Dragon Clan

Biodata

Power Progression

The documented breakthrough belongs to Ao Guang, the clan’s leader—not to every member.

Organization and Territory

Leadership and Membership

• Ao Guang rules the East Sea and speaks for the entire Four Seas Dragon Clan 19.
• The other three Dragon Kings are Ao Guang’s younger brothers, born of the same mother. All three follow his leadership 19.
• The aquatic administration includes the Turtle Prime Minister, Shrimp Soldiers, Crab Generals, and other aquatic officers. These serve under dragon rule but are not identified as Dragon Clan members 16.

Ao Guang reports the following membership figures at the Chaoge banquet:

Territorial Expansion

• Four Seas: The clan retains these as its homeland despite its decline, allowing its descendants to survive and multiply 15 32.
• Inland waters: Di Xin grants the clan the Primordial World’s rivers, lakes, waterways, and abysses—territory it had not controlled even at its ancient height 35.
• Strategic refuge: The inland network provides escape routes upstream from the seas and places the dragons within territory protected by the Human Emperor 35.

History

Ancient Power and Decline

The Dragon Clan was one of the three ancient clans, alongside the Phoenix and Qilin clans. Under the Ancestral Dragon, it ranked among the Primordial World’s great ruling powers. The Ancestral Dragon died during the Dragon-Han Calamity, and the clan’s ancient prosperity collapsed 7 35.

The three clans’ immense slaughter left unresolved karmic burdens. Their surviving descendants possessed only fragments of their original bloodlines, while the Heavenly Dao and powerful beings opposed the reappearance of true bloodlines. The dragons nevertheless retained greater numbers and a more secure homeland than the surviving phoenixes and qilin 17 32.

By Yu the Great’s era, the Dragon Kings could no longer stabilize the Four Seas. Yu and other experts forged four divine weapons to calm the seas and prevent devastating floods 20 34.

Subordination to Haotian Shangdi

Haotian enforced obedience through slaughter, serving dragons as delicacies at banquets for powerful beings. Ao Guang claimed that Haotian had eaten nearly half the clan over the years 17 19.

Under Haotian’s orders, the dragons manipulated rainfall to hasten Yin Shang’s decline. Di Xin’s use of Words Followed by Law reversed the droughts and floods without their assistance, bypassing their weather control 12 15.

The Ancestral Dragon’s Return

Ye Xuan freed the Ancestral Dragon’s corpse from beneath Great Mount Sumeru, destroying the mountain as the body emerged. Nuwa prevented Zhunti from intervening, insisting that the Ancestral Dragon belonged to the East 7.

Ye Xuan subsequently promised to protect the Dragon Clan and help it rise again. This fulfilled his system mission and granted him the Ancestral Dragon’s bloodline and control over the corpse 9.

Submission to the Human Emperor

Disguised as the Human Emperor’s envoy Wuming, Ye Xuan confronted Ao Guang in the East Sea. He condemned the clan’s destructive weather manipulation and offered protection in exchange for submission 16 17.

Ye Xuan displayed the Ancestral Dragon’s body and stated that the forefather had entrusted the clan’s protection to the Human Emperor. Faced with that proof and the threat of annihilation, Ao Guang pledged the entire clan’s loyalty. He then swore an oath that formed a karmic bond of the Great Dao 18 19.

After receiving the essence blood that restored his True Dragon bloodline, Ao Guang rejected further allegiance to Haotian and prepared to visit Chaoge with gifts 19 20.

Public Allegiance at Chaoge

Ao Guang arrived at Chaoge by the Human Emperor’s command, publicly demonstrating the clan’s submission. He presented provisions, spiritual weapons, ten young dragon women, and the four sea-stabilizing divine weapons 32 33 34.

Di Xin offered protection, access to human fortune, and authority over the inland waters. In return, the clan was required to maintain favorable weather and fight when humanity needed it. Ao Guang proclaimed the Four Seas Dragon Clan’s allegiance before heaven and earth, invoking annihilation upon the clan if it broke its oath 35.

Di Xin declared that he would shelter the dragons and lead them to redeem their crimes through meritorious deeds. Yuanshi Tianzun challenged his decision, provoking a confrontation that ended with Di Xin suppressing the Saint’s Three Treasures Jade Ruyi 35 36 41.

Heavenly Court Retaliation

Haotian treated the change of allegiance as rebellion. Taibai Jinxing connected Ao Guang’s restored bloodline with the missing Ancestral Dragon’s corpse and suspected the Human Emperor’s involvement 50.

Haotian dispatched the Heaven-Supporting Strongman to demand that Ao Guang report to the Heavenly Court for punishment, threatening to raze the Four Seas if he refused. The strongman reaches the East Sea, but the confrontation remains unresolved in the supplied chapters 50.

Abilities and Duties

Weather and Water Regulation

• The dragon-led aquatic races oversee rain, thunder, floods, tides, tsunamis, and other water disasters 15.
• Rain-controlling dragon gods serve across all Four Seas 15.
• Their control is not exclusive: Di Xin restores normal weather without their participation 12 15.
• Under the agreement with humanity, maintaining favorable winds and timely rain becomes an explicit obligation 35.

Dragon Bloodlines and Transformation

• Before Ao Guang’s restoration, the surviving dragons possess partial bloodlines rather than the True Dragon inheritance of antiquity 17 32.
• Ao Guang’s restored form is a six-limbed golden dragon with eight claws on each limb, a type held in high esteem even among ancient dragons 19.
• Clan members can assume different forms: Ao Guang takes a human appearance after his breakthrough, while the ten women presented at Chaoge first appear as small, multicolored snakes before transforming 19 33.

Military Service

• Approximately 30,000 dragons are capable of combat 34.
• The clan must deploy its forces when the Human Clan requires military assistance 35.
• Its initial weakness lies in its lack of supreme experts rather than its numbers or wealth 16 19.

Resources and Treasures

Contributions to Yin Shang

• Thousands of chests of provisions help sustain food relief for the human population 33.
• Large quantities of Postnatal Spiritual Treasures provide spiritual weapons useful to the Human Clan 33.
• Ten gifted young dragon women, led by Wushuang, are accepted as hostages and representatives of the clan’s allegiance. They subsequently remain to serve the Human Emperor 33 34 42.

Former Sea-Stabilizing Treasures

The four weapons were forged through Yu the Great’s efforts using divine iron obtained from Taishang Laozi and other materials. Their long service stabilizing the seas accumulated immense merit, making them supreme-grade postnatal merit spiritual treasures 20 34.

• Sea-Calming Divine Needle Iron — East Sea; weighs 108,000 jin 20 34.
• Sea-Spanning Purple Gold Beam — South Sea 20 34.
• Heaven-Supporting White Jade Pillar — North Sea 20 34.
• As-You-Will Iron Rod — West Sea 20 34.

Ao Guang returns all four to Di Xin. He explains that his increased strength now allows him to stabilize the seas without them 20 34.

Relationships

• Human Emperor Di Xin / Ye Xuan — Protector and sovereign. He offers the clan a path out of Haotian’s control in exchange for complete loyalty, weather regulation, and military service 19 35.
• Ancestral Dragon — Forefather and former leader. His recovered corpse gives Ye Xuan decisive leverage in persuading the surviving clan to submit 7 18.
• Wushuang — Ao Guang’s daughter and leader of the ten women sent to Chaoge. She becomes Di Xin’s personal maid and explicitly pledges loyalty to him, even where it might conflict with her father’s wishes 33 42 43.
• Haotian Shangdi — Former coercive overlord who slaughters dragons for food; seeks punishment after their defection 17 50.
• Yuanshi Tianzun — Opposes the Human Emperor’s use of human fortune to shelter the clan 36.
• Sect Master Tongtian — Welcomes the submission because a stronger Yin Shang benefits his Interception Sect’s position in the coming tribulation 35.