Calamity of Tomorrow-Chapter 474 - 473 Sacrifice

After arranging a meeting with Xia Li, Zhou Bai went to find Lin Muqing, who was relatively easy to locate, as she was in the Night Army's office.

Zhou Bai called her out and, after setting a time with her, casually exchanged some intelligence.

Zhou Bai congratulated her saying, "Congratulations, I just learned that you have reached the 6th realm?"

When Zhou Bai had met Lin Muqing a year ago, she had still been a cultivator of the 5th realm. Last month, she had finally broken through to the 6th realm, which made her a master among humans.

Lin Muqing said, "Zhou Bai, back then I was at least the top student of the special training class, only a few years younger than Lv Chunyang. He's been in the 6th realm; how could I stay in the 5th realm forever?"

Looking at Zhou Bai, who seemed like a little brother to her, she bit her lip, thinking, 'And now you are so formidable. I can't defeat you, but if this little brother, who is ten years younger than me, catches up to me in realm...'

Thinking about this possibility, Lin Muqing felt a bit unhappy looking at Zhou Bai.

However, Zhou Bai did not notice the change in Lin Muqing's expression and continued on his own, "What do you know about the Evil Sect? How many experts are there currently inside?"

Lin Muqing replied, "The strongest in the Evil Sect originally was their Elder Haixue Zhenren, who had reached the 9th realm before the Heavenly Dao twisted. After awakening from the distortion, he even mastered the power of the distorted forms. However, it's said that Haixue Zhenren can no longer control his distortion and has been completely sealed away, his life or death unknown. Besides him, the next strongest are the Sect Master of the Evil Sect, Abnormal Master Wang Yan, who is in the 9th realm, followed by the 8th realm Blood God Son and Wei Wuji, and there should be about 7 or 8 elders in the 7th realm still alive."

Evidently, Lin Muqing seemed unaware of the existence of the Saint Heir of the Evil Sect.

"A 9th realm? Two 8th realms?" Zhou Bai frowned inwardly, "Not a few experts, indeed."

He thought about East Wall City, which originally had a 9th realm Wang Xuanhua, but unfortunately, during the Heavenly Demon's siege of East Wall City, he was accidentally killed by the Greedy Wolf True Lord, and even his corpse was taken away by Li Xiuzhu.

Lin Muqing said, "The 10th realm is the ascension realm with a 100% degree of Dao transformation, which basically no one has succeeded in achieving. So, the 9th realm is the strongest force just below the gods."

Lin Muqing sighed, "However, with the Heavenly Dao distorted, how difficult is the path of cultivation? The 7th realm itself is fraught with a thousand dangers, let alone the 9th realm."

Zhou Bai nodded and continued to inquire about the intelligence of the Evil Sect with Lin Muqing.

After Lin Muqing finished talking about the Evil Sect, she asked Zhou Bai, "Zhou Bai, how much do you know about distortions?"

Zhou Bai looked at Lin Muqing curiously, "Why do you suddenly ask?"

Lin Muqing said, "The Sect Hierarch asked me to ask you. He said you had met once before. He's researching something he obtained and wants to know if you can help him."

"Help him?" Zhou Bai immediately thought of his last meeting with Li Xiuzhu, who had taken away a supposed incarnation puppet of Yan Zhen and a distorted weapon produced by the Plague Department.

Zhou Bai secretly thought, 'Li Xiuzhu, after getting his hands on the distorted weapon, surely went back to research it. He asks if I understand it? Does he suspect that I too possess the power of distortion and wants me to help him research it?'

Zhou Bai frowned and said directly, "I climbed up through proper cultivation. What do I know about mutations?" In his heart, he thought, 'What research can I do? If anything, I'll end up being the subject of research.'

Zhou Bai was well aware of the anomalies associated with the Nine Calamities of Heavenly Beings, especially since it included methods of cultivation.

He had plans to share this thing in the future and then research its mysteries together.

However, that would only be possible when his power was strong enough. Otherwise, it was hard to say whether Li Xiuzhu or the elder Jiaojiao, out of concern for humanity's future, might use him as research material or even kill him over some secret, just like the last confrontation with Jiaojiao.

'Li Xiuzhu, Jiaojiao, Principal Zhao Shouyi... these people are heroes. They could sacrifice even themselves and their own families for humanity. They have devoted their lives to humanity. If a family member rebels, they would also kill them.

There are probably very few things in the world that they can't give up or sacrifice.' Zhou Bai silently sighed, 'I deeply respect this spirit, but... I'm really not that great... I'm sorry...'

At this moment, Zhou Bai was not yet ready to completely sacrifice himself or embrace the spirit of self-sacrifice. He deeply admired Li Xiuzhu, Jiaojiao, and Zhao Shouyi, but asking him to emulate them or even sacrifice his own life and future, the current Zhou Bai really couldn't do it.

So his plan was to wait until his power was strong enough to protect himself before spreading and studying the Nine Calamities of Heavenly Beings.

Upon hearing this, Lin Muqing nodded, "I understand. I will relay your answer to the Sect Hierarch."

After arranging a time with Lin Muqing, Zhou Bai left the night army's office area and planned to wait at the elder's place.

Unexpectedly, on the way, he ran into Ying Hui and Nasha. After exchanging greetings, he found out that Ying Hui had brought Nasha to practice the Twilight Taoist Skill.

Ying Hui winked at Zhou Bai secretly, conveying with a look that said, 'I know you had someone check things out; I specially asked for an audience for you.'

Zhou Bai, seeing Ying Hui's knowing look, felt that ever since he had people from West Mountain City help in his cultivation, there seemed to be some misunderstanding.

'Never mind, with Nasha here, along with others, my face value boost will be maxed out. Today, I'll thoroughly learn the Time Rebirth Technique.'

Upon reaching the elder's place, Zhou Bai waited on the side while Nasha was pulled into the elder's dream world to undergo testing.

Before practicing the Twilight Taoist Skill, Zhou Bai had also undergone dream world testing.

Beside him, Ying Hui said, "You asked me about Nasha last time. I did some more investigation, and her parents died two months ago."

"Died?" Zhou Bai asked, surprised. "How did they die?"

"They mistakenly ate improperly handled, still-contaminated mutant beast meat, transformed into monsters, and were killed on the spot by the security team," Ying Hui explained. "She had just started school two months ago, it's too coincidental, but her test data indeed showed no issues. So, I had her come today, also to let the elder test her, see if there's any problem."

Zhou Bai nodded, thinking it was good to have the elder test her. In the following hour, Zheng Wentian, Jing Xiu, Xia Li, Lu Wanzhen, and Lin Muqing arrived one by one, greeted Zhou Bai, and gathered together.

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