Chapter Summaries

Kong Wenxuan realized that the Five-Colored Peacock inheritance he had brought had set the Kong Household’s Peacock Bloodline on a different path from the Seven-Colored Peacock demons in the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven. After the three commanderies’ armies arrived at Spirit Taming Pass, the demons launched a fierce attack, and Divine Lord Bi Sitong faced a Sixth Tier Bifang demon.

• Kong Wenxuan recognized that the Five-Colored Peacock True Spirits in the Kong Household differed from the Seven-Colored Peacock demons summoned by the Peacock Demon Race.
• Kong Wenxuan and the armies of the three commanderies emerged from the void rift onto a plain before Spirit Taming Pass, which blocked their way deeper into the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven.
• Demons and Demon Beasts charged from Spirit Taming Pass as its formations and restrictions attacked, while demonic light from the Demon-Summoning Banner projections strengthened the defenders and their attacks.
• Divine Lord Bi Sitong ordered the armies to form up and repel the enemy, then used his divine feather fan to unleash Calamity Fire against the pass’s attacks.
• A Sixth Tier Bifang demon accused Divine Lord Bi Sitong of stealing the Bifang Demon Race’s bloodline and origin, then charged at him.

The three-commandery alliance attacked Spirit Taming Pass with a Sixth-Tier Qinggeng Warship while its Divine Lords and Nascent Soul True Lords fought the Demon Race. Kong Wenxuan noticed that the demons confronting each household matched its True Spirit bloodline, suggesting the Demon Race had deliberately arranged the battle.

• The Sixth-Tier Qinggeng Warship attacked Spirit Taming Pass and suppressed its protective formations.
• A Sixth-Tier Qinggeng of the Demon Race challenged the warship, and the Qinggeng Geng Household's Spirit Transformation Divine Lord fought it in the sky.
• The Bi, Geng and Huo Household True Lords attacked the demons and beasts with fire, Spirit Plants and magma.
• Fifth-Tier Bifang, Qinggeng and Huodou of the Demon Race emerged from Spirit Taming Pass and battled their corresponding household cultivators.
• Kong Wenxuan noticed that each demon type was fighting the household with the matching True Spirit bloodline and suspected the arrangement served a purpose.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household forces were ambushed by Seven-Colored Peacock demons whose illusion technique made their allies attack one another. He used the Five-Colored Starlight stored in their Peacock True Spirit Star imprints to free them, then sent his Five Elements Divine Swords against the leading demons.

• The Seven-Colored Peacock demons unleashed their soul-bewitching light, trapping Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household forces in illusions and turning them against one another.
• Kong Wenxuan resisted the illusion when his Golden Core’s Peacock cry awakened him, and he realized his allies were the ones being attacked.
• Kong Wenxuan summoned a Five-Colored Peacock of starlight, whose cries halted the fighting and whose light awakened the trapped disciples, Dao Soldiers, and servant cultivators.
• Kong Wenxuan saw that the illusion had already caused casualties among his forces.
• Kong Wenxuan sent his Five Elements Divine Swords to attack the leading Fourth Tier Seven-Colored Peacock demons before they could cast their illusion again.

Kong Wenxuan, Kong Yushuo, and the Kong Household fought the attacking Peacock Demon Race during the Bi Household’s counterattack into the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven. Their coordinated sword formations broke through the enemy defenses, and the Kong Household followed with a torrent of five-element techniques.

• Kong Wenxuan used four Fourth-Tier Divine Swords to attack the Peacock Demon Race while keeping the Yellow Earth Divine Sword to protect himself.
• Kong Yushuo joined the battle with his Fourth-Tier Crimson Fire Divine Sword, and Kong Household cultivators formed battle formations and deployed their boats and Dao Soldiers.
• The Kong Household combined nearly ten thousand swords, many empowered by the Five Elements Divine Swords, and destroyed enemy formations, boats, and war chariots while killing numerous demons.
• After the sword assault broke through the remaining defenses, Kong Household members who had refined Five Elements Talisman Slips unleashed thousands of techniques in a Law Technique Torrent.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household army overwhelmed the Peacock demons, allowing him to kill one Fourth-Tier Seven-Colored Peacock demon and wound another. The wounded demon summoned the Seven-Colored Peacock Demon Race's Demon-Summoning Banner projection, which healed and empowered the Peacock forces while suppressing the Kong army.

• The Kong Household army and subordinate cultivators attacked the Peacock forces with sword formations and Law Techniques, killing or wounding many and dispersing much of their illusion light.
• Kong Wenxuan used the Black Water Divine Sword and Azure Wood Divine Sword to help fight two Fourth-Tier Seven-Colored Peacock demons while Kong Yushuo struggled against one of them.
• Kong Wenxuan's Black Water Divine Sword broke through one demon's defenses and killed him, but the other escaped Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo's combined assault with severe wounds.
• The wounded demon cried out for aid, and the Seven-Colored Peacock Demon Race's Demon-Summoning Banner projection descended into the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven.
• The banner's Seven-Colored Demon Light healed and strengthened the Peacock forces while suppressing Kong Wenxuan, the Kong Household army, and their sword techniques.

Kong Wenxuan’s army was suppressed by the Peacock Demon-Summoning Banner’s Seven-Colored Demon Light, but the forces united their True Spirit Star imprints to summon Five-Colored Starlight and counter it. With their strength restored, they launched a renewed assault and slaughtered the regrouped demons, while a Fourth Tier Peacock Demon escaped into Spirit Taming Pass.

• The Demon-Summoning Banner’s Seven-Colored Demon Light weakened Kong Wenxuan’s army and strengthened the Peacock Demon Race, turning the battlefield’s momentum against the Kong Household forces.
• Kong Wenxuan tried to draw power from the Peacock True Spirit Star, but the True Spirit Realm’s Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram could not gain a foothold in the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven.
• Kong Wenxuan called on everyone to activate their Peacock True Spirit Star imprints, combining their Five-Colored Starlight into a peacock that blocked the demon light and restored their strength.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo led the renewed attack as the Kong Household army, Peacock Dao Soldiers, and servant-cultivator Lineage forces re-formed their battle formations and killed many demons.
• A Fourth Tier Peacock Demon escaped Kong Yushuo’s Sword Light Sea of Fire and fled into Spirit Taming Pass.

Kong Wenxuan and the True Spirit Lineages fought their way into the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven while the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram overwhelmed the Demon Race’s starry sky. After more than ten days, the Diagram occupied half the sky, and the Peacock True Spirit Star’s power returned to Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household’s army.

• The Fourth Tier Peacock Demon strengthened the Demon-Summoning Banner’s projection and sent Fourth Tier Demon Beasts and demon birds out to stall Kong Wenxuan’s counterattack at Spirit Taming Pass.
• Across the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven, True Spirit Lineage armies attacked the Demons, who summoned Demon-Summoning Banner projections to resist them.
• The Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram gained ground as the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven’s starry sky grew sparse and weakened.
• The Three-Legged Golden Crow Demon recalled the Demon-Summoning Banner projections from the battlefields to reinforce the sky, leaving the Demons below vulnerable to the True Spirit Lineage armies.
• After more than ten days, the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram occupied half the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven’s sky, and the Peacock True Spirit Star’s power returned to Kong Wenxuan and his army.

The True Spirit Stars’ starlight reached the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven, restoring and strengthening the three commanderies’ forces as they routed the demons outside Spirit Taming Pass. Their pursuit stalled when the demons took shelter behind the pass’s powerful defenses, leaving Kong Wenxuan’s army facing the challenge of breaking through.

• The Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram projected the True Spirit Stars’ power into the grotto-heaven, and starlight restored the cultivators and Dao soldiers of the True Spirit Lineages.
• The Bi, Geng, and Huo Households led the three commanderies’ armies in an all-out assault, with Low-Grade True Spirit Lineages and servant-cultivator forces following.
• The empowered armies routed the Demon Race and Demon Beasts and pursued them to Spirit Taming Pass, where its Sixth Tier defensive formations struck the attackers and inflicted heavy casualties.
• The demons regrouped behind Spirit Taming Pass’s defenses, while Kong Wenxuan and the three commanderies’ forces attacked the barrier without managing to break it.
• The Geng Household’s Sixth Tier Qinggeng Warship shielded the attacking forces from most of the pass’s attacks, but other demonic assaults still damaged their boats, chariots, and battle formations.

The allied forces of the three commanderies fought the demons at Spirit Taming Pass, where a Qinggeng Geng Household Nascent Soul True Lord killed a Fifth-Tier Qinggeng demon bird. After half a day of attacks failed to break the pass’s defenses, both sides paused to recover while battles continued elsewhere in the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven.

• A Qinggeng Geng Household Nascent Soul True Lord slew a Fifth-Tier Qinggeng demon bird, and its uncontrolled Origin caused widespread fall phenomena across the battlefield.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo stored the Peacock Demon corpses they had killed, seeing them as materials for Fourth-Tier Peacock Cloud Boats that could strengthen the Kong Household.
• After the Qinggeng demon fell, the Fifth- and Sixth-Tier demons withdrew behind Spirit Taming Pass’s defenses, and the allied forces intensified their assault.
• The three commanderies’ forces attacked Spirit Taming Pass for half a day but could not break its formations, so the Bi Household’s Divine Lord ordered a temporary halt.
• Both sides rested and repaired their defenses while the two starry skies continued clashing above the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven.

After the first battle at Spirit Taming Pass, the Kong Household tallied heavy casualties, many caused by the Seven-Colored Peacock Demon Race’s Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique. Kong Wenxuan proposed seeking the demon race’s bloodline inheritance to restore and expand the neglected Peacock Soul-Bewitching Scripture.

• Kong Wenzhang reported the Kong Household’s recovered demon corpses and the dead and injured among its disciples, Dao Soldiers, and servant-cultivator troops.
• Kong Yushuo learned that more than half the casualties came from allies trapped in an illusion and killing one another.
• Kong Yushuo and Kong Wenzhang discussed making Soul-Bewitching Illusion Techniques part of the Kong Household’s required training, but worried the existing inheritance ended at the Third Tier.
• Kong Wenxuan suggested that the Seven-Colored Peacock Demon Race held the complete inheritance and that the Kong Household could obtain it by searching their lair or capturing them.

Kong Wenxuan arranged for the wounded and fallen to return through the reopened rift while fresh forces rotated into the battlefield. The three counties’ army grew stronger, but the Demon Race also reinforced Spirit Taming Pass, where its Yao Qi thickened beyond its pre-battle strength.

• Kong Wenxuan ordered Kong Wenzhang to send the wounded, fallen, and spoils back through the rift, request reinforcements, and compensate the servant cultivator lineages.
• Kong Wenxuan refined his Yellow Earth Divine Sword, while Kong Yushuo continued improving his Crimson Fire Divine Sword with Fourth Tier spirit fire.
• Cultivators and Dao soldiers from the three counties rotated through the rift, with wounded forces returning and fresh troops arriving.
• More servant cultivator lineages joined the Kong Household, helping increase the army of the three counties by several tenths.
• The Demon Race summoned reinforcements and Demon Beasts to Spirit Taming Pass, where its Yao Qi grew thicker than before the battle.

The three commanderies resumed their assault on Spirit Taming Pass after both sides reinforced their forces. As Bifang and Huodou armies drew the pass’s attacks, the Geng Household revealed its formation-breaking trump card aboard a Qinggeng Warship.

• Bi Sitong and the Geng Household’s Divine Lord agreed that they could not delay the attack and ordered the armies to advance.
• Kong Wenxuan stopped refining the Yellow Earth Divine Sword and joined the Kong Household’s troops as they formed their battle lines.
• The Bifang and Huodou armies charged Spirit Taming Pass while its Demons unleashed formations and attacks against them.
• Kong Wenxuan realized that the Qinggeng army was being protected because the Geng Household had a special means to break the pass’s defenses.
• The Qinggeng True Spirit entered the Geng Household’s Sixth Tier Qinggeng Warship, which revealed a Myriad Trees Arrayed Grand Formation.

Kong Wenxuan and the armies of Bifang and Huodou Commanderies tried to protect the Qinggeng Commandery army and its Myriad Trees Arrayed Grand Formation as Spirit Taming Pass redirected its attacks at them. The defenses began to crumble, and Golden Core True Persons fell as Kong Wenxuan focused on keeping himself and the Peacock County army alive.

• The Demon Race in Spirit Taming Pass redirected its attacks toward the Qinggeng Commandery army and the Myriad Trees Arrayed Grand Formation.
• The Bi and Huo Households led their armies in intercepting the attacks, forcing Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo to join the Peacock County army's defense.
• Kong Wenxuan drove the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation while Kong Yushuo unleashed a sea of sword-light and fire against the onslaught.
• Spirit Taming Pass intensified its attacks, breaking defensive lines and causing heavy casualties among the armies of the two commanderies.
• A Golden Core True Person from a Seventh-Grade True Spirit Lineage in Huodou Commandery was killed, and more Golden Core True Persons began to fall.
• As attacks aimed at him grew stronger and more numerous, Kong Wenxuan concentrated on defending himself and the Peacock County army.

Under relentless attacks from Spirit Taming Pass, Kong Wenxuan merged One Sword Gives Rise to Ten Thousand Laws with the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation, creating a powerful but unstable defense. The Qinggeng Commandery army and its True Spirit Stars entered the Myriad Trees Arrayed Grand Formation, completing its transformation into the Ten Thousand Trees Boundless Origin-Securing Grand Formation and freeing Kong Wenxuan’s forces from the desperate defense.

• Kong Wenxuan pushed the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation to its limit while shielding the Peacock County army from attacks out of Spirit Taming Pass.
• Under the pressure, Kong Wenxuan merged One Sword Gives Rise to Ten Thousand Laws with the sword formation, creating a Sword-Light Five Elements Heaven and Earth that blocked and absorbed attacks.
• Seeing Kong Wenxuan’s defenses hold, the Bi Household cultivators sent more attacks his way, forcing him to shrink the unstable formation as the Peacock County army suffered renewed casualties.
• The Qinggeng Geng Household led the Qinggeng Commandery army into the Myriad Trees Arrayed Grand Formation, while the commandery’s True Spirit Stars joined the formation.
• The formation became the Ten Thousand Trees Boundless Origin-Securing Grand Formation, allowing it to confront Spirit Taming Pass and ending the Bifang and Huodou armies’ desperate defense.

The Qinggeng Commandery army completed the Myriad Trees Arrayed Grand Formation, whose regenerating Spirit Plant Forest eroded Spirit Taming Pass’s defenses. After recovering and assessing their losses, Kong Wenxuan watched as the forest shattered the pass’s Sixth Tier demon formation, leaving the defensive line breached.

• The Qinggeng Commandery army’s Spirit Plant Forest withstood Spirit Taming Pass’s attacks and began spreading across its defenses.
• The Bi Household cultivator urged the armies to regroup, recover, and prepare to attack again, while the Bifang and Huodou forces tended their wounded and gathered their dead.
• Kong Wenxuan repaired the cracked Yellow Earth Divine Sword, replenished his power, and confirmed that the Peacock County army’s casualties were manageable despite losing a Third Tier Peacock Treasure Boat.
• The Spirit Plant Forest rooted into Spirit Taming Pass’s demon formation, devouring its demon light and tearing open cracks in the protective dome.
• The Spirit Plant Forest breached and destroyed Spirit Taming Pass’s Sixth Tier demon formation and restrictions.

Kong Wenxuan and the armies of Bifang, Huodou, and Qinggeng fought through the demons’ desperate counterattack and broke Spirit Taming Pass. The pass’s walls collapsed under the three commanderies’ combined assault.

• Two Sixth Tier demon birds led a desperate counterattack out of Spirit Taming Pass, and the Bi and Huo Households’ armies charged to meet them.
• Kong Wenxuan led the Peacock County army into battle, using the Great Five Elements Sword Formation to cut down demons and Demon Beasts.
• Kong Household disciples, Peacock Dao Soldiers, and the armies of Bifang and Huodou Commanderies joined the assault, suffering casualties as they advanced.
• Kong Wenxuan and the allied armies reached Spirit Taming Pass and attacked its cracked walls with Law Techniques, Divine Abilities, artifacts, and sword light.
• The walls of Spirit Taming Pass collapsed under the combined assault, and the three commanderies breached the pass.

Kong Wenxuan led the Peacock County army to the Seven-Colored Peacock Demon Race’s lair in Spirit Taming Pass, where a Fourth Tier peacock controlled an army with its Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique. The bewitched creatures’ self-destruction shattered Kong Wenxuan’s Great Five Elements Sword Formation, broke the Yellow Earth Divine Sword, and wounded him.

• The Bi, Geng, and Huo Households split the three commandery armies across Spirit Taming Pass, with Kong Wenxuan following the Bi Household along the left flank.
• Kong Wenxuan led the Peacock County army to a bamboo-covered hill where a Fourth Tier Seven-Colored Peacock stood atop Seven-Colored Spirit Bamboo.
• The Fourth Tier peacock used its Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique to control Demon Race members and Demon Beasts and send them charging at Kong Wenxuan’s army.
• Kong Wenxuan swept the attacking Fourth Tier beasts and birds into his Great Five Elements Sword Formation, but they self-destructed under the peacock’s control.
• The explosions shattered the sword formation, snapped the Yellow Earth Divine Sword, and caused Kong Wenxuan to spit blood.

Kong Wenxuan survived the Seven-Colored Peacock Demon Race’s Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique and counterattacked, hoping to capture the Fourth Tier peacock. The Seven-Colored Bamboo Forest revealed itself as a demon formation that trapped his sword, showing him that plants could become demons in the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven.

• Kong Wenxuan was gravely wounded when the Fourth Tier Seven-Colored Peacock used its illusion technique to make several Fourth Tier Demon Beasts self-destruct.
• Kong Wenxuan resolved to capture the peacock to learn its Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique, but the peacock tried to control him with its seven-colored light.
• The Peacock True Spirit Star projection protected Kong Wenxuan’s Purple Mansion and destroyed the peacock’s illusion.
• Kong Wenxuan stabilized himself with Five-Colored Starlight, withdrew his broken Yellow Earth Divine Sword, and sent his remaining four swords to attack.
• The Seven-Colored Bamboo Forest came alive as a demon formation and trapped the Crimson Fire Divine Sword before it could reach the peacock.
• Kong Wenxuan recognized that the bamboo forest was made of demon plants and understood that the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven’s demonic environment allowed plants to become demons.

Kong Wenxuan’s Crimson Fire Divine Sword was trapped by the Demon Bamboo Great Formation as bewitched demons and beasts used desperate attacks and self-destructions to devastate the Peacock County army. He redirected his divine swords to slaughter the attackers, prompting the Seven-Colored Peacocks to send the entire Demon Bamboo Forest lunging at him.

• The Demon Bamboo Great Formation stopped Kong Wenxuan’s Crimson Fire Divine Sword and exhausted its force with endless layers of demon bamboo.
• Bewitched demons and beasts charged the Peacock County army and repeatedly self-destructed, breaking its formations, destroying flying boats, and injuring or killing its fighters, including Kong Wenxuan.
• Kong Wenxuan used his trapped sword to clash with the demon bamboo and swept his other three divine swords through the attackers to kill them before they could self-destruct.
• The Seven-Colored Peacocks made the Demon Bamboo Forest shift and lunge at Kong Wenxuan like a huge living creature.

Kong Wenxuan charged into the demon bamboo forest to reach the trapped Crimson Fire Divine Sword and found the forest easier to break from within. After restoring the Yellow Earth Divine Sword with Treasure Qi, he formed a Great Five Elements Sword Formation that tore apart the demon array and exposed the Seven-Colored Peacock Demon Race member controlling it.

• Kong Wenxuan drove the sword light from his three divine swords through the demon bamboo forest and into the Sword Light Sea of Fire surrounding the Crimson Fire Divine Sword.
• The Fourth Tier Seven-Colored Peacock Demon Race member ordered the demon bamboo forest to attack Kong Wenxuan from every side.
• Kong Wenxuan summoned the restored Yellow Earth Divine Sword, which Treasure Qi had helped him repair, and arranged the Five Elements Divine Swords into a Great Five Elements Sword Formation.
• Kong Wenxuan used the sword formation to resist the demon array and destroy the demon bamboos, exposing the Seven-Colored Demon Bamboo and the Fourth Tier Peacock Demon Race member atop it.
• Kong Wenxuan drove the sword formation toward the Seven-Colored Demon Bamboo and its controller.