Recaps

Lu Chen fused the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Pearl into Abyss, expanding its inner realm into a prototype minor world and prompting new systems for distributing resources. Just as Abyss settled into order, the Dragon Clan Main Lineage demanded that Lu Chen answer for sheltering fugitive Dragons and other alleged offenses.

• Lu Chen coordinated Abyss's water veins before merging the Black Tortoise Sea-Calming Pearl into the Abyssal Womb Membrane.
• The fusion created the Northern Darkness Sea and expanded Abyss's inner realm to a radius of one million li, convincing Feng Li that the Frost Phoenix Lineage had chosen the right refuge.
• The system rewarded Lu Chen with a third-layer fragment of the Chaos Shell-Shedding Method, which introduced the idea of making the Old Shell bear fate.
• Lan Shuang announced merit-based resource allocation, and Lady Mingzhu established the Abyss Treasury to manage resources and reward contributions.
• Several hundred years later, Ao Xuan's edict ordered Lu Chen to explain himself at the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace within a thousand years or face the Dragon Clan Main Lineage's intervention.

Ao Xuan delivered the Ancestral Dragon Main Lineage’s decree ordering Lu Chen to appear at Eastern Sea Dragon Palace within a thousand years. Lu Chen chose to delay, and Abyss prepared to enter a thousand-year Calamity-Avoidance State as the threat of the Dragon Clan Main Lineage loomed.

• Ao Xuan arrived at Dragon-Suppressing Pass and accused Abyss of sheltering fugitive dragons, detaining Dragon Clan bloodlines, and taking Northern Dark Water Palace’s spiritual treasure.
• Ao Xuan announced that Lu Chen must go to Eastern Sea Dragon Palace within a thousand years or face the Dragon Clan Main Lineage’s intervention.
• Lu Chen chose to seal the decree and delay his response for a thousand years, earning a piece of Heaven-Deceiving Tortoise Shell.
• Ao Xuan left the decree as a golden dragon sigil and warned that the main lineage would come to Abyss if Lu Chen failed to appear.
• Ao Lie, Han Jue, Ancestor Xuan Jia, and Lan Shuang discussed the main lineage’s strength and the danger it posed to Abyss.
• Lu Chen ordered Lan Shuang to seal some passages, reinforce Dragon-Suppressing Pass, avoid provoking the Dragon Clan, and place Abyss in the Calamity-Avoidance State.

Abyss spent a thousand years preparing Dragon-Suppressing Pass for the Dragon Clan Main Lineage, strengthening its defenses and training its forces. As the Millennium Pact expired, Ao Cang arrived with Ao Xuan and a Dragon Clan procession, bringing the threat to Abyss’s gates.

• Lan Shuang organized Abyss’s Calamity-Avoidance State, assigning its departments and allied races to reinforce Dragon-Suppressing Pass and prepare for the Dragon Clan.
• Lu Chen refined the Heaven-Deceiving Tortoise Shell while Abyss expanded its Realm Guard, strengthened its formations, trained its defenders, and expelled spies.
• Ao Lie and Han Jue repeatedly practiced defending against Dragon Clan tactics, and Abyss Academy added a Dragon-Suppressing Pass Battle Formation Course.
• Lu Chen merged the Heaven-Deceiving Tortoise Shell into the Abyssal Womb Membrane, obscuring Abyss’s heavenly secrets.
• As the thousand-year pact expired, Ao Xuan and the Great Luo Late Stage elder Ao Cang arrived outside Dragon-Suppressing Pass, and Lan Shuang ordered the defenders to high alert.

Lu Chen used the Great Dream Black Tortoise Technique to frighten Ao Cang, a Great Luo Late Stage elder of the Dragon Clan Main Lineage, into withdrawing from Dragon-Suppressing Pass. Ao Cang reported Abyss to the Ancestral Dragon, whose eyes opened in the Eastern Sea.

• Ao Cang attacked Dragon-Suppressing Pass, cracking its formation, while Ao Lie refused his offer to return to the Dragon Clan.
• Lu Chen chose the Great Dream Black Tortoise Technique and used a dream of his sleeping true body to make Ao Cang bleed and recoil.
• Ao Cang rebuked Ao Xuan and withdrew the Dragon Clan group after warning that he would report Abyss to the main lineage.
• Abyss's cultivators celebrated and knelt to Lu Chen, who received a fragment of the fourth layer of the Chaos Shell-Shedding Method and stronger Abyss defenses.
• The Ancestral Dragon opened his eyes in the Eastern Sea and took interest in Northern Sea Abyss and the Black Tortoise.

Ao Chen refused the Ancestral Dragon’s invitation to visit the Eastern Sea, instead offering to receive Dragon Clan envoys at Dragon-Suppressing Pass. The Ancestral Dragon accepted the reply and decided to send only a thought to investigate Abyss.

• Ao Cang reported Abyss’s actions and his injury to the Ancestral Dragon, who concluded that Mysterious Abyss Emperor had not yet declared war on the Dragon Clan.
• The Ancestral Dragon sent a Dragon Token inviting Mysterious Abyss Emperor to the Eastern Sea Ancestral Dragon Palace to discuss the Dao.
• Lu Chen chose to answer through his Abyss Dharma Body, refusing to leave Abyss but inviting the Ancestral Dragon to discuss matters outside Dragon-Suppressing Pass.
• The Dragon Token returned to the Eastern Sea, where the Ancestral Dragon announced that he would inspect Abyss with a single thought.

The Ancestral Dragon’s Dao Thought arrived at Dragon-Suppressing Pass and questioned Lu Chen about sheltering Dragon Clan refugees and Abyss’s purpose. Lu Chen warned that the three clans’ prosperity had reached its peak and their karmic burden would bring decline, leaving the Ancestral Dragon silent.

• The Ancestral Dragon’s golden waterlight traveled through the Four Seas and manifested as a black-robed man outside Dragon-Suppressing Pass.
• Lu Chen formed his Abyss Dharma Body and told the Ancestral Dragon that his true body was in seclusion.
• Lu Chen explained that Abyss judged beings by cause and effect rather than origin, and that rulebreakers received equal punishment regardless of bloodline.
• The Ancestral Dragon recognized Abyss’s emerging order and accused Lu Chen of gathering the Three Clans’ Flame Seeds, which Lu Chen denied.
• When asked whether the Dragon Clan would fall, Lu Chen said the three clans had reached the height of their prosperity, their karmic burden was heavy, and fortune would eventually recede.
• The Ancestral Dragon fell silent after hearing Lu Chen’s warning about the three clans’ future.

At Dragon-Suppressing Pass, Lu Chen agreed that Dragon Clan members could enter the Abyss only after submitting to its rules and the Book of Cause and Effect. The Ancestral Dragon left a sealed half-reverse-scale as a refuge for the Dragon Clan’s young lineage, while Lu Chen gained a fragment of the fifth layer of the Chaos Shell-Shedding Method and began studying how to substitute fate.

• The Ancestral Dragon asked whether the Abyss would accept the Dragon Clan’s remnant lineage, and Lu Chen said they must pass through karma and obey the Abyss’s rules.
• Lu Chen insisted that even the Ancestral Dragon’s bloodline must submit to the Book of Cause and Effect, and the Ancestral Dragon agreed to leave a way for the young lineage.
• The system offered Lu Chen choices for the Ancestral Dragon’s half-reverse-scale, and he chose to seal it with the Heaven-Deceiving Tortoise Shell as an entry token.
• The Ancestral Dragon told Ao Lie to uphold the Abyss’s rules, then departed after making a pact with Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen received a fragment of the fifth layer of the Chaos Shell-Shedding Method and studied its technique of substituting fate.
• The Ancestral Dragon ordered the Dragon Clan not to act against the Abyss and allowed its young lineage to seek refuge there during calamity.

After Ancestral Dragon left Dragon-Suppressing Pass, Han Jue helped Ao Lie steady his Dao heart by reminding him to follow Abyss's rules. Lu Chen realized that sheltering tribulation survivors strengthened his Old Shell's ability to bear fate, while Ancestral Dragon failed to see through Abyss and prepared a refuge there for the Dragon Clan's young branches.

• Ao Lie questioned whether the Dragon Clan would lose, and Han Jue told him to focus on guarding Dragon-Suppressing Pass and obeying Abyss's rules.
• Ao Lie regained his composure and challenged Han Jue to fight once his injuries healed, while Lan Shuang and Lady Mingzhu noted how much he and the pass had changed.
• Lu Chen realized Ancestral Dragon's Reverse Scale and the fortune of saved beings could strengthen Abyss's Old Shell and help it bear fate during Heaven Mending.
• The system reported that Abyss's Water Clan fortune had stabilized, Ao Lie's Dao heart had steadied, and Lu Chen's Chaos Shell-Shedding Method had progressed.
• Ancestral Dragon failed to deduce Lu Chen's true body and ordered the Dragon Clan to leave Abyss alone for now, allowing young branches facing calamity to seek refuge there.
• Ancestral Dragon sensed the Three Clans' coming great war and wondered whether the Black Tortoise could see its end.

Elder Zhu Yan came to Dragon-Suppressing Pass to force Feng Li and the Frost Phoenix Lineage back to the Phoenix Clan, accusing them of abandoning the war. With Lu Chen empowering Feng Li's frostflame through Northern Darkness Water Aura, she drove Zhu Yan back, but Yuanfeng's divine sense then descended upon the Northern Sea.

• Feng Li taught frostflame at Abyss Academy as the Frost Phoenix Lineage settled into life in the outer city.
• Zhu Yan arrived at Dragon-Suppressing Pass and demanded that Feng Li take the Frost Phoenix Lineage back south, while Feng Li and Lan Shuang cited Abyss's protection and rules.
• Zhu Yan attacked with Southern Bright Fire, and Feng Li confronted him with her Frost Phoenix frostflame.
• Lu Chen chose to empower Feng Li with Northern Darkness Water Aura, strengthening her frostflame enough to force Zhu Yan back.
• Zhu Yan warned that Yuanfeng would hear of Feng Li's resistance, and Yuanfeng's phoenix cry sounded across the Northern Sea as her divine sense descended.

Yuanfeng's divine sense confronted Feng Li and Lu Chen over the Frost Phoenix Lineage's decision to remain in Abyss, then left a Frostflame Phoenix Feather that became the clan's new spiritual root. The Frost Phoenix Lineage joined Abyss under its protection, while Lu Chen gained an insight into the Nirvana Shell-Swapping Technique and feared the Qilin Clan might also arrive.

• Yuanfeng asked Feng Li whether she wished to remain in Abyss, and Feng Li explained that her exhausted clan wanted to avoid the tribulation and stay.
• Lu Chen told Yuanfeng that Abyss would protect those who chose to remain, and Feng Li and the Frost Phoenix Lineage declared that they wished to stay.
• Yuanfeng left the Frostflame Phoenix Feather and recognized the Frost Phoenix Lineage's right to remain under Feng Li's command during the Great Tribulation.
• Lu Chen chose to turn the feather into a tribulation-avoiding token and received a fragmentary insight into the Nirvana Shell-Swapping Technique.
• Feng Li planted the feather, which grew into a Frostflame Parasol Tree and gave the Frost Phoenix Lineage a home in Abyss.
• Yuanfeng departed with Zhu Yan, and Lan Shuang and Lu Chen worried that the Qilin Clan might also come to Abyss.

The Water Qilin Branch fled the growing war among the three clans and sought refuge in Abyss, where the Book of Cause and Effect approved them for entry and Lin Yue took a guest official seat. As the three clans’ legacies began to converge and Abyss prepared to evolve, Primordial Qilin’s aura appeared in the Northern Darkness Sea.

• Earth-vein tremors revealed the Water Qilin Branch approaching Dragon-Suppressing Pass, and Lin Yue asked to bring his clan into Abyss for Calamity Evasion.
• Lin Yue explained that the Qilin Main Lineage had ordered his clan to build defenses near Buzhou Mountain, and the Book of Cause and Effect approved the branch for Abyss Outer City and Lin Yue for the Abyss Guest Official Seat.
• Lu Chen allowed the Water Qilins to enter under Abyss’s rules, and the system announced that their earth-vein karma, the Dragon Clan’s Reverse Scale, and Yuanfeng’s Frost Feather had fulfilled the conditions for Abyss’s land and mountain ranges to evolve.
• Lin Yue registered his clansmen and began repairing Abyss’s earth veins, while agreeing to fight Han Jue after three hundred years of work.
• Seven days after the Water Qilin Branch arrived, Primordial Qilin’s aura rose from its clan seal, and Lu Chen realized that Primordial Qilin had come to Abyss.

Primordial Qilin questioned Lu Chen about Abyss accepting the Water Qilin Branch and whether it would claim the Qilin Clan’s fortune. Lu Chen refused to seize the clan’s fortune, and the encounter left Abyss with a path for young Qilin blood to survive the coming tribulation.

• Lin Yue admitted that he had brought the Water Qilin Branch into Abyss to protect its young from the Buzhou Mountain battlefield.
• Lu Chen told Primordial Qilin that Abyss accepted those fleeing tribulation, not those seeking the fortune of the three clans, and required them to abandon their war orders.
• Primordial Qilin asked Lin Yue to follow Abyss’s rules; Lin Yue agreed and asked that the young Qilin remain safe even if he was summoned back.
• Primordial Qilin gave Lu Chen the Earth-Vein Seal, and Lu Chen transformed it into a token for young Qilin blood, gaining the Old Shell Earth-Bearing Method and causing Mysterious Peak Mountain to rise in Abyss.
• Primordial Qilin departed after warning that bearing fortune brought tribulation, while Abyss’s creatures realized the leaders of all three clans had left tokens there.

Old grudges among the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin branches erupted into a fight at Abyss Academy, but Lu Chen established the Calamity-Resolution Hall to prevent private revenge and judge past wrongs. Abyss restored order, though a gray-robed cultivator secretly planned to exploit the clans’ lingering hatred by igniting their Heart Demons.

• Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin youths fought outside Abyss Academy over old grievances, and Han Jue and the three clan leaders stopped them.
• Lan Shuang reported the conflict to Lu Chen, who chose to establish the Calamity-Resolution Hall and forbid private revenge.
• Lan Shuang announced that the Hall would register old grudges and use the Book of Cause and Effect to determine responsibility and judgment.
• The Book of Cause and Effect revealed the victims and causes behind the clans’ grievances, and Lan Shuang sentenced those involved in the fight to a hundred years in the meditation chambers.
• Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue joined the Calamity-Resolution Hall as mediators while Han Jue kept order.
• A gray-robed cultivator watched Abyss and planned to use the clans’ lingering hatred to ignite their Heart Demons.

Youdu, a demon envoy disguised as Xuanyou, spent centuries sowing distrust among Abyss Academy’s young disciples. His Heart Demon attack made Han Jue turn on Ao Lie, and Lu Chen awakened as the conflict threatened to erupt.

• Youdu infiltrated Abyss Academy and used veiled remarks to revive suspicions between the three clans and Abyss’s smaller clans.
• Lan Shuang investigated rising disputes with Ao Lie, Han Jue, Feng Li, and Lin Yue, and suspected the Demonic Dao was stirring emotions from the shadows.
• Youdu used a Heart Demon illusion to make Han Jue see Ao Lie leading a Dragon Clan attack on Abyss.
• Han Jue attacked Ao Lie at the Martial Practice Arena, and their anger escalated as their conflicting loyalties came to the surface.
• Lu Chen woke after the system detected demonic Heart Demon corruption in the academy and reported that Han Jue had lost control.

Han Jue fell under a Heart Demon and nearly attacked Ao Lie and the others, but Lu Chen bestowed the Mind-Cleansing Tortoise Cry to help the Academy’s disciples regain their senses. Lan Shuang exposed the infiltrator Youdu, and Abyss’s younger generation united to face him.

• Han Jue’s Heart Demon made him see Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue as enemies, and their clash threatened the Martial Practice Arena.
• Lu Chen chose to bestow the Mind-Cleansing Tortoise Cry, which shattered the Heart Demon illusions and restored Han Jue’s senses.
• Han Jue and the others recognized that their Heart Demons had exploited their deepest fears, while Lan Shuang used the Book of Cause and Effect to find the source of the demonic aura.
• The Book of Cause and Effect exposed Youdu in the outer city as a Demonic Dao emissary who had infiltrated Abyss and provoked the three races.
• Lu Chen challenged Youdu, and Han Jue, Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue stepped forward together to confront him.

Youdu unleashed demonic mist at Abyss Academy, but Han Jue, Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue overcame their old grudges and fought together. As Youdu revealed his greater power and sent Demonic Sha toward the Northern Darkness Sea, the young cultivators formed Abyss’s Three-Clan Guardian Formation, while Sea Devourer offered to handle the spreading contamination.

• Youdu spread demonic mist through the academy, reviving Heart Demon illusions tied to the clans’ old grievances.
• After the Emperor’s Mind-Cleansing Tortoise Cry broke their Heart Demons, Ao Lie, Han Jue, Feng Li, and Lin Yue coordinated their attacks against Youdu.
• With Lan Shuang guiding them through the Book of Cause and Effect, the four injured Youdu and disrupted his demonic shadow.
• Youdu revealed his Late Supreme Unity Golden Immortal strength and sent Demonic Sha surging toward Abyss Academy.
• Han Jue and the Realm Guard joined Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue to form Abyss’s Three-Clan Guardian Formation.
• As Lu Chen worried that Demonic Sha would contaminate the Northern Darkness Sea, Sea Devourer offered to deal with it.

Sea Devourer devoured Youdu’s Demonic Sha while the Book of Cause and Effect restrained its ferocity, helping Abyss Academy’s defenders wound Youdu and drive him away. Sea Devourer became a Sea-Calming Beast Spirit Prototype, but Youdu warned that Luohou would remember Abyss, leaving Lu Chen concerned about the threat ahead.

• Sea Devourer volunteered to devour the Demonic Sha, and Lu Chen chose to use the Book of Cause and Effect to restrain it as it fought.
• Sea Devourer emerged from the Northern Darkness Sea and swallowed the Demonic Sha attacking Abyss Academy, easing pressure on the Realm-Protecting Formation.
• Youdu triggered Sea Devourer’s ferocity with the swallowed Demonic Sha, but Lan Shuang, Han Jue, Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue helped Sea Devourer hold onto its clarity and refine the Sha.
• Sea Devourer devoured most of Youdu’s Demonic Sha, enabling Han Jue, Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue to wound Youdu and force him to retreat after he threatened Abyss in Luohou’s name.
• The Book of Cause and Effect and Abyss’s other forces stabilized Sea Devourer, whose soul pearl became a Sea-Calming Beast Spirit Prototype, while Lu Chen considered adding more formations around the Academy.

After Youdu’s defeat, Rahu learned that Abyss was sheltering beings from the tribulation and ordered him to keep watching it, while Hongjun noticed the Northern Sea sanctuary but could not divine its secrets. Abyss uncovered hidden demonic agents and Lu Chen received a method to build a Calamity-Viewing Platform, unaware that its use would draw Rahu’s notice.

• Youdu reported to Rahu that a tortoise cry had broken the Academy’s Heart Demons, the three clans had formed a Guardian Formation, and Sea Devourer had absorbed his Demonic Sha.
• Rahu restored Youdu’s remnant soul and ordered him to watch Northern Sea Abyss without forcing his way in, while Hongjun sensed the sanctuary but could not see through its concealment.
• Lan Shuang oversaw Abyss’s investigation, and Feng Li, Lin Yue, and Ao Lie helped purify corrupted cultivators as the Academy introduced Mind-Cleansing Classes.
• Lu Chen worried that Rahu and Hongjun had noticed Abyss, then received the Calamity-Viewing Platform Construction Method as a reward.
• Lu Chen ordered the platform built, not knowing it would help Rahu sense Abyss observing the tribulation.

Lu Chen completed Abyss’s Calamity-Viewing Platform and used it to observe the Dragon-Han Cataclysm from afar, but shut it down when he sensed Rahu noticing the platform. The system rewarded him with the Three Lives Gate Construction Method, and Lu Chen ordered a gate built at Abyss’s entrance.

• Lan Shuang organized Abyss’s clans and departments to gather materials and support for the Calamity-Viewing Platform.
• After three hundred years of construction, Lu Chen activated the platform and showed Abyss the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin forces fighting in the Great Tribulation.
• Lu Chen spotted Rahu gathering death aura and resentment with a black banner, then immediately shut down the water mirror and severed the platform’s traces.
• Rahu sensed Abyss watching from the Northern Sea, while Hongjun also took note of the Black Tortoise observing the tribulation without entering it.
• The system rewarded Lu Chen with the Three Lives Gate Construction Method, and he ordered Lan Shuang to build the gate at Abyss’s entrance.

Lu Chen established a three-day truce in Abyss’s rescue zone, where Feng Li, Ao Lie, Lin Yue, and the others treated wounded from the Three-Clan War. More than seventy percent of the first arrivals survived, while Lu Chen gained medical Fortune and worried about where the rescued young ones would go.

• After witnessing the battle, Lu Chen sealed the Calamity-Viewing Platform and ordered Dragon-Suppressing Pass to prepare for wounded arrivals.
• Three hundred years later, a burned young dragon arrived carrying a cracked phoenix egg, and Feng Li and Ao Lie recognized that he had protected it.
• As wounded from the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans and smaller races gathered outside the pass, their old hatreds threatened to spark a fight.
• Lu Chen decreed that no grudges could be settled for three days after entering Abyss, and Lan Shuang mobilized its bureaus to register grudges and treat the wounded.
• Feng Li, Ao Lie, and Lin Yue treated enemies from other clans, and more than seventy percent of the first batch survived the three-day truce.
• The system reported that Abyss’s medical Fortune had begun to condense, while Lu Chen wondered where all the rescued young ones would go.

Lu Chen established the Young Clans Court to raise the young and weak of the three clans and other peoples together under Abyss’s rules. As the children began learning and living alongside one another, the Three Lives Gate Prototype stabilized and Abyss’s future Fortune increased.

• After the young clans caused repeated trouble in Abyss’s outer city, Lan Shuang asked Lu Chen how they should be housed.
• Lu Chen chose the system’s third option and ordered the establishment of a Young Clans Court for children of all clans.
• Lan Shuang oversaw the court’s construction and taught the children to survive first, while Lu Chen told them they could choose their own path when they grew up.
• Ao Lie, Feng Li, Lin Yue, and Han Jue taught the children their respective skills and helped them follow Abyss’s rules.
• The children began cultivating together, and the system announced that the Three Lives Gate Prototype had stabilized and Abyss’s future Fortune had increased.

Lu Chen established the Three Lives Gate to screen everyone entering Abyss for karma, heart-nature, and killing tribulations, exposing a demonic infiltrator and earning a reward from the system. When the heavens bestowed Merit on the gate, Lu Chen worried it might draw the Heavenly Dao’s attention.

• Lu Chen oversaw the construction of the Three Lives Gate behind Dragon-Suppressing Pass, with Lan Shuang, Ancestor Xuan Jia, Lin Yue, Lady Mingzhu, Feng Li, Ao Lie, the Sea Devourer Beast Spirit, and Han Jue contributing to its defenses.
• After five hundred years, Lu Chen set four fundamental edicts for the three gates, which began screening everyone seeking entry to Abyss.
• The gates admitted a young Dragon Clan member, sent a wounded Phoenix clan member to observation, and exposed and expelled a rogue cultivator who had fabricated a persecution story.
• The Heart-Nature Examination revealed a demonic cultivator hiding among wounded refugees, and Han Jue subdued him as Lan Shuang shattered his demon talisman.
• The system rewarded Lu Chen with the rudimentary form of the sixth layer of the Chaos Shell-Shedding Method, and a shower of Merit descended upon the Three Lives Gate.
• Lu Chen panicked that the Merit might draw the Heavenly Dao’s attention to him.

The Three Lives Gate earned a wisp of Heaven-and-Earth Merit, and Lu Chen merged it into his Old Shell to strengthen its fate-bearing capacity and his shell-shedding method. Powerful figures across the Primordial World noticed Abyss, while Luohou ordered Youdu to send resentful souls toward the gate.

• Heaven-and-earth Merit descended upon the Three Lives Gate, and Abyss’s beings congratulated Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen chose to merge the Merit into his Old Shell, strengthening its fate-bearing capacity and the sixth layer of the Chaos Shell-Shedding Method.
• Lan Shuang, Lady Mingzhu, Ancestor Xuan Jia, Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue saw the Merit as a sign that Abyss’s shelter could endure.
• The Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, the Primordial Qilin, and Hongjun sensed the Merit and considered the Three Lives Gate’s significance.
• Luohou told Youdu to send resentful souls against the gate, and Youdu set out toward the Northern Sea with them.

As refugees continued arriving at Abyss, Youdu brought a vast army of vengeful souls to Dragon-Suppressing Pass and demanded that Lu Chen close the Three Lives Gate. Lu Chen instead used the gate to purify the dead and recruit willing souls as Realm-Guarding Yin Soldiers, forcing Youdu to retreat while Abyss’s defenses grew stronger.

• Abyss took in more refugees through the Three Lives Gate under Lan Shuang’s strict screening rules, drawing the Demon Cult’s suspicion.
• Youdu led countless vengeful souls to Dragon-Suppressing Pass and threatened to keep sending them unless Abyss closed the gate.
• Lu Chen chose the system’s option to upgrade the Three Lives Gate and declared that the living could enter while the dead would be registered and their resentment cleansed.
• Lan Shuang and Abyss’s forces guided the vengeful souls through the Three Lives Gate, where many chose to protect the surviving young clans as Realm-Guarding Yin Soldiers.
• Youdu fled after his vengeful souls became Abyss’s defenders, and the system confirmed that the Three Lives Gate had upgraded.

As the Dragon-Han Final Battle approached, the Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and the Primordial Qilin sent secret orders directing their young branches to seek refuge in Abyss if their clans fell. Lu Chen prepared Abyss to receive them as the three armies marched to war, and refugees began arriving at Dragon-Suppressing Pass.

• The Ancestral Dragon ordered Ao Cang to send the Dragon Clan's young branches to Abyss if the Main Lineage collapsed, and Yuanfeng and the Primordial Qilin issued similar orders for their own clans.
• Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue received their rulers' secret orders to guard Abyss and receive the Dragon, Phoenix, and Water Qilin young branches.
• Ao Lie, Feng Li, Lin Yue, and Han Jue agreed that newcomers could stay if they obeyed Abyss's rules, while troublemakers would be sent to Calamity-Resolution Hall.
• Lu Chen learned that all three clans had chosen Abyss as an escape route, and the system reported that the Old Shell's fate-bearing capacity had increased.
• The Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and the Primordial Qilin led their armies toward battle, beginning the countdown to the Dragon-Han Final Battle.
• Seven years after the armies departed, wounded survivors and fleeing refugees arrived in growing numbers outside Dragon-Suppressing Pass.