"I was present at the Battle of Donghua City as well."

Upon hearing Zhou Bai's words, Li Xiuzhu nodded in agreement, supplementing the story of how he and Zhou Bai joined forces with the Grand Elder to fiercely battle against Haoran Tianjun.

After Li Xiuzhu finished speaking, he glanced at Zhou Bai. Keen as he was, he noticed that Zhou Bai's mental state seemed a bit unusual, and he frowned slightly as he looked into Zhou Bai's eyes.

Hearing this, both Ying Hui and Yun Chonghe felt mostly reassured. Although there were still many doubts and concerns in their hearts, they chose to temporarily trust Zhou Bai.

Ying Hui felt even more comforted, believing that he had not misplaced his trust in Zhou Bai, whose performance far exceeded his expectations.

With concern, he looked at Zhou Bai and said, "Heavenly Demons are cunning, and their various weapons are indeed unpredictable. You must be careful."

Zhou Bai nodded, suppressing the killing intent in his heart, and looked at Li Xiuzhu, "I've finished talking about my matters; now tell me about yours. What is with these demons? And the Heaven Court claims the Sky Flipping Sect has spread the method to activate demon bloodlines?"

Under the gaze of everyone else, Li Xiuzhu spoke, "These are demons that hid away during the Human-Demon War. I reached an agreement with them to fight against the Heaven Court together."

Although demons are enemies of humanity, and there were countless blood feuds during the Human-Demon War, none of the humans present had experienced that war, so their hatred and feelings towards demons were not as deep as those of the Immortals. Despite some vigilance and dissent, there was no strong opposition.

Even though Zhou Bai's Demon Illuminating Eye was filled with intense killing intent, he was still able to suppress it.

Teaming up with demons for the time being to oppose the Heaven Court might be reluctantly understandable.

What truly puzzled and made him difficult to agree with was the second matter.

"And what about spreading the method to activate demon bloodlines? Why did you do that?" Zhou Bai stared directly at Li Xiuzhu.

Li Xiuzhu met his gaze without avoiding it and said solemnly, "Humans need power to fight against the Heaven Court and the Heavenly Demons. The demon bloodline resides within us, and it is originally our own power."

Zhou Bai shook his head and said, "The demon bloodline has side effects. Have you considered these side effects? Once the demon nature dominates, they are no longer human and might even want to eat people."

Li Xiuzhu replied, "There's no free lunch in this world. If humans now want to overthrow the Heaven Court, repel the Heavenly Demons, and control their own destiny, they must pay a price."

Zhou Bai coldly replied, "Strong individuals like us are enough to overthrow the Heaven Court; how would ordinary people, however many there are, be a match for Tianjun, let alone the God Emperor or Tianzun..."

Christina couldn't help but remind, "Zhou Bai, we haven't figured out many of the Heaven Court's secrets yet. Perhaps we don't need to oppose the entire Heaven Court."

Zhou Bai suddenly froze slightly, recalling his words, feeling a sense of awkwardness: 'When did I become so determined to overthrow the Heaven Court?'

The next moment, he held his head, looking at Li Xiuzhu with a surge of killing intent in his eyes.

"Great Sky Flipping Fist Intent... Li Xiuzhu!"

Li Xiuzhu smiled faintly, "I didn't set you up. The Great Sky Flipping Fist Intent was infused into your body after being drawn by the Heavenly Arena. And after I failed, you came to the stage and, in the end, concluded the Heavenly Arena; wasn't that your plan all along?"

Zhou Bai knew that Li Xiuzhu was right. The plan was originally to fight against Ming Yue, delay until the Heavenly Arena ended, defeat Ming Yue, and then acquire the Taoist martial arts of Ming Yue and over two hundred other Heaven Court cultivators.

But Zhou Bai also knew that Li Xiuzhu didn't inform him of this matter, likely because he hoped the Great Sky Flipping Fist Intent could influence Zhou Bai, hoping to have Zhou Bai join the ideology of the Sky Flipping Sect.

The change brought by the Great Sky Flipping Fist Intent was too subtle, unlike the Nine Heavens Demon Clearing Thunder Technique or the Purple Qi Forging Light Sword, whose Taoist powers were more obvious. In the midst of intense battle, Zhou Bai overlooked it, and after the arena ended, his hostility towards the Immortals and Gods grew heavier, making him think he had the desire to overthrow the Heaven Court.

At this moment, carefully grasping his thoughts, he immediately sensed an impulse in his mind to overthrow the Heaven Court, and lead humanity to self-strengthening; inside the Demon Illuminating Eye, the notions of slaying demons assaulted his mind.

The two foreign thoughts tangled wildly as though countless voices were shouting inside his head.

A menacing aura rose from Zhou Bai's eyes, "Li Xiuzhu! Take the Great Sky Flipping Fist Intent out of my head."

Li Xiuzhu shook his head, "I can't do that; they are already your things. Unless you completely control and master them, then release them, otherwise, I can't retrieve them."

The Great Sky Flipping Fist Intent infused into Zhou Bai was peak martial fist intent from Li Xiuzhu, and mastering it would be akin to accepting Li Xiuzhu's thoughts, something Zhou Bai would never do.

Facing Zhou Bai's gaze full of menace, Li Xiuzhu calmly met his eyes, showing no intention of yielding.

Their gazes seemed to clash fiercely in the air, as if neither had any intention of changing.

"You guys... one after another... one after another..."

Zhou Bai looked at Li Xiuzhu, then thought about Ji Wuchang, who gave him the Demon Illuminating Eye, and the Heavenly Demon Empress, who retained the algorithm of his parents' consciousness. The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, "Do you all just want to change my mind? Do you want me to live according to your will so much?"

Li Xiuzhu said calmly, "Zhou Bai, you are a part of the human race; you are not air, you cannot live detached from the entire race, or from the entire civilization.

Now that humans are about to stand completely opposed to the Heaven Court, you must choose a side. The Great Sky Flipping Fist Intent just helps you stand with humanity, which aligns with what you think. Why not try to accept it? This way, you can also gain the power of my fist intent."

"What do you understand?!" Zhou Bai's form suddenly flickered, crashing over like a mountain. Accompanied by howling wind, he grabbed Li Xiuzhu's collar, glaring at him with eyes exuding streams of blood-red light.

The surrounding demons immediately howled, surrounding Zhou Bai in an instant. Just as they were about to attack, they were stopped by a wave of Li Xiuzhu's hand.

"Go to ten miles away to stand guard." With a wave of his hand, the demons withdrew to ten miles away, completely out of Zhou Bai's sight.

Meanwhile, Qian Wangsun, Yun Chonghe, and Ying Hui were stunned, not understanding how the conflict between the two suddenly erupted.

Zhou Bai glared at Li Xiuzhu and said, "You know nothing at all; doing this is all about binding all of humanity to board your ship! How do you know the direction you choose isn't a cliff ahead?!"

"Knowing nothing at all?" Li Xiuzhu felt the roaring Ying Long in his sea of consciousness, felt the fragments of memory continuously dispersing, and said, looking at Zhou Bai's glowing blood-red eyes, "Your eyes... that must be the Demon Illuminating Eye, right?"