Recaps

Kong Wenxuan successfully established the Peacock True Spirit Star, restoring the Kong Household to a Ninth-Grade True Spirit Lineage. After discovering that the Du Household was draining its servant lineages’ bloodline power, Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng worked to protect the clan’s cultivators while concealing their actions.

• Kong Wenxuan emerged from seclusion and told Kong Changgeng that he had successfully established the Peacock True Spirit Star.
• Kong Changgeng bowed to the star, received the Water Element True Scripture inheritance, and felt the Cuckoo True Spirit Star drawing on his bloodline power.
• Kong Wenxuan advised Kong Changgeng to have the clan’s cultivators draw the Peacock True Spirit Star’s projection into their bodies to protect their bloodlines.
• Kong Wenxuan explained that the ancestral star stone would let the projection deceive the Cuckoo True Spirit Star into thinking it was still draining the clan’s power.
• Kong Changgeng and Kong Wenxuan held ceremonies in the ancestral hall and summoned the cultivators in batches to draw the Peacock True Spirit Star’s projection into their bodies.
• The clan’s cultivators experienced renewed bloodline awakenings, changes to their peacock-feather abilities, and received Five Elements True Scripture inheritances.

Kong Wenxuan helped Kong Wenzhang, Kong Wenjun, and Kong Wenzhong awaken their Peacock bloodlines and inherit the Five Elements True Scripture, freeing them from the Du Household’s influence. As unrest spread through Cuckoo County and the Demon-Suppressing Pass faced an approaching demon tide, the Kong patriarch agreed to join other Lineages in confronting the Du Household, and Kong Wenxuan secured permission to accompany him.

• Kong Wenzhang, Kong Wenjun, and Kong Wenzhong drew the Peacock True Spirit Star’s power into themselves, awakened their bloodlines anew, and received the Five Elements True Scripture inheritance.
• Kong Wenzhang told Kong Wenxuan that rumors about the Du Household had spread throughout Cuckoo County, and servant-cultivator Lineages were resisting conscription and organizing to pressure the Du Household.
• Kong Wenzhang warned that the Demon-Suppressing Pass was likely to fall to the gathered demon tide, while the Kong patriarch advised the Kong cultivators to retreat if necessary and avoid openly challenging the Du Household.
• Kong Wenzhang, Kong Wenjun, and Kong Wenzhong returned to the Demon-Suppressing Pass after removing the Cuckoo Star True Spirit projections from their bodies.
• Three days later, the Kong patriarch agreed to accompany other servant-cultivator Lineages to the Cuckoo County seat, and Kong Wenxuan persuaded him to let him come by defeating him with the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation.

Kong Wenxuan and Patriarch Kong Changgeng joined the servant-cultivator lineages gathered to negotiate with the Cuckoo Du Household, where the Shrike Lao Household revealed it had enlisted the powerful Fire Crow Ya Household. The Ya Household promised to free the lineages and punish the Du Household, but Kong Wenxuan suspected its intervention might bring new danger and feared one female cultivator had seen through his disguise.

• Kong Wenxuan and Patriarch Kong Changgeng arrived at the gathering north of Cuckoo County City, where more than thirty servant-cultivator lineages had assembled.
• Patriarch Kong Changgeng greeted Patriarch Lao and explained that he had brought only Kong Wenxuan because the Kong Household was not suited to fighting.
• Patriarch Lao introduced five cultivators from the Eighth-Grade Fire Crow Ya Household, which he had invited to support the lineages in negotiations with the Cuckoo Du Household.
• The scarlet-haired Ya Household leader promised to force the Du Household to lift its bloodline ability and report it to the imperial court, earning cheers from the gathered lineages.
• Kong Wenxuan and Patriarch Kong Changgeng praised the Ya Household publicly but privately worried its intervention could replace one oppressor with another.
• Kong Wenxuan suspected a female Ya Household cultivator was at the Purple Mansion Stage and had noticed his concealed Foundation Establishment cultivation.

Forty-three servant-cultivator Lineages gathered to pressure the Du Household, but its silence and the closed outposts made cautious leaders suspect a trap. As the crowd entered Cuckoo County City, several Lineages and even the Lao and Ya Households fell back, leaving Kong Wenxuan stunned by how many people were wary.

• Representatives from forty-three Lineages assembled near Cuckoo County City, demanding that the Du Household undo The Cuckoo Occupies the Magpie's Nest and provide compensation.
• The Du Household ignored the gathering, and its fortified outposts remained closed behind activated protective formations.
• Patriarch Kong Changgeng urged the Lao Household patriarch to investigate the outposts, but Patriarch Feng rallied the crowd to press into the city.
• Kong Changgeng warned Kong Wenxuan to watch their escape route, and the two slowed down as several Lineages fell behind.
• After entering the city, the Lao and Ya Households also joined the rear group, leaving Kong Wenxuan surprised by the number of cautious people.

Kong Wenxuan and the servant lineages entered Cuckoo County to pressure the Du Household, only to discover the gathering was a trap aimed at the Fire Crow Ya Household. Du Yuxian activated the Cuckoo Household’s array, transporting everyone into the Cuckoo Secret Realm.

• Du Yuxian confronted the assembled servant lineages with hundreds of tamed birds, silencing their demands.
• The Feng Household and several other servant lineages knelt before Du Yuxian and revealed they had brought the others into town on the Du Household’s instructions.
• Kong Wenxuan realized the Du Household had orchestrated the gathering and retreated toward the town gate with Kong Changgeng.
• Du Yuxian revealed that the Fire Crow Ya Household was the gathering’s true target, while the servant lineages were merely bait.
• The Fire Crow Ya Household’s leader challenged Du Yuxian, who declared the Du Household would rise to Eighth-Grade status by defeating them.
• Du Yuxian activated the array, and the Cuckoo True Spirit appeared as the assembled cultivators were transported from Cuckoo County into the Cuckoo Secret Realm.

The Du Household trapped the servant-cultivator Lineages and the Fire Crow Ya Household inside the Cuckoo Secret Realm, revealing its three legions and its plan to eliminate the servant-cultivator Lineages. Ya Zhaoying answered with the Fire Crow Ya Household’s Fire Crow Clone ability, and Du Yuxian began summoning the Du Household’s trump card.

• Kong Wenxuan and the others entered the Cuckoo Secret Realm and found themselves surrounded by the Cuckoo Dao Soldier Legion, the Cuckoo True Spirit Legion, and the Beast-Taming Legion.
• Du Yuxian admitted that the Du Household intended to use a Demon Beast attack to conceal its destruction of the servant-cultivator Lineages, prompting many of them to surrender.
• Ya Zhaoying confronted Du Yuxian and formed hundreds of Fire Crow Clones with the four other Fire Crow Ya Household members, turning the standoff into a battle between the two True Spirit Lineages.
• Kong Changgeng pulled Kong Wenxuan back as the servant-cultivator groups tried to avoid the looming fight.
• Du Yuxian recognized Ya Zhaoying and sent a Law Seal south, calling out, “A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix, rise!”

Du Yuxian activated the forbidden A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix ritual in the Cuckoo Secret Realm, intending to sacrifice every other lineage and elevate the Du Household’s Cuckoo True Spirit. As the victims’ bloodlines were drawn into the Phoenix Terrace, Ya Zhaoying urged the survivors to fight back against the Du Household.

• Du Yuxian activated the formation, raising a Phoenix Terrace whose carvings showed the servant-cultivator Lineages paying homage to a cuckoo.
• Ya Zhaoying accused Du Yuxian of practicing a forbidden technique, and he admitted he intended to kill everyone in the secret realm and use their bloodlines to advance the Du Household.
• The Cuckoo True Spirit descended and caused the servant Lineages’ bloodline power to be torn from their bodies and drawn into the Phoenix Terrace.
• The Feng Household, Lin Household, and other Lineages that had betrayed their peers cried out as the Du Household sacrificed them too.
• Ya Zhaoying revealed that the Du Household had planned to sacrifice every outside lineage, including the Fire Crow Ya Household, and urged the survivors to fight back.

Du Yuxian activated the forbidden A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix technique, using the servant-cultivator lineages’ blood to strengthen the Cuckoo True Spirit and attack the Fire Crow Ya Household. As Ya Zhaoying’s forces became trapped in a stalemate with the Du Household, Kong Wenxuan finally moved against the Cuckoo Dao Soldier Legion.

• Du Yuxian used the Phoenix Terrace to draw bloodline power from the servant-cultivator lineages and ordered the Cuckoo Secret Realm’s formations to suppress the Fire Crow Ya Household.
• Ya Zhaoying and four Ya Household cultivators formed Fire Crow Grand Formations, holding off the giant net and the Du Household’s three legions.
• Du Yuxian sent the transforming Cuckoo True Spirit to attack Ya Zhaoying and the four Foundation Establishment cultivators, whose defenses began to crack.
• Ya Zhaoying urged the surviving servant-cultivator lineage members to attack the Du Household and destroy the forbidden technique’s formation.
• Kong Wenxuan protected himself and Kong Changgeng from the cuckoo birds, then shouted for an attack and sent the Five Elements Divine Swords toward the nearest Cuckoo Dao Soldier Legion.

Kong Wenxuan shattered the Cuckoo Dao Soldier Legion with his Five Elements Divine Swords, while Patriarch Kong Changgeng used his new Black Peacock illusion to turn the Du Household’s Beast-Taming Legion against itself. Both legions collapsed, leaving Ya Zhaoying’s Fire Crow Clones free to press their assault.

• Kong Wenxuan’s Crimson Fire Divine Sword breached the Cuckoo Dao Soldier Legion’s formation, and his other four swords slaughtered its ranks.
• Kong Wenxuan killed several Second Tier Cuckoo Dao Soldiers and scattered the rest of the legion.
• Patriarch Kong Changgeng summoned his Black Peacock Bloodline Divine Ability and unleashed Peacock Spreads Its Tail on the Du Household’s tamed birds.
• The illusion made the tamed birds attack one another and their handlers, collapsing the Beast-Taming Legion and leaving it unable to resist Ya Zhaoying’s Fire Crow Clones.

Kong Wenxuan suspected Ya Zhaoying had a hidden purpose when she withdrew her Fire Crow Clones, while the Du Household attacked the Kong Household. Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng revealed that their household had successfully star-inlaid the Peacock True Spirit Star, and Du Yuxian ordered five Foundation Establishment cultivators to kill them as he began a breakthrough of his own.

• Ya Zhaoying recalled her Fire Crow Clones to the battle formation, and Kong Wenxuan suspected she had another purpose.
• Du Yuxian directed the Cuckoo True Spirit Star to attack Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng, but projections of the Peacock True Spirit Star appeared and blocked its light.
• The Du Household and servant cultivators realized the Kong Household had succeeded in star inlaying, and the surviving servant cultivators cheered while the Du Household grew furious and afraid.
• Du Yuxian summoned Du Zhimin, Du Zhihuan, Du Zikai, Du Ziting, and Du Ziying to attack the two Kong Household members with their tamed beasts.
• As the five Du Household cultivators charged, Du Yuxian sat on the Phoenix Terrace and began absorbing its flames, spiritual light, and bloodlight to prepare for a breakthrough.

Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng fought to hold off the Du Household’s Starlight Cuckoo-possessed beasts while the forbidden ritual continued. Du Yuxian completed his breakthrough on the Phoenix Terrace and announced that he had reached the Purple Mansion Stage.

• Kong Wenxuan used the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation with Kong Changgeng’s illusion technique to kill three Second Tier flying beasts.
• The Du Household cultivators empowered their remaining beasts with Starlight Cuckoos, whose starlight protection blunted the sword formation and resisted Kong Changgeng’s illusions.
• Kong Wenxuan shifted the formation from offense to defense, protecting himself and Kong Changgeng from the beasts and the Du Household cultivators.
• Kong Changgeng offered to use the Kong Household’s Space-Breaking Talisman to escape, but Kong Wenxuan instead questioned him about Purple Mansion cultivators and Ya Zhaoying’s strength.
• Du Yuxian rose on the Phoenix Terrace as purple qi gathered at his brow and announced that he had reached the Purple Mansion Stage.

Du Yuxian broke through to the Purple Mansion Realm and tried to seize the gathered clans, but Ya Zhaoying revealed that she had been concealing her strength and turned the battle against the Du Household. With the Ya Household’s help, Kong Wenxuan joined the assault and killed Du Zikai.

• Du Yuxian credited the Ya and Kong Households with forcing him to break through, then declared he would capture them and use their bloodlines for his ritual.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng considered using their Space-Breaking Talisman to retreat as Du Yuxian’s Purple Mansion pressure threatened their formation.
• Ya Zhaoying revealed her Fire Crow Clones’ true power, destroyed the ritual’s formation and Cuckoo True Spirit, and suppressed Du Yuxian.
• Ya Zhaoying’s four Foundation Establishment allies attacked the Du Household forces, while her third uncle urged the Kong Household to join them.
• Kong Changgeng chose to stay, and Kong Wenxuan turned the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation against Du Zikai.
• Kong Wenxuan’s sword formation broke Du Zikai’s defenses and killed him.

After Kong Wenxuan killed Du Zikai, he countered Du Ziting’s Beast Soul Scroll with the Peacock Soul-Bewitching Scripture and the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation. Du Ziting’s talismans broke the formation, but Kong Wenxuan escaped on the Crimson Fire Divine Sword and charged toward him.

• Kong Wenxuan killed Du Zikai, freeing the three Second-Tier avian beasts, which attacked the remaining Du Household cultivators.
• Du Ziting confronted Kong Wenxuan and unleashed beast souls from his Beast Soul Scroll.
• Kong Wenxuan’s peacock illusion drove the beast souls into a frenzy, and his Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation killed many of them and damaged the scroll.
• Du Ziting used starlight to protect and revive the remaining beast souls, then bombarded Kong Wenxuan’s sword formation with Second-Tier lightning and fire talismans until it broke.
• Kong Wenxuan rode the Crimson Fire Divine Sword out of the beast souls’ encirclement and attacked Du Ziting with the White Metal Divine Sword.

Kong Wenxuan killed Du Ziting and helped Kong Changgeng defeat Du Zhimin while Ya Zhaoying gained the upper hand against Du Yuxian. Du Yuxian fell and merged with the Cuckoo True Spirit to become a false phoenix, but Ya Zhaoying transformed into a fire crow and tore him apart.

• Kong Wenxuan broke through Du Ziting's defenses with his divine swords and killed him, then collected the spoils and remaining Demon Beast souls.
• Kong Wenxuan assessed the other battles and saw that Ya Zhaoying was suppressing Du Yuxian while Kong Changgeng kept Du Zhimin occupied.
• Kong Wenxuan used the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation to kill Du Zhimin and support Kong Changgeng.
• Du Yuxian, driven into desperation, merged with the Cuckoo True Spirit and fell to become a false phoenix.
• Ya Zhaoying merged with her three hundred Fire Crow Clones, transformed into a fire crow, and tore the false phoenix in half.

After Du Yuxian and the Cuckoo True Spirit were destroyed, the Cuckoo True Spirit Star fell and the Cuckoo Secret Realm began collapsing. Kong Wenxuan abandoned the pursuit of the fleeing Du Household and claimed a resource-rich mountain range for the Kong Household with the Peacock True Spirit Star.

• Ya Zhaoying killed Du Yuxian and the false phoenix, then used an array to enclose the phoenix blood being refined from its remains.
• The Cuckoo True Spirit Star shattered, causing the Cuckoo Secret Realm to collapse and destroying resource sites and killing cultivators caught in the spreading cracks.
• The surviving Du Household cultivators fled the secret realm, while the Ya Household used the Fire Crow True Spirit Star to protect and claim its resources.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng stopped pursuing the Du Household and began seeking a resource site for the Kong Household to claim.
• Kong Changgeng pointed out a mountain range containing a dark iron ore vein, Spirit Plants, and spirit springs, and Kong Wenxuan used the Peacock True Spirit Star to suppress and claim it.

As the Cuckoo Secret Realm collapsed, Kong Wenxuan and Patriarch Kong Changgeng secured a resource-rich mountain range under the Peacock True Spirit Star’s protection. They rescued five cultivators from the Yan and Ma Households, while more than thirty survivors sought refuge with the Ya Household, and Kong Wenxuan remained suspicious of Ya Zhaoying.

• The Kong Household used the Peacock True Spirit Star projection to protect a mountain range, and the Ya Household let them claim it while seizing other territory.
• Patriarch Kong Changgeng found First Tier black iron, Second Tier red copper and spirit water, and First and Second Tier Spirit Plants in the mountains.
• The Cuckoo True Spirit Star fell and shattered, causing the secret realm’s final collapse and leaving only areas protected by True Spirit Star projections safe.
• Survivors from the servant cultivator households begged the Ya Household or Kong Household for protection; the Ya Household sheltered more than thirty, while Kong Changgeng rescued Yan Zhiyu, three Yan Household cultivators, and one cultivator from the Ma Household.
• Yan Zhiyu told Kong Wenxuan that the Yan and Ma Households trusted the Kong Household and believed it needed their support, and Kong Wenxuan grew more doubtful of Ya Zhaoying.

After the Cuckoo Secret Realm was destroyed, Ya Zhaoying claimed the ruined Cuckoo County City for the Fire Crow Ya Household and began relief efforts. Kong Wenxuan learned that a Demon Beast tide had overrun Demon-Suppressing Pass and was approaching Peacock Ridge, so he hurried home with the Kong, Yan, and Ma Households.

• Ya Zhaoying used her Fire Crow clones and Purple Mansion might to suppress looters, claimed Cuckoo County City for the Ya Household, and renamed it Cuckoo Town.
• Ya Zhaoying ordered her household and its servant-cultivator Lineages to rescue survivors and restore order in the city.
• Kong Changgeng received messages from Kong Wenzhang reporting that Demon-Suppressing Pass had fallen and a Demon Beast group was heading for Peacock Ridge.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng boarded their Feather Boat with the Yan and Ma Households and left for Peacock Ridge.
• Ya Zhaoying told Kong Wenxuan that the Ya Household's forces would handle the beast tide and promised to introduce him to the commandery governor after the crisis.

Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng returned to Peacock Ridge as a beast tide besieged the Kong Household’s ancestral home, and they helped turn the battle against the attackers. The siege renewed when four Second Tier wolf demons arrived, and Lang Jitong declared that he intended to destroy the Kong Household in revenge for the Gray Wolf Lang Household’s losses.

• Kong Wenxuan and the others saw the Kong Household’s protective formation using the Peacock True Spirit Star to resist the beast tide at Peacock Ridge.
• Kong Changgeng signaled the clansmen with a black peacock, and the defenders intensified their counterattack.
• Kong Wenxuan, Kong Changgeng, Yan Zhiyu, and the other cultivators attacked the beast tide, killing many Demon Beasts and nearly scattering the horde.
• A wolf’s howl rallied the beast tide, and four Second Tier wolf demons appeared behind it.
• Lang Jitong spoke to Kong Wenxuan, blamed the Kong Household for the Gray Wolf Lang Household’s ruin, and vowed to destroy Peacock Ridge in revenge.

Kong Wenxuan learned that the intelligent Demon Race was real and that its members could use Bloodline Divine Abilities and Spirit Artifacts. As the battle began, he attacked Lang Jitong and discovered that the wolf demon’s defenses could withstand his swords.

• Kong Changgeng explained that the Demon Race was an intelligent enemy the True Spirit Lineages were expected to hunt, though the Kong Household had never encountered one before.
• Lang Jitong led three Second-Tier wolf demons in an attack on the Feather Boat and threatened to consume the Kong Household and sacrifice its Peacock True Spirit.
• Kong Wenxuan assigned Kong Changgeng and Patriarch Yan to hold off the three beasts while he leapt from the boat to fight Lang Jitong.
• Kong Wenxuan’s Crimson Fire Divine Sword struck Lang Jitong’s bronze-and-iron body but failed to pierce his Bloodline Divine Ability.
• Kong Wenxuan’s White Metal Divine Sword also failed to kill Lang Jitong after a bronze-and-iron Spirit Artifact blocked its strike.

Kong Wenxuan fought the wolf demon Lang Jitong, whose Spirit Artifacts and defenses resisted the Five Elements Divine Swords and their formation. Kong summoned the Peacock True Spirit Star to strengthen the formation, which suppressed and killed Lang Jitong.

• Lang Jitong attacked Kong Wenxuan with his Bronze and Iron Great Seal, but the Yellow Earth Divine Sword knocked it aside.
• Kong Wenxuan used the Azure Wood and Black Water Divine Swords to attack, but Lang Jitong’s Spirit Armor and Bloodline Divine Ability blocked them.
• Lang Jitong unleashed more Second Tier Spirit Artifacts, forcing Kong to defend with the Yellow Earth Divine Sword.
• Kong used four divine swords to cast reinforcing illusions, then trapped Lang Jitong in the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation.
• The formation could not penetrate Lang Jitong’s defenses, so Kong drew power from the Peacock True Spirit Star to strengthen it.
• The star’s projection suppressed Lang Jitong, dispelled his Bloodline Divine Ability, and allowed the formation to tear him apart.

Kong Wenxuan killed Lang Jitong and the remaining Second Tier wolf demons, breaking the beast tide’s siege of the Kong Household’s ancestral lands. He then escorted Yan Zhiyu and a Ma Household cultivator to check their Lineages, leaving the Ma Household grieving its losses.

• Kong Wenxuan used the Peacock True Spirit Star’s power to suppress and kill Lang Jitong, then joined Kong Changgeng and Yan Zhiyu in killing the remaining wolf demons.
• Kong Wenxuan, Kong Changgeng, and Yan Zhiyu slaughtered the First Tier Demon Beasts attacking Peacock Ridge, routing the beast tide.
• Kong Changgeng sent Kong Wenxuan to escort Yan Zhiyu and the Ma Household cultivator to their ancestral lands and help defend them if needed.
• Kong Wenxuan flew with Yan Zhiyu and the Ma Household cultivator to Swallow Dock, where they killed the scattered Demon Beasts attacking the Yan Household.
• Yan Zhiyu confirmed that the Yan Household had suffered no significant casualties, then accompanied Kong Wenxuan to Sparrow Ridge.
• The group found Sparrow Ridge untouched by the beast tide, and the Ma Household cultivator hurried inside to report the deaths of more than ten members who had gone to Cuckoo County.

Kong Wenxuan returned the Yan Household head to Swallow Dock before reporting to Peacock Ridge, where the Kong Household learned how Demon-Suppressing Pass had fallen and that the Demon Beast tide still threatened Cuckoo County. He proposed joining the “Fire Crow” Ya Household’s forces to fight the invaders and help the Kong Household expand its territory.

• Kong Wenxuan escorted Yan Zhiyu to Swallow Dock, where the Yan Household members thanked him and acknowledged him as their master.
• Kong Wenxuan returned to Peacock Ridge, where the Kong Household had survived the wolf demons’ attack without major losses.
• Kong Wenzhang and the others explained that the Du cultivators and legions had disappeared from Demon-Suppressing Pass before the Demon Beast tide overran it.
• Kong Wenxuan concluded that members of the Demon Race were directing attacks across Cuckoo County and that the crisis remained unresolved.
• Kong Wenxuan proposed meeting the “Fire Crow” Ya Household’s legion, joining its campaign against the invaders, and using the effort to help the Kong Household expand its territory.

Kong Wenxuan led a Kong Household squad to patrol the area around Peacock Ridge before joining the Ya Household in fighting the Demon Beast tide. At the ruined Feng Household ancestral lands, they found signs that the intelligent Demon Race had accompanied the beasts, and set out to trace the threat.

• Patriarch Kong Changgeng agreed to Kong Wenxuan's expedition plan and arranged for Third Aunt Kong Yuyin, Kong Wenzhang, and the service squad to accompany him.
• Kong Changgeng contacted the Ya Household, warned it that the Demon Race was directing the Demon Beast tide, and received an invitation to meet in Cuckoo County City.
• Kong Wenxuan piloted the Feather Boat on a patrol around Peacock Ridge and nearby lands, clearing scattered Demon Beasts before reaching Hummingbird Forest.
• Kong Wenxuan and his squad found the Feng Household settlement and ancestral hall destroyed, with no bodies left among the ruins.
• Kong Wenxuan ordered the squad to search for the Demon Beast tide's trail; their discovery that useful resources had been removed suggested Demon Race members had searched the Feng Household lands.

Kong Wenxuan and his companions pursued the Demon Beast tide from the Feng Household’s ancestral grounds and found it besieging the Lark Yun Household. They discovered that the Demon Race was holding ordinary Feng people captive, prompting Kong Wenxuan to suspect it planned to create more demons.

• Kong Wenxuan followed the Demon Beast tide’s tracks away from the Kong, Yan, and Ma Households’ ancestral grounds, wondering why the Demon Race had avoided them.
• Kong Wenxuan and his companions caught up with the tide at night as it attacked the Lark Yun Household’s Lark Peak.
• Kong Wenxuan searched for the Demon Race member controlling the tide while the Yun Household’s remaining cloud defenses neared collapse.
• Kong Wenxuan and the others spotted several hundred ordinary Hummingbird Feng Household members being guarded by Demon Beasts near Lark Peak.
• Kong Yuyin explained that an intelligent Demon Race member must have ordered the captives spared, and Kong Yuluo suggested they were being taken to cultivate more members of the Demon Race.

Kong Wenxuan exposed a fox demon hiding among the beasts holding the Feng Household members and fought off its attacks. After the fox’s illusions vanished, he uncovered a second demon in ambush and realized the encounter was a trap aimed at the Kong Household.

• Kong Wenxuan suspected a red fox among the beasts and attacked it with the Crimson Fire Divine Sword.
• The red fox revealed its defensive Spirit Artifact and transformed into a fox demon, confirming Kong Wenxuan’s suspicion.
• The fox demon attacked the Feather Boat with foxfire, then fled through multiple illusions while commanding the Demon Beast tide to charge.
• Kong Wenxuan used the Feather Boat’s peacock illusion to dispel the fox demon’s false figures, but could not find its real body.
• Kong Wenxuan sensed a ripple beside the Feather Boat and struck at it with the Yellow Earth Divine Sword, revealing a chameleon demon in spirit armor.
• Kong Wenxuan realized that two Second Tier Demon Race members had set a trap for the Kong Household.