Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  Zhong Yue nodded. And as he watched Lian Xin and Lang Qingyun leave, he thought, Lang Qingyun found out that I'm the one who killed Xiao Chuqing and went to the moon. He will definitely notify the Xiao Mang Celestial Race about this, and I wonder if he realized that I am Zhong Yue, and Zhong Yue is Long Yue yet.

  This is bad…

  But he shouldn't be able to guess that I am Zhong Yue, as traces about my identity as Zhong Yue were wiped out by senior martial brother Gu Hongzi. All he can guess will be that I am the spy sent to East Barren by the dragons, but even with that, I am in a bad situation right now. The raging anger of the Xiao Mang Celestial Race is not easy to be dealt with, not to mention that Xiao Chuqing was the daughter of the high priest of the Xiao Mang Celestial Race!

  The positions of the high priests of the celestial races was just like the position of the Swords Gate’s headmaster in the entire Great Wilderness, or the position of Shi Buyi in the East Barren. How could the Xiao Mang Celestial Race not be angered by the death of the elder priest’s daughter?

  Swords Gate!

  Zhong Yue turned back into the Storm Courtyard and thought, I have to return to Swords Gate now and notify the elders to capture Lang Qingyun! If we manage to capture him, we will find the other spy of the Xiao Mang Celestial Race in Swords Gate, and get rid of the internal threats of Swords Gate!

  Then, he ordered Qing He and the other four girls to sell off the properties of Storm Courtyard and use the money to buy spirit pills that were made especially for Qi Practitioners. He also told them to leave to Gu Xia City as soon as they completed the tasks that were given to them.

  “Qing He, keep this Li Wood properly.”

  Zhong Yue took out the Li Wood that was used as a substitution for him, emitting the same scent and aura as he did. The Li Wood was something he used to prevent someone pinpointing his location through precious items like the soul lanterns. Then, he told Qing He, “Put this Li Wood into your Yuan Shen secret realm after two days. Your master will leave one step ahead first!”

  Qing He took the Li Wood from Zhong Yue, but she felt curious about the use of the Li Wood and was surprised that Zhong Yue was so serious about it.

  Zhong Yue then headed towards Gu Xia City after he left Xian Kong Saint City.

  His secrets had been discovered by Lang Qingyun, and so it would be best if he left as quickly as possible. The faster he left the city, the safer he would be as dangers would arrive quickly after Lang Qingyun notified the Xiao Mang Celestial Race!

  And if he would be much safer if he was in Gu Xia City, because of the presence of Gu Hongzi!

  Besides, Gu Xia City was very close to the Great Wilderness and he could switch back to his identity as Zhong Yue to seek protection from Swords Gate!

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  At the same time as Zhong Yue left the city, Lang Qingyun also notified the Xiao Mang Celestial Race, telling them that Zhong Yue was the murderer of Xiao Chuqing. However , by the time he received the replies of the elders, Zhong Yue had already traveled more than a thousand miles away from the city.

  By the time Lang Qingyun noticed that Zhong Yue has left the city, two days had already passed. This was because as soon as Zhong Yue got out of the city, he held his breath and ran at full speed while he used the Li Wood given to Qing He to replace his scent.

  After two days, when Qing He kept the Li Wood into her Yuan Shen secret realm as ordered as Zhong Yue, Lang Qingyun had a huge shock when he suddenly lost track of Zhong Yue after he tried to pinpoint his location with the soul lantern!

  By then, Zhong Yue was already a tens of thousands of miles away from Gu Xia Saint City!

  Where did that brat go!

  After pouring huge efforts into searching for Zhong Yue to no avail, Lang Qingyun had cold sweat running all over his forehead uncontrollably. The Xiao Mang Celestial Race’s elders viewed this matter extremely heavily, and they have already sent out priests and strong individuals to kill Zhong Yue. Lang Qingyun gave his word to his clan that he could precisely locate Zhong Yue no matter where he went. Against all of his expectations, Zhong Yue had disappeared into thin air. Even the soul lantern could not locate him, which he had not encountered before!

  How am I supposed to tell to high priest about this…

  Lang Qingyun expression changed and suddenly, he grit his teeth as he flew out of Xian Kong Saint City. He then plunged forward and landed on his hands and knees as he sniffed around the ground like a dog as he smirked, Junior martial brother Long Yue, you might have underestimated me if you think that you can escape from my grasp just like that! We Xiao Mang Celestial Race may not be the very best in smelling power, but we are still one of the best!

  Very soon, he discovered Zhong Yue’s trail through his scent, and started after him.

  Hmmm? There’s another person’s scent with Long Yue. Judging from the nice scent, that should be a woman…

  Lang Qingyun’s face changed when he detected some other people’s scents after chasing after Zhong Yue for a few thousand miles. He quickly identified the owner of the scent, which was seemingly following behind Zhong Yue. He thought, Its fourth junior martial sister Lian Xin! She is after Long Yue as well!

  Lang Qingyun then murmured to himself, “Why is she after Long Yue? With her presence, I will face difficulties in capturing Long Yue, and I might even have my cover exposed. It is not quite worth it if I expose my cover just for Xiao Chuqing…”

  He then suddenly stood up and looked far away.

  The direction Long Yue is heading in is Gu Xia City! A startled beast will return to its lair, as its lair is the safest place in the mind of the startled beast. This brat will definitely return to Gu Xia City because his territory is there and Gu Hongzi is his guardian, just like a startled beast! Therefore, I no longer have to chase after him, all I have to do is just wait for him in Gu Xia City!

  Without a soul lantern, it would be almost impossible to look for someone in this vast East Barren. It was something almost impossible even for someone like Shi Buyi.

  Therefore, although Lang Qingyun possessed the incredible sense of smell of the Xiao Mang Celestial Race, prolonged hours of tracking by scent would take a toll on his nose as well. The presence of Lian Xin also caused him great trouble, so he decided that he might as well wait for Zhong Yue in Gu Xia City and wait for Zhong Yue to enter his trap!

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  Tens of thousands of miles away, Zhong Yue continued running without decreasing his speed. It would only be a day or two until he returned to Gu Xia City.

  After arriving in the city, I will have to notify Gu Hongzi about the real identity of Lang Qingyun. After that, I will return to Swords Gate as fast possible!

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  Zhong Yue continued to travel quickly. After advancing for another ten thousand miles and getting past a mountainous area, he saw a silk gauze a thousand miles long floating in the skies in a pattern just like a slithering snake.

  This silk gauze…

  Zhong Yue’s face changed slightly as he murmured, “Chi Liannu! She’s hiding here!”

  After passing by the silk gauze, Zhong Yue then saw a huge fiery red snake hide wrapped around a huge mountain!

  The snake hide was incredibly eerie, as when the sunlight shone on it, the scales reflected the sunlight and poisonous mist was spread all over the mountain.

  Suddenly, a dragon roar could be heard faintly coming from the poison mist. Zhong Yue used his divine third eye to take a look at the situation in the poison mist, only to see a fiery red half-Jiao Dragon, half-snake creature trying to shed its snake body as it tried to evolve into a dragon!

  That creature was Chi Liannu!

  She was in the most crucial state of her metamorphosis of turning into a dragon from a snake!

  Zhong Yue’s heart thumped and he suddenly stopped moving as he looked towards Chi Liannu, who was going through a metamorphosis. He saw that her body kept reforming and restructuring as the dragon Qi surged through her body, and her totem carvings were fre
quently changing patterns and forms on her body.

  Then, this female monster started changed her form in an irregular pattern, sometimes a Jiao Dragon, sometimes a Chilian Snake, sometimes a naked girl that was moaning in pain.

  Metamorphosis, the process of a larvae evolving into a butterfly….

  Zhong Yue murmured as something in his mind resonated with this scene happening in front of him. He suddenly felt that a heavy door had opened for him, and his mind had never been as clear as it was right now!

  Chapter 242: The White Lotus |

  Through observing the process of the butterflies being born into the world, Shi Buyi came to realize the secrets of Atman Body As One. Zhong Yue also achieved the same thing, through observing the process of Chi Liannu evolving into a Jiao Dragon from a Chilian Snake.

  The evolving of a snake into a dragon was the same as Atman Body As One, because both were applied onto the body, heightening the quality of the body, bestowing immense enhancements, and turning into a higher level life form!

  The process of evolving into a dragon from a snake was about the same as the Atman Body level’s Atman Body As One, where both states turned the mortal body into a celestial body!

  By now, she had shed her snakeskin. From her fiery red body dragon claws grew, and a dragon tail and scales sprouted as the Dragon Qi in her bloodline she had siphoned from Jiao Shanyuan started to alter her body structures and transform her into a higher life form!

  Then, colorful dragon totem carvings flew out from her body, while long and slender Jiao Dragons danced around her.

  From afar, Zhong Yue opened up his divine third eye and summoned his Yuan Shen, which then turned into the Six-Eyed Celestial Being that stood at his back.

  The twenty foot Yuan Shen is too big! Smaller, smaller!

  Zhong Yue’s Yuan Shen then shrank to a size almost as tall as Zhong Yue.It stepped one step forward, merging itself with the body of Zhong Yue. Then, just like Chi Liannu, various totem carvings emerged from his body and started to restructure and alter his body.

  Zhong Yue’s five great Yuan Shen secret realms then merged together with his organs; the Wan Xiang Secret Realm merged with his bone structure, the Shen Cai Secret Realm merged with his throat, heart, and umbilical, the Ying Yang Secret Realm merged with his eyes, and the Dao Yi Secret Realm merged with his brain.

  His muscles then started to change along with the bones, Qi, blood, skin and other parts of his body. He actually became very similar to the Six-Eyed Celestial Being as his body was altered and enhanced!

  Zhong Yue felt unbelievably strong energy surging within his body as a result of his five great secret realms merged with his physical form. They were bestowing the power of the five great secret realms to his body, which then allowed him to control the power of the five great secret realms with perfect synergy!

  Other than that, as his body evolved into the celestial body, each time he waved his hands or moved his legs, he could easily cast all kinds of powerful skills easily, and he could utilize his strength to the fullest!

  All because he had achieved the initial stage of the Atman Body level!

  But Zhong Yue still felt that he would drop out of the Atman Body As One state anytime because of his currently unstable base.

  Average Atman Body level Qi Practitioners could enlarge their bodies to twenty feet tall to match the size of their Yuan Shen, which was also about twenty feet tall, in order to obtain immense strength that was created when the five great secret realms’ power merged perfectly with the body.

  Zhong Yue however, only managed to reduce his Yuan Shen to the size of his body, as it was still quite difficult for him to enlarge his body to match the size of his Yuan Shen. With that, he could only turn his Yuan Shen to fit the size of his body and therefore he could only maintain the Atman Body As One state for only a short and unstable period of time. He still had a long way to go after entering the Atman Body level.

  Then, he slightly stimulated the Shen Cai Secret Realm, which caused his body to grow rapidly in an instant, increasing his size by one feet, two feet, three feet....

  As his body grew, his Yuan Shen grew as well, and the Yuan Shen previously suppressed to fit the size of his body enlarged along with him.

  When his body reached the size of twenty feet tall, he reached his limit. It was only now that Zhong Yue felt that the Shen Cai Secret Realm’s power was half depleted, as each time he grew by an inch, he would consume a portion of the energy in the Shen Cai Secret Realm.

  The Shen Cai Secret Realm was the core of the transformation of the mortal body into the celestial body. If the energy in the Shen Cai Secret Realm was depleted, one’s body would revert to their original state immediately.

  This was also why Atman Body level Qi Practitioners could not maintain this state for long, and they would only trigger this state when they needed to obtain power.

  Such incredible strength…

  Zhong Yue moved his arms and legs around, before he suddenly lost control of his power and his body shrank. The energy used to maintain the Atman Body As One state surged back into his Shen Cai Secret Realm and immediately Zhong Yue returned to his initial state and had his Yuan Shen kicked out from his body!

  This was all because when he used his Wan Xiang Secret Realm’s power, he did not control it properly. The power of Wan Xiang clashed and created conflict with the other four secret realms, causing everything to fail.

  However, he felt relieved when he did not drop back into the Awakening level. As long as he remained in the Atman Body level and got familiar with his new powers, he would be able to achieve the twenty foot tall body in no time!

  Thank you for your help, senior martial sister Chi Lian. From now on, we will no longer cross paths again, thought Zhong Yue. He looked at Chi Liannu, who was still evolving, and left.

  Right now, Chi Liannu was in the most crucial state of her evolution, but whenever she was about to evolve into a real dragon, she kept on failing and her body shattered before turning back into the Chilian Snake or a curvaceous naked lady.

  “Hissss, a little bit more, just a little bit more and I will become a Jiao Dragon!”

  As Zhong Yue was about to leave, the lady in the red poisonous mist shrieked and the silk gauze around the mountain suddenly moved, lunging towards Zhong Yue like a huge serpent!

  “Junior martial brother Long Yue, I need just a little bit more help to turn into a Jiao Dragon, let me eat you and take your energy!”

  Zhong Yue was shocked. When he tried to summon his Yuan Shen, the silk gauze landed on his forehead and a totem carving turned into a small shield before entering his psyche ocean, sealing it off!

  With nothing left to be done, Zhong Yue was grabbed by the silk gauze and carried into the poison mist as he shouted, “Senior martial sister Chi Lian, have you forgotten our teacher’s words?”

  Although he managed to enter the Atman Body level, Chi Liannu was a Heavenly Dharma Qi Practitioner! How could Zhong Yue put up a fight against her?

  Thus, Zhong Yue could only use Shi Buyi’s name as a last resort to stop Chi Liannu.

  However, Chi Liannu posed alluringly and said seductively, “I can’t wait any longer... Please give it to me… I want more, more! I’m already on the verge of becoming a Jiao Dragon, and all I need is to eat you. Don’t worry, I will let you enjoy yourself to the fullest and you will be satisfied greatly…”

  “Enjoy to the fullest?” Zhong Yue stared at her ferociously as he thought, You are the one who forced me to do this! I will use the forbidden technique taught to me by Xin Huo and we shall see who will die first!

  At the same time, a gentle voice was suddenly heard saying, “So this is where senior martial sister is hiding! Senior martial sister has used up all your power during your evolution! Good, extremely good! Then I will be able to use little strength to defeat you and devour you!”

  As soon as the voice was heard, both Chi Liannu and Zhong Yue had a shock. Then, Chi Liannu hurled Zhong Yue away whil
e she screamed, “Lian Xin!”

  Lian Xin could be seen descending from the cloud she was standing on and walking towards the mountain where Chi Liannu stood. The usually expressionless girl suddenly smiled and looked at Chi Liannu like one of her prey.

  Lian Xin? What is she doing here?

  As soon as the seal was lifted, Zhong Yue immediately visualized the Golden Crow Wings and flew up in the air as he surveyed the scene in shock.

  After all, he was already planning to use the technique taught by Xin Huo to reverse siphon Chi Liannu’s power, he did not expect the arrival of Lian Xin!

  Chi Liannu showed a serious expression, as she had used up most of her powers during the evolving process before she turned back into her original form, a huge fiery red Chilian Snake.

  And the delicate and pretty Lian Xin too, suddenly turned back into her true form, a white serpent that was no weaker than the Chilian Snake, with various lotus totem carvings around her body!

  Zhong Yue heart thumped and as he flew away, he thought, Lian Xin is also a snake!?

  “Senior martial sister, I heard that you have siphoned Jiao Shanyuan and you have obtained the Qi of a Jiao Dragon. I also heard that you are preparing to evolve into a Jiao Dragon, so I thought that this might be a rare chance!”

  Lian Xin then added, “So I thought that if I devoured you, I could steal the Dragon Qi from you so that I could become a Jiao Dragon, without risking myself to siphon a true Jiao Dragon!”

  Zhong Yue flew away for a few dozen miles. When he looked backwards, he saw the white and red serpents were fighting ferociously on the mountains, shattering them, and causing the two serpents to fall into the poison mists!

  “How did you know that I would hide here?” screamed Chi Liannu, who was losing the fight as she did have not much power left.

  Lian Xin’s voice then could be heard replying arrogantly,“I knew that if the Dragon Qi you siphoned was not enough, you would definitely go for our little junior martial brother and siphon his Dragon Qi.