Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  There was no other worse outcome than this!

  The tensed up Zhong Yue immediately wanted to leave and run as far as he could.

  Just one scale already possessed such fearsome power, if the owner used it himself, just imagine what he could see and how much more Zhong Yue could hide?

  Even if he cast aside everything, it was already suspicious enough that Zhong Yue had come from the Ancestral Star alone!

  The Ancestral Star was sealed off completely, meaning that leaving it should’ve been impossible. How did he manage to leave and how did he get here?

  If he were discovered, then the very sole loophole in the seals would be discovered as well. After that, it was only a matter of time before the Ancestral Star truly became an inescapable prison!

  It’s fine if I die, but the secrets on me must not be found out at any cost! Whether it be Xin Huo or the hole in the seals, I must hide them no matter the price I have to pay!

  Zhong Yue blinked his eyes and when he was about to leave, Heavenly King Shang looked at him and asked, “Lord Yue, what happened?”

  Heavenly King Fu’s expression changed slightly and he exclaimed, “Lord Yue?”

  “Lord Yue successfully ascended into the forty-ninth level in Pure Yang Lighting Tribulations and he won the favor of our Realm Monarch, thus, the title Lord Yue. This young man’s future is very bright!” replied Heavenly King Shang happily.

  Heavenly King Fu’s expression changed right away again and he felt bitter, This human had someone incredible behind him and he even manage to achieve something like that! And I just scolded someone with the potential of a Realm Monarch, and a Creator! This is bad….

  He was observant and opportunistic; he would be obsequious to the strong and denigrate the weak. Now, upon knowing Zhong Yue’s background and bright future, Heavenly King Fu’s attitude towards Zhong Yue changed completely.

  Zhong Yue, on the other hand, was as nervous as Heavenly King Fu as he wanted to leave right away but he couldn’t since Heavenly King Fu glued onto him in order to please him.

  Meanwhile in the Lesser Saint Heaven Realm, the many Realm Monarchs saw the scale that returned to Realm Monarch Dao Ming and they all praised and congratulated.

  “Realm Monarch Bo Luo, to be able to enter your eyes, this young man must be related to you in some way that you even gave him one of your scales. This young man is definitely one of your people,” said a Realm Monarch, “Why don’t you summon him here and let us take a look at this young man?”

  “Of course. I have something to ask him as well,” replied Realm Monarch Dao Ming.

  He was very puzzled; the Imperial Emperor and another few strong presences have made the Divine Tree of Knowledge and the Skymetrical Scroll, sealing the entire Ancestral Star’s dimension, heaven and earth so how did this young man manage to get out?

  Other than that, he even became a representative of the Wei Shen Six Paths World; something was not right for sure.

  “I will summon him now.”

  On the other side, after Zhong Yue and the others had settled down, Heavenly King Fu asked, “Brother Shang, I will take you to the Lesser Saint Heaven Realm now. Do you want to tag along, Princess Shi and Brother Zhong?”

  Shi Yinji’s eyes lit up immediately and she nodded right away while Zhong Yue shook as he left.

  Right now, Heavenly King Fu strongly regretted and he thought, I shouldn’t have offended him. Now, it’s hard to please him anymore. Whatever, the girls in my family are all pretty and gorgeous. I will gift them to him later.

  Then, Heavenly King Shang, Heavenly King Fu, and Shi Yinji left for the Lesser Saint Heaven Realm; but as the snake that he was, Heavenly King Fu did not bother to invite Ju Ying and the others along.

  Meanwhile, Zhong Yue immediately got out from the palace and immediately flew away from the Heaven Court without hesitation and he thought, Quick! I have to get out as fast as I can!

  He flew with lightning speed towards the outside but the Heaven Court in this world was just unbelievably huge, making it impossible to get out in such a short time.

  If there is a teleportal, I will be able to teleport away even if that place on the other side is extremely dangerous! Nowhere else can be more dangerous than this place now!

  As soon as he thought of this, his eyes lit up upon discovering a broken portal which was being fixed by many demons and gods through reforging the totem carving patterns.

  He immediately walked towards the teleportal and thought, It may be useless to others while broken but to me, I could just teleport away by replacing the totem carvings with mine.

  As soon as he charged right into the teleportal, his energy boiled and just as he completed the totem carvings, an enormous power descended from the skies.

  A light pillar struck onto him and Zhong Yue lost his balance right away but he couldn’t even do anything about it. When the enormous power faded, he regained his balance and he looked around, only to see a gigantic pillar standing at the end of the heaven and earth. This pillar was utterly astonishing and it supported the starry skies where the sun and moon hid among the stars.

  This was a huge palace, a palace where the sun, moon, and stars were imprinted at the top.

  Yet, this was not the most marvelous thing. The most amazing thing was the many gods and demons sitting in this palace; each and every one of them was extremely huge and when they sat around Zhong Yue, he felt that he was surrounded by planets. These gods and demons had colorful Dao totem patterns surrounding them, each in the form of dragons, serpents, insects, birds, phoenixes, fishes, mountains, stars, rivers and many more and they were all discussing and exchanging ideas on Dao.

  Realm Monarchs.

  These were the Realm Monarchs of the 3,000 worlds!

  To be exact, there were only 2,999 of them since with the original first Six Paths World being abandoned, there was no Realm Monarch to represent it.

  Zhong Yue’s mind went blank upon seeing this, but amidst the intense mighty aura, none of the aura of these Realm Monarchs harmed him and they merely felt saintly and majestic.

  Meanwhile, Xin Huo had already put on a muzzle on him; he went into slumber and dared not move at all. Apart from that, this little flame even went back to the weathered bronze lamp and shut himself in to prevent the senses of these Realm Monarchs from detecting him.

  There were just too many of them, each of whom was on the level of a Creator. It would be extremely hard to escape their detection. Hence, he had no other options but to hide himself inside the bronze lamp.

  “What a handsome and talented young man!”

  The many Realm Monarchs looked at Zhong Yue and in an instant, Zhong Yue felt immense pressure bearing down on him while his secrets were all laid barely in front of their eyes!

  His body creaked under the pressure before the Innate Golden Crow True Spirit and Innate Star Toad True Spirit emerged uncontrollably, each turning into the Golden Crow and Star Toad before transforming into the three-taloned golden celestial and three-legged six-eyed celestial being.

  With just a stare, he was forced to reveal his Yuan Shen. The scariest thing was that his Fuxi Yuan Shen was also in the brink of being forced out!

  If this happened, no matter how strong the person supporting him was or what he did, he would die for sure!

  At this time, a surprised voice was heard before a familiar voice sounded, “Oh? So it’s you, Lord Yue. Realm Monarch Bo Luo, never thought that the talented young man you spoke off was Lord Yue. No wonder, no wonder.”

  The pressure from the Realm Monarchs dispersed right away at this voice and when they looked around, they realized that this person who spoke was Realm Monarch Helian Yunshan from Wei Shen Six Paths World.

  He smiled gradually and said, “Realm Monarch Bo Luo is indeed very insightful. Lord Yue is the strongest contestant from my world. Though he is a human, his strength overwhelmingly outstripped the rest, which also includes my daughter. Besides, Lord Yue has an innate god guiding him from the
back. Initially, I was surprised by his strength, I am no longer surprised after knowing that an innate god and even Realm Monarch Bo Luo were fond of him.”

  “Innate god?”

  The Realm Monarchs were shocked and when they looked at Zhong Yue, their mind shifted away; this time in their eyes, Zhong Yue saw no more pressure while they said, “Ha! Your insight is impressive, Realm Monarch Bo Luo!

  Realm Monarch Bo Luo however, kept his cool from the praises he received and after they were done flattering him, he smirked and said gradually, “But there are still secrets in him, secrets that even I can’t detect.”

  He looked towards Zhong Yue who was about to relax and Zhong Yue felt immense pressure charging down on him again. This time, his Fuxi Yuan Shen could no longer be held back and it starting to emerge!

  Chapter 727: Fate |

  Realm Monarch Bo Luo’s eye sights were incredible, it was as if no secret could hide from his eyes; Zhong Yue even felt like he was shone on by the Fuxi Heavenly Monarch’s imperial sword.

  As Realm Monarch Bo Luo stared at him, Zhong Yue’s mortal body and blood essence boiled vigorously. Just seconds before he lost control of suppressing his Fuxi Yuan Shen, he gritted his teeth and gathered his psyche, ramming on the innate divine blood in his psyche ocean!

  Krong—

  A wave of godly aura burst out from his psyche ocean endlessly as if there were a galaxy contained in his psyche ocean, and was now exploding into the world. At the drop of a hat, a grand and imperial aura beyond the mortal’s reach suppressed the whole scene!

  The energy in the innate divine blood was triggered, and the illusion of a woman with a snake’s body appeared behind him. When she opened her eyes, all of the Realm Monarchs suddenly found themselves staring into a blank space white like snow and with tears rolling in their eyes—they were all blinded by the godly rays in her eyes!

  Zhong Yue has triggered the energy in Goddess Shen Hou’s divine blood.

  “Innate god!”

  “There is really an innate god!”

  The Realm Monarchs were stunned, their hearts pound in shock but their bodies acted immediately. They all stood up and bowed to greet Goddess Shen Hou’s illusion, even Realm Monarch Bo Luo who held a high prestige among the crowd was no exception to it.

  Although innate gods were also divided into different levels, and were all born naturally with the power of the Deity Overlords or even Deity Emperors, the innate god behind Zhong Yue was definitely not a newborn innate god, but one who had been through and witnessed eons of vicissitudes.

  It was just the illusion formed by the energy in her blood, yet it was powerful enough to infuse terror into the Realm Monarchs. If she had come herself, they couldn’t imagine just how terrifyingly strong she would be.

  Zhong Yue was also stunned. He triggered the Huaxu divine blood to infuse the Huaxu blood into his bloodline and assimilate his mortal body and Yuan Shen into one of the Huaxu Clan’s!

  If he could show himself as one of the eight sovereign races, the Huaxu Clan’s member, the Realm Monarchs would naturally let him off!

  However, that comes with great risk. That was if he has been assimilated into a Huaxu, it was still a doubtful question if he would be able to recultivate his mortal body and Fuxi Yuan Shen.

  But little did he expected that triggering the Huaxu innate godly blood would bring out Goddess Shen Hou’s illusion. It looks like the goddess was worried about his safety and thus left an illusion of herself hidden in the Huaxu divine blood that she gave him!

  “Goddess Shen Hou…” Zhong Yue heaved a breath of relief and finally eased his heart.

  Behind him, Goddess Shen Hou’s illusion didn’t return the formality, instead she slightly nodded her head as a form of acknowledgment. Her voice sounded incredibly far, as if it came from an unspeakably far distance, “I am in the Zi Wei Imperial Star now, meeting with the incumbent Heavenly Monarch. I won’t stay long, and so, I want you to understand that I can’t come over personally.”

  The Realm Monarchs were mind blown, the goddess was now in the Zi Wei Imperial Star, and was meeting with the current Heavenly Monarch?

  And most importantly, she used the word ‘meeting’!

  The word itself carried a small sense of a higher-level presence calling upon a lower-being for a talk. For the innate god to use such a word, does it mean that even the current Heavenly Monarch was situated at a lower position than her?

  Realm Monarch Bo Luo’s face changed slightly, he bowed and said, “We dare not hold up the goddess any second longer, please excuse us and return as your will.”

  Goddess Shen Hou’s illusion dispersed back into a ball of innate divine blood, and returned to Zhong Yue’s psyche ocean.

  Realm Monarch Bo Luo heaved a long breath, when he looked at Zhong Yue again, the invasive feeling in his eyes was no more and he stopped trying to see through Zhong Yue’s secrets. He mulled for a second, and said, “I see, no wonder our little friend can leave from that place. I have frightened you, and for that, you shall be compensated. Men, bring a putuan 1 for our little friend here to sit.”

  Immediately, the royal officers brought a huge putuan and placed it beside Zhong Yue.

  Zhong Yue looked up and found the putuan presented was of the same size to those the Realm Monarchs sat on. But the Realm Monarchs were incredible figures with humongous size like the planets, naturally the putuans they sit on were huge as well in order to fit their body sizes.

  And thus, even the putuan itself appeared to be extremely huge to Zhong Yue!

  Zhong Yue recollected his thoughts, he flew toward the huge putuan and settled in the center. Even after his body swayed and enlarged into 10 thousand feet tall, he still remained not much bigger than before.

  His body swayed again, enlarging himself into 100 thousand feet tall, but was still just tiny when compared to the humongous Realm Monarchs.

  Enlarging into the 100 thousand feet tall mortal body was already his limit, left with no choice, Zhong Yue could only settled down. He glanced around only to find himself like a midget situated in the midst of giants.

  However, the Realm Monarchs laughed and praised, “To be able to achieve such size, you are near to the Heavenly Deity level already.”

  “Little friend, be at ease. Just sit normally as the sizes don’t matter at all.”

  “So young and yet so talented, you’ve placed considerable pressure on the candidates of my Huo Shan Six Paths World. Realm Monarch Yunshan, you’ve found a good seedling. Seems like your Wei Shen Six Paths World will not be the last for much longer.”

  “You flatter me, my fellow Daoist.”

  …

  Zhong Yue eased himself. The putuan was so huge and prompted him to enlarge himself in order to fit its size. However, he didn’t do so to prove anything or please the Realm Monarchs, but to test out the depths of his own strength.

  Furthermore, if he didn’t show his power to satisfy the Realm Monarchs’ curiosity, they might just probe him in some other way that can potentially leave him exposed to extra risk.

  Thus, it would be wiser for him to reveal some of his true capabilities to avoid unnecessary troubles.

  But at the same time, his actions have led to Realm Monarch Yunshan’s dissatisfactions as the Realm Monarch didn’t want him to expose his power so soon before the competitions. After all, once Zhong Yue’s power was made known, the many Realm Monarchs here would surely instruct their candidates to be aware of him; thus, taking away the element of surprise.

  However, as the innate god backing Zhong Yue was revealed and heavily suppressed the Realm Monarchs, even Realm Monarch Yunshan couldn’t simply vent his anger on Zhong Yue anymore.

  Realm Monarch Bo Luo looked at Zhong Yue again, but this time, he was like an amiable elder as he said, “Granting you a seat among us, doesn’t mean you are qualified yet to sit as one of us. This is just a compensation to the disturbance we’ve brought to the goddess who supported you, the frightenings we’ve caused moments
ago, and the taking away my scale that was previously in your hands.”

  Zhong Yue nodded and thanked, “Thank you, Realm Monarch.”

  But to his shock, he only heard his voice lingering around him, it couldn’t even transmit out of the putuan.

  My voice couldn’t even transmit out of the putuan, the disparity of power between mine and the Realm Monarchs are like the heavens and earth!

  The hall was unspeakably huge, the Realm Monarchs and putuans were huge like planets. The distance between them was billions of feet away from one another. It looked close because the Realm Monarchs were huge.

  It was not an issue to the strong and powerful Realm Monarchs, their voice no longer transmits but it resonants with space around and reaches to the others directly. But although a prominent Qi Practitioner, Zhong Yue’s power couldn’t even send his voice out of the putuan.

  “Furthermore, fate somewhat brought you and me together.” Realm Monarch Bo Luo continued, “You knew nothing about it before, but the reason why I left you with one of my scales instead of collecting it back was that I appreciate you as a talent, especially when you visualize me.”

  Zhong Yue was puzzled, since when did he visualize Realm Monarch Bo Luo?

  Realm Monarch Yunshan laughed, “What are you waiting for? Quickly thank Realm Monarch Bo Luo!”

  Realm Monarch Bo Luo laughed as well, he didn’t explain further and said instead, “No need for that. He is still weak, even when he speaks, he couldn’t bring his voice to our senses. Just sit and listen quietly, it depends on yourself how much you can gain.”

  Zhong Yue nodded, he spaced out the myriad thoughts in his mind and calmed his heart, while he listened carefully at the Realm Monarchs’ discussions.

  The Realm Monarchs first started with little talks of catching up with one another, and shortly started exchanging their views and attainments in the path of cultivation and the discussions soon turned intense.

  Seconds into listening to the Realm Monarchs, Zhong Yue was stunned greatly. Their attainments and point of views were extremely unique and abstruse. Sometimes when words turned insufficient to depict their meanings, they would even cast the techniques on the spot.