall and led his forces toward a breached True Martial Battle Formation.

Kong Wenxuan changed to the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation after his individual sword attacks left him struggling against the enemies on the battlefield outside Demon-Suppressing Pass. By amplifying the Crimson Fire Divine Sword within the fire-filled Mystic Crane Secret Realm, he swept through enemy ranks and destroyed their formations and weapons of war.

• Kong Wenxuan found that fighting with the Five Elements Divine Swords separately left him vulnerable and unable to kill groups of Fourth Tier enemies quickly.
• Kong Wenxuan deployed the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation to contain selected enemies and protect himself from attacks by those outside it.
• Kong Wenxuan used the formation’s five-elements cycle and the surrounding flames to temporarily raise the Crimson Fire Divine Sword to the level of a Fourth Tier Law Treasure.
• Kong Wenxuan unleashed One Sword Gives Rise to Ten Thousand Laws, filling the formation with swift, sword-sharp flames that killed trapped Demon Beasts, members of the Demon Race, and martial cultivators.
• Kong Wenxuan charged through enemy ranks, cleaving apart Ten Thousand Demons Formations, True Martial Battle Formations, demon flying boats, and True Martial Chariots, then slaying those exposed within them.

Kong Wenxuan fought off an overwhelming encirclement by using the Peacock True Spirit’s illusion and his Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation to kill the Demon Race and Demon Beasts attacking him. He then used the Peacock County Magistrate’s Official Seal to control the sea of fire, trapping and destroying the remaining enemies before reinforcements could reach them.

• Eighteen Fourth Tier enemies, including a flying boat, a Gonggong War Chariot, formations, Demon Beasts, and martial cultivators, surrounded Kong Wenxuan and battered his Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation.
• Kong Wenxuan called upon the Peacock True Spirit Star and used the Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique to daze six unintelligent Fourth Tier Demon Beasts, briefly stabilizing his formation.
• Kong Wenxuan expanded his sword formation, killed three Fourth Tier members of the Demon Race, then drew in and slew the six Demon Beasts after they broke free of the illusion.
• Kong Wenxuan summoned the Peacock County Magistrate’s Official Seal and controlled the nearby sea of fire, cutting off the remaining enemies’ escape routes.
• Kong Wenxuan destroyed the Demon Race flying boat, Gonggong War Chariot, Ten Thousand Demons Formation, and True Martial Battle Formation, killing the enemies within before they could be rescued.

Kong Wenxuan used the sea of fire and his county magistrate's official seal to strengthen his sword formation, then destroyed the five-colored giant formed by five Fourth Tier Five Elements martial cultivators. As he nearly finished off the survivors, a Dijiang martial cultivator tore open the formation and two enemies escaped.

• Kong Wenxuan used the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation to kill most of the Fourth Tier enemies surrounding him.
• The five Fourth Tier Five Elements martial cultivators joined forces and formed a True Martial manifestation of a five-colored giant.
• Kong Wenxuan merged his official seal with the sword formation, drawing power from the sea of fire to withstand the giant's attack and trap it inside.
• Kong Wenxuan's flame sword formation shattered the five-colored giant and killed three of the five martial cultivators after their battle formation broke.
• A Dijiang martial cultivator tore through the flame sword formation, allowing the Gonggong martial cultivator and the Houtu martial cultivator to escape.

Kong Wenxuan struggled to defend himself against a Fourth Tier Dijiang martial cultivator who attacked through spatial rifts and remained hidden in space. With Bi Qingqing’s help, he used the sea of fire to expose and constrain the enemy, then killed him with his sword formation.

• The Fourth Tier Dijiang martial cultivator tore apart Kong Wenxuan’s Flame Sword Formation and attacked him with spatial rifts from changing positions.
• Kong Wenxuan repaired and maintained his sword formation under attack but could neither locate his opponent nor safely counterattack.
• Kong Wenxuan asked True Person Bi Qingqing to send him power from the sea of fire.
• Bi Qingqing mobilized the sea of fire, which warped the surrounding space and forced the Dijiang martial cultivator to reveal himself.
• Kong Wenxuan expanded his sword formation, broke through the Dijiang martial cultivator’s spatial defenses, and killed him.

After Kong Wenxuan slew a Fourth-Tier Dijiang martial cultivator, a Fifth-Tier Gonggong martial cultivator attacked him, but Bi Qingqing and the Bifang True Spirit Star helped protect him. With the threat halted and True Lord Bi Zongcheng gravely injuring the Gonggong cultivator, Kong Wenxuan unleashed his Flame Sword Formation and resumed killing Fourth-Tier enemies.

• Kong Wenxuan and Bi Qingqing slew the Fourth-Tier Dijiang martial cultivator on the sea of fire battlefield.
• A Fifth-Tier Gonggong martial cultivator sent a torrent of floodwaters down at Kong Wenxuan, and Bi Qingqing used the sea of fire to resist it.
• The Bifang True Spirit Star shielded Kong Wenxuan with three-colored starlight, stopping the floodwaters and letting him put away his Space-Breaking Talisman.
• True Lord Bi Zongcheng seized the Gonggong martial cultivator's distraction to gravely injure him.
• Kong Wenxuan used his Flame Sword Formation to slay fleeing Fourth-Tier Gonggong and Houtu martial cultivators, then continued attacking enemies across the battlefield.

Kong Wenxuan’s victories across the sea-of-fire battlefield weakened the Demon-Summoning Banner’s projection, allowing the Bifang True Spirit Star to suppress the Fifth Tier black flood dragon demon. The Bi Household’s female Nascent Soul cultivator defeated and killed him, leaving a Dao transformation phenomenon above the battlefield.

• Kong Wenxuan slew Fourth Tier enemies and destroyed enemy formations, vehicles, and flying boats, turning the battlefield’s advantage toward Bifang Commandery.
• Kong Wenxuan and the bloodline cultivators following him killed many demons and Demon Beasts, weakening the Demon-Summoning Banner’s projection.
• The Bifang True Spirit Star’s power reached the Fifth Tier black flood dragon demon, weakening his River Domain against the Bi Household’s female Nascent Soul cultivator’s Calamity Fire Domain.
• The Bi Household’s female Nascent Soul cultivator shattered the demon’s River Domain, bound him with her long silk ribbon Spirit Treasure, and struck his head with a Bifang-powered attack.
• The female Nascent Soul cultivator’s Calamity Fire destroyed the black flood dragon demon’s demon dwelling and demon embryo, killing him and producing a Dao transformation phenomenon.

After the fifth-tier black flood dragon demon fell, the remaining fifth-tier Gonggong martial cultivator tried to escape through the rift to the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven. True Lord Bi Zongcheng and the Bi Household’s female Nascent Soul True Lord cornered and killed him, leaving a second Dao-transformation phenomenon on the battlefield.

• The fifth-tier Gonggong martial cultivator detonated his great flood domain and Gonggong True Martial image to break through the sea of fire and flee toward the rift.
• The Bi Household’s female Nascent Soul True Lord sent her Bifang Dharma Idol to block the rift, but the cultivator’s desperate spear strike grievously wounded it and forced her to retreat.
• True Lord Bi Zongcheng caught up and used his Bifang Dharma Idol to trap the Gonggong martial cultivator in a Calamity Fire Domain.
• The Gonggong martial cultivator transformed into Gonggong True Martial and fought True Lord Bi Zongcheng, while the female Nascent Soul True Lord joined the attack.
• True Lord Bi Zongcheng blasted apart the Gonggong True Martial body and killed the fifth-tier Gonggong martial cultivator, triggering a second Dao-transformation phenomenon.

After the two Fifth Tier enemies fell, the Bi Household sealed the rift and helped the allied households defeat the remaining invaders. Kong Wenxuan rejoined the Kong Household and learned that Sixteenth Uncle Kong Yuqin had died defending Demon-Suppressing Pass.

• The Bifang True Spirit and the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram suppressed the rift and seized the Demon-Summoning Banner projection.
• True Lord Bi Zongcheng used Tricolor Calamity Fire to kill the remaining Fourth Tier enemies.
• True Person Bi Yanhong led the counterattack, and the cultivators of the various households charged onto the battlefield.
• The two Bi Household True Lords strengthened the seal on the rift while Kong Wenxuan returned to his household's contingent.
• Kong Wenxuan learned that Kong Yuqin had died and saw that the Kong Household and the other contingents had suffered heavy casualties.

After the battle at the Mystic Crane Secret Realm, Kong Wenxuan claimed first place in battle merit and exchanged all his rewards for time in the Bi Household’s secluded cultivation ground. There, he advanced the Crimson Fire Divine Sword to a Fourth Tier Law Treasure, giving him two Fourth Tier swords among his Five Elements Divine Swords.

• The Bi Household sealed and suppressed the rift to the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven, leaving it under their control while postponing any counterattack until the Golden Crow Imperial Dynasty could act.
• Kong Wenxuan had his battle merit tallied and ranked first among the participants, ahead of the Bi Household’s Golden Core True Persons.
• Kong Wenxuan exchanged all his merit for cultivation time in the pseudo-innate secluded cultivation ground, saving the excess time for other members of his Lineage.
• Five days later, the Bi Household held a victory celebration, compensated the dead and wounded, and ended the conscription order.
• Kong Wenxuan used the secluded cultivation ground to refine the final Nirvana Spirit Fire and Fire Sha Qi into the Crimson Fire Divine Sword, advancing it to a Fourth Tier Law Treasure.

After completing his cultivation and advancing the Crimson Fire Divine Sword, Kong Wenxuan arranged for his eldest uncle, Kong Yushuo, to use the array’s cultivation site and pursue the Golden Core Stage. He returned to Peacock County and saw the newly elevated Shrike Lao Household consolidating its control of Shrike County.

• Kong Wenxuan returned to Demon-Suppressing Pass with the advanced Crimson Fire Divine Sword and thanked Bi Qingqing for guarding the Mystic Crane Secret Realm.
• Kong Wenxuan urged Kong Yushuo to cultivate in the grand array’s core site so he could advance to the Golden Core Stage and strengthen the Kong Household.
• Kong Wenxuan escorted Kong Yushuo into the core array eye and asked Bi Qingqing to look after him.
• Kong Wenxuan flew toward Peacock County on the Crimson Fire Divine Sword, whose speed had increased after its advancement.
• Kong Wenxuan saw the Shrike Lao Household leading search parties through Shrike County, which it had received after reaching Ninth-Grade True Spirit Lineage status.

After the war, Kong Wenxuan returned to the Kong Household and learned how it planned to reward its servant cultivator Lineages and cultivate future subordinate bloodline Lineages. He spent half a year with his family and the Household before resuming secluded cultivation to prepare for a possible counteroffensive.

• Kong Wenxuan returned to the Peacock County Seat and learned that the Kong Household had rewarded and compensated its servant cultivator Lineages for their wartime service and losses.
• Kong Wenxuan met with Patriarch Kong Changgeng and the others, discussed the rewards and preparations for a possible counteroffensive, and told them about the Mystic Crane Secret Realm and his eldest uncle's secluded cultivation.
• Kong Wenxuan spent time with his parents, paid respects to fallen Household members, and guided young cultivators and newcomers in sword cultivation.
• After half a year of attending to family and Household affairs, Kong Wenxuan returned to the Peacock Secret Realm to refine swords and cultivate.
• Kong Wenxuan chose to refine the White Metal Divine Sword because of its killing power and its usefulness in the coming counteroffensive.

Kong Wenxuan refined the White Metal Divine Sword with Fourth-Tier Geng Metal while watching the Bi Household attempt to advance its True Spirit Lineage. The Bi Household passed the Fifth-Grade True Spirit Heaven’s advancement trial and became a Fifth-Grade True Spirit Lineage.

• Kong Wenxuan refined the White Metal Divine Sword with Geng Metal, aiming to raise it to a Fourth-Tier Law Treasure.
• Kong Wenxuan saw the Bi Household’s Bifang True Spirit Star begin rising toward the Fifth-Grade True Spirit Heaven.
• The Bifang True Spirit Star vanished into the chaotic void, beginning the Bi Household’s advancement assessment.
• Kong Wenxuan waited as the Bi Household faced the dangerous trial, which could involve a Sixth-Tier Spirit Transformation attack.
• Several days later, the Bifang True Spirit Star reappeared higher in the sky, and Kong Wenxuan realized the Bi Household had successfully advanced to a Fifth-Grade True Spirit Lineage.

After the Bi Household advanced to a Fifth-Grade True Spirit Lineage, Kong Wenxuan resumed his cultivation while his eldest uncle Kong Yushuo prepared to break through to the Golden Core Stage. Kong Yushuo overcame his Peacock Bloodline’s Demonic Nature Backlash and became the Kong Household’s third Golden Core True Person.

• The Bi Household celebrated its advancement, and Kong Wenxuan set aside its upcoming commandery-city feast to continue refining the White Metal Divine Sword.
• Kong Yushuo returned from seclusion with his cultivation and Peacock Bloodline at the Third-Tier limit, then spent a month resting and attending to family and Lineage affairs.
• Kong Yushuo climbed Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak, paid his respects at the Lineage cemetery and ancestral hall, and prepared to attempt the Golden Core Stage.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng guarded Kong Yushuo as he formed a Golden Core and faced the Peacock Bloodline’s Demonic Nature Backlash.
• The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit’s starlight suppressed and purified the backlash, and Kong Yushuo stabilized his Golden Core, becoming the Kong Household’s third Golden Core True Person.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household attended the Bi Household’s Fifth-Grade Rank Promotion Celebration, where the city’s festivities revealed how many lineages hoped to gain the Bi Household’s support. Despite the Kong Household’s rapid rise and its precedence over the Ya Household, it was seated in a corner as a Low-Grade True Spirit Lineage.

• Kong Changgeng led Kong Wenxuan, Kong Yushuo, and the others from Peacock Manor to the Bi Household’s celebration with congratulatory gifts.
• Kong Wenxuan observed the city’s open banquets and reflected on the glory the Bi Household enjoyed and the support it might offer aspiring lineages.
• Kong Wenxuan’s party arrived alongside Ya Xinghe’s party, and Ya Xinghe let the Kong Household enter first in recognition of its greater strength and rapid advancement.
• The Bi Household’s attendants received the Kong Household’s gifts and led its members to seats in a corner of the banquet.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household attended the Bi Household’s advancement celebration, where the Middle-Grade True Spirit Lineages of Extended Net Moon Deer Prefecture arrived to congratulate them. The Extended Net Moon Deer Lu Household then descended on starlight, and the assembled households welcomed them.

• Kong Wenxuan learned that the seven commanderies of Extended Net Moon Deer Prefecture were ruled by their respective True Spirit Lineages under the Fourth-Grade Lu Household.
• The Middle-Grade True Spirit Lineages arrived at the Bi Household’s celebration in order of rank, and Kong Wenxuan observed the households he had not seen before.
• The Chongming Ming Household arrived with gifts, and Kong Wenxuan saw its members’ Double Pupils, their bloodline ability.
• The Extended Net Moon Deer True Spirit Star appeared above Bifang Commandery City, and members of the Lu Household approached on its starlight.
• Bi Zongcheng led the Bi Household in greeting the Lu Household, and the gathered cultivators rose to welcome them.

At the Bi Household’s promotion celebration, Divine Lord Lu of the Lu Household presented twelve True Martial Blood Source Stones and then met with Divine Lord Bi Sitong. Kong Wenxuan attended the banquet and listened to Bi Sitong’s profound discourse, realizing that his Lower-Grade lineage could only glean fragments from the gathering.

• Divine Lord Lu arrived with the Lu Household delegation, raised the assembled guests, and gave the Bi Household twelve middle-grade True Martial Blood Source Stones as a reward and congratulatory gift.
• Divine Lord Lu went with Bi Qingyu to meet Grand Elder Bi Sitong, while True Lord Bi Zongcheng welcomed the rest of the Lu Household and began the celebration.
• Kong Wenxuan noticed He Household maidservants among those serving the banquet and reflected on the fallen lineage’s possible path back to prominence.
• Kong Wenxuan, Patriarch Kong Changgeng, and Kong Yushuo benefited from the Fifth- and Sixth-Tier food and drink served at the banquet.
• After the half-day banquet, Divine Lord Bi Sitong expounded on the Bi Household’s cultivation and the Great Dao of Fire, but Kong Wenxuan and other lower-tier guests struggled to understand the discourse.