Rise of Humanity

In the Heaven Suppression Fortress, Zhong Yue watched as his army trained hard; at this point, the Heaven Suppression Fortress had no more weaknesses with the arrival of the Yinkang Navy.

But if the Heavenly River Navy Fleet attacked us with the other divisions, I’m afraid we still won’t be able to hold our ground.

After thinking for some time, Zhong Yue suddenly turned into a Golden Crow and flew into the skies and casted various skills as the Golden Crow.

Moments later, he turned back to human form and gave himself some time to think again before he flew into the skies and repeated.

“Darling, what are you doing?”

Jin Hexi showed up gracefully and looked at Zhong Yue as he used all the body techniques of the Jinwu Clan and she asked in confusion, “Darling, you are not from the Jinwu Clan. Although you have cultivated the form of the Innate Golden Crow, you still wouldn’t be able to fully unleash its power.”

Upon discovering her arrival, Zhong Yue landed in front of her and explained, “I’m just trying to simulate the battle this way.”

“Why?” asked a surprised Jin Hexi.

Zhong Yue softly nodded and spread the Zi Wei Galaxy’s star map in front of her and said, “Here, look. The Xian Tian Palace’s distribution of forces looks just like a divine bird. The Heaven Riding Fortress and Shield Wall Fortress are the wings, the Heaven Suppression Fortress is the head. When the bird flies into the skies, the head moves before the wings. With that, the divine bird will continue flying forward, swallowing everything it passed and creating unstoppable momentum!”

Jin Hexi nodded and Zhong Yue continued, “I’ve turned the Xian Tian Palace’s forces into a massive divine bird. While the battle looked troublesome, traceless and dangerous, there is still something we can line up with. With the Xian Tian Palace’s power like a bird, if I used the Jinwu Clan’s body techniques to align the formation, I would be able to infuse it into the battle. If the techniques are undefeatable, then so will our forces.”

Jin Hexi’s confusion cleared away under his explanation and she shouted softly, “Can techniques be used in such manner?”

Zhong Yue smiled, “Techniques and war are related in a way. Think of when the bird attacks, then imagine Xian Tian Palace’s power as the divine bird’s body parts, have this bird move and if the techniques have no opening, then the Xian Tian Palace’s attacks will have no openings as well. With that, all that remains is just how strong the power is.”

Jin Hexi stuttered; turning war into techniques that could be cast, her husband’s thinking was really unique. However, she also felt that her husband’s explanation made sense as well. The Jinwu Clan was the fiercest ancient wild species; their bodies were so strong that they’d encountered only a handful of formidable enemies in the history of time. It would naturally be powerful to use the Golden Crow as the head of the formation as well.

“Darling, you are not Imperial Emperor Xian Tian, you can’t possibly be able to command both Heaven Riding Fortress and Shield Base Fortress?”

Jin Hexi pointed out the flaw in Zhong Yue’s explanation and said, “The commander of both the Heaven Riding Fortress and Shield Base Fortress shares the same rank as you, which makes you unqualified to order them around so whatever you say now cannot be realized.”

As a reply to her statement, Zhong Yue drew two circles on the map and pointed out a few sacred grounds around Heaven Suppression Fortress. These sacred grounds were aligned with the fortress, which turned into the fortress’ wings in an instant!

The Heaven Suppression Fortress then turned into a slightly smaller brain of the divine bird and started functioning with the wings.

Suddenly, the bird flew out from the star map and started clumsily repeating what Zhong Yue was doing just now.

Jin Hexi’s eyes lit up and she clapped in awe, “Darling, you’ve turned your own power into the divine bird! If it’s your own power, then you can move them around freely without any delays! However, you have little mastery in the Jinwu Clan’s attacks. Besides, apart from the wings, you still need three more legs so you need to occupy these places, then set up a base and turn them into Golden Crow’s claws.”

Zhong Yue looked at the star map as Jin Hexi pointed out the places that matched the golden crow’s legs; these were some celestial and demon races’ sacred grounds but there would not be a problem to attack them.

With the three talons pointed out by Jin Hexi, the Golden Crow had become extremely realistic and lively, bestowed with the ability to attack even fiercer!

“Dear, how about this, we both create a Golden Crow with our energy, and have a quick fight.”

Jin Hexi’s energy gushed out, turned into the three-taloned Golden Crow and Zhong Yue followed suit; the two Golden Crows then started battling each other but Zhong Yue’s was shredded quickly after a moment.

Zhong Yue frowned right away, causing him to challenge Jin Hexi again and again, only to be defeated right away.

Jin Hexi smiled, “Darling, I am born a Golden Crow, there is no way for you to beat me in this. You may be able to turn into a Golden Crow but you won’t be able to think like one because you are a human.”

“Think like a Golden Crow?”

Zhong Yue was stunned and he turned into the Golden Crow again before taking off into the skies while Jin Hexi followed. The two Golden Crows flapped their wings in the skies and circled around the fortress before flying into and out of the sun.

Zhong Yue then activated the Sovereign Tree and the two Golden Crows sat onto the nest on the tree as they chirped.

The two then lived on the tree, drank the sun’s divine water while thirsty and ate the fire seed while hungry. Without them knowing, they’ve lived there for a few months and the gods in the fortress could also see that the two birds would argue and engage in a tough fight some times.

The two birds would then battle each other once after some time and the gods no longer bat an eye anymore as they all thought that their master and the new arrival, Goddess Xi both had some weird fetish.

“Bird Man, Bird Lady!”

One day, Yin Fanxuan who now got out from her cultivation, stood under tree and shouted as the two birds fought each other around the tree, causing feathers to rain down from the skies and the bird Zhong Yue turned into was beaked into injuries by Jin Hexi. Upon seeing how stupid Zhong Yue looked, Yin Fanxuan uncontrollably burst out laughing and she giggled, “Come down now, you two, stop fooling around.”

Zhong Yue retracted his wings, landed onto the ground with his three talons firmly, all remained in the bird claw form, to which Yin Fanxuan gave him a glance and Zhong Yue quickly reverted his talons, “I almost forgot that I am not a Golden Crow.”

On the other hand, Jin Hexi gracefully landed and smiled, “Now that darling is very familiar with the Golden Crow’s attack pattern, you will be able to control the battle freely now. What is the matter, Sister Xuan?”

Yin Fanxuan said, “Elder Fu Qizhi told me that Fu Li could no longer be contacted so I came as fast as I can to tell darling about this.”

“Fu Li lost contact with us?”

Zhong Yue had a shock and he immediately took out this totem pillar, tried to get in touch with Fu Li, only to receive no response from the other side. He frowned right away and he felt uneasy about it.

Six years have passed and Fu Li was still in the run from the pursuit with Bi An, rendered them unable to return but there was a totem pillar that Fu Li could get in touch with them.

Throughout the years, Fu Qizhi had kept in touch with Fu Li to locate him.

“Could it be that Fu Li had eaten cousin Bi An?”

Yin Fanxuan had once helped Fu Li with her flute melody to suppress Fu Li’s greed to eat Bi An but if he had successfully neutralized it, then Fu Li would lose himself to the temptation!

“Doesn’t matter, looking for Fu Li is important but the Heaven Suppression Fortress’s importance is very much the same! Summon the generals! We are going to have a meeting!”

The generals arrived quickly, all gathered in the hall and Zhong Yue proceeded to spread out the star map on the table. He pointed out the Golden Crow shape he drawn on the map and said, “Generals, I want nine towns and twelve fortresses built at these places. You will all lead an army for yourselves, occupy these places and establish a base!”

After that, Zhong Yue started assigning the army, had Mu Suge, Fu Lie, Fu Wen, Yin Fanxuan and the others all lead an army.

Zhong Yue then told Jin Hexi, “While I’m away, I will leave behind my incarnations but you will be handling the rest of the affairs. My incarnations can only assist you by the side.”

Jin Hexi had a scare and she exclaimed, “Me? In charge of the entire Heaven Suppression Fortress? There is so much to be handled and if I messed up….”

Previously, there were already 50,000,000 soldiers in the Heaven Suppression Fortress and with the addition of the Yinkang Clan, the gods around had reached a crazy amount of 70,000,000.

As a result, there were just too many gods around and this amount had already exceeded the limit of the fortress so Zhong Yue decided to establish a few more bases.

Zhong Yue smiled, “The Xian Tian Royal Guards are not yours to command, nor the Yinkang Navy. You will be handling the rest, which amounts only to about 30,000,000 of them. Heh, the Heavenly Lady of Jinwu Clan, future Jinwu Clan Master, and the Jinwu Clan’s female monarch, you are not scared, are you?”

Jin Hexi gave him a smile back, “This fortress is your biggest asset and I’m worried that my mistake will damage your asset.”

“Anyway, the incarnations are around so you can contact me anytime you want.”

Zhong Yue then left behind a hundred incarnations, summoned Fu Qizhi and asked, “Where is Fu Li last located?”

Fu Qizhi took a look at the map and pointed, “Here.”

Zhong Yue stared right at the map and he frowned, “That close? This is… Huangting Clan’s land!”

The Huangting Clan was not far away from the fortress and with Fu Li’s speed, he would be able to arrive at the fortress in just half a month’s time.

But now, they lost contact with him after he arrived at this place and that was more than just strange.

Huangting Clan…. This is not going to be easy!

Huangting Clan and Dating Clan were both from the same root; both were monarch races, but after two monarchs rose in the clan, the clan separated into two races with Dating Clan remained in the Imperial Star and Huangting Clan resided around Xian Tian Palace.

The Huangting Clan were among those few monarch races that did not live in the Imperial Star. The Dating Clan rooted in Imperial Star and Huangting Clan developed themselves in the galaxy; Fu Li must have had intruded the Huangting Clan’s territory after being pursued by the two Imperial Emperors and his disappearance was definitely related to the Huangting Clan.

However, entering their territory and to save Fu Li was not an easy task.

“Elder Qi, come with me!”

Zhong Yue blinked his eyes, chanted the Dark Age’s innate Dao language softly. The void rumbled under his chantings and an ancient ship slowly sailed out from the void.

This was the thousand winged divine ship created by Great Si Ming and the Deity Kings of the Dark Age, a godly weapon that could travel between the Dao World.

Because of just how valuable it is and its powerful background, Zhong Yue was afraid of the others growing greedy at the ship, he had kept it in the dimension.

Fu Qizhi and Zhong Yue boarded the ship and so did Hundun Yu who carried the Fusang Tree’s branch with him. The ancient ship slowly ascended into the air and as the wings flapped quickly, the ship disappeared into the dimension and vanished right away.

Two days later, the ancient ship arrived somewhere near Huangting Clan’s territory and Zhong Yue docked it right away. He got down from the ship, put his finger on his forehead, activated his divine third eye and looked right into Huangting Clan’s territory.

Right away, the land of Huangting Clan, a land made of around ten sacred grounds was revealed in his eyes. In the center, the sacred ground was extremely ancient and it was filled with the corrosion of time; the other sacred grounds all bore condensed heaven and earth’s Daos and in some of the sacred grounds, the Daos were so condensed that they were visible as they turned into rainbows that hung high in the skies!

“Daos Tide!”

Zhong Yue lost his calm and he shouted, “Is the Huangting Monarch still alive?”

Fu Qizhi shook his head and said, “Impossible, if he is still alive, he will be 160,000 years old now. As a postnate being, he will not be able to live until this day. This Daos Tide is caused by the monarch weapon, the Heavens Divine Dao Bell!”

“Heavens Divine Dao Bell?”

The light in Zhong Yue’s divine third eye shined brightly towards the Huangting sacred ground and he vaguely saw a shapeless bell slowly rotating; the patterns on the bell formed endless Daos and if not looked carefully, it looked just like an endless flow of Daos!

Suddenly, the bell’s noise rang beside Zhong Yue’s ears and without even thinking much, Zhong Yue chanted the innate Dao language, activated the ship and dashing into across endless dimensions in the void.

Behind the ancient ship, the dimensions shattered under the terrifying bell ring!

As the bell’s noise rampaged across, every place it passed by shined brightly before exploding into pieces, being crushed by the light’s terrifying might and it continued chasing after the ancient ship!