Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

Now, the totem pattern Daos he had cultivated his whole life were all assimilated away. If he didn’t succeed, he would end up just like how King Xiang has described. His brain would not be able to take it and he would shrink into a spacetime singularity. By then, he would disintegrate back into a part of Chaos and disappear from the cosmos forever.

  Chi—

  Xin Huo was on King Xiang’s head, his flames burning anxiously. King Xiang’s bald head’s was starting to be cooked. The fire spirits around looked at King Xiang’s head and wanted to tell the ancient Deity King about his head but stopped themselves from interrupting.

  Dao voices could be heard coming from Zhong Yue’s Dao Yi Secret Realm. They sounded incredibly abstruse and filled with mystical knowledge that could inebriate cultivators. These were the innate Dao voices, similar to the Dao language.

  The innate Dao voices were produced from the innate Daos’ movement. Even listening to the voices could impart the cultivators with a vast array of knowledge about the Daos.

  However, it wasn’t long until random noises started to appear in the midst of the Dao voices. The noises grew stronger and louder with every second, interrupting in the melodious Dao voices.

  This was due to Zhong Yue lacking in his [Innate Eight Trigrams]. The lack of Heaven Dao had ultimately become crack in the foundation of his Innate Eight Trigrams Saint Ground!

  In his Dao Yi Secret Realm, his Pan Gu Celestial was trembling. The hand seals it was making turned messy and the innate sacred ground was showing signs of collapsing!

  Krong, krong—

  Zhong Yue’s face flushed red and his head expanded a few times larger.

  As his Dao Yi Secret Realm was expanding, his head was also expanded to contain it inside!

  Chi-la—

  King Xiang’s bald head was charred red by Xin Huo while his remaining moustaches were plucked out by his own hands!

  “Let’s go, let’s go, I’ll find you a pureblood inheritor!” King Xiang said, “There is no need to watch anymore. His head is expanded by the Dao Yi Secret Realm’s expansion. A short while later, his Dao Yi Secret Realm will collapse and shrink into nothingness. His cultivation art is incomplete, the most crucial ingredient is missing. He is dead for sure!”

  As he finished saying that, a huge seal flew out and slammed into Zhong Yue’s Dao Yi Secret Realm. With the seal’s mergence, his Dao Yi Secret Realm’s stopped trembling that much. Then, another silver plate flew out and fell into his Dao Yi Secret Realm, slowing the Dao Yi Secret Realm from trembling further.

  Zhong Yue’s huge head slowly returned to normal as his Dao Yi Secret Realm was slowly stabilized.

  King Xiang stopped in his tracks and exclaimed in shock, “The Treasures of Heavenly Daos? Is he planning to use these two Treasures of Heavenly Daos to replace his shortcomings? But, there are only two Treasures of Heavenly Daos, they are not enough to suppress his innate sacred ground.”

  Sure enough, Tian Pan and Tian Yin only suppressed Zhong Yue’s Dao Yi Secret Realm for some time. After that, his Dao Yi Secret Realm started trembling again and his head expanded once more. However, this time, the rate wasn’t as terrifyingly as before.

  Hu—

  A sword hilt flew out and took the place of the missing Heaven Trigram. But even the Power Hilt of Heavenly Monarch couldn’t fully suppress the secret realm from trembling.

  “How, how? What now?” Xin Huo jumped into King Xiang’s ears and shouted at the top of his lungs.

  King Xiang was stunned, he never thought that Zhong Yue could really suppress the innate sacred ground, even for just a short while. However, the delay wouldn’t change the final outcome, it was only a matter of time before his death arrives.

  “He is already starting to complete his inner cosmos and elucidate the cosmos with his Dao but it’s too late now. If he was given time, he might’ve really succeeded…”

  King Xiang mulled, his face was covered in mixed feelings.

  “Fine, fine, fine. This is what I owe to you Fuxis. I will now return the favor!”

  All of a sudden, King Xiang gritted his teeth. He raised his hand and severed his right arm. The right arm flew out and turned into a humongous turtle leg, flying into Zhong Yue’s Dao Yi Secret Realm and raised like a towering pillar beside Tian Yin and Tian Pan.

  As one of the most saintly and ancient Deity Kings, an existence of Daos, his turtle leg was also formed by the innate Daos. Although his innate Dao wasn’t Heaven Dao, its power was beyond Zhong Yue’s Tian Pan and Tian Yin. Thus, its addition in the Dao Yi Secret Realm finally stopped the secret realm from trembling!

  Although the Dao Yi Secret Realm was still not stabilized, still trembling from time to time, the situation was not as tenuous anymore.

  “Effective!” Xin Huo’s eyes lit up, he quickly said, “King Xiang, one more leg, that’ll wrap it all up!”

  King Xiang glared at Xin Huo. Then, he turned back into his true form of a giant turtle. The whole of his left front leg was severed and he said, “Little Fuxi, I’ve given you the most I can! I’ll leave my leg in your Dao Yi Secret Realm to help you stabilize it. When, in the future, you have stabilized it on your own, remember to return my leg!”

  “Thank you, Dao Brother.” Zhong Yue answered.

  In his Dao Yi Secret Realm, the Innate Eight Trigrams Sacred Ground was finally stabilized. Mystical Dao voices were chanting in it while the Gui Tree was rooted inside of the innate sacred ground and receiving the innate sacred ground’s blessings. Life force was returned into its branches, new verdant leaves were grown and flowers bloomed.

  After all the experiences of nearly dying in the Dao Assimilations and crazily pumping its life force into Zhong Yue, it has now finally rewarded with a huge prize.

  Furthermore, after the stabilization of Zhong Yue’s Innate Eight Trigrams Sacred Ground, the Dao voices also bestowed it with incredible knowledge. It suddenly understood many things it couldn’t before.

  “Oh my, I thought I was going to die!” The saint herb heaved a breath of relief and said. Its voice sounded like a young maiden’s voice.

  All of a sudden, the Dao Yi Secret Realm exclaimed in shock again, “Who is talking inside of my body? A ghost! Master King Xiang, there is a ghost in me!”

  King Xiang staggered back its own cave, he was laughing while shaking his head, “Idiot, you have been blessed with the innate sacred ground’s birth. You are now a cultivator! You have a soul now!”

  The saint herb Dao Yi Secret Realm was stunned, it shouted in shock, “I am a cultivator now?”

  “Are you not?” King Xiang turned his head around and laughed, “This is your fate, something I couldn’t give you. But the little Fuxi had done it.”

  “I am really a cultivator now?” Dao Yi Secret Realm was shocked and overjoyed, its branches danced in the air in extreme happiness. The saint herb chuckled happily, “I can cultivate now? Can I finally fight back at those who tried to eat me? Haahahaha, your mother I can walk now, I can run now, I can also jump!”

  Meanwhile, Xin Huo quickly flew into Zhong Yue’s Dao Yi Secret Realm and scolded, “Don’t jump anymore! Your master just sacrificed a leg to stabilize this place. Make anymore ruckus in here and you can go crying if this place collapse again!”

  Immediately, the Gui Tree stopped and slowly walked away with its roots, it smiled, “Your mother I…”

  Xin Huo rolled his eyes and Gui Tree quickly corrected, “Sister I am different now. I am a cultivator, I am prepared to have fun in the vast and amazing worlds…”

  Xin Huo replied insouciantly, “Once you leave this place, you’d be captured and eaten for sure.”

  Gui Tree immediately shuddered in cold and fear.

  Xin Huo said, “You should first learn to transform yourself into a celestial or demon or something else. This way, no one can see through your true form and they won’t think of eating you anymore.”

  “How do I do that?” The saint herb asked dumbly.

  “How would I know? I am a spirit fir
e, not a herb cultivator. Ask your master.”

  All of a sudden, sounds of trembling could be heard again and Xin Huo and Gui Tree were shocked. They thought Zhong Yue’s Innate Eight Trigrams Sacred Ground was starting to collapse again. But soon, they noticed the tremblings came from Zhong Yue’s body.

  His Dao Yi Secret Realm burst in lights, shining from his head down to all parts of his body.

  Wherever the lights reached, secret realms were opened in his body. The Yin Yang, Shen Cai, Wan Xiang, Wu Xing, Bloodline, Space, and Time Secret Realms all reopened once more. However, this time, the secret realms were not opened in his spirit, but in both his mortal body and soul!

  However, the eighth secret realm was quickly closed followed by the seventh secret realm. They didn’t last long before closing.

  Chapter 1160: What A Magnificent Plan |

  Shame, the Seven Paths Reincarnation couldn’t be achieved.

  Zhong Yue opened his eyes, let out a sigh and as he stood up, rumblings came from his body. After disintegrating the Sun and Moon Spirits, his cultivation level did not suffer any negative impacts, but instead, increased greatly!

  His movements were entirely natural, his voice was instilled with the Dao, as if whatever he said was the truth itself.

  Now, he was at the level where his soul was the spirit and his soul and body fully merged into one, though he was not an innate god yet, the hope was in his sight.

  This cultivation was a unique one, granting him a tremendous boost in his Dao cultivation. He took the initiative to turn into Daos, merging his own Daos with the heaven and earth Daos and turning them over, turning the heaven and earth Daos into his Innate Eight Trigrams Sacred Ground. This move turned his Daos into the heaven and earth Daos, there were no longer totem patterns, his Daos were now pure and innate and that tremendously increased his strength!

  Most importantly, the Dao Yi Secret Realm now contained Innate Eight Trigrams Sacred Ground, which he would be relying on to reverse his postnate state into innate!

  But the reversion of innate was not something that could be achieved easily, what he achieved now was merely the first step. As to what came after that, or whether or not there were existences that managed to transcend from a postnate living being into an innate god, he did not know.

  Now I finally know why Great Si Ming says that postnate living beings sinned the very second they looked into the sky and was punished with aging, sickness and death.

  Zhong Yue raised his head and looked into the galaxy filled with endless stars, Postnate living beings took the wrong path, they shouldn’t have looked up to the innate gods but seek for the Dao themselves. Looking up to someone signified envy, and would bring one into chasing external Daos. And the consequence of this was being denied the chance to become an innate god. I too, finally understand what Senior Martial Brother Feng Xiaozhong meant. He said that the spirit is a lock that must be erased, and here I thought that he was being way too extreme, now it seems like he had a glimpse on the true nature of it.

  He was unsure of Feng Xiaozhong’s progress in this area of his research, but he had never sensed Feng Xiaozhong’s spirit.

  Of course, this was not necessarily the fault of the current totem cultivation system, this system was the one that all postnate beings relied on to acquire the basics, a system that granted them a chance to understand Daos and stand side by side with the innate gods.

  Without the condensation of the earlier eras, none would be able to reverse the innate in Dao Yi Secret Realm.

  Great Sui’s goal was also probably attempting to create a path leading to the transcendence into the innate state by using the totem pattern cultivation system as a jumping board, but it was a shame that this was never realized when he was still alive. It was only until the creation of the Six Paths and Reincarnation by the Dao Venerate Fu Min and Goddess Hou Tu that the postnate living being’s lifespan increased tremendously, allowing them to have sufficient time to perfect it.

  As for Zhong Yue, he barely entered this path. This path that he walked was destined to be a difficult one. And the difficulty of reversing the innate was definitely even greater!

  The path was found but the way forward remained unknown, no one was capable of teaching him.

  The fire spirits swarmed around him and the fire spirit leader said, “Fuxi, now that you have no more spirit, how about our contract?”

  After dispersing his spirit, Zhong Yue now no longer had a spirit to bind him to the contract that he signed with the fire spirits, making the fire spirits uneasy.

  Zhong Yue smiled, “Whether or not this contract is still here, my promise is my bond! Don’t worry, you have my word, you will all be worshipped and the Yanzi Clan will be recovered!”

  The fire spirits looked at each other and with a synchronized nod, they all flew into Zhong Yue’s body and resided in his soul.

  Gui Tree flew out from his Dao Yi Secret Realm and asked him, “Fuxi, do you know anything about transforming?”

  Zhong Yue replied, “I know a little but there is someone much more capable in this field, we might as well have him teach you.”

  “But he ate me once!” This Gui Tree scowled, “There is no way I’m asking him to teach me!’

  Zhong Yue burst out smiling and entered King Xiang’s palace, located him and thanked, “Thank you for your help, King Xiang.”

  With only three legs remaining, King Xiang appeared to be in bad shape and he shook his head, “I am just repaying the good deed I owe to your race. After this, however, whatever happens to you and your Fuxi Celestial Race will have nothing to do with me. Besides, I am still expecting my leg back, I won’t gift it to you just like that!”

  He examined Zhong Yue up and down and kept praising, “I never thought you would actually manage it, to be honest, I was merely messing around. How curious, you postnate living beings are weak, but your brains… I have to admit that you postnate beings have far more potential than us!”

  Zhong Yue thanked again and asked, “King Xiang, how many of our Fuxi Celestial Race’s monarchs did you see?”

  “The Heavenly Monarchs, all of them.”

  King Xiang smiled, “Monarch Pao Xi is the most hardworking one, he is required to deal with the official affairs in the court and occasionally rushes over to eliminate turbulences in the darkness. Monarch Shi Yi loves his experiments, Monarch Hao Yi is fond of his little adventures and vowed to enter the ancient past and far future. He is always absent from the Heaven Court. Dao Venerate is more towards making friends everywhere. Little Fuxi, you on the other hand, are a troublemaker, and an exceptional one at that.”

  Zhong Yue’s face darkened visibly, What do you mean by troublemaker!

  “Since King Xiang has been living here for a very long time. As an ancient Deity King, I suppose you recognize this?”

  His psyche wavered and took out the debris of the Imperial Star’s weapon handed to him by Monarch Chang Sheng. This piece was handed to King Xiang right now, Monarch Chang Sheng suspected this weapon was in its full condition to be a very powerful weapon, most likely forged by ancient Deity Kings and Heaven together to serve the purpose of hindering Dao Venerate Fu Min’s decision making.

  Upon seeing this piece, King Xiang’s tone changed serious and he asked, “Who gave you this?”

  Zhong Yue hesitated for a second and in the end, he did not give Monarch Chang Sheng out as he replied, “A friend.”

  Without asking anymore, King Xiang waved his hand and a loud rumbling started deep in this world. An even larger piece broke out from the ground. It was a larger piece of the weapon with even more carvings on it. Its size was 60 times larger than the one Zhong Yue had!

  And all Zhong Yue did was mindlessly stare into this massive piece. Compared to the dead piece given to him by Monarch Chang Sheng, what King Xiang possessed was still surging with spiritual power, its carvings glowing from time to time.

  Instantly, Zhong Yue felt his energy deteriorate, his strength was slowly being siphoned
away, but his mind remained hyped while his body and Yuan Shen were affected by some unknown power.

  “This weapon… heh.”

  King Xiang limped as he walked forward and smirked, “It’s affected not only Dao Venerate Fu Min, not just the Fuxi Celestial Race’s monarchs but also the other monarchs. It was not strong enough to affect Dao Venerate Fu Min at first, instead, he would’ve spotted it right away if it appeared. But Heaven came to an agreement with the old dogs out there. They imprinted the Heavenly Dao patterns on it, which escaped Dao Venerate Fu Min’s detection. And although this weapon is long destroyed and rendered unable to mask its presence, when its in its full form, it wouldn’t be noticed and that was when it started spreading negative impacts.”

  Zhong Yue frowned as he also noticed the Heavenly Dao patterns on this larger weapon piece. At that very second, he figured out a foul and dirty play but it was still a little disturbing when this guess was confirmed by King Xiang.

  “Dark Monarch’s camouflage, Yuan Ya’s death stench, Feng Tian’s fire, Demon Monarch’s demonic power…. They could easily impact a monarch’s thinking and nullify his danger sense, turning him into an irrational man.

  King Xiang continue asking, “There can’t be only one of them, there are definitely more of these weapons! You know about Imperial Stars as well, don’t you? I’m referring to the ones that represent the monarch existences’ fate.”

  Zhong Yue immediately thought of his own Imperial Star and nodded; his Imperial Star was located by Great Si Ming, destroyed by the latter to alter Zhong Yue’s fate.

  “Among the ancient Deity Kings that started the chaos, a few of them are capable of identifying the Imperial Stars belonging to the future monarchs, which led them to a disgusting idea.”

  King Xiang added, “They arrived at these Imperial Stars before anyone else, planted down this weapon and waited to harvest their gains. This, of course, was carried out with utmost discretion. But fire can’t be covered by paper. In order to erase Dao Venerate Fu Min, they invited Heaven and worked together to create this weapon but Dao Venerate Fu Min discovered this quickly. Thus, Dao Venerate Fu Min played along with their little plan, executing their culprits all the while. After Dao Venerate Fu Min’s passing, this weapon inexplicably shattered, and that was when they finally knew that Dao Venerate Fu Min knew about this all along.”