Chapter Summaries

He Yingzhang and Bi Yanshu used their True Spirits to reveal the enemy forces in Black Crane County City and assess whether the allied cultivators could retake it. After seeing that the enemies were within their ability to defeat, the group launched a counterattack from the Mystic Crane Secret Realm.

• He Yingzhang assured the visiting cultivators that the invaders outside the secret realm were unlikely to be much stronger, but warned that they had to act before reinforcements arrived.
• Bi Yanshu offered to use the Bifang True Spirit to survey Black Crane County, and He Yingzhang used the Black Crane True Spirit to show the county in starlight.
• The Bifang True Spirit's clearer projection revealed that Black Crane County City was ruined and stripped of bodies and resources, while enemies occupied the city.
• A Fourth Tier black-necked crane Demon Race member appeared and used the Demon-Summoning Banner to obscure both True Spirits' view.
• Kong Wenxuan and the others saw that only two Fourth Tier enemies and a manageable number of lower-tier enemies were in the city, so they opened the Mystic Crane Secret Realm and counterattacked.

Kong Wenxuan and the True Spirit Lineages emerged from the Mystic Crane Secret Realm into Black Crane County City, where the Bifang True Spirit Star projection scattered the forces waiting to ambush them. With Bi Yanshu's authority over the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram, the allied households summoned their own star projections and launched a counterattack, leaving the invaders in grave danger.

• The Bifang True Spirit Star projection descended over Black Crane County City and burned away the Demon-Summoning Banner projection, throwing the waiting enemy forces into chaos.
• Bi Yanshu used the Bifang Commandery Governor's Official Seal to grant the Ya, Jiao, Fu, and Kong Households authority to summon their True Spirit Star projections anywhere in Bifang Commandery.
• Kong Wenxuan summoned the Peacock True Spirit Star projection, whose Five-Colored Starlight restored his strength and bolstered the Kong Household disciples and Peacock Dao Soldiers.
• The allied households charged the invaders, while Kong Wenxuan used the Great Five Elements Sword Formation to kill Third-Tier martial cultivators and members of the Demon Race.
• Kong Wenxuan saw the Bifang projection's Fifth-Tier might endanger a Fourth-Tier black-necked crane and Gonggong water-witch, and realized the Mystic Crane Secret Realm had restricted its power.

The True Spirit Lineages overwhelmed the forces in Black Crane County City, and Bi Yanshu killed the Fourth Tier black-necked crane Demon. The Demon Core’s self-destruction disrupted the battlefield and let many enemies escape, but the households’ True Spirit Star projections began purifying the Yao Qi and stabilizing the Spiritual Qi.

• Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household, alongside the Ya, Jiao, and Bi Households, slaughtered Demons, Demon Beasts, and invading martial cultivators across the city.
• Kong Wenxuan found his formations and techniques more powerful outside the Mystic Crane Secret Realm, and the enemy forces began to buckle and flee.
• Bi Yanshu killed the Fourth Tier black-necked crane Demon after it lost the Demon-Summoning Banner’s aid.
• The Demon’s Demon Core self-destructed, unleashing a Yao Qi storm that disrupted the battlefield, while Gonggong ordered the remaining enemies to retreat.
• Kong Wenxuan protected the Kong Household members as the Yao Qi and chaotic Spiritual Qi broke their formations and injured several Qi Refinement cultivators.
• The Bi, He, and other True Spirit Lineages activated their True Spirit Star projections to purify the Yao Qi and stabilize the Spiritual Qi.

After stabilizing Black Crane County City, Bi Yanshu urged the True Spirit Lineages to pursue the fleeing invaders and seize the Demon Race Secret Realm. The allied forces advanced through the Eastern Forest Great Marsh, aiming to cut off the enemy’s route back to the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven and the True Martial World.

• The cultivators drew down the starlight of the Bifang Star, Peacock Star, and Fire Crow Star to suppress the Yao Qi and stabilize Black Crane County City.
• The Lineages killed the remaining Demon Beasts and demon birds after the Yao Qi’s influence faded.
• Bi Yanshu promised that spoils would be distributed according to each Lineage’s merits and called for an assault on the Demon Race Secret Realm.
• The Bi, Kong, Ya, Jiao, and Fu Households pursued the largest fleeing group by boat through the Eastern Forest Great Marsh, avoiding dangerous terrain and poisonous swamp gas.
• The pursuing forces targeted the Demon Race Secret Realm to sever the invaders’ retreat route and trap those scattered throughout the marsh.

Kong Wenxuan and the pursuing households chased the invaders through the Eastern Forest Great Marsh, passing the devastated lands of bloodline households. True Person Bi Yanshu stopped the pursuit before a Ten Thousand Demons Formation and began trying to break it by force, but the formation and its defenders held firm.

• Kong Wenxuan and the pursuing cultivators saw ruined, stripped settlements and grew more furious as they chased the Demon Race members and martial cultivators.
• After more than twenty days of pursuit, the fleeing forces entered a vast marsh, where True Person Bi Yanshu stopped the treasure boats and Feather Boats.
• True Person Bi Yanshu detected an ambush and used his feather fan to reveal a Ten Thousand Demons Formation filled with Demon Beasts and demonic forces.
• True Person Bi Yanshu summoned the Bifang True Spirit Star projection and attacked the formation with starlight and Calamity Fire.
• Bi Yanshu and Bi Yanhong joined the assault, but Fourth Tier Demon Beasts and Demon Race members blocked their attacks with the formation's support.

Bi Yanshu and Bi Yanhong called for Purple Mansion cultivators to enter the Ten Thousand Demons Formation and help break it from within. Kong Wenxuan and six cultivators from the Ya and Jiao Households accepted the task, and the chapter ends as they entered the formation and faced its suppressive conditions.

• Bi Yanshu said the formation had to be attacked from inside and out, and assigned the Bi Household’s Purple Mansion cultivators to support the external assault.
• Bi Yanshu asked Kong Wenxuan and cultivators from the Ya and Jiao Households to enter the formation, offering them Bifang Jade Pendants for protection.
• Kong Wenxuan accepted a pendant and told Kong Yuluo to command the Kong Household troops and avoid unnecessary risks.
• Ya Xingheng and Jiao Jing'en agreed that whoever killed the most demons would treat the others after the battle.
• The Ya and Jiao cultivators entered the formation, followed by Kong Wenxuan with his Great Five Elements Sword Formation.
• Inside the formation, the seven cultivators found their senses and powers suppressed while the demons were strengthened by the twisted Yao Qi and demonic light.

Kong Wenxuan and the Jiao and Ya Household cultivators used their distinct strengths to attack the Ten Thousand Demons Formation. Their combined assault heavily damaged the formation as the battle continued.

• Kong Wenxuan drove the Great Five Elements Sword Formation through the Ten Thousand Demons Formation, slaughtering Demon Race members, Demon Beasts, and demon-blood cultivators.
• Kong Wenxuan paused between sweeping attacks to take pills and recover his bloodline and Purple Mansion power.
• The Jiao Household's three Purple Mansion cultivators established and expanded a defensive position with earth- and wood-element arts, killing attackers and damaging the formation.
• The Ya Household's three Purple Mansion cultivators unleashed more than a thousand Fire Crow Clones, sweeping a sea of fire through the formation and burning its enemies and demonic energy.
• Kong Wenxuan watched the two households fight and recognized that their methods inflicted more damage on the formation than his sword formation alone.

Kong Wenxuan and the others resisted attacks from Fourth Tier demons while the Bi Household army destroyed the Ten Thousand Demons Formation. With the marsh cleared enough to reveal the True Martial Hall, Bi Yanshu and Bi Yanhong recognized that the invading martial cultivators were seeking an Origin Fragment and ordered everyone to attack.

• The Fourth Tier demons abandoned their defense of the Ten Thousand Demons Formation and attacked Kong Wenxuan and the other cultivators inside it.
• Kong Wenxuan used the Bifang Jade Pendant to block a black python’s attack, then found his Great Five Elements Destruction Sword Light could not penetrate its defenses.
• The Ya Household and Jiao Household cultivators also survived attacks from Fourth Tier demons with protection from their Bifang Jade Pendants.
• Bi Yanshu and Bi Yanhong led the Bi Household army in breaking the Ten Thousand Demons Formation, allowing starlight to disperse the marsh’s demonic haze.
• Bi Yanshu and Bi Yanhong recognized the palace in the marsh as the True Martial Hall and warned that the invaders sought to seize an Origin Fragment for the True Martial World.

Bi Yanshu and Bi Yanhong recognized that the True Martial Hall in the Eastern Forest Great Marsh was being used to plunder the region’s Origin Fragment, which could devastate Bifang Commandery and its lineages. They led the Bi Household’s forces into battle as the hall unleashed black water and a True Martial manifestation to confront the Bifang True Spirit Star.

• Bi Yanshu and Bi Yanhong recognized the True Martial Hall as a means of plundering the local Origin Fragment and ordered an immediate assault.
• The Bi Household’s leaders feared the plunder would drain the marsh and bring lasting harm to Bifang Commandery and its True Spirit Lineages.
• Bi Yanshu and Bi Yanhong led their army toward the True Martial Hall while the Bifang True Spirit Star projected starlight and Calamity Fire at it.
• The True Martial Hall summoned a python-headed, human-bodied figure that sent black water against the Bifang True Spirit Star’s attack.
• The hall’s black water flooded the Great Marsh, empowering the invading water-witch martial cultivators as they charged the attacking True Spirit Lineages.

After two months of bitter fighting in the Eastern Forest Great Marsh, the exhausted household armies had failed to destroy the True Martial Hall, while enemy reinforcements continued to arrive. Bi Yanshu called the household leaders together and announced another summons to bring the county’s full strength into the battle.

• Kong Wenxuan used his Third-Tier giant crocodile and Great Five Elements Sword Formation to kill enemies, while the Kong, Bi, Ya, and Jiao forces fought across the marsh.
• After heavy casualties among their Dao Soldiers and disciples, the Kong, Ya, and Jiao Households withdrew to rest, and the Bi Household also suspended its assault.
• Kong Wenxuan and the other leaders recognized that fresh First- through Third-Tier enemies had reinforced the Demon Race and invading martial cultivators.
• Bi Yanshu summoned Kong Wenxuan, Jiao Jing'en, Ya Xingheng, and the other household leaders, then announced a new summons that would include the cultivator households in their service.

Bi Yanshu explained why the commandery had to rely on its own forces to fight the invading Demon Race and martial cultivators while the strongest cultivators were tied down on the Outer Heaven Battlefield. After learning that losing Origin Fragments could doom their lineages, Kong Wenxuan and the others supported a new conscription order and called for reinforcements.

• Kong Wenxuan and representatives of other households questioned Bi Yanshu about mobilizing the whole commandery instead of asking a Nascent Soul True Lord or neighboring forces for help.
• Bi Yanshu explained that most powerful cultivators were fighting on the Outer Heaven Battlefield, while invasions were spreading across the True Spirit Realm and nearby commanderies could not spare aid.
• Bi Yanshu said the invading forces in the commandery were limited to Fourth-Tier fighters and promised that the Bi Household would send Golden Core True Persons, cultivators, and Dao soldiers to help destroy the stronghold and True Martial Hall.
• Bi Yanshu warned that losing Origin Fragments could cripple or destroy the local True Spirit Lineages and bloodline households.
• Kong Wenxuan and the others agreed to the conscription order and sent messages to their households to summon their subordinate servant-cultivator households as reinforcements.

Bifang Commandery gathered nearly all its forces to attack the True Martial Hall and stop the invaders from plundering Origin Fragments. The assault began, with Kong Wenxuan leading Peacock County’s vanguard while Kong Changgeng followed with the rest of its forces.

• Kong Changgeng arrived with Peacock County’s reinforcements, including thousands of cultivators from the Kong Household and its vassal lineages.
• Fire Crow County, Wildebeest County, Pit Viper County, and other counties sent large forces, while the Bi Household assembled tens of thousands of cultivators and additional Golden Core True Persons.
• Bi Yanshu promised merit and rewards to motivate the assembled forces, which faced tens of thousands of silent enemy troops gathered around the True Martial Hall.
• Bi Yanshu ordered the attack, and the Bi Household’s forces charged first as its Golden Core cultivators formed two Three Talents Battle Formations.
• The county forces charged into the Great Marsh, and Kong Wenxuan entrusted his team to Kong Changgeng before taking the lead as Peacock County’s spearhead.

Kong Wenxuan led the Peacock County force toward the True Martial Hall while gaining insight into sword cultivation through battle, making his Great Five Elements Sword Formation more powerful and reducing his force’s casualties. He was jolted from his insight when the Fire Crow Ya Household breached the hall first.

• Kong Wenxuan pushed through the Great Marsh battlefield under an agreement to focus on the advance while Kong Changgeng rallied the forces behind him.
• Kong Wenxuan recalled the sword cultivators he had seen during the Star Inlaying and Rank Advancement Trials and began controlling his Five Elements Sword Formation with greater agility.
• Kong Wenxuan gained insight into sword cultivation through battle, strengthening the formation and helping his force advance while suffering fewer casualties.
• Kong Wenxuan heard crows and saw the Fire Crow Ya Household breach the True Martial Hall first.

Bifang Commandery’s forces broke through the True Martial Hall’s defenses, weakening Black Water True Martial and shifting the battle in their favor. After the Ya and Jiao Households entered, Kong Wenxuan led the Peacock County force into the hall, where the fight for the merit of slaying the general remained ahead.

• The Ya Household’s Fire Crow County force breached the True Martial Hall first, and the Bi Household’s forces blocked enemy elites from coming to its aid.
• The Jiao Household’s Wildebeest County army broke through next, further weakening Black Water True Martial and tilting the battlefield toward Bifang Commandery.
• Kong Wenxuan directed the Great Five Elements Sword Formation with newfound ease and led the Peacock County force through the collapsing enemy lines.
• Kong Wenxuan called on the Peacock True Spirit Star, broke through the black water and black light, and led his force into the True Martial Hall.

Kong Wenxuan entered the True Martial Hall’s secret realm and learned that destroying the Black Water True Martial statue at its core would reclaim the stolen Heaven and Earth Origin fragments. He fought toward the statue while drawing enemy forces away from the Ya and Jiao Household cultivators, but Ya Xingheng fell in battle.

• Kong Wenxuan discovered that the True Martial Hall’s vast inner realm had formed from stolen Heaven and Earth Origin fragments, and that destroying its core could return them to the True Spirit Realm.
• Kong Wenxuan saw the Ya and Jiao Households’ armies battling pursuing enemies and True Martial statues while their Purple Mansion cultivators advanced toward the Black Water True Martial statue.
• Kong Wenxuan ordered Kong Changgeng to lead their forces in battle, then activated the Great Five Elements Sword Formation and fought toward the statue.
• Third Tier enemies intercepted Kong Wenxuan and the Ya and Jiao Household cultivators, but his advance drew foes away and eased pressure on them.
• Ya Xingheng, the Fire Crow County commandant, fell in battle among the Ya Household’s Purple Mansion cultivators.

Kong Wenxuan learned that the Black Water True Martial statue had killed Ya Xingheng by controlling the Power of Heaven and Earth. The Ya, Jiao, and Kong forces agreed on a plan to breach its protection, leaving Kong to destroy the statue while the others handled the enemy forces.

• Kong Wenxuan activated his Bifang Jade Pendant after Ya Xingheng was killed, then changed course to join the Ya Household cultivators.
• Ya Xinghe told Kong Wenxuan that the Black Water True Martial statue controlled the Power of Heaven and Earth and that its attacks had overwhelmed Ya Xingheng.
• The three households gathered and agreed they could not retreat while the True Martial Hall continued expanding and stealing the world's Origin Fragment.
• Jiao Shihuan offered to temporarily break through the statue's protection, while Ya Xinghe's forces would hold off the Third Tier enemies.
• Kong Wenxuan agreed to deliver the final strike and destroy the Black Water True Martial statue.

The Jiao Household broke through the Black Water True Martial divine statue’s protective power while the Bi Household army disrupted the secret realm, giving Kong Wenxuan a chance to strike. Kong Wenxuan merged the Great Five Elements Sword Formation’s techniques into a single sword light and destroyed the statue.

• Ya Household cultivators held off the Third Tier enemies while the Jiao Household cultivators formed a battle formation and drove their Earth and Wood Single Horn through the statue’s power of heaven and earth.
• The Black Water True Martial divine statue counterattacked, but the Bi Household army’s assault sent three-colored Calamity Fire through cracks in the secret realm’s sky and drew the statue’s attention away.
• Jiao Shihuan urged Kong Wenxuan to strike, but Kong Wenxuan focused on the Great Five Elements Sword Formation to reach the strongest state he could control.
• Kong Wenxuan merged several sword techniques into the Great Five Elements Destruction Sword Light and sent it through the path the Jiao Household had opened.
• The sword light cleaved the Black Water True Martial divine statue in two and destroyed it.

After the True Martial Hall secret realm collapsed, Kong Wenxuan discovered that its fragments could be absorbed into a True Spirit Secret Realm. The Kong Household drew their fragment into the Peacock Secret Realm, where the Five-Colored Starlight weakened their enemies and let them launch a counterattack.

• Kong Wenxuan and the others prepared to flee the collapsing True Martial Hall secret realm, but Bi Yanshu urged the True Spirit Lineages to stay for a fortuitous opportunity.
• The secret realm shattered into Origin Fragments that began sinking into the Origin Sea, and Kong Wenxuan used a hand seal to summon the Kong Household's Peacock Secret Realm.
• The Peacock Secret Realm absorbed the fragment carrying Kong Wenxuan, his clansmen, and the Peacock County army.
• The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit restored the Kong Household's strength and suppressed their enemies with Five-Colored Starlight.
• Kong Changgeng ordered the Kong Household forces to form ranks and attack, while Kong Wenxuan deployed the Great Five Elements Sword Formation against the Third Tier enemies.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household cleared invading enemies from Origin Fragments and merged them into the Peacock Secret Realm. After the Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit dragged in the True Martial Realm’s core fragment, the secret realm surpassed a thousand li and a sea eye formed in its great lake.

• Kong Wenxuan found he could no longer send the Great Five Elements Destruction Sword Light beyond his sword formation, but the Kong Household’s forces and Five Elements Grand Formation slaughtered the enemies in the first Origin Fragment.
• The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit pulled more Origin Fragments from the turbid Origin Sea, and Kong Wenxuan’s forces cleared them, expanding the secret realm by nearly a hundred li.
• The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit dragged in a much larger core fragment bearing the Black Water True Martial statue, now a damaged Third Tier Devil Creature.
• Kong Wenxuan drew the Black Water True Martial statue Devil Creature into his sword formation and killed it, while the Kong Household’s forces cleared the rest of the fragment.
• The core fragment merged into the secret realm’s northern lake, forming a sea eye and pushing the realm’s extent past a thousand li.

Kong Wenxuan inspected the Sea Eye spirit land and realized it could strengthen the Peacock Secret Realm and potentially help it advance into a blessed land. After learning that the fighting in Black Crane County had mostly ended, he discovered that the Demon Race’s invasion had served a deeper purpose involving Origin Fragments.

• Kong Wenxuan examined the Sea Eye’s spirit water and water Dao resonance, and considered whether treasure lands of all five elements could advance the Peacock Secret Realm and its True Spirit Star.
• Kong Wenxuan concluded that the Sea Eye had likely formed as feedback from the Origin gained by destroying the Black Water True Martial statue.
• Patriarch Kong Changgeng arranged the withdrawal of Kong Household forces and rewards for the servant cultivator families that had fought in Black Crane County.
• Kong Wenxuan contacted the Bifang Commandery office and learned that most invading forces had been killed or injured, leaving scattered groups in the Eastern Forest Great Marsh.
• The commandery office said Peacock County did not need to send its army back, though teams could help the He Household clear the remaining invaders in exchange for promised resource rights.
• Kong Wenxuan learned that the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven had reclaimed the Demon Race Secret Realm and taken Origin Fragments, revealing that the Demon Race had invaded to pursue its own goal.