Chapter 15 (1/2)

Under Bando’s lead, Zhou Bai followed him into the laboratory. Bando looked at the Bando inside the cultivation tank that only had its upper torso and said coldly, “That was the old me.”

“Practicing primordial spirit power requires breathing Spark, but nowadays, the Heavenly Tao has been distorted, and the Spark has been contaminated. Breathing Spark and conforming to Heaven means gradually synchronizing with the distorted Heavenly Tao. If your will is not strong enough, you might end up like that….”

“So that’s why,” said Christina. “No wonder you’re fine, Zhou Bai. Your primordial spirit power is raised directly by the system. You didn’t practice it yourself.”

Zhou Bai’s mouth twitched as he looked at Bando with caution. The situation is unclear right now. He’ll increase some Primordial Spirit Value later to calm down.

“Teacher cut off an undamaged part and replicated a new me.” Bando sighed after glancing at the deformed person inside the cultivation tank and then turned to look at Zhou Bai.

Halfway through his sentence, he paused and stared at Zhou Bai, who was lying on the floor. He sounded very perplexed. “What are you doing?”

Zhou Bai said casually, “Nothing, I’m tired, so I’m resting. Don’t mind me. Please continue.”

“Looks like you’re about to go mad too…” Bando shook his head. “The cost of obtaining primordial spirit power is too great.”

As he said this, he walked over to a spot on the wall, which opened into a secret door. “When Teacher sliced me off, he didn’t expect I still had a lingering consciousness and saw the secret he tried so hard to hide.”

As the secret door opened, Zhou Bai’s vision focused.

In his sight, dense corpses filled the secret room.

Children’s corpses were piled neatly in the secret room.

Zhou Bai could even see several corpses of Elsa, Alice, and Bando.

Bando said eerily, “Teacher has been using us to experiment with primordial spirit power secretly.”

“During demon class, without us knowing, he made us directly face the extremely dangerous distorted Heavenly way. Just by being in contact with the sculptures made based on twisted, evil, fallen Heavenly way makes us practice subconsciously.”

“And as soon as we mutate, he will slice off the undamaged portion, and use it to cultivate a new clone person, which inherits the memories from before they mutated.”

“But is the cloned me, still me?”

“Zhou Bai, you and Alice leave with me. Staying here means certain death.”

Zhou Bai looked at the contents of the secret room in horror, many clues linked together in his mind.

‘The crazy talk in the diary…what the professor said about madness…and Bando’s situation.”

‘Christina also said practicing randomly could turn you mad. Is this the situation she was talking about?’

Christina began tossing about in Zhou Bai’s mind. “I think what this Bando said is true. Let’s run away. That Professor Zhuang looks so scary. He’s definitely not a good person.”

Seeing Zhou Bai was still hesitating while lying on the ground, Bando said, “It’s up to you whether you want to leave or not, but I have to take Alice with me. I won’t allow her to continue living in this hell-like world.”

At that moment, shrill cries came from the direction of the hallway. Bando and Zhou Bai’s expressions both changed, and they ran in the direction of the hallway.

In the hallway, under the flickering lights, children’s bodies lay in a pool of blood. None of them were breathing.

Alice was trembling. She stood in the center of the hallway, looking at Bando and Zhou Bai, who rushed over. Her lips were tightly pursed, holding back tears, an expression of fear on her face.

“Alice!” Bando reached out his hand, his primordial spirit power bursting.

But before his primordial spirit power could reach Alice, he saw Alice’s expression freeze. Her head fell to the ground with a thump.

“Ahh!!” Bando raced over, roaring.