Facing the exquisite martial art prowess of the Thunder Marshal, Zhou Bai merely emphasized his speed and ferocity. He did not employ any martial arts techniques, but simply used his fastest speed and most aggressive strength to kick fiercely at the Thunder Marshal.

Boom! The shadow of countless legs vanished instantly, and a whirlwind swept in all directions. The atmosphere within a few hundred meters seemed to be violently torn apart by their strike.

Zuo Dao's body appeared unscathed, but the Thunder Marshal felt a surge of pain in her stomach, forcing her to step back a few paces. Then, with a flash of lightning, she retreated into the Luotian Realm, looking at Zhou Bai with a displeased expression.

"Alright, Pi Li, Zhou Bai speaks like that all the time, don't take it to heart."

Xiang Tiandi clapped his hands to ease the awkwardness between them. "Zhou Bai, the Thunder Marshal's degree of Dao transformation is also over 160%, the fastest among the four departments. She's always been a little curious about your strength..."

Among the other two marshals of the Thunder Department, the degree of Dao transformation of the Thunder Marshal also exceeds 160%, with the ability for spiritual manifestation. Like Xiang Tiandi, Bao Bing Heavenly Monarch, and Jiu Xiao Marshal, she is currently one of the strongest among the righteous gods.

However, during the Celestial Court battle, she was with the Xun Tian Marshal in outer space setting up the Heavenly Tribulation for remote support. She wasn't able to witness the battle first-hand and only received reports from other righteous gods afterward.

At this moment, she clutched her stomach, drawing a sharp breath. "The internal organs of the Divine Body are all shattered; it'll probably take half an hour to recover. How can this kid's physical body be so strong? Did he awaken some mythical beast's bloodline?"

She quickly replayed the sequence of their exchanges in her mind, growing more frustrated the more she thought about it, haunted by Zhou Bai's words echoing in her head.

"Dark and rough?" She looked at her own long and pale legs, feeling increasingly slighted, wishing she could rush out to fight Zhou Bai again, but could only forcibly restrain her impulses.

Zhou Bai glanced at the panel; the Thunder Marshal's kick just now had earned her over ten thousand points of lazy energy.

"Sigh, compared to the Supreme Heavenly Venerate, there's a huge gap. But this woman's speed in her moves is really fast. In the future, I should hit her more often, not only to earn lazy energy but also to strike a blow to these gods' arrogance."

Xiang Tiandi continued to explain the situation. Previously, Bao Bing, Pi Li, Xiang Tiandi, and Jiu Xiao, working together, managed to slightly break open one of the restrictions on the door with their Dao transformation degrees over 160%, using a combination of magical tools and mutated weapons to gather basic information from the other side of the door.

Bao Bing Heavenly Monarch: "In Supreme Heaven, it's still possible to maintain communication with the Heavenly Dao, but it's also affected by the distortions of the Heavenly Dao."

Xiang Tiandi: "However, the previous generation of the Celestial Court retains a more complete Celestial Court inheritance than ours, along with a large number of immortals and ordinary spiritual people. Considering that over the past five hundred years, they have been able to focus on their development without opposing demons or the Heavenly Demon, they might have developed faster than us."

Jiu Xiao Marshal: "It seems the Demon Saint didn't hold them back much. I even suspect that their spiritual people could break through to the ninth realm and achieve Ascension."

Si Yi Heavenly Monarch, reading through the materials, said: "According to comparisons with the data in the Celestial Court's library, there were over 400 immortals who didn't have Divine Body remains found in the human-demon war back then..."

Various intelligence reports were continuously summarized by the righteous gods, and Zhou Bai listened with increasing concern.

Crisis-ridden!

This was the feeling Zhou Bai had after hearing the summation by the righteous gods.

Originally, he thought that after the Celestial Court battle was over, he just needed to follow a regular path to enhance his strength, then reorganize all the major forces worldwide to create a peaceful world, thinking there would be no threats in the short term.

But now it seems that within these three levels of Supreme Heaven, there are the immortals and cultivators of the last generation's Celestial Court; having developed over five hundred years without any wars with Heavenly Demons or monsters, their strength and numbers could possibly be more formidable than the Celestial Court on Earth.

Once this force is unleashed, after a few battles, Earth will likely be reduced to scorched land, and countless lives will be lost.

"Xiang Tiandi is right, we must prepare for the worst-case scenario." Zhou Bai sighed: "The last generation of the Celestial Court has accumulated 500 years of power in Supreme Heaven. We need to prepare for the worst-case scenario; I think we must be ready to face the combat power of ten Supreme Heavenly Venerates simultaneously."

Bao Bing Heavenly Monarch: "?"

Si Yi Heavenly Monarch: "…no, I think ten Supreme Heavenly Venerates is a bit too..."

Xiang Tiandi: "Zhou Bai's not wrong. That is a Celestial Court with a complete inheritance, accumulated with 500 years of anger and hatred. For the immortals inside, the human-demon war has only reached the halfway point!"

Zhou Bai nodded approvingly: "Over the past 500 years, they probably have been in a constant state of war readiness, extracting every ounce of their potential just to continue the human-demon war after emerging from Supreme Heaven. Heaven knows how their cultivation has recovered, how many achieved Ascension during these 500 years, or how many Immortal Artifacts they've restored."

Xiang Tiandi added: "These immortals all genuinely lived through countless years, fought from the first human-demon war straight into the second. No amount of preparation is excessive."

Si Yi Heavenly Monarch: "..."

Zhou Bai looked at Xiang Tiandi, full of admiration, and said: "Looks like we're thinking in the same way. To counter the Celestial Court in Supreme Heaven, I need more cultivation materials and mutated weapons. When you took over the Celestial Court, you must have seized a lot of good stuff, right?"

Xiang Tiandi sighed: "Before leaving, the Supreme Heavenly Venerate already took away most of the valuables. Those immortals and Heavenly Court traitors took good stuff when they left as well, causing us significant losses."

Zhou Bai looked at the righteous gods before him, knowing that even though they are allied with him against the Supreme Heavenly Venerate, it's clearly impossible to expect them to willingly aid him in his training and enhancement.

Soon after, Zhou Bai and the righteous gods dispersed. In the spiritual sea, Christina said, "Those righteous gods must have hidden good things; they are clearly refusing to give them to us now."

Zhou Bai coldly said: "One at a time. Even without resources, I'll still drain them dry."

"From today on, their ancestors up to the eighteenth generation are doomed!"

Zhou Bai looked at his lazy energy value, with over eight million remaining, still short 32 million of what's needed for the fourth star point of the Anger Diagram.

...

Shortly after Si Yi Heavenly Monarch returned to the Plague Department, they sensed a figure rushing into the Plague Department.

"Plague Department's invalid! Who dares to come and fight me!"

"In such a large Plague Department, isn't there anyone who can fight?"

Si Yi Heavenly Monarch raised an eyebrow, feeling a flicker of anger but suppressed it.

After Zhou Bai shouted a few more times, Yan Zhen came rushing over, indignantly saying: "Heavenly Monarch, that Zhou Bai has been provoking us from the sky, interfering with our work."

During the great war, due to guarding the Plague Department, Yan Zhen survived the battle, becoming the fourth strongest in the Plague Department now.