Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  Mo Yuanshu led his surviving junior martial brother and moved forward. The other two demon Monarch’s disciples were killed by the Nine Lives Black Wok Mushroom’s illusions. He replied lazily, “The Evil Monarch and Dark Monarch have always been hostile. Why do you want to drag me into your affairs?”

  Bright lights shot out from the Picture of Armistice and the two disappeared in it.

  Rays flashed across Evil Emperor Gao Yin’s eyes as he laughed, “Brother Qiushan, your Celestial Monarch Palace is long-standing rivals with the Demon Monarch Palace. Why don’t you and I both work together and take down Mo Yuanshu first. This will help you get rid of a rival! In turn, you will help me take down the Dark Monarch’s Dao kids!”

  Shen Qiushan led his two junior martial brothers and entered the Picture of Armistice. He said with a vague smile on his face, “Senior Martial Brother Gao’s offer is very enticing, but regretfully, your past has left me dubious of you. I fear that Senior Martial Brother Gao will stab me in the back instead.”

  Gao Yin laughed, “Brother Qiushan, hear yourself, what are you saying? You and I, we will both be invincible here! Brother Qiushan, wait for me, we can discuss the details together!”

  Feng Yulan, Du Ya, and the others also entered the picture and disappeared in it.

  “Lady Monarch Shui Mo? The Shui Mo Six Paths World of the 3,000 Six Paths Worlds?”

  Zhong Yue and Hundun Yu walked over and saw the experts disappearing in the pictures. He was puzzled while Hundun Yu was seen startled for a second. He took out a mirror from his Yuan Shen secret realms and the image of a lady monarch appeared inside of the mirror. Behind the lady floated a scroll of a picture.

  Zhong Yue looked at the picture inside of the mirror and found it to be the same as the one in the Fuxi’s Ancestral Court. However, the one in the mirror lacked the latter’s vivid quality.

  “So this is the Picture of Armistice?” Zhong Yue was curious.

  Hundun Yu nodded, “My grand ancestor once helped Lady Monarch Shui Mo imprint herself in the mirror. Grand ancestor said before that he wanted to have a taste of the worldly emotions. He wanted to taste love and hate, among many other emotions. He didn’t want to waste his trip in the universe. Thus, he had a relationship with the lady monarch, but as time passed, their feelings faded, and their destiny together ultimately ended.”

  Hundun Yu said as he slowly unfolded the unknown history, “The lady monarch’s Picture of Armistice was drawn based on a legend that dates far back. It was a catastrophic war that took place during the transition period from the prehistoric to the ancient era. She was inspired to draw the Picture of Armistice. Rumor had it that the Picture of Armistice had something to do with the Fuxi Clan too.”

  Zhong Yue was startled, the transition to the ancient era?

  That would be the period of time of chaos between the Fire Order Era and Earth Order Era!

  That would be the period of time when the Fuxi Clan’s ancestors, Sovereign Xi and Goddess Nuwa, pacified the chaos!

  Lady Monarch Shui Mo’s Picture of Armistice, was it the only record of that lost history?

  He quickly looked at the Picture of Armistice. But the monarch weapon was too huge, it was impossible to see it all with one eye.

  “Picture of Armistice?”

  His heart skipped a beat, he saw the gods in the picture still moving, as if they were alive!

  These gods were waging war in the battlefield. Their broken parts and severed limbs flew all over the place as their faces were vivid with bloodthirst. Some were seen gritting their teeth, some were ferociously roaring, and some were crying in sorrow. Not only that, but their expressions continued to undergo various changes as time passed.

  “The Lady Monarch Shui Mo’s Six Paths Reincarnations sure has unimaginable power.”

  Zhong Yue praised in awe of the picture. The picture itself formed a system of Six Paths Reincarnations. Every single thing in the picture was a creation of the Picture of Armistice’s Six Paths Reincarnations. They were just there in the picture, reincarnating endlessly.

  Thus, the battles of the gods would go on, forever and ever!

  Moreover, the gods in the picture were real gods. They were alive and had consciousness and intelligence. But unlike those outside of the picture, they were simply two-dimensional, creations of the picture!

  In the flat picture, they had gone through life and death, endless cycles of reincarnations.

  If one were sucked into the picture, they would turn two-dimensional too and fall into Lady Monarch Shui Mo’s Six Paths Reincarnations!

  To be able to cultivate to this level, Lady Monarch Shui Mo was truly admirable!

  Thus, it was clear that this stage was set to test one’s attainments in the Six Paths Reincarnations.

  Zhong Yue mulled, Lady Monarch Shui Mo’s corpse was not here, there was no way he could keep the Picture of Armistice. That said, the only way to pass this stage was to enter the picture.

  “Senior Martial Brother Yu, do you have the confidence to make it through?” Zhong Yue asked.

  Hundun Yu smiled, “Mister Yi, don’t worry about me. My grand ancestor and the lady monarch are old friends, the Hundun Clan knows a little of her cultivation arts and techniques.”

  Zhong Yue then remembered that the Hundun Clan grand ancestor and the lady monarch were once a couple. Although they didn’t end up together in the end, Hundun Yu would still be able to keep his life even if he failed the test in the Picture of Armistice.

  Then, the two walked forward and the Picture of Armistice absorbed them into the picture as one of the many gods on it.

  When he was sucked away by the bright lights, all Zhong Yue could see around were just pure lights. These lights were colorful and formed into one halo after another. The bright lights brought him through six halos, each time he passed through a halo, he could sense some changes happening in his mortal body and Yuan Shen. It was truly a strange feeling.

  Finally, when the lights were gone, and he alighted to the ground. He inspected himself and found a peculiar truth.

  He had become a two-dimensional entity!

  His skin was the same colors, his clothes had the same patterns, but the mountains and rivers in the surroundings were all like paper, no having any thickness!

  Zhong Yue tried to turn his hand and an even stranger occurrence took place. His hand was turning, but there were no actual sensations of it turning. All he could see was his hand turning from the top of his palm, to the back of his hand.

  He turned around and found himself having no sides.

  But what was stranger was that every time he moved, there would be endless changes to his size, different ‘angles’ with different ‘sizes’.

  He visualized the divine dragon and the skill burst forward. Even the skill had turned into a paper divine dragon as it lunged forward, shattering the top of the mountain in front of it.

  And even the shattered stones and rocks were flat as well

  “What a peculiar world,” Zhong Yue couldn’t help but praise. Lady Monarch Shui Mo was one of the paragons during Dao Venerate Fu Min’s era. Her Two Yuan 1 Six Paths Reincarnations was a brilliant idea out of the box!

  To be able to utilize the Six Paths Reincarnations at this level, even Zhong Yue couldn’t have imagined it!

  The era when the Six Paths Reincarnations was first established was a bright one. The monarchs were given the one right tool to unleash their potential. All kinds of ideas, inspirations, and imaginations came into being by the monarchs!

  In this Two Yuan World, everything was unlike the real world, even the outside gods that entered the picture would become two-dimensional.

  It was a new experience but was also fraught with dangers, because every skill in here was different from usual!

  Here, there was no time, no sound. In the Two Yuan World, there was no medium, thus, sounds were unable to propagate. The cultivators could only use their psyche senses. However, without the sounds, there would be many danger
s that follow. If they weren’t able to hear each other, they couldn’t differentiate between their friends and foes.

  The only way to sense the others’ skills in here relied solely on their eyes, the senses on vibrations, and their psyche senses.

  Did Senior Martial Brother Hundun Yu land on the same place as me?

  Zhong Yue glanced around but couldn’t locate Hundun Yu. There were only four sides in the Picture of Armistice, up, down, front, and back. There were no east, west, north, south.

  And the only way to exit Picture of Armistice’s Two Yuan Dimension was to continue advance forward until the end of the picture!

  “Strange, what’s with the bubble on top of me?”

  Zhong Yue looked up at the bubble and saw a sentence written on it. The words were the godly language, it wrote, “Strange, what’s with the bubble on top of me?”

  “How strange!”

  Zhong Yue was shocked, and the words changed almost instantly, “How strange!”

  “What I wanted to speak appeared in the bubble!”

  He was even more puzzled to see the words changing again, to exactly what he wanted to say!

  “Lady Monarch Shui Mo is a little too playful, isn’t she?”

  Zhong Yue was between laughter and tears. There were no sounds in the Picture of Armistice, and thus, Lady Monarch Shui Mo implemented speech bubbles instead. Her imagination had truly opened up Zhong Yue’s eyes.

  He turned into his Fuxi True Form and bolted forward. He could feel his tail slithering awkwardly up and down instead of the usual left and right.

  All of a sudden, Zhong Yue heard the cries of battle up ahead, and he looked over toward it. He realized that was a battlefield of the gods. Countless peculiar-looking gods were fighting in a bloodbath.

  These gods already looked strange, but in two-dimensional form, they looked even weirder. Even the way they attacked looked weird.

  The five light wheels behind their heads were also flat.

  In order to walk out of the Picture of Armistice, one must fight their way through the battlefield!

  Then, Zhong Yue bolted forward and entered the battlefield!

  Chapter 1044: I Am A Fuxi |

  The war inside of the Picture of Armistice was drawn by Lady Monarch Shui Mo according to the Hundun Clan grand ancestor’s description. It drew the times of transition between the Fire Order Era and Earth Order Era, revealing the cruel and gory history.

  Although Lady Monarch Shui Mo has drawn the chaotic times in the two-dimensional Two Yuan World, it was still extremely precarious.

  When Zhong Yue rushed into the battlefield, there were countless celestials, demons, monsters, skills, and weapons that surrounded him. They were all twisted in two-dimensional, which made them even more dangerous.

  Among the gods, there were many from races he has never met nor heard. They were each unique in appearance, these races would probably be those that were already extinct during the Fire Order Era.

  Some were even the races from the Dark Age, descendants of the innate gods. Their combat powers were incredible and their combat styles were extremely ferocious!

  Just the moment he has stepped into the battlefield, there were already countless gods that have pounced on him, from above and below, front and back, all over the places.

  The six light wheels behind Zhong Yue’s head glowed brightly and revolved rapidly as he fought his way to the front. A sun flew out behind his head, contorted and turned into a three-taloned Golden Crow, flying up and pounced down, slaughtering the gods dead with each strike of its claws.

  The Golden Crow opened its mouth and blasted out the burning innate fire. Wherever the fire hits, the gods would struggle and cry in pain. Above their heads, bubbles popped up writing, “Aaaaaa!”

  As he lunged further, the battle grew tenser. The gods were all around, intercepting his path and stopping his steps. Zhong Yue fought his way out for a thousand miles, but the number of gods around him didn’t decease but even increased exponentially.

  The further he goes, the stronger the gods were. Soon enough, his Golden Crow Yuan Shen alone wasn’t enough to handle it all anymore.

  Zhong Yue gave a stern yell, a bubble popped up above him writing, “Ha!”

  From the six halos, a bright moon flew up. Its moonlight shone across the place and the six-eyed Star Toad was seen crouching on a palace on the moon. Its eyes opened up and the moonlights shifted into light words, rained down and slaughtered all the gods around him.

  The sky rained blood and the corpses piled like mountains.

  Zhong Yue stood on the summit of the corpse mountain, he looked forward and saw a military camp in front of him. In the camp, there was a god sitting solemnly, he has eight faces and thick mustache, with gods of different sizes surrounded him.

  A bubble popped up from the eight-faced god’s head, “This youngest is strong.” Followed by another bubble, “He is Yanzi Clan’s descendant, the Fuxis. Who will help me kill him?”

  “Let me!” A demon Deity Emperor walked out from the camp and rushed toward Zhong Yue.

  “A demon Deity Emperor of the times of chaos? How strong will you be compared to the demon Deity Emperors now?”

  A bubble popped up above Zhong Yue, his two Yuan Shen returned to his body, his hand raised and the sabers were brought down.

  “What swift saber strikes!”

  A bubble popped up above the demon Deity Emperor, and his head and body were detached. He was beheaded and died!

  “Useless!” The eight-faced god ‘said’.

  Zhong Yue rushed for the camp and the eight-faced god stood up abruptly. The earth quaked and mountains shuddered, the camp gate exploded and a flash of black light was seen bolting toward Zhong Yue.

  “How fast!” Zhong Yue ‘said’.

  The eight-faced god opened up his mouth and ‘roared’. Eight Secular Worlds emerged above him, containing eight different divine weapons. A bubble popped up writing, “Eight Barren Secular World!”

  Eight Barren Secular World? Is he Eight Barren Deity King’s descendant?

  Zhong Yue was puzzled, six more arms grew out from his body and the 33 Skies in his mortal body opened. His aura skyrocketed and the Innate Eight Trigrams Secular World emerged above him. It was formed by the Secular Worlds like the Yin Yang Tai Chi, Four Symbols, Eight Trigrams. Divine sabers were seen flying out of the Innate Eight Trigrams Secular World.

  The two gods fought hard, the sky cracked and the earth shattered. But suddenly, clamors came from within the military camp, there were gods that ambushed it from behind and fought into the camp. The eight-faced god’s subordinates took a heavy blow.

  The eight-faced god was shocked and Zhong Yue seized an opening, His divine sabers slashed continuously, slashed opened the god’s Eight Barren Secular World. The eight-faced god’s seven of eight heads were beheaded and in terror, he quickly leaped out and fled.

  It was at this time that an arrow pierced through his last head.

  Zhong Yue traced the trajectory of the arrow and saw a human-body, snake-tail Fuxi lowering a box.

  The Fuxi was young and handsome. Whereas there were also many other Fuxis that were attacking the camp and capturing the gods.

  Zhong Yue slithers forward, a bubble popped above the young Fuxi’s head, “I am Feng Hua, and you are?”

  “Zhong Yue.”

  The Fuxis around them were chasing after the gods and cleaning the battlefield, Feng Hua glanced toward them and asked excitedly, “Senior Martial Brother Zhong, do you have any plans?”

  Zhong Yue said solemnly, “To pacify the war in the far front.”

  Feng Hua said, “If that’s the case, I will not hold you back. The universe has been in turmoil for more than a few tens of thousands of years. There are horrifying existences that wanted to tear down the totem patterns cultivation system diminish our postnate’s cultivation paths, and bring the universe back to the days of darkness. Our race led the other races and we are fighting back. You have to be
cautious up ahead.”

  Zhong Yue thanked and excused himself.

  On his path, all kinds of gods have intercepted him and were killed. These gods were the ones that stirred chaos across the universe. On his way, he saw countless living beings worshipping huge statues of the innate gods!

  The innate gods have enslaved the races, they ceased all teachings of culture and cultivations. Their direct descendants fed on the races, taking them as livestock.

  This was an era where cultivations regressed and the innate gods returned as the universe’s rulers!

  The further he went, the more dangerous it became. Zhong Yue had encountered the innate gods’ descendants, he even caught the innate gods attentions and were chased after by the innate gods’ statues. He has escaped death many times.

  “Feng Hua said this war has been ongoing for few tens of thousands of years, it was erupted by the innate gods in order to crush Sui Sovereign’s totem patterns cultivation system, to destroy the postnate living beings’ cultivation paths. From the Picture of Armistice, it seemed to be true.”

  Bubbles popped up above his head as he murmured, “Could it be that the Deity Kings of the Dark Age are unwilling to see the universe ruled by the postnate living beings so they planned to bring the universe back to the Dark Age?”

  “Is the Yanzi Clan’s extinction related to this chaos?”

  “Who directed all of this?”

  He was still pushing forward, but it got harder to even move a step now. The best he could do was survive the battle now. Although he suffered a hundred wounds, it was fortunate that the gods here were all ancient gods. Their skills and cultivations weren’t as high and evolved as the new eras. Even when he came across Imperial Emperors, he would still be able to escape without dying.

  “I wonder if I can see Sovereign Xi and Goddess Nuwa? And celestial dragon Lei Zhe, and Goddess Hua Xu!”

  He was agitated, but suddenly, he was enraged by what he saw. One of the black-robed Dao kids was helping the innate gods’ descendants to slaughter the Fuxi!