272 Moon Concealing Mountain City Date

Drawing an equal sign between the Doomsday Era and the afterlife world can answer many questions, and it seems to also explain why Ming Zhuo was shocked upon invading the Doomsday Dream and seeing clearly the scene he was in.

However, this explanation also has parts that don't make sense. The most obvious one is why both Mazao and Little Bowl, as well as others, regard the afterlife world as the real world after Doomsday, and why does the afterlife world have "rumored products with future elements" such as the "Catastrophe Demon believed to have fallen from Xuanming"?