Rise of Humanity

Chapter 244 - The Cold Tea

Gu Xia City was a strategic location. Three of the four directions were surrounded by the enemies of the monster race: the Great Wilderness, the West Barren, and the North Barren. If Gu Xia City was not strong enough, it wouldn’t even be able to exist!

The one thing that supported the Gu Xia City to this day was the godly spirit that guarded Gu Xia City. Gu Xia City was of utmost importance to the monster race, it could not be lost and hence, during the time where the monster race was rising up, a monster god left his spirit behind to watch over this city after his death.

Lang Qingyun saw the godly spirit, and immediately, he knew that it would be nearly impossible to take down Zhong Yue in the Gu Xia City unless, the Xiao Mang Celestial Temple experts have brought a godly spirit or divine weapon of the same level!

The Xiao Mang Celestial Race was definitely capable of bringing such a strong force, but only for one little dragon, would it be worth it to bring along a godly spirit or divine weapon?

Right at this moment, the voices of Gu Hongzi’s Yuan Shen reached the borders where the Xiao Mang experts were at, his voice rumbled like thunder and entered their ears, “I’m Gu Hongzi, provincial governor of the border to the West Barren. Xiao Mang Celestial Race, what is your business here crossing my territory?”

“Conducting his voice over a million miles!”

A white-robed priest was shocked, he gazed around and saw the Xiao Mang experts shuddering at Gu Hongzi’s voice, he praised and said, “Gu Hongzi of the East Barren, he is indeed strong! As one of the strongest existence in the East Barren, no wonder he could slay his own father!”

“Slay his own father?” The other Xiao Mang experts were shocked.

The white-robed priest nodded and said, “Yes, his father, the late Gu Xia City Lord, died at his hands! This Gu Hongzi is strong and ruthless, he is destined to take a place in history!”

Gazing far away at the awakened godly spirit, his face changed drastically as he said coldly, “Hmph! He even roused the godly spirit, what a knotty situation this is. We didn’t bring any godly spirit, nor the divine weapons with us, I’m afraid we can’t take down Long Yue in his territory anymore…”

The white-robed priest took in a breath of deep air before he sneered frigidly, “If that’s the case, I’ll head over to Gu Xia City and pin him down. All of you, take a detour around Gu Xia City’s territorial land and take down Long Yue, capture him and bring him back to the celestial temple for judgement!”

The other Xiao Mang experts were all at the level of Inner Core and Atman Body, there was even one at the Heavenly Dharma level! They immediately turned and left after receiving their orders, taking a detour around Gu Xia City deeper into the East Barren!

While the white-robed priest laughed loudly, his laughter rumbled and compressed the air. His mouth could be seen moving as he said a sentence, but no voices could be heard while he continued marching toward Gu Xia City.

His laughters and the sentence he said resonated together and could only be heard when it traveled to the sky above Gu Xia City, blasting away into a cacophonous symphony that shook the city!

“City Lord Gu Hongzi, I’m Xiao Chuyun of Xiao Mang Celestial Temple, I’m passing by your territory and am here to pay the lord a visit!”

His voice shook the land for a hundred miles radius. The totem patterns around Gu Xia City, the godly beast statues, arrow towers, turrets and every other thing else glimmered brightly, the array formations in them were all triggered by his voice and activated themselves to resist the power in his voice!

While the monsters in the city were shuddering violently, they could not stabilize themselves and the worshipping chants slowed down, causing the just awakened godly spirit to slowly slip back into its usual slumbering state.

However, as the totem patterns and array formations of Gu Xia City were activated and shielded the monsters in the city from the impact of the sound wave, the monsters finally stood back on their feet and continued their worship, and the godly spirit’s eyes lit up again.

“Hmph! Is this a display of strength? Is he trying to say that he is not afraid at all even if I’ve brought out the godly spirit of Gu Xia City, and that he has ways to unravel it?” Gu Hongzi sneered, and said indifferently, “Xiao Chuyun? Carrying the name of ‘Chu’, then he must be from a noble family in the Xiao Mang Celestial Race. Since you dare to come over, then I’ll surely welcome you fervidly; however, if you dare to act recklessly, I’ll slay you mercilessly! Senior Martial Brother Lang, interested in joining me to welcome this priest of the Xiao Mang Celestial Race?”

Smiling, Lang Qingyun said, “Of course, I’d like to see how strong a priest from the Xiao Mang Celestial Race is.”

While he thought in his heart, With Xiao Chuyun and my prowess, we can definitely pin down Gu Hongzi. As long as he is occupied, the Xiao Mang experts can then hunt for Long Yue without Gu Hongzi interfering with their mission. Everything will work out smooth and steady.

A smile climbed on Lang Qinyun’s face. While the Xiao Mang priest, Xiao Chuyun, was walking toward Gu Xia City,Gu Hongzi flung his sleeves and the city gate creaked open, walking out with Lang Qingyun behind him to receive their celestial guest.

Rays flashed in Gu Hongzi’s eyes as Xiao Chuyun drew closer to them, he was puzzled, Although Lang Qingyun and I are in good terms, our relation isn’t that close; furthermore, we may look like friends ostensibly, but we are, in actual fact, enemies! There is no reason for him to come over to my city and stay here for days, something’s not right here! In addition, judging from the situation, it seems like he knew Xiao Chuyun would come. Rather than meeting with me, it looks more like he was here to wait for Xiao Chuyun! And just exactly what is this Xiao Chuyun doing here?

He frowned slightly. There is the spirit of a monster god in Gu Xia City, they can’t do anything to me. So, what are they here for?

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“Little junior martial brother, do you think you can run away from your dear senior martial sister?”

Five thousand miles away from Gu Xia City’s territorial land, Zhong Yue was moving like a thunderbolt, mustering his strength to the fullest, he was traveling at the fastest speed he had ever achieved. Behind him, a thousand feet long white snake with lotus patterns on its body was soaring in the monstrous clouds at a speed faster than him, drawing closer and closer to him!

The lotus python was Shi Buyi’s fourth disciple, Lian Xin. Her stomach was round and bulging as she had devoured Chi Liannu and only digested half of her, dragging down her speed. Otherwise, with her usual speed at her full cultivation base and prowess, she would have caught up to Zhong Yue and devoured him long before this!

The man and python was both traveling at a great speed, the monsters on the ground could only hear a series of rumbling sounds like thunder; but by the time they lifted their heads and looked up, they could not see anything as the two were too quick for the monster’s eyes to follow them.

Their speed was even faster than skills. Every time Lian Xin cast out a skill, Zhong Yue would be tens of miles away before the skill reached to where he was, leaving the skill far behind him and unable to even touch him at all.

They were so fast that Zhong Yue could not even make a turn in the air. Even if there was a mountain before him, he could only forcibly ram through it and come out the other side of the mountain!

This put his mortal body under tremendous stress, straining every strand of his muscles and skin, impairing his strength. If it wasn’t for the totem patterns of the 【Thousand Dragon Wall】 that were bound on the surface of his body, the impact force of ramming the mountains alone would have killed him!

Within this period of time where he had traveled five thousand miles, he had maintained his speed at its fullest. As a consequence, his mortal body was starting to show signs of fatigue and damage. Such a condition was deadly, as his speed was no match for Lian Xin in the first place. If he slacked off for even for a split second to ease the fatigue, he would greatly increase the risk of getting caught by Lian Xin!

In the face of a Heavenly Dharma Qi Practitioner like Lian Xin, he wouldn’t stand a chance at all!

Hence, no matter how tired he was, or how strained his mortal body was, all he could do was to keep pushing forward without sparing a single effort!

Chi——

A large piece of skin suddenly peeled off from his chest, exposing his flesh and meat to the air while blood splashed out like flowering petals, and his muscles twitched in pain. Although there was the sun and moon revolving behind him in attempt to regenerate his wounds, the creation of new wounds was faster than they could be healed.

His speed was too great, his muscles were impaired and signs of cracking were emerging in his bones!

Flying at his fullest speed for a full distance of eight thousand miles, nearly all of the skins on his body was torn away, especially the front part of his body, and only parts of the skin on his back remained intact!

Meanwhile, Lian Xin the lotus python has drawn another dozen miles closer to him, the distance between them was now only sixty miles apart.

Sixty miles, it was already a very dangerous distance, even if her skills could not reach him, the impact forces could now affect him already. One after another, Lian Xin cast out her skills, the skills blasted behind Zhong Yue and the impact forces disrupted the air, making it harder for him to remain stable.

Nine thousand miles, he was now only a thousand miles away from the territorial land of Gu Xia City. His internal organs were now grievously impacted by the air pressure acting on him, blood trickled from his mouth and all the other six apertures of his head!

Gu Xia City, close, I’m very close to the territorial land of Gu Xia City!

Zhong Yue’s divine third eye opened, he looked ahead and was overjoyed as the boundary stone stele of Gu Xia City could be seen on the summit of a devastated mountain a few hundred miles away from him. He thought, As long as I’ve passed through that stone stele, Lian Xin will not dare to come after me anymore! I wonder if Senior Martial Brother Gu Hongzi has sensed my arrival?

His blood essence was like a patch of red clouds traveling at great speed in the sky, trembling and shuddering, his aura was incredibly noticeable to others. With Gu Hongzi’s impressively strong perception, he could definitely sense Zhong Yue’s arrival!

Furthermore, Lian Xin was a Heavenly Dharma cultivator, her aura was even stronger. With their auras together, Gu Hongzi could definitely sense them and come over to rescue him!

At the same time, in Gu Xia City, Gu Hongzi’s face changed drastically and stood up abruptly; Clearly, he has sensed Zhong Yue and Lian Xin’s aura and he look over at the direction where they were at.

Hu——

He flung his sleeves and surged out his arcane energy into a crystal-clear mirror, reflecting the images on the border of Gu Xia City a million miles away. Immediately, Zhong Yue could be seen covered in blood while a giant white lotus python was on his trail, chasing him.

All of a sudden, the lotus python spit out her tongue and blasted a ray of light, crushing Gu Hongzi’s mirror!

Gu Hongzi’s face turned gloomy, at the instant the mirror was crushed away, he saw dozens of Xiao Mang experts coming from the other side, veering away from Gu Xia City toward Zhong Yue!

These two parties of strong experts were all heading for Zhong Yue!

So Lang Qingyun and Xiao Chuyun are not here for me, but Junior Martial Brother Zhong! But why is Lian Xin also in this?

Gu Hongzi heaved a deep breath, he didn’t rush out to rescue Zhong Yue and instead, he shifted his gaze over at Lang Qingyun and Xiao Chuyun, staring at them.

Xiao Chuyun was smiling ostensibly, but his aura was slowly condensing. It felt like a volcano had been asleep for thousands of years, culminating its power to the peak and was waiting for the right time to erupt!

Lang Qingyun gave an interested smile as he furtively hid his hands in his sleeves, no one knew what was he thinking.

Gu Hongzi also hid his hands in his sleeves. The two strongest promising young experts of the monster race stared at one another; their sleeves were wandering in the wind with their hands hidden away.

Their soul weapons were concealed in their sleeves, they have forged their appallingly strong soul weapons and condensed their prowess in them; once they cast it out, it would definitely be an earth-shaking strike!

But Gu Hongzi was worried. Their distances were too close; if he cast the spirit of the monster god, in that instant, the other two could inflict damage on him already!

Furthermore, with their prowess, the two of them were capable of killing all of the monsters in the city, and they might even be able to drive the godly spirit into its slumber state again!

The only reason that stopped Lang Qingyun and Xiao Chuyun from erupting into action was because they knew how strong the godly spirit was. If they acted recklessly, the godly spirit would be able to kill either one of the them!

“City Lord, please, let us drink a cup of tea.”

The white-robed priest Xiao Chuyun raised his tea cup and said meaningfully, “The tea has turned cold.”

The tea has turned cold?

Gu Hongzi’s brows rose. Immediately, he understood the meaning behind the words. Even if he rushed over to save Zhong Yue now, it would still be too late. Zhong Yue might even be eaten away by Lian Xin by the time he reached there. Hence, it wasn’t “the tea has turned cold”, but “time has run out.”!

Junior Martial Brother Zhong Yue, it’s too late for me to save you already…, Gu Hongzi bewailed in his heart.