Zhou Bai watched Elsa quietly reading a book and said with relief, "What's the matter? It's good to read seriously. Even if wisdom decreases a bit, it's okay. Diligence can make up for dullness. I'm sure Elsa will have no problem graduating from primary school. After joining society, she can somehow find a way to make a living."

"By the way, Tina, didn't you say you didn't want to contemplate the Taoist canon? How about taking this opportunity to catch up on your lessons and read more books?"

Christina quickly replied, "I don't want to! You can't do this to me!"

With disdain, she said, "Reading like this turns you into a bookworm. How can that compare to the wisdom I've gained from so many adventures and battles?"

Zhou Bai lamented, "In the future human society, the world belongs to cultured people. If you don't read more books, there's no way forward. You might end up as a pet, relying on selling smiles for a living every day."

Christina rolled her eyes, completely disbelieving Zhou Bai's words.

However, Zhou Bai didn't force Christina either. After sitting down, he directly performed Primordial Spirit Emergence and arrived in front of a Taoist canon.

He had at most two days left before leaving Earth for a trip to Mars. Before heading to Mars, he wanted to accomplish one thing.

'Last time, I copied parts of the Heavenly Dao and created the Heavenly Dao Bomb.'

'Unfortunately, even with my power, directly gazing at the Heavenly Dao rapidly increases pollution level, leading to transformation.'

'Even without continuous direct gazing, related memories need to be erased, and then the pollution level expelled to escape the threat of transformation.'

So although Zhou Bai copied the contents of the Heavenly Dao, at this moment, he no longer remembered what he had transcribed.

'But there's no doubt that the Heavenly Dao contains vast secrets. In these few days, my main body will seize the opportunity and see if any more mysteries can be comprehended.'

Zhou Bai wanted to see if, in the process of gazing at the Heavenly Dao, he could extract some information about it. Maybe extracting a bit more of the Heavenly Dao's mysteries could bring greater change to the current situation.

However, after six hours of continuous effort, Zhou Bai found that the content left after gazing at the Heavenly Dao was very similar to primitive Taoist canons, filled with indescribable content.

Any content slightly beyond specifications would immediately trigger distortion and transformation, being destroyed on the spot by Zhou Bai.

"Profound and mysterious, indescribable—that's what I have left after gazing at the Taoist canon?"

"Could it be that as long as the content from the Heavenly Dao is left in straightforward terms, it always results in distortion and transformation? What is the rule behind this?"

With confusion in his heart, Zhou Bai's Primordial Spirit wrapped the Taoist canon and tried once more to gaze at the content within the Heavenly Dao through the Taoist canon.

The Taoist canon is a text where countless predecessors attempted to describe the Heavenly Dao indirectly through various words and images. It allows indirect enlightenment of the Heavenly Dao by contemplating it, potentially achieving a state of profound and mysterious, indescribable.

But even then, a small mistake could lead one towards madness and transformation.

As for Zhou Bai's approach, directly using the Taoist canon to try gazing at the Heavenly Dao's mysteries, it has been a path to death in the past. It's only due to his reliance on the nine disasters of a celestial being that he's able to withstand it.

Accompanied by waves of radiance unfolding before his eyes, Zhou Bai felt his consciousness seemingly infinitely transcending, piercing through layers of void to arrive in a space filled with brilliance.

Seems like an overwhelming amount of information was flowing past him.

'After the Heavenly Dao's twist, it is no longer a secret. As long as you contemplate, you can directly see the content inside the Heavenly Dao. But why does viewing the Heavenly Dao's content lead to transformation?'

Zhou Bai was about to once again gaze at the content inside the Heavenly Dao when he saw a giant claw reaching towards him in this infinite bright space.

With a deafening boom, countless words and images shattered, leaving Zhou Bai unable to see a thing.

Zhou Bai was shocked as he watched the giant hand: "What is this thing? Are there creatures inside the Heavenly Dao too?"

The voice of the Demon Saint resounded: "Still not enough after all these times? Stop courting death, go back quickly."

Zhou Bai exclaimed: "Demon Saint? How are you here?"

The Demon Saint sneered: "I'm guarding in front of the Heavenly Dao's gate, how could I not be here? If it weren't for me discovering you, if something else found you, this kid would have been dead long ago."

"To say I've benefited from coming in once would be fine enough."

"But you aren't content with coming once, you've been in and out over a hundred times in one day. Truly courting death to the utmost."

After hearing this, Zhou Bai felt inexplicably embarrassed, as if hidden secrets were streaming in from the Demon Saint's words. His curiosity surged, prompting him to ask all the questions:

"Why can't we gaze upon the Heavenly Dao directly? Why does direct gazing at the Heavenly Dao lead to transformation and distortion? How can you be here? Are there others here? Who are they? Spiritual People from beyond?"

The Demon Saint sighed: "Curiosity is the first original sin of this universe; ignorance is the only way to protect all civilizations. If I hadn't been as curious as you back then, it wouldn't have led to this."

"The Heavenly Dao is not for you to study, go back."

With those words, the Demon Saint pointed out, causing Zhou Bai to feel turbulence in his mind. When he came to, he was back in his physical body, with all memories related to the Heavenly Dao completely erased.

"Hmm? Didn't manage to see the Heavenly Dao?"

Zhou Bai sighed, feeling that if analyzing the Heavenly Dao were so easy, it wouldn't have stumped the Spiritual People for so many years. Considering this, he decided not to waste time on it.

"Alright, let's just take a trip to Mars." Zhou Bai thought internally: 'I wonder what's the situation on Mars now.'

Two days later, the Heavenly Demon Sect was all abuzz after being contacted by Zhou Bai.

The Heavenly Demon King, 'Ji,' said, "Zhou Bai proactively contacted us and is coming to Mars!"

The Heavenly Demon Queen said, "He must have experienced the complete bombardment of Earth and then Time Reverse, wanting to come to Mars to stop us. Just as Supreme Heavenly Venerate said, Zhou Bai, with Time Reverse, is even easier to control."

...

In the second layer of Supreme Heaven, within Upper Purity Heaven.

The great sun associated with Haotian Celestial Emperor still stood high up, magnificent and emitting endless light and heat.

But under the siege of hundreds of celestial beings combined with the courtyard array formation and the assistance of Supreme Heavenly Venerate, Haotian Celestial Emperor seemed unable to break free.

After this stalemate persisted for over two months, a crack suddenly appeared in the sky, with beams of azure light shooting out from it, as a dignified man in a green robe and wearing an emperor's crown slowly stepped out.

Upon seeing this man's arrival, both inside and outside the court, there was turmoil. What emerged was the previous generation's Celestial Emperor who hadn't been seen for over five hundred years while in retreat.

Witnessing this, Haotian Celestial Emperor's heart sank, 'Has the Divine Body been refined so quickly? Seems like the old ghost's hidden things aren't just what's in front.'

Supreme Heavenly Venerate looked at the splendid great sun and said with a smile, "Di Jun, do you know that there are never two suns in the sky, nor two rulers among the people, and the Celestial Emperor can only exist as one?"

As he spoke, the former generation's Celestial Emperor's Divine Body transformed into another great sun, soaring into the sky, colliding with Di Jun.

With a thunderous explosion, the entire Upper Purity Heaven violently shook, and the two suns in the sky collided fiercely, causing a rain of fire to scatter everywhere, leaving no object unstained by fire and even straightening out twisted spaces.

The two suns expanded layer by layer, directly crossing thousands of miles, seemingly about to tear the sky of Upper Purity Heaven completely apart.

Hundreds of kilometers long fire serpents erupted from the two suns, burning palaces, puppets, and arrays into ashes.

The Golden Mother Primordial Lord looked at the scene in shock, "Is this their true power? Were they stalling all along?"

Beside her, Li Tai said, "Your Highness, this place is too dangerous, please withdraw quickly!"

On the battlefield in the sky, many celestial beings present saw that the first great sun was distinctly hotter, more intense, more magnificent, as if about to completely engulf the second great sun.

Di Jun coldly said, "Your Divine Body has wasted away for five hundred years, how could it be a match for my Daoist techniques."

Supreme Heavenly Venerate sighed lightly, "Do you know how long an instant is?"

"It's the time it takes for light to travel the shortest distance in the world."

In the next moment, when Di Jun realized, his transformed sun was only a third of the opponent's size, with endless light and heat being constantly consumed by the opponent, and immense gravity dragging him, slowly drawing him into the vast sea of fire.