Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  In the hands of Fang Jiange was the Fish Dragon Sword, the sword with the highest ranking among the top ten malefic swords. When activated by Fang Jiange, the sword turned into a ferocious Fish Dragon that flew into the skies and dived towards the ground at high velocity, crushing and tearing its foes apart.

  As soon as Fang Jiange and Jun Sixie received the two swords, they immediately gained the upper hand against their opponents: Elder Quan and the magnate Qi Practitioner from the Kui Long Celestial Race.

  Feng Shang, Feng Shang! For my entire life you have been on top of me, and even after your death, you had to make things terrible for me!

  Strong killing intent rose in Grand Elder Yu, and his Fish Dragon Flying Sparrow Yuan Shen emerged from his back, charging towards Jun Sixie and Fang Jiange as he said, “Gentlemen, leave these two to me, both of you go and help the others!”

  After being suppressed greatly by the two malefic weapons, Elder Quan and that Qi Practitioner from the Kui Long Celestial Race were in grave danger, but with the arrival of Grand Elder Yu, they were relieved and quickly shook themselves free of the battle before charging towards Li Panhua and the others.

  Four elders among the ranks of Li Panhua and the others quickly got out and intercepted the two Qi Practitioners, but things got ugly quickly.

  “The ten malefic weapons may be very strong, but as soon as the owners of the weapons lose, the weapons will turn against their owners!” Grand Elder Yu shouted, “Elder Quan, Brother Kui, attack a target at the same time and we will thrive as the winner!”

  “Traitor!” shouted old madame Tan Xinyi.

  Grand Elder Yu flicked his fingers continuously, launching Sword Qi that made Jun Sixie flinch greatly each time she repelled them. He forced her off and said calmly, “I’d become the traitor if I lose, but if I win, I will dictate the history, and you will all be the traitors!”

  Fang Jiange, on the other hand, quickly lunged forward and saved Jun Sixie from the dire situation as he controlled the Fish Dragon Sword and clashed with Grand Elder Yu’s Yuan Shen. Grand Elder Yu swung his sleeves, delivering a heavy attack that sent Fang Jiange flying away and blood gushing out from his mouth.

  Grand Elder Yu laughed and said, “Xiao Qing and Xiao Yin, deal with Feng Shouzhu quickly!”

  Around the Heart Questioning Palace, the net and mist formed by the psyche of Xiao Qing and Xiao Yin surrounded the palace, and the net immediately cut through the palace.

  At the same time, the mist of Xiao Yin shrouded the palace. When Xiao Yin activated his skill, the palace turned into dust!

  With that, Feng Shouzhu must have suffered extremely heavy injuries even if he did not die, right?

  As soon as the palace turned into dust, Xiao Yin and Xiao Qing turned into their three-headed Pan Ao forms and crashed onto the debris!

  The mountain shook, the ground fissured, and everything shattered as soon as the two of them landed on the ground!

  With the power and impact of their descent, the damage done was enough to kill a magnate Qi Practitioner!

  However, to their dismay, “Feng Shouzhu” remained standing unharmed in the debris of the Heart Questions Palace, his position was coincidently directly between Xiao Yin and Xiao Qing.

  Fear engulfed the two, as they were standing way too close to this human Qi Practitioner that had spent his entire life cultivating Sword Qi. At such a distance, they would definitely be killed if his Sword Qi burst out!

  The two of them immediately flew into the air, but their tails were instantly grabbed by “Feng Shouzhu”. The old man swung them around before slamming them into one another!

  Teeth and blood flew out from the mouths of the two Pan Aos, and before they could even regain their balance, they were swung around and slammed into each other again!

  Boom! Boom! Boom!

  Like heavy sacks, they were swung around and slammed everywhere. It did not take long until all of their teeth had flown out from their mouths!

  In the midst the chaos, the two Qi Practitioners summoned their Yuan Shen. Butt before they could unleash their powers, countless Sword Qi flew into their bodies, turned into totem carvings, and caused the two of them to shiver in panic.

  “No! The prayer’s totem carvings!” they shrieked and cried out loudly. Everything that was going on was about sacrificing them alive for the prayers to the godly spirit and sword spirit of Swords Gate!

  “Feng Shouzhu” then released Xiao Yin and Xiao Qing as he bowed towards the Swords Gate Golden Summit and said, “I hereby present you our offerings, oh godly spirit and sword spirit of Swords Gate!”

  As soon as the old man bowed, the two Qi Practitioners stopped their struggles and disintegrated. Their blood flowed and rose into the air as it turned into two blood dragons that rushed towards the top of the Golden Summit!

  The Golden Summit shook, and the celestial pearl that sealed the godly spirit of Swords Gate flew into the air as the blood dragon lifted it up. As the prayers sounded, it shone brightly.

  Then, everyone witnessed the majestic godly spirit standing up from the saint palace of the Golden Summit, shrouded in golden rays.

  This godly spirit was the spirit and soul of the first headmaster of Sword Gate! As it was covered with blood of the Xiao Mang Qi Practitioners, blood veins and internal organs grew in the spectral body of the spirit!

  Flesh, blood, organs, and skin quickly grew on the body of the godly spirit as if it was being restored from beyond death!

  As the godly spirit reached out its hands, a brilliant sword ray emerged from the ground: it was the sword spirit!

  The spirit that had formed within the mountain of Swords Gate after being worshipped for years!

  The godly spirit pulled out the sword spirit from the mountain. When the two godly auras stacked, the void shook as if the person who had once led the entire human race to fight their way out of the West Barren was reincarnated.

  Grand Elder Yu’s heart thumped and he looked blankly at the godly spirit as he thought, How did we lose? How did Xiao Yin and Xiao Qing die so fast and get sacrificed to the godly spirit and sword spirit!? How is it possible that Feng Shouzhu became so strong so suddenly?

  With two magnate Qi Practitioners being sacrificed to the godly and sword spirits the two spirits became extremely powerful. Their full power was unleashed, and with that power, the disciples of Swords Gate were fated to win this battle!

  Suddenly, a Sword Qi flew across the skies and charged straight into the Seal Suppression Hall!

  What happened in the Seal Suppression Hall?

  Grand Elder Yu had goosebumps rise, as the Sword Qi was launched by the godly sword, which was one of the symbol items for the headmaster and only Feng Wuji, who was the new headmaster, could use it! All of these suggested that something must have happened, to the extent that Feng Wuji had to use it!

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  In the Seal Suppression Hall, the【Sword Sixty Four Style】 rampaged everywhere. It was at this time that Elder You, Xiao Que, Feng Wuji and the others understood how dangerous and scary the【Sword Sixty Four Style】was, as well as Shui Zian, who had created the sword cocoon.

  When the four of them were trapped in the【Sword Sixty Four Style】, the situation worsened quickly, and they were all at the mercy of little old man Shui Zian!

  Suddenly, a sword ray flew towards Feng Wuji and charged straight into the【Sword Sixty Four Style】, slicing apart the sword silks of the sword cocoons!

  Without stopping, the sword ray continued charging towards Shui Zian, destroying everything in its path easily as it slashed towards Shui Zian, giving Shui Zian and Zhong Yue a huge shock!

  Without hesitation, Zhong Yue quickly grabbed the Golden Feathery Sword in his Yuan Shen secret realm, took it out and shouted, “Enlarge!”

  He then swung the Golden Feathery Peng Sword towards the godly sword. As the two swords came into contact, Zhong Yue’s skin evaporated. It was not because Zhong Yue’s sword was weaker than the godly sword, but because Feng Wuji’s
own power was much stronger than Zhong Yue, and overwhelmed Zhong Yue easily!

  Shui Zian quickly raised his hand, grabbed the sword hilt of the Golden Feathery Peng Sword which was released from Zhong Yue’s hand, and blocked the attack of Feng Wuji.

  Upon seeing this, Elder You shouted, “With the godly sword, Shui Zian will not escape death! Nicely done, Feng Wuji!”

  Feng Wuji however, immediately backed off when he missed his strike, jumped out from the【Sword Sixty Four Style】and cut his way towards the copper palace where Feng Xiaozhong was sealed.

  Elder You, Xiao Que, and the others’ faces changed immediately. All of them quickly ran after him while they shouted, “What is all of this about, Feng Wuji!?”

  On the other hand, Shui Zian quickly reconnected the【Sword Sixty Four Style】again, shrouding the Qi Practitioner from the Shan Shen Celestial Race in it while the sword silks infiltrated the body of that Qi Practitioner, broke his joints, and demolished his crazily strong defense.

  Elder You and Xiao Que rushed towards Feng Wuji in an attempt to stop him, but they were too late - Feng Wuji had hacked open the doors of the copper palace!

  Upon seeing this, Shui Zian’s eyes twitched and he quickly said, “Zhong Yue, get out of here quickly, that madman is loose!”

  Before he could even finish talking, a dried and withered hand reached out from the copper palace and grabbed onto Elder You’s throat with unerring precision.

  “Hahahahaha…”

  An eerie laughter filled the air, and fear overwhelmed Elder You as he felt his power and energy being siphoned away quickly by the withered hand.

  Aside from that, his life force and life energy were also being absorbed by the hand, and when the hand grabbed his throat, his Yuan Shen was locked away!

  In just a blink of an eye, Elder You’s body turned shrunken and dry as his essence was siphoned away.

  “So hungry! I’ve starved for almost a hundred years!”

  A skinny, white-haired young man walked out from the shadow of the palace as he held Elder You up high. His dried-up skin turned white, his hair turned black, and his withered husk of a body swelled and turned muscular once again.

  “Help me…” lamented Elder You with his dying gasp.

  Before he finished his word, the flesh on his body disappeared, and he died just like that.

  Instead of looking crazy, the young man who appeared very gentle and wise as he threw the withered corpse aside, looking at Shui Zian and saying, “Uncle Shui, long time no see.”

  Shui Zian’s eyes twitched again as he looked back at Feng Xiaozhong, who had finally broken free from his seals.

  Chapter 314: 【Reverse Art】 |

  Xiao Que was standing at the front of the palace, and trembled as he saw how Elder Yu died, even if he was a magnate Qi Practitioner of the Xiao Mang Celestial Race.

  After being sealed for hundreds of years, Feng Xiaozhong was definitely not as strong as he once was; he only managed to kill and devour Elder You because he had the element of surprise, and impaired Elder You in one shot.

  However, after he “ate” Elder You, Feng Xiaozhong’s strength exceeded Xiao Que’s. “The madman… He is set free again!”

  Right now, Xiao Que dare not move even by an inch and he prepared himself fully, so that when Feng Xiaozhong showed any unusual movements, he would immediately run away.

  “Father….” Feng Wuji on the other hand, shivered as fear assailed him; not the fear a son bears against his father, but fear against something atrocious and dangerous.

  He was afraid of his own father, worried that his own father would kill him. The reason his father killed him would be extremely abnormal from the point of view of the others, but was going to be very valid for his own father.

  Shui Zian too, got all tensed up as Feng Wuji’s sudden move has entirely disrupted his pace.

  A man who has completely lost his mind was not that scary, for he has no idea what he was doing anymore, and everything he did was based on instinct. But a madman who kept his cool and was able to rationalize everything was the scariest.

  And Feng Xiaozhong was exactly a madman like that, he would do anything just to experiment and research his arts and skills, to the extent that he even dissected godly and demonic spirits!

  Suddenly, Xin Huo whispered from within Zhong Yue’s psyche ocean, “This madman’s bloodline is even purer than yours, he has awoken about ten percent of the Fu Xi bloodline”

  Zhong Yue was shocked and replied, “Ten percent? What abilities did he get after he awoke ten percent of his bloodline?”

  The celestial body of the Fu Xi Celestial race possessed various unbelievable abilities; the divine eyes, Hua Xu Clan’s innate serpent body, dragon scales, celestial bones and heart… it just went on and on!

  The Swords Gate’s first headmaster was from the Feng Clan and the Fu Xi bloodline in the first headmaster was so pure that he awoke his divine third eye and reverse opened the five wheels.

  Although Zhong Yue has barely awoken his divine third eye, he had yet to be able to fully unleash its full power, and turning into the true form of the Fu Xi Celestial Race was basically impossible without the help of Xin Huo.

  And the ten percent awakened Fu Xi bloodline in Feng Xiaozhong was much greater than Zhong Yue’s, perhaps even stronger than the first headmaster. After achieving this, Feng Xiaozhong had definitely activated some of the abilities of the Fu Xi Celestial Race!

  Humans, if they had a slightly purer Fu Xi bloodline in their bodies, would usually awaken part of the Fu Xi Celestial Race’s abilities and achieved an incredible things in their lives. Only a very small portion of them managed to do so, and they mostly came from the Feng Clan.

  “He must have achieved the six paths in his body and opened the sixth wheel all by himself, which seemS to have awakened part of his Fu Xi bloodline…” Through Zhong Yue’s eyes, Xin Huo was measuring Feng Xiaozhong, and continued, “He has yet to awaken his divine eyes, there’s no sign of the Hua Xu Clan’s serpent body, or the Lei Zhe Clan’s innate dragon scales, so he must have either awakened the celestial heart or bone, probably both!”

  There were countless powerful seals in humans that sealed their bodies and souls, making lifting the seals almost impossible. Even Zhong Yue had only managed to lift up a tiny portion of the seals.

  If Feng Xiaozhong has awakened the celestial heart and bone, with the addition of the ten percent Fu Xi celestial blood in him, the sixth wheel, and the mad instinct on chasing after the roots of all skills and techniques, then it was understandable why he was so strong!

  Celestial heart, celestial bones…

  Zhong Yue collected his thoughts, and when he looked at Feng Xiaozhong, he asked curiously, “Senior martial brother Feng, how did you ‘eat’ Elder You just now?”

  Hearing his words, Shui Zian almost snapped as this little guy beside him did not run away, but instead, he went ahead to ask how their enemy ate Elder You! Shui Zian explained angrily, “That was a demonic skill from the demons, the【Heavenly Demon Disintegration Art】, an art mastered by not more than five demons in the world right now!”

  Zhong Yue thought for awhile and he said, “No… There should be another art other than that, or else he wouldn't be able to immobilize Elder You after being sealed for so long, which greatly weakened him… That’s right!”

  He clapped and said, “I know! The Martial Masters! They sealed their bodies so that their Yuan Shen and energy would not be able to leave their body! Senior martial brother Feng immobilized Elder You, sealed his body, and prevented his Yuan Shen from leaving his body! But there should be more than just that…”

  Feng Xiaozhong measured Zhong Yue in return, as he was also curious about Zhong Yue. He patiently explained, “Not bad! After dissecting three hundred and thirty-three Zhong Li Celestial Race Martial Masters, I discovered their secrets and in turn, my understanding of the martial way is far stronger than the many Martial Masters out there. When I seal my own body, I will be as st
rong as any of those Martial Heavenly Masters out there.”

  Zhong Yue then asked, “Then you used their art in reverse to seal Elder You’s body? How did you do that? Also, what kind of technique did you use that allowed you to grab onto Elder You’s throat so fast?”

  “Reverse usage of the skills and techniques is my own secret, which I cannot tell you.”

  Surprisingly, Feng Xiaozhong was very patient with Zhong Yue as he continued, “Just the art of Martial Masters that seals their bodies is not enough to seal the Yuan Shen of someone like Elder You. I also used the【Divine Suppression Art】of the Bai Zhe Clan and the psyche sealing of the insect race, an art that I obtained through trading with that big guy that crawled out from underneath Xian Kong Saint City. In order to immobilize and suppress Elder You’s body, I also used the art where the Shan Shen Celestial Race turns their body into celestial rocks, which was also cultivated by the Shan Shen Celestial Race’s Qi Practitioner that died just now. However, they cultivated the art to benefit themselves while I cultivated it to use on others with my reverse technique, and changed these arts into my killing moves.”

  Zhong Yue’s eyes brightened up and he clapped in praise, “Previously, senior martial brother Feng’s strength was not as strong as Elder You. But when you sealed his body, locked his Yuan Shen, suppressed his psyche and turned him into celestial rocks, which greatly weakened him, Elder You panicked. You then disintegrated him with the【Heavenly Demon Disintegration Art】and sucked him dry.”

  At this point, Zhong Yue greatly admired and respected Feng Xiaozhong as whatever happened back there seemed very simple, but in truth, one would have to possess incredible knowledge on different kinds of arts!

  But the most powerful one was how Feng Xiaozhong managed to reverse-cast these skills, turning these self-benefitting skills into killing blows when he applied them onto others!

  His【Reverse Art】was an incredibly horrifying art and only those who possessed deep understandings on techniques would be able to use it!

  Feng Xiaozhong then stared at Zhong Yue’s forehead and suddenly said, “I like your eye.”