Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  There was no doubt that this was once a divine weapon, but now, it was slowly turning into ordinary mystic gold, and eventually, it would turn to ash!

  Even the spiritual energy in the divine weapons are sucked away! Who or what is siphoning all this spiritual energy away from the bones, divine gold, and even weapons?

  Zhong Yue had an ominous feeling. The more he discovered about this strange land, the more questions he had and the greater his fear grew.

  Zhong Yue heaved a long breath of air, mumbling softly, “Xin Huo, are there any creatures in this universe that robs spiritual energy from people and items?”

  Xin Huo shook his head, “There were, but they are all extinct. The Ancestral Star is the origin of the Heavenly Monarchs and there are many imperial tombs here. Such evil livings wouldn’t be living in places like this, and even if there were any, they would’ve been killed a long time ago…”

  “Then what explanation is there for what’s going on around here?" Zhong Yue asked.

  Xin Huo softly shook his head. He was just as puzzled as Zhong Yue.

  All of a sudden, a divine gold mountain shuddered for a split second. Zhong Yue quickly looked over and saw a faint ray of light escaping from one of the mining holes!

  “What is there?" Zhong Yue raised his hand and launched a flurry of 【Dragon Shears】 into the mining hole. As soon they entered the mining hole, they instantly dispersed!

  The divine gold mountain then soon returned to silence.

  Cold sweat burst out from Zhong Yue’s forehead. He was starting to think of leaving already. This place was too bizarre, if he was to go any deeper, he was worried that he might not be able to make it out alive.

  Just at this moment, Zhong Yue stopped. His eyes turned vacant as he looked to the front.

  A few miles away from him, there was a huge city that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Green vines crawled over the city walls and the surroundings were enclosed in forests. The city gate was a huge head with an open mouth as the entrance.

  The head seemed to be sculpted from rocks. But when Zhong Yue looked around, the corner of the city walls were in fact, the four limbs of a body. Two hands and two legs, forming the four corners of the city walls.

  The four limbs were huge and tall, extending all the way from the bottom of the ground to the top of the underground space.

  He looked up and saw the body, rib bones and belly of the huge head. the city was over a thousand miles long and wide. It was this huge statue that held up the rock above it, allowing the city to be built under it!

  “No, the city isn’t under the sculpted rock giant! The city is inside of the sculpted rock giant’s stomach!" Zhong Yue hesitated. He really didn’t want to enter the underground city.

  The city’s appearance was too sudden and its location was just too bizarre. Even his three Fuxi divine eyes were unable to see through the city, it really didn’t felt right and good to enter.

  “If this sculpted rock giant is really a statue, then it’s really a marvelous art structure. But what if… it isn’t a statue…" his face turned solemn. In this world of gods and cultivation, anything was possible!

  This rock giant might really be a living giant with a city built in its stomach. Walking into the city would be like walking into his stomach. What if the huge giant suddenly awakened, wouldn’t Zhong Yue be like looking for death himself?

  “What an odd species!" Xin Huo suddenly said, he exclaimed in surprise, “This giant has half the blood of the innate gods!”

  Zhong Yue raised his brow, “This giant is really a god?”

  “A half-blood innate god, he should be a direct descendant of an innate god. What a shame that he is dead now." Xin Huo glanced at the giant and the city, “The innate gods have no limits on their lifespan. But that isn’t the same for their children. Even their direct offspring only has the same lifespan as ordinary gods. But this half-blood innate god, why is he here? And why did he die here?”

  Zhong Yue squinted his eyes and saw two ancient words carved on the top of the city gate. They looked like the mixture of the celestial words and demon words, but more complex and archaic. Surely enough, Zhong Yue had no idea what they were.

  “Nature." Xin Huo said.

  Zhong Yue was puzzled, he asked, “The name of the city? Or the name of the giant?”

  “No idea. This piece of land has no Qi Practitioners, and no spiritual energy. I wonder if it had anything to do with this city?" Xin Huo rolled his eyes and urged, “Brat Yue, let’s go in and scout it out! The child of an innate god, he must have left behind many treasures, especially the innate Qi! That is something not even the Heavenly Monarchs could get their hands on. Only the innate gods and their first generation of children could have it!”

  Zhong Yue hesitated, he looked down and found Mother Da Zhen’s traces trailing into the city. Clearly, she was already inside.

  Mother Da Zhen is in the city already. No matter what, she must be killed! Or otherwise, if she recovers from her injuries, I’ll be the one to die! Furthermore, even if anything happens, I still many treasures that can help me. I can still hide in the copper lamp if everything else fails!

  Zhong Yue made his decision and strode into the city. The ancient city turned dilapidated over the course of time, but still possessed great energy in it. His divine eyes were greatly obstructed, leaving him relatively blinded.

  Chapter 560: All That is Left of You Will Only Be Your Bones |

  He walked into the City of Nature through the giant’s head. The giant’s mouth was already petrified into stones, but he could still feel the presence of spiritual energy in it.

  The whole place, even the divine weapons and divine golds were sucked clear of spiritual energy, yet the city gate was still filled with spiritual energy. This city might just be the cause of all the oddities on this continent.

  “Danger, don’t enter. Run!" A bloody sentence was left on one of the sharp teeth, written in blood.

  Many skeletons lay on the ground underneath the city gate. These would be the Qi Practitioners that had found this place before.

  No, these skeletons didn’t die escaping from the city, they died while trying to enter.

  Zhong Yue looked at the skeletons and thought, These words don’t feel like they were written by those that escaped from the city. But more like these Qi Practitioners were trying to enter the city during the imminent danger, and somehow found something that made them leave the warnings.

  He walked into the city and found some words on a piece of the city wall covered by the green vines. He pulled down the green vines and looked at the words.

  These words… they are written by a god’s blood!

  Zhong Yue’s scalps tingeled. The words looked as though they were just written down moments ago, the blood was still moving around the linings of the words. The words unfolded a piece of history that was lost in the passing of time.

  The celestial emperor heard that there was an ancient mining site discovered underneath this continent and that this place always had many bizarre things happening around it. Thus, an expedition team was formed to scout it out.

  When the gods reached the front of this city, they discovered that this city was built at least 36,000 years ago. They were all overjoyed and quickly passed their findings to the celestial emperor.

  Celestial emperor? 36,000 years ago? Zhong Yue mumbled. He was startled by the word ‘celestial emperor’. Could it be… Bi Xie Celestial Emperor from 50,000 years ago?

  This city is built 36,000 years ago? It belongs to the time after the great changes in the universe?

  Zhong Yue’s heart shuddered greatly. The history of Ancestral Star was completely blank during the period between fifty thousand to a hundred thousand years ago. During those dark ages, there were the gods and civilizations, but there just weren’t any records left behind. It was only until the Bi Xie Celestial Emperor arrived from the Zi Wei Galaxy that history began to be recorded.

  Thus, to the Qi Practit
ioners in the Ancestral Star, what happened during that period of fifty thousand years was totally unknown!

  Hence, the Ancestral Star Qi Practitioners known that period of time as the “Dark Age”.

  In order to continue his research in the sixth wheel, sixth secret realm, Feng Xiaozhong even went on to search for the tombs of the gods from that era!

  However, Zhong Yue knew that period of time was an age of chaos that came right after the destruction of the Six Paths Reincarnation in this Six Paths World. Which was also the period of time where the Fuxi Celestial Race devolved into toward the human race.

  A glorious sovereign race that fallen from the summit of power to mere slaves. Everything had happened during that period of time — the Dark Ages!

  He continued reading. It said that the gods under the Bi Xie Celestial Emperor discovered that the city was closely related to a huge secret. Inside of the city, they found many tombs of the ancient gods and discovered many ancient secrets.

  With the number of tombs they explored growing larger in number, the occurrences of strange events grew more frequent as well. There were gods that died mysteriously in all sorts of ways, and a peculiar wave of energy that ambushed them. The energy was strong and powerful, yet its origins had always remained mysterious.

  But the celestial emperor gave his order, none shall ever turn back.

  Hence, the more they strayed around in this ancient city, the more secrets they found, and the more gods that died in here.

  Finally, they reached the core of the City of Nature. There, they saw something terrifying, and it was at that moment that they knew everything they needed to know about this ancient city.

  A disaster fell upon the continent and they tried to escape. Many gods died on the spot and along the way. They were the last survivors and were able to make it to here. But even so, they found themselves with no way to escape.

  The last sentence written on the wall was: Once you enter this gate, there will be no turning back. And when the disaster arrives, all that is left of you will only be your bones.”

  Zhong Yue startled, he mumbled puzzlingly, “No turning back? You can’t get out?”

  His heart suddenly twitched and he quickly looked back at the city gate. The city gate had been inexplicably closed!

  Zhong Yue stomped his feet and flew up into the sky. But no matter how high he flew, the city wall seemed to extend high into the heavens, with no end in sight. It was impossible for him to fly out from above the city wall!

  Cold sweat burst out from his forehead and he landed on the ground. He never noticed when the city gate closed. For such a huge city gate to close itself, it would have definitely caused a ruckus that would’ve been impossible for Zhong Yue to miss!

  With that being said, there was only one possibility left.

  From the outside, the city gate is open but when you are in here, the city gate is closed! The only reasonable explanation is that this city, was in fact, a huge seal that one can only enters and can’t exit!

  Zhong Yue clenched on the green vines around the city wall and pulled them out from the ground. The earth tumbled up, revealing a huge skull that was buried beneath.

  He pulled harder and more of the vines were uprooted. Soon, the skulls and skeletons of the dead gods could be seen buried right underneath here!

  Zhong Yue’s heart throbbed heavily. The road to return was cutted off and the gods that had been here were also dead, there were no known survivors that left this place at all!

  “And when the disaster arrives, all that is left of you will only be your bones…" Zhong Yue calmed himself down but his scalps couldn’t stop tingling. If even the Bi Xie Celestial Emperor’s subordinate gods couldn’t survive it, how could he?

  “Xin Huo, do you any confidence in leaving this place?" Zhong Yue asked.

  Xin Huo flew out from his psyche ocean and looked around, he said, “Breaking through that gate is impossible. The city gate is made from the son of an innate god, your prowess is not strong enough to do anything now. You will first have to find out its core and proceed later in breaking the seal, but you are still too weak to do so.”

  “Then, I guess the only choice is to continue exploring to find a way to leave!" Zhong Yue heaved a long breath. He glanced around at the city wall in hope to find anymore useful tips. But other than the words he had read, there wasn’t anything around anymore.

  Then, Zhong Yue dug out the gods’ skeletons and inspected them. Yet once again, his efforts were in vain.

  What was so terrifying that even the gods couldn’t escape it?

  He raised his head and looked further away. There was a mysterious force around that shrouded the city in mist. With no other choice, Zhong Yue strode forward cautiously, searching his way to the core that the gods talked about.

  A cold breeze blew over and Zhong Yue faintly heard someone whispering in his ears. It sounded as though the gods were still alive and were discussing the city. Not only that, but Zhong Yue could still smell the blood in the breeze.

  All of a sudden, the cold breeze grew stronger and the whispers in the wind became louder. In just seconds, it sounded as if there were gods shouting and roaring in battle.

  The cold breeze turned into a gale, ravaging every corner in the city. Zhong Yue struggled to stand still and maintain his balance, but the voices grew even louder in his ears, thumping on his ear drums.

  Then, the gale abruptly stopped, but the raucous voices remained. Zhong Yue opened his eyes and was stunned to see himself no longer in the city, but on a large battlefield!

  “This is…”

  There were gods scattered throughout the landscape, engaged in battle. There were giant gods with axes, avian gods that streaked across the sky, and gods mounting dragons!

  All kind of gods were fighting, launching out their skills and wielding the divine weapons all over the place. Zhong Yue was like a stray leaf caught in the middle of a stormy sea, he could die in an instant any second now!

  “Fake, it must all be fake!" Zhong Yue was just thinking about it and felt a skill lashing toward him. Without any hesitation, he visualized the 【Shao Hao Bell】. Immediately, as the 【Shao Hao Bell】was visualized, the incoming skill broke through it like a piece of tofu and struck right on Zhong Yue!

  Zhong Yue’s mortal body shattered into pieces for a second and returned to normal, but his face turned pallid and was spurting out blood.

  “Not fake?" Zhong Yue was terrified. Did the cold gale really blow him away from the City of Nature out to the middle of this weird battlefield?

  “Rebels!" Laughter came from the sky and a huge face appeared in the clouds. It was laughing, “How dare you rebels still fight? Now that the old era has ended, it is time for a new ruler to rise! Kill them, kill them along with their old era!”

  Immediately, the battle turned even more intense. Decapitated heads and bodies piled up on the ground and godly blood rained down with the severed limbs.

  Zhong Yue was evading the skills firing about on the battlefield and caught the glimpse of a familiar silhouette, “Mother Da Zhen? She was also blown into this place by the wind?”

  Mother Da Zhen was heavily wounded, she turned into the mother insect form and was fighting back against the godly skills and divine weapons.

  “Zhong Yue!" Mother Da Zhen noticed him as well. Her face was filled with with anger and seconds later, she suddenly chortled happily, “You are also in here? Good, very good! Brat, die along with me here!”

  Zhong Yue’s eyes were brimmed with killing intent, just as he was heading over to try and kill her. Thunders rumbled in the sky and a Xiao Dragon beast god crashed from the sky down to his side.

  The Xiang Dragon beast god was a hundred thousand feet tall, and its muscles rippled with strength. After he was punched down by a stronger opponent and fell down from the sky, he was coughing out blood unceasingly.

  The Xiao Dragon beast god suddenly noticed Zhong Yue who was standing beside him and startled for a split
second, “Just a petty Qi Practitioners and yet you dare to come and intervene in such a battle? Get away from here!”

  The Xiang Dragon beast god swung his tail and hit Zhong Yue, crushing Zhong Yue’s mortal body away, launching him away.

  The Xiang Dragon beast god leaped up and stone tablets emerged around him, blood seeped out from the tablets and glimmered up the totem patterns on them.

  “Seven Slaughtering Arrays!”

  The Xiang Dragon beast god rushed into the clouds with the Seven Slaughtering Arrays around him. A saber flashed down from the clouds, and the Xiang Dragon beast god was decapitated. His remains fell into the mountains, following the stone tablets on the back.

  Zhong Yue was recovering from the wounds, he could tell that his mortal body and Yuan Shen were both struck hard. Zhong Yue was coughing blood out from his mouth when he saw the Xiang Dragon beast god’s remains fall into the mountains.

  His face stiffened up.

  “Impossible…”

  The cold gale blew over and curled everyone along with it. The shouts and hollers around Zhong Yue turned softer, eventually turning back into the whispers he heard before.

  The gale turned into breeze and when the breeze stopped, Zhong Yue was returned to the City of Nature again.

  “Impossible, that is impossible…" Zhong Yue was still stunned, he murmured with a quivering voice, “Xin Huo, didn’t that Xiang Dragon beast god look familiar…”

  Chapter 561: Life-saving 【Pan Gu Six Paths】 |

  Xin Huo’s face turned solemn, he said, “I’m thinking about the beast god inner core you acquired from the Beast God Ridge, there is a Xiang Dragon image inside of the inner core and it looked very similar like this Xiang Dragon beast god. The place where the Xiang Dragon beast god fell…”

  “It’s the Beast God Ridge!" Zhong Yue continued in finishing the sentence. The place where the Xiang Dragon beast god had fallen into had the same topography as the Beast God Ridge. Although there were slight differences in the minor details in the passage of time, the major structure hasn’t changed at all.