Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  Xia Que was swallowed away into his stomach. Even the Martial Divine Master couldn’t survive inside the stomach of a Deity Overlord. In just seconds, Xia Que was already fully digested into nutrients that nourished Xiao Mang grand ancestor’s mortal body.

  The other gods were incensed. The Xiao Mang grand ancestor was an ancient figure who had lived for over fifty thousand years, he was a Deity Overlord, possessing a strength far beyond their reach. Even if when he was wounded by the Bi Xie Celestial Emperor, he was still a figure they couldn’t defeat.

  The gods were continuously vomiting out blood; they were hanging onto their lives by a thread. Even a casual wave of the Xiao Mang grand ancestor’s hand could easily destroy their mortal body and Yuan Shen.

  The Xiao Mang grand ancestor laughed loudly, and another two insect gods were eaten away!

  “Run!”

  The gods didn’t dare to linger any longer, they quickly turned and bolted away. But suddenly, Xiao Mang grand ancestor’s mortal body turned and his two heads flew out from his body.

  The two heads turned into a separate god each and stopped the gods from escaping!

  These two gods were his incarnations. But it wasn’t a surprise at all that he had them as well, after all, he was the one who taught it to Feng Wuji!

  His two incarnations were strong as well, possessing thirty-percent of his total prowess. Of the initial nineteen gods, only ten were left, all of whom had already sustained grievious injuries. How could they ever able to fight against the two Xiao Mang grand ancestor’s incarnations!

  It was a massacre, one that none of the gods could run away from!

  “Run? Where to? There is not a place in the Ancestral Star you can go. Even if you escape now, you wouldn’t be able to hide for long, I will hunt you down one by one!”

  Xiao Mang grand ancestor’s mortal body stood still as he guffawed smugly. He looked at the moon core hovering in mid-air with a pair of greedy eyes. Then, he raised his hand and clawed toward the moon core.

  “Little treasure, you are finally come back to my hands. I never thought that it would be just a mere human who stole you away from me, not even a god.”

  All of a sudden, the moon core shattered into pieces. The goddess in it hovered in the air and slowly raised her jade-like arm while she said placidly, “If the first mistake is done, the second will come. Furthermore, you are not wise at all.”

  The two palms gently touched together and the world went dead silent.

  Even the gods that were fighting with Xiao Mang grand ancestor’s incarnations stopped. It was as if the world had suddenly pressed the pause button.

  Then, as if the play button was pressed again, a disastrous wave of energy made of the natural elements blasted out into the surrounding. The gods, including Xiao Mang grand ancestor’s two incarnations were catapulted into the air by the wave of energy!

  Within the blastwave, there was a shabby copper lamp that was hurled out along with the gods!

  “You came alive?" Xiao Mang grand ancestor’s face changed drastically, blood trickled out from his mouth and he suddenly released a shrill roar. The two incarnations flew back and returned to his body.

  Xiao Mang grand ancestor gave a cold humph, his aura burst out into the surroundings as he pounced toward the goddess, “What can you do even if you are awakened? You are just a newborn innate god, you will only make a perfect medicinal herb for me in extend my life! Tai Yin Divine Sword!”

  Three Sword Qi were formed within his mouths and they were shot out at the goddess.

  These three Sword Qi looked like they were forged from ice but they were in fact, made from the Innate Tai Yin Qi.

  The Tai Yin Qi was a grade higher than the Pure Yin Qi, it was even more valuable and precious than the Pure Yin Qi. The Pure Yin Qi was already an incredible treasure, even the gods could not cultivate them, only the Moon Innate Spirit Body could. The gods could only acquire them from refining the Sun Innate Spirit Body or treasures that contained the Pure Yin Qi.

  Tai Yin Qi was even more valuable than that. Only the Innate Moon Spirit Body could potentially cultivate the Tai Yin Qi upon ascending to a deity.

  As for the Innate Tai Yin Qi, only the Innate Moon Gods could ever cultivate such a marvelous Sword Qi.

  These three Tai Yin Divine Swords of the Xiao Mang grand ancestor were formed from three surges of Innate Tai Yin Qi he extracted out from the moon god. These three Sword Qi were regarded as his biggest trump card, he didn’t even use it during the battle with Bi Xie Celestial Emperor.

  With the moon god awakened now, he was shocked and overjoyed. All he wanted to do was to suppress the moon goddess and seal her away so he could refine her essence for himself!

  Thus, he didn’t even hesitate to cast the three divine swords!

  But the goddess seemed unphased by all this as her face seemed devoid of all emotion. Without even moving her arm, she extended her arm out.

  “It’s time that you return what you stole from me." Her fingers elegantly tapped on the Tai Yin Divine Swords, emitting a metallic clanking sound.

  The gods that were still yet to land on the ground from the energy blastwave were caught up in the metallic clanking noise and all spurted out another mouth of blood. Without any hesitation, they forced through their limits and bolted away right at the moment they landed on the ground!

  The metallic clanking noises would blast beside them, each noise was able to hit them hard and cause them to be even more wounded.

  Suddenly, an insect god and two mother gods fell to the ground dead. Their Yuan Shen were completely shattered away by the noises as died on the spot!

  There weren’t many insect gods left after the Xiao Mang grand ancestor ate five insect gods and one mother god, and now, another three of them were killed, leaving only one insect god and two mother gods remaining.

  On the other hand, the seven Ancestral Star gods were only left with four surviving.

  “This lamp!" Mother Da Zhen’s Yuan Shen was shuddering violently. Suddenly, her attention was caught by the copper lamp. Even the gods like them couldn’t withstand the aftermath of the battle between the two strong figures; yet, this copper lamp was able to remain unscathed!

  “It must be a treasure!" Mother Da Zhen clutched the copper lamp and flew away quickly. The other gods also bolted out in different directions, no one daring to stay for even a split second longer.

  As her fingers tapped on the Tai Yin Divine Swords, the totem patterns and marks on the divine swords splintered. Xiao Mang grand ancestor’s face changed drastically, the three divine swords were broken away, severing his connection to them.

  He had spent over a hundred thousand years to forge these three divine swords, but in just seconds, they were all destroyed.

  The three divine swords exploded away and turned into three surges of Innate Tai Yin Qi that flowed around the goddess. Two surges of the Innate Tai Yin Qi revolved around the goddess while the third turned into a hair band and tied on her ebony hairs.

  Then, the goddess strolled toward Xiao Mang grand ancestor while she said softly, “The innate essence you stole from me, I need them back too.”

  Xiao Mang grand ancestor’s face was gloomy like the dark sky, he roared loudly and turned into the three-headed Pan Ao form!

  “ 【Heavenly Moon Devouring Hound】 !”

  Three huge mouths gnawed down on the goddess like three black holes. Even the space in front of the Pan Ao heads was distorted and crumbled into his mouths!

  His three tongues rolled down like three red curtains and curled around the goddess!

  The moon god didn’t avoid them, she leaped onto one of the tongues and immediately, the tongue became petrified into stone!

  Xiao Mang grand ancestor panicked, but before he could chop off the petrified tongue, the affected area had already spread to his head, down to the neck and extending onto the other two heads.

  In just a few moments, the huge Xiao Mang grand ancestor’s mortal body had turned i
nto a stone statue.

  Once the goddess gotten in touch to his body, she extracted away the innate essence he stole from her out from his mortal body. His mortal body’s natural lifespan had already long been depleted. He had only been able to sustain himself with the moon goddess’ innate essence.

  And once the goddess retook this innate essence, his mortal body began to rapidly lose all its vitality as it turned to stone. With the mortal body turning into a stone statue now, it would never be able to return back to its living state anymore.

  Suddenly, the heads of the Pan Ao stone statue exploded and the Xiao Mang grand ancestor’s three Yuan Shen with three inner cores flew away at a great speed.

  Although his mortal body was dead, his Yuan Shen was still here. The Pure Yang Yuan Shen was his atman, and as long as it wasn’t destroyed, he would still be alive in spirit form.

  Chapter 554: Magic Lamp |

  The moon goddess watched quietly as the Xiao Mang grand ancestor’s Yuan Shen left. It was as if the goddess didn’t want to dirty her hands with blood, to pollute her pure mind with violence and stain her heart with the worldly affairs.

  Even when Xiao Mang grand ancestor stole the moon core, imprisoned her and robbed her of what was rightfully her’s, she didn’t hold any grudges against him.

  To her, Xiao Mang grand ancestor didn’t matter much, as long as she was able to take back whatever she lost. Revenge seemed like a foreign concept to her.

  Faraway, a patch of demonic clouds flew over and formed into a huge head above the battlefield. He was immediately attracted by the goddess’s beauty and was piqued in interest.

  It was truly an amazing view. In the sky above, there was a huge head formed by the demonic clouds and on the ground, a beautiful goddess stood exactly below the huge head. Around them, the elements of heaven and earth, fire, water, earth, wind and many others were lost in control. They were ravaging and destroying every piece of land around.

  The huge head formed by the demonic clouds belonged to Lord Demon.

  He was attracted by the battle and flew out from his tomb to check it out. But by the time he reached the battlefield, it had already ended. All he could see was the beautiful goddess standing in the center.

  If I can bring her home as my wife…, he was just thinking about it when he caught a glimpse on Xiao Mang grand ancestor’s stone petrified mortal body. His face changed drastically and left instantly back to the demon land.

  After some time, Lord Demon’s spirit was still shivering in his tomb.

  “Xiao Mang is dead, that lady is an innate god! But if she can be taken home as a wife…”

  Then, there were sounds of water billowing in the air. An ocean appeared out of nowhere in the sky as the dragon ancestor’s spirit was also attracted by the battle and headed over with an ocean of water.

  This Ao Clan dragon spirit coiled itself in the waters and his head with long dragon whiskers rose high up from the water surface.

  The huge dragon opened his eyes and glanced around the goddess. All of a sudden, the dragon ancestor was shocked to see how beautiful the lady was. He quickly turned into a dragon-headed young man and just as he was going to walk over, he remembered something.

  A ball of water emerged in his hands and he washed his face. He visualized a mirror to put some finishing touches on his appearance, but as soon as he looked at the reflection of his face again, he suddenly felt like he wasn’t good enough to talk to her.

  Piang—

  The mirror shattered on the ground and dispersed into thin air while the dragon turned and left while covering his face.

  Kacha—

  And like that, the ocean water along with the dragon ancestor returned to the Eastern Sea.

  The goddess was nonchalant to all the incomers, she glanced at the splintered moon core and waved her sleeves. The moon core fragments flew up and were kept away by her.

  Casually, she stepped in the blank air as if there was an invisible stair. Soon after, the moon was visited by a elegant and yet lonely lady.

  She came within the moon, the moon was like a huge egg had that nurtured her growth.

  But it wasn’t the moon that brought her to life, it was that surge of Innate Tai Yin Divine Water Shang Qing cast out during the battle with Zhong Yue in the Returning Ruins.

  The Innate Tai Yin Divine Water was made from the Innate Tai Yin Qi, it was even stronger than the Tai Yin Qi. It was that surge of Innate Tai Yin Divine Water that recuperated the loss of essences that the Xiao Mang grand ancestor had stolen from her. It was that surge of Innate Tai Yin Divine Water that had given her life.

  Shang Qing’s Innate Tai Yin Divine Water was a gift from an ancient Innate Moon God to the Reincarnation Monarch. It was exactly because she had refined and absorbed the Innate Tai Yin Divine Water that she was so strong even when she had just awoken.

  Just as the goddess was going to walk into the moon, she suddenly stopped and listened.

  But there were no sounds in here, it was dead silent. Suddenly, a wave of voices deluged her mind.

  It was a language unknown to the world, sounding ancient and seeming to hold endless mysteries.

  The goddess tilted her head and listened, somehow, she could understand them. She shook her head and replied, “I cannot leave the Ancestral Star yet.”

  She answered in the same mysterious language.

  Moments later, another wave of voices reached her.

  She listened quietly and shook her head again, “I was saved by someone, I have to repay his debt before I leave.”

  After some time, the voice came into her mind again.

  This time, the goddess nodded, “Alright, I will go there after I settle my matters here.”

  Everything turned silent after that.

  The goddess pondered deeply, she gazed into the endless space with a pair of lucid eyes. After a long time, she lowered her head and mumbled softly, “But how should I repay this debt?”

  She thought for a very time. Then, she walked into the moon and glanced around at the huge hole inside of the moon. She took out the moon core fragments and compared the sizes but the goddess shook her head.

  The moon core fragments she were far too little to fill into the missing hole inside of the moon.

  Xiao Mang grand ancestor had stolen the moon core and ate a huge chunk of it. Over time, there had also been parts of the moon core that were given out to prominent Xiao Mang Celestial Race experts.

  And now, more than half of the moon core was missing. If she had left these moon core fragments inside the moon, they would disrupt the moon’s balance, affect its natural movements. Eventually, this could lead to the moon’s disappearance into the endless space or its collision Ancestral Star.

  Left with no other choice, the goddess could only gather the moon core fragments and refine them into a bright pearl.

  “Then it’s time, to repay my debt…" She mumbled softly as she walked out of the moon toward the Ancestral Star.

  …

  Great Wilderness Swords Gate.

  A sorrowful ambiance filled the whole Swords Gate, the disciples, hall masters and elders had their eyes fixated on the south. There, there were the loud and powerful clashings of skills, so clearly perceivable even though they were far in Swords Gate.

  “Is Elder Zhong fighting with everything he’s got?" The ten elders of the elder council were puzzled.

  But the vestigial power from the fight was too strong, even gods might not be capable of this kind of power, not to mention Zhong Yue who was just a True Spirit magnate. But if it wasn’t Zhong Yue, then who would it be?

  After some time, things settled down as everything returned back to normal.

  The Swords Gate disciples continued to mourn for the loss of their respected Elder Zhong.

  The goddess walked into Swords Gate. Shui Zian, Zuo Xiangsheng and the other human experts watched as she walked past them, none of them remembered to even stop her and ask for her intentions.

  Everywhere
she went, she would leave a trail of dazed Swords Gate disciples.

  All of a sudden, Shui Zian cleared his mind and ran over to the goddess, he shouted loudly, “Miss, stop!”

  The goddess stopped, she turned her head back at Shui Zian and waited. Shui Zian was stunned, abruptly forgetting what he was trying to say. Even though he was a man who had experienced a lifetime of vicissitudes, he was still amazed by how flawless the goddess was.

  “Miss, who are you looking for?" Shui Zian was only able to regain his thoughts after a few moments.

  The goddess replied in a low and soft voice, “Zhong Yue.”

  Shui Zian was amazed by her voice, he praised, “Your voice is so nice to hear… Wait, did you say you are here for Elder Zhong? He…”

  Shui Zian’s heart turned bitter and said while giving her a wry smile, “Miss, you are too late. He is probably not alive by now already…”

  “He is not dead yet." The goddess replied placidly, “I have been with him all these years, I would know if he is alive or dead. If he is dead, I wouldn’t be here already.”

  Shui Zian was shocked, he stammered as he asked, “You… you and him… been together for all these years?”

  The goddess nodded, “Day and night.”

  Shui Zian was stunned, “Day and night? Miss, if Elder Zhong doesn’t return, what will you do?”

  The goddess tilted her head and thought about it. Moments later, she said, “He will return.”

  Shui Zian was stunned. The goddess walked toward the Seal Suppression Hall and sat in a little pavillion on the side. She sat there on her own, filling the surroundings with a holy, ice-cold air, the little pavillion then seemed to be another world compared to the rest of Swords Gate — her own domain.

  Shui Zian wanted to ask more about her intention for coming but felt as though he shouldn’t interrupt her in her own world.