Calamity of Tomorrow

The Twilight Taoist Skill mastered by Shi Fa, known as the Tathagata Heart Seal personally transmitted by Buddha, could transcend space with consciousness and unleash the power to traverse space through the Tathagata Heart Seal.

Once executed, it could strike targets through the air, even penetrating any body-protecting Taoist skill, potent flesh, and armor, directly attacking the target's internals, disregarding most of the world's defensive Taoist skills.

Just now, Shi Fa had directly unleashed a Tathagata Heart Seal and had also taken dozens of plasma bombs with it in one breath.

Each plasma bomb could explode into a vast expanse of plasma with temperatures reaching tens of thousands of degrees, enough to reduce a skyscraper to rubble.

And now, dozens of plasma bombs had detonated inside Zhou Bai's body, their power shaking the heavens and earth.

The violent and scorching plasma centered on Zhou Bai's chest cavity, spreading throughout his entire body. The boiling internal explosive airflow continuously impacted Zhou Bai's insides, then rebounded, struck again, and rebounded, piling up explosions, channeling all the destructive force upon Zhou Bai.

Tens of thousands of degrees of temperature ignited inside Zhou Bai, as though wanting to burn his entire body to ash.

Yet, even such a terrifying attack, continuously leaving wounds within Zhou Bai, ultimately failed to inflict heavy damage.

Tang Ruhai, polluted corporeal shell combined with lazy Healing, rendered Zhou Bai's blood vessels, muscles, and organs possessing a degree of defensive power and vitality to the extreme.

Shi Fa, observing Zhou Bai before him, was about to muster his strength and continue the attack, aiming to take down his opponent in one go, when he suddenly saw blue light flaring from deep within the opponent's mouth, nostrils, and eyes—the radiance of plasma.

The chaotic plasma within Zhou Bai surged and swept back and forth, but no matter how it dashed from side to side, it failed to break through Zhou Bai's formidable flesh. Finally, it could only desperately seek an exit amidst expansions and explosions, being released in the process.

Accompanied by the flashes of blue light, the next moment, plasmas from the detonation of dozens of plasma bombs erupted like shockwaves, furiously thrusting out from Zhou Bai's nostrils and mouth, expanding wildly, exploding, burning.

Boom! The plasma directly engulfed Shi Fa's head, then his entire body, and finally submerged both him and Zhou Bai in massive expanses of plasma.

However, this move still couldn't truly kill Shi Fa.

From yesterday's Heavenly Demon weapons, Shi Fa had chosen not just plasma bombs.

His entire body was now covered in a layer of nanoscale protective armor, barely visible to the naked eye.

Leveraging the armor's ability to absorb and convert attack energy into heat, plus the protection of the Dragon Image Kasaya, even a hundred plasma bombs detonating in their vicinity wouldn't leave them unscathed, let alone damage the Dragon Image Kasaya and the nanoscale protective armor.

It was also by relying on this formidable protective capability that he survived, completely unharmed, through that series of extremely fierce and brutal attacks from Zhou Bai.

But seeing Zhou Bai spitting out the exploded plasma from within his body, he understood that his attack had failed.

As plasma poured over his body, Shi Fa realized with astonishment, "To directly block the plasma with your internal body? Unbelievable…"

Although the plasma bomb's attack was directly blocked by both Zhou Bai and Shi Fa, one relied on external defenses, with the double protection of the Dragon Image Kasaya and nanoscale protective armor.

While Zhou Bai endured the attack with his own body's most vulnerable parts from within, even an internal explosion.

This simply surpassed the physical resilience of any Ninth Realm powerhouse, so formidable that even Shi Fa found it unbelievable.

"Indeed, it's not so easy to kill you, but even for you, enduring that move was by no means easy," Shi Fa's eyes lowered as a murderous aura surged up.

His Dragon Image Kasaya also roiled vigorously, dense scriptures lit up on it.

The next moment, the Kasaya began to expand and stretch dramatically, the trembling Kasaya turning into something like a sea, layer upon layer enveloping Shi Fa's body, scattering the disseminating plasma while also squeezing Zhou Bai out.

While Zhou Bai, standing midair, motionless, seemed to have been heavily injured, temporarily unable to move.

Seeing Zhou Bai in this state, Shi Fa felt a sense of clarity, "Just as I thought, being attacked directly inside your body, even if you can bear it, is by no means easy. If it were a martial arts contest, this could already be over, but for the safety of billions of people, I can only seize the opportunity to kill you in one fell swoop."

A sudden sharp gleam erupted in Shi Fa's eyes, black spheres rolled back and forth in his long sleeves.

These were incendiary bombs created by the Heavenly Demon, ones that, once attached, could burn even Blood Talisman Immortal Steel for hours, rumored to contain some radioactive toxin permanently damaging the flesh.

"The target of this attack is... the brain." Shi Fa narrowed his eyes, looking at Zhou Bai's head, "Stop thinking now..."

Gold light radiated one after another from behind Shi Fa's head, and invisible arms stretched out behind him, with hands clasped together, forming various seals.

...

In a corner of Central City, the Heavenly Demon Snake disguised itself as a human and mingled in the crowd, watching the battle through a projection.

However, unseen by those around, as the battle progressed, especially when Zhou Bai spewed Thunder Fire, vast amounts of data continually refreshed in the eyes of the Heavenly Demon Snake.

'Finally succeeded, entered his body.'

'That won't do, his physical body is too strong.'

'Ordinary methods won't work... just detonate the plasma bomb.'

'It's okay, the plasma bomb can't kill him, keep detonating the plasma bombs.'

'Collected his DNA data.'

'The residual devices have been wiped out by him, he's discovered us.'

...

As Shi Fa prepared for the next round of attacks, Zhou Bai felt something was amiss in the last attack. So although his injuries healed quickly under the effects of the "laziness value", he didn't proceed to attack immediately, instead, he sensed the changes within his body.

"What directly exploded inside my body?"

"This guy can traverse space, attacking my insides."

"Is this the Tathagata Heart Seal?"

At the same time, he looked at the pollution level on the auxiliary cultivation system panel: 81/110.

Normally, his pollution level had always been only 80, but now it had risen by one point, even though he had not used any Twilight Taoist Skill or Supreme Divine Power during this process.

The only possibility Zhou Bai could think of was, "At that moment just now, my consciousness couldn't suppress the Dao within my body."

In this world of cultivation, one constantly faces the threat of Heavenly Dao distortions. The more powerful your strength and the more profound your realm, the higher your degree of Dao-ization, and the tougher the tests you face.

Because these tests exist almost constantly, under the influence of the distortions of Heavenly Dao, all cultivators have unfathomable dark sides in their hearts and seeds of madness. A slight carelessness leads to the expansion of the dark side, the sprouting of the seeds of madness, and gradually, the cultivator will go insane, turning grotesque.

It can be said that all cultivators, more or less, carry some psychological and physical disorders, which is why regular psychological evaluations are necessary.

Moreover, cultivators always need to guard their inner selves tightly, using mental and spiritual will to resist the effects of Heavenly Dao distortions, fighting against the mental alienation.

Zhou Bai had always done well until just now...

"My pollution level has actually risen, why? Is it because of this bald monk? No, it should be because of a series of recent events that directly affected my mind, Shi Fa is just a catalyst."

Zhou Bai's eyes narrowed slightly, seemingly flashing with a dangerous light, but in the next moment, a shocking murderous intent surged in his eyes.

With Zhou Bai's control over his body and the sensitivity of his flesh, even the slightest change inside him couldn't be concealed.

Just now, he detected traces of extremely minute mechanical objects inside his body and swiftly crushed them into dust with his Primordial Spirit power, expelling them from his body.

"Heavenly Demon..."

"Shi Fa... have you ever experienced true terror?"

Pollution Level: 82/110