Chapter Summaries

Youdu unleashed demonic mist at Guixu 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 Guixu’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 Guixu Academy.
• Han Jue and the Realm Guard joined Ao Lie, Feng Li, and Lin Yue to form Guixu’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 Guixu 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 Guixu, 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 Guixu 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 Guixu in Luohou’s name.
• The Book of Cause and Effect and Guixu’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 Guixu 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. Guixu 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 Guixu without forcing his way in, while Hongjun sensed the sanctuary but could not see through its concealment.
• Lan Shuang oversaw Guixu’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 Guixu, then received the Calamity-Viewing Platform Construction Method as a reward.
• Lu Chen ordered the platform built, not knowing it would help Rahu sense Guixu observing the tribulation.

Lu Chen completed Guixu’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 Guixu’s entrance.

• Lan Shuang organized Guixu’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 Guixu 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 Guixu 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 Guixu’s entrance.

Lu Chen established a three-day truce in Guixu’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 Guixu, 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 Guixu’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 Guixu’s rules. As the children began learning and living alongside one another, the Three Lives Gate Prototype stabilized and Guixu’s future Fortune increased.

• After the young clans caused repeated trouble in Guixu’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 Guixu’s rules.
• The children began cultivating together, and the system announced that the Three Lives Gate Prototype had stabilized and Guixu’s future Fortune had increased.

Lu Chen established the Three Lives Gate to screen everyone entering Guixu 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 Guixu.
• 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 Guixu, while Luohou ordered Youdu to send resentful souls toward the gate.

• Heaven-and-earth Merit descended upon the Three Lives Gate, and Guixu’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 Guixu’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 Guixu, 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 Guixu’s defenses grew stronger.

• Guixu 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 Guixu 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 Guixu’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 Guixu’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 Guixu if their clans fell. Lu Chen prepared Guixu 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 Guixu 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 Guixu 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 Guixu's rules, while troublemakers would be sent to Calamity-Resolution Hall.
• Lu Chen learned that all three clans had chosen Guixu 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.

Lu Chen imposed rules at the Three Lives Gate to prevent the refugees’ old grudges from becoming a massacre, while Guixu 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 Guixu’s rules to the gathered refugees.
• Lan Shuang expanded Guixu’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 Principle 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 Guixu’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 Guixu, Rahu and Hongjun both turned their attention toward the Northern Sea. With the Dragon-Han Great Tribulation reaching its endgame, Lu Chen decided Guixu would keep its gates open but screen those seeking refuge.

• Lu Chen immediately concealed Guixu 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 Guixu’s observation, remembered the Northern Sea, and ordered Youdu to probe Guixu without rushing while he continued harvesting the battlefield’s dead-energy.
• Hongjun sensed the exchange, failed to deduce Guixu 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 Guixu, 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 Guixu 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 Guixu, but Lu Chen refused to leave the realm.

• Lu Chen rejected entering the battlefield or sealing Guixu 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 Guixu's bureaus to register, shelter, treat, and protect the refugees.
• Han Jue and Guixu'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 Guixu sheltering the young and wounded, vowed to challenge its refuge, and drew Lu Chen's attention; Lu Chen stayed inside Guixu.

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 Guixu close the refuge. Luohou withdrew but warned that he would come in person during the approaching Dragon-Han Endgame.

• Lu Chen ordered Guixu 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 Guixu 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 Guixu, passed through the Three Lives Gate, and warned Lu Chen that Guixu 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 Guixu’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 Guixu 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 Guixu 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 Guixu Bridges for the young, weak, and wounded fleeing the battlefields. The survivors began reaching Guixu, 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 Guixu'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 Guixu. With Hongjun heading to confront Luohou and Guixu 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 Guixu 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 Guixu.
• 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 Guixu 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 Guixu, 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, Guixu 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 Guixu, 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 Guixu’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.