Calamity of Tomorrow-Chapter 343 - 342 up front

Zhou Bai had originally thought that since he possessed the Time Reverse gemstone, it would be better to give the Black Lotus to another senior cultivator, who could bring out its greater potential.

However, others were unaware of his gemstone, and now that Zhou Bai had demonstrated such high value, they naturally preferred to have Zhou Bai use the Black Lotus.

Thus, Zhou Bai pondered for a moment about going to the battlefield, thinking that having an extra life was indeed quite beneficial. Amidst the gazes of the few onlookers, he began to refine the Black Lotus with his Primordial Spirit force.

As his Primordial Spirit force wrapped around the Black Lotus, Zhou Bai immediately felt as if the lotus before him was a black hole, voraciously absorbing his Primordial Spirit force.

After sucking for a good 15 minutes and nearly draining Zhou Bai's Primordial Spirit force, the Black Lotus turned into a black light and entered between Zhou Bai's eyebrows, settling below the Heavenly Calamity Primordial Spirit in his sea of consciousness, supporting it like a lotus platform.

Master Yin Hai looked on with satisfaction and said, "Zhou Bai, this Black Lotus will grow with the growth of your physical body and Primordial Spirit. When you face a fatal attack and your body is on the verge of death, it will, at the cost of its own withering and fall, use its power of wish to restore you to your peak condition..."

As he spoke, a strong sense of weariness seeped into Master Yin Hai's words, and a hint of pain flickered across his face: "Go on now, I need to rest..."

The face on the headless Buddha statue at the chest area slowly vanished, as if Master Yin Hai had once again fallen into a deep slumber.

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound, and everyone looked up to see the Dead Wood Forest trembling around them. Blood trickled continuously from within the dead trees, cries echoed, and branches intertwined, making the entire Dead Wood Forest seem even more twisted and bizarre.

"May Buddha bless you," Master Wu Fa shrank back, "Let us leave, gentlemen. Let Master Yin Hai rest well."

Seeing this, Zhou Bai also realized that the Black Lotus must also have been a great drain on Master Yin Hai, perhaps even intensifying his deformity and madness.

With this in mind, Zhou Bai turned around and bowed deeply to the headless Buddha statue: "Thank you, Master. I will surely not disappoint your expectations."

In the following days, Zhou Bai collected his rewards and gathered supplies in Beihai City, while waiting for the arrangements from Zhao Shouyi and the others.

The other students who participated in the Dao School competition left one after another. Although they were not as dazzling as Zhou Bai during the competition, they would still be scheduled for various trainings and cultivation due to their own cultivations and achievements.

After all, as the fortune of the Heavenly Dao shifted and humanity reached its limits of oppression, a rebound ensued.

The talents of this generation of cultivators were generally quite strong. Although Zhou Bai received the most attention, the cultivation of others was also important – the more strong individuals humanity had for the future, the better.

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A week later, inside a human stronghold on the northwest front.

Ten cultivators stood in a row, among them Qian Wangsun, who listened intently to the explanation given by the captain in front of them.

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The captain, a somewhat effeminate-looking middle-aged man, was staring sternly at the group and said, "My name is Qin Tian, and I'm the captain of this reconnaissance squad, a cultivator of the fourth realm of Gong Tu.

I've reviewed all of your files. Some of you are from sects and have mixed through, some are the proud sons of Dao Schools, and some come from the military's hard life. Each of you has different opportunities, different cultivations, and different reasons for coming here.

But I don't care about your pasts, whether it's good or bad, whether you've worked hard or not, I'm not interested.

All you need to know is that after joining my squad, you only have to do three things – follow orders! Follow orders! Follow orders!"

Qian Wangsun transmitted a message to the man beside him, "Does the captain know about us?"

Next to Qian Wangsun was a fair-skinned, bright-eyed man, who looked suave and dashing.

The man transmitted back, "How could he know? In this squad, no one knows about our affair except you."

Qian Wangsun couldn't help but glance at the man beside him again and transmit, with some resignation, "Zhou Bai, don't you think your disguise... is a bit too conspicuous?"

The handsome man standing beside Qian Wangsun was none other than Zhou Bai, who had disguised his identity and gone to the front line. Meanwhile, the public information from Dao School was that Zhou Bai had gone under the tutelage of Master Yin Hai and had gone to Beihai City for secluded cultivation.

"Conspicuous?" Zhou Bai touched his face, "I think I just restored a third of my usual handsomeness. It's a lot more low-key than my usual appearance."

Zhou Bai's current face had a thin Transforming Mask attached to it, which Zhao Shouyi had helped him find from the treasures of Xuan Pin. Once infused with Primordial Spirit force, this mask enabled the wearer to alter their appearance, achieving the goal of changing one's visage.

It had taken Zhou Bai roughly four hours of tweaking to achieve the current effect, bordering on supra-realistically handsome, as if he had stepped out of a painting.

Zhou Bai suddenly noticed a female cultivator sneakily glancing at him; he smiled back at her, causing her to immediately turn her head away like a frightened rabbit, her ears seemingly blushing.

Zhou Bai remarked, "Not even the Transforming Mask can block the handsomeness that radiates from every pore. Alas, it's impossible for me to keep a low profile."

Christina couldn't help but speak up, "If you dare, you can tear off the mask."

Zhou Bai responded, "Tina, don't you have a sense of professionalism? We agreed to hide our identities, and so in the days to come, whether I'm bathing, sleeping, or on the brink of death, I won't expose myself."

Beside them, Qian Wangsun shook his head helplessly and thought about the current arrangements and missions.

After the Dao School competition, Qian Wangsun's cultivation might not have been the most prominent, but his performance in the arena had still drawn much attention.

Moreover, as a student from Dao School and a good friend of Zhou Bai, what stood out even more was his display of seemingly predictive abilities on the arena, hailed as a talent for cultivating Gong Tu.

Thus, he too was brought into the Dao School's cultivation program.

He received not only a vast amount of elixirs and thousands of reward points, but also was assigned to the frontline to refine his skills in Gong Tu through actual combat – for it is through real battles that Gong Tu can be best practiced.

After arriving at the frontline, Qian Wangsun soon learned that this trip was not only for his own cultivation but also to cover for Zhou Bai.

On the surface, it was the Dao School's initiative to send him to the frontline for cultivation and to ensure the front line leaders would take good care of him.

In reality, it allowed Zhou Bai to join as well, with Qian Wangsun inadvertently covering for him, enabling Zhou Bai to secretly embark on the frontline for real battle cultivation.

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