Chapter Summaries

Kong Wenxuan fought the Fourth-Tier Seven-Colored Peacock Demon while two Seven-Colored Demon Bamboo plants absorbed the forest’s power and reached the peak of the Fourth Tier. With Kong Yushuo’s help, Kong Wenxuan turned the battle around and suppressed the demon, leaving him trapped within the Sword-Light Five Elements Heaven and Earth.

• The Fourth-Tier Seven-Colored Peacock Demon unleashed elemental attacks and caused the remaining demon bamboo to feed two Seven-Colored Demon Bamboo plants until they reached the peak of the Fourth Tier.
• The two Seven-Colored Demon Bamboo plants and the Peacock Demon battered Kong Wenxuan’s Great Five Elements Sword Formation, while summoned demons and Demon Beasts self-destructed against it and damaged the Yellow Earth Divine Sword.
• Kong Yushuo sent the Crimson Fire Divine Sword to hold off one of the Seven-Colored Demon Bamboo plants, giving Kong Wenxuan a chance to stabilize his formation.
• Kong Wenxuan changed to the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation and transformed it into Sword-Light Five Elements Heaven and Earth to overwhelm the Peacock Demon.
• When the Peacock Demon tried to flee, Kong Wenxuan used the Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique to make him hesitate, then engulfed and suppressed him within the sword formation.

Kong Wenxuan captured the gravely wounded Fourth-Tier Seven-Colored Peacock and planned to use a Bloodthirsty Bloodline-Seizing Formation to obtain its Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique inheritance. The battle at Spirit Taming Pass continued, with Kong Yushuo struggling to hold off one peak Fourth-Tier Seven-Colored Demon Bamboo and another attacking Kong Wenxuan's formation.

• Kong Wenxuan used the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation to wear down the Fourth-Tier Seven-Colored Peacock until it could no longer resist.
• Kong Wenxuan activated a Fourth-Tier Vermilion Bird Command and drew the dying Peacock inside to keep it captive.
• Kong Wenxuan considered soul-searching as an inferior way to obtain the Peacock's inheritance and planned instead to use the Kong Household's Bloodthirsty Bloodline-Seizing Formation with the Peacock True Spirit Star and his own bloodline.
• Kong Yushuo reached his limit while holding off a peak Fourth-Tier Seven-Colored Demon Bamboo, while another attacked Kong Wenxuan's formation.
• The Peacock County army gained temporary relief as the captured Peacock's Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique stopped controlling many Demon Race members and Demon Beasts, which came to their senses and fled.

After capturing the Fourth Tier Seven-Colored Peacock, Kong Wenxuan took advantage of the weakened Seven-Colored Demon Bamboos, while Kong Yushuo helped Peacock County’s army subdue the remaining enemies. The fighting shifted toward clearing the battlefield and capturing useful Peacock Demons and Demon Beasts.

• The fleeing low-tier demons and Demon Beasts left after Kong Wenxuan captured the Fourth Tier Seven-Colored Peacock, and the two Seven-Colored Demon Bamboos began losing their strength.
• Kong Wenxuan killed the weakened Seven-Colored Demon Bamboo with his sword formation and collected its stalks, roots, and seven-colored liquid as demonic materials.
• Kong Wenxuan joined Kong Yushuo’s fight against the other Seven-Colored Demon Bamboo, and Kong Yushuo withdrew to aid Peacock County’s army.
• Kong Yushuo killed or captured groups of low-tier demons and Demon Beasts, capturing Seven-Colored Peacock Demons and Peacock Demon Beasts for their bloodlines and use as spirit birds.

Kong Wenxuan surveyed the battle at Spirit Taming Pass and saw the three commanderies gaining the upper hand, but the Fire Crow County army was being overwhelmed by Fire Crow demons and their earth-fire spirits. He intervened to rescue Ya Zhaoying, who asked him to spare the wounded demon so the Ya Household could capture it and claim its bloodline inheritance.

• Kong Wenxuan saw that the three commanderies were winning overall and trying to kill as many Fifth- and Sixth-Tier demons as possible, though some local battles were turning against them.
• Kong Wenxuan noticed the Fire Crow County army suffering heavy losses at the Fire Crow Demon Race's volcanic encampment, where earth-fire spirits attacked and self-destructed.
• Kong Wenxuan confirmed that the Fire Crow Ya Household was holding back to capture demons and study their bloodline inheritance, contributing to its army's retreat.
• Kong Wenxuan left the Peacock County battlefield and used the Five Elements Divine Swords to sever a wing from the Fourth-Tier Fire Crow demon that was overpowering Ya Zhaoying.
• Ya Zhaoying asked Kong Wenxuan not to kill the demon because the Ya Household wanted to capture it alive and obtain its bloodline inheritance.

Kong Wenxuan used his sword formation to help the Ya Household and neighboring forces defeat Fourth Tier enemies across Spirit Taming Pass. A Sixth Tier Qinggeng Demon Race member was then slain, and the resulting blast sent green vitality surging through the battlefield and disrupted the Myriad Trees Arrayed Grand Formation.

• Kong Wenxuan blocked the Fire Crow Demon Spirits with his Sword Light Mountains and Rivers, then protected himself with the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation after the spirits detonated and shattered the unstable swords.
• Kong Wenxuan helped Ya Zhaoying suppress a wounded Fourth Tier Fire Crow Demon Race member and helped True Person Ya Xinghe kill one Fourth Tier Fire Crow Demon Beast and capture another.
• Kong Wenxuan left the Fire Crow County battlefield and assisted neighboring armies by attacking Fourth Tier Demon Race members and Demon Beasts.
• A desperate screech and explosion sent Kong Wenxuan and others tumbling across Spirit Taming Pass as green lights spread through the battlefield.
• The green lights caused plants to grow wildly and destabilized the Myriad Trees Arrayed Grand Formation, while the Qinggeng Geng Household's Spirit Transformation Divine Lord held the corpse of a slain Sixth Tier Qinggeng Demon Race member.

After the Qinggeng great demon fell, its distorted Wood Principle threw Spirit Taming Pass into chaos and sent the Demon Race fleeing. The fleeing demon forces triggered a blood-fueled trap beneath the pass, killing a Geng Household Nascent Soul True Lord before the Geng Household Divine Lord struck back.

• The Qinggeng great demon's fall twisted the battlefield's Principles, disrupted formations, and prompted the remaining Demon Race forces to retreat.
• The three Households' cultivators pursued the fleeing demons after their leaders ordered a counterattack.
• A demonic formation beneath Spirit Taming Pass consumed the blood on the battlefield and unleashed blood-colored lightning, wind, and fire, devastating the pass and its defenders.
• Kong Wenxuan used the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation to shield himself and the Peacock County army, though many cultivators and Dao Soldiers were still killed or gravely wounded.
• A blood-light headless Qinggeng bird detonated beside a Geng Household Nascent Soul True Lord, killing him.
• The Geng Household Divine Lord struck Spirit Taming Pass with his palm, scattering the bloodlight, demonic attacks, and twisted vegetation.

After the Geng Household Divine Lord stopped the Demon Race’s traps and attacks, the three counties’ forces secured Spirit Taming Pass and began repairing it. Kong Wenxuan reconsidered the cost of the campaign, while scouts reported that the defeated Demon Race was struggling to gather reinforcements because its forces were stretched across the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven.

• The Geng Household Divine Lord suppressed the chaos at Spirit Taming Pass, ending the three counties’ assault in victory.
• Kong Wenxuan recalled and repaired his Five Elements Divine Swords, healed his injuries, and realized the campaign might become a brutal war rather than an easy plunder.
• The cultivators rescued the wounded, collected the dead, counted casualties, and began rebuilding Spirit Taming Pass as a forward base.
• Scouts reported that the defeated Demon Race had fled more than a thousand li away and was failing to gather many reinforcements.
• Kong Wenxuan concluded that the Demon Race’s forces were stretched thin across the wider war, giving the three counties’ army a chance to recover and advance.

After the battle at Spirit Taming Pass, Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household seized the bloodline inheritance of a Fourth-Tier Seven-Colored Peacock Demon. Kong Wenxuan gained a Fourth-Tier Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique and prepared to use it to strengthen the Lineage’s inheritance ahead of future battles.

• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng held a funeral for the Kong Household disciples killed at Spirit Taming Pass and placed their spirit tablets in the ancestral hall.
• Kong Wenxuan brought the captured Fourth-Tier Seven-Colored Peacock Demon to Longevity Mountain, where Kong Changgeng used the Bloodthirsty Bloodline-Seizing Grand Formation to restrain it.
• Kong Wenxuan invoked the Peacock True Spirit Star, his county magistrate’s seal, his Peacock bloodline, and the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram to extract the demon’s bloodline inheritance.
• The Seven-Colored Peacock inheritance merged into the Peacock True Spirit Star, and Kong Wenxuan obtained a Fourth-Tier Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique and control over seven elemental attributes.
• Kong Wenxuan tested the illusion technique on the wounded demon, controlling it to unleash elemental and demonic attacks, and recognized that the technique could supplement the Kong Household’s Peacock Soul-Bewitching Scripture.

Kong Changgeng tested the newly inherited Fourth Tier Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique and decided the Lineage should teach it to more bloodline-awakened disciples to help them survive the counterattack. Kong Wenxuan proposed having the Bi Household forge Fourth Tier Peacock Cloud Boats from the captured demon corpses, and the chapter ended with a Bi Household shipwright accepting the order.

• Kong Changgeng learned the Fourth Tier Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique from the Peacock True Spirit Star and used it to make a Stone Disc Turtle Demon Beast dance.
• Kong Changgeng urged the Lineage to revive training in the Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique after nearly five hundred disciples had fallen in the counterattack.
• Kong Wenxuan proposed using captured Peacock demon corpses to forge Peacock Flying Boats and asking the Bi Household to make the Fourth Tier boats.
• Kong Changgeng asked Kong Wenxuan, Kong Changlan, and Kong Wenjun to contact the Bi Household about the order.
• Kong Wenxuan contacted True Person Bi Yanshu, while Kong Changlan and Kong Wenjun also approached their connections.
• Three days later, the Kong Household learned that a Fourth Tier shipwright from the Bi Household had agreed to forge Fourth Tier Peacock Cloud Boats.

Kong Wenxuan escorted Kong Yuyan to Bifang Commandery City, then used Starlight Teleportation to reach Dangkang Commandery and enter its grand formation to refine the Yellow Earth Divine Sword. The chapter left him beginning his cultivation in an earth-element spirit land while Kong Changlan returned to the Lineage to attempt a breakthrough to the Purple Mansion Stage.

• Kong Wenxuan took Kong Yuyan and the Peacock Cloud Boat materials to Bifang Commandery City, where they thanked the Bi Household for helping build the boat.
• Kong Yuyan joined the Bi Household's Golden Core master craftsman, while Kong Changlan returned to the Lineage with clansmen and resources to attempt a breakthrough to the Third Tier Purple Mansion Stage.
• Kong Wenxuan spent battle merit to arrange Starlight Teleportation from Bifang Commandery City to Dangkang Commandery.
• Kong Wenxuan presented his cultivation-exchange proof to the Kang Household and entered the core formation eye of Dangkang Commandery's Ten Thousand Earths Boundless Origin-Securing Grand Formation.
• Kong Wenxuan chose the earth-element cultivation site and resumed refining the Yellow Earth Divine Sword with the South Mountain Stubborn Stone.

After finishing three months of refining the Yellow Earth Divine Sword, Kong Wenxuan learned that the Demon Race had switched to guerrilla warfare around Spirit Taming Pass. He stayed in Dangkang Commandery City to gather news and learned that the Extended Net Moon Deer Prefecture main army had advanced much farther, capturing cities and strongholds.

• Kong Wenxuan ended his three-month seclusion after refining nearly half of the third South Mountain Stubborn Stone into the Yellow Earth Divine Sword.
• Kong Wenxuan learned that Kong Changlan had reached the Third-Tier Purple Mansion Stage and that construction of the first Fourth-Tier Peacock Cloud Boat was progressing smoothly.
• Kong Wenxuan learned that the Demon Race had split into hundreds of groups and was ambushing cultivators who ventured beyond Spirit Taming Pass, so he warned his Lineage to stay inside the pass.
• Kong Wenxuan remained in Dangkang Commandery City and invited the Kang Household's Golden Core True Persons to a banquet to ask about the main army's counterattack.
• The Kang Household's Golden Core True Persons told Kong Wenxuan that the Extended Net Moon Deer Lu Household's army had captured three Demon Race cities and occupied more than ten tribal territories and strongholds.

After returning to Spirit Taming Pass, Kong Wenxuan was summoned by Bi Yanhong and asked to join elite teams hunting scattered Demon Race forces beyond the pass. He accepted the mission and received a Bifang Jade Pendant for protection.

• Kong Wenxuan returned to Spirit Taming Pass as the Kong Household rotated its disciples and encouraged them to learn the Peacock Soul-Bewitching Scripture.
• Kong Wenxuan answered Bi Yanhong’s summons and met him at the Bi Household’s rebuilt quarters.
• Bi Yanhong explained that scattered Demon Race forces had disrupted scouting parties and ambushed several elite teams sent to hunt them.
• Bi Yanhong invited Kong Wenxuan to join the elite teams, promising doubled merit rewards and stating they would face no enemies above the Fourth Tier.
• Kong Wenxuan accepted the mission, and Bi Yanhong gave him a Bifang Jade Pendant that could withstand several Fifth-Tier attacks.

Kong Wenxuan joined a six-person elite squad at Spirit Taming Pass, where his teammates recognized his exceptional killing power despite his lower cultivation. After getting acquainted over a banquet hosted by Geng Lichun, the squad set out to hunt scattered Demon Race members and Demon Beasts.

• Kong Wenxuan met his five elite-squad teammates: Bi Qingyang, Geng Lichun, Huo Zhengting, Hua Baoyue, and Li Heming, each with a different specialty.
• Kong Wenxuan introduced himself as a Middle Stage Golden Core cultivator who specialized in killing, and his teammates treated him with respect because of his proven combat strength.
• Geng Lichun proposed that the squad share a banquet and take a small mission the next day to practice working together.
• Geng Lichun hosted the squad at a Geng Household Spirit Cuisine Restaurant, where they feasted and got better acquainted.
• The next day, Kong Wenxuan and the others traveled south into Demon Race territory to track down and eliminate scattered enemies.

Kong Wenxuan and five companions used an invisible flying boat to find a pack of wolf demons and beasts deep in Demon Race territory, then trapped them for an ambush. Kong Wenxuan’s Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique controlled eight Fourth-Tier wolf-type Demon Beasts and sent them into his sword formation to be killed, scoring its first battlefield triumph.

• Kong Wenxuan’s squad traveled undetected in an invisible flying boat and found a force led by three Fourth-Tier wolf demons, accompanied by eight Fourth-Tier wolf-type Demon Beasts.
• Huo Zhengting and Geng Lichun prepared formations to seal off the area while Kong Wenxuan, Bi Qingyang, Hua Baoyue, and Li Heming assigned targets.
• Huo Zhengting activated his geomagnetic formation, trapping the wolves and blocking their howls from reaching nearby forces.
• The Fourth-Tier wolf demons ordered their beasts to charge in every direction and probe the formation.
• Kong Wenxuan used the Five Elements Divine Swords and Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique to control eight Fourth-Tier wolf-type Demon Beasts, drawing them into his sword formation and killing them.

Kong Wenxuan used the Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique and the Five Elements Divine Swords to slaughter the wolf demon army, while his companions held off the three remaining Fourth-Tier wolf demons. After the group killed them and hastily gathered the spoils, they fled as nearby Demon Race members and Demon Beasts converged on the battlefield.

• Kong Wenxuan bewitched and killed eight Fourth-Tier wolf Demon Beasts, then controlled and swiftly slaughtered the low-tier wolf demons and beasts.
• The three Fourth-Tier wolf demons detonated demon artifacts to break through Huo Zhengting and Geng Lichun’s formation, but Bi Qingyang, Hua Baoyue, and Li Heming stopped their escape.
• The wolf demons burned their bloodlines to summon demon light and call for help, while Bi Qingyang, Geng Lichun, and Huo Zhengting used their True Spirit Stars to block the rescue.
• Kong Wenxuan confused the three wolf demons with Five-Colored Illusory Light, and he and his companions killed them.
• The group hurriedly collected the wolf corpses and nearby spirit medicines, then fled in an invisible flying boat as surrounding enemies approached.

After their successful first mission, the elite team agreed to center its tactics on Kong Wenxuan’s unexpectedly overwhelming combat strength. Back at Spirit Taming Pass, Kong handed over the spoils and used the lull before their next mission to strengthen his Yellow Earth Divine Sword.

• Kong Wenxuan’s teammates praised his performance, and Geng Lichun proposed finding him a dao companion before Bi Qingyang redirected the conversation to team tactics.
• Geng Lichun proposed that the team coordinate around Kong Wenxuan’s Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique and sword dao, and the others agreed.
• Kong Wenxuan accepted the central role as the six traveled safely back to Spirit Taming Pass and divided their spoils according to their battlefield contributions.
• Geng Lichun prepared to report the wolf demons’ stronghold to the army, while Kong Wenxuan handed his gains to his household and resumed refining the Yellow Earth Divine Sword.

Kong Wenxuan and his squad had become the most successful of the elite teams hunting demons, but their fame made them targets for increasingly dangerous ambushes. When Geng Lichun gave Kong Wenxuan, Hua Baoyue, and Li Heming Qinggeng Jade Pendants for protection, Kong Wenxuan realized their superiors intended to use them as bait for powerful demons.

• Kong Wenxuan spent the year refining the Yellow Earth Divine Sword while killing demons and collecting spoils, as the elite squads surveyed and purged the Demon Race's territory.
• The Demon Race's resistance intensified, and its traps caused heavy casualties among the elite squads; Kong Wenxuan's squad survived its own ambushes by overpowering the attackers.
• Kong Wenxuan suggested that Geng Lichun suspend their missions because their success could draw Fifth-Tier Demon Race members, but Geng Lichun said their orders could not be ignored.
• Geng Lichun gave Kong Wenxuan, Hua Baoyue, and Li Heming Qinggeng Jade Pendants that could protect them from Fifth-Tier attacks.
• Kong Wenxuan realized the three households' Nascent Soul True Lords and Spirit Transformation Divine Lords meant to use their squad to lure powerful demons, strengthening his resolve to reach the Nascent Soul Realm and raise his lineage's rank.

Kong Wenxuan’s squad lured a Fifth-Tier Qinggeng great demon into an ambush after the demon dispelled his illusion technique. Three Nascent Soul True Lords arrived to block the demon’s escape, and Geng Lichun ordered the squad to retreat.

• Kong Wenxuan’s squad sealed a peach grove inhabited by demon monkeys and attacked them with his Soul-Bewitching Illusion Technique.
• A great peach tree dispelled the illusions and awakened the monkeys, revealing that the grove was a trap.
• A Fifth-Tier Qinggeng demon bird emerged from a spatial rift and attacked the squad, but their True Spirit Jade Pendants protected them.
• The Qinggeng great demon tried to escape, but three Nascent Soul True Lords descended and sealed the surrounding space.
• Geng Lichun ordered the squad to retreat from the battle between the Nascent Soul True Lords and the great demon.

Kong Wenxuan and the others escaped as the three commanderies’ forces entered a decisive battle against the Demon Race, killing several Fifth-Tier Great Demons before two Sixth-Tier Great Demons intervened. The Bi Household Divine Lord slew the Sixth-Tier Bifang Great Demon but suffered grievous injuries, while the battle continued against the remaining Sixth-Tier enemy.

• Kong Wenxuan and the others fled the fighting and watched as more than twenty pairs of Nascent Soul True Lords and Fifth-Tier Great Demons battled in the sky.
• The three Households’ Nascent Soul True Lords killed a Fifth-Tier Huodou Great Demon, then slew a Qinggeng Great Demon, two Bifang Great Demons, and another Huodou Great Demon.
• A Sixth-Tier Bifang Great Demon and a Sixth-Tier Mountain Giant Bear Great Demon entered the battle, and the Bi and Geng Household Divine Lords moved to stop them.
• Kong Wenxuan and the others fled farther from the Sixth-Tier clashes as the battle resumed between the Nascent Soul True Lords and Fifth-Tier Great Demons, with casualties on both sides.
• The Bi Household Divine Lord killed the Sixth-Tier Bifang Great Demon but suffered grievous wounds from its final counterattack.

After the allied forces killed a Sixth-Tier Bifang Great Demon, the remaining Great Demons fled, and the armies of the three commanderies began their invasion of Demon Race territory. Kong Wenxuan reunited with the Kong Household and joined its Peacock County army as it was ordered to pursue fleeing demons.

• Two Fifth-Tier Bifang Great Demons self-destructed, killing one Bi Household Nascent Soul True Lord, while Bi Sitong saved another.
• A Sixth-Tier Mountain Giant Bear Great Demon drove back the Geng Household Divine Lord, damaged the Sixth-Tier Qinggeng Warship, and escaped with the surviving Great Demons.
• The Geng Household Divine Lord ordered the allied forces to advance, and Kong Wenxuan's elite squad disbanded as its members returned to their households.
• Kong Wenxuan reassured Patriarch Kong Changgeng that he had survived the battle, showing him his damaged Qinggeng Jade Pendant and Bifang Jade Pendant.
• The armies of the three commanderies advanced into Demon Race territory, while county forces split off to pursue fleeing groups of demons and Demon Beasts.
• The Kong Household's Peacock County army received orders to pursue and slaughter a fleeing group.