Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  He lifted an insect divine weapon that looked like a pair of cicada wings in front of the scale. Immediately, its totem patterns and internal structure was clearly reflected on it!

  The insect god’s mark inside of the insect divine weapon looked like a living cicada lying dormant in the middle of the divine weapon.

  The marks formed the core of the divine weapons, they were commonly forged with the owner’s blood and spirit.

  After the Qi Practitioners cultivated the Yuan Shen, they wouldn’t have to use their soul to enter the weapons to control them anymore. This greatly reduced the risk of death when the weapons would happen to be destroyed. This method also greatly boosted the power of the weapons.

  However, the soul weapons were also different from the divine weapons. Other than their overbearing advantage in strength and power, the divine weapons could be manipulated in such a way that the owner desires.

  This was especially true of the divine weapons that could switch between tangible and ethereal states or could change sizes and even forms.

  Among the divine weapons that Zhong Yue had come across before, the Divine Wing Saber of the Kun Peng Celestial Race was a prime example. It was a saber, but the feathers that it was made up of could be used as swords by themselves. Even when the feathers were heavily damaged, they would still be returned to their peak flawless state upon returning to the Divine Wing Saber.

  Not only that, but the Divine Wing Saber didn’t have a definite form. The divine gold that it was forged from could shift between the different forms of matter; the whole weapon was able to disintegrate into the most simplest form of totem patterns and reform into any shape.

  It was nearly impossible to wipe away the marks left within such a strong saint weapon, even if Zhong Yue the scale mirror. This was because the internal structure and array formations inside of the Divine Wing Saber were ever changing, and the mark left in it would change along with it. It was simply too difficult to search for, identify, and destroy them within seconds.

  Thankfully, the insect divine weapons that Zhong Yue brought back weren’t on that level yet, giving him the chance to wipe away the marks that the insect gods left on them.

  Furthermore, he was also able to perceive the flaws in the insect divine weapons, even the weaknesses of the totem patterns that were forged in the weapons.

  “What a treasure this scale is!" Zhong Yue praised.

  Then, he turned back to the insect divine weapon and continued to scrutinize it. In stark contrast to the celestial race and demon race, the divine weapons of the insect race were forged much more crudely due to their lack of knowledge and resources when compared to the celestials and demons.

  The divine third eye was opened and Zhong Yue looked at the divine weapon through the reflection. After some time, he finally finished understanding the totem patterns inside of the cicada wings.

  “Cast!" Zhong Yue yelled lowly, his psyche and arcane energy surged into the insect divine weapon. The psyche and arcane energy slipped through the defenses of the totem patterns and array formation that protected the mark as Zhong Yue attempted to wipe away the insect god’s mark!

  His psyche and arcane energy reached the front of the insect god’s mark inside of the divine weapon. All of a sudden, Zhong Yue’s heart twitched in alertness.

  Immediately after, the cicada wing mark squirmed and turned into an eight-legged golden cicada celestial being that shone with a golden light. It inhaled deeply, sucking away Zhong Yue’s psyche and arcane energy!

  The golden cicada grew bigger and chortled, “You want to wipe me away? A mere Qi Practitioner like yourself? Do you know what am I? I am the mark of a god, I am a divine treasure, formed by a god’s psyche, energy, and blood…”

  Zhong Yue humphed as he surged his True Spirit directly into the divine weapon, “God?”

  His True Spirit Yuan Shen flew past the defenses and reached the insect god’s mark, “If you really are a god, I will leave immediately. But you are just a mark left behind by the insect god, you are not qualified to rave wildly in front me.”

  The golden cicada celestial being smiled smugly and pounced on Zhong Yue’s True Spirit Yuan Shen, “You dare to come with your Yuan Shen? How generous! Let me devour you and grow stronger with your essence as my nutrients!”

  Zhong Yue’s mortal body sat unmovingly in front of the mirror. His three divine eyes all opened and stared right at the mirror where all the weaknesses and flaws in the golden cicada celestial were laid bare.

  Inside of the divine weapon, his True Spirit Yuan Shen clashed with the golden cicada celestial being.

  “ 【Golden Cicada First Form】 !" The golden cicada gave a loud whistle, its body morphed into a huge golden cicada with two huge claw-like front legs that slashed unceasingly on Zhong Yue’s True Spirit.

  Zhong Yue’s Fuxi True Spirit slithered around as his hands made a slew of hand seals that cast out the dragons like shears.

  It was the 【Dragon Shears】 !

  The seal-breaking art created by Feng Xiaozhong!

  Ka-cha, ka-cha—

  The two claw-like front legs of the golden cicada were sheared into pieces. The【Dragon Shears】was an art created to strike the flaws and break the opponent. And thanks to the scale mirror, it wasn’t hard for Zhong Yue to perceive the golden cicada celestial being’s flaws and weaknesses!

  “ 【Golden Cicada Second Form】 !" The golden cicada shouted, and its shell fell from from its body. Wings spread out on its back and it flew up into mid-air, striking its mouth down like spears on Zhong Yue’s True Spirit!

  “Brat, I still have up to nine different forms!" The insect god’s mark laughed nefariously as it said.

  Zhong Yue coldly scoffed, he had already understood the structures of the insect god’s mark. Suddenly, the 【Celestial Demon Tai Chi Art】turned out and shrouded the golden cicada celestial being in it. Immediately, the demonic arcane energy within the area was sucked away and dispersed into the surrounding as the celestial arcane energy while the Yin and Yang Qi formed into the【Dragon Shears】and struck on the golden cicada celestial being.

  “You won’t the chance anymore!" A cold and frigid voice came from the young man.

  The golden cicada celestial being was stunned, not moving even a single muscle. Then, a second later, it shattered into endless motes of scattered totem patterns. Billowing energy exploded into the surroundings like a raging ocean. And in the middle of the energy ocean was the blood of the insect god coalescing together, trying to reform into the insect god’s mark again.

  Zhong Yue’s Fuxi True Spirit yelled loudly and slammed his hand down. A huge【Celestial Demon Tai Chi Art】fell from the top and suppressed the whole energy ocean away. The insect god’s blood was clenched in his hand and pressured into a ball of blood.

  His True Spirit flashed out from the insect divine weapon and brought it out.

  Immediately as the blood ball was brought out from the divine weapon, it started squirming even more violent, trying to fly away.

  “Hmm? The blood ball is still moving, it’s trying to fly away… it can sense its owner!" Zhong Yue’s face changed, he mumbled softly, “Seems like the insect gods really survived and are very close to the Ancestral Star already!”

  He waved his hand and sent the insect god’s blood into the secret realm inside of Swords Gate Mountain, sprinkling the blood into the divine herb’s garden.

  The blood had not much use for him anymore, but it could still serve as a highly nutritious fertilizer to the divine herbs. With the blood, the divine herbs could grow faster.

  “That’s the first, now for the second!" Zhong Yue took out the second insect divine weapon, and with the same method, he erased the insect god’s mark in it.

  The insect divine weapons were purged of the insect god’s marks while he implanted his own Tai Chi mark into them.

  …

  Meanwhile, somewhere near the Celestial Fire Star, nearly a dozen insect gods and mother gods were flyin
g toward the Ancestral Star.

  There were twenty-four of them, but traveling across the galaxy was a long and tedious journey, requiring a huge amount of arcane energy. Before they left the devastated insect planet, they carried out a reproduction spree that took a great toll on their energy, leaving them all exhausted. Thus, during their way here, half of them were sacrificed to provide energy for the others. In the end, only four mother gods and another few insect gods were able to make it here.

  All of a sudden, an insect god’s face changed drastically, he shouted in shocked, “I lost connection with my Cicada Wing Divine Saber!”

  “What sort of existence can wipe away your mark?" A mother god’s face changed drastically as she asked.

  “Him!" A hologram was shot out from the insect god’s eyes and showed Zhong Yue’s image and his Fuxi True Spirit Yuan Shen.

  “Him?" The insect gods and mother gods exchanged a look. One of the mother gods asked, “This human… he was been on the insect planet, but was just a Heavenly Dharma Qi Practitioner. How can he possibly wipe away your mark and refine your divine weapon?”

  “I don’t know." The insect god answered, “I can only sense him, but I cannot understand what methods he used. But if this brat can refine my divine weapon, then he can do the same to yours. Why don’t we combine our strength and recall our divine weapons?”

  The other gods nodded and they focused their senses on their divine weapons. Moments later, a mother god shook her head and said, “It’s still too far away. We can only vaguely sense where our divine weapons are, but we still have to get closer to the Ancestral Star to summon them back!”

  “Quick, quick!" The insect gods and mother gods mustered up their strength and bolted toward the Ancestral Star. Soon after, another insect god’s face changed drastically, he shouted in shock, “My divine weapon, I’ve lost my connection to it!”

  “Not good, mine too!”

  ……

  Every few seconds, there would be an insect god whose connection with their divine weapon was severed. They didn’t even travel far before all of the insect gods and mother insects already lost their links with their respective weapons!

  Furthermore, the marks in the divine weapons revealed to them a final image dispersed — Zhong Yue!

  “Who is he! Is he a god?! How can he wiped away our marks in the divine weapons in such a short time! How terrifying?" An insect god exclaimed in shock.

  ……

  “He escaped the insect planet, which can only mean that he was some extraordinary means with which he can protect himself. Now, he wiped away our marks, proving his terrifying strength. We need to avoid running into him as much as possible, we can’t get too close to him in the Ancestral Star…”

  “Agreed.”

  “The insect planet is sealed by the frozen ice and our children are in dormancy, even the High Mother Si Ming is missing. We are the only hopes left. Thus, we have to be incredibly cautious. Mark this human’s position so that we can avoid it while we attack other places.”

  The insect gods and mother gods gathered up and discussed their landing point. Soon after, they reached an agreement to descend on the southern region of the Ancestral Star; it was the spot that was furthest from humanity, and the forces stationed there were relatively weaker.

  During the rest of their journey to the Ancestral Star, another two insect gods were sacrificed as sustenance, leaving only four mother insects and six insect gods.

  Sometime during the fourth month of the year, ten red streaks of light drew beautiful arcs across the sky before finally impacting into the South Barren.

  Four mother gods planted their tentacles into the ground and started siphoning away the energy of heaven and earth. Batches and batches of insect eggs were lain on the ground and in a few moments, their number had already ballooned to the thousands.

  The insect gods and mother gods had finally arrived at their destination.

  Chapter 550: We Come In Peace |

  “Strange, why did they go for the South Barren?" Deep inside an inhospitable forest in the monster race, a beautiful woman raised her head and watched the ten falling stars. Her eyes were filled with surprise as she mumbled, “The South Barren is the Zhong Li Celestial Race’s homebase, although Lord Xia’s spirit was sacrificed by Bi Xie Celestial Emperor, the Zhong Li Celestial Race still holds the Martial Divine Masters and their own gods. They are one of the hardest bones to bite on. Why did they choose South Barren instead of the Great Wilderness?

  “In stark contrast, the Great Wilderness is the weakest and easiest to take on. The other races have their own ultimate means to protect themselves, but the Great Wilderness belongs to the human race. Although they have many divine weapons, they don’t have any gods or any particularly powerful Qi Practitioners.”

  “Furthermore, that human brat of the Great Wilderness is the biggest enemy of our insect race!

  The beautiful woman gritted her teeth hard and she mumbled to herself in deep hatred, “He sabotaged my plans so many times. I conquered the Gu Diao Celestial Race perfectly without anyone suspecting it, but he just had to expose me! Not only that, but he is the one who destroyed the insect planet and nearly annihilated the insect race! He even dared to enslave our insect disciples and command them like his servants. He also stole our divine weapons and used it as his own! If it weren’t for the gods still searching for me, I would been gone to the Great Wilderness and killed him with my own hands already!”

  There was another god standing beside the beautiful woman, he had a small body and short limbs. He asked, “Mother Da Zhen, shall we go to the South Barren and reunite with them?”

  The beautiful woman was precisely the mother god Zhong Yue encountered in the Gu Diao Celestial Race. After her identity was exposed, she became wanted by the gods and was forced into hiding ever since.

  As for the insect god beside her, it was the possessed Yanmo He. She was the one who came to rescue him from his plight.

  “Yes, we will." Rays flashed across Mother Da Zhen’s eyes. She then sneered coldly, “They chose the wrong place to land, by landing there, they will be faced with a blood battle soon. This will cause the Ancestral Star gods to take action. However, with the two of us joining in the fight, it will become a force of twelve gods. Even the Ancestral Star gods would have to reconsider their choices to go against us!”

  She led the insect god and flew toward the South Barren, “With enough power, we will be able to initiate a round of negotiation. What can’t be achieve with blood and metal might be done through words!”

  The insect god was puzzled, he asked, “Mother, you mean…”

  “Negotiate with the Ancestral Star gods, a godly war will be avoided in return for a piece of land for the insect race." Mother Da Zhen laughed smugly, “Also, they will have to hand Zhong Yue over to us! The Ancestral Star races stand on their own, only when we wage war against them will they cooperate and rise against us.

  “if we initiate negotiations with them, their inherently different agendas will serve to put us on the advantage. In order to ensure their own interests and benefits, they will not hesitate in selling away their tentative allies. I been here for so many years, I understand very well their greed and self-serving nature!”

  The insect god exclaimed in shock, “Would they really hand Zhong Yue over to us? Would they really willing to hand us a piece of land?”

  Mother Da Zhen smiled back, “Fight with us, the gods die and some of the races might even be completely annihilated. Under this threat, I assure you that Zhong Yue will only seem like a minor concession in their minds.

  “Furthermore, after Zhong Yue is forced out of Swords Gate, they will immediately pounce on Swords Gate and plunder all the wealth from the Great Wilderness like a pack of hungry wolves. I seen way too many incidents like this happening in the Ancestral Star.”

  …

  Soon after, the two reached the South Barren and rendezvoused with the other insect and mother gods. Mother Da Zh
en met with the other four mother gods and they had a small discussion. Mother Da Zhen was then appointed the leader of the twelve gods. The first order she gave was to pass a message to the Ancestral Star, “The insect race is here to seek peace!”

  “The twelve gods are here to seek refuge, we are here for a place to live, a place to settle in, not to fight for the Ancestral Star! We come in peace!”

  “We have no intention to wage war with any one of you, we are willing to live in harmony. We are here to negotiate and resolve the long-standing disputes between us all!”

  The message caused the world erupt in a clamor.

  The ten falling stars immediately attracted the attention of the forces in Ancestral Star. The many races sent out scouts to gather information. After all, the ten suns in the Ancestral Star had already tossed the Ancestral Star into a precarious state, with many races in a state of tension.

  This time, when the ten falling stars appeared, the Ancestral Star races thought it would be another ten innate spirit bodies that were emerging. The closest to the falling stars was the South Barren Zhong Li Celestial Race, they were also the first to reach the crashing site.

  When the Zhong Li Celestial Race scouts reached the crashing site, they were all eaten away by the insect gods. The missing scouts raised the attention of the Zhong Li Celestial Race’s Martial Divine Master.

  Before the insect gods and mother gods made a move, the Martial Divine Master had already found out about their arrival and gathered all of the gods in the Ancestral Star.

  Right away, the Ancestral Star gods came together in the Xiao Mang Celestial Race supreme temple in discussion.

  But before the Ancestral Star gods were able to come out with a solution, the insect gods told the world that they weren’t here for a fight, but for peace. That they were willing to sit down and talk with the many races.

  Of course, one who believed that the insect race was here in peace would either be a naive child or a pure idiot. But the fact that the insect race had no intention for a fight still came as a huge surprise to the Ancestral Star. After all, the insect race was a bloodthirsty race, they killed and ate everything with utter disregard, including their own.