Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  Out there, there were too many uncertainties, an unknown number of unknown dangers in unknown places. Those that he had experienced here really left a deep impression on his mind, I wonder how many can survive the Returning Ruins and live till the end?

  "Senior martial brother, I'm now at the brink of breaking through!" Qiu Jin'er suddenly tensed up and said anxiously.

  Zhong Yue looked over and scrutinized Qiu Jin’er. Her Gou Mang Yuan Shen emerged uncontrollably behind her, changing sizes and forms continuously. This was indeed the omens of breaking through to the Heavenly Dharma level!

  Qiu Jin’er was already in the peak of Inner Core level even before she entered the Returning Ruins. She had then consumed two different divine herbs that increased her cultivation base even further, it was only natural for her to breakthrough now.

  Qiu Jin'er hesitated and said, "It will take at least a month, and up to a year, to break through to the Heavenly Dharma level. Senior martial brother, the Returning Ruins is very dangerous, I…"

  The ascension to the next cultivation base was a process that couldn't afford to be interrupted. Even Zhong Yue himself spent months of time to break through to the Heavenly Dharma level.

  "Don't worry." Zhong Yue said while holding a warm smile on his face, he said, "I can manage it on my own. You will enter my Wan Xiang Secret Realm and cultivate in there. Come out only when you have broken through to the Heavenly Dharma level. There are many treasures in my Yuan Shen secret realms, use them at will."

  Qiu Jin'er nodded obediently and entered his Yuan Shen secret realm. She sat in the lotus position and started her closed-door training to prepare for the breakthrough.

  Zhong Yue then recollected his thoughts and grabbed the huge carrot on his hand, he squinted his eyes in a super bright smile, and he said, "Husan Weng, where is that friend of yours, Cusia? Bring me to him!"

  The carrot was overjoyed. It quickly leaped down to the ground and led the way jubilantly while thinking in his heart, My brothers will surely be able to beat the shit out of this evil brat!

  Chapter 447: The Six Gentlemen of Returning Ruins |

  “Other than Cusia, I still have a few good brothers.”

  Husan Weng was talking non-stop, “Stonecrop, Black Nightshade, Bupleurum and Angelica, they all stayed not far away from here. We six are all the strong and heroic figures in Returning Ruins, the others know us as the Six Gentlemen of the Returning Ruins, everyone knows about us! Cusia remedies all sickness, Stonecrop revives the dead, Black Nightshade resolves all the poison, and Angelica increases one’s blood essence. Just go around and ask, everyone will tell you how great we are…”

  Zhong Yue followed behind the huge carrot while taking out Yan Zhen’s secret realms which he had condensed into five light bracelets.

  Surging his psyche into the secret realms and checking them one by one, Zhong Yue could tell just how strong Yan Zhen’s five secret realms were. Totem patterns continuously flowed at the end of the secret realms, reinforcing the dimensional stability so that they were more resistant to collapse.

  In comparison to Zhong Yue’s secret realms, Yan Zhen’s secret realms were smaller and weaker. But Yan Zhen had higher durability and superior stability compared to Zhong Yue.

  No wonder he was so strong, to be able to fight me head-on. It’s all because of his secret realms, that’s why he could condense and shrink his Avatar to only 16 feet tall! In comparison, my Yuan Shen secret realms are indeed lacking.

  Zhong Yue inspected them carefully and thought, Strengthening the Yuan Shen secret realms is also a way to improve. This demon expert deserves my respect. Although I was the victor, in the end, there are still things I should still learn from him.

  Strengthening the secret realms with the totem patterns and Yan Zhen’s method of using the heaven and earth’s force to cast the Avatar were some things he would have to learn as well.

  Although Zhong Yue won in the end, Zhong Yue never held his opponent in contempt at all, giving him the respect that an opponent like him deserved.

  However, no matter how hard Zhong Yue searched through the Yuan Shen secret realms, he couldn’t find a single clue about using the force of heaven and earth at all.

  Can the way to achieve that only found through searching through the souls of others and extract the knowledge out forcibly?

  Zhong Yue frowned, if only he had known how to use the force of heaven and earth, he wouldn’t be so severely injured even if he had met with the young gods like Yan Zhen!

  However, although he knew of the technique’s existence, he couldn’t acquire it.

  Force of the heaven and earth, what is it linked to?

  Zhong Yue was puzzled, he continued searching through Yan Zhen’s Yuan Shen secret realms. Suddenly, he let out a surprised gasp as he took out a divine weapon from the Yuan Shen secret realms. It was a godly drum whose drumhead was made from the skin of a Kui Long god!

  Zhong Yue also had a piece of Kui Long skin. Thus, he was able to notice and recognized the same material in Yan Zhen’s secret realms. However, what Zhong Yue had was only from an Imminent Deity Kui Long expert, while this godly drum was made from a Kui Long god’s skin!

  This is the celestial race’s treasure, did any celestial experts die by Yan Zhen’s hands? How strong, being able to kill even a Kui Long expert with a divine weapon. No wonder he had the appellation of a young god!

  Zhong Yue praised in his heart. The totem patterns on the Kui Long’s skin was not a stranger to him. After all, they were all the Immortal Body totem patterns. This drum was most probably crafted by a Kui Long god, passed over to his disciples so that they could help him search for the Peaches of Immortality. Yet, who knew it would end up in Zhong Yue’s hands.

  I can use this drum, but the drum’s master is a living Kui Long god. If I left the Returning Ruins, he would be able to recall the drum with just a thought. Moreover, he could power the drum and kill me without any hassle!

  Zhong Yue frowned as he thought, How can I wipe away the Kui Long god’s marks…

  Zhong Yue’s current strength and cultivation allowed him to be able to even wipe away the marks of the Imminent Deity magnates. But this was a god’s mark; there was nothing he could do about it.

  Throwing it into Xin Huo’s lamp can wipe off the god’s mark, but the divine drum will be destroyed as well. There is just no point in doing so….

  Zhong Yue surged out both his arcane energy and psyche, refining the Kui Long divine drum while, on the other hand, strengthening his Yuan Shen secret realms. Using the totem patterns of the【Celestial Demon Tai Chi Art】and infusing them into his Yuan Shen secret realms, he augmented their durability and stability.

  The stronger the secret realms, the more energy they could contain. And he had six secret realms. If he could raise them to the same level as Yan Zhen’s secret realms. The benefits and advantages he would acquire would be far greater than what Yan Zhen was ever able to get!

  Furthermore, his Yuan Shen secret realms were wider compared to Yan Zhen’s. Surely, his strength would improve to beyond what most would expect!

  Even one Yan Zhen alone was enough to show me how much I have to improve by. I can only imagine what I will learn from battling the other young gods! Zhong Yue became filled with a fervid desire to fight.

  After some time, Husan Weng led him to the front of a mountain, he slowed down and led him up the mountain. They walked into a dark cave, and after a few moments of walking, a wide and vast space appeared before them. It was a small valley that was, at most, only a few miles long, but it was incredibly beautiful.

  The valley was filled with the fragrance of the divine herbs, and a small waterfall was cascading down from the top. The whole place looked just like a paradise.

  Zhong Yue was invigorated upon seeing a few godly rays hovering in the sky. There were a few different looking divine herbs sitting on a small altar.

  The divine herbs then spotted Husan Weng and Zhong Yue, and they all sprung up from the
altar and shouted, “Husan Weng, who is he?”

  Husan Weng laughed out loud and leaped out, blocking the only path to the outside world as it said, “A high-quality fertilizer!”

  “Fertilizer?” The divine herbs exclaimed curiously in unison.

  Zhong Yue looked at the divine herbs. Among the five divine herbs in the air, Cusia looked like a granddaddy with a sparse amount of green leaves on its top; the Stonecrop was a small chubby child with a yellow flower of eight petals blooming on the top; Black Nightshade was a little girl with a little few purplish fruits on top of its head.

  Angelica was a little yellow man with a round flower on its top and many little flowers forming its hairs; and lastly, the Bupleurum was a tall and slender, jade-like divine herb with thick and muscular legs.

  The five divine weapons had the godly totem patterns surrounding them. These were the natural totem patterns that no other race other than the ancient and long-lived divine herbs could acquire.

  The huge carrot Husan Weng then shouted, “He is not that strong, just a little bit stronger than me. Let’s strike at him together and kill him. We can divide his body parts among ourselves after!”

  The other five divine herbs’ interests were piqued, they looked at Zhong Yue and said together, “This young man is really burly, he must have a lot of nutrients!”

  Zhong Yue smiled and replied, “Brothers, what’s there nice here in Returning Ruins. Why don’t all of you follow me and I can bring you all to the outside world to explore the true beauty and greatness of the real world. What do you think?”

  “I want his head!” The granddaddy looking Cusia said.

  “Alright, his head is yours!” Stonecrop laughed and agreed.

  “It isn’t that nice to kill you, no?” Nightshade hesitated for a split second, and it then said happily, “Why don’t we let him live and just grow on his living body?”

  The divine weapons were happily negotiating the harvest before they even started the battle. They ignored Zhong Yue on the side while Husang Weng suddenly asked, “Why are you all in Cusia’s home?”

  The divine weapons exchanged looks, and they sighed. One of them said, “There are many weirdos swarming in the Returning Ruins these few days. They have come after us like predators chasing a pack of prey. We had no other choice but to hide in Cusia’s home.”

  Bupleurum then stared at Zhong Yue and said, “At least now, we can vent our anger on him!”

  The six divine herbs surrounded Zhong Yue in the middle and glared at him in anger. Stonecrop gave a nasty laugh and said, “Don’t even try to resist. The more you try, the happier we will be. Hehehe…”

  Husan Weng then lunged forward and struck a punch at Zhong Yue as it shouted, “Take him down!”

  The other five divine herbs then followed, launching their attacks at Zhong Yue in a nonstop flurry. Immediately, the cacophony of battle resounded through the valley. The six divine herbs were all talented; Husan Weng’s possessed unique strength, Cusia’s had agility, Bupleurum’s attacks were powerful; Angelica’s attacks from the ground were sneaky and unpredictable; Nightshade’s poison gas was noxiously potent; and while Stonecrop was the weakest among them, it still did its part by bullishly hugging Zhong Yue’s leg to restrict his movements.

  Moments later, Husan Weng laid on the ground, struggling to get up while beside him, foam was bubbling out of Stonecrop’s mouth. Cusia’s head was stuck in the soil, and its legs were helplessly flailing in the air.

  Not far away from them, Bupleurum lay exhausted on the floor while the battered Nightshade was crying by the side. Whereas for the little yellow divine herb Angelica, it tried to escape underground, but as Zhong Yue stomped his feet down, the soil turned impermeable like metal.

  Zhong Yue felt a sadistic satisfaction from the one-sided trouncing. He raised his hand and picked a flower from Angelica’s head and immediately, the little yellow divine herb opened its mouth wide and cried out loud.

  While hearing Angelica crying, Nightshade, who was on the side, cried even harder.

  “Husan Weng, didn’t you say he wasn’t very strong, just a little stronger than you?”, Bupleurum shouted in anger, “You are so unreliable! How is this just a little stronger than you!? He just single-handedly finished all six of us!”

  Cusia was also in incensed as it chided, “Husan Weng, you are now a traitor to the Six Gentlemen of Returning Ruins!”

  Stonecrop waved its chubby fists and said coldly, “You are no longer one of us!”

  Husan Weng felt wronged, but it couldn’t talk back at all. Its leaves limply hung low as its mood plummeted.

  Zhong Yue consumed the little yellow flower he plucked down. Immediately, he could feel his blood essence churning, and his Bloodline Wheel faintly appeared of its own accord. He could tell that his Fuxi blood had gotten purer in just these few moments!

  The Angelica can increase the purity of Fuxi blood?

  Zhong Yue was shocked and overjoyed at the same time. Although the yellow flower provided only a small amount of help, it was still helping at the least. Ever since he broke through the seals of the Bloodline Wheel, his Fuxi bloodline stagnated. Yet, who knew he could find a divine weapon that could help him with this!

  He was overjoyed, and he glanced from one divine herb to another and back to the first one again unceasingly. The more he looked at them, the more lovely he found them.

  The six divine herbs skin crawled at his weird smile. Zhong Yue squinted his eyes and said, “Brothers, I have prepared a home for you all in my secret realms. You all will have to leave the Returning Realms with me. This is too dangerous a place to stay, the outside world is the best environment for the six of you.”

  Knowing they couldn’t win against him at all, none of them resisted as he planted them in his Yuan Shen secret realms one by one.

  Suddenly, a loud kicking sound came from the Yuan Shen secret realms, and Husan Weng was seen flying out. Cusia’s voice could then be heard shouting, “Traitor, don’t you dare come close to us!”

  Husan Weng nearly cried, but Zhong Yue was still all smiles as he said, “It’s fine even if you are not with them. Husan Weng, you know more than them and have a broader wealth of knowledge. Have you ever seen any Immortality Peaches Tree?”

  Husan Weng was just about to answer and the divine herbs poked their heads out of the secret realm and scorned in unison, “Traitor——”

  Chapter 448: Southern Heaven Gate |

  Husan Weng turned furious, and it shouted, “I’m no traitor! I didn’t tell him that Angelica’s root actually had the best medicinal effect rather than the flower. I didn’t say that Nightshade’s flowers are poisonous of that its fruits are the best. I didn’t even mention that Bupleurum needed to be dried before eating, or that every part of Cusia was useful as medicine, or that Stonecrop is best eaten fresh!”

  The five divine herbs turned gloomy as despair filled their faces. The little girl nightshade covered the fruits on its head and cried out loud; Angelica’s face turned pallid and held on its roots; Bupleurum jumped in anger, and Stonecrop played dead on the ground. Cusia was shuddering in anger before it simply fainted.

  Zhong Yue raised his thumb, and he praised, “Husan Weng, you really are a good friend, how is it that they don’t appreciate you? Don’t worry about them anymore, let’s continue our conversation.”

  The angry Husan Weng then ignored the other divine weapons as it knew that it was impossible to redeem its relationship with them. Thus, it complied with Zhong Yue’s words and said, “I’ve seen a few of them, but these are the arrogant shits. They thought that their statuses are higher than ours. They’ve always looked down on divine herbs like us, calling us wild herbs. They live in a place of godly soils that are full of nutrients. Unlike the other places where the godly soils are scarce and are lacking in nutrients, the place they live in is the best habitat for divine herbs. I’ve been there and tried to steal some for myself but was chased out by them.”

  Zhong Yue’s inter
est was piqued as Husan Weng continued, “However, it’s very dangerous there, even I only managed to narrowly slip through deaths’ clutches the last time I was there. That place is the strangest place I’ve ever seen. One moment of distraction, and Boom, an express ticket to meet death. Those Immortality Peaches Tree are reluctant to leave their paradise.”

  Zhong Yue then it to elaborate. He found out that these divine trees were located in a place called the God's Land. But there wasn’t a lot of them, just a little few trees.

  Other than the Immortality Peaches Tree, there were also other divine weapons that were stronger and harder to capture.

  Husan Weng had been there once and had seen a few matured Peaches of Immortality, albeit only a few.

  As for the mother tree, it would most probably be in a more forbidding location that not even the native divine herb Husan Weng would know about.

  “God's Land?”

  Zhong Yue then said thoughtfully, “Is it possible to relocate the trees out of the God's Land?”

  Husan Weng shook its head while sneering coldly, “These divine trees are strong, it’ll be more difficult than you think to even close to them, let alone move them. You’ll understand once we get there!”

  The huge carrot led the way, and Zhong Yue followed, venturing deeper into the Returning Ruins. Along the way, there were many dangers; this was because the arrivals of Kun Lun and A’thoer Qi Practitioners had triggered some of the godly skeletons, array formations, and even the godly skills. Oftentimes, Zhong Yue could see the vague image of the gigantic godly skeletons wandering in the dark and gloomy mists.

  Not only that, but there were also some incredibly deadly places, such as one brimming with divine fire. The fire formed an ocean that covered miles and miles of land, extending past the limits of his vision. These godly fires were even stronger than the sunfire of the Luminant Sun Gold. Zhong Yue had even seen a few godly skeletons straying into the fire to be burned into ashes!