Calamity of Tomorrow

Xu Dela's force field generator in his palm suddenly erupted with a force as heavy as Mount Tai bearing down on Zhou Bai's body, pressing down so fiercely that his muscles and bones creaked alarmingly, as if he were about to completely collapse in the next instant.

At this life-or-death crux, Zhou Bai unleashed his full power in an instant.

His Autonomous Geng Metal Flying Sword shot up into the sky, turning into a bolt of yellow lightning, and with the move "Star Shattering Sword Swift," he struck with full force at Xu Dela's giant palm.

The gravitational burst emitted by the sword seed, combined with the fierce explosion of Zhou Bai's 4277 points of Primordial Spirit power, struck Xu Dela's palm with a force that could instantly shatter a tall building, attacking both internally and externally.

In the sea of consciousness, Christina let out a fierce roar, each white hair standing on end, her eyes filled with white light, a layer of white brilliance emerged from Zhou Bai's forehead, finally transforming into a ray that struck Xu Dela's giant palm.

This was Christina's diligently cultivated Ice Soul Freeze Light, one of the five great Divine Skills of Dao, said to be capable of freezing light and darkness at its highest realm.

It was on the day Christina reached the second realm that she recalled this technique and did not go into Jiaojiao's dreams to cultivate; she achieved success naturally.

The Ice Soul Freeze Light, much like the Tianhe Star Explosion, was divided into 11 levels, transforming step by step from the first level to the 11th, the true Ice Soul Freeze Light.

Now in her third realm, Christina had cultivated the Ice Soul Freeze Light to the fifth level, bursting forth with all her might, the white light froze the air wherever it passed into a solid mass, and even Xu Dela's black giant palm shuddered slightly, instantly covered by a layer of frost.

At the same time, Zhou Bai had already activated Laziness Healing, Laziness Acceleration, Ugliness Catastrophe, and the Catastrophe Domain. The fourfold consumption made his laziness points flow away like water.

But under Zhou Bai and Christina's life-or-death exertion, the force field generator in Xu Dela's giant hand finally malfunctioned slightly. Although his repair abilities would fix it in a blink, it indeed gave Zhou Bai a fleeting chance.

In just that split second, Zhou Bai had blinked away, pulling a distance of thousands of meters between him and Xu Dela, watching the distant black giant with a face full of caution and tension.

"This guy is strong! The sixth... no, not right, this guy is at least a level seven, or even close to level eight Heavenly Demon," Christina shouted wildly in the sea of consciousness: "Time Reverse! Time Reverse! Let's use the gemstone and escape!"

Zhou Bai internally remarked, 'This guy is strong... do we need to use Time Reverse? Reverse back 40 minutes and escape with Qian Wangsun back to the base?'

Just as Zhou Bai was contemplating whether to use the power of the gemstone to escape, Xu Dela's lips curled into a sinister smile as he took a large step forward.

His 50-meter-tall body seemed to contain endless strength, erupting with an earth-shattering momentum. Every step he took caused the ground to quake, breaking the Earth apart.

"Can you escape, little insect...?"

As Xu Dela unleashed this terrifying power again, a hundred-meter-long golden sword shadow emerged behind him and struck his back with a force that seemed to tear the heavens and split the Earth.

Boom!

Xu Dela's body was almost split in two at the next moment, a large amount of black substance spilling out from his body, turning into numerous black snakes, roaring up to the sky.

Qian Wangsun, who was crouching on the ground to avoid the attack, saw the silhouette that emerged in the air and exclaimed in surprise, "President Zhao Shouyi? Could he be the person I've been sensing these past two days?"

Zhou Bai was momentarily stunned, then quickly realized: "Has the president been following us all along?"

Christina shouted inwardly, "It's Cheng Ying. Zhao Shouyi's first choice from the Sword Diagram was also Cheng Ying; he must have been using Cheng Ying's concealment ability to follow us all the time."

Zhou Bai thought, "Has he been following me... wanting to protect me?"

Each Divine Map provides different powers, and with each enhancement in Dao-Fusion, all Divine Maps grow stronger.

Although both Zhou Bai and Zhao Shouyi had cultivated the Shadow-Bearing Divine Map, Zhao Shouyi's capability triggered with over 70% of his Dao-Fusion degree was far stronger than Zhou Bai's.

At that moment, one could see a scroll appearing behind Zhao Shouyi, from which countless Sword Qi hundreds of meters long emerged, tearing through the atmosphere like colossal bolts of lightning connecting heaven and earth, fiercely striking Xu Dela.

"It's the Heaven's Thief Map!" Christina exclaimed, "The 9th realm treasure from the Eastern Dao School, it records the interpretations of the Heavenly Dao by countless sages of the Three Pure Dao Sect since ancient times, containing myriad Dao techniques and martial arts, callable according to the user's level of cultivation..."

Boom, boom, boom, boom!

Suddenly launching a sneak attack from behind, Xu Dela was caught completely off guard, and under the onslaught of Sword Qi, the black giant was cut into thousands of pieces, scattering in all directions.

However, Zhao Shouyi, witnessing this scene, showed not the slightest hint of happiness but rather a change in expression, he transmitted a message, "You two, run for your lives!"

In the next instant, one saw countless fragments from the shattered Xu Dela wriggling, twisting, and transforming. Heads of snakes grew from the pieces, up, down, left, and right, as if dozens of snakes were entangled together.

The snake bodies kept swelling; each fragment grew from the size of a child to that of cars, trucks, and even buildings.

In an instant, the ground was swarming with snakes as large as building slabs, uniformly opening their mouths aiming at Zhao Shouyi in the sky.

"Mystic Sky Sword Armor!"

Streams of Sword Qi released from the Heaven's Thief Map instantly enveloped Zhao Shouyi, appearing as if a set of armor made of Sword Qi manifested on him.

The next moment, the snake monsters on the ground spewed laser beams, thousands upon thousands of them hitting Zhao Shouyi's Mystic Sky Sword Armor at once.

The heat generated by the myriad laser cannons seemed to evaporate the entire sky; the blinding flash of light, enough to instantly blind a common man, caused the atmosphere nearby to severely distort from the extreme temperature.

Zhou Bai, witnessing this, also quickly closed his eyes, but didn't heed the headmaster's advice to immediately flee; instead, he shouted, "Heavenly Demon, lend me your light!"

The instant he uttered those words, Zhou Bai's Primordial Spirit power and Tianhe Star Explosion Sword burst forth, and the ground before him became like liquid, tearing open before he dove underground.

The countless snake monsters transformed from Xu Dela trembled slightly, simultaneously twisting their bodies and turning their heads to where Zhou Bai was located.

Protected by the earth, the laser cannons melted through layer after layer of the ground but couldn't instantaneously hit Zhou Bai.

But Zhao Shouyi's gaze sharpened as he seized the opportunity to activate the Heaven's Thief Map once again.

From within the Heaven's Thief Map, an azure and purple Sword Light illuminated heaven and earth, spreading out to form an array that covered a thousand square kilometers, within which chaotic flows of energy flickered. Zhao Shouyi was amassing the Sword Array's force fiercely, using the distraction created by Zhou Bai, planning to annihilate Xu Dela in one fell swoop.

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