Chapter Summaries

The True Martial World’s martial cultivators invaded the Peacock Secret Realm, and the Kong Household activated its Five Elements Grand Formation and Great Five Elements Sword Formation to repel them. Kong Wenxuan’s sword formation killed a Third Tier "lesser Giant Spirit" martial cultivator with one strike, leaving him to reflect on how much stronger the formation was than his own previous effort.

• Nearly a thousand martial cultivators from the True Martial World charged into the Peacock Secret Realm, intent on killing and looting.
• Kong Changgeng ordered the secret realm’s protective grand formation activated as five-colored light formed the Five Elements Grand Formation.
• Kong Wenxuan summoned support from Second Elder Kong Changlan and redeployed the Great Five Elements Sword Formation across the secret realm.
• Kong Wenxuan used the sword formation to send a Great Five Elements Destruction Sword Light at the invaders, leaving most First and Second Tier cultivators unable to move.
• A Third Tier "lesser Giant Spirit" martial cultivator tried to block the sword light with his axes, armor, Blood Gang, and hardened body, but the strike cut through everything and killed him.
• Kong Wenxuan compared the one-strike kill with his earlier difficult battle against a Third Tier "lesser Giant Spirit" martial cultivator.

Kong Wenxuan’s sword light killed an invading Third Tier martial cultivator, turning the Kong Household disciples’ panic into a counterattack. The two sides fought across the Peacock Secret Realm, where the battle remained deadlocked.

• Kong Wenxuan activated the Great Five Elements Sword Formation and slew one of the True Martial World’s Third Tier leaders, shocking the invaders and heartening the Kong Household disciples.
• The remaining invader leaders ordered their forces to form True Martial Battle Formations as the Second Tier Five Elements Grand Formation attacked and held them back.
• Patriarch Kong Changgeng ordered the Kong Household disciples to form True Spirit Battle Formations, and their peacock manifestations engaged the True Martial formations.
• Kong Changlan and the Lineage disciples arrived, helped strengthen the Five Elements Grand Formation, and joined the fighting alongside the Peacock Dao Soldiers.
• The two sides clashed throughout the secret realm, with the Peacock True Spirit Star and the Five Elements Grand Formation supporting the Kong Household as neither side gained a decisive advantage.

Kong Changgeng and Kong Wenxuan faced the invading Third Tier martial cultivators as the decisive battle for the Peacock Secret Realm began. After the Great Five Elements Destruction Sword Light failed to kill the five enemies attacking him, Kong Wenxuan contracted the Great Five Elements Sword Formation around them to wear them down.

• The nine remaining Third Tier martial cultivators split into groups, with four charging Kong Changgeng and five attacking Kong Wenxuan.
• Kong Changgeng sent his black tiger, azure sparrow, and Black Water Peacock against three attackers while battling the fourth with water-element treasure techniques, but he was quickly put at a disadvantage.
• Kong Wenxuan fired a Great Five Elements Destruction Sword Light at the five attackers, who blocked it together at the cost of damaging several weapons and techniques.
• The five martial cultivators charged Kong Wenxuan after surviving the strike, and he contracted the Great Five Elements Sword Formation around them.

Kong Wenxuan summoned the Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit to strengthen the Great Five Elements Sword Formation and trap five Third Tier martial cultivators, risking the Kong Household’s True Spirit Star. The formation launched another devastating strike as the trapped cultivators used limited True Martial power stored in their jade pendants to defend themselves.

• The five Third Tier martial cultivators attacked the Great Five Elements Sword Formation, nearly breaking its weaker divine swords while Kong Wenxuan struggled to hold it together.
• Kong Wenxuan summoned the Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit from the Peacock True Spirit Star and merged it with the formation, stabilizing it and trapping the attackers more securely.
• Kong Wenxuan drove the strengthened formation to its limits and sent a Great Five Elements Destruction Sword Light toward the Lesser Giant Spirit martial cultivator.
• The five martial cultivators realized Kong Wenxuan had called on a True Spirit and activated the limited True Martial power stored in their jade pendants.
• The five martial cultivators joined forces to attack the incoming five-colored sword light.

Kong Wenxuan used the Great Five Elements Sword Formation to strike down a second Third-Tier "Little Giant Spirit" martial cultivator. The other four invaders failed to save him, and his remaining True Martial power was exhausted before the Mountain and River Sword Momentum crushed him.

• Kong Wenxuan focused the Great Five Elements Sword Formation on the five invading Third-Tier martial cultivators and unleashed a Peacock True Spirit-empowered sword light.
• The second Third-Tier "Little Giant Spirit" martial cultivator blocked the sword light with spare hammers, but it shattered his weapons and cut through his defenses.
• The other four Third-Tier martial cultivators combined their attacks to break the first sword light and save him from its immediate blow.
• Kong Wenxuan's Mountain and River Sword Momentum struck before the wounded cultivator could recover, and his fists, arms, and body began to shatter.
• The cultivator ignited his Giant Spirit True Martial to survive, but Kong Wenxuan's Five-Colored Starlight exhausted it and crushed him to death.

Kong Wenxuan used the Great Five Elements Sword Formation to resist the remaining four Third Tier martial cultivators as they unleashed their power to escape. The formation’s successive sword attacks killed the martial cultivator with Three Heads and Six Arms, while the other three remained trapped.

• The four surviving Third Tier martial cultivators burned their True Martial power and attacked the Great Five Elements Sword Formation in an attempt to break out.
• Kong Wenxuan reinforced the formation with Peacock True Spirit power and struck back with the Great Five Elements Destruction Sword Light, destroying the invaders’ weapons and draining their power.
• The Mountain and River Sword Momentum shattered the arms and defenses of the martial cultivator with Three Heads and Six Arms but failed to pierce his body.
• A crimson sword light wounded him, and more than three hundred cyan sword lights battered his sinews and bones while Flame and Wood Sword Qi damaged him from within.
• A hidden Golden Light Sword Thread severed his sinews and bones and cut his body in half, killing him as the Crimson Fire Divine Sword’s Sword Qi Thunderclap sounded.

Kong Wenxuan’s sword formation was shattered when the wounded Heavenly Eye martial cultivator self-destructed to free the surviving invaders. As the True Martial World forces began retreating, Kong Changgeng sacrificed his blue bird to wound an enemy, and Kong Wenxuan killed him with the Crimson Fire Divine Sword.

• Kong Wenxuan trapped the three remaining Third Tier invaders in his sword formation as they realized they could not escape by ordinary means.
• The water and fire martial cultivators persuaded the wounded Heavenly Eye martial cultivator to self-destruct, and he charged Kong Wenxuan’s formation.
• Kong Wenxuan tried to defend the Great Five Elements Sword Formation, but the blast shattered it and scattered the Five Elements Divine Swords.
• The water and fire martial cultivators escaped and called for a retreat, leaving the other True Martial World forces momentarily confused.
• Kong Changgeng used the Vermilion Bird Command to make his gravely wounded blue bird self-destruct against the Three Heads and Six Arms martial cultivator.
• Kong Wenxuan struck the wounded Three Heads and Six Arms martial cultivator with the Crimson Fire Divine Sword and killed him.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household fought off the True Martial World invasion after the invaders’ escape route through the Demon-Summoning Banner was shattered. The chapter ended with the Kong Household killing every invader and securing a complete victory.

• The third-tier invaders abandoned their fight with Patriarch Kong Changgeng and tried to flee through a passage opened by the Demon-Summoning Banner, leaving their first- and second-tier forces behind.
• The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit Star shattered the passage’s demonic light, sending the fleeing invaders tumbling back into the Peacock Secret Realm.
• Kong Wenxuan trapped and killed a third-tier water witch martial cultivator, then expanded the Great Five Elements Sword Formation to capture two more.
• The Kong Household’s True Spirit Battle Formations attacked the scattered first- and second-tier invaders, while Kong Wenxuan’s sword formation killed the two captured third-tier cultivators.
• Kong Wenxuan spread the Great Five Elements Sword Formation across the battlefield and helped Patriarch Kong Changgeng and the Kong Household wipe out the remaining invaders.
• In less than half a day, the Kong Household killed all ten third-tier invaders and more than a thousand first- and second-tier cultivators, winning a complete victory.

Kong Wenxuan reported the invasion of the Peacock Secret Realm and his household’s victory to the Bifang commandery office. He learned that True Martial World forces had invaded secret realms across all five regions, leaving the True Spirit Realm facing further turmoil.

• Kong Changgeng, Kong Changlan, and the Kong Household upgraded the Five Elements Grand Formation while Kong Wenxuan checked the battle beyond the heavens.
• Kong Wenxuan saw that the Demon-Summoning Banner’s projection had been suppressed again, then returned to Peacock County Seat to report the invasion.
• Kong Wenxuan met Bi Yanshu at the commandery office because the Bifang commandery governor was away fighting on the Outer Heaven Battlefield.
• Kong Wenxuan submitted the report of his household’s victory, and Bi Yanshu promised to forward it for merit rewards.
• Bi Yanshu told Kong Wenxuan that True Martial World martial cultivators had invaded secret realms across all five regions, with some breaking into commanderies and counties, and warned the Kong Household to prepare for more fighting.

Kong Wenxuan returned to the Peacock Secret Realm after learning that the Demon Race and True Martial World's martial cultivators were invading True Spirit territory. The Kong Household prepared to defend Peacock County, gather news, and use the expanded secret realm's Pseudo-Innate Spiritual Qi to strengthen its members.

• Kong Wenxuan saw the contrast between peaceful Peacock County and the war spreading across the True Spirit Realm, then returned to the Peacock Secret Realm determined to protect his home.
• Kong Wenxuan told Kong Changgeng, Kong Changlan, Kong Yushuo, and the others that True Spirit Lineages and their cities had been attacked and some secret realms had fallen.
• Kong Changgeng ordered Kong Yushuo to muster the county yamen's military office forces, increase border patrols, and coordinate defenses with the servant cultivator lineages.
• Kong Changgeng assigned Kong Changlan to gather news in Bifang Commandery City, while Kong Changlan chose to let Kong Wenjun and the others remain in the secret realm to cultivate.
• Kong Changgeng told Kong Wenxuan to focus on rapidly increasing his cultivation and combat strength, and Kong Wenxuan agreed.

After the Kong Household’s victory brought a surge of Origin Starlight to the Peacock True Spirit Star, Kong Wenxuan and his descendants used the opportunity to strengthen their bloodlines, cultivate, and prepare the secret realm. More than half a year later, Kong Wenxuan finished upgrading the Crimson Fire Divine Sword and advanced to the third-tier Middle Purple Mansion Stage.

• Kong Wenxuan witnessed Origin Starlight strengthen and raise the Peacock True Spirit Star after the Kong Household defeated the invading True Martial World cultivators.
• The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit released Five-Colored Starlight across the secret realm, strengthening Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household’s bloodlines and bodies.
• Kong Wenxuan began refining the Crimson Fire Divine Sword with third-tier Three Yang Metal Fire while cultivating, as other Kong Household descendants refined weapons and talismans.
• The Kong Household divided its descendants into rotating teams to guard Peacock County, improve the secret realm, and cultivate on Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak.
• After more than half a year, Kong Wenxuan completed the Crimson Fire Divine Sword’s upgrade to a third-tier Treasure Artifact and reached the third-tier Middle Purple Mansion Stage.

Kong Wenxuan tested the newly advanced Third Tier Crimson Fire Divine Sword and subdued a Third Tier giant crocodile Demon Beast to strengthen the Kong Household. He then flew deeper into the South Lake Mountains to seek more Demon Beasts for the Lineage.

• Kong Wenxuan used the Third Tier Crimson Fire Divine Sword to split the river and test its speed and power.
• Kong Wenxuan struck the giant crocodile Demon Beast with Mountain and River Sword Momentum, knocking it unconscious without killing it.
• Kong Wenxuan activated a Third Tier Azure Dragon Command and subdued the crocodile as a Kong Household spirit beast.
• Kong Wenxuan stored the crocodile in the Azure Dragon Command and flew toward another Third Tier Demon Beast using his map of the South Lake Mountains.

Kong Wenxuan subdued seven Third Tier Demon Beasts and arranged defenses for Peacock County and the Peacock Secret Realm. Before he could begin cultivating, he learned that Black Crane County City had fallen and that the commandery office had called the Kong Household to war.

• Kong Wenxuan subdued seven Third Tier beast thralls in the South Lake Mountains, bringing the Kong Household's total to nine.
• Kong Wenxuan left a Third Tier Vermilion Bird Command at the southern Demon-Suppressing Pass and assigned the available Third Tier beast thralls to guard key locations, including the Peacock Secret Realm.
• Kong Wenxuan returned to the Peacock Secret Realm to prepare for cultivation, but Patriarch Kong Changgeng brought an urgent message from the commandery office.
• Kong Wenxuan learned that martial cultivators from the True Martial World and the Demon Race had breached Black Crane County City, forcing the He Household to shelter in the Mystic Crane Secret Realm.
• The commandery office called the Kong, Jiao, Ya, and Fu Households to join the Bi Household's remaining forces in rescuing the He Household and fighting the invaders.

Kong Wenxuan assembled a carefully limited force to answer the prefectural yamen’s conscription order and support Black Crane County. As the expedition departed, his family and clansmen sent them off, while he reflected on his aging parents and promised a safe, victorious return.

• After learning that Black Crane County had fallen, Kong Wenxuan persuaded Patriarch Kong Changgeng to let him lead the relief expedition instead of sending the patriarch.
• Kong Wenxuan selected six Foundation Establishment cultivators, one hundred Qi Refinement disciples, and one hundred Peacock Dao Soldiers, leaving other fighters behind to defend the Kong Household and Peacock County.
• Patriarch Kong Changgeng gave Kong Wenxuan a Third Tier Azure Dragon Command containing a giant crocodile Demon Beast to strengthen the expedition.
• Kong Wenxuan and his companions gathered at Peacock County Seat, where Kong Changgeng and the clansmen wished them victory and a safe return.
• Kong Wenxuan saw his elderly parents among the crowd and worried that they would die before the Lineage could awaken their bloodlines and let them cultivate.
• Kong Wenxuan led the expedition away aboard three Five-Colored Peacock Feather Boats after pledging to return victorious, as the Peacock True Spirit blessed the departing force with Five-Colored Starlight.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household forces used the Peacock, Bifang, and Extended Net Moon Deer True Spirit Stars to teleport toward the battlefield in Black Crane County. During their journey, they saw the He Household’s Black Crane True Spirit Star cracked and fading, signaling that the lineage was close to collapse.

• Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household forces prepared to teleport instead of traveling by boat to reach Black Crane County sooner.
• Kong Wenxuan activated the Peacock County Magistrate’s Official Seal, summoning the Peacock, Bifang, and Extended Net Moon Deer True Spirit Stars.
• The three True Spirit Stars teleported Kong Wenxuan, the Kong Household disciples, and the Peacock Dao Soldiers through the Ninth-Grade True Spirit Heaven.
• Kong Wenxuan heard weak crane cries and recognized the He Household’s Black Crane True Spirit Star ahead.
• Kong Wenxuan saw that the Black Crane True Spirit Star was dim and cracked, showing that the He Household was near destruction.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household arrived in the besieged Mystic Crane Secret Realm, where the Black Crane True Spirit Star was close to collapse. After summoning the Peacock True Spirit Star’s projection, Kong Wenxuan led his forces into battle and cut down waves of invading Demon Beasts.

• Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household reached the Mystic Crane Secret Realm as the Black Crane True Spirit Star faltered amid a brutal invasion.
• Bi Yanshu ordered Kong Wenxuan to lead the Kong Household army into the ground battle, while Bi Yanshu and Bi Yanhong kept the Fourth-Tier enemies occupied.
• The Fourth-Tier black-necked demonic crane sent Demon Race members and Demon Beasts charging at the arriving Kong Household forces.
• Kong Wenxuan summoned the Peacock True Spirit Star’s projection and ordered his forces to follow their battle plan.
• Kong Wenxuan’s Third-Tier Crimson Fire Divine Sword slew scores of attacking demonic birds, and his Black Water and Yellow Earth Divine Swords crushed attackers on the ground.

Kong Wenxuan’s forces revealed the Kong Household’s battle strength by using formations and Dao Soldiers to repel the attackers in the Mystic Crane Secret Realm. Reinforcements from the Wildebeest Jiao and Fire Crow Ya Households then arrived, turning the battle in favor of Bifang Commandery’s True Spirit Lineages.

• Kong Wenzhang and Kong Yuluo led Qi Refinement disciples in True Spirit Battle Formations that unleashed sword light and Five Elements techniques against the Demon Beasts and Demon Race.
• Kong Huancai and Kong Wenzhao used Five Elements Sword Formations, while Kong Wenchang and Kong Wenyin formed a Five Elements Talisman Formation to stop stronger enemies breaking through.
• Kong Wenxuan’s Peacock Dao Soldiers joined the formations in battle, and the Kong Household army demonstrated its strength.
• Reinforcements from the Wildebeest Jiao Household and Fire Crow Ya Household arrived, bringing Purple Mansion cultivators and large forces of Dao Soldiers.
• Bi Yanshu ordered the households to form their forces and retake the Mystic Crane Secret Realm.
• The Ya Household spread fire across the aerial battlefield, while the Jiao Household attacked enemies on the ground, shifting the battle toward the True Spirit Lineages.

Reinforcements from the Kong, Ya, and Jiao Households turned the battle in the Mystic Crane Secret Realm, weakening the Demon-Summoning Banner and forcing Gonggong to redirect his forces. The water shaman martial cultivators attacked the reinforcements, where Kong Wenxuan and the others fought back, though water weakened the Ya and Bi Households’ fire-based attacks.

• Kong Wenxuan, Ya Zhaoying, Jiao Jingxuan, and the other reinforcements slaughtered Demon Beasts and members of the Demon Race, weakening the Demon-Summoning Banner and the black-necked crane.
• True Person Bi Yanshu used a Bifang apparition to kill one of the black-necked crane’s Fourth Tier Demon Beasts.
• The black-necked crane called on Gonggong to stop the reinforcements, and Gonggong ordered his martial cultivators to attack them.
• Nearly half of the martial cultivators fighting the Bi, Fu, and He Households broke away and charged the Kong, Ya, and Jiao forces.
• Kong Wenxuan deployed the Great Five Elements Sword Formation and killed the martial cultivators and True Martial Battle Formations caught inside it.
• Ya Zhaoying’s fire attacks were weakened by the water shaman cultivators, while Jiao Jingxuan’s earth- and wood-based techniques proved effective against them.

Kong Wenxuan and the True Spirit Lineage forces turned the battle against the invading martial cultivators, Demon Race, and Demon Beasts, forcing the survivors to flee. They retook the Mystic Crane Secret Realm and saved the Black Crane True Spirit He Household from extinction.

• Kong Wenxuan trapped and killed a Third Tier martial cultivator and shattered a True Martial Battle Formation with the Great Five Elements Sword Formation.
• Kong Wenxuan swept the sword formation across the battlefield, killing more invaders and supporting the Lineage disciples and Dao Soldiers as the Kong and Jiao forces overwhelmed the martial cultivators.
• The Bi, Ya, and Fu forces killed large numbers of Demon Beasts and demons, weakening the Demon-Summoning Banner and leaving the black-necked crane demon vulnerable to Bi Yanshu.
• The black-necked crane demon sent its remaining beasts to shield it and fled the secret realm, prompting the remaining demons and beasts to follow.
• The Fourth Tier Gonggong martial cultivator sacrificed Essence Blood to break free of Bi Yanhong and escaped with the surviving martial cultivators.
• Kong Wenxuan and the others retook the Mystic Crane Secret Realm, the Black Crane True Spirit Star stabilized, and the surviving members of the He Household were safe.

After helping the He Household retake the Mystic Crane Secret Realm, Kong Wenxuan and the other allied households received rewards and heard He Yingzhang’s proposal to enlist them in retaking Black Crane County. The He Household offered further payments and access to county resources, while its near-destruction left it dependent on its allies’ strength.

• He Yingzhang thanked Kong Wenxuan, Ya Zhaoying, Jiao Jingxuan and the other allies for helping reclaim the Mystic Crane Secret Realm.
• He Yingzhang paid three million low-grade Spirit Stones to each Eighth-Grade True Spirit Lineage and one million to each Ninth-Grade lineage that had aided the He Household.
• He Yingzhang asked the allied households to help retake Black Crane County City and promised matching rewards for the campaign.
• He Yingzhang offered access to Black Crane County’s resource sites and spirit-material veins according to each household’s contribution, then distributed maps in Jade Slips.
• Kong Wenxuan and the other cultivators examined the resource maps with interest, while He Yingzhang recognized that the devastated He Household could not reclaim its county without their help.