The term ‘gate of life and death’ had multiple layers of meaning.2

Those who left the door within three breaths of time made a choice for life. Those who stayed behind were choosing death. That was the first layer of meaning.5

The second layer of meaning related to the fact that the completed D-132 had very unique powers. They were the godly authority of misfortune and a will domain of amnesia. The former, the godly authority, would ensure that those who remained behind after the doors closed would be thrust into infinite misfortune, which would ultimately end in death. The latter, the domain of amnesia, would make it so that they forgot their own death. Thus, even though their bodies died, the overwhelming misfortune would transform them into bizarre entities similar to the head, the stone lion, and the others.12

To some extent, they would be something like an accidental combination of gods and immortals. After all, godly authority was something from the gods, while will domains were the result of cultivators studying ways to defy the power of the gods. That was what happened when D-132 was completed....2