Recaps

After the Bi Household killed a Fifth Tier demon, the Kong Household prepared to expand into the southern mountains, where Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo discovered hostile cultivators, a dangerous Demon Race presence, and rumors drawing people toward Flying Peak. The arc left cultivators gathering for an expedition as Kong Wenxuan suspected the surviving Demon Race was behind the growing lure.

• Kong Wenxuan and the other lineages watched the Bi Household kill the demon that had survived its Fifth Tier tribulation, ending the beast tide at Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Kong Wenxuan returned to Peacock Ridge, refined his White Metal Divine Sword, and witnessed the Kong Household gain new Foundation Establishment cultivators amid painful breakthrough failures and deaths.
• Kong Changgeng and Kong Wenxuan agreed that the household needed to expand soon, and Kong Wenxuan set out with Kong Yushuo to assess three possible sites for Peacock County.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo were trapped by a Lightning-Fire Spirit Formation at the first site, killed the ambushers, and found the site ruined and its resources harvested.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo surveyed the second site, found valuable Shoushan Stone, and watched a giant Stone Disc Turtle emerge from Crescent Moon Lake to feed.
• At the third site, Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo saw corpses being carried into Flying Peak by Demon Beasts and demonic birds, and Kong Wenxuan concluded that a Third Tier member of the Demon Race was there.
• Kong Wenxuan reported the Flying Peak threat to Ya Xingqu, while Kong Yushuo uncovered rumors of a spirit medicine there and investigated who was spreading them.
• Kong Wenxuan refined his Crimson Fire Divine Sword as reports of medicines and a ruined garden drew cultivators toward Flying Peak, and he insisted a Demon Race member was involved.

The Kong Household joined the Ya Household’s campaign to clear Flying Peak, where the Du Household and Cuckoo Demon Race revealed a trap aimed at Cuckoo County. After fighting through the eastern peak and helping break the Five Elements Demon Array, Kong Wenxuan stayed behind as the demons fled and Ya Zhaoying was ambushed by a hidden Third Tier Earth Dragon.

• Kong Wenxuan joined Ya Zhaoying’s expedition to Flying Peak, while the Kong Household prepared to claim and defend the peak if the campaign succeeded.
• Ya Zhaoying’s forces attacked the four mountains around Flying Peak, and Kong Changlan’s illusion array let the Kong Household slaughter the eastern peak’s sleeping Demon Beasts and birds.
• Cuckoo Demon Race members ambushed the forces, and Ya Zhaoying learned that Third Tier demons were leading a Demon Beast tide toward Cuckoo County while a Five Elements Demon Array trapped her at Flying Peak.
• Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household fought their way up the eastern peak with Ya Xingqu’s forces, killing concealed Cuckoo demons and clearing a path to the summit.
• The Ya Household used its Fire Crow Gourd to empower its Dao Soldiers, who killed the False Phoenix Cuckoo demon and the Third Tier green python, breaking the Five Elements Demon Array.
• The Du Household fled Flying Peak aboard Cuckoo Feather Boats, while Kong Wenxuan chose to protect the recovering Ya Household cultivators instead of pursuing them.
• Ya Zhaoying sent the Fire Crows against the remaining Third Tier Demon Beasts, but a hidden Third Tier Earth Dragon caught her in a fissure and swallowed her after spraying her with Flesh and Blood Sludge.

After Flying Peak collapsed, Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household chose a new territory, captured a Stone Disc Turtle, and began building Peacock County. Two years of expansion brought heavy losses and financial strain, while Kong Wenxuan completed the Crimson Fire Divine Sword’s advancement and neared the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

• Ya Zhaoying killed Du Zhiyue and helped contain the blasts that destroyed Flying Peak’s spirit medicine garden, after which the peak collapsed and the Kong Household abandoned the Five Peaks.
• Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household chose a mountains-and-lake site for their territory, then learned that attacks outside the Demon-Suppressing Pass had exposed the Ya Household’s trap and brought disaster to Cuckoo Town.
• Kong Wenxuan, Kong Changlan, and Kong Yuyin sold demon materials, bought development supplies and a Black Tortoise Command, then fought off five Bandit Cultivators on their return journey.
• Kong Wenzhang reached Foundation Establishment, and the Kong Household began its expansion campaign while Kong Wenxuan and Ya Zhaoying captured the Stone Disc Turtle and brought it under his control.
• Kong Changgeng’s forces found a Third-Tier Crystal Stone vein beneath Crescent Moon Lake, cleared the surrounding mountains, and began establishing Peacock County with hired cultivators and help from the Ya Household.
• Kong Wenxuan killed two late Second Tier Lightning Falcons, while the Kong Household traded with the Ya Household and continued building Peacock City.
• Kong Wenxuan reported the Du Household’s alliance with the Demon Race to the Bifang commandery governor, who ordered him to kill Du Household cultivators and Cuckoo demons when encountered.
• Over the next two years, the Kong Household expanded across Peacock County but lost more than ten cultivators and strained its treasury, while Kong Wenxuan advanced the Crimson Fire Divine Sword to a Second Tier Spirit Artifact.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household defended their new county from a coordinated assault, completed its boundary defenses, and helped allied cultivators establish their foundations. They then opened the Peacock Secret Realm, where they fought waves of Devil Creatures and drew an Otherworldly Origin Fragment into the growing realm.

• Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household repelled the beast tide and demonic birds, while a Third Tier Flame Sparrow devastated Peacock County Seat and gravely injured Kong Changlan.
• Kong Wenxuan killed the fleeing Cuckoo Demon and helped install all eight County Boundary Steles, enclosing Peacock County behind the barrier.
• Kong Wenxuan bestowed Peacock True Spirit Star projection imprints on candidates from the Yan, Ma, and Yun Households, and four cultivators succeeded in reaching Foundation Establishment.
• Kong Wenxuan completed the Yellow Earth Divine Sword as the Kong Household finished its expansion war and completed Peacock County Seat.
• Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household opened the Peacock Secret Realm and entered the Origin Sea, where they fought Devil Creatures and expanded the realm with their remains.
• Kong Yujin planted an Azure Cloud Bamboo that stabilized the realm, while Kong Wenxuan and the household fought increasingly powerful Devil Creatures as the realm grew beyond two hundred li.
• The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit pulled an Otherworldly Origin Fragment from the Origin Sea and drew it into the realm, where black Devil Qi and Death Qi gathered over the new land.
• Kong Wenxuan warned the Kong Household that the attacking Devil Creatures resembled distorted martial cultivators and could wield powerful physical or elemental Divine Abilities.