Chapter Summaries

Ya Xingqu’s forces used the Starlight Fire Crow to break the eastern mountain’s remaining Five Elements Demon Array protection while Ya Zhaoying prevented the array from reinforcing it. The Cuckoo demon commander sent its forces to defend the mountain, leaving Kong Wenxuan and the others facing a vast horde outside the breach.

• Kong Wenxuan failed to pierce the eastern mountain’s azure barrier with Refining the Sword into Threads and turned to Ya Xingqu for help.
• Ya Xingqu’s cultivators and Fire Crow Dao Soldiers formed two grand formations, which merged under the Fire Crow True Spirit Star’s light into a Starlight Fire Crow.
• The Starlight Fire Crow cracked the eastern mountain’s barrier, while Ya Zhaoying tied down the Five Elements Demon Array’s power and stopped it from replacing the barrier with fire-element protection.
• The Starlight Fire Crow shattered the azure barrier and opened a breach into the eastern mountain.
• The third-tier Cuckoo demon ordered the Du Household descendants to defend Eastern Peak and sent four second-tier Cuckoo demons with thousands of Demon Beasts and demon birds toward Kong Wenxuan’s group.

Kong Wenxuan joined Ya Xingqu and the Ya Household in their assault on the eastern mountain, where the Ya Household needed his help to conserve strength for a final attack near the summit. He led the advance with his strongest combination of sword formation and peacock illusion, swiftly slaughtering the mountain’s defenders.

• Ya Xingqu explained that the Ya Household needed Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household to escort their exhausted forces toward the summit after the Starlight Fire Crow’s powerful attack.
• Kong Yushuo, the patriarch, and the second elder attacked the charging Demon Beasts and demon birds, clearing a path while Ya Xingqu recognized Kong Yushuo’s Crimson Fire Divine Sword.
• Kong Wenxuan unleashed the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation and led the group up the eastern mountain.
• Kong Wenxuan combined the sword formation with a Five-Colored Peacock illusion, ensnaring the Demon Beasts and demon birds and making many turn on one another.
• Kong Wenxuan expanded the sword formation over the trapped enemies and slaughtered them, using the upgraded White Metal Divine Sword to kill Second Tier foes more efficiently.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household led the advance up the eastern mountain, astonishing the Ya Household’s followers with their killing power and earning the awe of former peers like Lao Zerui. Halfway up the mountain, more Demon Beasts and demonic birds overwhelmed the Kong Household’s attacks, and the Ya Household’s accompanying cultivators joined the fighting.

• Kong Wenxuan, Kong Yushuo, the patriarch, and the second elder cut through the Demon Beasts and demonic birds attacking the eastern mountain while the Ya Household’s forces followed.
• Lao Zerui and other bloodline cultivators watched the Kong Household’s sword techniques and killing power shatter their old impressions of the Lineage.
• A Fire Crow County Foundation Establishment cultivator tried to steal a slain Second-Tier Demon Beast, but Sword Qi from its scar wounded him and damaged his defensive Spirit Artifact, forcing him to flee.
• Kong Wenxuan led the group halfway up the mountain as the growing waves of attackers began breaking through the Kong Household’s defenses.
• At the Ya Household’s orders, Lao Zerui and the other accompanying bloodline cultivators began fighting the Demon Beasts and demonic birds that broke through.

Kong Wenxuan and the others struggled up the eastern mountain against hordes of Demon Beasts and demon birds. Ya Xingqu’s Third-Tier lightning talisman exposed and helped Kong Wenxuan slay a Cuckoo demon, but another wave blocked their ascent, leaving Kong Wenxuan asking Ya Xingqu to use another talisman.

• Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household members slowed as Demon Beasts and demon birds attacked from every direction, while Ya Zhaoying struggled to restrain the Five Elements Demon Array.
• Ya Xingqu activated a Third-Tier lightning talisman, blasting many attackers and allowing Kong Wenxuan to break through the mountainside blockade.
• Kong Wenxuan spotted a concealed Cuckoo demon amid the chaos and killed it with the Crimson Fire Divine Sword and White Metal Divine Sword.
• Without the Cuckoo demon controlling them, the frightened Demon Beasts and demon birds fled, and the group rushed up the newly cleared path.
• More Cuckoo demons rallied creatures from the summit to block the advance, and Kong Wenxuan asked Ya Xingqu to use another Third-Tier lightning talisman.

Kong Wenxuan and the Ya Household used their abilities and talismans to expose and kill a hidden Cuckoo Demon, then advanced toward the summit. There, they discovered the final Cuckoo Demon leading a flock in the forbidden A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix formation.

• Ya Xingqu ordered the fifth Ya Household cultivator to activate a Third Tier Fire Crow Talisman, blasting many attacking Demon Beasts and demon birds.
• Kong Wenxuan coordinated the peacock cultivators to cast Peacock Spreads Its Tail, exposing a hidden Cuckoo Demon disguised as a gray sparrow.
• Kong Wenxuan shattered the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation and killed the exposed Cuckoo Demon with the Crimson Fire Divine Sword, then gave its corpse to Kong Changlan.
• With the Cuckoo Demon dead, its controlled beasts scattered, allowing Kong Wenxuan and the others to advance close to the summit.
• Kong Wenxuan recognized the final Cuckoo Demon’s formation as A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix when its flock bowed to the demon.

Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo failed to stop the Cuckoo demon’s phoenix ritual as its flames gained Third Tier power. Ya Xingqu refused to abandon the hunt for the green python and ordered the Ya Household to begin its final plan.

• Kong Wenxuan recognized that the Cuckoo demon was using A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix to grow stronger by draining the demon birds in its flock.
• Kong Wenxuan and Kong Yushuo attacked the Cuckoo demon, but its multicolored flames blocked their Crimson Fire Divine Swords.
• Kong Wenxuan redirected his White Metal Divine Sword to strike the flock, but the Cuckoo demon enveloped the birds in flames and accelerated its transformation.
• Kong Wenxuan empowered the Lesser Five Elements Sword Formation with Peacock True Spirit Starlight, but still could not pierce the flames or stop the ritual.
• Kong Wenxuan advised Ya Xingqu to retreat, but Ya Xingqu refused to give up on the nearby Third Tier green python.
• Ya Xingqu ordered the Ya Household cultivators and Fire Crow Dao Soldiers to offer up the Fire Crow Gourd as their final plan.

Ya Xingqu used the Fire Crow Gourd to empower the Ya Household’s Fire Crow Dao Soldiers and send them against a Cuckoo Demon Race member transformed by the forbidden technique A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix. As the battle turned against the Cuckoo, Kong Wenxuan noticed that it seemed to be losing its intelligence and becoming a Demon Beast.

• Ya Xingqu activated the Fire Crow Gourd with the Ya Household cultivators’ bloodline power and absorbed their Fire Crow Dao Soldiers.
• The Fire Crow True Spirit sent starlight into the gourd, which released the Dao Soldiers greatly strengthened, with their leader raised to the third tier.
• The empowered Fire Crows attacked the Cuckoo Demon Race member, whose False Phoenix form resisted much of their fire but suffered mounting wounds from repeated assaults.
• Kong Wenxuan noticed that the Cuckoo Demon Race member was losing its sentience and seemed to be degenerating into a Demon Beast.

Kong Wenxuan witnessed the Cuckoo Demon’s forbidden technique turn it into a mindless “False Phoenix,” reinforcing his resolve that the Kong Household must never inherit or use A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix. After the Fire Crows killed the Cuckoo Demon, the Ya Household launched an attack on the green python Demon Beast, and the chapter ended with the Fire Crows blasting it dead.

• Kong Wenxuan realized the Cuckoo Demon was losing its intelligence after using A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix and resolved to warn the Kong Household against the technique.
• The Third Tier Fire Crow tore the “False Phoenix” apart, and its remains burned to ash without leaving any “False Phoenix blood.”
• Ya Xingqu and the other Ya Household cultivators took potent medicines and replenished the Fire Crow Gourd’s flames to prepare for the next battle.
• Ya Zhaoying held off the Third Tier Cuckoo Demon as the Fire Crows attacked the green python Demon Beast behind its cyan barrier.
• The Fire Crows shattered the barrier and blasted the Third Tier green python Demon Beast dead.

The Five Elements Demon Array shattered after the Azure Python Demon Beast was killed, allowing Ya Zhaoying to attack the Cuckoo Demon as Du Household cultivators fled with resources from the Spirit Medicine Garden. As Kong Wenxuan stayed to protect the exhausted Ya Household, other Bloodline cultivators attacked the fleeing boats, and the Flame Sparrow Demon Beast intervened.

• The Azure Python Demon Beast destroyed an array core, breaking the Five Elements Demon Array, and Ya Zhaoying attacked the Cuckoo Demon on Flying Peak.
• The Cuckoo Demon ordered the Du Household cultivators to abandon the remaining medicine gardens and flee aboard Cuckoo Feather Boats.
• Kong Wenxuan considered pursuing the Du Household but agreed to protect Ya Xingqu and the recovering Ya Household cultivators instead.
• Bloodline cultivators from other lineages attacked the fleeing boats, damaged several, and brought down the rearmost Cuckoo Feather Boat.
• The Flame Sparrow Demon Beast flew toward the fallen boat and burned the cultivators who were charging toward it.

The Third Tier Cuckoo Demon battled Ya Zhaoying while the Demon-Summoning Banner protected it, but Ya Zhaoying weakened the banner by killing the demon’s Third Tier allies. As the Cuckoo Demon threatened Flying Peak’s spirit medicine garden, a hidden Third Tier Earth Dragon swallowed Ya Zhaoying, and the Cuckoo Demon celebrated its revenge.

• The Third Tier Flame Sparrow Demon Beast protected the Du Household cultivators as they fled south, while the other Third Tier Demon Beasts joined the battle against Ya Zhaoying.
• Ya Zhaoying realized the Demon-Summoning Banner depended on the remaining Third Tier Demon Beasts and sent her Fire Crows to attack them while she held off the Third Tier Cuckoo Demon.
• The Fire Crows killed the Third Tier giant turtle, weakening the banner, and the Cuckoo Demon sent the black tiger and rock wolf to hold Ya Zhaoying back.
• The Third Tier Cuckoo Demon flew above Flying Peak and hurled two strange spheres toward the spirit medicine garden, prompting Ya Zhaoying to rush after them.
• A fissure opened beneath Ya Zhaoying, and a hidden Third Tier Earth Dragon sprayed her with Flesh and Blood Sludge before swallowing her.
• The Third Tier Cuckoo Demon laughed and claimed it had finally avenged its clan leader and clansmen.

Ya Zhaoying used a hidden Fire Crow to destroy the Third Tier Earth Dragon Demon, then defeated Du Zhiyue, the Third Tier Cuckoo Demon. After Du Zhiyue died, two delayed lightning orbs exploded, devastating the spirit medicine garden and damaging Flying Peak.

• The Third Tier Earth Dragon Demon erupted from within after swallowing a fake Fire Crow, grievously injuring the Third Tier Cuckoo Demon caught in the blast.
• Ya Zhaoying appeared and struck the wounded Cuckoo Demon with the Fire Crow Divine Fire Shield, breaking its remaining wing and sending it crashing onto Flying Peak.
• Ya Zhaoying explained that she had prepared the Fire Crow as a trap for the Earth Dragon Demon and confirmed that the demon had not escaped underground.
• The Cuckoo Demon identified itself as Du Zhiyue and refused to reveal the Demon Race's secrets, then tried to self-destruct.
• Ya Zhaoying suppressed Du Zhiyue with the Fire Crow Divine Fire Shield and killed it with the shield's flames.
• Two lightning orbs exploded in the spirit medicine garden, destroying nearly half of it and causing Flying Peak to crack and collapse.

After Du Zhiyue destroyed most of Flying Peak’s spirit medicine garden, the Kong Household chose to collect its spoils on the eastern peak rather than risk entering the damaged garden. The Ya Household later contained the destruction but barred others from the surviving garden, leaving the other lineages to search the surrounding peaks.

• Ya Zhaoying shielded the remaining spirit medicine garden as blasts of Yao Qi, black fire, and black lightning spread, while Ya Xingqu and the Ya cultivators flew toward Flying Peak, leaving their followers behind.
• Kong Changgeng stopped Kong Yushuo from taking the Kong Household to Flying Peak and had Kong Wenxuan and the others gather their agreed share of the eastern peak’s spoils first.
• The four Kong Household members collected nearly two thousand Demon Beast and demon bird corpses, including the Third Tier green python, and picked up spirit medicines and materials as they searched.
• The Ya Household spent a day suppressing the destruction in Flying Peak’s garden, protected what remained, and refused to let outsiders gather from it.
• The cultivators of the other bloodline lineages left Flying Peak and searched the surrounding peaks for spirit medicines, Spirit Plants, and other resources.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household watched the Ya Household prepare to remove the damaged spirit medicine garden, while the Ya Household’s vassals stripped resources from the surrounding peaks. As the garden was carried away, Flying Peak collapsed and released torrents of subterranean fire, magma, and groundwater.

• Kong Changlan realized the Ya Household was allowing its vassals to plunder resources from the surrounding peaks and refrained from intervening.
• Kong Wenxuan and the others learned that the Cuckoo Demon Beast force had been wiped out at Cuckoo Town, though several Cuckoo demons escaped.
• Ya Xingqu told the Kong Household that damage from the Demon Thunder Pearls made the spirit medicine garden inaccessible and that the Ya Household would move it to Fire Crow County.
• The Ya Household’s vassals returned to their Feather Boats after harvesting resources destructively from the other peaks, leaving Kong Changlan and Kong Yushuo furious.
• Ya Zhaoying and the Ya Household lifted the spirit medicine garden from Flying Peak and began flying north with it.
• Flying Peak split apart and collapsed, releasing subterranean fire, magma, and groundwater from beneath it.

The Kong Household watched Flying Peak collapse and unleash the underground fire and water, destroying the Five Peaks they had planned to claim. Kong Wenxuan decided the site was too dangerous and chose the mountain-and-lake location instead for their territory and Peacock County.

• Kong Changgeng ordered the Kong Household to retreat as Flying Peak collapsed and underground fire and water erupted.
• The Kong Household fled more than a hundred li away and watched the upheaval destroy the Five Peaks.
• Kong Changlan lamented the loss of a site that could have provided valuable resources and facilities.
• Kong Changgeng argued that the disaster had revealed the Five Peaks were too dangerous to serve as their ancestral land.
• Kong Wenxuan listed possible causes of Flying Peak's collapse and explained that the Du Household and Cuckoo Demon Race made the remote site unsafe.
• Kong Wenxuan chose the second option, where a mountain and lake lay side by side, for the Kong Household's territory and Peacock County.

Kong Wenxuan persuaded the Kong Household to abandon Five Peaks and choose a safer site for developing Peacock County before their tax exemption ran out. After confirming the new site, the family returned to find that attacks on wild-bloodline Lineages had exposed the Ya Household’s ambush and led to the Cuckoo Demon Race overrunning Cuckoo Town.

• Kong Wenxuan argued that the Kong Household needed to develop Peacock County quickly to meet its reporting obligations and use the remaining years of its ten-year tax exemption, so Kong Changlan agreed to choose the second candidate site.
• The patriarch, Kong Changlan, Kong Wenxuan, and Kong Yushuo inspected the second site and chose its mountains-and-waters terrain for the Kong Household’s territory.
• The four Kong Household members returned to the Demon-Suppressing Pass and found the settlements outside it in ruins, with blood left behind.
• Kong Yushuo learned that unknown cultivators had attacked wild-bloodline Lineages outside the pass, killing many and driving survivors to seek refuge under the Ya Household.
• The attacks had alerted the Ya Household’s ambushed forces and exposed their trap to the Cuckoo Demon Race, which then overran Cuckoo Town and slaughtered many Lineages there.

Kong Wenxuan and the Kong Household returned safely to Peacock Ridge after learning how the Ya Household–Du Household struggle had devastated Cuckoo Town. After processing their Demon Beast haul, Kong Wenxuan, Kong Changlan, and Kong Yuyin set out for Bifang Commandery City to sell materials and buy supplies for developing their territory.

• Kong Wenxuan and the others discussed how the Ya Household–Du Household conflict had harmed the bloodline Lineages and strengthened the Du Household’s fearsome reputation.
• Kong Wenxuan, Kong Changlan, Kong Yuyin, and their companion rested at Demon-Suppressing Pass, then returned to find Peacock Ridge and its people safe.
• Kong Changlan summoned the Lineage’s bloodline cultivators to process nearly two thousand Demon Beast corpses and harvest their materials.
• The Kong Household’s Foundation Establishment cultivators chose Kong Wenxuan, Kong Changlan, and Kong Yuyin to travel to Bifang Commandery City to sell materials and purchase development supplies.
• After three days of preparation, Kong Wenxuan and the other two loaded their resources onto the Peacock Feather Boat and flew north toward Bifang Commandery City.

Kong Wenxuan, Kong Changlan, and their companion traveled safely to Bifang Commandery City to sell the Kong Household’s demon materials and buy supplies. After settling in Pill Flame Ward, they split up to sell the materials discreetly, knowing the journey home would be more dangerous.

• Kong Wenxuan and his two companions followed a known trade route and reached Bifang Commandery City after fifteen days without encountering Bandit Cultivators or predatory cultivators.
• The three recognized that Bandit Cultivators usually targeted travelers leaving the city, who carried Spirit Stones and finished goods, rather than those arriving with spiritual materials.
• Kong Wenxuan, Kong Changlan, and their companion rented an inn courtyard in Pill Flame Ward and divided their demon materials into three portions.
• Kong Changlan planned each person's sales route and set minimum prices, then the three went separately to sell the materials while disguising their Kong Household identities.

Kong Wenxuan, Kong Yuyin, and Kong Changlan sold their Demon Beast spoils and bought supplies, including the Mountain and Water Layered Waves Formation to protect the Kong Household’s future territory. They also purchased a Black Tortoise Command, hoping to subdue the Third Tier Stone Disc Turtle and use it as a guardian.

• Kong Wenxuan, Kong Yuyin, and Kong Changlan sold their remaining Demon Beast materials, earning more than 170,000 low-grade Spirit Stones in total.
• The three Kong Household members bought Second Tier five-element spiritual materials and chose the Mountain and Water Layered Waves Formation for the second alternative site.
• Kong Wenxuan learned that Commands could subdue Demon Beasts and asked which one could control the Third Tier Stone Disc Turtle.
• Kong Changlan negotiated with the shopkeeper and bought a Third Tier Black Tortoise Command for 28,000 low-grade Spirit Stones.

Kong Wenxuan, Kong Changlan, and Kong Yuyin cautiously traveled home from Bifang Commandery City with valuable supplies, but Bandit Cultivators ambushed them near Egret Town. Kong Wenxuan killed one attacker with the White Metal Divine Sword, while the remaining ambushers warned one another to be careful.

• Kong Changlan stopped the group from spending the remaining Spirit Stones after they bought supplies in Bifang Commandery City.
• The three left the city, concealed their real Peacock Feather Boat, and sent an illusory boat ahead as bait while they traveled home.
• After ten days without trouble, they neared the mountain range before Egret Town, where a black fire arrow struck and destroyed their illusory boat.
• Kong Wenxuan attacked the black-robed archer with the Crimson Fire Divine Sword, but the attack was blocked by the archer’s feather robes.
• Kong Wenxuan followed with a Golden Light Sword Thread from the White Metal Divine Sword, slicing through the archer’s defenses and killing him.
• The other Bandit Cultivators cried out over their fallen comrade and warned one another that their targets were tough.

Kong Wenxuan and his companions fought off five Foundation Establishment bandits who ambushed their Feather Boat. Third Aunt Kong Yuyin shielded the boat with her Azure Wood Divine Sword, and Kong Wenxuan killed the bandit leader, leaving the battle underway.

• A Bear Head Roar exposed Second Elder Kong Changlan's concealed Feather Boat, and five Foundation Establishment bandits attacked it.
• Third Aunt Kong Yuyin used her Azure Wood Divine Sword to form a renewing net of cyan sword light that blocked the bandits' attacks.
• Second Elder Kong Changlan activated the Feather Boat's formations, and its Five-Colored Peacock image trapped the four attacking bandits in an illusion.
• Kong Wenxuan targeted the burly bandit leader with his Second Tier White Metal Divine Sword, binding him with a golden sword thread and killing him by piercing his Sea of Consciousness.