Rise of Humanity

by <unknown>

  “The happenings were odd and frequent. King, if you stay here long enough, you will surely find something.” The old god replied.

  Zhong Yue nodded. The odd happenings in this stronghold must have some close relations to the Heaven Suppressing Palace. If he was able to find and trace any sign down from the odd happenings, he might just be able to find the path to the Heaven Suppressing Palace!

  Suddenly, the gods standing guard over the city gates reported, “Master, a team of messengers has arrived upon the gates. They proclaim themselves to be messengers of the Fei Yi Celestial Race, here to pay master a visit.”

  “So quickly? Please, bring them in.”

  Then, Zhong Yue smiled and turned to Yin Fanxuan, he said, “Dear, let’s meet these Fei Yi messengers.”

  Yin Fanxuan nodded with a smile, “Dear, you’ve been expecting their arrival?”

  Zhong Yue held her hand as they walked toward the King’s palace. He laughed, “The Fei Yi Celestial Race is a celestial race serving under Xian Tian Palace. Its sacred land is close to the Heaven Suppressing Palace. Not only them, but all the other races will have to come and visit too. Other than them, races belonging to the other forces will come too. But as for what kind of intention they’ve all come with, that’s another story.”

  “Intention?” Yin Fanxuan was puzzled, “Even the races of the Xian Tian Palace will bear ill intent toward us?”

  But her question remained unanswered. They sat on the cold thrones and waited in the quiet palace. Just moments later, the Fei Yi messengers have walked into the palace with both of their hands respectfully holding on the various gifts. They were led by a Fei Yi Deity Emperor in the front.

  The Fei Yi celestials had the body of humans, head of the snakes, and two snake tails on the back. When they slithered on the ground with the twin tails, they looked as though they were walking with the tails. The Fei Yi Celestial Race was born inherently with the power to manipulate fire, much like the Zhong Li Celestial Race.

  The Fei Yi Deity Emperor has glanced around curiously. Clearly, he was surprised by the lack of men in the palace.

  “Fei Yi Celestial Race’s Yue Weifeng greets the king, greets the queen consort!” The Fei Yi Deity Emperor bowed and greeted with a smile, “King Yi, it’s been a long journey to come. I cannot imagine the tediousness you have suffered along the way. The clan master wants to give you a present as a token of good will to the king.”

  Zhong Yue smiled, “Sovereign Ba of the Fei Yi Celestial Race is really being over-polite now. Men, receive the gifts and set the seats.”

  Two Fuxi who were waiting outside of the palace quickly came in and received the gifts. The Fei Yi Celestial Race used two surnames, each made a great clan within the race—Yue and Ba. With the two characters combined together, it’d form the word ‘Fei’. Thus, they were known as Fei Yi.

  Yue Weifeng sat down and looked around, he smiled, “King, you sure are living a modest life. I have heard of your arrival and your lack of men. King Yi, if there is anything that the Fei Yi Celestial Race can help, please do not hesitate to let us know.”

  Zhong Yue laughed, “You are quick in intelligence. However, it’s just a cover that I’ve brougth only a million gods with me. I am doing so to lure the enemies out of their hideous caves. To be honest, I’ve brought more than 50 millions with me!”

  Yin Fanxuan quickly said, “Dear, didn’t we just bring a million…”

  Zhong Yue glared at her and she quickly stopped.

  Yue Weifeng admired King Yi and smiled, “King Yi, you sure is cunning!”

  Then, Zhong Yue said, “I will be leaving you to stay for a few days, but it’s a shame to say this, I’ve just arrived and there are many things yet to be handled. I simply can’t receive any guests…”

  Yue Weifeng immediately understood and has quickly stood up, he said, “Then, Weifeng will not interrupt King Yi and the queen consort. I will excuse myself now.”

  Zhong Yue ordered men to send him off.

  Not long later, another god reported, “Master, The Zhu Huai Celestial Race’s messengers have requested to visit!”

  “Welcome them in.”

  Zhong Yue and Yin Fanxuan sat in the palace and received the Zhu Huai Celestial Race’s messengers. He too, was a Deity Emperor and had also brought gifts. He said, “We have troubled King Yi. But with only this million gods, it is quite difficult to guard over the Heaven Suppressing Palace. Our Zhu Huai Celestial Race has many war-seasoned veterans, we are willing to offer our help in King Yi’s mission of safeguarding the Heaven Suppressing Palace!”

  Zhong Yue laughed, “Who said I only have a million with? To be frank, I’ve brought 60 million gods with me, those million are just a cover!”

  Yin Fanxuan quickly whispered, “Dear, didn’t we only bring a million…”

  Zhong Yue glared at her and she quickly stopped.

  Soon after, Zhong Yue ordered men to send off the Zhu Huai messengers before quickly receiving the messengers from the Shan Hun Demon Race.

  “A million gods are just a cover. In fact, I’ve brought 70 millions!”

  “Dear, you just said it was 60 million…”

  …

  After the Shan Hun Demon Race, came the Meng Huai Celestial Race.

  “I’ve brought 80 millions!”

  “Dear, it was only a million…”

  …

  Following by the Chang Cheng Celestial Race, the Zheng Race, the Pao Xiao Demon Race…

  One after another, the races came to visit. There were more than thirty of them that came.

  Zhong Yue and Yin Fanxuan kept thew gifts and sent the messengers away. Finally, all of the sacred lands around had paid their visits. Yin Fanxuan smiled, “Dear, who do you think will come first?”

  Zhong Yue waved his hand and a web of Karmic Lines have appeared in front of them. He laughed, “No matter who comes first, none will be able to return alive!”

  The husband and wife smiled at one another and walked out from the King’s palace. They went to look at the million gods forging the treasures.

  There, the burning fires of the furnaces were soaring high up in the sky. In the midst of the furnaces were the doors and surrounding the doors were the million gods. Their shoulders were exposed to the flames and their hands were holding onto huge hammers that were ramming on the doors continuously.

  The doors were already in shapes and there were gods that were engraving the totem patterns on the doors.

  After a week, the eight doors were fully forged. Zhong Yue ordered them to be located at the four city gates and four city corners.

  Zhong Yue walked up to the City Gate of Vermillion Bird and with a thought, the door on the city gate was cast at its fullest power. The Metamagnet Divine Rays and starlights in the star river billowed like water into the center of the door, causing it to glimmer.

  Then, he walked to the west corner of the city, activating the door there; then, he came to the City Gate of White Tiger, also activating the door. Soon enough, all eight doors were fully activated. The powers of the stars and the Metamagnet Divine Rays were swirling into the eight doors.

  Zhong Yue walked into the door situated on the City Gate of Azure Dragon and reappeared in the City Gate of White Tiger just next second. He nods with a smile, “Now, even a million gods can secure this majestic stronghold. The only question now is whether or not there would be any Imperial Emperors that comes.”

  Yin Fanxuan chortled, “What if there are?”

  “If an Imperial Emperor comes, we’ll abandon the city and leave.” Zhong Yue laughed.

  This stronghold has no day and night, it was day all year long. Lights were shone across the city with intervals.

  All of a sudden, Zhong Yue’s thought was triggered and he looked at the Karmic Lines laughingly, “The Du Gu Demon Race is here! Huh, the Fei Yi Celestial Race is also here, there is also the Xiao Race, Zhu Huai Celestial Race, Zheng Race… Seems like these guys are dying for a merit in war!”

  In the
deep space, Fei Yi Celestial Race’s Yue Weifeng was smiling at an old man as he said, “Grand ancestor, taking down the Heaven Suppressing Palace is a huge merit in this war! The Heaven Suppressing Palace is now in King Yi’s command but he has overestimated himself, bringing only a million gods with him. With this level of defense, our Fei Yi Celestial Race will be able to take down the Heaven Suppressing Palace in no time! However, betraying Imperial Emperor Xian Tian, this won’t end well for us…”

  “Nevermind that!” Sovereign Ba, the grand ancestor to the Fei Yi Celestial Race grinned, “Taking down the Heaven Suppressing Palace is huge merit to the incumbent Heavenly Monarch. As long as we have this merit in hand, Heavenly Monarch will reward us a hundred times more than what Imperial Emperor Xian Tian would! Furthermore, Heavenly Monarch will not allow Imperial Emperor Xian Tian to kill us, he will protect us for we are, meritorious subjects of his! My children, heed to my command, claim the Heaven Suppressing Palace for me!”

  The Fei Yi experts whistled and yelled, and rushed for the Heaven Suppressing Palace’s City Gate of Black Tortoise.

  The City Gate of Black Tortoise was long closed. Outside of the city gate was the star river, and when the Fei Yi experts were crossing it, countless were killed within. Their corpses washed to the sides and none were able to remain intact in one piece.

  Sovereign Ba abruptly showed his true form, a one-head, two-bodied snake. Its head gnawed on the city wall and its tails were outside of the star river. The Fei Yi experts climbed on his huge body and rushed for the City Gate of Black Tortoise. Their battle cries were loud and clear!

  On the other few gates, there were the other races that came attacking. In an instant, the Heaven Suppressing Palace was besieged and was in danger!

  It was at this moment, Zhong Yue stood on the [Innate Celestial Demon Tai Chi Eight Trigrams Art] and rose higher and higher. In the split of a second, he slashed his saber down at Sovereign Ba and the old Creator was beheaded and died!

  Immediately, the Fei Yi experts on his back falls into the star river and were also all dead.

  Zhong Yue strode forward, he stepped into the door and appeared on the City Gate of White Tiger in the next second. With a swing of his saber, the Zheng Race’s grand ancestor was killed and Zhong Yue disappeared again!

  He was traveling across the doors, swinging his sabers and beheading the invaders!

  “King Yi!”

  A loud roar came into his ears as the Zhu Huai Demon Race’s grand ancestor reappeared in his true form—with the head of a cow and four horns on his head. His stalwart body was crawled with the Zhu Huai demon experts. As he crossed the star river, he has brought down his trident down right on Zhong Yue!

  Dang—

  The saber and trident clashed, breaking the trident into pieces and falls to the ground.

  “Imperial Emperor-level weapon! Innate treasure?” The Zhu Huai Demon Race’s grand ancestor exclaimed in shock while a saber ray flashed across his neck, decapitating his head before it falls into the star river.

  After a long time, the cries of war have finally ceased. Zhong Yue kept his saber back and the art beneath his feet dispersed. The one million gods were seen standing on the Stone Sentinel Maze.

  “Stop and rest.” Zhong Yue said solemnly, “In the future, I will bring you all and raid the sacred lands around us!”

  Chapter 889: Invade Like The Burning Flames |

  Silence repleted the Heaven Suppressing Palace. The gods were looking all around in shock.

  There were more than thirty sacred lands around, inhabited by various celestial and demon races. There were sixteen that had come, some were enemies and some belonged to Xian Tian Palace. These races had all come under the lead of their grand ancestors.

  Yet, all of the enemies were cleared off in just a few hours; even the more powerful experts like Sovereign Ba and the other grand ancestors were killed without exception!

  The grand ancestors like Sovereign Ba were sovereigns to a race, the designation of their position in the race.

  For example, the sovereign of the Fei Yi Celestial Race wasn’t just leader to all Fei Yi in Zi Wei Galaxy, but all of the universe, including the ancient universe, including the 3,000 Six Paths Worlds!

  The same applied for the Human Sovereign.

  And now, sixteen of these sovereigns died in the Heaven Suppressing Palace at the hands of Zhong Yue!

  As a Heavenly Deity commanding only a million gods, Zhong Yue used the [Innate Celestial Demon Yin Yang Eight Trigrams Art] to bring himself up to the level of a Creator. Then, he proceeded to slaughter the 16 sovereigns. Such merits and achievements, he could be said as the God of War!

  “Invincible!”

  Suddenly, a god shouted, “King Yi, invincible!”

  The million gods were agitated and raised their divine weapons high up and shouted together, “King Yi, invincible! King Yi, invincible!”

  A million sounds together have resonated across the vast Heaven Suppressing Palace, stunning the hearts of those around.

  Winning the battle has injected strong confidence into the army, their commander has brought them the belief of eternal victory. Only through battles like this can an army grow as a unit!

  One could say that Zhong Yue’s control over the Xian Tian Royal Guards had never been this high before. The Xian Tian Royal Guards now revered him as an unbeatable God of War. Even Imperial Emperor Xian Tian couldn’t shake his standing over the Xian Tian Royal Guards!

  “Tidy up!” Zhong Yue ordered, “Tomorrow, we fight again!”

  The million gods quickly sat in the lotus positions and recovered themselves. Zhong Yue summoned the old god over and had him check the resources in the Heaven Suppressing palace. The old god reported, “The jade liquids are enough to use for half a year, but the divine herbs and spiritual pellets can only last for three, at most, five battles. The divine materials are depleting as well. My king, you’ve forged the doors and furnaces over the months, they had used up the materials. King should report to the Imperial Emperor and ask for more resources. Or we will run out of food in three to six months time.”

  Zhong Yue nodded, rays flashed across his eyes.

  The jade liquids, spiritual pellets, and divine herbs were war necessities, they couldn’t be left out behind. The resources Imperial Emperor Xian Tian had sent were already on its way, but to his estimation, it would take roughly more than six months to arrive.

  The downtime between battles was the hardest time they would have to endure.

  “Other than that, the previous guards had brought the war equipment away with them. The warships, war chariots, war flags and banners, the godly palaces, the divine weapons, and many other treasures. These treasures were of great use in wars, whether it be as an offensive attack or simply defending the stronghold.”

  The old god frowned, “Without these items, I’m afraid when we encounter a big-scale war…”

  Zhong Yue nodded.

  The warships were fast as lightning, the godly fortresses were hardly the best defenses, the war chariots could charge right into the enemy camps, the sky ladders could be used to climb the enemies’ walls, the godly palaces and godly halls could be used as points for various purposes, the war flags and banners to command large group of armies and bestir the war spirits; each of them have their own uses in war and were incredibly important to win a war.

  But none of this was available to his Xian Tian Royal Guards. They were as poor as beggars and when placed side by side with the regular armies, they were equipped like raggedy militias formed by random commoners.

  “The art of war—invade like the burning flames. We don’t have food, but the sacred lands do! The warships, fortresses, war chariots, sky ladders, and godly palaces… the sacred lands have all of them!”

  A day later, Zhong Yue abruptly stood up and shouted, “Bring only the edibles and nothing else. Follow me as we trample the sacred lands around us!”

  The million gods stood up and yelled in agreement.
They cleared up the granaries and left everything behind. Seeing this, the old god quickly said, “My king, Imperial Emperor’s order for you is to safeguard the Heaven Suppressing Palace, do you need to leave the army behind to stand on guard?”

  “No need for that!” Zhong Yue said sternly, “Saddle out!”

  Yin Fanxuan frowned, “What if the enemies come and claim the Heaven Suppressing Palace?”

  “Then we’ll simply take it back by force.” Zhong Yue smiled and answered casually, “Instead of staying on the defensive, a better option is to go full offensive! All those nearby poses no threat to our Xian Tian Royal Guards, it’s much easier for us to just take back the Heaven Suppressing Palace than trying to protect it all day long!”

  Yin Fanxuan sighed as her admiration of him grew.

  The million gods kept the three Heavens and the eight Astral Doors. They marched out from the city gate for the Fei Yi Celestial Race while Zhong Yue and Yin Fanxuan sat in the Kirin carriage.

  After ten days of traveling, they had finally arrived at the Fei Yi’s sacred land.

  The Fei Yi Celestial Race had long received news of the loss of their forces as well as their grand ancestor. Along their way to the Fei Yi’s sacred land, scouts and sentinels were closely looking at them, reporting every single move they made back to the race.

  The Xian Tian Royal Guards also noticed the scouts spying on them, but Zhong Yue ordered them to disregard the scouts and went straight for the sacred land.

  When they arrived, Zhong Yue raised his hand and the whole army stopped, none of them moved even a single inch. Then, Chi Song gave a stern yell and the three Heavens rose into the air. They hovered above the Fei Yi Celestial Race’s sacred land and shone a thousand times brighter than the suns.

  The Xian Tian Royal Guards were galvanized into actions, they stood into eight array formations.

  Zhong Yue and Yin Fanxuan were standing outside of the carriage, they looked toward the Fei Yi Celestial Race and saw a vigilant race readied in a defensive stance.