Recaps

Lu Chen imposed rules at the Three Lives Gate to prevent the refugees’ old grudges from becoming a massacre, while Abyss organized aid and shelter for the wounded and young lineages. Three days later, a dying Dragon Clan elder revealed that the three clans’ final battle had reached Buzhou Sea and Luohou was there, prompting Lu Chen to activate the Calamity-Viewing Platform.

• Han Jue suppressed tensions outside the Three Lives Gate and directed the aggrieved to register at the Calamity-Resolution Hall rather than attack rival clans.
• Lu Chen chose to record old grudges and forbid killing inside the gate, then announced Abyss’s rules to the gathered refugees.
• Lan Shuang expanded Abyss’s rescue and shelter operations as Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue helped wounded young survivors and prioritized their passage.
• Three days later, the wounded Dragon Clan Great Luo Ao Qing reported that the rulers of the three clans and Luohou’s demonic shadow had gathered for the final battle at Buzhou Sea.
• Lu Chen ordered the Calamity-Viewing Platform activated.

Lu Chen used the Calamity-Viewing Platform to watch the rulers of the three clans fight at Buzhou Sea and discovered that Luohou was gathering the war’s deathly energy and resentment to fuel a Demonic Dao killing tribulation. The chapter ended as Luohou turned his demonic eyes toward the Northern Sea, just as Lu Chen prepared to disconnect the platform.

• Lu Chen activated the Calamity-Viewing Platform under multiple concealment techniques to observe the battle at Buzhou Sea.
• The Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and the Primordial Qilin clashed with their forces, devastating the battlefield and killing countless beings.
• Lu Chen spotted Luohou harvesting deathly energy, resentment, and karmic force with a black banner.
• Lu Chen realized Abyss’s refuge for young clan bloodlines and its purification of resentful souls were weakening Luohou’s gains.
• Luohou sensed a disturbance in fate and turned his gaze toward the Northern Sea as Lu Chen prepared to shut down the platform.

After Lu Chen shut down the Calamity-Viewing Platform to prevent Rahu from tracing Abyss, Rahu and Hongjun both turned their attention toward the Northern Sea. With the Dragon-Han Great Tribulation reaching its endgame, Lu Chen decided Abyss would keep its gates open but screen those seeking refuge.

• Lu Chen immediately concealed Abyss and cut the Calamity-Viewing Platform’s connection when Rahu looked back, then sealed the platform and ordered Dragon-Suppressing Pass to continue receiving the young and weak.
• Rahu sensed Abyss’s observation, remembered the Northern Sea, and ordered Youdu to probe Abyss without rushing while he continued harvesting the battlefield’s dead-energy.
• Hongjun sensed the exchange, failed to deduce Abyss past its defenses, and considered visiting the Northern Sea after the Dragon-Han Era.
• Lu Chen realized Rahu’s demonic shadow was nearing the Northern Sea and Hongjun was deducing Abyss, then chose to keep the gates open while turning away hegemonic strivers, heavily sinful beings, and demonic cultivators.

Lu Chen chose to open the Three Lives Gate to the young, wounded, and those without grave killing karma, transforming Abyss into a refuge while strengthening his plans to survive the coming tribulation. As the three clan leaders and Luohou noticed the gate, Luohou turned his attention toward Abyss, but Lu Chen refused to leave the realm.

• Lu Chen rejected entering the battlefield or sealing Abyss and chose to open the Three Lives Gate to eligible refugees, completing the prototype of the sixth level of the Chaos Shell-Shedding Method and upgrading the gate.
• Lu Chen announced rules for entry, and Lan Shuang organized Abyss's bureaus to register, shelter, treat, and protect the refugees.
• Han Jue and Abyss's healers and guards processed young clansfolk, the wounded, dead souls, and ordinary refugees as the outer city expanded.
• Lu Chen sensed that each life saved strengthened Old Shell Fate-Bearing and became more confident he could survive the Heaven-Mending tribulation.
• The Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and the Primordial Qilin sensed the Three Lives Gate opening and hoped their people would survive.
• Luohou saw Abyss sheltering the young and wounded, vowed to challenge its refuge, and drew Lu Chen's attention; Lu Chen stayed inside Abyss.

Three hundred years after the Three Lives Gate opened, Lu Chen used the gate’s powers to repel a Quasi-Saint demonic thought sent by Luohou, who demanded that Abyss close the refuge. Luohou withdrew but warned that he would come in person during the approaching Dragon-Han Endgame.

• Lu Chen ordered Abyss to raise its defenses after sensing that the Northern Sea had grown suspiciously quiet.
• A demonic shadow far stronger than Youdu appeared outside Dragon-Suppressing Pass and demanded that Lu Chen close the Three Lives Gate and disperse the refugees.
• Lu Chen chose to use the Three Lives Gate and Heaven-and-Earth Merit to suppress the demonic thought rather than expose his true body or close the gate.
• The Three Lives Gate cleansed Luohou’s demonic spear strike, Sea Devourer swallowed the remaining Demonic Sha, and the spear phantom shattered without breaking the pass.
• Luohou withdrew after warning that he would personally confront Abyss during the Dragon-Han Endgame, while Lu Chen received the Three Lives Gate Demon-Sealing Law and stabilized the sixth layer of the Chaos Shell-Shedding Method.

Hongjun arrived at Abyss, passed through the Three Lives Gate, and warned Lu Chen that Abyss was preserving the next generation of the Primordial World. Nine days after Hongjun departed, the three clans’ sacred tokens reacted, signaling that the Dragon-Han Final Battle had begun.

• Hongjun appeared at Dragon-Suppressing Pass and asked to meet Lu Chen, explaining that he had sensed Luohou’s demonic intent suffer a setback in the Northern Sea.
• Hongjun passed through the Causality Illumination, Heart-Nature Examination, and Killing-Tribulation Severance gates, whose visions revealed his vast karmic ties and the coming battle with Luohou.
• Hongjun told Lu Chen that Abyss’s Young Clans Court could preserve the next generation of the Primordial World and warned that Luohou would attack during the Dragon-Han Endgame.
• Lu Chen said Abyss would stay out of the battlefield and only keep its gates open; Hongjun promised to stop Luohou once if he came to the Northern Sea, while Abyss would face the remaining tribulation itself.
• Nine days after Hongjun left, the Ancestral Dragon’s Reverse Scale cracked, the Frostflame Phoenix Feather dimmed, and the Primordial Qilin Earth-Vein Seal rumbled, revealing that the Dragon-Han Final Battle had begun.

As the rulers of the three clans fell into grave danger, Lu Chen used their tokens to open three Abyss Bridges for the young, weak, and wounded fleeing the battlefields. The survivors began reaching Abyss, but Luohou's Demonic Sha followed them along the bridges.

• The Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primordial Qilin sent weakened warnings ordering their clans' flame seeds to retreat, while Lu Chen saw that all three escape routes were blocked.
• Lu Chen chose the system's third option and ordered Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue to open the Eastern Sea, Southern, and Buzhou bridges from the Three Lives Gate.
• Ao Lie led Dragon Clan young lineage onto the Eastern Sea Bridge, while the bridge barred soldiers from entering.
• Feng Li rescued Phoenix Clan fledglings and eggs on the Southern Bridge as a wounded elder stayed behind, and Lin Yue guided Water Qilin young lineage across the Buzhou Bridge while soldiers held back the demonic shadows.
• Lan Shuang ordered Abyss's forces to prepare for the incoming survivors, and Lu Chen realized that Demonic Sha was pursuing them along the bridges.

As the Three Clans’ retreat came under attack, Lu Chen used his Old Shell to absorb Luohou’s three demonic strikes and protect the last young and wounded refugees entering Abyss. With Hongjun heading to confront Luohou and Abyss hidden behind its defenses, the Dao-Demon War was about to begin, and Lu Chen’s death-tribulation aura changed.

• Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue guided the young and wounded Dragons, Phoenixes, and Qilins across the three Abyss Bridges while their elders and warriors held back the demonic tide.
• Luohou struck all three bridges with demonic tribulations, and Lu Chen chose to have his Old Shell absorb the blows, allowing the final refugees to reach Abyss.
• Lu Chen received the seventh-layer Chaos Shell-Shedding Method fragment and a Tribulation-Bearing Rune as the Old Shell endured Luohou’s attacks.
• Lu Chen ordered Abyss into its highest calamity-avoidance state as the three clans’ fortunes fell and Hongjun set out for the Western Lands.
• Luohou and Hongjun faced one another in the Western Lands, while Lu Chen saw the system report that his death-tribulation aura had changed for the first time.

Lu Chen discovered that his Old Shell could substitute for his true body in the Heaven-Mending Death Tribulation, and the Three Clans’ final messages confirmed their era was ending. As the substitution progress reached 20%, the Dao-Demon War began in the Western Lands.

• Lu Chen saw the Old Shell draw most of the Heaven-Mending fate away from his true body, and the system reported 17% substitution progress.
• The Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primordial Qilin sent their final messages to Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue before their tokens fell silent.
• The Three Clans’ Flame Seeds stabilized in Abyss, raising Lu Chen’s substitution progress to 20%.
• Demonic might erupted in the Western Lands, four sword intents tore through the heavens, and Ancestor Xuan Jia announced that the Dao-Demon War had begun.

As the three clans’ power collapsed, Abyss accepted their surviving bloodlines while excluding the heaviest burden of their hegemony and preserving their young flame seeds. Their children began to settle into life together just as Luohou opened the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, signaling the start of a fiercer war.

• The wounded survivors of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans reached Abyss, where they reunited with young clan members and received refuge.
• Lan Shuang and Lady Mingzhu reviewed the growing Myriad Clans Register, while Lu Chen saw the three clans’ Fortune decline and Abyss’s death-tribulation substitution progress rise to twenty-four percent.
• Young Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin members fought over which clan was strongest until Han Jue, Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue made them stop and set them to tasks.
• The adults of the three clans shared a more relaxed moment as they watched over the children at the Young Clans Court.
• Luohou fully opened the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation in the Western Lands, and Ancestor Xuan Jia recognized that Luohou was fighting for his life.

As the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation shook the Primordial World, Lu Chen prepared Abyss for the fallout while sensing Luohou’s defeat draw near. After the formation broke and the Western Lands fell silent, Luohou began his final strike, threatening to destroy the Primordial World.

• The Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation’s opening sent disturbances as far as Abyss, and Lu Chen refused to activate the Calamity-Viewing Platform.
• As the battle’s aftershocks worsened, Lu Chen put Abyss on high alert and ordered its people and defenses to shelter behind its gates.
• On the nineteenth day, a sword cry rang across the Primordial World, and the system reported that the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation was damaged and Luohou’s defeat was apparent.
• Ancestor Xuan Jia warned that Luohou might fight desperately, so Lu Chen activated every Tribulation-Bearing Rune on the Old Shell.
• After the Western Lands fell silent on the twenty-third day, Luohou vowed to give Hongjun a broken Primordial World and caused the entire western world to explode.

After Luohou detonated the Western Lands, a World-Destroying Demonic Tribulation targeted Abyss in the Northern Sea. Lu Chen drew it into the Old Shell and survived, leaving Abyss intact and raising Heaven-Mending Death Tribulation Substitution Progress to 31%.

• The Western Lands exploded, and Abyss’s defenders stabilized its gates, earth veins, and formations against the first wave of destruction.
• The system warned Lu Chen that Luohou’s demonic tribulation had locked onto Abyss and offered him three choices.
• Lu Chen chose to bear the tribulation with the Old Shell and drew it away from Dragon-Suppressing Pass.
• The Old Shell absorbed and refined the demonic tribulation, forming a second Tribulation-Bearing Rune while the Chaos Shell-Shedding Method reached its seventh layer.
• The system reported that Heaven-Mending Death Tribulation Substitution Progress had risen to 31%, and Abyss’s people knelt to honor Lu Chen.
• Luohou’s final demonic will dissipated, and the Western Lands fell silent.

After the Dragon-Han Cataclysm ended, Abyss received Heaven-and-Earth Clear Qi and began recovering as the surviving clans mourned their ancestors and rebuilt their lives. Lu Chen discovered that his Old Shell had changed the Heaven-Mending Death Tribulation from certain death into a possible escape, then returned to seclusion to strengthen it further.

• After a hundred years of silence, Lan Shuang and Lady Mingzhu recognized that the Dragon-Han Cataclysm had ended, while Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue bid farewell to Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primordial Qilin.
• Ao Lie saw Han Jue discipline the young Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin, and took comfort that the children could grow up without being forced to fight one another.
• Hongjun sent word that Luohou had been defeated and granted Abyss a share of Heaven-and-Earth Clear Qi, which strengthened the Three Lives Gate and helped restore Abyss.
• Lu Chen deduced the Heaven-Mending Death Tribulation again and saw his Old Shell let his true body retreat for the first time, while the system raised substitution progress to thirty-three percent and confirmed that escape was possible.
• Lu Chen resolved to keep nurturing his Old Shell and went into seclusion as Abyss returned to a peaceful routine.

After the Dragon-Han Cataclysm, remnants of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans asked Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue to return and lead their people. The three agreed to seek Lu Chen’s permission, and the chapter left him weighing the clans’ converging Fortune against the danger of rebuilding their power.

• Dragon Clan elders chose Ao Lie to lead the Eastern Sea branches and sent a delegation to Abyss.
• Phoenix Clan remnants invited Feng Li back to Undying Volcano, while Qilin survivors asked Lin Yue to unite their scattered clans.
• The three delegations arrived at Dragon-Suppressing Pass, where Han Jue remarked that their former clans had come to poach them.
• Lan Shuang told Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue that they could leave Abyss if they wished, and all three decided to ask Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen received the request, and the system warned that the three clans’ remaining Fortune was converging upon Abyss.

Lu Chen chose to let the three clans' survivors rebuild without reviving their old hegemony, and Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue agreed to help their clans on those terms. The survivors left Abyss, the Ebb-Tide Mandate Pattern was completed, and news of Lu Chen's refusal of Three-Clan Fortune spread through the Primordial World.

• Lu Chen chose the option that let the Three Clans' Flame Seeds remain in Abyss while preventing their former hegemony from continuing, earning the Ebb-Tide Mandate Pattern.
• Lu Chen asked Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue to help their former clans, and each agreed to assist with resettlement or repairs but refused to restore the clans' old dominion.
• Ao Lie told the Eastern Sea dragon remnants he would quell disorder and settle young branches, but would not rebuild the Four Seas hegemony.
• Feng Li offered the Phoenix Clan Remnants help resettling survivors, while Lin Yue offered to repair earth veins and care for young beasts but rejected a renewed struggle for dominion.
• After seven days, the remnants accepted the terms and departed; Lan Shuang added rules protecting Abyss members' clan identities and barring outside clans from forcibly conscripting them.
• The Ebb-Tide Mandate Pattern was completed and Lu Chen's Heaven-Mending Death Tribulation Substitution Progress reached 35%; the Primordial World then wondered what the Mysterious Abyss Emperor was plotting after he refused Three-Clan Fortune.

Ao Lie returned to the Eastern Sea to settle the Dragon Clan’s conflicts without taking the Dragon King title or reviving Ancestral Dragon’s hegemony. After restoring order, he returned to guard Dragon-Suppressing Pass, while the Phoenix Clan’s arrival at the Frostflame Parasol Tree hinted at a new challenge.

• Ao Lie refused the Northern Sea Dragon King Seal, choosing to finish guarding Dragon-Suppressing Pass before addressing the Eastern Sea’s turmoil.
• Lu Chen allowed Ao Lie to handle Dragon Clan affairs on his own, and Ao Lie went east with a small group of young cultivators.
• Ao Lie stopped the fighting among the Eastern Sea lineages, reorganized the water palaces, and sent would-be rivals to repair the sea eyes.
• After a century, Ao Lie left the Dragon King Seal in the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace and returned to the Northern Sea, promising to help if trouble arose.
• Lu Chen welcomed Ao Lie’s return as the Dragon Clan’s order recovered, while the Phoenix Clan arrived outside the Frostflame Parasol Tree.

Feng Li declined to return the Frost Phoenix Lineage to the south, choosing to remain in Abyss with its young. After the Phoenix Clan Remnants took a branch of the Frostflame Parasol Tree back south, the Frost Phoenix Lineage independently chose Abyss as home, while Lin Yue also kept Mysterious Peak Mountain as the Water Qilin Branch’s ancestral heartland.

• The Phoenix Clan Remnants asked Feng Li to return south, but she said Frost Phoenixes could go voluntarily and explained that she would stay in Abyss to care for the young and honor Yuanfeng’s last wish.
• The white-haired Phoenix Clan woman visited the Young Clans Court and watched young members of different clans argue and play together without carrying their parents’ old hatred.
• The Phoenix Clan Remnants asked to take a branch of the Frostflame Parasol Tree south, and Lu Chen approved it while forbidding them from using his name to recruit followers.
• Feng Li gave the remnants a branch and promised to visit the south, but affirmed that the Frost Phoenixes’ home was Abyss for now.
• The remnants departed, and Lu Chen’s system confirmed that the Frost Phoenix Lineage had independently chosen Abyss without inheriting the Phoenix Clan’s burden of hegemony.
• Lin Yue chose to restore the old lands’ earth veins while keeping Mysterious Peak Mountain as the Water Qilin Branch’s ancestral heartland.

After the Dragon-Han Cataclysm, Lan Shuang established rules to keep Abyss from inheriting the old three-clan hegemony, and the clans’ remaining karmic burden was severed. Just as Lu Chen prepared for a long retreat, Hongjun announced that he had attained the Dao, bringing the prospect of Nuwa’s rise—and renewed danger to Lu Chen’s four legs—closer.

• Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue helped their clans recover while Abyss’s people rebuilt and settled into a calmer era.
• Lan Shuang presided over Abyss’s first post-cataclysm grand assembly and established rules preserving clan inheritances while forbidding old hegemonic titles and forced conscription within Abyss.
• Ao Lie explained to a Dragon Clan representative that guarding Abyss’s gate was no easy post, then challenged Han Jue to spar and lightened the assembly’s mood.
• The assembly’s rules were recorded, and the three clans’ remaining Fortune receded into pure flame-seed imprints as Abyss’s karmic burden was severed.
• Hongjun announced across the Primordial World that he had attained the Dao, and Lu Chen realized that Nuwa’s future ascent could bring danger to his four legs.

After Hongjun attained the Dao and announced a lecture at the Purple Cloud Palace, Lu Chen decided not to attend, preferring to remain in Abyss and strengthen his Old Shell. A hundred years later, Hongjun sent Abyss a personal invitation, leaving Lu Chen facing a system choice.

• Hongjun attained the Dao, became the Primordial World's first Heavenly Dao Saint, and announced that he would teach at the Purple Cloud Palace in three thousand years.
• Lu Chen worried that future events, especially the Heaven-Mending Death Tribulation, threatened him, so he continued refining the Old Shell to draw heaven and earth's attention away from himself.
• When Han Jue asked whether Lu Chen would attend Hongjun's lecture, Lu Chen refused, citing Abyss's stability and the trouble of traveling through chaos.
• Abyss's inhabitants accepted Lu Chen's decision and continued their ordinary routines while powers across the Primordial World prepared to travel to the Purple Cloud Palace.
• A hundred years later, a violet aura crossed Abyss's Womb Membrane and formed a Purple Cloud Mark above the Northern Darkness Dao Palace; the system then presented Lu Chen with a choice.

Lu Chen chose to send an avatar made from the Old Shell to hear Hongjun's sermon at Purple Cloud Palace while his true body stayed in Abyss. He crossed Chaos at an unhurried pace and arrived after thousands of powerful guests had gathered outside the palace.

• Lu Chen selected the system's third option, condensed the Black Tortoise Old Shell Dharma Form, and sent the avatar toward Purple Cloud Palace.
• The great powers of the Primordial World departed for Chaos as the three-thousand-year deadline arrived, while Han Jue and Ao Lie saw Lu Chen off from Abyss.
• Lu Chen crossed the Primordial World and entered the Outer Chaos, where the Old Shell Avatar withstood the Chaos Astral Winds without difficulty.
• Lu Chen met Kunpeng in Chaos and said he was not competing for a seat, while Kunpeng hurried ahead to claim one.
• Lu Chen reached Purple Cloud Palace and found three thousand guests already gathered outside its gates.

Lu Chen attended Hongjun’s Dao lecture at Purple Cloud Palace but chose a seat by the door rather than compete for one of the six cushions, sensing that the seats carried heavy karma. When Nuwa looked back at him, his system warned that she was a key figure in his future Heaven-Mending Death Tribulation, leaving him wary as the lecture began.

• Lu Chen arrived at Purple Cloud Palace and watched the other mighty figures rush to claim the six front cushions while he chose a seat near the gates.
• Jieyin and Zhunti arrived late, and Hong Yun yielded his cushion while Kunpeng lost his place, entangling them in deep karma.
• Lu Chen told a nearby cultivator he preferred sitting by the door, and others interpreted his choice as proof that he did not value the cushions’ opportunity.
• Hongjun appeared on the high platform and began expounding the Dao as Nuwa turned to look at Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen’s system identified Nuwa as a key figure in his future Heaven-Mending Death Tribulation and reported his substitution progress at 36%.

At Hongjun’s first lecture in Purple Cloud Palace, Nuwa and Fuxi noticed that the Mysterious Abyss Emperor was listening through an avatar while his true body remained in the Northern Sea. Lu Chen recognized the faint karmic thread linking him to Nuwa and continued preparing to survive the future Heaven-Mending Death Tribulation as Hongjun began the lecture.

• Fuxi told Nuwa that the Mysterious Abyss Emperor in the back was only an avatar, and that his true body remained in the Northern Sea.
• Nuwa and Lu Chen exchanged a peaceful nod, while Lu Chen resolved to keep preparing for the future when Nuwa might target his limbs.
• Lu Chen detected a new, faint karmic thread connecting him and Nuwa, and used the Chaos Tortoise Breathing Method to weaken it without erasing it.
• Hongjun surveyed the assembled powers and noticed how much further Lu Chen’s Old Shell Avatar had developed since his last visit to Abyss.
• Hongjun began his first lecture, and Lu Chen turned his attention to learning what might help him survive.

Lu Chen used Hongjun’s teachings to refine his methods for hiding his true body and making the Old Shell a convincing vessel for Heaven-Mending causality. As Hongjun began explaining the path beyond the Great Luo, Lu Chen received a system prompt asking him to choose his next direction of Dao comprehension.

• Hongjun expounded on the Great Dao, the Great Luo, causality, space, and Grotto-Heavens, while Lu Chen applied each idea to his escape plans.
• Lu Chen’s Old Shell Avatar blurred its shell patterns and aura, drawing the attention of Zhen Yuanzi, Hong Yun, Fuxi, Tongtian, Yuanshi, and Laozi.
• Lu Chen deduced that he could transfer Heaven-Mending causality onto a lifelike Old Shell and make Abyss briefly shift from its fixed coordinates.
• Hongjun noticed Lu Chen’s unusual survival-oriented Dao path, met his gaze, and then continued teaching.
• After a thousand years of teachings, Lu Chen’s avatar had nearly blended into Purple Cloud Palace’s chaotic aura.
• As Hongjun began explaining the path ahead of Quasi-Saints, the system asked Lu Chen to choose his next direction of Dao comprehension.

Lu Chen chose to study space, karma, Grotto-Heavens, and concealment during Hongjun’s teachings, seeking a way to protect Abyss and survive the future Heaven-Mending tribulation. He gained the Abyss Escape Realm Chapter, which could briefly shift Abyss’s manifested location, and ended by wondering why Tongtian kept watching him.

• Lu Chen rejected options focused on offense and combat, choosing instead to perfect his methods of escape and concealment.
• Hongjun’s teachings on Grotto-Heaven anchors led Lu Chen to realize Abyss might use its internal foundations to shift away from its Northern Sea coordinates.
• Lu Chen comprehended layers of spatial concealment and Primordial Spirit relays, making his presence increasingly difficult to locate.
• After a thousand years of teachings, the system integrated the Abyss Escape Realm Chapter, granting Lu Chen the ability to briefly displace Abyss’s external coordinates.
• Lu Chen opened his eyes and noticed Tongtian staring at him, wondering why the future Cult Master kept looking his way.

During the sermon, Tongtian asked Lu Chen what Dao he was comprehending, and Lu Chen’s simple advice about surviving long enough to cultivate impressed the Three Pure Ones. After several hundred years, Di Jun and Taiyi appeared before Lu Chen, bringing a new source of trouble.

• Tongtian asked Laozi and Yuanshi to interpret Lu Chen’s shifting phenomena, and Yuanshi called it the Dao of survival.
• Tongtian questioned Lu Chen, who explained that cultivators should survive first and fight, flee, or risk their lives depending on the circumstances.
• Tongtian returned to Laozi and Yuanshi, and the Three Pure Ones concluded that living long enough let one comprehend anything.
• The claim that Mysterious Abyss Emperor cultivated the Life-Preservation Dao spread through Purple Cloud Palace as the sermon continued.
• After several hundred years, Di Jun and Taiyi suddenly appeared before Lu Chen.