Chapter Summaries

The Kong Household battled the martial cultivator Devil Creatures emerging from the True Martial World Origin Fragment, but their resistance threatened to contaminate the Peacock Secret Realm. As the Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit purified the invaders, Second Aunt Kong Yujin joined the fight by turning the Azure Cloud Bamboo’s leaves into a deadly weapon.

• Kong Wenxuan and the other Kong Household cultivators attacked the martial cultivator Devil Creatures with their formations, swords, talismans, and techniques.
• The Kong Household discovered that the creatures’ unfamiliar martial power made them difficult to kill, allowing some to break through and damage the Peacock Secret Realm.
• Devil Qi and death Qi contaminated the secret realm, causing the Azure Cloud Bamboo’s leaves to wither and threatening to turn the realm into a death secret realm.
• The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit scattered five-colored starlight that purified invading Qi and weakened the Devil Creatures inside the secret realm.
• Second Aunt Kong Yujin rallied the support cultivators and used her Azure Wood and Black Water Talisman Slips to rouse the Azure Cloud Bamboo.
• The bamboo’s leaves swept through the invaders as azure clouds, cutting and shredding the martial cultivator Devil Creatures.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household fought back the seemingly endless Martial Cultivator Devil Creatures, but realized the creatures were continuing to emerge from the True Martial World Origin Fragment. After the family agreed that he should investigate alone, Kong Wenxuan entered the fragment and found himself pressed by overwhelming forces and malice.

• Second Aunt Kong Yujin used Azure Cloud Bamboo and her cultivated arts to slay Martial Cultivator Devil Creatures, while Kong Household logistics disciples joined the defense with Five Elements Talisman Slips.
• The Kong Household’s fighters grew more effective and killed the creatures outside the Peacock Secret Realm, but Kong Wenxuan noticed that the enemy numbers were increasing despite thousands being slain.
• Kong Wenxuan argued that the fragment’s corruption could not simply be abandoned and volunteered to investigate why the creatures kept coming.
• Patriarch Kong Changgeng and the others agreed to hold the line while Kong Wenxuan entered alone, warning him to retreat if he faced an enemy he could not handle.
• Kong Wenxuan activated his Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation and forced his way into the fragment, where hostile forces and malice pressed in from every direction and shrank his protective formation.

Kong Wenxuan fought through the True Martial World Origin Fragment and discovered that the True Martial Hall was spawning the Martial Cultivator Devil Creatures. He reached the ruined hall, where he found many damaged statues, but had not yet destroyed the source of the corruption.

• Kong Wenxuan pressed deeper into the fragment as its Devil Qi, Death Qi, and True Martial World power suppressed him, while the Peacock True Spirit replenished his strength.
• Patriarch Kong Changgeng sent Kong Yujin and the other Kong Household cultivators to attack from the Peacock Secret Realm and draw the creatures’ attention.
• Kong Wenxuan reached the fragment’s central mountain and saw that countless Martial Cultivator Devil Creatures were emerging from the True Martial Hall.
• Kong Wenxuan concluded that he had to destroy the hall to purify and claim the fragment, then fought his way up the mountain against the creatures pouring from it.
• Kong Wenxuan reached the summit and found the True Martial Hall badly damaged, with wreckage and numerous broken statues inside.

Kong Wenxuan destroyed the True Martial Hall and the Statue Devil Creatures within it using two third-tier Fire Crow Treasure Talismans. The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit then entered the True Martial World Origin Fragment and began purifying and assimilating it.

• Kong Wenxuan realized the broken statues in the True Martial Hall were spawning Statue Devil Creatures and attacked them with the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation.
• The Statue Devil Creatures proved too strong to defeat quickly, so Kong Wenxuan retreated and discovered they could not leave the True Martial Hall.
• Kong Wenxuan activated a third-tier Fire Crow Treasure Talisman, setting the hall and its Statue Devil Creatures ablaze.
• Kong Wenxuan used a second Fire Crow Treasure Talisman to destroy the ruined hall and all the Statue Devil Creatures inside.
• The Devil Qi and deathly Qi began to dissipate, and the Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit entered the fragment, scattering starlight and merging with its land.

After Kong Wenxuan destroyed the True Martial Hall and its Statue Devil Creature, the True Martial World Origin Fragment merged into the Peacock Secret Realm, completing it. The Kong Household discovered the realm’s new Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak, which could help their descendants awaken their bloodlines.

• Kong Wenxuan escaped the collapsing True Martial World Origin Fragment and told the Kong Household how he had destroyed the True Martial Hall and Statue Devil Creature.
• Patriarch Kong Changgeng and the other Kong Household cultivators celebrated their success and hoped to explore worlds beyond the True Spirit Realm someday.
• The fragment merged into the Peacock Secret Realm, which stabilized at three hundred li as the Peacock True Spirit Star shone overhead.
• Kong Yujin began surveying the secret realm and planning its development while Kong Wenxuan investigated an unusual mountain in the south.
• The Peacock True Spirit Star revealed that the mountain was an Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak, where burying deceased Kong Household cultivators would increase descendants' chances of awakening their bloodlines.

The Kong Household celebrated the newly opened Peacock Secret Realm and its Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak, then used the realm’s abundant Spiritual Qi to cultivate. After three months of refining Shoushan Stone, Kong Wenxuan advanced his Yellow Earth Divine Sword to a second-tier Spirit Artifact and reached Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

• Kong Changgeng and the Kong Household descendants rejoiced at the Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak, and Kong Wenxuan urged them to cultivate before moving the cemetery and honoring the fallen.
• Kong Changgeng opened a gateway from the Peacock Secret Realm, and Kong Changlan brought the descendants who had remained in Peacock County Seat inside.
• Kong Wenxuan refined second-tier Shoushan Stone beneath the Azure Cloud Bamboo, using the secret realm’s newly born Spiritual Qi to strengthen his Law Power and Spiritual Consciousness.
• After three months, Kong Wenxuan finished refining the Shoushan Stone, and the Yellow Earth Divine Sword advanced to a second-tier Spirit Artifact as he reached Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• Kong Wenxuan examined the sword and discovered that its increased spirituality let it automatically defend him against sneak attacks.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household's cultivators made substantial gains during three months in the Peacock Secret Realm. More than ten Qi Refining Ninth Layer cultivators then asked Kong Wenxuan to guard their Foundation Establishment attempts at the Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak, accepting the risk of failure and death.

• Kong Wenxuan promoted the Crimson Fire Divine Sword, the White Metal Divine Sword, and the Yellow Earth Divine Sword and reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• Eldest Uncle and Third Aunt strengthened their second-tier divine swords and advanced further in Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivation.
• Kong Wenzhang promoted his White Metal Divine Sword to a second-tier Spirit Artifact, while Kong Yujin promoted her Azure Wood Talisman Slip and used it to accelerate the growth of Azure Cloud Bamboo.
• The Kong Household's Qi Refinement disciples all reached at least Middle Qi Refinement, with more than half reaching Late Qi Refining and more than ten reaching the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.
• Kong Yuluo and the other prospective breakthrough candidates asked Kong Wenxuan to stand guard, and he agreed.
• Kong Yuluo named the Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak as their breakthrough site and asked Kong Wenxuan to kill and bury them there if they failed and degenerated into Demon Beasts.

Kong Wenxuan watched as Fifth Uncle Kong Yuluo, Sixth Uncle Kong Yushan, and Eighth Aunt Kong Yuling successfully advanced to the Foundation Establishment Realm in the Peacock Secret Realm. Ninth Uncle Kong Yuchui then failed, became a Demon Beast, and was killed and buried by Kong Wenxuan at Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak.

• Fifth Uncle Kong Yuluo drew on the Peacock True Spirit Star's power and smoothly advanced to the Foundation Establishment Realm, becoming the Kong Household's eighth Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Sixth Uncle Kong Yushan followed with extensive preparations and also advanced successfully, becoming the Kong Household's ninth Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Eighth Aunt Kong Yuling advanced successfully after Seventh Uncle Kong Yutang's death left her next in line.
• Ninth Uncle Kong Yuchui failed his breakthrough and fell into becoming a Demon Beast as Kong Household members watched in shock.
• Kong Wenxuan killed Ninth Uncle Kong Yuchui with the Crimson Fire Divine Sword and buried him at Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak, making him the first Kong Household member buried there.

After Ninth Uncle Kong Yuchui failed Foundation Establishment and died, Thirteenth Aunt Kong Yuqian’s success restored the Kong Household’s confidence. By the end of the attempts, the Lineage had seventeen Foundation Establishment cultivators, with ten successes among fourteen attempts.

• After Kong Yuchui’s failure, Kong Wenxuan warned the Qi Refinement cultivators that fear would weaken their chances, and Kong Yuqian volunteered to attempt Foundation Establishment.
• Kong Yuqian succeeded, bowed at Kong Yuchui’s burial place, and encouraged the others to face Foundation Establishment with confidence.
• Kong Yuyan, Kong Yuqin, and Kong Yugui also succeeded, while Kong Yuxiao failed and became the second Kong Household member buried on Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak.
• Kong Wencheng, Kong Wenjun, and Kong Wenmo succeeded among five Wen-generation cultivators who attempted Foundation Establishment.
• The Lineage reached seventeen Foundation Establishment cultivators, with ten successes out of fourteen attempts.

After ten Kong Household cultivators advanced to Foundation Establishment, Patriarch Kong Changgeng planned a triumphant return to Peacock Ridge to display the Lineage's strength before moving its people and resources to Peacock County. He left Kong Wenxuan in charge of the county and said Wenxuan should preside over the Lineage's major affairs as its public authority.

• The Kong Household gained ten Foundation Establishment cultivators, bringing its total to seventeen and largely exhausting its accumulated resources and the Peacock Secret Realm's pseudo-innate Spiritual Qi.
• Patriarch Kong Changgeng and Second Elder Kong Changlan celebrated the Lineage's growth and bowed toward Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak in gratitude to their ancestors.
• Kong Changgeng decided to take the ten new cultivators to Peacock Ridge in a triumphant homecoming, then lead the Lineage's relocation to Peacock County to deter rivals and encourage prospective vassals.
• Kong Changgeng told Kong Wenxuan to oversee Peacock County and grant the Yan, Ma, and Yun Households their chosen ancestral homes.
• Kong Changgeng insisted that Kong Wenxuan, as the strongest Kong and the county magistrate, should establish his authority by presiding over the Lineage's major public affairs.

Kong Wenxuan granted the Swift Yan Household Primordial Magnetism Peak as its ancestral land and created an officially witnessed land deed. Yan Zhiyu imprinted the deed with the household’s bloodline, securing their claim to the peak.

• Kong Wenxuan arrived at Primordial Magnetism Peak, where Yan Zhiyu and the Yan Household cultivators greeted him.
• Kong Wenxuan announced that he had approved the Yan Household’s request to make the peak its ancestral land.
• Kong Wenxuan used the Peacock County Magistrate’s Official Seal and the Peacock True Spirit Star to create and authenticate the land deed.
• Kong Wenxuan assured Yan Zhiyu that the deed secured the Yan Household’s ownership as long as Peacock County and the Kong Household endured.
• Yan Zhiyu thanked Kong Wenxuan, pledged the Yan Household’s loyalty to the Kong Household, and placed its bloodline imprint on the deed.

Kong Wenxuan granted the Ma and Yun Households their ancestral lands in Peacock County, then returned to the county seat. There, three wild-bloodline households sought to exchange their expansion-war Contribution Points for places as the Kong Household’s servant cultivators.

• Kong Wenxuan granted Sparrow Ridge to the Ma Household and Lark Peak to the Yun Household, whose patriarchs pledged their loyalty.
• Kong Wenxuan returned to Peacock County Seat and considered preparing his second administrative report to the governor of Bifang Commandery.
• Kong Huancai told Kong Wenxuan that Xiong Fushan, Quan Zhicheng, and Diao Rongxiu had come seeking an audience.
• The three cultivators asked Kong Wenxuan to let their households exchange their merits and Contribution Points for footholds as servant cultivator households in Peacock County.

Kong Wenxuan explained the terms for the Xiong, Quan, and Diao Lineages to settle in Peacock County as servant cultivators. After he agreed to let them request ancestral lands using their war contributions, all three Lineages accepted the Kong Household’s service.

• Xiong Fushan described the Xiong Household’s Black Wind Sha ability, while Quan Zhicheng explained the Quan Household’s Four Ears and Diao Rongxiu named the Diao Household’s Zhen Poison.
• Kong Wenxuan offered the three Lineages designated ancestral lands without deeds at first, while promising the same taxes and service requirements as the Yan, Ma, and Yun Households.
• Diao Rongxiu requested Poison Valley as the Diao Household’s ancestral land and offered to exchange its Contribution Points for it if necessary.
• Kong Wenxuan allowed the Lineages to request ancestral lands and exchange their war contributions for them.
• Diao Rongxiu, Xiong Fushan, and Quan Zhicheng agreed to become servant cultivators under the Kong Household.

After establishing Peacock County, Kong Wenxuan reported to the Bifang Commandery governor, who tasked him with finding a hidden Demon Race stronghold in the South Lake Mountains within ten years. The governor sent him a Bifang Jade Token for protection and support, and the display of the Bifang True Spirit Star’s power reminded Kong Wenxuan how much the Kong Household still had to accomplish.

• Kong Wenxuan reported Peacock County’s establishment and its limited tax, demon-slaying, and territorial-defense activities to the Bifang Commandery governor.
• The governor explained that Du Household members turned into Cuckoo demons remained active in the South Lake Mountains and assigned Kong Wenxuan to locate their hidden Demon Race stronghold within ten years.
• Kong Wenxuan accepted the task after the governor promised the Bi Household would provide support and gave him a jade token to protect him and send messages.
• A projection of the Bifang True Spirit Star descended over Peacock County and delivered an identical jade token, overpowering the influence of the Peacock True Spirit Star.
• Kong Wenxuan thanked the governor and resolved not to grow complacent about the Kong Household’s progress.

Kong Wenxuan cultivated in seclusion to advance his Black Water Divine Sword while overseeing Peacock County’s new subordinate households. After two months, the Kong Household’s relocation party approached, and the county’s disciples gathered to welcome them.

• Kong Wenxuan began refining Second Tier spirit water into his Black Water Divine Sword, choosing it because no Kong Household Foundation Establishment cultivator had advanced one before.
• Kong Wenxuan allocated Black Wind Valley to the Xiong Household, a fish-filled river valley to the Quan Household, and Poison Valley to the Diao Household.
• Kong Wenxuan received Kong Changgeng’s message that the relocation party and migrating secret-realm fragment had entered the South Lake Mountains and would reach Peacock County within ten days.
• Kong Wenxuan told Kong Huancai to prepare the county and secret realm to receive the arriving Lineage members, and the county seat contacted the party twice daily.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changlan led the county’s disciples outside the city to await the relocation party, which approached by Feather Boat fleet and underground secret-realm fragment.
• The welcoming disciples cheered, opened the city gates, and manifested peacocks in the sky to greet the arriving Kong Household members.

The Kong Household held its first bloodline awakening ceremony in the newly established Peacock Secret Realm, with Kong Changsen presiding. After 229 of the 300 youths awakened their bloodlines, Kong Changsen died, satisfied with the lineage’s success.

• The five-colored peacock True Spirit brought a mountain-range fragment into the Peacock Secret Realm, and the Kong Household moved its ancestors’ graves to Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak.
• The buried ancestors’ presence transformed Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak with five-colored mist, soil, and peacock-feather-shaped grass.
• Kong Changsen led 300 youths in the Kong Household’s first bloodline awakening ceremony in the secret realm, honoring heaven and earth, their ancestors, and the Peacock True Spirit.
• The Peacock True Spirit and Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak aided the ceremony, and 229 youths awakened their bloodlines.
• Kong Changsen laughed in satisfaction at the results and passed away.

The Kong Household had become a true Ninth-Grade True Spirit Lineage and taken control of Peacock County, bringing new responsibilities alongside its expanded territory and resources. It needed to develop the county, prepare for taxes, recruit subordinate lineages, establish trade routes and caravans, build more Feather Boats, and defend its lands.

• The Kong Household moved its members, enterprises, and holdings to Peacock County and the Peacock Secret Realm, where 229 of its first 300 youths awakened their bloodlines and Kong Changsen died.
• The Kong Household gained control of Peacock County and its resources, six subordinate cultivator lineages, a secret realm, nearly four hundred bloodline cultivators, and seventeen Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• The Kong Household faced new duties managing resource sites and the secret realm, with its ten-year tax exemption due to end within two years.
• The Kong Household needed to recruit more subordinate lineages and develop local resources to generate the wealth required for taxes and growth.
• The Kong Household needed to build roads, establish trade routes and its own caravan, and acquire more Feather Boats instead of relying on the Ya Household.
• The Kong Household took on the duty of suppressing Demon Beasts and the Demon Race and safeguarding Peacock County.

The Kong Household's seventeen Foundation Establishment cultivators divided responsibility for developing Peacock County, establishing trade routes, building a Feather Boat fleet, and securing the border. Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng remained in Peacock County Seat to oversee operations, while the investigation into the Demon Race's stronghold was postponed.

• The Kong Household's seventeen Foundation Establishment cultivators met on Longevity Mountain and identified six main responsibilities.
• Kong Wenzhang and Kong Yuluo received responsibility for servant cultivator Households, internal roads, and resource development, while Kong Yushuo, Kong Yuyin, Kong Yushan, and Kong Wenjun received responsibility for external roads and trade routes.
• Kong Changlan, Kong Yuyan, Kong Yuqin, and Kong Wencheng received responsibility for refining Feather Boats and assembling the Lineage's fleet.
• Kong Yujin, Kong Yuqian, and Kong Wenmo received responsibility for cultivating, managing, and developing Peacock County Seat and the Peacock Secret Realm.
• Kong Yuling and Kong Yugui received responsibility for building and guarding a Demon-Suppressing Pass, while Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng remained in Peacock County Seat to oversee and support the missions.
• Kong Wenxuan and the other Foundation Establishment cultivators postponed the search for the Demon Race's stronghold until the Household grew stronger and county affairs were more settled, since the governor had allowed ten years.

Kong Wenxuan advanced the Black Water Divine Sword while the Kong Household moved a fire vein into the Peacock Secret Realm and established a fire basin. The chapter ended with the Lineage building Alchemy Chambers, an artifact workshop, and a shipyard around the basin.

• Kong Wenxuan refined the Black Water Divine Sword atop the Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak and found that the secret realm aided his progress.
• Kong Wenmo and the Kong Household descendants used talismans and arrays to guide a fire vein into the Peacock Secret Realm.
• The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit carried the fire vein to the southern basin, where three fire veins gathered and formed a vast fire basin.
• Kong Yujin, Kong Wenmo, and the descendants laid arrays and restrictions to suppress and control the basin’s earthfire and magma.
• Kong Yujin summoned Kong Changlan, Kong Yuqian, and Kong Yuyan to build Alchemy Chambers, an artifact workshop, and a shipyard around the basin.

Kong Wenxuan learned that the Kong Household had captured a Second Tier fire vein and was nearing completion of a road connecting Peacock County to Cuckoo Town. At the new fire basin, he watched Kong Changlan and Kong Yuyan’s group begin refining two Feather Boats, which they expected to finish within a year.

• Kong Wenmo told Kong Wenxuan that Eldest Uncle’s road was a little over two hundred li from the Demon-Suppressing Pass and that the remaining route was mostly familiar ground.
• Kong Wenxuan considered how opening the road would connect Peacock County to trade and attract cultivators and wild-bloodline Lineages.
• Kong Changlan, Kong Yuyan, and the Qi Refinement disciples assembled a Lightning Falcon Feather Boat and a Cuckoo Feather Boat at the shipyard.
• Kong Changlan explained that the boats’ parts had been prepared over two years and that the assembled boats should be finished within a year for the Kong Household’s first tax payment and trade trip to Bifang Commandery City.
• Kong Changlan praised the Lineage members’ different contributions and told Kong Wenxuan that his cultivation and strength were essential to the Kong Household’s prosperity.