Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  As soon as Xin Huo was done talking, he dove straight into the area filled with the Red Mother Colonial Anemones. The five wheels emerged behind him while the Yuan Shen flew out from his body, unleashing every single bit of the power hidden in Zhong Yue!

  The way Xin Huo and Zhong Yue used the Yuan Shen was completely different. When Xin Huo summoned the Yuan Shen of Zhong Yue, the Sui Sovereign merged the sun and moon spirits together. As the spirits merged, the Great Sun Golden Crow and Starry Moon Toad Yuan Shen’s powers stacked together and unleashed immense power!

  This was the very first time Zhong Yue realized that his body and Yuan Shen could actually deliver such incredible power! As Xin Huo merged the power of his body, Yuan Shen and psyche together, he turned Zhong Yue’s body into the true form of the Fuxi Celestial Race and used the power in Zhong Yue to the fullest!

  And only now did Zhong Yue know what kind of arts were taught to him by Xin Huo.

  【Sui Sovereign Flame Order Palace Visualization Art】 was not just an ordinary cultivating art, but the strongest art of the Fuxi Celestial Race. It allowed the Fuxi Celestial Race to turn their Yuan Shen into the Sui Sovereign that controlled the sun and moon, turning them into part of their Yuan Shen. This was not just purely using one of the two spirits, but merging them into one and becoming part of the Sui Sovereign Yuan Shen and receiving incredible power from that!

  Right now, the skills and techniques used by Xin Huo to breach through the array of Red Mother Colonial Anemones were all skills that he had never seen before. The skills and techniques used by Zhong Yue all contained incredible power and terrifying strength, and they were all seemingly from the unique heritage of the Fuxi Celestial Race!

  The Fuxi Celestial Race’s skills and techniques were controlled and delivered easily by Xin Huo. He quickly controlled the body of Zhong Yue, and breached the array with ease.

  Not long later, under the control of Xin Huo, Zhong Yue reached the core of the array. He saw countless Heavenly Dharma level Red Mother Colonial Anemones that withered away after Xin Huo hurled different spells right into their mouthparts along the way!

  Zhong Yue might not have possessed such incredible power, but under the control of Xin Huo, who was incredibly experienced, he managed to hurl these spells into the weak spots of the anemones at the right time.

  “Xin Huo, when were you going to teach me the skills and techniques of the Fuxi Celestial Race?”

  “Hahahaha! I smell envy in the air!” Xin Huo then said, “Are you jealous now that you have seen the true power of the Celestial Race? Don’t think too much, I will not teach you if you are not the inheritor of the Fuxi heritage. Originally, I was thinking of letting you become the inheritor of the heritage if I could not find any pure blooded Fuxi Celestial Race. But now, after that brat Ancestral Dragon said that there are still pure blood Fuxi Celestial Race survivors, you will become just a reserve.”

  Zhong Yue was disappointed. Right now, they had gotten past the core of the array and arrived before the Divine Wing Saber! The saber was stuck in some dark ice, the rays emitted by it looked like the wings of an eagle!

  Zhong Yue looked around and saw his Golden Feathery Peng Sword strike open a hole in the ice before returning to the Divine Wing Saber.

  The previously weathered and broken Golden Feathery Peng Sword, that felt like it was going to shatter anytime, had been repaired by the energy in the Divine Wing Saber, its broken feathers had returned!

  In addition to that, the shattered totem carvings of the Golden Feathery Peng Sword had reconnected to the Divine Wing Saber’s totem carvings, and been repaired!

  This was a godly weapon that could self-repair and mend its own damage!

  Zhong Yue looked around, and was surprised when he couldn't find any traces or the corpse of the Kun Peng Race’s Qi Practitioner.

  “Stop looking for him, he has been cut into pieces by the Pan Long Sword, and the pieces of his body turned into blood water while his Yuan Shen dispersed,” Xin Huo said.

  Xin Huo continued, “Look there, that blood pool under the Divine Wing Saber... that pool of water is the blood water of that guy!”

  Zhong Yue looked around and just like what Xin Huo said, he saw a blood pool that emitted a disgusting smell. He was shocked.

  The Kun Peng Race’s Qi Practitioner was incredibly strong, and could easily be listed in the top three, or maybe the strongest individual, even among the dragons!

  But now, after being cut by the Pan Long Sword, his wounds could not recover at all, and he died just like that. Just how strong was the Pan Long Sword?

  The Divine Wing Saber is as strong as the Pan Long Sword, if I could get my hands on such godly weapons….

  “The true form of Fuxi cannot be maintained anymore.”

  Xin Huo sighed and Zhong Yue’s body slowly reverted back. The dragon scales disappeared, the snake’s tail turned back into legs, and his height returned to normal. Then, Xin Huo returned control of Zhong Yue’s body back to him. When Zhong Yue looked at his reverted body, he felt a little bit disappointed.

  In terms of practicality, the snake tails were much more functional than legs. With them, one could climb trees, mountains, or swim in the water much more easily than legs. Wherever one with legs could go, one with a snake tails could do it as well, or even better.

  And the Fuxi Celestial Race’s dragon scales and snake tails all originated from the Huaxu Race, the descendants of the Sui Sovereign, which made it one of the most ideal combat forms!

  But the snake tails are quite out of human aesthetics….

  Zhong Yue touched his tailbone, where the snake tails had grown out from, and thought, How did Xin Huo stimulate the Fuxi blood and shift into the Fuxi true form?

  Right now, he felt that the energy in the Fuxi celestial blood located in his forehead had been depleted, and his divine third eye was shut as a result of the huge consumption of energy. With that, shifting back into the Fuxi true form would be impossible, and he might not be able to use his divine third eye temporarily.

  “Kiddo Yue, I’m tired.” Xin Huo said tiredly. He continued, “Turning into the Fuxi true form has greatly exhausted my psyche. Take out the weathered lamp I reside in, and I will teach you how to use the lamp to store the Divine Wing Saber. Quick, quick, I cannot hold any longer, and I will enter my slumber again….”

  Zhong Yue quickly took out the weathered bronze lamp. Xin Huo immediately flew out from his psyche and landed on the lamp pith. The little flame dude did not to appear to be as bright as he was before as he said, “Open the lamp cover and take a look at the lamp oil inside….”

  “The lamp oil?”

  Zhong Yue carefully opened the lamp cover. When he looked inside of the lamp, he saw a tiny galaxy in the lamp, and the lamp pith was in the middle of the tiny galaxy!

  “This is the lamp oil?” blurted out a stunned Zhong Yue.

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  “En, this is the lamp oil, also the place I reside in, and the source that supports my life.”

  Xin Huo gazed at it and said sadly, “My lamp oil is nearly depleted, it seems like I need to find an inheritor as soon as possible and let him support me already.”

  Zhong Yue was stupefied. Looking at the copper lamp, he murmured, “So this is what a galaxy truly looks like? I feel like there are hundreds of millions of suns in here…”

  Xin Huo was proud and complacent, “They are Star Souls, the souls of the stars. The great Sui Sovereign harvested the soul of a dying galaxy and made it into the lamp oil. Out of boredom, I’ve counted it before, there are 310 billion suns and a trillion or more stars.”

  Zhong Yue gathered his thoughts. He was again stupefied as he looked at the lamp oil once more; magnificent, truly magnificent!

  Although the lamp oil was not a genuine galaxy, but only the souls of the stars in a dying galaxy, that was still too terrifyingly appalling, no?

  However, how boring would it be for Xin Huo to actually count the numbers of s
tars and suns only to pass the time?

  Zhong Yue was feeling sad for the little flame; he had lived for too long, been alone for too long; even though he had nurtured generation after generation of inheritors, witnessed the development of the history, he had also sent away countless inheritors he had once nurtured, and witnessed their deaths with his own eyes.

  The joys and sorrows, the vicissitudes of life he has been through were unimaginable. Perhaps, the deaths of every inheritor would weigh on him greatly? That’s why he had counted the numbers of stars and suns in the lamp oil, so he could cast off the boredom and loneliness inside.

  Zhong Yue could imagine it, the scene of the little flame who would count the numbers of stars and suns every time after the death of an inheritor...

  After a few moments, Zhong Yue could not help but to say, “Xin Huo, I feel that your lamp is thousands of times more valuable than the Divine Wing Saber….”

  “Thousands times? It's way more than that! It’s only because of this lamp that I lived from the Fire Order Palace until now. But don’t you think about it, this lamp is made from the Star Souls, it’s useless to you.”

  Suddenly, Xin Huo’s face changed, he was alerted and said, “Not good, there is a mysterious force pulling on the Divine Wing Saber!”

  Krong——

  The ice layer quaked violently, Zhong Yue was shocked and he quickly looked over; he saw the ice layers around the Divine Wing Saber start crumbling into dust!

  While the Divine Wing Saber was also quivering rapidly, it was like an appallingly strong force was pulling on the saint weapon!

  Krong, krong!

  The saint weapon continued to quiver as the ice layers were broken away. Zhong Yue could not maintain his stability and was nearly tossed away while the ice layers continued to crumble. All of a sudden, a huge black hole appeared behind the Divine Wing Saber, swirling and spinning rapidly!

  The hole was dark and eerie, a mysterious force had broken through the dimensional space; Zhong Yue could hear sounds of worship coming from the other side of the black hole. It sounded like there were livings worshipping the Divine Wing Saber from the other end!

  “This is bad, it’s the Kun Peng Race of the Wood Celestial Star, worshipping the Divine Wing Saber. They are trying to pull the Divine Wing Saber through the black hole to the Wood Celestial Star!”

  Xin Huo was agitated; the little flame brightened up again and shouted, “These brats, they are trying take the food out from the tiger’s mouth, snatching the treasure away from our hands! Quick, quick! Take out the beast god inner core and use the beast god essence to wield my lamp, and put the Divine Wing Saber in it! Quickly take this saber, I still need to sleep!”

  Zhong Yue quickly lifted up the copper lamp, pointing the opening of the lamp at the Divine Wing Saber while the beast god inner core flew out from his psyche ocean. Meanwhile, the chanting from the other end of the black hole were getting louder and stronger, causing the black hole to expand. Zhong Yue could even see images at the middle of the hole from the planet on the other side!

  The planet was filled with water, a vast sea covering the whole planet; the raging waves were tall and huge, each and every one of them was at least hundreds of thousand miles long and tens of thousand feet tall, straight and magnificent like precipices.

  In the sky was a raging tempest and thunderbolts; hurricanes swept across the sky, compressing the air into a nefarious dark black. The thunderbolts were thick and sturdy, striking all over the place — it was exactly the scene of an apocalypse.

  This was the Wood Celestial Star!

  Zhong Yue was stunned by the view that came into his eyes. In the midst of the tempestuous hurricane and the raging sea stood countless huge and tall titans. There were golden Peng birds with wingspans of thousands of miles bathing in the sky full of thunderbolts and tempests — they were the mainstays of the Kun Peng Race, cultivators at the grade of magnates!

  They were praying, linking themselves to the Divine Wing Saber in an attempt to rouse the Divine Wing Saber and summon it back to the Wood Celestial Star through the dimensions!

  Vaguely, Zhong Yue could even see a mightier figure standing in the crowd, a godly spirit who was standing in the midst of the vast sea while the sea-level only reached to its waist — an unearthly titanic figure whose size alone could infuse fear and terror into the living!

  The Kun Peng Race ancestor’s goodly spirit!

  Zhong Yue’s heart skipped a beat, he immediately realized the identity of the mighty figure. The Eastern Sea rebellion of the sea race was instigated because the Kun Peng Race of the Wood Celestial Star has roused this ancient godly spirit, and had gotten in touch with the sea race in the Eastern Sea through the dimensions!

  The sea race then built a teleportation portal, connected it to the Wood Celestial Star and allowed the Kun Peng Race experts to come to the Eastern Sea to reclaim the Divine Wing Saber.

  And now, the godly spirit has decided to step in and hosted a prayer ritual to summon the Divine Wing Saber back to the Wood Celestial Star!

  As of now, part of the power in the Divine Wing Saber had awakened and slowly but steadily, the huge saber was moving towards the black hole.

  If Zhong Yue could see the Kun Peng Race experts on the Wood Celestial Star, then the Kun Peng Race experts could surely see him too; their eyes were filled with bafflement, not knowing why such a tiny and petty living being would be on the other side of the black hole.

  However, regardless of the thoughts in their minds, they did not stop their prayers and were still calling for the Divine Wing Saber; their chants grew louder and louder, cracking the ice layers for a thousand miles around!

  The death of this Kun Peng Race expert doesn’t matter at all, the godly spirit of the Kun Peng Race just wants to extricate the Divine Wing Saber from the seals of the dragon race so that their saint weapon can be summoned back to them!

  In a split second, Zhong Yue had figured everything out. At the same time, he surged all of his arcane energy into the beast god inner core. The core was stimulated and instantly a surge of overpowering beast god essence blasted out, turning into a blood dragon in the shape of the Xiang Dragon!

  The raging essence was then infused into the copper lamp while Xin Huo controlled them and stirred the Star Souls in the copper lamp faster and faster.

  An appallingly strong pulling force came from the copper lamp, the Divine Wing Saber was caught by the pulling force and stopped moving towards the black hole, and instead was drawn to the copper lamp.

  The space in front of the copper lamp was contorted, diminishing the Divine Wing Saber’s blade tip as it slowly entered the copper lamp!

  Meanwhile, the saber hilt of the Divine Wing Saber was already in the black hole. The two forces were pulling and contending for the saint weapon. One was the power of worship, and the other the power of the copper lamp!

  Zhong Yue’s heart was beating heavily, it felt like his heart would thump out from his mouth at any time while he stared closely at the saber.

  His cultivation base was still too weak, he could not contend with the Kun Peng Race experts’ power of worship at all, nor could he be stronger than the beast god inner core. At this point in time, his arcane energy was too trifling to be of any great use. All he could do was to keep on stimulating the beast god inner core so as to contend with the Kun Peng Race’s prayer ritual for the Divine Wing Saber!

  The pulling force from the lamp oil and the worshipping ritual were contending with one another, one side was pulling the Divine Wing Saber into the lamp while the other was pulling the Divine Wing Saber into the Wood Celestial Star. The competition between the two forces had torn the ice layers into crumbled pieces and shaken the sky!

  Even the Red Mother Colonial Anemone Poison Array left behind by the dead Kun Peng Race expert was destroyed and crushed. One after another, the Red Mother Colonial Anemones were shaken to death. Zhong Yue, who held the copper lamp high in the sky before him, was left unharmed b
y the impact forces, but the scenery still shocked him greatly!

  If it wasn’t for the copper lamp, the fallout alone alone would have pulverized me already!

  One had to know that Zhong Yue had been cultivating with the aid of the beast god inner core. He had been extracting the beast god essence from the inner core to increase his prowess and cultivation base, and also to purify his bloodline. He had been using it for such a long time and the beast god inner core had never once became smaller. But in just such a short while wrestling in power, the beast god inner core had shrunken down!

  If I can’t get the Divine Wing Saber, then not only will I not get anything, but I’ll also suffer a great loss!

  Zhong Yue grit his teeth, he stimulated the beast god inner core like a mad man and sent all of the beast god essence into the copper lamp, causing the galaxy in the lamp to spin faster and create a stronger pulling force, slowly sucking the Divine Wing Saber into the lamp!

  On the other hand, Zhong Yue could also see the Kun Peng Race experts on the other side of the black hole morphing back into their true forms of the Kun fishes, spurting out mouthfuls of their blood and offering their blood essences to the Divine Wing Saber. Cearly, they were also going all out!

  Meanwhile, the awakened Kun Peng Race ancestor’s spirit also lunged out with all of its arcane energy to summon the Divine Wing Saber back to it.

  Both sides were giving everything they had in competing for the saint weapon!

  The Divine Wing Saber was the saint weapon of the Kun Peng Race, surely they had to claim it back. Zhong Yue had wasted a chance to chose other treasures and the innumerable essence of the beast god inner core, he wouldn’t give up so easily either!

  The situation had plunged into a stalemate, slowly, nearly the whole tip of the saber was sucked into the copper lamp while the other half of the saber was in the black hole, appearing on the Wood Celestial Star.

  Right at this moment, the ancestor spirit of the Kun Peng Race suddenly moved! It reached out to the saber hilt in the sky of the Wood Celestial Star and yanked the Divine Wing Saber towards it!