Surrounded by countless whispers, numerous tentacle-like structures as tall as skyscrapers whipped up a foul wind as they shot straight toward Zhou Bai's location.

Before the tentacles even reached him, the violent airflow had already been compressed into air bullets, hurtling towards Zhou Bai with thunderous roars, like successive claps of thunder exploding in the sky.

Facing Jiaojiao's attack, Zhou Bai, holding the hand of the Dark Lady, vanished in a flicker along with her.

Christina asked in his mind, "Zhou Bai! What do you plan to do? Aren't you going to trigger Time Reverse?"

Zhou Bai suppressed the urge to use Time Reverse. After countless brutal battles, he had become much more rational in the face of death; he spoke with exceptional calm at this moment, "I still need to gather some intelligence. There is only one chance; if we still fail after reversing time, then there is no opportunity left."

With the Human Emperor Sword in one hand and the Dark Lady in the other, Zhou Bai, enshrouded in golden Sword Qi, continued to flicker towards Donghua City. Each step he took spanned hundreds of meters as he traversed space.

"Zhou! Bai!" The deformed Jiaojiao erupted with layer upon layer of endless whispers, and more and more faces emerged from her flesh, looking at the advancing Zhou Bai with pained expressions.

The sky-darkening tentacles swept across, and the air was filled with an aura of deformation, causing agitation among the cultivators fighting in Donghua City. Some cultivators flying in the air screamed in agony as their bodies began to deform.

Feeling the surging Power of Deformation inside them, the Dark Lady, excited, said to Zhou Bai while they progressed, "This deformity is so strong; are we here to subdue her this time?"

Zhou Bai, with a frown, continuously transferred the rising degree of contamination in his body into the Dark Lady. He could feel that the Power of Deformation was contaminating the environment, fearing that if this continued, millions, if not tens of millions, in Donghua City would start deforming.

The next moment, a terrifying shadow covered Zhou Bai and the Dark Lady. Mountainous tentacles crashed down, unleashing gales that turned into storms, shattering countless glass windows in its shadow.

Boom! Amidst the earth-shattering noise, the tentacles crushed everything in their path, tearing a huge rift 2000 meters deep in the ground of Donghua City, then continued smashing, ripping through layer after layer, while Zhou Bai and the Dark Lady had already vanished.

With Zhou Bai's disappearance, the deformed Jiaojiao seemed even more frenzied, as multiple maws bristling with sharp teeth grew from her body, letting out angry roars.

Li Zhengdao, watching this scene, had been silent: "Zhou Bai, huh? But there's no time to worry about him now."

He looked at the deformed Jiaojiao, performed hand seals, and an outburst of overwhelming Primordial Spirit power surged from within him: "First, let's capture Jiaojiao."

…

At this moment, Zhou Bai and the Dark Lady had already arrived within Donghua City, evading Jiaojiao's attack.

Feeling the continuous quaking of the entire city, Zhou Bai thought to himself, 'She hasn't pursued us; is she fighting someone else?'

'Next, we need to go there... I remember the location is...'

Zhou Bai wielded the Human Emperor Sword, slashing through the ground, shattering various skyscrapers as if a massive drill was piercing through rock, heading straight toward the Forbidden Land of the Three Pure Dao Sect, the place where he had previously met Jiaojiao.

As the walls broke open, vast expanses of flesh appeared before Zhou Bai.

"We've arrived."

At this moment, four minutes had passed since Zhou Bai arrived in Donghua City.

Unable to hold back, Christina said, "Zhou Bai, what exactly are you trying to do? Even if you reverse time by one second every night, it might still be too late."

Zhou Bai: "Even if it's late, there's still a chance to make up for it, but if it's too early, then there's no chance at all."

Christina: "What do you mean?"

Zhou Bai did not speak, but with a sweep of his long sword, he broke through a large section of the defensive works and arrived at the place where he had previously practiced the Twilight Taoist Skill in Donghua City.

He saw that the walls, the ground, and the ceilings had been extensively cracked, with signs of battle everywhere. The ground was littered with corpses lying in disarray.

'Was there a fight here?'

Zhou Bai's gaze hardened, and he suddenly turned to look at a man lying against the wall. In a flash, he appeared before the man with the Dark Lady.

Lv Chongyang felt his Primordial Spirit's power gradually drying up and his vitality waning, a sense of unwillingness rising in his heart. He managed to glance at his chest, where his internal organs were nearly torn to shreds, his limbs were broken, and his whole body was severely injured. Death was only a matter of time.

Just then, he sensed a blur before his eyes, and someone appeared in front of him.

Lv Chongyang raised his head and saw a somewhat familiar figure before him, but upon closer inspection, he saw a girl with a somewhat unfamiliar face.

This was the Dark Lady, who had changed her appearance under Zhou Bai's command.

When Zhou Bai saw Lv Chongyang, he thought of a problem—that the other party, upon seeing the current him, might be very uncooperative.

So he chose to hide on the side and let the Dark Lady adjust her appearance before speaking to the other party.

The Dark Lady said under Zhou Bai's telepathic instruction: "Teacher Lv Chongyang? Why are you here? What happened? Why is there such a large Deformed being?"

"You are... a student from the Dao School?" Feeling his life slipping away rapidly, Lv Chongyang did not have time to think and immediately said, "Hurry! Go and inform the other cultivators to support the Array layer, they want to destroy the Array's core."

The Dark Lady continued to relay Zhou Bai's telepathy: "Who wants to destroy it? Where did that Deformed being come from? When did she deform?"

Lv Chongyang struggled to say: "It's the... Sky Flipping Sect, Li Xiuzhu led a group of demons to attack us and also triggered the elders' Deformation."

Zhou Bai's heart sank when he heard this: 'How is that possible? Was it Li Xiuzhu who attacked Jiaojiao? Why? Why would he do such a thing? It doesn't make sense...'

He hurriedly urged the Dark Lady to ask: "When did they attack you? When did the deformation happen? How long ago?"

Lv Chongyang's breath grew weaker, and his eyes began to lose their vitality: "Two hours..."

Before Lv Chongyang could finish, he had completely lost his breath. Zhou Bai slowly walked out from behind the nearby wall, looked at Lv Chongyang's body, and let out a soft sigh.

He still remembered the other party praising him during the entrance exam, still remembered arguing with the other party on a point of reason, and the scene where the other party allowed him not to attend class.

Zhou Bai reached out and gently closed Lv Chongyang's eyes. With a wave of his hand, golden Sword Qi tore through the earth, and he pulled the Dark Lady down with him.

Christina, sensing the fury in Zhou Bai's heart, nervously said: "Zhou Bai, what do we do now? It's been over an hour, our Time Reverse is useless now."

Zhou Bai's expression was stern as he slowly said: "Find Li Xiuzhu."