Reversing time and awakening the past was the process of attaining the Dao.
Imprinting his own traces still further into the past was another kind of cultivation.
Meng Chuan had met resistance, though it was not entirely an obstacle.
Within the River of Time, that Dao Fruit blazed with light. Supremely hard and strong, it crushed the years, extinguished karma, and remained untouched by all arts.
The Great Dao manifested. Ultimate Force, the source of all arts, supreme might—it broke through time.
Boom!
The sole Dao Fruit thundered into the years before Emperor's Fall, and Meng Chuan appeared in an even more ancient past.
Rumble!
Heaven and earth shook as though about to overturn. Everything dimmed, and the whole world lost its color.
The Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, the Boundary Sea, and even the Heavens and All Realms were affected. The reach was boundless.
Heaven and earth had no light. Even black and white were gone, and all had sunk into chaos.
An omen of Attainment of the Dao: "Heaven and Earth in Chaos."
Shi Hao, Luo Tianxian, and Meng Hai were somewhat helpless.
This commotion was not quite like a normal attainment of Immortal Emperor status or the End of the Path.
How were they supposed to conceal it?
Heaven and earth sank into chaos. Meng Chuan, still tracing time backward, also fell into chaos, where above and below, left and right, front and back, time and space—all ceased to exist.
Here was absolute nothingness.
This was no External Tribulation, but a barrier of perception within the mind. No matter where one was, one would encounter it.
When Shi Hao had transformed himself into Blood Rain and cultivated toward Attainment of the Dao across different times and spaces, he too had encountered this barrier.
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