Calamity of Tomorrow

Within the clouds not far from the Twisted Shadow, Zi Yang True Monarch concealed himself, his eyes flickering with electricity as he watched the Twisted Shadow nearby.

Zi Yang True Monarch said with an icy expression, "Will he return to his original body?"

With each failure to capture Zhou Bai, his greatest enemy, Zi Yang's resentment surged more fiercely. Already struggling to control emotions due to his tendency towards deformation, he felt as though there was a volcano blocked up in his chest.

Xiang Tiandi pinched his chin, speaking in a confident tone as if everything was under control, "Either his greed has blinded him and we've followed his avatar all the way to Zhou Bai's original body."

"Or he's still keeping his cool, leading us into a trap."

"But as long as we wish to leave, not even the Heavenly Demon King could possibly stop us. So as long as we keep an eye on the Primordial Dao Treasury 06, all the initiative is in our hands."

"As long as we keep the Primordial Dao Treasury 06 in our grip, we have countless opportunities to capture Zhou Bai, and once we do, it's over for him."

...

After testing the Xuan Nu's combat strength, Zhou Bai nodded in satisfaction.

With an infusion of 105 points of contamination, not only did her physical strength improve overall, but her deformed abilities, such as teleportation, phasing, flesh manipulation, and triggering deformation, all underwent a qualitative enhancement.

In the armor of the Abyss Nether Dragon and wielding the End of Dharma Heaven Deformed Sword, Xuan Nu's combat power almost surpassed that of any human Nine Realms cultivator.

Moreover, as time passed, as long as the Xuan Nu gradually adapted to the current level of contamination, Zhou Bai could further infuse contamination later on, steadily enhancing the Xuan Nu's combat strength.

Christina exclaimed, "As long as you feed it enough contamination... It's the perfect tool."

"Hm. The Xuan Nu is very convenient to use, and Elsa can be used to carry things," Zhou Bai said, looking at Christina in the Sea of Consciousness: "But Tina, you've been lying around doing nothing lately, just chatting in the Sea of Consciousness. You're becoming more and more useless."

"!"

Christina was shocked and quickly retorted, "How can I be useless! Once I practice a few more Primordial Dao Treasuries, I will definitely be of great use in the future! Zhou Bai, you can't be ungrateful. Who took care of the housework, washed, and did the laundry to support you in the beginning? You can't forget that. And the Xuan Nu being handy is just an illusion; I'm the one who truly cares for you!"

"Alright, alright, I'm just reminding you to work harder, or you'll become the most useless one."

Christina sat up suddenly, pressing her hands on her stomach, thinking to herself, 'Damn it, I can't continue like this. I must make Zhou Bai realize my importance.' The memories she hadn't shared with Zhou Bai suddenly came to the forefront of her mind.

With a heavy heart, Christina thought, "Although I don't know what my past self was thinking, perhaps this situation has reached the point where it's time to tell Zhou Bai."

After checking on Xuan Nu and casually testing his own increased strength... alas, to no avail.

He casually clenched his fist and sighed inwardly, "Without a divine-level opponent, I probably can't truly test out my actual strength."

Having tested his combat strength and rather adapted to his drastically increased power, Zhou Bai then turned his gaze to the star dots on the Taiyin Roulette.

When he sent the Twisted Shadow to track the other party, Zhou Bai harvested a part of green destiny, which he could use to strengthen the star dots and boost his combat power once again.

"Then it'll still be calamity. I feel like that calamity is about to undergo a radical transformation."

Accompanied by a green light surging into the star dot representing calamity, another halo lit up behind the Primordial Spirit's head.

He felt his Primordial Spirit strengthen, becoming more robust than ever. His resistances and toughness as a Primordial Spirit had already far exceeded the limits attainable by cultivators below the divine realm, yet it still hadn't undergone a transformation.

Zhou Bai was increasingly curious about his calamity, the "Nine Calamities Primordial Spirit - Soul Suppressing Domain," and when it would exactly undergo its true transformation and how significant the improvement would be.

He had invested ten strands of green destiny into it, still accumulating.

'I can feel more clearly that, at most, one or two more such opportunities, and this star dot will definitely transform. Unfortunately, I won't see it this time.'

'I'm quite prepared now. Next is to deal with Zi Yang and take back the Primordial Dao Treasury 06.'

Thinking of Zi Yang reverting time to slay Ying Hui, Zheng Wentian, and others, even leading to the transformation of an elder of the Heavenly Sword, now also bullying the Dao School and snatching the Primordial Dao Treasury 06, and causing him to fail to complete the exchange with Dr. Zhuang twice, Zhou Bai's murderous intent kept surging.

Then Zhou Bai turned to Xuan Nu: "Xuan Nu, I'm going to perform Primordial Spirit Emergence next to arrange some tactics. Take my physical body to the giant pit where we fetched the Primordial Dao Treasury."

"Just follow my instructions for what comes next."

Hearing that she was trusted to carry his physical body, Xuan Nu felt a sense of trust and nodded, "Rest assured, I will absolutely not let your physical body suffer any damage."

Zhou Bai nodded, then spoke to Christina in his Sea of Consciousness, "Tina, take over and look after my physical body. If there's anything odd about Xuan Nu, directly use the scratch board to sacrifice Laziness to me. Once I receive your sacrificed Laziness, I'll directly drain her, and you take action to seize her."

"Moments ago you were calling others useless," Christina retorted, secretly pleased, "And now you want me to control the body." She thought smugly, 'Hmph, no matter what, I'm the only one besides Zhou Bai who can control his body.'

She looked at Xuan Nu triumphantly, thinking, 'Heh, woman, what does it matter if you're convenient to use? You will never be able to enter Zhou Bai's body like I can.'

After creating the scratch board for Christina, she could then use this Primordial Spirit weapon to sacrifice material and contribute Laziness value.

It was just that Zhou Bai had let Christina freeload all this time. Now, he could also use this method of sacrifice as a means of distant communication.

In the next moment, Zhou Bai's Primordial Spirit shot out fiercely and disappeared into the horizon.

...

On the other side, Zi Yang True Monarch followed the Twisted Shadow in flight for a round and quickly discovered that the latter had taken them in a big circle and returned to the original pit's location.

Zi Yang frowned impatiently, "What does he want to do?"

Following Zhou Bai in such a big loop, yet coming up empty-handed, made the resentment and anger that Zi Yang had been suppressing increasingly irksome.

Even powerful beings among mortals, such as the elders of the Heavenly Sword and Jiaojiao, who delayed the deformation, needed extended periods of seclusion and sleep to prolong their existence.

Only a true god of Heavenly Dao like Zi Yang had the ability to move and fight for long periods even after heading towards deformation.

But at this moment, the agitation in his heart was still magnified with the fluctuations of his mood.

Just then, they saw Zhou Bai's clone suddenly hurl the Primordial Dao Scripture, his entire being shooting out like lightning. With the Laziness Acceleration in his red clothes and bare feet, he moved as quickly as thunder. In the blink of an eye, he had already flown thousands of meters away, soon turned into a tiny black dot, about to disappear from sight.

In that moment, the Primordial Dao Scripture 06 and the Twisted Shadow were thrown in two directions.

Xiang Tiandi reacted quickly, grabbing the abandoned Primordial Dao Scripture 06 and transmitted his voice, "I and Zi Yang will stay here to guard the Primordial Dao Scripture 06. Fu Lei, you go find his clone and make sure he doesn't escape. But if you run into an ambush, don't hesitate, retreat immediately."

Fu Lei True Monarch nodded, and the next instant turned into a bolt of lightning, shooting towards the direction where the Twisted Shadow had vanished.

Zi Yang True Monarch spoke angrily, "This is clearly a strategy to divide us."

Xiang Tiandi nodded in agreement but analyzed, "Fu Lei's Dao progress has recovered to above 112% and excels in thunder escape techniques; he should be able to retreat safely."

"We just need to guard the Primordial Dao Scripture 06. Unmoved by the eight winds, we can comfortably sit back like fishermen. Zhou Bai will have to act if he wants the Primordial Dao Scripture 06."

Zi Yang True Monarch silently cursed with hatred. If it weren't for the distortion of Heavenly Dao which massively weakened the strength of the immortals, how could they let someone as insignificant as Zhou Bai act so presumptuously?

Especially given the special powers of the true gods of Heavenly Dao, even during the initial period right after the distortion of Heavenly Dao, not a single true god went towards deformation and madness, except for the God Emperor and the Heavenly Sovereign. The Dao progress of all others fell below 105%, and it took them over a century to slowly recover.

But now, Zi Yang True Monarch was heading towards deformation. He had overcome the distortion of Heavenly Dao but was led astray by Zhou Bai.

Thinking of this made his heart uncontrollably seethe with rage.

And now, Zhou Bai was still leading them around in circles, a feeling of being toyed with kept surging in his heart, stirring his emotions even more violently.

Xiang Tiandi seemed to notice the abnormality in Zi Yang True Monarch and reminded him, "Zi Yang, stay calm, be careful of your deformation."

Zi Yang True Monarch closed his eyes, striving to suppress the volatile emotions.

At that moment, a human cultivator flew up from a giant pit and reported to Zi Yang True Monarch and Xiang Tiandi in panic, "True Monarch! It's not good, soon after you left, Zhou Bai rushed in and abducted Zheng Wentian."

"What?" Zi Yang True Monarch exclaimed in fury.

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Just then, another cultivator rushed up, "It's not just Zheng Wentian; Meng Ruocun was also snatched by Zhou Bai!"

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Yet another cultivator rushed up, pointing to the palace floating in the sky, reporting Zhou Bai's recent rampage, "He even stole the pillars of the Heavenly Palace."

"He said if you don't give him the Primordial Dao Scripture 06, you True Monarchs will never have peace."

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Zi Yang was furious, "Ridiculous."

A surge of Primordial Spirit force burst forth from within him, transforming into giant thunderous hands grabbing at the cultivators around the field. Amidst the shocked cries of the crowd, he seized one cultivator after another.

"True Monarch! What are you doing?"

"True Monarch, spare us!"

"True Monarch! It's all Zhou Bai's fault! We did our best!"

Xiang Tiandi watched this scene with cold eyes, his expressionless gaze betraying no hint of what he might be thinking.

Due to the deformation that had kept his emotions suppressed, Zi Yang could no longer endure the madness and hatred in his heart. His furious shouts, accompanied by rolling thunder, spread afar, breaking through Yun Kong and echoing across a hundred miles, "Zhou Bai! Do you think I care about these mere mortals you've taken?"

"I'm fed up!"

"I'm giving you 10 minutes. If you don't show up, I will kill all these mortals."

"Of course, the whole world will only know that you killed them."

He suddenly opened his mouth wide, sharp teeth like those of a shark sprouted out, and his bloodshot eyes bulged with rage.

"I'm also going to Donghua City to capture everyone associated with you, to flay them and pull out their tendons. I'm going to eat them all!"

"Let's see if you truly care about these lives or not."