Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  The Kui Long's leathery hide fluttered in the air and remained steadfast while Qiu Jin'er shielded herself beneath it, but Zhong Yue was sucked into the air toward the elephant trunk without being able to put up much a fight!

  His two hundred foot tall mortal body was incredibly strong, but he was still powerless against the demonic spirit of a demon god!

  "Go!" Zhong Yue yelled, the Golden Peng Sword thrust out from his Dao Yi Realm, slicing through the air and slashing down at the elephant trunk on its left!

  "This is what I've been waiting for!" Tian Myriad Mother was overjoyed, she clutched onto the hilt of the Golden Peng Sword, hurling it aside and laughing, "This sword is going to waste in your hands! It can only unleash its greatest power when a demon god wields it! Now, it's time to let you have a taste of its true power…"

  "Heavy! Heavy! Heavy! Heavy! Heavy!" Zhong Yue bellowed in anger, chanting ‘Heavy' five times in quick succession; immediately, the Golden Peng Sword immediately turned incomparably heavy, to the point that not even Tian Myriad Mother was able to maintain hold of it as it slammed down onto the ground along with it. The percussive shock of the impact violently rocked the foundations of the copper palace!

  “Big! Big! Big! Big! Big!”

  After another five ‘Big' chants, the Golden Peng Sword immediately enlarged to a 30000 feet longsword, piercing through Tian Myriad Mother who came crashing down to the ground. Tian Myriad Mother was shocked, and her faces changed drastically. She quickly released the sword and leaped into the air, but the Golden Peng Sword still managed to thrust into her stomach to create a huge hole in her body!

  Fortunately for her, she was a demonic spirit without a true mortal body, or otherwise, she would have been heavily injured by just this one strike.

  Even so, she could still feel the threat of the Golden Peng Sword; this feeling made her very uneasy!

  With Zhong Yue's current cultivation base and prowess, he could never harm her at all, the only thing that could was the godly power contained in the Golden Peng Sword!

  For as long as she had lived, Tian Myriad Mother had never seen such an appallingly strong divine power before, nor such a high caliber divine weapon!

  Even if it were only a fragment of the divine weapon, its power was sufficient to be a significant threat to her!

  As she leaped into the air and retreated out from the copper palace, Zhong Yue had already clenched onto the hilt of the Golden Peng Sword, and he reverted the golden sword's weight. He held onto the sword hilt with his arms and twisted his two hundred feet mortal body, hurling the thirty thousand feet longsword over towards Tian Myriad Mother!

  This copper palace that was strong enough to seal off a magnate was like a piece of tofu against the Golden Peng Sword, the whole copper palace before Zhong Yue was slashed in half before it was sent crumbling down to rubble!

  The sword quickly caught up to Tian Myriad Mother before slicing onto her!

  One after another, her spider legs were severed, and she let out a cry of pain. She left her legs behind and flew toward the copper palace where her mortal body was sealed.

  “Small! Small! Small!”

  Zhong Yue chanted, the 30000 feet longsword quickly shrunk down and flitted behind Tian Myriad Mother like a bolt of lightning to quickly catch up to her!

  “Big! Big! Big!”

  The golden sword was enlarged again, thrusting at her in an attempt to sever her in half!

  Tian Myriad Mother's eight heads all let out a ferocious growl, the demonic voices rumbled in the air and pounced on the golden sword; but the golden sword continued thrusting over at the same speed as it soon decapitated two of her eight heads!

  Tian Myriad Mother lashed out her tail hook and tried to parry the golden sword away. Meanwhile, she grabbed onto a huge metal chain and whipped it over towards Zhong Yue who was in the destroyed copper palace!

  The metal chains were engraved with the seals left behind by the Swords Gate ancestors, and if it weren't the Golden Peng Sword having already cut off one of the metal chains, she wouldn't have been able to wield it in the first place!

  If the incoming metal chain struck him, Zhong Yue would undoubtedly be reduced to a pile of mashed meat!

  Just when the metal chain was going to land on the palace, a sword ray flashed over and broke the chain at the middle, but it could not stop the momentum of the huge metal chain as it continued to crash into the copper palace. Qiu Jin'er who was covered with the Kui Long's cowhide was left unharmed, but Zhong Yue's body was nearly crushed away by the impact force!

  Right at this moment, Tian Myriad mother had flown to the copper palace where her mortal body was sealed, a loud din could be heard from the copper palace, and a colossal palm mark bulged out on the palace wall!

  Krong! Krong!

  A series of loud noises burst in their ears as more and more marks appeared out on the palace wall. There were palm marks, fist marks, claw marks and marks in every other shape. It seemed to fill the whole wall and pushed the palace wall outward, causing it to turn thinner and weaker!

  Clearly, Tian Myriad Mother had reconnected with her previous life's mortal body, controlling it to break through the seals from the side with sheer strength.

  When the copper palace wall reached its limit, it would crumble and the mortal body sealed in it could be released!

  ‘Go!”

  Zhong Yue regained his balance and pointed out his finger. The Golden Peng Sword thrust out like a flash of lightning; Tian Myriad Mother swung the other half metal chain and lashed out, curling around the golden sword like a python strangling its prey. It trapped the golden sword tightly within its clutches.

  “Small! Small! Small!”

  The Golden Peng Sword shrunk down and threaded past the metal chain like a flash of gold. It then pierced into Tian Myriad Mother's chest.

  “Big! Big! Big!”

  The golden sword was enlarged, returning to its 30000 feet form as it bisected her into halves!

  “Is she dead?”

  Before Zhong Yue was able to heave a breath of relief, Tian Myriad Mother's halved body suddenly merged back together; she was evidently still alive!

  As long as the worship continued, the spirit would remain undying!

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  Tian Myriad Mother’s body merged back as her severed body parts flew back to her. When her body merged together, Zhong Yue heard the prayers of the worshippers that provided her power, preventing her from disappearing.

  “Xin Huo, how am I supposed to remove her from this world?” Zhong Yue frowned as he continued attacking Tian Myriad Mother with his Golden Feathery Peng Sword. There was a huge gap between their strengths, and the only thing he had that could threaten her was a godly weapon like the Golden Feathery Peng Sword.

  The reason why his sword was able to damage Tian Myriad Mother was because the sword could change size and weight according to Zhong Yue’s preferences.

  The sword had the element of surprise for now, and once Tian Myriad Mother got familiar with his attack style, it would be incredibly difficult for him to kill her.

  If the true body of Tian Myriad Mother broke out from the seals, not only would Zhong Yue die, Qiu Jin’er will also fall into the hands of Tian Myriad Mother and chaos would reign over Swords Gate again.

  With Qiu Jin’er having the Wood Innate Spirit Body, the power of Tian Myriad Mother would reach a whole new level after she possessed Qiu Jin’er’s body!

  “There are many ways to destroy the spirit and soul of a demon god, but I’m afraid there’s not enough time,” Xin Huo said quickly. “One way to destroy her is through trailing the prayers of her worshippers when her body is split apart, like just now, and kill all of her worshippers at once if you are strong enough. If you’re not, then you could head towards the place of her worshippers and kill all of them physically. Other than that, an expert in the field of souls and spirits could easily find out a way to destroy their souls, and their spirits will auto
matically disintegrate.”

  Upon hearing what Xin Huo said, Zhong Yue felt an extreme headache, as none of the ways Xin Huo mentioned could be used in this situation. In order to trail and locate the worshippers of a demon god through their prayers, one would need to have immense power first.

  In the ancient times, scenarios like that had happened before. Some living beings or races that worshipped demonic gods suddenly died when their gods died. No survivors were found, as they were all killed by the gods and demons that had located them through their prayers.

  And those who could do this were those on the level of gods and demons. Zhong Yue was just a puny Atman Body level Qi Practitioner!

  The method of finding the location of the worshippers to kill them all was also more suitable when wars erupted between huge factions, where they would use this method to decimate the combat power of their opponents.

  Skills, techniques, or even godly weapons that could directly harm one’s soul were the best in such situations, but unfortunately for Zhong Yue, he had none of them.

  Even if he did have something like that, things would still be tough for him,for his strength was not enough to go head to head with Tian Myriad Mother.

  As such, none of the ways Xin Huo mentioned were useful right now!

  The only thing that was useful right now was the Golden Feathery Peng Sword. The godly aura of the sword could harm the soul of Tian Myriad Mother directly, making her extremely wary of it.

  With everything going on now, Zhong Yue finally understood the pain and frustrations gone through by his seniors who had managed the Seal Suppression Hall. They were not strong enough to kill strong individuals like Tian Myriad Mother, and it was also impossible for them to let them go! So the seniors before him could only try to deplete the life of these strong individuals by letting them die by themselves inside the seals.

  “It hurts!” Tian Myriad Mother shrieked as the sword danced around her, leaving more and more wounds on her, while forcing her away from the copper palace where her true body was sealed.

  The primary source of damage of the sword was not its sharpness, but the godly aura shrouded around the sword. After all, this sword was part of the Kun Peng Celestial Race’s saint weapon!

  This resulted in a situation where whenever the Golden Feathery Peng Sword split her body apart, it would only inflict pain instead of permanent damage to Tian Myriad Mother. Her body would recover quickly through the prayers of her worshippers.

  What a shame! The godly aura of the Golden Feathery Peng Sword is not as strong as its true form, the Divine Wing Saber, or she would easily have been cut down with just a slash from the Divine Wing Saber!

  Zhong Yue continued to maximize the power of the sword with his psyche. The godly aura would also hurt him, so he dared not hold the sword in his hands.

  Suddenly, one of Tian Myriad Mother’s heads was severed. When the head was just about to merge back with her body, Zhong Yue suddenly lunged towards it!. He punched the head strongly, sending it flying towards the doors of a copper palace!

  “There’s no point doing that, Zhong Yue!” Tian Myriad Mother wailed and swung her scorpion tail towards him, only to see it severed by Zhong Yue’s sword. But the tail continued flying towards him under the strong momentum!

  Ka cha!

  The scorpion tail slammed into Zhong Yue, breaking his ribs. At the same time, along with the Four Ken Beast, a jade seal emerged on the door where the severed head of Tian Myriad Mother was laying. After a bright light flashed across the entire hall, the doors opened up.

  Then, the severed head of Tian Myriad Mother flew into the copper palace. The Four Ken Beast disappeared again before the doors closed.

  Tian Myriad Mother shrieked as she plunged towards the copper palace in order to save that head from being sealed away, but to no avail.

  On the other side, Zhong Yue held the scorpion tail tightly as he flew towards another copper palace, before hurling the tail into another copper palace, sealing the tail away inside it.

  Tian Myriad Mother wailed in agony as the Golden Feathery Peng Sword circled around her, severing her limbs from her body before Zhong Yue risked himself. He approached these severed body parts of Tian Myriad Mother and hurled them one after another into copper palaces, sealing them away.

  “Throw them to me, throw them here!”

  Feng Xiaozhong’s face appeared on the copper walls again as he shouted, “Let me research them! Don’t worry, I will not run out! Open the doors…”

  Zhong Yue ignored him and continued hurling the body parts of Tian Myriad Mother into copper palaces where the individuals sealed inside were confirmed dead by the previous hall masters of the Seal Suppression Hall. He strictly avoided the copper palaces with unconfirmed status.

  As he continued to opend up the confirmed empty copper palaces, something was woken in the other copper palaces. Huge eyes appeared on the walls of these copper palaces, rolling around as they stared at Zhong Yue.

  These eyes were all filled with either demonic, celestial, monstrous or even sinister power, but there was one thing in common: they were hoping that Zhong Yue would mistakenly open up the palaces that sealed them!

  The scene was eerie and horrifying, making Qiu Jin’er shiver.

  “Zhong Yue, I will kill you! I swear that I will kill you and I will dismember you!”

  After having three of her heads cut off and sealed away, the remaining five heads of Tian Myriad Mother shouted as she flew around the copper palace where her true body was sealed in, using it as an obstacle to block the attacks of Zhong Yue’s sword.

  She did this because of the extreme sharpness of the Golden Feathery Peng Sword, it could even cut the copper palace in half easily. Therefore, she flew around the copper palace, forcing Zhong Yue to have no option but to use the sword even more carefully as he feared that he would accidentally damage the copper palace, allowing her true body to escape.

  With that, Tian Myriad Mother exploited this to the fullest as she continued flying around the copper palace, stalling Zhong Yue’s movement.

  “When my body escapes from this copper palace, I will make you die in a horrible way!” Tian Myriad Mother screamed. Even without the sword cutting open the palace accidentally, her true body was not far away from breaking free. It continued attacking the palace from inside, pushing the seals to the limits and almost breaking them!

  Zhong Yue however, had suffered heavy injuries. Everything seemed easy for him when he hurled the body parts of Tian Myriad Mother into the copper palaces to seal them away, but in truth, the immense power contained in her body parts was able to inflict heavy injuries to him!

  “Brat Yue, her true body is about to break free!” shouted Xin Huo.

  Zhong Yue gritas he flapped his wings, charging towards the copper palace. Before he could even reach there, the walls of the palace cracked open while demonic Qi gushed out from the cracks, eroding everything in its path. A demon god could be seen standing faintly behind the walls, shrouded in immense demonic Qi.

  “Sword!” Zhong Yue shouted angrily. The Golden Feathery Peng Sword flew into his hand. As soon as the sword touched his hand, the godly aura of the sword started to damage his skin and his blood started surge out from his wounds.

  “Arghhh…!” Zhong Yue howled in agony, while his hair floated in the air behind his head and the sword enlarged to a hundred feet long, before slamming down towards the demon god as soon as the walls crumbled down!

  Boom!

  After a huge sound, Zhong Yue crashed into the copper palace along with the Golden Feathery Peng Sword. After he flew into the palace, his body started to disintegrate under the immense demonic Qi!

  Then, Sword Qi flew out from the demonic Qi, shooting in each direction, cutting through the copper palace.

  Tian Myriad Mother ,who was rushing towards the palace from behind him, had her expressions change upon seeing the Sword Qi flying out from the palace. In an instant, the copper palace toppled and the walls fell
down.

  Zhong Yue and the demon god body of Tian Myriad Mother could be seen standing in the middle of the debris, one nearly two hundred feet tall and another about twenty, surrounded by pulsing demonic Qi.

  Then, blood gushed out from the body of Tian Myriad Mother as the flesh of her true body fell onto the ground, the result of being sliced apart by Zhong Yue.

  In an instant, her demon god true body was cut into pieces!

  Tian Myriad Mother wailed upon seeing this, while Zhong Yue’s skin was completely peeled away under the immense demonic Qi and the godly aura of the Golden Feathery Peng Sword.

  From his skin to his muscles, and soon, his bones were about to be disintegrated by the power of the demonic Qi and his own sword.

  That body was after all, the body of a demon god and the power of that demon god body was something Zhong Yue couldn't handle directly even if it had died for more than millions of years ago.

  Although he charged into the copper palace when the seals were broken and he destroyed the demon god body of Tian Myriad Mother, the power of the demonic Qi was also about to claim his life. He was disintegrating under the demonic Qi!

  Hu!——-

  Qiu Jin’er flew towards him and she threw the leather cloak towards Zhong Yue, covering his body while repelling the invasive demonic Qi and godly aura.

  However, after receiving such heavy injuries, he was most definitely going to die!

  “I will not let you die so easily after you destroyed my previous body!” Tian Myriad Mother lunged forward, not towards Zhong Yue, but Qiu Jin’er as she shouted, “I will first possess your little lover’s body, and I will deal with you after that!”

  Zhong Yue turned backwards as he looked at Qiu Jin’er. His bloodied face smiled and said, “Don’t be afraid, this sinister witch will not be able to possess you, at least not in my presence….”

  He then raised up the Golden Feathery Peng Sword in his hands, turning it into a golden feather. The godly aura was all condensed within the feather and placed on the forehead of Qiu Jin’er.