Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  As for the seventeen feet long god’s fang before his eyes, probably even the Ten Malefic Weapons could never leave a scratch on it, one could presume how strong the protective capability of the god’s fang was, he could engage in a protracted battle without worry that the safety of his soul would be jeopardized!

  Not only that, Zhong Yue could feel the benefits of having his soul inhabit the god’s fang, as if his soul was submerged in a wellspring; getting nourished, nurtured and growing ever stronger!

  He could sense that the enhancement on his soul was not the usual enhancement that one could get from daily cultivation, it was something much more, something way beyond merely that…

  “Embodied within the god’s fang is a surge of divine aura in it, although it is only a slight wave, it is, nonetheless, very beneficial to you!”

  Xin Huo said, “Can you feel it? The divinity housed within it.”

  Zhong Yue’s heart shifted, indeed, he could sense a surge of heavenly aura in the god’s fang, it was something the Dragon Scale Sword and Dragon Blood Sword Scabbard never had, it should be the divinity Xin Huo was talking about!

  “The divinity in this god’s fang is too weak, it could be condensed into a droplet of water if it were strong enough. Consume it and your soul would experience an earthshaking advancement.”

  Xin Huo said in a pity, “Unfortunately it’s just a pseudo beast god, it is amazing enough to have even this slight surge of divinity lurking in it. The benefits it can bring is still insignificant to the current you as of now, but you will slowly realize the latent benefits it will bring to your cultivation in the future. Be it your soul, natural endowments, perception, or your cultivation speed and your sensitivity to the spirit, it could greatly enhance you thoroughly in every aspect – it is far superior to any other medicinal pellet!”

  Zhong Yue was overjoyed, “How much benefit will it bring me?”

  Xin Huo answered, “It’s just a fang of a pseudo beast god, how much divinity do you think it can contain? The enhancement it brings applies to your ability in all domains. Not to mention the others, the benefits it can bring to your natural endowments alone is massive! For ordinary humans, including the Qi Practitioners, all of them have immanent limitations imposed by their natural endowments. At a point of time in life, their cultivation would eventually be trammeled by their own natural endowments, a boundary that was set from birth, an impediment that some could never be able to breakthrough for rest of their lives. While this, the divinity in this god’s fang, can enhance your natural endowments and help you, in breaking through your intrinsic limitations at times in the future.”

  In Swords Gate, other than Zhong Yue, who else had such an opportunity and luxury to nourish their souls with the divinity aura?

  “We the Swords Gate sit on an active volcano and at the same time, a golden mountain filled with treasures; if the Devil Soul Forbidden Land below Swords Gate can be fully exploited, how abundant would the wealth and benefits it could bring to Swords Gate be?”

  Zhong Yue then thought of the countless giant beasts in the forbidden land, a single fang from the beast was already this marvelous, then what if Swords Gate could fully make use of the giant beasts, devil souls and giant coffins? Would the Swords Gate be able to sweep away the monster race and the other races in just a single blow?

  “What a pity, this place is too dangerous, even all of the predecessor headmasters fought to the death in this forsaken land.”

  Zhong Yue’s psyche gushed out, he tried to pick the fang out from the mountain rocks but to no avail, the fang was completely immovable.

  “Ey?”

  Zhong Yue was surprised, he once again erupted his psyche like bursts of lightning, his psyche was refined by the lightning, it had long since coalesced into lightning snakes that slithered in his psyche ocean, although he had yet to transform his psyche ocean into a pool of lightning, the toughness and strength of his psyche was not any weaker than the ordinary Qi Practitioners, and if not, it was undoubtedly better!

  The only thing he was lacking when in comparison to the Qi Practitioners, was his cultivation base.

  His psyche gushed out and enhanced his soul, Zhong Yue muffled a groan but the fang was still fixed on the same spot, recalcitrant to moving even a single inch!

  “Quit wasting your time and energy, this is the god’s fang, although it’s from a pseudo beast god, it is still far too strong for your psyche to handle it.”

  Xin Huo said, “It’s not about the physical weight but rather because of its essence – it is a god’s bone. You can’t control it because the inherent divinity of the fang will naturally suppress your mortal psyche, only when your psyche is strong enough can you wield it freely.”

  “Is it really not heavy at all?”

  Zhong Yue was still in disbelief, his dragon claws reached out and grabbed ahold of the fang, he galvanized all of his strength and heaved it out; the next moment, the face of the Xiang Dragon darkened, he bellowed out at Xin Huo, “Xin Huo, you call this not heavy? This thing, this fang is at least a ten thousand kilograms heavy, this not considered as heavy?”

  Even with him taking the form of a Xiang Dragon, possessing the inhuman strength of a dragon, he could barely move the fang with only one hand!

  Seventeen feet long and yet it was a thousand times heavier than any normal metallic objects, Zhong Yue lift up the fang and said, “Even with my psyche that can usually lift up items of tens of thousands kilograms, I still can’t move the god’s fang. It seems like the intensity of my psyche’s strength is indeed, not up to par.”

  “Wait until you’ve formed a pool of lightning with your psyche, only then can your soul and psyche control and wield this fang, for now, you can only swing it like a normal weapon. This fang is huge, it must be very convenient to cleave someone with it, not any weaker than the ordinary soul weapons.”

  Xin Huo hurried him and said, “Let’s go, find the teleportation portal I’ve left behind and let’s head to the moon and manifest the moon spirit!”

  “Then, this new soul weapon of mine, I will name it … Fang Blade!”

  Zhong Yue carried the Fang Blade on his back, his psyche formed into three Jiao Dragons and tied tightly around the seventeen feet long Fang Blade so that it would not fall off when he traveled. He stood up and strode forwards, thoughts lurking in his heart, Thanks to the beast god essence, I am now trapped in the form of a Xiang Dragon, I have to keep my visualizations on continuously without resting a single second to revert back to my human form. But it’s an important task to search for the teleportation portal, it’d be best if I travel and cultivate at the same time, taking this as a kind of a training to consolidate my unconscious visualization!

  In the wilderness of the Great Wilderness, the monster beasts lifted their heads up and stared at a forty feet long dragon carrying a huge fang behind it’s back, it sauntered past them walking like a human in a swaggering manner.

  Ever since then, a peculiar rumor spread like a plague across the land, saying that there was a strange monster beast with the look of a tiger, head and tail of a dragon, and bristles of a horse, wandering around like a human.

  “The previous Xin Huo inheritor and I had left the teleportation portals, but they are not around in the Great Wilderness, they should be located outside of Great Wilderness. The geographical conditions weren’t the same as before, they had changed drastically over the years; I’ve constructed the portal in the core of a volcano, harvesting the fire elements from the volcano as the power source to maintain operation of the portal.”

  Zhong Yue climbed to the summit of a majestic mountain, Xin Huo leapt out and gazed around; the Wei River could be seen from afar while on the other side, there were sounds of thunder rumbling, above a lake there was lightning striking down incessantly, that would be the territory of the Lei Hu Clan.

  “Before this, there weren’t such things as the Wei River, Lightning Lake, or even Swords Gate; it wouldn’t be easy to find that volcano we are
looking for. Thankfully, the teleportation portal was not destroyed, I can still feel a minimal link that connects my senses to it.”

  Moments later, Xin Huo was filled with joy, “There, let’s go!”

  Zhong Yue dashed down from the mountain towards the direction Xin Huo was pointing, he thought in his heart, Not in Great Wilderness? Then it will be out of here. I hear that it is extremely dangerous out there, even the Qi Practitioners seldom survive, I wonder what I will encounter….

  Even with him carrying the Fang Blade behind him, he was still speedy, moving across the mountains and rivers, he was getting nearer to the territory of Shui Tu Clan with great speed.

  “It’s that Xiang Dragon!”

  In the stockade of Shui Tu Clan, one of the Qi Practitioners suddenly noticed Zhong Yue who was treading on the river, he was shocked and overjoyed, he yelled out in excitement, “It’s that Xiang Dragon, it appeared again! Senior martial siblings, quickly come over!”

  His words sparked a round of commotion in the stockade, three Qi Practitioners thrust up into the air, they cast their gaze at Zhong Yue, one of them laughed and said, “Walking with two legs, it must be that same Xiang Dragon! We must not let it slip past our fingers once again!”

  On the Wei River, waves of currents suddenly billowed vigorously as a ship hundreds of feet high sailed out from the water stockade, the three Qi Practitioners boarded the ship and sailed towards Zhong Yue!

  “Hebo! Hebo!”

  Spiritual chants came out from the water stockade accompanied with the rhythmic beating of drums, it was the Shui Tu Clan members; all of a sudden, from the middle of the water stockade rose a water god a thousand feet tall – it was the totem spirit of the Shui Tu Clan, the God of the River, Hebo!

  The Shui Tu Clan totem spirit was awakened by the chants and drummings, as he made his appearance, the water tides billowed vigorously and the water line rose, with the help of the Hebo totem spirit, the three Qi Practitioners aboard the ship sailed quicker towards Zhong Yue!

  It’s the Shui Tu Clan again!

  Enmities old and new between them flooded into Zhong Yue’s mind, his eyes were suffused with anger and he rushed right at the ship. Along the way, there were numerous waves of monstrous aquatic beasts pouncing at him, they were all the psyche manifestations of the Shui Tu Clan Qi Practitioners, they were dreadful and among them were even giant beasts such as water dragons and water pythons!

  “This Xiang Dragon is actually harboring bitter resentments, it recognized us for the attempt to capture it the last time!” One of the Qi Practitioners chortled.

  Right when he finished his words, the Xiang Dragon held onto the fang behind it and swung it heavily, all of the water style techniques around it were crushed into impotent sprinkles, the monstrous fish, water dragons and water pythons were all cleaved in half; Zhong Yue trod on the water and dashed towards the ship.

  Hua-la!

  Water tides rose high and lifted the ship up, with an immensely strong impact, it gushed down at Zhong Yue while the three Qi Practitioners onboard controlled their soul weapons and slashed at Zhong Yue in coordination.

  Ka-cha!

  A sword ray flashed over, the ship was cleaved into half in the middle by Zhong Yue.

  The broken halves of the ship splashed onto the water surface and set off miniature tsunamis that crashed onto the river banks!

  Chapter 67: Gardening by the Riverside |

  The three Qi Practitioners exclaimed out in shock, that ship was one of the strongest soul weapons in the water stockade, it was the Shui Tu Clan transportation vehicle used when visiting the other clans, after constant polish and refinement through by generations of Shui Tu Clan elders, its strength and toughness was beyond doubt!

  This ship was even used as a warship to rage in wars, defending the clan members from countless assaults of soul weapons and techniques; every trial it had endured in the past had never left so much as a scratch on its hull and yet, it was now cleaved into half by a fang!

  The three Qi Practitioners quickly sheathed their soul weapons, they said, “Careful, this blade is too strong, don’t let it touch you….”

  Zhong Yue leaped into the air, he swung his dragon tail and swept one of the Qi Practitioners away, the impact caused the Qi Practitioner to spurt out blood in mid-air. But Zhong Yue did not stop there, he aimed at the Qi Practitioner’s chest and heavily punched right at it!

  The other two Qi Practitioners quickly turned and started to escape in fear, but lightning crackled beneath the Xiang Dragon and with a flash, it had caught up to them. Two dragon claws and two Qi Practitioners, they were slammed away by Zhong Yue.

  Three deafeningly loud booms could be heard as the Qi Practitioners crashed into the Shui Tu Clan water stockade, they were slammed into the wooden defense wall with only their legs exposed out in the air, the broken wood splintered into their bodies creating wounds and forming rivulets of blood that trickled out like streams of water.

  They were afraid of using their soul weapons, but if they were to engage in close-quarter combat, none of them could compete against Zhong Yue!

  The broken wood prickled into the muscles of the three Qi Practitioners, one of them bellowed, “Awaken the Hebo, awaken the Hebo!”

  In the water stockade, the Shui Tu Clan members quickly knelt down and prayed to the Hebo; Standing in the middle, he grew bigger and taller, around him were totem carvings that could be clearly seen, water around the stockade started to swirl around, forming a humongous whirlpool with water dragons soaring and fluttering in the water. They were dreadful and fully materialized, seeming like dragon kings of the water!

  Zhong Yue stopped abruptly, he gazed at the Hebo from afar, his heart was palpitating, he could feel the strong and dreadful aura that flooded the water stockade.

  Shui Tu Clan’s totem spirit, Hebo, was worshipped by the clan members for millions of years, a totem spirit with unimaginable strength and prowess – his existence was like a living god that guarded the water stockade!

  His aura was strong and dreadful, his existence alone caused the water level to rise higher and higher, even the sky turned gloomy, the heavy rain poured down, and as the lightning flashed across the sky, the body of the great Hebo was shown to be even more majestic!

  With Zhong Yue’s current prowess, he would definitely be crushed into bone ash if he dared to ram into the water stockade!

  The great Hebo walked around the water stockade and released a few howls of anger, his speed was incredibly fast but he never stepped out of the water stockade.

  The top ten clan is indeed strong. With this Hebo as their guardian, ordinary Qi Practitioners could never stand a chance in front of him! I suppose only the magnates can penetrate through its defenses and barge into the water stockade?

  Zhong Yue could not help but praise in his heart. Only the top clans with thousands and millions of years history could have possessed such a strong totem spirit; whereas for his home clan, the Zhong Shan Clan, there was not even a single Qi Practitioner, not to mention the totem spirit.

  It seems like the Hebo can’t walk out of the water stockade?

  Zhong Yue glanced at the Hebo and was ready to leave, although there was hatred between him and Tian Myriad Mother, it had nothing to do with the Shui Tu Clan members, he was only releasing his anger on them as they had attempted to capture him the last time.

  “Quick, inform the elder and have this monstrous creature captured! We must not let it escape!”

  The three Qi Practitioners stood up, one of them stood in mid-air, his voice was filled with wrath, “This Xiang Dragon dares to humiliate us, after the elder captures him, I want to whip it and tame it like a dog, I will let this creature know what I am capable of doing!”

  Immediately, a pool of water appeared above the water stockade, a few Shui Tu Clan members trod on it and they flew towards Swords Gate to inform and Elder Shui Zian over.

  These few members were not Qi Practitioners, they were only former disciples
of the upper house that had failed to manifest their spirit before the age of sixteen. They were repatriated back to the clan, relegated to the main force that guarded the tribes.

  Zhong Yue was planning to leave, but he changed his mind upon hearing those words, he snorted and lightning burst out around him, he leaped into the air and flashed over to the Shui Tu Clan members treading on the water.

  The next moment, the few Shui Tu Clan members were falling down from the sky – Pu-pu-pu – their bodies pierced into the ground with only their heads exposed above like helpless moles.

  There were people flying out from the water stockade, moments later, another row of heads appeared beside the river; the Shui Tu Clan disciples were all planted into the ground. One after another, they looked at the Xiang Dragon in mid-air who was continuously capturing their martial siblings and planted them into the ground, their eyes filled with fear and they dared not move a single inch.

  Someone attempted to escape and the flash of a lightning bolt immediately struck at the riverbank. Each and every Shui Tu Clan disciple had a good taste of getting electrocuted, they were charred and their hairs were erect upright like bristles.

  The others then stopped their fruitless attempts at escape and stayed stock-still, dare not to move at all.

  “Barbarous beast!”

  The three Qi Practitioners saw his actions and were furious, they looked at one another and one of them said, “I will fake an attempt to fly towards Swords Gate and the two of you dive into the water, the intelligence of this beast is not high enough to notice anything at all, I will keep it busy while the two of you go and get the elder here. As long as the elder arrives, we can do anything we’d like to it!”

  The other two Qi Practitioners nodded and dived into the water, they would swim along the river towards Swords Gate while the third Qi Practitioner flew into the air and shouted at Zhong Yue, “Barbarous beast, come and get me!”