Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  Kacha—

  Heavenly Monarch Di Ming’s turned dark and gloomy, he grabbed the Fuxi in his hand and slowly clenched into a fist. Feng Jizu felt his mortal body and Yuan Shen getting squeezed by an irresistible force. His bones were getting crushed, and the pressure was still getting increasingly stronger. Fear consumed his heart and he screamed with the rest of his energy, “Your Majesty… I still have… Some use… Please… Mercy—”

  Pak—

  He was crushed into a ball of blood, his Yuan Shen melted in Heavenly Monarch Di Ming’s palm, his Daos disintegrating back into nature, and his soul and spirit dispersed. In the end, only a bead condensed from blood was left.

  Heavenly Monarch Di Ming’s eyelids thumped and he flicked his fingers softly, reducing the blood bead into ashes.

  “Seven Paths Reincarnation, I, couldn’t counter it. I’ve lost.” Heavenly Monarch Di Ming’s face was still dark and gloomy, he announced the result placidly as if it had nothing to do with him.

  …

  In the Heaven Breaching Fortress, beside the Heavenly Deity Altar.

  Ding—

  A loud din that stunned the gods resounded throughout the scene, Zhong Yue’s saber had finally returned to its scabbard. Zhong Yue reached his hand out and the saber and scabbard turned into two rays that disappeared in his palm.

  The 17,000 gods looked at one another, not knowing if Heavenly Monarch Di Ming had dispelled the skill Zhong Yue left inside Princess Wenyue’s body. Among them, Lou Zhengshi and the Heaven Court’s gods were the most anxious whereas Zhong Yue had no expressions on his face, neither joy nor anger. The gods couldn’t tell the result from his reactions.

  Suddenly, Lou Zhengshi’s totem pillar shook, a messenger has conveyed the situation to him through the pillar.

  Lou Zhengshi’s face changed slightly, he looked at Pan Ji, Ting Daoji and the others who were staring closely at him and he shook. Demon Heavenly King lowered his voice and asked, “King Yi couldn’t have killed Princess Wenyue? His Majesty has dispelled the skill?”

  Again, Lou Zhengshi shook.

  Immediately, the gods understood and were heavily shocked, “His Majesty couldn’t dispel the skill! Princess Wenyue is dead…”

  Zhong Yue stood up, he smiled at Hundun Yu and said, “Senior Martial Brother Yu, those who would come are all mostly here, let us begin.”

  Hundun Yu held the name list and stood on the center of the Heavenly Deity Altar. Around the altar were gods sitting on their putians. From the Imperial Star, they all looked like stars hovering high in the skies.

  They all had six slowly revolving light wheels behind them; some were bright and some were dimmer.

  Some of them who cultivated the body arts were bigger and brawnier, and some were smaller in size due to their cultivation levels as only Deities and Heavenly Deities.

  Hundun Yu read out loud, “Zhongyang Clan’s Yang Fengping, Yang Buping, Yang Shaoping, Yang Qingping, are the four senior martial siblings here?”

  The Zhongyang Clan’s four experts stood up together and Yang Buping smiled, “We appreciate Brother Hundun’s and King Yi’s attention. All four of us are here.”

  Hundun Yu continued, “Luli Clan’s Lu wang, Lu Binger, Lu Xichuan, Lu Ting, are the four senior martial siblings here?”

  Lu wang and the other three stood up, he laughed, “We are still not dead yet!”

  “Diming Clan’s Prince Wenxing, Prince Wenyu, Princess Wenyue, Princess Wenhe!”

  Wenxing, Wenyu, Wenhe stood up to announce their presence but they didn’t say anything. Their faces were all stiffened up.

  “Tianyuan Clan’s Senior Martial Brother Yuan Mie… Senior Martial Brother Yuan Mie?”

  There was silence across the scene. Moments later, Jinti Clan’s Jin Buhuan stood up and said, “Senior Martial Brother Yuan Mie is dead. I’ve encountered him on the battlefield and after a hard-fought battle, I killed him. Senior Martial Brother Yuan Mie is a formidable foe to me, a fellow Daoist to me on my path to becoming a monarch. With this cup of wine, I will have a toast to his heroic soul.”

  He raised the cup and splashed the wine in front of him. The gods followed suit as they all toasted to Yuan Mie.

  Hundun Yu continued reading out the name list. On the Board of Future Monarch, many names were added and many more were dimmed away. They were the gods that had died in the war.

  But it was unavoidable, part of the natural selection. Even though one had the potential of becoming a monarch, the differences in environment and experience would eliminate most of the talents and only a few would succeed in becoming monarchs.

  After a long time, Hundun Yu had finished reading out the name. He looked at Zhong Yue and reported, “King Yi had sent out over 20,000 invitations and 17,454 attended.”

  All of a sudden, a bizarre carriage strode in from far and a young man on the carriage smiled, “Brother Hundun, you are wrong, it’s 17,455. King Yi, Xuan Ji is not late, am I?”

  Zhong Yue stood up and welcomed him personally with a smile, “Brother Xuan Ji is just right on time. Come quickly, sit.”

  Xuan Ji kept the Tian Xuan Chariot and sat down.

  No one else should be coming anymore, right? Zhong Yue pondered but just as he thought, five light rays flew across the skies from five directions and landed around the Heavenly Deity Altar. They were all unique in appearance as they revealed their invitation letters and sat down respectively.

  Disciples to Evil Monarch, Dark Monarch, Celestial Monarch, Feng Tian, and Yuan Ya! Are they here to capture me? Looks like our General Assembly of Future Monarchs will not be peaceful!

  When Zhong Yue saw the newcomers, his eyelids thumped and he inhaled deeply. He walked onto the Heavenly Deity Altar and cast out Tian Pan.

  The Treasure of Heavenly Dao hovered in midair and immediately suffused the scene with its Heavenly Dao’s aura. Back then, the Tian Pan he forged couldn’t unleash the Heavenly Dao’s power, but the Tian Pan now was finally able to reveal part of its might.

  Zhong Yue halted Tian Pan in midair, he glanced around and raised his voice, “Everyone, in the future, whether will we meet on the battlefield as friend or foe, we are all just Qi Practitioners today, seekers of the Dao. Now, the General Assembly of Future Monarchs will begin. I wish we will be able to forget our stands and factions, and all just focus on cultivating Daos! Everyone, please look at this treasure!”

  The gods looked up at Tian Pan. It was filled with the marvelousness of the universe with endless changes happening in it.

  Zhong Yue smiled, “This is a treasure for divination. It can gather the wisdom of many and calculate the endless possibilities. It can help us in extending our cultivation arts and techniques, skills, and weapons. If we can work together and research the Seven Paths Reincarnation, we will be sure to achieve something.”

  The gods looked carefully at the Tian Pan. When it was forged, there were a million Daos that came to celebrate its birth, even the monarchs had come to fight for it.

  Rays flashed across Xian Ji’s eyes as he looked at Tian Pan in deep thought.

  Zhong Yue looked over and Xian Ji felt the stare, and they both returned a smile at each other. Zhong Yue thought, He has no face, that smile is fake.

  “Old Man Xuan and Qi, brothers, your divine weapons were destroyed. Why don’t you use this treasure and derive your new divine weapons?” Zhong Yue invited.

  Then, Old Man Xuan and Qi stepped forth. They gave a stern yell and surged their arcane energy and psyche into Tian Pan. Immediately, the Dao patterns on Tian Pan started changing in calculations. Moments later, they formed into a furnace, a hammer, a bellow, and an anvil. Even after that, the Dao patterns that formed four treasures were still changing continuously, becoming more and more perfect!

  Below the altar, the gods stood up in shock as their heads were raised staring at the images of the four treasures. Turns out, the treasures formed by Dao patterns were slowly approaching the forms of monarch weapons!

  Old Man Xuan and Q
i were agitated. Their names were made known across the universe with their masteries in smelting, they were simply the best, undefeatable legendary blacksmiths. Even though Zhong Yue had won them over with Tian Pan, it was merely trickery that Zhong Yue had used. In truth, Zhong Yue’s smelting skill was far lacking when compared to the two old men.

  However, the two old men’s mastery had reached a peak. They were already at their wit’s end, there was no other way for them to improve anymore.

  During the process of forging Tian Pan, Zhong Yue had destroyed their Dao treasures, but now, The Tian Pan was reiterating their Dao treasures and even showed the future of their perfected Dao treasures to them. So how could they be not excited?

  The perfected Dao treasures were the monarch weapons!

  And with it, their cultivation arts would also be elevated into the monarch arts!

  One could say, the Tian Pan had erased the obstructions to their ascension into the monarch level!

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  Moments later, Old Man Xuan and Qi continued their surging arcane energy and psyche. The images of the anvil, furnace, hammer, and bellow had also fallen onto their bodies.

  The two old men then sat in the lotus position, studying the new knowledge they had just acquired.

  The gods were all left in shock, they inspected Tian Pan carefully. Was there really a treasure that could wield endless wisdom and derive stronger and better cultivation arts and techniques, skills, and weapons? Could it really find all the inadequacies in the arts and techniques and repair the weaknesses of skills and weapons?

  How would there be such a rule-defying treasure?

  “Mister Yi, this Tian Pan, was it the divine weapon that had attracted the heaven and earth’s Daos to congratulate its birth?”

  Ti Mobei looked at Tian Pan and abruptly asked, “When you forged the divine weapon, even the monarchs came to fight for it. It was a huge ruckus back then. Was this Tian Pan the divine weapon?”

  Zhong Yue smiled and nodded, “For those of you that don’t believe it, you may try it for yourself.”

  The gods were excited and Ti Mobei stepped forth, he laughed, “A treasure that even monarchs fought over it, it must be exceptional! Let me try!”

  He surged his arcane energy and covered his psyche in the center. Like a flash of a rainbow, his arcane energy and psyche were rammed into Tian Pan. Immediately, the Dao patterns started changing and reforming in calculations.

  He was deriving the Titing Clan’s monarch art, trying to attain knowledge that he couldn’t have acquired himself from the monarch art!

  Ti Mobei was already on his on way of cultivation. He was trying to infuse the Six Paths Reincarnations into one of Titing Clan’s ancient monarch arts. However, trying to revamp a monarch art was a task too difficult for him to do alone. Even as the most talented genius of the Titing Clan, Ti Mobei’s progress was still slow as a snail’s pace over the years.

  But with the help of the Tian Pan, his monarch art was slowly seeing completion. This monarch art came from the era of Five Paths Reincarnation, but now, it was gradually deriving into an art that was perfectly compatible with the Six Paths Reincarnation!

  Ti Mobei was shocked and overjoyed, but he could feel the depletion of his arcane energy, he alone couldn’t maintain the Tian Pan’s operation any longer and he quickly shouted, “Senior martial siblings of the Titing Clan, quickly come, help me!”

  The Titing Clan experts all stepped forward, including an Imperial Emperor. They surged their arcane energies into Tian Pan and kept it in operation. Slowly, the monarch art was finally completed with the Six Paths Reincarnation fully infused in it.

  Ti Mobei was overjoyed, he kept his arcane energy and the cultivation art also fell from the sky, disappearing into his mind.

  “What a treasure!” Ti Mobei praised in unparalleled joy.

  Immediately, many young experts stepped forth and cast their energies into Tian Pan. They were also using it to derive their cultivation arts and techniques, skills, and weapons, trying to amend the flaws in their cultivations.

  However, not anyone could cast Tian Pan. Deities, Heavenly Deities, and True Deities were too weak to even make Tian Pan operate with their arcane energies, they could only request the more powerful experts to help them.

  As the crowd swarmed in, they quickly noticed that Tian Pan was able to support dozens of calculations at a time without any interference. Its terrifyingly powerful calculatory ability couldn’t help but attract even Lou Zhengshi, Pan Ji, and the other Imperial Emperors. They too stepped forth and used the Tian Pan’s power to perfect and improve their cultivations!

  Zhong Yue walked down from the Heavenly Deity Altar and left the Tian Pan for the lively gods to use.

  “Mister Yi, you are using the future monarchs’ wisdom to forge your treasure, aren’t you?” All of a sudden, Xuan Ji smiled from the side.

  Zhong Yue looked at him and admitted openly, he smiled, “Indeed I am. This treasure is not complete yet. I’m afraid I still won’t be able to perfect it into its final state even after I’ve become a monarch. I suppose it’s because I am just one man, and that there will always be an end to my power. However, if the future monarchs’ wisdom can be taken into the equation, it may just reach its final state one day. While the Tian Pan helps them in perfecting their cultivations, their wisdom and knowledge will also help the Tian Pan grow and perfect itself. Brother Xuan Ji, how was your Tian Xuan Chariot perfected?”

  Xuan Ji shook, “It was not me who forged it. The chariot was bestowed by Heaven. It has reached its peak, there is no more room for improvements.”

  Zhong Yue slanted his body as he asked, “Can you show me?”

  Xuan Ji cast out Tian Xuan Chariot and smiled, “Mister, please look.”

  Zhong Yue moved around the chariot and inspected meticulously, he praised, “What a treasure, it’s far beyond me. I cannot deduce anything from it.”

  Xuan Ji smiled, “It’s a treasure bestowed by Heaven. If Mister Yi, you are able to see through it, you will be a Dao God already. You are far from perfecting Tian Pan, and even if you did, you are only doing it for Heaven. It is Heaven’s treasure, belonging to Heaven itself only, mortals are not to stain it with their hands.”

  Zhong Yue laughed, “Good talk, good talk. If Heaven wants it, then they can come and take it.”

  Rays brimmed in Xuan Ji’s eyes, he replied insouciantly, “Mister Yi, you know what brings me here, don’t you? Whatever you have obtained from the Fuxi Ancestral Court, Heaven wants it too. Mister Yi, please hand it over to me.”

  Zhong Yue nodded, still smiling as he asked, “I wonder how many Fuxi monarch arts Brother Xuan Ji learned?”

  Xuan Ji smiled, “Whatever you know, I know; whatever you don’t, I also know.”

  Zhong Yue smiled brighter, “Since you’ve learned it all, then why do you still want me to hand them to you?”

  Xuan Ji’s smile also grew brighter, “Mister Yi, you refusing to hand it over is making things hard for me.”

  Zhong Yue answered placidly, “Since Heaven knows it all, then why does it matter if I don’t?”

  Xuan Ji smiled even brighter, he said softly, “Why are you hurrying to die?”

  Zhong Yue cast out the Innate Yi Dao and asked placidly, “I have a mirror, Brother Xuan Ji, do you want to take a look?”

  Xuan Ji laughed and so did Zhong Yue.

  “Mister Yi, you sure like to joke around.” Xuan Ji shook with a smile, “But too much joking around will bring death to your doorstep.”

  Zhong Yue’s face was filled with joy. “Many have died under my jokes, I don’t mind making one more joke. Brother Xuan Ji, didn’t you see, how the ancient paragons you were with in the Ancestral Court died by my jokes?”

  “Hahahahah!” The two exchanged a look and laughed loudly together like two old friends.

  Yi Wanjun was puzzled, not knowing why were they laughing. Just when she planned to walk toward them, she saw Zhong Yue’
s strained muscles on his face. Although he was laughing, there wasn’t any joy in his eyes. Whereas in the mirror formed by his Innate Yi Dao, the young man’s face had no eyes, no ears, no nose, no mouth, no hairs, no smile, and nowhere the laughter came from!

  Yi Wanjun was shocked, she quickly stopped Shi Yinji who was also walking toward them and she gestured at the mirror. Shi Yinji was also shocked when she saw the faceless man in the mirror and quickly stopped.

  The ladies were shifting their gaze between Xuan Ji and the mirror. Xuan Ji has an ordinary face, but when reflected in the mirror, he appeared to be faceless!

  “Darling has raised his killing intent.” Yi Wanjun whispered, “Look at him, the brighter he smiles, the more killing intent he has. However, he has raised a strong vigilance to the faceless being beside him, this means that the faceless being is extremely strong, darling has no confidence against it.”

  Shi Yinji looked carefully and nodded, she whispered softly, “Who is this faceless man?”

  Yi Wanjun replied puzzlingly, “How do you know it’s a man? It’s not a man.”

  Shi Yinji was stunned, she exclaimed, “It’s a she?”

  “No, not a lady either.” Yi Wanjun shook, “The We Tian Suo Celestial Race are masters of knitting clothes, so we inherently have sharp eyes. We can easily tell if one is a man or a lady. This faceless being is neither one, it has no gender.”

  Shi Yinji glared her eyes wide, a genderless and faceless god, was there really a race like that?

  A few months’ time passed in the blink of an eye. Most of the gods had already used the Tian Pan to perfect their cultivation arts and techniques, skills, and weapons. They all derived their ways to amend their weaknesses and inadequateness.

  This Treasure of Heavenly Dao had helped everyone clearing out their questions and obstructions in their cultivations. Its calculatory ability was nigh divine!