Chapter Summaries

East King Duke awakened in the Primordial World, discovered the Pure Yang Sword and the Chaos Bead, and cultivated for eighty thousand years. After reaching the Taiyi Golden Immortal Peak, he completed his transformation and formed a Dao Body.

• East King Duke awakened within Innate Pure Yang Qi, accepted his identity, and received the Pure Yang True Scripture.
• East King Duke discovered the Pure Yang Sword and the Chaos Bead as his Companion Treasures, but could not refine them before forming a Dao Body.
• East King Duke resolved to pursue the unfettered Primordial Dao and cultivated with the Pure Yang True Scripture.
• After eighty thousand years, East King Duke reached the Taiyi Golden Immortal Peak and began his transformation.
• East King Duke absorbed the Pure Yang Qi over a hundred years and formed a fully realized Dao Body.

East King Duke completed his transformation, claimed Mount Fangzhang Immortal Island and its treasures, and confronted the dragon clan when it tried to seize the island. He left the gathered cultivators stunned after killing hundreds of dragon clan Golden Immortals with a single attack.

• East King Duke refined the Pure Yang Sword and Chaos Bead, then discovered the Three Lights Divine Water and three Innate Lotus Platforms on the island.
• East King Duke identified the island as Mount Fangzhang, refined its Dao Stele, and claimed it as his Dao Field.
• After the island emerged from concealment, the dragon clan sent several hundred cultivators led by three Taiyi Golden Immortals to break its array and claim its treasures.
• East King Duke appeared above the island and warned all cultivators to stay ten thousand miles away, but the dragon clan leaders demanded he surrender his treasures and leave.
• When the dragon clan ordered its Golden Immortal cultivators to seize him, East King Duke unleashed Pure Yang Sword Qi and reduced hundreds of them to ashes.

East King Duke defended Mount Fang Island from the Dragon Clan, defeating Great Luo elders Ao Lie and the Ink Flood Dragon elder before sparing Ao Lie. A response from his soul led him to sense the appearance of Penglai Immortal Island and leave to investigate.

• East King Duke killed the Dragon Clan’s three Taiyi Golden Immortals and drove the East Sea rogue cultivators away from Mount Fang Island.
• East King Duke named his mountain Supreme Yang Mountain, built Supreme Yang Palace, and spent nearly a century stabilizing his cultivation and surveying his Dao Field.
• Elder Ao Lie and an Ink Flood Dragon Great Luo arrived to challenge East King Duke over the Dragon Clan’s dead and the island’s treasures.
• East King Duke defeated the Ink Flood Dragon elder with a single attack, then overwhelmed Ao Lie with his Pure Yang Sword Array.
• Ao Lie revealed that he was Ancestor Dragon’s son and begged for mercy, so East King Duke stopped the attack and sensed Penglai Immortal Island appearing tens of millions of miles away.

East King Duke waited for Penglai Immortal Island to emerge, entered it, and explored its treasures. After finding the Yellow Middle Plum and several other items, he left Penglai and headed back to Mount Fang Island.

• East King Duke traveled to the sea where Penglai was emerging and waited as cultivators, including Ao Lie and a red-robed Dragon Clan powerhouse, gathered nearby.
• Penglai Immortal Island appeared, and East King Duke used the Pure Yang Sword to break through its Innate Great Array and enter.
• East King Duke explored the island and found the Yellow Middle Plum, one of the Ten Great Innate Spiritual Roots, then collected its nine ripe fruits and stored the tree in the Chaos Bead.
• East King Duke found two more Innate Spiritual Treasures while exploring, as other cultivators competed for treasures and Dao Fields.
• After nearly two hundred years of exploration, East King Duke left Penglai and flew back toward Mount Fang Island.

East King Duke defeated Candle Dragon after a ten-year battle, returned to Mount Fang Island, and cultivated in seclusion while the Dragon Tribe planned to expand its rule. After ten thousand years, he broke through to the Mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.

• Candle Dragon invited East King Duke to join the Dragon Tribe, but East King Duke refused and agreed to settle their conflict in battle.
• East King Duke fought Candle Dragon for ten years, defeated him, and gained renown across the Four Seas.
• East King Duke planted the Yellow Middle Plum on Mount Fang Island and began cultivating in seclusion.
• Candle Dragon reported his defeat to Ancestor Dragon, who ordered the Dragon Tribe to bring the Four Seas under its rule and search for more immortal islands.
• After ten thousand years of cultivation, East King Duke's Earth Flower fully bloomed and he advanced to the Mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.

East King Duke traveled from Mount Fang Island to the Primordial Continent, intending to visit Western Kunlun and meet Queen Mother of the West. Along the way, he saved Xuan Yang from three Qilin Clan cultivators and accepted him as his disciple, leaving with a new member of the Supreme Yang Lineage.

• East King Duke left seclusion at Mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal cultivation and traveled from Mount Fang Island to the Primordial Continent.
• East King Duke noticed signs that the Three Innate Tribes were expanding and recognized that the Dragon-Han Tribulation was beginning to take shape.
• East King Duke set out for Western Kunlun to seek Queen Mother of the West, whom he considered his Heaven-ordained Dao companion and a crucial part of his plans.
• East King Duke found three Qilin Clan cultivators attacking the injured Xuan Yang, whose true form shared East King Duke's origin.
• East King Duke killed the three attackers and accepted Xuan Yang as his disciple, naming him the Second Generation First Disciple of the Supreme Yang Lineage.

East King Duke rescued Xuan Yang, accepted him as a disciple, and left him to cultivate before traveling to Western Kunlun to find the Queen Mother of the West. Discovering she was still gestating as Innate Pure Yin Qi, he lectured her for five hundred years, then headed for the Sun Star to seek a path toward Yin-Yang Dao.

• East King Duke rescued Xuan Yang from the Kirin Clan, refused the Blazing Sun Pagoda he offered, and passed on a Supreme Yang cultivation technique.
• East King Duke returned Xuan Yang to his Dao Field, protected it with a Pure Yang Formation, and continued toward Kunlun Mountain.
• East King Duke found an Innate Formation in Western Kunlun and discovered the Queen Mother of the West gestating as Innate Pure Yin Qi.
• East King Duke lectured the Queen Mother of the West on the Pure Yang True Scripture for five hundred years, received Heavenly Dao Merit, and invited her to Mount Fang Island after her transformation.
• East King Duke flew into the starry sky toward the Sun Star, hoping to find Di Jun and Tai Yi and obtain Golden Crow origin for his Supreme Yin and Supreme Yang plan.

East King Duke searched the Sun Star for Di Jun and Tai Yi but could not find them, so he devised a body-refining technique while waiting for another source of Yang Origin. He discovered the Fusang Tree, extracted part of its Origin, and left the Sun Star satisfied.

• East King Duke searched the Sun Star for a thousand years but failed to find the Two Three-legged Golden Crows.
• East King Duke established a temporary Cave Abode and developed the Supreme Yang Battle Body to the Taiyi Golden Immortal level.
• East King Duke sensed Supreme Yang Power in a concealed formation and found the Fusang Tree inside.
• East King Duke decided not to take the Fusang Tree because of its ties to the coming calamity, but extracted forty percent of its Yang Origin.
• East King Duke absorbed the Yang Origin and left the Sun Star.

East King Duke returned to Mount Fang Island and refined the Fusang Origin, transforming his Pure Yang into Supreme Yang. He preached the Dao to the island’s inhabitants, then ended the sermon after teaching through the Golden Immortal realm and laid down rules for the island.

• Di Jun and Tai Yi discussed East King Duke’s visit to the Sun Star and agreed to prioritize forming their Innate Dao Bodies before confronting him.
• East King Duke brought Xuan Yang back to Mount Fang Island and told him to establish a Cave Abode, promising to preach the Dao in a thousand years.
• East King Duke spent a thousand years refining the Fusang Origin until his own origin reached Supreme Yang and his magical power transformed.
• East King Duke announced that he would preach the Great Dao to Mount Fang Island’s inhabitants in a hundred years, drawing many cultivators to Supreme Yang Mountain.
• East King Duke preached for five hundred years, teaching through the Golden Immortal realm as the gathered beings gained insights and Xuan Yang neared a breakthrough.
• East King Duke ended the sermon, urged the inhabitants to cultivate virtue, and forbade strife on Mount Fang Island under threat of execution.

East King Duke rewarded Xuan Yang, welcomed two new attendants, and developed the Supreme Yang Dao Scripture while preparing for the coming tribulation. The Dragon, Phoenix, and Kirin Clans then declared themselves rulers of their respective peoples, and their chiefs rose to the Quasi-Saint realm as the Dragon-Han Tribulation began to loom.

• East King Duke accepted merit for preaching and assigned Xuan Yang to discipline Mount Fang Island’s inhabitants, then let him choose a Seventh-grade Dao Lotus for defense.
• Two koi spirits emerged from the Lotus Pond, and East King Duke transformed them into attendants named Jin Ling and Yin Ling, gave them a cultivation method, and assigned them duties.
• East King Duke developed the Supreme Yang Dao Scripture but stopped at the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Peak realm because he lacked Supreme Yin to continue his cultivation method.
• Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primeval Kirin swore Heavenly Dao Oaths establishing the Dragon, Phoenix, and Kirin Clans as rulers over scaled beings, flying creatures, and walking beasts.
• The three clan chiefs used the merit from their oaths to break through to the Quasi-Saint realm, with Ancestor Dragon advancing first, while East King Duke remained in seclusion to cultivate.

East King Duke reached the late stage of the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm and established a trial array and three cultivation manuals for Mount Fangzhang Island’s inhabitants. Meanwhile, Demon Ancestor Luohu ordered his followers to intensify strife among the Three Innate Tribes so he could gather Fierce and Malicious Qi and seize the Primordial World’s destiny.

• East King Duke emerged from a thousand years of seclusion after his heavenly flower bloomed, reaching the late stage of the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.
• Xuan Yang reported that more than ten thousand beings lived on Mount Fangzhang Island and many sought to join the Supreme Yang lineage.
• East King Duke declined to open his lineage’s gates, but established the Yin-Yang Heart-Refining Array and left three cultivation manuals for island residents seeking the Dao.
• Lust Desire Demon Venerable presented Luohu with the Fierce and Malicious Qi gathered over ten thousand years, but Luohu judged it insufficient.
• Luohu ordered the Seven Emotions Heavenly Demons and Six Desires Demon Venerables to infiltrate clans, sow discord among the three tribes, and provoke war to accelerate the tribulation.

After breaking through to the late stage of the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm, East King Duke traveled west to protect the spiritual veins from the coming Dao Demon War. He established hundreds of arrays before Luohu’s spiritual-sense clone ambushed him, leaving East King Duke preparing to fight despite the power gap.

• East King Duke entered the western lands to investigate the Demon Tribe and protect the Earth Veins from the coming war.
• He refined a group of eight Demon Tribe cultivators who attacked him, gaining a small amount of merit.
• Over a hundred years, East King Duke established nine hundred Supreme Yang Arrays and protected several million miles of spiritual veins.
• As he began to leave the west, Luohu’s spiritual-sense clone attacked him with a sword, but East King Duke blocked the strike with the Twelve-grade Yin-Yang Dao Lotus.
• East King Duke recognized that his attacker was Luohu’s clone and drew the Pure Yang Sword to face him.

East King Duke fought Luohu’s primordial-spirit clone and wounded it with the Supreme Yang Demon-Slaying Array. Luohu arrived in person, forcing East King Duke to flee before the God Slaying Spear reached him.

• East King Duke met Luohu’s clone in battle and destroyed its Devil Bird attack with the Pure Yang Sword.
• Luohu’s clone and East King Duke fought evenly, trading spells and Spiritual Treasures across the land and into the starry sky.
• Luohu’s clone summoned a hundred Heavenly Devil Illusions with an ink-colored Giant Banner, but East King Duke’s sword rain destroyed most of them and formed the Supreme Yang Demon-Slaying Array.
• East King Duke’s array destroyed the remaining illusions and broke through Luohu’s clone’s defenses, gravely wounding it.
• Luohu arrived in person, and East King Duke fled before turning to face the God Slaying Spear as it hurtled toward him.

East King Duke faced Luohu’s deadly attack until Hongjun intervened and drove the Demon Ancestor away. Hongjun later gave East King Duke the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner and invited him to join a future campaign against the demons, which he accepted.

• East King Duke used his Yin-Yang Dao Lotus and Supreme Yang Power to defend himself from Luohu’s God Slaying Spear, but the attack overwhelmed his protections.
• Hongjun arrived and knocked the God Slaying Spear away with three strikes of Chaos Sword Qi, preventing Luohu from killing East King Duke.
• Luohu withdrew to Mount Sumeru after Hongjun challenged him, and East King Duke thanked Hongjun for saving him.
• Hongjun invited East King Duke to talk at his mountain and declined to teach him a method for proving the Dao, saying their paths differed.
• Hongjun bestowed the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner on East King Duke and invited him to join an attack on the demons in a hundred thousand years; East King Duke accepted.

After accepting the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner from Hongjun, East King Duke traveled toward his East Sea abode and met Hong Yun, who brought him to visit Zhenyuanzi at Longevity Mountain. As they shared spiritual fruit at Wuzhuang Temple, East King Duke revealed Yellow Middle Plums, astonishing his hosts.

• East King Duke refined the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner and set out for his Daoist abode on the East Sea.
• Hong Yun stopped East King Duke, introduced himself, and invited him to visit his friend Zhenyuanzi at Longevity Mountain.
• Hong Yun and East King Duke arrived at Longevity Immortal Realm, where Zhenyuanzi welcomed them into Wuzhuang Temple.
• Zhenyuanzi served Ginseng Fruits, while Hong Yun teased him for being stingy with the fruit.
• East King Duke offered Hong Yun and Zhenyuanzi Yellow Middle Plums, and both exclaimed in surprise.

East King Duke, Zhenyuanzi, and Hong Yun exchanged immortal fruits and discussed the Dao, leading Zhenyuanzi to break through to the mid-stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. After Hong Yun entered seclusion to pursue his own breakthrough, East King Duke told Zhenyuanzi about the demon calamity and invited him to join the campaign against the demons.

• East King Duke shared Yellow Middle Plums with Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun, and sampled Zhenyuanzi's Ginseng Fruit.
• Hong Yun proposed that the three discuss the Dao, and they took turns expounding their paths for a hundred years each.
• Zhenyuanzi absorbed East King Duke's discourse and broke through to the mid-stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• Hong Yun said the discussion had given him a chance to advance and went into seclusion at Wuzhuang Temple.
• East King Duke told Zhenyuanzi about Luohu, Hongjun, and the coming campaign against the demons, then invited him to join.

East King Duke secured Zhenyuanzi’s help in the coming war against the demons, while Xuan Yang sheltered Qing Ling and her clan from the Dragon Clan on Mount Fang Island. The Dragon Clan attacked the island, but Supreme Yang Dao Lord returned and killed their Great Luo Golden Immortal leader with one sword.

• East King Duke and Zhenyuanzi agreed to meet at Longevity Mountain in a hundred thousand years and join forces against the demons.
• Qing Ling told Xuan Yang that a True Dragon had threatened to destroy her clan unless she agreed to join the Dragon Clan and become his Dao companion.
• Xuan Yang invited Qing Ling and the spirit dolphin clan to settle on Mount Fang Island despite her fears of provoking the Dragon Clan.
• Nearly ten thousand Dragon Clan cultivators, including two Great Luo Golden Immortals, surrounded Mount Fang Island and demanded Qing Ling.
• Xuan Yang attacked the True Dragon, then was overwhelmed by a Dragon Clan Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• Supreme Yang Dao Lord returned, cut off the Great Luo Golden Immortal’s reaching hand, and killed him with a single sword strike.

East King Duke returned to Mount Fang Island, rescued Xuan Yang, and annihilated the Dragon Clan force that had invaded. He defeated Candle Dragon and severed his head, but Candle Dragon’s True Spirit escaped as East King Duke returned to his Dao arena.

• East King Duke healed Xuan Yang, then used the Supreme Yang Great Annihilation Sword Formation to destroy ten thousand Dragon Clan cultivators and two Great Luo Golden Immortals.
• Candle Dragon arrived and confronted East King Duke, who revealed that he had also reached the late stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• Candle Dragon attacked with the Dragon Pearl, but East King Duke repelled it and struck him with a mountain formed from his palm.
• Candle Dragon transformed into his true form and tried to flee, but East King Duke’s Pure Yang Sword severed his dragon head.
• Candle Dragon’s True Spirit burned its origin and escaped, while East King Duke took Xuan Yang and the others back to the Dao arena.

After East King Duke defeated the Dragon Tribe’s forces, he welcomed the Spirit Dolphin Clan to Mount Fangzhang Island and accepted Qing Ling as his named disciple. Meanwhile, the wounded Candle Dragon recovered enough to warn Ancestor Dragon about East King Duke, but Ancestor Dragon resolved to attack him personally.

• East King Duke returned to the Supreme Yang Palace and invited Wutu and Qing Ling to settle the Spirit Dolphin Clan beneath Supreme Yang Mountain.
• Xuan Yang asked East King Duke to accept Qing Ling as a disciple, and East King Duke made her his named disciple until the other two true disciples arrived.
• Candle Dragon escaped East King Duke’s attack as a fragment of True Spirit and spent nearly a thousand years recovering under Ancestor Dragon’s care.
• Candle Dragon warned Ancestor Dragon that East King Duke’s strength far exceeded that of an ordinary Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• Ancestor Dragon dismissed Candle Dragon’s warning and declared that he would personally slay East King Duke.

East King Duke prepared Xuan Yang and Qing Ling to defend themselves by teaching them the Supreme Yang Sword Formation and giving Qing Ling an Innate Spiritual Treasure. When Ancestor Dragon arrived to avenge Candle Dragon and reclaim Mount Fangzhang Immortal Island, East King Duke left for the starry sky to fight him.

• Qing Ling worried that the dragon race would attack, but Xuan Yang reassured her that East King Duke and Mount Fang Island's Innate Great Array could protect them.
• East King Duke preached the Supreme Yang Dao Method to Xuan Yang, Qing Ling, Jin Ling, and Yin Ling, then taught Xuan Yang and Qing Ling the Supreme Yang Four Symbols Demon Subduing Array.
• East King Duke gave Qing Ling the lower-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure Cold Shadow and gave both disciples four Acquired Spiritual Treasure swords for their formations.
• After waiting several hundred years, East King Duke heard Ancestor Dragon challenge him from across the Four Seas and told his disciples to remain on the island and cultivate.
• Ancestor Dragon demanded that East King Duke surrender Mount Fangzhang Immortal Island and submit to the dragon race, but East King Duke refused and flew to the Ninth Heaven to fight in the starry sky.