Calamity of Tomorrow-Chapter 1033 - 1031: Delay and Observation

"No, we can't let him continue." Zuo Dao frowned and said, "Otherwise, before Zhou Bai arrives, we might get caught by this guy."

Christina stood beside him, and upon hearing this, exclaimed, "What are you planning? Xiang Tiandi or Tu Guishen and the others haven't recovered to such power at this moment. This Immortal is probably from Supreme Heaven, with extremely high cultivation. We'd be delivering ourselves to him."

"You stay here and wait for Zhou Bai, I'll go up." Zuo Dao clenched his fist and chuckled, "I'm the second genius among humans, with the world's strongest physique, even Supreme Heavenly Venerate couldn't break through my indestructible golden body. What can this small Immortal do to me?"

Christina couldn't help but mutter in her heart, "This guy's bragging is way too much. Supreme didn't fail to break your body, he was just in a hurry to leave, and didn't continue fighting you."

"The opponent isn't Supreme, I can hold on for a few minutes without any problem."

Thinking about the might of his Xu Mi Miao Gao Dharma Body, Zuo Dao felt a bit more confident. He donned the Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor, left Christina in the city, and soared towards the position of Dutian Great Spirit Officer.

He shouted at the opponent, "Who's trying to catch me?"

Knowing he lacked offensive measures, Zuo Dao wasted no effort and directly taunted Dutian Great Spirit Officer, "I, Zhou Bai, have traversed the world undefeated, never having suffered a loss. Even when I contend with Supreme Heavenly Venerate, there's no winner. Do you think you can catch me?"

Christina watched from below, thinking to herself, "No wonder he's Zhou Bai's friend..."

Dutian Great Spirit Officer fixed his eyes on Zuo Dao, who was covered head-to-toe in the Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor sparkling with starry gleams. "So you're Zhou Bai? Definitely a madman."

Zuo Dao steadied himself in mid-air, and coldly said, "We can fight to find out if I'm arrogant. But I stand as an equal with Supreme, and won't bully a junior like you, so I'll let you take three moves first."

Upon hearing Zuo Dao's words, everyone present, whether Immortals or mortals, were stunned, and even Jiaojiao wanted to stop him.

The Immortals looked at Zhou Bai with eyes as if they were gazing at a naive fool.

Christina smacked her lips, muttering, "He's truly full of hot air."

The Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor voiced reluctantly, "No... can you let me down first, and handle it yourself later?"

"Quit the nonsense." Zuo Dao responded nervously, "Hold tight for me later!"

Faced with Zuo Dao's provocation, Dutian Great Spirit Officer acted immediately.

He didn't resort to any Taoist technique or use any magical artifact, not feeling the need to.

He casually wielded Primordial Spirit power, traversing space, and unwarrantedly enveloped Zuo Dao.

With a loud bang, Zuo Dao began rapidly retreating, tumbling over ten kilometers in mid-air until he collided with the spatial barrier created by the divide between two realms.

"Hmm?" Dutian Great Spirit Officer was momentarily surprised, intending that blow to knock out the opponent. Yet, the 'Zhou Bai' in front remained unscathed?

"Interesting."

With a casual gesture, Dutian Great Spirit Officer pointed, and the Primordial Spirit power wrapped around his finger transformed into a gentle breeze that swept by. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

A cracking noise resounded, as layers of air shattered surrounding him. Zuo Dao felt a force akin to the movement of day and night, the shift of stars, directly pressing down on him. His Primordial Spirit power dissipated almost instantly in face of this enormous force.

Boom!

The Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor was swiftly controlled by Dutian Great Spirit Officer's Primordial Spirit power, and Zuo Dao completely lost control over this powerful armor.

'The armor is quite decent.'

With a mere thought, Dutian Great Spirit Officer's Primordial Spirit power turned into countless thoughts, continuing to drill into Zuo Dao's body.

'Such a strong physique.' Dutian Great Spirit Officer frowned slightly, 'But the Primordial Spirit is too weak, no matter how strong the physique, it's useless.'

"Suppress!"

The next moment, Zuo Dao felt a surge of Primordial Spirit power, grand as the heavens, carrying an unstoppable momentum, invading his sea of consciousness.

Zuo Dao roared angrily, "Get out!"

Dutian Great Spirit Officer sensed a resistance coming forth, not from Zuo Dao's Primordial Spirit, but from the power of Xu Mi Miao Gao Dharma Body that instinctively rejected Dutian Great Spirit Officer's intrusion under Zuo Dao's control.

Seeing this, Dutian Great Spirit Officer decided not to brute-force, instead, he cleverly employed a dao technique known as Nightmare Demon Heart Snatching Technique.

It was as if between the collision of consciousnesses, Zuo Dao found himself swept into a vibrant dreamland.

Witnessing Zhou Bai being subdued in an instant, the elder member felt anxious, acknowledging the tremendous Divine Skill of this Dutian Great Spirit Officer, indeed invincible.

Yet next moment, he sensed the opponent had employed a dream-related dao technique to sweep away Zhou Bai's consciousness.

"Dream technique? What's he planning?" Jiaojiao realized this, gritted her teeth, performed hand gestures of Taoist incantations, promptly initiated the Zhao Family's secret Dream Heart Scripture, and her consciousness also entered Zuo Dao's dreamscape.

...

While chaos reigned in the Material World, Supreme Heaven remained serene.

The Haotian God Emperor and Supreme Heavenly Venerate strolled along the streets, like ordinary pedestrians surveying the local livelihood, healthcare, environment, etc., occasionally commenting, exchanging views.

Observing the ordinary people operating under harsh societal rules, rising, working, eating, sleeping as scheduled daily, like inconspicuous components.

Seeing how pitifully lacking entertainment was for these normal people, dedicating most of their life to work, only those who achieved success in their cultivation could indulge.

The Haotian God Emperor sighed, "Being a mortal here is inevitably dull, days from twenty to eighty years barely change."

Supreme Heavenly Venerate looked at a middle-aged man standing on a factory assembly line, repeatedly packing items, and said, "The oppressive force of the Heavenly Court here is too strong; mortals simply can't resist.

And as a society based on the Immortal Dao, although it may appear that the immortals and gods also work for mortals, in reality, everything is still fundamentally about cultivation and aptitude.

Cultivators with profound cultivation and formidable aptitude are like tigers with wings in this society, able to develop smoothly and swiftly.

But mortals with low cultivation and merely passable aptitude suffer terribly, always at the bottom of society with no hope of breaking out.

A whole hierarchy of societal layers has been separated out based on cultivation and aptitude, nearly all of which is determined at birth."

The two walked between courtyard walls, nothing—arrays, walls, or cultivators—could obstruct them, and even everyone who saw them would ignore them.

Looking at the students diligently studying in the Dao Academy, the Heavenly Emperor Haotian sighed, "Though Immortal Dao reigns supreme, and there are still many shortcomings, this Heavenly Court's efficiency already far surpasses my Heavenly Court.

But now that Li Zhengdao has allied with Golden Mother Primordial Lord, they might soon seize Supreme Heaven, and even with the power within Supreme Heaven, it would be quite troublesome for you to handle, wouldn't it? Won't you stop Li Zhengdao?"

Supreme Heavenly Venerate said blandly, "No worries, I can wait and see, as long as I am also within Supreme Heaven."

The Heavenly Emperor Haotian furrowed his brow slightly. If earlier the Supreme Heavenly Venerate would find various reasons to cover things up, the idly Supreme Heavenly Venerate could hardly bother to explain. Since entering Supreme Heaven, he wholly allowed Li Zhengdao's actions.

As they casually walked, their figures flickered, appearing in various corners across the continent, witnessing the diverse sceneries within Supreme Heaven.

Suddenly, in a flash, they arrived at a desolate, deathly street.

Heavenly Emperor Haotian: "This is where the Heavenly Court detains mixed-blood individuals, right?"

Supreme Heavenly Venerate's Primordial Spirit gently swept, instantly acquiring all the information here:

"Forbidden marriages, forbidden cultivation, forbidden martial practice, then kept in captivity, waiting for the mixed-bloods to naturally perish. This can be considered a cruel yet merciful plan."

Heavenly Emperor Haotian's gaze seemed to pierce through multiple prohibitive layers of courtyard walls, seeing inside a reception room kilometers away, where pure-blood spiritual people were allowed to visit the mixed-blood spiritual people detained there.

A pair of pure-blood and mixed-blood spouses embraced, pouring out their hearts to each other.

A pure-blooded mother looked at her mixed-blood son, tears silently falling, with no words exchanged.

A pure-blooded disciple rushed to see his mixed-blood master, telling him about the changes in the outside world.

Heavenly Emperor Haotian sighed, "It's also the only way, after years of living together, countless tangled relations between pure and mixed-bloods, if exterminated at once, chaos would ensue, disrupting the entire society's function, better to boil the frog slowly."

Simultaneously, the Heavenly Emperor Haotian's Primordial Spirit swept through several mortals' seas of consciousness, reviewing their memories.

Scenes of mutual discrimination, mutual opposition, mutual slaughter from the past appeared before his eyes.

A pure-blooded genius was envied and assassinated by mixed-blood people.

Mixed-blood individuals faced discrimination, bullying... eventually leading to suicide.

A mixed-blood genius worked hard for many years, cultivated to the eighth realm, but was directly captured due to a single edict, sparking intense resistance from him, and even his teachers, senior and junior brothers, and sisters all ran around to help.

Heavenly Emperor Haotian played with these memories, "Back then, the action to capture mixed-bloods within Supreme Heaven caused quite a mess."

Supreme Heavenly Venerate: "Naturally, mixed and pure-bloods are inherently at odds, with no possibility of coexistence, they used a swift cut to avoid the dire outcome that occurred outside."

Heavenly Emperor Haotian teasingly said, "Are you blaming me?"

Supreme Heavenly Venerate laughed, "Outside belongs to the demons, inside belongs to the spiritual people, let's see who develops better, isn't this the idea of the Demon Saint?"

Heavenly Emperor Haotian: "Master's thoughts are as wild as a celestial horse, unconventional yet unfathomable, relating to changes of the past and future, who can truly guess them completely."

Supreme Heavenly Venerate: "All these years, you and I have been restraining each other, you couldn't wipe out the Heavenly Demons, nor could I cleanse the mixed-bloods, it's quite laughable upon reflection."

Heavenly Emperor Haotian furrowed his brows, "What are you trying to say?"

Supreme Heavenly Venerate chuckled, "I can guess seventy percent of the Demon Saint's thoughts at most, but as for your thoughts, I have ninety percent certainty.

You let me into Supreme Heaven, while leaving your external forms of the Taihao Twelve True Tribulations, intending to seize this opportunity to sweep away the Heavenly Demons, right?"

Heavenly Emperor Haotian smiled, "I have no interest in the victory between you and Master, but some things… must begin and end well."

The two figures flickered, now simultaneously descending a thousand meters underground, inspecting the various soon-to-be-depleted heavenly materials and earthly treasures of this world, a sense of desolation overwhelming them.

Supreme Heavenly Venerate: "Sigh, this realm has already reached its limit."

Heavenly Emperor Haotian: "The Golden Mother Primordial Lord has unleashed an eternally ravenous wolf."

Supreme Heavenly Venerate looked up at the sky, "Why not take a look at this realm's Heavenly Court?"

Heavenly Emperor Haotian: "Just what I wanted, only hope they have preserved records with more news of extraterrestrial spiritual people."

Supreme Heavenly Venerate seemingly casually said, "If you want to annihilate the Heavenly Demons, I'm afraid those few calamity bodies alone may not be enough."

Heavenly Emperor Haotian frowned, "What did you leave for the Heavenly Demons?"

Supreme Heavenly Venerate laughed, "Are you afraid? The limit for spiritual people is the Heavenly Dao, but the limit for Heavenly Demons is still unknown."

"Letting them be, holds far greater significance than wiping them out."