Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  The discussions of the Realm Monarchs were no longer just about the arts and techniques but correlated deeply to the many Dao in the universe. Some were even unknown to Zhong Yue, and he was forced to fully focus on memorizing and understanding their words!

  Not only that, the Realm Monarchs even started talking about the profundity of the Dao they have each attained. The direct explanation to the different Dao exceeded Zhong Yue’s limit and he quickly grew another few more heads to aid him in understanding the abstrusities.

  The Yin Yang Lines drowned him within, helping him accelerate his attainments but often times before he could grasp anything much from the previous thoughts, the Realm Monarchs would’ve brought out another point of view again.

  Although he could barely follow up their thoughts, the benefits it brought were unimaginable. His cultivation was skyrocketing, his attainments were escalating rapidly, and his foundation grew much sturdier than he could imagine!

  If one thought about it, what kind of fortune could be on par with the opportunity of listening to 3,000 Realm Monarchs exchanging their thoughts together?

  As when Zhong Yue was madly trying to catch up to the Realm Monarchs, Heavenly King Fu led Heavenly King Shang and Shi Yinji to the outside of the Heavenly Cloud Violet Golden Pavilion. They looked over and found at the side of the walls, there were many Deity Emperors eavesdropping behind the walls, and some were even peeking into the hall.

  Shi Yinji frowned, these Deity Emperors had occupied every single available spot, there was no place for them to fit in anymore.

  To that, Heavenly King Fu laughed, “Don’t worry, I’ve already reserved a good spot for us. Brother Shang, princess, this way, please. This is the best spot in town, just right beside the doors. Not only that we can clearly hear the Realm Monarchs’ discussions, but we can even look into the hall and witness the marvelous skills. As long as we don’t stare at the Realm Monarchs, they wouldn’t care at all.”

  Heavenly King Shang praised, “Brother Fu is really amazing, you even secured such a good spot!”

  Heavenly King Fu lamented in return, “Brother Shang, you only saw me being able to reserve this place for us, but little did you know how many treasures I’ve given out to make it happen!”

  Heavenly King Shang immediately understood him and laughed back, “Brother Fu, don’t worry, I will surely repay your good deeds!”

  The three squeezed to the side of the doors and sure enough, they could hear the Realm Monarchs clearer than the others. They then peeked into the hall and was dazed by the marvelous skills cast out by the Realm Monarchs.

  “Just listening to them talking would be worth everything we have ever achieved… Wait, the one sitting on that putuan looks familiar…”

  Heavenly King Shang, Heavenly King Fu, and Shi Yinji stared blankly at one of the putuans in the hall. There, it sat a young human boy who wasn’t even a god yet still able to sit on the same level as the Realm Monarchs.

  “How is he here?” Shi Yinji exclaimed in shock.

  Whereas Heavenly King Shang was dawned, “No wonder I didn’t see him following us. He has his own ways to enter the hall and sit together with the Realm Monarchs. That’s way better than us eavesdropping behind the doors.”

  Meanwhile Heavenly King Fu regretted greatly for looking down on Zhong Yue before this, he thought to himself, No matter what now, I will deliver my daughter to his room tonight, and I might just be able to gain his forgiveness !

  Chapter 728: Tugging The Sapling |

  To these Realm Monarchs, grand events like this was merely a gathering for them after not seeing each other for so many years, a gathering for them to exchange their thoughts on cultivation, it was neither a competition to decide who was stronger and weaker nor to share their ultimate arts selflessly. They were merely here to exchange their unexpected gains or some other less significant ideas.

  After all, they were not as close as they seemed, some were even hostile towards each other so it was natural that none of them would be so selfless so as to share their killer moves.

  But even if it were just a small talk, it was more than enough for the Qi Practitioners and the other gods to benefit greatly.

  And now, the one who gained the most was Zhong Yue; as he sat there and listened to what the Realm Monarchs talked, it was just like these Realm Monarchs were specifically here to teach him and this was a chance that would never come by again!

  However, he too, realized that these Realm Monarchs did not really mea what they said. As his cultivation level surged, his cultivation level lost control and it just increased in a very wild pace!

  This is bad! Things are getting out of hand!

  Upon realizing this, Zhong Yue knew exactly the purpose for why did they do this; after witnessing his strength, some of these Realm Monarchs felt that he had become a great threat to the Qi Practitioners of their respective worlds, thus, they secretly laid down this trap!

  However, instead of laying down traps that would hinder Zhong Yue’s cultivation, they took this chance to tremendously speed up Zhong Yue’s cultivation level!

  And to the likes of these Realm Monarchs, it was nothing more than just a flip of hand if they wanted to destroy a junior’s cultivation level or his Dao’s attainment. Sometimes, apart from directly decimating them, another way to destroy one person was to crazily speed up their cultivation level.

  That was because if their cultivation level was increased tremendously in a short time, their foundation would become unstable; Zhong Yue only recently advanced into Imminent Deity level, with that, whether it be his cultivation level, reforgement of his Yuan Shen, psyche and bloodline, they did not experience any systematic cultivation.

  And if he recklessly advanced into the deityhood, cultivating the Pure Yang Yuan Shen, his Dao base and the overall foundation would become severely crippled. If that happened, no matter how hard he cultivated in the future, his achievements would be greatly limited.

  Thus, without the base of his Imminent Deity level’s base completely stabilized, he would not recklessly advance into the next level. However, in order to do so, a huge amount of hard work must be pumped into cultivating and even so, he might still miss out some parts.

  Aside from that, this upcoming great competition only allowed those below the level of a god to enter and if Zhong Yue ascended into a god, he would naturally be disqualified from the battle.

  With that, a formidable foe in the competition was removed.

  This was completely tugging the sapling to help it grow; though the sapling grew taller after being tugged, the roots were already damaged and the base of the sapling was already spoilt.

  Zhong Yue had demonstrated overly outstanding performance; his avatar was close as the level of Heavenly Deity and this had greatly threatened the Qi Practitioners from the other Six Paths Worlds, thus, making these Realm Monarchs become hostile to him.

  Their actions are so secretive and silent. I almost couldn’t tell it.

  Cold sweat dripped out from his forehead; there were just too many Realm Monarchs in Lesser Saint Heaven Realm, as they spoke, their voices resonated at the same time, ultimately making it impossible for Zhong Yue to identify who was the one that tried to harm him. Perhaps, it was not just one but a few of them or even hundreds of them!

  Or he wouldn’t had his cultivation level increased that uncontrollably just like that!

  Right now, his cultivation level experienced an extreme hike to an extent where he could no longer halt it!

  So evil!

  Zhong Yue forcefully suppressed his cultivation but many of the Realm Monarchs were talking about the way of Pure Yang Yuan Shen and this caused his Yuan Shen to cultivate the Yin-oriented soul to slowly turn into the Pure Yang state!

  At this rate, it was only a matter of time until he failed to suppress himself and cultivated into Pure Yang Yuan Shen and irreparably damange his Dao base!

  And that was after Xin Huo improved the strength of his body by three times; if X
in Huo hadn’t done that, Zhong Yue might have already became a god by now!

  But there was nothing he could do against the Dao voices! With their outstanding strength, the Realm Monarchs’ voices transmitted right into his brain and things were not going to end well if he advanced his level right now!

  Suddenly, among the Dao voices, a steady and thick voice rang in his mind as it trembled vigorously.

  Zhong Yue immediately felt his power trembling; hidden within this particular Dao voice was the art of how to refine his energy, purify and reforge them.

  Right away, the pressure on Zhong Yue lessened as the rampaging energy surging within him calmed down and his energy gradually purified.

  Is this Realm Monarch Yunshan? He must have realized the dire situation I was in and secretly helped me out.

  However, at the same time, another voice sounded and this time, it talked about the techniques of refining his psyche, which triggered a scene where heavenly flowers rained down from the skies in his psyche ocean while it refined the golden lighting liquid in his psyche ocean and lessened his burden furthermore.

  Who is this?

  Zhong Yue was stunned as he never knew that there would be any other Realm Monarchs that were willing to help him.

  …

  Besides, there were no reason for them to help him; the Realm Monarch Yun Shan helped him because he was a contestant in the upcoming ranking battle and the Realm Monarch did not wish that his contestants to lose for it would only embarrass him.

  So why did this other person help him?

  It was already good enough that they did not take the chance to push him further into the abyss already, not to mention even helping him.

  Again, this Dao voice was mixed among the other Dao voices, which prevented Zhong Yue from identifying who it was.

  Then, another third voice sounded out. This time, it talked about the secrets of cultivating Innate True Spirit and helped Zhong Yue to reforge his Innate True Spirit!

  Then came the forth voice, telling him how to purify his bloodline and build up his Qi.

  The fifth came, teaching him the art of Extreme Weapons and the secrets of nurturing the Extreme Weapons with his Yuan Shen and refine the Extreme Weapons with his own Dao.

  The sixth came soon after, transmitting the art of strengthening body; though not as strong as Xin Huo’s [Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace Scripture], it was already more than amazing and much superior as compared to the [Sun Moon Prodigious Emanation Art].

  The seventh Dao voice taught him how to level his Yuan Shen.

  The eight talked about the cultivation of the Secret Realms of Six Path Reincarnations.

  The ninth was taught him how to cultivate the Dao totem patterns.

  The tenth transmitted the art of merging Imminent Deity level’s technique and Extreme Weapons.

  ….

  As these Dao voices rang, his cultivation level stabilized under their help and his cultivation level increased gradually!

  Zhong Yue looked around but failed to identify his benefactor.

  Humans were looked down upon by the other races of all world; they were always at the bottom of the food chain and the insect race, which was the enemy of all races had a position much higher than humans. Hence, if these Realm Monarchs were just trying to please Goddess Shen Hou by helping him, they wouldn’t even bother hiding themselves but things were a little more interesting if they helped him secretly without exposing themselves.

  “Stop being a busybody. Focus on your cultivation and grab tight to this opportunity.”

  Suddenly, a voice sounded in his head, “My younger cousin from the Fuxi Clan, remember, you are not alone in this universe.”

  Cousin ? Zhong Yue’s heart thumped heavily and this time, he no longer looked around but cultivated silently with a warm heart. The Realm Monarch that secretly told him that he was not alone had obviously found out his identity and so took this chance to nurture him!

  Zhong Yue then threw aside every unnecessary thought and cultivated.

  While he cultivated, the Realm Monarchs around used his body as a battlefield; some of them tried to destroy him by forcefully push him into the next level, cultivating him into a god while some others helped him fortify his Yuan Shen and body, repeatedly refining his energy, psyche, spirit, Yuan Shen, Dao, soul weapon, secret realms and Qi.

  Among the many Realm Monarchs, Realm Monarch Bo Luo however, kept quiet without saying a word on what the other Realm Monarchs were doing.

  Time slowly passed and after a few days, Zhong Yue’s cultivation level had ascended to an extremely high level as his overall strength had come to a level that he had never achieved before!

  But even if he felt that he had reached his limit and that there was no more room for improvement unless he cultivated the Pure Yang Yuan Shen, his cultivation level would still be pushed forward even more when the voices of the Realm Monarchs surrounded him.

  And when he felt that it was just impossible to improve again, their voices would once again, help him get over the limit again without cultivating the Pure Yang Yuan Shen.

  In truth with the strength, experience and knowledge of these Realm Monarchs, the barrier and limit in Zhong Yue’s eyes were nothing more than dust.

  Suddenly, Realm Monarch Bo Luo opened his eyes, looked at Zhong Yue and said gently, “Little friend, you have already gained more than enough. Our reimbursement to you will stop right here and it’s time for you to leave.”

  The Dao voices of the Realm Monarchs vanished in an instant as he spoke while Zhong Yue got up, bowed at each and everyone of them and said, “Thank you for your generosity.”

  Realm Monarch Bo Luo waved his hand and said, “Now, leave us.”

  As he waved his hand, the dimension around Zhong Yue twisted and after a quick moment of losing balance, Zhong Yue opened up his eyes only to realize that he was back in his room.

  At the same time in the Heavenly Cloud Violet Golden Pavilion, Realm Monarch Bo Luo looked around and said, “Ladies and gentlemen, if you continued your fight recklessly, you will all end up creating the strongest Qi Practitioner ever in the 3,000 Six Path Worlds. This is just a little fight among ourselves and if you all cultivate him into the strongest Qi Practitioner ever, only Junior Martial Brother Yunshan will benefit.”

  Realm Monarch Yunshan bursted out laughing and he greeted and said, “Thank you, my dear martial brothers and sisters.”

  The faces of some Realm Monarchs did not look good at all; this was supposed to be an incident where they would have Zhong Yue destroyed indirectly but when some of them started helping Zhong Yue, it somehow turned into a little fight among themselves.

  Some wanted to crush Zhong Yue and some wanted to cultivate him properly. When they got angered by each other, they started hurling everything into Zhong Yue and in the end, the one in the middle of their dispute had received the most benefits!

  When they realized that they were starting to create a monster out of Zhong Yue, it was already too late as none of them were willing to let go and concede defeat, thus, escalating things even further and making Zhong Yue stronger and stronger.

  Chapter 729: Easy Targets To Bully On |

  Realm Monarch Bo Luo wasn’t wrong at all. If it continued, the Realm Monarchs would collectively forged Zhong Yue into the strongest Qi Practitioner of all worlds. Zhong Yue would turn invincible in the Qi Practitioner stage!

  No matter who stands in his way, no mere Qi Practitioners could stop him at all. After all, he was the Qi Practitioner who the Realm Monarchs have worked together to create, it was unparalleled by any other of his peers.

  But thankfully, Realm Monarch managed to stop them in time, or otherwise, they could just straightaway declare the Wei Shen Six Paths World as the strongest in this year’s of competition.

  However, Realm Monarch Bo Luo has his own decisions as well. He only wanted tacitly agreed the Realm Monarchs to boost Zhong Yue’s power as a compensation of the latter’s loss. But he never
expected the undertable contest between the Realm Monarchs has nearly made Zhong Yue into the strongest Qi Practitioner ever existed!

  His goal was to give Zhong Yue a certain limited amount of benefits, but the development of the incident has clearly went out of his control.

  Not all Realm Monarchs were cool and harmonious with one another. Some of them were in bad terms with some others and Zhong Yue’s appearance gave them the chance to showcase their powers to one another; which was out of Realm Monarch Bo Luo’s expectation.

  Before then, he was also planning to aid Zhong Yue in the unseeable change of bout between the Realm Monarchs. But when he noticed some of the Realm Monarchs getting involved and helped Zhong Yue, he decided to hold back and watched as the Realm Monarchs compete.

  He has been benefited more than I planned to give him, what a lucky boy. Realm Monarch Bo Luo thought.

  Even after Zhong Yue was sent back to his room, he still felt unreal as if everything was just a beautiful dream he had last night. Without anticipating anything at all, he was given the chance to listen to the Realm Monarchs’ discussions, and somewhat unexpectedly turned into a human battlefield that the Realm Monarchs competed in. Although some held nefarious intents of breaking his cultivation, it all ended up well and he became the biggest winner.

  Now, his cultivation base reached the peak of the Imminent Deity level, his arcane energy had no more room for improvements, and even his Extreme divine sabers were heavily refined.

  It only required for him to have a shift in thought, and he would be able to cultivate the Pure Yang Yuan Shen in an instant and ascend into the deityhood.

  However, after several considerations, Zhong Yue has decided to put his ascension on hold. Although it was beneficial to ascend into deityhood, there were still some shortcomings in his cultivation. If he had rashly rushed the ascension, it would still leave some flaws in his foundation.