Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  His psyche rumbled and the last and missing piece in the [Sui Insight Dao Scripture] appeared in Zhong Yue’s mind. He yawned heavily and murmured as if he was sleeptalking, “The Void World is not perpetual. Some old friends and I have created this place, using our psyche ocean to contain the many spirits. In order to maintain the Void World, we can only be in slumber, or otherwise, if we are all awakened, the Psyche Ocean Dreamland will crush and crumble…”

  Chapter 1095: Go Forward! |

  Does Great Sui also need to slumber? He is just like Xin Huo!

  Zhong Yue felt a strong sense of familiarity. Great Sui and Xin Huo were so similar they share almost the same traits. Xin Huo was the flame of inheritance created by Great Sui, so most of his characteristics were inherited from Great Sui.

  Psyche Ocean Dreamland?

  Zhong Yue quickly studied the last and missing piece of the [Sui Insight Dao Scripture]. It was talking about the Psyche Ocean Dreamland, a world created to contain the spirits and achieve immortality!

  Great Sui’s eyelids were closing, he was falling into a slumber and his voice faltered, “Back then, myself and my 23 saint disciples opened the Void World. We used our vast psyche to create a world for the ancient saints, a land where the spirits can reside for eternity and their descendants can worship us so that they could pass down their heritage. They are my disciples, and also my fellow Daoists. But I can tell, they too, cannot bear the evergrowing burden anymore. The void is trembling, the balance is toppling, but I cannot be fully awakened to investigate the matter myself.”

  “I sense something, or maybe someone, that isn’t a spirit is here trying to occupy this place… If you have questions, ask it now when I am awake to answer you.”

  “Something that isn’t a spirit is here?” Zhong Yue was shocked, he quickly asked, “Great Sui, what is it?”

  As soon as he asked his question, Great Sui and the 23 monarch spirits had already fallen back into slumber. He asked again but Great Sui didn’t answer.

  “Didn’t you say I can ask and you can answer my questions?” Zhong Yue mumbled. Great Sui and Xin Huo were very much alike, both were unreliable. One moment ago, he said he could answer Zhong Yue’s question and in the next, he was already sleeping.

  “Is Great Sui talking about the sky curtain ?” Zhong Yue guessed, “No, it can’t be. The sky curtain is most probably one of the Treasures of Heavenly Daos, it’s no spirit but it isn’t something notable enough for Great Sui to warn me about.”

  Then, he felt the Void World’s tearing forces acting upon his mortal body and Yuan Shen again. Zhong Yue quickly cast the [Sui Insight Dao Scripture]. This time, as the last and missing piece of the cultivation art was completed, a dreamland was visualized in his psyche ocean. As the dreamland was only a world of dreams that never actually existed, that’s why it was known as void.

  Which was also how Void World got its name.

  As his void and the Void World were connected, the Void World’s repelling force faltered greatly. Although it was still acting on his mortal body, the repelling force was not as powerful anymore.

  Zhong Yue’s psyche rumbled, he said, “Xin Huo, seniors of the fire spirits, please follow me as I search for the Fuxi monarchs’ spirits!”

  Xin Huo and the fire spirits were unwilling to leave. They bowed at Great Sui’s spirit respectfully and returned to Zhong Yue’s body. The fire spirits merged with his Yuan Shen while Xin Huo entered Zhong Yue’s psyche ocean.

  “Great Sui’s spirit is still alive!” Xin Huo was mixed with the feeling of happiness and sadness. He was repeating it one time after another in Zhong Yue’s ears.

  Zhong Yue nodded. His Psyche Ocean Dreamland was also to help to soften the Void World’s repelling force on his body and attracting force on his Yuan Shen. But his seventh secret realm didn’t have much time left. He had to find the Fuxi monarchs’ spirits before time runs out!

  Zhong Yue fluttered the innate meat wings and traveled in the Void World. With Great Sui as the center, he flew out around for his search. The further he went, the younger the spirits were. Even so, they were still ancient paragons to him, some were more than millions of years old.

  But most of them were already withered, Zhong Yue could even see some of them partially disintegrating.

  He was like a waltzing note that traveled in the history of time. Coming from the Fire Order Era and entering the Earth Order Era, flashing by the sides of the ancient paragons that had left their marks and names in history.

  Finally, he saw Monarch Pao Xi’s and Goddess Nuwa’s spirits. The two majestic rulers’ tails were twinning together and their gazes were on him.

  They were the grand ancestors to the Fuxi Clan, the start and origin of the Earth Order Era, but their spirits were also disintegrating.

  “Fuxi, go forward!”

  Zhong Yue heard them saying.

  He moved further and saw the monarch spirits of Monarch Yi Yi, Monarch Shi Yi, Monarch Tai Hao, Monarch Hao Yi, Monarch Shao Hao, Monarch Ji Jie, Monarch Fu Tai, Monarch Xi Hao.

  “Fuxi, go forward!’ They were telling Zhong Yue.

  Finally, Zhong Yue arrived beside Monarch Yin Qiang, the lady monarch’s three eyes opened, she raised her arm and dipped a finger on his forehead, then she shouted, “Fuxi, go forward!”

  Zhong Yue could feel a wave of information rushing into his mind, it was the complete art of Lady Monarch Yin Qiang’s [Yin Qiang Demon Conqueror Mystic Scripture]!

  The [Yin Qiang Demon Conqueror Mystic Scripture] he had learned was incomplete, there were many missing pieces and he could only rely on his own wit to piece back the complete art. Thus, what he had wasn’t the same true mystical art it was.

  But now, with Lady Monarch Yin Qiang’s spirit imparting the art to him herself, the true quintessence coming from a monarch in the [Yin Qiang Demon Conqueror Mystic Scripture] was passed down to him with the dip of a finger!

  Then, Zhong Yue made his way moving forward as instructed. On his way to Monarch Xiang Tuan, Zhong Yue saw something flickering in the Void World. It was a kind of creature, gigantic in size and incredibly ugly to look at. The creatures were filled with limbs like hands and legs, and they were awkwardly sticking themselves to the spirits in the Void World.

  They had no heads and necks but eyes, ears, noses, and mouths were all over their bodies as if their bodies were the heads.

  “Headless creatures with faces and limbs all over their bodies?”

  Zhong Yue was dumbstruck. In Void World, no physical objects were allowed to stay. So where did these creatures come from? How did they manage to reside in the Void World?

  By the looks of it, they were siphoning the energies from the spirits to survive!

  Were they those ‘things that didn’t belong to Void World’ Great Sui referred to?

  The creatures looked like they didn’t have a true flesh and blood body, they were some kind of spiritual life form that lived in the Void World. It was unknown how long their history in the Void World was and how many spirits they had devoured. They were so powerful that Zhong Yue was already shivering in horror by only looking at them!

  Creatures that should’ve never existed, and yet, here they were!

  The only explanation for this was that these creatures were just like the insect race, they were created by someone!

  The demon race created the insect race for the celestial race, but what these ugly creatures in the Void World were created for?

  Then, the ugly creatures noticed him and they were swarming in at him. They moved with their limbs like they were swimming and they were extremely fast. Even with his innate wings, they were slowly closing in on him.

  Finally, Zhong Yue arrived beside Monarch Xiang Tuan. The monarch dipped his finger on Zhong Yue’s forehead and imparted him the complete [Extermination Demonic Art].

  “Fuxi, go forward!” Monarch Xiang Tuan’s psyche rumbled.

  Zhong Yue moved further front toward Monarch Cao An’s spirit while more and more crea
tures followed behind him. They now numbered in the hundreds and were also coming in from the sides.

  “Keep going forward, don’t get distracted!”

  Monarch Cao An dipped a finger on his forehead and imparted the [Multiple Hearts Blood Scripture] to Zhong Yue.

  Zhong Yue flew forward to Monarch Gui Yu while the bizarre creatures grow in numbers swarming onto him. Zhong Yue glanced behind him and saw the Fuxi ancestors battling with the creatures.

  His heart sank deeply. The Fuxi ancestors were dead with only their spirits residing in the Void World. Engaging in the battle without worship would require them to burn their spirits’ energies. This would greatly impair the foundation of their spirits and accelerate the process of disintegration.

  “Don’t look back, go full speed!”

  A wave of boundless psyche rumbled into his mind, it said, “We’ve waited a hundred thousand years for this moment! Go!”

  Zhong Yue reached to Monarch Gui Yu. The monarch imparted him with his [Art of Dao Bones Great Space], then turned around and lunged toward the incoming creatures.

  “Go!” Monarch Gui Yu’s voice sounded in Zhong Yue’s mind.

  Zhong Yue rushed toward Monarch Tuan Hao’s spirit where the latter was waiting for him. The monarch imparted him the [Dao Song of Dragon and Snake] and also turned to battle the creatures.

  “Fuxi, go forward!” His divine psyche rumbled in Zhong Yue’s mind.

  Zhong Yue pulled out all the stops to rush forward. There were just too many of the creatures in the Void World, they were uncountable.

  They were most likely the reason Great Sui felt the Void World’s burden getting unbearable. They were too many, parasitizing in the Void World, stealing the energies of the spirits and siphoning on the powers of worships!

  Meanwhile, Zhong Yue felt the air of the Heavenly Daos again. A sky curtain was slowly rising in the Void World and expanding out. It was this sky curtain that blocked the Fuxi monarchs’ spirits, stopping them from descending into the worlds.

  And if the sky curtain was fully raised, Zhong Yue’s atman would also be trapped in the Void World!

  Zhong Yue mustered all of his strength and sped away. He finally reached Monarch Sui Yi’s spirit and the monarch dipped a finger on his forehead. Monarch Sui Yi imparted Zhong Yue with the [Art of Dao Reflection] and his divine psyche sighed, “Descend and return. Time’s up.”

  Zhong Yue’s heart shook, he didn’t answer and rushed toward Monarch Peng He instead, hoping that he could reach Monarch Peng He before the sky curtain was fully raised.

  The spirits residing in the Void World had their own place. They couldn’t leave their area and move around as they liked. Thus, Zhong Yue had to reach to the monarch spirits to be imparted with their cultivation heritage!

  “Don’t come anymore, leave!” The 22 reigns of Fuxi monarchs looked at him. They divine psyches rumbled together in his mind!

  “Descend!” They said.

  Zhong Yue’s vision turned blurry as a layer of tears obstructed his view. He abruptly bowed and said, “Ancestors!”

  “Get up, don’t worship us, you will be detected! Go, now!” Their spirits were surrounded by the creatures, but their divine psyches have reached to him.

  Zhong Yue turned around and left the Void World before the sky curtain fully enclosed it. He had returned to the real world.

  At the same time, the Void World rippled and a faceless giant strode out at where Zhong Yue bowed to the Fuxi ancestors. It was puzzled.

  “Heavenly Monarchs who’ve lost an era, who’ve lost a race.” A face emerged out on his head as he smiled and said, “You’ve broken the rule. What shady deals are you cunning foxes dealing again? Shame, the times have changed, but you are still immersed in the past, hoping to restore your past glory.”

  He looked to the lower worlds as if his gaze could see through the many layers of dimension and said insouciantly, “How dare you try to do your shady things right under Heaven’s nose? The more you do, the more mistakes you will make. Don’t ever think about fighting back, just be good and obedient and feed my precious Soul Eating Beasts.”

  Chapter 1096: A Land of Retirement |

  Countless ugly creatures swarmed into the Fuxi monarch spirits, sucking their spirits’ energies and powers of worship. However, as the monarch spirits didn’t have any worship, they only had their current spirits’ energies.

  They were great monarchs when they were alive and even after their death, they were still powerful ghosts. It was nearly impossible for the Soul Eating Beasts to siphon their spirits’ energies.

  In the Heaven Suppressing Fortress, Zhong Yue looked up quietly, the tears in his eyes had long evaporated.

  A long time ago, he already knew the precarious situation that the Fuxi monarchs in the Void World were in. He knew that it was nearly impossible for them to descend into the lower worlds, but he didn’t know the situation was this dire!

  They were targeted and getting exterminated!

  What hatred did they have toward the Fuxi Clan, why were they so relentless?

  Furthermore, releasing the Soul Eating Beasts to feed on the Void World’s spirits and devour the Void World. Their existence was already disrupting the Void World’s balance and destroying it. Was it really necessary?

  This is to stop all the living beings from worshipping their ancestors and change their worships to Heaven? Is Heaven trying to replace all the spirits and become the one and only existence everyone could worship?

  Zhong Yue was puzzled.

  The trip to the Void World earned him the cultivation heritage of six monarchs – Yin Qiang, Xiang Tuan, Cao An, Gui Xin, Tuan Hao, and Sui Yi. Although there were still the other monarchs that hadn’t imparted their cultivation heritage to him yet, these six monarchs’ cultivation arts would be able to boost his [Innate Eight Trigrams] to a whole new level!

  He had learned before Monarch Yin Qiang’s [Yin Qiang Demon Conqueror Mystic Scripture] but not the others as he didn’t have the complete arts of Monarch Xiang Tuan’s [Extermination Demonic Art], Monarch Cao An’s [Multiple Hearts Blood Scripture], Monarch Gui Xin’s [Art of Dao Bones Great Space], Monarch Tuan Hao’s [Dao Song of Dragon and Snake], and Monarch Sui Yi’s [Art of Dao Reflection].

  But now that he had them, in addition to the Tian Pan, he would be able to try and complete these monarch arts with the Six Paths Reincarnation and merge them into his [Innate Eight Trigrams].

  Entering the Void World again will get myself caught, right? It will not be easy to acquire Monarch Peng He, Yin Kang, and the others’ cultivation arts now.

  All of a sudden, Zhong Yue looked toward the skies and he kept the Tian Pan. He said to Yin Fanxuan and the others, “Mu Xiantian is here.”

  Yin Fanxuan’s heart skipped a beat, she asked, “Husband, he is here for you. Is he asking for your help?”

  Zhong Yue was curious and he laughed, “Why do you think so, darling? Don’t you think he may be here to humiliate me for King Zi Guang’s success in taking down the Heaven Court?”

  Yin Fanxuan chortled, “Zi Guang may be a renowned advisor, but he is a man who appreciates life and dislikes death, especially his own. He will never be at the forefront leading the war, only setting up plans and strategies at the back. But war isn’t all about plans and strategies. He is a perfect military advisor, but not a good commander. If he is in command, the war will be in a mess. Whereas Mo Yin’s armies are well structured, every army can run a battlefield of their own. If King Zi Guang doesn’t start the fight himself, he can still remain undefeated, but if he wages war, Mo Yin will surely take advantage of him.”

  Zhong Yue laughed out loud.

  As he finished laughing, Mu Xiantian could be heard asking insouciantly, “King Yi, what are you laughing about?”

  Zhong Yue traced the voice and saw Mu Xiantian treading on the Star River as he entered the Heaven Suppressing Fortress. The demon monarch’s movement didn’t even cause a single ripple over the river surface, even the Creat
ors protecting the fortress didn’t notice his presence.

  “Your Majesty.”

  Zhong Yue, Yin Fanxuan, and the others bowed. Mu Xiantian raised his hand and smiled, “King Yi, you are really enjoying your retirement in the fortress. What a shame King Zi Guang will have to take on all the burden.”

  Zhong Yue was indifferent, “Should I be thanking Your Majesty for allowing your old subject to enjoy his retirement?”

  Mu Xiantian’s face stiffened up, he cleared his throat and said, “The frontline now…”

  “Your Majesty, your old subject here has retired.” Zhong Yue reminded, “It’s rare for Your Majesty to visit me. Please don’t kill all the fun talking about the war.”

  Mu Xiantian didn’t know how to answer while Zhong Yue smiled, “It has been long since Your Majesty last visited the Heaven Suppressing Fortress. My wife has planted a little Fusang Tree and many other amazing plants in the fortress, they are all rare and peculiar species exist only in the ancient universe. She has taken good care of them and today, it’s the day they bloom. Your Majesty, why don’t you follow your old subject as I show you the blooming flowers?”

  Mu Xiantian nodded helplessly. Zhong Yue claimed himself as his old subject but his appearance was just that of a young man, he couldn’t help but feel between tears and laughter.

  Zhong Yue was leading the way on the front to the King Palace’s garden. There, the Fusang Divine Tree was planted by Jin Hexi in the garden center. It was huge and towering, its roots spread out a thousand miles with the Chaos Air surging around it. This divine tree could only survive on the Chaos Air, thus, it was very difficult to raise.

  The Fusang Divine Tree was just initially just a branch of the Fusang Mother Tree. It was part of Jin Hexi’s dowry given by Celestial Monarch Jin Wu and was incredibly precious. One must know that even when Hun Dun entered the world and gifted Celestial Monarch Jin Wu a life-saving Chaos Bead, Celestial Monarch Jin Wu only gifted back a Fusang Tree Branch.

  And that Fusang Tree Branch was now the monarch weapon Hundun Yu holds!