Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  “No, we mustn’t do that!”

  Rays flashed in Zhong Yue's eyes. He said solemnly, "We can inform the elder council if Tian Myriad Mother is the only threat. But sadly that isn't the case; there are still some that have colluded with Tian Myriad Mother; informing them of her death now will be like a reckless act. We will only alert the enemy. Furthermore, the Xiao Mang Celestial Race is still worshipping her, keeping her spirit alive. This means that the Xiao Mang Celestial Race has yet to know that she is already dead, we can use this to our advantage!"

  Qiu Jin'er lifted her hand and looked, Tian Myriad Mother's spirit was still shrouded with the demonic Qi and aura, and her eyes were still slightly opened. Clearly, there were still living beings worshipping her!

  “But what if the others in Swords Gate suspects when Junior Martial Sister Shui has been missing for too long?” Qiu Jin’er thought and asked.

  "Then we shall say that she is having a closed-door training session in the Seal Suppression Hall."

  Zhong Yue thought for a moment and replied, "It's very normal for the Qi Practitioners to undergo seclusion for a few months. The traitor will surely make a move at the end of the year, and the longer she goes missing, the more anxious her accomplices will become. They will find a way into the Seal Suppression Hall to search for her, and this is a chance to eliminate them! The longer she goes missing, the more anxious they will be, and the easier it will be to catch them!"

  Qiu Jin'er was shocked, and she exclaimed out involuntarily, "Then wouldn't we be in danger?"

  Zhong Yue nodded, he then said, "We will have to inform the headmaster about this. But I'm too obvious a target, I'm already on their radar; they will surely notice if I were to head over to inform headmaster. Hence, only you can do it. You will head over to the golden summit and inform headmaster about what happened here."

  Qiu Jin’er nodded silently, just when she was about to leave, Zhong Yue suddenly said, “Junior martial sister, tidy up your appearances.”

  Qiu Jin'er immediately knew what he was referring to, she left the Seal Suppression Hall, tidied up her image, and washed off the blood stains before replacing her marred clothes with a neat set.

  Zhong Yue patrolled around, he gathered the broken metal chains and Yu Zheng’s crumbled copper palace, placing them together on the side in one clump.

  After which, Zhong Yue opened the copper palaces and released Tian Myriad Mother's severed parts. He reformed her into her full form, he then pushed this demonic spirit into a dead palace, sealing it away.

  “Let me out, I promise that I will not dissect you….” on the side, Feng Xiaozhong allured him.

  Zhong Yue ignored him and continued with his own affairs. He heaved a breath of relief after cleaning the aftermath of the battles. He then walked out of the Seal Suppression Palace, waiting quietly on the side for Qiu Jin'er to return.

  Qiu Jin’er left the Seal Suppression Hall and headed over to the golden summit of Swords Gate; just when she reached the golden summit, a voice suddenly rang in her ears, “Qiu Tan Clan’s little girl, why are you here?”

  Qiu Jin'er was shocked, she followed the voice and looked over, seeing a few elders standing guard outside of the golden summit. She quickly bowed and greeted them, "Elder Zizheng, I have a few cultivation questions to ask the headmaster. Why is Elder Zizheng here?"

  Shui Zizheng sighed, he said, "Headmaster, he … this morning, our headmaster fainted and had just woken up not long before. We elders rushed over to have a look. The headmaster is now…."

  He shook his head and sighed, “It might not be the best time to come now, the headmaster is tired enough already.”

  Just when Qiu Jin'er was hesitating, Elder Pu suddenly walked out of the golden summit and said, "The headmaster is aware of her arrival, and her presence is requested. May Elder Zizheng let her in."

  Shui Zizheng answered smilingly, “How will I possibly disobey if it’s the headmaster’s will? Qiu Tan Clan little girl, you may go in. Keep in mind, the headmaster shall avoid exerting too much energy, you musn’t stay for too long.”

  Qiu Jin’er walked into the palace on the golden summit, her heart was puzzled and thought, I’m the headmaster’s disciple, it’s natural for me to go in. Why is Elder Pu asking for Elder Shui Zizheng’s permission? It seems like senior martial brother is right, even the headmaster has been closely watched….

  She followed Elder Pu and walked into the wardroom, there was an elder from the Lei Hu Clan standing by the side of the doors. He saw the duo and asked of their intentions before letting Qiu Jin'er in.

  In the wardroom, the headmaster was lying down in the bed, Grand Elder Yu sitting by the bedside, caring for his condition with grave concern.

  Qiu Jin'er's heart palpitated quickly, even without Zhong Yue having to warn her, she could also sense the frigid atmosphere that pervaded the golden summit. Grand Elder Yu looked at her. His face was warm and gentle as he said, "Qiu Tan Clan's little girl, do not tarry the headmaster's time for too long, do you understand?"

  Qiu Jin’er nodded obediently, “Yes, elder.”

  The old man lying on the bed struggled to pull himself up, he smiled and said, “Junior Martial Brother Yu, she must be here with questions regarding the【Great Boundless Sword Qi】for me, you may leave now.”

  “Yes.”

  Grand Elder Yu stood up. He said, "Headmaster, you mustn't go over exhaust yourself, the brothers are just outside the wardroom, if you feel uneasy, just say it out."

  The old man laughed in reply, "It's just a simple blackout, I'm not dead yet. Don't you worry too much, get out, get out!"

  Grand Elder Yu smiled and walked out of the room, closing the doors as he left.

  The old man turned his gaze to Qiu Jin’er and asked smilingly, “What questions do you have for me?”

  Just when Qiu Jin'er was going to blurt out everything, the old man's voice rang in her head, "Ask me a question while telling me what happened with your psyche."

  Qiu Jin'er calmed herself down and randomly threw fielded a question regarding the【Great Boundless Sword Qi】, all the while, recounting the incident at the Seal Suppression Hall in secret with a mental transmission.

  "I see, this Zhong Shan Clan's little brat, he is too impatient, but it's fine. Moreover, it actually makes it easier for me to lay a trap."

  The old man answered the question she asked about the【Great Boundless Sword Qi】while he took out a token and transmitted his voice to her, "Take this token and bring it to Zuo Xiangsheng."

  Chapter 267: The Mystery Man In Black Robe |

  Hall Master Zuo of the outer hall Cloudless Hall?

  Qiu Jin’er was stunned, she quickly hid away the token and thought in her heart, Hall Master Zuo is in the outer hall, located at the foot of Swords Gate Mountain, that might just be one of the most useless hall ever. So why did headmaster ask me to look for him?

  The Cloudless Hall was located in the outer hall lower house, the outer hall was divided into upper and lower house; hence, the lower house Cloudless Hall could be said as the smaller and weakest hall of all in Swords Gate.

  The old man didn’t ask Qiu Jin’er to look for the other hall masters and instead, instructed her to go for the weakest Cloudless Hall, it was utterly bizarre.

  Logically speaking, Tian Myriad Mother was a big issue and to look for help from the weakest and smallest Cloudless Hall, Qiu Jin’er couldn’t understand what was the old man thinking at all.

  Not long after, Qiu Jin’er left, but she didn’t rush over right away; she went back to the Yang God Palace, had a casual conversation with her mother, then went to the Hundred Treasure Hall in Swords Gate, requesting the hall master to craft a new wooden wheelchair for her and paid for the deposit before heading back to the Seal Suppression Hall and stayed in.

  While in the Yang God Palace not long after she left, Madam Qiu headed over to Elder Lei Shan to pay him a visit. After a long time, Grandmother Lu then sneaked out of the Yang God Palace, went straight down t
o the foot of the mountain in search of Hall Master Zuo in the outer hall lower house Cloudless Hall.

  “This token….”

  Zuo Xiangsheng received the token, rays flashed in his eyes and he said, “Grandmother Lu, please wait for a moment.”

  He turned and left, when he has returned, there was a mysterious man fully covered in a black robe, concealing his identity away from the world.

  Zuo Xiangsheng took out a wristband and swirled it softly, the mystery man was sucked into the wristband after which Zuo Xiangsheng passed the wristband over to Grandmother Lu, he said, “The dimensional space in this secret realm is not big, there aren’t much air in it. Go quickly and don’t tarry, to do so otherwise will suffocate our man.”

  Grandmother Lu’s heart stiffened up, she thought, Missy only asked me to bring the token to this Zuo Qiu Clan member, she only stressed on its importance but never told me what to do. And this Zuo Qiu Clan member is asking me to transport a man?

  Grandmother Lu wore the wristband and left; soon, she arrived at the Seal Suppression Hall and Qiu Jin’er quickly took over the wristband, asking Grandmother Lu to return, Qiu Jin’er then turned and looked for Zhong Yue.

  “A wristband for me? With a black robed mysterious man in it?”

  Zhong Yue eas stunned, he opened the Seal Suppression Hall and walked in together with Qiu Jin’er.

  Surging his psyche out, he placed his hands gently on the wristband and opened the secret realm within — a black robed mystery man walked out of it, his face shadowed in the robe as he glanced at the surrounding, he had an old and hoarse voice, “This is the Seal Suppression Hall? Where is Tian Myriad Mother’s spirit?”

  Zhong Yue cast out the jade seal and opened the copper hall that contained Tian Myriad Mother’s spirit.

  The mystery man praised as he saw the hovering demon spirit in the copper palace, “Impressive, what an incredible child! You’ve acted so quickly and really succeeded in killing a demon god! How did you kill her soul? One have to know, even the first headmaster of Swords Gate couldn’t have done so and her atman eventually escaped.”

  Zhong Yue and Qiu Jin’er looked carefully at the mystery man donned in black robe, but they still couldn’t see through his identity; Zhong Yue faked a cough and probed, “Senior, have we met before?”

  The mystery man avoided his direct question and replied, “I’ve once said, you have too many secrets, way more than Tian Myriad Mother, which was why you were more suspicious than her.”

  Zhong Yue was stunned, he heaved a long breath.

  “I’ve prepared a few measures to take down Tian Myriad Mother, but it seems like they are now useless as you’ve taken care of her. Very well, it works better this way, Tian Myriad is dead and only you and I knows about it, while her compliances are completely unaware of it.”

  The mystery man walked toward the broken copper palace crushed by Zhong Yue’s golden feathery Peng sword; he sat down in the lotus position before it and right away, blazing fire burned in the air and melted the copper palace away; he then slowly mold it and recovered the halved copper palace into an identically new copper palace.

  Then, he reconnected the broken metal chains and repaired them.

  He placed everything back to their usual positions, even the totem patterns and seals were all recovered, the mystery man did it very cautious and meticulously, trying to erase the battle marks and revert it back to its usual state.

  After a long time, when he has finished erasing the aftermath of the battle, he then approached Tian Myriad Mother’s severed body parts and reconnected them back together before placing it back to her copper palace; he clapped his hands and said, “Does everything look like how it was before?”

  Zhong Yue glanced around, he nodded and answered, “Yes.”

  The mystery man heaved a breath of relief, he walked into the copper palace, stood before Tian Myriad Mother’s spirit and said, “Seal the palace.”

  Rays flashed in Zhong Yue’s eyes, he asked a question in attempt to verify the mystery man;s identity, “Where’s the token I’ve given to you?”

  The mystery man waved his hand in the air with a token, it was engraved with the sun and moon Tai Chi patterns.

  Zhong Yue’s heart thumped in joy, he suddenly flicked his fingers and a ray of light flashed across the air, falling into the copper palace, he laughed as he said, “Your soul weapon!”

  It was the Sword Cocoon he plundered from ‘Shui Qingyan’ after Tian Myriad Mother’s death.

  Zhong Yue cast out the jade seal and the doors of the copper palace creaked as the copper palace was closed down and sealed away the mystery man together along with Tian Myriad Mother’s spirit. Qiu Jin’er blinked her eyes as she vaguely guessed what was the mystery man planning to do.

  If Tian Myriad Mother’s accomplice came forward to rescue her, they would surely be ambushed by the mystery man. But how did senior martial brother and this mystery man know that they will come and rescue Tian Myriad Mother?

  She was puzzled, when Tian Myriad Mother was in possession of Shui Qingyan’s mortal body, her cultivation base only at the level of Atman Body, she couldn’t be compared to the magnate cultivators at all, that being said, there aren’t any reasons for them to infiltrate the Seal Suppression Hall just to rescue Tian Myriad Mother.

  All of a sudden, a thought crossed her mind and dawned on her as she was glancing around at the copper palaces, Senior martial brother didn’t know whether if they will come for Tian Myriad Mother, but he knew one thing for sure, that is they will surely come to the Seal Suppression Hall to release the sealed entities in here! This is also why Tian Myriad Mother was appointed as a deputy hall master of Seal Suppression Hall, not only that she was here for her previous mortal body, but she was also here to release the sealed entities!

  “Zhong Shan Clan member.”

  Just when they were about to leave, the mystery man’s voice came from within the sealed copper palace, they stopped down abruptly and turned their gaze at it; the copper palace remained silent for a few moments before the mystery man continued his sentence, “Be careful.”

  Zhong Yue nodded and said smilingly, “You too, stay alive and don’t die. The smart ones always die quicker than the others, I’m still waiting for the day where you will use the token I gave you.”

  “Little brat….” The mystery man was piqued.

  Zhong Yue laughed out loud, he felt relief as a question that always lingered in his mind was answered; suddenly, he thought of something and quickly asked, “Do you know how to get rid of the demonic Qi and demonic aura?”

  “No.”

  The mystery man answered in an unfriendly manner, “You’ve crushed Tian Myriad Mother’s previous life mortal body and even killed her soul, so how is it that you don’t know how to get rid of the demonic Qi and demonic aura?”

  A gust of awkwardness engulfed Zhong Yue as he really didn’t know how to do so.

  The Tian Myriad Mother’s mortal body was crushed thanks to the golden feathery Peng sword; while her soul was killed by Xin Huo as he launched out a skill that targeted on her soul — none of these were related to Zhong Yue.

  It seems like I can only wait until when Xin Huo have calmed down and slowly ask him by the. Zhong Yue thought to himself.

  From the copper palace, the mystery man said again, “One more thing, you and this Qiu Tan Clan’s little girl shouldn’t tarry much in Swords Gate, the two of you should leave as soon as possible, return only at the end of the year. Also, leave down the jade seal, do you understand?”

  Zhong Yue’s heart stiffened up, he then brough Qiu Jin’er out from the Seal Suppression Hall and sealed it away, standing on the spot contemplating his next moves.

  “Senior martial brother….”

  Qiu Jin’er was anxious, her hear was unsettled, she whispered softly to him, “Who is that senior? Why is he asking us to leave the Swords Gate?”

  Zhong Yue’s face was overcast and gloomy, he took in a deep breath of air and
mumbled, “The Seal Suppression Hall will be one of their targets, and our existence is a hindrance they will have to eliminate. Which is why we must leave the Swords Gate and also place down the jade seal so that they can enter the Seal Suppression Hall, giving us the chance to ambush on the strongest of those that came forward.”

  However, he didn’t answer Qiu Jin’er’s question on the identity of the mystery man, he thought in his heart, The stability in Swords Gate is now threatened, our foundation and system are corrupted from within; the more you know, the faster you die. As the hall masters of the Seal Suppression Hall, junior martial sister and I must leave Swords Gate as soon as possible! But now, the only question is who should I pass the jade seal to? So that the jade seal will be secured and that the traitors can only get their hands on it right before they are about to galvanize into action … They wouldn’t act before the headmaster’s death and in turn, when the headmaster is gone, that is when they will move! The jade seal can only be passed to the headmaster!

  After a few days, Elder Shui Zizheng came to the Seal Suppression Hall, Zhong Yue welcomed him with a warm bright smile and said laughingly, “Elder Zizheng, what special occasion is it that brought the busy elder here?”

  “Hall Master Zhong, Qingyan is a deputy hall master under you but she is also my granddaughter, surely I’ll have to come to have a look at her.”

  Shui Zizheng laughed and said, “Hall Master Zhong is indeed young and promising, being appointed as a hall master at such a young age, I initially still thought that Qingyan would be the only suitable candidate to take over Nan Qianfang’s position!”

  Upon hearing his words, a cold chill was sent down Zhong Yue’s spine, he finally knew who was the one that summoned Shui Qingyan to the mountaintop and allowed her to be possessed by Tian Myriad Mother.

  Shui Zizheng was Shui Qingyan’s grandfather and he had just sacrificed her callously as an offering to Tian Myriad Mother!