The Golden Emperor understood what Meng Chuan meant by "try." It was the last resort she had used in the original story.
At that moment, the beings of the Other Shore stood amid the void as the universes of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds collapsed with terrifying speed.
They were like bubbles, or buildings made of sand. When the gale swept through and the great waves roared in, the bubbles burst and the sand structures crumbled almost at once.
Only the Real World remained relatively sturdy, but it too was in utter chaos. Changes had appeared as far back as the Creation of Heaven and Earth, the beginning of everything and the Root Source of every Era.
The River of Time had become like a caterpillar, its "body" curled in on itself.
Contraction overlapped with expansion, Supreme Yin with Supreme Yang, past and future with present, burgeoning life with silent death...
That was the wonder of this moment of Apocalypse Termination. Every contradiction existed at once, every impossibility became possible, and what lay at the very beginning could be reflected at the very end.
At this moment, everything was encompassed. Everything returned to the Primordial One, to the Singularity.
At the end, time overlapped with itself, life with death, and every contradictory state with its opposite. It was the perfect moment to make a move.
In the original story, the Golden Emperor had acted against Gu Xiaosang the moment Meng Qi killed the Demon Buddha and formed his Dao Fruit Embryo.
But that attack had only been a feint.
The Golden Emperor had willingly let Gu Xiaosang devour her, pushing Gu Xiaosang to the Dao Fruit Embryo stage.
When the product of Reducing to Emptiness advanced in cultivation, it could raise the initiator's "realm," bringing her closer to the Dao