Acting on the past from the present was considered a relatively advanced application of the Cosmic Light path.
For cultivators who were not proficient in the Cosmic Light path, this was an attack with almost no solution. But to those who understood even a little of Cosmic Light techniques, it was not especially difficult to defend against.
That was because most attacks upon the past only targeted a single point in time.
Yet the method employed by the Primordial Heavenly Demon struck at the vast majority of Yu Chen's past time nodes simultaneously. Beginning with the vows Yu Chen had made when he first entered the Dao, he magnified every idea and every thought that had arisen throughout his cultivation, mixing in twisted concepts to turn them into interference and obstacles.
Even more terrifyingly, once any time node was affected, it would be influenced by the Primordial Heavenly Demon's power. Not only would it give rise to a plausible yet false Dao Fruit—
During that process of derivation, it would also simulate a cultivation journey akin to a parallel world, where the Primordial Heavenly Demon would interfere once again within that false path of cultivation.
Some of this interference was beneficial, some harmful, and some would even circle back onto Yu Chen's current path.
The false Dao Fruits linked together and tangled with his existing path, eventually stacking upon Yu Chen and condensing into one dead loop after another, drawing his Dao Fruit toward self-destruction.
Thus, what Yu Chen needed to defend was not any single point in time, but all of his past selves.
This was no small trial for Yu Chen, but it was also an excellent opportunity for actual combat.
After all, this was the Jade Void Palace. Whether it was the Demon King body suspected to