Rise of Humanity

Yangguan Yuan’s face suddenly turned pale, he mumbled, “King Yi had been holding back all this while. His prowess now is not just a fine line stronger than us, it’s a few times stronger!”

The other experts were feeling the same. The Zhong Yue now was a few times stronger than when he battled with Princess Wenyue and the others. It was almost impossible for it to happen!

When faced with formidable opponents who had also opened the seventh secret realm, it was impossible for one to hide his true prowess. After all, they were the talents with the potential of becoming monarchs. Even if there were disparities in their prowess, the differences wouldn’t be so much.

But what was happening before them was Zhong Yue’s sudden hike of power, suggesting that he had been hiding nearly half of his true power all this time!

This could only mean one thing, Zhong Yue’s attainments in the Daos were much higher than theirs and his understandings in the Seven Paths Reincarnation were deeper as well!

“A second Yuan Shen?” Qing Ruqu mumbled.

“An outside body?” Jin Zhongyu mulled, “The outside body is also known as the second body. It’s an incredible art. But be it the second Yuan Shen or outside body, their powers are not able to be returned to the main body.”

Feng Mingshan suddenly said, “It’s probably the past body.”

“Past body?”

Yangguan Yuan and Wu Qingxuan came closer and Yangguan Yuan said, “I’ve heard of it before. The past body is the Dao body that the innate gods would shed away for the ascension into the level of Dao God. Only by shedding away all of the worldly relations they have with the mortal worlds can they ascend into Dao Gods. With King Yi’s level, it’s not possible to do it just yet, is it?”

Feng Mingshan’s eyes were filled with rays as he reassured, “It’s definitely the past body! One doesn’t have to be a Dao God to shed his past body. Furthermore, the past body varies in types, I’ve heard at least a few of them.”

Qing Ruqu praised, “Senior Martial Brother Feng is indeed worthy of your name as a Tian Feng Sovereign Race clansman and Feng Tian Origin Lord’s disciple. Your knowledge sure is vast!”

Feng Mingshan’s face darkened, he sneered coldly, “Feng Tian Origin Lord? Hmph…”

Qing Ruqu was puzzled, it was a compliment but why did Feng Mingshan reacted unhappily as if he was criticized?

As they conversed, their distance from Zhong Yue and Xuan Ji continued to grow bigger. Soon after, they were already a billion miles away from the duo. Thankfully, it still was within the coverage of a planet’s size, or else they wouldn’t be able to observe the battle already.

“Brother Xuan Ji, you said you’ve learned the Fuxi’s arts and techniques. Whatever I know, you know; whatever I don’t, you still know.”

Zhong Yue smiled, the Great Six Paths Reincarnation appeared behind him and the void around them was thrown into chaos. Ghostly fire filled their surroundings and many Hell Reincarnations emerged from the void. Zhong Yue’s mortal body grew enormously huge while Xuan Ji appeared like a tiny ant in front of him and the Hell Reincarnations!

Countless Daos swarmed into Zhong Yue’s body and made him appear like a ghostly monarch with limitless power!

“This, do you know?”

Zhong Yue slammed his hand down while pinning Xuan Ji down on the ground with the monarch’s aura. Back then, he has used this skill to trap Ghost Master Gui Youmin and killed the Ghost Master dozens of times in his Great Six Paths Reincarnation!

“They’ve disappeared!”

Yangguan Yuan and the experts exclaimed in shock. Just when Zhong Yue cast out the Great Six Paths Reincarnation, the duo disappeared from the universe!

Even when they opened their divine eyes and scanned the surroundings and even into the void, they still couldn’t find a single trace of Zhong Yue and Xuan Ji!

Zhong Yue’s Great Six Paths Reincarnation was not in the same line as reality, or one could say, it wasn’t even in the same universe but a parallel universe to the real world!

Xuan Ji looked up in surprise, he praised, “The monarch’s mentality, the Great Six Paths Reincarnation, the innate Yuan Shen and innate soul! Without any one of these four requirements, this skill would not be possible! King Yi, you are truly exceptional, no wonder you are listed as first in the Board of Future Monarchs. Your past body, I assume it was made when you cultivated the innate soul? The postnate living being’s soul is born postnatally, it’s not an innate product. Thus, when you cultivated the innate soul, a layer was shed and your postnate soul became your past body!”

Zhong Yue’s heart skipped a beat in shock. His past body Gu Yue’s appearance was a natural product of his success in cultivating the innate soul. But never once had he thought of the reason behind it until Xuan Ji pointed it out.

“You are the first to shed the old soul and succeed in turning it innate.”

Right as his palm slammed down on Xuan Ji, the dimensions around Xuan Ji trembled heavily and a Great Six Paths Reincarnation was also formed.

However, Zhong Yue’s Great Six Paths Reincarnation was the opposing side, it was the Hell Reincarnations. Whereas Xuan Ji’s Great Six Paths Reincarnation was the affirming side, it was the Pan Gu celestial being and the six Star Rivers!

Xuan Ji didn’t have Dao Venerate Fu Min’s attainments in the Great Six Paths Reincarnation, but he walked a different path. He used his affirming Great Six Paths Reincarnation against Zhong Yue’s opposing Great Six Paths Reincarnation, fighting virtuality with reality.

His Pan Gu celestial was cultivated to a point where it was nearly corporeal. His cultivation path was similar to that of the ancient monarchs.

The ancient monarchs have turned into the 3,000 Six Paths Worlds with their affirming Great Six Paths Reincarnation. But because the ancient monarchs were uncannily powerful, their affirming Great Six Paths Reincarnations could turn and be manifested into the 3,000 Six Paths Worlds.

Whereas Xuan Ji was restricted by his lack of prowess, his affirming Great Six Paths Reincarnation was much smaller and wasn’t able to actually create anything and materialize the six Star Rivers.

However, Zhong Yue’s Great Six Paths Reincarnation also couldn’t turn the stars into real objects. In this term, they were both equal in prowess!

Although Dao Venerate Fu Min’s cultivation heritage also contained the cultivation art to the affirming Great Six Paths Reincarnation, Zhong Yue only spent 10 years in front of the Fuxi statue in the Ancestral Court, he didn’t manage to learn it yet.

But whether if it was the affirming or opposing type of Great Six Paths Reincarnation, the essence was the same—manifesting a world where the cultivator was the world’s creator himself.

In their worlds, they were the monarchs, the undefeatable creators!

“You’ve cultivated your soul and shed the soul’s past body. Now, you need to cultivate your body and shed the body’s past body; then cultivate your Dao and shed your Dao’s past body; and finally, cultivate your mind and shed away your unnecessary thoughts. Only then, will you be able to stand equal with the innate gods.”

Xuan Ji raised a hand up and blocked the incoming palm strike, he laughed, “But I don’t need all of that. I am born naturally with it!”

As the worlds collide, they were destroying each other. The collision force swept across the worlds, the lands were ravaged and stars exploded, and eventually, everything was returned to nothingness.

Such was the destructive powers that two monarchs of different worlds could make when they fought!

In a sense, they both surpassed the conventional barrier of cultivation levels. They were both in the monarch-level in their own aspects, Zhong Yue’s was his mentality and his soul while Xuan Ji’s was his mentality and Pan Gu celestial being!

The affirming and opposing Great Six Paths Reincarnation were both equally powerful, no one was better than the other.

Of course, they were only on par with the monarchs in just certain aspects and far from the prowess of the monarchs. The true monarchs wouldn’t have to mind their worlds and could reduce the worlds into ashes in just a swing of a hand.

Zhong Yue was dawned. Xuan Ji had just revealed an important message to him: how to shed off the Dirt Body, Dao Body, and Emotion Body!

Shedding off these three bodies were incredibly important to him!

If shedding the past body would require him to cultivate the Innate True Soul, then shedding off the Dirt Body would require him to cultivate the innate mortal body!

Although he had cultivated the innate mortal body, it was still insufficient as his bloodline had become the biggest obstacle.

There was still 40% of his Fuxi bloodline left sealed. Only by unsealing the 40% Fuxi bloodline and cultivating the innate divine blood would he be able to achieve the complete innate mortal body to shed away the Dirt Body!

On the other hand, the Dao Body needed him to cultivate all of his Daos into innate Daos. However, his innate Daos were still incomplete. In order to succeed in the [Innate Eight Trigrams], he still needed six more Daos, the Daos of Heaven, Earth, Wind, Water, Mountain, and Lake.

He had already cultivated the Yi Dao; the Yin Yang’s Daos of Tai Yang, Tai Yin; the four symbols’ Daos of Celestial, Demon, Shao Yang, and Shao Yin; and the eight trigrams’ Daos of Lightning and Fire. After he cultivated the lacking six more Daos, he would be able to shed the Dao Body!

But the hardest of all was the Heaven Dao!

Until now, Zhong Yue only barely mastered the 30 Drawings of Heavenly Daos, he still couldn’t manifest them yet.

Whereas the Emotion Body represented not his Yuan Shen but his mind and psyche. He would have to eradicate all the unnecessary thoughts and emotions out of him and achieve a pure Dao heart.

When compared to the rest, this was most probably the hardest for him to achieve. After all, achieving a pure Dao heart would mean that he would have to disregard all his personal desires, quests and relationships with others. However, this may the easiest criterion to be met if it were Feng Xiaozhong!

After shedding away these four bodies, one would be infinitely close to becoming an innate god!

As for the Karmic Body, Xuan Ji didn’t mention anything of it and Zhong Yue was clueless.

“Fuxi, in the worlds of yours and mine, the outsiders wouldn’t be able to even take a peek in the battle. You can go all out in the peace of mind!”

Xuan Ji gently raised his hand and a roll of heavenly book appeared in his palm, it was one of the 30 Drawings of Heavenly Daos, the Drawing of Tian Ji!

“I’d like to see too, as the last Fuxi, how far have you progressed. Have you exceeded your Fuxi ancestors?”

The manifestation of the Drawing of Tian Ji’s weapon was a heavenly book. But the heavenly book wasn’t a divine weapon, it was formed from his Daos. As the book was opened, words flew out from the book and enlarged tremendously.

The words were flying toward Zhong Yue’s Great Six Paths Reincarnation, some stopped the stars from orbiting and some others halted the elements. Each and every single word was a skill itself, much like Feng Wuji’s [Skills of Diction], but much stronger!

Zhong Yue’s face grew serious, his Great Six Paths Reincarnation was composed of six worlds. It required constant operation of the six worlds to maintain its power, but with the words obstructing the operation of the worlds, his monarch-like prowess was also taking a hit!

“Fuxi True Form!”

All of a sudden, his aura took a one-eighty turn into a barbaric-like warrior with surging battling spirit. He had finally cast the Fuxi True Form , and his Great Six Paths Reincarnation was stabilized again!

Pak, pak, pak—

His spine straightened and 33 layers of Heavens emerged above him with a giant dragon soaring through the center of the Heavens!

With a flash of bright light, his divine third eye was opened. Its gaze lit up the void, brightening everything crystal clear whereas the innate dragon scale reflected the surroundings, breaking them down into their most fundamental components!

And his innate snake tail was the fastest movement art in the universe, allowing him to loom between the void and reality!

It was a mortal body of near-perfection, there wasn’t any weakness in it!

A loud Dao voice like the dragon roar came out of Zhong Yue’s mouth. It was the innate divine language and it suppressed Xuan Ji’s heavenly book’s words. The Dao languages clashed and the stars in Xuan Ji’s affirming Great Six Paths Reincarnation were vaporized!

With just a roar, he had penetrated through Xuan Ji’s Six Paths Worlds and created a clear path, destroying every star, planet, and sun along it!