Rise of Humanity

Does Great Sui also need to slumber? He is just like Xin Huo!

Zhong Yue felt a strong sense of familiarity. Great Sui and Xin Huo were so similar they share almost the same traits. Xin Huo was the flame of inheritance created by Great Sui, so most of his characteristics were inherited from Great Sui.

Psyche Ocean Dreamland?

Zhong Yue quickly studied the last and missing piece of the [Sui Insight Dao Scripture]. It was talking about the Psyche Ocean Dreamland, a world created to contain the spirits and achieve immortality!

Great Sui’s eyelids were closing, he was falling into a slumber and his voice faltered, “Back then, myself and my 23 saint disciples opened the Void World. We used our vast psyche to create a world for the ancient saints, a land where the spirits can reside for eternity and their descendants can worship us so that they could pass down their heritage. They are my disciples, and also my fellow Daoists. But I can tell, they too, cannot bear the evergrowing burden anymore. The void is trembling, the balance is toppling, but I cannot be fully awakened to investigate the matter myself.”

“I sense something, or maybe someone, that isn’t a spirit is here trying to occupy this place… If you have questions, ask it now when I am awake to answer you.”

“Something that isn’t a spirit is here?” Zhong Yue was shocked, he quickly asked, “Great Sui, what is it?”

As soon as he asked his question, Great Sui and the 23 monarch spirits had already fallen back into slumber. He asked again but Great Sui didn’t answer.

“Didn’t you say I can ask and you can answer my questions?” Zhong Yue mumbled. Great Sui and Xin Huo were very much alike, both were unreliable. One moment ago, he said he could answer Zhong Yue’s question and in the next, he was already sleeping.

“Is Great Sui talking about the sky curtain ?” Zhong Yue guessed, “No, it can’t be. The sky curtain is most probably one of the Treasures of Heavenly Daos, it’s no spirit but it isn’t something notable enough for Great Sui to warn me about.”

Then, he felt the Void World’s tearing forces acting upon his mortal body and Yuan Shen again. Zhong Yue quickly cast the [Sui Insight Dao Scripture]. This time, as the last and missing piece of the cultivation art was completed, a dreamland was visualized in his psyche ocean. As the dreamland was only a world of dreams that never actually existed, that’s why it was known as void.

Which was also how Void World got its name.

As his void and the Void World were connected, the Void World’s repelling force faltered greatly. Although it was still acting on his mortal body, the repelling force was not as powerful anymore.

Zhong Yue’s psyche rumbled, he said, “Xin Huo, seniors of the fire spirits, please follow me as I search for the Fuxi monarchs’ spirits!”

Xin Huo and the fire spirits were unwilling to leave. They bowed at Great Sui’s spirit respectfully and returned to Zhong Yue’s body. The fire spirits merged with his Yuan Shen while Xin Huo entered Zhong Yue’s psyche ocean.

“Great Sui’s spirit is still alive!” Xin Huo was mixed with the feeling of happiness and sadness. He was repeating it one time after another in Zhong Yue’s ears.

Zhong Yue nodded. His Psyche Ocean Dreamland was also to help to soften the Void World’s repelling force on his body and attracting force on his Yuan Shen. But his seventh secret realm didn’t have much time left. He had to find the Fuxi monarchs’ spirits before time runs out!

Zhong Yue fluttered the innate meat wings and traveled in the Void World. With Great Sui as the center, he flew out around for his search. The further he went, the younger the spirits were. Even so, they were still ancient paragons to him, some were more than millions of years old.

But most of them were already withered, Zhong Yue could even see some of them partially disintegrating.

He was like a waltzing note that traveled in the history of time. Coming from the Fire Order Era and entering the Earth Order Era, flashing by the sides of the ancient paragons that had left their marks and names in history.

Finally, he saw Monarch Pao Xi’s and Goddess Nuwa’s spirits. The two majestic rulers’ tails were twinning together and their gazes were on him.

They were the grand ancestors to the Fuxi Clan, the start and origin of the Earth Order Era, but their spirits were also disintegrating.

“Fuxi, go forward!”

Zhong Yue heard them saying.

He moved further and saw the monarch spirits of Monarch Yi Yi, Monarch Shi Yi, Monarch Tai Hao, Monarch Hao Yi, Monarch Shao Hao, Monarch Ji Jie, Monarch Fu Tai, Monarch Xi Hao.

“Fuxi, go forward!’ They were telling Zhong Yue.

Finally, Zhong Yue arrived beside Monarch Yin Qiang, the lady monarch’s three eyes opened, she raised her arm and dipped a finger on his forehead, then she shouted, “Fuxi, go forward!”

Zhong Yue could feel a wave of information rushing into his mind, it was the complete art of Lady Monarch Yin Qiang’s [Yin Qiang Demon Conqueror Mystic Scripture]!

The [Yin Qiang Demon Conqueror Mystic Scripture] he had learned was incomplete, there were many missing pieces and he could only rely on his own wit to piece back the complete art. Thus, what he had wasn’t the same true mystical art it was.

But now, with Lady Monarch Yin Qiang’s spirit imparting the art to him herself, the true quintessence coming from a monarch in the [Yin Qiang Demon Conqueror Mystic Scripture] was passed down to him with the dip of a finger!

Then, Zhong Yue made his way moving forward as instructed. On his way to Monarch Xiang Tuan, Zhong Yue saw something flickering in the Void World. It was a kind of creature, gigantic in size and incredibly ugly to look at. The creatures were filled with limbs like hands and legs, and they were awkwardly sticking themselves to the spirits in the Void World.

They had no heads and necks but eyes, ears, noses, and mouths were all over their bodies as if their bodies were the heads.

“Headless creatures with faces and limbs all over their bodies?”

Zhong Yue was dumbstruck. In Void World, no physical objects were allowed to stay. So where did these creatures come from? How did they manage to reside in the Void World?

By the looks of it, they were siphoning the energies from the spirits to survive!

Were they those ‘things that didn’t belong to Void World’ Great Sui referred to?

The creatures looked like they didn’t have a true flesh and blood body, they were some kind of spiritual life form that lived in the Void World. It was unknown how long their history in the Void World was and how many spirits they had devoured. They were so powerful that Zhong Yue was already shivering in horror by only looking at them!

Creatures that should’ve never existed, and yet, here they were!

The only explanation for this was that these creatures were just like the insect race, they were created by someone!

The demon race created the insect race for the celestial race, but what these ugly creatures in the Void World were created for?

Then, the ugly creatures noticed him and they were swarming in at him. They moved with their limbs like they were swimming and they were extremely fast. Even with his innate wings, they were slowly closing in on him.

Finally, Zhong Yue arrived beside Monarch Xiang Tuan. The monarch dipped his finger on Zhong Yue’s forehead and imparted him the complete [Extermination Demonic Art].

“Fuxi, go forward!” Monarch Xiang Tuan’s psyche rumbled.

Zhong Yue moved further front toward Monarch Cao An’s spirit while more and more creatures followed behind him. They now numbered in the hundreds and were also coming in from the sides.

“Keep going forward, don’t get distracted!”

Monarch Cao An dipped a finger on his forehead and imparted the [Multiple Hearts Blood Scripture] to Zhong Yue.

Zhong Yue flew forward to Monarch Gui Yu while the bizarre creatures grow in numbers swarming onto him. Zhong Yue glanced behind him and saw the Fuxi ancestors battling with the creatures.

His heart sank deeply. The Fuxi ancestors were dead with only their spirits residing in the Void World. Engaging in the battle without worship would require them to burn their spirits’ energies. This would greatly impair the foundation of their spirits and accelerate the process of disintegration.

“Don’t look back, go full speed!”

A wave of boundless psyche rumbled into his mind, it said, “We’ve waited a hundred thousand years for this moment! Go!”

Zhong Yue reached to Monarch Gui Yu. The monarch imparted him with his [Art of Dao Bones Great Space], then turned around and lunged toward the incoming creatures.

“Go!” Monarch Gui Yu’s voice sounded in Zhong Yue’s mind.

Zhong Yue rushed toward Monarch Tuan Hao’s spirit where the latter was waiting for him. The monarch imparted him the [Dao Song of Dragon and Snake] and also turned to battle the creatures.

“Fuxi, go forward!” His divine psyche rumbled in Zhong Yue’s mind.

Zhong Yue pulled out all the stops to rush forward. There were just too many of the creatures in the Void World, they were uncountable.

They were most likely the reason Great Sui felt the Void World’s burden getting unbearable. They were too many, parasitizing in the Void World, stealing the energies of the spirits and siphoning on the powers of worships!

Meanwhile, Zhong Yue felt the air of the Heavenly Daos again. A sky curtain was slowly rising in the Void World and expanding out. It was this sky curtain that blocked the Fuxi monarchs’ spirits, stopping them from descending into the worlds.

And if the sky curtain was fully raised, Zhong Yue’s atman would also be trapped in the Void World!

Zhong Yue mustered all of his strength and sped away. He finally reached Monarch Sui Yi’s spirit and the monarch dipped a finger on his forehead. Monarch Sui Yi imparted Zhong Yue with the [Art of Dao Reflection] and his divine psyche sighed, “Descend and return. Time’s up.”

Zhong Yue’s heart shook, he didn’t answer and rushed toward Monarch Peng He instead, hoping that he could reach Monarch Peng He before the sky curtain was fully raised.

The spirits residing in the Void World had their own place. They couldn’t leave their area and move around as they liked. Thus, Zhong Yue had to reach to the monarch spirits to be imparted with their cultivation heritage!

“Don’t come anymore, leave!” The 22 reigns of Fuxi monarchs looked at him. They divine psyches rumbled together in his mind!

“Descend!” They said.

Zhong Yue’s vision turned blurry as a layer of tears obstructed his view. He abruptly bowed and said, “Ancestors!”

“Get up, don’t worship us, you will be detected! Go, now!” Their spirits were surrounded by the creatures, but their divine psyches have reached to him.

Zhong Yue turned around and left the Void World before the sky curtain fully enclosed it. He had returned to the real world.

At the same time, the Void World rippled and a faceless giant strode out at where Zhong Yue bowed to the Fuxi ancestors. It was puzzled.

“Heavenly Monarchs who’ve lost an era, who’ve lost a race.” A face emerged out on his head as he smiled and said, “You’ve broken the rule. What shady deals are you cunning foxes dealing again? Shame, the times have changed, but you are still immersed in the past, hoping to restore your past glory.”

He looked to the lower worlds as if his gaze could see through the many layers of dimension and said insouciantly, “How dare you try to do your shady things right under Heaven’s nose? The more you do, the more mistakes you will make. Don’t ever think about fighting back, just be good and obedient and feed my precious Soul Eating Beasts.”