Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  Weng—

  The defensive cloaks were activated, protected the Louchuan Warships and Yin Fukang looked around nervously.

  Ka cha—

  The Heavenly River split apart as countless huge tentacles grabbed onto a warship and dragged this warship whose defensive cloak has yet to be fully activated into the water along with the soldiers in it!

  Chapter 967: Navy Combat |

  Underneath the water, massive Star Beasts rampaged, dragging Yinkang Clan’s warships into the river, melting and corroding the gods on board. Zhong Yue hurriedly looked towards the water and noticed that these Star Beasts looked similar to octopus and were able to resist the pressure in the water and the strange lasers.

  These strange creatures hugged onto the warships, wrapping their tentacles around the ships and tearing away their defensive cloaks with their suction cups.

  On their tentacles and skin was stardust. Some of the stardusts had already enlarged and when looked from far away, they looked like huge eyes.

  Zhong Yue’s expression changed as he recalled the Starry River around the Heaven Suppression Fortress that was about the same as the Heavenly River. The Starry River was extremely dangerous; even the Creators were not able to stay in the water for long.

  There were about 500 million gods in the Heaven Suppression Fortress, organizing in the same way as the Heaven Court’s army. But his navy was nothing compared to the Heavenly River Naval Fleet!

  If the Heavenly River Naval Fleet attacked Heaven Suppression Fortress, the fortress’ naval will not last at all!

  “Deploy the Yin Ghosts out and slaughter these beasts!”

  With an order, small boats slipped out from the warships and fell into the water. Zhong Yue immediately noticed major differences in these gods on the small boats compared to the others.

  The gods in the Yinkang Clan’s main force cultivated the demon races’ arts, which bestowed them with tremendously powerful bodies, and though the gods in the small boats, they were also from the Yinkang Clan, having cultivated a way different art.

  These Yinkang Clan’s demon gods focused on cultivating their Yuan Shen. Apart from that, their body was cultivated to a point where they are half real and half void.

  With that, they had become very much like the Wei Shen Race’s Ghost Gods, who were all naturally gifted, bestowed with bodies and Yuan Shen that hovered between the boundary real and void. The Wei Shen Race was a very unique race where their people were able to traverse in the Hell and the real world freely.

  If the Ghost Gods entered the Heavenly River, they would also be able to travel within the water freely without being injured by the Heavenly River.

  And right now, the Yinkang Clan’s Yin Ghosts were also similar; as the monarch race among the demon race, Yinkang Clan was indeed impressive that they were able to produce an army that completely abandoned the ability to fight on the land and on the water in order to achieve supremacy in combat underwater!

  These Yin Ghosts must have sacrificed a lot for their race as they wouldn’t be able to battle on the land and on the water. But once under the water, no one was their match!

  As these boats slid into the water, countless Yin Ghosts dived right into the river with tridents in their hands and turned into gigantic Yin Ghosts, surrounding the Star Beasts and stabbing the trident right into their bodies.

  The blood gushing out from the Star Beasts’ body quickly dyed the river red and the massive beasts were all being slaughtered.

  While the Star Beasts were powerful against massive warships like the Louchuan Warships, they were all powerless before the Yin Ghosts; the Star Beasts were absurdly powerful but before Yin Ghosts whose body was in between the void and reality, raw body strength was useless and only skills could hurt these Yin Ghosts.

  However, as strange creatures born within the Heavenly River, these Star Beasts were all deprived of intelligence so they were unable to cultivate at all, which rendered them powerless against these Yin Ghosts.

  Meanwhile, Lou Zhengshi’s fleet was already close and after seeing the flag codes signaled from his fleet, Yin Fukang’s expression changed again and he shouted, “Men, brace yourselves! Their Ghost Gods is coming!”

  At this time, the two fleets were not very far apart and when Zhong Yue looked towards the opposite, he saw one after another Ghost Gods leaping from the warships and diving into the water.

  The Wei Shen Race was one of the many clans that stood on the Heaven Court’s side. Though not as strong as the sovereign, monarch and other races, they were extremely powerful in the water and in the Hell Reincarnation, they could even triumph against even monarch races!

  In this universe, there were various races and each of them excelled in different fields, once used properly, they could all unleash strength beyond imagination!

  As the commander of the Heavenly River Naval Fleet, Imperial Emperor Lou Zhengshi definitely knew how to draw out the full potential of his fleet. Now, the Ghost Gods were sent out to snipe the Yin Ghosts.

  Beneath the water, silent combat erupted. The Yin Ghosts and Ghost Gods fought each other to death and the Yinkang Clan’s warships continued launching their attack towards Lou Zhengshi’s fleet; though the Yinkang Clan’s warships have suffered some losses due to the Star Beasts, most of the warships remained in perfect condition.

  On the command ship, Lou Zhengshi gave out an order again and after seeing the flag orders from the opposite side, Yin Fukang hurriedly got the Yinkang Clan’s warships to retreat.

  “Lou Zhengshi just ordered his men to hurl the Heavenly Fire Celestial Lightning into the water! What a sneaky bastard! Retreat at once!”

  Yin Fukang then ordered again, “Spread out the Ghostly Fire Demon Lightning to block them off.”

  Then, countless Ghostly Fire Demon Lightning rolled out from the cabin door, absorbing the energy in the river and floating underneath the water.

  On the other hand, the Heavenly River Naval Fleet spread out the Heavenly Fire Celestial Lightning, which also absorbed the energy in the river and awaited their prey.

  This time, upon seeing the retreating Yinkang Clan’s warships, Lou Zhengshi dosed off for a second and he smirked again, “Yinkang Clan had deciphered our naval flag code. Change to the other flag code!”

  After changing the flag code, Lou Zhengshi immediately ordered the Mine-Sweeping Flying Chariots to attack. On the flying chariots, the soldiers traveled quickly on the water surface and wherever they passed, the Ghostly Fire Demon Lightning detonated, raising huge waves on the river.

  With the immense speed, as the flying chariots detonated the mines, they were already out of the blasting zones and only a few of the chariots and the men on it were blast into pieces.

  The Heavenly River Naval Fleet continued the mine sweeping progress and after having the new flag code seen through by Yin Fukang, Lou Zhengshi changed to another one and smirked, “Yinkang Clan is indeed cunning. They must have snuck into the command post and stolen the secrets in our flag codes. But how are you going to have information on all 360 flag codes of our Heavenly River Naval Fleet?”

  On the other hand, Yin Fukang sweated after being unable to understand the new flag code, “I don’t understand that new flag code! Banner officers! Summon every strategist here to decipher their flag codes!”

  The banner officers executed the order quickly and the specialists immediately started deciphering the flag code.

  Meanwhile, after observing the opposite side’s flag code, the countless Yin and Yang Lines in Zhong Yue’s Dao Yi Secret Realm started shifting swiftly and in just a few breathing time, Zhong Yue entirely deciphered the flag code.

  “Father, they are preparing the Heavenly Scorpio.”

  Yin Fukang was surprised and happy, “You understand their flag code?”

  “I suppose I am slightly capable at this.”

  Confidence returned to Yin Fukang and he immediately ordered, “Order! Raise the Golden Wheat Shields! After that, get the ballistas ready!�
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  Upon receiving the order, the gods on the warships immediately raised up the golden wheats, which floated into the air, turned into cloud-like shield walls that shrouded even the skies.

  Suddenly, the warships from the Heavenly River Naval Fleet were pushed backward by the recoil from firing massive arrows that were rained towards the Yinkang Clan’s fleet.

  These arrows were forged from divine woods, which bestowed them with immense power and weight; as they flew, they tore the skies apart but when they came into contact with the golden wheat cloud, they were entirely stopped.

  “Get the ballistas!”

  One after another ballistas were set up, each controlled by a couple dozens of gods and the arrows were mounted firmly.

  After a moment, as sky-ripping noise sounded, the Yinkang Clan’s gods retaliated!

  But the massive bolts were powerless before the Black Tortoise Celestial Race’s Black Tortoise Shield in the Heavenly River Naval Fleet! After a series of loud crashes, these bolts then exploded before falling back into the river.

  Again!

  Lou Zhengshi’s eyes twitched and he smirked again, “I don’t believe that you’d decipher all of them! Men, summon the two innate gods.”

  After taking a close look at Lou Zhengshi’s flag code, Zhong Yue said again, “They are sending out the innate gods.”

  Yin Fukang’s mind went blank for a quick second and he burst out laughing, “Has Lou Zhengshi lost his mind? Sending out the innate gods? On naval battle like this, there is nothing the innate god can do! In the Heaven Court, there are 18 innate gods that are recruited by Heavenly Monarch Di Ming and two innate gods distributed to the Heavenly River Naval Fleet will only be two at most! I can take them down in one wave of arrows!”

  “We must not underestimate them.”

  Zhong Yue frowned, “Innate gods are powerful and to be able to sent into naval battles, they must have some sort of abilities or they wouldn’t even be in Heavenly River Naval Fleet.”

  Yin Fukang, however, was not bothered at all, “Don’t worry, they wouldn’t be able to do anything in the Heavenly River.”

  And that was when Dao language echoed everywhere across the Heavenly River. This Dao language belonged to none of the current divine language, it was much more ancient and it contained the secrets from the ancient Dark Age.

  Innate Dao language!

  Zhong Yue and Yin Fanxuan’s expression changed; on the opposite, the two innate gods were extremely huge and they were standing on the bow of the same warship. Like twins, these innate gods had six arms and they raised their arms slightly as if they were holding endless power.

  And that Dao language was coming from the two innate gods.

  As the Dao language sung by the two innate gods resonated, the Dao language rumbled and echoed across the heaven and earth!

  With each second passed by, the chantings rippled the water, creating larger and larger rogue waves that charged towards the Yinkang Clan’s fleet!

  The two innate gods, one chanted wind Dao language, the other chanted wave Dao language, flipped the Heavenly River upside down as they attempted to destroy the Yinkang Clan’s fleet with tremendous waves!

  “Fanxuan!”

  Zhong Yue shouted and his wife immediately knew what he meant; the husband and wife arrived at the ship’s end, chanted innate Dao language loudly and the rogue waves and rampaging wind calmed down immediately.

  “King Yi and Madam Yi are indeed impressive! You have mastered the Dao language but you are nowhere near as good as us!”

  The two innate gods laughed and the wonders in their Dao language gradually became even more advanced, creating the storm again before directing it towards the Yinkang Clan’s fleet again with relentless power!

  Zhong Yue and Yin Fanxuan’s clothes waved vigorously against the wind and they lost their balance.

  “Senior martial brothers, pardon me for my rudeness.”

  At this time, Moon God stood forward, moving her beautiful lips and chanting the innate Dao language.

  Chapter 968: Breaking The Formation |

  She stretched her hands to the side, the chants in the innate Dao language sounded like a beautiful melody. There was countless sand in the Heavenly River, among which were endless stars that ascended into the air, lighting up the river as they turned into moons.

  The storm rampaged crazily, slamming into these stars, but even more moons appeared, causing even stronger tidal effects, lifting the warships in the Heavenly River high before the waves fell again.

  The Dao language that the Moon God was chanting right now was the “tide”. Along with her identity as the innate moon god that controlled the moons that caused tidal effects, she became even more powerful and unrestricted as the two innate gods were chanting the “wind” and “wave” Dao language.

  Whereas for Zhong Yue and Yin Fanxuan, the two chanted the “halt” Dao language in an attempt to cease the storm, but given the much stronger strength from the two innate gods, they failed to stop the storm.

  Now with the help of the Moon God, the two immediately changed and chanted the “tide” Dao language, assisting the Moon God and causing the Heavenly River to ripple even more vigorously!

  With that, whether it be how hard the two innate gods tried to create stronger waves, their resistance was proven futile as not only did they fail to destroy the tides, their energy even fueled the tides even further.

  Now, the waves charged up and down, causing turbulence that knocked every warship off balance, increasing the difficulty to maneuver.

  “Halt!”

  The two innate gods’ Dao language changed, dropping the moons from the skies into the river and greatly weakening the tides’ power.

  “Moon God, have you decided to join Imperial Emperor Xian Tian?”

  One of the innate gods shouted, “We are from the same sect. You joined the sect a few years later than us, Lin Xun Twins and that makes you our junior martial sister. By right, for every reason, we should go easy on you but we hope that you will understand that we are serving different lords now.”

  Moon God nodded, “I understand.”

  Lin Xun Twins were two innate gods born from the worshippings of the Lin Clan and Xun Clan respectively. Since birth, they were both in the Deity Emperor level.

  These two clans had always been living together as if they were twins. The children in these two clans had the same mother; whenever a female was impregnated, she would always give birth to a pair of twins. However, the twins did not look the same so they were divided into two races; Lins had tiger claws and Xuns had thick scales. Apart from their claws and scales, they all looked the same.

  Lin Xun Twins were innate gods born from the Lin and Xun Clan’s worshipping, birth in the twin stars and because how the concept of innate gods in these two clans was about the same, the Lin Xun Twins had the similar looks.

  They joined Bi Luo Palace far earlier than Moon God but because they were the racial gods, it became difficult to break through the restrictions. They were born as Deity Emperors, and after working hard for a very long time, they had yet to become a Creator.

  Even so, their power was still much stronger than the other Deity Emperor magnates, especially after the innate Dao language taught by Bi Luo Palace was mastered by them.

  Now, as they channeled everything they had, they’ve suppressed the combined might of Zhong Yue, Yin Fanxuan and Moon God while the Heavenly River Naval Fleet was pushing in under Lou Zhengshi’s lead.

  However, with the Lin Xun Twins completely occupied by the trio, they could not suppress Yinkang Clan’s fleet anymore and Yin Fukang immediately backed off, adding even more difficult for the Heavenly River Naval Fleet to catch up.

  Zhong Yue, Yin Fanxuan and Moon God also changed into another innate Dao language, this time, it was the “universe” Dao language; the dimension between the two fleets kept on splitting apart, tearing the Heavenly River’s surface and further increasing the gap between the fleets.

/>   Lin Xun Twins waved their six arms in the air senselessly as if they were knitting something and in a second, bridges fell from the skies, connected the torn Heavenly River again and the Heavenly River Naval Fleet’s fleet sailed past these bridges.

  The scene was made impressive and exciting as these outstanding individuals battled each other with the Dao languages.

  After another few days of pursuing, Heavenly River Naval Fleet managed to close in the gap again; Mengchong Warships were unleashed from the Louchuan Warships. With the thousand pairs of wings flapping quickly, these Mengchong Warships were closing in fast but the Yinkang Clan’s fleet was already not very far away from the State of Heavenly River. It would only take a day or two if they moved in full speed, hence, Lou Zhengshi decided to place his bets on the Mengchong Warships by having them to stall the Yinkang Clan’s fleet no matter the cost!

  “Spread the mines!”

  Yin Fukang shouted with a serious expression, “Welcome them with the mines!”

  Countless Ghostly Fire Demon Lightning were dropped into the river and every Mengchong Warships that came into contact with them were blasted into pieces!

  Behind them, the flying chariots slit the river apart with the speed wheels, took over the Mengchuan Warships and cleared the mines for them.

  “Open fire!”

  Yin Fukang ordered and the warships slanted to another side due to the massive recoil from the cannon firings while one after another demonic light pillars swept across the field.

  The Mengchong Warships and flying chariots immediately maneuvered away from the light pillars and that massively decreased their speed.

  “As long as we are back in the State of Heavenly River, none of them will be able to run away alive!” said Yin Fukang ferociously.

  Right now, they were still keeping the Heavenly River Naval Fleet’s main force stalled, preventing them from catching up but suddenly, an officer reported, “Clan master! There is another fleet ahead!”

  “Another fleet of warships?”