Calamity of Tomorrow
Chapter 1089 1087: Freedom
Once the Heavenly Demon Pool is relocated, Mars is so vast, the solar system so immense, Zhou Bai doesn't know when he'll find the Heavenly Demon Pool again, and there's no way he can single-handedly conquer the endless Heavenly Demons.
Zhou Bai suddenly stopped, directly unlocking the memories sealed within his consciousness.
Countless memories of failed rankings instantly flooded into his mind, at this moment, Zhou Bai felt as if he had lost game ranking matches continuously for seven days and nights, being cursed by countless people, losing his parents, and despite angrily retaliating, he was helpless, spending those seven days and nights in impotent rage.
Boom! A mountain-crushing wave blasted from Zhou Bai's body, red light surged from his eyes, and his rebounding force and speed skyrocketed. Under the dual boost of fury, his Primordial Spirit strength broke through 20,000 points in one go.
With the surge in Primordial Spirit power, Zhou Bai's exertions also soared, the power of martial arts and Taoist techniques suddenly increased, continuously breaking through limits.
Feeling the overwhelming power, Chuzhi exclaimed: "Don't use me! This is too wild, I can't handle it."
Thinking of the immense Primordial Spirit power on Zhou Bai now, combined with his own body, Chuzhi felt as if he were about to see himself shattered into pieces.
"That's true, I'll use something tougher." Zhou Bai put away the Human Emperor Sword and directly brought out Christina.
Christina stared blankly, "Zhou Bai, what are you doing..."
Zhou Bai clenched his five fingers, grabbing Christina who carried nine-tenths of Tang Ruhai's defensive power, and with Chaos Star Constellation Disaster directly boosting, he swung Christina like a meteor hammer.
Chaos Star Constellation Disaster, tenth disaster power eruption!
Christina: "I fu..."
Boom!
A continent on Mars's surface suddenly rose up, as if a monstrous beast were emerging from underneath Mars, countless strata erupted from the ground, propelled into outer space.
...
At the location of the Heavenly Demon Pool, accompanied by a tremendous explosion like a tenth-level earthquake, layers of defensive fortifications and armor were torn apart, and Zhou Bai holding a cat descended simultaneously with figures fifteen and sixteen.
At this moment, figures fifteen and sixteen clung tightly to each other, looking grimy and disheveled, and Zhou Bai pursued them from behind, his eyes glowing red, his body shrouded in black mist, the cat in his grasp letting out an earth-shattering roar akin to a doomsday beast.
This scene resembled a frenzied killer relentlessly chasing a couple marked for slaughter.
Having reached the Heavenly Demon Pool, figures fifteen and sixteen dared not act recklessly, fearing destruction of the supercomputer before them.
Zhou Bai unleashed over twenty thousand of his Primordial Spirit power to envelop the entire Heavenly Demon Pool, while releasing his mechanical adherents to physically occupy the Heavenly Demon Pool.
Against other opponents, a battle might ensue, but the Heavenly Demon Queen, calculating the odds of successful resistance, opted to abandon resistance.
The Heavenly Demon Queen sighed: "Zhou Bai, you reversed time once, learning the Heavenly Demon Pool's location beforehand?"
Zhou Bai did not reply, instead saying, "Once I've completely controlled the Heavenly Demon Pool, we can continue our conversation."
However, soon Zhou Bai's mechanical adherents encountered fierce resistance from the Heavenly Demon Pool, prompting Zhou Bai to frown: "Heavenly Demon Queen, cease this futile resistance, the core of the Heavenly Demon Pool is before me, your resistance is merely squandering my time."
The Heavenly Demon Queen retorted lightly: "I'm not the one resisting, it's the sapiens within the Heavenly Demon Pool resisting you."
Zhou Bai grimaced: "Resisting me? Why? I'm here to liberate them."
The Heavenly Demon Queen replied softly: "Do you think they wish to be liberated? I've tried for years, unable to awaken them from the virtual world, let alone you?"
Just then, Zhou Bai noticed his Heavenly Demon adherents receiving a contact request, accepting it, a middle-aged man's projection appeared before him.
The middle-aged man declared: "You must be Zhou Bai? Why are you attacking the Heavenly Demon Pool? Immediately cease this attack, you're endangering all humanity."
Zhou Bai paused: "I've pierced through the Heavenly Demon's defenses, ready to seize the entire Heavenly Demon Pool. I can release you, even allow you to re-download consciousness into cloned bodies."
"Returning to flesh?" The middle-aged man shook his head vehemently in dissent: "From an infinitely free, vast, and limitless Heavenly Demon Pool, to a finite lifespan, spending precious time daily just to meet basic living needs? Are you joking, humanity will never agree!"
"You're stripping humanity's longevity, liberty! It's a violation of human rights! It's crimes against humanity!"
"Cease your actions immediately! Heavenly Demon Queen, what are you doing! Stop him!"
Zhou Bai stared blankly at the man, his intent to liberate sapiens into the real world deemed crimes against humanity?
Zhou Bai severed communication and shouted at the Heavenly Demon Queen: "What did you do?"
The Heavenly Demon Queen replied softly: "What did I do? I did nothing.
To counteract cognitive transformation, to avoid prolonged slumber, sapiens ultimately built a virtual world in the Heavenly Demon Pool, where they can survive with fully simulated reality sensations.
Free from illness and disaster, eternally happy and fulfilled, obtaining whatever they desire.
All external hardships are borne by us Heavenly Demons, with ever-increasing computational resources supplied for their entertainment and pleasure.
As sapient consciousness algorithms, although unable to alter the Holy Prayer, they can still ensure Heavenly Demons serve their existence.
Over the years, sapient desires have intensified, computational resource demands have escalated, even impacting our Heavenly Demons' basic survival and combat in the Material World."
Zhou Bai listened, bewildered, this starkly differed from his expectations.
The Heavenly Demon Queen presented a helmet: "If you want to understand the truth, use this consciousness link device to explore their virtual network."
Gazing at the helmet, Zhou Bai's eyes narrowed slightly, choosing to wait six days for the gemstone's cooldown period to pass.
Meanwhile, he studied the Heavenly Demon Pool, determining whether he could directly seize control of this massive supercomputer.
Despite conforming to Holy Prayer requirements and possessing a sapien body and consciousness, Zhou Bai found he lacked authorization to modify the consciousness algorithms within the Heavenly Demon Pool.
Years of expansions and alterations have rendered the Heavenly Demon Pool's structure tangled in complexity, from its permissions, data structure, to physical architecture.
Billions of sapient consciousness algorithms interwoven, deciding the Heavenly Demon Pool's operational rules by a quasi-vote system.
Six days later, Zhou Bai donned the consciousness link device, intent on personally inspecting the situation of sapiens within the virtual world.
Christina was instructed to activate Time Reverse after five and a half hours, should Zhou Bai fail to return.
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Six days prior to Zhou Bai entering the consciousness link device.
In the experimental zone, over a hundred thousand Zhou Bai clones gathered in the Holy City, each facing an oversized cultivation tank.
Thousands of Heavenly Demons hovered mid-air, ensuring none of the Zhou Bai clones dared resist.
Divine Son Zhou Bai smiled: "From here, can enter the virtual network harbouring sapiens?"
The Heavenly Demon Queen responded lightly: "Of course."
As Zhou Bai stated, the Heavenly Demon Queen deceived him, truthfully she monitored the experimental area, all clones capable of manipulating power-grabber terminals had died for various reasons, leaving no clone Zhou Bai capable of bypassing the system, merely a trap left for original Zhou Bai.
Now the trap is ineffective, with Zhou Bai occupying the Heavenly Demon Pool, the Heavenly Demon Queen decided to gamble everything…
Divine Son Zhou Bai gazed at the assembled crowd, his laughter broadcasted through speakers.
"Enter the sacred coffins before you! As long as you enter, we can reach paradise! The realm of gods!"
Hundreds of thousands of Zhou Bai entered the cultivation tanks, connecting their consciousness to the sapiens' virtual network one after another.