Recaps

Kong Wenxuan refined three of his Five Elements Divine Swords, fought at the Flamingo Lie Household’s ruins, and traveled beyond the Demon-Suppressing Pass to help the Kong Household secure a Vermilion Fruit tree. After defeating Lang Household pursuers with the Kong Household’s illusion formations, the group returned with the tree and fruits, refusing the Du Household’s offer to take the tree.

• Kong Wenxuan awakened his Peacock Bloodline, suppressed the Du Household’s Cuckoo star projection, and cultivated the Azure Wood, Black Water, and Yellow Earth Divine Swords while serving on patrol.
• Kong Wenxuan helped defeat a snake demon, then fought Fire Spirits at the ruined Flamingo Lie Household grounds and earned Du Zikai’s invitation to the Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Kong Wenxuan traveled with Kong Changgeng to the Third Demon-Suppressing Pass and joined Kong Yushuo’s party heading beyond it to guard the Vermilion Fruit tree.
• Kong Wenxuan helped defend the ripe fruit tree from Lang Household cultivators, while the Kong Household’s Peacock Spreads Its Tail illusion array trapped and killed many of their enemies.
• Kong Yushuo led the Kong Household away with the harvested tree and fruits, then refused the Du Household cultivator’s offer to take the tree in exchange for tax relief or Contribution Points.

Kong Wenxuan helped the Kong Household besiege the Lang Household, then returned to the Demon-Suppressing Pass as a Demon Beast horde gathered and the Du Household’s threat became clear. He secretly reached Foundation Establishment, raised the Peacock Bloodline to Ninth-Grade True Spirit, and passed the trial to defend his new star.

• Kong Wenxuan refined his Crimson Fire Divine Sword, then joined the Kong Household’s siege of Wolf Fang Mountain and fought through the Lang Household’s defenses.
• Kong Yushuo negotiated for the Kong Household to help restrain the Bronze-Iron Wolf Demon, while the Lao Household’s allies collapsed a peak and stormed the ancestral grounds.
• Long Ke helped the Lang Household escape before its delayed Mountain Collapse and Earth Split array destroyed Wolf Fang Mountain, and Kong Wenxuan secured Dark Iron for the White Metal Divine Sword.
• Du Zhimin claimed the damaged Dark Iron vein for the Du Household, and Kong Wenxuan finished his White Metal Divine Sword and advanced to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.
• When a Demon Beast uprising endangered Kong Yushuo and the others, Kong Wenxuan found them at Black Snake Valley and fought off wolf demons as they returned to Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Kong Wenxuan concluded that the Du Household planned to steal servant Lineages’ bloodlines, then secretly left the pass to attempt Foundation Establishment and star inlaying.
• Kong Wenxuan opened his Sea of Consciousness, reached the Ninth-Grade True Spirit Heaven, and defeated Demon Beasts to form the Peacock True Spirit Star.
• Kong Wenxuan imprinted the Five Elements True Scripture and the Peacock Soul-Bewitching Scripture onto his star, then defeated the True Martial World’s trials and passed the test to defend it.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household survived the Du Household’s bloodline-sacrifice scheme, claimed territory in the collapsing Cuckoo Secret Realm, and fought off a wolf-led beast tide. As Kong Wenxuan pursued the wider crisis, he discovered a fox demon and a chameleon demon had laid a trap for his household.

• Kong Wenxuan helped the Kong cultivators draw the Peacock True Spirit Star’s projection into their bodies, renewing their bloodlines and granting them Five Elements True Scripture inheritances.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng joined servant-cultivator lineages in a gathering that Du Yuxian had orchestrated to lure in the Fire Crow Ya Household and sacrifice the assembled lineages.
• When Du Yuxian’s ritual began draining their bloodlines, Kong Wenxuan attacked the Cuckoo Dao Soldier Legion while Kong Changgeng turned the tamed birds against their handlers.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng fought the Du Household as Ya Zhaoying destroyed the ritual and killed Du Yuxian, then the Kongs claimed a resource-rich mountain range before the secret realm collapsed.
• Kong Wenxuan returned to Peacock Ridge and helped defeat Lang Jitong and the wolf demons, then escorted Yan Zhiyu and a Ma Household cultivator to their ancestral lands.
• Kong Wenxuan set out to join Ya Zhaoying’s campaign against the Demon Race and discovered the Feng Household’s settlement had been destroyed and its useful resources taken.
• Kong Wenxuan followed the Demon Beast tide to Lark Peak, where he found Hummingbird Feng Household captives guarded by the beasts as the Lark Yun Household’s defenses failed.
• Kong Wenxuan exposed a fox demon among the attackers, then detected a hidden chameleon demon and realized two Second Tier Demon Race members had trapped the Kong Household.

Kong Wenxuan helped the Fire Crow Ya Household defeat a Demon Race ambush at Demon-Suppressing Pass, then returned to rebuild the Kong Household’s strength and establish its standing among the region’s True Spirit lineages. As the Kong Household prepared for a measured expansion, the Bifang True Spirit Star appeared and sent Dao Soldiers south toward the pass.

• Kong Wenxuan helped the Peacock Kong Household defeat the Demon Beast tide, rescued the Feng Household members, and brought his relatives to Cuckoo Town as the Fire Crow Ya Household consolidated control.
• Kong Wenxuan joined Ya Zhaoying’s pursuit of the Demon Race, but at Demon-Suppressing Pass a Third Tier earth dragon and other powerful demons ambushed the Ya Household with more than ten thousand abducted civilians as bait.
• Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household fought alongside Ya Zhaoying, broke the demon banners, and helped defeat the attackers, earning half the Earth Dragon’s corpse and spoils from the ruined city.
• Kong Wenxuan brought clansmen to the pass to process the spoils and gain battle experience, then discovered the forbidden A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix inheritance and destroyed it rather than risk the Kong Household’s ruin.
• In Bifang Commandery City, the Kong Household sold its spoils, bought a Fifth-Tier Nirvana Pill that restored Kong Yushuo’s arm, and received an official seal to establish Peacock County.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng reported the Demon Race’s attack to Governor Bi, then paid respects to the Jiao, He, and Fu Households as they established ties with other True Spirit lineages.
• After returning to Peacock Ridge, the Kong Household welcomed Yan Zhiyu, Ma Zhenyu, and Yun Qishen, and Kong Changgeng said expansion would wait three to five years while the region recovered and the southern mountains were investigated.
• While Kong Wenxuan refined the White Metal Divine Sword, the Bifang True Spirit Star appeared and sent Bifang Dao Soldiers south, prompting Kong Changgeng to take him and the Yan, Ma, and Yun patriarchs toward Demon-Suppressing Pass.