Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  Moreover, Goddess Shen Hou seemed to favor Zhong Yue, and even moreso toward the two human ladies. Thus, the Zhong Yue was the key to begin with. If they wanted to see the innate god and apologize for their actions, they would first have to clear their conflict with the human.

  Heavenly King Shang summoned Shu Ye and said, “Shu Ye, are you close to the human Zhong Yue? You will see him on behalf of the teacher.”

  Shu Ye’s face changed slightly and he didn’t dare to talk. He frowned and forced himself toward the front of Zhong Yue’s courtyard in the Divine Court.

  After returning to the Divine Court, the Prison Realm Realm Lord immediately ordered the gods to arrange residence for the Qi Practitioners. Among all, the top ten Qi Practitioners each had a courtyard of their own. Zhong Yue’s courtyard was the largest and most luxurious; not even King Geng’s courtyard could compare.

  Shu Ye arrived outside of the courtyard and sent a servant into the courtyard to express his intention to seek for Zhong Yue.

  After some time, his servant returned and said, “Master Zhong is holding the two divine sabers and his people are on ready. Master Shi Buyi, Master Dao Liu, Junior Martial Uncle Bai, Junior Martial Aunty Jun, and Junior Martial Aunty Qiu, are all waiting to kill Senior Martial Brother Shu once you enter.”

  Cold sweat burst out of Shu Ye’s forehead, he thought, When he went to visit me, I made preparations to blood sacrifice the lower realm, waited for him to turn himself in. Now he is doing the same. If I go in, he will kill me and even my teacher wouldn’t even dare to say a single word toward my death. I value my life more than anything and it’s best I turn around now. What’s the big deal anyway, nothing is more valuable than living.

  He turned and went back to see Heavenly King Shang. Heavenly King Shang scolded him for that but even Heavenly King Shang himself didn’t dare go in person. He then summoned the eight generals and ordered them to bring his gifts to Zhong Yue’s courtyard.

  On their way over, the eight generals met with the officers with gifts sent by Realm Lord Fa Zhaozhen. The two parties saw each other and decided to go and present the gifts together.

  Upon seeing the gifts, Zhong Yue didn’t refuse any of them and received all of it.

  The gifts from Heavenly King Shang and Prison Realm Realm Lord were rare and precious, although there weren’t many of them, they were bona fide treasures. However, Goddess Shen Hou didn’t even look at them and casually threw all of it to Zhong Yue.

  Zhong Yue kept all the treasures and frowned slightly. He mumbled, “Why weren’t there any emperor-level divine weapons, it’s all just pearls and ornaments?”

  The eight generals heard him and they were infuriated, but they didn’t dare to speak up or even express their anger. They nodded awkwardly and said, “Our master has a letter for the goddess, may you please pass it to her.”

  Zhong Yue took the letters from the eight generals and Divine Court’s officers, and sent them to Goddess Shen Hou. Goddess Shen Hou opened the letter and read the openings, “Your Highness,…”

  Goddess Shen Hou immediately tossed the letters away and yawned, “Dull, dull, dull. There’s no point reading at all.”

  Zhong Yue returned and truthfully conveyed the goddess’s words to the generals and officers. The eight generals and officers looked at one another blankly and returned to report to their respective masters.

  Heavenly King Shang listened, he heaved a breath of relief and smiled, “My life is secured. She is too lazy to look at the gifts and even my letters. She wouldn’t want to take my life if I don’t even matter to her.”

  Prison Realm Realm Lord also breathed a sigh of relief, “My life is finally saved. As long as I don’t mess with her anymore, nothing will happen to me. As for the human Zhong Yue, I guess I will have to let him be. I have so many children that the death of one or two doesn’t matter much at all. If he is still unhappy, he can still kill a few more to appease his wrath.”

  The two emperors finally calmed down. Heavenly King Shang returned to the Heaven Court, while Realm Lord Fa Zhaozhen also sent his men to the Heaven Court to report to the Realm Monarch regarding the Prison Realm’s top ten candidates.

  The Prison Realm entered a period of peace as they waited for further instructions from the Heaven Court regarding the competitions between the six realms.

  Zhong Yue distributed the gifts from the two emperors to Shi Buyi, Old Man Six Paths, Jun Sixie, Bai Canghai, and even Ma Sansou, only keeping a finger-sized pearl for himself.

  The gifts from Heavenly King Shang and Prison Realm Realm Lord were not very useful, and they were mainly for the women. Thus, he had little use for them besides making the girls happy.

  A few days later, Jun Wudao sent her men to invite Zhong Yue to her courtyard. Knowing that the clothes were ready, Zhong Yue quickly rushed to the her residence.

  Jun Wudao had already taken out the clothes by the time he arrived.

  This lady was still in a man’s clothes, she smiled and said, “Fortunately, I didn’t fail you. Evil God Zhong, the clothes are ready. Please, try it on and see if it fits.”

  Zhong Yue looked at the clothes, the decorations on the robe was a sun and moon with a godly dragon outlined by golden silk soaring in between them. The whole robe was really seamless without a single trace of stitches.

  In addition to the robe, there was also a pair of ankle boots crafted from the skin of a godly roebuck and its sole made from the cloud Qi. Zhong Yue also couldn’t find any trace of stitching at all on the ankle boots.

  Jun Wudao turned and left, she said, “I am going to take the scarlet cloak, meanwhile you should try the clothes. I will return once you are done changing.”

  Zhong Yue took off the old clothes and put on the new ones. Then, he took out the scale mirror and looked at himself in satisfaction.

  It didn’t take long for Jun Wudao to return to the hall with the scarlet cloak. Her eyes brightened up as she found that the young man struck an incredibly dashing figure in his new garb. His brows were sharp like a sword, and his eyes glittered like stars.

  Zhong Yue put the cloak on and secured it firmly with a sash. The scarlet cloak fluttered in the air as a golden sun rose up behind him. The young man stood in this in front of the round sun, and the bright light added a heroic air to his appearance as the cloak fluttered gently in the breeze.

  “Am I handsome?” Zhong Yue asked the lady happily.

  Jun Wudao fixated her eyes on the young man who suddenly appeared to be extremely attractive. Her face blushed red like a tomato and she mumbled softly, “Reddish.”

  Zhong Yue laughed and thanked her, he said: “You have made an extra pair of boots, I will impart you with another skill for that”

  Jun Wudao shook her head and said, “Learning too many things at a time will not bring success but only failures. Take the boots as a complimentary gift. Otherwise, the great Tian Suo Celestial Race will only be disgraced if the clothes made by us are accompanied by straw shoes on your feet. The robe and cloak are outstanding, but they can be hidden away when needed. After you refine them, they will be able to be hidden away in your body per your will.”

  Zhong Yue smiled and said, “Although you said the boots are free gifts, a deal is a deal. How about this, I happen to have an exquisite pearl with me. I believe that should be sufficient compensation.”

  He then took out the pearl Heavenly King Shang gave to him and passed it onto Jun Wudao.

  The pearl glistened with a thousand colors, and its beautify resembled a starry sky. Jun Wudao loved it very much. She immediately accepted it and smiled, “I originally planned to not tell you this so I can see you embarrassing yourself. But since you’ve given me this pearl, I guess like I can tell you then—Remember to wear underclothes inside before you hide the clothes away, otherwise you will be naked when the clothes are hidden away.”

  It was rather difficult for a lady to speak of matters like this, and Zhong Yue smiled in reply, “I understand. Senior Martial Sister Wudao,
can you help me with a set of underclothes as well?”

  “Underclothes?”

  Jun Wudao suddenly blushed like a tomato, and immediately left.

  After a while, several maid servants entered the hall with the brooms. They started the cleaning process and hurried the Zhong Shan Clan young man out of Jun Wudao’s courtyard.

  Well, asking her to make a set of underclothes that can be hidden is indeed too much. Speaking of which, I really don’t like to wear underwear. But given the circumstances now, it seems that I have to wear one in the future. The Zhong Shan Clan young man thought in his mind .

  A few months later, Heaven Court gave the order to have selected Qi Practitioners of the six realms gather in the Heaven Realm for the final round of selections. Out of the sixty Qi Practitioners, only ten would be selected to compete against the experts of the other 3,000 Six Paths World.

  “Fuxi Clan’s teenager, I won’t go with you. Your two little girlfriends will follow me as well.” Goddess Shen Hou brought Qiu Jin’er and Jun Sixie with her, she smiled at Zhong Yue and said, “We’ll go to the Zi Wei Galaxy and wait for you there.”

  Zhong Yue was surprised and he watched as they left.

  “The Realm Monarch values the competition a lot and thus he will personally be there to watch as you compete with the other Qi Practitioners. Not only that, but the Heavenly Kings, Realm Lords, celestial emperors, and demon emperors were all invited to witness the competition.”

  Prison Realm Realm Lord summoned the 10 Qi Practitioners including Zhong Yue, Bi, An, King Geng and said, “This battle is about the name and reputation of our Prison Realm. You little kids mustn’t let the others look down on us. We will head to the Heaven Realm tomorrow. Although the Prison Realm is the weakest, our Qi Practitioners aren’t weak at all. Little kids, try your best to take down the other realms’ experts.”

  Zhong Yue and the others looked at each other, and then they remembered that this Prison Realm Realm Lord seemed to be a grand and noble lord, but he was actually an unscrupulous cultivator who acted just like a bandit at times.

  Not long later, a magnificent warship drove into a huge teleportation array and was teleported to the Heaven Realm.

  The warship traveled for more than a month before it finally arrived at the Heaven Realm. Bai Canghai, Shi Buyi and others followed behind Zhong Yue and suddenly, they felt an appalling sense of spiritual energy lingering in the heaven and the earth. The spiritual energy was very strong that they couldn’t help but feel shocked.

  “This is a wonderful place for the cultivators,” Shi Buyi murmured.

  “The whole Heaven Realm is a huge world blessed for cultivation.” King Geng stood not far away and said leisurely, “This is the Dao Yi Wheel, the Dao Yi Secret Realm. Naturally, the spiritual energy in here is extremely strong. Not only that, but various Dao of the Six Paths World are also mostly concentrated in here.”

  Chapter 697: Display of Power |

  “Dao Yi Wheel, Dao Yi Secret Realm….”

  Zhong Yue and the others were stunned; judging from what King Geng said, the Heaven Realm was created from the Dao Yi Secret Realm of an ancient one.

  If that was how it was, did that mean that the other realms of the Six Path Worlds were formed from the Yuan Shen Secret Realms of the ancient ones?

  The Heaven Realm was the Dao Yi Secret Realm, the Earth Realm as the Yin and Yang Realm, Celestial Realm as the Shen Cai Realm, the Myriad Realm was the Wan Xiang Realm, the Elemental Realm was the Wu Xing Secret Realm, and the Prison Realm was the Bloodline Secret Realm?

  And the Pan Gu Celestial that lifted up the Six Path World was the ancient one’s Pan Gu Celestial? This was beyond imagination!

  “Rumours said that the realms in all Six Path Worlds are actually Yuan Shen secret realms,” added King Geng again, “The so called 3,000 Six Paths Worlds are actually the Yuan Shen secret realms of the 3,000 unimaginably powerful existences. We have been living in their secret realms for our entire life. We are all simply frogs in a well….”

  “How is this possible….” murmured Li Tianxing.

  It was just too preposterous a proposition to accept. What kind of existence could create countless sun, stars, and creatures in their Yuan Shen secret realms, even allowing the Heaven Court to be built on it with the Realm Lords and Realm Monarchs merely being ancillary supporting cogs.

  “Of course, that is all just heresay. No one really knows the true story.”

  King Geng said, “You can take it as a joke. What is more important now are those from the Celestial, Earth, and Heaven Realm. Not only are Qi Practitioners that have reverse opened all wheels not uncommon there, but there are even those twin innate spirits that cultivated the Six Paths Reincarnation technique who are equivalent to the combined power of Brother Yu and Zhong. They are all formidable opponents.”

  Everyone’s heart gripped as they felt the mounting pressure. Zhong Yue and Yu Bochuan were the creme of the crop among them; just how scary was a Qi Practitioner who was as strong as the both of them combined?

  Though Li Tianxing and the others were all the best Qi Practitioners from the Prison Realm, but when compared to those from the upper realms, they were nothing particularly special.

  With their position so high up in Heaven Realm, Earth Realm and Celestial Realm, those judges from Hell would easily be bribed by them whenever they wanted to have their descendents reborn into a better life and even choose their desired spirit bodies!

  And if a sufficient amount of wealth was offered, twin innate spirit bodies or even five innate spirit bodies at the same time was not out of the question!

  This was something that had been going on in Hell for a very long time, but five innate spirit bodies were hard to obtain even with bribery as it could only happen once in a few million years.

  The combined power of Yu Bochuan and me? Are they really that strong?

  Zhong Yue’s heart sank. Even if King Geng did not know the true limits of his strength, Zhong Yue was still able to infer how strong his opponents were when King Geng used him as a comparison.

  Right now, his strength had increased by leaps and bounds, he could even dare to say that he was not quite as strong as King Geng, then he was still on the same level as him. However, he was still not very confident that he could win against King Geng when it came to a life and death battle.

  Now, it was about time for them to compete with those from the other three realms, and he inevitably got nervous; only by competing stronger opponents could he continue to improve himself!

  Meanwhile, the Prison Realm Lord’s ship sailed into the continent of the Heaven Realm with Zhong Yue and the others standing at the bow of the ship. They saw a mountain that occupied a huge area of land and on top of that mountain was an ocean sprinkled with islands that was home to a myriad of powerful celestial.

  There was also a sun and moon orbiting the mountain, forming a unique astronomical system beyond comprehension.

  Below the mountain, there were huge and small nations, each emitting powerful auras as they worshipped their own respective gods. The living beings in these nations were also from the celestial races, except that they had lower positions.

  And there was more than just a mountain like that; each of these mountains had a strong celestial and demon race living in them, and some even had more than just one sun and moon circling around them.

  The ship of the Prison Realm’s Realm Lord was extremely huge already, but it was effortlessly dwarfed by these gigantic mountains.

  The Heaven Realm is really stunning.

  Zhong Yue was awestruck as he looked at these godly mountains that were larger than planets, and he couldn’t help but feel complicated. As a person that had come from a small backwater place, when did he ever witness something like this?

  The ship sailed straight toward the Lesser Void Heavenly Saint Realm. It was the saint realm that was closest to the Heaven Court, the place in which the Realm Monarch resided. This time, the great competition was
taking place here, and when the competition began, the Realm Monarch and Realm Lords, as well as various other large influences, would be present to spectate the battles.

  Upon reaching the Lesser Void Heavenly Saint Realm, the purity of the spiritual energy elevated a level further, to the point that it condensed into mists and clouds!

  “Even a swine will become a god if it cultivates here!” murmured Zhong Yue.

  Hearing this, those around him immediately gave Zhong Yue fierce gazes, and Bai Canghai immediately tried his to conceal his presence, which made Shi Buyi on the other side say, “Little brat from Bai Zhe Clan, if you say this out in front of the other gods and demons from the Heaven Realm, you will be skinned alive.”

  Husan Weng nodded immediately upon hearing this as he was very supportive of this statement.

  Finally, the ship sailed into a huge area of compounds and it slowly descended. As it landed, someone welcomed them immediately and the person shouted happily, “Realm Lord Fa, it has been so long! I am here to welcome you and your people by the order from the Realm Monarch! Please, this way!”

  “Thank you, Celestial Emperor Ai Shan.”

  The Prison Realm Lord, Fa Zhaozhen, alighted from the ship and greeted the person that welcomed him before another few goddesses arrived. Under the goddesses’ guidance, Zhong Yue, King Geng and company went into the palace to get some rest.

  “You guys came from a place slightly further away from the Heaven Realm, the others are already here.” Celestial Emperor Ai Shan looked at Zhong Yue and the others and he praised, “Wonderful talents we have here. This competition is bound to be an interesting one with all of you present.”

  The Realm Lord of Prison Realm, however, forced himself to squeeze out a smile at Celestial Emperor Ai Shan’s sarcasm.

  After all, the Prison Realm was the weakest realm among the six realms; it was already good enough if they could win against those from Myriad Realm and Elemental Realm, and he did not even have his hopes up since the beginning.