Chapter Summaries

Kong Wenxuan visited the Ma and Yun Households, imprinting their bloodline cultivators with the Peacock True Spirit Star’s projection and helping several reach Foundation Establishment. After rewarding households for their merits and updating their land deeds, he returned to the county seat and entered the Peacock Secret Realm with his household to develop it.

• Kong Wenxuan confirmed the Ma and Yun Households’ decisions to become subordinate households and imprinted their bloodline cultivators with the Peacock True Spirit Star’s projection.
• Three Ma Household cultivators and two Yun Household cultivators broke through to Foundation Establishment, with the Ma Household gaining the most from the imprint.
• Kong Wenxuan refused the Ma Household patriarch’s request to imprint ordinary members, but rewarded the household with more places in the county seat.
• Kong Wenxuan amended the title deeds of servant cultivator households that had earned additional territory, completing the rewards and compensation after the third expansion war.
• Kong Wenxuan returned to the Peacock County Seat, met his household, and entered the Peacock Secret Realm with them to begin developing it.

Kong Wenxuan inspected the Origin Sea and confirmed that the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram still held back the Demon Race and True Martial World, allowing the Kong Household to begin its third expansion of the Peacock Secret Realm. The clan deployed its Purple Mansion cultivators and other forces across the realm, while Kong Wenxuan guarded the Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak.

• Kong Wenxuan used the Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit to inspect the Origin Sea and saw that the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram still sealed out the opposing projections.
• After confirming that a True Martial World invasion was not imminent, Kong Wenxuan agreed to begin the expansion, and Kong Changgeng issued the clan's deployment orders.
• Kong Household teams led by Purple Mansion cultivators took positions in the five directions of the secret realm to defend and expand its borders.
• Kong Changgeng took charge of the overall forces, while Kong Yujin oversaw the Five Elements Grand Formation and its formation masters.
• Kong Wenxuan stayed atop the Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak to guard the peak and ancestral hall.

Kong Wenxuan watched the Kong Household’s disciples repel Devil Creatures as the Peacock Secret Realm began expanding. He noticed the invaders now bore many features of martial cultivators from the True Martial World and inferred that the creatures might be shaped by life and warfare in the True Spirit Realm.

• Kong Wenxuan activated the Peacock True Spirit Star, merging its starlight with the land’s power to drive the secret realm’s expansion.
• Kong Yuyin and Kong Yuqian led the defense in the east, while Kong Household cultivators, disciples, and Peacock Dao Soldiers slaughtered the invading Devil Creatures.
• Kong Yushuo, Kong Yuyan, Kong Wenzhang, Kong Yuqin, Kong Yuluo, and Kong Yuling defended the other directions, turning the creatures into matter and energy for the expanding realm.
• Kong Wenxuan observed that many Devil Creatures now displayed features of True Martial World cultivators and suspected their forms were connected to life and wars in the True Spirit Realm.

As the Peacock Secret Realm expanded to nineteen hundred li and reached the Fourth Tier, Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household fought off waves of Devil Creatures. Just as the expansion ended, the Demon-Summoning Banner flared above the murky Origin Sea and sent a beam of demonic light toward Kong Wenxuan.

• As the secret realm expanded beyond thirteen hundred li, stronger and more numerous Devil Creatures overwhelmed the Kong Household’s teams, so Nineteenth Uncle Kong Yugui and Fourth Sister Kong Wenjun led reinforcements to stabilize the battlefields.
• Second Aunt Kong Yujin and the Lineage’s formation masters worked to upgrade the Five Elements Grand Formation from the Third Tier to the Fourth Tier.
• When the secret realm passed sixteen hundred li, a Fourth-Tier Devil Creature entered, and Kong Wenxuan sent his Earth Dragon, Flame Sparrow, and Golden-Horned Rhinoceros to kill it.
• As more Fourth-Tier Devil Creatures emerged, Kong Wenxuan used the Five Elements Divine Swords and the Great Five Elements Sword Formation to slay them and expand the secret realm.
• Kong Wenxuan killed the final Devil Creature, bringing the Peacock Secret Realm to nineteen hundred li and the Fourth Tier as its expansion came to an end.
• The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit cried out, and Kong Wenxuan saw the Demon-Summoning Banner blaze above the murky Origin Sea and send a beam of demonic light toward him.

Kong Wenxuan faced a Demon Race invasion of the Peacock Secret Realm and fought to protect the Kong Household while their defenses faltered. With the battle turning against them, he activated the Peacock County Magistrate's Official Seal to call on the sub-array of the Myriad Fires All-Encompassing Origin-Fortifying Grand Array.

• A demonic beam from the Demon-Summoning Banner broke through the Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit's defense and struck the Peacock Secret Realm, bringing a large Demon force with it.
• A Fourth-Tier peacock Demon unleashed its Soul-Bewitching Illusion Light, and Kong Wenxuan blocked it with the Azure Wood Divine Sword before it could ensnare the Kong Household's cultivators.
• Kong Wenxuan used all five Five Elements Divine Swords and three Fourth-Tier tamed beasts to hold off the invading Fourth-Tier Demons and Demon Beasts.
• The Kong Household's forces suffered casualties as the outnumbered defenders struggled, while attacks damaged Kong Yujin's unfinished Five Elements Grand Formation.
• Kong Wenxuan activated the Peacock County Magistrate's Official Seal, and nine-colored flame rose from the southern fire pool with the faint cry of a phoenix.

Kong Wenxuan activated the Myriad Fires All-Encompassing Origin-Fortifying Grand Array’s subsidiary array, turning the Peacock Secret Realm into a sea of fire that devastated the invading Demon Race and Demon Beasts. The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit captured the Demon-Summoning Banner projection, and Kong Wenxuan killed the last Fourth Tier enemy as the realm was restored.

• Kong Wenxuan raised the Magistrate’s Official Seal and activated the subsidiary array, filling the Peacock Secret Realm with flames that strengthened the Kong Household forces and burned their enemies.
• Kong Wenxuan and his tamed beasts used the sea of fire and the Five Elements Divine Swords to slay the Fourth Tier Demon Beasts and weaken the remaining Demon Race members.
• The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit seized the Demon-Summoning Banner projection and, aided by the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram, carried it into the Peacock True Spirit Star.
• The Peacock True Spirit Star’s Five-Colored Starlight dispelled the realm’s corruption and suppressed the remaining Demon Race members.
• Kong Wenxuan trapped and killed the leading Fourth Tier Peacock Demon Race member with the Great Five Elements Sword Formation, preserving his body and materials while most other spoils were burned away.

After the Peacock Secret Realm expanded by nine hundred li and the invasion ended, Kong Wenxuan oversaw the aftermath and honored the fallen Kong Household disciples. With abundant Pseudo-Innate Spiritual Qi newly available, he resumed refining the Azure Wood Divine Sword and advancing his Golden Core Stage cultivation.

• Kong Wenxuan confirmed that the Demon-Summoning Banner showed no further changes, then shut down the Myriad Fires All-Encompassing Origin-Fortifying Grand Array’s sub-array.
• Kong Wenxuan ordered the Kong Household disciples to clear the battlefield, adjust the secret realm’s five elements, refine its protective formation, and develop the new territory.
• Kong Wenxuan inspected the secret realm and learned that fewer than thirty Lineage disciples had died, while some Foundation Establishment cultivators had been injured.
• Kong Wenxuan bowed and offered sacrifices to the fallen disciples in the ancestral hall before returning to his cultivation place on the Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak.
• Kong Wenxuan informed the patriarch and his eldest uncle, then used the abundant Pseudo-Innate Spiritual Qi to refine the Azure Wood Divine Sword and accelerate his Golden Core Stage cultivation.

Two years later, Kong Wenxuan arrived in Crested Ibis County to use the Huan Household’s sub-formation of the Ten Thousand Trees Boundless Origin-Securing Grand Formation to gather Qi of Wood Sha and finish advancing his Azure Wood Divine Sword into a Fourth-Tier Law Treasure. Huan Minghui welcomed him and agreed to guide him to the Crested Ibis Secret Realm after a banquet.

• Kong Wenxuan flew to Crested Ibis County, where Huan Minghui and the Huan Household welcomed him at the city gates.
• Kong Wenxuan explained that he had refined nine Fourth-Tier Red Pine spirit trees and raised the Azure Wood Divine Sword to Quasi-Law Treasure level, leaving only its Qi of Wood Sha tempering.
• Huan Minghui thanked Kong Wenxuan for the Kong Household’s teachings, which had helped Huan cultivators improve their Vermilion Beak Swords using the Crimson Fire and Yellow Earth Divine Sword inheritances.
• Huan Minghui invited Kong Wenxuan to a welcoming banquet and promised to take him to the Crested Ibis Secret Realm to activate its formation sub-formation.

Kong Wenxuan cultivated in the Crested Ibis Secret Realm’s connected spirit forest, using its Wood Sha Qi to complete the Azure Wood Divine Sword’s refinement. After three months, the sword advanced to a Fourth-Tier Law Treasure, and Kong Wenxuan reached Early Golden Core.

• Huan Minghui led Kong Wenxuan through the Crested Ibis Secret Realm’s formation into the osmanthus forest connected to the Ten Thousand Trees Boundless Origin-Securing Grand Formation.
• Huan Minghui offered support while Kong Wenxuan chose to cultivate without additional services.
• Kong Wenxuan formed the final Earth Sha Treasure Restriction and refined the Azure Wood Divine Sword with Wood Sha Qi.
• Over three months, the sword’s crimson light merged into its azure form as its power stabilized and grew.
• The Azure Wood Divine Sword advanced to a Fourth-Tier Law Treasure, and Kong Wenxuan’s cultivation reached Early Golden Core.

Kong Wenxuan tested his newly advanced Fourth Tier Law Treasure, the Azure Wood Divine Sword, then returned from the Huan Household after teaching its cultivators for three days. Back in Peacock County, Kong Changgeng announced that he would attempt to break through to the Golden Core Stage and asked Kong Wenxuan to guard him.

• Kong Wenxuan tested the Azure Wood Divine Sword’s power in the Spirit Osmanthus Forest and withdrew it without harming the forest.
• Kong Wenxuan rewarded two Huan Household cultivators with wooden swords, then promised Huan Minghui three days of instruction in exchange for using the lineage’s land.
• Kong Wenxuan taught the Huan Household cultivators about refining the Crimson Fire Divine Sword and Yellow Earth Divine Sword and using their sword arts.
• Kong Wenxuan returned safely to Peacock County after finding no Demon Race members or martial cultivators to challenge him along the way.
• Kong Changgeng told Kong Wenxuan that he would attempt a Golden Core Stage breakthrough, asked him to stand guard, and instructed him to act if Demonic Nature Backlash made him degenerate into a Demon Beast.

Patriarch Kong Changgeng attempted a Golden Core breakthrough at the Kong Household Ancestral Hall, drawing strength from his devotion to the Lineage and its fallen descendants. He suppressed the Peacock Bloodline’s demonic backlash and stabilized his Golden Core, becoming the Kong Household’s second Golden Core True Person.

• Patriarch Kong Changgeng paid respects to every grave in the Lineage cemetery before climbing to the Ancestral Hall atop Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak.
• Kong Wenxuan watched the patriarch’s presence grow steadily and realized that the Peacock Kong Household was the conviction guiding his cultivation.
• The patriarch began his breakthrough at the Ancestral Hall as Lineage descendants gathered below to pray for his success.
• After a month, Patriarch Kong Changgeng condensed a Golden Core, but the Peacock Bloodline’s demonic nature erupted and threatened to turn him into a Demon Beast.
• The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit, the Lineage descendants, and the cemetery’s heroic spirits helped the patriarch suppress and purify the backlash.
• Spiritual Qi gathered into a vortex above the summit as Patriarch Kong Changgeng stabilized his cultivation and became the Kong Household’s second Golden Core True Person.

After Patriarch Kong Changgeng advanced to the Golden Core Stage, he and Kong Wenxuan expanded the Kong Household’s Peacock Soul-Bewitching Scripture legacy to the Third Tier and integrated it into the Peacock True Spirit Star. The legacy gave the Lineage’s Purple Mansion cultivators another technique as the True Spirit Realm faced possible invasion.

• Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household Lineage celebrated as Patriarch Kong Changgeng stabilized his Golden Core Stage cultivation.
• Kong Changgeng thanked Kong Wenxuan and the Lineage, then announced he would add his Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique insights to the Peacock True Spirit Star.
• Kong Changgeng merged his Black Water Peacock and Third-Tier Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique into the star, and Kong Wenxuan absorbed the resulting legacy.
• Kong Wenxuan expanded the technique into a five-element Third-Tier Peacock Soul-Bewitching Scripture and merged his Five-Colored Bewitching Peacock with the star.
• The Peacock True Spirit Star’s legacy gained the Third-Tier technique, giving the Lineage’s Purple Mansion cultivators another means to fight and survive.

Kong Wenxuan began refining the Crimson Fire Divine Sword with Fourth-Tier Nirvana Spirit Fire while the Kong Household grew stronger after its recent advances. Just as he settled into the slower pace of cultivation, the Demon Race and True Martial World's martial cultivators launched their second assault on the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram.

• Patriarch Kong Changgeng advanced to the Fourth-Tier Golden Core Stage, and the Kong Household expanded its Peacock Soul-Bewitching Scripture inheritance to the Third Tier.
• Kong Wenxuan chose to refine the Crimson Fire Divine Sword using Fourth-Tier Nirvana Spirit Flames and began feeding the sword flames gathered from the secret realm's fire pool.
• After more than a year, the secret realm's pseudo-innate Spiritual Qi ran out, while Kong Wenxuan had refined two Nirvana Spirit Flames and Kong Wencheng and Kong Wenmo reached the Purple Mansion Stage.
• Half a year later, Kong Wenxuan sensed the Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit becoming agitated and saw the Peacock True Spirit Star shake.
• Kong Wenxuan looked through the True Spirit's perspective and saw the Demon-Summoning Banner and the Twelve True Martial Grand Formation attacking the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram.

As the Demon Race and True Martial World launched a full-scale assault on the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram, Kong Wenxuan prepared the Kong Household to defend the Peacock True Spirit Star. He summoned three allied households to join the battle and offered to shelter their clansmen in Peacock County Seat.

• The Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram and the Peacock True Spirit Star shook under the invasion, and the Golden Crow Imperial Dynasty ordered every True Spirit Lineage to defend its star.
• Kong Wenxuan recognized that the attackers were trying to break through the diagram with their main forces, unlike the limited surprise attack of the previous invasion.
• Kong Wenxuan sealed away his Fourth Tier Nirvana Spirit Fire and returned the Crimson Fire Divine Sword to his Purple Mansion before leaving the Peacock Secret Realm.
• Kong Wenxuan urged Kong Changgeng to summon the Yan, Ma, and Yun Households to help defend the Peacock True Spirit Star, and Kong Changgeng approved.
• Kong Wenxuan ordered the three households to gather in Peacock County Seat and allowed them to relocate their clansmen there for protection.

Kong Wenxuan led the Kong Household, its Peacock Dao Soldiers, and the Yan, Yun, and Ma households onto the Peacock True Spirit Star to defend it from a real invasion. After arriving, they deployed under Kong Changgeng’s orders as the enemy forces closed in.

• Kong Wenxuan checked Peacock County Seat’s defenses and sent his forces toward the Peacock True Spirit Star.
• Starlight drew Kong Wenxuan, the Kong Household, the Peacock Dao Soldiers, and the Yan, Yun, and Ma cultivators into the star in person.
• Kong Wenxuan and the others arrived on the Peacock True Spirit Star and saw demonic forces and True Martial World martial cultivators approaching.
• Kong Changgeng ordered the Purple Mansion Stage cultivators to lead their teams to assigned positions and had Kong Yujin prepare the defensive grand formation.
• The Kong Household’s forces completed their preparations as the enemy reached the battlefield.

The Demon Race and martial cultivators launched a coordinated assault on the Kong Household’s Peacock True Spirit Star, catching its defenses unprepared and nearly overwhelming the city. Kong Wenxuan fought back against the Ten Thousand Demons Formation, but a Fourth Tier black panther ambushed him and badly damaged his Yellow Earth Divine Sword.

• The Ten Thousand Demons Formation and True Martial Grand Formation struck the Five Elements Grand Formation before it was fully activated, leaving the city’s defenses struggling to hold.
• Enemy forces attacked the city walls, and Kong Yujin, Nineteenth Uncle, Fourth Sister, and the reserves moved to reinforce the defenders.
• Kong Changgeng deployed a Fourth Tier Earth Dragon, One-Horned Rhinoceros, and Flame Sparrow to hold back the True Martial Grand Formation.
• Kong Wenxuan used the Azure Wood Divine Sword and One Sword Gives Rise to Ten Thousand Laws to tear into the Ten Thousand Demons Formation and kill its troops.
• A hidden Fourth Tier black panther attacked Kong Wenxuan, and his Yellow Earth Divine Sword blocked the strike but suffered severe damage.

Kong Wenxuan fought off a Fourth Tier black panther’s ambushes while attacking the Ten Thousand Demons Formation. The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit exposed the panther as it tried to ambush Kong Changgeng, allowing Kong Wenxuan to trap and kill it.

• Kong Wenxuan stopped the black panther’s first attack and destroyed its Black Shadow Curtain, though the panther escaped into the Ten Thousand Demons Formation.
• Kong Wenxuan attacked the formation, drew out two Fourth Tier Demon Beasts, and killed them while staying alert for the panther.
• The black panther launched another sneak attack, but Kong Wenxuan’s Crimson Fire and White Metal Divine Swords destroyed its shadow decoys.
• The Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit revealed the panther fleeing toward Kong Changgeng’s battlefield to attack the clan leader.
• Kong Wenxuan trapped the panther in his Sword Light Forest and killed it.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household turned the battle for Peacock True Spirit Star around, and the Fourth-Tier Azure Wood Divine Sword helped destroy the Ten Thousand Demons Formation. With the fleeing enemies trapped, Kong Wenxuan killed the formation’s remaining Fourth-Tier defenders, while the True Spirit Heaven devoured the resulting Yao Qi storms.

• After the Fourth-Tier black panther died, Kong Wenxuan saw the Seventh-Grade True Spirit Heaven swallow the resulting Yao Qi storm and suspected the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram was targeting the Demon Race.
• Kong Changgeng and Kong Wenxuan held off the enemy formations while Kong Yujin and the Kong Household forces strengthened the county seat’s defenses and launched a counterattack.
• Kong Wenxuan used the Fourth-Tier Azure Wood Divine Sword to tear open the weakened Ten Thousand Demons Formation, and the combined attacks of the Kong Household forces destroyed it.
• Kong Wenxuan trapped the fleeing Fourth-Tier turtle demon and two Fourth-Tier Demon Beasts in his Sword Light Forest and killed the two beasts.
• Kong Wenxuan’s Sword Light Forest overcame the turtle demon’s many defenses and killed it, and the True Spirit Heaven swallowed the resulting Yao Qi storm.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household defeated the invading Demon Race, Demon Beasts, and martial cultivators on the Peacock True Spirit Star. After the battle, he discovered that the star was absorbing the invaders’ blood, apparently strengthening the star and the Peacock True Spirit.

• Kong Wenxuan helped Patriarch Kong Changgeng defeat a Fourth-Tier Zhurong martial cultivator with the Azure Wood Divine Sword’s Sword Light Forest.
• Kong Wenxuan and Patriarch Kong Changgeng attacked the weakened True Martial Grand Formation while Kong Yujin and the Five Elements Sword Formation joined the assault.
• Patriarch Kong Changgeng’s Earth Dragon and Golden-Horned Rhinoceros protected him from the True Martial Giant’s final attack, though both were badly wounded.
• The True Martial Grand Formation shattered, and Kong Wenxuan trapped and killed the Fourth-Tier Three Heads and Six Arms martial cultivator.
• Kong Wenxuan discovered that the Peacock True Spirit Star absorbed the invaders’ blood and confirmed that the star and the Peacock True Spirit had grown slightly.

After the Kong Household defeated its first attackers, Kong Wenxuan realized the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram was controlling enemy strength and would send stronger forces against them. The next assault arrived, and the Kong Household prepared and struck first.

• Kong Wenxuan observed that the Peacock True Spirit Star grew slightly by absorbing the defeated enemies' blood.
• Kong Wenxuan deduced that the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram had limited the first attack to match the Kong Household's recorded strength and would send more enemies after their easy victory.
• Kong Wenxuan warned the Kong Household that a stronger attack was coming and ordered his second aunt to fully activate the city protection formation.
• Kong Changgeng restored his three Fourth Tier tamed beasts while Kong Wenxuan repaired the Yellow Earth Divine Sword and readied all five Five Elements Divine Swords.
• Kong Wenxuan led the Kong Household in striking first at the larger Ten Thousand Demons Formation and stronger True Martial Grand Formation, slowing and shaking their advance.