Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  Of course, the battle of the three monarchs would be able to instantly wipe out a majority of them right on the spot. But even so, Mu Xiantian’s and Heavenly Monarch Di Ming’s outbreak of battle was still gratifying news to them.

  Moreover, there were even some female gods that started their wild conjecture of the possibility of a dramatic love triangle between Mu Xiantian, Heavenly Monarch Di Ming, and Queen Goddess.

  They were guessing that it was because Heavenly Monarch Di Ming had stolen Queen Goddess away from Mu Xiantian, that’s why Mu Xiantian was back to kill Heavenly Monarch Di Ming and take his revenge.

  But it was just a small interlude to the General Assembly of Future Monarchs.

  Heavenly Monarch Di Ming and Queen Goddess stood up with a smile, they said, “Thank you King Yi for inviting us. This is the meeting for the future monarchs, old bones like ourselves shall not hinder you youngsters any longer. King Yi need not send us out.”

  Then, they turned and left. With their departure, the 95 innate gods also left with them.

  Zhong Yue stood up to send them out and stopped when he saw them already walked out of the Heaven Breaching Fortress. Mu Xiantian gave a cold sneer as he leaped out and disappeared from the scene.

  “Mu Xiantian is still unharmed.”

  Outside of the Heaven Breaching Fortress, Heavenly Monarch Di Ming sighed, “If it weren’t for King Yi, you and I would’ve opened the seventh secret realm already. Then, we would be able to eliminate Mu Xiantian and return peace to the universe. How unfortunate….”

  Queen Goddess chortled, “Your Majesty, how long has it been since you last had a fight?”

  Heavenly Monarch Di Ming mulled and smiled, “Since I took the throne.”

  “Then, when was it that you’ve ever experienced the fastest growth in your cultivation progress, Your Majesty?” Queen Goddess asked again.

  Heavenly Monarch Di Ming’s eyes brightened up, he laughed, “After the death of the late Heavenly Monarch Tian Yuan. During the days of chaos when I fought for the throne and became the ruler of the universe.”

  “Times of chaos has its benefits. Since the universe is in chaos now, why hurry to return peace to it?” Queen Goddess smiled, “Since the ancient days, the brightest stars would always rise in the most chaotic times. Was any great general’s name ever made known in a peaceful era? Your Majesty, ever since you were enthroned as the Heavenly Monarch, your cultivation progress has slowed greatly. But just right now, Your Majesty’s cultivation progress has seen a huge leap, almost opening the seventh secret realm. This alone proves the benefits of the universe’s chaos.”

  “I have this one smart and virtuous wife that defeats all the other consorts I’ve ever had!” Heavenly Monarch Di Ming laughed happily, he held her hand and they left.

  Meanwhile, the General Assembly of Future Monarchs was still ongoing. But after the exciting event that gave them the willies, the future monarchs still couldn’t have stopped their hearts from pounding heavily.

  “I think I’m opening the seventh secret realm!”

  All of a sudden, a loud exclaim grabbed the attention of the gods. They traced the voice to a young man with a tiger’s head and dragon’s scales. He was shouting as the secret realms in his body were opening, forming many flickering light wheels around him!

  With the emergence of every light wheel came a marvelous chant of Dao voice!

  The light wheels were the projection of the powers of the secret realms in his body. They were happening because the mini secret realms in his body were opening one after another.

  The gods were perplexed. Only the saint herb’s powers could open the secret realms in the body, does this young man also have a saint herb?

  “This young man, he is the one King Yi always used to attract his enemies’ attention!”

  Lou Zhengshi, Pan Ji, and the others immediately turned their eyes red as they recalled what Zhong Yue had done.

  Back then, the young man was still a newborn baby and he was cast out by Zhong Yue as bait and defeated the Heavenly River Naval Fleet and the Panhu Naval Fleet.

  Then in the Heaven Suppressing Fortress, the baby had grown into a child. He was cast up by King Yi’s Innate Saint Spirit Body wife, Goddess Xuan. She used him to bait the Heaven Court’s generals and killed many Heaven Court’s generals.

  Now, a hundred years had passed, and the newborn baby had now grown into a young man. He stopped emanating the alluring fragrance, but became the youngest Imperial Emperor ever in the universe and a conspicuous general of the Heaven Suppressing Fortress!

  Many in the Heaven Court’s army were having a love-hate relationship toward the young man. On one hand, they would love to take a bite of him, raw or cooked. But on the other, they couldn’t wait to tear him down to death.

  “The dragon’s son, Bi An!”

  Chuo Long’s fourth son.

  Zhong Yue quickly conducted his voice, “Cousin, don’t you cause any trouble! You are an Imperial Emperor, only a great monarch can hope suppress the impact force of the secret realms in your body!”

  Bi An lamented, “I didn’t! I also don’t know why. The secret realms in my body just opened by themselves!”

  Zhong Yue was dubious, he asked, “Did you consume any saint herb?”

  The secret realms in Bi An’s body were still projecting the light wheels out around him as he shook, “No! I just listened to all you people’s Dao discussions and learned some things. I thought that if I cast my [Hundred Reincarnate Lives of Worldly Tribulations Scripture], I could open a secret realm or two. But who knew the medicinal efficacy that was hidden in the secret realms was triggered by it. I can’t even stop them now!”

  Zhong Yue was left speechless. Bi An was a living saint herb himself. Zhong Yue still thought that after he cultivated into the Imperial Emperor level, the medicinal efficacies would be fully converted into his cultivation base. But who knew that there were still some remnants of medicinal essence that remained unconverted and were now hidden in the other secret realms in his body other than the six great secret realms.

  From the meeting, he had obtained the attainments in the seventh secret realm from the future monarchs, Mu Xiantian, Heavenly Monarch Di Ming and Queen Goddess. But his foundation was still not on par with Heavenly Monarch Di Ming’s and Queen Goddess’s level, yet the medicinal efficacies in his body was already being triggered and unleashed, opening the secret realms in his body!

  Immediately, Zhong Yue grew anxious. Bi An’s attainments weren’t deep enough for him to open the seventh secret realm in one go like Heavenly Monarch Di Ming and Queen Goddess would. His seventh secret realm would still be closed due to its conflict with the Six Paths Reincarnation and only the monarchs could help suppress it.

  But now, there wasn’t any monarch in the Heaven Breaching Fortress.

  All of a sudden, a thought flashed in Zhong Yue’s mind, he signaled to Yin Fanxuan and Feng Xiaozhong as he stood up with a smile, “Everyone, a discussion will always be just talks, it’s not as real as a living case. Now, a chance is presented before us. Imperial Emperor Bi An is opening the seventh secret realm and all are welcomed to take a look. This way, we can all be more prepared when we open the seventh secret realm.”

  Bi An immediately knew things would turn sour for him but before he could react, Yin Fanxuan and Feng Xiaozhong has already cast him up the stage with the [Dao Worshipping].

  “Cast!”

  The two yelled and Bi An’s mortal body was enlarged into a giant, allowing the gods to take a clearer look.

  Bi An was embarrassed and he quickly changed into larger pants.

  With an order, Zhong Yue had the Heaven Breaching Fortress’s army cast up the five monarch weapons and hovered them above the stage. The monarch-level Daos from the monarch weapons were cast out to suppress Bi An’s secret realms’ powers.

  Zhong Yue walked to Bi An’s side and said, “Everybody, later on, we will still need your help him to close the secret realms in his body. It’
s now still the safety period, I’ll explain the abstrusities of the secret realms to you all.”

  The secret realms in Bi An’s body were still opening and Zhong Yue ordered the army to cast the monarch weapons’ power to suppress Bi An further. Then, he walked into the projected light wheels by the secret realms and started explaining the abstrusities of the secret realms.

  The gods also minimized their bodies and followed behind Zhong Yue as they toured in Bi An’s secret realms listening to Zhong Yue’s explanation.

  After he finished explaining one secret realm, another secret realm has opened. Then, they walked into the newly opened secret realm and Zhong Yue explained again. In the discussions, there were gods that had questions, some Zhong Yue could answer but some he couldn’t. Thankfully, there were 17,000 gods on the spot, each of them with their own strengths and some of them were able to answer the questions.

  Gradually, the discussion grew livelier as time passed by.

  On the other hand, Bi An was halted on stage helplessly. The secret realms in his body were opening time to time and Zhong Yue and the others were traveling from one secret realm to the other.

  “The hardest part is to form a system between the secret realms. Secret realms with the same type and element have to use the same type of Dao to link and connect them together, only then, they will turn into the seventh secret realm.”

  After a long time, Zhong Yue led the gods and walked out of Bi An’s mortal body. He said, “Imperial Emperor Bi An, you may now try to open your seventh secret realm!”

  Bi An visualized and formed a dragon-like Dao. The Dao moved in his body through the secret realms of the same type and in just moments, all of the secret realms that have the same element were linked together.

  Zhong Yue exclaimed in surprise and he explained, “Imperial Emperor Bi An’s seventh secret realm is the Tribulating Fortune Secret Realm, this is a rarely seen secret realm even among the ancient monarchs.”

  Bi An had cultivated the [Hundred Reincarnate Lives of Worldly Tribulations Scripture] and his main Dao was the Dao of Tribulating Fortune. Every time he went through a tribulation, his cultivation base would see a hike. The more tribulations he went through, the stronger his cultivation base and strength became.

  It was an uncommon way of cultivating as it was extremely dangerous. Most of the cultivators that choose this path died in the endless rounds of tribulations. No one on this path would know exactly if they would be able to survive the next tribulation!

  Whoever created the [Hundred Reincarnate Lives of Worldly Tribulations Scripture] was really impressive! Mister Bi Luo said the creator is still alive, waiting for Bi An to be ready for consumption. He wants to consume Bi An and revert his postnate state into the innate state. I don’t really know if consuming Bi An would really turn him into an innate god, but the [Hundred Reincarnate Lives of Worldly Tribulations Scripture] sure is incredible!

  Zhong Yue praised in his heart. He smiled, “Everyone, the first time opening the seventh secret realm is extremely dangerous. This is because the seventh secret realm and Six Paths Reincarnation are inherently counters of each other due to them not incorporated in the same system yet. Thus, a monarch-level power is needed to suppress the secret realms! Please lend me your powers and cast the monarch weapons together to suppress his seventh secret realm!”

  “Very well!” The gods laughed.

  With the many future monarchs surging their arcane energies into the monarch weapons, the weapons’ powers were maximized. The Daos coming from the monarch weapons billowed down like giant dragons. When Bi An’s seventh secret realm and the Six Paths Reincarnation were clashing together in powers, the giant dragons rammed straight down on his seventh secret realm and suppressed his secret realm from unleashing its power!

  The impact force left Bi An spurting out a mouth of blood and he nearly fainted away. Thankfully, the abundant medicinal efficacies in his secret realms were quickly in recovering his injuries.

  “At this point in time, one has to use his intelligence to calculate the relationship between the seventh secret realm and the Six Paths Reincarnation, their movements, their orbits, and connections, to find a way that minimizes the two’s conflicts to the smallest.”

  Zhong Yue continued to have Bi An opening the seventh secret realm and he explained, “People, you must be fully prepared when opening the seventh secret realm. It’s best to have a monarch stand by you as guardian to protect your mortal body and Yuan Shen! Or otherwise, not only will you fail, you may also lose your life!”

  Chapter 1083: A Mysterious Living Being |

  As the process was repeated a few times, Bi An was finally able to grasp a hold on the way to open the seventh secret realm. He was able to maintain stability between the seventh secret realm and Six Paths Reincarnation, greatly minimizing the risk of opening it.

  With Bi An as a live example, the gods and Zhong Yue witnessed firsthand the process of opening the seventh secret realm. They all now understood the process better and their opening of the seventh secret realm would be much safer now.

  However, there weren’t many races that had monarchs. Although there were many monarchs that survived from the ancient days, their appearances in the current era were scantly documented, they were hard to come by.

  And if they really couldn’t find any monarchs to help them, the only way left for the gods was to emulate Heavenly Monarch Di Ming’s and Queen Goddess’s path. Find a saint herb, open the secret realms in their bodies, and with a solid foundation of the seventh secret realm, wait for a chance to try to open the seventh secret realm on their own.

  Heavenly Monarch Di Ming’s and Queen Goddess’s chance was Mu Xiantian. But just before succeeding, they were stopped by Zhong Yue. If even the two monarchs couldn’t have guaranteed their success, one could tell how much more difficult it would be for the gods. But it was still a feasible plan, it wasn’t impossible.

  One could imagine that after the meeting of the future monarchs, there would be gods all over the universe searching for the saint herbs and faint traces of the ancient monarchs, with even more trying their luck in opening the seventh secret realm.

  In the process, many would succeed and many more would die.

  As only the best and most fortunate ones would survive the toughest conditions, those that weren’t strong enough or simply lacked the fortune would perish. But those that made it would surely leave a chapter of their own in the books of history!

  As the General Assembly of Future Monarchs was coming to an end, the future monarchs slowly began to depart. All of a sudden, a voice said, “King Yi, Xuan Ji has been here throughout the whole Dao discussions and I suddenly have the urge to challenge King Yi to a bet, to see who is better.”

  The gods heard him and traced the voice to an ordinarily looking young man standing beside Zhong Yue. Strangely enough, although Zhong Yue had always been the focus in the meeting, no one had noticed this young man suddenly appearing beside him!

  Some couldn’t even recall seeing him before!

  How strange!

  Even Feng Xiaozhong frowned softly as he looked at the young man, wondering if he has noticed him before.

  In his memory, he vaguely recalled Zhong Yue conversing with the young man, but now thinking back, it felt as if Zhong Yue was merely talking to himself. The young man’s image was blanked out in his mind!

  “What an interesting life form!” Feng Xiaozhong’s eyes lit up like stars. He stared at Xuan Ji with interest and the latter felt the gaze. Xuan Ji looked back at Feng Xiaozhong, he felt enormously uncomfortable in his heart and was curious.

  “Huh, it’s not a gaze!” Feng Xiaozhong’s eyes lit up even more, he murmured, “It’s an emulation to what a gaze would feel like! This being has no eyes! Or should I say, his true body is the eye itself! Strange, how strange! He is the eye, and the ears, and the hands, and the legs, there are no internal organs in him because he is the internal organs themselves! Every single corner of his body has
the function of a complete body with full senses and perceptions. Ahhh, what an attractive species!”

  Xuan Ji heard the murmurings and his scalp suddenly tingled. One must know, even when faced with the second Yuan Shen of Evil Monarch, Feng Tian, Yuan Ya, Dark Monarch, and Celestial Monarch, he was still calm.

  But when the middle-aged man stared at him, his natural reaction was to feel anxious and alert!

  “A species that had never been examined before, how beautiful…” Feng Xiaozhong fixated his eyes on Xuan Ji, he murmured to himself, “How beautiful, truly beautiful. Every single bit in him is the best creation of nature itself… Does he bleed? Are his secret realms and cultivation base the same as ours? I want him, I will have him…. I am still lacking a sample like him!”

  Xuan Ji felt even more uneasy, he had never felt this before. The middle-aged man’s gaze grew even more peculiar. Ever since he became Heaven’s messenger, he had never ever felt what he was feeling now!

  Zhong Yue looked at Xuan Ji, he smiled, “Brother Xuan Ji, what kind of challenge do you propose?”

  Xuan Ji forced himself to suppress the uneasiness in him. A smile broke out on his ordinarily looking face. Of course, the ‘face’ was just what he wanted the gods to see, he didn’t have a face in reality.

  “King Yi, I too know a thing or two about the seventh secret realm, you may not even know more than I do. My bet with you is the Seven Paths Reincarnation!”

  Xuan Ji said but his voice sounded incredibly odd to the gods for every word they heard, they heard it differently.

  When they heard his second word, they would forget the sound of what the first word sounded like. As such, when they finished listening to the sentence, they could only remember the meaning he conveyed but not how his voice sounded like!

  Feng Xiaozhong grew even more excited, so excited that he was going crazy.

  Zhong Yue also noticed it, his heart skipped a beat, Shit, Senior Martial Brother Feng is going into madness!