Calamity of Tomorrow

Zhou Bai and Qian Wangsun made their way through the mountains, Zhou Bai was always ready for battle, while Qian Wangsun was continuously tracking the traces of the Heavenly Demon, deciding the direction to proceed in.

He saw Qian Wangsun forming a hand seal, with the power of his Primordial Spirit converging spiritual intuition into a unique fluctuation that spread outwards.

The next moment, in his eyes, countless red shadows appeared, all remnants of heat from the past few minutes.

He was employing Gong Tu's Dao art to track the enemy's movements.

Gong Tu was a cultivation path emphasizing insight and espionage, lacking powerful destructive capabilities and strong frontline combat ability, but with high speed, high perception, high intuition, along with various espionage-oriented Dao arts, they possessed exceptionally strong surveillance and counter-surveillance abilities, making them a crucial component of human military forces.

Qian Wangsun's hand seals changed and the spiritual intuition vibrated around him, with different scents in his sight turning into different colors.

"The smell representative of the Heavenly Demon is green, the scent of mechanical industry that penetrates to the marrow."

Qian Wangsun pointed northward and said, "You want to test your abilities with a small group of Heavenly Demons, right? This group is a bit large, let's not bother with them. Let's look along the way they came from."

As they traveled, Qian Wangsun's gaze slightly hardened, and he subconsciously glanced to the right.

Through the enhancement of Gong Tu's first boundary, the Celestial Heart Picture, and the second boundary, the Hollow Heart Picture.

Qian Wangsun possessed an intuition far beyond other cultivators, capable of understanding the essence of events without facing the Heavenly Dao or staring into the void, just by sensing the countless pieces of information in the Material World, which is also Gong Tu's primary feature.

At that moment, Qian Wangsun had a strong intuition, prompting him to head right.

So after turning over a mountain peak, a small patch of residual heat appeared before him.

"Not many in this batch, just over ten, want to take them down?"

Zhou Bai nodded, "Just over ten is perfect." He wanted to see if his Catastrophe Domain had recovered today.

Thus, moments later, with Qian Wangsun leading, over ten Heavenly Demons appeared in their line of sight.

Zhou Bai said, "I'll go take them out, you keep watch for me. Call me if there's any trouble."

Qian Wangsun nodded, his figure flashed and he had already hidden in the forest, whilst his eyes narrowed slightly, already able to see what would happen five seconds into the future.

However, he suddenly covered his forehead, somewhat helplessly thinking, "Ever since coming into the wilderness, using this future vision ability gives me a headache, could it be due to the pollution of spiritual intuition?"

Suddenly, his gaze intensified, and he turned sharply to look, "Who?" He frowned, "I definitely felt someone watching me just now, why is there nothing?"

On the other side, Zhou Bai charged towards the small group of Heavenly Demons, and as the Catastrophe Domain opened, vast swathes of Guihai Black Sha appeared beneath the feet of the Heavenly Demons.

Zhou Bai thought, 'Just as I sensed, the Guihai Black Sha has a limit, but it recovers after 24 hours.' He grinned, "Then I'll not hold back."

The Heavenly Demons, upon seeing Zhou Bai, let out fierce roars, their killing impulses surging back and forth within them.

"Kill this pig bastard!"

"It's this guy! He ate the vanguard unit's Black Mud Beast yesterday!"

"We can't match him, notify the higher-ups quickly so they can take down this guy!"

Since it was just a test of his abilities, and concerned about Heavenly Demon reinforcements, Zhou Bai quickly ended the combat.

He walked step by step towards Qian Wangsun's position, the countless Guihai Black Sha beneath his feet flowing like black blood, carrying along the remains of the Heavenly Demons, eventually disappearing into the shadows of Zhou Bai, turning into his energy value.

Zhou Bai smiled confidently, "No problem with my abilities, let's make a big move and find a larger group of Heavenly Demons."

At the same time, he thought to himself, 'Information about me must have been transmitted when the Heavenly Demons were killed; they could have already discovered my true identity. However, with the Death Replacement Black Lotus and the ability to rewind time by 40 minutes, along with Qian Wangsun's five-second foresight and espionage abilities, killing me is too difficult.'

'And the gains from using the Catastrophe Domain in the battlefield are so high, it's worth taking the risk.'

Then, Qian Wangsun continued to lead Zhou Bai in search of Heavenly Demons. They encountered two groups of them, but since the numbers were small, they decided to let them go. It wasn't until the third group that Zhou Bai, viewing a marching column of thousands of Heavenly Demons, charged forward.

In an instant, the Guihai Black Miasma surged forth like a deluge, and countless white strands of fate that Zhou Bai could see were continuously drawn into his sea of consciousness.

Ten minutes later, Zhou Bai left behind scorched earth and had once again vanished with Qian Wangsun.

However, on their way out, they discovered traces of Heavenly Demons, and in addition, signs of human survivors, including remnants of clothing, excrement, and human blood.

Qian Wangsun furrowed his brow, "There are so many in this group, at least a thousand, and they've taken humans hostage? How is that possible? How have they overcome their killing impulses?"

Zhou Bai recalled the group of humans from Donghua City who had been transformed into Heavenly Demons; they had overcome their killing impulses. So, it was normal that there might be some among the Heavenly Demons now who could also suppress their urges to kill.

'But why would the Heavenly Demons want to abduct humans? Do they need captives? Could it be related to the recent military maneuvers?' Zhou Bai felt overwhelmed by doubts and asked, "Can you catch up to them?"

Qian Wangsun nodded, "They've taken humans and left too many traces behind. It will be easy to track them."

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Not long after they had departed, a large number of Heavenly Demons descended from the sky, including several whose gigantic forms almost blotted out the sun, casting their massive shadows over the ground below. They were all sixth-level Heavenly Demons, each one measuring between 500 and 1000 meters in length.

One of them, resembling a Western dragon, roared angrily at the scorched land below, "Damn humans, they're hunting Heavenly Demons! I'll kill him, I'll kill him, I'll kill him!"

Another sixth-level Heavenly Demon, which looked like a cluster of boulders had been fused together, said calmly, "He alone killed thousands of lower-level Heavenly Demons yesterday. His strength is probably around the fifth or sixth realm."

The dragon-like Heavenly Demon bellowed, "Gather all the Heavenly Demons; I must find him!"

"Calm down, don't let your killing impulse cloud your judgment," another sixth-level Heavenly Demon, resembling a giant snake, spoke, "Lord Heavenly Demon has already issued the command; an offensive is to be launched on the northwest front, and all Heavenly Demons below level seven must join. We can't be tied down by a single human."

The dragon-like Heavenly Demon raged, "Why aren't the Heavenly Demons above level seven joining? Without them, how can we exterminate all those vermin?"

As the sixth-level Heavenly Demons were in the midst of their heated argument, a shocking explosion boomed like thunder in the sky. Giant shadows engulfed all the Heavenly Demons, as if the sun was suddenly setting.

The sixth-level Heavenly Demons looked up in astonishment at the colossal form in the sky, a monstrous being made up of countless intertwined metal serpents, their thousands of heads struggling in all directions and roaring loudly.

"A seventh-level Great Heavenly Demon?"

"Is it Xu Dela?"

"Wasn't he at Mars Base?"

As the sixth-level Heavenly Demons gazed in astonishment, the gigantic Heavenly Demon, which stretched over 1000 meters long, slowly contracted. The countless metal serpents forming its body screamed in agony, twisting, warping, and shattering as they shrank.

In just a few minutes, the body that was over 1000 meters long had shrunk to 500 meters, then to 100 meters... until it finally became a 50-meter tall black giant.

The giant looked down at them and said, "According to the Heavenly Demon King 'Ai's' command, this human is my responsibility. You all carry on with the previous orders."

"Understood." The information about Xu Dela filled the minds of the other Heavenly Demons… Known for devouring its own kind, reveling in utter environmental destruction, and having a mechanical body yet preferring to consume humans, this one was also extremely brutal even among the Heavenly Demons.

And so, upon receiving the order, the Heavenly Demons retreated in unison, leaving only Xu Dela behind.

The black giant revealed a cruel smile, "Zhou Bai... Zhou Bai... where are you hiding now?"

He opened his mouth wide, extremely wide, to a full one hundred eighty degrees, as if about to split his cheeks apart. The next moment, countless black entities spilled forth, spreading in every direction.

These were countless black snakes, each no more than a dozen centimeters long.

Xu Dela shouted, "Find Zhou Bai for me!!"

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I was shocked to see so little content in today's chapter, but then I realized the platform was upgraded and comments were disabled. No choice but to bear with it, everyone. It should be fixed after a while.