Calamity of Tomorrow

Zhou Bai flew at high speed until he neared his destination, then slowly decelerated and hid within the clouds.

Christina said, "Zhou Bai, we can't continue to advance so openly anymore, it would be bad if we fell into an ambush."

Zhou Bai nodded, despite his greatly increased strength, he absolutely did not take his enemy lightly. The Sky Flipping Sect was reputed to have ten great celestial gods launching a siege, and Xiang Tiandi, as the Thunder Lord, how much truth and falsehood were in his words, Zhou Bai also maintained a cautious attitude.

"With the movements of the celestial court, if they really were to besiege the Sky Flipping Sect in the ruins of the Miluo Heavenly Palace, there should be a significant commotion."

Zhou Bai advanced slowly, concealed within the clouds, soon seeing the ground far away gradually reveal vast expanses of ruins almost endless at a glance.

Various broken walls, damaged pavilions, and assorted debris were scattered on the ground.

The entire land was filled with remnants of man-made objects, imbued with a melancholic hue.

Looking at this scene, Christina lamented, "Miluo Heavenly Palace... It was a giant aerial city similar to Central City's Miluo Heavenly Palace, capable of accommodating tens of millions of humans. Who could have imagined it would crash directly during the battle at Kunlun."

As the Miluo Heavenly Palace crashed to the ground, various buildings and fragments scattered over hundreds of kilometers of land, Zhou Bai for a moment did not know where to start searching.

Just then, his gaze sharpened, a flash of red light in his Demon Illuminating Eye, "Almost forgot, I can see demon aura."

...

On the ground, eight cultivators were entangled in combat with two demons, one resembling a tiger and the other an eagle.

Amid horrific screams, the tiger demon was beheaded with a sword, and the remaining eagle demon was pierced through by eight flying swords, firmly pinned to the ground.

The leading young cultivator laughed, "Good, take him back, it's another merit."

Another female cultivator said, "These devils of the Sky Flipping Sect, after that demon Li Xiuzhu was surrounded, have been running here to die one after another like mad."

When Zhou Bai followed a few demon auras and arrived here, he saw several cultivators detaining the eagle demon, cleaning up the battlefield, and chatting with each other.

However, what Zhou Bai saw was a bit different from what the cultivators saw; in his eyes, they were just a few cats, dogs, fish, wolves, having killed a tiger and captured an eagle, their combat strength seemed to be around the fifth or sixth realm.

Under the observation of the Demon Illuminating Eye, he was startled to think he was watching Animal Planet.

Then, he closed his right eye and observed carefully, finally realizing that these must be celestial court cultivators who had killed cultivators from the Sky Flipping Sect.

"Should I just grab them for interrogation? Or blend in and ask around?"

After thinking, Zhou Bai decided he should not startle the snake but first have a heart-to-heart talk with the party, exchange some information; it would be easier to carry out an ambush this way as well.

Just as Zhou Bai pondered whether he should undergo a Primordial Spirit Emergence and temporarily use one of their bodies, suddenly, his Demon Illuminating Eye shifted slightly and caught sight of a youthful face, a round-faced youth huffing as he hurried over.

The group of young cultivators saw the round-faced youth and immediately instructed, "Qin Hao, you take this eagle demon, we'll move ahead to Lingxu Hall."

Watching the round-faced youth left alone to clean up the battlefield, Zhou Bai smirked slightly, put on the Transforming Mask, and descended, "It'll be you..."

The round-faced youth was about to clean up the battlefield when he suddenly felt a shadow looming over him, looked up, and saw Zhou Bai descending from the sky.

However, because Zhou Bai wore the Transforming Mask, he now just looked like an ordinary handsome man.

The round-faced youth, seeing this sudden appearance of a strange handsome man, was about to call out to his peers when a gentle voice came from the other person's mouth.

"Don't be afraid, I'm just a good-looking person with no ill intentions."

Qin Hao Wisdom -30

Wang Dang Wisdom -25

"I am called Gu Letian, what is your name?"

"Qin Hao."

Qin Hao intelligence -30

Wang Dang intelligence -25

After a friendly chat, both the round-faced youth in front of him and the imprisoned hawk demon were already dazed and obedient, answering whatever was asked of them.

In fact, with Zhou Bai's current cultivation level, dealing with cultivators below the ninth realm was simply a matter of reaching out and grabbing them.

A single lie was enough to deprive thousands of cultivators of their intelligence.

A single thought was sufficient for any cultivator with lower intelligence than him to start becoming distorted.

With Zhou Bai's current cultivation level plus the enhancement from his Divine Diagram, there were few mortal cultivators who could surpass him in intelligence.

Zhou Bai looked at the round-faced youth, Qin Hao, and directly asked, "Where are you from? Why are you here?"

Qin Hao replied, "I am a student from West Mountain Daoist School, sent here to be part of the logistics for the Thunder Department cultivators, to join in the extermination of the Sky Flipping Sect."

After some questioning, Zhou Bai finally confirmed that the current situation of the Sky Flipping Sect was indeed precarious.

Firstly, Li Xiuzhu and a group of Sky Flipping Sect disciples were indeed trapped in the ruins of the Lingxu Palace, and they had been surrounded for a full three days and nights.

Meanwhile, other squads of the Sky Flipping Sect had long been scattered, fleeing in all directions on the northwest battlefield under the crushing assault of the Heavenly Department's teams.

But after Li Xiuzhu was surrounded, disciples of the scattered Sky Flipping Sect also rushed towards the ruins of Lingxu Palace, where they were ambushed and either killed or captured one by one by the Thunder Department cultivators.

This completely thwarted the Sky Flipping Sect's strategy of fighting while retreating and continuously shifting locations.

Zhou Bai frowned slightly, "This is encircling the spot for reinforcements. Li Xiuzhu, this Sky Flipping Sect Leader, has instead become bait that attracts the Sect's disciples."

Next, Zhou Bai inquired further on how Li Xiuzhu was surrounded and the current situation, but neither the present Qin Hao nor the hawk demon seemed to know.

Zhou Bai thought for a moment, then asked about the information of the cultivators' team he had just mentioned before directly knocking out the round-faced youth in front of him, and reshaped his Transforming Mask into the other's likeness.

Then, wearing the mask, he shifted his muscles and bones, transforming his appearance and stature to be roughly 80 to 90 percent similar to that of the other person.

He then took the identity token from the other's body, picked up the fallen hawk demon, and directly chased after the direction in which the young cultivators had left, having heard them mention heading to the Lingxu Palace ruins. The direction they were headed in was likely where Li Xiuzhu was being encircled.

Traveling over fifty kilometers, Zhou Bai encountered five or six patrols, all of which he slipped past by using the Transforming Mask and the token. Even when he met particularly suspicious cultivators, Zhou Bai managed to fend them off with a few lies.

On his way there, Zhou Bai saw more and more cultivators flying through the air, and from time to time, groups of people or various demons were bound and taken away by cultivators.

Suddenly, someone waved and shouted, "Qin Hao, you're quite fast, aren't you?"

Zhou Bai turned to look, and it was the young cultivator who had led the team earlier along with a few companions.

Having previously asked for information about the round-faced youth, Zhou Bai knew that this person was called Zhang Tianxin, a Sixth Realm cultivator from the Thunder Department, and was thus able to respond aptly.

"Brother Zhang, I brought the hawk demon."

Zhou Bai casually dropped the hawk demon at the other's feet, taking the opportunity to look around and observed that the area ahead was bustling with people and banners waving. The sky was filled with the light trails of magical treasures, and it was unclear how many cultivators had gathered there.

Further in the sky, there were three Floating Palaces surrounding the area, and Zhou Bai realized those were the palaces where deities resided. Zi Yang had also brought one the last time he was guarding the "Primordial Dao Repository 06."

Thus, there were at least three deities present at this location.