As for Zhao Cheng, he had originally known nothing of this, assuming only that the tribulation had come from the future. But when he traveled backward through the river of time, though he failed to reach Di Cheng's era, that fleeting glimpse still allowed him to learn many things.
The history of the past had already been twisted; what was real was no longer real.
And where the apocalypse and the bug intersected, immense horrors had been bred in the years gone by.
Under such circumstances, the Eternal ones of the past had all developed problems to varying degrees. Yet they themselves might not even know it—one leaf before the eyes, and Mount Tai vanished from sight.
The period when Di Cheng fell in defeat, in particular, could be called a severely afflicted zone.
Only a handful of cautious powerhouses, such as Jade Origin Daoist, had escaped a portion of it through a fortunate coincidence.
Of course, their ability to escape was naturally influenced by Zhao Cheng's power.
Further on, some Immortals born in later ages—such as Profound Heaven Daoist and the Great Ease Heavenly Devil Lord—had attained the Dao later and were far removed from that stretch of history, so they were unharmed instead.
The apocalypse alone naturally could not have twisted such powerhouses without their realizing it. But the thing born from the fusion of the apocalypse and the bug was something that even Zhao Cheng, with the breadth of mind he possessed now, found difficult to fathom.
Fortunately, the Panel's mechanism was still at work, making it difficult for the demons and monsters of the previous cycle to reach this one.
Even Zhao Cheng of the previous cycle was no exception.
Just like that incarnation of Di Cheng: upon reaching that reset point in time, it vanished