Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  “If I can kill Tian Myriad Mother, then it can be considered as avenging Junior Martial Sister Shui, and I will be able to live up to our friendship!”

  “Then you have to work even harder! Although Tian Myriad Mother is only a low-class demon god, this low-class level is still a big deal to you. Her soul is still there, after infesting Shui Qingyan, she can be considered as naturally talented. Even if you are a Qi Practitioner, a hundred of you will still be unable to outmatch her.”

  Xin Huo continued saying, “The reason that she still hasn’t become a Qi Practitioner is that her soul is not integrated with the body yet. Once she has thoroughly synchronized with the body of Shui Qingyan, she will automatically advance into a Qi Practitioner. But you ... Your soul is weak, a thousand times weaker than the soul of a demon god. Even if you managed to cultivate your own spirit and achieve [Spirit-Soul As One], she can still easily overwhelm you.”

  “Xin Huo, you must know of a way to defeat and kill Tian Myriad Mother then?” Zhong Yue pleaded upon hearing his words.

  “Of course. Tian Myriad Mother is just a low-class demon god after all. Once you’ve gained enough strength and have advanced into Qi Practitioner, I will definitely tell you.”

  Xin Huo said seriously, “But … you are a low-class being too, a low-class Fuxi! Therefore, you must exert even more effort than anyone and refine your foundation to an even sturdier level than anyone else! I have a training guide here which would allow you to improve two times faster and forge your foundation to become even more robust! The only thing is, whether or not you are able to withstand all the hardships….”

  Xin Huo then yawned and said, “I have been awake for too long and I need more sleep. Wake me up when you’ve gotten your hands on the next batch of Yuling Pellets – I will guide you in your training….”

  His form then slowly changed into a sparkle of fire and then everything went silent again.

  Eh? He did not return to the bronze lamp to sleep this time?

  Zhong Yue felt confused because when Xin Huo went to sleep last time, he would fly back into the weathered bronze lamp. This time, however, he just silently floated in Zhong Yue’s psyche ocean.

  When will I become a Qi Practitioner and walk out of the Great Wilderness to embark on the journey of seeking a pure-blood Fuxi to become the inheritor of the Xin Huo Heritage?

  Zhong Yue slowly closed his eyes and started cultivating the【Jiao Dragon Winding Body Totem Art】and the raucous thunder became audible. A thunder Jiao dragon wreathed around Zhong Yue, Now the Swords Gate is in a very dangerous state, something evil is lurking in the shadows, giving me the feeling as if a gigantic beast is waiting to devour its prey.

  The bottom part of Swords Gate had been blanketed in darkness while golden rays still shone brightly on the top of Swords Gate. After a while, when the sunlight stopped shining, the golden rays on top of Swords Gate also lost its luster. With that, the entire Swords Gate disappeared entirely into the shadows.

  The sacred place of the Great Wilderness, the Swords Gate, had been enshrouded by the shadows.

  ——

  After another two days, Ting Lanyue happily rushed to the male house and called Zhong Yue at the front door. This made the other male disciples very envious of Zhong Yue. Although the male disciples were forbidden from entering the female house, the converse was not true so there were often female disciples who visited their loved ones in the male house.

  “Junior Martial Brother Zhong, your nine hundred and twenty Yuling Pellets.”

  Zhong Yue welcomed her and she took out ten jade bottles and said, “There are a hundred pellets in each bottle, but the smallest bottle contains only twenty pellets. Each of us, including Senior Martial Brother He and the others, received nine hundred and twenty pellets each. These pellets will be able to support our training for a considerable amount of time.”

  Zhong Yue felt very happy and quickly thanked her. He thought in his heart, I can finally continue training my【Sui Sovereign Flame Order Palace Visualization Art】again!

  Ting Lanyue then left. When she walked out of the male house, she suddenly thought, Oh no! I’ve forgotten to tell Junior Martial Brother Zhong that Senior Martial Sister Yu and Senior Martial Sister Tao are looking for him and I was going to ask him to stay at home if possible … Hmm … If I informed him that Senior Martial Sister Yu and Senior Martial Sister Tao are looking for him to challenge him, he will definitely ask how did they know it was him that night and he will know I was the one who sold him out….

  Ting Lanyue blinked her eyes and walked away even quicker while chanting, I have nothing to do with this, I have nothing to do with this!

  In his courtyard, Zhong Yue woke Xin Huo up in his psyche ocean.

  “In order to forge a solid foundation, you must first have a dominating body, then a dominating soul and finally, a dominating psyche!”

  Xin Huo continued talking, “The【Sui Sovereign Flame Order Palace Visualization Art】and【Jiao Dragon Winding Body Totem Art】you have been cultivating could strengthen your soul and body. However! These apply only to you, not the dominating power of your body, soul, and psyche!”

  “To become dominating, you must have explosive power and in order to achieve it, you have to keep on erupting your power!”

  “This courtyard will be too small for you to train in. Go to the outside – the cliff. I’ll tell you how to erupt your full strength without reservation!”

  Zhong Yue walked out of the courtyard and headed to the cliff in Swords Gate, Yin Ma Tai. In front of the cliff was a lake where there was often some beast that came for water.

  Zhong Yue looked down and he couldn’t help but feel a little bit dizzy as this cliff was way too precipitous. It felt like the cliff was formed as a result of a mountain that was cut off by a colossus with a giant ax!

  Below was the gorge, approximately thousands of feet deep and one could see the clouds drifting in the air on the cliff.

  “Right, this place is not bad at all.”

  Xin Huo said, “In order to have a dominating body, soul, and psyche, you must follow what I tell you verbatim. Now, take three Yuling Pellets.”

  Zhong Yue listened and consumed three pellets. As he swallowed the pellets, he could feel an unstoppable medicinal aura surging throughout his body, causing his body, soul, and psyche to scorch with extreme heat!

  After all, one Yuling Pellet’s efficacy was already quite potent, let alone three of them.

  If no action was taken soon, he would be unable to digest all of the pellets, it would cause severe damage to his body, soul, and psyche. It would inflict a massive toll on his body and even cause his strength to regress!

  “Right now, jump!” said Xin Huo coldly.

  “What!?” babbled the startled Zhong Yue.

  “Jump!”

  Xin Huo sounded so apathetic as if he had no emotions left and he continued saying, “After jumping down, you must visualize your【Sui Sovereign Flame Order Palace Visualization Art】at once. At the moment of life and death, great fear will slowly consume you but it could also be an incredible impetus for you, allowing you to galvanize and squeeze out every single bit of your potential! Once jumping down, I’ll guide you in erupting every single morsel of strength in you so that you should at least not die!”

  Cold sweat started dripping down from Zhong Yue’s forehead and he looked below carefully. Upon seeing this, Xin Huo smirked and said, “Why? Are you afraid? That’s right, you are not a pure-blood Fuxi after all, it was wise of me to not select as the inheritor of the Xin Huo. How are you expecting to defeat Tian Myriad Mother just like that?”

  As soon as he finished talking, Zhong Yue had already leaped out of Yin Ma Tai!

  He then lost control of himself and began to plummet towards the bottom of the cliff. His falling speed accelerated and the noise from the wind became even more shrill and clarion.

  The next moment, Zhong Yue could feel the terror engulfing him, occupying every part of his body inc
luding his mind!

  His psyche ocean also vibrated vigorously and it became twisted as soon as he leaped off the cliff. The sea water representing the psyche in his psyche ocean transformed into a monstrous being, disturbing and distracting his mind!

  It was his inner evil!

  At moments of life and death, an inner evil would be born when one was overwhelmed with abject fear, instigating chaos in one’s mind.

  “Visualize right now!” Xin Huo shouted so loud that it caused Zhong Yue to have tinnitus.

  Zhong Yue did his best to refocus, He calmed himself as hard as possible, stopped his trembling and followed Xin Huo’s words!

  Krongg——

  A loud noise rang in his ears and everything went dark and silent, he could not sense anything anymore, only the gigantic Sui Sovereign that stood loftily in his psyche ocean.

  He did not visualize the Flame Order Palace or the fire tree, only the Sui Sovereign. He did his best in order to make the Sui Sovereign to be as perfect as possible.

  As soon as the mighty and divine Sui Sovereign appeared, the great fear and inner evil within Zhong Yue immediately melted away like snow!

  Chapter 20: Extreme Reflexes |

  At that moment, Zhong Yue could not feel anything as his senses, including his pores, were tightly shut, sealing off any avenue that could lead to the leaking of his strength – his soul has never been this solid before!

  The inner evil that was born had been eradicated, allowing him to enter such a miraculous state.

  Time was stopped and everything seemed to be progressing very slowly as if it would take forever to do anything at all.

  This was the moment one would experience after chasing away his fear. A serenity where one would enter a state of unprecedented concentration – a moment where one would have supreme reflexes!

  This purported state was an oddly amazing sensation created when one’s body, psyche and soul were operating in overdrive!

  Just imagine ... when one’s eyes were able to capture something moving at ten times the speed of any normal person, accordingly, any object moving at normal speeds would be ten times slower in their eyes.

  If one could perceive things ten times faster than the normative speed, then they would realize that time was progressing ten times slower around them!

  And if one’s body, psyche and soul had all entered this wondrous state, they would be able to unleash unstoppable strength and a tremendous level of psyche control!

  If one trained in this state, they would be able to achieve incredibly fast progress!

  The medicinal efficacy of the three Yuling Pellets was being absorbed incessantly by Zhong Yue’s body and the efficacy of the pellets was converted into his psyche in a crazily fast speed – nourishing his soul, allowing the Sui Sovereign formed by his soul to appear even more majestic and magnificent!

  Such rapid absorption and conversion speed of the medical efficacy was that he had never even fathomed.

  But now, it had become reality!

  Zhong Yue could not feel how long had it been ever since he leaped off the cliff. In the state of extremity, he responded to everything incredibly quickly, causing the time around him to crawl to a halt.

  Time quietly elapsed and Xin Huo suddenly shouted, “Unleash everything at once!”

  Upon hearing his words, Zhong Yue opened up his eyes and felt his state of extremity coming to an end. Other than that, his falling speed had hiked up to a point beyond imagination and he was coming increasingly close to tragically meeting his end on the cliff bottom!

  At this speed, even if he had a pair of wings, he would still be crushed into a pile of meat at his current speed of descent!

  Swooooosh——

  As Zhong Yue opened his eyes, he was already level with the hundred-feet tall trees at the cliff bottom. With his current speed, he would crash into the cliff bottom in the blink of an eye!

  Xing Huo also started to sound nervous and shouted, “Now! Unleash every single ounce of strength you have in your body, psyche and soul at once simultaneously! Unleash them in a dominating way or you will die for sure!”

  “Jiao Dragon Winding Body!”

  Zhong Yue shouted and after a loud thunderous noise, a thunder Jiao Dragon brandishing its claws ferociously formed around his body!

  “Sui Sovereign!”

  “Horizontal Thunder Control!”

  The shout of Zhong Yue, the bellow of the dragon and the thunderous cacophony formed a discordant symphony together. His soul flew out and transformed into the gigantic Sui Sovereign, increasing the power of the lightning Jiao Dragon and suddenly, the trees at the cliff bottom seemed to be ravaged by a huge tornado and a ferocious Jiao Dragon wrapped in lightning could be seen faintly rampaging throughout the forest!

  Trees fell to the ground, earth shattered into rubble and animals fled quickly in the path of the thunder dragon.

  Boom!

  A lightning Jiao Dragon wound around Zhong Yue’s body and in a split second, he moved horizontally for a few thousand feet before crashing down onto the ground.

  Waves of mud, soil, and rock were propelled omnidirectionally concomitantly with the crash and a huge crater was formed. Zhong Yue could be seen kneeling down on one knee with his arms supporting him on the ground, vigorous lightning sparks could also be seen emanating from his body. The sparks then directed towards the ground and charred the ground black.

  “Phew… I survived….”

  Zhong Yue got up and suddenly, a strong dizziness hit him and he felt the immense pain coming from his limbs. He could also feel his psyche ocean trembling so hard as if it would tear brain asunder. For a moment, he almost could not stand still and he was on the verge of fainting.

  In his body, the three Yuling Pellets’ efficacies had depleted completely and he could even feel his body growing weak as his psyche and soul was draining energy from his body!

  In that short period of time, he had unleashed every reserve of strength in his body, psyche and soul in its entirety!

  “Consume another three Yuling Pellets!”

  Xing Huo said, “Your soul and psyche is in a hyperactive condition you have never had before and this condition is taking a toll on your body. You must consume additional Yuling Pellets to replenish some energy or your body’s remaining energy will be drained completely, at which point you will die.”

  Zhong Yue immediately took out three Yuling Pellets and consumed them all. He had also heard a story similar to what Xing Huo said. They said a mother along with her child in a tribe had met with an earthquake and their house collapsed as a result. When a huge pillar was on the verge of falling down onto the child, the mother miraculously lifted the pillar and saved her child!

  The child was saved but the mother who lifted up the huge pillar died shortly after that. There was no trace of injury on her body and she had no history of infirmity. Perhaps, the motherly love of a mother to her child had triggered her state of extremity, imbuing her with transiently immense strength. Her energy was quickly drained away and she had no medicinal pellets like Yuling Pellets to replenish herself, causing her to die in the end.

  His current situation was evocative of the situation of that story. Fortunately for him, he had enough Yuling Pellets to replenish the energy in his body.

  As he swallowed the pellets, he could feel the strength and energy surge within his body, slowly nourishing his psyche and soul, his psyche ocean also expanding rapidly!

  As he completely absorbed the pellets’ efficacy, his psyche ocean had grown almost two times bigger than before!

  “It has been just a while and my psyche has become so strong?”

  Zhong Yue was stunned by the result. The time he took when he leaped out of the cliff until he landed at the cliff bottom was only a mere five minutes and he had consumed six Yuling Pellets and his psyche had become twice as strong!

  At my rate of consumption speed, I’m afraid these nine hundred plus Yuling Pellets could only last me for a month’s t
ime….

  Initially, he thought that these pellets were a great amount wealth but it seemed like he was still too naive. He would need as many Yuling Pellets he could get in order to support Xing Huo’s extreme training regimen!

  “Now, climb up the cliff and jump down again.”

  Xing Huo remarked, “Your body is not too bad, you suffered no injuries from that. Therefore, you will now consume six pellets and carry a huge rock while you jump out of the cliff. Yeah ... that’s it, this rock will do, climb up while carrying it and jump down while carrying it too.”

  Zhong Yue looked at the rock and he couldn’t help but stare blankly at it. The rock was almost a thousand kilograms and it was so large!

  Climbing up the cliff would’ve been a difficult task in and of itself, let alone climbing up the hill while carrying the rock.

  “Brat Yue, leaping out of the cliff is to train your explosive force and climbing up the cliff is to train your ability in controlling your strength. While carrying the rock up the cliff, you will visualize the Jiao Dragon and use its claw to hike, carefully control the dragon claws and its body coordination can help you master and manage all your strength.”

  Zhong Yue nodded in affirmation and formed the dragon with his psyche. This time, the time he took to actualize the dragon was shorter and his reactions were much faster than before.

  Along with the dragon, Zhong Yue carried the rock and walked to the cliff. As he looked up, he could only see a little portion of the cliff as clouds concealed the other parts of the cliff.

  As Zhong Yue started to climb, with only a little bit of strength, the rocks under his dragon claws were crushed into crumbs. His brows creased and he thought, Xing Huo was right, my control is not good at all. I could only form the Jiao Dragon but didn’t know how to control its strength at all. I have to learn how to control its strength, applying as much or as little strength as I want effortlessly.