The Primordial World.
The East Sea was the greatest of the four seas. Its scenery was extraordinary, and it stretched beyond the horizon.
Deep within the East Sea, an island lay hidden in the void. Innate Pure Yang Qi gathered within a formation at its center, while Dao Rhyme flowed all around it, wondrous beyond compare. A mysterious aura within was in the midst of gestating.
Time passed without record in the Primordial World. At some point, the Pure Yang Qi inexplicably began to change. Mountains and rivers on the island trembled, and the surrounding Innate Spiritual Qi churned.
This strange phenomenon continued for ten thousand years. Then, one day, the aura suddenly surged and roiled. A wave of emotion emerged from within it.
"I actually transmigrated to the Primordial World!"
"Innate Pure Yang Qi... So I've become the legendary unlucky fellow of the Primordial World, East King Duke!"
Within this Pure Yang Qi, a soul from a Foreign World had been gestating. That was right: this soul had not been born in the Primordial World. It had come from a place called Earth.
"So be it. The past is all smoke and clouds. From this moment on, I am East King Duke, an Innate Divine Being of the Primordial World."
At this thought, East King Duke's mind grew clear. Suddenly, his primordial spirit became lucid, as though the Great Dao had acknowledged his identity.
Then, a vast amount of information poured into his sea of consciousness.
Pure Yang True Scripture
This was the innate inheritance bestowed by the Great Dao, a cultivation method that led straight to the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Peak. Before Hongjun became a Saint, it should have ranked among the very best inheritances in the Primordial World.
This showed just how lofty East King Duke's origins were. His Innate Pure Yang Qi was also an exceptional foundation. Once he formed his Dao Body, he would be a top-tier Innate Divine Demon.
But the East King Duke of the legends in his previous life had met a truly miserable end. He had possessed the title of leader of the male immortals, yet had ultimately died without a proper ending.
"In this life, I will turn the tide, prove the Primordial Dao, and stand at the Peak of the Primordial World. I won't let my journey to the Primordial World be for nothing!"
East King Duke silently swore this oath with his primordial spirit.
After receiving his inheritance, he eagerly began examining his true form.
He soon discovered something.
Two profound auras, each carrying innate spiritual light, circled his primordial spirit. They bobbed up and down within his mass of Innate Pure Yang Qi, and he faintly sensed that they were connected to him in countless ways.
East King Duke was overjoyed. He really did have Companion Treasures.
He roused his true form and slowly drew the two treasures closer. Only then could he make out their shapes: a sword and a bead. Innate Aura suffused them, clearly marking both as Innate Spiritual Treasures.
The Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, Pure Yang Sword.
His primordial spirit examined it, confirming that this was indeed the Companion Spirit Treasure whose origin matched his own.
A Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure had already filled East King Duke with delight. But when he sent a wisp of his divine sense into the bead, his primordial spirit was shaken with shock.
The Innate Supreme Treasure, Chaos Bead!
He had never imagined that the seemingly unremarkable bead would be this supreme treasure.
It was an unparalleled treasure ranked alongside the Pangu Axe, Chaos Green Lotus, and Jade Plate of Creation as one of the Four Chaos Supreme Treasures. Even though its origin had been damaged during the Great Tribulation of Creation, it still retained the grade of an Innate Supreme Treasure.
In the legends from his previous life, East King Duke had never possessed the great fortune to have a supreme treasure as his Companion Treasure. Nor had he heard of anyone in the Primordial World owning it. Yet now, the bead had appeared before him.
Perhaps this was a transmigrator's benefit.
Moreover, the Chaos Bead was an exceptionally unusual treasure: a Space Supreme Treasure. It had no offensive or defensive powers, but contained a world of its own. It could practically be considered another Primordial World.
With this supreme treasure, he had even more confidence in proving the Primordial Dao.
With both treasures right before him, East King Duke longed to refine them and take them in at once. But his Dao Body had yet to form, so he had no way to do so. He could only wait until the day he emerged in his transformed form.
His primordial spirit had only recently awakened, so there was no way he could transform right away. He needed to stabilize himself and cultivate.
What's more, for the beings of the Primordial World, forming an Innate Dao Body was the first step in cultivation. To a great extent, it determined their future potential, so he could not take it lightly.
The Twelve Realms of Immortality were: Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, True Immortal, Mysterious Immortal, Grand Unity Mysterious Immortal, Golden Immortal, Taiyi Golden Immortal, Great Luo Golden Immortal, Primordial Golden Immortal (Quasi-Saint), Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal (Saint), Primordial Taiji Golden Immortal (Heavenly Dao), and Primordial Undying Limitless Golden Immortal (Great Dao).
East King Duke's primordial spirit had only just reached the early Golden Immortal stage. He was a top-tier Innate Divine Being of the same generation as the Three Pure Ones. He would become a Great Luo Golden Immortal upon transforming, but clearly, it was not yet time for him to emerge.
He did not know what era the Primordial Great World had reached. However, according to legend, East King Duke had emerged during the Dragon-Han Tribulation.
This should be the early stages of the great tribulation. On the surface, the Three Tribes—the dragons, phoenixes, and qilin—stood in a tripartite balance. In the shadows, the sides of Dao and Demon were poised to act. A magnificent drama was about to unfold. East King Duke was sure to leave his mark in the coming Dragon-Han Tribulation and Dao-Devil War. The thought of having the chance to take part in it thrilled him.
With the Chaos Bead, he finally had the confidence to contend for the destiny of the Primordial World.
He did not wish to prove the Dao and become a Saint, a puppet beneath the Heavenly Dao. What he wanted was to prove the true, unfettered Primordial Dao.
But the path to proving the Dao was arduous. In his previous life, East King Duke had followed the Path of Pure Yang. After countless hardships and dramatic rises and falls, he had ultimately perished.
In this life, he wanted to forge a different path: a supreme Great Dao more mysterious and powerful than the Path of Pure Yang.
There was much he would need to plan for. Of course, the first and most important thing to do now was cultivate diligently and try to form an Innate Dao Body as soon as possible.
After taking one last, deep look at the two supreme treasures before him, East King Duke cleared his mind of distractions and began cultivating by circulating the Pure Yang True Scripture.
Legend had it that East King Duke's Daoist abode was Mount Fangzhang Immortal Island, one of the Three Immortal Islands of the East Sea. He did not know if this was that very island, but the Innate Spiritual Qi here was so dense that it was nearly liquid. Even if this was not one of the famous Three Immortal Islands, it was still a top-tier Immortal Mountain Blessed Land.
Such an environment was the perfect place for cultivation.
All top-tier Innate Divine Beings were born of Heaven and Earth, favored by the Heavenly Dao and blessed with unique advantages. Before reaching the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, they faced no bottlenecks; they only needed to refine Innate Spiritual Qi for their realm to advance naturally.
The Pure Yang True Scripture was a top-tier inheritance perfectly suited to East King Duke. Cultivation came even more easily to him.
There was no sense of time in cultivation. The years of the Primordial World flowed like water.
East King Duke's primordial spirit continued to improve, advancing from early Golden Immortal to mid-stage, then late-stage...
A hundred years, a thousand years... ten thousand years...
Eighty thousand years passed in the blink of an eye.
On this day, the Innate Pure Yang Qi suddenly began to tremble. Rosy light filled the formation. East King Duke had now reached the Taiyi Golden Immortal Peak, and he repeatedly sensed with his primordial spirit.
East King Duke was delighted. He knew the time had come for him to transform.
He immediately began circulating the transformation method in the Pure Yang True Scripture.
In an instant, light blazed for tens of thousands of miles, and Mysterious Dao Sound rang out. His true form trembled as Pure Yang Qi poured forth, forming a massive vortex.
The vortex spun ceaselessly, greedily drawing in the surrounding Innate Spiritual Qi and growing larger and larger.
Within the enormous vortex, the shadow of a primordial spirit sat cross-legged in the void.
As the transformation method slowly took effect, East King Duke's true form absorbed spiritual energy until it spanned a million zhang. Within the vortex, his primordial spirit remained as immovable as the Sea-Calming Divine Needle, enduring the wash of spiritual energy.
Before long, as though guided, the vortex began to flow slowly into his primordial spirit.
After a full hundred years, the primordial spirit had absorbed all the Pure Yang Qi. Amid a flash of spiritual light, a fully formed Dao Body appeared.
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