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Calamity of Tomorrow-Chapter 492 - 491 Drive
After four consecutive strikes that ruptured the very fabric of the starry galaxies, the Abyss Nether Dragon Armor finally ceased its resistance, and Zhou Bai's Primordial Spirit power immediately enveloped this Ninth Realm Magical Treasure, beginning the process of Primordial Spirit Refining.
Although it was a distorted magical treasure, the Abyss Nether Dragon Armor was still a treasure. Its material and structure were designed from the beginning to be refined by the Primordial Spirit.
Once the refining was successful, henceforth only Zhou Bai's Primordial Spirit power would be able to truly activate the Abyss Nether Dragon Armor. Should anyone else wish to seize it, they would have to snatch away the armor and start over with Primordial Spirit Refining.
However, Zhou Bai, observing Wei Cang approaching from the distance, continued to refine the Abyss Nether Dragon Armor while wrapped within it and swiftly retreated, temporarily avoiding Wei Cang's sharp edge.
At the same time, he manipulated the Guihai Black Sha to form lines of text, but watching Wei Cang far away, who remained unmoved, it was clear that the pursuer had shaken off the influence of the Fool's Disaster during the half hour chase, probably even shutting off his hearing and vision to prevent being influenced again.
Wei Cang was indeed just sensing the fluctuations of Zhou Bai's spirit from afar as he pursued.
In this cat-and-mouse chase, although Wei Cang was a Ninth Realm expert, speed was not his forte. On the contrary, Zhou Bai was flying with his Primordial Spirit, which was much faster than ordinary cultivators.
In the blink of an eye, countless mountains and rivers swiftly passed beneath their feet, and then land gradually vanished, giving way to the ocean's surface. The two had already come to be above the vast sea.
It was only at this moment that Wei Cang truly caught up with Zhou Bai. The entire sky roiled with the ferocious energies of the Moro Hell Qi, as he seemed to transform into the eye of a typhoon, with tumultuous waves on the sea's surface as if they too were trembling in response to this violent force.
"Zhou Bai! Hand over the Mysterious Maiden!" Wei Cang bellowed, clenching his fist, and a Moro Hell Qi hand, tens of meters in length, emerged, with an earth-shattering momentum, fiercely slamming down towards Zhou Bai.
The atmosphere howled as columns of water dragons rose from the sea, and the water's surface under Zhou Bai's position was continually pressed down with the force of the blow, creating a deep pit.
It was at this moment that Zhou Bai finally completed refining the Abyss Nether Dragon Armor. The armor reassembled and transformed into a humanoid figure, with Zhou Bai's Primordial Spirit attaching within, while Guihai Black Sha clung to the Primordial Spirit, activating a mountain-like defense.
The next moment, Zhou Bai's Primordial Spirit power surged into the Abyss Nether Dragon Armor.
The armor, distorted for a full 20 years and deprived of Primordial Spirit power for so long, was at last once again driven by such power.
The Abyss Nether Dragon Armor, being the Evil Sect's treasured magical treasure, needed a cultivator's Primordial Spirit power for activation, as only this power could utilize the various runes and Arrays within it and replenish its energy consumption.
Meanwhile, the various metallic components inside the armor undulated continuously, seemingly alive as they mended earlier damage.
Even though the Abyss Nether Dragon Armor itself had an Array capable of slowly absorbing and recovering spiritual power, nothing was as fast as a direct drive by the Primordial Spirit.
Zhou Bai only felt the Abyss Nether Dragon Armor was like a tremendous black hole, voraciously devouring his Primordial Spirit power. It took 50,000 points of Lazy Qi to treat the weakening of his Primordial Spirit before Zhou Bai felt the armor slow down its consumption rate.
Simultaneously, the armor's black surface began to reveal countless dark golden runes, providing the Abyss Nether Dragon Armor with multiple layers of protective force fields.
Facing Wei Cang's attack, Zhou Bai simply threw a punch, combining the gravitational force of the Tianhe Star Explosion with the Moro Hell Qi-formed giant palm, colliding together.
Wei Cang possessed the most pinnacle Primordial Spirit power of the Ninth Realm, while Zhou Bai was defended by the triple layers of Lying like a Mountain, Corrupted Shell, and the Abyss Nether Dragon Armor.
The clash of fists, one large, one small, immediately caused Moro Hell Qi to emit crackling explosions, with the formed fist fracturing slightly in mid-air.
Zhou Bai's figure was forced back by the rebound of the forces, swiftly retreating hundreds of meters, but the Abyss Nether Dragon Armor undulated slightly, still imposing and seemingly unharmed.
Zhou Bai thought to himself, 'The defensive power of the Abyss Nether Dragon Armor is too strong; ordinary means can no longer harm me. However, his power is far greater than mine.'
At the same time, Zhou Bai sensed that without a physical body, he couldn't unleash the immense power displayed by the Mysterious Maiden.
The Abyss Nether Dragon Armor was, after all, designed for the physical body, and without one, its abilities to enhance, nourish, and adjust the body could not be manifested.
Primordial Spirit could drive the various runes and Arrays on the armor, exerting all sorts of wonderful uses.
The physical body, on the other hand, could be enhanced by the armor, showing the violent power of the armor.
To fully utilize all the powers and abilities of the Abyss Nether Dragon Armor, both the Primordial Spirit and the physical body were indispensable.
Like Zhou Bai, who was driving with the power of the Primordial Spirit, he had activated various defensive runes and Arrays, making the defensive power even more solid than before when the Mysterious Lady wore it, but without a physical body, he could not exert the same level of ferocious violence as before.
"It's a pity that this time it's just the Primordial Spirit Emergence, without the physical body."
"I wonder how much my combat ability could be enhanced if the Abyss Nether Dragon Armor could be combined with my physical body."
Thinking of this, Zhou Bai also let out a slight sigh of relief. The journey to South Mountain City, despite great consumption and substantial losses, had been hugely profitable with the acquisition of Ancient Daoist Archive 05 and the Abyss Nether Dragon Armor.
Ancient Daoist Archive 05 gave him the chance to break through his bottleneck, and the Abyss Nether Dragon Armor gave him the capital to directly confront Ninth Realm adversaries in battle.
All Zhou Bai needed to do was to go back and sort things out, properly assimilate his gains, and his strength would once again improve qualitatively.
At the same time, Wei Cang had continued his assault, and both were fighting and retreating, rushing into the sea with a boom.
Feeling Zhou Bai wear the Abyss Nether Dragon Armor during the attack, Wei Cang, thinking of how the other party had abducted the Mysterious Lady and donned the dragon armor, was itching with hatred: "Watch as I first strip the dragon armor from your body, then I'll take my time dealing with you."
A grand and terrifying miasma surged into the sea, apparently intending to engulf Zhou Bai completely.
Zhou Bai stood indifferently in the sea, watching the approaching miasma turn into giant palms and bombard him.
Zhou Bai punched out repeatedly, his fists colliding with the miasma again and again, causing the sea beneath to explode, with whirlpools and tornadoes everywhere, and the sea surface saw a storm with lightning and thunder.
But Zhou Bai stood proudly in the midst of the sea, relying on the Abyss Nether Dragon Armor, lying still like a mountain, with the defenses of his tainted flesh, unharmed amid the onslaught of the miasma.
Zhou Bai looked at Wei Cang, who was besieging him, glanced at the support cultivation system panel, and saw that there were still over three million lazy energy values remaining.
Zhou Bai estimated the current situation, calculating that if he used these three million-plus lazy energy values... and if that person joined the fray...
"I wonder if that person will come over. If he does, there might be a chance to kill Wei Cang, the human betrayer, together."
Just at this moment, a white shadow flashed and appeared in the sea.
Zhou Bai's eyes widened as he looked towards the suddenly appearing figure, enshrouded in white mist, the very person who had just appeared and abducted the Mysterious Lady.
"Is it him? Has he followed me? Who exactly is he?"
The stranger's appearance instantly triggered Wei Cang's attack, as the miasma turned into a palm tens of meters long and grabbed towards him.
Yet the figure still punched out, his surging power vacating the surrounding sea water as if creating a vacuum, before his fist collided with the miasma.
With power strong enough to break mountains and destroy cities, the miasma briefly stiffened, and in the next moment, it shattered a large swathe.
Unable to defeat the opponent with one move, Wei Cang seemed to understand that the White Shadow Man was not easy to provoke, and abruptly halted his assault.
Instantly, the entire battlefield went quiet due to the emergence of the White Shadow Man, with the three parties each having their own considerations, standing in three different positions, none continuing to make a move.