Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

Taking the mortal body as a furnace and swallowing all of the lightning into the stomach. Then the stomach would break the lightning down into energies that would strengthen the body and Yuan Shen while also smiting the impurities in him away.

  To the third Sui Sovereign whose blood flowing in his veins belonging to the innate blood of two innate gods, he didn’t need any finely tuned cultivation technique to unleash his power. In fact, a simple and bold cultivation technique would better serve him in unleashing the immense energy in him.

  The Fuxi Clan’s bloodline was still a line weaker than the Sui Sovereign’s; thus, they had to come out with cultivation techniques that were more exquisite, making the Sui Sovereigns’ cultivation techniques look simple and crude.

  But of course, the [Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace Scripture] only appeared to be simple and crude when it was placed side by side to the [Time Light Spatial Crystal Mystic Scripture]. Otherwise, it was in fact, still a level more complicated than the innate demon god Bo Xun’s [Innate Saint Ritual Mystic Art].

  However, Zhong Yue had the experience of cultivating the [Sui Sovereign Flame Order Palace Visualization Art], allowing him to attain the [Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace Scripture] with much greater ease than he thought. Despite that, it still took him three months to barely grasp the surface of the cultivation technique.

  Zhong Yue quietly visualized himself as a huge furnace that could smite all elements, that he could contain the world in him as he cast the [Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace Scripture].

  When he started visualizing, countless totem patterns surged out and flowed back into his mortal body. In his visualization, his body had turned into a huge space enclosed by walls formed from the totem patterns.

  With a change of thought, his Yuan Shen turned into roaring flames that burned sky-high in the space within his body, purifying the totem patterns and strengthening the walls stronger!

  Another two months flashed by, and Zhong Yue was finally able to forge his mortal body to a durable state that he was comfortable with. Now it really felt like a burning furnace was in his body, emanating terrifyingly strong power!

  The energy in him was on the verge of exploding, it was so strong that if it could be launched out as a skill, it would boost the skill’s power ten times stronger!

  But although Xin Huo was playful and erratic, he still had some principles he held on firmly. Such as when Xin Huo only deemed Zhong Yue as half an inheritor, he only imparted Zhong Yue with the cultivation technique without the compatible skills to channel the energy.

  Without compatible skills, Zhong Yue wouldn’t be able to release the abundant power in his body.

  If only I was taught the accompanying skills of the [Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace Scripture], I’d be able to unleash unimaginable power! But even the cultivation technique alone is satisfactory enough.

  Zhong Yue stood up, he inhaled deeply and sucked the lightning into his stomach!

  “Brat Yue, don’t swallow more than you can chew.” Xin Huo insouciantly prompted from the side.

  Krong—

  Zhong Yue’s face changed dramatically when the lightning rushed into his stomach. The mortal body he thought was now durable enough to withstand the pressure almost instantly caved in!

  It happened even before he could work on the lightning in his stomach and the impact left his internal organs full of cracks and on the verge of breaking apart. Zhong Yue instantly opened his mouth and ejected the lightning out from his stomach.

  “You haven’t even attained the quintessence of the [Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace Scripture] and you want to be successful?”

  Xin Huo laughed, “You are yet to achieve the level of simple and bold. Take it slowly, no hurry.”

  Zhong Yue calmed himself and cast his arcane energy to remedy the wounds in his body. A few days later, he has stepped into the Lei Zhe again.

  At the instant he laid his foot on the ground, countless lightning filled his vision as they struck over at his face. Zhong Yue cast the [Yin Yang Celestial Demon Style] and warded off the incoming lightning strikes.

  This time, he was much more careful. He didn’t try to engulf a group of lightning anymore but started by only taking one at a time.

  The lightning here contained incredible power, much stronger than the ones in the Pure Yang lightning zone. With his current strength, he would most probably be able to reach to the 60h level in the Pure Yang lightning zone. But here in the Ancient Lei Zhe, he could only barely protect himself from the dying in the sea of lightning.

  Kacha—

  All of a sudden, a flash of lightning broke through the defense of his [Yin Yang Celestial Demon Style], and made a small crack on the [Tai Chi Art].

  As the lightning struck at him, his mortal body and Yuan Shen shuddered in shocking pain while black smoke rose from his scorched body.

  “Careful! The lightning that just struck you contained the innate energy!” Xin Huo said.

  “Why didn’t you say so earlier?” Zhong Yue blurted out a mouth of black smoke as he whined.

  But a bigger problem came right after as when the lightning struck on him, the shock pulse delayed his response for a split second and that opened up the opportunity for the other lighting to break through the [Tai Chi Art] of his [Yin Yang Celestial Demon Style] and lunged toward him.

  Zhong Yue rapidly reached his hands to the waist where blinding light rays formed into a saber which he then clenched firmly on. The Innate Tai Yang Qi was fused into with the saber as the [Sun Burst] was cast on the incoming lightning.

  Blinding the world for a split second in its radiance, the [Sun Burst] splintered the lightning and greatly reduced their power.

  But even so, Zhong Yue let out a deep groan as the lightning splinters still struck on him heavily and pounced him into the sky.

  Krong—

  He rammed into a lightning-formed mountain which was hovering in mid-air. Despite the mountain being formed from weightless lightning, it was actually heavier than an ordinary mountain and more solid as well.

  As a result, the impact force from the mountain left Zhong Yue’s back severely wounded. Moreover, the lightning mountain was pushing him forward while another lightning mountain rammed over and squashed him in the middle.

  “Brat Yue, hold on!” Xin Huo encouraged him anxiously, “Don’t die here! You are half an inheritor and if you die in the first level lightning tribulation, you’d be an embarrassment to my name!”

  “Xin Huo, you shouldn’t be caring for your name now, but me!”

  Blood was trickling out of Zhong Yue’s mouth as wounds opened up all over his body. When he saw a split opening in between the two lightning mountains and acted immediately. The Solar Divine Saber disappeared and the Metamagnet Divine Saber slashed one of the lightning mountains into halves. He then opened his mouth and swallowed the halved mountains in.

  When the other lightning mountain rammed over again, Zhong Yue swung his head and enlarged it bigger than the mountain as the second lightning mountain was too swallowed into his stomach.

  “Can you take two mountains?” Xin Huo didn’t even care to cover up the insincerity when he pretended to care about Zhong Yue’s well-being, “Two lightning mountains are far stronger than the lightning strikes. It’s not gonna be easy to digest them.”

  “I’m fine,” Zhong Yue’s face turned beet-red as he tried to contain the lightning mountains in his stomach with all his might.

  Thunderous noises thrummed all over in his stomach as the two lightning mountains clashed about in his mortal body and the totem pattern walls in space was seeing cracks all around.

  The lightning mountains weren’t just ‘difficult’ to digest, Zhong Yue was struggling to even just suppress them down in his stomach. A single mistake would be all it took for Zhong Yue to lose his stomach!

  Zhong Yue cast his Yuan Shen and tried to burn the lightning mountains away. The lightning mountains released a million lightning strikes in retaliation. Z
hong Yue’s Yuan Shen quickly bowed and with the visions of a million gods appearing behind him, the lightning strikes were splintered into tiny bits whereas the remaining power from the lightning splinters still launched Zhong Yue into the sky and cooked him.

  He needed to suppress the two lightning mountains and that left him with only a small amount of arcane energy to wield. In addition to the Innate Tai Yang Qi he had used up to cast the [Sun Burst], he was running out of energy already.

  “Careful, another lightning with the innate Qi in it!” Xin Huo quickly shouted as he saw another one coming at them.

  A round sun rose above Zhong Yue’s head and the three-taloned Golden Crow flew out of it, lunging at the lightning strike.

  Ka—cha—

  The lightning was successfully blocked off but at the cost of the three-taloned Golden Crow returning back to his body temporarily incapacitated.

  “It’s that strong?” Zhong Yue grit his teeth and stayed focus.

  Another ray of lightning flashed through his neck and he suddenly felt himself being lighter. It turned out that he was beheaded and before he could reattach his head back to the neck, another flash of lightning has zipped over at his forehead.

  Kacha—

  Zhong Yue’s Yuan Shen rapidly exited his head in shock and saw his head pulverized into ashes in the next second.

  Zhong Yue’s Yuan Shen right away rushed back into his body and another head grew out from his neck.

  This is just the first level of the Ancient Lei Zhe Realm and it is this powerful already, how did Si Ming even make it through to the end? Zhong Yue lamented as his heart was still pounding in terror from the near-death experience.

  Then, he kept switching places in the Ancient Lei Zhe, suffering severe wounds to just heal them moments later, and surviving through several near-death moments. Soon, with more and more lightning he has swallowed and his mortal body grew stronger, he was finally able to secure a place to stand in the Ancient Lei Zhe with lesser wounds that the lightning could inflict anymore.

  “So can I be simple and bold now?” Zhong Yue opened his mouth wide and engulfed a hundred flashes of lightning into his stomach. In the space visualized by the [Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace Scripture] inside his body, his Yuan Shen released a wave of burning flame and smote the lightning smaller and smaller into energies that flowed into his body and Yuan Shen.

  “Xin Huo, how was it?” He asked happily.

  “So so.” Xin Huo smiled, “Wait till you can digest the lightning with the Innate Qi. Only then can you claim yourself as a qualified cultivator of the [Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace Scripture]. Else, even if you can make it through the second lightning tribulation, you won’t be able to pass the third as well.”

  “What types of lightning are at the second level?” Zhong Yue asked.

  “Just one, lightning with the Innate Qi.” Xin Huo answered casually.

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  “I suppose I could do that now, cultivate the Innate Lightning?” Zhong Yue murmured.

  Xin Huo declined this idea right away, “This is not Innate Lightning but Heaven Lightning, a type of lightning that contains innate might. You will run into real Innate Lightning, later on, these are the real deal and their power is much more intense than Heaven Lightning.”

  “This is not Innate Lightning?” shouted the shocked Zhong Yue.

  Now, the first level of the Ancient Lei Zhe posed no more threat to him and only the Heaven Lightning that contained a semblance of innate might could harm him. It was also incredibly hard to cultivated using it as well.

  This was because it had only been just a short while since he started cultivating the [Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace Scripture]. The furnace in his body had not been cultivated to a high-enough degree to be able to smite such lighting.

  This left him with two options; one was to continuously cultivate the other lightning to fortify the furnace in his mortal body and increase its power, whereas the other option was to continue dwelling into the [Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace Scripture] to deepen his attainments.

  When Xin Huo controlled Zhong Yue’s body in the Pure Yang Lighting Tribulation, he swallowed half of the lighting tribulation, shocking the entire Wei Shen Six Path World. But this feat was only possible because Xin Huo’s attainments on the [Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace Scripture] were very deep. His deep understanding of this art was in large part due to the fact that it was the creator of this art that taught it to him.

  If Xin Huo directly shared the third Sui Sovereign’s knowledge and ideas of this art to Zhong Yue, he also would’ve immediately possessed the same level of understanding on this art.

  But while the benefit of doing it this way was obvious, Zhong Yue would lose the opportunity to gain a truly deep understanding of everything beneath the surface if he didn’t have any roadblocks.

  If he started from the basics, it might be very slow but the advantage of that was that he would know everything as he progressed. As he gradually learned more and more about [Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace Scripture], his understanding of this art would deepen and he would obtain his own unique understanding on this art that would benefit to his growth far more than when compared to using the Sui Sovereign’s insights.

  Zhong Yue chose to work between these two extremes; while he devoured the lightning to strengthen the mortal body furnace, he also determinedly learned as much as he could about the [Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace Scripture], relying on this art to battle with the lightning in Ancient Lei Zhe to deepen his understanding of this art.

  A few days later, he finally cultivated the first lightning that contained innate might.

  Right after he digested the lightning, he could feel a sliver of Innate Lightning Qi flowing in his body.

  His mind shifted and he thought, Seems not bad at all. Perhaps I can cultivate the fifth innate Qi this way!

  However, he did not rush into the second level recklessly but instead, stayed at the first level and searched for even more Heaven Lightning to merge into his body.

  As he stayed back to improve himself even further, his body and energy strength hiked and along with his Yuan Shen, his body bore the presence of Pure Yang elements. Only when he felt his improvements plateau did he enter the second level.

  The entirety of the second level was ravaged by ruthless Heaven Lightning with innate presence. As soon as Zhong Yue entered the second floor, he was struck by countless Heaven Lightning and was left with wounds everywhere!

  There was just too much Heaven Lightning here and among these Heaven Lightning, some contained innate presence much stronger than the others, but as they were shrouded by the other more ordinary Heaven Lightning, Zhong Yue failed to notice them.

  Suddenly, a rumbling came from the skies and Zhong Yue couldn’t help but let out a shout as a lighting waterfall rained down on him.

  In the lighting waterfall, countless Heaven Lightning struck towards him like a tsunami. Zhong Yue bit his lips and as he waved his hands, he hurled skills everywhere to defend himself but he was still being overwhelmed by the Heaven Lightning effortlessly!

  Zheng—

  He unsheathed his saber right away, channeled the Innate Yin Qi into his divine saber, cast the [Moon Tide] and launched an attack that charged straight towards the waterfall!

  With just a strike, the overwhelming waterfall split into two pieces!

  However, he only temporarily unshackled himself from the dangerous situation before even more Heaven Lightning swarmed into the destroyed lightning waterfall. The split waterfall returned to its original state, if not even stronger and charged right back at Zhong Yue.

  My innate Qi can only last for three moves and it will deplete after that but the Heaven Lightning here is endless. My energy can’t last forever!

  His eyes flashed as he stared at the Heaven Lightning swarming towards him; these Heaven Lightning contained various totem carvings and among each He
aven Lightning, there were different totem carvings and even if he tried his best to calculate, he would be smitten into ashes by the Heaven Lightning.

  If Si Ming could pull it off, then so can I!

  He let out a shriek, sucked in at least ten Heaven Lightning into his stomach and forcefully melted them with the mortal body furnace. Without flinching at all, Zhong Yue charged back at the lighting waterfall.

  Zhong Yue’s energy rumbled for a second and in an instant, the four innate Qi flew out from his body, merged into his sabers and formed the [Tai Chi Art] before it shrunk and flew right into the lightning waterfall.

  It was the third style of the [God Slaying Three Styles] — [Dao Crusher]!

  The power of [Dao Crusher] exploded, the black and white [Tai Chi Art] expanded with the great sun and great moon circling around within the celestial and demonic Qi, slicing the waterfall apart as countless saber Qi went straight towards the waterfall’s core and decimated its source!

  Without breaking the core and its source, this lightning waterfall will not cease reforming, thus, Zhong Yue boldly went straight after the source of the waterfall!

  In the air, twin dragons roared while the lighting and thunder rumbled. The two terrifying powers clashed together and an intense battle broke out!

  Zhong Yue roared and turned into a giant with his hands raised above his head, lifting the Tai Chi Picture straight towards the skies. The [Dao Crusher] was much more energy-consuming than the other two moves in the [God Slaying Three Styles]. Zhong Yue clearly felt that his energy was depleting at an alarming speed and that it would not take long until he wears his energy out!

  At the same time, the pressure on him amplified as if he were really holding on a waterfall that fell from the skies.

  Zhong Yue gritted his teeth hard and his veins bulged like dragons slithering beneath his skins when he charged right into the Nine Skies.

  The Tai Chi Picture in his [Dao Crusher] that possessed even more intense saber Qi destroyed the endless lightning in his path. Thunder rumbled out as the lightning shattered and dispersed.