Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  As for Dao Yi secret realm, he’d have to muster energy from the other four secret realms to enhance and strengthen the Dao Yi secret realm.

  And all of these required a huge span of time but with his plans of leaving Xian Kong Saint City soon, time was not something he had in his favor.

  Xin Huo flew out from his Yuan Shen’s body and said again, “To average Qi Practitioners, even a slight difference in the strengths of their five secret realms would prevent them from achieving the third Yuan Shen form. As for you, as someone with an incredibly vast gap in the strengths of your five secret realms, you could be considered as very good already considering to you were able to even achieve it at all.”

  Zhong Yue sighed and he thought to himself, I could only maintain the third Yuan Shen form for around seven minutes and in that short period of time, it may be difficult for me to escape from the monster Qi Practitioners.

  Atman level Qi Practitioners were just too strong, seven minutes was simply too short a window of time for Zhong Yue to escape from their pursuits.

  All the while, during this time he was in secluded cultivation, he was unaware of the waves he caused in the Xian Kong Saint City with his return.

  News about him slaying the monster Qi Practitioners that were after him only reached Xian Kong Saint city a day ago and as soon as the news was known, the city had erupted into an uproar.

  After successfully escaping from the encirclement of a few Atman Body level Qi Practitioners and defeating the two of the best Awakening Qi Practitioners, Yuan Ji and Hua Feiyu, in just one hit, Zhong Yue had been widely acknowledged as the strongest monster Awakening level Qi Practitioner!

  Details of his journey also provided some insights and clues about his horrifying power!

  “Long Yue lives up to his name as the final disciple of Saint City Lord, being able to kill so many strong Qi Practitioners that blocked his path towards Xian Kong Saint City!”

  “The Meng Family has suffered heavy losses on the young Qi Practitioners and the young Qi Practitioners of the Ying Family were completely wiped out!”

  “The Tu Family also suffered the same fate. All of them were killed underground before even having the chance to emerge!”

  “None of those that went after him were able to return alive!”

  ….

  Meanwhile, in the Saint City Lord hall, the news had also managed to reach Shi Buyi through his psyche even though he was in the most crucial part of cultivating the sun and the moon eyes.

  This magnate figure of the monster race had also experienced a tremendous change in his emotions as he became aware of Zhong Yue’s return. His face changed as he thought, My youngest disciple… You dare to even return to the Saint City and even with such commotion? Such audacity. Haha, dragon race, are you all so desperate to get back onto the land?”

  He suddenly opened his eyes and above his two eyes, the sun and moon eye opened on top of his eyes. With the four eyes, Shi Buyi looked incredibly odd.

  Suddenly, the two new eyes immediately closed back and blood dripped out from the two eyes and in no time, a blood pile was formed on the ground.

  I failed again… The sun and moon eye cultivation art that Long Yue passed to me is definitely right so why am I failing again and again?

  Shi Buyi let out an angry roar from his throat and after a moment, he thought again, Could it be that I am cultivating in a wrong way? Hold on, let me try again! I wonder how Lang Qingyun is so bad in handling the matter this time that he has yet to kill Long Yue….

  In the Flattened Wave Courtyard of the Saint City, which was also the courtyard of Lang Qingyun, he frowned and stared at the soul lantern in front of him before he sighed and said, “There is no turning back now. During the last encounter we had in Gu Xia City, he must have figured out that I was the one who stole the soul lantern and notified the other Qi Practitioners of his location so that they could ambush him on the road. He will definitely become an enemy of mine in the future if he doesn’t die ….”

  “After our Xiao Mang Celestial Race conquers the Great Wilderness, we will definitely invade the East Barren. If he were to grow up right after Shi Buyi dies, he would definitely become another obstacle for the Xiao Mang Celestial Race. Fortunately for us, he is very ruthless and has killed countless of the younger generations of the many monster factions. He has already sealed his own fate with his actions.”

  “All I gotta do is just pull the strings from behind and wait for the various factions to finish off the dirty work. Too bad for me, as much as I want to kill him, I cannot kill him myself or Shi Buyi who wants to kill me as well would definitely have sufficient reason to do so if I were to personally end Long Yue’s life ….”

  Zhong Yue walked out of his room and when Long Chun’er and the three other girls handed up the account books, he briefly looked into them and he said, “As the final disciple of Shi Buyi, there are actually that many precious items that were distributed to us. Chun’er, keep them up and we will depart after another few more days. By the way, list out the best resources for me as your master wants to craft eight soul weapons!”

  Long Chun’er and the others immediately scattered after receiving his orders and in no time, they had prepared the various precious resources Zhong Yue needed.

  Zhong Yue started crafting the soul weapons; he used the sun fire to melt the various minerals and used the Qi of the moon to remove the impurities so that he could guarantee the quality of the soul weapons.

  This time, he was crafting the soul weapons for his combat Yuan Shen.

  The Combat Yuan Shen of the【Monster God Ming King Art】has eight limbs and in each hand, he held one soul weapon. Other than that, the【Monster God Ming King Art】contained unique crafting methods for each of the soul weapons.

  With that, the soul weapons crafted according to the ways recorded in the【Monster God Ming King Art】would become tightly related to the Combat Yuan Shen, which could greatly enhance the combat power of the soul weapons and the Combat Yuan Shen!

  Previously, Zhong Yue was very poor and he had no ways to gather the various materials needed to craft his own soul weapons. He had only a Fang Blade and all the eight soul weapons used by his Combat Yuan Shen were formed with his very own power and psyche, which were somewhat strong but no any stronger than the real soul weapons.

  But now, since he had become Shi Buyi’s final disciple, he was granted with territories that would produce sufficient resources that could allow him to craft his own soul weapons.

  And as he managed to craft these eight soul weapons, his overall strength would definitely increase again and together with the Ba Ji Slaughtering Arrays and the third Yuan Shen form, he would be able to fight head-on with Atman Body cultivators!

  “Junior martial brother, I am really sad that you did not come looking for me after you have arrived in the Saint City!”

  Suddenly, a seductive voice could be heard outside of the Storm Courtyard and Zhong Yue’s psyche moved, dragging all the newly crafted eight soul weapons back into his own Yuan Shen’s secret realm before he led the girls to get the door.

  As they opened the door, an alluring woman walked into the courtyard. She wore a slightly transparent blouse that wrapped around her well-developed chest and there were two ribbons that dangled down from her arms. She was the second disciple of Shi Buyi, Chi Liannu.

  Then, Chi Liannu lifted up her long and pretty legs and entered his courtyard. There was nothing on her legs save for a very short silky skirt on her waist that barely covered her thighs.

  And the silky skirt was just too thin, simply failing to even conceal the bounciness and firmness of her butt. Every one of her strides would be accompanied by a playful jiggle of her behind that made it seem like they would burst out from the feeble restraint of her skirt.

  This girl was just too alluring – a perfect seductress. The other girls instinctively felt a sense of wariness and danger upon seeing her and an inexplicable hostility rose up from within all of them.
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  Chi Liannu however, did not deign to pay them any mind as her vision swept over them before landing on Zhong Yue. After she dismissively measured the other girls, she said with a smile, “Junior martial brother, so you were having your pleasure time with these girls during these days of hiding? What are you guys playing? Could I tag along?”

  Her curvaceous body leaned towards Zhong Yue and before she could land on Zhong Yue, he quickly took one step back and said quickly, “Senior martial sister, stop joking around with me. What do you want from me, senior martial sister?”

  Chi Liannu’s face turned serious and she said, “Of course I have a serious matter. I am here to dual cultivate with you through an ancient dual cultivation art. I came to you because I couldn't find any partner better than you. You and I will be able to achieve even more together and besides, you are my junior martial brother and I am familiar with you, thus, I selected you as my partner. Junior martial brother, you already have five mistresses. I assume you wouldn't mind adopting me as the sixth one, right?”

  Qing He became speechless and she immediately and emphatically disputed, “I am not his mistress!”

  Chapter 211: A Place of Unrest |

  Zhong Yue quickly explained, “Senior martial sister, they are my maidservants.”

  “Maidservants, what a pity, they don’t even have a decent status.”

  Chi Liannu glanced over at Qing He and shook her head, “I heard that Shu Qianqiu is planning on ingratiating himself to my teacher, which is why he has married you over to Junior Martial Brother Yue. Initially, I thought that you would be given a decent status, but who knew you would be just a maidservant.”

  Qing He nearly fainted, she yelled angrily, “What do you mean by marrying me over? When did my teacher made such a decision, how is that I’m completely unaware of this at all?”

  Chi Liannu chortled, “What? You didn’t know at all? Word has already spread throughout the saint city, saying that you are marrying him. But now, it seems more like you were simply sent over as a gift. What a pitiful girl you are. However, if you are beautiful and fawning enough, you can still be a concubine; when your master is on the bed with his wife, you can still take over her place when she gets tired. Well, that’s not too bad, is it?”

  Chi Liannu’s words were like thunderbolts that struck directly at her head, Qing He was stupefied as she mumbled, “Did my teacher really gift me over to him….”

  Chi Liannu measured Qing He with her eyes, smiled and said, “You are indeed pretty, but are still somewhat lacking. Seems like you are destined to be a concubine for life at best.”

  Embarrassment and anger engulfed Qing He’s heart. She thought, It must be because of my teacher having heard of Long Yue’s prowess, that he has become the strongest in the level of Awakening, and of his identity as one of the disciples of Shi Buyi. That must have been why upon seeing me captured by him, my teacher just took this as an opportunity to gift me over to him as a concubine so as to clear away any enmity between them … it must be like this!

  The more she thought about it, the more she trusted her baseless conjectures. However, little did she know that these were all misunderstandings, her teacher, the Keep Master of Xuan Keep Shu Qiuqian, was also completely unaware of any of this.

  It was only her martial sisters that misinterpreted her meaning, thinking that she was gifted to Zhong Yue by Shu Qianqiu.

  And when these false rumors got out and continued to spread, they were eventually taken as truth, even Chi Liannu was misdirected.

  Chi Liannu was fervid as she looked at Zhong Yue, chortling and said, “Junior martial brother, this ancient cultivation technique I have is very strong, it’s a god-level cultivation technique that I found in a secret realm of a ruined celestial temple during my training trip in the East Barren. If you and I can practice this together, it’ll be extremely beneficial to both you and me!”

  In Zhong Yue’s psyche ocean, Xin Huo suddenly said, “Brat Yue, don’t accept her offer! I can see the malicious intent hiding in her eyes, she will plunder away the draconic Qi in you to transcend into a Jiao Dragon from her current snake form, rather than truly dual-cultivating with you.”

  Zhong Yue was puzzled, “Xin Huo, didn’t you always urge me to dual cultivate with the other girls, why do you try to stop me now? How much draconic Qi can she suck away from me, after all, I’m a human, not a dragon. Furthermore, if it’s a dual cultivation technique, it should be beneficial for both sides.”

  But Xin Huo sneered in reply, “I’ll be more than happy to see it happen if it’s really a dual cultivation technique. But this monster lady harbors malicious intentions, the draconic Qi she could get from your body would be insufficient for her to transcend herself into a dragon, she would have to suck you dry into a mummy for her to complete the process! In my opinion, she doesn’t have any ancient dual cultivation technique, but instead, what she got was a cultivation technique that siphons the yang essence from the males to nourish herself.”

  Zhong Yue never had any intentions to dual cultivate with Chi Liannu in the first place, he only asked out of curiosity of Xin Huo’s uncharacteristic opposition to her proposal. And as Xin Huo laid out his reasoning to him, his heart stiffened up and thought, Lang Qingyun tried to kill me in the past, and now even Chi Liannu is also trying to set me up. We are, after all, martial siblings of the same teacher, and yet, even among ourselves, the insidious schemes never stop!

  Chi Liannu’s eyes were currently filled with a warm tenderness as she leaned her sultry figure against Zhong Yue’s. She said softly in his ears, “Junior martial brother, what do you say? Dual cultivating with me will be very beneficial to you, you can surely break through to the next level, advancing into an Atman Body cultivator.”

  However, Zhong Yue was unmoved, he held a smile on his face and replied resolutely, “Senior martial sister is making fun of me. This little brother is just in the Awakening level, I’m too weak to be able to gain anything from junior martial sister. I’m afraid that I’ll be completely sucked away by you during the dual cultivation process.”

  Chi Liannu’s neck wreathed around Zhong Yue’s neck, she raised her pretty face and gazed straight into his eyes, it was as if she was trying to see through him and reach to the deepest parts of his heart. Zhong Yue continued to smile gently, “Senior martial sister, we are martial siblings of the same teacher, you wouldn’t force it, would you?”

  Chi Liannu chortled, “I’m not going to eat you, look at your little scared face. Well, since you are unwilling to do it, then I shall look for the other dragons.”

  She turned and walked away with her swaying waist, the moment she stepped out of the Storm Courtyard, her face darkened and thought, Hmph, what a sly and cunning little brat without any thirst for beauties. Your unwillingness will not change a thing at all as I can still forcibly make you do it! But not here, not in the saint city that could alert our teacher. Junior martial brother, we shall meet again once you’ve stepped out of the saint city!

  Zhong Yue watched as she left, he heaved a breath of relief and thought in his heart, What an unpeaceful place this saint city is, even the martial siblings can’t be trusted. I’d better finish forging the Eight Extreme Weapons and leave this place as soon as possible!

  He quickly continued forging the soul weapons. As he was taught the sculpting arts by the Swords Gate headmaster, forging the Eight Extreme Weapons wasn’t a difficult task; furthermore, as his psyche had already condensed into a lightning pool, engraving the totem patterns on the soul weapons would be a much easier affair.

  Another five days passed before he had finally completed forging the Eight Extreme Weapons — saber, sword, hammer, whip, shields and hook swords. All of the eight weapons were engraved with the totem patterns of the monster god Ming King which imbued a surge of incredible power in them.

  With a thought, Zhong Yue surged his psyche and formed them into various kinds of totem patterns, six additional arms extruded out from beneath his armpits, each
of them clenching one weapon. A slight move and he could cast out a skill of the Eight Extreme Slaughtering Array!

  “Eight Extreme Saber Slash!”

  One after another, saber rays thrust out in a fan-like formation —Chi chi chi— the sounds of piercing incessantly rang in his ears as dozens of rows of saber rays perforated the land of a thousand feet before him.

  Zhong Yue twisted his waist and gathered the saber Qi together into a huge sword before slashing down heavily. Before the huge saber had even reached the ground, the courtyard ha already been sliced in half.

  Zhong Yue quickly stopped and halted the skill from fully unleashing, he was shocked and overjoyed, This cave dwelling is filled with totem carvings that enhances its durability, but I was able to slice it in half before my saber even hit the ground. If I didn’t stop the saber’s motion, the whole place might’ve just crumbled into pieces. As expected, in order to fully unleash the prowess of the monster god Ming King, I would need to have the soul weapons that are fitting of its power!

  The【Monster God Ming King Art】was a close-quarters combat art, but the saber ray he had just unleashed was still able to reach a distance of a thousand feet. Its attack range was far beyond the what most would consider within the realm of close-quarters combat!

  With my Yuan Shen third form controlling the Eight Extreme Weapons and my mortal body wielding the Fang Blade, it’ll not be easy for even Atman Body cultivators to stop me!

  Zhong Yue inhaled a long breath of air, rays flashed in his eyes and he summoned Long Chun’er, Qing He, and the other ladies. Just when he was about to ask to pack up and leave Xian Kong Saint City, a knocking sound came from the gate of his cave dwelling.

  Zhong Yue was puzzled, he opened the gate and found an old seneschal of the saint city lord manor standing in front of his cave dwelling. That old monster bowed and greeted with a smile, “Young Master Yue, the master has completed his closed-door training, he is requesting your presence.”