Looking at the changes within the Luotian Realm, Zhou Bai thought to himself: 'Humph, are they gathering followers to reduce the impact of the Madness Disaster?'

In the Thunder World where the shadow of distortion resided, the voice of the Supreme Heavenly Venerate echoed again: "Zhou Bai, are you still unwilling to repent?"

The shadow of distortion lifted his head, controlling the mechanical minions to gather and defend against the thunderstorm, shouting towards the sky: "Supreme Heavenly Venerate, do you really think you can trap me?"

With that, Zhou Bai once again unleashed the Madness Disaster. This time, with the gathering of mechanical minions, the power of the Madness Disaster was greatly enhanced. In the blink of an eye, lightning twisted and deformed, transforming into Zhou Bai's likeness.

And Zhou Bai's Chou Disaster had never been turned off. As the activation time exceeded ten seconds, the piece of chaos on him began to spread, expanding from the original range of three meters directly to six meters.

But in the next moment, Zhou Bai and the minions were once again transferred to another Luotian Realm filled with a sea of fire.

Then, after not staying long in the sea of fire, they were transferred to a deep sea world.

After transitioning through nine Luotian Realms, Zhou Bai returned to the initial Thunder World.

Zhou Bai saw the Luotian Realm change repeatedly, and each time he returned to the Thunder World, he could see that the distortion phenomenon there had been smoothed out, while the number of mechanical minions was continually reduced by the attacks of thunder, flame, freezing, high pressure, explosion, and so on.

Zhou Bai immediately understood the Supreme Heavenly Venerate's clever plan. After transferring him and the minions who were unleashing the Madness Disaster to the next Luotian Realm, the opponent began to repair and clear the distortion phenomenon of the previous Luotian Realm.

The ten Luotian Realms alternated to trap Zhou Bai, taking turns to withstand the destruction of Zhou Bai's Madness Disaster, repairing in rotation, so that Zhou Bai's power could never break through the ten Luotian Realms and continually reducing the number of mechanical minions.

Zhou Bai sighed: "Truly impressive." He endeavored to gather the mechanical minions, controlling them to defend against environmental damage, trying to minimize the casualties of the minions.

...

Inside the Zuo Family's treasure vault, Christina anxiously said: "This won't do, if all the mechanical minions are wiped out, we won't be able to threaten the Supreme Heavenly Venerate's Luotian Realm."

Zhou Bai exhaled a breath, thinking to himself: "The Supreme Heavenly Venerate is indeed very strong. The ability to freeze time, combined with the Thirty-Three Celestial Dao Skills, allows him to directly drag any opponent into the Luotian Realm."

"Switching back and forth among the thirty-three Luotian Realms can almost block any attack."

"And since I activated the Chou Disaster until now, it seems he hasn't failed a single void adjudication, never getting hit by the laziness, poverty, decline, stupidity, greed, or madness disasters triggered by the Chou Disaster."

"Truly worthy of being the supreme Immortal Dao, the pinnacle of strength in the world."

"But... I'm not weak either!"

"As long as time drags on, expanding the range of the Chou Disaster, the more often the Supreme Heavenly Venerate will observe the Chou Disaster. I refuse to believe he can pass every void adjudication."

Once activated, the Chou Disaster's range would continuously expand over time, basically increasing every ten seconds.

Previously, each expansion of the Chou Disaster significantly increased the consumption of laziness energy, so Zhou Bai had never used a very wide range Chou Disaster.

However, now that the Chou Disaster had been enhanced by heavenly grace, its consumption was fixed at a thousand points per second, allowing Zhou Bai to continuously expand the Chou Disaster's range.

At this moment, the Supreme Heavenly Venerate was using the Luotian Realm to trap Zhou Bai, while Zhou Bai was resisting and accumulating the power to counterattack within the Luotian Realm.

...

Amid the clash between Zhou Bai and the Supreme Heavenly Venerate, the Luotian Realm switched back and forth, and hundreds more mechanical minions were destroyed, with another ten seconds passing.

Zhou Bai's Chou Disaster expanded from a range of 6 meters to 9 meters.

Within the Luotian Realm, the even-toned voice of the Supreme Heavenly Venerate came through: "Zhou Bai, you misunderstand me. As long as you're willing to change and work for Wanxian Island, I'm willing to let you out."

Zhou Bai was surprised: 'Is this old guy trying to trick me again? Trying to win without a fight? Or… did he notice that I'm just an avatar and wants to use me as a medium to deceive my true self?'

Zhou Bai thought for a moment, then, while controlling the mechanical minions to fully defend, he said: "Don't even think about tricking me! It's the Demon Saint who told me about your objective, and I'm here to stop you."

"Is it the Demon Saint who told you?" the Supreme Heavenly Venerate sighed: "I didn't expect you to contact the Demon Saint, but what did he tell you? He might be deceiving you, too."

Zhou Bai: "The Demon Saint has already told me everything, including the origins of you Spiritual People, the grievances between monsters, intelligent beings, and you, otherwise I might have been fooled by you and made a grave mistake."

The Supreme Heavenly Venerate responded: "Did the Demon Saint even tell you that much? But he's the only one who knows these things in the world now. No wonder you suddenly rebelled, but he probably didn't tell you the whole truth. Monsters and intelligent beings have never been on the same front line. Monsters eat Spiritual People and intelligent beings alike, not picky about the species…"

Zhou Bai: "Stop trying to sound righteous. Once you destroy the Immortal Ascension Book and absorb the power within, your ability to stop time would become even stronger. Ha, your subordinates aren't on the same side as you."

"Alas, is there anyone who doesn't understand? Choosing betrayal…" the Supreme Heavenly Venerate said blandly: "Zhou Bai… 'Seizing the present' is the world's strongest power, and I'm just a little bit away from perfectly mastering the present, being able to truly comprehend the Heavenly Dao."

"To be honest, I have no interest in Spiritual People, intelligent beings, or monsters. Once the plan succeeds, I will leave this planet, and however it develops afterward will be up to you all."

Zhou Bai: "But I have no interest in handing the choice over to others, and I've already made an agreement with the True Gods. They would never take action against the immortals, so your plan will not succeed!"

...

Inside the Zuo Family's treasure vault, Zhou Bai, while casually chatting with the Supreme Heavenly Venerate, shook his head and sighed: "This old dog is really difficult to deceive; he's trying to fool me with every word, clearly impossible to trick him or extract any information from him."

Suddenly Zhou Bai felt that the surroundings were too quiet. Why hadn't Christina spoken up?

He turned his head and saw Christina standing there dumbfounded, mouth agape, drooling, looking utterly dazed.

Zhou Bai hurriedly checked the panel, which showed a series of notifications about Christina's intelligence being lowered, as both Zhou Bai and the Supreme Heavenly Venerate had reduced her intelligence, almost making her give up on thinking.