At this moment, the human world was undergoing countless upheavals due to the future dark world's descent. Though the two worlds were still some distance away from overlapping, the invisible pull of their energies had given rise across the land to many alien domains and aberrant creatures.
These alien domains and aberrant creatures were born of rules, making them exceedingly difficult to kill. The moment they appeared, they plunged the human world into turmoil.
Although the Empire reacted swiftly, even with its power, it could only suppress this peculiar disaster, not eradicate it.
Yet calamity and fortune had always gone hand in hand.
As time passed and the Empire's understanding of alien domains and aberrant creatures deepened, it suddenly discovered that many things within those domains, as well as many materials taken from aberrant creatures, could help professionals change classes, advance their ranks, and even cultivate additional professions...
This discovery allowed the Empire, after a brief period of weakness, to swiftly surpass its former limits in every aspect of its overall strength. The height and breadth of its civilization expanded immensely.
Without question, this was the result of Zhao Cheng's struggle against the Dark Emperor. Without his power intervening, alien domains and aberrant creatures would have brought only destruction. Yet Zhao Cheng's power had changed that, altering certain things.
But this alone merely treated the symptoms, not the root cause. At the instant the two worlds overlapped, everything would be destroyed. No one would survive, including him.
Even one as powerful as he would be reduced to ashes by the terrifying destructive force born at the instant the past and future converged.
At this moment, however, the flow of time in heaven and earth was no longer equal. As Zhao Cheng's power became deeply entangled with the Dark Emperor's, it