Rise of Humanity

Dao language sounded in their ears and Yuan Ya Deity King’s incarnations chasing after him behind the ship suddenly started rotting. They aged at a great speed and in just a few seconds, they had decomposed into mere skeletons, falling to the ground in many pieces!

“Great Si Ming!”

Zhong Yue was shocked and overjoyed. He quickly looked up and saw a Dao palace hovering high above him. The Daos were flowing down from the hovering Dao palace, shining and glimmering in colorful lights. It was the true Heaven Suppression Palace, the palace where a new universe was attempted.

After the Dao sounds from the Heaven Suppressing Palace has wiped out Yuan Ya Deity King’s incarnations, a solid and solemn voice said, “Return, I will take care of them! Today now, I am able to take it!”

Zhong Yue’s worries were eased. He bowed and thanked. Then, he steered the thousand-winged ancient warship and left for the Imperial Star. He turned around to look at the Heaven Suppressing Palace and was startled, and his heart sank abruptly.

Although the Heaven Suppressing Palace was above Zi Wei, it’s height was not as lofty as the other Dao Palaces hovering above Zi Wei.

The Dao Palace’s height represented the palace master’s cultivation base. The higher the Dao palace, the closer was the palace master to the level of Dao God.

But Heaven Suppressing Palace was not the higher, there was another Dao Palace that was higher than it was!

Great Si Ming has not returned to his peak state, it’s still hard for him to protect himself, can he really shelter me? But it’s Yuan Ya Deity King he is facing now, Yuan Ya Deity King alone shouldn’t be Great Si Ming’s match yet.

The thousand-winged ancient warship’s wings fluttered as it sailed toward the Imperial Star. The trip was a fruitful one, but at the same time, he has also brought huge trouble to himself. He couldn’t help but be worried about it.

If I hadn’t drunk the cauldron of medicinal liquid and pellets, I’d still be studying the Innate Mountain Dao in the Innate Dao Mountain now, I might not even have cultivated it either. From this point of view, this may be a good thing…

Three months passed and the Imperial Star was already in his vicinity. Zhong Yue finally heaved a breath of relief. For the past few weeks, he has been in close contact with the Heaven Breaching Fortress in the Imperial Star. In these 10 years of his absence, the situation between Heaven Breaching Fortress and Heaven Court was still in a stalemate, there weren’t many battles going on.

On the other hand, the battle in the Imperial Star was much more dreadful and gorier. The monarch and king races warred with one another. The situation erupted by King Zi Guang had totally gotten out of hand, taking even the lives of the monarch spirits.

Just when Zhong Yue was going to speed up to return to Heaven Breaching Fortress, the blank space in front of him suddenly broke and a golden dragon claw reached out and clenched on the ship’s front. Its long body swirled and wound around the ship, locking it down. The dragon’s head rose from the bottom of the ship to the deck.

The dragon opened its mouth and Shen Xiage was seen standing on its teeth with a smile, “King Yi, what a coincidence we meet again. Does this all not seemed familiar to you?”

Zhong Yue looked at Shen Xiage, he smiled and placed his hands on his back, he said calmly, “Senior martial brother, don’t you know? Mo Yuanlie is already dead. But fret not, you will soon join him in death.”

Shen Xiage was startled, he asked if Zhong Yue was familiar to the state of affairs and Zhong Yue immediately followed up with the exact same words he said the last time he caught him. It was as if history was repeating itself.

“The last time, I caught you, and Xie Yang ambushed me, then Feng Yuhuan took us, and Zhuo Ya trapped all of us. Then, we worked together to escape Zhuo Ya’s Space Bottle.

Shen Xiage said softly, “King Yi has raised a huge ruckus in Yuan Ya Deity King’s homeground, chased after by Yuan Ya Deity King’s incarnations and somehow managed to escape. You certainly are amazing. However, this time, there won’t be Xie Yang, Feng Yuhuan, and Zhuo Ya. You will not be given a chance to escape anymore.”

Zhong Yue laughed, “That’s hard to say. Senior Martial Brother Xie Yang, Senior Martial Sister Yuhuan, why don’t you show yourselves if you are both already here?”

Shen Xiage’s heart stiffened up, he glanced around and look, then smiled, “They don’t have a tracking skill as strong as mine, nor the intelligence on par with me. Only I can track and find you…”

“Xiage, don’t act so boastful just yet.”

Eerie laughter sounded in their ears as a curved slit opened in the blank space. The space rift slowly opened to the sides and revealed an evil eye that looked like a blue sun. Xie Yang was sitting in the evil eye’s pupil, he was laughing as he said, “It’s true that my tracking skill is not as good as yours, I couldn’t track King Yi nor derive the course he took. But it’s not hard to track you.”

Shen Xiage’s pupils shrunk, then he laughed, “Senior Martial Sister Yuhuan, as Innate Evil Monarch’s disciple, Xie Yang has shown himself, so are you still going to hide? Aren’t you afraid of bringing shame to your Heavenly Fire Barren Region’s name?”

Somewhere far away from them, a sun suddenly revolved rapidly. Phoenix feathers swirled out of the sun and suddenly, the sun exploded, revealing a nine-headed heavenly phoenix that was hidden within. The heavenly phoenix fluttered its wings and flew toward them, concomitant with the burning heat that breezed onto their faces.

When the heavenly flames arrived at the scene, they suddenly disappeared and a plump lady was seen standing beside them. Her phoenix tail was softly swaying on her back while emitting sparks of fire like fireflies.

Feng Yuhuan was chortling coquettishly, “I wasn’t tracking Senior Martial Brother Xie Yang or Senior Martial Brother Xiage, I was tracking King Yi’s ancient ship. Senior martial brothers, it seems like we’ve come to a stalemate again. There is only one King Yi, but there are three of us. Looks like a battle for King Yi’s destiny is still required, isn’t it?”

Xie Yang walked out of the evil eye and the evil eye rose high up like a mirror behind him. He said, “Since Zhuo Ya is not here, then it’s just only three of us. Whoever wins will get to decide King Yi’s destiny!”

Rays flashed in Shen Xiage’s eyes but he quickly hid his plans to himself, he said, “Fine, a fair deal it is. We three are all from ancient backgrounds and our factions have always been on good terms. A skirmish should best be avoided.”

While the three agreed to the deal, a hoarse voice suddenly interrupted them, it said coldly, “No matter what your plans are, I want King Yi dead right here, right now!”

The three of their hearts skipped a beat and they thought, Zhuo Ya was here!

Zhong Yue looked over and saw Zhuo Ya’s frigid face filled with killing intent behind the ancient warship.

Zhuo Ya looked at him and the killing intent flared up, he shouted, “King Yi, you’ve killed my wife and children, annihilated my race, and slaughtered my people. I don’t care who is protecting you, I want you dead!”

Zhong Yue laughed happily, “The crowd is gathered again. Gentlemen, Yi is here, who will come to claim my head?”

The four of them were vigilant against one another. Zhuo Ya clenched his teeth and just when he cast out the Space Bottle, Feng Yuhuan cast out the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Fire Fan, and Xie Yang cast the Evil Eye Divine Mirror. The battle was on the brink of erupting.

Zhong Yue laughed again, he reminded them, “Looks like you’ve all forgotten the vows you’ve made to my skill. I dare you to touch me!”

Shen Xiage’s eyes were brimming with rays, he was the closest to Zhong Yue. Furthermore, the golden dragon formed by the golden rope was winding on Zhong Yue’s ancient ship. Now it was the best time for him to act!

Without hesitation, he took action, keeping in mind the vow Zhong Yue mentioned. He didn’t go all out but retained part of his strength just in case anything happened.

At the same time, Zhuo Ya, Feng Yuhuan, and Xie Yang also launched their attacks at Zhong Yue. Feng Yuhuan and Xie Yang were doing it due to their teacher’s order, but Zhuo Ya’s intention was to avenge the death of his family!

Thus, Feng Yuhuan and Xie Yang didn’t go all out as they didn’t want to kill Zhong Yue; half of their strength was used to stop Shen Xiage and the other half was used to capture Zhong Yue. Whereas Zhuo Ya was headed for Zhong Yue’s death, even when that meant he was going against Yuan Ya Deity King’s order!

Zhong Yue stood on the deck unflinchingly, and had no intention to resist. Shen Xiage, who was the closest, was the first to have his attack land on Zhong Yue. But seeing Zhong Yue not resisting, he didn’t dare to use too much power in fear of killing Zhong Yue and only wanted to severely injure Zhong Yue so he could bring him away.

“Senior Martial Brother Xiage, Mo Yuanlie has been waiting for you for a long time already.” Zhong Yue braced the attack, blood trickled down his mouth and he smiled, “It’s time for you to join him.”

Shen Xiage abruptly felt his scalp tingle and a chill traveled down his spine as a terrifying air suddenly appeared above him. He quickly looked up and his face changed drastically, giving out a loud shriek as he fled from the scene like a flash!

He was standing in the golden dragon’s mouth while the dragon traveled at great speed. But it was at this moment that the air solidified and turned extremely viscous, halting Shen Xiage and the golden dragon in midair. When it stopped, the dragon maintained its ferocious demeanor and swift movement, and the divine lights glimmering on its body were stopped!

The experts were shocked, they saw dazzling colorful light rays gushing out from blank space and heard long and melodious Dao voices chanting with obscure meanings.

The lights gathered above Shen Xiage and the golden dragon, and morphed into a huge and hefty seal stamp that was slowly descending.

The stamp steal was filled with the air of heaven, its aura was vast and mighty as if it was Heaven itself. Even peak Imperial Emperors like them couldn’t help but feel powerless against it, they couldn’t even raise any thoughts of offending or resisting the authority of this power!

Below the stamp was engraved complex and mysterious tiny words. When it was descending, all the other sounds were muted, time was stopped, stars didn’t revolve, moons didn’t orbit, and even Feng Yuhuan’s, Zhuo Ya’s, and Xie Yang’s attacks were stopped in midair.

Then, to their horror, they saw Shen Xiage’s head getting crushed flat, his skull was flattened from the top, down to his face, neck, chest, waist, legs, and feet.

Shen Xiage, who was a peaked Imperial Emperor, a paragon cultivator, had his mortal body and Yuan Shen flattened into a piece of paper by the seal stamp. Then, even the piece of paper was reduced into the tiniest particles before disintegrating into the elements of earth, water, wind, and fire. Finally, it was further reduced to particles of Yin and Yang and then primal chaos!

Shen Xiage had just been totally erased away from this cosmos, not even a single atom of his was left!

Then, the huge seal dispersed as if it never appeared, and along with it, Shen Xiage’s existence!

When the seal stamp disappeared, Feng Yuhuan’s, Xie Yang’s, and Zhuo Ya’s skills and innate monarch weapons were returned to normal again, lashing toward Zhong Yue. But the horrified Feng Yuhuan and Xie Yang immediately gave their best to retract their skills and innate monarch weapons. Then, they shrieked in terror as they both fled from the scene.

“Senior Martial Brother Zhuo Ya, King Yi is yours!” Xie Yang shouted before leaving their vicinities.

Zhuo Ya saw the two making the run and he too was filled with terror toward the mysterious power. He quickly retracted his skill and the Space Bottle before leaving without hesitation.