Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  Clearly, Mister Bi Luo was alerted by the movements just now and he decided to come out and take a look.

  The warden called Jia Zi bowed, “Mister, there was something strange trying to sneak into the prison but failed. It used the Dark Age’s Space Dao to cut away our hand. Yi Chou is now in pursuit.”

  “The Dark Age’s Space Dao?”

  The surprised Mister Bi Luo said, “Dark Age’s art? There aren’t many practitioners in this day and age. Even those old monsters had given up on the Dark Age’s arts in favor of the current totem pattern cultivation system. Seems like they’re trying to sneak into the prison by not using his real arts and techniques.”

  The warden reported, “Thankfully he failed.”

  “You should have let him sneak into the prison.”

  Mister Bi Luo rebutted, “If he entered the prison, then there would be nowhere to run. But now, Yi Chou might not even be able to catch him.”

  At the side of the prison, the ancient ship sailed all the way downwards, diving through the wild lightning. This Heavenly Prison was just like an angry tornado, creating sparks as it spun around, emitting lightning constantly and formed a heavy thunder layer around.

  When the ship sailed in the thunder layer, Zhong Yue’s heart was pounding nervously. The lightning’s power was far greater than what he had seen in the Lei Zhe sacred grounds!

  In the Lei Zhe sacred grounds, the Desolate Lightning Tribulation there was for Qi Practitioners, but when compared to the Desolate Lightning here, the Desolate Lightning Tribulation was so much weaker!

  Every strike of Desolate Lightning here was ridiculously thick and long, like an ancient dragon, each time they struck onto the ancient ship, the power rumbled the ship like a tiny boat in the raging ocean!

  There is nowhere to go on the outside now and the power here is terrifying!

  Zhong Yue did everything to stabilize the ship, looking at the Desolate Lightning and his eyes lit up, If I can cultivate Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace here, the cultivation speed will be incredible! If I absorbed the lightning here, I will be able to enter the next level with the lightning!

  The [Innate Eight Trigrams] was activated as Zhong Yue tried drawing the lightning into his body, his [Innate Eight Trigrams] covered a wide span and it lit up brightly each time the lightning struck onto it!

  Even so, the [Innate Eight Trigrams] looked so tiny before the overwhelming lightning.

  Zhong Yue’s Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace was quickly activated and started absorbing the raging lightning power while the [Innate Eight Trigrams] turned the power into his own energy.

  As the energy surged into his body, Zhong Yue trembled upon the overwhelming energy gushing out from Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace. Not only was his innate lightning Dao rapidly strengthening, but his other Daos were also experiencing leaps!

  The Heavenly Prison was a dangerous place for others. But to him, it was a cultivation sacred ground!

  Zhong Yue closed his eyes, suddenly, the totem patterns around [Innate Eight Trigrams] changed and from far away, it looked just like a massive Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace.

  The Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace moved as the ship moved, devouring all the lightning that it came into contact with.

  His cultivation speed increased by tenfold again and Zhong Yue praised, If only I can keep cultivating here….

  Meanwhile, Yi Chou was flying swiftly, but oddly enough, the lightning around had nothing on this Heavenly Warden.

  The ancient ship was struck by numerous lightning bolts, rendering it unable to hide within the dimension swiftly. The dimensions around were shattered by the lightning, exposing the thousand winged ancient ship from time to time.

  And in no time, Yi Chou would arrive.

  Zhong Yue frowned. If it were on the outside world, Yi Chou would never be able to catch up with him, but with fierce lightning here, it was impossible to shake him off.

  However, neither was it easy for Yi Chou to catch up to him since the torn dimensions were still slowing him down.

  Isn’t this Heavenly Prison way too long?

  After sailing for god knew how long, Zhong Yue discovered that the surroundings looked the same as when he started.

  This length was a little terrifying. It had even surpassed the Imperial Star and Heaven Court!

  “Xin Huo, did you build this prison?” asked Zhong Yue.

  “No.”

  Xin Huo shook, “I only built the Earth Order Era’s Heavenly Prison. This is probably built in the God Order Era.”

  Also amazed by what they saw, the little flame added, “The arts and techniques back then were not as advanced as the ones we now know. That person who built this prison was incredible. He was probably on the cusp of ascending to a Dao God when he built this prison, or there would’ve been no way to extend the tiny dimension around the prison to such an extent.”

  The Heavenly Prison, small?

  Zhong Yue took a look around and he slowly saw the reason why Xin Huo said this.

  While the prison looked massive, this feeling intensified when he got closer to the prison, even the ancient ship needed a lot of time to reach from one end to another. It was even larger than the Imperial Star at first glance.

  But after being pointed out, Zhong Yue quickly discovered something illogical around here.

  Compared to the Heaven Court, which was a giant, the prison was just the little thumb of the giant.

  The only reason why this prison looked so huge was that the creator of this prison carved minor totem patterns onto totem patterns.

  It was just like drawing a massive totem pattern in the skies, then carving smaller patterns into the large one, and then carving even smaller ones, repeating until there was no more space left.

  And that was just for reality, what about the dimensions?

  By carving totem patterns into the dimensions nonstop, this amazing scene where there was no end to the Heavenly Prison was formed.

  If someone were to fall into the totem patterns, they would be stuck in an endless loop of falling across different levels, from the largest pattern, to the medium and the tiniest patterns, falling from one dimension into another, before reaching the final point.

  And that point was where the real Heavenly Prison was located, where dangerous characters like Crown Prince Fu Shang were all locked in!

  During the falling process, one would not be able to see the Heavenly Prison but instead, they would feel that the prison was immensely vast with its ridiculous length.

  In truth, the Heavenly Prison was just like a dimensional funnel shaped structure, it may be huge but not as huge as one saw.

  Thank god I did not fall into the prison or I would have been trapped there forever!

  Zhong Yue shivered at the thought. If he fell into the prison, he would land on the inseparable dot along with the ancient ship, where the chances of escaping was extremely slim.

  So, how did Si Ming save Fu Shang from there?

  But right now, there was no one to answer Zhong Yue’s questions. The Heavenly Prison was big, but there was still an end to it, after flying for more than ten days, they finally arrived at the end of the prison. Zhong Yue gradually saw the place that was described and marked out by Feng Xiaozhong on the star map. It was the place Feng Xiaozhong arrived at after exiting the Imperial Road of Heavenly Monarch.

  “The ancient continent!”

  Xin Huo shouted in excitement, “The Fire Order Era Imperial Star’s remnant!”

  As they got closer to the ancient continent, Zhong Yue grew more and more excited; this continent was the pieces of the once Imperial Star of the Fire Order Era. The Earth Order Era’s Heaven Court preserved this vast and ancient land and with that, the Imperial Road of Heavenly Monarch created by Sui Sovereign managed to exist until now.

  And now, Zhong Yue had arrived at the once Imperial Star, stood on Imperial Road of Heavenly Monarch and walk the path Yanzi Clan and Fuxi Celestial Race’s monarchs
once walked!

  Hong long—

  The ancient ship trembled as if it sailed through an invisible barrier, breaching through a sealed dimension and entering the atmosphere of the ancient continents.

  Zhong Yue looked up and saw a ridiculously long funnel.

  The Heavenly Prison!

  Just as he anticipated, this Heavenly Prison was a massive funnel and a terrifying innate monarch weapon!

  The lightning and thunder layers around was a supernatural phenomenal created by it when it circled around!

  Upon entering the continent, the entire Heavenly Prison could be seen emerging through the layers of dimensions that looked like a thick book. The funnel pierced through the book, absorbing and suppressing everything!

  “Who made this dimension funnel? Heaven or the evil existence?” murmured Zhong Yue.

  “This is one of the strongest monarch weapons in the world!”

  With a serious expression, Xin Huo mumbled, “A monarch weapon even stronger than Hundun Clan’s Fusang Divine Tree! I wonder which is stronger, this dimension funnel or Dao Venerate Fu Min’s Heavenly Monarch Sword?”

  Chapter 1022: Leader |

  The ancient continent.

  Zhong Yue looked up, apart from the prison, he could also see the Heaven Court, but it was distant like it was the mist drawn in the picture, giving off an unrealistic vibe as if it were in another dimension.

  “What a strange place, the Fire Order Era Imperial Star’s remnant is actually hidden here, this power is really….”

  Zhong Yue was more than surprised upon feeling this enormous fire elemental power that traced all the way back to the ancient era. This was the lingering power of the Sui Sovereigns. This was after all, once the place where all the Fire Order Era’s monarchs ruled. Their power had turned this Imperial Star into a massive divine weapon!

  Though it had been such a long time, the power of that era still remained!

  Just by sensing this enormous Fire Order Era’s Dao, Zhong Yue could already tell that this era was an era filled with brute power. Fire represented brute power, creation and destruction!

  It was not until the Fire Order Era that the universe belonged to the postnatal beings!

  It was the postnate that created civilizations!

  So, Senior Martial Brother Feng was teleported here.

  Zhong Yue tarried around on the ancient ship, trying to locate the Imperial Road’s exit. The Imperial Road was a two way path, one could enter Celestial Fire Star through Zi Wei and vice versa as long as the exit was found.

  And with Xin Huo around, even if the portal was destroyed, it could still be fixed.

  Zhong Yue continued searching when suddenly, the skies tore apart as the gigantic body of the Heavenly Warden Yi Chou descended, chasing after the traces left behind by Zhong Yue.

  But Zhong Yue was indifferent, with a simple thought, the ship’s wings sliced right into the dimension, disappearing into its crack that quickly recovered, erasing any trace of it existing.

  With a sharp gaze, Yi Chou scanned around while letting out a toad-like croak and seconds later, horrible powers gushed out, the mountains shook and fire started emerging around them. These grand mountains then stood out, turning into towering fire giants that breathed out dense smoke from their noses and there was fire amidst the smoke!

  “Heaven’s messenger, what is it that you seek from summoning us?”

  On the ancient continent stood hundreds of fire giants and the fire giant turned from the largest mountain looked at Yi Chou.

  Though the Heavenly Warden was also huge in size, he was simply dwarfed by this fire giant.

  The fire giant’s body was made of larva and fire, entirely shrouded in the Fire Order Era’s Daos; these fire giants were all born from the ancient continent’s toughest rock and fiercest fire from the Fire Era Order’s Imperial Star.

  This fire giant had the head of a dragon and the body of a snake. It also sported an eye on its forehead, looking as mighty as a Heavenly Monarch or Sui Sovereign but there was no life form in it, with all signs pointing to it being a spirit.

  With a slow and steady voice, the giant asked Yi Chou’s purpose here.

  “There is an enemy in your place of residence!”

  Yi Chou looked high up towards the fire giant and said, “He had dived into your dimension and as per the ancient agreement, you will have to locate him for us!”

  “Ancient agreement?”

  The fire in the giant’s eyes burnt fiercely and let out earth shattering voice when he opened his mouth, “The ancient agreement… We guardians came into agreement with Heaven that the last land of the Fire Order Era belongs to us but we are not to leave this place, and that we will have to follow Heaven’s order. Are you ordering us to abide by his agreement?”

  “Yes!”

  Yi Chou shouted, “Carry out your promise!”

  “If there is an agreement, we shall honor it.”

  The fire giants rose to the air before scattering into the skies and earth in search of Zhong Yue.

  Yi Chou continued looking around while flying towards the far side as he murmured, “With the aid of these Fire Order Era’s spirits, finding this intruder will be easy. Hmmm? Did this intruder know that there is a safe path out of this dreadful place? I must be careful!”

  Not long later, he arrived at an ancient ruins on a mountainous area and these mountains were all filled with green copper rust.

  Yi Chou shouted, “Ding Si, Yi Wen, Geng Shen, show yourselves!”

  Suddenly, loud banging noise came from the ruins as large jars came jumping out, the sealed jarhead had head on them and there were about 14 of these jars.

  These jars with head were also Heavenly Wardens; back in the ancient universe, they were caught off guard by Si Ming and baited into the Jitong Clan, a monarch race.

  Conflicts rose between the two parties and in the end, with the monarch weapon, Jitong Clan fused these wardens’ body and Yuan Shen with these jars and threw them out as retaliation and humiliation.

  After fusing with these jars, these wardens became strange life forms, these jars could not be broken or they would die.

  This was a very impressive spell that even Mister Bi Luo and the master of the Heavenly Prison were powerless before this spell. Besides, due to their appearance and their actions that brought shame to the Heavenly Prison, these wardens were banished to this place to guard the ruins.

  Yi Chou ordered, “Ding Si, there is an enemy around, guard this place with everything you have, the enemy mustn’t escape!”

  The 14 wardens nodded. These jars grew in size and their heads enlarged as well when they ascended into the air, but because of how they had no limbs, they looked extremely weird.

  Being all powerful existences, these 14 wardens knew that they couldn’t lift this spell and so they decided to cultivate the jars into weapons that could grow and shrink.

  The 14 jars then set up a perimeter on the highest mountain in the ruins before sweeping around carefully.

  With them around, the intruder’s final avenue of escape was also blocked off.

  Yi Chou was feeling confident right now. He looked towards the fire giants searching around, these Fire Order Era spirits were all immensely powerful and they had been keeping watch on the Fire Order Era’s last remaining land loyally for ages.

  They had the ability to travel within the dimension of the ancient continental, going in and out freely with not even the Sui Sovereign Dao that remained in the ancient continent being able to stop them.

  They were spirits birthed by the Fire Order Era’s Imperial Star. There were just way too many Sui Sovereigns that resided in the Imperial Star. Though failing in birthing Sui Sovereign’s form innate gods, with the many Sui Sovereigns’ fate, destiny, power and might condensed in this place, these fire spirits were born.

  If the Fire Order Era lasted long enough, then there would be innate gods birthed in the Imperial Star that took the form of the Sui Sovereign, but there
was just not enough time and the end of Fire Order Era had arrived.

  But even after the end of Fire Order Era and the extinction of Yanzi Clan, these fire spirits prevailed.

  After entering the Earth Order Era, the Fuxi Celestial Race, who were the descendants of the Yanzi Clan, gifted this land to the fire spirits. At the end of the Earth Order Era and the extinction of Fuxi Celestial Race, these fire spirits made a deal with Heaven that this place would be the last remaining ground of the Fire Order Era.

  On the other hand, the ancient ship was forced into running around in the dimensions, but it was still no match for these fire spirits’ pursuit. The dragon-headed and serpent-tailed fire spirit dove in and out of the dimensions, triggering the remaining Imperial Road of Heavenly Monarch in this ancient continental and Zhong Yue’s ancient ship was struck by the many monarch level Daos; even if the ancient ship were an exotic item forged in the Dark Age by the many Deity Kings, it still couldn’t handle the overwhelming pressure!

  Not long later, with an explosion, the ancient ship was slammed out of the dimension. It rolled around before slamming onto a mountain, shattering it and continuing to slide on the ground before finally coming to a stop.

  At this point, the damaged thousand winged ancient wing started burning fiercely, this ancient ship made of condensed Dark Age’s Daos was lit up by the fire spirits and it actually started burning!

  The ship created by the Dark Age’s Deity Kings, one with the ability to enter the Dao Realm was actually defenseless against these fire spirits’ fire!

  Surrounded by these fire spirits, the ancient ship’s surrounding started to destabilize under the fiery fire!

  Yi Chou’s heart lit up happily and he hurriedly towards the crushing site, only to find a giant emerging from the ancient ship. Unlike the dragon headed fire spirits, this giant had the head of a human, a divine third eye in his forehead and he was talking to these fire spirits, speaking about something he could not hear from this distance.

  Is that a.. Fuxi? A living Fuxi?

  Unconsciously, Yi Chou slowed down and hid at the side, observed as the Fuxi spoke with the hundred fire spirits. After taking a look at this newly appeared giant, these fire spirits directed their boiling psyche into the Fuxi’s body.