Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  “Where is the Abyss?” Zhong Yue suddenly asked.

  “There!” The officer pointed at a glimmering pathway that led to a hole of darkness. The dark hole could absorb all light, and if it weren’t for the totem patterns that were glimmering faintly around it, one couldn’t even tell it existed at all.

  “Although we are treated like kings here, we are not real Hell Overseers. The longer we stay, the higher the risk of exposure.” Zhong Yue conducted his voice to Qiu Jin’er through his psyche, and he said, “We will rescue the man Bi and An requested, and leave right away after that!”

  Chapter 637: The Abyss |

  Qiu Jin’er nodded. Other than the godly spirits, she tried nearly every delicacy available in Hell. She even plundered and stored tonnes of food in her Yuan Shen secret realms.

  However, even the food she stored fell victim to her as she couldn’t really stop her mouth from munching. Thus, she could only keep asking for more food from the officers.

  As a result, her liking for food was now widely known throughout Hell. All kinds of delicacies were served for her, some even cooked their mounts just to please the gluttonous Hell Overseer.

  Qiu Jin’er had so much fun and nearly forgot the fact that she was a fake Hell Overseer.

  Some of the Hell guardians had even killed their beloved mounts just to please me. If I am revealed to be a fake Hell Overseer, they will definitely not let me go easily. Senior martial brother is right, we need to leave as soon as possible!

  After they rescue the ‘bad guy’ Bi and An requested for, their trip to Hell would be completed, and they would be able to leave by then.

  Rays flashed across his eyes, he asked one of the officers to summon Lan Si God, then he asked, “Is the demon god that devoured millions of souls still here?”

  As the Hell Overseers’ first and only follower, Lan Si God proclaimed himself as Zhong Yue and Qiu Jin’er cronies, and was thus well-treated by the other Hell guardians.

  Upon hearing Zhong Yue, Lan Si God quickly took out the demon god’s soul as he answered humbly, “Here.”

  Zhong Yue nodded, “I will personally see the sinner into the Abyss and imprison him for eternity!”

  The Hell officer immediately laughed, “Such a small matter, there’s no need to trouble the great emissary! The brothers can do it for you, dear emissary.”

  Zhong Yue lightly shook his head, an expression like a smile radiated across his face and he asked, “Oh? Do you really think so?”

  The Hell officer was puzzled, he was just simply flattering Zhong Yue, but who knew Zhong Yue would retort sternly.

  Zhong Yue gave a cold hum, “How do you think I should return to the higher-ups without any achievements? Prosecuting and sentencing this demon god to the Abyss is the meritorious service I have prepared for myself. If you or your brothers are the ones that did it, then is this your meritorious service or mine?”

  Cold sweat burst out of the Hell officer’s forehead, he shivered in fear and abruptly, he said, “Then, let the humble one lead the way for the great emissaries.”

  “Well then, do your job.” Zhong Yue nodded. The Hell officer immediately walked to the front and lead the way. Zhong Yue looked back, Lan Si God was still boasting with the Hell guardians on the A’Bi City wall, even gladly accepting every gift from the officers.

  After Jin’er and I left, Lan Si God will definitely be skinned and tortured by the guardians. But whatever, Lan Si is not a good man either.

  Not long after, they reached the front of the Abyss. There, it felt like they had walked into another dimension.

  The Six Paths World and Hell shared the same space but a different dimension with different laws of heaven and earth.

  And now, Zhong Yue and Qiu Jin’er felt the same change of atmosphere when walking closer to the Abyss. It felt as though the laws of heaven and earth were fading away, everything around was dead and withered.

  “This feeling… It felt the same as the one that shrouded the Ancestral Star!” Xin Huo exclaimed in shock.

  Zhong Yue thought, and surely enough, it was the same feeling that was brewing in the Ancestral Star.

  However, it was much more extreme here compared to the Ancestral Star. After all, gods weren’t suppressed in the Ancestral Star, whereas in here, even Deity Emperors would be wholly suppressed.

  “The Abyss required a key to open, if there wasn’t anyone leading the way, even the emissaries might not be able to find the way in.” The Hell officer smiled and said as he opened the Abyss.

  Zhong Yue looked over and pondered deeply at the totem patterns engraved on the Gate of Abyss. The totem patterns were incredibly complex and were even incessantly changing with every second. Even the Hell officer, who was a Heavenly Deity, was panting while unlocking the gate.

  If this can unlock the seals on the Abyss, it might also clear the seals placed on the Ancestral Star.

  Zhong Yue thought, rays flashed across his eyes and his divine eyes opened furtively as he stared at the changes of the totem patterns.

  It took one whole hour for the Hell officer to unlock the gate, Zhong Yue and Qiu Jin’er walked into the Abyss while the Hell officer was leading them in front.

  They glanced around and found themselves situated in the middle of a pitch black space. There wasn’t any referencing objects they could use to determine their positions. There were no lights or sounds; they couldn’t even hear their own footsteps or heartbeat.

  Silence.

  It was deathly silence.

  Qiu Jin’er couldn’t help but grip Zhong Yue’s hand tighter. The absolute silence in the Abyss could easily drive a person insane. To be trapped in a space with absolute no sensory stimuli was a fate worse than even the cruelest torture.

  However, those here were imprisoned for eternity until their souls withered away!

  But those that would be imprisoned here were all the strong and powerful figures, some had even cultivated the Six Paths Wheel and had a lifespan of over a hundred thousand years!

  “I’m sorry, I’ve forgotten that the emissaries couldn’t see in the Abyss. Please forgive me.” The Hell officer’s said with his psyche.

  He snapped his finger softly and a glimmering road appeared in front of them. It was a swirling staircase that led to the bottom of the Abyss.

  However, other than the road itself, everything else around was still pitch black and dead quiet. Even Zhong Yue’s divine eyes couldn’t see through the darkness in here.

  They walked down the stairs, and suddenly, a bright ray emerged in the darkness. It was a simple and crude prison cell built in the midst of darkness.

  Inside the cell, there was a god with a green face, long fangs and a hideous look squatting in front of a table. The center of the table was dug open, and another god’s head was placed through the hole.

  The god’s skull was opened by brute force, and his brain was still thumping vigorously.

  The green face god scooped a handful of the grey matter and brutally devoured it as its victim could only whimper in pain. Yet, no matter how loud he shouted, there wasn’t a single sound that could be heard on the outside.

  The green face god’s stomach was bloated like a mountain, but he still continued eating while the trapped god’s brain would continually regenerate itself back right after it was eaten.

  The green face god was eating while mumbling to himself, by the reading the shape of his lips, Zhong Yue could tell he was saying, “Why isn’t it ending yet?”

  “These two, one of them snuck into the imperial feast and stole food, while the other was the guard on patrol on the day of the feast.”

  In front of them, the Hell officer said, “The Realm Monarch had a feast for the officials, but they nearly ruined everything. Thus, the furious Realm Monarch condemned them to the Abyss. The gluttonous one shall never stop eating, and the one with dereliction of duty will suffer being eaten for eternity.”

  Zhong Yue furtively glanced at Qiu Jin’er and said with his psyche, “Look
at that!”

  Qiu Jin’er shuddered and instantly kept the snacks away from her hands.

  Further down the stairs, another a prison cell appeared in the midst of darkness. This time, inside the prison cell was a mountain made of sharp blades. The blades were rolling, twisting, swirling and swinging unceasingly at great speed.

  A god could be seen rolling down from the mountain top, lacerated by the blades on the way down, the flesh on his body viciously being cut out of him. After he rolled to the bottom of the mountain, the blade mountain would disappear and rise up again right below him, repeating the cycle anew.

  Every part of his body was covered in wounds and blood. Even some of its bones were exposed to the air. Yet, the god remained to be well alive.

  “This is a god who had an extreme lust of blood. Relying on the Immortal Body he cultivated, he has always been charging into gory fights. As a result, he lost control one day and killed the son of the South Heaven King, a talented young man from an honorable family. He would’ve be able to walk away scott-free if it were someone else, but that day, he made the wrong enemy. Thus, he is condemned to suffer in pain and agony for eternally while being kept alive by his Immortal Body.”

  As the Hell officer explained, Qiu Jin’er glanced furtively at Zhong Yue and said, “Senior martial brother, you’ve also cultivated the Immortal Body.”

  “Jin’er, aren’t you the same?” Zhong Yue shuddered in cold, but retorted back calmly.

  “But I am not fond of battle.” Qiu Jin’er smiled.

  They continued further down and saw another prison cell. It was a male god that was imprisoned here, but he was clamped on a chair and was giving birth to one baby after another. However, the babies would die right after their arrival in this world.

  “This one had an affair with the mistress of an unspoken existence. At the end, the mistress bore his child and the unspoken existence’s anger brought him here. He is punished to forever give birth to stillborn babies.”

  The further down they went in the Abyss, the more cells they saw, and no prison cell had the same punishment as the others. The gods imprisoned here had committed different sins and were tormented in different ways. However, most of them were just here because they happened to offend powerful figures.

  For thousands of prison cells they saw, only a few of those who committed truly heinous crimes, one of whom was the demon god they were going to imprison here.

  Zhong Yue was puzzled by the phenomenon and the Hell officer answered with a smile, “Those that are truly sinful are kept in the deepest region. That is the only place that can suppress them. However…”

  The Hell officer suddenly shuddered in cold as he continued, “It’s better if we stay away from there! Although the prisoners are secured, the Abyss can’t exactly impose any torment to them due to their overpowering strength.”

  Zhong Yue smiled, he replied nonchalantly, “Since we are already here in the Abyss, it’d be a shame if we left without visiting them. Lead the way.”

  The Hell officer had no choice but to lead the way.

  As they went deeper, the ambiance grew heavier. An unknown force was brewing in the atmosphere, posing a great pressure to their souls; it was so strong that they felt crushed.

  Suddenly, a faint light emerged in the total darkness, there was even the sounds of snoring that penetrated through the prison cell.

  Zhong Yue and the others walked closer to have a clearer look. Inside of the prison cell was a god shining with golden rays, he was sleeping on his side and the snores alone were shuddering the prison cell.

  Whereas around the giant god, there were some fragmented suns burning with flames surrounding him in the center.

  “This is a vicious god, the judges planned to burn into ashes but he had crushed all the suns in one strike. Countless officers and guards died in his hands, even the judges and Hell Emperor couldn’t do anything to him. In the end, he is left here to slowly die of old age.”

  The Hell officer lowered his voice as he said, “He was said to have been slumbering for over tens of thousands if years. As for his sin, he had broken the laws of Heaven!”

  Then, the next prison cell they have encountered imprisoned another god. Zhong Yue jumped in shock and found the god to be an ape-like god with white hair—it was the exact same monster emperor that tried to snatch the Six Paths Paragon!

  Chapter 638: Bad Guy |

  “We have identified where he came from; he is a monster emperor from the Myriad Realm, the Monster Emperor Yuan Qi.”

  The Hell officer said, “The Hell Emperor sent his soul here to prevent his body and soul merging back together. Since once this happens, his power will be far too great to put down again. Now, his body is being sealed underneath the Sea of Oblivion and is being placed under the watch of Hell Emperor himself.”

  Zhong Yue nodded while the Monster Emperor Yuan Qi placed his hands behind his back and stared coldly at them behind the bars as they walked past his cage.

  “Senior martial brother, his body is so strong, why doesn't he just charge straight into Hell to get the Book of Life and Death?” Qiu Jin’er secretly asked through mental transmissions.

  Zhong Yue shook his head and replied, “Even if he did, his body will end up being suppressed as well. On top of Hell, there is still the heaven.”

  He then said again, “He was smart enough to sneak in here with his soul and attempt to steal the book away instead of taking it by force. After he was exposed, he only carried out his last option, which is to take the book by force. However, the truth is that even if the Hell Emperor did not stop him, he would not have succeeded either since there were more experts around that could stop him. The depth of the Hell’s power is indiscernible and so is the Heaven’s. Have you ever thought of who actually created the Abyss that imprisoned so many crazily strong people here?”

  Goosebumps crawled all over Qiu Jin’er’s body as a cold traveled down her spine. Zhong Yue said, “The creator of the Abyss was not even a match for the creator of the Six Path Wheel, there are still many secrets that we have yet to see.”

  Just like Zhong Yue said, Monster Emperor Yuan Qi had only one choice, which was to steal the book away as robbing it was bound to fail.

  The further down the road, the stronger the prisoners being suppressed; some of them were so strong that even the cells could not completely lock them in; their aura and presence were leaking out from their cells, and even so, Zhong Yue and the others were being pressured heavily by these auras.

  However, some of them were already dead; they had been locked up for god knew how long. What remained of them were just their bones, but an overwhelming aura still lurked around their remains.

  These remains were left unattended and it seemed like even after their deaths, no one dared to enter the cells to clean up.

  “Are there any comrades in arms?”

  Suddenly, an eerie voice came from the dark saying over and over again, “Any friends that are still alive? Let’s team up, break free and suppress this prison!”

  Upon hearing this voice, Zhong Yue had a scare and so did the Hell officer who said tremblingly, “Thank god these guys couldn't break free from the seals or chaos would have descended upon the entire hell! Emissaries, are we still going to go any further into the prison?”

  “There are not many chances for us to come here, of course I would want to continue.” replied Zhong Yue with a smile.

  Up until now, they had been walking for quite some time and ran into various evil and malicious characters but not even a single guard, which was quite strange for Zhong Yue.

  Zhong Yue raised this up with the Hell officer who replied, “It is not required. Each and every one of those things locked here is an extremely terrifying person. What can ordinary prison guards do about them when even judges can’t do anything as they would be killed as soon as they walk into this place.”

  Not long after, they walked past another few cells where those in it were so powerful beyond Zh
ong Yue’s comprehension; these people were still awake and they were communicating with each other on the way to break out of this prison.

  “I will slaughter everyone in hell upon getting out of here!”

  An old monster with long white hair trembled as he reached his climax, and he said to himself, “I will start from A’Bi City，then Serene Darkness City, killing everything that moves, eating every soul that exists! Then, I will carry on with my onslaught from the Bridge of Helplessness, to the Heavenly River, the South Heaven Gate, and all the way into Heaven! I will crush the Heaven officers the Realm Monarch! No no no! I will lock him up and rape his women in front of him! Then, I will rape with his mother! Hahahaha!”

  These guys… they have lost their mind after being imprisoned here for so long…

  Zhong Yue shook his head and thought, I wonder if the man with the words “I am a bad guy” on his face is also insane. If he has gone insane, then trying to save him might get quite dangerous!

  Suddenly, Xin Huo said, “Brat Yue, there is something horrifying right ahead! Its presence feels just like a Creator’s!”

  “A Creator?”

  Zhong Yue was moved tremendously as there was actually a Creator being locked up in this place!?

  In the next second, he too, felt this horrifying presence that felt similar to Bo Xun’s, the presence of a Creator!

  There really was a Creator being locked here!

  After a moment, a cell which was completely different to the other cells emerged from the darkness. Unlike the other prison cells that seemed empty and barren, this cell had a complete day and night cycle, clouds, mountains, green lush fields, animals and even dragons and phoenixes.

  The sunlight was very warm and it was also replete with living creatures; they have built up their own civilization, temples, statues and everything appeared to be just like a whole new world.

  Creators created worlds, gave birth to countless living beings, gave them lives and from what Zhong Yue saw, this Creator locked here obviously created this world out of boredom to entertain himself.