Recaps

Kong Wenxuan helped annihilate the invaders in the Peacock Secret Realm, strengthened the Kong Household, and led reinforcements to rescue the He Household and reclaim Black Crane County City. The allied households then pursued the retreating enemies into the Eastern Forest Great Marsh, where a Ten Thousand Demons Formation blocked their advance.

• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng used the sword formation, True Spirit power, and household forces to wipe out the invasion of the Peacock Secret Realm.
• Kong Changgeng strengthened local defenses, while Kong Wenxuan reached the third-tier Middle Purple Mansion Stage, upgraded the Crimson Fire Divine Sword, and subdued seven Third Tier beast thralls.
• Kong Wenxuan led Kong Household disciples and Peacock Dao Soldiers to reinforce the He Household after invaders captured Black Crane County City.
• Kong Wenxuan and the allied households drove the Demon Race and True Martial World forces out of the Mystic Crane Secret Realm and saved the surviving He Household members.
• He Yingzhang rewarded the allied households and offered further payments and access to resources for help retaking Black Crane County City.
• Bi Yanshu empowered the allied households to summon their True Spirit Star projections, and the allies reclaimed Black Crane County City as Bi Yanshu killed the Fourth Tier black-necked crane Demon.
• Kong Wenxuan protected his forces from the Demon Core explosion, and the allied True Spirit Lineages purified the resulting Yao Qi before pursuing the fleeing enemies.
• Bi Yanshu uncovered a Ten Thousand Demons Formation after more than twenty days of pursuit, but its defenders blocked the allied Fourth Tier attacks.

Kong Wenxuan helped Bifang Commandery destroy the True Martial Hall and claim its Origin Fragments, then returned to cultivation as the Ya Household rose to Seventh-Grade rank. After surviving a fresh Demon Race attack, the Kong Household celebrated Kong Yuyin’s breakthrough and mourned Kong Yushan’s fall to demonic backlash.

• Bi Yanshu recruited Kong Wenxuan and cultivators from the Ya and Jiao Households to attack the Ten Thousand Demons Formation from within, while the Bi Household assaulted it from outside.
• After the formation fell and the True Martial Hall’s threat became clear, Bi Yanshu summoned forces from across Bifang Commandery to prevent the invaders from draining the local Origin Fragment.
• Kong Wenxuan led Peacock County’s army through the battlefield, advanced his sword cultivation, and entered the True Martial Hall as the Ya and Jiao forces broke through.
• After Ya Xingheng died, Kong Wenxuan joined the Ya and Jiao cultivators in a plan to destroy the Black Water True Martial statue, then cleaved it in two with his Great Five Elements Destruction Sword Light.
• As the True Martial Hall collapsed, the Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit absorbed Origin Fragments into the Peacock Secret Realm, where Kong Wenxuan killed the statue’s remnant and the realm gained a vast lake and sea eye.
• Kong Wenxuan refined the White Metal Divine Sword into a Third-Tier Treasure Artifact and watched the Ya Household’s Fire Crow True Spirit Star ascend to the Seventh-Grade True Spirit Heaven.
• Kong Wenxuan attended the Ya Household’s rank advancement celebration, exchanged cultivation insights with Ya Zhaoying, and later killed two Demon Race leaders and their beasts while traveling home.
• Back in Peacock County, Kong Wenxuan resumed refining the Azure Wood Divine Sword as Kong Yuyin successfully reached the Third Tier Purple Mansion Stage, while Kong Yushan succumbed to demonic backlash and Kong Wenxuan killed him.

Kong Wenxuan advanced his sword arts while the Kong Household joined campaigns in Qinggeng and Azure Sparrow Counties. The Geng Household’s grand formation trapped the invaders in a forest realm, where Kong Wenxuan reached the current peak of his sword techniques and turned toward the wider battle.

• Kong Yushan died from Demonic Nature Backlash, but Kong Wenxuan refined the Azure Wood Divine Sword into a Third-Tier Treasure Artifact and advanced to the Late Purple Mansion Stage.
• Kong Yujin and Kong Wenzhang survived their breakthroughs, becoming the Kong Household’s fifth and sixth Purple Mansion cultivators, and a Peacock Spirit Bird reached the Third Tier.
• Kong Wenxuan led Kong Household cultivators to Qinggeng Commandery, where they helped defeat the invaders at Spotted Ferret County and he battled a powerful Azure Wolf Demon Beast.
• After the Azure Sparrow True Spirit Star shattered, Kong Wenxuan joined the expedition to Azure Sparrow County and saw the invaders draining life from its forests around the Azure Mulberry spirit tree.
• The allied forces attacked the invaders at Azure Sparrow County, but the Jumang True Martial statue transported cultivators into a secret realm where the Azure Mulberry spirit tree drained their vitality.
• The Geng Household activated the Ten Thousand Trees Boundless Origin-Securing Grand Formation, drawing the Qinggeng Blessed Land and trapping the invaders in a forest world that strengthened allies and weakened enemies.
• Kong Wenxuan fought wave after wave of Third-Tier enemies, using Insert the Edgeless into the Gaps to break their attacks and kill them as the formation sent more opponents his way.
• Kong Wenxuan reached three hundred and sixty differentiated sword lights, nine times the speed of sound, and peak control of his techniques before turning toward the wider battlefield as the fighting diminished.

Kong Wenxuan returned from battle, healed Kong Changlan, and advanced to the Golden Core Stage before leading the Kong Household through the Peacock True Spirit Star’s Rank Advancement Trial. After the star reached the Seventh-Grade True Spirit Heaven, he began refining his divine swords and welcomed visiting lineages to contests meant to test the Kong Household’s younger cultivators.

• Kong Wenxuan accepted the Geng Household’s Heaven-Mending Pill and gave it to Kong Changlan, who healed her injuries in seclusion.
• Kong Wenxuan strengthened his Peacock Bloodline, reached the Golden Core Stage, and suppressed the Demonic Nature Backlash that threatened his breakthrough.
• Kong Wenxuan led the Kong Household in the Peacock True Spirit Star’s Rank Advancement Trial, defeating waves of demons and True Martial World forces as the household suffered heavy casualties.
• Kong Wenxuan and the surviving Kong Household disciples defeated the final attackers, raising their star to an upper Seventh-Grade rank and advancing his Magistrate’s Official Seal.
• Kong Wenxuan began refining the Azure Wood Divine Sword with Red Pine spirit wood and wood-element Earth Sha.
• Kong Wenxuan hosted a banquet for visiting True Spirit Lineages, accepted their proposed contests, and agreed that Kong Household cultivators would compete at three stages.