When the human realm burned to ashes, the phoenix bathed in fire charged toward the final heavenly realm. In an instant, Heaven and Earth completely dissolved as well.
Immortality's Dao Fruit vanished, leaving behind only a mass of apocalyptic fire suspended where it had been.
But in the next moment, a new Dao Fruit was born from the fires of apocalypse.
Zhao Cheng's aura appeared once more, yet in the eyes of the two outsiders, it had become utterly unfamiliar.
This was not Zhao Cheng, but something wearing Zhao Cheng's shell—something they had no idea what it truly was...
At that moment, both of them arrived at an incomparably intense realization.
Yet that realization was rapidly fading.
As Zhao Cheng's aura stabilized, that realization grew increasingly faint. Even when they noticed something was wrong and wanted to stop it, they simply could not prevent their self-perception from changing.
They realized that an incomparably powerful force was overwriting and altering their cognition.
Under that terrifying power, even the lingering radiance of civilization upon them could not protect them.
Before their cognition was completely altered, an intense thought rose in both their minds: Could it be that all those successful people they knew were like the one before them?!
Their insides had long since been replaced, leaving only a frozen shell.
They said that apocalypse was merely a mechanism by which the infinite worlds cleared away garbage, casting out the old to bring in the new—but was the truth really so?!
If it existed only for destruction, why would something so strange be born from it?!
Then their thoughts whirled again: their cognition had already been altered, so was their current situation truly absolutely safe?!
The instant that thought arose, the two immediately tried to return. But before they could activate the