Chapter Summaries

After Kong Wenxuan discovered the Demon Race stronghold beneath South Lake, he was dragged into a Demon Race secret realm and faced four Fourth-Tier Demon Beasts. His shattered Bifang Jade Token protected him and alerted the governor of Bifang Commandery, but help had not yet arrived.

• Kong Wenxuan heard real cuckoo cries beneath South Lake and realized he had found the Demon Race stronghold.
• He crushed the Bifang Jade Token, releasing protective azure-red starlight and sending a signal to the governor of Bifang Commandery.
• A powerful torrent of demonic light struck the starlight, then swept Kong Wenxuan and his Cuckoo Feather Boat into a secret realm beneath the lake.
• Kong Wenxuan saw that the realm was filled with Demon Beasts and that a Demon-Summoning Banner formed its false sun.
• Four Fourth-Tier Demon Beasts charged at Kong Wenxuan from the four corners of the secret realm.

Kong Wenxuan was protected by Bifang Starlight while four Fourth Tier Demon Beasts attacked him, then their combined strike reached Fifth Tier power and began breaking through his defense. As he prepared to escape with the Kong Household's last Space-Breaking Talisman, the Bi Household army arrived.

• The Mountain Elephant, Fire Crane, giant turtle, and Feathered Serpent attacked Kong Wenxuan, but the Bifang Starlight initially held them back.
• Kong Wenxuan headed toward the southern mountain after identifying it as the likely location of the Du Household cultivators and the Cuckoo Demon Race.
• The Demon-Summoning Banner empowered the four Demon Beasts to combine their attacks into destructive gray light with Fifth Tier power.
• Kong Wenxuan stopped advancing and readied the Space-Breaking Talisman as the gray light depleted his protection.
• The Bi Household army arrived, manifesting a Bifang True Spirit Star that confronted the Demon-Summoning Banner.

The Bifang True Spirit Star unleashed Fifth-Tier Calamity Fire against the four Fourth-Tier Demon Beasts besieging Kong Wenxuan, killing three and leaving the Feathered Serpent gravely wounded. Kong Wenxuan watched the Bi Household’s power overwhelm the threat, leaving him safer in the Demon Race Secret Realm.

• The Bifang True Spirit Star descended and sent Calamity Fire crashing into the four Demon Beasts’ combined attack, overwhelming it.
• The Mountain Elephant and Fire Crane were engulfed and killed by the Calamity Fire.
• The Giant Turtle was boiled alive after its black water failed to withstand the flames.
• The Feathered Serpent shed its skin to escape into the Demon-Summoning Banner’s demonic light, but fell from the Fourth Tier to the Third Tier.
• Kong Wenxuan saw the Bi Household’s Bifang Calamity Fire defeat the beasts without its army or Nascent Soul True Lord intervening.

The Bifang Commandery Governor arrived with Bi Household cultivators and Bifang Dao Soldiers, praised Kong Wenxuan for locating the Demon Race Secret Realm, and began an assault to destroy it. Kong Wenxuan warned him of a possible Du Household and Cuckoo Demon Race plot, then chose to search the realm alone under the protection of the Bifang True Spirit Star.

• The Bifang Commandery Governor arrived with Bi Household cultivators and Bifang Dao Soldiers after the Bifang Calamity Fire killed three Fourth Tier Demon Beasts and crippled the last.
• The governor praised Kong Wenxuan for finding the Demon Race Secret Realm and promised to petition for a reward after it was cleared.
• Kong Wenxuan explained that the Du Household cultivators and Cuckoo Demon Race had pulled him into the realm and warned the governor to beware of a plot.
• The governor declared that he would wipe out the Demon Race stronghold and sent Bi Household cultivators and Bifang Dao Soldiers to search the realm.
• Kong Wenxuan asked to act alone, and the governor told him he could call on the Bifang True Spirit Star for protection.

Kong Wenxuan encountered demon-blood cultivators who awakened their bloodlines by worshiping the Demon God and commanding organized Demon Beasts. He realized the method could threaten bloodline lineages throughout the True Spirit Realm, but the Bi Household’s familiarity with it suggested it had serious flaws; he then joined the attack.

• Savage bloodline cultivators and their Demon Beasts ambushed Kong Wenxuan’s squad of Peacock Dao Soldiers.
• Kong Wenxuan recognized that the savages’ bloodline powers had been awakened through their blood-red tattoos and fanatical worship of the Demon God.
• Kong Wenxuan concluded that the Demon Race had devised a third way to awaken bloodlines, one that could tempt struggling lineages to ally with demons.
• Kong Wenxuan noticed that the Bifang commandery governor and Bi Household cultivators already knew about the demon-blood cultivators and fought them with their Dao Soldiers.
• Kong Wenxuan reassured himself that the method likely had fatal flaws, then unleashed the Five Elements Divine Swords and charged into battle.

Kong Wenxuan drove the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation through a host of Demon Beasts and confronted the demon-blood cultivators blocking his way. He repelled their coordinated attack and killed the Gray Wolf and Red Fox cultivators, while the Chameleon cultivator remained nearby.

• Kong Wenxuan used the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation to cut through the Demon Beasts and demon birds, reaching the demon-blood cultivators.
• The demon-blood cultivators attacked Kong Wenxuan with Bloodline Divine Abilities, demon artifacts, and an Earth Dragon pouch of Flesh and Blood Sludge.
• The Flesh and Blood Sludge contaminated the formation as the Gray Wolf and Red Fox cultivators struck it, but their attacks failed to break through.
• Kong Wenxuan used the formation's five-element sword lights to clear away the sludge and expand the formation around his attackers.
• The Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation shredded the Gray Wolf and Red Fox cultivators, while the hidden Chameleon cultivator could not land a blow.

Kong Wenxuan defeated the demon-blood cultivators guarding Imitation Wolf Fang Mountain and found the Gray Wolf Lang Household living as worshippers of the Demon God. After the Demon God empowered the household members and sent them to attack him, Kong Wenxuan entered battle, determined to kill them.

• Kong Wenxuan trapped the fleeing Earth Dragon and chameleon demon-blood cultivators in the Peacock Spreads Its Tail illusion and slew them with the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation.
• Kong Wenxuan ignored the fleeing Demon Beasts and continued south to Imitation Wolf Fang Mountain, where he found a primitive Gray Wolf Lang Household village.
• Kong Wenxuan saw the Lang Household worshipping at a Demon God Temple, with no signs of its former institutions for preserving its inheritance.
• The Demon God sent demonic light that raised awakened Lang Household cultivators to the Second Tier and temporarily awakened the bloodlines of more than a thousand ordinary members.
• The empowered Lang Household members charged Kong Wenxuan, who entered the fight with his sword formation and peacock illusion.

Kong Wenxuan exterminated the Gray Wolf Lang Household, but its members’ blood completed the transformation of a Wolf Demon God inside the Demon God Hall. The Third-Tier demon attacked him, and Kong Wenxuan called on the Bifang True Spirit for protection.

• The Five-Colored Peacock’s illusion trapped the Lang cultivators while Kong Wenxuan’s Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation slaughtered them.
• The Wolf Demon Demon-Summoning Banner shattered the peacock illusion and empowered the surviving Lang cultivators by consuming their lifespans and origins.
• Kong Wenxuan continued fighting as the banner weakened his sword formation, and his Five Elements Divine Swords killed the remaining Lang cultivators and clansmen.
• The Lang Household’s blood flowed into the Demon God Hall, where an existence absorbed it and completed its transformation.
• A Third-Tier Wolf Demon God emerged from the Demon God Hall and pounced at Kong Wenxuan, who called on the Bifang True Spirit for protection.

Kong Wenxuan helped the Bi Household assault the Demon Race secret realm, weakening the Demon-Summoning Banner by slaughtering its followers and creatures. He reached Red Fox Demon City as the Bi Household forces broke through its defensive formation, leaving the city exposed to their attack.

• The Bifang Calamity Fire drove the blood-gold Wolf Demon God into the Demon God Hall, where the Wolf Demon Demon-Summoning Banner held back the flames with power from the great-sun banner above.
• Kong Wenxuan realized that killing the Demon Race’s followers was draining and dimming the Demon-Summoning Banner, then continued fighting through the secret realm rather than plundering the Lang Household’s resources.
• Kong Wenxuan resolved to eliminate the Cuckoo Du Household after wiping out the Gray Wolf Lang Household, and pressed toward the southern peak where the Du Household and Cuckoo Demon Race were located.
• Kong Wenxuan encountered the Red Fox Demon Race, whose established city and defensive formation showed far greater strength than the Gray Wolf Lang Household.
• The Bi Household cultivators and Bifang Dao Soldiers overwhelmed Red Fox Demon City’s defenders and blasted apart its grand formation as Kong Wenxuan arrived.

Kong Wenxuan and the Bi Household forces broke through the Red Fox Demon City’s defenses and fought their way to its Demon God Hall. He then saw the Du Household perform the forbidden A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix ritual, revealing that they sought to revive the fallen Cuckoo True Spirit, while the Bifang Commandery Governor continued to watch and wait.

• The Red Fox Demon Race, demon-blood cultivators, and awakened defenders fought the Bi Household forces after the city’s protective formation fell.
• Kong Wenxuan used the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation and Peacock Dao Soldiers to cut through the Red Fox defenders as the Bi Household forces advanced into the city.
• The Demon God Hall summoned a Fourth Tier four-tailed Red Fox Demon God, which clashed with the Bi Household’s Golden Core cultivators.
• Kong Wenxuan saw a golden Phoenix Terrace rise above the southern mountain, where a Star Stone summoned the bloodied False Phoenix formed from the Cuckoo True Spirit.
• Kong Wenxuan concluded that the Du Household sought to use the Star Stone to revive the False Phoenix and wondered why the Bifang Commandery Governor was still holding back.

The Du Household used A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix to drain avian demons and demon gods in the Demon Race Secret Realm, while the Bi Household blocked anyone from stopping them. Their ritual revived the Cuckoo False Phoenix, which rose to the Fifth Tier after swallowing the Cuckoo True Spirit Star's Star Stone, as tribulation lightning gathered.

• The Bifang Commandery governor stopped the Bi Household forces from attacking the Du Household, and the Du Household unleashed A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix.
• Birds, avian demons, demon-blood cultivators, and demon gods were compelled to bow toward the Phoenix Terrace, then exploded as the ritual harvested their blood and essence.
• Demons accused the Du Household of deliberately bringing the Bi Household army to the secret realm, while the Bi Household forces prevented them from intervening.
• The ritual's seven-colored nirvana flames healed and revived the Cuckoo False Phoenix, raising it to the Fourth Tier.
• The Fourth-Tier Cuckoo False Phoenix swallowed the Cuckoo True Spirit Star's Star Stone, reached the Fifth Tier, and drew tribulation lightning.

The Du Household completed its forbidden ritual and raised its Cuckoo False Phoenix to the Fifth Tier, but flames from the Extreme South Forbidden Land descended and destroyed the household and its allies. Kong Wenxuan watched the Bi Household remain protected by the Bifang True Spirit Star’s starlight.

• A Du Household cultivator taunted the Bi Household and sent demonic light into the reborn Cuckoo False Phoenix, which unleashed seven-colored flames across the secret realm.
• Kong Wenxuan used the Five-Colored Divine Light to shake off the Phoenix’s suppression, then was protected when the Bifang True Spirit Star’s starlight pushed back the flames.
• The Du Household poured more power into the Cuckoo False Phoenix, but the Commandery Governor of Bifang waited for the fire clouds gathering above them.
• Kong Wenxuan recognized the fire clouds as connected to the Extreme South Forbidden Land, and the Du Household cultivator tried to shield the False Phoenix with its flames.
• Crimson flames engulfed the Cuckoo False Phoenix, Phoenix Terrace, mountain, Du Household, and Cuckoo Demon Race, destroying them all.

The Bifang Commandery Governor weakened the Demon-Summoning Banner to force the Demon Race to contact the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven. When the banner’s immense shadow suppressed the secret realm, he endured its power and declared that he had found the grotto-heaven.

• Kong Wenxuan watched the Du Household destroy itself with A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix and resolved to warn his patriarch against using the forbidden technique.
• The Bifang Commandery Governor attacked Demon God Halls with Tricolor Calamity Fire, killing the Red Fox Demon God and other Demon Gods.
• The surviving Demon Gods flew into the weakened Demon-Summoning Banner, which gathered its power and sent a beam into the Origin Sea.
• The Bifang Commandery Governor followed the beam with his spiritual light, seeking the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven.
• A vast banner shadow appeared over the secret realm and crushed Kong Wenxuan to the ground, while the Five-Colored Divine Light protected him.
• The Bifang Commandery Governor raised his Official Seal and announced that he had found the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven.

The governor of Bifang Commandery activated his Official Seal, unleashing the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram and turning the battle against the Demon-Summoning Banner. As the diagram transformed the Demon Race's secret realm, it seized the banner's projection and began drawing the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven out of the Origin Sea.

• The governor of Bifang Commandery activated his Official Seal and sent the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram across the secret realm's sky.
• The diagram trapped and suppressed the Demon-Summoning Banner, freeing Kong Wenxuan, the Bi Household cultivators, and the Bifang Dao Soldiers from the banner shadow's pressure.
• The diagram's sunlight, moonlight, and starlight began transforming the secret realm toward the True Spirit Realm, while Kong Wenxuan summoned his Peacock True Spirit Star to restore his strength.
• The diagram's light surged into the Origin Sea, seized the Demon-Summoning Banner's true-form projection, and traced its connection to its source.
• The Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram suppressed the banner shadow and began pulling the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven out of the Origin Sea.

Kong Wenxuan witnessed the True Martial World attack the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven and shatter the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram protecting the Demon Race's secret realm. True Martial cultivators poured into the realm, and a group of Lesser Giant Spirits charged toward him.

• Kong Wenxuan used the Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit to see the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven being drawn toward the Demon Race's secret realm.
• Twelve figures appeared above the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven and summoned a projection of the True Martial World with twelve True Martial Halls.
• The True Martial World projection sent chaotic light through the grotto-heaven toward the Demon Race's secret realm, where the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram met it in a violent collision.
• The collision scattered Kong Wenxuan's consciousness and tore apart the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram, allowing more than a hundred beams of chaotic light to enter the secret realm.
• True Martial cultivators emerged from the chaotic light and attacked throughout the secret realm, while a group transformed into Lesser Giant Spirits and charged at Kong Wenxuan.

Kong Wenxuan joined the defense against True Martial World invaders and released his Third Tier black tiger battle beast to hold off a powerful attacker. He discovered the invaders were vulnerable to spiritual illusions but had prepared helmets to counter them, then charged their remaining fighters with his sword formation.

• The Bifang Commandery governor ordered everyone to kill the invading True Martial cultivators and prevent them from reaching the True Spirit Realm.
• Kong Wenxuan summoned the Peacock True Spirit projection to strengthen and replenish himself, then released his Third Tier black tiger battle beast with the White Tiger Command.
• The black tiger engaged the leading Third Tier Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivator and used its speed to keep the stronger, slower opponent occupied.
• Kong Wenxuan attacked the remaining Second Tier Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivators with his Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation and Peacock Spreads Its Tail illusion.
• The illusion briefly trapped the martial cultivators, but light from their helmets freed them, and Kong Wenxuan drove his sword formation straight at them.

Kong Wenxuan trapped a force of Second-Tier Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivators in his Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation and unleashed its full power against them. He killed their leader, proving that the True Martial cultivators could be slain despite their formidable bodies and armor.

• Kong Wenxuan found that the Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivators’ bodies and divine weapon armor resisted his sword formation like the defenses of Third-Tier Demon Beasts.
• Kong Wenxuan drew the attackers into his sword formation and chose to rely on his own strength and the Peacock True Spirit Star rather than call for help.
• Kong Wenxuan merged the Five-Colored Peacock illusion into the formation and gathered its five-elements Sword Qi into the Black Water Divine Sword.
• The Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivators identified a critical node and battered the formation, but the Five Elements Divine Swords and Peacock True Spirit Star’s power kept it intact.
• Kong Wenxuan’s strongest strike cleaved the leader’s armor, and Golden Light Sword Threads killed him.
• Kong Wenxuan understood the leader’s final cry and grew more certain that the languages of the True Martial World and True Spirit Realm shared an origin.

Kong Wenxuan fought the remaining Lesser Giant Spirit True Martial cultivators, but their battle formation manifested a Third Tier Giant Spirit True Martial that shattered his sword formation and injured him. He evaded its attacks until it targeted the Third Tier black tiger beast, which he saved from a killing blow at the cost of half its tail.

• Kong Wenxuan used the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation and the Second Tier Black Water Divine Sword to kill three more Second Tier True Martial cultivators.
• The nine remaining Lesser Giant Spirit True Martial cultivators formed a battle formation, summoning a Giant Spirit True Martial that broke Kong Wenxuan's sword formation and injured him.
• The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit restored Kong Wenxuan's magic power, Spiritual Consciousness, and injuries as he recognized that the battle formation relied on the cultivators' own strength.
• Kong Wenxuan rode the Crimson Fire Divine Sword around the slow Giant Spirit True Martial and harried it with his other swords, forcing its formation's cultivators to exhaust themselves.
• The Giant Spirit True Martial attacked the Third Tier black tiger beast, and Kong Wenxuan deflected its axe just enough for the beast to dodge, though the blow severed half its tail.

Kong Wenxuan repeatedly used the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation to hold off the True Martial Battle Formation until the exhausted Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivators collapsed, then killed them. He joined the injured black tiger beast against the third-tier Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivator and slew it after breaking its armor.

• Kong Wenxuan repeatedly rebuilt the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation as the Giant Spirit True Martial smashed it apart, enduring severe injuries while the Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit restored him.
• The Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivators could no longer sustain the True Martial Battle Formation, which collapsed before its next axe strike.
• Kong Wenxuan used the sword formation to kill the exhausted second-tier Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivators.
• Kong Wenxuan joined the injured black tiger beast against the third-tier Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivator and battered the opponent's divine weapon armor with repeated strongest sword strikes.
• Kong Wenxuan and the black tiger beast killed the third-tier Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivator after its armor shattered.

After defeating a group of invading Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivators, Kong Wenxuan witnessed the governor of Bifang Commandery and his Bifang Dharma Idol overwhelm and kill a Fifth Tier invader. The Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram held back the True Martial World's reinforcements, leaving the invader without help.

• Kong Wenxuan and his Third Tier black tiger beast killed the invading Third Tier Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivator after a difficult battle.
• Kong Wenxuan surveyed the Demon Race Secret Realm and saw Bifang cultivators and Dao Soldiers burning the remaining invaders with Calamity Fire.
• The governor of Bifang Commandery summoned his Bifang Dharma Idol and two flaming saber Spirit Treasures to attack a Fifth Tier martial cultivator with Three Heads and Six Arms.
• The governor called upon the Bifang True Spirit Star projection, whose Calamity Fire destroyed the invader's armor and several of his heads and arms.
• The wounded invader tried to summon reinforcements as the True Martial World attacked the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram from beyond the Secret Realm, but the defenders held the formation.
• The governor and his Bifang Dharma Idol burned the unsupported invader to death with Calamity Fire.