Calamity of Tomorrow

Watching Christina having so much fun in her mechanical armor, Zhou Bai reminded her, "Alright, stop playing around. Get back to cultivating the Original Daozang 07. You haven't reached the seventh realm after all this time. Your aptitude is really poor. I broke through to the seventh realm in just a few minutes back then."

Christina pouted and internally called him a cheater, but in the end, she could only silently return to lay back onto the Original Daozang.

After holding back for a while, she couldn't help but explain, "My aptitude is already quite strong. For ordinary cultivators, breaking through to the seventh realm is impossible without a few years, if not decades. How long have I been cultivating?"

Zhou Bai said, "Look at Zuo Dao. How far behind you was he before? Now he's already in the eighth realm, on the brink of breaking through to the ninth realm at any moment, leaving you far behind."

Christina retorted indignantly, "Isn't it because you gave him better resources while giving me Tang Ruhai's abilities? Why do I need such high defensive power? I'd rather improve my talent."

Zhou Bai responded, "It's all to protect you. With Tang Ruhai's abilities, your survival skills have greatly increased. But let's not talk about that. When will you be able to break through to 70% Dao transformation percentage?"

Christina puffed up her cheeks, "I don't know why. It's like I've hit a bottleneck. I just can't achieve the final 1%, my Dao transformation percentage is stuck at 69%."

Zhou Bai said, "You should be cultivating diligently every day like me, and you'd have achieved it long ago. There's just over a week before the grand marriage, and the situation then will be very complicated. We need stronger power."

"From now until the day of the grand marriage, you mustn't stop cultivating until you break through to the seventh realm."

After giving Christina a good lecture and sending her back to continue cultivating, Zhou Bai resumed his intense training.

Just then, Xuan Nu suddenly said, "Zhou Bai, Zuo Dao called for you. He says he's entered the ninth realm."

Zhou Bai abruptly opened his eyes, lightning flashing within them, and burst out laughing, "Great! Zuo Dao has entered the ninth realm, which means I can finally open the Zuo Family's treasury and obtain the Original Daozang 08!"

Zhou Bai had been holding back this urge, wanting to significantly boost his power. The fastest method was with the Original Daozang 08, but since it required Zuo Dao to reach the ninth realm, he had to keep waiting for him to cultivate, while he shut himself in to focus on martial and Taoist cultivation.

Now hearing that Zuo Dao had stepped into the ninth realm, he stood up, intending to take Zuo Dao to the Zuo Family's treasury immediately.

...

As Zhou Bai and Zuo Dao were getting ready to act, far away in the heavenly court, within the Ten Thousand Stars Heavenly Palace of the Martial Department.

A white-robed immortal was sitting cross-legged in mid-air, surrounded by starlight, with various celestial phenomena occasionally manifesting around him.

This was none other than the Martial Department's Deng Zhenjun, who was currently cultivating Taoism and using his time to restore his powers.

In the past two months, most of the celestial beings and immortals in the heavenly court were trying their best to enter seclusion to cultivate, using the Taiwei Nine Stars Algorithm to restore their powers.

After over a hundred years of distortion in the Heavenly Dao, the cultivation levels of one immortal after another had finally begun to advance rapidly. More and more immortals were crossing into 130% Dao transformation percentage, re-establishing their own Luotian Realm.

And some powerful celestial beings were even reaching beyond 140% or 150% of Dao transformation percentage.

Although Deng Zhenjun wasn't among the most powerful celestial beings, his Dao transformation percentage had already reached 139% and he was aiming to break through to 140%.

Behind him appeared shadowy black figures struggling and letting out piercing screams, as if trying to break free from his body.

Accompanying the phenomenon, Deng Zhenjun's facial expressions constantly changed, alternating between crying and laughing, as if someone else was contending for control of his body.

After a long while, starlight suddenly burst out from Deng Zhenjun's eyes, and the light in the training room twisted dramatically, but his aura disappeared entirely.

Along with his aura vanishing, Deng Zhenjun himself also disappeared, reappearing ten meters away in an instant.

This process of disappearing and reappearing was completely seamless, as if he had merely taken a step.

"Finally restored to 140% Dao transformation percentage. The Luotian Teleportation is seamless, no need to open a realm gate, able to directly strike the Material World from the Luotian Realm without any flaw."

Deng Zhenjun gently exhaled, and after reaching 140% Dao transformation, the gap between celestial beings and other weaker beings further widened, as if separated by a chasm.

With the ability to strike the Material World from the Luotian Realm, celestial beings at this level held an absolute advantage over any life whose Dao transformation was below 140%.

'From now on, apart from celestial beings above 140% Dao transformation percentage, no one can threaten me.'

His lips curled into a satisfied smile, and Deng Zhenjun began cultivating again, consolidating his current state.

Five hours later, he suddenly frowned and slowly opened his eyes, "Zuo Dao moved? Could he be heading to the Zuo Family's treasury?"

Both Zuo Dao and his brother Zuo Lu were personally arranged by Deng Tianjun to enter the Martial Department.

The reason for this was not to nurture these two Zuo Family descendants, but purely for the Zuo Family's treasury.

Therefore, both Zuo Dao and Zuo Lu had the Shenluo Talisman secretly placed on them by Deng Zhenjun, a Taoist magic that allowed him to constantly sense their location.

When Zuo Dao left previously, he also sensed the direction of his departure but chose not to intervene.

On one hand, it was because Zuo Dao headed towards Donghua City, seemingly not going to the Zuo Family's treasury.

According to Deng Zhenjun, the Zuo Family's treasury was not within Donghua City but rather in some underground location in the wilderness.

On the other hand, Deng Tianjun hadn't restored much of his power at that time, and he had no confidence in defeating Ming Yue, the celestial being escorting Zuo Dao, Jiaojiao in Donghua City, or even Zhou Bai, who might be hiding there.

Now, sensing Zuo Dao's change in location and seeing him heading north after leaving Donghua City, not towards any city, Deng Zhenjun wondered, "Hmm? Is Zuo Dao going to unlock the Zuo Family's treasury? But isn't the treasury only openable by a Zuo Family descendant in the ninth realm?"

Deng Zhenjun frowned slightly, unsure of Zuo Dao's intentions, and decided to report this matter upwards.

A moment later, Deng Zhenjun stood before one of the Martial Department's Celestial Lords, the Beidou Celestial Lord.

It was this Celestial Lord of the Martial Department who ordered Deng Zhenjun to intervene in the growth of Zuo Lu and Zuo Dao, with a deep interest in the Zuo Family's treasury.