Chapter Summaries

East King Duke fought Ancestor Dragon in the starry sky, using his divine abilities and treasures to withstand the Quasi-Saint’s full power. After years of battle, East King Duke descended safely to Mount Fang Island, leaving the Four Seas’ observers astonished.

• East King Duke met Ancestor Dragon in the starry sky, where their opening clash showed they were evenly matched.
• Hongjun and Yang Mei watched the duel and agreed Ancestor Dragon could not defeat East King Duke; Yang Mei promised to meet Hongjun in Chaos for a fight.
• Ancestor Dragon transformed into his true form and unleashed his Cloud and Rain Laws, while East King Duke summoned his Supreme Yang Battle Body and protected himself with the Yin-Yang Dao Lotus and Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner.
• East King Duke summoned the Heaven-Shaking Giant Axe and continued fighting Ancestor Dragon for years.
• East King Duke descended safely to Mount Fang Island, astonishing the powerful beings who had watched the duel.

After surviving his battle with Ancestor Dragon, East King Duke cultivated for tens of thousands of years before discovering Yingzhou, the third East Sea immortal island. There he found the Sky-reaching Jianmu Divine Tree, which could help him pursue great merit in the future.

• Ancestor Dragon ordered the Dragon Tribe to avoid Mount Fang Island and Supreme Yang cultivators until he reached Mid-stage Quasi-Saint.
• East King Duke returned to Mount Fang Island, then entered Secluded Cultivation to improve his strength.
• After more than thirty thousand years, East King Duke followed a sensed opportunity to an unusual stretch of sea and broke through the formation concealing Yingzhou.
• East King Duke explored Yingzhou, found the defensive Xuanyuan Pure Umbrella, and reached the island’s center.
• East King Duke recognized the towering tree there as the Sky-reaching Jianmu Divine Tree and realized it might help him obtain great merit.

East King Duke claimed Yingzhou Island and its Sky-reaching Jianmu Divine Tree, then traveled to Buzhou Mountain to temper his body and find treasures. After obtaining the Blazing Sun Command Banner, he was confronted by the Pangu Three Pure Ones, who said the treasure was destined for them.

• East King Duke used the Chaos Bead to take the Sky-reaching Jianmu Divine Tree, concealed Yingzhou Island with formations, and returned to Mount Fang Island.
• East King Duke left seclusion and traveled to Buzhou Mountain, where he climbed under Pangu Pressure and raised his physical cultivation to the Great Luo Golden Immortal level.
• East King Duke discovered an Innate Formation and claimed the High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Blazing Sun Command Banner.
• Laozi, Primordial Heavenly Lord, and Tongtian arrived and introduced themselves as the Pangu Three Pure Ones.
• Primordial Heavenly Lord demanded that East King Duke show them the banner, claiming it was destined for the Three Pure Ones, and East King Duke's expression darkened.

East King Duke refused Primordial Heavenly Lord’s demand for his newly acquired treasures and fought the Three Pure Ones alone. He drove them into retreat, then resolved to grow stronger while remaining wary of their future power.

• Primordial Heavenly Lord demanded that East King Duke surrender his treasures, claiming they were destined for the Three Pure Ones, but East King Duke rejected his claim and challenged them.
• Primordial tried to seize the Blazing Sun Command Banner, and East King Duke struck him with the Supreme Yang Divine Fist, sending him flying.
• Taiqing Laozi used the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda to protect Primordial, and Laozi and Upper Pure Tongtian joined him against East King Duke.
• East King Duke withstood the Three Pure Ones’ combined Immortal Arts with the Yin-Yang Dao Lotus and Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner, then attacked them with the Pure Yang Sword.
• After thousands of exchanges, Taiqing Laozi retreated with his brothers and called for East King Duke to stop, and East King Duke let them leave.

After the Three Pure Ones retreated from East King Duke, Queen Mother of the West followed a mysterious guidance to meet him at Buzhou Mountain. She returned with him to Mount Fang Island, where they settled together and discussed the Dao, ending with her questioning his cultivation path.

• The Three Pure Ones fled after losing to East King Duke, and Taiqing Laozi said they should wait for their Destined Affinity.
• Queen Mother of the West followed a mysterious summons to Buzhou Mountain, where she met East King Duke and their Origin Auras merged.
• Queen Mother of the West thanked East King Duke for preaching to her, and they traveled around Buzhou together for a thousand years.
• East King Duke invited Queen Mother of the West to Mount Fang Island, and she agreed to return with him.
• Queen Mother of the West met East King Duke's disciples, built Pure Yin Palace beside Supreme Yang Palace, and began discussing the Dao with him.
• After their discussion brought Queen Mother of the West close to a breakthrough, she asked East King Duke why he no longer seemed to follow the Path of Pure Yang.

East King Duke explained how Queen Mother of the West could refine her Pure Yin Origin into Supreme Yin and took her to the Taiyin Star to seek the Moon Laurel Tree’s origin. The Taiyin Goddesses agreed to exchange four tenths of the tree’s origin for Three Lights Divine Water, and Queen Mother of the West successfully extracted it with East King Duke’s help.

• East King Duke told Queen Mother of the West that the Taiyin Star’s Moon Laurel Tree could help her transform her Pure Yin Origin into Supreme Yin.
• East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West traveled to the Taiyin Star and met Xi He and Chang Xi at the Moon God Palace.
• East King Duke offered the Taiyin Goddesses a hundred drops of Three Lights Divine Water in exchange for four tenths of the Moon Laurel Tree’s origin.
• Xi He and Chang Xi accepted the exchange and asked to discuss the Dao with East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West afterward.
• Queen Mother of the West extracted four tenths of the Moon Laurel Tree’s origin with East King Duke’s assistance.

East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West finished discussing the Dao with Xi He and Chang Xi before returning to Mount Fang Island, while the three innate tribes prepared for war. The Dragon-Han Tribulation erupted, and East King Duke opened his eyes as the fighting began.

• Xi He, Chang Xi, Queen Mother of the West, and East King Duke exchanged Dao insights, and Xi He and Chang Xi grew close to Queen Mother of the West.
• East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West left Taiyin Star, and Queen Mother of the West began secluded cultivation to refine the Osmanthus Origin.
• Yuanfeng warned Primeval Kirin that Ancestor Dragon threatened both their clans, and Primeval Kirin agreed to ally with the Phoenix Clan.
• Ancestor Dragon led the Dragon Clan against the allied Phoenix and Kirin Clans, and the three tribe leaders began fighting as their forces clashed.
• The Dragon-Han Tribulation spread devastation and Calamity Qi across the Primordial World, and East King Duke opened his eyes in the Supreme Yang Dao Palace.

The Three Pure Ones discovered the Twenty-four-grade Creation Green Lotus and each gained a spiritual treasure. As the Calamity intensified, East King Duke closed Mount Fang Island, left Queen Mother of the West in charge, and traveled west to meet Zhenyuanzi before the coming Dao Demon War.

• The Three Pure Ones broke through an Innate Formation, found the Twenty-four-grade Creation Green Lotus, and received the Coiled Dragon Flat Shoulder Pole, Three-Treasure Jade Ruyi, and spiritual treasure sword.
• East King Duke ordered everyone on Mount Fang Island to remain in their Dao Fields for ten thousand years and told his disciples to seek guidance from Tai Zhen if needed.
• East King Duke told Queen Mother of the West he would travel west to assist Hongjun, while she stayed behind to refine her origin and oversee Mount Fang Island.
• East King Duke traveled west on the Twelve-grade Yin-Yang Dao Lotus and met Zhenyuanzi at Wuzhuang Temple as planned.
• East King Duke and Zhenyuanzi entered the western lands, where they saw that demonic influence and Calamity Qi had spread widely.

As the Dragon, Phoenix, and Kirin clans weakened one another in the Dragon-Han Tribulation, Luohu launched the Demon Clan’s invasion to destroy them. Hongjun arrived on the battlefield and broke the three patriarchs free of the Calamity Qi, leaving them to plead with him for a way to save their tribes.

• Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primeval Kirin fought for a century, while Karmic Sin drained their strength and deepened their tribes’ losses.
• Luohu reached Quasi-Saint Peak and ordered the Seven Emotions Heavenly Demons and Six Desires Demon Venerables to lead the Demon Clan against the three tribes.
• The Demon Clan poured onto the battlefield and slaughtered cultivators from all three sides, throwing the fighting into chaos.
• Hongjun appeared before the patriarchs and used his Chaos Sword Intent to dispel the Calamity Qi and restore their clarity.
• Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primeval Kirin realized their tribes were near ruin and begged Hongjun to show them a way to survive.

The Three Innate Tribes ended their war and united against the devils, while East King Duke and Zhenyuanzi protected thousands of Western Continent Spiritual Veins and rescued a pursued Innate Race. After Hongjun summoned East King Duke to aid the Three Tribes, he left Zhenyuanzi in charge of guarding the arrays.

• Hongjun told the Three Ancestors that their tribes could atone for their slaughter by joining forces to defeat the devils, and the Dragon, Phoenix, and Kirin Clans made peace.
• The united Three Innate Tribes fought the devil cultivators, but the Seven Emotions and Six Desires' Great Luo Golden Immortal Great Supernatural Beings began turning the battle against them.
• East King Duke and Zhenyuanzi used the Earth Book and the Power of Earth to protect thousands of Western Continent Spiritual Veins with arrays.
• Zhenyuanzi killed the devils pursuing an Innate Race, and he and East King Duke sent the survivors to Wuzhuang Temple for shelter.
• Hongjun messaged East King Duke to join the Three Innate Tribes against the devils, so East King Duke left Zhenyuanzi to oversee the Spiritual Vein arrays.

East King Duke arrived as the Three Innate Tribes struggled against the Demon Tribe and rescued Ancestor Dragon from death. After killing six Great Luo Demon Venerables, he faced Luohu's stronger clone and ordered Yuanfeng to help Ancestor Kirin.

• Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primeval Kirin joined the battle, but Luohu's nine Demon Venerables surrounded them.
• Lust Desire Demon Venerable, Sound Desire Demon Venerable, and Form Desire Demon Venerable overpowered Ancestor Dragon as his strength waned from karmic sin.
• East King Duke arrived on the Twelfth-grade Innate Yin-Yang Dao Lotus, saved Ancestor Dragon, and killed Form Desire Demon Venerable, Lust Desire Demon Venerable, and Sound Desire Demon Venerable.
• East King Duke sent the Pure Yang Sword to kill the three Great Luo demons fighting Yuanfeng.
• Luohu's stronger clone appeared, and East King Duke told Yuanfeng to help Ancestor Kirin while he confronted the clone.

East King Duke fought Luohu Clone while Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primeval Kirin regrouped and defeated the Seven Emotions Heavenly Demons. East King Duke overcame Luohu Clone’s Six Qi Illusory Devil Body and killed him with the Pure Yang Sword.

• Luohu watched the battlefield from Demon Luo Palace and focused on his plan to defeat Hongjun and become a saint.
• Luohu Clone tried to recruit East King Duke, but East King Duke refused and attacked him with the Pure Yang Sword.
• Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primeval Kirin reunited and slew three Seven Emotions Heavenly Demons, then learned East King Duke had once matched Ancestor Dragon at his peak.
• Luohu Clone consumed his true devil essence blood and transformed into the Six Qi Illusory Devil Body to overpower East King Duke.
• East King Duke blocked the Six Desires Qi with the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner, bound Luohu Clone with the Twelve-grade Yin-Yang Dao Lotus, and killed him with the Pure Yang Sword.

East King Duke killed Luohu's Clone and helped the Three Innate Tribes wipe out the remaining devils. Yuanfeng entrusted her unborn sons to him, and the Three Ancestors later swore to withdraw their clans from the world's conflicts, ending the Dragon-Han Tribulation.

• East King Duke destroyed Luohu's Clone, whose treasures returned to Luohu at Mount Sumeru.
• The Three Ancestors agreed to mobilize their clans to eliminate the remaining devils, and Yuanfeng asked East King Duke to protect and teach her unborn sons in exchange for the Southern Flame Light Banner.
• East King Duke accepted Yuanfeng's request, and the Three Innate Tribes and East King Duke wiped out the remaining Devil Race.
• Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primeval Kirin swore to guard the seas, volcano, and earth veins, respectively, and to withdraw their clans from the world's conflicts.
• The Three Ancestors returned to their appointed places, ending the Dragon-Han Tribulation and leaving their clans greatly diminished.

East King Duke watched the long-awaited battle between Hongjun and Luohu over the Honghuang Orthodoxy, hoping to advance his own Dao Path. As the two Quasi-Saint Peak powerhouses clashed on Mount Sumeru, he wondered why Yin-Yang Ancestor had not appeared.

• East King Duke refined Yuanfeng's Southern Flame Light Banner and set out for Mount Sumeru to await the struggle between Hongjun and Luohu.
• Ten thousand years after the Three Tribes' war, Luohu and Hongjun met on Mount Sumeru and began fighting over the Honghuang Orthodoxy.
• Luohu attacked Hongjun with his Boundless Demonic Blade, but Hongjun blocked it with the Jade Plate of Creation.
• Luohu sent black spears wreathed in Malevolent Qi at Hongjun, who countered with the Pangu Banner and Chaos Sword Qi.
• East King Duke watched the battle from a formation several million miles away and realized that Yin-Yang Ancestor, whose appearance his plans depended on, had not arrived.

Hongjun and Luohu fought fiercely on Mount Sumeru until Qiankun Ancestor, Yin-Yang Ancestor, and Great Immortal Yangmei arrived to aid Hongjun. Luohu unleashed the Immortal Slaying Sword Array, trapping them inside, while East King Duke watched from afar and focused on Yin-Yang Ancestor.

• Luohu used his Six Qi Illusory Devil form and the Four Immortal Slaying Swords to gain the upper hand against Hongjun, damaging Mount Sumeru in their battle.
• Qiankun Ancestor, Yin-Yang Ancestor, and Great Immortal Yangmei arrived and joined Hongjun in attacking Luohu from four directions.
• The four allies forced Luohu back, so he deployed a formation diagram and trapped them and himself inside the Immortal Slaying Sword Array.
• Luohu placed the Four Immortal Slaying Swords in the array's four gateways and challenged Hongjun to break it.
• East King Duke watched the array's immense Killing Intent spread across the Western Continent, then kept most of his attention on Yin-Yang Ancestor.

Hongjun and three allies entered Luohu’s Immortal Slaying Great Array, where Qiankun Ancestor died breaking one of its gates. East King Duke seized the opening and entered the weakened Immortal Trapping Sword Gate, leaving his fate inside the array unknown.

• Hongjun, Great Immortal Yangmei, Qiankun Ancestor, and Yin-Yang Ancestor entered separate gates of Luohu’s array and struggled against its sword qi.
• After a thousand years of stalemate, Luohu attacked Qiankun Ancestor with the God Slaying Spear and severely wounded him.
• Qiankun Ancestor’s Dao Heart collapsed, and he self-detonated, exhausting the Immortal Trapping Sword Gate’s power and injuring Luohu.
• East King Duke recognized that a gate had been broken and traveled to Mount Sumeru with his defenses raised.
• East King Duke plunged into the weakened Immortal Trapping Sword Gate.

East King Duke stole the Immortal Trapping Sword, breaking Luohu's array and allowing Hongjun and Yang Mei to defeat him. Luohu's self-destruction devastated the Western Continent, but Zhenyuanzi activated the protective arrays he and East King Duke had prepared, saving most of the marked Spiritual Veins.

• East King Duke used the Flame Light Banner to free the Immortal Trapping Sword, seized it, and escaped the formation.
• With the array broken, Hongjun and Yang Mei overwhelmed Luohu, who transformed into the Devil Dao and then self-destructed with the World-Destroying Black Lotus.
• Luohu's explosion wrecked Mount Sumeru and the Western Continent, killing Yin-Yang Ancestor, while East King Duke's Yin-Yang Dao Lotus gathered two streams of light from his soul.
• Hongjun tried to contain the calamity but could not protect the vast Western Continent on his own.
• Zhenyuanzi activated the Earth Book and the Supreme Yang Arrays he had prepared with East King Duke, protecting most of the Spiritual Veins they had marked.

After Luohu’s self-destruction, Hongjun used Heavenly Dao Merit to offset his Karmic Sin and help restore the Western Continent, while East King Duke received substantial Merit and kept the Immortal Trapping Sword. Hongjun came to trade for the sword, and East King Duke asked for Luohu’s God Slaying Spear in exchange.

• East King Duke survived Luohu’s self-destruction with serious injuries, recovered with Three Lights Divine Water, and retrieved his Twelve-grade Yin-Yang Dao Lotus.
• After the century-long Western Continent Cataclysm ended, Hongjun received most of the Heavenly Dao Merit, used some to erase his Karmic Sin, and sent the rest to revive the continent.
• The Merit was also distributed to the Three Tribes, Zhenyuanzi, and East King Duke, who drew his share into his soul without absorbing it.
• East King Duke kept the Immortal Trapping Sword, knowing it was destined for Tongtian, and waited for someone to claim it.
• Hongjun visited East King Duke and asked to exchange for the Immortal Trapping Sword.
• East King Duke agreed and requested Luohu’s God Slaying Spear in return.

East King Duke exchanged the Immortal Trapping Sword for the God Slaying Spear, then reunited with Daoist Zhenyuan and Hong Yun at Wuzhuang Temple. As the Twelve Ancestral Witches emerged and founded the Witch Clan, the Primordial World’s great powers grew wary, while East King Duke anticipated the coming age of contention.

• East King Duke traded the Immortal Trapping Sword to Hongjun for the God Slaying Spear and received a warning to refine away its demonic energy.
• East King Duke traveled to Wuzhuang Temple, where Daoist Zhenyuan and Hong Yun welcomed him and discussed the Dao Demon War.
• Pangu Hall rose near Buzhou Mountain, and a Blood Pool formed behind it.
• Twelve Ancestral Witches emerged from the Blood Pool, took human forms, created descendants, and founded the Witch Clan.
• The Three Pure Daoists, Di Jun, Tai Yi, and other great powers reacted warily to the Witch Clan, while East King Duke anticipated the coming Great Contention Era.

East King Duke returned to Mount Fang Island, reunited with Queen Mother of the West, and assessed his disciples’ cultivation. He then began studying the Yin-Yang Law Seed he had captured, while Xuan Yang and Qing Ling prepared to leave on trials.

• At Wuzhuang Temple, East King Duke explained to Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun that the Witches came from Pangu’s blood essence and cultivated their bodies without primordial spirits.
• After a thousand years of Dao discussions, East King Duke left Wuzhuang Temple and returned to Mount Fang Island, where Queen Mother of the West welcomed him and agreed to stay with him.
• East King Duke examined his disciples’ progress, then granted Xuan Yang and Qing Ling permission to travel and temper their Dao Hearts, giving each a protective Supreme Yang talisman seal.
• East King Duke took out the Twelfth-grade Innate Yin-Yang Dao Lotus and studied the Yin-Yang Law Seed he had drawn from Yin-Yang Ancestor’s dispersed primordial spirit.