Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  Only those whose nature wasn’t reflected by the sword had a chance to fight back.

  One after another, the fleet of ships sailed past the skills that never failed to amaze the crowd.

  However, the power of these skills was wiped away by the ancient figures; making them only deadly in appearance.

  Not only was the potency of the skills gone, but the information within the skills was also wiped away as well. Zhong Yue thought, No one other than the witnesses would know why, who, and how everything happened. A hundred thousand years ago, the Earth Order Era was ended, the Fuxi was sealed, and every recordings about it were covered away. Could this ancient battlefield be one of those that are related to the end of the Earth Order Era?

  Heavenly King Shang said, “But there is only little to none of the recordings on the ancient days, making it extremely hard to glean the truth. I’ve once asked the Realm Monarch, but even he doesn’t know what happened.”

  “The skills here, some felt like it’s from the Fuxi Clan,” Xin Huo said.

  Zhong Yue was surprised and he thought, The Fuxi Clan’s skills? Could it be the Fuxi Clan’s Monarch?

  Heavenly King Shang picked up the fluctuations Zhong Yue’s psyche, and he glanced around curiously before finally locking onto a group of ten of them. His gaze then narrowed to only Zhong Yue and Yu Bochuan.

  After this, the Heavenly King mulled for seconds before finally locking his sights onto Zhong Yue.

  Back when in the Ancient Land of God Graves, he had already picked up the same strange fluctuation of psyche. Initially, he thought it was an ancient treasure but couldn’t find whose hand it was in. But ever since then, he has been nonstop thinking about it. Now that he sensed it again from Zhong Yue’s body, greed immediately overcame his heart.

  Zhong Yue looked back, he smiled and his psyche rumbled as he said, “Heavenly King, think of the presence behind me.”

  Heavenly King Shang tightened his heart and stamped on his greed as he thought of the times when Goddess Shen Hou’s aura alone trapped him in the Ancient Land of God Graves for a whole year.

  Zhong Yue furtively heaved a breath of relief, he looked around and ask, “Which one are the Fuxi Clan’s skills?”

  “That sword!” Xin Huo answered, “The sword is a skill formed from the Fuxi’s innate dragon scales of the highest level. It is a skill that reflects the origin of Dao. Other than that, there are some other ones scattered around the battlefield! Whatever happened here, it was heavily linked to the fall of the Fuxi.”

  All of a sudden, the space in front of them trembled vigorously. Heavenly King Shang’s face changed drastically, he shouted, “Be careful! There is still a skill’s remnant that hasn’t been wiped away by the ancient figures! Generals, generals! Power the ships and form a formation!”

  As he spoke, a deafening loud boom cracked the space in front of them like a mirror!

  It felt like the end of the universe, but just a second later, ships larger than the Heaven Court’s fleet of ships sailed out from the void. Even when the Heaven Court’s ships were each thousands of miles long, they were just as small as sharks met with a group of Kun Peng in front of the ships that sailed out of the void.

  The crowd looked up and stared dumbly at the ships sized like planets. There were lanterns made from suns placed along the sides, casting darkness away from every corner of the deck.

  However, the ships were in bad shape, shabby and worn out as if they were on the verge of shattering into pieces. Deep and long marks were left on the ship body by the incredible skills and divine weapons; the metals on the ship were heavily rusted, and the wood was rotten.

  The Wei Shen Six Paths World’s fleet looked at the incoming ships in terror. Giant skeletons stood on the shabby ships’ decks, their armors full of holes and the weapons they held were mostly broken as well. Despite that, the giant skeletons stood with their back ramrod straight and their heads high up.

  On the elevated stage, a giant stood held two drumsticks in his hands, one was on the huge drum in front of him and the other was raised high in the sky. The giant too was just left with bones.

  Those onboard these warships were skeletons, an armada that somehow escaped from the ancient figures from wiping them away and lingered still in the ancient battlefield.

  As they came out of the void, the air of the ancient days filled the space.

  Heavenly King Shang shuddered in extreme excitement, even his voice was quivering, “This is… an ancient vault of treasures! Hahahaha, we are so darn lucky, how else in the heavens can we have met with the royal armada of an ancient monarch. Each and every piece of items in this armada are treasures to us!”

  But before he was able to order his people to scavenge the ancient armada, a huge light beam abruptly blasted out from the shattered space in front of them.

  The light beam shot across the universe, its source was not known to anyone nor was its destination.

  The light beam appeared just like a river that flowed through the mountains.

  As the light beam shone on the shabby ships, the armada grew lively. The rusts fell off from the ships, and the battle marks were recovered as if they were nonexistent; even the skeletons started to revert back into vivid living beings with meat and flesh!

  The crowd was utterly dazed.

  Just seconds ago, the whole armada and the skeletons on it appeared just like a black and white scene, and now the whole scene had come to life as if time flowed backward and brought them back to the ancient days.

  “It’s the Imperial Road of the Heavenly Monarch!” Xin Huo exclaimed, “Brat Yue, this is the pathway of the Imperial Road!”

  Zhong Yue was shocked. The light beam was none other than the Imperial Road’s teleportal beam. It linked the Celestial Fire Star and the Zi Wei Imperial Star!

  If this is the Imperial Road of the Heavenly Monarch, then there must be the Fuxi Clan’s Heavenly Monarch somewhere in the armada! Zhong Yue quickly looked at the warships; but there were thousands of them clustering together, it was impossible to locate the Heavenly Monarch’s warship.

  Dong—

  Dong— Dong—

  Deep and low sounds of drums rumbled from the warships, they were thrummed by the giants with drumsticks and resounded in the desolate space. The war drums excited their blood and pumped their hearts with intense battle spirit.

  Dong! Dong! Dong!

  As the war drums continued, the ancient ships released their flags to flutter in the breeze.

  “Feng!”

  As the flesh, and nerves, and veins, and blood grew back on skeletons, the gods of war were brought back to lives. The dragon scales glossed like mirrors covered their bodies, reflecting the lights into the dark space.

  The divine third eye opened on their foreheads with shining light rays. They stomped their weapons on the ground and roared loudly.

  “Feng!”

  “Great Feng! Great Feng! Great Feng!”

  Sadness, pain, anger, fire burning will, Zhong Yue could hear all kinds of emotions mixed in the voices as the soldiers chanted. It sounded like the combination of a war song and a mournful dirge.

  As the chant goes on, a warship glaze in golden rays flew in the center of the huge light beam. On the golden ship, lies a coffin, one that belongs to the supreme ruler of the universe!

  “Great Feng! Great Feng!”

  The ancient voices chanted unceasingly, trembled the worlds and shuddered the universe. They were the royal armada that that was tasked to sent the Heavenly Monarch’s coffin back to be buried in the Ancestral Star.

  The Fuxi gods of war were determined to return their Heavenly Monarch back to the root of the Fuxi Celestial Race.

  Immediately, tears rolled in Zhong Yue’s eyes as he understood why the armada was chanting.

  Feng was the original surname of all humans and also the Fuxi Clan. But it wasn’t just a surname, it was at the same time, the honor and symbol of the Fuxi Celestial Race. There was no doubt that this Fuxi Hea
venly Monarch carried Feng as his surname.

  “Great Feng…” Zhong Yue mumbled.

  All of a sudden, a drastic change took place right before their eyes. Half of the light beam disappeared abruptly without a sign, and a shadow darker than black covered the world in front of the armada.

  In the shadow, emerged countless strong figures whose identities were all well hidden; so strong that even Heavenly King Shang shivered like a cattle under their auras. Despite him being a celestial emperor, he knew he stood no chance to any single one of the entities.

  Then unsurprisingly, the outbreak of a bloody war erupted.

  Within the shadow, a huge hand surrounded by an evil air clawed onto the golden warship, rusting the warship in just the matter of a split second. It was then at that exact moment, another terrifying aura pounced out from the Heavenly Monarch’s coffin.

  A golden sword shone in blinding light was lashed out and slashed on the evil hand.

  Then, the coffin lid shattered apart, revealing an old man with grey hair who slowly sat up in the coffin. As the three eyes on his wrinkled face opened tardily, the calm air and godly rays in his eyes cast aside the darkness in this universe.

  “You are already dead, and you still want to stop me?” An evil voice sounded from all around the battlefield, laughing as it continued, “What can you do even when your soul has descended from the Void World? Heavenly Monarch of the Fuxi Clan, a dead man shall always remain, dead!”

  Chapter 724: The Heavenly Monarch's Hilt of Supreme Power |

  Zhong Yue opened his eyes wide and stared into the light beam. He was afraid that the tears would sneakily escape his eyes.

  The Fuxi Clan’s greatest monarch was no more, his soul had entered to the Void World seeking asylum; but now, he was back, having returned from the Void World to fight for the one last time!

  Dead, and yet, still fighting!

  Such an unyielding spirit, perhaps this was the spirit of the Fuxi Clan that the world knew?

  But the outcome of the battle was destined from the start. The evil presence was unboundedly strong, his alliances were numerous and each was a powerful enemy themselves. The forces that stood by his side were unstoppable!

  Their faces were either shrouded in darkness or covered, they clearly didn’t want their identities to be exposed.

  When the Heavenly Monarch was alive, they didn’t dare to utter a single word of dissent toward him, but after the Heavenly Monarch died, they had lost all restraint!

  The battle was aimed to execute the main forces of the Fuxi Clan; those that could be part of the Heavenly Monarch’s funeral procession were those that the Heavenly Monarch valued most.

  If they were dead, the Fuxi Clan would be faced with a severe issue—the lack of talents for the next few thousand years, and the loss of their cultivation heritage!

  But the Fuxi Clan’s Heavenly Monarch had aged greatly. He once suppressed the whole era on his own; he was the strongest, greatest and most talented leader the world had ever seen!

  Legends said that Fuxi created the Six Paths and Hou Tu completed the Reincarnations. And that Fuxi was him!

  But his mortal body couldn’t beat father time. Zhong Yue had seen many aged gods, their worn out mortal body could no longer contain their arcane energy and life essence. It would slowly seep out of their body, and the cultivation base they had all worked on for all their lives would slowly return back to the universe.

  No matter what, death was inevitable.

  No one could ever remain at their peak while they were alive, let alone when they were already dead.

  Fuxi fueled his power with his own soul, but even so, it still couldn’t match his power during his prime.

  The greatest presence made his way back to the world of the living, but what was destined couldn’t be rewritten.

  He was no longer the Heavenly Monarch, but just a wizened old man, a timeworn soul.

  In the battle, not a single Fuxi took a step back, not a single Fuxi had fallen elsewhere other than around the Heavenly Monarch’s coffin. One by one, the Fuxi, the god of wars were put to sleep.

  Zhong Yue couldn’t stand the scene anymore. Those were his ancestors warring and bleeding for the fate of their descendants.

  Finally, the cries of battle slowly ceased. Even the dead Heavenly Monarch couldn’t have changed anything. At his last moment, he ignited his soul and spirit and turned it into the last sword strike.

  That sword strike lit up the whole universe. becoming the strongest sword in the history of time.

  The evil presence suffered severe damage, and the endless darkness ebbed away.

  “That’ll stop you for a thousand years, at the least.” The aged Heavenly Monarch hovered above his coffin, supporting himself with the divine sword while he put up a gentle smile on his face.

  Then, his mortal body began disintegrating into lights, and his soul dispersed. Even the divine sword in his hands faded away like light particles.

  Soon, within a matter of seconds, he would no longer leave a single trace in this world anymore.

  “I hope, in these thousand years, one of our children may rise and lead the Fuxi Clan to greatness again…”

  His mortal body and soul had completely disappeared and the coffin shattered into pieces, leaving only his hoarse voice lingering in the air.

  In the end, the last Fuxi Clan’s Heavenly Monarch couldn’t end up buried in the clan’s ancestral land.

  Zhong Yue stood numbly on the bow, his tears were all dried up. Although the last Fuxi Heavenly Monarch had bought a thousand years of time for the clan, no single Fuxi descendants were able to grow powerful enough to save the clan from domination.

  The Fuxi Clan still waned.

  At the end of the scenes, the evil presence walked out from the Pan Gu Celestial Being’s forehead of the first Six Paths World. Seizing the time when Reincarnation Monarch has passed away, the evil presence blood sacrificed the living beings in the first Six Paths World and marked the end of the Earth Order Era.

  “Strange, why did the scenes of the ancient days of 100 thousand years ago reappear?” Heavenly King Shang mumbled.

  The teleportation light beam on the Imperial Road of the Heavenly Monarch dimmed down, and the ancient ships grew shabby again as if they were returning back to the flow of time.

  The ancient battle was so intense it left an indelible mark in the teleportation beam. And for some unknown reason, the mark in the teleportation beam was triggered and shown the scenes of the battle 100 thousand years ago.

  “Look! Look!” One of the eight generals, Tian Yan, suddenly shouted, “What is that!?”

  The crowd looked over and saw in the midst of the fading teleportation beam, a strange ball of light remained blindingly bright.

  “What is it?”

  All of them looked over, even Heavenly King Shang struggled to open his eyes to take a look at the light ball’s nature.

  But to his surprise, even a celestial emperor like him failed to see through it. Not only him, but Tian Yan who was said to have the best pair of eyes in the whole of Wei Shen Six Paths World couldn’t glean anything either.

  However, there was one thing for sure—it was getting closer to them, and it was fast. Seconds before, it was just a small dot in their vision, but now it was much bigger like a ball.

  Heavenly King Shang suddenly felt uneasy, he quickly shouted, “Raise the flags, quickly! We will leave this place now!”

  The gods quickly powered the ships and sped away!

  Meanwhile, on the back, the blinding light caught up to the ships and shone through their bodies.

  All of a sudden, they found the ships and themselves turning translucent, as if they were disintegrated into little particles!

  Not only their bodies, but their Yuan Shen, the arcane energy, soul weapons, divine weapons, and everything else was also the same!

  Everything around was broken down into the smallest atoms, and were dispersing to the surrounding.

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sp; Even Heavenly King Shang was feeling terrified. Although he was a Deity Emperor, he was no exception to the bizarre changes!

  “It’s the residual power of the sword skill!” Heavenly King Shang screamed in terror.

  It was the sword skill slashed by the last Fuxi Heavenly Monarch before his death. Said to be the sword of destruction, it could break everything in front of it into nothingness. If they were hit by the sword skill’s remaining power that still lingered in this place, none of them would leave a trace in this world anymore!

  Heavenly King Shang roared, he surged all of his arcane energy to power the ship and boosted faraway from the light rays. However, his efforts were in vain as even though he was fast, the light ball was faster. It had caught up to them in just less than a breath’s time.

  The light blinded their visions, and they could clearly feel their bodies disintegrating to the smallest particles!

  The huge light ball swallowed the fleet of ships, and silence repleted the space.

  It was dead quiet.

  Then, the light ball abruptly disappeared, the fleet of ships reappeared again, and everyone was stunned. A few moments later, some of the gods managed to recollect their thoughts. Some of them were gasping for breath, some were shivering in terror, and some others collapsed on the ground. But nevertheless, all of them felt immensely lucky to still be alive.

  Heavenly King Shang was also shivering, he wanted to speak and comfort the others but his muscles were out of his control. He couldn’t even speak a word. Even his Yuan Shen was shuddering violently on the verge of dispersing.

  Even the Deity Emperor in the fleet was in bad shape, let alone the others.

  But they couldn’t be blamed; after all, the encounter with the blinding light ball was far too terrifying.

  Zhong Yue gathered his senses back from the terror. Suddenly, he sensed a strange aura appearing inside his Yuan Shen secret realms.

  “Xin Huo!” Zhong Yue’s Yuan Shen was shivering as he said, “Xin Huo, the light ball…”