Chapter Summaries

Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo observed a Third-Tier Stone Disc Turtle Demon Beast emerge from Crescent Moon Lake and devour ore at a Shoushan Stone vein. After assessing the danger and the Kong Household’s limited resources, Kong Wenxuan decided the second candidate site was preferable if Flying Peak proved too dangerous.

• Kong Yushuo explained that the Stone Disc Turtle appeared at the end of each month to eat Shoushan Stone, and Kong Wenxuan agreed to wait and observe it.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo surveyed the area around the second candidate site while they waited for the turtle to emerge.
• On a moonless night, Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo watched the giant turtle leave Crescent Moon Lake and climb to the mountain peak to devour the Shoushan Stone vein.
• Kong Wenxuan judged that the turtle’s shell would be difficult to pierce and considered buying a powerful formation to kill it, though the Kong Household lacked the money.
• Kong Wenxuan decided that the Kong Household should choose the second site if Flying Peak proved too dangerous, leaving Flying Peak for the Lineage to pursue after growing stronger.

Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo reached the Five Peaks and discovered that a member of the Demon Race had taken control of Flying Peak. They retreated to Demon-Suppressing Pass to report the danger to the Ya Household.

• Kong Wenxuan judged that the third candidate site was remote but well suited to a Five Elements formation.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo smelled blood near the Five Peaks and approached cautiously under illusion techniques.
• They saw corpses around the peaks and watched Demon Beasts and demonic birds carry them into Flying Peak.
• Kong Wenxuan concluded that at least a Third Tier member of the Demon Race was inside Flying Peak and decided to report the discovery.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo carefully withdrew, then flew back to Demon-Suppressing Pass in five days.

Kong Wenxuan visited Ya Xingqu at the garrison residence and reported that a Third Tier member of the Demon Race was likely controlling Demon Beasts at a Flying Peak in the southern mountains. Ya Xingqu took the warning seriously and prepared to inform Ya Zhaoying, while the Kong Household continued planning to establish its territory in the mountains.

• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo returned to Demon-Suppressing Pass, then separated to report their discoveries and gather information.
• Kong Wenxuan met Ya Xingqu, who offered the Ya Household’s help with the Kong Household’s plans to develop a territory.
• Kong Wenxuan told Ya Xingqu that his household intended to establish a new territory in the southern mountains, not at Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Kong Wenxuan described the corpses and Demon Beasts at a Flying Peak seven thousand li south of the pass, concluding that a Third Tier member of the Demon Race was controlling them.
• Ya Xingqu accepted the report as important and said he would inform Ya Zhaoying before thanking Kong Wenxuan for bringing the news.

Kong Wenxuan learned of a rumor claiming that a powerful spirit medicine lay on Flying Peak, where a member of the Demon Race was present, and suspected the rumor was meant to lure cultivators to their deaths. He ordered Kong Yushuo to investigate the rumors and their source, then stayed at his lodgings and began refining his Crimson Fire Divine Sword.

• Kong Yushuo returned at midnight and told Kong Wenxuan he had heard a rumor about a spirit medicine on Flying Peak that could improve bloodlines, prolong life, and aid Star Inlaying.
• Kong Wenxuan suspected the rumor was a Demon Race conspiracy to draw cultivators to Flying Peak and considered the threat the surviving Demon Race posed to the Kong Household's plans for the southern mountains.
• Kong Wenxuan instructed Kong Yushuo to investigate the rumor about Flying Peak and the separate rumors about wild bloodline lineages outside the pass, and to find whoever was spreading them.
• Kong Yushuo left early the next morning to gather information while Kong Wenxuan decided not to visit Ya Xingqu, reasoning that the Ya Household likely already knew about the rumors.
• Kong Wenxuan stayed at his lodgings and began refining his Crimson Fire Divine Sword with a Second Tier spirit flame.

As rumors of a spirit medicine garden on Flying Peak spread, returned cultivators confirmed it held rare medicines and drew more people toward the mountain. Kong Wenxuan rejected his uncle Kong Yushuo’s theory that the beasts were acting alone, insisting a Demon Race member was behind the events.

• Kong Wenxuan spent ten days refining the Crimson Fire Divine Sword with Second Tier spirit fire while advancing his cultivation, as Kong Yushuo gathered intelligence.
• Rumors of medicines on Flying Peak expanded, tempting cultivators to form teams and explore despite Kong Yushuo’s warnings.
• A group returned with First and Second Tier spirit medicines, claiming a damaged formation concealed a ruined garden that Demon Beasts and demon birds were attacking.
• Cultivators flocked toward Flying Peak, while others petitioned the Ya Household to lead an expedition; Ya Xingqu told them to wait for the lineage’s reinforcements.
• Kong Yushuo wondered whether the beasts had carried corpses to Flying Peak to break the garden’s formation, but Kong Wenxuan insisted a Demon Race member was also involved.

Kong Wenxuan met with Ya Zhaoying, who identified the suspected Demon Race member at Flying Peak as the escaped Third Tier Earth Dragon and invited the Kong Household to join the Ya Household’s expedition. The Kong Household tentatively chose Flying Peak for its territory and began preparing for the campaign, while keeping open the possibility of abandoning the site if the operation went badly.

• A visitor from the Garrison Residence summoned Kong Wenxuan to meet Ya Zhaoying.
• Ya Zhaoying heard Kong Wenxuan’s account of Flying Peak and concluded the demon there was likely the escaped Third Tier Earth Dragon Demon Race member.
• Ya Zhaoying invited Kong Wenxuan to join the Ya Household’s army when it set out for Flying Peak in three days.
• Kong Wenxuan told Kong Yushuo that the Kong Household would consider claiming Flying Peak after the campaign, depending on its outcome.
• Kong Wenxuan asked Kong Yushuo to return to Peacock Ridge for the formations needed to defend their potential territory.

Patriarch Kong Changgeng and Second Elder Kong Changlan joined Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo at Demon-Suppressing Pass to help prepare for the Ya Household’s campaign and the possible occupation of Flying Peak. After examining the rumors and likely enemy plans, the Kong Household prepared to rely on the Ya Household’s own precautions while focusing on its own people.

• Kong Yushuo returned to Peacock Ridge, then came back to Demon-Suppressing Pass with Patriarch Kong Changgeng and Second Elder Kong Changlan.
• Kong Changgeng explained that he had come to assess the complicated situation and help the Kong Household claim and develop Flying Peak if the Ya Household cleared it.
• Kong Changlan said she had studied formations for three years and had already planned how to arrange one on Flying Peak’s five peaks.
• The four Kong cultivators discussed rumors and concluded that the hidden hand might be the Cuckoo Du Household or the Demon Race, seeking to attack Flying Peak or draw defenders away from Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Kong Wenxuan reasoned that the Ya Household had likely anticipated the danger and made its own preparations, so he focused on protecting the Kong Household.

Kong Wenxuan traveled with the Ya Household’s army to Flying Peak, where they discovered a vast spirit medicine garden guarded by Demon Beasts. Kong Changlan regretted that the Kong Household had not claimed it earlier, but Kong Changgeng warned that the garden was beyond their strength to hold.

• Kong Wenxuan reflected on the danger of leaving Demon-Suppressing Pass and Cuckoo Town lightly defended, while trusting the Ya Household’s plans and his Lineage’s preparations.
• Kong Changgeng had Kong Yujin and Kong Yuyin strengthen the defenses at Peacock Ridge before the army departed.
• After five days of travel, the Ya Household’s army and the Kong Household reached Flying Peak and saw its spirit medicine garden, including rare plants and a section already ruined by Demon Beasts.
• Kong Changlan and Kong Yushuo regretted that the Kong Household had not investigated and claimed Flying Peak sooner.
• Kong Changgeng said the Kong Household could not defeat the creatures guarding the garden or safely keep such wealth, and Kong Changlan admitted his success in Foundation Establishment had left his heart troubled.

Ya Zhaoying arrived at Flying Peak with the Ya Household’s army and organized a cautious, step-by-step assault on the mountains around the spirit medicine garden. Kong Wenxuan accepted the Kong Household’s task of clearing the eastern mountain and returned to plan how to kill or capture all the Demon Beasts there.

• The Ya Household’s army arrived at Flying Peak, where cultivators and Demon Beasts gathered around the spirit medicine garden.
• Ya Zhaoying found no sign of a Third Tier Demon Race member but suspected an ambush, so she ordered the four surrounding mountains cleared before advancing on Flying Peak.
• Ya Zhaoying assigned two mountains to the Ya Household, the eastern mountain to the Kong Household, and the western mountain to the cultivators below.
• Ya Zhaoying sent Ya Xingqu to tell the cultivators they had to clear the western mountain or leave the area.
• Kong Wenxuan returned to the Kong Household’s Peacock Feather Boat to plan how to clear the eastern mountain without letting any Demon Beasts escape.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household prepared to clear the eastern peak while preserving its resources, and chose to use an illusion array to trap its Demon Beasts and demon birds. The array covered the entire peak, leaving its inhabitants silent and many asleep as the attack began.

• Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household agreed to clear the eastern peak using Kong Changlan's plan to trap its inhabitants in an illusion array.
• The Ya Household's forces headed for the northern and southern peaks while other cultivators converged on the western peak; Ya Zhaoying stayed near Flying Peak.
• At Ya Zhaoying's command, the groups attacked all four surrounding peaks at once.
• Kong Changgeng, Kong Changlan, Kong Yushuo, and Kong Wenxuan landed on the eastern peak, where Kong Changlan set up the illusion array.
• Kong Changlan invoked the Peacock True Spirit Star, and the array's illusion spread across the eastern peak, trapping its Demon Beasts and demon birds and putting many to sleep.

Second Elder Kong Changlan used the illusion array to put the Demon Beasts and Demon Birds on the eastern peak to sleep, allowing Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo to slaughter them with their divine swords. The eastern peak was nearly cleared without a fight, while battles continued on the other three peaks.

• Kong Changlan expanded the illusion array across the mountain and sent its Demon Beasts and Demon Birds into an enchanted sleep, while Kong Changgeng stood ready to take over.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo split up and descended the eastern peak, attacking the sleeping creatures with their divine swords.
• Kong Yushuo used his Crimson Fire Divine Sword to kill the creatures before its thunderclaps could give them time to resist.
• Kong Wenxuan deployed all five Five Elements Divine Swords, using the White Metal Divine Sword to kill tough and Second Tier targets and keeping the Yellow Earth Divine Sword beside him for protection.
• The eastern peak remained quiet as the swords slaughtered its sleeping creatures, while fighting continued on the other peaks and the western peak's bloodline cultivators focused on gathering resources.

Kong Wenxuan fought his way up the eastern peak while the Five-Colored Peacock’s illusion put most of its beasts to sleep, then realized the Demon Race was controlling some attackers. He kept his defenses intact rather than expose himself to draw the hidden enemies out, leaving their location unknown.

• The Five-Colored Peacock spread its starlight illusion across the eastern peak, and Kong Wenxuan advanced halfway up the mountain.
• Four second-tier demonic birds attacked Kong Wenxuan; he killed them with the White Metal Divine Sword after the Yellow Earth Divine Sword blocked their strikes.
• Kong Wenxuan concluded that the surviving birds were being controlled by hidden members of the Demon Race.
• The cries of the birds woke nearby Demon Beasts and demonic birds, which charged at Kong Wenxuan as he used the Five Elements Divine Swords to cut them down.
• Kong Wenxuan realized his strength and defenses gave the hidden Demon Race no chance to attack, but refused to lower his guard to lure them out.

Kong Wenxuan learned that a Second-Tier Cuckoo Demon had broken the illusion array and that the fallen Du Household was likely behind the attacks on the Kong and Ya Households. As the Demon Race launched assaults across the Five Peaks, Kong Wenxuan headed to regroup with his family while fleeing cultivators on the western mountain came under pursuit.

• Kong Wenxuan warned his relatives about the hidden Demon Race members and heard explosions as the Five-Colored Peacock apparition shattered, ending the illusion array.
• The patriarch told Kong Wenxuan that a Second-Tier Cuckoo Demon had ambushed them and accused the fallen Du Household of arranging the recent plots for revenge.
• Kong Wenxuan recalled his sword, headed for the summit, and called Kong Yushuo back to join the others while fighting attacking Demon Beasts and demons.
• Kong Wenxuan informed Ya Zhaoying that the Cuckoo Demon Race had appeared, but attacks were already erupting across the other peaks.
• Cuckoo Demon Race members drove Demon Beasts and demon birds after the fleeing bloodline cultivators on the western mountain, surrounding them and blocking their escape.

The Cuckoo Demon Race attacked the forces at all four peaks, and Ya Zhaoying confronted a Third Tier Cuckoo Demon Race member, identifying the attack as the Du Household’s scheme. The two sides revealed competing plans for Demon-Suppressing Pass and Cuckoo County, and the chapter ended as the Cuckoo demon prepared to show Ya Zhaoying a “gift.”

• Cuckoo Demon Race members launched surprise attacks on the cultivator forces at all four peaks, disrupting their assaults without immediately overwhelming them.
• Ya Zhaoying accused the Du Household of joining the Demon Race and drew out a Third Tier Cuckoo Demon Race member from Flying Peak.
• The Cuckoo demon revealed that other Third Tier demons had attacked Cuckoo County while it held Ya Zhaoying at Flying Peak, intending to destroy the county and its bloodline lineages.
• Ya Zhaoying said she had sent troops and two Purple Mansion cultivators to ambush the Du Household at Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• The Cuckoo demon claimed the Du Household had other measures to destroy Cuckoo County, then cried out to reveal a prepared “gift” for Ya Zhaoying.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household fled a Third-Tier azure python while fighting off a hidden Second-Tier member of the Cuckoo Demon Race. Kong Wenxuan killed the cuckoo demon with his Second-Tier Refining the Sword into Threads technique.

• Kong Changgeng ordered Kong Wenxuan, Kong Yushuo, and Kong Changlan to flee when a Third-Tier azure python charged up the eastern peak.
• Kong Wenxuan used the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation to clear a path through attacking Demon Beasts and demon birds.
• A hidden Second-Tier member of the Cuckoo Demon Race attacked the formation, but Kong Wenxuan's white-metal sword light severed two of its Spirit Artifacts and exposed its location.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo used their Crimson Fire Divine Swords to keep the cuckoo demon from fleeing while Kong Changgeng and Kong Changlan defended the group with talisman techniques.
• Kong Wenxuan's Second-Tier Refining the Sword into Threads cut through the cuckoo demon's defenses and killed it.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household escaped the eastern mountain after killing the Cuckoo Demon who had been directing the attacking beasts. From below, they watched five third-tier Demon Beasts form a Five Elements Demon Array against Ya Zhaoying under the control of a Cuckoo Demon’s Demon-Summoning Banner.

• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo killed the second-tier Cuckoo Demon, then retrieved his body and fled down the mountain with the Kong Household.
• The third-tier green python reached the summit, frightening most of the attacking Demon Beasts and demon birds into scattering.
• Kong Changgeng deduced that the third-tier Demon Beasts had been hidden below the peaks to avoid alerting Ya Zhaoying.
• Five third-tier Demon Beasts took positions on the five peaks and attacked Ya Zhaoying with metal, wood, water, fire, and earth powers.
• A third-tier Cuckoo Demon conjured a Demon-Summoning Banner illusion and combined the beasts’ attacks into a Five Elements Demon Array aimed at Ya Zhaoying.

At Flying Peak, Ya Zhaoying fought the Five Elements Demon Array from outside while Kong Wenxuan learned that the Cuckoo Demon Race had bypassed Demon-Suppressing Pass and was heading for Cuckoo County City. The Kong Household was temporarily safe, but its members remained worried about the demon race’s unknown objective and the possibility that it might turn toward their lands.

• Kong Changlan admired the five Third Tier Demon Beasts forming the array and lamented that the Kong Household was too weak to capture them.
• Ya Zhaoying fought the Five Elements Demon Array and its Cuckoo Demon Race controller from outside it, avoiding the danger of being trapped inside.
• Kong Wenxuan asked Kong Changgeng for news from the Kong Household and Cuckoo County, and Kong Changgeng received a reply through the Peacock True Spirit Star.
• Kong Changgeng reported that the Cuckoo Demon Race had bypassed Demon-Suppressing Pass and was leading the Demon Beast tide toward Cuckoo County City, while the Ya Household army pursued it.
• Kong Wenxuan, Kong Changlan, and Kong Yushuo felt slightly relieved that the Kong Household’s lands were off the demons’ route, but remained concerned about the enemy’s objective and possible change of course.

Ya Zhaoying struggled to break the Five Elements Demon Array while Kong Changgeng’s group watched and considered how defeating it might aid their Lineage. The Cuckoo demon accused the Ya Household of betraying the Du Household, and Ya Zhaoying recovered and vowed to overcome the array.

• Kong Changgeng told the group that the Lineage had prepared defenses and an escape route, then urged them to focus on the battle against the Five Elements Demon Array.
• Ya Zhaoying’s attacks failed to break the array, and she detonated her three Fire Crow Clones to escape its attempt to pull her inside.
• Ya Zhaoying retreated under the golden bell’s protection and swallowed spirit medicines after suffering injuries and exhaustion.
• The Third Tier Cuckoo demon mocked Ya Zhaoying and accused the Ya Household of supplying the forbidden technique that led the Du Household to cultivate phoenix blood, then betraying it to seize that power.
• Ya Zhaoying restored her Bloodline Divine Ability, reformed the Fire Crow Divine Fire Shield, and answered that the Du Household had become fugitives and demons before declaring the array would not stop her.

Ya Zhaoying tried to break the Five Elements Demon Array by attacking its northern peak, but the array’s defenses recovered through the circulation of the five elements and stopped her. The Ya Household then approached the Kong Household to request help with a plan to break the array.

• Ya Zhaoying directed the Fire Crow Divine Fire Shield at the northern peak and its giant turtle Demon Beast, briefly shaking the Five Elements Demon Array but failing to destroy the mountain.
• The Cuckoo Demon Race member on Flying Peak restored the northern peak’s defenses by circulating the array’s five elemental powers, thwarting Ya Zhaoying’s continued attacks.
• The Cuckoo Demon mocked Ya Zhaoying and challenged her to enter the array, but she withdrew to confer with the Ya Household cultivators and Fire Crow Dao Soldiers.
• Ya Zhaoying returned to face the array while the Ya Household cultivators and Fire Crow Dao Soldiers led their followers to the eastern peak.
• Ya Xingqu told the Kong Household that the Ya Household had found a way to break the array and asked for their help.

The Ya Household proposed breaking the Five Elements Demon Array by suppressing its power and killing one of the Third Tier Demon Beasts atop the peaks. The Kong Household agreed to help attack the eastern peak, and the assault began with Ya Zhaoying holding the array in check.

• Ya Xingqu explained that Ya Zhaoying would suppress the Five Elements Demon Array while their forces fought to a peak and killed its Third Tier Demon Beast.
• Ya Xingqu offered the Kong Household a slain Third Tier Demon Beast as spoils and the spirit medicines from Flying Peak's garden in exchange for helping clear the way.
• After conferring, the four members of the Kong Household accepted the invitation, and Kong Wenxuan asked which peak they would attack.
• Ya Xingqu chose the eastern peak, citing the Kong Household's familiarity with it and the effectiveness of the Ya Household's fire methods against its wood-element green python Demon Beast.
• Ya Xingqu and Kong Wenxuan settled the attack plan, Ya Zhaoying struck the array to hold its power in check, and Ya Xingqu ordered the assault.