Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  Such as although Zhong Yue had acquired the Innate Yi Qi from Dao Venerate Fu Min, he didn’t have any way to use it until he learned the [Fu Min Dao Venerate Heart Sutra Scripture] from Dao Venerate Fu Min, attaining the Dao of changes.

  It was only then that the Innate Yi Qi became part of his strength. It was only then that was he able to unleash its power.

  The same applied for the Innate Dao Fruit; only by attaining the Innate Dao contained within could one turn it into their own power and ultimately—their Dao.

  Zhong Yue increased his speed of refining the innate energy into his mortal body. His mortal body was in the Pure Yang state and was close to the innate state; with the innate energy flowing into his mortal body, the barrier between the Pure Yang and innate states were gradually thinning.

  Days flashed by, The Leizhe Clan’s old clan master and the other experts were all constantly monitoring on Zhong Yue’s cultivation progress. They were extremely worried at the start but their hearts eased once they saw him giving up the excessive innate energy out from his body.

  Unbeknownst to them, two months had gone by. Zhong Yue’s mortal body was now 180 thousand feet tall, the size of a Heavenly Deity’s Avatar. Up to this point, Zhong Yue no longer needed to release any innate energy out anymore as his mortal body was already strong enough to contain the energy bursting out of the Innate Dao Fruit.

  Then came another two months, Zhong Yue’s mortal body was now slowly but steadily shrinking, from 180 thousand feet two months ago to 120 thousand feet now.

  “Fuxi’s cultivation speed is truly amusing, he is even faster than the pureblood innate Leizhe!”

  Old clan master and the few Fuxi Clan’s reincarnated Leizhe presences praised from the bottom of their hearts.

  It wasn’t because his cultivation was deteriorating that his mortal body was shrinking, but in fact, it was quite the opposite!

  His mortal body was growing stronger, the energy pulsing across his muscles, the heart that beat vibrantly, and the energy that flowed through his veins. His mortal body had never been this strong before, to be able to contain and constrain the innate energy in a continually shrinking mortal body.

  A month went by and his mortal body stopped shrinking at 80 thousand feet tall.

  “Something feels odd…” The old presences in the Lei Zhe Continent glanced at Zhong Yue with puzzling faces, one of them mumbled, “He is trying to achieve something, but his progress has reached a bottleneck.”

  It felt just a fine line away from success, but the bottleneck that stopped him was seemingly insurmountable. No matter how vigorous the innate energy gushed endlessly at it, there was no progress at all.

  He still couldn’t achieve the innate mortal body.

  Suddenly, the old clan master said, “Friends, let’s lend him a hand. Shall we?”

  In the deepest region of the Lei Zhe Continent, old and hoarse voices rumbled in the sky, “Of course.”

  Right after that, waves of unimaginable forces energy erupted from the far end of the horizon. They billowed into Zhong Yue’s mortal body and forced it to shrink smaller.

  The hermit experts in the Lei Zhe Continent were mostly Creators. As they unleashed their arcane energy, godly rays painted the clouds and images of Lei Zhe lightning lochs and dragon gods filled the sky.

  But although his mortal body was shrinking, the arcane energy was also protecting it from shattering as well, just in case the innate energy in his mortal body erupt out of his body.

  The Leizhe experts!

  Zhong Yue immediately identified the timely help and realized that this was his best chance at succeeding. Almost instantly when the arcane energy surged into his mortal body, he started manically refining the innate energy into his mortal body.

  With the experts helping him, he would be able to better and faster refine the innate energy, allowing his mortal body to see further progress.

  After over ten days, a thousand voices sounded out within Zhong Yue’s mortal body and blinding lights glared out of his mortal body while his mortal body was vibrating a thousand times!

  The voices were the innate voices of Dao and the lights were the innate divine lights; whereas the surrounding had resonated with the vibrations and the trees around grew towering, the lotuses blooming everywhere, and golden water flowing out from the underground!

  The lights and voices dispersed the images in the sky. The only light above the Lei Zhe Continent was the innate lights coming from Zhong Yue’s mortal body, surging in the sky.

  The human eyes could recognize a few tens of colors; the Fuxi divine eye could see more, around two hundred; but the Leizhe Clan’s dragons could identify more than a thousand!

  The dragon gods surged out from the Lei Zhe Continent, they curled themselves on the clouds and glanced around, enjoying the spectacular scene before them.

  In the air, the dragons praised while Zhong Yue looked around. The fragrance of blooming flowers, the reflections of the golden waters, the innate lights above him, and the dragons surrounding him—all of these were giving him a hint of his success!

  The innate mortal body was finally achieved!

  Whereas at the same time, the Innate Dao Fruit was also fully refined into his attainments, the Innate Dao of Space was now part of his power.

  It was at this moment that the deep rumbles of thunder deafened their ears. The Leizhe dragons were bewildered and when they looked over, they saw a cluster of lightning forming out of the void.

  Being the Leizhe dragons, the manifestation of nature’s lightning, any play of lightning in front of them was nothing more than a mere child’s play.

  “It’s the tribulation.” However, the old clan master stiffened up his face and mumbled, “Our Fuxi cousin’s achievement of the innate mortal body has raised the notice of the Heavens. Whenever someone achieves something that steps beyond the tolerance of the Heavens, Heavenly Tribulation will befall them. It is also known as the Heaven’s Jealousy. But it’s strange, the innate mortal body isn’t something that should trigger Heavenly Tribulation…”

  The innate mortal body wasn’t unique to Zhong Yue, there were other Qi Practitioners or gods that had cultivated it. The Zi Wei Galaxy, with its ancient heritage, wasn’t short of such cultivators who were able to achieve this feat.

  Some had even cultivated the innate Yuan Shen, but not even that would trigger Heavenly Tribulation.

  Things that are able to attract Heaven’s ire would be feats that were unprecedented. They would usually be a new cultivation path or something that the world had never seen before. Even then, only the progenitors of those paths would face Heavenly Tribulation, not the ones that cultivated the same after them.

  And according to that rule, the innate mortal body was something that had existed for a long time. It would be absurd for him to trigger the Heaven Tribulation, yet it came!

  The lightning was brewed from the void, it was lightning that wasn’t under Leizhe Clan’s control. However, any kind of lightning tribulation in the Lei Zhe Continent would be a literal joke in front of these celestial dragons.

  “Don’t, leave it be,” the old clan master stopped the dragons that were on the brink of dispersing the lightning, he said, “Let him face this trial, as if he doesn’t, a greater tribulation will be waiting for him in his future, adding more troubles to his already predicament situation.”

  The Leizhe dragons then stopped and watched quietly as the Heaven Tribulation formed in the void. After a few moments, the lightning clouds then rolled over in waves and the rumble drowned out all other sounds. The Leizhe dragons mocked in laughters, “It isn’t anywhere close to the lightning in our Ancient Lei Zhe Realm.”

  Although they were all masters of lightning, they didn’t lend Zhong Yue a hand but watched as he endured through the tribulation himself. As if he was able to make it through this, he would be able to free himself from the prying eyes of the Heavens and stop any further troubles.

  The thunder rumbled and lightning st
ruck Zhong Yue; but in the midst of the lightning, Zhong Yue bathed himself in them while also utilizing the tribulation’s energy to refine his Yuan Shen toward the Pure Yang state.

  Tens of days passed by and the lightning tribulation dispersed only to be replaced by a new round of tribulation. Old clan master closed his eyes and counted in his heart, then he frowned and mumbled, “There are only 80 levels, where is the 81st? No, something is not right…”

  “Clan master, what is wrong?” The Leizhe dragons asked.

  “The Heaven’s Jealousy Heaven Tribulation won’t bring our little cousin any troubles. After all, he has been through the 81 levels in the Ancient Lei Zhe Realm. Puny lightning like this won’t be an issue at all. After tribulating through all 81 levels of Heaven Tribulation, he will be freed from the Heavens trying to suppress his power. However, the last level is now missing…”

  Old clan master raised his head up and stared into the void behind the space rifts, his wrinkled face grew even grimace in solemn, “Someone is trying to harm him, whoever this is has stopped the last level. This unresolved tribulation will fester and grow until it is strong enough to kill our little cousin!”

  …

  In the Zi Wei Imperial Star, Imperial Emperor Xian Tian’s facial expression changed slightly, he walked into the Void World. As the innate god, his mortal body was his Yuan Shen and soul at the same time, which was why he was able to enter and exit the Void World freely as he desired.

  In the Void World, Imperial Emperor Xian Tian saw the lightning growing out from the void. He glanced at it and reached his hand out, grabbed on the last level of Heaven Tribulation and keeping it into his sleeves.

  “Hmph, the Leizhe Clan sure is stubborn to help that Fuxi; but that’s alright, after all, I still need him to run around and lure out the bigger fish. However, I’ll temporarily take care of this last level of Heaven Tribulation. When the time comes and the fishes are done gathering, this will be your downfall.”

  Imperial Emperor Xian Tian chuckled, but just as he was walking down from the Void World, a zither sound came from the far side of the Void World. Imperial Emperor Xian Tian’s face changed drastically, he quickly raised his hands in defense.

  All of a sudden, the zither sound grew extremely sharp in pitch and deafening loud. Then, followed by a sound of clothes tearing apart, the zither sound tore a huge hole on Imperial Emperor Xian Tian’s sleeve, setting the Heaven Tribulation free.

  In the deeper parts of the Void World, a pale white finger slowly extruded out from the void and gave the Heaven Tribulation a soft push on the back, sending the lightning down to the lower realms, toward Zhong Yue!

  “Fuxi, Hao Yi?” Imperial Emperor Xian Tian’s arm was covered in blood, he squinted his eyes and stared into the deeper parts of the Void World. There, a gigantic god with the body of a human and tail of a snake yawned while returning his finger.

  Imperial Emperor Xian Tian gave a cold sneer, he turned and left the Void World.

  “Undying Earthly Sovereign… You will pay for what you’ve done today, for I, shall become an innate Imperial Monarch!”

  …

  In the Lei Zhe Continent, when they saw the last Heaven’s Jealousy lightning tribulation flashing out of the void and struck on Zhong Yue, the old clan master and Lei Zhe dragons heaved a breath of relief.

  Old clan master said, “Now it’s all settled, after this lightning tribulation, there will be no more hidden dangers.”

  Chapter 775: Old Me, True Me |

  However, old clan master and the others were still puzzled. Who was the one that stopped the last Heaven’s Jealousy lightning tribulation? And why did it suddenly come back again?

  And why did Zhong Yue trigger the Heavenly Tribulation in the first place?

  As the last lightning bolt struck onto him and dispersed into smoke, a strange aura rose within Zhong Yue’s body—it was the aura of a god. The transcendance of a mortal to the deityhood just like a chrysalis turning into butterfly.

  He had taken a huge step in his path of cultivation, one that elevated him from a mortal to something beyond — a god!

  The aura brewed stronger as time passed, Zhong Yue’s mortal body was 10 thousand feet tall, even if he was sitting down, he still looked like a giant mountain.

  But what was more surprising were the bright rays of light emanating out of his body.

  Zhong Yue remained unmoving for a long time; all of a sudden, the divine third eye opened on his forehead and a second Zhong Yue walked out of it.

  The old clan master and the other Leizhe dragons were stunned, they looked in bewilderment at the second Zhong Yue who was walking of his Zhong Yue’s divine third eye.

  There were two Zhong Yue?

  The one sitting was huge and magnificent, although just sitting down, the energy brimming in him could be felt pulsing vibrantly. He felt like a babaric god that had slaughtered a billion lives.

  Whereas the other was relatively small, the size of a normal human. He held a gentle smile on his face and the innate Qi in his body. Although he didn’t emanate a domineering aura like the other one, this Zhong Yue felt like a young innate god.

  The second Zhong Yue walked up to the crowd and bowed. The old clan master reciprocated the formality, then he asked puzzlingly, “Little cousin of the Fuxi Clan, why are there two of you? Who is the other one?”

  Zhong Yue looked back and said with the gentle smile on his face, “That is my mortal body, the body that I shed.”

  The elder grew even more puzzling, “I can feel the Yuan Shen residing in it. If that’s your old body, why is there also a Yuan Shen in it? Wait, you…”

  A shocked expression radiated across his wrinkled face as he stuttered, “You… you….”

  Zhong Yue smiled and confirmed his conjecture, “Yes, I’ve also shed away my old Yuan Shen.”

  The old clan master’s head tumbled into chaos as he thought unbelieveably,Shedding off even one’s old Yuan Shen?

  Achieving the innate mortal body and innate Yuan Shen with this sort of method was something that the Leizhe Clan’s clan master had never heard of!

  Of course, the old clan master knew about the innate mortal body and innate Yuan Shen. After all, they were both cultivation techniques that originated from the Leizhe Clan and Fuxi Clan but was later leaked out from the two clans.

  In the Zi Wei Galaxy, there were also cultivators and gods that have cultivated the innate mortal body and innate Yuan Shen. All of them had acquired the cultivation techniques unscrupulously from the two clans.

  However, the innate mortal body and innate Yuan Shen they were cultivating were far different than Zhong Yue’s innate mortal body and innate Yuan Shen. One could even say that the two were fundamentally different sets of cultivation techniques!

  All because that the other cultivators and gods didn’t shed away their old selves. They couldn’t separate out their old mortal body and old Yuan Shen.

  But Zhong Yue had done precisely that!

  How did he do it? Although hard to believe, it was still possible for them to accept the fact that one could shed off the old mortal body, but to even shed off the old Yuan Shen?

  The old clan master was curious, in just a short while of time, his understanding on the world of cultivation had been upended by Zhong Yue. One must know that the Yuan Shen was the atman, the atman was the soul and spirit combined. Betwen the two, the soul was the hardest to cultivate, it was still an impossible task for current Qi Practitioners to cultivate the innate soul.

  The innate Yuan Shen that the Zi Wei Galaxy referred to was merely just cultivating the innate spirit, then enhancing the soul through infusing the innate Qi into it and cultivate the Pure Yang soul through lightning tempering. They would then infuse the innate Qi into the soul again to boost the soul to a pseudo innate state.

  If there had never been anyone to completely shed away the old mortal body, let alone shedding away the old Yuan Shen as well.

  Could this be why he was able to tri
gger the Heaven Tribulation?

  Then, the surrounding experts watched dumbfoundedly with their mouth agape at Zhong Yue’s old mortal body slowly standing up from the ground. His mortal body was also shrinking and in no time returned to his normal size; treading across the space in a strong and steady gait, he bowed at Zhong Yue and said, “Senior martial brother.”

  Zhong Yue shook, “You are the old me, you are the senior martial brother.”

  The second Zhong Yue shook, “The better ones are the elders, you’ve excelled further than I have, and you are the true me. Thus, you are the senior martial brother.”

  “Alright, fine then. You are the old me, thus, you will carry the name of Gu 1Yue and live in the 3,000 Six Paths World for me.” Zhong Yue smiled, “That way, you can help alleviate some pressure from my shoulders.”

  Gu Yue nodded.

  On the other hand, the old clan master and the Leizhe elder dragons exchanged a look after witnessing this peculiar scene. The exchange between two Zhong Yue was so surreal; they were simply unable to reconcile that one was the old him and the other the current him.

  Zhong Yue’s old self, Gu Yue, was also a god just like the others, in flesh, blood, and mortal body. He had a completed Yuan Shen with spirit and soul. He felt just like a perfectly fine individual being, one that was born naturally and a complete person!

  Moreover, when compared to other gods, he was far stronger than his peers, no more than a few could actually put up a match against him.

  On the other hand, Zhong Yue also possessed the same. However, his aura felt closer to the innate gods, one that was still at the nascent stages of its life.

  Yet, both of them were Zhong Yue, it couldn’t help but puzzle even the elders.

  The Leizhe Clan experts knew there were more than many mystical and exquisite cultivation techniques that allowed cultivators to cultivate the incarnations or clones of themselves.