Bzz!
In the void, that Dao Fruit, already transformed into a golden-red hue, suddenly began to tremble. Then, the Dao Fruit that had once been perfectly complete directly shattered at one corner.
From perfection, it became flawed.
A flawed Dao Fruit could not achieve Immortality!
That was the realization Zhao Cheng had in that instant.
As for where the flaw lay?!
The answer came in the next moment.
The river of time encircling the Dao Fruit suddenly stretched forth a colossal demonic palm from the direction of the future.
Chaotic energy coiled around that demonic palm. With a single grasp, it displayed a terrifying might capable of shattering heaven and extinguishing earth.
The instant the demonic palm appeared, Zhao Cheng abruptly came to understand many things.
It turned out that he had attained Immortality through the Heaven-and-Earth Dao Fruit. Yet if he wanted to undergo a qualitative transformation, he had to marshal all the power of heaven and earth, past and future alike. Only then could he succeed.
But in the future of this world, that place had already been occupied by a powerful being—or rather, by the final will born from the generalized will of the future Heavenly Demon.
Originally, given the apocalyptic power's immense corrosive force over time, once the Dark Emperor occupied the future, it naturally meant occupying all of the past as well.
Yet in the future, the Dark Emperor's assimilation of the past had been forcibly cut off.
Jun, together with the many experts in the void, had gathered all their strength to trap the Dark Emperor.
At the same time, they had employed their methods in an attempt to rewrite the past and reverse the future.
That was also why those Emperor Lords, who had originally been able to glimpse the future, had suddenly