Rise of Humanity

Chapter 463 - Empress’s Man

“Those capable of crossing the river are all here!”

Zhong Yue looked serious as he examined the few boats that carried about eighty demon Qi Practitioners, thirty to fifty Kun Lun Realm’s Qi Practitioner and also quite a number of magnate Qi Practitioners!

These guys were the elite of the elites, and Zhong Yue even saw a few familiar faces on the boats; they were Qi Lianfeng, Peng Jinyi and Peng Qianqiu!

The three demon’s black wood boats were also being corroded by the blood water in God Burial River, eroding the bottom of the boats and stirring chaos all over the boats. There were a few demon young Qi Qi Practitioners, however, that remained calm and they all started to calm everyone down.

Chi Xue put up a serious expression, looked at the young demon Qi Practitioners and said, “The people from Xu Tuo Demon Race!”

“Kua Fuding’s golden papers must have been pillaged from the Yuan Shen secret realm of Chi Yueer. But how does Kua Fuding know how to build boats from paper? How are the boats activated? If it’s not him, then who is the one controlling the boats? And from where did Peng Jinyi and the others obtain the golden paper?”

Zhong Yue looked around for a moment, and his vision landed on a lady, “So it’s her…”

The lady was also from the Western Mother Race, the sister of Chi Xue-Chi Qing, which is why she also had the golden paper. Her subordinates, including Feng Zhishan, were all killed by the Six Path Fruit Tree, but she quickly recruited even more powerful individuals to serve her with the golden papers!

It was hard to obtain ripe Immortal Peaches in the Immortal Peach Garden, thus, it was natural that Chi Qing was able to recruit so many people by using this as a reward!

Suddenly, another turtle boat sailed here with only a man and a lady on board. The boat was in the form of a huge turtle shell, while the two of them stood on the bow as they sailed across the river.

The man was muscular and burly while the lady had a very feminine figure. But their aura suggested that they are also strong individuals themselves!

“The people of Black Tortoise Celestial Race!” murmured Chi Xue seriously.

“I thought you said not many knew about this place?” asked Zhong Yue.

Chi Xue was speechless upon seeing this. There might be not many that knew about the location of these three peach trees, but it did not mean that no one knew about it. However, with Chi Qing spreading the news, Kua Fuding having obtained the map from Chi Yue’er, and the Sudo Demon Race having forged the black wood boat, everyone was gathered here.

And aside from them, the turtle shell they used to cross the river was probably one of the secret divine weapons prepared by the Black Tortoise Celestial Race to sail across the water. Clearly, the Black Tortoise Celestial Race had been targeting the Immortal Peaches for a very long time!

“Thank god we are at the front.”

Ying Nu laughed and said, “Once we get there, we will take the godly herb away and leave them behind!”

Zhong Yue and Chi Xue looked at each other, and they both shook their heads. They knew that the many Qi Practitioners behind them were not far away from them. With that, even if they obtained the Immortal Peaches a step ahead of them, they would only be surrounded by these Qi Practitioners.

“Besides, we can only get one, which is a very little gain,” said Zhong Yue.

“If we manage to get one, maybe we will be able to get even more peaches.”

Chi Xue who had the same idea as Zhong Yue looked at him, and they both smiled at each other.

She then activated the golden paper boat and sailed toward the opposite bank. Zhong Yue whispered to her, “Can I activate the boat?”

“You are not one of us, only the Western Mother Celestial Race can do this.”

Chi Xue replied, “Only my people can do it, after all, it was the Western Mother Empress that created this golden paper herself.”

“Then, who is behind Kua Fuding’s boat?”

Zhong Yue looked at Kua Fuding’s boat that had been emptied of its previous occupants by Kua Fuding and Shang Qing. The boat, however, remained sailing towards the destination with only the two of them.

“Could Shang Qing be one of you guys?” asked Zhong Yue out of a sudden.

Chi Xue immediately burst out with laughter, and she quickly replied, “How is that possible? The Western Mother Celestial Race is an all-female race, and Shang Qing is definitely not a woman, he is the son of the Shang Zhen God!”

“Then who is driving the boat? It can only be Shang Qing. Can he be the son of one of your race’s people?”

Chi Xue laughed again and replied, “The people of Western Mother Empire only gives birth to daughters because of our bloodline’s power. Stop guessing, we will capture Shang Qing once we get there and interrogate him.”

Meanwhile, the golden paper boat they were on was slowly being corroded by the blood water, but they were also nearing land. All of a sudden, a strong wind blew and rogue waves hit the boat strongy, corroding the boat even quicker.

“This is bad!”

Cold sweat dripped down from Chi Xue’s forehead, and she murmured, “We might not make it in time…”

Without hesitation, Zhong Yue grabbed Ying Nu’s hand and dragged her onto the deck with Chi Xue before they climbed onto the boat’s mast. Just as they got onto the mast, the deck was quickly flooded with the blood water. Then the mast and the blood water was getting closer and closer to them, but they were still quite a distance away from the land.

The boat continued to sail forward with perseverance while the blood water continuing to get closer to them.

Huuu——

Zhong Yue hurled Ying Nu toward the land and as Ying Nu screamed, she lost her momentum and slowly fell toward the bottom.

At the same time, Zhong Yue and Chi Xue leaped up into the air before the blood water touched them. In the air, Zhong Yue grabbed Ying Nu by her waist and they both fell towards the water, but suddenly, a magnate soul weapon flew out from Zhong Yue’s back and Zhong Yue stepped onto the soul weapon, using it as a platform to jump toward land again.

On the other hand, Chi Xue, who was still a few miles away from land, also started to fall toward the river.

In this crucial moment, Zhong Yue held his Golden Feathery Peng Sword in front of him and shouted, “Large!”

The sword then visibly enlarged, allowing Chi Xue to step onto it.

The young lady felt relieved, and with the help of Zhong Yue and his soul weapon, she finally managed to touch ground.

“Let’s go!” said Zhong Yue as he kept his sword away.

Chi Xue, however, remained standing still and said, “Wait for a moment!”

She then pressed her palm onto the ground and proceeded to run along the river bank while pressing her palm onto the ground repeatedly along the way. After that, she returned to her companions happily and said, “There are too many people, it’s better to thin out the herd before making our entrance.”

Zhong Yue then stared at her and said, “It is very hard for an overly smart lady to get married.”

“At least I still have you to fall back on.” Chi Xue answered coquettishly.

She said, “Besides, the women in the Western Mother Empire are not the same as the women of humanity. We play the role of husband in the marriage, and the men play the role as the wife! Who said that we women must have a lower position? In the future, when I become the Western Mother Empress, you will be my queen!”

Zhong Yue immediately laughed at her words as he walked towards the front. He shook his head and said, “Hahahaha, keep on dreaming, little girl!”

Chi Xue was annoyed by his words, causing her to catch up to him and shouted while she waved her hands around, “I want to make you the empress’s man!”

“I think it is better for you to become the emperor’s woman,” Zhong Yue said with a smile.

In truth, Zhong Yue was extremely fond of this lively girl. She might still be very young but she possessed vision that others did not; she was also very decisive, able to make crucial decisions with only a moment’s notice.

This Princess Xue of the Western Mother Empire also had a charm far beyond that of other ladies, making her the envy of many women.

“Godly land! What a huge godly land!”

Behind Zhong Yue’s head, the huge carrot Husan Weng jumped out from the light wheel, knelt on the ground and picked up some soil in his hand as he cried loudly. The other few divine herbs also jumped out and did the same thing; Stonecrop even rolled all over the ground and laughed with tears of joy.

Under their feet was a huge area of godly land.

The soils here contained immense spiritual energies, even stronger than those they had ever seen before. This was just the perfect place for the divine herbs!

Chi——

Cusia extended its roots into the soil and shouted, “Don’t ever think of moving me, even if I die, I want to die here!”

Angelica was crouching on the ground while vacuuming the soil into its mouth. While Bupleurum and Husan Weng were shoveling it into Zhong Yue’s Yuan Shen secret realms, they mumbled, “Take away, take them all away! What’s the use of staying here, waiting for those evil cultivators to take us away? That is real dumb if we did that…”

Nightshade plucked a leaf from its head and crushed it, sprinkling the juice on the ground as it said, “Mine, mine, mine! These are all mine! Die, you all who dare to fight with me! I’ve poisoned them and only I can use them…”

Zhong Yue, however, looked to the front. There were many towering trees, but most of them had already withered, their branches fell down and the leaves dried off, they were all dead, with only three divine trees living exuberantly.

These three divine trees were the Immortality Peach Tree, and they emanated a very ancient air that could only be acquired from living too long. These would be the divine trees that lived since the time of the Reincarnation Monarch.

There were flowers blooming on the trees, a few peaches that were still growing and one or two ripe ones. They were round and big, pinkish in color and appeared to be incredibly appealing.

There were the images of the imperial court appearing at the top of the three divine trees. The faint godly figures were flying around the trees and chanting to it, praying to the heavens that the divine trees could have more ripe peaches so they could live longer.

It was truly spectacular!

“You should do it.”

Zhong Yue said solemnly, “I’ll be here for some godly soils, Ying Nu will help me. After all, we can only take one Peaches of Immortality right?”

Chi Xue looked at Ying Nu while Zhong Yue’s face turned gloomy. Chi Xue then hesitated and smiled coquettishly, she then strode forward and left while Ying Nu was puzzled.

“Ying Nu, help me get more soil!”, Zhong Yue then smiled and said.

The two of them and the Six Gentlemen of Returning Ruins scoured the ground for every single granule of soil. Although there were the godly soils here, they were very shallow as the godly soil deeper in the ground degraded into ordinary soils.

While Zhong Yue, Ying Nu, and the six divine herbs were busy collecting soil, a loud sound came from the riverbank, and cries of pain and shouts of anger could be heard. It seemed like Chi Xue managed to land a critical blow on the experts.

“Quick! Quick! They are here for your godly soils!” Zhong Yue urged his collectors to increase the pace.

“Who dares to fight with me for the soil! I’ll kill him even if it costs me my life!” Cusia’s eyes turned red while it sped up the rate of which it transferred the soil into Zhong Yue’s Yuan Shen secret realms.