Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  Meanwhile, the Solar Divine Saber appeared in his hand, he clenched it with two hands and slashed forward. The lightning tide in front of him was cleaved at the middle and the lightning trees, lightning beasts were destroyed along the way as the saber ray extended deep into the Leize lightning loch!

  “Cast!" he yelled and the saber enlarged into a thousand mile long. He swung it horizontally and chopped down a huge piece of the lightning forest in front of him!

  Krong!

  Then, a lightning mountain abruptly appeared in the sky and crashed down onto him. The divine saber in his hand shrunk small while changing into the form of a shield as he braced himself.

  Bang—

  He muffled a deep groan and was pushed back by the impact. Blood trickled out from his mouth for the first time after he entered the Leize lightning loch.

  “Really sabers?" Xin Huo asked curiously again.

  The shield has shattered away, but the lightning mountain continued falling on him. Right at the moment he would be crushed by the mountain, the shattered shield gathered together and formed half of the Tai Chi Art while the Metamagnet Divine Saber flashed over as well, forming the other half of the Tai Chi Art. The lightning mountain fell into the Tai Chi Art and was smited away!

  After the Tai Chi Art was separated, it turned back into two sabers and cleaved a lightning pool into half!

  “They truly are sabers!" Zhong Yue shouted loudly. The divine eye opened on his forehead and killed a lightning beast lunging on him.

  “Alright, fine. Say anything you want then. Saber it is." Xin Huo was speechless.

  Suddenly, lightning mountains appeared high above, and plummeted down on him while the two divine sabers were quickly turned into an altar. Zhong Yue stood on the altar and straightened his body. Figures of gods appeared around him and in that instant, his arcane energy, psyche and blood essence burst out into the surrounding.

  Zhong Yue bowed, his hands curled together and drew a circle of Yin Yang. The【Celestial Demon Yi】 was cast and cleaved one of the mountains.

  Then, the altar broke away into two divine sabers, breaking away one mountain each.

  Zhong Yue yelled, the Immortal Body was galvanized into action—another head and two arms grew out on his back. He clenched on the Solar Divine Saber in the front and the Metamagnet Divine Saber on the back, swirling like a hurricane as he killed everything that came near him.

  One man and two sabers, the lightning beast and mountains were shattered away.

  Soon after, the beasts, mountains, grasses, trees and every other things have been cleared out in the Leize lightning loch. The only thing left was the lightning water that streamed around him, the lightning loch had suddenly calmed down.

  But this didn’t mean victory; instead, Zhong Yue’s face turned even more solemn than before. Zhong Yue strained his nerves and held the sabers tight.

  If the attacks were to continue, all he had to do was to continually clear them out. But as the lightning loch had now turned serene, it meant that it was planning something incredible to welcome the uninvited guest.

  All of a sudden, the lightning waters raised high above, trapping him within four walls. The whole Leize lightning loch had abruptly turned into a huge burner. Countless lightning sparks formed the totem patterns on the walls.

  It was thirty thousand feet in length and height, sitting in the middle of the Leize lightning loch with Zhong Yue in the center. Meanwhile, there were even more lightning waters that surged into the lightning burner to form the various totem patterns.

  Lighting mountains were formed outside and rammed into the burner, turning themselves into the totem patterns on the burner walls.

  In the middle of the lightning burner, the only thing visible were the bright purple rays of lightning, Zhong Yue could not be seen anymore while thunder rumbled ceaselessly within the burner, low and deep.

  The lightning burner was formed from the nature, the power of the heaven and earth that tried to take down Zhong Yue!

  At that instant, Zhong Yue was struck beyond the limits of his mortal body. Although his Immortal Body was strong, it was nevertheless breakable; and the lightning burner’s power was overpowering enough to kill him!

  Zhong Yue acted immediately without hesitation. The Solar Divine Saber was turned into the Tai Chi Art beneath him while arms grew out from his body. Totem patterns surged out from his eight arms and cast the【 Celestial Demon Tai Chi Art】 as he tried his best to ward off the incoming lightning strikes.

  The lightning strikes turned into the totem patterns and weaved together, it was strong and unescapable!

  But Zhong Yue heaved a breath of relief as he managed to survive.

  “Cast!" the Metamagnet Divine Saber was lunged forward, it slashed on the lightning burner fifteen thousand feet away.

  The lightning burner shuddered, the saber ray bore through the wall. But when the saber returned to Zhong Yue, the crack on the lightning burner had recovered within a split second. There was no way he could leave!

  “Keep!" the Metamagnet Divine Saber was kept back in his Yuan Shen secret realms. He bolted up and headed to the top. But before he even reach to the middle, the lightning burner flared in rays and a barrage of lightning rained from above.

  Zhong Yue quickly cast the Metamagnet Divine Saber out above him.

  Bang—

  Zhong Yue crashed to the bottom of the lightning burner and was pressed close to the floor along with the saber on top of his head.

  Zhong Yue spurted out a mouthful of blood. This lightning burner was just like a prison, now that he was imprisoned, there was no chance he could leave other than tearing it down.

  He was holding himself together as hard as he could, his mortal body was atrophying and on the verge of disintegrating to ash within the next seconds. Thankfully, his Immortal Body was still able to recover the wounds and keep him alive.

  Suddenly, Zhong Yue felt a nearly imperceptible change within the lightning strikes—they were a slightly weaker now. He was puzzled at first but quick enough to realize that it wasn’t the lightning that turned weaker, it was him who had become stronger.

  Every time he was struck by the lightning burner, impurities within him would be smited away. The totem patterns were broken and restructured better, stronger and more durable than before, even his Yuan Shen greatly improved.

  The lightning strikes can make me stronger, isn’t this exactly why I am here? To get rid of my weaknesses and make myself better? The Lightning Tribulation is a challenge, but also an opportunity to improve!

  He thought, The scale mirror can help in finding out my flaws and allow me to amend them. Although it seems like I have forged myself into a perfect state, there are still flaws that exist deep within which could have never be seen. But the power of lightning, the power of nature, heaven and earth can break things that seemed perfect but flawed, restructuring them for the better!

  The lightning burner marks the final of this Lightning Tribulation! It wields the might of the heaven and earth, the power that can shape the worst to the best!

  That moment onward, Zhong Yue has calmed himself and stopped fighting back at the lightning burner. He turned into defense and even tried to direct the lightning strikes into his mortal body, a small surge at a time. He was going to use the lightning strikes to push himself through the limits.

  “Cast!" he opened his mouth and the Nine Revolving Inner Core flew out. He was going to refine him inner core with the lightning!

  “Golden Crow!" Zhong Yue yelled softly and he turned into the three-taloned Golden Crow and later the winged celestial being with three legs as he now refined his Golden Crow Yuan Shen.

  Soon after, he had seen great improvements on both his Yuan Shen and mortal body. Especially the Golden Crow Yuan Shen, it was another step closer in becoming the Golden Crow Chaotic Origin True Spirit.

  The Chaotic Origin True Spirit was one of the two extreme states of the True Spirit level, only one out of a million coul
d have done it, the truly talented ones.

  Fang Jiange and Jun Sixie could have only done it because they were the innate spirit bodies and they had also cultivated in the best conditions, around the Celestial Water Star and Celestial Gold Star.

  Whereas now, Zhong Yue seized this golden opportunity and used the lightning burner to cultivate it!

  Tens of days flashed by in the blink of an eye, the lightning burner was as powerful as before, but the damage it could inflict on him was weaker. His Golden Crow was also on the verge of turning into the Chaotic Origin True Spirit.

  “Six-eyed Star Toad!" Zhong Yue yelled, he turned to the Star Toad Yuan Shen and refined it as well. In comparison, his Star Toad Yuan Shen was weaker than the Golden Crow Yuan Shen; thus, the lightning burner could have inflicted greater damage to it.

  But, he gritted and endured another twenty days, finally cultivating his Star Toad Yuan Shen to be as strong as his Golden Crow Yuan Shen.

  On the other hand, the Solar Divine Saber and Metamagnet Divine Saber were also purer and stronger after a month’s time bathing in the lightning, even the lightning strikes now couldn’t shatter them anymore.

  “Hahaha, now even the lightning burner can no longer trouble me!" A series of loud laughter came within the lightning burner.

  Suddenly, Zhong Yue kept the sabers and stopped defending. He allowed the lightning to freely enter and strike on his mortal body. He bathed himself in the lightning strikes so to strengthen his mortal body further.

  His muscles were disintegrating into ashes, his blood vaporized into steam, and his nerves atrophied away; but at the same time, it would always regrow stronger the next time.

  Two flashes of saber ray cleaved the lightning burner and shattered it away, revealing the young man whose mortal body was shrouded in lightning.

  He strode forward while the fragments of the lightning burner scattered.

  Then, from the scattered lightning of the lightning burner and within the Leize lightning loch came a surge of overbearing aura that stagnanted the air.

  Right after, huge scales filled his eyes as a Leize dragon god emerged around him!

  Zhong Yue raised his sabers and pointed them at the Leize dragon god, he said, “Xin Huo, will I be able counted as finishing the forty-nine levels of Lightning Tribulations after I kill this Leize dragon god?”

  Xin Huo was surprised, he raised his brows and said puzzlingly, “What? Do you think this is all? One level one Lightning Tribulation, you haven’t even finished this first Lightning Tribulation yet!”

  Chapter 576: Soaring Dragon In The Clouds |

  Zhong Yue nearly spat out a mouthful of blood in shock, he exclaimed, “What? This is just the first level of the Lightning Tribulation?”

  Before he could even recollect his thoughts, the Leize dragon god had already sprung to action. The dragon’s its body was over a thousand feet long, like a moving mountain ridge purely formed by lightning totem patterns.

  Thunder rumbled as it moved, it slashed a claw down at Zhong Yue with great power!

  The dragon claw had five fingers, and although formed by the lightning totem patterns, they were imbued with the power of the five elements, each finger corresponding to one of the five elements!

  Zhong Yue yelled, he changed into the Fuxi True Form and managed to dodge the dragon claw by a hair!

  Surprisingly, Zhong Yue did not wield the two sabers, deciding to focus on one. He clenched the heavy Metamagnetic Divine Saber while moving along the dragon’s huge body.

  Shua, shua, shua, shua, shua—

  Saber rays rained on the Leize dragon god from its head to tail!

  However, despite the divine saber’s incredible weight and sharpness, it failed to do any considerable damage to the Leize dragon god. It couldn’t even penetrate its scales.

  The dragon scales were filled with marvelous totem patterns, unlike anything he seen before, they were stronger and more profound. When the Metamagnet Divine Saber slashed on the scales, the lightning totem patterns would burst out into lightning flowers that blocked and unloaded the saber strike before it reached +the scales.

  “Of course!" Xin Huo answered insouciantly, “This lightning Leize dragon god is the end of the first level of Lightning Tribulation. Kill it and you can proceed to the Leize lightning loch of the second level Lightning Tribulation. Eventually, you’ll reach the forty-ninth Leize lightning loch; only after that will you be considered as having passed through all the Lightning Tribulations. The Leize lightning loch constitutes the heaven and earth, while the Leize dragon god is the manifestation of the will of nature. Defeat it, and you will receive the recognition of heaven and earth!”

  “The Leize dragon god is the will of heaven and earth?" Zhong Yue inhaled deeply.

  Meanwhile, the Leize dragon god swung its tail in a full circle and coiled its body together. Its head rose high above and turned around, blasting out endless lightning rays from its mouth down on Zhong Yue!

  In the lightning, Zhong Yue muffled a deep groan, his body was charred like charcoal!

  This is just the first level and its so strong already! And Xin Huo still said I can manage forty levels, looks like he overestimated my strength! The first level alone almost… wait a second!

  Zhong Yue tumbled in mid-air for some distance before coming to a stop. He quickly bowed and cast the【Worshipping of Gods】. The Solar Divine Saber turned into an altar and lifted him up while the gods emerged around the altar, bowing toward Zhong Yue. Right away, his prowess rose a level higher and he surged it all into the Metamagnet Divine Saber.

  Energy rippled in and out of the divine saber, the divine saber grew stronger and heavier, even distorting the gravitational force.

  Zhong Yue yelled and the slashed the saber toward the incoming dragon.

  Xin Huo must knew I would strengthen myself within the lightning burner, he knows that my prowess will steadily increase in the Lightning Tribulations. That’s why he said I can manage forty levels of Lightning Tribulations! If he said I can, then it means that I will surely be able to kill the first level’s Leize dragon god!

  Krong—

  The Leize dragon god raised its claw against the saber, while Zhong Yue surged all of his power into the weapon. His muscles were even torn open, causing blood to sprinkle to the surroundings.

  Zheng—

  Surprisingly enough, the Metamagnetic Divine Saber shattered the dragon claw!

  But before Zhong Yue had any time to rejoice, two bright lightning rays shot out from the dragon’s eyes and bore through his body. The impact force sent him flying backward, but he dashed forward again as soon as he landed!

  Meanwhile, Xin Huo was still talking, “Do you know where does the Leize Clan of the eight sovereign races originate from? The first Leize dragon was exactly an innate god that was born from the heaven and earth; nurtured by worship and imbued with the wills of the heaven and earth! His arrival in this world was accompanied by the birth of a galaxy, one that brimmed with the strongest lightning in this universe. He stood on his own and was one of a kind. Other than him, all other Leize dragon gods are either his descendants, or innate gods from the Leize Galaxy! If you are able to, you should visit the Leize Galaxy at least once. It is a truly wonderful place to visit, its power is beyond what words can describe, you can only feel it for yourself. As long as there are living beings still worshipping the lightnings and thunders, the Leize Galaxy will grow bigger and stronger. It’s even more exciting to experience Lightning Tribulations there!”

  Just as Xin Huo finished speaking, Zhong Yue had clashed over a hundred times with the Leize dragon god already.

  The Leize dragon god was strong but still couldn’t avoid injuries, after all, it was Zhong Yue that it was fighting with!

  Suddenly, Zhong Yue yelled and his mortal body grew to over ten thousand feet tall. But with the sudden increase in size, the many wounds on his mortal body grew as well!

  He utilized the power of heaven and earth, entering the He
avenly Dharma level’s state of extremity!

  Within the Leize lightning loch, thunder rumbled even louder, and the lightning was absorbed into his mortal body and Yuan Shen. This time, he actively siphoned the lightning energy around to boost his strength.

  His turned his mortal body to thirty thousand feet tall along with the Metamagnetic Divine Saber. He raised his hand and brought the thirty thousand feet long Metamagnetic Divine Saber down in a slashing motion, cleaving through the dragon scales into its body.

  The dragon god opened its mouth, blasting out lightning fire and sent Zhong Yue high up into the sky. Then, the lightning dragon clenched its claw and struck at him!

  His mortal body bent like a fully drawn bow with lightning rays piercing out from the back of his body!

  Zhong Yue’s Heavenly Dharma state of extremity was broken away and he shrunk back into his usual size. Meanwhile, the dragon god raised its claw and poked toward his forehead, a killing blow!

  Zhong Yue quickly opened his mouth, and he cast out the Nine Revolving Inner Core. The Tai Chi Force Field was opened and trapped the dragon god in it.

  Roar—

  But the inner core force field was placed on the verge of shattering apart in just a loud roar from the lightning dragon god,.

  Zhong Yue dashed forward, he cast the Metamagnetic Divine Saber and the Solar Divine Saber out. Together, the two divine sabers lunged forward like two dragons.

  The dragons reached the dragon god’s neck when it broke free from the inner core force field!

  “Die!" Arms grew out from Zhong Yue’s body as he clenched on the sabers, forcing out all of his strength into the dragons!

  Suddenly, thunder rumbled within the dragon god’s mouth. Zhong Yue’s skin cracked and the seven apertures of his head trickled out blood. If it weren’t for the fact that Zhong Yue had trained for a month’s time in the lightning burner, this alone would have killed him!

  Muscles fell from his body, soon revealing the bone underneath.

  The top of his head was cracked open, exposing his skull, and the sounds of cracking came from his body as the totem patterns on his bones shattered.