Calamity of Tomorrow
Chapter 731 - 731: 729 test

Christina: "No… that's not what I mean. Forget it…" She thought to herself, 'Coming up with so many ways to brag, talking to you is a waste of time.'

"I think it's quite nice." The mysterious woman holding Christina chuckled, her eyes squinting into crescents: "Seeing so many Zhou Bai's is truly delightful."

'MD, freaking pervert.' Christina curled up, deciding what she didn't see couldn't hurt her: 'A pair of perverted lovers, both of them.'

Just then, a huge figure like a wild gust swept across from afar, accompanied by whining roars, chasing a group of mechanized shadows rampaging through.

The raging figure caught up with a mechanized shadow, butting it into mid-air with its head, then opened its huge mouth and swallowed a 'Zhou Bai' whole, before starting to chew noisily, making crunching sounds.

Zhou Bai, watching this scene, immediately roared, "Elsa! Spit it out!"

The ten-meter-tall dog whimpered a few times, looking pitifully as it spat out the mechanized shadow.

Seeing the chewed up, saliva-drenched mechanized shadow, Zhou Bai snapped, "Elsa! Who told you to eat my robots!"

Elsa made whimpering sounds: "I just wanted to play with them."

Looking at Elsa in front of him, Zhou Bai felt helpless. Ever since she reached 55% in her Primordial Taoist training and gained the ability to transform into a large dog voluntarily, she no longer needed to starve to enlarge.

After transforming into a large dog, her physical strength, speed, explosive power, and resilience all surged, but her suppressed canine nature also surged back.

This made Elsa prone to running around wildly and biting randomly, particularly interested in little beings that look exactly like Zhou Bai.

Zhou Bai: "Elsa, transform back into a human right now. From now on, you're not allowed to turn back into a dog without my permission."

Elsa whimpered helplessly a few times, then her body rapidly shrank and transformed, reverting to human form.

Looking at her gradually receding back fur and the tender skin that was starting to show, Zhou Bai gestured with his hand, and a pile of metal parts flew over from nearby, wrapping around Elsa's body to cover her up.

Zhou Bai: "Don't forget to wear clothes."

Elsa: "I know." She vomited the clothes she had prepared from her stomach and quickly put them on, then walked out awkwardly.

Ever since gaining the ability to turn into a large dog, Elsa always felt itchy all over, reluctant to wear clothes, constantly wanting to turn back into a dog to run wild and bite things.

Zhou Bai, looking at Elsa, grabbed her shoulders and said, "Elsa, don't let the canine nature inside control your body. Overcome it, be human, don't be a dog, all right?"

Elsa nodded solemnly, clutching her tiny fists, "Yeah! I'll try my best! I want to be human! Not a dog!"

Watching the tail continuously shaking behind her back, Zhou Bai sighed, knowing it wouldn't be that simple.

"Perhaps after this, I shouldn't let Elsa continue her cultivation with the Primordial Scriptures. I'll wait until I've gathered all of the Primordial Scriptures and confirmed there are no issues before letting Elsa cultivate them," Zhou Bai mused, shaking his head. He had Elsa maintain her humanoid form and stand by to counter her canine instincts while he, surrounded by the orbit of the Void Crown, drifted towards the mechanical shadow.

"Fear Devotees and Worship Devotees seem to have both succeeded, but we'll only know the final result after testing it."

Upon a mere thought from Zhou Bai, a Fear Devotee stepped forward. Zhou Bai commanded, "Activate the ritual track, summon my power."

The Fear Devotee could summon Zhou Bai's power through a special ritual track, an ability Zhou Bai found very useful, although he hadn't actually tried it.

He then saw the mechanical shadow tearing at its chest, skin splitting and flesh bursting open, using its own blood to draw distorted runes across its chest, murmuring sickly, "Abandon reason, embrace madness, oh darker than the cosmos itself, bestow equal madness upon all things before me."

Zhou Bai inwardly remarked, 'The system-integrated ritual track isn't too complicated, but it's just too conspicuous; it's obviously not normal.'

After the chanting, the mechanical shadow's seven orifices began to bleed, and behind it suddenly opened a mass of indescribable, unfathomable blackness—the tear in the void.

At the same time, Zhou Bai felt a special connection surge in his heart. If he wished, he could unleash his power, attacking from the void tear behind the mechanical shadow.

Zhou Bai casually unleashed a burst of Primordial Spirit power. The power, at the moment of leaving his body, vanished instantly, then exploded from the void tear behind the mechanical shadow, transforming into a giant hand that struck the ground, shattering it.

After testing various other attacks, Zhou Bai had a basic understanding of the limits of the Fear Devotee's abilities.

As long as the attacks were his own, they could generally be transmitted through the Fear Devotee, but attacks utilizing artifacts like the Emperor Sword or Heavenly Demon Weaponry didn't work, nor could his own voice or image be transmitted.

Next, he tested the Worship Devotees. These devotees could spread Zhou Bai's whispers, essentially allowing Zhou Bai to overcome spatial and temporal distances to utilize powers like Madness Disaster and The Fool, proving quite useful and giving Zhou Bai more ways to attack.

After testing the abilities of the Fear Devotees and Worship Devotees, Zhou Bai temporarily halted his new plans for transforming his mechanical devotees.

Currently, Zhou Bai's mechanical devotees were divided into four groups.

These included the normal octopus-like Foolish Devotees, then the Void Crown which possessed both close-protection and long-range command capabilities, plus the stellar power resources of the Starry Throne, and finally the mechanical shadows capable of further utilizing Zhou Bai's power.

These mechanical devotees were sufficient for Zhou Bai's use. Any further advancement would either take too much time or risk, as these mechanical devotees were still connected to the Heavenly Demon's communication network, potentially making them sacrificial at any time, a risk Zhou Bai was unwilling to invest more in.

Next, he planned to focus fully on earning 'laziness values' to unlock the final star point—Madness Disaster of his lunacy chart.

Regarding this last and most powerful star point of the lunacy chart, Zhou Bai was extremely eager.

"Once these are complete, my power should nearly reach a threshold. Further improvements would take too much time. Now, with my power combined with that of my devotees, I should seek out Primordial Scripture 07."

At this moment, Zhou Bai's plan was to try finding Primordial Scripture 07 after initiating Madness Disaster.

With his current power, even with the assistance of the Heavenly Demon, even if there were ambushes by immortals and gods similar to the last three Zi Yang True Monarch faced, even if they had deciphered the abilities he had previously used face-to-face, he still felt confident that he had a 70 to 80 percent chance to take away Primordial Scripture 07 under such ambush.