Rise of Humanity

Would Heaven’s cultivation arts be here?

Zhong Yue shuttled in between the sections and searched for Heaven’s art, the Heavenly Daos’ skills. As of now, his [Innate Eight Trigrams] was only lacking the Heaven Trigram. Once he cultivated the Heaven Trigram, his [Innate Eight Trigrams] and Six Paths would be completed, and he would be able to separate the Dao Body!

But to cultivate the Heaven Trigram, he needed to cultivate the Heaven Dao. The Heaven Dao was a hundred times harder to cultivate than the Innate Mountain Dao and Innate Lake Dao. But if he was able to find Heaven’s arts and techniques here, he would most probably be able to cultivate it here.

Zhong Yue spent half a day’s time to search for it, he almost flipped the whole Library of Heavenly Books around but still couldn’t find Heaven’s arts and techniques. Clearly, Heaven only used the Library of Heavenly Books as an archive to store the other races’ cultivation arts and techniques. The library’s purpose was to educate Heaven’s disciples, there wasn’t any Heaven’s cultivation arts and techniques in here.

Even when I can’t find them, I can still forge my own Treasures of Heavenly Daos and learn the Heaven Dao in them! Right now, I still have two days left, I should use this time to study the ancient Deity Kings’ cultivation arts and techniques!

Two days’ time was a little too short for him to learn the monarch arts of the other races. Hence, instead of doing that, he might as well search for the ancient Deity Kings’ arts and study them.

Not long later, Zhong Yue found Feng Tian Origin Lord’s heavenly book, walked into the lights only to leave soon after.

The Dao of Heavenly Fire was incomplete. Heaven didn’t fully derive Feng Tian Origin Lord’s arts. Looks like Heaven also doesn’t know much about the Dark Age’s cultivation system.

Zhong Yue found Evil Monarch’s heavenly books and entered the lights but left after a short moment.

Evil Monarch’s Innate Evil Dao fell in neither the category of celestial or demon. It is in a category of its own. The totem pattern represented only its surface, its essence was still the Dark Age’s Daos. What Heaven had derived was just the surface of the true Daos.

Then, he found Innate Celestial Monarch’s and Innate Demon Monarch’s heavenly books. Both of which he had exited the lights very quickly. His brows were locked as he realized the heavenly books of the Deity Kings all recorded only superficial knowledge of their arts, the true essences of the Deity Kings’ arts were not elucidated.

The Daos of the Deity Kings were all complete Daos to begin with, they weren’t made of totem patterns. The totem pattern Daos were just creations based on the innate Daos so they could teach their disciples the Daos they cultivate. Even Heaven couldn’t have derived the complete Innate Celestial Dao and Innate Demon Dao.

Heaven sure had many limitations. After all, Heaven was the innate god born from the worship of postnate living beings. Although the worships had Heaven born as powerful as a Dao God, the worships have also restricted Heaven’s achievements at the same level. Heaven is unable to decipher the ancient cultivation system.

Zhong Yue recollected his thoughts. Although the knowledge in the heavenly books was incredible, almost at the peak of the totem pattern cultivation systems, they were still far inferior to the Deity Kings’ complete innate Daos.

The totem patterns were created to elucidate the ancient innate gods, a language used to interpret the Daos they represented. The totem patterns that Great Sui created were symbols to begin with. And these symbols were the shapes and forms that imitated and represented the innate gods.

Zhong Yue thought. The innate gods were the Daos, they were the powers. Which means, imitating the innate gods would be imitating the powers of the Daos. The advantage of the totem pattern cultivation system was the quick and easy learning for cultivation, but the disadvantage was also clear — a totem pattern cultivator would never be able to grasp the true innate Daos.

Just like drawing a circle with polygons; a hexagon would look similar to a circle; a triacontakaihexagon ¹was even closer to the shape of a circle; a megagon would almost be like a circle, but it still wouldn’t be a true circle.

The totem patterns were the polygons, the more edges the polygons had, the closer the polygons were to the circles. But a circle had no edges, a polygon would never be a circle.

Such was the limitation of the totem pattern cultivation system.

The Deity Kings were born from the Daos of the cosmos, they represented the innate Daos itself. Whereas Heaven was the totem pattern innate god born from the worship of postnate living beings, representing the peak of the totem pattern cultivation system. There was still a fine line for Heaven to break through the limitation of the totem patterns to reach to the innate Daos.

Thus, the arts of the Deity Kings Heaven had derived would never be up to the heights of the Deity Kings.

For two million years, the worship of postnate living beings gave birth to him, and also restricted him.

Zhong Yue sat down quietly, supporting his head with his hands as he submersed himself in his thoughts.

Heaven’s weakness was clear as crystal. Heaven represented the peak of the totem pattern cultivation system, just like the absolute rational side of Dao Venerate Fu Min. After all, Dao Venerate Fu Min was already the highest peak of postnate living beings.

At his stage, there wasn’t any path ahead left to be walked anymore; there wasn’t anything left to achieve.

Even opening the seventh secret realm and creating the Seven Paths Reincarnation was nothing other than an increase in prowess. There wasn’t any other way to cultivate the true innate Daos to be on the same level as the ancient Deity Kings.

Not to mention that the opening of the seventh secret realm and creation of Seven Paths Reincarnation would eventually end up being fruits for the ancient Deity Kings to reap in the end.

Of course, the restriction of the ancient Deity Kings was also huge. For example, it was nearly impossible for Evil Monarch to cultivate the other Daos. His inherent nature of Innate Evil Dao that gave him his power also restricted his achievement to only the Innate Evil Dao.

It was the same for the other Deity Kings.

This was why many Deity Kings dwelled on the totem pattern cultivation system. They were hoping they could cultivate the other Daos through the totem pattern cultivation system and break free from the restriction of their own Daos!

But in stark contrast, the postnate living beings had little to no restrictions; they were able to cultivate almost any Dao they wanted. But the restrictions were devastating as well, other than the limited lifespan of the postnate living beings, there was still the impossibility of achieving the true innate Daos.

Dao Venerate Fu Min was an insurmountable mountain, one that Zhong Yue would never be able to stand above.

Although there were many other monarch arts in the Library of Heavenly Books, Zhong Yue suddenly lost his interest in them.

He now knew the reason that limited the postnate living beings’ achievement, and the impossibility of overcoming it. The highest achievement, the greatest level, and the strongest peak the postnate living beings could ever go were to be on par of where Dao Venerate Fu Min once stood.

To surpass Heaven, to surpass Dao Venerate Fu Min, one would have to surpass the totem pattern cultivation system. To jump out from the frame of the totem pattern cultivation system, to go beyond the Heavenly Daos and break free from the restrictions.

In order to do so, the only way was to become an innate god and break free from the shackles of mortality.

The only way was to become a Deity King, to become the true innate Dao!

To turn the countless totem patterns into one single entity, to turn them into the true innate Daos!

But how to do it, became Zhong Yue’s biggest question.

Ever since Zhong Yue had the thousand-winged ancient ship, he had been studying the Space Dao on it and learned the innate meat wings. Then, he studied Shi Long’s Dao bones and learned the Daos in it. However, although he had learned many, he had never gone out of the totem pattern cultivation system.

If the postnate living beings could cultivate into the innate state, we’ll surely be stronger than the innate gods. This is a path, maybe, this is the only path to surpass Heaven and the ancient Deity Kings!

He was immersed in his thoughts as he tried to come out with a solution that even the ancient Deity Kings couldn’t have solved.

He grew despondent, suddenly, he stood up and walked out of the Library of Heavenly Books, completely ignoring all the other books as if they were nothing but scribbles to him.

Mister Bi Luo saw him walking out just six days later and was shocked, he inspected Zhong Yue and said with a smile, “Mister Yi, you sure are talented, you’ve amazed me by understanding all of your Fuxi arts in just six days.”

Zhong Yue thanked, “If it wasn’t for Mister’s permission, I would have had a hard time finding back my ancestors’ arts as well. Please, allow me to thank you.”

Rays flashed in Mister Bi Luo’s eyes as he intended to find out how much Zhong Yue had learned in these six days.

Meanwhile, Zhong Yue staggered his way out of the library. He didn’t seem to be in the right mind, lost in his own thought, shaking his head and continued, “I didn’t learn much, but I had an epiphany. That’s why I came out.”

“An epiphany?” Mister Bi Luo quickly asked.

Zhong Yue was bemused as he asked, “Mister, do you know the innate Daos?”

Mister Bi Luo noticed Zhong Yue’s absentmindedness, he smiled and answered, “How could I not? As Heaven’s disciple, if I don’t know this, how am I fit to handle the Bi Luo Palace?”

With a change of thought, a Dao flew out of his body. It was saint and holy, it was an innate Dao of Water.

“No, this is not an innate Dao. It is not. You don’t know, Heaven doesn’t either…” Zhong Yue shook as he strode out and left.

Mister Bi Luo was startled, he followed behind closely with a smile, “Mine is not an innate Dao? Then do you know what is?”

“Me neither.” Zhong Yue murmured, “I don’t know either… I wish I know, but I just don’t…”

Mister Bi Luo frowned, he cleared his throat and shouted, “Mister Yi, wake up!”

He used the Dao voices in the shout. Turns out, he noticed Zhong Yue’s abnormal behavior. Zhong Yue was stuck in his own thoughts and couldn’t get himself out of it. He has trapped himself with his own questions and thus, Mister Bi Luo tried to wake him up with the Dao voices!

All of a sudden, Zhong Yue leaped out and shocked Mister Bi Luo. An ancient ship emerged in midair and Zhong Yue disappeared inside of the ship.

“He is going mad! Have I given him too little time and forced him over his limit, that’s why he snapped?” Mister Bi Luo looked up. The thousand-winged ancient ship was incredibly fast, it has already exited the Bi Luo Palace.

“I don’t know, Heaven also doesn’t? What a joke, is there anything Heaven doesn’t know? He is still a child, after all.” Mister Bi Luo shook, he thought, “It’s fine, he is the tool needed to eliminate Mu Xiantian, there’s no need to argue with him. Huh? Why is he heading toward the Heaven Court?”

Zhong Yue was roaming headlessly in the thousand-winged ancient ship, traveling haphazardly. But the direction he was heading toward was the Heaven Court and it shocked Mister Bi Luo.

“Hahahaha, Celestial Lord Li Yang, do you still remember me, Wu Dulang?”

The thousand-winged ancient ship raised a commotion as it entered the Heaven Court. An innate demon god rose into the sky with an enlarged body, looking down at Zhong Yue with a burst of laughter, “I knew you reincarnated and are now someone across the universe, but I didn’t get to meet you, else, you’d be dead already! However, now, I am one of Queen Goddess’s generals, I will bring your head to her for my rewards!”

Zhong Yue bowed, he asked, “Wu Dulang, do you know the innate Daos?”

The demon god had no gender, he was none other than Wu Dulang, a peak Imperial Emperor. He heard the question and smirked, “Of course I know. Don’t you move, I will show you my innate Daos!”

As soon as he finished, he reached his hand and slammed down at Zhong Yue.

Zhong Yue looked at the incoming palm strike, he was disappointed as he shook, “No, you don’t know.”

The thousand-winged ancient ship shuddered, the innate meat wings slashed across Wu Dulang’s hand and severed his palm away.

Wu Dulang was shocked, he quickly moved his hand back only to find his palm missing. He couldn’t restrain the pain and let out a groan.

The thousand-winged ancient ship turned sideways and sailed away while the Heaven Court’s experts swarmed in to stop it. But the thousand-winged ancient ship’s speed has outpaced them.

“Stop right here, King Yi!”

A peak Imperial Emperor let out a loud roar. Fire burned around him with many golden crows, weapons, and animals morphed from fire emerging in the surroundings.

The Imperial Emperor pinned the ship down with his arms and stopped the ship’s momentum. He sneered and said, “Do you recognize me? I am the Heaven Court’s Sun Guardian, Jiang Yiqi was once a subordinate under me!”

“Do you know the innate Daos?” Zhong Yue quickly asked sincerely.

“You also know I’ve cultivated the Innate Tai Yang Dao?” Sun Guardian laughed happily, he said in pride, “It is my greatest achievement to have cultivated the Innate Tai Yang Dao, you…”

The thousand-winged ancient ship suddenly burst out in power and rammed over him, Zhong Yue shook and said, “Seems like you don’t either.”