"Zhou Bai, this black lotus will grow with your physical body and Primordial Spirit, and when you're under a fatal attack, when your body is about to die, it will wither and fall, using the power of its wishes as its price, to restore you to your peak state…"

Master Yin Hai's words were imbued with a strong sense of fatigue, his face flickered with threads of pain, "You all may go now, I need to rest…"

…

Then he saw in his sea of consciousness that the Nine Calamities Primordial Spirit World-purifying Black Lotus, which was originally holding up, began to wither, and as the petals of the black lotus wilted one by one, Zhou Bai's physical body and Primordial Spirit quickly recovered, reaching their peak once again in the blink of an eye, while the black lotus completely dissipated from sight.

'Thank you, Master Yin Hai.'

If Xiang Tiandi relied on the existence of other Immortals, leveraging the power of Heaven, that was relying on external forces to deliver this peak strike.

Then Zhou Bai happened to use the accumulation of wishes from the Leiyin Temple, borrowing Master Yin Hai's ability, which was to rely on external forces to block this strike.

Zhou Bai abruptly opened his eyes, looking toward the remnants of the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder that loomed before him, its thunderous momentum already in a lull, feebly striking Zhou Bai's body.

Zhou Bai's body was once again clad in the unscathed Abyss Nether Dragon Armor, his Primordial Spirit covered by the Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor, and then he spat out the Void Crown once more.

Following that, Zhou Bai let out a fierce shout, his once again peak-defensive physical and Primordial Spirit body suddenly exploded with power, dispersing the last of the thunder with a palm strike, revealing himself unharmed.

Under the peak Nine Heavens Divine Thunder pushed by Marshal Xiang Tiandi of the Thunder Department, Zhou Bai was actually unscathed?

This scene directly shocked countless onlookers.

Xiang Haocu's eyes widened in shock, "How is that possible? The Nine Heavens Divine Thunder propelled to its peak by my father… was actually unable to harm Zhou Bai at all."

"It's the same again... this kind of thing again." Zhao Yue was also stunned; she felt like she was revisiting the debates in Daluo Heaven, where Zhou Bai, on the stage, faced increasingly strong opponents and revealed his seemingly bottomless strength, eventually defeating everyone.

In the VIP spectator's area, the Ghost Butcher's gaze grew sharp: 'Impossible, there's no way Zhou Bai could have taken that hit unscathed, what kind of trick did he pull off?!'

Ming Yue the Immortal, however, gazed at Zhou Bai with a complex expression, her desire for talent surging: 'How wonderful it would have been if such a pure-blooded talent was wholeheartedly with us. If I had known the first time I saw Zhou Bai, I should have forcibly taken him to Wanxian Island to discipline extensively.'

And the common people watching the projection around the world were even more shocked; most of them didn't understand so much about Path magic, aberrant weapons, and demonic bloodlines, and in their eyes, it was just a earth-shattering move from Xiang Tiandi, but it was taken unscathed by Zhou Bai, leading most people to think of Immortal Artifacts.

"What's happening? Wasn't Zhou Bai relying on Immortal Artifacts to covertly defeat the Immortal Butcher?"

"Could it be an Immortal Artifact protecting Zhou Bai?"

"What kind of Immortal Artifact is it, and why can't we see it?"

On the Heavenly Arena, Xiang Tiandi's pupils constricted to the size of needle tips, his wariness towards Zhou Bai rising once again: 'How did he block that? He really didn't get hurt at all?'

And Zhou Bai, looking at Xiang Tiandi, spoke with a face of disappointment, "Sigh, Xiang Tiandi, even you can't harm me?"

He looked at his hands with a lonely expression, "It's been way too long since I've felt what's called pain, perhaps there's no longer anything in this world that can kill me, right?"

"Bluffing." Xiang Tiandi said coldly, "Zhou Bai, I don't know how you blocked that last attack, but it certainly wasn't as effortless as you claim."

"Is that so?" Zhou Bai smiled faintly, speaking with confidence, "Then you can try again." He spread his arms, his face the picture of calm, "No one can kill me, not humans, not demons, not even you Immortals!"

Zhou Bai appeared calm on the surface as he looked at Xiang Tiandi, but inwardly he was on tenterhooks: "Christina, if Xiang Tiandi is going to use some powerful move again, let's first unleash the Mixed Element Star Constellation Calamity together, and then you can transform and use the amalgamation of the five Divine Skills on your own, hit him hard."

"Last time, this guy Xiang Tiandi took away the mutant form of the Zi Yang True Monarch; he might still have some mutant weapons forged by the True Monarch in his hands. We have to guard against that move."

Christina said in the sea of consciousness, "Then why do you keep provoking him? Aren't you trying to buy time?"

Zhou Bai chuckled inside, "Xiang Tiandi is extremely suspicious and sensitive, and his mentality is exceedingly cautious.

You see, he chased Li Xiuzhu for several days and nights, forcing Li to retreat step by step, but when faced with the sudden appearance of the Heavenly Arena, he still didn't rashly step up but chose to send human cultivators to scout ahead.

This shows his character, he never fights unprepared battles and is best at overpowering others with his momentum. Ordinary tricks and schemes are useless against such a person.

If I started by trying every possible means to buy time, he would certainly make a full-fledged effort to crush me as quickly as possible."

"But now that I've pretended to easily withstand his full-power Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, and showed no concern for his attack, pretending I want him to make his best effort, he'll become suspicious, thinking I'm plotting against him."

"With his character, he will definitely test to see by what ability I blocked his last move, expose my trump card, and then attack me with full force, rather than acting recklessly."

"That's exactly what I am counting on – his caution – to buy time."

Christina's eyes brightened, and she quickly nodded, "That's what I was thinking too."

Zhou Bai continued inwardly, "But this isn't 100% certain, after all, we're being live-streamed, and considering public opinion, Xiang Tiandi might also want to defeat us quickly.

So we must prepare for both possibilities, if he disregards everything and attacks with full force, you get ready to transform and hit him hard; that way, given his caution, his attacks will definitely be tentative at first."

On the other side, Xiang Tiandi watched Zhou Bai, thinking to himself, 'How exactly did Zhou Bai block my Nine Heavens Divine Thunder? A mutant weapon? A divinatory pattern? Or some kind of void power?'

'If I use the Luotian Realm's mutant weapon, would it also be blocked?'

'This mutant weapon... I can only use it up to three times in a day... if Zhou Bai blocks it... not only will I lose a chance to use it, but the enemy will also learn the form of attack of the mutant weapon.'

Mutant weapons, divinatory patterns, and the abilities and attack forms of demons, these are critical pieces of intelligence. Like Li Xiuzhu, who concealed the ability of the Blood Transformation Divine Sword to kill Li Zhengdao, he even risked serious injury to keep it secret.

And before the battle with Ming Yue the Immortal, Li Xiuzhu fought Xiang Tiandi to death for many days and defeated more than two hundred cultivators but never once used the attack combining dragon power with fist intent.

Then, unexpectedly on the Heavenly Arena, he used Yinglong Dragon Power combined with the Great Sky Flipping Fist Intent to restrict Ming Yue the Immortal, followed by a single successful strike from the Blood Transformation Divine Sword.

That is the advantage of intelligence, the threat of the 'unknown.'

Especially when the abilities of various mutant weapons, divinatory patterns, and demonic bloodlines are unreasonable, the threat of the unknown becomes even greater.

Including Zhou Bai's abilities like Catastrophe, the Fool, and others, they also hold the threat of the 'unknown,' an advantage in intelligence.