Rise of Humanity

After a few months, the messengers had finally completed their mission but just as they were about to return to the fortress, a divine officer, seemingly from the Heaven Court, descended from the skies and stopped them.

“Dear messengers, do you still have any additional invitation letters? I am here under His Majesty’s order to ask for some.”

The messengers’ heart tightened as they all said carefully, “There aren’t any prepared for His Majesty.”

The officer then simply said, “Then please have King Yi to prepare some. These are the ones that His Majesty wants the invitation letters for.”

He then took out a gold booklet and handed it to the messengers, who kept it away and left quickly.

“What is His Majesty planning to do by showing desire to attend the future monarch meeting?”

The messengers were all confused.

They continued but before they could leave the Imperial Star, a handsome young god halted them.

This god was extraordinarily good looking, with wings on his back. But despite how graceful and polite he looked, there was clearly madness burning in his eyes.

“Did King Yi tell you to send an invitation letter to me?” asked the god.

“May we know your name, my lord?” asked a messenger.

The god’s voice rumbled in his chest, sounded like phoenix, “I am Feng Mingshan.”

“Feng Mingshan of the Tian Feng Sovereign Race that opened the seventh secret realm?”

One of the elderly messenger’s eyes lit up and said, “Our master had already sent another batch of messengers to deliver the invitation into Heavenly Fire Barren Region. Once returning to Heavenly Fire Barren Region, Senior Martial Brother Feng will be able to retrieve it.”

“You say go back to Heavenly Fire Barren Region?”

Fire raged within Feng Mingshan’s eyes, “Go back? I can’t go back anymore! I am the sole survivor of the Heavenly Fire Barren Region now!”

The messengers were all stunned for they all knew Zhong Yue was taking Heavenly Fire Barren Region’s Feng Mingshan seriously and he specifically sent a messenger into Heavenly Fire Barren Region to invite him. But now it seemed like Feng Mingshan had severed ties with Tian Feng Sovereign Race and bore hostility towards the Heavenly Fire Barren Region.

“There is no Tian Feng Sovereign Race anymore… only Feng Mingshan!”

Feng Mingshan placed his hands behind his back and said proudly, “Why would I still view her as my ancestor when Feng Tian Origin Lord uses me as a tool and chess piece? I will rebuild the Tian Feng Sovereign Race and the new Tian Feng Sovereign Race will replace the old one as the real monarch race. I will reclaim the honor of the phoenixes instead of being a puppet of the ancient Deity King! Bring me to Mister Yi, I need a word with him!”

In the ancient universe, the Yang Hou Demon Race had expanded its powerbase crazily, having swallowed the other races’ territories and gone to total war with the celestial races.

The Yang Hou Clan also received the support from the other five demon races. They had obtained the Innate Demon Monarch’s support and had now acquired half of the ancient universe.

Yangguang Yuan was the disciple of Demon Monarch Yang Hou and was tasked with great responsibilities. On this day, he welcomed Zhong Yue’s messenger and after reading the invitation letter, he smiled, “So it has been 100 years, eh? The Yi Clan is really saving themselves the effort of researching who are worthy of being invited by asking me to help deliver the letters to those with the potential of becoming the monarch. Return to your lord and tell him, tell him that I will show up with the talents of ancient universe to compete with the talents in Zi Wei Galaxy!”

The messenger bowed and Yangguan Yuan smiled, “Who else is invited in the ancient universe?”

The messenger replied, “Under my lord’s order, invitation letters have been sent to the Moyun Clan, Dafan Clan, Jitong Clan, Dayu Clan, Tianyao Clan, and Jinwu Clan. They were also requested to send those with the potential to the fortress for the meeting.”

Yangguan Yuan, however, paid little attention and he said, “The celestial race in ancient monarchs? Apart from the six great sovereign races, only the Innate Celestial Monarch’s disciples are a little worthy, despite being weaker than us demon races. These scrubs shouldn’t be a concern. Mister Yi is wasting his effort by inviting them because I will crush them one by one! Hmmm, these guys will also be attending the meeting? This is a great chance for me to crush them! Oh, are you going to deliver the letters to the Innate Celestial Monarch’s palace?”

“Some of my colleagues are already making their way there.”

Yangguan Yuan nodded and said, “King Yi is really ambitious and charming, he even dares to invite the existence in that palace. Heh, if the ancient existences’ disciples are attending as well, the meeting will be more lively! I am stronger than I used to be and curious to see how many of their disciples I can crush!”

In Heaven Breaching Fortress, Ti Mobei arrived with Titing Clan’s Heavenly King Altar. The many Titing Clan’s Deity Emperors moved the gigantic altar slowly and placed it at the center.

The fortress was located close to the Imperial Star and because of this, many of the invited future monarchs were already here, turning the atmosphere extremely lively.

So many talents but I can’t experiment on them, what a shame! 

A middle-aged man in white robes acted politely, welcoming the many attending future monarchs with Zhong Yue.

Seeing this man, Ti Mobei became attracted by his presence, but he couldn’t see through Feng Xiaozhong’s cultivation level and so asked Zhong Yue in surprise, “Mister Yi, this is?”

Zhong Yue, however, showed little desire to introduce the middle-aged man to him and simply smiled, “This is my senior martial brother. Brother Mobei, there are many strong ones that have arrived recently, much of whom are your old enemies.”

Ti Mobei burst out laughing but Zhong Yue could see the icy cold in his eyes, “Throughout these years, I’ve been through battles. I’ve come across many strong foes, but it is not that easy to win against me! Heh, I would personally like to meet with some of these old enemies in fact! Mister Yi, see you in a bit!”

Zhong Yue watched as Ti Mobei left and he smiled, “Senior Martial Brother Feng, you are a little excited, aren’t you? How far have you progressed in the Ancestral Court’s Seven Paths Reincarnation that I taught you?”

The man standing beside Zhong Yue now was Feng Xiaozhong and he replied, “I merely understood a little on the ancient monarchs’ understanding towards the seventh secret realm and Dao Venerate Fu Min’s understanding was far greater than mine, but still, the completed Seven Paths Reincarnation System is not formed yet. If the great Dao Venerate Fu Min could live a little longer, he might just be able to create the Seven Paths Reincarnation or even the Eight Paths Reincarnation.”

His heart moved, revealing the seventh secret realm projection that turned into the seventh light wheel and said, “It’s hard to connect the seven great secret realms together. I tried many other secret realms throughout these years but none succeeded.”

Zhong Yue’s eyes twitched but the seventh light wheel behind Feng Xiaozhong’s head transformed the another seventh secret realm; after receiving the information, Feng Xiaozhong started developing other secret realms and tried to explore the wonders of the Seven Paths Reincarnation from the other secret realms.

Then, the secret realm transformed again, turned into the third type of secret realm, the forth and so on….

What a crazy man you are! Do you even know fear?

Zhong Yue complained silently in his mind as he watched Feng Xiaozhong changing his secret realm to different types, which was very alike to the Fuxi statue he saw deep in the Ancestral Court’s abyss.

The Fuxi statue was also constantly changing the seventh secret realm, studying the interactions between the seventh and other secret realms.

This was the path that Dao Venerate Fu Min experimented on, but this was not taught to Feng Xiaozhong yet, yet he still entered the same path as Dao Venerate Fu Min.

Compared to Dao Venerate Fu Min who formed a Fuxi illusion through countless secret realms and studied the interactions using the fake Fuxi, Feng Xiaozhong was much more extreme for he directly tested his theories on himself without considering the consequences!

This was something neither Zhong Yue nor Dao Venerate Fu Min could do for they were both carrying a lot on their shoulders and their position made them unable to do things as they wished.

And that was why their heart of Dao was not as crystal clear and pure as Feng Xiaozhong’s.

The middle-aged man continued to shift from one seventh secret realm to another and he said, “There are many types of Seven Paths Reincarnation, Space, Time, Cosmic, Light, Eight Barren, Million Daos, Heaven, Earth…. Generally speaking, the seventh secret realms all have different trails, they look different but all have the same essence behind them. The interactions between every secret realm type and the Six Paths Reincarnation all contain the same logic and once you fully comprehend the logic, you will acquire the last key to the seventh secret realm.”

His words earned Zhong Yue’s admiration and respect, though Feng Xiaozhong’s Seven Paths Reincarnation was taught to him by Zhong Yue, his comprehensions even surpassed Zhong Yue’s.

“Senior martial brother, a man’s wisdom will come to an end sooner or later. But together, A monarchs’ intelligence have no end. This time, I gathered the future monarchs here and through their intelligence, I will push the calculation of Seven Paths Reincarnation one huge step forward!” smiled Zhong Yue.

Meanwhile, upon feeling the imminent Seven Paths Reincarnation’s crumbling, Feng Xiaozhong dispersed it before any harm was done to him and said, “You’ve always focused on developing your power, every movement you made would cause the world to circle around you. With an order, the future monarchs gathered in Heaven Breaching Fortress, allowing you to exploit their intelligence and I, can’t do all these.”

Zhong Yue was stunned; Feng Xiaozhong was zealous on seeking Daos, allowing him to strengthen his heart of Dao to a point that it was unmovable and as for Zhong Yue, he focused on developing his own power. The two of them walked onto two different paths, but from the looks of it right now, it seemed like they have all returned to the same path.

Another messenger showed up and came reported, “My lord, as we returned from Imperial Star, the Heavenly Monarch’s divine officer halted us and requested for hundred invitation letters.”

“Heavenly Monarch Di Ming also wants to join the meeting?”

Zhong Yue was very surprised and he took over the name list presented by the messenger. He frowned right after taking a look for apart from heavenly Monarch Di Ming, there were many other strange names and he mumbled, “What is he plotting now? Is he planning to personally wipe out me and my army?”

“There is also a young god that returned with us this time. He calls himself Feng Mingshan and demanded to have a word with you, my lord.” reported the messenger again.

Zhong Yue was surprised and he said, “Isn’t Feng Mingshan in Heavenly Fire Barren Region? Why is he here? Where is he, I have to meet him right now!”

Suddenly, another messenger came reporting, “My lord, I’ve returned from Xian Tian Palace and I ran into Imperial Emperor Xian Tian. He also asked for 37 invitation letters, this is the name list.”

Zhong Yue became even more surprised and when he took the name list over, he found himself unheard of the other 36 names except for Imperial Emperor Xian Tian’s.

“But Imperial Emperor Xian Tian is already here, why the extra effort?”