Calamity of Tomorrow

Hearing that Christina had awakened another part of her memory, Zhou Bai's gaze lit up instantly.

Zhou Bai had always been very curious about the identity of Christina, the cat, especially after experiencing so many events. He could feel that the role Christina played in history should not be underestimated.

However, for some unknown reason, she had lost her memory and needed to cultivate the original Dao scriptures, step by step, to retrieve it.

Christina's memory was extremely useful for Zhou Bai to unravel the mysteries of history.

Zhou Bai asked through a spiritual message, "What's your degree of Dao transformation now? What memory have you awakened?"

Christina naturally also responded with a spiritual message. After all, they were in the base of the Heavenly Demon, and their room was definitely under various forms of surveillance. Communicating with spiritual messages was the basic approach.

Christina said, "My degree of Dao transformation is probably about 55% now. I remembered something about the conflict between good and evil."

"The conflict between good and evil?"

Zhou Bai's gaze sharpened. To his knowledge, the conflict between good and evil began towards the end of the great war between humans and demons.

"As far as I know, during the war between humans and demons, almost all of the human sects and the gods of the heavenly court joined forces to fight against the demonic forces…"

At the end of the war between humans and demons, when humans and the heavenly court had basically secured victory, internal conflicts gradually erupted.

That was the cultivators and gods who practiced various evil methods and demonic arts, which required soul refining, blood draining, killing, sacrifices of civilians, and numerous other practices that strongly conflicted with the inherent beliefs of humans, were increasingly contempt by the orthodox cultivators and gods.

Thus, towards the end of the war between humans and demons, friction between the righteous and evil factions was unceasing, and after the end of the war between humans and demons, another internal war that involved the entire human race and the heavenly court began—that was the conflict between good and evil.

However, this great war seemed to last for a very short time, and the result was that all the evil cultivators and gods were either killed, sealed, or reformed, no longer cultivating or using any techniques that violated human ethics.

The Evil Sect, for example, one of the current four major sects, remained after it reformed following the great conflict between good and evil.

And the Eight Desolates Supreme Robe worn by Zhao Yue came from the Great Desolation Sect, which was wiped out during the conflict between good and evil.

Zhou Bai also remembered his Guihai Black Evil had once been thought to be the inheritance of the Heart Demon Old Man, the number one demonic figure five hundred years ago, who also died in the conflict between good and evil.

Regarding the history of the conflict between good and evil, there were very few records, which was why Zhou Bai knew so little. But every time he thought about it, he always felt that it contained many hidden secrets.

Christina said, "In the conflict between good and evil, no one knows how many strong humans and gods of the heavenly court perished. It was a civil war in human history without precedent."

"But now that I remember, I fear that this conflict between good and evil might not be so simple."

In Christina's mind, the memories that had awoken after her Dao transformation degree reached 55% surfaced.

A gigantic dragon, as vast as mountains and shrouding the skies, flying and roaring, filled Christina's entire field of vision.

"Christina! Where on earth has the Demon Saint gone?"

From somewhere out of sight, a beautiful and melodious voice like the music of heaven sounded; every character was like the music of the world, and Christina immediately realized that it must have been her own voice at the time:

"Zhu Jiuyin! Mind the tone of your speech. The whereabouts of the Demon Saint are a secret of the Demon Clan; there's no need to report to you."

The dragon flew up and down, and it seemed as if even the sun in the sky turned dim with its movements. A sweep of its tail ground a mountain peak to dust, triggering a series of landslides and earthquakes.

Zhu Jiuyin: "Christina! Don't think I don't know what the Demon Saint is up to. You want to rely on Heavenly Dao, to become immortals and gods, you want to admit defeat!"

Christina: "I don't know what you're talking about."

Zhu Jiuyin: "You can't fool me, you can't fool us, you've admitted defeat! You've betrayed the bloodline in your veins! But I won't, I will never bow to Heavenly Dao, defying the heavens is the destiny of the Demon Clan!"

…

"At the end of the great war between humans and demons, Zhu Jiuyin left with a large group of the Demon Clan," Christina said to Zhou Bai. "That was one of the reasons why the human race was able to turn the tables so quickly."

Zhou Bai said in surprise, "Left? Where did they go?"

Christina shook her head: "I don't know. He never said they were going to leave, it was just very sudden, one day he and a large group of his Demon Clan just disappeared, as if they had evaporated."

Zhou Bai pondered the content of Christina's awakened memories, sensing that they contained a tremendous amount of information. He recalled the fight with Zi Yang True Monarch, who had transformed into a monkey demon at the end.

Zhou Bai: "But you just mentioned the conflict between good and evil, could it be that your memories include more than that?"

Christina nodded: "Bai Ze, he was the key strategist behind the human race's counteroffensive…"

Zhou Bai's heart startled: "I remember you said last time, Bai Ze was the Demon King, right?"

…

In the memories that surfaced for Christina, a handsome young man in a white robe, his face etched with faint white runes, came over and smiled at her: "Christina, I've agreed to the Demon Saint's plan."

"I've grown weary of the endless war between humans and demons. As long as Heavenly Dao does not change, this war will never end."

"The third, fourth, even the fifth human-demon war… As long as one side doesn't get completely annihilated, I fear even if we turn the Earth to dust, the war won't end."

"We can't kill ourselves, and the human race is also endless."

"Since that's the case, just as we tried before, if you can't win, then try joining the enemy, become the enemy."

Christina's voice came: "What are you trying to say?"

Bai Ze said lightly: "I'll arrange for the Demon Clan's final act. As for the immortals and gods, would you like to join me in going to the Heavenly Court to play? Ascend to the divine throne and look at the world from a different angle?"

Christina: "Would humans be willing to accept the Demon Clan so easily?"

Bai Ze laughed heartily, like the boy next door with an innocent look: "That's why some gods have to die, we'll replace them. But with the Demon Saint and Zhu Jiuyin gone, if I leave too, the Demon Clan probably won't stand a chance against the Heavenly Court."

Bai Ze: "What to do then?"

Bai Ze: "Why not engineer a civil war among the humans? That way a lot of people should die, and we can deal with the troublesome ones. The more people die, the fewer will remember anything, because humans aren't like us who have such deep traditions and can remember so much history.

"They're like weeds; as long as enough of them die, they will forget any history."

Bai Ze: "Right, the human race has a lot of good stuff, don't they? Those what are they called, Great Desolation Sect, White Bone Sect, Blood River Sect, Zhengyi Dao Palace, Five Thunder Sect… The human race has quite a few treasures, it's a great opportunity to reap some benefits."