Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  The carcass of the bovine monster was like a small mountain, they stood on it and overlooked the surroundings, they could see that the Beast Monster Ridge was shrouded within pink effluvia reminiscent of blooming mushrooms.

  One of the young disciples cast his gaze around, he frowned and said to their leader Senior Martial Brother Han, “Senior martial brother, there is something wrong, this monster cow is too strong, there had never been monster beasts this strong appearing in places like Beast God Ridge!”

  Another disciple smiled and answered him, “Junior martial brother you are overreacting, Senior Martial Brother Han is the strongest disciple in the male house, what kind of situation has he not met before? Even that Zhong Shan Clan member and Shui Tu Clan are clowns in Senior Martial Brother Han’s eyes, they are small and petty!”

  The Senior Martial Brother Han they spoke of was the strongest male disciple in the upper house, similar to the strongest female upper house disciple, Yu Feiyan. He smiled warmly and said, “Senior Martial Brother Shui Qinghe is strong, he might just be stronger than I am. As for the Zhong Shan Clan member, he still has some aspects he needs to improve on.”

  Suddenly, the effluvia at the front slightly parted, a young maiden slowly emerged within their visage as she ambled out to the front of the disciples. It was weird that she was dressed in pink clothes and in her hands gripped on a coalescence of mist that took the shape of a stick as if she were holding an umbrella or a mushroom covering her appearance.

  But vaguely from part of the figure she exposed, she appeared to be only 14-15 years old.

  “This junior martial sister, be careful, that miasma is poisonous!”

  One of the male disciples shouted out, “Quick, get out of there!”

  “Wait, something’s not right!”

  The Senior Martial Brother Han’s face turned, he whispered, “It is hard for even people like us to enter the Beast God Ridge, how did a little girl do it? It is best if we leave now….”

  “Leave? Where can you go?”

  Under the umbrella-like effluvia, a graceful laughter of a young maiden sounded, she chuckled and said, “Humans, the most delicious food of the Great Wilderness, it is a very long time since I last ate one….”

  “Retreat!”

  Senior Martial Brother Han shouted, the disciples controlled their soul weapons and leaped down from and abandoned the carcass of the monster cow where they killed it.

  The umbrella-shaped mist dispersed, revealing the body of a quintessential elegant young maiden, with the exception of her neck being three feet long with a serpentine head and a human’s face, she was a human-faced serpent!

  The human-faced serpent laughed, “I said, there’s nowhere you can run, but none of you believed me!”

  Huu——

  Her neck grew bigger as the wind blows, the serpentine body rushed out from the clothes’ neck opening and grew longer and thicker, her head also grew larger. All of a sudden, she was already as big as a small mountain. In a split second, she spurted forward and swallowed four Swords Gate disciples all at once!

  “This monster serpent is on the verge of becoming a Qi Practitioner, the Beast God Ridge would not give birth to such an extremely dangerous beast, she must’ve come from the outside!”

  Senior Martial Brother Han released a cry, “Use the soul weapons and slow her down, we will be safe as long as we leave this place!”

  The rest of the upper house disciples controlled their soul weapons and one after another, slashed down onto the gigantic serpentine head and heart area, sparks of fire emerged with the collision of the soul weapons and serpent scales, but the serpent was left unharmed.

  “Imbecilic humans, you dare show me your soul weapons, especially such inferior ones, don’t you know you are just asking to die?”

  The gigantic serpent chuckled, she opened her mouth and rained down her venomous fluids, green smoke billowed out from the soul weapons the moment they were contaminated by the venom. In the blink of an eye, the soul weapons were corroded into scrap metal.

  The disciples cried out blood-curdling screams as their souls that were occupying the soul weapons were also corroded by the poisons; their souls dissipated into thin air while they died alongside their own helpless screams.

  Pu-tom, pu-tom – the bodies of Senior Martial Brother Han and the other disciples swayed and all of a sudden fell onto the floor.

  “All dead, the humans are so weak, no wonder they are always taken as food by us and the other races.”

  The gigantic serpent shrunk down her serpentine neck and reverted back to her human form, she shook her head as she mumbled. Suddenly, she smiled and said, “Senior martial brothers, do you all want to eat too? This little sister can distribute some to the two of you.”

  “Hmph, who needs it?”

  A brawny man like a pylon strode over, he gave a cold sneer and asserted, “If I want to eat humans, I will catch them myself. There are plenty of human tribes just right outside of Beast God Ridge, the last time I entered a human village, I had an enjoyable feast!”

  The brawny man was over twenty feet, wearing a thick and furry overcoat, thick tufts of hair grew all over his chest while he had a head of a bear that boasted razor-sharp teeth.

  “I am just one step behind and Junior Martial Sister She has taken care of everything.”

  Another man hopped over at great speed, he, in turn, had a head of a buck, he smiled and said, “Senior Martial Brother Xiong, Junior Martial Sister She is just being nice offering us food. These people are different than the ordinary humans that are bland and unpalatable. They are cultivators, their muscles are strong and solid, satisfying to masticate on and delicious to eat. If they are placed on the market, they can be sold at a nice price!”

  Junior Martial Sister She nodded with a smile, “Especially the human Qi Practitioners, they are more than valuable. The last time I was at the Xian Kong City for the Pageant of the Million Races, I saw someone selling the human Qi Practitioners, that selling price, you can’t even afford it even if you sell off yourself!”

  The black bear was visibly fascinated, he said, “I hear that there are a lot of Qi Practitioners at the Swords gate….”

  “Don’t you ever think about it!”

  Junior Martial Sister She smiled coldly, “The Swords Gate guarded the Great Wilderness for tens of thousands of years, its strength is unfathomable. Not to mention that you are still not a Qi Practitioner yet, even if you are already a Qi Practitioner, if you dare to mess with the Swords Gate you will die without leaving behind a single hair! Senior Martial Brother Gongyang, am I right or not?”

  Gongyang nodded, smiled and said, “We are here today to accompany our teacher in searching for the treasures of the Beast God Ridge, it is fine to eat them if the disciples of the Swords Gate comes over, but we must not provoke the Swords Gate. We will immediately leave once our teacher has found the treasure! The Swords Gate is stronger than you can imagine, there are powerful forces trying to annex the Great Wilderness in their claws but none have succeeded. One can tell how strong the deterrence of the Swords Gate is.”

  Senior Martial Brother Xiong nodded and said in a guttural voice, “Before we leave I will plunder some humans and sell them off!”

  Junior Martial Sister She suddenly turned her head to the skies and muffled, “Someone’s coming! Eey, there are three groups of them, we don’t have to quarrel now, the three of us will each take charge of one group. Two senior martial brothers, remember, they must all die here and now, there must be no one left living lest they leak word of this, or otherwise when the Swords Gate is informed, it will foil the plans of our teacher!”

  Gongyang and Senior Martial Bother Xiong nodded and went their separate ways.

  Junior Martial Sister She spat and flicked her protracted tongue, she quickly slithered towards the Rainbow Clouds Carrier where Zhong Yue, Tao Daier and the others were on, she mumbled to herself, “I hope teacher can quickly get his hands on the treasure, if we drag
this matter any longer, I’m afraid the next one to come would not be these helpless little disciples anymore, but the Qi Practitioners….”

  Chapter 32: Roaring Thunder Sword |

  The Rainbow Clouds Carrier slowly descended from the sky when the girls looked down from the cloud while waiting to alight once the cloud reached the ground. What came into their vision was a ridge with seemingly unforgivable terrain which would instill great terror into anyone looking at it. In the Great Wilderness, there were a lot of places with dangerous environments but this ridge appeared especially malign, making the girls adopt serious expressions.

  As the clouds reached the ground, Tao Daier took out the small pouch and murmured something. As she murmured, the rainbow cloud swiftly returned back into the pouch and after a few moments, the cloud completely disappeared into the small pouch.

  Yu Feiyan walked forward and explained, “Dear sisters, the reward of this mission assigned by Swords Gate is very rich. A lot of the other disciples are planning to enter the Beast God Ridge and some are already there by now. We should make haste and enter the deeper part of the Beast God Ridge to kill those rampant monster beasts promptly!”

  Ting Lan Yue walked up, “Senior Martial Sister, there would be a lot of the elites from the top ten clans here by now and some of them are very strong, like Shui Qinghe and Lei Gun. There are also some strong female disciples here like Li Xiuniang from the Li Shan Clan and Mu Qingxuan from Mu Shan Clan. Are you confident that you could beat them?”

  Yu Feiyan shook and said, “Li Xiuniang, Mu Qingxuan and the others have already achieved the state of [Actualization of Virtuality]. Their psyche is better than mine. These people are the core disciples of their own clans, they are also selected after rigorous tests and raised up with rich resources when they were still young. Therefore, they are individuals who have exceptional skills. However, the core disciples of my clan, the You Yu Clan, are not any weaker than them as well. They would need to fight with me first if they want me to conceded that they are stronger than me! Junior Martial Brother Zhong, you have fought with Shui Qinghe once, how is his strength compared to mine?”

  The other girls immediately looked at Zhong Yue as they really wanted to know about it as well.

  Zhong Yue thought for a while and he shook his head while saying, “Senior martial sister, you are slightly weaker than Shui Qinghe.”

  Yu Feiyan stared at him angrily and rebuked saltily, “How would you know if we did not even fight at all? Besides, I really want to compete with you, especially after you fought with Shui Qinghe!”

  “Junior Martial Brother Zhong, when do you want to claim the throne of the strongest disciple in the male house?”

  Tao Daier smiled and said, “The first in the male house is now Senior Martial Brother Han Qingmo and he is as famous as Senior Martial Sister Yu. He is a formidable foe. If you manage to defeat him, you would then be the best in the male house then.”

  Zhong Yue smiled and said, “Is the title of being the best in the male house really that important?”

  “How is it not important?”

  The other girls refuted Zhong Yue’s answer and quipped, “If you have the title of the strongest male disciple, you will receive the admiration of us female disciples!”

  “You would also receive the favoritism of the Qi Practitioners and they might give you various valuable items!”

  “People would also become your follower and get things done for you! They would also eagerly help you solve your problems in bids to gain your favor!”

  Zhong Yue was stunned by the girls’ answers and he said stupidly, “Such advantages? But I don’t need the admiration of the girls now as it is useless for me now. What I need the most is the medicinal pellets and cultivation techniques….”

  The girls immediately dismissed him and proclaimed, “Senior Martial Brother Han is an incredible person like Senior Martial Sister Yu, he will not be defeated by you! If you want to become the first in the upper house, you will have to wait for another few years!”

  “May the handsome and brilliant Senior Martial Brother Han defeat this evil demon from Zhong Shan Clan!”

  Suddenly, Yu Feiyan face became very serious and she said, “Quiet, there are monsters nearby!”

  The girls immediately got nervous and they quickly stood back to back while they prepared for battle and took out their totem pillars.

  Zhong Yue recollected his thoughts and his back suddenly felt very warm as a soft body leaned towards his back. He turned back and saw the beautiful jet black hair and pearl white neck of a girl. Tao Daier turned her head and smiled towards Zhong Yue. Her smile was so sweet, her teeth were like spotless pearls and she also smelled sublime. All of these suddenly reduced the tension of the atmosphere around Zhong Yue.

  He looked around and found the totem pillars of those girls were very small but the carvings on the totem pillars were very exquisite. The carvings seemed to be that of a very high-classed phoenix.

  The ground trembled lightly and the trembling slowly became more and more frequent and vigorous. The ground trembled so hard like waves in the sea and the next moment, one after another, Feiyi Snakes appeared in their vicinity!

  These Feiyi Snakes looked like giant lizards except armored with a body full of scales. They were as tall as a normal person but their body length was only about two or three feet long.

  “Do not use your soul weapons!”

  Yu Feiyan quickly said, “Feiyi Snakes consume any metals as their food, their stomach is full of corrosive gastric juices. They could easily corrode your soul weapon if they managed to bite on them. Immediately cast out your totem pillar and initiate the totem of the phoenix.”

  Dong dong dong!

  One after another, the totem pillars landed on the ground and the carvings on the pillars glowed. The glows from the pillars then intersected in mid-air, forming a majestic phoenix floating in the air over the girls.

  “This is an array?”

  Zhong Yue showed a shocked expression and he proceeded to measure the phoenix formed by the totem pillars. He could feel the immense strength and aura coming from that conjured phoenix, its strength was equal to a phoenix-derived cultivation technique already!

  This phoenix was so condensed as it could almost materialize already. From this, its strength would be incredibly strong!

  Fuh——

  As the phoenix flapped its wings, huge fireballs shot out towards those Feiyi Snakes. The fireballs exploded as soon as they landed in the crowds of those Feiyi snakes, splitting them apart and killed countless numbers!

  The remaining Feiyi Snakes let out a scream and scattered everywhere. The girls felt relieved until the ground trembled suddenly. A huge hole opened in the ground and innumerable red tentacles with no eyes and no nose, just a huge mouth emerged from the ground. The tentacles then flew towards the head of the girls!

  One of the tentacles had its mouth wrapped around a girl’s head and her shoulders before she the scream could even escape her mouth.

  “Don’t panic, it's just the huge mountain worm! Flying Goose Shocking Swan!”

  Yu Feiyan shouted, stretched out her hands and the swans she visualized flew out and severed the tentacles with their wings. The girl who had her head and upper body wrapped in the tentacles took the chance and quickly escaped.

  Ting Lanyue used some water to help her wash off the stains and at the same time, the other girls shouted, “Many of our totem pillars have been swallowed!”

  “There’s the huge mountain worm and Feiyi Snakes again!”

  The ground swelled and more tentacles flew out from the ground and previously fleeing Feiyi Snakes had returned. They opened up their huge mouth and pounced towards the girls!

  Yu Feiyan’s face changed quickly and she shouted, “You girls deal with the Feiyi Snakes, I’ll take care of the huge mountain worm….”

  Before she finished her sentence, the ground began trembling vigorously again and the roar of thunder could be heard undergro
und as Zhong Yue stomped his leg very hard onto the ground!

  Boom!

  The ground cracked open and a fissure of about six to seven feet appeared. A huge meatball could be seen flying out from the fissure and smokes could be seen exuding out from its black coked body.

  The burnt meatball was at least about fifty to sixty feet and it had a myriad of tentacles growing on its body. However, its formerly grotesquely writhing appendages were now condemned to eternal silence as the existence that controlled it was exterminated by the thunder!

  At the same time, thunder roared across the sky and transformed into Sword Qi before filling up the entire area with immense lightning Sword Qi and striking down onto the few hundreds Feiyi Snakes.

  The over thirty girls immediately looked at Zhong Yue and saw him hold and place his sword scabbard in front of him. There was no trace of the sword being removed from the scabbard, it was only his psyche that was used to activate【Spring Thunder Swords Skill】.

  While under his feet, a huge dragon claw could be seen, as if a Jiao Dragon had walked over the place he was standing.

  So strong….

  The girls gasped and Yu Feiyan glanced at Zhong Yue and thought, Is Shui Qinghe that strong as well? If he really is that strong, I’m afraid I will not be able to beat him….

  Ting Lanyue raised her head and looked at the huge meatball while she said in shock, “So this is how a huge mountain worm looks like? Our totem pillars are still in its stomach, should we open up the stomach and retrieve our totem pillars?”

  “The huge mountain worms have a strong digestive system, which allows them to travel underground, devouring everything in its path. The totem pillars are made with wood, they should’ve long been digested in its stomach by now.”

  Yu Feiyan recollected her thoughts and said, “If Rou’er was completely swallowed by it just now, we wouldn’t even have been able to recover her remains at all.”

  That Junior Martial Sister Rou’er had a scare and forced herself to calm down.