Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  It’ll be very difficult to place such a huge and complex array formation, how should I do it…

  Zhong Yue was cracking his head to find an array formation that was suitable for the Singing Goose Mountain. He wasn’t proficient in the ways of array formations, and had only practiced a few of them, such as the Sword Cocoon Sword Silk Array and Ba Ji Slaughtering Array.

  In terms of array formation, Xin Huo is the master! I can ask Xin Huo to teach me one, the array formations he knows must be incredibly strong.

  Zhong Yue asked Xin Huo about this, but surprisingly, the little flame shook his head and said, “Request declined.”

  Zhong Yue was piqued, and said, “Selfish!”

  However, Xin Huo laughed and answered, “It’s not that I’m selfish, but the array formations I know are all god-level array formations. Even if I taught you, you can’t use them, as you probably won’t understand anything at all. Furthermore, you already have more suitable array formations, why did you even ask me?”

  Zhong Yue was stunned, “I already have more suitable array formations? Why didn’t I know about them?”

  Xin Huo then reminded him, “The spirit of Great Sun Golden Crow, the spirit of Jade Moon Star Toad, both of them contain the ways of array formations in them. All you need to do is understand them and attain the arts from them, it won’t be a problem to place an array formation by then.”

  The Great Sun Golden Crow Totem Patterns and the Jade Moon Star Toad Totem Patterns contained information regarding the array formations. But Zhong Yue’s attainments in them were not deep enough. Even though he had seen the array formation patterns inside them, they were disordered and it was nearly impossible to organize them, which was why he stopped learning them.

  When Xin Huo brought this matter up, Zhong Yue was puzzled, and said, “The array formation totem patterns in the sun spirit and moon spirit are disorganized, and there aren’t any array formations that can organize the totem patterns together into a complete array formation, so how can I do it?”

  Xin Huo then asked him in confusion, “No array formation? But didn’t the old man of Swords Gate teach you the ways of array formation?”

  “The headmaster taught me the ways of array formation? Why didn’t I know about it?” Zhong Yue was startled. “The headmaster only taught me the【Great Boundless Sword Qi】and the arts of sculpting, when did he teach me any array formations … wait a minute!”

  An image suddenly came into his mind, it was the scene where the old man was sculpting, the Sword Qi that waltzed on the old man’s fingertips. He then thought of the process when he sculpted; his heart skipped a beat and he murmured, “He did teach me the ways of array formation… and I ignored it all this while!”

  Zhong Yue was enthralled, and sank into his own thoughts. Walking into a palace in his monastery, marvelous thoughts came into his mind as he talked to himself, “Array formations, array formations… so these are the array formations!”

  In his mind, one thought after another emerged, he was constructing and contemplating the array formations in his mind. After a long time, he closed his eyes, sat down and started to organize his memories.

  All of a sudden, he opened his eyes wide, rays flashed in them. He reached out his hands to the outside of the palace, and brought a towering tree into the palace. While the tree was in mid-air, he had already cast out his Sword Qi to trim the tree into timber.

  With the Sword Qi waltzing on his fingertips, the timber was sculpted into small pieces of wood pillars about one foot long.

  Eighteen wooden pillars were lifted into the air by his psyche, his Sword Qi turned small and tiny, shuttling in between the wood pillars. Soon, as the wood shavings settled, he had carved the wood pillars into totem god pillars.

  Zhong Yue put away his Sword Qi and surged his psyche into the eighteen totem pillars. Instantly, the totem patterns on the pillars emanated bright and dazzling rays, abstruse totem patterns shot out from the pillars, reforming and amalgamating around the array formation into a ninety-foot tall dragon turtle!

  Following on the heel of the dragon turtle’s emergence, a two hundred-foot long snake with a pair of fluttering wings was formed right on the dragon turtle’s back by the totem pillars’ totem patterns. It wound around the dragon turtle, merging the two creatures into nothing else but the legendary Xuan Wu!

  Zhong Yue had divided the totem patterns of the【Xuan Wu Gold Spirit Skill】into eighteen different parts and carved them onto the eighteen wood pillars. By connecting the eighteen Xuan Wu Totem Pillars together, they would form an array formation that could cast out the Xuan Wu!

  Zhong Yue stared vacantly at the Xuan Wu in the mid-air. This was the result of the array formation made by the totem patterns he had just made, this was the Xuan Wu Gold Spirit Array Formation!

  The old man had indeed taught him the ways of array formation, he hadn’t realized it at all, as he had never thought that it could be done this way!

  The【Xuan Wu Gold Spirit Skill】was a defensive skill, how could a skill be an array formation?

  And yet, the arts of sculpting taught to him by the old man had changed this defensive skill into an array formation!

  “So this is how it is, this is it…”

  All of a sudden, Zhong Yue threw a punch at the Xuan Wu Array Formation. The strong and sturdy dragon turtle shook for a second, while the totem patterns on its back glimmered as they ward off the strength in his punch.

  The Teng Snake fluttered its wings, coiling its body, and unloaded the impact force from the strike.

  Peng peng peng peng peng…

  Zhong Yue moved around the Xuan Wu Array Formation, battering it continually; in a breath’s time, he had struck it over fifty times, punching right at the Xuan Wu.

  The dragon turtle bellowed with anger, and the Teng Snake gave a long hiss as Zhong Yue rained down a barrage of punches. Finally, the Xuan Wu was at its breaking point, and with a groan of pain, the Xuan Wu couldn’t hold any longer, crumbling into pieces and dispersing into thin air.

  At the same time, the eighteen totem pillars on the ground also exploded into dust.

  Seeing all this, Xin Huo’s heart suffered a great blow of shock. How did he figure it out so quickly? This brat’s perceptiveness is getting stronger. I thought that he would take weeks before he finally figured out the true arts of array formations, but who knew…

  Zhong Yue was smiling so hard his face might break. The【Xuan Wu Gold Spirit Skill】is only an ordinary defensive skill in Swords Gate, but its power is so incredible after it was turned into an array formation, being able to fend down a hundred of punches before it crumbles. So what if it's the Golden Crow and Star Toad?

  When Zhong Yue thought of this, his body shuddered violently. He suddenly thought of the disordered array formation patterns in the sun spirit and moon spirit, and the shape of the Golden Crow and Star Toad. Along with the arts of array formation through sculpting, he was suddenly enlightened!

  “Array formations are the skills!”

  If the Golden Crow and Star Toad’s skills were divided into small bits and pieces, broken down into small parts, then the disordered array formation patterns would not be that hard to understand and reorganize!

  He would now be able to understand those that he didn’t understand before!

  Zhong Yue laughed out-out. Before this, every time he looked at the mysteries in the sun spirit, the array formation patterns there were the hardest to understand and nearly impossible for him to attain, causing him to always fail when placing down the array formations. But now, as soon as he realized the true arts of array formation, every little secret inside it were laid bare before his eyes, waiting for him to explore them!

  The skills were the array formations, and the array formations, were exactly the skills!

  Understanding it would simply clear off every single question regarding the array formation!

  However, it was Xin Huo’s nature to pour some cold water, so he said, “Brat Yue,
understanding the true relation between the array formations and skills is far less than enough. The real god-level array formations will have nearly uncountable permutations, which means that the skills in them would also be countless! You have only scratched the surface on this field, it is still too early to be contented!”

  Zhong Yue, in turn, was thrilled with happiness, he laughed and replied, “I know I’m only starting, but knowing this will allow me to understand things easier in the future! One day, I will attain all of the secrets in this world and I will also place down a god-level array formation of my own!”

  He calmed himself down and started to attain the abstruse array formation patterns in the moon spirit. After seven days, Zhong Yue stopped attaining the array formation patterns and turned to visualizing the moon spirit and attaining its skills.

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  At the end of the day, Zhong Yue stood up, he summoned the girls and instructed them to gather a hundred and eight stone pillars. He demanded the pillars be made in the shape of the cloud pillars and neatly polished. They would be presented to him with a width of 9 feet 7 inches and 360 feet tall.

  Although Qing He, Yuchi Li and the other girls were puzzled, they followed the given order precisely, heading to the mountain ridge beside the monastery to craft the stone pillars.

  As the girls were all Qi Practitioners, such a task wasn’t any issue to them. After a few hours, the hundred and eight stone pillars were fully completed.

  Zhong Yue walked around the mountain to find the right nodes to put down the stone pillars, and after placing all of the stone pillars, he planted the last one in front of his monastery.

  Zhong Yue sat in the middle of the palace, and closed his eyes. With a thought, the Sword Qi surged out from his forehead one after another, waltzing around the stone pillars, engraving them with the marvelous totem patterns.

  “What is master doing? Placing an array formation?”

  Yuchi Li and the others were curious, they watched as the totem patterns were engraved on the stone pillars. However, to their surprise, none of the totem patterns were completed!

  “These totem patterns, they are all incomplete! If master is really going to place an array formation, why are the totem patterns incomplete?”

  The girls laughed as they were chatting, “Master’s array formation might be a failure this time, the incomplete totem patterns can’t do anything at all, they can’t contain any power in them.”

  While Yuchi Li was more thoughtful than the others, she said, “Master will most probably ask us to gather more stone pillars after he fails this time. I think we should go and prepare for him first, so that everything can be in place smoothly.”

  The ladies concurred, and they left for the nearby mountain ridge to gather more stone pillars.

  After a few moments, Zhong Yue finally finished sculpting the stone pillars, he surged his psyche into them and refined them with it, Then, he took out the soul weapons he had and placed them on the top of the stone pillars.

  When the girls finished the preparation for the second round of stone pillars, Zhong Yue was placing the Heavenly Dharma soul weapon, the forked snake spear, horizontally in the front of the palace plaque.

  “Master, it doesn’t look nice, placing it there,” Yuchi Li smiled while voicing her opinion.

  Zhong Yue shook his head and answered, “This soul weapon can only be placed here, to do otherwise would disrupt the array formation and make it lose its power.”

  Qing He rolled her eyeballs and asked with a smile, “Is master’s array formation ready?”

  “Just one more bit, it’s still lacking of a source of energy.”

  From Zhong Yue’s forehead, inner cores flew out one after another, a total of six inner cores flew out in six directions. Zhong Yue sighed, “There are only two Heavenly Dharma inner cores among the six, if only all six were at the level of Heavenly Dharma, then everything would be just perfect. But even so, the array formation is now complete.”

  The nine girls were chortling to the side. Long Chun’er was after all, kinder than the others, she prompted her master, saying, “Master, they say your array formation will fail, they are waiting to laugh at you. They say that the totem patterns you’ve used are incomplete, they have no power at all.”

  Zhong Yue laughed and said, “Yuchi Li, pass a word to City Lord Gu Hongzi. Ask him to launch a strike at our saint mountain so that I can see how well our saint mountain’s defensive array formation performs.”

  Chapter 252: Star Moon Array Formation |

  “Master, you really want to ask the city lord?” Yu Chili laughed and said, “Master has been preparing it for so long. What if it doesn’t work and instead, our mountain is slammed into a flatland, what are we going to do by then, cry?”

  Zhong Yue waved his hands, he said in a seemingly unfriendly manner, “If it fails, I’m not going to cry. Furthermore, I’ve placed down the array formation myself, I have confidence in it, it will not fail me! Quick, I gave my orders, go!”

  Just when Yuchi Li was going to pass the word, Qing He quickly held her back for a second and whispered in her ear, “City Lord Gu Hongzi is incredibly strong, he is a magnate cultivator! Elder Sister Li, please tell the city lord to control his power. After all, our master has prepared for so long, it’s best to give him some face; and secondly, this is our home, where will we stay if it’s wrecked?”

  Yuchi Li nodded, and answered with a smile, “Of course, I’ll keep everything under control. Meanwhile, you girls can enjoy some fun and watch as our master’s totem pillars get destroyed. By then, he will know that placing an array formation is not as easy as it looks. However, you girls must keep control of yourselves, comfort our master and try to cheer him up.”

  She then headed toward Gu Xia City and gave her master’s request to the city lord. Hearing her words, Gu Hongzi was surprised as he said, “Asking me to test his array formation? Your master is really confident!”

  Yuchi Li smiled in reply, “We’ve told our master about the problem that lies in his array formation patterns, but he just doesn’t listen and kept insisting that the city lord test his array formation. Please, may the city lord control your power and save him some face. As long as we can prove to him that his array formation doesn’t work it will do, we do not wish the living in the mountain to be harmed.”

  Gu Hongzi cast his gaze over and said, “What a good wife you are.”

  Yuchi Li’s face blushed red, her heart thumping as if there was a little deer hopping in her heart. She thought to herself, I’m not one yet….

  Slowly but steadily, Gu Hongzi rose into the air, he gazed afar at the Singing Goose Mountain from Gu Xia City and stared closely at it, not moving for a long time. Yuchi Li was puzzled and quickly, she also flew into the sky. After a few moments, Gu Hongzi sighed and said, “This is the array formation formed by your master? It is indeed impressive.”

  Yuchi Li looked over at the Singing Goose Mountain too. But she didn’t see the same beauty as Gu Hongzi did, and was even more puzzled.

  “How impressive, Junior Martial Brother Long Yue has really understood the arts of array formation. The array, the weapons, and the sources, all three linking and connecting one another. The array was placed down with the incomplete totem patterns, linked by the soul weapons and sourced by the inner cores... this is truly an impressive array formation with automated capability. It will be activated on its own without the need of controlling it, once it is attacked, its defensive capability will be activated right away.”

  Gu Hongzi looked around and said, “This is worthy to be deemed as an arcane array formation already, it's not an ordinary array formation anymore.”

  Yuchi Li was still trying to grasp what he meant while Gu Hongzi continued softly, “The common people would place the array formations by following exact steps; the talented ones would amend and modify the array formations; but the real genius would place down an arcane array formation.”

  All of a sudden, a huge hand emer
ged behind him, and lunged out at the far away Singing Goose Mountain from Gu Xia City!

  The hand was formed by arcane energy and totem patterns, it was a hundred mu in size, showing clearly the power of a Heavenly Dharma cultivator’s Avatar!

  In the blink of an eye, the hand had reached to the top of the Singing Goose Mountain, slamming down heavily!

  Krong——

  The huge hand was too quick, its friction with the air ignited the sky, leaving a trail of fire behind it as it slammed down at the Singing Goose Mountain like a falling meteor!

  Seeing it, Yuchi Li shouted in shock, “May the city lord have mercy!”

  Before her voice faded away, the hundred and eight stone pillars placed down by Zhong Yue glittered brightly, the incomplete totem patterns brightened up and extended out from the stone pillars into the sky like countless little butterflies.

  Ong ong ong——

  A series of light buzzing sounds came as the incomplete totem patterns linked themselves to the soul weapons that were placed all around the mountain; the soul weapons were connected with the incomplete totem patterns, and instantly, the incomplete totem patterns were completed.

  Right at this moment, countless marvelous totem patterns and soul weapons linked together, they came together as a gigantic Star Toad that was even larger than the mountain itself!

  The Star Toad had six eyes like six bright round moons, and one of them was the Heavenly Dharma soul weapon bright moon, blazing brightly. Wherever it shone, there would be light pillars shooting up into the sky at the gigantic hand!

  The Heavenly Dharma soul weapon snake spear has turned into the gigantic Star Toad’s tongue, the thousands-foot long forked tongue lashed from the giant toad’s mouth and pierced a hole through the gigantic hand!

  Not only that, but the Wu Yang River that surrounded the mountain suddenly moved!. It floated into mid-air, its two ends joined together and its power was also activated, revolving around the mountain in the sky above, it would be cast out at any time now!