Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  “They are siphoning our powers of worship!” One of the Panhu monarch spirits shouted in horror.

  “They are taking away the powers of worships from our descendants!” Another Panhu monarch spirit shouted.

  “When did the Void World have these monsters!?”

  …

  In the midst of the chaos, a Soul Eating Beast suddenly detached itself from the crowd and rushed out. Then, it turned back into King Yi and flew out of the Void World!

  “This little brat!”

  The five Panhu monarch spirits were shocked and angered. They lashed out their skills and tried to rush out of the Soul Eating Beasts’ encirclement. But the Soul Eating Beats were too many, it would take some time for them to escape the encirclement.

  Zhong Yue heaved a breath as he left the five monarch spirits behind. He sneaked into the layers of dimensions and brought himself close to a Panhu young lady.

  “So similar, so alike…”

  Zhong Yue looked at the young lady through the dimensions in awe. He couldn’t help but praise at the wonders of the universe. There really was a lady that looked the same in this universe!

  The Panhu young lady was still oblivious to the happenings around her while suddenly, the Panhu Deity Emperors and Creators sniffed and an elder shouted, “Not good, King Yi is nearby!”

  As he finished saying, a huge hand reached out from the dimensions and snatched the young lady out from the Panhu experts!

  The Deity Emperors and Creators quickly dashed forward but the huge hand had already disappeared with the young lady in hand. Their attacks fell into blank space.

  “Cast the monarch weapon!” Pan Ji dashed forward and he shouted.

  Wong—

  Four Panhu monarch weapons flew up to midair. There was another monarch weapon that was left in the State of Heavenly River to prevent any ambush to their homeland.

  The four monarch weapons rammed into the void and trembled the dimensions. Zhong Yue’s eyes grew cold, his one hand was holding on the Panhu young lady while the other hand dipped a finger on his forehead, he shouted softly, “Cast!”

  The Innate Divine Saber flew out and slashed at the incoming monarch weapons. As the two weapons collided, a wave of terrifying energy swept across the scene. Zhong Yue muffled a deep groan as blood trickled out from the corner of his mouth. He protected the woman in his arms as they were sent flying away by the shockwave.

  Zhong Yue coughed out a mouthful of blood. He returned the Innate Divine Saber and slashed towards the back. The dimensions were slashed apart and he cut himself away from the monarch weapons’ senses!

  Zhong Yue warped out away while the lady in his arms could feel some waters dropping onto her face. She looked up and found out it was actually the blood trickling down from Zhong Yue’s mouth. She was shocked and terrified, thinking to herself, Why is he kidnapping me? And why is he protecting me?

  All of a sudden, the dimensions before them cracked and a Panhu monarch spirit descended from the Void World. His aura was weak, probably the aftermath of the battle with the Soul Eating Beasts. The beasts must have devoured most of his energy, leaving him only a little time in the real world.

  Zhong Yue’s eyes grew cold, he shouted, “Senior from the Panhu Clan, we are both from the sovereign races, so why the relentlessness? Spare me today, and we can still remain allies in the future!”

  The Panhu monarch spirit smiled, “You are a Fuxi, yes? I was a Heavenly Monarch just like your ancestors in the Earth Order Era. We and the Fuxi Clan were allies before. But times changed, things were not what they used to be before. A drenched phoenix is no better than a proud chicken. Little Dao friend, for we were allies, I will not corner you. Give yourself up, I will not touch a single hair of yours.”

  Zhong Yue tossed the Panhu lady into his Yuan Shen secret realms and cast out the saber. He laughed loudly, “Give myself up? Senior, have you ever seen a Fuxi surrendering?”

  Krong—

  Saint fire burst out of his body, it was the powers of the fire spirits. He forced his atman into the level of the Imperial Emperors!

  “Spirits of the Fire Order Era?” The Panhu monarch spirit frowned softly, he said, “Then, let’s make a deal. If you can block three strikes from me and not die, I will let you go.”

  “Great Six Paths Reincarnation!” Zhong Yue roared ad his body swayed. Time and space changed around them. Ghost fires filled the surroundings and huge light wheels like bridges were attracting the dead souls toward them!

  Whereas Zhong Yue was like a Ghost Monarch, the master of boundless powers in this universe.

  “Oh? You have trapped the dead souls in your Reincarnation and bestowed yourself with the powers of a monarch. Interesting!”

  The Panhu monarch spirit was surprised, he looked at the bridges and saw the dead souls walking on them towards the Reincarnation.

  Zhong Yue raised his head and roared, eleven sabers were merged into one strike and slashed down at the Panhu monarch spirit!

  In the Great Six Paths Reincarnation, he was the Ghost Monarch, there were more than a billion souls in his Reincarnation, and in addition to the Fire Order Era fire spirits’ powers, he was confident he could contend with a monarch spirit!

  “Not bad, no wonder they needed five monarch spirits for you.”

  The Panhu monarch spirit softly raised his hand. A skill was formed as if it was part of nature’s creation and it blocked Zhong Yue’s divine saber.

  An ear-deafening explosion came from the clashes and Zhong Yue muffled a deep groan. The divine saber in his hand splintered into pieces and he was sent flying backward, crashing through many secret realms before coming to a stop.

  “The first strike.”

  The monarch spirit strode forward with a smile on his face, “There’s two more.”

  Chapter 1100: Three Strikes |

  Zhong Yue was panting heavily and looked up at the incoming Panhu monarch spirits. In the Great Six Paths Reincarnation, his strength was equivalent to that of a Ghost Monarch. He thought he would be able to contend with the monarch spirits, but now, it seemed like there was still a huge gap between their prowesses!

  To the Heavenly Monarchs that ruled, the prowess of a Ghost Monarch wasn’t even qualified to stand against them. Although Zhong Yue had boosted his atman’s prowess to that of a Ghost Monarch, he was still much weaker than the Panhu monarch spirits.

  “The second.”

  Five light wheels turned behind the Panhu monarch spirit’s head. In his nine eyes, there were also images of five light wheels turning. He said placidly, “Most of the races that exist can only open 5 secret realms, but those of the Panhu Clan are gifted with the ability to open 15. Although the extra secret realms are still the same type of secret realms as the Dao Yi, Yin Yang, Shen Cai, Wan Xiang, and Wu Xing, 15 secret realms alone have allowed us to stand above all other races. The skill I am about to unleash is known as the [Great Wu Xing Heavenly Amplification]. During my reign, no one has ever managed to counter it.”

  Divine lights brimmed out of his nine eyes and the lights morphed into 45 light wheels. The light wheels were turning rapidly, buzzing as they flew out to at Zhong Yue!

  Zhong Yue was shocked, he quickly swung the innate divine saber. Every light wheel had its own power of the five different secret realms. When all forty-five light wheels were coming down at him, Zhong Yue’s Yuan Shen was distorted and nearly got diminished!

  “Open!”

  He continuously slashed out the saber at the light wheels. The totem patterns and Dao structures of the light wheels were changing so rapidly that he couldn’t see clearly. No matter how strong his [Dao Crusher] was, he couldn’t find a single flaw in the light wheels. The damage he had done would always be recovered in the matter of split seconds!

  Whereas his arcane energy was depleting quickly and his connections to the Daos of heaven and earth were also faltering. Soon, he would be killed by the monarch spirit’s skill!

  “Seven Paths Reincarnation,
open!”

  The heaven and earth trembled and Zhong Yue disappeared from the coverage of the light wheels. The Space Secret Realm was activated and he warped himself out from the [Great Wu Xing Heavenly Amplification], evading the monarch spirit’s attack.

  The Panhu monarch spirit was surprised. He looked up and saw the sky separated into seven segments. In each segment, there was a Zhong Yue that was slashing down at him!

  “Seven Paths Reincarnation? Space Reincarnation?”

  Panhu monarch spirit was in awe, he praised, “Your secret realm is really incredible, it has many amazing uses. You’ve used your Seven Paths Reincarnation to make seven of you attack me. Splendid. No wonder my descendants summoned five of us monarch spirits to descend just for you.”

  Seven Zhong Yues were attacking from the Seven Paths Reincarnation. By the looks of it, there were seven of them, but they were actually just one. It was hard for the others to comprehend but not the paragons like the Panhu monarch spirit.

  To put it shortly, it was like Zhong Yue was standing in front of seven mirrors that were stacked together. When he reached his hand for the mirrors, his hand would have passed through all seven mirrors.

  If each mirror were a world and the seven worlds were superimposed together. Whoever was in the mirror would see seven Zhong Yues reaching their hands out into the worlds.

  In addition to the Seven Paths Reincarnation, it was possible to have seven Zhong Yues attacking the Panhu monarch spirit.

  “The third strike!”

  Panhu monarch spirit suddenly burst up, the Five Paths Reincarnation behind his three heads suddenly merged together. The 15 light wheels combined into one and his aura spiked as he lashed out his attack at the skies!

  In just one strike, Zhong Yue’s Seven Paths Reincarnation twisted away and collided with one another. Seven Zhong Yues were squeezed together back into one.

  Meanwhile, a sword ray flashed in the sky and a huge head rolled down from the sky. Other than the head, there was also a headless corpse!

  The Panhu monarch spirit kept his skill and said placidly, “You still lost, you didn’t block my third strike. But as a Deity Overlord, to be able to drag me into this bizarre world and parry two strikes from me, you are more than qualified to be proud of yourself than anyone else… Huh?”

  The huge head rolled to his feet and when he looked down at it, Panhu monarch spirit’s face changed slightly. The head was actually a black wok!

  “This… the saint herb, Nine Lives Black Wok Mushroom?”

  His facial expression turned funny to look at. He quickly looked up and saw the headless body turning into a huge mushroom with many black woks on its cap.

  His killing blow did land on Zhong Yue, but at the moment of death, the saint herb had taken the hit in Zhong Yue’s place and switched his life at the cost of one of its caps!

  What the killing blow truly killed was just a mushroom cap!

  A hand clenched on the Nine Lives Black Wok Mushroom and disappeared. Then, the Panhu monarch spirit saw the Great Six Paths Reincarnation dispersing and they returned to the real world. Zhong Yue was holding on the saint herb and tucking it away in his Yuan Shen secret realms.

  “Senior, three strikes are over,” Zhong Yue cleared his throat and said.

  The Panhu monarch spirit gazed back deeply for a second. Then, he moved back into the Void World while saying, “A phoenix drenched in water is still, after all, a mighty phoenix. Fuxi, I will keep my promise. You can leave now. But…”

  His voice echoed from afar, “We may meet again. At that time, revealing the Nine Lives Black Wok now will prove to be your downfall.”

  Zhong Yue wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, he laughed and replied, “Senior, how sure can you be that I won’t be stronger than you the next time we meet?”

  The Panhu monarch spirit frowned softly before disappearing into the void.

  “How childish, your insights are exceptional, but you are still far from success!” His divine psyche rammed into Zhong Yue’s mind as he answered.

  Zhong Yue laughed, he wanted to cast the innate mortal body but spurted out a mouthful of blood instead. His face changed slightly and he quickly snuck into the layers of dimensions while suppressing the injuries.

  Mo Yin, Consort Tian Si, and the others were not far from here. They would be able to sense the ripples of the battle and would surely come to check. However, Zhong Yue had been injured quite severely, he had to remove the remnants of the monarch powers still lingering in his body before he could travel again.

  Soon after, Mo Yin and the rest arrived on the scene. The Panhu experts morphed into their true forms and sniffed around. They concluded, “King Yi is hiding just nearby!”

  Pan Ji also sniffed and he frowned, “He is hiding in the Nether. Raise the monarch weapon, force him out!”

  The Panhu experts cast the monarch weapon and Pan Ji sniffed again, tracing Zhong Yue’s blood scent and pointed at a direction. He shouted, “There!”

  Krong—

  The monarch weapon’s power exploded out forward and tore the dimensions on its path. Vaguely, the experts could see Zhong Yue sitting in the lotus position in the Nether and was reduced into ashes by the monarch weapon’s power!

  “Dead?”

  Mo Yin and Consort Tian Si were both stunned to the fact that Zhong Yue had been killed just like that.

  When the dimensions were torn apart, the experts witnessed Zhong Yue’s death under the monarch weapon’s power!

  However, it was the world-renowned King Yi they were talking about. For him to die just like that, it was hard for them to believe.

  Suddenly, Consort Tian Si’s hands waltzed in the air and she weaved a Karmic Line. She looked at his and her face changed drastically. She quickly said, “He is not dead, that was just his incarnation!”

  As she finished talking, Zhong Yue abruptly walked out of the layers of dimensions beside her and pinched her cheeks.

  Beads of cold sweat rolled down from Consort Tian Si’s forehead and with a burst of laughter, Zhong Yue disappeared from the scene.

  Pan Ji and the experts rammed the monarch weapon again, but he was already nowhere to be seen!

  “King Yi’s life is a hard one to claim, he even survived in this dire situation!” Mo Yin praised, “Gentlemen, the ambush is not a total failure! King Yi is severely injured, he will be heading for the Heaven Breaching Fortress. His injuries from the battle with the monarch spirit will not be easy to heal, he will have to take stops in his journey to recover from it. We will move now in pursuit. Consort Tian Si will be calculating his locations while the rest of you will track his scent.”

  The Panhu experts nodded and Mo Yin and the rest quickly chased after him. Zhong Yue’s injuries were really severe. Normally, Zhong Yue would have been able to sense it immediately if Consort Tian Si tried to weave his Karmic Line.

  But now, when Consort Tian Si was weaving his Karmic Line, he had no reaction against it. This could only mean one thing, Zhong Yue was so severely injured he couldn’t divert any attention to his own Karmic Line anymore, meaning that he was currently incapable of disrupting Consort Tian Si’s calculations on him!

  “Strange, Consort Tian Si, King Yi is no idiot. Why did he still come back after running away?” Mo Yin was frowning as he said, “Did he come back to snatch the Panhu young lady? It shouldn’t be, right? King Yi is a womanizer, but he is not the kind that would risk his life for a lady he doesn’t even know.”

  Consort Tian Si thought, “Perhaps, they have met before? Or does this Panhu young lady have some secrets in her? Clan Master Pan Ji, please check on the lady’s background.”

  Immediately, Pan Ji had an elder run an inspection on the Panhu lady’s background. Soon after, the elder reported, “The young lady King Yi kidnapped is called Pan Suxin, a mix blood of the Tian Feng Sovereign Race and our Panhu Clan. Back in our glory days in the Earth Order Era, a Heavenly Lady of the Tian Feng Sovereign Race was married to us, leaving behin
d the phoenix’s bloodline in our clan. This is the first time Pan Suxin has left the State of Heavenly River. She is a newly ascended Deity and has never met King Yi before.”

  Mo Yin and Consort Tian Si exchanged puzzled looks. Consort Tian Si mumbled, “Or is King Yi really a playboy who would even risk his life just to quench his lust?”

  Mo Yin shook, “Definitely not. There must some other reason for his actions….”

  On the other hand, Zhong Yue was warping away continuously. Suddenly, he lost his balance and crashed into a planet.

  The injuries were getting out of control.

  Zhong Yue muffled a deep groan, he mustered his energy to suppress the injuries again. Although he pulled through the Panhu monarch spirit’s three strikes, it wasn’t that easy to get rid of the remaining powers of the monarch skills inside of him.

  Mo Yin and Tian Si will never leave this chance slip away. I can hinder the Panhu experts’ smelling senses, but Tian Si’s art of Karma can always track my locations. Furthermore, there is this little girl that is constantly reporting my position…

  With a change of thought, the Panhu young lady was dragged out from his Yuan Shen secret realms. She was thrown to the ground and landed on her butt. In her hand was a totem pillar, which was clearly used to contact the Panhu Clan.

  “So similar, so alike…” Zhong Yue looked at her and mumbled.

  Chapter 1101: Mystery |

  “How is this possible? Two similar lifeforms in this world? What is your name?”

  The Panhu lady shivered upon his gaze, unease consumed her yet she still mustered her courage to ask, “My name is Pan Suxin. King Yi, I know you are so great that even billions of gods had nothing on you, why are you pestering a young and weak lady like me?”

  “Pan Suxin? The name is good but the surname, heh.”

  Zhong Yue shifted his vision away, continued to treat his injuries and without raising his head, he said, “From now onwards, you are called Xiao Suxin.”

  Angry in the inside, Pan Suxin shouted, “Do you think I will change my surname because of a word from a stranger?”