Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  Chapter 652: Skeleton Qi Practitioners |

  In front of the Reverse Emperor were three corpses, and he was extremely shocked at seeing the three Qi Practitioners who were no weaker than them being killed just like that.

  Such power, such might!

  “Is it a Six Path Reincarnation Skill?” The Reverse Emperor asked hoarsely.

  His question was left unanswered as Zhong Yue did not say anything, but instead, he entered the portal along with Qiu Jin’er, Jun Sixie and Bai Canghai. In truth, the Six Soul Banner was indeed a skill of the Six Path Reincarnation; it was a soul type skill and was specifically created to destroy souls.

  However, there was a great flaw in this skill Zhong Yue learnt from Bi and An, and that was the fact that it could only display its full might in Hell, with its being considerably neutered outside of it.

  In Hell, Zhong Yue could even absorb the souls of divine generals into the banner, but outside of Hell, he was already struggling to absorb those on the same level as him.

  And it’s was even more impossible once the target was alerted and aware of this skill; the only reason he succeeded now was that had the element of surprise and that the Reverse Emperor was strong enough.

  His strength was only slightly stronger than the three Qi Practitioners’; he put his life on the line, fighting madly with these Qi Practitioners, and along with his Blood Banner, he was able to buy Zhong Yue sufficient time to ready his attack!

  As such, Zhong Yue had more than enough time to prepare his attack; he launched a deadly attack at the most suitable time ever and finally managed to capture the souls of these four people.

  Still terrified, Reverse Emperor panted and thought, If Zhong Yue was going to kill me, I would've been dead by now.

  But Zhong Yue didn’t. Not only did he releas the Reverse Emperor’s Yuan Shen, he even spared him.

  Although despicable, this brat is actually a man of his word.

  As he thought, Reverse Emperor lifted their enemies’ corpses, absorbing them into his blood pool to heal himself by siphoning away their soul, essence and psyche, No! Why am I praising him? This brat forced me into a chaotic battlefield. I cut down so many foes along with him and I only got five kills under me!”

  Zhong Yue fought his way towards the altar and after seeing him, the other Qi Practitioners gathered around him. Then, they fought in the middle of the camp before they headed towards the other Qi Practitioners at the other side.

  With their combined attack, they struck down another two foes in a blink of an eye, and after seeing this, the other five Qi Practitioners fled and ran away through the portal.

  Meanwhile, with a fierce expression, Reverse Emperor grinned, “Brat, let’s set up a barricade here and seal off access to the Ancient Land of Gods Grave. After stopping everyone from entering, we will head into the forbidden land and kill the remaining ones here!”

  Zhong Yue, however, shook his head and replied, “No, we have only a few men with us and this makes it very hard to hold our ground here. We would all be swarmed from three sides and risk being invaded by the others. But since we are here already, I will ask this one last time, are you in or not?

  “I….” said Reverse Emperor.

  “Goodbye!”

  Unwilling to wait, Zhong Yue immediately turned around and led Qiu Jin’er, Jun Si Xie and Bai Canghai into the portal. They soon disappeared within the city.

  Stunned and shook, Reverse Emperor became furious and he shouted, “Damn! I am just trying to be polite! Just ask one more time and I would’ve agreed!”

  The divine ray of this portal altar was very weird; turbulence could be felt almost every minutes and their facial expressions changed crazily when they saw Jun Sixie and Qiu Jin’er.

  As the teleportation was very unstable, the speed of the four people differed from one another and where they would be placed at was totally different!

  Not good!

  Zhong Yue was cultivating and suddenly, he stopped what he was doing and he and his friends started roaming around.

  Sweat appeared on his forehead, and as he pushed his【Time Light Spatial Crystal Mystic Scripture】to the limit in order to change positions, his expression turned sour. He quickly gave up the idea, and he shouted, “Jin’er, senior martial sister and Brother Bai, take care of yourselves and try your best to protect yourselves!”

  As soon as he finished his words, the trio disappeared after being sent away into different places in the Ancient Lands of Gods Grave. Zhong Yue tried all he could to pinpoint their location and he figured, No no no, it’s not just the dimension here that was twisted and altered but there was also something odd about that teleportal. We must have been tricked by the Realm Lord.

  This altar was so strange; it was created by the Realm Lord himself and although everyone could enter it, they could appear anywhere in the Ancient Lands of Gods Grave.

  And this also means that the countless Qi Practitioners present in this battle will be spawned in different locations.

  The Realm Lord wants to explore this place through us, but how is he going to know what happened? He needs something to keep an eye on us.

  Immediately, the image of the soul beast eye on the soul token flashed across his mind and he thought, That’s right, the eye! He’s using it to spy on us!

  Although he knew about this, Zhong Yue still couldn't do anything about that.

  The Realm Lord was way too powerful and the soul tokens forged by him were something Zhong Yue could not destroy. Apart from that, these tokens were also used to contact the portal team, and only those with tokens could walk out unharmed.

  But after knowing the function of the soul token, I will no longer have to worry about his spying eyes. I might even be able to allow Xin Huo to come out for a walk.

  But after a while, he still couldn't find out a way on how to do it but suddenly, the divine ray scattered into all directions and Zhong Yue felt that he crashed into some sort of strange place with colourful lights on top.

  And suddenly, an unknown force hit him and Zhong Yue’s vision darkened down for a second.

  Peng—-

  Something fell from the top.

  Zhong Yue looked around and visualized the Shao Hao Bell to protect him as a precaution.

  Hmm? No! No!

  He thought nervously. In just a blink of an eye, he could no longer feel his energy, not his inner core, Yuan Shen, or psyche ocean!

  What happened?

  Zhong Yue shivered and he started wiping off the sword on his forehead, but he wasn’t able to feel any sweat or even hair; he was bald!

  The head had no flesh and skin, but just bone!

  Not quite, that is not my head.

  Suddenly, he shook again as he touched his face, only to realize that he indeed had a skull face before Zhong Yue continued what he was doing.

  Now, he is just a skull with bald hair!

  This isn’t real, this must be fake!

  Zhong Yue visualized the Sui Sovereign but as soon as he did this, his energy depleted completely.

  Impossible, if I am really dead already, why do I still have a consciousness? That’s right, I must have fallen into some kind of an illusion. Right, so how is my soul token, Yuan Shen Secret Realm, Xin Huo and his copper lantern!

  Zhong Yue tried to calm himself down but suddenly, he was stunned again as he realized his Yuan Shen disappeared and the soul token and Xin Huo were nowhere to be found!

  What happened?

  After quite some time, Zhong Yue finally regained his cool. He immediately tried to look around in the dark and he was shocked again after realizing that he must be in some kind of narrow street where he couldn't even turn over.

  Must be here.

  Zhong Yue gritted his teeth and tried to get over the wall, A coffin, I must have been teleported into a coffin!

  Ge Zhi——

  An ear-piercing noise sounded out as Zhong Yue pushed the cover of the coffin away and sunlight shone around them. Zhong Yue sat
up from the ground, pant and he suddenly laughed and said to himself, “Why would I still need to breathe? I’m already dead.”

  The cover was pushed aside and a white skeleton stood up from the coffin before scanning its surroundings with its eyes that burned with emerald flames.

  The surrounding were very dark and ghost fire floated everywhere while coffins were arranged haphazardly everywhere.

  Zhong Yue looked into the sky and far away and he was even more curious now, Am I really being teleported to this place? Could it be that I became something like this because of the shockwave just now? That shockwave must be some kind of Six Path Wheel power?

  He stood up straight, revealed the bones on his legs and when he was about to get out from the coffin, a weathered copper lantern was lying beside him all the way.

  “Xin Huo?”

  Zhong Yue swung the lantern softly and to his dismay, nothing happened.

  Suddenly, the green flame in his eyes waved vigorously and lit up the lantern that would burn green flame.

  Strange, Xin Huo is now in deep slumber but why is this lantern still here? Could probably be some kind of mysterious power that changed my body and Yuan Shen, sealed off Xin Huo and the other items. This place is indeed very unique and there should be more than just me that experienced this.

  Then, after selecting a direction, he started walking in that direction.

  As he travelled around, he visualized Sui Sovereign, depleted his energy over and over again but at the same time, enhancing the power of his energy and he thought, Perhaps not long later, my soul could be able to escape this prison and continue with my cultivation. Then, I will turn into a skeleton Qi Practitioner, bla! Bla! Bla! What a lame name.

  And it was at this time that bone cracking sound was heard again and when Zhong Yue looked around, he saw another skeleton walking towards him from the field not far away.

  Chapter 653: Reverse Open Six Realms |

  Finally! A person who is still alive! Ughhh no, not a person but a skeleton!

  Zhong Yue was joyfully surprised and quickly approach the skeleton. But to his dismay, he couldn't say out a word when he tried to talk; how could a skeleton possibly talk?

  His jaws opened and closed so many times, letting out bone cracking noise but not even a single word.

  That skeleton that appeared from the other side however, charged at him with a huge bone in it’s hand and assaulted Zhong Yue upon discovering him!

  With a side step, Zhong Yue evaded that attack with ease and retaliated only to realize that he had no energy at all; now, he couldn't even cast any skills, not even the weakest skill of his arsenal.

  As its attack missed, that skeleton swung its bone on Zhong Yue again while Zhong Yue squeezed out all he had, visualizing the Sui Sovereign and his soul drilled into the head of that hostile skeleton.

  His soul came in the form of Sui Sovereign and with just one hit, he had destroyed that skeleton’s skull.

  Wa la—-

  The skeleton turned into dust in an instant as it’s soul was destroyed and suddenly, from the dust of the skeleton came a ghost fire that flew straight into Zhong Yue’s eyes.

  What is this?

  While he stuttered and got confused by what happened, Zhong Yue could still feel that his soul became slightly stronger.

  Strange, this place is filled with mysteries. I never thought that killing skeletons would be a way of cultivation. Judging from how the skeleton behave, it was probably not a Qi Practitioner like me that turned into a skeleton or it would have moved even faster and flexibly.

  He then proceeded to pick up the huge bone stick and continued his advance. It did not take long until he ran into another skeleton with a much stronger ghost fire burning in its eye socket.

  Without hesitation, Zhong Yue lunged towards that skeleton, destroying it in a couple of attacks. Another ghost fire flew into his eyes, further enhancing his soul.

  This time, however, was even stranger than before; when the ghost fire merged into the fire in his eye, a tiny golden crow’s image appeared within the fire.

  The Golden Crow Spirit!

  It appeared and it was still extremely fragile but the golden crow spirit had germinated and was still growing!

  Seems like eliminating the other skeletons for their ghost fire is the way to cultivate here. I need to cultivate my Yuan Shen now, reopen my Yuan Shen Secret Realms and locate the others as soon as possible!

  As he figured out what to do, Zhong Yue visualized the【Sui Sovereign Flame Order Palace Visualization Art】and searched everywhere. Bit by bit, he started to wander far into the depths to see more and more skeletons appear before him. These skeletons seemed to have no concious and all they did was charge at the other skeletons in their vicinities, devouring each others’ ghost fire or die in the hands of their kin.

  Zhong Yue wiped out all those around him and his golden crow spirit grew stronger along with his psyche. Now, he could already cast simple skills and the speed of him killing these skeletons increased drastically.

  But the deeper he wandered off into this place, the stronger the skeletons had become; at some point, Zhong Yue even ran into a skeleton Qi Practitioner that was already able to cast skills and that skeleton put up a tough fight for him.

  Although Zhong Yue managed to triumph over that skeleton, he had to pay a considerable price; his rib bones were broken before he killed that skeleton but he was rewarded generously as well!!

  After killing his foe, the raging ghost fire of the fallen skeleton merged with the fire in Zhong Yue’s eyes, his power was enhanced even further and the golden crow spirit was already on the edge of forming completely. The feint image of the Six Eyed Star Toad appeared in his other eye!

  The spirit of Qi Practitioners were spirits that acknowledge them when they tried to immerse themselves with the heaven and earth. But now, Zhong Yue was able to form his own spirit after he killed countless skeletons and absorbed their ghost fire.

  What was even weirder was that the newly-formed spirit bore the exact same appearance as his original spirit!

  The spirit of Qi Practitioners are obtained through immersion into the heaven and earth. My spirits are the golden crow and the toad so my spirits are still them even after I turned into this skeleton.

  He travelled straight into the depths and there, he ran into another skeleton Qi Practitioner and the spirit of the Star Toad was completed formed after he struck down his foe and absorbed its ghost fire.

  A few days later, Zhong Yue’s spirit and soul merged together, thus, forming his Yuan Shen again!

  Oddly, as compared to the strength of his before becoming a skeleton, Zhong Yue now has a soul and Yuan Shen that was much stronger and his soul was a few times stronger than before too!

  So I guess this makes me a skeleton Qi Practitioner now!

  Zhong Yue activate his skill, lit up the darkness around him while he cultivated his own bones, strengthening the bones of his body and he thought, Hmmm… it has been quite sometime now but why do I still not see any Qi Practitioners from Prison Realm? Could it be that they didn’t land here?

  He then visualized his art, flew in the air and destroyed every skeleton Qi Practitioner when they got out and a few tens of days later, Zhong Yue finally advanced into the other level where he could tackle the Atman Body level.

  We were given twenty eight days only before we get transferred out and it has been more than twenty days now.

  Zhong Yue felt a little bit nervous and unsafe; if he couldn't get into the strength he once possessed, the Realm Lord will probably sent him away but this was still fine. He was more worried about what would happen if the Realm Lord locked him here and only let him out once in a while!

  Suddenly, noises could be heard from the Pale Bone Plains and when Zhong Yue looked at that direction, he saw two skeletons that were entangled to each other in a weird and twisted way.

  The young man stared at the two skeletons for a moment before he cursed, “What the hell,
I can’t believe they still have the mood to have sex!”

  After that, he bowed, casted the【Tai Chi Art】; countless skeleton gods appeared, crushed the two skeleton Qi Practitioners at once and two more ghost fire merged with him.

  Now, his eyes were burning with the ghost fire, on the left was a creepy sun that turned into a three legged golden crow and a celestial being with three pairs of legs from time to time; one the right was an eerie moon that turned into a Starry Toad or a celestial being with three images of gods.

  Third divine eye, open!

  Zhong Yue shouted in his mind, a crack appeared on his skull and a vertical eye was there on his forehead.

  “Yin and Yang Qi!”

  Zhe zhe—-

  Lasers formed by Yin and Yang Qi were shot and he shouted again, “Fu Xi’s true form!”

  And the tiny guy now turned incredibly big and a snake tail was behind him!

  Right now, he is about twenty feet tall and it looked extremely intimidating!

  I need more strength to reverse open my Yuan Shen Secret Realms! This time, I will reverse open six wheels and achieve everything in one shot! With this

  Zhong Yue continued advancing, as he traveled, he struck down another few more female Qi Practitioners and he has yet to see the end of the Pale Bone Plains.

  And the deadline was arriving in fleeting speed.

  If he failed to open the Yuan Shen Secret Realm and took out my soul token, he would probably be trapped in this place forever!

  Ever since first entering this place, as a normal skeleton, Zhong Yue couldn’t bring himself to imagine that he could become a Rebirth level skeleton from just an average skeleton in only 25 days!

  But mainly, it was because of the strangeness of this place; killing a skeleton was actually a way to level up and that was how he became so strong!

  However, it was still far from being enough!

  Far away, an energy wave tumbled toward him; psyche clashed and skills collided, Zhong Yue looked towards that place with his divine eyes and he saw a few thousand skeleton Qi Practitioners facing off against each other!