Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  The eight saint clans had basically given up on it,and yet, right at this moment, the Demon Queen was speaking of the fortunes Demon Saint had obtained from it and was now intending to share it with the world; how could this not move them?

  Zhong Yue frowned, he said, “Demon Saint is the only one that knew the Black Well Keep’s secrets, I don’t believe he would selflessly share this secret with the world. After all, generosity is something we demons never had in our blood.”

  The other demon experts had the same doubts, and even the five magnates of the dragon race locked their brows. There must be something behind this that caused Demon Saint to make such a decision.

  In contrast to the demon experts, the five dragon elders and the king of the sea race were actually outsiders. And yet, Demon Saint was saying that he would even share the secret with them. This added even more doubts to the already-suspicious proposal.

  However, the secret of the Black Well Keep was so attractive that it had the force to suck their attention in. Even if they knew something wasn’t feeling right, they couldn’t control their greed at all!

  Demon Saint was the only one who knew of the secret. He had attained the【Heavenly Saint Godly Radiating Art】from it and was crowned as a saint because of it. If they could attain the secret that the Demon Saint had, just exactly how high would their future achievements be?

  Demon Queen smiled and said, “Is this fortune offered huge enough to ride above the【Heavenly Saint Godly Radiating Art】? Furthermore, my husband is right inside of the Black Well Keep. He is intending to invite all of you in to have a look at the abstrusities of an innate demon god.”

  Zhong Yue praised in his heart, No wonder she can be the Demon Queen, with only words she can manipulate the experts’ attentions to her own advantage while also disarming the incoming dangers. The eight demon concubines are on par with one another, but she was the one chosen to be the Demon Queen, surely she has something unique from the others. What an intelligent lady she is. But what is his end goal? Why is he doing this to help his competitors and outsiders? This is interesting…

  The eight demon magnates stood up and said politely, “May the Demon Queen tell us what to do.”

  Demon Queen stood up and she said with a smile, “May all of you come with me, please.”

  The crowd stood up, and as the Demon Queen led the demon concubines out of the Heavenly Scent Inn, she said leisurely, “When my husband was still a nobody, he found a secret that no one else knew. That is, this innate demon god’s spirit is still here, it had yet to completely disperse, and the scattered spirit formed a secret realm.”

  The experts followed her out of the keep and their hearts shuddered as she spoke.

  “The innate demon god’s spirit didn’t disperse? Can the innate demon god revive himself?”

  “Demon Saint found the secret realm and acquired the innate demon god’s heritage?”

  “This heavenly demon’s heritage must be frightening…”

  The crowd were puzzled, but Zhong Yue knew it very clearly; the innate demon god’s spirit had yet to completely disperse, but it was not far from that. It was even a blessing for the innate demon god’s spirit to be scattered rather than dispersed after Xin Huo and the previous inheritor killed him.

  But Xin Huo said that I’m being locked down by Bo Xun, if I enter his secret realm, wouldn’t it be like a fish willingly swimming into the fisher’s net?, the young man blinked his eyes and thought.

  Xin Huo, this Bo Xun’s scattered spirit, will he do anything to me?

  Xin Huo mulled over his words for a moment, and answered, “I suppose the memories in the scattered spirit are scarce, little to none; he will have taken you as his murderer, and it is a hundred and one percent chance that he will do something to you. However, even his head is now petrified into a mountain, and without worship, he might not be able to do anything much or serious…”

  Zhong Yue then eased his unsettled heart while Tian Mo Concubine suddenly walked up beside him and whispered, “Demon Saint is attracting us into the innate demon god’s secret realm, there must be some plot in this whole thing, we need to be cautious.”

  Zhong Yue nodded, he replied with a smile, “Don’t worry, I have it all under control.”

  The Demon Queen then smiled and said to the crowd, “My husband entered this heavenly demon’s secret realm and obtained uncountable benefits from it. This is the point of departure of his success, the foundation for him to unite the Eighth Barren. This Heavenly Demon Secret Realm is deep inside the innate demon god’s brain.”

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  They walked over to right below of the black spring, behind the head of the saint mountain. The magnates looked around and saw nothing but a wasteland, the whole ground was a solid piece of rock and there wasn’t even a single blade of grass.

  The Shura magnate was puzzled and asked, “Every magnate was here before, no one ever found anything at all. How did Demon Saint find it and entered it?”

  Demon Queen answered with a smile, “They couldn’t find it because they couldn’t sense the innate demon god’s scattered spirit. My husband had just coincidentally connected himself with the scattered soul, that’s how he found it and entered it. Please look carefully.”

  She took out an incantation charm and opened it. It was huge like a seating mat, thirty feet long and sixteen feet wide, yellow-auric as if it was a paper made of gold. The demon words drawn on it were blood-red in color, and the whole charm looked incredibly messy, like a child’s drawing.

  The blood-red demon words were suffused with a godly aura, the color was so bright and shiny it looked like they would just drip off the gold paper like blood!

  “Demon god’s blood!”

  “This is one of the charms left behind by the last life of my husband, it is meant to act as the key to open the Heavenly Demon Secret Realm. Please be calm, everyone.”

  Demon Queen pasted the charm on the mountain and all of a sudden, the mountain body started to squirm, turning red in color. Eventually, the stone changed back into blood, flesh, skin, and even hair!

  It felt like as if the innate demon god’s mortal body had returned to life after the charm was pasted onto it!

  After a few seconds, the flesh squirmed to the side and an endless cave appeared before them. The sides of the cave were still flesh and bone, blood veins were thumping constantly, and one could even vaguely see the skull of the innate demon god!

  His skull was incredibly smooth, it seemed like something had pierced through it.

  When this innate demon god died, his flesh covered the cave and was petrified into stone; no wonder no one could find it! But now, the petrified flesh had come back to life, and the cave was once again exposed to the world.

  Xin Huo said with a proud smile, “Brat Yue, this hole in Bo Xun’s head was pierced by the last inheritor. Even when little brat’s brain had a hole in it, he still didn’t die and continued the battle for quite some time before he was beheaded by us.”

  Zhong Yue’s heart was alert, he said, “Xin Huo, I have some very, very bad feelings about this. You and the last inheritor did such bad things to him, and with me being in his scattered spirit’s secret realm now, he will unleash his anger toward the two of you upon me….”

  “Don’t worry, don’t worry, it’s just Bo Xun’s scattered spirit, he can’t possibly inflict any huge damages,” Xin Huo comforted him.

  “Say, will his head fully turn back into flesh and bone, and be revived?” Zhong Yue suddenly thought of an important question, and quickly asked, “If he can move his head, doesn’t that mean that he has a mortal body already?”

  Xin Huo shook his head and replied, “That would require a very large amount of energy to do so, even the offerings would have to be abundant beyond imagination

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  A thought flashed across Zhong Yue’s mind. He looked around, and those present here were all at least Inner Core Qi Practitioners, with fourteen magnates from three
different races.

  The eight saint clan magnates were sending their voices to the experts in the Black Well Keep, ordering the cultivators of their respective races to head over. Heavenly Dharma Qi Practitioners, Inner Core Qi Practitioners, and even Atman Body Qi Practitioners quickly swarmed over to this location and greeted the magnates as they arrived.

  Other than that, there were also the strong itinerant cultivators, also following them. Soon, the whole place was filled with cultivators, experts of the various cultivation levels; it was truly a grand scene.

  “An abundance of offerings…”

  Zhong Yue suddenly asked, “Xin Huo, are these experts enough?”

  Xin Huo shook his head and said, “No, even if the magnates and giants are incredibly strong in the eyes of this world, they are just tiny little figures to the innate demon god. They are not enough to change the innate demon god’s petrified head back into flesh and bone. However, this is enough to awaken the scattered spirit.”

  Zhong Yue sucked in a breath of cold air, he realized what Demon Saint had in mind, but there were still a few questions he couldn’t answer.

  Right now, Demon Saint is just like me, an Inner Core Qi Practitioner. Although Inner Core Qi Practitioners are notable figures, like the hall masters, they are really nothing in the eyes of the magnates. So, what gives Demon Saint the confidence that he can take down these magnates and offer them to Bo Xun’s scattered spirit? Oh, wait a minute….

  He raised his head and gazed at the Demon God Blood Charm on the saint mountain. This charm was drawn by Demon Saint in his last life, the blood used was the essence of the blood in his whole body, formed into the marks of totem patterns and bestowed with incredible power.

  The blood of heart and mind, that was the name given to the essence of the demon god’s blood. It was the most important part of the blood that circulated in his whole body. However, the Demon Saint, as a saint figure venerated by the demon race, would surely have other means that allowed him to draw more than one Demon God Blood Charm!

  I’ve underestimated him, if the Xiao Mang ancestor could bring out godly charms for Feng Wuji, surely the Demon Saint can also take out a few of these Demon God Blood Charms to take down the magnates! Ha, it isn’t easy at all to go against the Demon Saint!

  Zhong Yue heaved a breath of relief, rays flashed across his eyes and he thought, Now, the question is, how many of these charms does he have, the number won’t be too high, and thus, only the magnates will be his main targets.

  Even though he knew that the Demon Saint had planned their deaths, he was still planning to enter this Heavenly Demon Secret Realm.

  After all, the Demon Saint’s main targets were the magnates, and the Demon God Blood Charms wouldn’t be used on him a mere Inner Core Qi Practitioner like him. It just wasn’t worth using a godly charm on him.

  As long as the blood charm wasn’t targeting him, he wouldn’t be afraid of Demon Saint at all. Rather, he wanted to have a contest of strength against the former demon god!

  Even though his success would be a huge blow to the whole demon race, he would also be the one that would be able to get the most out of this. I don’t really care what he is planning, whether his actions would weaken the whole demon race or no, but I will not allow him to grow any stronger than this!

  Outside of the cave, the experts were starting to move into the Heavenly Demon Secret Realm. Demon Queen looked over at Zhong Yue and said with a smile, “Mister, please.”

  Zhong Yue laughed, he then strode into the cave with the ladies surrounding him like his shadows. Although he had said that they were free to go, Tian Mo Concubine, Ji Xiang Concubine, Saint Concubine, and the court ladies were still following him. This couldn’t help but cause the Demon Queen to lock her brows deep.

  However, little did she know that Ji Xiang Concubine and the other ladies were infected with Tian Mo Concubine’s Caress God Gu, they couldn’t leave even if they wanted to.

  Furthermore, there was an unique charm about Zhong Yue, a special feeling that caused them to stay close to him. This was not something the Demon Saint, who they had never met before, could give to them.

  As for Saint Concubine, she was an independent lady that couldn’t be bothered by the opinions of the others. Even the Demon Queen couldn’t see through her thoughts.

  Zhong Yue looked around and saw Xiu Hongsu, Shura, and the Shura Saint Clan magnate walking alongside Sea King Sha Qishan. The young Qi Practitioner named Shura furrowed his brows as he inspected their surroundings. He appeared to be incredibly careful, which clearly suggested that he also had suspicions about what was happening.

  Suddenly, their eyes met and Shura smiled gently, he said, “Mister Mo Luo, my apologies for being rude, I hope to have your forgiveness for any actions I have done that have offended you. I hope we can leave our conflicts in the past and be friends together.”

  Zhong Yue smiled in return, answered, “Mister Shura is being too polite.”

  Shura walked away from his peers and to his side, whispering softly to Zhong Yue, “Mister, you must have also realized it, haven’t you? I hope that we can work together if a predicament emerges.”

  Zhong Yue was nonchalant, he answered, “Mister Shura has yet to tell me of your origins, so how could I ever rest my mind cooperating with someone like you?”

  Shura then answered leisurely, “You and I, we have nearly the same background. Putting it this way, you should understand what I’m saying, should you not?”

  After he finished, he then strode forward and caught up to Sha Qishan and the others, while Zhong Yue in turn slowed his pace and considered his words.

  Same background as me? Could it really be Feng Wuji’s new demon incarnation? But if it’s Feng Wuji, why would he ever come to me for help?

  Tian Mo Concubine then whispered quietly to him, “What’s with that Shura?”

  Zhong Yue shook his head and said, “Nothing much. This is a very dangerous place. We might have to go head on with the Demon Saint. Hence, I suggest you put aside your apprehensions and show your true prowess if you have hidden anything.”

  Tian Mo Concubine’s heart skipped a beat and she kept quiet.

  Zhong Yue continued walking forward, while the ladies quickly walked faster to catch up to him.

  The sides of the cave were as smooth as clean tofu, looking as if something smooth had pierced through it. On the walls, one could also vaguely see the broken totem patterns, but they were too scarce and nobody could gain anything from them.

  However, even the cave itself was fascinating enough to the demon Qi Practitioners.

  As they ventured deeper into the cave, the demonic Qi around started getting thicker and heavier. All of the demon race Qi Practitioners were feeling incredibly comfortable, their pores opened up wide and absorbed the pure and strong demonic Qi into their bodies, strengthening them.

  “The demonic Qi formed by the innate demon god’s psyche!” One of the magnates was shocked and overjoyed, he laughed and said, “Such thickness, the innate demon god must have refined it to an unimaginable extent. If one could cultivate here, he would be able to break through the limits of the cultivation levels and become an expert who achieved the state of extremities!”

  Another magnate nodded and praised, “If one could keep absorbing the demonic Qi here, the barrier between the cultivation levels would be non-existent to them! They could easily break through the bottlenecks and reach the next cultivation level!”

  However, the five elders of the dragon race and Sha Qishan locked their brows deeply, as the demonic Qi here was too pure, heavy and thick. They weren’t demons and naturally they wouldn’t feel good being immersed in the demonic Qi. Every breath they took felt like they were breathing poisonous gas into their bodies.

  Although this wasn’t enough to impair their prowess as magnates, the demonic Qi was still affecting them.

  The only human present, Zhong Yue, was surprisingly feeling good. The【Celestial Demon Tai Chi Art】he had crea
ted had fused his celestial and demonic arcane energies together. His demon arcane energy wasn’t as strong as his celestial arcane energy, but with the help of the【Celestial Demon Tai Chi Art】, he was able to convert the energies and balance them. However, as the art itself was newly created, it was still relatively primitive and the conversion rate was slow. Even now, the demon arcane energy and the celestial arcane energy wasn’t quite balanced yet.

  However, with the help of the demonic Qi here, he would be able to strengthen his demon arcane energy at a high rate and hence, speed up the process of balancing the two arcane energies!

  “This is…”

  The road turned wider as they walked further in, and those that had entered the Heavenly Demon Secret Realm before them were standing there staring dumbfoundedly at the scenery before them. When Zhong Yue and the ladies arrived, they were also shocked.

  It wasn’t Bo Xun’s head they had entered, but another dimension.

  The sky was falling and the earth disintegrating; the halved sun and crumbled moon, the stars that crashed onto the ground and burned in flame as the soil around was melting away.

  There was an ancient godly palace in the middle, collapsing with the fall of its supporting pillars.

  Far away from them, there was a river where the waters were black in color, flowing down from the sky. And if one looked carefully, the river was purely formed by broken totem patterns, connecting the sky and earth together and piercing through the whole secret realm realm to the outside.

  This was the black spring they saw in Black Well Keep!

  The place where the black river pierced out from the secret realm was the black spring waters that flowed above Black Well Keep!

  This was a world, a secret realm that was slowly dying!

  “What is this place…” a magnate mumbled to himself. “What did the innate demon god experience before he dieds…”