Calamity of Tomorrow

If it were just an ordinary cultivator of the nine realms, he surely would have been obliterated by Ming Yue Immortal long ago, yet Li Xiuzhu possessed the immense strength of demon giants and was also relying on the advantages of the Blood Transformation Divine Sword, which enabled him to hold his ground throughout.

Just as Li Xiuzhu was about to draw out another distorted weapon, a voice suddenly entered his ears.

"Li Xiuzhu, I am in the direction of the mountain, send your voice this way."

Li Xiuzhu's eyes slightly brightened, "Zhou Bai? You've come?"

Zhou Bai asked, "Li Xiuzhu, what did you take from Xing Jun back then?"

While engaging in fierce battle amid the myriad soldiers and malevolent spirits, Li Xiuzhu listened to Zhou Bai's words, his gaze slightly shifted, and he partly understood in his heart: 'Zhou Bai is afraid that I'm an imposter? What a cautious young lad.'

With the power of his Primordial Spirit, Li Xiuzhu refined his voice and sent it hustling toward the mountain, "Divination 01, don't act rashly for now, listen to my arrangements."

Zhou Bai, "What arrangements? First, explain the capabilities of this arena to me thoroughly."

The two exchanged voices for a while, and gradually a flicker of understanding passed through Zhou Bai's eyes, gaining a more thorough comprehension of the rules of this arena.

However Heavenly Court probed, how could they know better than Li Xiuzhu, the holder, about the power of this divination?

Li Xiuzhu finally said, "This Heavenly Arena has a duration, a total of seven days, and tomorrow is the last day. Once the time is up, if there is no one challenging, then the last person remaining on the arena will become the lord of the arena. They will receive all the martial arts and magic powers left by the previous contestants, tremendously boosting their strength."

"And those who fail will lose the martial arts and magic copied from them."

"But if by the end time, there is a final battle on the arena and someone still steps up to challenge, the arena will continue for another 7 days."

Zhou Bai, "Wait, the losers won't die?"

Li Xiuzhu smiled slightly, "They just temporarily become spectators, and will be released once the arena ends. So I hope you can help me tomorrow to distract the other two immortals, enabling me to successfully conclude this arena."

Understanding flickered in Zhou Bai's eyes. If this plan were successful, Ming Yue Immortal's strength would drastically decrease, while Li Xiuzhu's strength would significantly increase.

Yet, Zhou Bai harbored greater ambitions. He asked, "If I help you, do you have the confidence to defeat another immortal…"

Listening to the plan revealed by the other party, after some discussions, Li Xiuzhu laughed heartily and said, "It's worth a try, I'll bet on it! Let's do it this way."

On the arena, Li Xiuzhu was seen completely surrounded, his red sword light charging left and right, but no matter how he tried, he couldn't break free, instead becoming increasingly stifled.

Meanwhile, Zhou Bai had returned to his physical body, looking at Li Xiuzhu wrapped in layers of Qi force, gradually becoming invisible, and thought to himself, "Li Xiuzhu seems to have grown much stronger, but Ming Yue Immortal's cultivation now seems even surpass that of Zi Yang True Monarch before. I wonder if Li Xiuzhu can hold steady until tomorrow, otherwise, I might have to step in to support him midway."

The next moment, Ming Yue Immortal was seen altering incantations with dao embellishments, arranging the Nine Yang Intense Fire Array with a battalion holding flags. The array spouted fiery flames engulfing the sky, and with the momentum of burning mountains and boiling seas, enveloped Li Xiuzhu.

Seeing the sky filled with intense fire, Li Xiuzhu's hand trembled and he threw out another distorted weapon, infusing it with the power of his Primordial Spirit.

It was an object that looked like a pearl, which upon the infusion of the Primordial Spirit's power immediately enlarged and turned into a bubble ensconcing Li Xiuzhu, isolating him from the outside and resisting the engulfing intense flames.

Looking at this distorted weapon, Li Xiuzhu sighed, seemingly seeing a stubborn, talented young man again.

This distorted weapon was transformed by Jian Hui, a genius disciple of Jijian Pavilion.

During the research on distorted weapons, due to the influence of the Blood Transformation Divine Sword, Jian Hui suffered mental trauma and risked distortion. Finally, Li Xiuzhu persuaded him out of the research lab.

However, Li Xiuzhu had not expected that this young man would let himself become distorted while Li Xiuzhu was rushing to East Hua City, wanting to be used as experimental material for developing distorted weapons by the Sky Flipping Sect.

At last, the research proved successful, creating such a deformed weapon called the Sky Illuminating Pearl.

Once the Sky Illuminating Pearl enshrouded his body, it was difficult for him to attack, but his defensive power increased manifold, even though it required the consumption of Primordial Spirit power.

Li Xiuzhu could be seen intermittently retracting the Sky Illuminating Pearl, resisting the Fire Sea with blood-colored sword light, and then using the Sky Illuminating Pearl for defense, alternately using both deformed weapons.

Watching Li Xiuzhu struggle within the Nine Yang Intense Fire Array, Ming Yue, the Immortal, sneered, "Let's see how long you can hold on."

As the Nine Heavens Fiery Fire Formation operated, the temperature within a hundred li slowly began to rise, as if suddenly entering the height of summer, the ground gradually cracked, and various ruins seemed as hot as furnaces.

However, this was already the limit. The Heavenly Arena seemed to adhere to a certain special rule, suppressing the impact inside and outside the arena to a very low degree.

Zhou Bai, observing this scene, thought to himself, "It seems although there is no direct attack from outside, the environmental impact still has some effect."

Watching in the projection, with Li Xiuzhu surrounded by a sky full of flames by Ming Yue, the Immortal, everyone guessed how long Li Xiuzhu could last.

Not far from Zhou Bai, Zhang Tianxin commented, "It is said that Ming Yue, the Immortal's Nine Yang Intense Fire Array, can vaporize a lake in moments and melt a hundred li of glacier into snow water within a few hours. Li Xiuzhu probably won't last much longer."

Lin Xiang added, "This demon has done much evil; being refined by true fire is letting him off easy."

But no one expected that the Nine Yang Intense Fire Array would burn for an entire day and night. Not only did this astonish those present, but it also surprised countless viewers in the projections within the five great cities.

In Donghua City, Jing Xiu remarked, "Li Xiuzhu is so powerful, has activating his demonic bloodline made him this formidable?"

Xia Li, squinting her eyes, a hint of fatigue on her face, said, "It's still not over? They've been fighting for so long."

How strong! How boring! These were the thoughts of most civilians and low-level cultivators watching the battle in the projection, leading most of them to go about their usual business, only glancing at the projection when they had free time to see if anything had changed.

Below the battlefield, within the treasure pagoda, Zhou Bai's gaze shifted slightly, "The agreed time has come, I wonder what method Li Xiuzhu will use to defeat Ming Yue, the Immortal. If not, I will have to intervene in this battle."

At the same time, within the raging flames of the Heavenly Arena, a streak of blood suddenly shot up, cleaving through the Nine Heavens Fiery Fire Formation with a single strike.

Then, a great dragon burst forth from the Fire Sea, its dragon's roar thundering, dragon might drastically increasing, mingled with an overwhelming fist intent.

The intense pressure radiated overwhelmingly, making everyone outside the Heavenly Arena feel a tremor in their hearts, as if witnessing a gigantic dragon overturning rivers and seas, stirring massive chaos, and leaving both sun and moon without light.

And within the arena, the impact was even greater.

The dragon might and fist intent mixed together as if they had solidified. Ming Yue, the Immortal, felt as if her head had been severely struck, her sea of consciousness suddenly violently fluctuating.

Her consciousness slightly paused, seemingly entering a state of stasis.

In the next moment, the dragon opened its mouth, and from within its belly, the Blood Transformation Divine Sword explosively unleashed. Red light surged through its chest, neck, and throat, finally bursting forth as a sky-obscuring red light from the dragon's mouth.

The red light swept across, instantly bisecting the stupefied Ming Yue, the Immortal, before she disintegrated into pieces scattered across the sky.

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