Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  The two then quickly tidied themselves and covered their exposed bodies.

  “The Zhong Shan Clan’s mating bull is indeed very ferocious, no wonder he dared to intrude on the female house at night!”

  The Qi Practitioners gathered there and looked around as a moment of realization struck them, “He intruded on the cave dwelling of Junior Martial Sister Shui! She must’ve been trying to resist him as he planned to rape her with force!”

  “Thank god Junior Martial Sister Shui is very strong as well, stymying his mating bull efforts, or else there would have been another beautiful flower that got planted in cow dung….”

  “There were already quite a few beautiful flowers that were wasted on Tan Zhen, that huge pile of cow dung!”

  ……

  As the majority of the inner house disciples were preparing to seek justice for ‘Shui Qingyan’, she suddenly smiled and walked towards Zhong Yue as she said, “Senior Martial Brother Zhong is indeed powerful and I admire you greatly. Senior martial brother, there’s too many people here so why not I head over to your place and we shall have our own private talk happily together. How’s that? I have nowhere else to go except for your place since you’ve destroyed my home.”

  When they heard ‘Shui Qingyan’’s words, blood could be seen gushing out from the mouth of the surrounding inner house Qi Practitioners as they were unbelieving of what they were hearing —— The brightest pearl of Shui Tu Clan had openly volunteered to spend the night over at Zhong Yue's place!

  “Nope!”

  Zhong Yue shook his head and he said with a cold expression, “Don’t even think about it! No matter how good you are at persuading people, no means no.”

  ‘Shui Qingyan’ then laughed and replied, “Are you not afraid of ….”

  “But not as afraid as you ...!”

  Zhong Yue walked away and his psyche gushed out and transmitted a message to ‘Shui Qingyan’’s brain. He said, “Don’t forget that I can expose you just as easily as you can expose me. If the god’s messenger wants me dead, he could’ve spread the news about me killing Xiao Chuqing and you will have to die along with me! Your and my identities must not be made known to others lest the both of us die together!”

  ‘Shui Qingyan’ gritted her teeth and stomped on the ground as she barked from behind him, “Why don’t you reconsider? I can go to your place and we can have our own sweet talk!”

  Zhong Yue, however, maintained his cold countenance as he walked away in silence, leaving her behind alone.

  ‘Shui Qingyan’ stomped again and said, “Are you really that cold-hearted?”

  The jaws of the surrounding Qi Practitioners dropped onto the ground and their eyes almost popped out in shock.

  Initially, they thought Zhong Yue was the one that had tried to coerce ‘Shui Qingyan’ into indulging his carnal desires; but who would have known that it was ‘Shui Qingyan’ requesting to go to his private abode to continue their private talk! It would require little to no effort to guess the kind of things a lonely man and woman would get up to at this hour. And yet, Zhong Yue had rejected her in the bluntest terms possible!

  He had actually rejected a girl’s request to stay at his place at the later hours of the night!

  Then, someone guessed, “Could it be that instead of the Zhong Shan Clan’s mating bull that tried to force her, it was, in fact, Junior Martial Sister Shui that tried to force him into having sex? And this ravaged landscape was the aftermath of his fight free himself from her harassment?”

  Another one murmured, “I think that is most probably the case… God, haven't I received such a wonderful request from a pretty girl? If Junior Martial Sister Shui treated me like that, I would definitely listen to her obediently and not resist in the least. Even ten years of my life wouldn’t be too great a cost!”

  “You wish! But the Zhong Shan Clan’s member is a man of restraint! He actually resisted such a request from someone as pretty as Junior Martial Sister Shui!”

  ‘Shui Qingyan’ frowned and after the Qi Practitioners had dispersed from the scene, a few female Qi Practitioners invited her to stay at their place but she rejected them.

  Not long later, the girl then used her own psyche to visualize and rebuild a cave dwelling with dark ice as she walked into the cave dwelling.

  “He rejected me.”

  ‘Shui Qingyan’ sat down quietly and said suddenly, “He said if you spread news about him killing Xiao Chuqing, then he will expose my identity.”

  “Is that so?”

  Behind her back, a shadow grew out and said deeply, “He dares to threaten me? Myriad Mother, have you managed to gather any information about him?”

  ‘Shui Qingyan’ laughed and replied, “I thought that you and I had already reached the same conclusion long ago? After your evil scheme had failed when he was able to escape from the Devil Soul Forbidden Land, we had already surmised that this Zhong Shan Clan member was no longer the same as the one everyone knew before. Instead, his soul must have been devoured by an ancient being that took over his body. I asked him that just now and he claimed to be a being far more ancient than what I imagined! But, although I may not have been able to force out his true form, I could sense that what he said was an exaggeration. I suspect that he would only be as strong as me even in his true form!”

  From the shadows, the strange voice could be heard again as it murmured, “So a soul of an ancient being devoured him and took over his body! But this ancient being seems to not be cooperating at all. What a shame… But he seems to be weak now, so killing him should not be a problem….”

  ‘Shui Qingyan’ ‘s heart squeezed and she quickly said, “Don’t get me involved in it! If you expose him, then my life will be put in jeopardy as well!”

  “Don't worry, I will not expose the fact that he killed Xiao Chuqing and as said by him, you will not be exposed as well. This time, I will personally kill him myself!”

  The shadows then started to fade as they started to disperse and the voice said again, “He will definitely participate in the battle against the Xiao Mang Celestial Race and when he is on his way back from the battle, I will kill him myself. He will die in his journey back no matter how strong he was in his previous life!”

  ‘Shui Qingyan’ quickly raised, “On his way back? If the Zhong Shan Clan’s member participated the battle, your Xiao Mang Celestial Race might not be able to win at all, you should kill him on the way to the battle!”

  “Hahahaha, the Swords Gate will never be able to defeat the Xiao Mang Celestial Race. We the Xiao Mang Celestial Race will become a laughing stock if we can’t even win against an inconsequential Swords Gate....”

  The shadows then faded completely as the voice range out one last time, “Among all of the Qi Practitioners in Swords Gate, only Zuo Xiangsheng and he can win against my people. Their loss is inevitable!

  Meanwhile, Zhong Yue returned to the cave dwelling and pondered, Tian Myriad Mother is indeed very difficult to deal with. It is so hard to win against her at each level, she does indeed live up to her name as an ancient demonic god! This is not to mention the fact that she has yet to unleash her full power and her final form in our battles up till now. If she were to unleash that latent power, her strength might catapult to the height two to three times greater than it is now!”

  He could clearly feel the horrifying power hidden within ‘Shui Qingyan’ every time he fought with her.

  Therefore, if she unleashed her full strength and fought without any restrictions, even forcing a stalemate would be quite a tall order for him, much less winning!

  Who is the god’s envoy that met up with the Tian Myriad Mother? Is he from the Lei Hu Clan or the Shui Tu Clan?

  After a moment of brainstorming, he flew out from his place and shot up towards the sky, giving himself up to the punishment of the thunderclouds as he continued to refine his body and soul under the baptism of its lightning.

  The 【 Lightning Refining Soul Art】taught to him by Qiu Jin’er con
tained ninety nine thunder totem carvings, but the Lei Hu Clan had greater attainments in this aspect and they had 128 totem carvings. The 99 totem carvings Zhong Yue had obtained were the fundamentals of the art, while the remaining 29 carvings expounded on the true essence of the art that was restricted from outsiders of the Lei Hu Clan!

  Tian Myriad Mother is right. Tonight is a night with a bright moon and it is a good time for nourishing the moon spirit.

  Thunder rained down all around Zhong Yue as he looked up to see a moon hanging up high in the sky, effusing a solitary and bright luminescence.

  Behind Zhong Yue, his Yuan Shen bathed in the thunder and his moon eyes blinked. Suddenly, the moon essence shrouded all over his Yuan Shen and proceeded to nourish it.

  Gu——

  A sudden sound could be heard as his Yuan Shen swiftly shifted form into a six eyed toad that sat on the sky.

  Hu——

  The Six Eyed Starry Toad formed by his Yuan Shen stood at over eighteen feet and as it opened its mouth, the moonlight emitted by the moon converged together before gushing towards its mouth!

  Zhong Yue was elated at the fact that his Yuan Shen was slowly growing and with that, his cultivation speed was no slower than the time he absorbed the Beast God’s essence!

  Zhong Yue became lost in his contentment as when his Yuan Shen absorbed the moon essence while also visualizing the Sui Sovereign and simultaneously absorbing the Beast God’s essence. The combination of all these processes were almost equivalent to there being two Zhong Yue’s cultivating at the same time!

  The Yuan Shen could turn into the moon spirit and absorb the moon essence to speed up my cultivation. Would that mean that the sun spirit could do the same thing by absorbing the sun essence? At this rate, I would be able to increase my Yuan Shen to the extreme limit of twenty feet within just a month!

  As the moon essence absorption speed of the Yuan Shen became faster and stronger, the moon essence around him slowly flowed towards him, If one were to stand atop a mountain and look towards the sky, they would find that their eyes would be met with a scene of complete darkness as there wouldn’t even be a single vestige of moonlight illuminating the sky!

  Eventually, the darkness gradually burgeoned with Zhong Yue’s continued absorption of the moon essence before it ultimately overtook the entirety of the night sky!

  As time passed and when the sun rose, he immediately formed his Yuan Shen into the Great Sun Golden Crow to repeat the process with the sun essence. As compared to the Six Eyed Starry Toad, the Great Sun Golden Crow Yuan Shen absorbed the sun essence at a much faster speed and had an even wider area of coverage. Then, as the sun sets and the moon rises again, he was already strong enough to absorb the sunlight in a radius of two miles around him!

  Hmm, I suppose I should repay Tian Myriad Mother for helping me greatly this time ...!

  Chapter 163: Thunder Blighted Pool |

  After becoming a Qi Practitioner, he had been traveling around on his own, even staying in the monsters’ land for half a year without any formal instruction or training and armed with only his own wits and Xin Huo’s guidance. This lack of formal education resulted in his complete ignorance of the ways of cultivating the soul.

  Besides, Xin Huo was an extremely unreliable guy as well and had never taught Zhong Yue how to properly cultivate his soul. If ‘Shui Qingyan’ had never off-handedly mention that the moonlight could bring benefits to the soul, god knew how long it would have taken him to obtain a proper method of cultivating his soul.

  Therefore, ‘Shui Qingyan’ could be considered as pointing out a way to Zhong Yue and providing him with a big help!

  He then continued to cultivate day and night. However, as time passed, the moon spirit’s cultivation began to stagnate, whereas the sun spirit’s cultivation speed increased even more.

  And this is why although the sun and moon spirit were are considered as the two strongest spirits, the former was deemed superior to the latter.

  After all, so long as there were no clouds blocking the sunlight, sun spirit could continue to absorb the sunlight, contrary to the moon spirit whose fastest cultivation speed is restricted to the days where there is a full moon. With that, there are simply far fewer opportunities for the moon spirit to efficiently cultivate as opposed to the sun spirit.

  If there were two Qi Practitioners and they cultivated the sun spirit and moon spirit respectively, the one that cultivated the sun spirit would ultimately have greater achievements than the other one. That sun spirit Qi Practitioner would also be stronger than the other one!

  But Zhong Yue was different; he cultivated the sun and moon spirit simultaneously. The sun and moon spirit in him had merged together and had long since formed a symbiotic relationship, enhancing each other’s strengths and covering for each other’s weaknesses – forming a rudimentary Yin Yang cycle. Therefore, the sun and moon would strengthen in tandem with one another; enhancing the sun spirit would do the same with the moon spirit and conversely, doing so for the moon spirit would pose the same benefits for the sun spirit.

  As such, Zhong Yue had eliminated this potential delay in his cultivation as he could still utilize the sun spirit to nourish the moon spirit despite there being no moonlight in sight!

  The human eyes could be separated into Yin and Yang and with the shape of the human eyes, a simple Tai Chi Picture is formed.

  Zhong Yue then realized this and he finally knew why did Xin Huo asked him to cultivate the sun and moon spirit into his eyes. It was all because that the eyes were a simple Tai Chi system where the sun and moon spirit could help each other to grow!

  And the two eyes could be considered as a Yin Yang Tai Chi and the third eye on the forehead could absorb the energy produced by the moon and sun spirit to obtain incredible power!

  Zhong Yue couldn't help but to admire the ancient Fu Xi celestial race as they could achieve something that incredible on just their eyes whereas he needed a few months just to achieve the beginning level of it!

  No wonder Tai Yi that created this refining system could become the Heavenly Emperor!

  The sun, moon eye and the divine third eye formed a little system where the sun and moon eye helped each other and they generated energy that nourished the divine third eye, increasing each others’ power, making it easier to cultivate.

  However, there were still many things that he could not understand and Zhong Yue did not wake Xin Huo up as he is still in his slumber.

  Time passed and without knowing, half a month has passed and Zhong Yue’s Yuan Shen grew rapidly, being even closer to achieve the peak level of the Rebirth level.

  A Rebirth level Qi Practitioner will never be able to achieve more than the extreme limit of twenty feet Yuan Shen. When a Rebirth level Qi Practitioner’s Yuan Shen reached the extreme limit of twenty feet, it will not be able to grow anymore and in turn, its power will not grow as well.

  At this point, the Qi Practitioner will have to find another way to increase his Yuan Shen, which is also why there is the Awakening level that opens the Five Wheel Realm in the body of Yuan Shen that allows the Yuan Shen to grow!

  In fact, most of the Qi Practitioners’ Yuan Shen stopped growing before they could achieve the extreme limit, leaving them with no options but to forcefully advance into the Awakening level. This was mostly because of their unstable base that suffered injuries that could not be detected, which restricted their future achievements.

  Those that achieved the extreme limit of twenty feet Yuan Shen would be considered as geniuses, just like King Teng, Yu Xuanji, Hu Qimei, Heavenly Monster Li Jun and the others that Zhong Yue encountered. However, these guys were the only ones that achieved the extreme limit among the entire monsters.

  This day, Zhong Yue felt excited as the psyche in his psyche ocean became thunderous liquid, sparkling thunder sparks each time they moved, emitting strong currents!

  The thunder blighted pool!

  The pool was only thousand acres big, only about one third of
the previous size but the energy contained within was much stronger. In fact, not a single previous state of his psyche ocean could compare with the current state!

  Psyche ocean that evolved into the thunder blighted pool, I have finally achieved it!

  Zhong Yue was happy and surprised. As his psyche moved, they turned into a Jiao dragon that charged towards the dropping thunder. Previously, his psyche could not resist the thunder at all and they will be shattered by the thunder. But now, the Jiao dragon formed by his psyche could withstand the power of the nature thunder and it suffered no injuries at all!

  Other than that, the Jiao dragon even siphoned the thunder power of the nature thunder and it swam freely and happily among the thunder!

  Wonderful!

  Zhong Yue laughed as Sword Qi flew out, forming into the【Sword Seven Style】. As the Sword Qi flew, he could felt that the power of the Sword Qi was a few times stronger than before!

  Nice, nice!

  Zhong Yue felt happy and he retracted the Sword Qi. Following after that, various totem carvings emerged from his bodies and his psyche branded all over his bone structures, turning into various Jiao dragons totem carvings that surrounded him. At that moment, he felt the Jiao dragons’ power within him became immensely powerful and each time he moved, he breached the sound barrier, creating loud noises!

  He then moved and the Golden Crow Wings extended and the sharp feathers flew everywhere. Suddenly, he moved his psyche and the golden feathers shot out and turned into colorful Sword Qi that ran wildly around the skies!

  Then, Zhong Yue retracted his wings and the colorful Sword Qi rampaging in the skies disappeared and turned back into feathers before returning into the wings. Zhong Yue then opened up his wings and started flying, breaching the sound barrier as he flew!

  Suddenly the golden wings disappeared and Zhong Yue could be seen running in the air with his legs. As he ran, he brought up strong wind currents and his speed was nowhere slower than the golden wings!

  Then, he suddenly descended from the sky and the Yuan Shen behind him turned into the Six Eyed Starry Toad with its mouth opened widely!