Calamity of Tomorrow-Chapter 1164 - 1162: The Invincible Mind
Zhou Bai worked hard to digest his gains and looked at the Supreme Heavenly Venerate, saying, "Do you think Xiang Tiandi is so easy to consume? Inside his body, I've left a Longevity Dao Fruit. Eating the Longevity Dao Fruit makes you my subject."
After all, Zhou Bai merely wanted to stall for time; he did not explain the specific details within.
But Christina in the Sea of Consciousness was clear from start to finish.
"The Supreme Heavenly Venerate eating Xiang Tiandi means he's consumed Zhou Bai's Seed of Madness."
"But even with the Seed of Madness, it requires trust, having a lower IQ than Zhou Bai, fearing or worshipping Zhou Bai. Fulfilling any one of these four conditions establishes the subject relationship, afterwards, the angel envoy connection can be initiated, and abilities can be freely shared with the Supreme."
"After Zhou Bai started fighting with the Supreme Heavenly Venerate, he methodically deployed various resources and step by step planned attacks against the Supreme. It was both to test whether he could truly kill the Supreme and, in the process, constantly build within the Supreme Heavenly Venerate an invincible heart."
Listening to Christina's analysis, Elsa nodded: "Sister Tina, is your IQ still online when you're analyzing battles?"
Christina snorted, "My IQ is always online."
Elsa asked perplexedly, "But why does Zhou Bai want to help the Supreme Heavenly Venerate establish an invincible heart?"
"For the word 'trust,'" Christina said. "To establish a subject relationship, the IQ requirement clearly cannot be met, and fear or worship are even more impossible."
"The only possibility is trust."
"But having someone like the Supreme Heavenly Venerate directly trust Zhou Bai is also impossible; such a person would only trust themselves."
"So Zhou Bai went along to help him build an invincible heart, letting him trust himself. After repeatedly destroying Zhou Bai's plans, repelling the Demon Saint, and obtaining the Past Gemstone, he would completely believe himself to be invincible."
"Only when he completely believes himself invincible does he let down his guard and believe Zhou Bai has surrendered to him."
Elsa asked again, "Then wouldn't the Supreme Heavenly Venerate use the Foolishness Scripture's ability to test Zhou Bai's lies?"
Christina said, "That's why it's not really a lie. For Zhou Bai and the Supreme, who can forcibly alter their own thoughts to evade foreknowledge detection, changing one's mind is all too easy."
"And what truly deceived the Supreme, what truly tricked him, was his own invincible heart."
"At the moment he believes himself truly invincible, when he thinks the entire universe should submit under his invincible self, that's the moment he believes Zhou Bai would surrender, and it also marks his defeat."
"Moreover, during the battle between the Supreme and Zhou Bai, due to the presence of Anger, a significant amount of Lazy Energy was provided to Zhou Bai."
"As long as there's a brief moment for the Supreme to believe Zhou Bai, Zhou Bai can temporarily turn the Supreme into a subject, extracting knowledge from the Supreme... This will greatly enhance Zhou Bai's strength."
As the conversation continued, as Zhou Bai's condition improved, utilizing the knowledge extraction ability of the subjects and the terrifying aptitude after the Ugly Calamity was enacted, he had gradually absorbed the knowledge extracted from the Supreme, especially with the addition of the "Purple Mansion Secret Scroll" invented by the Spiritual People for the Heavenly Yan Beast bloodline.
At this moment, Zhou Bai gained a new understanding and mastery of the Heavenly Dao.
This kind of Heavenly Dao realm, similar to the degree of Taoization, has the characteristics of the Immortal Dao system, able to instantly enhance... instantly comprehend... instantly increase strength.
Understanding and not understanding, strength and weakness, under the influence of the Heavenly Dao, can all be a matter of an instant.
Christina also suddenly transformed in the Sea of Consciousness, turning into the appearance of Big Yellow.
Zhou Bai and Big Yellow simultaneously began casting Taoist spells, and sensing extreme danger, the Supreme Heavenly Venerate directly activated Time Pause, instantly departing from Earth and retreating into the universe.
'Situation unclear, temporary retreat.' The Supreme Heavenly Venerate's eyes suddenly brightened, looking at the Past Gemstone in his hand, immediately wanting to activate its power to return to the past. But...
"Failed? This gemstone... has been used!" Murderous intent filled the Supreme Heavenly Venerate's eyes: "That guy Zhou Bai... has reversed time once? So he knew I'd consume Xiang Tiandi?!"
Just then, when time returned to normal, the gemstone in the Supreme Heavenly Venerate's hand suddenly burst with rays of light, transforming into a pitch-black Void Gate appearing before him.
At this moment, the Supreme Heavenly Venerate finally understood Zhou Bai's goal.
"He collected the remaining hexagrams on Earth... activated the gemstone's hexagram power... to open the path to the Heavenly Dao Gate."
"He intends to drive me... out of the Material World!"
The Supreme Heavenly Venerate struggled against the suction from the Void Gate: 'I can't go in... otherwise, with my current breakthrough state... I'd be unable to return like the Demon Saint.'
At this moment, the Supreme Heavenly Venerate finally understood why Zhou Bai would proactively assist him in breaking through; he hoped he would never return to the Material World.
'Zhou Bai never intended to kill me; he just wants to drive me away! To send me to the Heavenly Dao Gate, to the Demon Saint's side!'
However, the Supreme Heavenly Venerate tried hard to resist the pull from the Void Gate, feeling it wasn't entirely irresistible.
'That's right, Zhou Bai hasn't collected all sixty-four hexagrams of the Past Gemstone; this gate is incomplete. As long as I keep resisting...' 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺
With a booming crash! Just as the Supreme Heavenly Venerate was thinking this, a hand suddenly pressed firmly on his head, forcefully pushing him toward the Void Gate.
"Zhou Bai!" The Supreme Heavenly Venerate gritted his teeth as he looked at Zhou Bai before him. Seeing the familiar realm glistening with Zi Wei's Daoist celestial light, he exclaimed, "You've mastered my Daoist skills?!"
"Supreme," Zhou Bai stared into the opponent's eyes and said, "Do you know why you lost?"
"I haven't lost!" The Supreme Heavenly Venerate roared, resisting Zhou Bai's pressure bit by bit, trying to distance himself from the Void Gate behind him, "I am invincible! How could I possibly lose!"
"You lost because you thought you had transcended nationality, transcended civilization."
Zhou Bai let out a cold snort, exploding with the Heavenly Dao realm that rivaled the Supreme's after experiencing the Nine Calamities of Heaven and Man. The celestial Dao, demon, and Power of Deformation within him perfectly unified, exerting a power similar to that of the Supreme Heavenly Venerate, with the twisting power of the Heavenly Dao acting directly upon the Material World within.
"Whether it's your Daoist skills, my Nine Calamities of Heaven and Man, or even the sixty-four hexagrams, the three great gemstones, they all stem from the efforts of civilization over generations, from the pursuits of successive generations of people."
In the vacuum of the universe, two peerless titans each unleashed their full might. However, at this moment, the Supreme Heavenly Venerate was being restrained by the Void Gate opened by the gemstone's power. Facing the ever-escalating realm of Zhou Bai, he was still being pushed inch by inch toward the gate.
"You inherited the achievements of civilization, yet you deluded yourself into thinking you had transcended civilization."
"Everything you have was created and passed down by those generations you deemed as ants."
As Zhou Bai recalled his battle with the Supreme Heavenly Venerate, he realized that without the collective effort of all humanity, there was no way he could have defeated the Supreme on his own.
With a thunderous crash, the lower half of the Supreme Heavenly Venerate's body was completely engulfed by the Void Gate.
Zhou Bai said, "Supreme... today you didn't lose to me, but to all of humanity, to the race you scorned, to the civilization you sought to transcend."
Under the compound psychological blows, especially with the effect of Anger Chart, rage surged uncontrollably in the heart of the Supreme Heavenly Venerate.
The Supreme Heavenly Venerate roared, "I have not lost..."
Boom! Accompanied by the simultaneous extension of the twisted shadow and deformed shadow's hands, they directly pressed against his head.
Before he could finish speaking, his entire head was directly squashed down, ultimately pressed beneath Zhou Bai's foot.
"You lost, Supreme."
Even the Demon Saint had never trampled him this way. Such a disgrace instantly ignited the boundless rage of the Supreme Heavenly Venerate. He struggled fiercely, but with half of his body already engulfed by the Void Gate, he was powerless to withstand the strength of the three Zhou Bais.
"Zhou Bai!"
In the furious gaze of the Supreme Heavenly Venerate, Zhou Bai stomped on his face, directly crushing him completely into the Void Gate.
Just as the gemstone from the past was about to follow the Supreme Heavenly Venerate into the gate, Zhou Bai intercepted it with his hand and directly collected it in his grasp.
Ah!!!!!!
When the Supreme Heavenly Venerate angrily realized what had happened, he found himself before a pure white gate.
"This is... the Gate of the Heavenly Dao."
"No, I must go back."
"I have so much left to do."
"I must return to the Void Dao Palace... Yes, as long as I use Ji Wufan's method to replace myself with another..."
Just as the Supreme Heavenly Venerate was applying Divine Skills, making every effort to leave this place, a voice sounded.
"Supreme, you've arrived?"
In front of the Gate of the Heavenly Dao, the Demon Saint smiled at the Supreme Heavenly Venerate and said, "Between the two of us, who do you think will get out?"
An extreme sense of danger suddenly surfaced in the heart of the Supreme Heavenly Venerate. He looked toward the hand of the Demon Saint, his pupils drastically contracting.
The Supreme Heavenly Venerate incredulously said, "The Future Unlimited Stone? In your hand?"
The Demon Saint smiled, looked at the gemstone in his hand, and with a grasp, collected all the Instant Stones the Supreme Heavenly Venerate had brought: "This one I better hold on to."
The Supreme Heavenly Venerate stared at the Demon Saint intently, "You orchestrated this... You used the Future Unlimited Stone to plan for me to reach this realm... You wanted to replace me with yourself to enter the Gate of the Heavenly Dao and return to the Material World yourself? Just like Ji Wufan once did?"
"Yes, Qian Wangsun's foreknowledge was secretly enhanced by you, wasn't it? Otherwise, he couldn't have reached that level..."
"No... You kept me alive all this time, without killing me, just to replace you today!"
Thinking of these things made the Supreme Heavenly Venerate feel a chill in his heart, as the Future Unlimited Stone held by the Demon Saint became increasingly dazzling in his eyes.
The Demon Saint nonchalantly said, "I told you it's future unlimited, whether it's you or Zhou Bai who comes in makes no difference. I originally thought he would be the one to come in last, but didn't expect it to be your loss."
