Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  “Wall Painting Flower, you know that some things are meant to be kept a secret, don’t you?”

  With a steely face, Monarch Chang Sheng gave the Wall Painting Flower a warning before he put up a smile and headed out to see Zhong Yue, “Thank you for lending this Wall Painting Flower to me. Junior martial brother, I have what I want now and you’d better keep it safe, just for your own safety.”

  Zhong Yue took over the Wall Painting Flower and King Zi Guang approached at the same second, “King Yi, it’s time for us to meet with Mister Bi Luo.”

  Zhong Yue excused himself and walked away as he thought, What was Monarch Chang Sheng looking for that he needed such a long time?

  When he asked for the nine great spiritual roots, the Wall Painting Flower did not take long to find out their locations, but Monarch Chang Sheng used three days in total.

  He shook his head and paid no more attention to this matter.

  The ancient ship sailed into the dimensions, silently headed towards Bi Luo Palace and landed without a noise.

  To be frank, Zhong Yue would be lying if he said he was not worried at all; twice he had been there and nothing good happened. The first time, along with Si Ming, they stole the weapon of Reincarnation, the Six Paths Tian Lun, away and almost died there. The second time, he traveled through the Imperial Road of Heavenly Monarchs, brought the Fire Order Era’s fire spirits away with him and caused quite a ruckus.

  Mister Bi Luo was one shrouded with mystery. He was the emissary of Heaven who held the powerful weapon Tian Fa, titled as Mister as a symbol of respecting Heaven and acknowledgment of his talent.

  Though Zhong Yue left no trail behind, he was still afraid that he would expose himself somehow.

  And if he exposed himself even the slightest bit, he would throw himself into grave danger by sandwiching himself between Bi Luo and the Heavenly Prison, let alone Mu Xiantian and Di Xiuluo who were standing right beside him. If this happened, then there would be no escape!

  Finally, they arrived at Bi Luo Palace, the thousand winged ancient ship was hidden within the void by Zhong Yue before they all unboarded the ship and landed before Bi Luo Palace.

  This place was, after all, the Heaven Court, where Queen Goddess’ power reigned. Though the Heaven Court’s strength shrunk by half, it was still not to be underestimated; if they revealed themselves, the Heaven Court’s army divisions themselves would be strong enough to kill them all, not even Queen Goddess herself was needed.

  Seconds later, Bi Luo Palace’s gate opened up, with Mister Bi Luo standing right behind it and he smiled upon seeing the guests, “I’ve been waiting for your arrival for some time, please, come in.”

  “Please.”

  The four entered Bi Luo Palace and Mister Bi Luo turned to Zhong Yue, “King Yi, an old friend is waiting for you.”

  Zhong Yue turned around to the direction Mister Bi Luo pointed to and he found a young man waiting. This young man was a stranger to him but still gave him a very familiar feeling, to which Zhong Yue quickly identified the young man through this presence, “Ah, Senior Martial Brother Xuan Ji. Your Majesty, please excuse me for a moment.”

  He then started walking away.

  Mister Bi Luo turned to King Zi Guang this time and calmly said, “King Zi Guang, I hear that you like ancient books, there is a library in our Bi Luo Palace, which was once the Earth Order Era’s Heaven Court’s royal library. If you are interested, you are always welcome to check it out.”

  King Zi Guang was dumbfounded by this happy news and he could no longer keep calm; for a long time he had been desiring to visit the Earth Order Era’s royal library but because of the destruction of the era and its Heaven Court’s destroyed, he thought that he won’t have this chance anymore. But this chance was delivered right into his hands

  He looked towards Mu Xiantian right away and his lord smiled, “Don’t worry, Mister Bi Luo won’t harm me if he knows I’m coming. Besides, even if he is going to harm me, you wouldn’t be much help even if you are here. Now, go.”

  King Zi Guang got up and left with Di Xiuluo after gaining Mu Xiantian’s permission.

  Mister Bi Luo blinked his eyes, looked at Mu Xiantian and after checking her out, he praised, “This is indeed a very impressive Dao body, there is a side of the ancient Dark Age’s powerful existences in you that I can see. I heard that there is this great existence in the ancient Dark Age that has no sex, that they was an ancient Deity King that could create lives and that it was only until the birth of Lei Zhe and Hua Xu that the concept of the man and woman came to be.”

  “I suppose you are talking about Great Si Ming, Mister Bi Luo.”

  Mu Xiantian giggled, “Great Si Ming is indeed without sex, there is no man or lady’s structure in his body, but I am different. I can be a man or a woman, it all depends on my thoughts, I am one of man and woman.”

  Mister Bi Luo said seriously, “This is the looks of a saint! Only a saint possesses such a unique body, you are a saint, the last innate god before the birth of Heaven! Your future achievements will be on par with Great Si Ming and even your teacher is not as successful as you. You have to be careful of him!”

  Lights flashed in Mu Xiantian’ eyes and with a fake smile, Mu Xiantian said, “Wu Dulang is also a man and a woman at the same time. This is not a trait unique only to me. Mister Bi Luo, you are flattering me. Besides, aren’t you crossing the line when you ask me to be careful of my own teacher?”

  “Wu Dulang is an innate god birthed from worship, when the demons worshiped him, they imagined him as one of man and woman. Unlike him, you are the Heavenly Lady and Heavenly Child birthed by heaven and earth! And about your teacher….”

  Mister Bi Luo too, gave her a fake smile, “Aren’t you here to find a way to deal with him?”

  Mu Xiantian fell back into silence right away.

  Mister Bi Luo added, “Your teacher gave you an eye, which is supposed to be carved onto your celestial true body. Innate Sinister Monarch’s arrow sealed it away and you dug it out and put onto your demon true body’s forehead. Not long ago, both your celestial true body and demon true body were destroyed by Di Ming and Queen Goddess, but this arrow and eye are still around. You did not carry them with you, they are not on your forehead!”

  His vision locked onto Mu Xiantian and said softly, “What are you so wary of?”

  His words had Mu Xiantian’s beautiful face consumed by gloominess immediately.

  “You are afraid, afraid that you will become that fish bred by your teacher that will mature when you become the Heavenly Monarch.”

  As if there was some kind of strange energy, Mister Bi Luo’s voice reached into her heart and voiced out her true thoughts through his mouth, “That’s it. Dark Monarch says he is about to become a Dao God so he shut himself in, trying to shed away his past body. But he is still some way away from that level. Perhaps he cultivated you for this exact moment, you, as the fish that reached maturity, will be consumed by the fish farmer after you become the Heavenly Monarch to help him overcome the final obstacle. Now tell me, what did you find, in his eyes, Mu Xiantian.”

  With an expressionless face, Mu Xiantian looked at Mister Bi Luo and after some time, she sighed and said, “That eye of my teacher, is in my Xuan Pin Sacred Ground right now. After my celestial true body and demon true body died, they revived in Xuan Pin Sacred Ground and I noticed something strange.”

  Fear crept up onto her pretty face as she said, “I noticed my teacher’s eye and Sinister Monarch’s arrow, they were there, following right after my bodies into the Xuan Pin Sacred Ground!”

  The Xuan Pin Sacred Ground had been found. Fear crept up her spine as she knew that it was her greatest weakness. If it was destroyed, then her death was near!

  Hence, any innate gods birthed by the heaven and earth would always hide their own innate sacred ground, far away from their enemies.

  “This isn’t all I came to see you for.”

  Mu Xiantian took in a deep breath and sat still a
s calmness returned to her, “When my body died, I saw something beyond terrifying in my teacher’s eye!”

  Chapter 1153: Mystery In The Eye |

  This was not Zhong Yue’s first visit to Bi Luo Palace, hence, he was considered no stranger to its structure, but with Xuan Ji around, it would be inappropriate to appear to be familiar with it.

  Where they were right now was the place where the 800 innate gods cultivated. Among them, most were birthed from worship, they all cultivated right here, lived with each other, and made things very lively.

  Ever since Zhong Yue and Si Ming’s robbery, however, Si Ming’s triple questions caused the Heaven Will’s brain explode, killing half of the innate gods and Mister Bi Luo sent the remaining ones out to take part in the war of the throne. Thus, this place remained as it is when the brain exploded, rubble scattered around and every place was in bad shape.

  There was a great restriction on all innate gods, those from the Bi Luo Palace were all the Heaven’s disciples, upon running into each other, they were restricted from killing each other, hence, apart from the Sign of Nine-Five, the others still remained nameless as they had yet to pull off anything outstanding.

  Even Sign of Nine-Five themselves lost quite a few of them before Zhong Yue’s thousand winged ancient ship.

  As for Bi Luo Palace, though they wanted to interfere with the world’s affair, and even control the rise and fall of the Heavenly Monarchs, they had been achieving barely anything up until now.

  After all, there were still existences like Yuan Ya and the other ancient existences, even if Bi Luo Palace was strong, they were not as powerful as these existences. They wouldn’t let Heaven’s power reach deep into the universe and that left Mister Bi Luo with few chances. All he could do was wait for his chance.

  Meanwhile, while walking in the ruins, Zhong Yue was a little mixed with emotion after seeing the destruction he had caused.

  “King Yi, it has been a long time.”

  Xuan Ji smiled, “It’s been 40 years ever since that man beside you ambushed me and chased after me. 40 years is just the blink of an eye to us, but for humans, it is already two generations later.”

  Given how dire the situation was for humans, 40 years was indeed a very long life. At about 15 years old, they would be getting married, giving birth to their child and once they reached 40 years old, their child would be an adult, having already married with their own child.

  To ordinary humans, 40 years was enough time for an empire to rise and fall.

  But to the gods, however, 40 years was really a blink of an eye’s time.

  Zhong Yue smiled, “And the injuries given to you by that man?”

  “Fully recovered.”

  The surprised Xuan Ji mumbled, “He is a human too? Strange, how did I fail to notice this after such a long fight with him? I kinda feel that he is a monster created by an unnatural force, he possesses all celestial races’ innate talents and that caught me off guard, throwing me off the upper hand easily and denying me the chance to turn the tables. Finally, I got myself injured, but the injuries were not that serious. King Yi, I can tell that you are close to his level back then judging from this rapid improvement of yours.”

  Zhong Yue nodded and said with mixed feelings, “40 years gap… and how many of those gaps are between us? If I want to catch up with him, I will have to spend more than a mere 40 years. Brother Xuan Ji, it has been some time since we last met. May I suggest a quick friendly duel?”

  Xuan Ji smiled, “King Yi, you are always so hungry for a battle, aren’t you? Forget battling and you will be in danger, but obsess in it and it will kill you., I’m sure you know about this.”

  “Wrong!”

  Zhong Yue replied seriously, “I am not battle-hungry. I only desire to learning. I love studying and studying makes me happy! From Senior Martial Brother Xuan Ji, I will be able to learn things that I do not know, so please, give me this chance to learn!”

  Xuan Ji blinked his eyes, this strange life form had no emotions as if his Dao heart would never be affected and he shook his head, “The battle between us will eventually turn into a battle between Heavenly Daos’ skills and [Daoless Heavens]. It would only end in a draw. There will be no second possibility. If this is the inevitable outcome, what is the point in having a duel?”

  “Then we will drop the Heavenly Daos’ skills and [Daoless Heavens]!”

  Zhong Yue smiled, “Or are you afraid?”

  Xuan Ji smiled back, “No point provoking me, I have no emotions to provoke and any taunt will be futile.”

  Zhong Yue took a step forward and his presence hiked, “I dare you.”

  Xuan Ji insisted, “I said, my Dao heart is stable and I will not be taunted….”

  “Just admit it, you’re afraid!”

  Zhong Yue smirked, “Admit defeat before me and return my Fuxi Celestial Race’s arts to me!”

  A dangerous air surged right away and Xuan Ji grinned, “I am reluctant to fight you, not afraid of you! Do you really think that Heaven’s disciple is not as good as you? You think I only know your Fuxi Celestial Race’s arts?”

  Zhong Yue burst out laughing, “There is nothing that Heaven does not know, could it be that Heaven also taught you the arts of the other Heavenly Monarchs from the Earth Order Era? There will be no need to worry about my safety, just use whatever you have on me and let’s see if you can even hurt me!”

  The two gazed into each other’s eyes with raging battle intent, Zhong Yue’s battle thirst hiked as each second passed and Xuan Ji on the other side, suddenly gave up and said, “I will not be taunted by you and reveal any more of my trump cards…..”

  Hong long—-

  Without a word, Zhong Yue delivered a punch, slamming onto Xuan Ji’s face, sending him flying, leaving a mark on his face and his body twisted before Zhong Yue’s powerful force.

  Zhong Yue then turned into a meteor that dashed past the air, arriving before Xuan Ji and with a turn, 14 arms appeared, each yielding an innate divine saber and he shouted, “I am already hyped by this battle, there is no use even if you refuse to fight! If you don’t fight back, then I will beat you into fighting back!”

  His unreasonable actions finally pissed Xuan Ji off, impacting Xuan Ji’s fortified Dao heart and he suppressed his strength into the same level as Zhong Yue’s, unleashing all his presence and smirking, “King Yi, you never learn from your mistakes, don’t you? Now, let’s see what you learned in these 40 years!”

  Tremendous clashings emerged right away deep from Bi Luo Palace, but at the front, Mister Bi Luo and Mu Xiantian ignored the turbulence.

  With bitterness, Mu Xiantian asked, “Mister Bi Luo, can you guess what I saw in that eye?”

  After some silence, Mister Bi Luo’s eyes lit up and he smiled, “You are testing me, to see if I am worthy of becoming your ally? Heh, Heaven knows everything and is capable of everything. Your test won’t be a problem to me, what you see in Dark Monarch’s eye is a drum.”

  Mu Xiantian’s body flinched once upon hearing this answer and she said as she nodded, “Indeed. When my demon true body died, I saw [Dragon Snake Twin Attack]’s enormous strength that cleared the eternal darkness in my teacher’s eye….”

  Her demon true body was already on the innate demon monarch level, but before the [Dragon Snake Twin Attack], she found herself entirely helpless.

  This strength was just so powerful that she could already imagine the power and form of Monarch Pao Xi and Goddess Nuwa when they suppressed the Dark Age’s ancient Deity Kings back in the chaotic years.

  The unrivaled strength crushed him and also purged the eternal darkness in Dark Monarch’s eye.

  [Dragon Snake Twin Attack] once suppressed Dark Monarch back then. And although it was not as strong as the creator of the technique, what Di Ming and Queen Goddess performed was also only a replica. The strength was still enough to injure Dark Monarch’s eye and reveal everything hidden in its darkness.

  At that moment, her demon true body saw
a drum hiding in the eternal darkness.

  This drum was imprinted with ancient and mysterious patterns. When her vision landed on the drum, she slowly found herself being dragged into the darkness.

  This drum was the reason that drove her here, casting aside all her worries as she visited Mister Bi Luo.

  “This is the drum, yes?”

  Mister Bi Luo flipped his palm and what appeared on his palm was a drum. After taking a look at the drum, Mu Xiantian nodded softly and said, “Similar but different still. That eye he gave me was to identify King Yi’s true identity, to know his true form, which means that there is no reason to hide this drum in the eye. If the drum hidden in the eye is not to deal with King Yi, then its definitely coming straight at me.”

  “This is the Drum of Dusk created by the Heavenly Prison’s prison lord.”

  Mister Bi Luo said, “Heavenly Prison’s prison lord created this drum but it is also a replica. His [Daoless Heavens] is taught by Heaven who saw the real Drum of Dusk and the real [Daoless Heavens]. After learning and referring to the wonders in them, Heaven taught them to Heavenly Prison’s prison lord and through this art, he created the Heavenly Prison and became its warden up until now. He and I, are all the Heaven’s disciple.”

  Disappointment overwhelmed Mu Xiantian right away and had her mumbling, “Which means that even the Heavenly Prison’s prison lord did not obtain the real [Daoless Heavens] and she can’t deal with Drum of Dusk?”

  “The real [Daoless Heavens] is not something even the Heavens could deal with, it can only be repelled and resisted.”

  Mister Bi Luo smiled, “Thankfully, Dark Monarch also did not have the real [Daoless Heavens]. He may be that existence’s disciple, but there is no way he can completely get a hold of [Daoless Heavens]. Hence, his [Daoless Heavens] and Drum of Dusk can still be dealt with by the Heaven, your visit is not an unfruitful visit.”

  Mu Xiantian got excited right away upon hearing this.

  Zhong Yue and King Zi Guang, her two master strategists, thought that she was here to form an alliance with Bi Luo Palace to deal with Queen Goddess and sit on the throne of the Heavenly Monarch. But no one knew that she was looking for something more.