Calamity of Tomorrow

Zhou Bai conjectured, "It must be due to the impulse to kill. Heavenly Demons can't fully overcome the impulse to kill, so the higher-ups among them carved out this area, forbidding ordinary Heavenly Demons from entering and allowing only those who have conquered their killing impulse to bring people over."

Qian Wangsun asked, "But why would they bring people over and build a human village here?"

Zhou Bai shook his head, "I don't know, let's focus on cultivating for now."

Thanks to this Heavenly Demon restricted area, Zhou Bai and Qian Wangsun could hide within it and cultivate more safely.

The night passed by as they cultivated, with Zhou Bai manipulating the Primordial Spirit to devour fortune, then refining the Dharma Saint Relics and absorbing their pure power.

The next morning, Zhou Bai looked at his panel:

Conversion rate: 30.0%

Primordial Spirit value: 4277

Divine Skills: Nine Disasters of Celestial Beings

Laziness: 1.02 million

"Primordial Spirit increased by 96 points, reaching 4277," Zhou Bai couldn't help but exclaim, "The efficiency of this kind of cultivation is much higher than usual strenuous training.

Alas, it's all related to my solid foundation. After all, not every cultivator can build such a robust foundation like mine. Sometimes I can't help but admire myself, there really aren't many in the world who can train laziness, poverty, ugliness, and decline as solidly as I can."

Christina snorted, "It's only because you had the cheat I gave you." She sighed in relief inwardly, "Thank goodness I didn't get that cheat back then, otherwise…"

Thinking of herself turning into Zhou Bai, Christina felt a chill.

Hearing Christina's words, Zhou Bai felt indignant, "What cheat? That's called the Nine Disasters of Celestial Beings Assisting Cultivation System, just an assisting cultivation system, how could you miss such a big word 'assist'? It still depends on me."

"I can't be bothered to argue with you, I'm going to continue cultivating." Zhou Bai stood up, stretched his limbs, and turned to Qian Wangsun, saying, "Let's go, let's find more Heavenly Demons. We need to act quickly today, I feel like they are searching for us."

Qian Wangsun nodded, stood up, and sighed, "Alas, I clearly came here to cultivate, to hone Gong Tu's skills through real combat, to sharpen my intuition, but now I've become your guide. Sleeping in caves, eating dry food, not sleeping well, always in fear… Sigh… I really want to take a bath, get a good sleep, and hug a girl…"

Zhou Bai said, "I'll give you 1000 points a day as compensation, I'll give it to you when we return."

"Darn rich fellow," Qian Wangsun said with a mix of joy and envy, "What in the world did Dao School reward you with this time?"

Zhou Bai just smirked, "Hehe, secret."

After that, the two left the village and the surrounding Heavenly Demon restricted area to begin their hunting of Heavenly Demons.

But just as they had located a trace of a Heavenly Demon, Qian Wangsun's Primordial Spirit suddenly activated, grabbing a small black snake and puzzled, he asked, "What is this?"

Zhou Bai frowned as he looked at the dozen or so centimeters long black snake, "A snake? Isn't it too small?"

The iris in Qian Wangsun's eyes subtly changed color, and the small black snake in front of him already emitted a green light.

His expression suddenly turned solemn, his Primordial Spirit power whirled, and ground the black snake into dust.

"It's a Heavenly Demon, so small… probably a scout type, they've found us."

Qian Wangsun and Zhou Bai moved to leave, but then, rumbling sounds continuously came from the sky, similar to thunder.

Zhou Bai was all too familiar with that sound, for he himself could often produce similar noises.

Zhou Bai: "Something is flying over here at supersonic speed."

Qian Wangsun: "Them? They are catching up so fast."

Amidst the booming explosions, they saw a warplane slicing through the sky, creating a long wave that divided the heavens as it reached Zhou Bai and Qian Wangsun at multiples of the speed of sound.

While still a kilometer away, the fighter jet suddenly transformed, expanding and twisting into a black giant more than fifty meters tall. It roared skyward and charged towards the two of them.

Boom! With astounding weight and speed, the black giant smashed towards Zhou Bai and Qian Wangsun like a mountain, the wild winds blowing so fiercely that their hair whipped around, and the surrounding trees were instantly flattened by the gale.

Zhou Bai shouted: "Go!"

He calculated the ferocity of the wind in his mind, shocked by the fifty-meter-tall giant in front of him: "How can the impact force be so massive? What is the mass of this creature? It's definitely more than fifty meters."

Zhou Bai had fought with fourth-tier Heavenly Demons over fifty meters tall before, but none had ever displayed the terrifying force that this black giant did.

Zhou Bai and Qian Wangsun instantly dodged left and right, only to see the black giant smash into their original position like a bomb.

The ground was instantly compressed, cracked, then expanded, and exploded...

Hundreds of thousands of tons of mud and sand were blasted into the sky by the impact, shooting out in all directions.

The air was violently compressed by the terrifying force, turning into invisible shockwaves that continually spread.

Qian Wangsun exerted his full Primordial Spirit power to defend, but when the shockwave hit him, he still felt like he had been struck by lightning, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Zhou Bai blocked the shockwave and saw a gigantic hand, as large as to blot out the sun, extending through the shock and smoke, bringing with it a raging hurricane as it reached for him.

'Zhou Bai!' Xu Dela's numerous detectors scanned Zhou Bai's body, confirming his identity: 'To think you were hiding here in Paradise, making me search for so long.'

Facing the swiftly approaching giant hand, Zhou Bai felt chills all over his body.

The movement of this hand involved no Primordial Spirit power, no Daoist magic, no Divine Skills, and definitely no martial arts; it relied merely on sheer power, speed, and mass - a raw force that crushed everything in its path, yet Zhou Bai felt an unprecedented sense of crisis.

'This guy... is stronger than all the opponents I've faced combined.'

Zhou Bai couldn't precisely calculate how strong or fast the grab was, but his combat experience, Primordial Spirit senses, the fierce winds around, and the crumbling earth all told him that the opponent's strength was absolutely earth-shaking.

Therefore, Zhou Bai immediately activated the Tianhe Star Explosion sword to counter it.

As the sword vibrated, a terrifying gravitational force burst out on the giant's hand, capable of instantly killing a fifth-realm fighter and blowing up a small building, yet it only slightly diverted the giant hand's direction, like a child resisting an adult's strength.

Zhou Bai's pupils shrank in an instant.

'Impossible to fight head-on.'

Bare-chested and barefoot, Zhou Bai retreated explosively, evading the opponent's attack, then tried to speed up to widen the gap between them.

On the other side, Xu Dela cruelly smiled: "Still trying to resist? You think you're the only one who can use force fields?"

Black light flickered across his palm, and Zhou Bai felt his body stiffen, a force field already completely enveloping and suppressing his body.

"Let me crush your bones first."

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"Let me recommend a book, 'The First Sequence' by the great author Elbow, which continues the comical style of 'His Majesty Please Spare My Life', and adds elements of wasteland... Wait, that sounds familiar. Haha, like 'Ming Ri's Calamity,' it also combines humor with wasteland elements, but the content is in a different style, more delicate and realistic, with brilliant character portrayal. If you liked 'Ming Ri's Calamity,' you might want to check it out."