Rise of Humanity

Chapter 1122: Blood Washing The Dao Mountain

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

The experts rushed to the saint palace. There, at the center of the palace hall was an altar where a strange-looking divine hook was floating on the center. The divine hook was forged from one of Yuan Ya Deity King’s talons, it had four toes.

Then, the experts knelt and kowtowed to it, they prayed, “Spirit of the divine hook, hear your disciples’ prayers! The Fuxi rebel now has invaded our Innate Dao Mountain, ravaging our land, slaughtering our people, disturbing our peace. Our casualties are heavy, including the Deity King’s disciples and concubines. We, the fortunate few, only escaped death by luck. So, here we are, praying to the divine hook, praying to our only hope. We pray for the divine hook to eliminate the nefarious murderer. After this, we will feed the divine hook our flesh and blood, every day and night.”

The divine hook abruptly shone brightly, it hovered down from the altar and landed on the hands of the eldest Black Crow Deity Emperor.

The Black Crow Deity Emperor was overjoyed, he said, “This is, after all, teacher’s treasure, of course is has a spirit in it. Now, we will take our revenge! That drunkard must be still sleeping, he will not be able to survive the divine hook’s power!”

The experts were bestirred, filled with spirits as they swarmed into the palace where Zhong Yue was sleeping.

They arrived in front of the palace, cast the divine hook and clawed down on the palace. The palace shattered apart and was reduced into ashes, completely brought down in one strike!

“Why can’t you all just let me sleep in peace?” A roar shouted from the ruins. Before they even noticed, a shabby huge ship rammed into them and broke their bones!

A few made it out alive, they fluttered their wings and flew away while the ancient warship’s thousand wings fluttered and chased after them. Zhong Yue was standing on the deck of the shabby warship. If it weren’t for the fact that he sensed the incoming danger and evaded with the space laws, he would’ve been killed by the divine hook already!

The divine eye on his forehead opened and divine rays shot out from it, slaughtering the Deity King’s fleeing disciples whereas the Deity King Hook disappeared from the scene when the disciples stopped supporting it with their energy.

“So weak, this is so weak! Yuan Ya Deity King’s homeground is far inferior to the Hua Xu Sacred Ground. No wonder there is no Yuan Ya Sovereign Race in the eight sovereign races!” Zhong Yue sailed to the front and laughed.

However, Yuan Ya Deity King’s ambition was never to be the Heavenly Monarch, he never wanted to conquer the universe. Nurturing the monarchs was not his goal nor was his race of any importance to him.

He wasn’t even very fond of teaching his own disciples. One must know, Yuan Ya Deity King possessed much wealth, including the many saint herbs and his wide array of knowledge in the Six Paths Reincarnation, seventh secret realm, and Six Paths Reincarnation; but until now, he had only taught one disciple that opened the seventh secret realm.

The universe had eight sovereign races, each and every one of them has had Heavenly Monarchs that conquered the universe. But Yuan Ya Deity King’s descendants were not among them. This alone was evidence enough to show that Yuan Ya Deity King only give birth to his descendants because of his own sexual desire.

“Ho? A Heavens?” Zhong Yue looked up and saw a Heavens in midair. Lights were shining down and the power of Heavens suddenly turned into a pair of huge wings that slashed down at him!

Zhong Yue steered the thousand-winged ancient warship out of the wings’ trajectory and headed straight into the Heavens.

The Heavens had a star river in it, glimmering with shining stars. In the center, was a sacred land, it was not an innate sacred land but an ordinary one, but it was still on par with the sacred grounds of the other celestial races!

To be able to contain a sacred ground inside of the Heavens, this wasn’t just an ordinary first-tier Heavens, but a zero-tier Heavens!

Although zero-tier Heavens were not as strong as the Six Paths Worlds, they were not far from them either. The zero-tier Heavens were strong enough to cultivate peerless disciples!

In the sacred ground lived countless White Crows. Huge and grand divine palaces were built across the land and they were incredibly ancient, he was unable to tell how many thousands of years they stood firmly for.

On the center of the sacred ground was a grand statue of an old man. He had the head of a crow, body of a human and wings on his backs. His eyes were filled with benevolence, this would probably be a statue of Yuan Ya Deity King.

Zhong Yue glanced over the sacred ground and counted more than billions of White Crow celestials. They were now worshipping the Heavens, it was them who cast the power of Heavens to attack Zhong Yue!

“This sacred ground, it’s a fragment and part of Fire Order Era’s Heaven Court!” All of a sudden, the fire spirit leader in Zhong Yue’s Yuan Shen said in its hoarse voice.

The fire spirits were burning in flame of rage, they shouted, “The Heaven Court’s fragment is hidden here, this is an evidence to Yuan Ya Deity King’s involvement in the Fire Order Era’s destruction!”

Zhong Yue’s heart shook shockingly. This Heavens contained a fragment from the Fire Order Era’s Heaven Court in it, this meant that it was much more valuable and stronger than the sacred ground of the other celestial races!

“If so, what are you all waiting for?” Zhong Yue’s Yuan Shen flew out and the fire spirits swarmed out of his Yuan Shen. Hundreds of dragon-headed, snake-tailed stalwart fire spirits slithered into the sacred ground.

These fire spirits had signed the Void Contract with Zhong Yue, merging themselves with his spirit and becoming part of his Yuan Shen. This allowed him to borrow their powers but they were still able to leave from his Yuan Shen as fire spirits. However, because of the contract, they were unable to leave his Yuan Shen for too long.

Hu—

The fire spirits spat out hundreds of million miles of tendrils of fire and incinerated the whole sacred ground. They flashed from places to places, igniting the palaces and burning the White Crows’ bodies into ash while also vaporizing their Yuan Shens!

“Kill, kill!” Zhong Yue hovered in midair, his horrendously powerful divine psyche burst out and cast the [Immortal Divine Psyche], killing the White Crow celestials that managed to escape the sea of fire!

Soon, a great race residing in the Heavens was totally annihilated by them!

Zhong Yue’s body swayed and the hundreds of fire spirits flew back into his Yuan Shen, he said, “If there is a White Crow Celestial Race, there should also be a Black Crow Celestial Race. The place where they are is probably another fragment of the Fire Order Era’s Heaven Court.”

He flew out of the Heavens and kept it away. Then, he searched around and encountered another Heavens. Zhong Yue flew into the Heavens only to find the occupants were also the White Crow Celestial Race. There was also a sacred ground in this Heavens.

Zhong Yue released the fire spirits and the massacre started again.

After that, he kept the Heavens and continued searching. He found another Heavens and this time, the occupants were the Black Crow Celestial Race. Naturally, the Heavens ended up just like the previous two Heavens.

At the end, Zhong Yue had already came across a total of five Heavens when his senses suddenly returned to him in the middle of the massacre as the toxins intoxicating his mind have dispersed.

“What have I done…?” Zhong Yue was dumbstruck, he walked around and saw the Black Crow celestials slaughtered by the fire spirits. The huge and stalwart fire spirits were wandering the sacred ground, hunting down every single Black Crow celestial that survived their flames.

“Just how many have I killed?”

Zhong Yue murmured to himself. The past memories rushed into his mind and he felt the cold traveling down his spines. There were billions of celestials in each Heavens. The White Crow Celestial Race and Black Crow Celestial Race were Yuan Ya Deity King’s descendants, but they were not almost totally wiped out by him!

“I’d never thought I had done all these… The dead souls will stalk me and catastrophe will follow. I have to solve them with my Great Six Paths Reincarnation, absorbing the dead souls into it.”

Just as he thought, he suddenly found the billions of dead souls of the White Crow celestials and Black Crow celestials inside of his Great Six Paths Reincarnation. He was stunned and quick to realize that he had already absorbed the dead souls into his Great Six Paths Reincarnation during his drunkard state.

“Fortunately, I didn’t let their souls escape.” Zhong Yue heaved a breath of relief.

Consort Tian Si and Deity Emperor Bi Xie raised chaos in the lower worlds that eventually became the last straw to erupt the war of the throne. The souls of the innocent that died in the chaos would have stalked them for the rest of their lives. However, Deity Emperor Ji Yan and Bai Canghai intervened and helped absorb the heavenly retributions on them, which also helped in elevating Bai Canghai into a Deity Emperor and Ji Yan into a Creator!

But if Ji Yan and Bai Canghai were to absorb the heavenly retributions from the massacre Zhong Yue had done, they would both probably ascend into the level of Imperial Emperors!

After all, it was the annihilation of two races in this case!

Even though Zhong Yue resolved the issue with his Great Six Paths Reincarnation, it was only a temporary measure. Once his Six Paths Reincarnation was crushed and the dead souls let loose, his heavenly retributions would follow!

With this amount of dead souls, the heavenly retributions would be extremely severe, most likely enough to kill him in an instant!

Zhong Yue calmed himself, he mumbled, “Since I’ve already started it, why stop here?”

He recalled the fire spirits, kept the Heavens, and continued his search.

However, there were many experts that were hiding from his hunt in the Innate Dao Mountain Sacred Ground. Zhong Yue searched around but couldn’t find anymore Heavens. It seemed like these experts had already hidden them away from him.

“These sacred grounds are not Yuan Ya Deity King’s only wealth, there must be some other sacred grounds around, but his disciples have kept them and hid away from me. It’s difficult for me to hunt them this way. But it isn’t my goal here to annihilate them, I’m here to study the Innate Mountain Dao. It’s time I get back to my agenda. Lucky me, Yuan Ya Deity King was one of the ancient Deity Kings that partook in forging the thousand-winged ancient warship, else, it’d be incredibly hard to pass through these seals and slaughtering array formations.”

Zhong Yue thought of it, he flew up higher and looked down. The Innate Dao Mountain was huge, even after the thousand-winged ancient warship has traveled a long distance upward to the lofty skies, he still couldn’t see it’s full picture.

The thousand-winged ancient warship was already above the star river in the space. Then, he looked down and was only able to see the full picture of the Innate Dao Mountain.

Zhong Yue was looking down. The Innate Dao Mountain was like a natural Dao that was imprinted in the universe. It was grand and amazing, shaped like a drawing, a Dao drawing.

A drawing formed purely by Daos.

Furthermore, the structure of the Dao drawing was ever-changing. The height and size of the mountain ridge was not fixed, changing as the Daos changes. But when he stared at it more closely, the changes disappeared and the mountain appeared rigid and solid.

By just studying at the changes in pattern of the Dao Mountain, Zhong Yue found many wondrous things that he could study from.

“Great Sui’s creation of the totem patterns cultivation system, does it also have something to do with the Innate Dao Mountain?”

Zhong Yue was surprised and so he meticulously studied the Dao Mountain. From the Dao patterns, he could see the vague contours of the totem patterns. Many of the totem patterns were created by the postnate living beings in their cultivation, but the totem patterns here were created by nature!

But what opened his eyes were that although the natural totem patterns of the Dao Mountain had the vague contour of the totem patterns, the Dao Mountain itself as a whole was a unique Dao pattern of the Prehistoric Dark Age!

The Daos cultivated by the Deity Kings of the Dark Age were always a full, whole Dao that couldn’t be broken down into smaller subdivisions. But the Innate Dao Mountain has both!

Which was why Zhong Yue wondered if Great Sui was here and came out with the totem patterns cultivation system from the natural patterns of the Dao Mountain.

“This saint mountain is a complete Innate Mountain Dao itself as a whole. It is the first and origin of all mountains; while Yuan Ya Deity King is the innate god born from this Dao Mountain!”

Zhong Yue inhaled deeply. He carefully studied the Dao Mountain’s abstrusities for the Innate Mountain dao.

“Dao Mountain is firm and solid, but the mountain ridge is ever-changing. It’s just like the art of Yi.”

Zhong Yue’s eyes brightned up. What did not change was the mountain’s spirit, what changed was the mountain’s momentum. To find the underlying foundation of endless changes and the endless possibilities of a fixed basis, such was the quintessence of the Innate Mountain Dao!

“Yuan Ya Deity King is born from this Dao Mountain, he is the condensation of the Innate Mountain Dao. His attainments in this dao must have been extensive!”

Zhong Yue suddenly realized, “When I was drunk and fought with his disciples, all of them had cultivated different arts and techniques, even the skills they’d learned and the divine weapons they used were different. Such was the essence of the endless changes of the Innate Mountain Dao!”