Recaps

After the True Spirit Realm defeated the invasion, Kong Wenxuan refined his divine swords, represented the Kong Household at the imperial assembly, and led its forces into the counterattack on the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven. The Kong Household fought the Peacock Demon Race at Spirit Taming Pass, but the Demon-Summoning Banner descended and turned the battle against them.

• The Lu Household and the Extended Net Moon Deer True Spirit defeated the invading forces, though the surviving Seventh-Tier martial cultivator escaped.
• Kong Wenxuan ranked first among the Low-Grade True Spirit Lineages in battlefield merits and received rewards for the Kong Household.
• Kong Wenxuan refined the Black Water Divine Sword into a Fourth-Tier Law Treasure, then returned to Peacock County for the Golden Crow Imperial Dynasty’s early grand court assembly.
• The imperial assembly rewarded the Kong Household, and Divine Lord Luan offered Kong Wenxuan a path to advance his household if it returned to Azure Luan Commandery, but Kong Wenxuan declined.
• Kong Wenxuan used South Mountain Stubborn Stone to refine the Yellow Earth Divine Sword as the Kong Household assembled its forces for the counterattack.
• Divine Lord Bi Sitong led the armies of Bifang, Qinggeng, and Huodou Commanderies through the rift into the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven, where they attacked Spirit Taming Pass.
• Seven-Colored Peacock demons trapped Kong Wenxuan’s forces in illusions, but Kong Wenxuan’s Five-Colored Peacock of starlight awakened his allies and he led a sword assault against the Peacock demons.
• Kong Wenxuan killed one Fourth-Tier Seven-Colored Peacock demon, but the other escaped badly wounded and summoned the Demon-Summoning Banner projection, which healed and strengthened the Peacock forces while suppressing Kong Wenxuan’s army.

Kong Wenxuan and the three commanderies broke through Spirit Taming Pass, captured a Fourth-Tier Seven-Colored Peacock, and won the battle despite heavy losses. He extracted the Peacock’s inheritance, arranged for Peacock Cloud Boats to be forged, and traveled to Dangkang Commandery to resume refining the Yellow Earth Divine Sword.

• Kong Wenxuan and the allied armies weakened the demons’ defenses as the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram spread across the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven, then attacked Spirit Taming Pass.
• The Geng Household activated the Ten Thousand Trees Boundless Origin-Securing Grand Formation, which breached Spirit Taming Pass’s Sixth Tier defenses and allowed the three commanderies to storm the pass.
• Kong Wenxuan fought a Fourth-Tier Seven-Colored Peacock and its demon bamboo formation, captured the Peacock, and helped defeat the Seven-Colored Demon Bamboos.
• Kong Wenxuan aided Ya Zhaoying and neighboring armies before the fall of a Sixth Tier Qinggeng demon twisted the battlefield and unleashed a devastating demonic formation.
• The Geng Household Divine Lord suppressed the chaos, and the three commanderies secured Spirit Taming Pass as their armies rescued the wounded and counted their dead.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng used the Bloodthirsty Bloodline-Seizing Grand Formation to extract the Seven-Colored Peacock’s inheritance, giving Kong Wenxuan a Fourth-Tier Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng arranged for the Bi Household to forge Fourth Tier Peacock Cloud Boats from captured demon materials.
• Kong Wenxuan traveled to Dangkang Commandery, entered its Ten Thousand Earths Boundless Origin-Securing Grand Formation, and resumed refining the Yellow Earth Divine Sword.

Kong Wenxuan helped the allied forces advance through the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven, then strengthened his sword and prepared to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm. With the Kong Household guarding him, he survived two waves of the Five Elements Lightning Tribulation, and his Nascent Soul began taking human form.

• Kong Wenxuan joined an elite squad to hunt scattered demons, using his Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique and sword dao to help kill a wolf-demon force before a later ambush drew Nascent Soul True Lords and Fifth-Tier Great Demons into battle.
• After the allied armies captured Bifang Demon City and Qinggeng Demon City, Kong Wenxuan exchanged his merits for cultivation time and refined the Yellow Earth Divine Sword into a Fourth-Tier Law Treasure, reaching Late Golden Core.
• Kong Wenxuan returned to his Lineage, learned of the campaign’s stalemate and the threat of Demonic Nature Backlash, and traveled to Purple Thunder Valley to forge the Great Five Elements Sword Formation with Primordial Magnetism.
• Kong Wenxuan secretly prepared for a Nascent Soul breakthrough, and Kong Changgeng arranged resources and chose the Land of Five Peaks as the tribulation ground.
• Kong Wenxuan refined his Golden Core and Peacock Bloodline to Peak Golden Core, then began shattering his Golden Core on Flying Peak as the Kong Household guarded the Five Peaks.
• Kong Wenxuan endured the first wave of the Five Elements Lightning Tribulation with talismans, Law Treasures, and a Primordial Magnetism Lightning-Devouring Pearl as his Golden Core began reshaping into a Nascent Soul.
• Kong Wenxuan survived the second wave by using lightning-devouring pearls, the Five Elements Grand Formation, sword and talisman formations, and Law Treasures, and his Nascent Soul began taking human form.