Calamity of Tomorrow-Chapter 283: Conversation between 282 and Jiaojiao

"Oh? Dr. Zhuang was also a student at Dao School in East China?" asked Zhou Bai curiously. "He has always been at the 0th realm, how come he wasn’t expelled?"

Jiaojiao replied, "Although he was at the 0th realm, he was making progress during every evaluation. The Dao School expels students who do not show long-term progress, not students at the 0th realm."

Zhou Bai asked, "Always making progress? In what way? Hasn’t his cultivation level always been at the 0th realm?"

Jiaojiao explained, "Indeed, there was hardly any improvement in his Dao Conversion Degree or Primordial Spirit strength. However, his theoretical understanding of cultivation was rapidly improving. He had a strong aptitude for learning the theories behind arrays, runes, and magical instruments and could even assist the teachers in various research projects at many times.

Thus, until he graduated, he was not expelled and was instead nurtured as a purely theoretical researcher."

At this point, Jiaojiao shook her head somewhat unexpectedly, "I didn’t expect that after his graduation, he would secretly conduct so much research and even combine it with past technological methods, including studying original Daoist scriptures."

Zhou Bai had just told Jiaojiao all about Dr. Zhuang’s various research projects, including those on Primordial Spirit adjustment, cloning, original Daoist scriptures, and the leads on Christina.

Seeing Jiaojiao’s current expression, she apparently had no idea that Dr. Zhuang’s research had progressed so deeply.

Jiaojiao stated, "Banning certain scientific technologies happened before I was born.

It is said that before the appearance of the Heavenly Demon, humans not only cultivated but also invented and created a large number of scientific creations to develop society and combat strong enemies."

"But in terms of technology, the Heavenly Demon was far superior to both the current and past humans."

"The technological weapons created by humans not only failed to help in combating the Heavenly Demon but were continuously exploited by the Heavenly Demon, causing the humans at the time to retreat repeatedly."

"Thus, there was a decision to ban most of past scientific technology while preserving some that couldn’t be utilized by the Heavenly Demon, then to fully develop Daoist technologies."

Jiaojiao pondered, "In the process of Primordial Spirit adjustment too, this chain of thought continued. By means of human selection, adjustments were made to the Primordial Spirits from birth.

Making newborns inherently averse to past scientific technologies, while having strong expectations and affection towards present cultivation, and even enhancing some of their innate cultivation talents."

"The distortion of Heavenly Dao is becoming more severe every year," said Jiaojiao. "Later, when the development and widespread promotion of Primordial Spirit adjustments were happening, I was still in a deep sleep to suppress distortions and knew very little about the details—only a rough understanding."

Zhou Bai nodded and thought to himself that this was indeed the case.

During his time at school, he could feel that his fellow students were not interested in scientific knowledge like physics, chemistry, or even circuits and mechanics; they were fully devoted to cultivation.

Dr. Zhuang’s notes also confirmed this, high-level authorities were discreetly banning scientific technology, replacing it with Daoist technologies.

But Zhou Bai still had questions.

After all, past scientific knowledge and present cultivation knowledge are both merely technologies, forms of understanding the universe and applying the laws of the world.

Just like using gas for fire or using spiritual mechanisms for fire—they are all applications of the world’s rules.

Even in Zhou Bai’s view, all elements of scientific technology could be incorporated into Daoist technology and explained using Daoist methods.

Conversely, all elements of Daoist technology could also be incorporated into scientific technology, such that if scientific technology were strong enough, it could entirely explain and interpret Daoist technology.

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"Whether it’s Daoist or scientific, neither is objectively existing and divided by nature; they are purely human definitions," Zhou Bai thought to himself. "Perhaps the creations of scientific technology could be exploited by the Heavenly Demon, but knowledge itself should not have the possibility of being used, right? Why then should it also be banned?"

However, these matters were too profound; Zhou Bai’s main purpose today was still about the intelligence on the Primordial Dao Scriptures, so he continued to ask, "Elder, do you think Dr. Zhuang’s research is credible?"

Zhou Bai asked, "He said that humans who cultivate the Primordial Dao Scriptures now will become stronger, and there isn’t even the risk of deformation?"

Jiaojiao shook her head, "I haven’t seen the Primordial Dao Scriptures, so naturally I can’t be one hundred percent sure if there’s a problem or not. But Dr. Zhuang Yan’s research on the Primordial Dao Scriptures and the results my master and the others obtained are different, there must be some deviation between the two." With that, Jiaojiao looked at Zhou Bai earnestly, "Zhou Bai, you’ve asked so much, have you cultivated the Primordial Dao Scriptures?"

Since there was Time Reverse, Zhou Bai simply nodded, "I used the Primordial Dao Scriptures 01 and Primordial Dao Scriptures 02 that I found in the hospital for cultivation and quickly broke through to the second realm. But when I next used the Dao Scriptures from the school for cultivation, I found they conflicted, and I felt a risk of deformation whenever I cultivated."

Jiaojiao sighed, "Zhou Bai!! You’re too impulsive, how could you just randomly choose to cultivate the Primordial Dao Scriptures? Where are the Primordial Dao Scriptures 01 and 02? Bring them to me so I can study them and see exactly what the problem is."

Zhou Bai responded, "Uh… after I finished cultivating, they just suddenly disappeared." He obviously couldn’t reveal the existence of the system used for lazing around by selling them, so he just made up an excuse.

Jiaojiao exclaimed, "Suddenly disappeared? That’s really something."

Zhou Bai added, "But I know where the Primordial Dao Scriptures 03 are, I want to go and get them back."

Jiaojiao’s eyes immediately lit up; naturally, she was very interested in the Primordial Dao Scriptures that were long confiscated and sealed by Heavenly Court, especially since the research results of Dr. Zhuang Yan and the True Real Person Qingfeng were different. It piqued Jiaojiao’s curiosity even more.

She didn’t need to cultivate the Primordial Dao Scriptures, just understanding the deformations and understanding Heavenly Dao through the Primordial Dao Scriptures might greatly benefit her cultivation, perhaps even help suppress her own deformation conditions.

Jiaojiao said, "Why search by yourself? Let us help you find it and study your situation to see what can be done…"

Zhou Bai estimated the time; he knew if they really discussed how to find the Primordial Dao Scriptures 03, which personnel the school would deploy, whether he would go or not, it would definitely exceed the Time Reverse limit.

So after understanding Jiaojiao’s stance, he immediately interrupted her and presented a question he had long wanted to probe.

Zhou Bai asked, "Elder, do you know Christina? Elder Sun once told me that I might be a descendant of Christina’s bloodline."

Jiaojiao inquired, "What are you trying to say?"

Zhou Bai revealed, "Actually… Christina is still alive."

Jiaojiao showed a look of surprise, "What? Where is she?"

Then Zhou Bai’s consciousness returned to the real world, ready to summon Christina from within his sea of consciousness.

Every time he came to meet the elder, Christina, who hid behind the Tianren Nine Calamities Divine Map in Zhou Bai’s mind, at his repeated urging, cautiously emerged from his sea of consciousness and hopped onto Zhou Bai’s head.

Zhou Bai said, "Elder, look, Christina has been in my sea of consciousness all along, she seems to have transformed into a very strange state. Do you know what happened?"

Christina, lying in front of Zhou Bai, nervously curled her tail around her body and her pupils dilated unconsciously, anxiously watching the vast expanse of flesh and blood before her.

Seeing Christina’s appearance, Jiaojiao was silent for a while, then her Primordial Spirit power swept towards Christina, "Christina? Is that really you? How did you turn into this, and even avoided mine and my junior brother’s previous probes?"

Zhou Bai thought that all these were thanks to the auxiliary cultivation system, which seemed quite reliable as it could shield a lot of covert probes into his sea of consciousness.

However, when the Primordial Spirit power truly swept over Christina’s body, Jiaojiao exploded in anger, "Abomination! How dare you… How dare you do this?!"

With a soft plop, a horrifying pressure came crashing down like a mountain from the air, Zhou Bai almost felt as if the force was as heavy as a mountain—his proud physical body, his Primordial Spirit, all felt so fragile in front of this power.

Both Christina and Zhou Bai, like a block of tofu, were suddenly crushed, scattering into a sky of blood and flesh.