Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  When Zhong Yue first drummed on the Drums of Dusk, they could feel a surge of their powers returning to them, but just in the next second, Zhong Yue’s [Daoless Heavens] sealed their powers again!

  The three monarchs cursed quietly in their hearts and were quick to notice the differences between Zhong Yue’s drum sounds to the previous one. There were slight differences between the two types of drumming sounds.

  Furthermore, these two types of drum sounds were clashing and trying to overcome the other!

  The three monarchs were puzzled, they didn’t know who was the other one casting the same skill.

  Whoever it is, his prowess is stronger than mine!

  On the deck, Zhong Yue’s face turned solemn. The one casting the [Daoless Heavens] on the other side was much stronger than him in prowess, he was most probably an Imperial Emperor. Even when Zhong Yue had two Drums of Dusk, he was still suppressed by it and his drum sounds were getting muted.

  It was at this moment, inside of Demon Monarch Yang Hou’s Yuan Shen secret realms, in the Six Paths Tian Lun, Si Ming flipped her hand and took out another Drum of Dusk.

  Dong—

  The drum sound with the power of the [Daoless Heavens] was let out from within Demon Monarch Yang Hou’s body and worked together with Zhong Yue to resist the mystery opponent!

  Blood immediately trickled out of Demon Monarch Yang Hou’s nostrils and his Yuan Shen secret realms were starting to decompose. He couldn’t help but be filled with terror.

  Even if he got sucked into the Valley of Xi’s black hole, it would take at least a thousand years for it to pulverize him into ash. However, Si Ming’s drumming in his Yuan Shen secret realms would speed up the process by ten times or more!

  Dong— dong— dong—

  Three cultivators and four Drums of Dusk, the drumming never stopped. Si Ming was an incredible expert herself. She was just a fine line away from becoming an Imperial Emperor. With her joining Zhong Yue together, their drummings suppressed the mysterious opponent and even pushed back toward him.

  She had been studying the Drum of Dusk for many years and tried to use it to strengthen herself just like Zhong Yue did. In the process of doing so, she attained the [Daoless Heavens]. Thus, her casting the [Daoless Heavens] with the Drum of Dusk now was even stronger than Zhong Yue casting it with two Drums of Dusk!

  Whereas on the other hand, Demon Monarch Yang Hou was suffering much as she drummed. His Yuan Shen secret realms were crumbling and his Daos collapsing. He was entirely consumed by terror!

  Be it Zhong Yue or Si Ming or the mysterious opponent, they all had the prowess of Imperial Emperors. In addition to the uncanny power of the [Daoless Heavens], the trio was strong enough to suppress a monarch already. Not to mention that Si Ming was drumming just inside of his Yuan Shen secret realms, it was no surprise he couldn’t endure it.

  If this goes on further, I will not die in Monarch Chang Sheng’s or the old bird’s hands, but these two Fuxi rebels!

  Beads of cold sweat rolled down his forehead. There was still the black hole that was constantly diminishing his mortal body on the outside. Be it inside of his body or outside, he was in a dire situation!

  He was Demon Monarch’s disciple, but he was already a monarch, Demon Monarch wouldn’t have left any branding in his psyche ocean to protect him anymore. Furthermore, there weren’t many existences in this cosmos that could put someone like Demon Monarch Yang Hou in such a deadly situation. No one expected him to fall into this state by the hands of a few juniors!

  “Yang Hou, if you submit to me, I will save your life!” All of a sudden, Si Ming said.

  Demon Monarch Yang Hou gritted his teeth, he sneered coldly and refuted, “Little girl, you want me to submit to the Fuxis? Do you have no idea what a demon monarch is? When my name was shaking the cosmos in fear, you weren’t even born!”

  Si Ming didn’t answer but continued drumming the Drum of Dusk. At the same time, the Six Paths Tian Lun started turning and cutting down on Demon Monarch Yang Hou’s Yuan Shen secret realms, causing them to show signs of crumbling.

  Demon Monarch Yang Hou was filled with anger and terror.

  Whereas Zhong Yue cast the thousand-winged ancient ship and sailed toward the source of the drum while maintaining his drumming. After a short moment of traveling, he could vaguely see a Dao kid donned in black robe drumming on a huge drum with his two hands in front of the black hole.

  An additional pair of arms grew below his armpits while the first two arms were drumming, the second pair of arms drew an arrow on his back!

  The bow was fully drawn, a dark and pitch black arrow was nocked on it. As it was released, it flashed through Zhong Yue’s vision in the blink of an eye. But it wasn’t directed toward Zhong Yue, it was headed for the deeper parts of the Valley of Xi’s black hole!

  So I was right, he must be one of Dark Monarch’s Dao kids, a junior martial brother to Mu Xiantian!

  Rays flashed in Zhong Yue’s eyes and he sailed the ancient ship to ram toward the Dao kid, but the Dao kid ignored him entirely. Instead, he continued to draw the bow and shot out another few rounds of arrows.

  Krong——

  The thousand-winged ancient ship rammed on the Dao kid’s back and caused him to cough blood out of his mouth. He quickly kept the Drum of Dusk and intended to leave, he sneered coldly and said, “King Yi, I know you. You are a subject to my senior martial brother, Mu Xiantian. Know your place, peasant!”

  Zhong Yue cast the ancient ship and rammed again while the Dao kid blocked himself with the Drum of Dusk. The ship and drum clashed hard and a loud explosion was created in the center.

  Right at that moment, Si Ming’s drumming came and suppressed the Dao kid’s prowess. Zhong Yue seized the chance, cast out the innate divine saber and beheaded the Dao kid.

  The Dao kid’s head fell to the ground and suddenly, his ears enlarged crazily into a pair of wings. He fluttered away while saying sternly, “King Yi, what are you doing? Are you trying to defy me? I will tell senior martial brother and have him kill all of your kind!”

  His headless body drew the bow and shot an arrow toward Zhong Yue!

  Dong—

  Zhong Yue drummed the Drum of Dusk and halted the black arrow. He cast the ancient ship to give chase while shooting out his divine saber, piercing through the flying head. He said coldly, “You already threatened to kill my people, so how can I still let you go?”

  “Stop!” Fear filled the Dao kid’s eyes, he said solemnly, “King Yi, I am a martial brother to Mu Xiantian…”

  “I’ve already killed a few of Mu Xiantian’s martial siblings, adding you into the list wouldn’t make any difference!”

  Zhong Yue clenched on the saber hilt and slashed down, splitting the head apart into halves. Then, he turned around and gave another strike to mince the headless body.

  He reached his hand and picked up the falling bow. Suddenly, he hesitated for a moment and threw it away. Then, he turned around and sailed back toward the Valley of Xi!

  His target wasn’t me, it’s Celestial Monarch Jin Wu! Those arrows he shot out, they were directed toward Celestial Monarch Jin Wu!

  Krong—

  The thousand-winged ancient ship rammed through the shattered suns and directly sailed toward the black hole. After a moment, it arrived at the top of the Valley of Xi. Zhong Yue opened his divine third eye and glanced around to search for Celestial Monarch Jin Wu.

  All of a sudden, his heart sank as he saw a titanic three-taloned Golden Crow fallen on a continent in the Valley of Xi. On its back were dozens of black arrows that went through its chest and in front of it was the Demon Suppression Grand Temple and stone tablet raised by Monarch Xi Hao.

  As of now, the temple had fully risen above the ground.

  “Chang Sheng, Chang Sheng!”

  Zhong Yue was in fear, he quickly took out the totem pillar to contact Monarch Chang Sheng while cast the ship to rush to Celestial Monarch Jin Wu’s side, he shouted, “Come and save
life——”

  Chapter 1174: Save Life |

  He rushed towards Celestial Monarch Jin Wu, stopped the thousand-winged ancient ship and checked on Celestial Monarch Jin Wu, his expression changed upon finding the serious wounds on Celestial Monarch Jin Wu; while his strength was suppressed, Celestial Monarch Jin Wu was struck by the arrow and even when Dark Monarch’s Dao kid was not strong, the black arrows were crafted by Dark Monarch himself, specially designed to kill Celestial Monarch Jin Wu!

  Right now, Celestial Monarch Jin Wu was in bad condition, he was much more worse currently as compared to when he was surrounded by Demon Monarch Yang Hou, Demon Monarch Xiang Mo and Celestial Monarch You’E!

  The black arrows severed his life essence and shattered his Daos. Each and every one of these arrows precisely pierced through his seven secret realms, the arrow heads stabbed deep into Celestial Monarch Jin Wu’s Pan Gu Celestial Being!

  That was more than just dirty!

  At this point, Celestial Monarch Jin Wu’s Pan Gu Celestial Being was slowly dying and gradually fading away!

  With such an injury, not even the Nine Lives Black Wok Mushroom could replace him in death!

  The Nine Lives Black Wok Mushroom was incapable of solving fatal wounds on body, Yuan Shen, soul and secret realms at the same time!

  Fire started sparkling around Celestial Monarch Jin Wu, this fire was his life fire, which was burning using his life as fuel, igniting his Daos, soul and blood.

  The fire came from his body and changes occured when it burnt, making it feel like a Celestial Monarch Jin Wu was the sun set, walking towards death, his life, Dao, and everything in him was slowly fusing with the shattered Valley of Xi.

  Zhong Yue looked around, finding the continents in the Valley of Xi trembling, the innate demon Daos in these continentals reforged, through siphoning the energy produced by the falling of Celestial Monarch Jin Wu.

  Hong long——

  Two continentals crashed together, like as if they had life, attached to one another.

  The mountains on the lands trembled and the crumbled mountains slowly recovered.

  At the same time, the innate demon Dao rumbled and charged right into the temple right in front of Celestial Monarch Jin Wu.

  Dark Monarch was about to succeed.

  Celestial Monarch Jin Wu was about to die eternally, Valley of Xi and Valley of Tang was about to fuse together and in such a place, Celestial Monarch Jin Wu would no longer be resurrected in Valley of Tang; if he died right now, he would be dead forever, there would be one less innate god in this world and Luo Ri Deity King would be revived!

  “You want to come back to life? Dream on!”

  A furious Zhong Yue reached towards thousand-winged ancient ship, dragged the young Xing Tian out from the cabin and threw him into the temple and shouted, “Xing Tian, this is your chance, absorb as much innate demon Dao as you can!”

  Upon falling into the temple, Xing Tian felt the innate demon Daos surging into his body, through a unique connection between them.

  Apart from that, his strength was boosted rapidly when the innate demon Daos entered his body.

  But this happiness did not last long, for the surging innate demon Daos quickly breached his limit and the young man shouted, “Uncle, the demonic Qi and Daos here are too strong, I can’t handle it anymore!”

  “Hold yourself together!” scowled Zhong Yue with a gloomy expression, “Take in as much as you can!”

  Xing Tian bit his lips hearing this, started to absorb as much as he could, as a result, his body swelled and his Yuan Shen inflated, turning into a man balloon with a massive head.

  A few seconds later, Xing Tian’s expression changed upon noticing something from the underground, “Uncle, there is something in the ground trying to absorb the demonic Qi and Daos!”

  “Eat them all, leave nothing for it!” shouted Zhong Yue.

  Without a word anymore, Xing Tian returned back to the task given to him by his uncle, binging on the demonic Qis and Daos.

  Meanwhile, Monarch Chang Sheng has yet to arrive and Zhong Yue’s eyes twitched. He grabbed onto a black arrow on the back of Celestial Monarch Jin Wu and after taking a deep breath, he pulled it out and black coloured blood started gushing out.

  Without stopping, Zhong Yue removed the black arrows in one breath, before slicing himself in the chest, revealing his heart and squeezing out his own divine blood into Celestial Monarch Jin Wu’s wounds.

  He was attempting to stall Celestial Monarch Jin Wu’s death using his own blood so that Celestial Monarch Jin Wu could keep himself together for a little bit longer.

  From Yuan Ya Deity King, Zhong Yue robbed him of his countless herbs and medicines, so much that he couldn’t entirely digest the power in these items, hence, his blood was filled with enormous essence.

  With the essence in his blood, Celestial Monarch Jin Wu’s death would be stalled.

  “Monarch Chang Sheng….”

  Zhong Yue carried Celestial Monarch Jin Wu on his back, placed him on thousand-winged ancient ship and Monarch Chang Sheng never shown up, leading to Zhong Yue’s decision to not wait anymore, he decided to leave right away.

  As long as they were no longer inside Valley of Xi, there would still be hope for Celestial Monarch Jin Wu, even if he died, he would reborn in Valley of Tang, but that was the worst option.

  Without stopping, his blood gushed out from his chest, like a crimson red dragon diving into Celestial Monarch Jin Wu’s body; even if he was already a Deity Emperor, he began to feel dizzy after losing so much blood.

  Just as Zhong Yue was about to pour in more blood, he caught onto a refreshing scent, as Monarch Chang Sheng descended on thousand-winged ancient ship. After checking on Celestial Monarch Jin Wu’s injuries, Monarch Chang Sheng hurriedly said with a gloomy expression, “The injuries are really serious, saving him would cost me half of my life and it would take me more than hundreds of years to recover….”

  His hair turned into branches suddenly, kept on growing and eventually turned into a tree crown, inside the crown was flower and fruit. After some time, a bright red fruit was grown on the tree crown.

  “Junior martial brother, you can stop now.”

  Monarch Chang Sheng removed the fruit, fed it to Celestial Monarch Jin Wu and after seeing Celestial Monarch Jin Wu swallowing the fruit, he let out a relieved sigh and smiled, “Thanks to you, your brilliant idea stalled his death or I wouldn’t even be able to save him anymore.”

  Zhong Yue sealed his own wound, looked towards Monarch Chang Sheng and just as he thought, even as a monarch, Monarch Chang Sheng was now worn out after converting a huge portion of his own strength into that fruit that saved Celestial Monarch Jin Wu.

  “But without Senior Martial Brother Chang Sheng, I wouldn’t even be able to hold myself together any longer, all I could do is bring Celestial Monarch Jin Wu out from Valley of Xi and have him resurrected in Valley of Tang.”

  Zhong Yue examined Celestial Monarch Jin Wu’s wounds and he happily discovered the recovered life essence, returning of his Daos and the pumping heart, the stabilization of Pan Gu Celestial Being. Zhong Yue let his worried heart down and said, “Senior Martial Brother Chang Sheng, thank you for your sacrifice, Celestial Monarch Jin Wu and I are in your debt.”

  Monarch Chang Sheng hurriedly replied, “Please don’t. There is no need to be so polite among us. Saving Dao Brother Jin Wu needs no reason, besides, are you going to sit aside and watch when I am in danger in the future?”

  “Of course not.” smiled Zhong Yue.

  Monarch Chang Sheng looked around and asked in confusion, “Where is that little girl controlling Six Paths Tian Lun? Is she alright? I remember seeing her fighting Demon Monarch Yang Hou alone.”

  “She’s already left.”

  Zhong Yue answered, “Demon Monarch Yang Hou also ran away, we don’t have to be worried anymore, he wouldn’t come back.”

  Monarch Chang Sheng calmed himself down and suggested, “We should l
eave now, the heaven and earth Daos in Valley of Xi are rebuilding and it will not take long until Luo Ri Deity King’s revival. That young man you brought along with you are probably related with Bo Xun, he can’t absorb much of the Daos here and given how worn out we are, we would only place ourselves in danger by staying here.”

  Zhong Yue nodded, “How strong would he be, if he revived?”

  “Not sure.” replied Monarch Chang Sheng as he shook his head, “But the likes of innate Deity Kings like him are all powerful, not to mention he could borrow and control the Daos in Valley of Xi, which makes him even stronger!”

  Zhong Yue took in a deep breath, looked towards Demon Suppression Grand Temple while Valley of Xi was slowly reconstructing; Celestial Monarch Jin Wu’s brink of death had began the reconstructing of the heaven and earth’s Daos in this place.

  Though they would not be entirely recovered and Valley of Xi would not return to its pinnacle, it was still sufficient to bring Luo Ri Deity King back to life.

  Destroying an ancient Deity King entirely is too hard to be accomplished, without destroying the innate sacred ground completely, they would never be erased.

  A Zhong Yue with mixed feelings thought and said, “Senior Martial Brother Chang Sheng, you’ve spent too much time with us, you also used a huge portion of your own essence to save Celestial Monarch Jin Wu. You should return back to Zi Wei first and take your time to recover, while I wait for Celestial Monarch Jin Wu’s injuries to recover. After he recovered, I will inform him of your contribution and have him personally visit you to thank you.”

  The worn out Monarch Chang Sheng was also unwilling to stay around anymore and he smiled, “It’s alright. Celestial Monarch Jin Wu is a good friend and I wish nothing in return for lending him a hand. I will leave soon and you shouldn’t tally here.”

  Zhong Yue nodded, “Don’t worry, with thousand-winged ancient ship, not even Luo Ri Deity King himself could stop me, I will leave once Xing Tian reach his limit.”