Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  This brat will kill Demon Saint and after that, the other demons will kill him in order to ‘avenge’ Demon Saint. So, we will have no worries even if we have imparted the【Heavenly Saint Godly Radiating Art】to him.

  Lights flashed in Tu Jiang’s eyes. The Demon Saint was regarded too highly among the demon races, and was even granted the title of the ‘saint’. No matter which race killed him, it would have to face the risk of complete annihilation from the revenge of the other seven races. Hence, the saint clans couldn’t do the dirty work themselves, and only an outsider was suitable. Even if Zhong Yue killed Demon Saint, the Asura Saint Clan could then kill Zhong Yue afterwards and stop their【Heavenly Saint Godly Radiating Art】being leaked to outsiders.

  Thoughts turned quickly in Tu Jiang’s mind and he heaved a deep breath. He then said with a smile, “I wonder if Mister Mo Luo has an interest in visiting our saint clan? I can persuade my leader to impart the【Heavenly Saint Godly Radiating Art】to you.”

  Zhong Yue shook his head and noted, “I still have to wait for Demon Saint here.”

  “Demon Saint will not come, he will not appear before he fully turn Yanluo Mo’s mortal body into his own.” Tu Jiang laughed and said, “If he ever appears, the Asura Saint Clan will notify mister in the first second.”

  Zhong Yue looked at Tian Mo Concubine and she whispered to him, “Most likely true.”

  Zhong Yue laughed and stood up, he said, “Then, will I meet with Asura’s saint lady?”

  Tu Jiang’s heart skipped a beat, he forced a laugh and answered, “The Saint Concubine doesn’t accept guests.”

  He then walked out of the boat and waved his hand to summon an Asura Qi Practitioner, whispered a command in the latter’s ears, and that Qi Practitioner ran away. Not long after, a huge ship sailed toward them on the demonic river. It was thousand feet tall and carved with sun totem patterns and Golden Crow patterns; there were hundreds of Asura Qi Practitioners on the boat, powering it so that it could sail.

  Tu Jiang said with a smile, “Mister, please!”

  Tian Mo Concubine, Ji Xiang Concubine, and the court ladies accompanied Zhong Yue as they boarded the Sun Ship. The ship floated into the sky, the sun lights blazed on the ship, and it shot away toward its destination.

  Zhong Yue was in awe. He had the sun spirit and he could tell that this ship wasn’t simple. It had powered up the sun totem pattern and the Golden Crow totem patterns, and they were of very high grades.

  “We of the Asura Saint Clan are a Heavenly Demon Godly Saint Clan. We once had an ancestor, a god with the Sun Innate Spirit Body who resided in the sun. These sun totem patterns and the Golden Crow totem patterns were left behind by that heavenly demon god of ours,” Tu Jiang said as he smiled proudly.

  Zhong Yue heard this and studied the ship carefully. Some of these sun totem patterns and the Golden Crow totem patterns were fused with part of the demon race’s arts. These totem patterns were abstruse and obscure, hard for the others to comprehend. Bbut that was not the same for him; after all, his spirit was also the Great Sun Golden Crow, and that allowed him to easily understand them!

  This heavenly demon god’s understandings of the Great Sun Golden Crow were stronger, deeper, and more complete than his. After all, the demon god had the Sun Innate Spirit Body. However, Zhong Yue looked at them for a few moments and determined that this huge ship was merely a counterfeit version made by the Asuras, rather than the true ship forged by that heavenly demon god himself. Some of the totem patterns were mixed with the demon race’s arts, making them impure and less marvelous.

  If only I can have a look at the true Sun Ship or the body of this Sun Innate Spirit Body god, then that would be great!

  Lights flashed across Zhong Yue’s eyes as he thought, The Sun Innate Spirit Body is incredibly strong, only weaker than a Saint Spirit. This heavenly demon god must have had an appalling understanding of his sun spirit, and that is far more helpful to me than the【Heavenly Saint Godly Radiating Art】! However, will the Asura Saint Clan allow me to change the【Heavenly Saint Godly Radiating Art】I asked for with a chance to look at this heavenly demon god’s spirit?

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  The Sun Ship flew at great speed, and after several weeks, it finally reached the Asura Saint Clan’s territory, the Sun Saint City, and they set down.

  Above the city was a scorching red sun, burning in flame! It wasn’t the true sun, but the inner core of a demon god!

  Zhong Yue was struck with awe while Tu Jiang said with a smile, “This inner core is exactly that heavenly demon god’s inner core, he forged it into a treasure and placed it as a sun.”

  Zhong Yue inhaled a breath of deep air. He was now even more attracted to the heritage of this Asura’s heavenly demon god. Even the【Heavenly Saint Godly Radiating Art】 placed second after it.

  Tu Jiang then arranged for places to stay for Zhong Yue and the ladies, and told them with a smile, “I will now see the elders and convince them to accept your request, you will be able to learn our race’s【Heavenly Saint Godly Radiating Art】.”

  Zhong Yue nodded agreement, and Tu Jiang left.

  “What? He wants to learn our race’s greatest cultivation technique? This is absolutely out of the question! No, I do not agree to it!”

  In the palace, the face of one of the elders changed drastically after Tu Jiang told them about the request, his voice was even distorted with anger, “Our race’s greatest cultivation technique is engraved on the divine weapon Sun Chariot, how can an outsider be allowed to look at it?”

  Tu Jiang refuted with a frigid smile, “After he kills Demon Saint, we will then kill him; everything will be taken care of and the cultivation technique will also not fall into the hands of an outsider.”

  The elder then chided, “Demon Saint is our ancestor, the demon spirit we all worship together, why are we killing him? Let alone helping an outsider to kill him, what is this!?”

  Tu Jiang then said, “When Demon Saint becomes the demon god again, he will unite the Eighth Barren and the great Asura Saint Clan will have to follow his commands! What’s good in it for us? He is not an Asura! My great leader, are you ready to be commanded? Are you willing to resign yourself to the Demon Saint?”

  The Asura Saint Clan’s leader mulled for a few moments and said, “The Asura Saint Clan will grant him his wish, he will be allowed to gain the arts on the Sun Chariot, but after his work is finished, he will have to be eradicated, killed, and our arts not left in the hands of others.”

  Tu Jiang was overjoyed, he praised his lord, “The leader is wise and sagacious!”

  He then walked away and left to meet Zhong Yue.

  He quickly threaded his way to Zhong Yue and said with a smile, “Mister, please follow me!”

  Zhong Yue looked at the ladies and Tu Jiang immediately shook his head, he said, “The【Heavenly Saint Godly Radiating Art】of our race is engraved on the divine weapon Sun Chariot, outsiders aren’t allowed to be anywhere close to it.”

  Tian Mo Concubine exclaimed in shock, “Senior Martial Brother Tu Jiang, is your Asura Saint Clan really willing to give him the chance to study the Sun Chariot? The Asura Saint Clan is really paying a hefty price!”

  Zhong Yue was puzzled, he said, “Aren’t the carvings on the Sun Chariot from the【Heavenly Saint Godly Radiating Art】? Just like the one you have imparted to me, aren’t they of the same technique, what is there to be surprised about?”

  “Different, it is very different! The carvings on the Sun Chariot are way more abstruse and greater than the ones I’ve taught you! The Asura Saint Clan’s ancestor was a heavenly demon god, the【Heavenly Saint Godly Radiating Art】he cultivated was way deeper than mine. The one engraved on the Sun Chariot contains the demon god’s understandings on the【Heavenly Saint Godly Radiating Art】, and some of them are demon god-level totem patterns!”

  Tian Mo Concubine was envious as she continued, “The【Heavenly Saint Godly Radiating Art】he attained is engraved on his divine weapon
, the Sun Chariot, hence, it is also known as the Sun Chariot Engravings. Learning directly from the Sun Chariot is only a fine line weaker than being directly taught by Demon Saint, just like my Raksha Saint Clan’s Godly Radiation Stone Engravings.”

  “Radiation Stone Engravings?”

  Tian Mo Concubine then said, “When the Demon Saint died back in the day, the Raksha Saint Clan attained the【Heavenly Saint Godly Radiating Art】from observing at his corpse. The ancestor of the Raksha Saint Clan ascended to the level of gods and before his death, he turned his demon inner core into the Godly Radiation Stone. Engraved on it was the【Heavenly Saint Godly Radiating Art】. But don’t you think too much, the Raksha Saint Clan will never allow you to study the Godly Radiation Stone.”

  “Well, this is hard to say. Don’t forget, I’m now your lover, also considered as part of the Raksha Saint Clan.” Zhong Yue laughed loudly and walked away with Tu Jiang.

  Tian Mo Concubine’s countenance changed drastically, and she walked in circles anxiously, stomping her feet on the ground as she thought, If the Asura Saint Clan is willing to let him study the Sun Chariot Engravings, then why wouldn’t the Raksha Saint Clan open the Godly Radiation Stone Engravings to him when they see us together? They will surely think that this is a good chance to rope him into the Raksha Saint Clan, but they didn’t know he is not a demon but a human … he must not survive to return to the Great Wilderness!

  Zhong Yue followed Tu Jiang. Along the way, there were mountains and rivers, the sun dangled high in the sky and its rays shone down like a pillar of fire into the mountains, reaching to the summit of the highest mountain, where a marvelous war chariot was waiting. The war chariot was miles long, dazzling lit with golden rays and looked very stunning.

  “That is the Sun Chariot.”

  Tu Jiang said smilingly, “The carvings on the Sun Chariot were left behind by the Asura ancestor, they are his understandings on the【Heavenly Saint Godly Radiation Art】.”

  Zhong Yue looked at it from afar and saw a demon god standing in the chariot, he asked puzzlingly, “And that demon god is?”

  “His spirit, the Asura Saint Clan’s guardian. After he forged the Sun Chariot, he has rested inside of it.”

  Tu Jiang smirked and said, “His spirit is the innate spirit of the sun, containing another great cultivation technique of the demon race —【Great Sun Heavenly Demon Art】. If mister has the Sun Innate Spirit Body, you might just be able to attain it. Hahahaha!

  I’m just joking around, I hope you won’t mind.”

  “It's fine, it's fine,” Zhong Yue answered with a smile.

  Chapter 336: Demon Sunfire |

  “Be careful, restrain yourself from getting too near to it. The fire around it is demon sunfire. It may look calm and peaceful now, but it is actually very terrifying.”

  Tu Jiang led Zhong Yue closer to the godly mountain, and the divine weapon Sun Chariot. The war chariot was suffused with the demon god’s aura, and the demon fire formed a circle of flames around it, burning extremely calmly, as if they were merely decorations to the picturesque scene.

  Zhong Yue looked into the palace on the godly mountain. In the middle of the palace the Sun Chariot was enshrined, while a platform was raised on the side of the palace where many Asura disciples were sitting. They were studying the Sun Chariot from a distance, as they didn’t dare to get too close to it.

  Those that could have entered the palace were the best of the best among the Asura Saint Clan disciples; they were given the chance to study the Sun Chariot Engravings, and attain the【Heavenly Saint Godly Radiating Art】.

  Zhong Yue could even sense some of them were Inner Core Qi Qi Practitioners, experts that weren’t any weaker than Tian Mo Concubine and the ladies. Even more, there were a few disciples whose cultivation bases were so strong that he couldn’t perceive them at all.

  Tu Jiang invited him to the palace and walked onto the raised platform, the demon fire surrounding the Sun Chariot was just before them. Tu Jiang then said with a smile, “The Asura Saint Clan’s demon sunfire is nothing like the Shen Ya Celestial Race’s sunfire, the two sunfires have their own fortes. The demon sunfire’s power is more bizarre and harder to practice, even the Asura Saint Clan has only a handful of disciples who have successfully cultivated it.”

  The Sun Chariot was still a thousand feet away from the raised platform they were on. Zhong Yue looked at it from the distance and saw the marvelous demon sunfire forming a circle of flame around the legendary war chariot, making it harder for the disciples to study the Sun Chariot Engravings. But if one desired to go closer in order to have a better look, he would have to risk getting in touch with the demon sunfire.

  As for boarding the Sun Chariot and studying the heavenly demon god’s spirit, one would have to venture into the demon sunfire, endure the incineration of the demon sunfire, and face the Sun Chariot and heavenly demon god’s godly aura, the dominating air of a heavenly demon god!

  However, that being said, Zhong Yue could still vaguely perceive faint silhouettes flitting in the demon sunfire which clearly belonged to strong experts of the Asura Saint Clan, those who were powerful enough to withstand the demon sunfire and study the Sun Chariot at a closer distance.

  Zhong Yue was shocked as he meticulously observed the demon sunfire. He had one of the strongest sun spirits, the Great Sun Golden Crow, and due to that, he could immediately sense the abnormalities in the demon sunfire.

  The demon sunfire was different from the other sunfires that were strong in bursting force and high in temperature.

  A tiny bit of sunfire was sufficient enough to blow up a ten-mile wide crater, and the shock wave could tear all living beings into dust around the blast site!

  However, the demon fire around this Sun Chariot was burning at a very low temperature. One wouldn’t feel the heat even while standing beside it, it seemed harmless to even the tiniest insect.

  “Don’t underestimate it, the demon sunfire is a terror to those who know what it is. When burned, the demon sunfire will attach itself to its victim, directly attacking the soul, spirit, and Yuan Shen. As long as one has been touched by it, it will infect them like a parasite, and it cannot be extinguished; not water, sand, arcane energy, nor the soul weapons can put it off. The only way to put it off is the absence of ‘fuel’; the complete incineration of the spirit, soul, and Yuan Shen!”

  Tu Jiang smiled and said, “After the infected’s spirit, soul, and Yuan Shen are burned away, their mortal body will still remain at its peak as if they were still alive, no one will even know he is dead. Not only that, but the demon fire reacts marvelously with soul weapons; please take a look, mister!”

  He took out an ordinary soul weapon and cast it over to the Sun Chariot. It flitted past a tiny bit of the demon sunfire and the demon sunfire immediately stuck itself on the soul weapon. It burned right into the soul weapon, incinerating it from the inside out. A few moments later, the soul weapon collapsed onto the ground and although it looked perfectly fine, Zhong Yue could tell that inside of the soul weapon, its totem patterns, arcane energy, powers and marks were all gone; it was now nothing but a clump of scrap metal!

  “Incredible…” Zhong Yue exclaimed in shock.

  The demon sunfire’s appearance was fantastically beautiful, one couldn’t even tell it was actually fire and would mistake it for coloring pigments. Every tongue of flame could be differentiated into hundreds of colors, and the flames were incredibly flexible. They could be formed into different shapes, coming together into picturesque art of a world of nature, even coloring the flora and fauna.

  “If a demon magnate who is proficient in the arts of demon sunfire places down an array formation, he can turn a piece of land in the desert into a lively city, every single demon and item in the city, even the trees and birds around will look real and authentic, as if they truly exist!”

  Tu Jiang was proud as he told them, “Such an array formation can easily kill an expert in a trice! Only a handful of people
in the Asura Saint Clan can do it; after all, the Qi Practitioners that have acquired the sun spirit are really rare, and even fewer have achieved a high stage. Although there are some Qi Practitioners that have acquired the sun spirit in the Asura Saint Clan, most of them did not acquire a genuine sun spirit, but the sun spirit of this heavenly demon god.”

  He then said in good will, “Mister, if you can’t attain the demon sunfire, then you can only stay here to study the Sun Chariot Engravings. Only by attaining the demon sunfire can one walk into the circle of demon flames and study a higher-grade heritage. Even so, if mister does not have the Sun Innate Spirit Body, my advice is to not take the risk. Hahaha, but that won’t be the same if you have the Sun Innate Spirit Body. If so, don’t even mention the demon sunfire, you can even attain the other greatest cultivation technique of my race, the【Great Sun Heavenly Demon Art】. I’m being a fool making jokes again, I’m sorry, my apologies for that…”

  Zhong Yue was speechless, and Tu Jiang was also feeling embarrassed. He quickly said, “Mister, I will return for you after half a month’s time. Before then, you can stay as long as you desire.”

  Zhong Yue nodded, and the embarrassed Tu Jiang quickly turned and left.

  Sun Innate Spirit Body? Although I’m not one, but maybe even the true Sun Innate Spirit Body might not have a stronger sun spirit than mine! After all, I’ve walked on the surface of the sun and acquired the sun spirit on the sun itself!

  Zhong Yue sat down in the lotus position but he didn’t study the Sun Chariot Engravings. Instead, he turned to the billowing demon fire and thought, Studying the Sun Chariot Engravings here, don’t even talk about half a month’s time, even with a hundred days I won’t be able to finish looking at them. In order to fully attain the Engravings, the only way is to walk into the fire and look at them closely … Divine third eye, open!

  A narrow slit opened on his forehead, a flash of light flitted across his divine third eye and the demon sunfire’s secrets were exposed to his eyes. The mysteries of the demon sunfire were instantly laid bare to him, he could clearly see every single detail of the totem patterns composed in the demon sunfire, and he could easily understand them all.