Calamity of Tomorrow
Chapter 668 668: 666 great momentum

"God's corpse?"

Li Xiuzhu's eyebrows raised in surprise upon hearing this.

After all, he had transported the entire Sixth Experiment Laboratory here using a landscape painting formed from the 47th hexagram, and he had paid a heavy price for it.

So, he hadn't checked the situation inside. Now, hearing about the body of a god inside immediately sparked surprise.

Li Xiuzhu, "Is it the corpse of a god from Heavenly Court? Do you know which one it is?"

Qian Wangsun shook his head, "To say it's a corpse might not be accurate, since it's only a hand. And... it seems to be still alive."

"Still alive?" Li Xiuzhu's gaze sharpened, "Take me to see it."

A god's hand? And still alive? The value and danger of it were truly extraordinary.

Soon after, they arrived deep inside the Sixth Experiment Laboratory, where numerous cultivators had already gathered, ceaselessly setting up arrays and runes, their faces filled with tension and vigilance as they looked forward.

At the center of their focus, a pale hand quietly floated mid-air, locked in place by layers of black runes.

One could only see the lifelike appearance, the slightly pulsing veins, appearing completely alive.

'Very good, this discovery exceeds my expectations.'

Li Xiuzhu watched the hand before him, feeling the surging vitality within, yet unable to sense any presence of thought.

"Still alive after being severed from the body? What state, then, is its original owner in now?"

Li Xiuzhu understood this probably touched upon the true mystery of the celestial beings, helpful beyond imagination for their creation and control of mutated weapons, but it also contained immense danger.

Li Xiuzhu once traversed a desolate wilderness alone, tracking historical truths in uninhabited ruins.

According to his knowledge, since the distortion of the Heavenly Dao over a hundred years ago, no one had ascended to become an Immortal or a God.

However, even before the distortion of the Heavenly Dao, although people had ascended to Immortality sporadically over the centuries, it had been a very long time since anyone had ascended to Godhood.

The last one to ascend to Godhood, as far as Li Xiuzhu knew, was the Human Emperor Sword Master from four hundred years ago, the descendant of celestials, Li Zhengdao.

He had suppressed Cang Long, rode the dragon up to the heavens, and became a righteous god of the Celestial Division.

"Gods of Heavenly Court are said to be immortal and eternal, sharing the same lifespan as the heavens and the earth, possessing a status some Immortals do not."

"The situation with this hand might be an example of the so-called immortality and indestructibility of a righteous god."

Li Xiuzhu had a premonition that their research on mutated weapons, their research on celestials, was about to make a monumental breakthrough.

...

While the Sky Flipping Sect was busy conducting intensive research on mutated weapons.

In the Heavenly Court, within the gigantic central palace of Miluo Heavenly Palace.

Immortals gathered, gods stood tall.

Due to the major incidents of the Heavenly Demon's siege and Zhou Bai's defection, the Sovereign Heavenly Emperor and Supreme Heavenly Venerate convened this assembly to strategize for what lay ahead.

It included even more expeditions to Yinghuo, taking advantage of the Heavenly Demon's expenses from this operation to further deplete its reserves, and even find opportunities to destroy the Heavenly Demon Pool.

There was also the matter of appeasing the human race, pursuing Dao School's responsibility regarding Zhou Bai.

Meanwhile, all personnel related to Zhou Bai must be rigorously investigated.

Then there was the disposition of Zi Yang True Monarch, which for the time being was entrusted to Marshal Xiang Tiandi of the Thunder Department for oversight.

Several hours later, the meeting concluded, and as it ended, the gods left one by one, most of them with grim expressions on their faces.

As the Ghost Slayer walked on the road back to Wanxian Island, his face grim, he thought to himself, 'The siege of Central City this time has been a severe blow to the prestige of the Celestial Court. Especially since Zhou Bai revealed Mutated Power and has eloped with the Heavenly Demon, what on earth is going on?'

Tianyang Zi leaned over and transmitted his sigh, "Why did the Heavenly Demon take Zhou Bai?" He recalled the image of thousands of Heavenly Demons prostrating before Zhou Bai, feeling very strange.

"Even if the Heavenly Demon buys mortals, it would never do such a thing. There must be some connection between Zhou Bai and the Heavenly Demon that we do not know about."

The Ghost Slayer frowned and said, "Connection, huh..." He turned his head to look at the Regular God of the Thunder Department, his mind recalling another matter: 'Zi Yang True Monarch seems to have attacked Zhou Bai before the Heavenly Demon arrived. What are these gods of the Celestial Court trying to do? What kind of secrets are they hiding?'

After sharing the matter with Tianyang Zi, the latter's figure stiffened slightly, and he said solemnly, "You suspect that someone on Wanxian Island has revealed the secrets of the Array to the gods."

"It's highly possible," the Ghost Slayer nodded and said, "Moreover, these gods seem to be very wary of the connection between the Heavenly Demon and Zhou Bai. In this meeting, they were the ones who proposed to increase the strength on Yinghuo, to step up the campaign against the Heavenly Demon, and search for traces of Zhou Bai."

The Ghost Slayer: "I always feel like they know something. They seem to be hiding something."

Unfortunately, several gods of the Celestial Court have a longer history than the Immortals of Wanxian Island and hold countless secrets. The Ghost Slayer, as a junior who ascended over five hundred years ago, knew far too little about the secrets of the gods.

Tianyang Zi said, "Do you want to investigate covertly? The Supreme Heavenly Venerate instructed us not to interfere with the gods' affairs to avoid arousing Immortal-God conflicts."

The Ghost Slayer's gaze grew intense, apparently lost in thought.

At that moment, a figure suddenly blocked the way for the Ghost Slayer and Tianyang Zi.

The Ghost Slayer looked at the newcomer and slowly said, "Jiu Xiao Heavenly Monarch? Is something the matter?"

The figure that appeared before the Ghost Slayer and Tianyang Zi was a young man dressed in a Daoist robe, his demeanor cold and detached.

The person was none other than Li Zhengdao, one of the two great Heavenly Monarchs of the Celestial Department. Like the Ghost Slayer, he was once a Human Emperor Sword Master, ascending more than a hundred years later than the Ghost Slayer and was the last of the current gods to ascend, shrouded in various mysterious auras.

Li Zhengdao looked at the two and said, "Gentlemen, the matter of Zhou Bai has now been fully entrusted to my Celestial Department for investigation. The personnel from the four major sects participating in the competition, they're still on Wanxian Island, aren't they? Could you let me meet with them?"

As the consequences of Zhou Bai leaving with the Heavenly Demon gradually fermented, the Celestial Court's oppression of the human race would become increasingly severe, and the contradictions among humans, gods, and Immortals followed suit.

...

Just as the entire world began to undergo turbulent changes, within the valley where Zhou Bai was located, he looked at the cyan light in his sea of consciousness, glanced at the star point, and couldn't help but focus his attention on the calamity.

The diagram of Decline represented the power of the Primordial Spirit, and the enhancement of Decline always completely elevated the essence of Zhou Bai's Primordial Spirit, which was also the star point that Zhou Bai invested in the most favored fate.

Now this star point had once again reached a bottleneck, and after two enhancements, it had not undergone a qualitative change. Apart from the basic improvements, it only gained two more cyan beams.

'But now I have seven strands of fate favored by Heavenly Dao, adding seven at a time must lead to a qualitative change,' he thought.

Regarding the star point that he had enhanced the most times to undergo another qualitative change, Zhou Bai was still very much looking forward to it.