Calamity of Tomorrow

Seeing Qian Wangsun and others going to rescue Liu Ruonan, Zhou Bai breathed a sigh of relief. Watching Xu Dela charging towards him, he dug his limbs into the ground and explosively retreated, already crawling into the tunnel they had come through.

Xu Dela roared in pursuit, his thick body not the slightest bit reduced as he tore through the passageway, trailing large chunks of rubble and dust while persistently chasing Zhou Bai.

Huge snake heads opened their mouths, spitting scorching light beams at the distant Zhou Bai.

However, Xu Dela had previously been heavily injured by Zhao Shouyi with the Mixed Element Sword Formation, having evaporated two-thirds of his body, which greatly reduced his combat strength.

At this moment, most of the light beams swept over Zhou Bai but failed to kill him in one hit as his defensive power greatly increased when crawling. Instead, under the lazy energy's healing, Zhou Bai's wounds rapidly closed, making him appear completely unharmed.

While Zhou Bai was crawling at high speed, the carefree golden flying swords beside him kept slashing out golden light, etching numerous twisted characters on the walls, continuing to maintain the effects of Catastrophe Domain.

Seeing the snake heads swallowing up the entire passageway, Christina yelled, "How are you planning to fight this thing? It's too difficult!"

Zhou Bai replied confidently with a smile, "Fighting is about using your brain. If it was all about physical strength and cultivation levels, we could simply compare data and be done with it."

While speaking, Zhou Bai had activated Ugly Disaster, with his entire being cloaked behind a mosaic layer. At the same time, he activated the Catastrophe Domain, with clusters of Guihai Black Sha forming under Xu Dela's feet. Wisps of milky white Qi Luck were instantly absorbed by Zhou Bai's Sea of Consciousness.

Xu Dela, taken aback by this mosaic, felt a sharp pain in his eyes followed by an outpouring of black metallic juice.

'Why am I crying?' Xu Dela was shocked for a moment. Zhou Bai's abilities and modes of combat were unprecedented, making his gaze towards Zhou Bai completely different. Nevertheless, his body was continuously drawn towards the mosaic under the pull of Catastrophe Domain.

The man and the demon, thus, traversed the long tunnel, covering several kilometers to approach the entrance.

As time passed, Ugly Disaster expanded repeatedly, soon reaching a consumption of 10,000 points of lazy energy per second, affecting a radius of 15 meters around him.

Zhou Bai sneered and directly charged at Xu Dela's location.

Xu Dela watched as a large mass of mosaic rushed towards his face. The 15-meter radius covered the entire tunnel, rendering him unable to see anything, let alone detect Zhou Bai's presence.

Even as Xu Dela pursued and tore through the passageway, blasting apart vast amounts of rock, he was still unable to alter the problem of the constricted space before him.

After the mosaic of Ugly Disaster covered his vision, his repeated attacks not only failed to reach Zhou Bai but instead continuously harmed his own body amidst the explosions and flames.

Zhou Bai, looking relaxed, hid in the earth beside Xu Dela, watching as he wildly attacked in all directions, only managing to hurt himself.

"Now!" Zhou Bai commanded.

Faced with Xu Dela, who could not sense him at all, Zhou Bai flicked his sword technique. The carefree golden flying swords were already thrusting back and forth through Xu Dela, while Zhou Bai fully triggered Tianhe Star Explosion with furious sword force, repeatedly grinding over Xu Dela's body, shattering large pieces of his metal shell.

At the same time, Christina activated the fourth level of the Ice Soul Freeze Light, firing piercing white beams. Although she was also under the effect of Ugly Disaster and couldn't see Heavenly Demon clearly.

Xu Dela's bulk was too large for the narrow space, and even random attacks would hit the giant serpent's body, causing widespread frostbite.

Watching the injuries on Xu Dela's body multiply, Zhou Bai's eyes lit up. 'Indeed, this guy has shrunk in size after the principal had seriously injured him last time, and not only had his size been reduced, but his defensive power and offensive strength had all diminished. Could it be due to decreased power? Loss of weapons? Or a reduction in energy?'

Zhou Bai didn't know the structure and principle behind the Heavenly Demon's body, but that didn't stop him from going all out in his attacks.

The battle quickly turned into a one-sided offensive, where Xu Dela couldn't touch Zhou Bai, but Zhou Bai could attack Xu Dela at will.

As large pieces of the metallic body continuously shattered, enlightenment flashed through Xu Dela's mind. "This guy deliberately lured me into this confined space, then took advantage of his ability to deprive me of sight to attack me."

However, although Xu Dela had lost the ability to observe his surroundings due to the effects of the disaster, he couldn't see the words Zhou Bai was writing, and after the duration ended, he escaped the influence of the impoverishing disaster.

"This damn pig! Watch me kill you! Do you really think I have no way to kill you?" Unable to attack Zhou Bai, Xu Dela decided to activate his self-destruct sequence, attempting to blow Zhou Bai to ashes.

But Zhou Bai's gaze sparkled, thinking to himself, 'The Heavenly Demon excels in suicidal attacks. Will he choose a suicidal attack when he completely cannot detect my position or attack me? Is it an indiscriminate area attack, or something more intense like self-destruct?'

Looking at the black lotus beneath the Catastrophe Primordial Spirit within his Sea of Consciousness, he actually hoped the opponent would launch a suicidal attack.

Just then, a command was directly input into Xu Dela's body, halting his actions.

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In front of the screen, Xiao Pei watched the mosaic on the monitor with a face full of surprise and doubt, her mind constantly replaying the recent battle between Zhou Bai and Xu Dela.

Preferring bare-chested and barefoot combat, always crawling to move about, those strangely twisted characters, the sudden appearance of the mosaic, even the cameras only captured mosaics...

Beside her, Wei Cang from the Evil Sect was also contemplating these things, his surprise growing the more he thought. "With my decades of experience studying distortion and mutation, I judge that Zhou Bai is 99 percent mutated.

Heh, he can even affect the mechanical body of the Heavenly Demon, and his abilities have caused the cameras to respond; his powers are not based on the Dao at all but are directly derived from the Heavenly Dao, the power of the void."

"Mutated?" Xuan Nu expressed her doubts. "But mutants shouldn't have such a high intellect, nor retain their human appearance so perfectly."

"Would a normal person take off their clothes and fight on the ceiling?" Wei Cang said with a mix of anticipation and excitement. "Zhou Bai is obviously insane, obviously mutated, and possesses mutant abilities, only he's concealed it very well, and many people haven't noticed."

Zhou Bai's identity had been confirmed by the Heavenly Demon faction earlier, and that was why a Level 7, Xu Dela, was dispatched to capture him.

Listening to Wei Cang analyze it this way, Xuan Nu also grew more convinced Zhou Bai was likely mutated. "He's retained his intelligence and appearance from before his mutation?"

"It's rare, but not impossible," Wei Cang said. "If we could understand the process of his mutation, it would be of great help to our research. He would be our best experimental material."

Xuan Nu shook her head. "No, if he is truly a mutant, then he's not experimental material, he's a fellow being. We should try to win him over, make him understand who his true enemies are."