When Li Xiuzhu came back to his senses again, he found that he had already been captured by Zhou Bai to a no-man's land several kilometers outside of Donghua City, the entire process taking only an instant.

The terrifying acceleration caused his flesh to suffer heavy damage, internal bleeding occurred, and with a puff, he spat out a mouthful of blood.

However, in the next moment, accompanied by the power of Ying Long's bloodline, his body rapidly healed.

Li Xiuzhu looked at Zhou Bai incredulously: 'What happened to him?'

And Zhou Bai looked towards the horizon outside the city, leaving only a silhouette for Li Xiuzhu.

Li Xiuzhu was slightly stunned, then quickly understood, seeing the blood on the ground and feeling the rapidly healing body inside, he thought to himself: 'Was that just... to take me along for the ride?'

At the same time, accompanied by rumbling sounds, a storm was coming from the west, sweeping through Yun Kong, raising countless smoke and dust, heading for Donghua City with a sky-devouring momentum.

As if an unprecedented sandstorm was about to cover the entire Donghua City, the spread directly exceeded the horizon, and one couldn't see the end at a glance.

Seeing this, Li Xiuzhu frowned, while Zhou Bai said: "Before coming to Donghua City, I was fighting with immortals in Central City, most gods have been repelled by me, only the Supreme Heavenly Venerate's whereabouts are unknown, which is the greatest threat at the moment."

Li Xiuzhu instinctively found it hard to believe as such matters greatly challenge contemporary common knowledge.

Yet Zhou Bai continued: "I just sensed an anomaly outside the city and thought it was something. Now thinking carefully, this storm should be the aftermath of my previous fight with the gods, directly radiating a thousand miles, affecting Donghua City here."

"With Donghua City's grand array, such an aftermath can at most alter celestial phenomena and won't harm the city inside a bit."

"But since it has to do with me, I think I'd better deal with it myself to avoid causing panic within the city, which is never good."

As he spoke, Zhou Bai had already soared into the sky, proactively facing the storm that obscured the sun.

In the next moment, limitless light brightened from Zhou Bai's fingertips, the brilliance of the Genesis Star River shattered the firmament, transforming into a mighty torrent striking the storm, holding it off outside Donghua City.

Zhou Bai returned to his original position, looking at Li Xiuzhu, and said lightly: "Sect Hierarch, I have surpassed you."

Before him, Zhou Bai clad in black armor, his figure reflected under the endless brilliance in the sky, his aura elevated wave after wave, pressing towards Li Xiuzhu.

Li Xiuzhu, however, looked at Zhou Bai without retreating: "Indeed, in terms of combat power, you have completely surpassed me."

At this moment, Zhou Bai appeared greatly threatening in Li Xiuzhu's eyes, possessing such individual might yet wanting to control humans through mental means, altering human thoughts and wills, even transforming some into aberrant beings.

In Li Xiuzhu's eyes, Zhou Bai's level of danger has even surpassed Heavenly Demons, Celestials, Devils, becoming the greatest threat to mankind.

Zhou Bai of course knew the resilience of Li Xiuzhu's spiritual intent. Back then, the gap between him and the Celestial Court was larger than the one between the two of them now, yet Li Xiuzhu never gave up, so today he naturally wouldn't purely yield under Zhou Bai's force.

"I'm not trying to make you yield with force." Zhou Bai said: "I just want you to know, I already have the power to change the world, I want to make this world a bit more peaceful."

Li Xiuzhu: "By what means? By the Original Sect? Let them worship you! Fear you! Spend a huge amount of time lying on the ground? And then transform into aberrant beings? This absolutely should not be humanity's future."

Zhou Bai furrowed his brows: "Aberrant beings?"

Li Xiuzhu shouted: "Don't you know how many people have already been transformed into aberrant beings by your Original Sect beneath Donghua City? You've molded yourself into a god, letting humanity worship you, letting their survival depend entirely on you!"

Zhou Bai furrowed his brows, opened his mouth, and using Elsa's ability, spat out a spare Void Crown, commanding the mechanical familiars within Donghua City to start searching for strongholds, filming videos.

Then he turned to look at Li Xiuzhu: "Becoming aberrant beings was not my intention, there might have been some misunderstandings in between. I wish to use my ability to let all mortals escape the suffering of madness and distortion."

Li Xiuzhu: "Even if they have to worship you? Depend on you every moment? Have their mortal fate in your thoughts?"

"Zhou Bai, no matter how solemn your words might be at this moment, no matter whether you truly wish to do as you say, the life and death fate, the future of humanity must not be decided within the consciousness of an individual life."

"Letting you alone decide everyone's life and death? Everyone's future?"

Zhou Bai said: "I just want the world to be a bit more peaceful, I wouldn't randomly sacrifice mortals, enslave mortals…"

Li Xiuzhu: "If someone defies your orders, would you forgive them?"

"If your relatives, friends made mistakes, would you punish them?"

"If Donghua City becomes the new Celestial Court, would you annihilate everyone in the city?"

"Zhou Bai, once you become the sole strongest in the world and possess prolonged life, once you yourself become the sole force of judgment in the world yet maintain individuality... you yourself will become the emblem of injustice, your existence will lead to the aberration of the entire society."

"Everything will revolve around you, without the need for you to intervene, just being related to you will form an unbeatable, eternal new class until your death."

Zhou Bai: "Once peace is achieved in the world, I will retire in triumph, I have no interest in influencing this world, even less in ruling or managing it."

Li Xiuzhu: "Who can guarantee that?"

A deathly silence fell upon the two of them, the conversation seemed to have completely reached a dead end.

Li Xiuzhu's figure flashed, intending to leave Donghua City, but was stopped by Zhou Bai stretching out his hand.

Zhou Bai said with a chilling tone: "Stop the Sky Flipping Sect's plan, with me here, mortals don't need to become demons."

Li Xiuzhu said coldly: "All those cultivating the Heavenly Demon Ten Transformations have done so voluntarily, Qian Wangsun and I are still improving its success rate.

Mortals can rely on themselves to fight against madness and distortion, can rely on aberration weapons to fight the gods, we don't need to join the Original Sect, don't need to hand over life and will to another person's hands."

Zhou Bai squeezed Li Xiuzhu's neck, their eyes clashing, Zhou Bai shouted: "Why are you so stubborn? There's clearly a lighter, simpler way, just follow what I say and I'll bring peace to the whole world, why do you need so many mortals to sacrifice?"