Calamity of Tomorrow

The entire darkness seemed to be calling Zhou Bai's name. Jiaguai heard it and felt his hair stand on end, as if some eerie change was happening in the Material World.

Looking at those shadows, he yelled, "Who's there?"

He took two heavy breaths, his body swelling again, and in a blink, he turned into a ten-meter-tall boar and charged toward the nearby figures.

Boom! His tusks pierced directly through one figure's body, and blood continuously dripped from the wound.

Seeing that he had impaled Zhou Bai with his tusks, Jiaguai burst into laughter: "This weak?"

Right after the strike that pierced the body, Jiaguai saw that the Zhou Bai impaled on his tusks remained unmoved, his expression indifferent, continuing to mutter that name: "Zhou Bai…"

Feeling that Zhou Bai before him was exceedingly strange, Jiaguai flung him off his tusks. The other collapsed onto the ground, blood gurgling out, yet his expression and speech unaltered as he lay on the ground muttering that name, looking extremely eerie.

Jiaguai felt the calls around him getting deeper and stranger.

Twisted, exaggerated shadows swept across the ground: some had disproportionately large heads and small bodies, some appeared as if their arms and legs had turned into noodle-like thin and bent appendages, standing beside him, snickering as they stared at him.

More and more bizarre human shadows gathered around Jiaguai's feet on the ground, and suddenly, Jiaguai even felt tiny cold, slimy hands touching his body, sending chills down his spine.

"Get lost!"

As the effects of the Madness Disaster unfolded, the boundary between the void and the Material World grew increasingly blurred, and his heart filled with more and more irritation.

Uncontrollable fear emerged from the depths of his heart, driving him to run wildly ahead, trying to escape the abnormal phenomena before him.

The shadows on the ground gradually materialized, and he saw a giant-headed, small-bodied Zhou Bai squeeze out from the ground and cling to one of Jiaguai's legs.

Jiaguai had just kicked him away when another slim, pole-like Zhou Bai climbed onto Jiaguai's back.

Amidst the calls from his followers, the Madness Disaster was activated, and the void's power invaded reality, responding to the name "Zhou Bai," from which various illusions of Zhou Bai surged forth from the void.

Jiaguai roared furiously, running forward trying to break out of this strange space, but more and more bizarrely shaped Zhou Bais grabbed onto Jiaguai's body, making him feel as though he was sinking deep into a quagmire. Zhou Bai was everywhere around him – in his ears, by his side, before his eyes.

With these Zhou Bais touching Jiaguai, more and more void power flowed into his body, destroying his will and warping his personality.

A strange smile flickered across Jiaguai's face, his expression and demeanor growing eerily similar to Zhou Bai's: "Zhou Bai… Zhou Bai…"

Seeing Jiaguai lying on the ground in the distance, laughing foolishly as if he had completely lost his mind, Christina felt a chill: "The power of this Madness Disaster is terrifying."

Zhou Bai nodded in agreement, "After all, it involves directly summoning the descent of the void, essentially creating a distorted phenomenon artificially, and slowly, everything and everyone in this area will be invaded by the power of the void.

Mortals... even some powerful cultivators would have likely gone mad by now. It took him such a long time to exhibit mental issues, it seems that the demon bloodline indeed has stronger resistance to the void and to the warping effect of Heavenly Dao than humans."

Speaking, Zhou Bai had already controlled his mechanical followers to back away, while he approached the pig monster. "Let's have a talk."

He extended a finger and shoved the seed of madness into the monster's mouth, turning it into one of his fearful followers.

Then Zhou Bai spread his palm open, and a mechanical bug-like worshipful follower burrowed into the pig monster's ear.

Unlike those humanoid worshipful followers, this bug-shaped type was better suited for spreading his whispers in the shadows.

Zhou Bai had made many similar bug-like followers, both fearful and worshipful, complementing those of humanoid and octopus forms.

In a moment of thought from Zhou Bai, his whispers were transmitted into the ears of the pig monster through the bug-shaped worshipful followers.

Accompanied by various profane and distorted words, the intelligence of the pig monster in front of him kept decreasing until, eventually, due to extremely low intelligence, it would obey his commands.

"I am handsome... I am handsome... I am handsome..."

"Alright, next I'll ask, and you'll answer."

Although its intelligence had decreased, its basic question-and-answer ability and memory were preserved, and thus, following Zhou Bai's questions, the pig monster revealed everything it knew.

The pig monster Zhao Ye was a wild boar spirit with five hundred years of cultivation secretly controlled by the heavenly authorities.

With five hundred years of cultivation, his strength could now rival that of ninth realm cultivators, and combined with the abilities to split and become invisible granted by the demonic bloodline, his infiltration abilities were exceedingly strong; there weren't many in Donghua City who could capture him.

This plot originated from Haoran Heavenly Monarch who had secretly received information that Li Xiuzhu from the Sky Flipping Sect was personally leading a team to ambush him and even aimed to transform Jiaojiao into a deformed weapon.

However, Haoran Heavenly Monarch Li Zhengdao did not inform the heavenly court or ask for reinforcements, but instead gathered several big demons planning to counter-ambush the Sky Flipping Sect and devour both Li Xiuzhu and Jiaojiao.

The original plan was to first disrupt the core of the array, according to Li Zhengdao's plan, knowing Li Xiuzhu's nature, once he learned that the array was tampered with, for the sake of the three hundred million people of Donghua City, he would definitely lead his team to block the array's critical points.

Then they would use the news of the array layer being damaged and the spiritual pollution spewing from the array core to provoke Jiaojiao, causing her to completely transform. According to their intelligence, Jiaojiao was close to her limit; even if they did nothing, it would only take a few months or at most a year for her complete transformation.

Once this step was completed, they would first reclaim Jiaojiao, and Li Xiuzhu by then would be exhausted and perhaps nearly dead.

With this, the heavenly department could justifiably reclaim Jiaojiao and capture Li Xiuzhu.

And since Sky Flipping Sect was just a group of mortals who had awakened the demonic bloodline, these big demons could pose as members of the Sky Flipping Sect, and all the misdeeds would be blamed on them, while the Heavenly Monarch and his followers would be hailed as heroes who stopped the Sky Flipping Sect and saved Donghua City.

Any deaths, numbering in the tens or hundreds of thousands, naturally would not concern the heavenly department, while the several big demons would even relish such an opportunity to sate their taste for flesh.

"Li Zhengdao..." Zhou Bai furrowed his brows.