Calamity of Tomorrow

The North Star Heavenly Monarch felt the opponent's sword grew stronger with each strike. Each sword he swung seemed to grow in power, carrying an intense mental pressure. This pressure intensified along with the opponent's sword style, becoming more terrifying.

Especially with the void cross behind Zhou Bai continuously radiating distortion forces from the void, even Zhou Bai's swordsmanship carried a madness-inducing aura.

The North Star Heavenly Monarch secretly thought to himself, "What terrifying swordsmanship! Zhou Bai is actually a true sword master. The sword momentum accumulates, and each sword is more powerful than the last, all carrying strong mental pressure and the distortion of the Heavenly Dao, continually suppressing my demon bloodline, tempting the madness within my heart."

At the same time, the North Star Heavenly Monarch could feel strands of fear progressively emerging from the depths of his heart, while his physical body felt increasingly painful.

Boom!

Another sword struck, its power seemingly increased to a critical threshold. With the sudden burst of blood light, the giant wolf's front paws were slashed off, followed by flashes of sword light severing its four limbs entirely.

The remnants of the demon body fell to the ground, unable to move for a moment.

In disbelief, the North Star Heavenly Monarch looked at Zhou Bai, "Why? Why is he so strong?"

Meanwhile, Deng True Monarch and Liu He True Monarch on the other side were pale-faced as they saw the North Star Heavenly Monarch's limbs severed. With a cry of surprise, they retreated, hoping to flee.

Zhou Bai charged forward, his sword fell like thunder, severing Deng True Monarch's transformed giant ape at the waist, who collapsed on the ground while screaming.

Liu He True Monarch roared angrily, layers of explosive force erupted from his body as he desperately tried to escape, yet the Human Emperor Sword still slashed at his leg, forcing him to kneel on the ground with a loud rumble, his body rolled and crashed against the boundary of the treasury's space.

More successive strikes fell, leaving the three great fierce demons powerless to resist.

Zhou Bai finally severely injured the three great demons before him, leaving them incapable of fighting or fleeing.

The Human Emperor Sword sighed, "Even a true god was blown to pieces by a single sword... After being torn apart, they transformed into demons... Even as demons, they still can't beat Zhou Bai... Am I destined to be played with by Zhou Bai forever while in his grasp?"

As Zhou Bai's thoughts moved, the black mud scattered across the ground gathered around, starting to harvest the green fortune from his opponents.

Yet ever since the opponent transformed into a demon, the divine favor on their heads weakened continuously, leaving less than a third in the blink of an eye, making Zhou Bai secretly feel disappointed.

North Star Heavenly Monarch stared unwaveringly at Zhou Bai, struggling to sit up despite his body, and looked at Zhou Bai with unwillingness: "What was that technique just now? What swordsmanship did you use at the end?"

He looked at Zhou Bai's body with hatred and fear, discerning the astonishing power hidden beneath his opponent's flesh during the battle, Zhou Bai's unparalleled swordsmanship capable of slaying immortals and gods, and the strange occurrences in battle.

In just two short years, no matter how the North Star Heavenly Monarch thought, he could not fathom how Zhou Bai cultivated such an earth-shaking level of prowess.

Finally, he couldn't help but ask, "You haven't even broken through the 100% Dao essence transformation, how are you capable of possessing power far stronger than celestial gods?"

Faced with the North Star Heavenly Monarch's unwilling inquiry, Zhou Bai glanced at the black mud still harvesting the green fortune, noting it would take some time. He smiled slightly, "You want to know why I'm so strong?"

Others instantly looked over too, who wouldn't be curious about Zhou Bai's terrifying strength and his almost unbelievable cultivation speed.

Zhou Bai sighed, "There once was an unparalleled expert, who could become invincible in the world by simply running every day and exercising."

"I don't have such talent, so I couldn't do anything like this, and needed stronger cultivation methods."

"My method of getting stronger... It's no problem to tell you."

Everyone present stared wide-eyed at Zhou Bai as he slowly said, "First, beginner's step: lie in bed 24 hours a day without fail. Other than burning feces, sorting garbage, or collecting Heavenly Demon Materials, do nothing else."

"At first it might be tough, you'll feel the urge to get up from bed and find something to do."

"But just stick to it, slowly overcome the sense of responsibility and diligence, and you'll adapt to this lifestyle."

"Next, meet beautiful people, the more beautiful the better, bring them to cultivate with you."

"This way, the efficiency of practicing any Dao or martial arts will increase by more than ten times."

Everyone listened dumbfounded to Zhou Bai's words, until finally North Star Heavenly Monarch couldn't help but curse, "Zhou Bai, if you don't want to say, then don't, why mock us?"

Zhou Bai shook his head, "Why would I lie to you, this is the secret to my rapidly growing strength over the past two years."

The North Star Heavenly Monarch retorted angrily, "Secret? This is just like ordinary people being lazy and indulging in beauty, how could this make you stronger?!"

Looking at the defiant expression of North Star Heavenly Monarch, and the skepticism on the faces of others, Zhou Bai sighed, feeling exasperated that even his sincere truth was disbelieved.

'But it's best not to kill them for now,' Zhou Bai mused, 'Capturing living true gods, I can interrogate them, ask about the current situation in Heaven, and see what schemes these true gods have.'

In the next moment, Zhou Bai struck repeatedly with his sword, knocking the three great demons unconscious on the ground. He also withdrew his fierce aura, touched his head while muttering to himself, "Feels okay too, the drop in intelligence is barely noticeable, guess my wisdom is just too high, even a temporary drop doesn't change much."

"No change? You've lost a cat!" Christina flew over to Zhou Bai with a disgruntled expression, angrily transmitting her voice, "Using me as bait? Is this how you use a cat, the drop in intelligence is terrifying."

Before Christina could finish, Zhou Bai quickly drew her back into his consciousness sea, where she lay irritably on the scratching board.

Having done all this, Zhou Bai turned his head towards Zuo Lu, "Zuo Dao, watch him, make sure he doesn't move rashly."

Zuo Dao nodded, walked to Zuo Lu's side. Although he was the weakest within the ninth realm, just the high bonus from Dao essence transformation was enough to completely suppress the current sixth-realm Zuo Lu.

Zuo Lu smiled wryly, shrugged, signaling he had no intention to resist, sitting directly on the ground.

'Finally settled it.' Seeing the scene completely under control, Zhou Bai approached the stone coffin.

'Could Primordial Dao Zang 08 be inside?'

With a slight movement of his Primordial Spirit power, Zhou Bai pressed directly on the stone coffin, unleashed his strength, lifting the stone coffin lid, revealing the inside.

Inside the coffin lay a young man.

The young man had closed eyes, fair skin, and a rosy complexion, looking lifelike as if laying alive within the coffin.

It seemed as if the young man could awaken from the coffin at any moment.

Yet when Zhou Bai strained to listen, he couldn't hear any heartbeat, organ, or blood flow sounds, not even the rise and fall or breathing actions of the other's chest.

"Who is this?" Zhou Bai wondered aloud, "Zuo Dao, is this someone from your Zuo Family?"

Zuo Dao shook his head, then Zuo Lu suddenly spoke, "According to Beidou (North Star) True Monarch... the true god you defeated, this should be the remnant body of Qing Yun Zi."

Zhou Bai raised an eyebrow, surprised as he looked at the young man in the coffin, "This is Qing Yun Zi?" He stepped forward, his Primordial Spirit power sweeping over the young man's body, intending to examine closely.

Suddenly the young man in the coffin opened his eyes abruptly, looking at Zhou Bai. Their gaze met directly.