Chapter Summaries

Kong Wenxuan’s Peacock County forces attacked a large fleeing band of Yao and Demon Beasts, using the Peacock Cloud Boat’s formations and illusion techniques to overwhelm them. After many were killed, a Fourth Tier deer Yao escaped the illusion and pleaded for its clan to surrender.

• Kong Wenxuan led the Peacock County army aboard cloud boats and flying boats in pursuit of several groups of Yao and Demon Beasts.
• The Fourth Tier Peacock Cloud Boat blocked the enemies’ attacks with a Five Elements Talisman Formation, then struck their ranks with a Five Elements Sword Formation.
• Kong Changgeng used a Black Water Talisman Slip to trap many Yao and Demon Beasts in an illusion, and Kong Wenxuan used his Five Elements Divine Swords to ensnare the Fourth Tier Yao that resisted it.
• Kong Changgeng led the Kong Household disciples, Peacock Dao Soldiers, and attendant cultivators in slaughtering the trapped enemies, killing more than half the fleeing force.
• A Fourth Tier deer Yao broke free of Kong Wenxuan’s illusion with lightning and begged the Peacock County army to spare its clan and accept its surrender.

Kong Wenxuan accepted the deer demon’s surrender, named him Purple Horn, and tested his loyalty by ordering him to kill a fellow demon. After the remaining demons were confronted, the fox demon also surrendered and was named Wind Tail.

• Kong Wenxuan bound the surrendering deer demon with a White Tiger Command, and the demon accepted the name Purple Horn.
• Kong Wenxuan ordered Purple Horn to kill the Fourth Tier wolf demon, and Purple Horn struck him down with lightning.
• Kong Wenxuan released the fox and white crane demons from the illusion, but the white crane demon attacked and tried to detonate himself.
• Kong Wenxuan killed the white crane demon with the Crimson Fire Divine Sword, and the fox demon surrendered to avoid being struck.
• Kong Wenxuan bound the fox demon with a White Tiger Command and named him Wind Tail.

The Kong Household army cleared out fleeing demons and claimed selected resource sites across the conquered territory while Kong Wenxuan refined the Yellow Earth Divine Sword aboard the Peacock Cloud Boat. After the three commanderies captured Bifang Demon City and Qinggeng Demon City and halted their pursuit, the Kong Household caught up with the main army.

• Patriarch Kong Changgeng led the Kong Household forces to kill or subdue the demons and beasts fleeing under five Fourth-Tier great demons, and the army set out with the subdued Thunder Horn Deer Demon and Wind Tail Fox Demon forces.
• Purple Horn and Wind Tail guided the Kong Household to resource sites and mineral veins, where the army claimed selected Fourth-Tier and lower-tier resources for the household.
• Kong Wenxuan remained aboard the Peacock Cloud Boat for half a year, refining and improving the Yellow Earth Divine Sword while the other forces cleared enemies and claimed territory.
• The three commanderies' army swept across a hundred thousand li, captured Bifang Demon City and Qinggeng Demon City, and halted its pursuit of the fleeing great demons.
• The three commanderies' main force split between the two captured demon cities to rest, and the Kong Household army caught up with it.

After the Golden Crow Imperial Dynasty’s armies seized nearly half of the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven, they met fierce resistance from the remaining Demon Race gathered in its central territory. During a temporary ceasefire, Kong Wenxuan returned to Dangkang Commandery to cultivate and improve his strength.

• The armies of the five domains joined forces and claimed nearly half of the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven, leaving the remaining Demon Race concentrated in its central region.
• The Bi, Geng, and Huo Households suffered heavy casualties when they tried to pursue the enemy into the central territory, and Bi Sitong nearly died.
• Kong Wenxuan realized the coming battles would be too dangerous for his current strength and decided to finish upgrading the Yellow Earth Divine Sword and advance his cultivation.
• Kong Wenxuan discussed his plan with Kong Changgeng, then returned to the True Spirit Realm with their battle merits.
• Kong Wenxuan exchanged the merits for cultivation time and entered the core formation eye of Dangkang Commandery’s Origin-Securing Grand Formation.

Kong Wenxuan refined the Yellow Earth Divine Sword into a Fourth-Tier Law Treasure, advancing to Late Golden Core and demonstrating the weapon’s increased power. He returned to his Lineage in Bifang Commandery after learning about the ongoing campaign, intending to complete the Great Five Elements Primordial Magnetism Sword Formation before pursuing Nascent Soul.

• Kong Wenxuan spent two years refining the remaining South Mountain Stubborn Stone into the Yellow Earth Divine Sword, then completed its Earth Sha Treasure Restriction with three months of refinement.
• The Yellow Earth Divine Sword advanced to a Fourth-Tier Law Treasure, and its feedback helped Kong Wenxuan’s Golden Core reach the Late Golden Core level.
• Kong Wenxuan tested the sword’s One Sword Gives Rise to Ten Thousand Laws technique, then recalled it to his Purple Mansion because the cultivated lands around him were unsuitable for a full test.
• Kong Wenxuan considered preparing the Great Five Elements Primordial Magnetism Sword Formation to hone his Golden Core and Peacock Bloodline and improve his chances of advancing to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Kong Wenxuan left Dangkang Commandery’s Origin-Securing Grand Formation, met the newly assigned Kang Household cultivators, and learned about the campaign in the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven.
• Kong Wenxuan used the Starlight Teleportation passage to return to Bifang Commandery and his Lineage.

Kong Wenxuan returned to the Kong Household and learned that Kong Yuyan had advanced to the Golden Core Stage and begun building another Fourth Tier Peacock Cloud Boat. He heard that seizing the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven could eliminate the demonic influence behind Demonic Nature Backlash, while the Kong Household’s other cultivators waited to attempt breakthroughs.

• Kong Wenxuan learned that Kong Yuyan had become the Kong Household’s fourth Golden Core True Person during his two years of seclusion.
• Kong Yuyan gathered the Kong Household’s refiners, shipbuilders, and array masters to build a second Fourth Tier Peacock Cloud Boat in the Peacock Secret Realm.
• Kong Changgeng stopped the Kong Household’s other Peak Purple Mansion cultivators from rushing into Golden Core breakthroughs, urging them to wait until the war in the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven ended.
• Kong Changgeng explained that demonic nature from the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven tainted the True Spirit Realm’s Heaven and Earth Origin and caused Demonic Nature Backlash.
• Kong Wenxuan suspected the Golden Crow Imperial Dynasty had spread the account to raise morale for its campaign to seize the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven and remove the source of Demonic Nature Backlash.

Kong Wenxuan returned to the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven after visiting his aging parents and learning that the battlefield remained at a stalemate. He traveled to a valley of purple lightning, arriving as the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram continued purifying the occupied regions.

• Kong Wenxuan learned from Kong Changgeng that the Golden Crow Imperial Dynasty and the Demon Race had been locked in a stalemate for two years.
• Kong Wenxuan spent ten days with his elderly parents before returning to the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven.
• At Spirit Taming Pass, Kong Wenxuan learned that Kong Wenjun was managing trade and Kong Yushuo was guarding the front lines.
• Kong Wenxuan observed that the Celestial Stars True Spirit Diagram had purified the surrounding Spiritual Qi and that its four constellations occupied reversed positions in the grotto-heaven.
• Kong Wenxuan flew for several days and arrived at a valley where purple lightning flickered between a black peak and a white peak.

Kong Wenxuan visited the Kong Household’s Primordial Magnetism peaks and Purple Thunder Valley, where his eighth brother Kong Wenmo and other clansmen maintained the territory. He began refining the Great Five Elements Primordial Magnetism Sword Formation at the valley’s center using the twin-pole magnetism and ore they had prepared.

• Kong Wenxuan arrived at the Kong Household’s claimed Primordial Magnetism peaks and Purple Thunder Valley, marked by the Peacock True Spirit Star.
• Kong Wenmo and the stationed clansmen came out to greet Kong Wenxuan, who reminded his eighth brother that they were family.
• Kong Wenxuan learned about the site and acknowledged the clansmen’s work in shaping terrain, managing enterprises, and supporting the Lineage.
• Kong Wenxuan went to the point where the yin and yang Primordial Magnetism powers met and set up his Great Five Elements Sword Formation.
• Kong Wenxuan used the formation to absorb the twin-pole magnetism and refine the Fourth Tier ore Kong Wenmo and the others had prepared.

Kong Wenxuan completed the Great Five Elements Primordial Magnetism Sword Formation and developed a force field powerful enough to challenge a weak Fifth Tier Nascent Soul True Lord. He kept his near-term plan to attempt a Nascent Soul breakthrough private and chose to avoid the distant clashes between the Golden Crow Imperial Dynasty and the Demon Race.

• Kong Wenxuan forged the sword formation in Purple Thunder Valley and evolved its Essence Magnetism Force Field into a Five Elements Sword Light Creation and Destruction Force Field.
• Kong Wenxuan tested the formation against the valley’s Primordial Magnetism power and purple lightning, then mastered its force field over several days.
• Kong Wenxuan emerged from the valley and told Kong Wenmo that his cultivation had gone smoothly, but concealed that he expected to attempt a Nascent Soul breakthrough within a year.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Wenmo saw distant probing clashes between the Golden Crow Imperial Dynasty’s army and the Demon Race’s army, and Kong Wenmo predicted a decisive battle was near.
• Kong Wenxuan considered testing his formation against a Fifth Tier enemy but decided to avoid outside affairs until he had completed his Nascent Soul breakthrough.

Kong Wenxuan returned to the Kong Household while using the Great Five Elements Primordial Magnetism Sword Formation to polish his Golden Core and Peacock Bloodline, bringing his Nascent Soul tribulation closer. He told Kong Changgeng to secretly prepare for the tribulation, and the patriarch began gathering resources while keeping the preparations concealed.

• Kong Wenxuan left the Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven and traveled toward Spirit Taming Pass aboard a Peacock Treasure Boat, polishing his Golden Core and Peacock Bloodline along the way.
• After nearly two months of travel, Kong Wenxuan returned to the Kong Household and estimated that polishing would take another six months or so.
• Kong Wenxuan asked Kong Changgeng to secretly prepare supplies and treasures for his attempt to reach the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Kong Changgeng recognized the dangers of the breakthrough and resolved to use the household’s strength to improve Kong Wenxuan’s chances.
• Kong Changgeng planned to expand the household’s purchases of tribulation resources while hiding them from outside attention.

After refining his Golden Core and Peacock Bloodline to the Peak Golden Core level, Kong Wenxuan waited for his clan to prepare a Nascent Soul tribulation site. He and Kong Changgeng arrived at the Land of Five Peaks, where the Kong Household had restored Flying Peak and planned to use it to help withstand the lightning tribulation.

• Kong Wenxuan spent half a year using the Great Five Elements Primordial Magnetism Sword Formation to refine his Golden Core and Peacock Bloodline to the Peak Golden Core level.
• Kong Wenxuan waited three months for the clan to prepare his tribulation resources and site.
• Kong Wenxuan left the Peacock County Seat with Kong Changgeng to undergo his tribulation outside the county seat but within Peacock County.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Changgeng traveled by Peacock Treasure Boat to the Land of Five Peaks, the clan's chosen site for the breakthrough.
• The Kong Household restored Flying Peak and refined it using an Imperial Dynasty Treasury inheritance so Kong Wenxuan could use it to draw and endure part of the lightning tribulation.

Kong Wenxuan prepared to undergo the Three-Nine Lightning Tribulation on the Five Peaks, a tribulation ground the Kong Household had reshaped to aid his breakthrough. As his Golden Core began to crack, five-colored thunderclouds gathered above the peaks.

• The Kong descendants transformed the Five Peaks into a Five Elements Grand Formation, redirecting earthfire and underground water and cultivating spiritual resources across the mountains.
• Kong Wenxuan thanked Patriarch Kong Changgeng and the clansmen for preparing the tribulation ground, then received their blessings and promised to raise the Kong Household to a Middle-Grade True Spirit Lineage.
• Kong Wenxuan flew to Flying Peak as the Kong Household's cultivators, including Patriarch Kong Changgeng and Kong Yuyan, formed battle lines around the Five Peaks to guard his tribulation.
• Kong Wenxuan sat in meditation and began circulating the Five Elements True Scripture's method to shatter his Golden Core, relying on his own strength rather than pills or starlight.
• Cracks spread across Kong Wenxuan's Golden Core, releasing five-colored Qi that resonated with heaven and earth and drew thunderclouds over the Five Peaks.

Kong Wenxuan faced a Five Elements Lightning Tribulation while attempting to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm, using the Luan Household’s guidance and prepared treasures to withstand its early bolts. As the sixth bolt descended with all five elements, he activated the Primordial Magnetism Lightning-Devouring Pearl, which drew the lightning toward it.

• Kong Wenxuan recognized the gathering five-colored thunderclouds as a Five Elements Lightning Tribulation and prepared to face it cautiously.
• Kong Wenxuan used three Fourth Tier water-element talismans to exhaust the first, fire-element bolt.
• Kong Wenxuan countered the next four single-element bolts with talismans whose elements overcame each bolt’s element.
• Kong Wenxuan took out the Primordial Magnetism Lightning-Devouring Pearl after recognizing that the remaining bolts would be stronger than the first five.
• Kong Wenxuan activated the pearl against the sixth, five-element bolt, and its force field drew the lightning into the pearl.

Kong Wenxuan endured the first round of his Five Elements Lightning Tribulation, using its power of creation, origin, and Principle to reshape his Golden Core into a Nascent Soul and transform his Five-Colored Peacock toward a Dharma Manifestation. The second round began with increasingly powerful lightning bolts, and he barely survived its final Water Element strike by summoning nearly a hundred talismans.

• Kong Wenxuan sacrificed his Fourth Tier Primordial Magnetism Lightning-Devouring Pearl to block the sixth bolt of the first round and absorbed the remaining power of creation.
• Kong Wenxuan used talismans and Law Treasures to withstand the final three bolts of the first round while refining the Five Elements Origin and Principle into his Golden Core and Peacock Bloodline.
• Kong Wenxuan’s shattered Golden Core began reshaping into a Nascent Soul, while his Five-Colored Peacock grew more solid and transformed toward a Peacock Dharma Manifestation.
• The second round began with five single-element lightning bolts falling in the order of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water, each strengthened by the preceding element’s generative power.
• Kong Wenxuan blocked the final Water Element Lightning Tribulation with nearly a hundred Fourth Tier earth-element talismans arranged into layers of mountains.

Kong Wenxuan used pills, talismans, treasures, and the Kong Household’s Five Elements Grand Formation to survive the second wave of his Three-Nine Lightning Tribulation. After the ninth bolt destroyed his remaining defenses, his shattered Golden Core had reshaped into a Nascent Soul that had begun to take human form.

• Kong Wenxuan restored his Law Power and Spiritual Consciousness with the Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit Star and swallowed pills prepared by the Lineage as he faced the second wave.
• Kong Wenxuan used three Primordial Magnetism Lightning-Devouring Pearls to block the sixth bolt and direct its remaining power of creation into his Nascent Soul.
• Kong Wenxuan activated the Five Elements Grand Formation to weaken the seventh and eighth bolts, sacrificing a treasured cauldron Law Treasure and a mountain-peak Law Treasure to block their remaining force.
• Kong Wenxuan used the Five Elements Sword Formation and Five Elements Talisman Formation against the ninth bolt, but the attack shattered the grand formation and its control plate.
• Kong Wenxuan destroyed a canopy Law Treasure to exhaust the ninth bolt’s remaining power and successfully passed the second wave as his Nascent Soul began to take human form.

Kong Wenxuan endured the final stage of his Three-Nine Lightning Tribulation, relying on the Great Five Elements Primordial Magnetism Sword Formation and sacrificing Flying Peak to withstand its strongest bolts. After passing the tribulation, he completed his Nascent Soul and brought forth the Peacock Dharma Manifestation.

• Kong Wenxuan used pills, spirit fruits, spirit wine, talismans, and Law Treasures to replenish his strength and withstand the third stage’s first five lightning bolts.
• Kong Wenxuan activated the Great Five Elements Primordial Magnetism Sword Formation to block the sixth bolt and absorb its power of creation.
• Kong Wenxuan’s sword formation blocked the seventh and eighth bolts but cracked under their force.
• Kong Wenxuan sacrificed Flying Peak to stop the final bolt after it broke through his damaged sword formation.
• Kong Wenxuan passed the tribulation without using the Bifang Jade Pendant, and his Nascent Soul and Peacock Dharma Manifestation fully emerged.

Kong Wenxuan’s Peacock Dharma Manifestation suffered a powerful Demonic Nature Backlash after he reached the Nascent Soul Realm and attacked his Nascent Soul. His damaged sword formation was overwhelmed, leaving him to summon the Five-Colored Divine Light as his trump card.

• Kong Wenxuan’s newly formed Peacock Dharma Manifestation succumbed to Demonic Nature Backlash and began transforming into a member of the Peacock Demon Race.
• The Peacock Dharma Manifestation attacked Kong Wenxuan’s Nascent Soul, and he used his Five Elements Divine Swords to form the Great Five Elements Primordial Magnetism Sword Formation.
• The manifestation’s intelligence emerged, and it used Peacock Spreads Its Tail to send Five-Colored Illusory Light at Kong Wenxuan’s Nascent Soul.
• The manifestation formed five Fifth-Tier Five Elements Divine Swords and used them to create a second sword formation that smashed Kong Wenxuan’s damaged formation apart.
• As the manifestation’s sword formation bore down on him, Kong Wenxuan summoned the Five-Colored Divine Light to confront it.

Kong Wenxuan used the Five-Colored Divine Light to suppress the Demonic Nature Backlash and complete his breakthrough to the Fifth-Tier Nascent Soul Realm. The Kong Household and its servant lineages celebrated his success and looked toward the household’s possible promotion to a Sixth-Grade True Spirit lineage.

• Kong Wenxuan summoned the Five-Colored Divine Light, which crushed the demonic Qi and suppressed the backlash in his Peacock Dharma Manifestation.
• Kong Wenxuan regained control of the manifestation and recalled the Great Five Elements Primordial Magnetism Sword Formation, completing his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Kong Wenxuan sent the Peacock Dharma Manifestation flying above him as the Five-Colored Peacock True Spirit answered from its star.
• The Kong Household members guarding the Land of Five Peaks cheered when they realized Kong Wenxuan had passed his tribulation.
• The Yan, Ma, Yun, Diao, Xiong, and Quan Households confirmed Kong Wenxuan’s advancement, bowed in congratulations, and sent prized members with gifts to Peacock County Seat.

Kong Wenxuan advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm and demonstrated his new evasion and teleportation abilities to the Kong Household. He planned to spend half a year mastering his powers before leading the Lineage in raising the Peacock True Spirit Star to the Sixth-Grade True Spirit Heaven.

• Kong Wenxuan recalled his Peacock Dharma Manifestation and explained the evasion and spatial abilities he had gained upon reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Kong Wenxuan tested teleportation, appearing before the patriarch and the other Kong Household members, who congratulated him on overcoming the tribulation.
• Kong Wenxuan said he would spend half a year mastering his new powers before helping the Lineage advance the Peacock True Spirit Star.
• The Kong Household members rejoiced at the star's prospective advancement, which would strengthen their defenses, improve bloodline awakenings and breakthroughs, reduce Demonic Nature Backlash, and offer failed adults a second awakening chance.

After mastering his Nascent Soul and repairing the Five Elements Divine Swords, Kong Wenxuan prepared Peacock County Seat for the Peacock True Spirit Star’s advancement trial by upgrading its city-defending formation. With preparations complete, the star began ascending toward the Sixth-Grade True Spirit Heaven.

• Kong Wenxuan returned to Peacock County Seat and secluded himself to master his Nascent Soul and Peacock Dharma Manifestation while congratulatory envoys arrived from across the region.
• Over four months, Kong Wenxuan mastered his new powers and repaired the Five Elements Divine Swords, strengthening them with treasure Qi.
• Kong Wenxuan emerged from seclusion and began preparing Peacock County Seat for the siege battle expected during the True Spirit Star’s advancement trial.
• Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household’s formation masters upgraded the city-defending Five Elements Grand Formation from Fourth Tier to Fifth Tier over two months.
• The Peacock True Spirit Star began ascending from the Seventh-Grade True Spirit Heaven toward the Sixth-Grade True Spirit Heaven.