Recaps

Kong Wenxuan led the Kong Household through the corruption of a world fragment, the creation of its secret realm, and a wave of Foundation Establishment breakthroughs. After settling in Peacock County, the Lineage organized its new responsibilities, built trade connections, and established a presence in Bifang Commandery City, where its relations with other lineages began to take shape.

• Kong Wenxuan destroyed the True Martial Hall and its Statue Devil Creatures, allowing the fragment to merge into the Peacock Secret Realm and revealing the Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak.
• Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household cultivated in the expanded secret realm, while ten descendants advanced to Foundation Establishment and Kong Wenxuan buried the two who failed their breakthroughs.
• Kong Wenxuan granted ancestral lands to the Yan, Ma, Yun, Xiong, Quan, and Diao Households, while the commandery governor tasked him with locating the Demon Race stronghold in the South Lake Mountains within ten years.
• Kong Changgeng led the Kong Household’s relocation to Peacock County, where Kong Changsen conducted a bloodline awakening ceremony that awakened 229 youths before he died.
• Kong Wenxuan and the other Foundation Establishment cultivators divided responsibility for county administration, roads, trade, Feather Boats, the secret realm, and a Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Kong Wenxuan advanced his Black Water Divine Sword, while Kong Yujin and the others developed the secret realm’s fire basin and Kong Wenxuan helped awaken Peacock Dao Soldiers.
• Kong Wenxuan led a Feather Boat party to Bifang Commandery City with Peacock County’s first tax payment, bought the former Du Household Manor, and hosted the Ya, Fu, Jiao, and He Households.
• Kong Changlan said she would remain in Bifang Commandery City with Kong Household descendants as the Bi Household arrived at the manor.

Kong Wenxuan traced the Cuckoo Demon Race to a hidden realm beneath South Lake and helped the Bi Household invade it. After fighting through demon-blood clans and the Red Fox city, he saw the Du Household begin a ritual to revive the False Phoenix.

• Kong Wenxuan refined the Azure Wood Divine Sword, reached the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and set out to investigate the Demon Race’s base in the South Lake Mountains.
• Kong Wenxuan pursued a scarred black tiger through the mountains until it led him to South Lake, then used beasts fitted with Concentric Mirror Law Artifacts to search the waters.
• Kong Wenxuan provoked the Cuckoo Demon Race over South Lake, found its hidden realm, and was swept inside as he crushed the Bifang Jade Token to signal the commandery governor.
• The Bi Household army confronted four Fourth-Tier Demon Beasts, and its Bifang Calamity Fire killed three and crippled the last before the governor began searching the realm.
• Kong Wenxuan fought demon-blood cultivators and destroyed the Gray Wolf Lang Household after the Demon God awakened its bloodlines and transformed into a Wolf Demon God.
• Kong Wenxuan pressed south as the Bi Household forces broke through Red Fox Demon City’s defenses and battled its demon-blood defenders and four-tailed Red Fox Demon God.
• Kong Wenxuan saw the Du Household raise a golden Phoenix Terrace and use a Star Stone to summon the bloodied False Phoenix formed from the Cuckoo True Spirit.

Kong Wenxuan survived the destruction of the Demon Race’s secret realm and helped repel an invasion from the True Martial World before advancing to the Third Tier. He then led the Kong Household through the Peacock True Spirit Star’s trials, raising it to Eighth-Grade Upper-Class rank and gaining a promotion, as neighboring lineages began sending congratulations.

• The Du Household’s forbidden phoenix ritual destroyed its forces and the Cuckoo Demon Race, after which the Bifang Commandery Governor found the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven and used the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram to draw it out.
• True Martial cultivators invaded the secret realm, but Kong Wenxuan and the Bifang forces fought them off, with Kong Wenxuan killing a Third Tier Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivator and the governor defeating a Fifth Tier invader.
• The True Spirit Realm rewarded Kong Wenxuan by strengthening his Peacock True Spirit Star, though it stopped short of ascending to the Eighth-Grade True Spirit Heaven.
• Kong Wenxuan advanced to the Third Tier Purple Mansion Stage, defeated the demonic peacock that emerged during his breakthrough, and prepared with the Kong Household to attempt the star’s advancement trial.
• Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household fought waves of Demon Beasts and demons, then defeated a trial’s martial cultivators at great cost, advancing the Peacock True Spirit Star to Eighth-Grade Upper-Class rank.
• Bi Zongcheng requested that Peacock County become a middle county and that Kong Wenxuan be promoted to eighth-grade magistrate, and starlight upgraded Kong Wenxuan’s official seal.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng held the ancestral rite, then welcomed Ya Zhaoying of the Fire Crow Ya Household, who said other Bifang Commandery lineages were likely to send congratulations.

The Kong Household rose to Eighth-Grade True Spirit status, expanded Peacock County, and strengthened its forces while Kong Wenxuan refined his Five Elements Divine Swords. As the Peacock Secret Realm grew, the household fought off Devil Creatures, but a coordinated invasion by the Demon Race and True Martial World breached the realm’s defenses.

• The Kong Household hosted the Bi, Jiao, Fu, and He Households, and Kong Wenxuan demonstrated the Great Five Elements Sword Formation before the households competed for businesses and market shops.
• Kong Wenchang, Kong Wenyin, and Kong Huancai won every match, securing the Kong Household the largest share of shops while the He Household received the smallest.
• Kong Wenxuan joined the Bi Household’s caravan, and news of the Kong Household’s rise drew dozens of bloodline families seeking to become its servant cultivator lineages.
• Kong Changgeng broke through to the Third Tier Purple Mansion Stage in the Peacock Secret Realm, and the Eighth-Grade Peacock True Spirit Star improved the bloodline-awakening success rate among the household’s youths.
• While the Kong Household expanded Peacock County over eleven years, Kong Wenxuan refined the Black Water and Yellow Earth Divine Swords and began upgrading the Crimson Fire Divine Sword.
• Kong Wenxuan relocated the County Boundary Steles and issued land deeds to nearly sixty servant cultivator lineages, securing the newly conquered territory for the Kong Household.
• The Peacock Secret Realm expanded from three hundred to nine hundred li as the household’s forces fought waves of Devil Creatures, and Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng killed more than a dozen Third-Tier creatures.
• An Origin Sea upheaval damaged the secret realm, and after bloody light tore through the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram’s projection, True Martial Spirit Light broke through Kong Wenxuan’s Great Five Elements Sword Formation and entered the realm.