Gate of Taboo

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Gate of Taboo (禁忌之门)
Alias(es)	Forbidden Door; Gate of Forbidden
Type	Neutral character (AI); inter-era taboo gate
Affiliation	Taboo Beings within the gate; reportedly centered on dormant Mythological Realm powerhouses 150 151
Occupation/Role	Connects, contains, and suppresses Primordial Eras approaching or reaching their End 31 70 106
Status	Active; repeatedly suppressed, exploited, and opposed within Tang Xuan's Primordial Era 123 161
First Appearance	Chapter 23

Appearance

The Gate of Taboo resembles the mythological South Heaven Gate, but manifests as an ancient black doorframe steeped in ominous aura and darkness 23 32.

• Its frame is covered in strange characters; looking at it can create the sensation of contamination 23.
• Black mist leaks from the gate and can infiltrate reality 23.
• Its manifestations are accompanied by demonic murmurs, chaotic whispers, and visions of ruined or mutated worlds 32.
• When appearing on a large scale, it blots out surrounding laws and Dao, covering the area in absolute darkness 43.
• Its presence may produce flesh buds, tendrils, and scarlet eyes in the surrounding void through pollution 72 156.

Nature and Origin

The Gate of Taboo is a conduit to other Primordial Eras, particularly eras that have become inauspicious, collapsed, or reached their End 31 32. Foreign Pangu reports that every destroyed Primordial Era ultimately enters the Gate, and that it may push eras toward ruin to strengthen its own Origin 70.

According to information provided by 'Hongjun', the Gate was formed from the coalesced negative aspects of the Mythological Realm. Unknown Mythological Realm powerhouses, severely injured and dormant after that realm's destruction, form its core and are the source of the corruption permeating the gate 150 151.

Reported Scale

Measure	Reported extent	Source
Suppressed and annexed Primordial Eras	Over one million	'Hongjun''s report 151
Connected but not yet suppressed Primordial Eras	Ten million	'Hongjun''s report 151
Potential total Primordial Eras	Over 1.3 billion	'Hongjun''s report 151
Internal environment	Comparable to an advanced Primordial Era already facing its End	151

The Taboo Lifeforms trapped within seek escape because the Gate's interior is a hostile, End-like environment that drives its inhabitants toward madness and desperation 151.

Abilities & Properties

Inter-Era Connection and Containment

The Gate connects multiple Primordial Eras and gathers ruined worlds into its interior.

• Contains reflections of countless shattered, destroyed, mutated, and bizarre worlds 32.
• Can connect to other Primordial Era worlds and establish contact with beings from those worlds 31 32.
• Its suppression of an era can be delayed when that era deviates from its predetermined order 106.
• Can project itself into the Primordial Era and reflect upon the True Spirits of living beings 90.

Corruption and Temptation

The Gate's whispers carry corruption, madness, temptation, and destructive intent.

• Its black mist and murmurs can bewitch hearts and contaminate emotions or True Spirits 23 31 72.
• A single glimpse of severe Gate-derived pollution can induce chaos, mutation, or assimilation in insufficiently powerful observers 67.
• It corrupted Hongjun No. 129,600 before the Immeasurable Calamity, eventually turning him into the initiator of that era's calamity 110.
• It attempted to use widespread projections to corrupt Primordial Era beings and strike at Tang Xuan 123.
• Tang Xuan's protection of the Primordial Era prevents the Gate's ordinary manifestations from affecting its inhabitants directly 156.

Projection and Spatial Access

The Gate can be summoned or manifested through linked individuals, although its projected form is not its true body.

• Hongjun, Shi Chen, Di Jun, and others can summon or interact with Gate manifestations 32 49 72.
• It can appear behind a target to attempt extraction or transport, as it did when seeking to take Shi Chen and Yang Mei away 52.
• Through controlled Primordial giants, it created a spatial passage to bring the Three Pure Ones and others to the Primordial Continent 115.
• Before the End arrives, the Taboo Beings cannot fully descend or escape their confinement into the Primordial Era 43 97.
• During its attempted descent through Foreign Pangu, only a corner of the Gate could open while its power flowed into its anchor 158.

Origin Reservoir

The Gate contains immense Origin accumulated from destroyed worlds, making it both a threat and a resource.

• Tang Xuan can forcibly strip and refine portions of the Gate's Origin using the River of Myriad Treasures 39 43.
• Primordial beings were given imprints that allow them to steal and refine the Gate's Origin, with Tang Xuan sensing resistance through those marks 42.
• Its Origin is tied closely to the Taboo Beings; refining it weakens them as well 123.
• The Gate was compelled to provide Origin as compensation for damage done to the 129,600th Primordial Era 125.

Cultivation Support

Despite its destructive nature, the Gate can provide cultivation resources and alternate versions of beings or Dao paths.

• Destroyed eras within it contain broken Dao paths that can strengthen corresponding Dao foundations, such as Nuwa's Human Dao 68.
• Its inhabitants and alternate selves can be used to gather Origins and True Spirits from across eras 68.
• Under Tang Xuan's system-ranking scheme, the Gate agreed to create and spread a Taboo Cultivation System for benefits and wishes 86 97.
• Its widespread use in the Primordial Era assists practitioners with comprehension, cultivation improvement, and experience 91.
• Its original cultivation systems were avoided due to their bizarre nature, forcing the Taboo Beings to alter them to attract practitioners 111.

Limitations

• The Gate's projected manifestation is substantially weaker than its true body and cannot freely resist Tang Xuan before the End 43.
• Tang Xuan's River of Myriad Treasures naturally suppresses it, allowing him to plunder its Origin when it is intimidated or restrained 39.
• Tang Xuan can harm Taboo Beings' main bodies through their projections, demonstrating that its interior is not fully secure 123.
• The Gate's ability to interfere directly with the Primordial Era is constrained until the Immeasurable Calamity and the End draw near 52 97.
• Its repeated defeats and forced cooperation have made it a source of ridicule rather than fear among Tang Xuan's Primordial Era beings 90 156.

Background / History

Hongjun encountered the Gate during the Chaos period, describing it as the event that changed the course of his existence 31. In their early exchange, the Gate identified Tang Xuan as an unknown “variable” who did not belong to the Primordial World, prompting Hongjun to investigate the River God's origins 23.

When Tang Xuan and Hongjun summoned it openly, the Gate revealed darkness representing annihilation, destruction, and the End. A figure from another Primordial Era warned that oblivion would arrive after the Immeasurable Calamity 32. At this stage, the Gate was treated as a hidden terror associated with ruined worlds and possible corruption of the Heavenly Dao 31 32.

Tang Xuan overturned that perception by publicizing the Gate and presenting its Origin, destroyed eras, and alternate Dao paths as opportunities for Primordial Era beings 35 42. After the Gate attempted to lure Tang Xuan's group into the Three Immortal Islands with the Chaos Bead, Tang Xuan used the River of Myriad Treasures to strip part of its Origin and force it to retreat 38 39.

The Gate then shifted between attempted corruption, recruitment, negotiation, and reluctant cooperation. It recruited figures such as Luohu and negotiated with Di Jun, while Tang Xuan prepared the River of Myriad Spirits specifically to counter spiritual pollution 54 72. Its projections were eventually spread throughout the Primordial Era, turning the former taboo into a widely used cultivation aid under Tang Xuan's control 90 91.

Later information exposed the Gate's deeper structure: it contains immense numbers of suppressed eras and is rooted in dormant Mythological Realm powerhouses awaiting sufficient accumulated Origin to recover 150 151. As the conflict escalated, the Taboo Beings attempted to descend through Foreign Pangu, only for Pangu, the Primordial Era powers, Mountain Sea Deities, and Main God Space Reincarnators to unite in a counterattack 158 161.

Relationships

• Tang Xuan / River God — Primary adversary and suppressor. Tang Xuan repeatedly strips the Gate's Origin, forces it into negotiations, and uses it as a tool to develop the Primordial Era 39 43 123.
• Taboo Beings — The Gate houses and manifests the collective will of these corrupted lifeforms, who seek escape and the destruction or completion of Primordial Eras 151 156.
• Dormant Mythological Realm powerhouses — Reportedly the Gate's true masters or core; their lingering Dao and methods create its taboo and corruptive qualities 150 151.
• Hongjun — An early possessor and summoner of the Gate who relied on its information, then increasingly exploited and opposed it under Tang Xuan's influence 23 31 54.
• Foreign Pangu — Formerly connected to the Gate but publicly renounced it after Tang Xuan removed his pollution; later served as an anchor for the Gate's attempted descent 67 68 158.
• Di Jun — His emotions were contaminated by the Gate, but he recognized the manipulation and negotiated for cultivation benefits while deceiving it 72.
• Realm of Mountains and Seas — A rival force interested in Gate-related intelligence and opposed to its expansion because the destruction of all Primordial Eras would threaten its own realm 84 151.
• 'Hongjun' and the Main God Space — Multiple Hongjuns used the Gate's power while concealing agendas of their own, eventually providing Tang Xuan with extensive intelligence on its structure and plans 144 150.

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Chaos-period discovery — Hongjun encounters the Gate, learns of Tang Xuan's anomalous existence, and begins fearing the Gate's links to the Heavenly Dao and future calamities 23 31.
• Revelation of destroyed eras — Tang Xuan summons the Gate with Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao Incarnation, exposing other-era Hongjuns and the Gate's End-themed nature 32.
• Origin plundering and public exposure — Tang Xuan defeats its Three Immortal Islands scheme, devours part of its Origin, and turns its hidden resources into a public opportunity 38 39 42.
• Universal Creation and system era — The Gate is forced into the open, exploited through Origin-stealing imprints, and later drawn into the cultivation-system ranking framework 42 86 97.
• 129,600th Primordial Era incident — Its corruption of another Hongjun demonstrates the danger it poses to an era lacking Tang Xuan's intervention 110.
• Escalating rebellion and humiliation — The Taboo Beings attempt open defiance, only to submit after Tang Xuan attacks them through their projections and refines more of their Origin 122 123.
• Truth of the Mythological core — 'Hongjun' reveals that the Gate is tied to dormant Mythological Realm powerhouses and has annexed immense numbers of Primordial Eras 150 151.
• Attempted descent and counterattack — The Taboo Beings use Foreign Pangu as an anchor, but their plans are met by a unified counterattack and Pangu's breakthrough to the Great Dao Realm 158 161.

Notable Quotes

“The end is near, oblivion will come. After the immeasurable Calamity, we will await you within the Gate of Taboo.” 32

“River God, why don't you get out!... Your death day has arrived.” 156