Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  When Zhong Yue woke up again, he found himself back in the Swords Gate Mountain. Although he was unconscious for nearly the whole journey, Long Yue and Bo Xun’s had stabilized his injuries, he was managed to slightly recover.

  Shui Zian, Fang Jiange, Jun Sixie, Gu Hongzi and the others were all experts; after his condition stabilized, they proceeded to remedy his injuries along the way with all kinds of medicinal pellets and divine herbs.

  But it wouldn’t have been possible if Long Yue and Bo Xun didn’t make it back in time.

  If Zhong Yue had fallen unconscious a moment earlier, Long Yue and Bo Xun would fall to the same fate as well; at that point, death would be inevitable!

  All in all, it was his willpower that saved him!

  Zhong Yue took two full months in tending to his wounds, but was still a distance away from fully recovering. In turn, Shi Buyi was a step faster, being fully healed already; but it wasn’t too surprising either as he suffered less severe damage than Zhong Yue.

  However, although he was fully recovered, he didn’t rush out, but instead, stayed in seclusion to cultivate.

  Zhong Yue was right, it was the experience he was lacking, he needed a final push to break through the barrier into the deityhood; and the battles in the Divine Battlefield had fulfilled that purpose beautifully. He was forced to the edge and fought with everything he had, eventually gaining greater insights from his experiences.

  At the point between life and death, every creature would have been able to fully unleash their power and eventually break through their limits; just like Zhong Yue, and now, Shi Buyi.

  This time, he went into a closed door training to cultivate the Pure Yang Yuan Shen and ascend into the deityhood!

  After Zhong Yue regained consciousness, he was able to actively tend to the injuries and thus, he was recovering at a greater speed. During these few months’ time spent in healing himself, he was able to digest the insights from the battles and rectify the flaws of his mortal body, Yuan Shen, and the two divine sabers while also elevating their strengths.

  All these changes took place in the span of a few month’s time, and his aura began to slwly shift. Before the battles, his eyes were constantly filled with sharp killing intent, and his heart glowed with a strong lust for blood.

  But now, his disposition had seen a complete change, as if he was now been in harmony with nature, gentle like the breeze, warm like the sun, and calm like the vast ocean.

  There were days where the Qi Practitioners would come forward in seek of answers to their cultivations, and never one of all their questions had been rejected. He answered them all the best he could, patiently imparting everything he knew to the Qi Practitioners.

  If he was said to be a bloodthirsty saber during the battles, then he now be like a sharp saber unsheathed after he returned to Swords Gate.

  But to the Swords Gate Qi Practitioners, he became an aspect of wisdom. His eyes like a hole that could suck all lights within, as if he could foresee the future further than anyone else.

  He felt close to their heart, gently warming their soul and supporting them from behind; yet at the same time, he also felt like a leader walking in the front, leading them in an expedition for a better future of the human race.

  Unbeknownst to the passing of time, Zhong Yue one day found himself fully recovered. A moon suddenly appeared behind him with the Star Toad slumbering in it. All of a sudden, the Star Toad glared its six eyes widely, and profound totem patterns surged within them!

  These profound totem patterns were translated into abstruse knowledge, and rushed into his head; they sounded like the voices of heaven, while forming into the innate totem patterns, and skills continuously.

  The Innate Star Toad True Spirit!

  Then, another round sun emerged on his back, the Innate Golden Crow True Spirit was soaring in it; whereas the sun and moon were rhythmically pulsing after one another, with the Pure Yang and Pure Yin Qi revolving together that formed a【 Tai Chi Art】around him.

  The sun and Golden Crow fell into his left eye, and the moon and Star Toad entered his right eye. After which, the two Innate True Spirits tardily morphed into the respective celestial beings.

  Then, the celestial forms disappeared in just the blink of an eye, they were replaced with many complex symbols that were still changing unceasingly!

  They were the innate totem patterns!

  These innate totem patterns were changing in patterns, and suddenly, they disappeared from his eyes in just seconds.

  “It’s still not enough.”

  Zhong Yue frowned, he tried to attain all of the innate totem patterns and cultivate his soul into the Innate True Soul, but the resistance was far greater than expected.

  No one had done it before, majoring the soul in the Yuan Shen and cultivated it into the True Spirit; he was the only known cultivator who had ever done so, and he actually did succeed in cultivating his Yuan Shen into the True Spirit!

  However, taking it a step further to cultivate his soul into the Innate True Sou just simply unheard of!

  Furthermore, Monarch Haoyi had played a huge role in the succession of the Fuxi True Spirit, it was only because of the ‘Yi’ word imparted to him that he was able to cultivate his soul into the True Spirit.

  And to cultivate the soul Innate True Soul was even a few times harder than it was to cultivate it into the Innate True Spirit!

  “This time, even Haoyi can’t help you in this.” When Zhong Yue was asking for advice, Xin Huo shook his head and replied, “Even the other Heavenly Monarch can’t provide any guidance. However, I do think it might be good to start with the Six Paths Reincarnations. Didn’t you attain the【Pan Gu Six Paths】? The Six Paths Reincarnations relates to the reincarnation of souls, you should be able to find more about the souls in it.”

  Zhong Yue was enlightened, he nodded happily.

  The Six Paths Reincarnations was the best tool for him to learn more about the soul, and the【Pan Gu Six Paths】 would be the medium he would use to gain insights!

  The Pan Gu God in the Six Paths Reincarnations had six arms, each making a unique hand sign of its own that resembled the different paths.

  The Dao Yi Reincarnation Sign that lifted the Dao Yi Reincarnation.

  The Yin Yang Reincarnation Sign that lifted the Yin Yang Reincarnation.

  The Shen Cai Reincarnation Sign that lifted the Shen Cai Reincarnation.

  The Wan Xiang Reincarnation Sign that lifted the Wan Xiang Reincarnation.

  The Wu Xing Reincarnation Sign that lifted the Wu Xing Reincarnation.

  The Bloodline Reincarnation Sign that lifted the Bloodline Reincarnation.

  Each of the hand signs had their own uses, they were even more profound than the innate totem patterns that Zhong Yue once acquired from the Innate True Spirits!

  Zhong Yue calmed himself and took out a few pieces of jade stone. He then started sculpting as he tried to learn through the art of sculpting imparted to him by old man Feng Shang.

  A few days went by, and the jade stones were piled up like mountains in front of him, but he didn’t glean much of the insights from the Six Paths Reincarnations.

  The Six Paths Reincarnations were far too hard to understand, even with the help of the art of sculpting.

  Zhong Yue furrowed his brows, the art of sculpting he was taught by Feng Shang had never failed him before until now.

  If sculpting doesn’t work, then I am left with no choice but to do it through brute force practice! Practice makes perfect, sooner or later, I will be able to understand it all!

  Zhong Yue hopped up from the ground, and arms suddenly grew out from his body. He made the hand signs of the【Pan Gu Six Paths】. Every movement of the fingers was imbued with an ethereal air, they were filled with profound knowledge and formed marvelous totem patterns around him.

  One time after another, he repeatedly cast the【Pan Gu Six Paths】innumerable times, and it was slowly growing stronger.

  Although it was an incr
edibly tedious process, the profundity of the【Pan Gu Six Paths】was starting to show the more he cast it; they were gushing into his mind in scattered bits and pieces, waiting for him to tidy and collate them together.

  The inelegance of this method was compensated for by an his unwavering perseverance. The【Pan Gu Six Paths】grew stronger day after day, to the point where every hand sign he cast would ripple out a huge light wheel into the sky above Swords Gate Mountain.

  The light wheels were incredibly abstruse, and contained many high-leveled totem patterns in it. If one listened carefully enough, they could even hear the chants of the ancient worship coming from within the light wheels.

  The light wheels had six variants, each carrying different sets of totem patterns and laws.

  One day, a beam of divine light that burst up into the sky, penetrating through the Pure Yang lightning zone and disappearing into the endless space!

  Then, Shi Buyi suddenly appeared above the Swords Gate Mountain, laughing loudly as he said, “Zhong Yue, I am a god now! I am a monster god! You have humiliated me by taking me as your mount, but saved me and helped me in my ascension. We are even now, I will not pursue our dispute further…”

  He suddenly felt the sky above pulsing in rays and a strong sense of power repleting above. He looked up and was dazed by the light wheels. He stared at them, but couldn’t understand a single totem pattern in them.

  Shi Buyi stood there for a long time before abruptly spurting out a mouthful of blood. He tried to attain the totem patterns of the Six Paths Reincarnations, but it was beyond him and the resistance force injured him in turn!

  Damn it, this brat looks even stronger now, what if I still can’t defeat him… the majestic lion lowered his head and whined in his heart.

  Chapter 595: A Man Like Him |

  He couldn’t even understand the totem patterns, but what affected him the most was that he couldn’t even figure out what they were!

  All this while, Shi Buyi’s greatest pride wasn’t his strength, but his intelligence; thus, him being unable to understand or even figure out what the totem patterns were was a greater blow to his confidence than anything else.

  In fact, with him cultivating the Pure Yang Yuan Shen and ascending as a monster god now, Zhong Yue couldn’t control him like before anymore; the godly aura from the Pure Yang Yuan Shen was now posing an overbearing pressure to the insect magnate parasitizing his Yuan Shen.

  It now became incredibly hard for the insect magnate to manipulate his Yuan Shen.

  This was the natural coercion from higher beings. Even though Shi Buyi had just cultivated the Pure Yang Yuan Shen, he was still too overpowered for the insect magnate to handle. He didn’t even have to consciously do anything and the aura of his Yuan Shen would slowly kill the insect magnate.

  If he consciously tried to deal with the insect magnate, the process would only be accelerated!

  However, Shi Buyi was worried about Zhong Yue’s reaction if he killed the insect magnate.

  After all, one whose head had been lowered for too long would come to find himself lost of courage; Shi Buyi had to first overcome the meekness that was now ingrained within him before he could rise against Zhong Yue again.

  “Congratulations for ascending into deityhood, Monster God Shi Buyi.” All of a sudden, the light wheels above Swords Gate Mountain faded away, and Zhong Yue walked toward him with a smile, “See, I wasn’t fooling around, was I? The life and death experiences are the key to your ascension.”

  “I’ve sacrificed far too much for deityhood, I have even failed my disciples just to be a monster god. But now, even though I have achieved the dream I always had in mind, I don’t feel any happiness, instead, there appears to be a void in my heart.” Shi Buyi was sincere as he spoke.

  He was indeed happy for a moment back then when he first broke through into the deityhood, and voicing out of his unwillingness to bow before Zhong Yue.

  But, the Six Paths Reincarnations coming from Zhong Yue had shattered his dream of invincibility after becoming a monster god. His wild ambition was suppressed by the profundities of the Six Paths Reincarnations, and naturally, the joy in him faded as well.

  However, in truth, he was already a monster god while Zhong Yue was still just a True Spirit magnate. No matter how exceptional Zhong Yue was, there was still a limit to the strength he could unleash, he wouldn’t be any stronger than Shi Buyi.

  In fact, if the two clashed, Shi Buyi would have a higher chance of winning!

  Zhong Yue thought and said while smiling, “Lion, Long Yue will follow you back to the saint city, I have a task for you. I will be using the godly spirits for a ritual, and Long Yue will tell you how to proceed in preparing the altar for the ritual.”

  With a thought, a surge of blood essence gushed out from his body and turned into Long Yue. The three divine weapons flew out from his Yuan Shen secret realms and fell behind Long Yue.

  Long Yue now had about five percent of his prowess, and the gulf between their strengths was even bigger, but even five percent was strong enough for him to be exceptional among True Spirit magnates.

  This was exactly one of the many reasons why Zhong Yue was such a terrifying opponent to stand against!

  Shi Buyi was startled, he nodded tacitly and left with Long Yue.

  On their way back to the Xian Kong Saint City, Long Yue had taught him the totem patterns of the Great Ritual of Sealing Abdication, asking him to build an altar for the ritual. Shi Buyi grew more terrific as he listened, the totem patterns imparted to him by Long Yue were not much weaker than those of the Six Paths Reincarnations, he couldn’t even understand them at all.

  However, he was able to deduce the nature of the altar formed from these totem patterns, if he wasn’t wrong, then the altar was meant for a sacrificial ritual!

  What is Master Zhong planning to do? A sacrificial ritual with the godly spirits? With kind of ritual would need godly spirits as offerings?

  Fear crept into his heart as he thought, Whatever it is, the West Barren celestial race won’t be able to let me off anymore after the battles in the Divine Battlefield. What is there to fear anymore!

  After that, Shi Buyi let go of the fear, and stopped thinking of what Zhong Yue was trying to do.

  …

  Meanwhile, in Swords Gate, Zhong Yue surged another blood essence out and formed Mister Bo Xun, he said, “On your trip back to the demon race, go and pay the dragon race a visit, and talk to Lord Dragon.”

  Mister Bo Xun nodded and left like a flash of lightning.

  Zhong Yue pondered deeply for seconds, he then stood up and walked out of the mountain.

  “Junior Martial Brother Zhong, are you leaving again?” Jun Sixie was walking toward him, she was shocked as she saw him walking away, and asked quickly, “It’s been just months, and you are going out again? No, I won’t let you do that, I order you to stay in Swords Gate Mountain until I am satisfied. I’ve been told that the two gods of the West Barren celestial race and the Asura demon god of the demon race are unhappy with you.”

  “When were they ever happy?” Zhong Yue smiled, “Senior martial sister, don’t worry. I’m not heading out in seek of trouble today, I just want to pay a visit to a few friends before I leave.”

  “Before you… leave?” Jun Sixie’s heart palpitated in shock, she exclaimed, “Where? Why? Are you going to stay in the Kun Lun Realm, are you not coming back anymore?”

  Zhong Yue shook his head and smiled, he continued striding forward while the beautiful lady walked close beside him.

  “Although I do need to go to the Kun Lun Realm to visit another friend, it is not Kun Lun that I will be leaving to.” Chi Xue’s heroic figure suddenly appeared in his mind, but he softly shook his head and clear his mind of thought of her, “I am leaving the Ancestral Star. I have many questions on my mind, but the Ancestral Star has no answers. There is a sky of mysteries clouding my eyes, and I need to clear it out. I don’t know when I will return, or whether if I can; but I
do know that the day I return will be the day humanity will truly return to our rightful place in the world!”

  Immediately, Jun Sixie’s heart was swallowed by a mix of many emotions, she startled for a long time before asking softly, “But after you leave, who will be here to look after the humans? Who will be here to guard over the Great Wilderness?”

  Zhong Yue shook his head, “Every generation has its own heroes. Furthermore, everything is on track for the human race now; in less than a hundred years, we will be able to see the ascension of the human gods. You, Senior Martial Brother Fang, little Xuan Yuan, Junior Martial Sister Jin’er, and the other juniors, oh, and also Grand Elder Shui Zian. After I leave, the human race will still grow stronger than ever.”

  Jun Sixie lowered her head and did not answer. A few moments later, she suddenly asked, “Junior martial brother, will we meet again?”

  For the first time, Zhong Yue was perplexed, and abruptly laughed seconds later, “Senior martial sister, I am not leaving now, I will still be here for some time.”

  Of course, his answer did not answer the question that Jun Sixie was asking.

  Jun Sixie raised her head and stared at Zhong Yue as she shouted out loudly again, “Will we meet again?”

  Zhong Yue’s heart throbbed heavily, and he clenched on the clothes in front of his heart as though he was trying to stop it from thumping out from his chest, “I will come back if I am able!”

  Jun Sixie watched as he left, turned smaller in her eyes before finally disappearing over the horizon.

  “Will you return? But how long will it be before we meet again…”

  …

  Gu Hongzi was the first he visited.

  The two of them conversed for a long time, and after Zhong Yue announced his intentions, rays flashed across Gu Hongzi’s eyes while saying, “Shi Buyi is now a monster god, he is now as obedient as a dog, but it won’t be the same when you leave. You are the last thing preventing him from conquering the Ancestral Star!”

  “I will bring him along with me, but if he isn’t willing to, don’t I still have you?” Zhong Yue smiled.