Calamity of Tomorrow

Ji: "The God Emperor Haotian, he's using his clones to block asteroids. He has calculated the trajectory of the asteroids and has teleported his clones there."

Ai: "He even dares to try, with his own strength, to battle against twelve Heavenly Demon kings at the same time."

Ji: "He's definitely powerless to attend to the affairs of Central City now. The Supreme Heavenly Venerate and the God Emperor Haotian have temporarily held back our twelve Heavenly Demon kings and the bombardment of nine billion Heavenly Demons. But that also means we've held them back."

"And they don't know that there are now more than twelve Heavenly Demon kings."

"The assault unit is maintaining the teleportation formation, ready to depart."

Within the Heavenly Demon king's continental-like body, a metal sealed space emerged, accompanied by layer upon layer of protective plates opening, a small music box was elevated from within.

The twentieth hexagram, the teleportation portal activated!

A pitch-black vortex opened in space and expanded rapidly, transforming into a supermassive vortex with a radius of several hundred meters in the blink of an eye, and still expanding.

This was the twentieth hexagram that Xing Jun had found, a teleportation portal that could be used only once a year, which had been opened on a small scale in Donghua City a year ago to rescue Xiao Pei.

But the teleportation portal that had swallowed only Xiao Pei was completely incomparable to the gigantic portal before their eyes.

The immense vortex before them could allow a Heavenly Demon army to pass through.

In front of the vortex, countless Heavenly Demons compressed their bodies to the size of trucks and lined up neatly.

Among them was Xu Dela, who had battled with Professor Zhou Bai several times before, and surrounding him were hundreds more great Heavenly Demons who had also compressed their bodies, waiting to enter the teleportation portal.

Xu Dela watched the God Emperor Haotian, hundreds of miles away, fighting fiercely with three Heavenly Demon kings, and thought in astonishment, "Is this the God Emperor Haotian? He has actually charged here alone."

He then glanced at the forefront of the team, where three giants over ten meters tall stood, which were the specially-constructed Mechas controlled by three Heavenly Demon kings who were also about to enter the portal with them.

Xu Dela mused, 'The colossal bodies of the Heavenly Demon kings themselves are superweapons factories, and the specially-constructed Mechas they control are superweapons that integrate the most cutting-edge technology of the Heavenly Demons.

With the technological level and resources of the Heavenly Demons, each Heavenly Demon king has only produced one.

This time, to capture Zhou Bai, they've gathered such an enormous force of Heavenly Demons.'

Thinking of Zhou Bai, Xu Dela recalled the many times he had clashed with Zhou Bai, and a surge of fury rose within him, "Hmph... the Heavenly Demon Empress has personally ordered it, and thirteen Heavenly Demon kings are gathered. There's no way Zhou Bai is escaping this time."

Ji commanded, "Remember, your mission this time is to create chaos and capture Zhou Bai. Under no circumstances should you harm his life, nor should you do anything superfluous."

The next moment, battalions of great Heavenly Demons rushed into the teleportation portal, descending into Central City.

Upon arriving inside Central City, Xu Dela immediately began to expand his body, rapidly proliferating and swelling from a ten-plus-meter-long giant snake into countless hundred-meter-long serpents intertwined together, collectively stretching over a kilometer in length.

At the same time, one after another, great Heavenly Demons beside him started to stretch out their bodies, transforming into colossal monsters over a kilometer long.

While the Heavenly Demons were transforming, a massive bolt of lightning struck from the sky, turning into a heaven-piercing thunder blade that cleaved a great Heavenly Demon in two.

Xiang Tiandi, wielding a long blade forged from thunder, commanded countless Thunder Dragons to surge and attack within a thousand-meter radius.

"Heavenly Demon! Meet your doom!"

Throughout Central City, the four Righteous Gods and the Immortals of Wanxian Island were already providing support everywhere, killing Heavenly Demons along with human cultivators.

On the arena of the Daluo Heaven debate, celestial figures like Tianyangzi, Zi Yang True Monarch, and Greedy Wolf True Monarch, who had been atop the high platform, had now vanished—they had gone to assist the cultivators at various locations in Central City.

...

From the competitors' stand, Tu Tianmo observed the sudden turn of events and exclaimed in shock, "The Heavenly Demons are attacking the city?"

He looked at the evacuating crowd and nodded, "Only the weak need to hide in such a grand battle between the Heavenly Demons and the Celestial Court."

"Clearly, I am such a weakling."

Saying so, he dashed towards the queue of civilians evacuating, intending to seek refuge with the others in a safety facility.

But he had barely taken a few steps when Xiang Haocu caught him by his nape, a look of exasperation on his face.

Tu Tianmo turned around and said, "Why are you grabbing me? Xiang Haocu, a man must be self-aware. We might be decently strong among mortals, but facing the real Heavenly Demon wars, we're just high-level cannon fodder. Let's hurry and find a place to hide."

Xiang Haocu sighed and glanced to the side, Tu Tianmo followed his gaze and saw that Ming Yue the Immortal, unbeknownst to them, was already standing by Zhou Bai's side, giving Tu Tianmo a glance but not saying anything.

However, when Ming Yue looked at Zhou Bai, her previously stern face underwent a complete transformation; she looked at Zhou Bai with gentle eyes and softly said, "Zhou Bai, the Heavenly Demons are besieging the city. The Supreme Heavenly Venerate said that this time the Heavenly Demons have deployed nearly ten billion soldiers, with twelve Heavenly Demon Kings arriving together—it's too dangerous. Let me take you to a safe place."

"Safe? I don't need safety," Zhou Bai shook his head and said, "If you want to help, then please take Teacher Ying Hui and Zheng Wentian to a safe place instead..."

As he spoke, he grinned, revealing a cruel expression, "I'm going to kill Heavenly Demons."

He caressed the Sovereign's Sword in his hand. With his current strength, once he accumulated all the blue fate energy to augment the Nine Calamities of Heaven and Man, added to the power of the Sovereign's Sword, he was sure to be unstoppable on the battlefield, so long as he didn't run into any Heavenly Demon Kings.

On the contrary, slaughtering Heavenly Demons along the way, selling them, and harvesting their fate energy was a shortcut to increasing his own power.

Ming Yue reached out and grabbed, and Ying Hui, Yun Chonghe, and Zheng Wentian on the stands were already pulled over through the air by her Primordial Spirit's power. Yun Chonghe clung tightly to the Sword Box, poised as if ready to awaken the elder of the Heavenly Sword at any moment.

Ming Yue cast a glance at the three men, then continued to persuade Zhou Bai in a soft voice, "Zhou Bai, take whomever you like with you, but don't go onto the battlefield. You're being watched by far too many people, and this time the Heavenly Demons are going all out. Who knows what else they have up their sleeve, and you... you have great potential. It shouldn't be wasted in a place like this."

Zhou Bai looked at Ming Yue and said, "Actually, I've always had a dream."

Ming Yue: "Ah?"

Zhou Bai: "My dream is to sit on the world's strongest throne forever, without any effort."

Ming Yue: "..."

Tu Tianmo: "..."

Xiang Haocu: "..."

Yun Chonghe: "..."

Zheng Wentian thought to himself, 'I share that dream.'

Zhou Bai went on to say, "But to achieve this dream isn't something you can do by just casually cultivating each day, or by staying safe and sound in a sheltered place. It requires countless life-and-death trials, and fighting with all your might over and over again..."

Ming Yue couldn't be bothered to listen any longer and scooped Zhou Bai into her arms, "Enough, just come with me. Going to fight the Heavenly Demons? Too dangerous, don't even think about it."

Seeing their intent to leave, Tu Tianmo immediately shouted, "Ming Yue Immortal! Take me with you, won't you? I'm the son of a ghoul slayer."

Ming Yue ignored him, taking hold of Zhou Bai, Ying Hui, Yun Chonghe, and Zheng Wentian, and started walking away.

Zhou Bai suddenly said, "Why not take them with us?"

Christina said, "Why should we take them?"

Zhou Bai: "I just spent too much laziness value, having a few more people is like having additional laziness points."

Ming Yue looked at Zhou Bai with fondness and said, "Alright, as you wish." With that, her long sleeves swept up a sweeping force of Primordial Spirit, taking Tu Tianmo, Xiang Haocu, and Zhao Yue with them.

Not far away, a figure on the stands watched Ming Yue's retreating back and thought, 'This Heavenly Demon siege is indeed an opportunity. The Divine Emperor has instructed me to follow Zhou Bai, saying he would arrange a chance for me to capture him. So, I'll just follow from a distance for now.'