Chapter Summaries

Kong Wenxuan used the newly erected Peacock County boundary stele to thwart a cuckoo Demon Race member’s ambush and kill her, then pursued another fleeing attacker. He stopped when the Peacock True Spirit sent its starlight toward the county seat and learned that a third-tier Flame Sparrow Demon Beast was attacking it.

• A hidden cuckoo Demon Race member attacked Kong Wenxuan while he erected the boundary stele, but its barrier slowed her bone spike and exposed her ambush.
• Kong Wenxuan revealed he had anticipated the Du Household’s tactics, restrained the attacker with the barrier, and killed her with the White Metal Divine Sword.
• The other cuckoo Demon Race member withdrew the Demon-Summoning Banner and fled south, leaving the remaining beasts and puppets behind.
• Kong Wenxuan pursued her across the border, but halted when the Peacock True Spirit sent a surge of starlight toward the county seat under construction.
• Kong Wenxuan read Kong Yujin’s message and learned that a third-tier Flame Sparrow Demon Beast was attacking the county seat.

Kong Wenxuan chose to pursue and kill the fleeing Second Tier Cuckoo Demon Race member instead of racing back to the Peacock County Seat under construction, which was under attack by a Third Tier Flame Sparrow Demon Beast. After returning to the Boundary Stele, he found the fighting nearly over and heard Patriarch Kong Changgeng admonish the Kong Household members for losing their composure.

• Kong Wenxuan recognized the attacker at Peacock County Seat as the Third Tier Flame Sparrow Demon Beast and decided to pursue the nearby fleeing Cuckoo rather than return to the distant siege.
• The Cuckoo Demon Race member summoned beasts and birds to hinder Kong Wenxuan, but Kong Wenxuan cut them down and continued closing the distance.
• Kong Wenxuan severed the Cuckoo's wing with the Crimson Fire Divine Sword and then split it in half with a Golden Light Sword Thread when it charged him in a suicidal attack.
• Kong Wenxuan searched the Cuckoo's corpse, put it in a Storage Bag, and returned to the Boundary Stele, where the remaining enemies were nearly defeated.
• Patriarch Kong Changgeng rebuked the Kong Household members for panicking and urged them to trust the Lineage's defenses, finish the battle, and rebuild and seek revenge if necessary.

Kong Wenxuan returned to find the Peacock County Seat devastated by a rampaging Third-Tier Flame Sparrow that had killed and injured many people before the Second Elder and her Stone Disc Turtle brought it down. With the Second Elder gravely injured and hired cultivators eyeing the damaged city, the Kong Household reassured its workers that development would continue and began restoring order.

• Kong Wenxuan and the others returned to find more than half the Peacock County Seat and its highest peak destroyed, while Kong Yujin and the disciples tended the wounded and cleared rubble.
• Kong Yujin explained that a Third-Tier Flame Sparrow, apparently controlled by an outside force, broke through the formations and rampaged until the Second Elder and her Stone Disc Turtle killed it, leaving the Second Elder gravely injured.
• Kong Wenxuan and the others suspected the Du Household had driven the Flame Sparrow mad to attack the Kong Household before losing control of it, while Kong Wenxuan had already killed the two Second-Tier Cuckoo Demons that lured him away.
• Patriarch Kong Changgeng ordered Kong Yuyin and the sword cultivators to secure the surroundings and assure the hired cultivators that the development mission would continue and their rewards were safe.
• The hired cultivators hid their greed and dispersed after Kong Yuyin confirmed the mission would continue.

Kong Changgeng and Kong Wenxuan found Kong Changlan gravely weakened after she exhausted herself defending Peacock County from the Third-Tier Flame Sparrow. Though her Dantian Qi sea and Sea of Consciousness were cracked and her cultivation could no longer advance, she remained determined to oversee repairs and protect the Kong Household’s new county.

• Kong Changgeng found Kong Changlan with unstable Law Power and Spiritual Consciousness, and learned her foundation had been damaged while she operated the unfinished formation and commanded the Stone Disc Turtle.
• Kong Changlan regretted delaying construction of the city walls and formation, believing a completed defense could have prevented the heavy casualties and losses.
• Kong Changlan refused to rely on healing pills, explaining that her injuries would hinder further cultivation but had not yet shortened her lifespan.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng promised to seek a high-tier pill to heal Kong Changlan, though she doubted the newly established Kong Household could afford one.
• Kong Changlan entrusted Kong Wenxuan with protecting the city’s resources and left to assess casualties and damage, while ordering the county walls and Mountain and Water Layered Waves Formation completed quickly.

After the Third Tier Flame Sparrow’s attack left Peacock County in ruins and the second elder gravely injured, Kong Wenxuan decided to erect all seven remaining County Boundary Steles to strengthen the county’s defenses. He set out to meet Kong Wenzhang at the western border to begin with the West Two stele.

• Kong Wenxuan reassured Kong Changgeng that the second elder might still recover, while Kong Changgeng grieved for the casualties suffered during the county’s development.
• Kong Wenxuan surveyed the destroyed county seat and saw Kong Household and servant-household members recovering the dead.
• Kong Wenxuan asked whether the other seven County Boundary Steles had been refined, and Kong Changgeng confirmed they were ready.
• Kong Wenxuan took the seven steles from Kong Changgeng and arranged for Kong Wenzhang to guard him while he erected them.
• Kong Wenxuan contacted Kong Wenzhang and arranged to meet at the western border, where he planned to erect the West Two County Boundary Stele first.

Kong Wenxuan cleared the western border’s mountains of Demon Beasts and set up the West Two County Boundary Stele. He and Kong Wenzhang then installed the remaining steles, activating a barrier that enveloped all of Peacock County.

• Kong Wenxuan patrolled the western boundary, slaughtering the Demon Beasts, demon birds, and demon insects in its mountains and ravines.
• Kong Wenzhang arrived with household disciples and servant cultivators, and Kong Wenxuan told them about the county seat’s attack and the Second Elder’s injuries.
• Kong Wenxuan activated the West Two County Boundary Stele while Kong Wenzhang and the others stood guard.
• Kong Wenxuan, Kong Wenzhang, and their companions traveled to the other borders, clearing threats and installing the County Boundary Steles.
• Kong Wenxuan activated all eight steles, and the Boundary Stele Barrier expanded to envelop Peacock County.

Kong Wenxuan completed the eight boundary steles, strengthening Peacock County’s defenses and warning system, then returned to the recovering county seat. Patriarch Kong Changgeng asked him to help cultivators from the Yan, Ma, and Yun Households use the Peacock True Spirit Star’s projection imprints to attempt Foundation Establishment, and Kong Wenxuan agreed.

• Kong Wenxuan inspected the Boundary Stele Barrier, left its passive functions running, and flew back to Peacock County with Kong Wenzhang and the others.
• Kong Wenxuan returned the Peacock Feather Boat to Patriarch Kong Changgeng and saw that the county seat had been cleared and the wounded treated, while plans were made to bury the fallen in the future Peacock Secret Realm.
• Kong Wenxuan learned that the second elder was recovering and guiding Second Aunt Kong Yujin as she took over delicate work on the county’s formations and construction plans.
• Kong Wenxuan told Patriarch Kong Changgeng that all eight boundary steles were erected and that assistant officials would receive authority to open the barrier.
• Patriarch Kong Changgeng explained that cultivators from the Yan, Ma, and Yun Households wanted Peacock True Spirit Star projection imprints to aid their attempts at Foundation Establishment.
• Kong Wenxuan agreed to guide the projection imprints and told the households to send their candidates to him on the highest peak.

Yan Zhiyu, Ma Zhenyu, and Yun Qishen brought nine cultivators to Kong Wenxuan to receive the Kong Household’s Peacock True Spirit Star projection and attempt Foundation Establishment. The six lineage disciples began secluded breakthroughs in rooms on the summit, while Yan Zhiyu stayed to guard them and Kong Wenxuan resumed refining the Yellow Earth Divine Sword.

• Yan Zhiyu, Ma Zhenyu, and Yun Qishen asked Kong Wenxuan to bestow the Peacock True Spirit Star’s projection imprint on themselves and six Qi Refining Ninth Layer disciples.
• Kong Wenxuan summoned the Peacock True Spirit Star’s projection, which divided into nine imprints and entered the nine cultivators, sharpening their perception and clearing their minds.
• Yan Zhiyu ordered two Yan Household disciples to seize the opportunity to attempt Foundation Establishment and requested secluded rooms from Kong Wenxuan.
• Kong Wenxuan allowed the Yan, Ma, and Yun Household disciples to use the summit buildings, and all six went into seclusion to attempt breakthroughs.
• Yan Zhiyu stayed on the summit to guard the disciples, while Kong Wenxuan returned to the main building and refined the Yellow Earth Divine Sword with Second Tier Shoushan Stone.

Kong Wenxuan continued refining the Yellow Earth Divine Sword while eight cultivators from the Yan, Ma, and Yun households attempted Foundation Establishment. Ma Zhenyu succeeded in breaking through but quickly failed the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram’s Star Inlaying Trial, leaving Kong Wenxuan to go congratulate him.

• Kong Wenxuan chose to advance the Yellow Earth Divine Sword for its defensive strength and spent five days refining it with Shoushan Stone.
• A Ma Household cultivator opened his Sea of Consciousness but succumbed to demonic nature and became a sparrow Demon Beast, so Kong Wenxuan killed him with the White Metal Divine Sword.
• Ma Zhenyu successfully suppressed the Demonic Nature Backlash and reached Foundation Establishment.
• Ma Zhenyu accepted the Star Inlaying Trial, and the force of the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram vanished soon afterward as his presence and Spiritual Consciousness returned.
• Yan Zhiyu realized Ma Zhenyu had succeeded in Foundation Establishment, while Kong Wenxuan concluded that he had failed to inlay a star and prepared to congratulate him.

Ma Zhenyu established his foundation, but another Ma Household cultivator died after failing the breakthrough. The Yan, Ma, and Yun households’ cultivators then completed their attempts with mixed results, and all three new Foundation Establishment cultivators failed the Star Inlaying Trial.

• Ma Zhenyu emerged after establishing his foundation, and Kong Wenxuan told him that a Ma Household cultivator had died after turning into a sparrow demonic bird.
• Yan Zhiyu returned to guard her two disciples as the Yan, Ma, and Yun cultivators began their Foundation Establishment attempts.
• The Yan Household had one success and one failure, the Yun Household had one success and two failures, and the Ma Household had two successes and one failure; Yun Changhui was the sole successful Yun cultivator.
• Kong Wenxuan suspected the Ma Household’s Five Visceral Qi ability was more compatible with the Peacock True Spirit Star’s five-element power, though he considered this unproven.
• Ma Zhenyu, Yun Changhui, Ma Zhenhe, and Yan Zhiwen entered the Star Inlaying Trial, but all failed to inlay a star; Yan Zhiwen appeared to have reached the Ninth-Grade True Spirit Heaven.

Four cultivators from the Yan, Ma, and Yun Households advanced to Foundation Establishment, strengthening the Kong Household’s expansion force and restoring morale. Patriarch Kong Changgeng held a celebration in Peacock County Seat, where the story left the cultivators ready to continue the expansion war.

• Four of the eight Qi Refining Ninth Layer cultivators from the Yan, Ma, and Yun Households succeeded in reaching Foundation Establishment.
• The new cultivators strengthened the three households and helped the Kong Household restrain hired cultivators who had been shirking duties and stealing resources.
• Patriarch Kong Changgeng organized a celebration in the unfinished Peacock County Seat to honor the new Foundation Establishment cultivators and mark progress in the expansion war.
• The Kong Household, the three servant cultivator lineages, hired cultivators, and the Ya Household’s caravan attended the celebration, where the guests celebrated and earned rewards.

Kong Wenxuan advised Kong Yushan and other Kong Household cultivators to postpone their Foundation Establishment attempts until the Peacock Secret Realm was ready, then continued refining his sword while the expansion war progressed. After the war’s initial phase ended, Peacock County Seat was completed in three sections across Longevity Mountain, Crystal Lake, and the lakeshore.

• Kong Wenxuan persuaded Kong Yushan to wait before attempting Foundation Establishment and asked the patriarch to discourage other Lineage members from seeking breakthroughs in his presence.
• Kong Wenxuan secluded himself to refine the Yellow Earth Divine Sword as the expansion war continued smoothly with four new Foundation Establishment cultivators and the Eight Directions Boundary Stele supporting the effort.
• Kong Wenxuan cleared Poison Valley’s tens of thousands of venomous insects with the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation, sharpening his control of the formation.
• The Kong Household and its allies reached the boundaries of the thousand-li territory after nearly six years, completing the expansion war’s initial phase.
• Kong Wenxuan emerged to find Peacock County Seat completed, with a Kong Household residential district on Longevity Mountain, commercial districts on Crystal Lake, and government, residential, and commercial areas along the shore.

After completing the conquest and initial construction of Peacock County, Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household gathered at the new county seat to open the Peacock Secret Realm. Their ritual drew the Peacock True Spirit Star’s starlight and the land’s black-and-yellow Qi into the county magistrate’s seal, which the Five-Colored Peacock carried beneath the earth.

• The Kong Household finished securing Peacock County and postponed the many tasks of settling, developing, and administering its new territory to prioritize opening the Peacock Secret Realm.
• Kong Wenxuan summoned the lineage’s fighting cultivators to Peacock County Seat, leaving few behind at Peacock Ridge, and waited for a moonless night to begin the ritual.
• At midnight, Kong Wenxuan and the assembled Kong Household members formed Hand Seals and sent starlight from their brows into the Peacock True Spirit Star.
• The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit descended from the star, and Kong Wenxuan raised the Peacock County Magistrate’s Official Seal for it to seize.
• Starlight and black-and-yellow Qi flowed into the seal, illuminating its carvings and the map of Peacock County.
• The Five-Colored Peacock carried the glowing seal beneath the ground and vanished, leaving a vortex of starlight and black-and-yellow Qi.

The Kong Household opened the Peacock Secret Realm in the Origin Sea, where Kong Wenxuan discovered the surrounding waters were murky and dim. Devil Creatures surged into the Five-Colored Starlight, and Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo killed the first wave as the others faced the threat.

• Kong Changgeng left Kong Changlan to protect Peacock County Seat with the Mountain and Water Layered Waves Formation and the linked Stone Disc Turtle.
• Kong Wenxuan entered the secret realm's vortex, followed by Kong Changgeng, Kong Yushuo, Kong Yujin, Kong Yuyin, Kong Wenzhang, and other Kong Household disciples.
• Kong Wenxuan recognized the dim expanse around the Five-Colored Starlight as the Origin Sea and learned that secret realms there could benefit both a lineage and the surrounding waters.
• Kong Changgeng warned the group that the Southern Region's Origin Sea was unusually murky, then Devil Creatures emerged from it and attacked.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo used their Crimson Fire Divine Swords to kill the first group of Devil Creatures.

The Kong Household began opening the Peacock Secret Realm by fighting Devil Creatures and using their remains to form its land. While Kong Wenxuan guarded the center and the others fought, Second Aunt Kong Yujin led the effort to make the new realm stable and capable of sustaining life.

• Kong Household disciples formed the True Spirit Battle Formation as Kong Changgeng, Kong Yuyin, and Kong Wenzhang took positions around the starlight, while Kong Wenxuan watched the slain Devil Creatures fuse into land.
• More Devil Creatures surged from the Origin Sea, and Kong Changgeng ordered the household to follow its plan and expand the secret realm.
• Kong Wenxuan stayed at the center to watch for danger and preserve his strength, while Kong Yujin remained behind the fighters to lead the realm’s cultivation and logistics work.
• Kong Yujin and her specialists studied the new soil to determine which Spirit Plants and other crops could stabilize the newborn realm.
• The Five-Colored Peacock expanded the starlit world as Sword Screen, Dharma Screen, Black, Azure, Crimson, and other Peacocks helped the Kong Household slay the Devil Creatures.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household carved out the Peacock Secret Realm while fighting Devil Creatures in the Origin Sea, whose murky waters the growing realm began to purify. After Kong Yujin planted an Azure Cloud Bamboo seedling in soil formed from a Second Tier Devil Creature’s remains, it grew rapidly and brought vitality to the realm.

• The Kong Household slew Devil Creatures as the Five-Colored Starlight restored their strength and the creatures’ remains helped form and expand the Peacock Secret Realm.
• Kong Yushuo killed a Second Tier demonic bird Devil Creature with the Crimson Fire Divine Sword, and its corpse became a hill in the realm.
• Kong Yuyin killed a Second Tier giant python Devil Creature with the Azure Wood Divine Sword, and its corpse became a river that she and the disciples directed around the hill.
• After testing the soil, Kong Yujin planted an Azure Cloud Bamboo seedling and had the disciples nourish it with Spirit Plant Techniques and Five-Colored Starlight.
• The Azure Cloud Bamboo grew rapidly, stabilizing the Peacock Secret Realm and bringing it closer to becoming a living world.

As the Kong Household opened the Peacock Secret Realm, Kong Wenxuan explained that his completed trials had produced a superior Ninth-Grade True Spirit Star, allowing the realm to grow beyond its previous limit. As waves of Devil Creatures overwhelmed the exhausted defenders, he used the Crimson Fire Divine Sword and the other Five Elements Divine Swords to protect the expanding realm and sharpen his sword-control skills.

• Kong Yujin led the Kong Household in planting an Azure Cloud Bamboo, prompting the Peacock Secret Realm to transform as Devil Creatures surged toward it.
• The patriarch and the other defenders fought alongside four True Spirit Battle Formations, expanding the realm to a hundred li while growing mentally exhausted.
• Kong Changgeng asked why the Peacock True Spirit remained powerful after the realm reached the size recorded in the Lineage's history.
• Kong Wenxuan explained that his completion of all the Star Inlaying trials had produced a superior Ninth-Grade True Spirit Star with enough power to open a larger realm.
• Devil Creatures broke through the defenders' widening lines, so Kong Wenxuan repeatedly used Sword Qi Thunderclap to slay those entering the realm.
• Kong Wenxuan summoned the other four Five Elements Divine Swords and sent them across the realm, relying on distant sensing to fight and hone his sword skills.

Kong Wenxuan supported the Lineage as they fought Devil Creatures, then used the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation to defend the Peacock Secret Realm and expand it. As the realm passed two hundred li, the attacks grew powerful enough to strain even his formation, forcing him to let some Devil Creatures through for the others to fight.

• Kong Wenxuan supported the patriarch, eldest uncle, third aunt, eldest brother, and the Qi Refinement cultivators as they fought increasingly powerful Devil Creatures and tempered their abilities.
• When the Peacock Secret Realm reached one hundred and fifty li, Kong Wenxuan formed the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation across it and slaughtered the attacking Devil Creatures.
• Kong Wenxuan realized the Devil Creatures were Origin Sea matter and energy tainted by external Qi, which could be cleansed and made into the secret realm’s landscape.
• After the Peacock Secret Realm exceeded two hundred li, more than a thousand Devil Creatures and over fifty Second Tier Devil Creatures attacked from each direction.
• Kong Wenxuan’s formation began to falter, so he let some Devil Creatures enter the secret realm for the True Spirit Battle Formation to kill.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household fought off waves of Devil Creatures as the Peacock Secret Realm expanded, until the creatures abruptly stopped appearing. The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit then pulled a fragment from the Origin Sea, which Kong Changgeng suspected came from another world's origin, and explained the legends behind such fragments.

• Kong Wenxuan honed his control of his Law Power, Spiritual Consciousness, and sword formation while fighting the growing waves of Devil Creatures with the Kong Household.
• Kong Wenxuan noticed the Devil Creatures had stopped emerging even though the Peacock Secret Realm had expanded to roughly two hundred and fifty li and the Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit still had power.
• The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit seized something in the Origin Sea, and Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household disciples sent it starlight to help pull it free.
• The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit drew out a murky fragment containing mountains, rivers, and land, and Kong Changgeng suggested it might be a fragment of another world's origin.
• Kong Changgeng told Kong Wenxuan that he had heard legends of powerful True Spirit Lineages seizing fragments of other worlds and merging them into the True Spirit Realm.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household discovered that the Peacock True Spirit had brought an Otherworldly Origin Fragment from the True Martial World into their Peacock Secret Realm. As deformed Martial Cultivator Devil Creatures poured from the fragment, Kong Wenxuan warned his people about their physical and elemental Divine Abilities.

• Kong Changgeng explained that the fragment was an Otherworldly Origin Fragment and wondered why powerful true spirit lineages left such fragments in the Origin Sea instead of using them directly.
• The Peacock True Spirit pulled the fragment into the Peacock Secret Realm, where it rapidly expanded and made the realm tremble.
• Kong Changgeng warned the Kong Household to guard against Devil Creatures as black Devil Qi and Death Qi churned over the new land.
• The Devil Creatures attacked, and Kong Wenxuan recognized their forms as distorted versions of martial cultivators from the True Martial World.
• Kong Wenxuan warned the Kong Household that the creatures had powerful bodies and physical Divine Abilities, while those accompanied by devil dragons or serpents could use elemental Divine Abilities.