The moment Yuanshi finished speaking, all of Eastern Duke's underlings stepped forward and stood behind him!
Seeing this, Laozi stepped out to smooth things over. "Second Brother, you can't really blame Eastern Duke for this. After all, everyone calls him that!"
Yuanshi was furious. He had not expected Laozi to refrain from taking his side, so he turned and headed for Kunlun Mountain!
Even his Big Brother had no intention of helping him. He could neither win in a fight nor in an argument—if he did not leave now, was he supposed to stay and get beaten up?
Seeing this, Laozi hurriedly followed with Tongtian!
Watching the Three Purities depart into the distance, Eastern Duke proudly led his underlings away toward his own Daoist Temple!
This was not yet the later era of the Primordial Wilderness, when Great Luo were everywhere. Eastern Duke's ability to gather more than a dozen Great Luo was indeed an imposing feat!
Just as Eastern Duke was preparing to return to his Daoist Temple, he happened to run into the Nether River Ancestor!
Eastern Duke hurried forward. Nether River was no ordinary man—he was the undisputed rich second generation of the Primordial Wilderness!
He had begun with a king-bomb hand: the Twelfth Grade Karma Fire Red Lotus, comparable to an Innate Treasure, capable of burning away all karmic cause and sinful debt.
The two treasure swords, Yuantu and Abi, were merely high-grade treasures, yet they were peerless treasures of slaughter, comparable to supreme-grade ones!
Therefore, Eastern Duke wanted to recruit Nether River!
"Fellow Daoist Nether River, I am the head of the male immortals. Would you be willing to join me and together plot a grand undertaking?"
Nether River cast Eastern Duke a cold glance. "Scram! I possess one billion Blood God Doppelgangers. Why would