Calamity of Tomorrow

"If this segment of memory is as I speculate, belonging to the era after Qing Yun Zi, and located in the alternate space where the Spiritual People hide, then everything is comparatively simple to understand."

Zhou Bai thought for a moment and speculated, "Did the Spiritual People, after retreating into the alternate space, discover the problems with the void and then try to change the influence of the void, attempting to restore Earth to its past state?"

"And the 64 hexagrams were created by them at that time, existing to change the void."

But Zhou Bai still had doubts, "From this memory, the most powerful force on the Spiritual People's side seems to be the so-called Seven Paths. Why is there completely no trace of the Heavenly Court?"

On the other side, the Heavenly Demon Queen quickly finished analyzing Em's transmitted imagery and asked Zhou Bai, "What are your thoughts?"

Zhou Bai casually said, "It should be the era when the Spiritual People first discovered the void was penetrating the Material World and then sought ways to resolve it. But it's unclear what Ji Wufan finally did with the 64 hexagrams, and why those hexagrams later scattered everywhere. How about you guys? Have you analyzed any results?"

Heavenly Demon Queen replied, "This seems to be a world where humans, immortals, and gods coexist, with a climate hotter than Earth, and even the size of the sun differs..."

Accompanied by the Heavenly Demon Queen's words, image projections began appearing in front of Zhou Bai, all these memory screens were analyzed and compared by the Heavenly Demon.

And while the Heavenly Demon Queen communicated with Zhou Bai, she was simultaneously communicating at high speed with Em through the network.

Heavenly Demon Queen: "How's the void information model?"

Em: "It's a big gain. The void data collected this time can help me further improve the model. If we can collect effective information 1 or 2 more times, I can complete the first version of the model, trying to break free of the hexagram restrictions and actively search for the information we want in the void, like various past historical records."

"Good. The improvement of the void information model is crucial; compared to this, the 64 hexagrams and Spiritual People's intelligence are just add-ons." The Heavenly Demon Queen reminded, "Remember, without my permission, do not divulge data and the model to anyone, especially Zhou Bai."

Em exclaimed nonchalantly, "Relax, I'm famously a master of encryption among the Heavenly Demons; there's absolutely no way anyone can download it."

While Em communicated with the Heavenly Demon Queen, Zhou Bai thought to himself, "Em's special ability to communicate with the void, I wonder how it's really done, it must be the pinnacle of Heavenly Demon technology, something an ordinary person might never learn even in a lifetime."

"Even for myself... I'd probably need more than a minute to learn it."

In the sixth realm, Zhou Bai once tried to turn Em into his Foolish Dependent but failed.

However, now in the seventh realm, he finally managed to succeed in making Em a Foolish Dependent, this indicating Zhou Bai's wisdom had surpassed Em.

At this moment, with his ability to activate the Mad Diagram, after checking Em's skill list, he immediately found the knowledge he needed.

Extracting "Introduction to Void Information Incomplete Edition" requires 200,000 Lazy Points.

"Is it incomplete? If it happens a few more times, Em should gradually master it."

...

Several days later outside Donghua City, with a mere thought from Zhou Bai, enormous dragons emitting black flames emerged from his flesh.

A full nine Black Yan Dragons circled around him in flight, the black flames exuding an aura of chaos, disorder, and death, rapidly causing the land to become desolate and cracked, as if decades had passed in an instant.

These days, Zhou Bai continued to train the Five Divine Skills, and with high Yan Pressure's addition, his progress has been remarkably swift.

Beside Zhou Bai stood Xuan Nu, smiling as she observed him.

In the recent two days, she had split into several Avatars, and her main body constantly followed Zhou Bai daily, allowing him to always receive the Yan Pressure enhancement, without needing to stay with Zuo Dao and the others.

Zhou Bai casually demonstrated the Great Black Flame Fire Dragon Formation, a sudden smile appearing at the corner of his mouth, "Here it comes."

Then, in the sky, a black dot enlarged gradually, finally landing gently in front of Zhou Bai—it's the Void Crown 2.0 newly crafted by Twisted Shadow.

Due to the ability to select Foolish Dependents to share skills, the Void Crown 2.0 before him was composed entirely of 108 Foolish Dependents, all sharing Tang Ruhai's ability with Zhou Bai, with impressive defensive power.

Xuan Nu asked, "Zhou Bai, is this the new weapon you created?"

Zhou Bai replied, "Yes, this is my latest research—the Void Throne 2.0. From now on, besides armor, you should also wear one of these."

Observing the Void Crown float before Xuan Nu and transform, it then encircled Xuan Nu.

"My second-generation Void Crown not only boasts impressive defensive power, but also fits snugly, completely unaffected by your movements, you can even sleep with it on at night, moving without worry."

"With it guarding you, I'm even more at ease."

Xuan Nu, touched, said, "Then what about you? You're far more important than me, you should use this Void Crown."

"Fool, I have my own." Zhou Bai looked up at the sky, "Look, it's coming again."

Then dozens of Void Crowns streamed down from the sky, gently descending.

They can not only fly, resize as desired by Zhou Bai's control, but also connect and combine when one after another ring opens, instantaneously forming a barrier like a long wall in front of Zhou Bai.

Zhou Bai said, "Considering facing formidable foes, routine replacements, being ambushed after encountering formidable foes, being ambushed still by one's own people, betrayed by one's own people after an ambush by Heavenly Demons, and some mechanical dependents getting damaged, along with combination use requirements, I made several more Void Crowns."

Xuan Nu, shocked, gazed at the numerous Void Crowns, "…How could there be so many?"

"Over a hundred, barely enough." Zhou Bai said, "Next, I still need to expand the scale of the Origin Teach, the biggest constraint on me producing these weapons now is the Power of Deformation."

"With more followers, allowing me to extract more Power of Deformation, I can produce more weapons like the Void Crown."

Every Mad Color Seed turning someone into a dependent requires Pollution Level to create, which is currently the key constraint on Zhou Bai's productivity.

After all, the production capacity of Heavenly Demons is simply terrifying, manufacturing various machinery is almost routine for them.

But only by ingesting Zhou Bai's Mad Color Seed, can one become a dependent.

'Expand the scale of dependents, absorbing the Power of Deformation from them, and then use it to create more dependents, extracting more Power of Deformation…'

'So, the scale of dependents could snowball into a larger expansion.'