Chapter 45 (1/2)

Chapter 45: Paper Illusion

When he heard the sudden clamor, Zhou Bai shot up from his bed. He looked in the direction the sound came from but saw the wall was completely undamaged.

However, Zhou Bai didn’t let down his guard at all, because the moment he heard the sound, a strong stench suddenly filled the room, making him extremely alert.

Zhou Bai’s first thought wasn’t to fight. Instead, he walked over to his door and wanted to go outside.

After all, this was Donghua Tao Academy. If he encountered some monster, the best retaliation was to call for help immediately.

But when Zhou Bai put his hand on the doorknob, his heart skipped a beat. The door was locked.

Zhou Bai used his primordial spirit power without hesitation. He smashed the wooden door with a strength that could overturn a small car. But with a loud bang, the wooden door remained in place, completely undamaged.

“That’s impossible!” he exclaimed. “Given this wooden door’s quality, my primordial spirit power should be able to break through it instantaneously!”

Zhou Bai widened his eyes, and all the power in his body burst. His bones shook, his muscles twisted, his body collided into the door again with primordial spirit power.

With a loud boom, the door continued to remain unmoved, but his body was nearly numb from the impact.

Theoretically, after he made such a big commotion, someone should have come.

But it remained tranquil inside the room and even in the corridor outside, as if he were in an alternate world, completely isolated from the outside.

Zhou Bai frowned, inspecting the situation inside the room.

This is bad, he said to himself. This sort of measure is probably way beyond the range of what I can fight. Li Xiuzhu is so unreliable. I hope he’s just late and not standing me up.

At that moment, the stink in the air got stronger and stronger. Elsa suddenly started barking loudly in the direction of the bathroom door.

Zhou Bai turned to look in the direction of the bathroom. The students at Donghua Tao Academy had living conditions that were all pretty good. They each had an independent bathroom in their rooms.

But seeing Elsa bark wildly like that, Zhou Bai couldn’t help suspecting something was hiding inside the bathroom.

Just as he was thinking that, he heard a loud thump.

The closed bathroom door shook.

“Something’s in there!” Zhou Bai’s heart skipped a beat. He shouted to Christina, who was curled in a ball in his mind, “Stupid cat! Hurry up and wake up! Something’s really wrong here!”

But Christina was unresponsive. She was still curled up in a ball, floating in Zhou Bai’s mind.

But the pounding on the bathroom door got louder and more urgent, as if something was ramming against the door, wanting to enter from the bathroom.

Zhou Bai hastily pulled Elsa behind him. His brows furrowed as he quickly thought of a plan to deal with the situation.

“No, this sort of measure of completely isolating my small room is too peculiar. It’s way beyond my current level. Against measures like this, I have no way to retaliate…

Wait…no way to retaliate? Zhou Bai’s eyes narrowed as he thought, If they can manage something like this, killing me would be like slaughtering a pig. Then why are they being so roundabout and scaring me by ramming things? They could just kill me with a single Tao technique.

Unless…they’re not as powerful as they seem.

Zhou Bai gradually calmed down, thinking about the things he’d learned recently.

“All Tao processes can be traced,” he said.

Zhou Bai tried to perceive the changes in Spark around him according to the methods described in the basic textbook materials.

Formless, colorless ripples glimmered in his eyes. When he looked at the entire room again, he found that everything he saw had a hazy veil over it.