Recaps

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.

East King Duke refined the Yin-Yang Law Seed into his Dao Lotus, raising it to an eighteen-petaled Innate Supreme Treasure. The lotus survived the Nine-Nine Great Heavenly Tribulation and returned to East King Duke’s hands.

• East King Duke chose to refine the Yin-Yang Law Seed into his Twelfth-grade Yin-Yang Dao Lotus rather than absorb it himself.
• East King Duke spent ten thousand years helping the Law Seed merge into the lotus, which gained forty-eight Innate Restrictions and began ascending in rank.
• The Dao Lotus reached eighteen petals and formed its forty-ninth Innate Restriction, triggering a heavenly tribulation over Mount Fang Island.
• The Dao Lotus endured the tribulation’s successive lightning bolts, then resisted the final Golden Tribulation Lightning with eighty-one Yin-Yang Lotus Flowers.
• Mysterious Yellow Power descended upon the Dao Lotus, and its transformation brought spiritual changes to Supreme Yang Mountain before it returned to East King Duke’s hands.

East King Duke celebrated the Eighteen-grade Innate Yin-Yang Dao Lotus’s transformation into an Innate Supreme Treasure and gave Queen Mother of the West a Nine-Grade Lotus Platform. The two set out to explore the Primordial Continent and seek opportunities, heading toward Buzhou Mountain before visiting Western Kunlun.

• East King Duke assessed his many treasures and Heavenly Dao Merit after the Dao Lotus advanced into an Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Queen Mother of the West arrived after sensing the tribulation and learned how the Dao Lotus had advanced.
• East King Duke gave Queen Mother of the West a Nine-Grade Lotus Platform, which she accepted.
• Queen Mother of the West planned to retrieve her attendants and spiritual roots from Kunlun Mountain and tour the Primordial Continent, and East King Duke offered to accompany her.
• East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West left Mount Fang Island and traveled toward Buzhou Mountain to seek opportunities and investigate the Witch Clan.

East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West traveled to Buzhou Mountain and met Fuxi and Nuwa, where their discussion of the Primordial World’s rising powers revealed Fuxi’s interest in joining the Demon Clan. The chapter left Fuxi considering the invitation while Nuwa and East King Duke urged him to prioritize cultivation.

• East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West journeyed to Buzhou Mountain, gathering spiritual roots and treasures along the way.
• Fuxi and Nuwa greeted East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West and invited them into their grotto-heaven.
• The four shared Spiritual Fruits and wine, and East King Duke offered Fuxi and Nuwa a Yellow Middle Plum.
• East King Duke discussed the Witch Clan and Sun Star Lineage as rising powers, and Fuxi revealed that Di Jun and Tai Yi had invited him to join the Demon Clan.
• Nuwa advised Fuxi to avoid worldly conflicts and focus on cultivation, and East King Duke agreed that seeking a higher Dao should come first.

East King Duke explained the path beyond Great Luo to Nuwa and Fuxi, then led Queen Mother of the West to visit the Witch Clan. At the Witch Clan’s ancestral land, Great Witch Xing Tian attacked them, but East King Duke effortlessly stopped him and seized him.

• Fuxi insisted that cultivators should make allies and contend for Primordial World Destiny, while Nuwa asked East King Duke about realms beyond Great Luo.
• East King Duke explained the cultivation realms up to Primordial Golden Immortal and named Senior Hongjun of Mount Yujing as a being beyond Great Luo.
• East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West spent nearly ten thousand years discussing the Dao with Fuxi and Nuwa, then continued exploring Buzhou.
• After another ten thousand years, East King Duke led Queen Mother of the West toward Pangu Hall to meet the Ancestral Witches.
• Great Witch Xing Tian intercepted the visitors and attacked East King Duke, who stopped his axe with one finger and seized him with a giant hand.

Fuxi and Nuwa discussed East King Duke’s teachings and Fuxi’s decision to join the Demon Race. At the Witch Clan’s territory, East King Duke fought Zhurong until Houtu arrived and offered to escort him and Queen Mother of the West to meet Dijiang.

• Fuxi and Nuwa reflected on the Primordial Chaos Realm, and Fuxi explained that joining the Demon Race might help him reach it.
• East King Duke subdued Xing Tian and pushed back the Witch Clan warriors who rushed to attack him.
• Zhurong confronted East King Duke, and the two traded blows for hundreds of rounds without either gaining the upper hand.
• Zhurong manifested his Ancestral Witch True Body, but Houtu arrived and said she would escort East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West to Dijiang.
• Zhurong put away his Divine Ability after Houtu warned him that Dijiang would punish him for disrupting the visit.

East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West met the Twelve Ancestral Witches, who hoped East King Duke might resolve a peril threatening the Witch Clan. After decades of conversation, Dijiang said something that left East King Duke deep in thought.

• Houtu welcomed East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West, and Zhu Rong reluctantly accompanied them to Pangu Hall.
• Dijiang asked Zhu Jiuyin about his prediction that a cultivator from the East would help the Witch Clan, but Zhu Jiuyin could not confirm that East King Duke was the one.
• Xuan Ming suggested asking East King Duke whether he could help and offering him a treasure if he was the person they sought.
• East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West studied the Pangu Hall plaque, then entered and greeted the Ancestral Witches.
• The guests and Ancestral Witches shared food and conversation for decades before Dijiang spoke and left East King Duke deep in thought.

East King Duke helped the Ancestral Witches solve the Witch Clan’s governance problem and earned permission to study the Pangu Divine Heart for ten years. In the Pangu Inner Hall, he comprehended Pangu’s Dao and discovered the Divine Heart suspended above a pool of Pangu’s Heart Blood.

• Dijiang asked East King Duke for advice on governing the growing Witch Clan, and East King Duke proposed dividing it into Twelve Tribes led by the Ancestral Witches.
• The Ancestral Witches accepted his plan and promised him ten years to cultivate beside the Pangu Divine Heart.
• Houtu led East King Duke to the Pangu Rear Hall and left him at the entrance to the chamber containing the Divine Heart.
• East King Duke entered a vast space filled with Malevolent Qi, studied Pangu’s statue for a year, and gained insight into Pangu’s Dao.
• East King Duke reached a Blood Pool and saw the Pangu Divine Heart beating above it, dripping Heart Blood into the pool.

East King Duke cultivated beside Pangu's Divine Heart, comprehended Pangu's True Meaning, and witnessed the hidden truth behind the opening of the heavens. He left Pangu Hall resolved to adjust his Dao Path and continue beyond the Primordial Great Land.

• East King Duke cultivated in Pangu Inner Hall, tempering his body with Malevolent Qi and comprehending the Four Character Pangu Great Dao True Seal.
• The Eighteen-grade Yin-Yang Dao Lotus drew East King Duke toward Pangu's Divine Heart, whose consciousness swept him into a vision of Pangu opening the heavens.
• East King Duke witnessed a truth about Pangu's opening of the heavens that contradicted the legends and decided to keep what he had seen secret.
• East King Duke completed his ten-year stay, and Houtu told him the Witch Clan had adopted his method and wanted his guidance.
• East King Duke reunited with Queen Mother of the West, met briefly with the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and left with her within a hundred years.

East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West returned to Mount Fang Island after gathering Queen Mother of the West’s belongings and attendant from Western Kunlun. Two Yuan Hui later, Hongjun proved the Dao and became the Primordial World’s first Saint, announcing a lecture in ten thousand years.

• Dijiang reorganized the Witch Clan into twelve divisions and established Great Witches to help manage its tribes.
• East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West traveled to Western Kunlun, where Cai Ling greeted them and East King Duke gave her two Acquired Spiritual Treasures.
• Queen Mother of the West left her palace and protective formation behind, then traveled with East King Duke, Cai Ling, Cloud Boy, and the Nine-Colored Divine Deer to Mount Fang Island.
• After two Yuan Hui passed, Hongjun announced that he had become a Saint and would lecture in the Chaos Purple Firmament Palace in ten thousand years.
• When Hongjun’s Saintly pressure forced beings across the Primordial World to bow, East King Duke used the Eighteen-grade Yin-Yang Dao Lotus to protect himself and Queen Mother of the West.

After Hongjun revealed his Saintly power, East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West decided to attend his sermon, then formalized their bond as Dao companions. After their union, East King Duke began a breakthrough as Queen Mother of the West watched.

• East King Duke explained the Saint realm to his disciples and warned them not to speak Hongjun's name carelessly.
• East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West agreed to attend the sermon at the Chaos Purple Firmament Palace, while the Three Pure Ones also decided to go.
• East King Duke proposed to Queen Mother of the West, and she accepted, becoming his Dao companion.
• East King Duke gave Queen Mother of the West all the Merit Golden Cloud bestowed upon them for their union.
• After cultivating together, East King Duke manifested three flowers above his head as his aura surged, and Queen Mother of the West watched with delight.