Jun recounted everything in a measured, unhurried manner.
The story he told was not complicated. No one knew how many ages ago, a man named Liu Guangzheng had cultivated to the Divine Lord realm. After his death, a fragment of his Dao Fruit had fallen here and transformed into a world.
Epoch after epoch passed, and the world continuously arose and perished, over and over in an endless cycle.
Countless powerhouses were born in those epochs. Some could even survive several epochs, or even many epochs, growing ever more powerful.
Until the apocalypse arrived.
The arrival of the apocalypse stirred the long-dormant fragment of Clear Void Divine Lord's Dao Fruit. In the process, many beings similar to Tai Jia were born.
As heaven and earth stood on the verge of overturning, they bore the traces of Clear Void Divine Lord and drew upon all the power of the old world, opening heaven and earth anew before migrating through chaos to escape the apocalypse.
But the apocalypse was not so easily cast off.
As time passed, those powerhouses who opened new worlds would always suffer a "withering" of consciousness after a certain span of years. Only the Dao Fruit World would undergo nirvana. Usually, after several cycles of birth and destruction, the apocalypse would draw near.
To the living beings within heaven and earth, one such cycle of birth and destruction was an epoch.
Yet this epoch had seen a slight accident.
Ordinarily, it should have been impossible for Clear Void Divine Lord to revive from extinction—not even the faintest sign of revival should have existed.
Yet the constant stimulation of the apocalypse, an anomaly beyond all reckoning, caused the fragment of Clear Void Divine Lord's Dao Fruit to undergo a mutation.
Thus, at the juncture where old and new alternated,