Recaps

Kong Wenxuan met with Ya Zhaoying, who identified the suspected Demon Race member at Flying Peak as the escaped Third Tier Earth Dragon and invited the Kong Household to join the Ya Household’s expedition. The Kong Household tentatively chose Flying Peak for its territory and began preparing for the campaign, while keeping open the possibility of abandoning the site if the operation went badly.

• A visitor from the Garrison Residence summoned Kong Wenxuan to meet Ya Zhaoying.
• Ya Zhaoying heard Kong Wenxuan’s account of Flying Peak and concluded the demon there was likely the escaped Third Tier Earth Dragon Demon Race member.
• Ya Zhaoying invited Kong Wenxuan to join the Ya Household’s army when it set out for Flying Peak in three days.
• Kong Wenxuan told Kong Yushuo that the Kong Household would consider claiming Flying Peak after the campaign, depending on its outcome.
• Kong Wenxuan asked Kong Yushuo to return to Peacock Ridge for the formations needed to defend their potential territory.

Patriarch Kong Changgeng and Second Elder Kong Changlan joined Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo at Demon-Suppressing Pass to help prepare for the Ya Household’s campaign and the possible occupation of Flying Peak. After examining the rumors and likely enemy plans, the Kong Household prepared to rely on the Ya Household’s own precautions while focusing on its own people.

• Kong Yushuo returned to Peacock Ridge, then came back to Demon-Suppressing Pass with Patriarch Kong Changgeng and Second Elder Kong Changlan.
• Kong Changgeng explained that he had come to assess the complicated situation and help the Kong Household claim and develop Flying Peak if the Ya Household cleared it.
• Kong Changlan said she had studied formations for three years and had already planned how to arrange one on Flying Peak’s five peaks.
• The four Kong cultivators discussed rumors and concluded that the hidden hand might be the Cuckoo Du Household or the Demon Race, seeking to attack Flying Peak or draw defenders away from Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Kong Wenxuan reasoned that the Ya Household had likely anticipated the danger and made its own preparations, so he focused on protecting the Kong Household.

Kong Wenxuan traveled with the Ya Household’s army to Flying Peak, where they discovered a vast spirit medicine garden guarded by Demon Beasts. Kong Changlan regretted that the Kong Household had not claimed it earlier, but Kong Changgeng warned that the garden was beyond their strength to hold.

• Kong Wenxuan reflected on the danger of leaving Demon-Suppressing Pass and Cuckoo Town lightly defended, while trusting the Ya Household’s plans and his Lineage’s preparations.
• Kong Changgeng had Kong Yujin and Kong Yuyin strengthen the defenses at Peacock Ridge before the army departed.
• After five days of travel, the Ya Household’s army and the Kong Household reached Flying Peak and saw its spirit medicine garden, including rare plants and a section already ruined by Demon Beasts.
• Kong Changlan and Kong Yushuo regretted that the Kong Household had not investigated and claimed Flying Peak sooner.
• Kong Changgeng said the Kong Household could not defeat the creatures guarding the garden or safely keep such wealth, and Kong Changlan admitted his success in Foundation Establishment had left his heart troubled.

Ya Zhaoying arrived at Flying Peak with the Ya Household’s army and organized a cautious, step-by-step assault on the mountains around the spirit medicine garden. Kong Wenxuan accepted the Kong Household’s task of clearing the eastern mountain and returned to plan how to kill or capture all the Demon Beasts there.

• The Ya Household’s army arrived at Flying Peak, where cultivators and Demon Beasts gathered around the spirit medicine garden.
• Ya Zhaoying found no sign of a Third Tier Demon Race member but suspected an ambush, so she ordered the four surrounding mountains cleared before advancing on Flying Peak.
• Ya Zhaoying assigned two mountains to the Ya Household, the eastern mountain to the Kong Household, and the western mountain to the cultivators below.
• Ya Zhaoying sent Ya Xingqu to tell the cultivators they had to clear the western mountain or leave the area.
• Kong Wenxuan returned to the Kong Household’s Peacock Feather Boat to plan how to clear the eastern mountain without letting any Demon Beasts escape.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household prepared to clear the eastern peak while preserving its resources, and chose to use an illusion array to trap its Demon Beasts and demon birds. The array covered the entire peak, leaving its inhabitants silent and many asleep as the attack began.

• Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household agreed to clear the eastern peak using Kong Changlan's plan to trap its inhabitants in an illusion array.
• The Ya Household's forces headed for the northern and southern peaks while other cultivators converged on the western peak; Ya Zhaoying stayed near Flying Peak.
• At Ya Zhaoying's command, the groups attacked all four surrounding peaks at once.
• Kong Changgeng, Kong Changlan, Kong Yushuo, and Kong Wenxuan landed on the eastern peak, where Kong Changlan set up the illusion array.
• Kong Changlan invoked the Peacock True Spirit Star, and the array's illusion spread across the eastern peak, trapping its Demon Beasts and demon birds and putting many to sleep.

Second Elder Kong Changlan used the illusion array to put the Demon Beasts and Demon Birds on the eastern peak to sleep, allowing Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo to slaughter them with their divine swords. The eastern peak was nearly cleared without a fight, while battles continued on the other three peaks.

• Kong Changlan expanded the illusion array across the mountain and sent its Demon Beasts and Demon Birds into an enchanted sleep, while Kong Changgeng stood ready to take over.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo split up and descended the eastern peak, attacking the sleeping creatures with their divine swords.
• Kong Yushuo used his Crimson Fire Divine Sword to kill the creatures before its thunderclaps could give them time to resist.
• Kong Wenxuan deployed all five Five Elements Divine Swords, using the White Metal Divine Sword to kill tough and Second Tier targets and keeping the Yellow Earth Divine Sword beside him for protection.
• The eastern peak remained quiet as the swords slaughtered its sleeping creatures, while fighting continued on the other peaks and the western peak's bloodline cultivators focused on gathering resources.

Kong Wenxuan fought his way up the eastern peak while the Five-Colored Peacock’s illusion put most of its beasts to sleep, then realized the Demon Race was controlling some attackers. He kept his defenses intact rather than expose himself to draw the hidden enemies out, leaving their location unknown.

• The Five-Colored Peacock spread its starlight illusion across the eastern peak, and Kong Wenxuan advanced halfway up the mountain.
• Four second-tier demonic birds attacked Kong Wenxuan; he killed them with the White Metal Divine Sword after the Yellow Earth Divine Sword blocked their strikes.
• Kong Wenxuan concluded that the surviving birds were being controlled by hidden members of the Demon Race.
• The cries of the birds woke nearby Demon Beasts and demonic birds, which charged at Kong Wenxuan as he used the Five Elements Divine Swords to cut them down.
• Kong Wenxuan realized his strength and defenses gave the hidden Demon Race no chance to attack, but refused to lower his guard to lure them out.

Kong Wenxuan learned that a Second-Tier Cuckoo Demon had broken the illusion array and that the fallen Du Household was likely behind the attacks on the Kong and Ya Households. As the Demon Race launched assaults across the Five Peaks, Kong Wenxuan headed to regroup with his family while fleeing cultivators on the western mountain came under pursuit.

• Kong Wenxuan warned his relatives about the hidden Demon Race members and heard explosions as the Five-Colored Peacock apparition shattered, ending the illusion array.
• The patriarch told Kong Wenxuan that a Second-Tier Cuckoo Demon had ambushed them and accused the fallen Du Household of arranging the recent plots for revenge.
• Kong Wenxuan recalled his sword, headed for the summit, and called Kong Yushuo back to join the others while fighting attacking Demon Beasts and demons.
• Kong Wenxuan informed Ya Zhaoying that the Cuckoo Demon Race had appeared, but attacks were already erupting across the other peaks.
• Cuckoo Demon Race members drove Demon Beasts and demon birds after the fleeing bloodline cultivators on the western mountain, surrounding them and blocking their escape.

The Cuckoo Demon Race attacked the forces at all four peaks, and Ya Zhaoying confronted a Third Tier Cuckoo Demon Race member, identifying the attack as the Du Household’s scheme. The two sides revealed competing plans for Demon-Suppressing Pass and Cuckoo County, and the chapter ended as the Cuckoo demon prepared to show Ya Zhaoying a “gift.”

• Cuckoo Demon Race members launched surprise attacks on the cultivator forces at all four peaks, disrupting their assaults without immediately overwhelming them.
• Ya Zhaoying accused the Du Household of joining the Demon Race and drew out a Third Tier Cuckoo Demon Race member from Flying Peak.
• The Cuckoo demon revealed that other Third Tier demons had attacked Cuckoo County while it held Ya Zhaoying at Flying Peak, intending to destroy the county and its bloodline lineages.
• Ya Zhaoying said she had sent troops and two Purple Mansion cultivators to ambush the Du Household at Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• The Cuckoo demon claimed the Du Household had other measures to destroy Cuckoo County, then cried out to reveal a prepared “gift” for Ya Zhaoying.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household fled a Third-Tier azure python while fighting off a hidden Second-Tier member of the Cuckoo Demon Race. Kong Wenxuan killed the cuckoo demon with his Second-Tier Refining the Sword into Threads technique.

• Kong Changgeng ordered Kong Wenxuan, Kong Yushuo, and Kong Changlan to flee when a Third-Tier azure python charged up the eastern peak.
• Kong Wenxuan used the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation to clear a path through attacking Demon Beasts and demon birds.
• A hidden Second-Tier member of the Cuckoo Demon Race attacked the formation, but Kong Wenxuan's white-metal sword light severed two of its Spirit Artifacts and exposed its location.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo used their Crimson Fire Divine Swords to keep the cuckoo demon from fleeing while Kong Changgeng and Kong Changlan defended the group with talisman techniques.
• Kong Wenxuan's Second-Tier Refining the Sword into Threads cut through the cuckoo demon's defenses and killed it.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household escaped the eastern mountain after killing the Cuckoo Demon who had been directing the attacking beasts. From below, they watched five third-tier Demon Beasts form a Five Elements Demon Array against Ya Zhaoying under the control of a Cuckoo Demon’s Demon-Summoning Banner.

• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo killed the second-tier Cuckoo Demon, then retrieved his body and fled down the mountain with the Kong Household.
• The third-tier green python reached the summit, frightening most of the attacking Demon Beasts and demon birds into scattering.
• Kong Changgeng deduced that the third-tier Demon Beasts had been hidden below the peaks to avoid alerting Ya Zhaoying.
• Five third-tier Demon Beasts took positions on the five peaks and attacked Ya Zhaoying with metal, wood, water, fire, and earth powers.
• A third-tier Cuckoo Demon conjured a Demon-Summoning Banner illusion and combined the beasts’ attacks into a Five Elements Demon Array aimed at Ya Zhaoying.

At Flying Peak, Ya Zhaoying fought the Five Elements Demon Array from outside while Kong Wenxuan learned that the Cuckoo Demon Race had bypassed Demon-Suppressing Pass and was heading for Cuckoo County City. The Kong Household was temporarily safe, but its members remained worried about the demon race’s unknown objective and the possibility that it might turn toward their lands.

• Kong Changlan admired the five Third Tier Demon Beasts forming the array and lamented that the Kong Household was too weak to capture them.
• Ya Zhaoying fought the Five Elements Demon Array and its Cuckoo Demon Race controller from outside it, avoiding the danger of being trapped inside.
• Kong Wenxuan asked Kong Changgeng for news from the Kong Household and Cuckoo County, and Kong Changgeng received a reply through the Peacock True Spirit Star.
• Kong Changgeng reported that the Cuckoo Demon Race had bypassed Demon-Suppressing Pass and was leading the Demon Beast tide toward Cuckoo County City, while the Ya Household army pursued it.
• Kong Wenxuan, Kong Changlan, and Kong Yushuo felt slightly relieved that the Kong Household’s lands were off the demons’ route, but remained concerned about the enemy’s objective and possible change of course.

Ya Zhaoying struggled to break the Five Elements Demon Array while Kong Changgeng’s group watched and considered how defeating it might aid their Lineage. The Cuckoo demon accused the Ya Household of betraying the Du Household, and Ya Zhaoying recovered and vowed to overcome the array.

• Kong Changgeng told the group that the Lineage had prepared defenses and an escape route, then urged them to focus on the battle against the Five Elements Demon Array.
• Ya Zhaoying’s attacks failed to break the array, and she detonated her three Fire Crow Clones to escape its attempt to pull her inside.
• Ya Zhaoying retreated under the golden bell’s protection and swallowed spirit medicines after suffering injuries and exhaustion.
• The Third Tier Cuckoo demon mocked Ya Zhaoying and accused the Ya Household of supplying the forbidden technique that led the Du Household to cultivate phoenix blood, then betraying it to seize that power.
• Ya Zhaoying restored her Bloodline Divine Ability, reformed the Fire Crow Divine Fire Shield, and answered that the Du Household had become fugitives and demons before declaring the array would not stop her.

Ya Zhaoying tried to break the Five Elements Demon Array by attacking its northern peak, but the array’s defenses recovered through the circulation of the five elements and stopped her. The Ya Household then approached the Kong Household to request help with a plan to break the array.

• Ya Zhaoying directed the Fire Crow Divine Fire Shield at the northern peak and its giant turtle Demon Beast, briefly shaking the Five Elements Demon Array but failing to destroy the mountain.
• The Cuckoo Demon Race member on Flying Peak restored the northern peak’s defenses by circulating the array’s five elemental powers, thwarting Ya Zhaoying’s continued attacks.
• The Cuckoo Demon mocked Ya Zhaoying and challenged her to enter the array, but she withdrew to confer with the Ya Household cultivators and Fire Crow Dao Soldiers.
• Ya Zhaoying returned to face the array while the Ya Household cultivators and Fire Crow Dao Soldiers led their followers to the eastern peak.
• Ya Xingqu told the Kong Household that the Ya Household had found a way to break the array and asked for their help.

The Ya Household proposed breaking the Five Elements Demon Array by suppressing its power and killing one of the Third Tier Demon Beasts atop the peaks. The Kong Household agreed to help attack the eastern peak, and the assault began with Ya Zhaoying holding the array in check.

• Ya Xingqu explained that Ya Zhaoying would suppress the Five Elements Demon Array while their forces fought to a peak and killed its Third Tier Demon Beast.
• Ya Xingqu offered the Kong Household a slain Third Tier Demon Beast as spoils and the spirit medicines from Flying Peak's garden in exchange for helping clear the way.
• After conferring, the four members of the Kong Household accepted the invitation, and Kong Wenxuan asked which peak they would attack.
• Ya Xingqu chose the eastern peak, citing the Kong Household's familiarity with it and the effectiveness of the Ya Household's fire methods against its wood-element green python Demon Beast.
• Ya Xingqu and Kong Wenxuan settled the attack plan, Ya Zhaoying struck the array to hold its power in check, and Ya Xingqu ordered the assault.

Ya Xingqu’s forces used the Starlight Fire Crow to break the eastern mountain’s remaining Five Elements Demon Array protection while Ya Zhaoying prevented the array from reinforcing it. The Cuckoo demon commander sent its forces to defend the mountain, leaving Kong Wenxuan and the others facing a vast horde outside the breach.

• Kong Wenxuan failed to pierce the eastern mountain’s azure barrier with Refining the Sword into Threads and turned to Ya Xingqu for help.
• Ya Xingqu’s cultivators and Fire Crow Dao Soldiers formed two grand formations, which merged under the Fire Crow True Spirit Star’s light into a Starlight Fire Crow.
• The Starlight Fire Crow cracked the eastern mountain’s barrier, while Ya Zhaoying tied down the Five Elements Demon Array’s power and stopped it from replacing the barrier with fire-element protection.
• The Starlight Fire Crow shattered the azure barrier and opened a breach into the eastern mountain.
• The third-tier Cuckoo demon ordered the Du Household descendants to defend Eastern Peak and sent four second-tier Cuckoo demons with thousands of Demon Beasts and demon birds toward Kong Wenxuan’s group.

Kong Wenxuan joined Ya Xingqu and the Ya Household in their assault on the eastern mountain, where the Ya Household needed his help to conserve strength for a final attack near the summit. He led the advance with his strongest combination of sword formation and peacock illusion, swiftly slaughtering the mountain’s defenders.

• Ya Xingqu explained that the Ya Household needed Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household to escort their exhausted forces toward the summit after the Starlight Fire Crow’s powerful attack.
• Kong Yushuo, the patriarch, and the second elder attacked the charging Demon Beasts and demon birds, clearing a path while Ya Xingqu recognized Kong Yushuo’s Crimson Fire Divine Sword.
• Kong Wenxuan unleashed the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation and led the group up the eastern mountain.
• Kong Wenxuan combined the sword formation with a Five-Colored Peacock illusion, ensnaring the Demon Beasts and demon birds and making many turn on one another.
• Kong Wenxuan expanded the sword formation over the trapped enemies and slaughtered them, using the upgraded White Metal Divine Sword to kill Second Tier foes more efficiently.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household led the advance up the eastern mountain, astonishing the Ya Household’s followers with their killing power and earning the awe of former peers like Lao Zerui. Halfway up the mountain, more Demon Beasts and demonic birds overwhelmed the Kong Household’s attacks, and the Ya Household’s accompanying cultivators joined the fighting.

• Kong Wenxuan, Kong Yushuo, the patriarch, and the second elder cut through the Demon Beasts and demonic birds attacking the eastern mountain while the Ya Household’s forces followed.
• Lao Zerui and other bloodline cultivators watched the Kong Household’s sword techniques and killing power shatter their old impressions of the Lineage.
• A Fire Crow County Foundation Establishment cultivator tried to steal a slain Second-Tier Demon Beast, but Sword Qi from its scar wounded him and damaged his defensive Spirit Artifact, forcing him to flee.
• Kong Wenxuan led the group halfway up the mountain as the growing waves of attackers began breaking through the Kong Household’s defenses.
• At the Ya Household’s orders, Lao Zerui and the other accompanying bloodline cultivators began fighting the Demon Beasts and demonic birds that broke through.

Kong Wenxuan and the others struggled up the eastern mountain against hordes of Demon Beasts and demon birds. Ya Xingqu’s Third-Tier lightning talisman exposed and helped Kong Wenxuan slay a Cuckoo demon, but another wave blocked their ascent, leaving Kong Wenxuan asking Ya Xingqu to use another talisman.

• Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household members slowed as Demon Beasts and demon birds attacked from every direction, while Ya Zhaoying struggled to restrain the Five Elements Demon Array.
• Ya Xingqu activated a Third-Tier lightning talisman, blasting many attackers and allowing Kong Wenxuan to break through the mountainside blockade.
• Kong Wenxuan spotted a concealed Cuckoo demon amid the chaos and killed it with the Crimson Fire Divine Sword and White Metal Divine Sword.
• Without the Cuckoo demon controlling them, the frightened Demon Beasts and demon birds fled, and the group rushed up the newly cleared path.
• More Cuckoo demons rallied creatures from the summit to block the advance, and Kong Wenxuan asked Ya Xingqu to use another Third-Tier lightning talisman.

Kong Wenxuan and the Ya Household used their abilities and talismans to expose and kill a hidden Cuckoo Demon, then advanced toward the summit. There, they discovered the final Cuckoo Demon leading a flock in the forbidden A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix formation.

• Ya Xingqu ordered the fifth Ya Household cultivator to activate a Third Tier Fire Crow Talisman, blasting many attacking Demon Beasts and demon birds.
• Kong Wenxuan coordinated the peacock cultivators to cast Peacock Spreads Its Tail, exposing a hidden Cuckoo Demon disguised as a gray sparrow.
• Kong Wenxuan shattered the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation and killed the exposed Cuckoo Demon with the Crimson Fire Divine Sword, then gave its corpse to Kong Changlan.
• With the Cuckoo Demon dead, its controlled beasts scattered, allowing Kong Wenxuan and the others to advance close to the summit.
• Kong Wenxuan recognized the final Cuckoo Demon’s formation as A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix when its flock bowed to the demon.

Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo failed to stop the Cuckoo demon’s phoenix ritual as its flames gained Third Tier power. Ya Xingqu refused to abandon the hunt for the green python and ordered the Ya Household to begin its final plan.

• Kong Wenxuan recognized that the Cuckoo demon was using A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix to grow stronger by draining the demon birds in its flock.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo attacked the Cuckoo demon, but its multicolored flames blocked their Crimson Fire Divine Swords.
• Kong Wenxuan redirected his White Metal Divine Sword to strike the flock, but the Cuckoo demon enveloped the birds in flames and accelerated its transformation.
• Kong Wenxuan empowered the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation with Peacock True Spirit Starlight, but still could not pierce the flames or stop the ritual.
• Kong Wenxuan advised Ya Xingqu to retreat, but Ya Xingqu refused to give up on the nearby Third Tier green python.
• Ya Xingqu ordered the Ya Household cultivators and Fire Crow Dao Soldiers to offer up the Fire Crow Gourd as their final plan.

Ya Xingqu used the Fire Crow Gourd to empower the Ya Household’s Fire Crow Dao Soldiers and send them against a Cuckoo Demon Race member transformed by the forbidden technique A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix. As the battle turned against the Cuckoo, Kong Wenxuan noticed that it seemed to be losing its intelligence and becoming a Demon Beast.

• Ya Xingqu activated the Fire Crow Gourd with the Ya Household cultivators’ bloodline power and absorbed their Fire Crow Dao Soldiers.
• The Fire Crow True Spirit sent starlight into the gourd, which released the Dao Soldiers greatly strengthened, with their leader raised to the third tier.
• The empowered Fire Crows attacked the Cuckoo Demon Race member, whose False Phoenix form resisted much of their fire but suffered mounting wounds from repeated assaults.
• Kong Wenxuan noticed that the Cuckoo Demon Race member was losing its sentience and seemed to be degenerating into a Demon Beast.

Kong Wenxuan witnessed the Cuckoo Demon’s forbidden technique turn it into a mindless “False Phoenix,” reinforcing his resolve that the Kong Household must never inherit or use A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix. After the Fire Crows killed the Cuckoo Demon, the Ya Household launched an attack on the green python Demon Beast, and the chapter ended with the Fire Crows blasting it dead.

• Kong Wenxuan realized the Cuckoo Demon was losing its intelligence after using A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix and resolved to warn the Kong Household against the technique.
• The Third Tier Fire Crow tore the “False Phoenix” apart, and its remains burned to ash without leaving any “False Phoenix blood.”
• Ya Xingqu and the other Ya Household cultivators took potent medicines and replenished the Fire Crow Gourd’s flames to prepare for the next battle.
• Ya Zhaoying held off the Third Tier Cuckoo Demon as the Fire Crows attacked the green python Demon Beast behind its cyan barrier.
• The Fire Crows shattered the barrier and blasted the Third Tier green python Demon Beast dead.

The Five Elements Demon Array shattered after the Azure Python Demon Beast was killed, allowing Ya Zhaoying to attack the Cuckoo Demon as Du Household cultivators fled with resources from the Spirit Medicine Garden. As Kong Wenxuan stayed to protect the exhausted Ya Household, other Bloodline cultivators attacked the fleeing boats, and the Flame Sparrow Demon Beast intervened.

• The Azure Python Demon Beast destroyed an array core, breaking the Five Elements Demon Array, and Ya Zhaoying attacked the Cuckoo Demon on Flying Peak.
• The Cuckoo Demon ordered the Du Household cultivators to abandon the remaining medicine gardens and flee aboard Cuckoo Feather Boats.
• Kong Wenxuan considered pursuing the Du Household but agreed to protect Ya Xingqu and the recovering Ya Household cultivators instead.
• Bloodline cultivators from other lineages attacked the fleeing boats, damaged several, and brought down the rearmost Cuckoo Feather Boat.
• The Flame Sparrow Demon Beast flew toward the fallen boat and burned the cultivators who were charging toward it.

The Third Tier Cuckoo Demon battled Ya Zhaoying while the Demon-Summoning Banner protected it, but Ya Zhaoying weakened the banner by killing the demon’s Third Tier allies. As the Cuckoo Demon threatened Flying Peak’s spirit medicine garden, a hidden Third Tier Earth Dragon swallowed Ya Zhaoying, and the Cuckoo Demon celebrated its revenge.

• The Third Tier Flame Sparrow Demon Beast protected the Du Household cultivators as they fled south, while the other Third Tier Demon Beasts joined the battle against Ya Zhaoying.
• Ya Zhaoying realized the Demon-Summoning Banner depended on the remaining Third Tier Demon Beasts and sent her Fire Crows to attack them while she held off the Third Tier Cuckoo Demon.
• The Fire Crows killed the Third Tier giant turtle, weakening the banner, and the Cuckoo Demon sent the black tiger and rock wolf to hold Ya Zhaoying back.
• The Third Tier Cuckoo Demon flew above Flying Peak and hurled two strange spheres toward the spirit medicine garden, prompting Ya Zhaoying to rush after them.
• A fissure opened beneath Ya Zhaoying, and a hidden Third Tier Earth Dragon sprayed her with Flesh and Blood Sludge before swallowing her.
• The Third Tier Cuckoo Demon laughed and claimed it had finally avenged its clan leader and clansmen.