Rise of Humanity
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King Zi Guang let out a deep breath and after thinking for some time, he said, “King Yi, how about a trade? Leave Yiqi alone and I will leave you alone.”
Zhong Yue’s heart skipped a beat, knowing deeply that King Zi Guang was testing him about his origin and he already obtained quite some vital information.
“Only by serving His Majesty loyally will I save myself. If it is His Majesty who wants Jiang Yiqi’s head, it would be useless even if you threaten me.”
Zhong Yue said, “You should go to His Majesty instead.”
King Zi Guang smiled, “But the Imperial Star’s races are all occupied with their own problems, leaving them no chance to attack we Xian Tian Palace so its fine for me to linger around.”
Zhong Yue added, “I thought Senior Martial Brother Zi Guang has no weakness, but it seems like your greatest weakness is perhaps, Yan Sovereign.”
King Zi Guang grudged. “Yiqi and I are best friends, he is a father and brother figure to me, as long as I live, no one will be able to harm him, not you and not His Majesty.”
Zhong Yue burst out laughing, “Heh, if it wasn’t because of Yan Sovereign, I wouldn’t have become who I am right now! Worry not, I will not harm him, not even in the slightest!”
The two exchanged a glance and King Zi Guang smiled, “Then, I will write a report to His Majesty and stay around, you don’t have to feel difficult, King Yi. Now, you should be preparing your men and all the best with arriving at the South Heaven Gate.”
Zhong Yue nodded, got up and started preparing his men.
After some days later, the many army divisions in the Heaven Breaching Fortress started marching, but instead of sailing down through the Heavenly River, they detoured around the river and charged right at the Diming Clan.
In the State of Heavenly River, Mo Yin, who had received the news from the scouts was shocked. He quickly summoned his commanders and said, “Bring me Consort Tian Si and Mister Wuji! This King Yi is not acting according to common sense!”
Without passing the Heavenly River, the time and effort spent by Mo Yin on managing the State of Heavenly River would be fruitless.
And if Zhong Yue plowed through the Diming Clan and wiped them out, it would be a heavy strike to both him and the Heaven Court!
The annihilation of the Diming Clan was also the erasing of Heavenly Monarch’s own clan, which could bring a drastic impact. If the Heavenly Monarch couldn’t even protect his own race, how was he supposed to protect the other races? By then, the many races serving under him would start to doubt his abilities; even betrayal wasn’t implausible!
But if Mo Yin moved his army from the State of Heavenly River and without this stronghold, the outcome would be unpredictable when he faced Zhong Yue’s army upfront.
“The best military strategies are the eliteness in the soldiers and the element of surprise, which King Yi occupies.”
Consort Tian Si who arrived said, “He is a master tactician, best in using his men strategically, as long as he gained a little advantage over his opponent, he will snowball it quickly, mowing down his enemies throughout the way. If its a warfare, I’m afraid I will be entirely useless. Mister Wuji is also a smart man, what do you think?”
Feng Wuji frowned slightly upon being asked, “I too, am not capable of warfare as well. I am here this time only to get ourselves as many allies as we can, but their behavior is a little too ambiguous, if I must say since Zi Guang must have told and promised them something. If this is the case, why don’t we have His Majesty’ words so that we could offer more to these races to make them our allies. With them being our friends, we might be able to muster more troops and eliminate King Yi’s army right in Imperial Star.”
Mo Yin shook his head and said, “Not the best idea, not at this time. The many races are at war with each other and they’ve lost their cool. I fear that His Majesty alone can’t even restore peace between them, besides, if His Majesty stood out, the many races would even mistake us in our weakest state. If this happens, they would ask for the impossible and wouldn’t even fight for our Heaven Court sincerely.”
Feng Wuji burst out laughing, “If so, muster every man we can and join the Diming Clan. Our manpower is on par with King Yi, it not even stronger. Along with the Nine-Five and the allies I acquired for us, King Yi is bound to be defeated! I can even talk a few more sovereign races into joining us to furthermore make sure King Yi is dead!”
Mo Yin frowned a little and said, “Still, we can’t guarantee that the outcome will be expected exactly. We shall request for reinforcements from Heaven Court, who will advance from the Southern Heaven Gate while we march from Heavenly River. Meanwhile, Mister Wuji will talk to a few sovereign races and with Diming Clan’s strength, we will surround King Yi from all sides and crush him!”
With the plan decided, they started acting at once. Mo Yin sent words to the Heaven Court, requesting for reinforcements as he and his army marched towards the Diming Clan and had Diming Clan prepare to strike at Zhong Yue’s men.
At the same time, Feng Wuji departed for Imperial Star, ready to talk the monarch races into attacking Zhong Yue at once.
With a few innate gods, he arrived first at Wuming Clan and thought, Wuming Clan and Diming Clan are on good terms because of the marriage between His Majesty and Her Highness. It would be easiest to persuade Wuming Clan.
Zhong Yue, on the other hand, arrived at the Imperial Star, the warships laid shadow onto the ground as they covered the skies.
On the ancient ship, countless totem patterns circled around Zhong Yue, creating a massive karma net, the threads of karma tangled, appearing mysteriously and complicated.
On the ship, Tai Feng, Long Zhi, Mu Suge, Fu Qizhi, Fu Yanshan, Fu Li, Yin Bokang and the many commanders and generals were present and they were all looking at the karma totem net created by Zhong Yue in awe.
Apart from them, there were also the leaders of the lesser and greater races, amounting to thousands; with Xian Tian Palace now conquering half of Zi Wei Galaxy, the many races in under its reign surrendered, becoming part of Zhong Yue’s army.
The karma net altered under Zhong Yue’s control, operated quickly and the tanglings turned into stars quickly, creating billions of stars around him.
The commanders and generals present remained silent, awaiting Zhong Yue’s calculations and his decisions.
“Mo Yin is ready to move, he will be appearing behind us. He also requested reinforcements from Heaven Court, who will flank us from the right side, Diming Clan will be coming from the front and Mister Wuji will be arriving with Wuming Clan and a few other monarch races, coming from the left.”
Zhong Yue opened his eyes gradually and said, “They will be coming from all directions, surrounding us and wiping us out.”
Everyone looked at each other with an empty mind, in the four approaching forces, Mo Yin’s was the strongest for apart from Heavenly River Navy Fleet, the four Heavenly Kings and four Heaven Gates, he also had Panhu Clan, Huangting Clan, Dating Clan, the San Li Gong Division, Tiang Gang Star Division, Di Sha Star Division, Tian Shu Division 1, and the Sign of Nine-Five. Among his army were also 95 innate gods, making him the strongest army under this heaven!
And the reinforcements he requested from Heaven Court, they may not be as strong as Mo Yin’s but they were not to be underestimated!
With the addition of Diming Clan and the army brought up by Feng Wuji, this battle would be a risky one!
“What should we do?” asked Tai Feng.
Zhong Yue smiled, “Mister Wuji is really my lucky star! We will start with him, ladies and gentlemen, let’s take a detour and take on the Wuming Clan, shall we?”
Everyone was shocked by this decision and Long Zhi frowned, “Aren’t we attacking Diming Clan? Wuming Clan is Queen Goddess’s clan, their strength is not as simple as what they show to the world. Besides, as a monarch herself, Queen Goddess is a tough nut to crack herself.”
King Zi Guang however, praised silently as he knew what Zh
ong Yue was after.
Zhong Yue then asked, “With our strength, how long will we take to bring Wuming Clan down?”
The commanders and generals had a discussion right away and replied, “If Queen Goddess herself stay out of this fight, we will wipe Wuming Clan out in only two days. But if she arrives….”
Zhong Yue gave no attention to this and continued, “If she even dares to return, we will remove her existence once and for all, along with her people! With our strength right now, killing her is not impossible. As long as Queen Goddess leaves Heaven Court, she will deliver a chance straight to His Majesty to invade Heaven Court and kill Heavenly Monarch Diming. And with their intelligence, I suppose Diming and Queen Goddess wouldn’t be so dumb to give an opening to both His Majesty and I. Ladies and gentlemen, in two days, we will be knocking on Wuming Clan’s door and unroot them entirely!”
Chapter 1133: Lives Ruled By Fate |
When Feng Wuji and the innate gods just arrived and sat down in the Wuming Clan, clamors of war suddenly erupted around them. Feng Wuji’s face changed drastically and he and the Wuming Clan’s elders quickly flew up into midair.
They looked out and saw many fortresses slamming down onto the Wuming Clan’s sacred ground, crushing everything on their path, crumbling the sacred mountains into bits of rock and killing countless Wuming experts!
Then, there were ships that sailed into the sacred ground. On the ships were tens of thousand gods surging their arcane energies to form streams of rivers. The rivers were gushing all around the place and swept across the land, drowning many Wuming clansmen to death and washing their flesh and blood away, leaving only their skeletons!
There were also countless war chariots that charged into Wuming Clan’s sacred ground in a killing spree!
Then, there were also divine palaces that rammed onto Wuming Clan’s city walls. In the divine palaces stood countless gods in formation, launching their attacks out into the Wuming Clan’s sacred ground.
There were also the insect race’s mother queen, charging into the sacred ground with endless swarms of insect gods and pounced on the sacred mountains and palaces like tides of a raging sea.
In midair, many Heavens shone in bright light. Their powers were unleashed and enhanced the slaughtering array formations of the armies in the battlefield!
“King Yi’s forces!”
The elders’ faces changed drastically, they quickly shouted, “Activate the monarch array formation, quickly! Activate the monarch array formation!”
Immediately, the monarch-level array formation safeguarding the Wuming Clan’s sacred ground was activated. Countless monarch-level totem patterns were raised from the sacred mountains and saint palaces while the monarch Daos rumbled, protecting the Wuming Clan’s core sacred ground.
“Awaken the monarch weapons!”
Zhong Yue’s voice could be heard giving his order. The monarch weapons were cast out suffused with monarch auras. The Heavenly Suppression River Cauldron, Fusang Divine Tree, Create Evolve Mystical Gate, and another seven monarch weapons were hurled toward the Wuming Clan’s monarch array formation. Before the monarch array formation was able to fully unleash its power, it was already shattered into many pieces by the monarch weapons!
The Heaven Breaching Fortress’s forces possessed ten monarch weapons. Among them, Mu Suge and his army of princes controlled two monarch weapons while Tai Feng, Long Zhi, Yi Tianjun, Nu Fang, and Jiao Teng had a monarch weapon each.
The ten monarch weapons’ monarch auras straight up oppressed the Wuming Clan’s monarch array formation from activating. It wasn’t even able to do anything at all!
Tens of millions of gods marched right into the Wuming Clan’s sacred ground. Everywhere they went, death followed. Any resistance against them would be wiped away with no mercy!
The Wuming Clan’s elders let out a shout of anger and rushed into the battlefield. It was at this moment that a thousand-winged ancient ship appeared in their vicinity. At the center of the ancient ship sat Zhong Yue, surrounded by the commanders of each army.
“Gentlemen, the time to earn your merits is now.” Zhong Yue said softly, “Go and bring me the elders’ heads.”
Tai Feng, Long Zhi, Jiang Yiqi, Duo Yin, Fu Li, Fu Yanshu, and the others instantly galvanized into action, rushing straight toward the Wuming Clan’s elders.
Meanwhile, Feng Wuji’s face changed drastically. He glanced around the battlefield and felt the heavy pounding of his heart.
Zhong Yue’s forces now had the absolute high ground, there was no way the Wuming Clan could win. If he didn’t leave now, he wouldn’t be able to leave anymore.
“Queen Goddess will not sit by to see King Yi exterminate her race. There might still be a chance!”
Feng Wuji quickly took out an incense stick and got in touch with Queen Goddess, reporting to her about the Wuming Clan’s dire situation. But before he could finish explaining, an Imperial Emperor elder was killed by Tai Feng and Jiao Teng devoured another Wuming Imperial Emperor!
The Wuming elders were eliminated one after another and with the higher ups of the clan killed, the Wuming Clan tumbled into chaos, many started fleeing in all directions.
Zhong Yue had hundreds of millions of soldiers under his command and planned the ambush. Wuming Clan didn’t even have the time to organize a resistance against the sudden assault. Their monarch array formation was suppressed and the situation turned into a pure massacre!
In the Heaven Court, Queen Goddess’s face changed drastically and she turned uneasy, not even having the mood to cultivate with Heavenly Monarch Di Ming anymore. She quickly walked out of the monarch palace, cast out a willow bow and shot a willow arrow toward the Wuming Clan.
Chi, chi, chi—
She shot out a few arrows. In the next second, incredibly huge arrow rays descended from the skies like green dragons down toward Zhong Yue’s thousand-winged ancient ship!
Taking the commander’s life was the fastest way to win a war. She didn’t dare to simply leave the Heaven Court, but she could definitely attack from there. Even from a far distance, her attacks were still incredibly strong. After all, distance didn’t make any difference to Zhong Yue when the attacks were coming from a monarch. The only difference was the narrow window of reaction time given to him.
“Queen Goddess really doesn’t dare to leave the Heaven Court. If you can’t even protect your own race, how are you going to shelter the other races?” Zhong Yue looked up at the incoming green dragons, he laughed happily and shouted, “Chi Song, activate the Stone Sentinel Maze! Old Man Xuan and Qi, where are the divine weapons?”
Chi Song let out a roar and the Stone Sentinel Maze was cast out by 20 million gods. Zhong Yue appeared at the center of the array formation and his aura spiked immediately, taking full control of the whole array formation.
At the same time, Old Man Xuan and Qi cast out their divine weapons and cast the [Demonic Chant of Reincarnation], forming many layers of Reincarnation dimensions.
Chi, chi, chi—
The arrows showered down, penetrating through Old Man Xuan and Qi’s Reincarnation dimensions and continuing toward Zhong Yue. Zhong Yue was calm, he raised his hand and the Create Evolve Mystical Gate hovered above him to stand in between him and the arrows!
He cast the Create Evolve Mystical Gate and the gates opened. Then, the willow arrows shot into the gates with great force, penetrating through the Create Evolve Dimensions inside of the gates!
Left Gate and Right Gate both let out a shriek while Zhong Yue surged all of his arcane energy. A skull flew out and headed straight for a willow arrow. The arrow shot into the skull and the skull crashed into the Wuming Clan’s sacred ground, ramming through many sacred mountains!
Zhong Yue muffled a groan and blood trickled out of his mouth. Then, a black tail whip flew out under his control and headed for another willow arrow. As the two clashed, the 20 million Xian Tian Royal Guards in the Stone Sentinel Maze all spurted out a mouthful of blood.
Zhong Yue’s blood essence was undulating, his skin cracked and blood splattered everywhere. The Seven Paths Reincarnation was revolving rapidly behind him, but he finally stopped the five willow arrows. At the same time, the 20 million Xian Tian Royal Guards were also wounded from the clashes, they were unable to join any battle anymore.
Meanwhile, Old Man Xuan and Qi cast the Million Treasures Dao Hammer and smithed the five willow arrows to smithereens.
After reducing the arrows’ powers with the [Demonic Chant of Reincarnation] and Create Evolve Mystical Gate, he finally stopped Queen Goddess’s five shots of arrows!
But suddenly, a sixth willow arrow suddenly appeared at his front when Zhong Yue had nothing to stop it anymore. Then, the monarch weapons suffused with monarch auras rammed toward the sixth willow arrow, shattering it into dust.
“If goddess you have cultivated the Seven Paths Reincarnation and formed the seventh arrow, you will be able to take my life as wished.” Zhong Yue looked up and laughed happily, “But do you have one?”
In Heaven Court, Queen Goddess gave a cold sneer, she flew up and intended to head for the Imperial Star. Suddenly, a huge hand was placed on her shoulder and Queen Goddess quickly turned around only to find Heavenly Monarch Di Ming standing behind her.
“Your Majesty, my race is getting exterminated!” Queen Goddess was tearing as she said, “King Yi is a vicious one, he wants to exterminate my people. If I don’t go now, my race will…”
“Zitong, Mu Xiantian is waiting for us.” Heavenly Monarch Di Ming looked out of Heaven Court and shook, “He is around, I sensed his air.”
Queen Goddess’s heart skipped a beat, she looked around and quickly said, “But my Wuming Clan…”
Heavenly Monarch Di Ming frowned, he replied, “After Mu Xiantian’s death, you can do whatever you want with King Yi.”