Rise of Humanity

A few minutes later, he stood back up on his feet, using up all the strength left in him to fly forward, where Lou Zhengshi immediately approached him.

Before Lou Zhengshi could reach him, Sui Qinghong lost his strength in mid-air and landed on one knee. His wounds all burst apart while blood gushed out.

Lou Zhengshi quickly helped Sui Qinghong on his wounds, whose injuries were very serious and the man was on the verge of dying. Lou Zhengshi shouted right away, “Senior Martial Brother Sui, did Imperial Emperor Xian Tian attack you? How is it possible for just Mister Yi alone to inflict such heavy injuries on you?”

With a pale face, Sui Qinghong weakly replied, “No, it’s Mister Yi and the Yinkang Clan. We were forced into a face to face battle by King Yi and his men. They defeated us and I’m afraid little remains of the Yu Lin Army.”

Shocked and stunned by this bad news, Lou Zhengshi’s expression changed drastically.

With little remained of the Yu Lin Army, they might still have the power to fight but their mind had been shattered.

Yu Lin Army is done for.  Thought Lou Zhengshi.

On the ancient ship, Yin Fukang turned around at the direction where they left Sui Qinghong and sighed, “What a shame.”

“Sui Qinghong can be killed but the Heavenly River Navy Fleet is also approaching so we must go no matter what.”

Zhong Yue and the others returned to the Red Stars Canyon quickly while he said, “Yu Lin Army can’t take on a fight like this but the Heavenly River Navy Fleet is an expert in this kind of fight. We have limited time so we need to surround the Panhu Navy with the Heaven Riding Fortress’s army according to our plan. We musn’t waste any time just to kill Sui Qinghong.”

Meanwhile, it had been ten days and the Xian Tian Royal Guards had all returned, but throughout the pursuit, there were still about 200,000 soldiers that sacrificed themselves. However, the Xian Tian Royal Guards had seized more than 2,000,000 of the Yu Lin Army.

After throwing the prisoners onboard, the ancient ship moved and vanished from the scene.

The Yu Lin Army is no more and it’s time to deal with Panhu Navy! However, these prisoners must not come with us for we must ensure the purity in our men. If these impurities are added into our men, they will affect our men’s mind and determination. The prisoners will be dispatched to the nine towns and trained again there.

Zhong Yue arrived at Wen Town, dropping these prisoners down and ordering Fu Wen to keep some of them before distributing the rest to the other towns.

After that, Bi An took out the herbs and medicines they seized in the war and Zhong Yue distributed them to the soldiers so that they could treat their injuries.

Everyone was all worn out and after receiving the herbs and medicines, the soldiers quietly treated their wounds and rested silently while awaiting the next battle.

Right now, only about 16,000,000 men remained in the Xian Tian Royal Guards, about a few hundreds from the 8,000 Fuxi had died in the battle as well; this was the first time Xian Tian Royal Guards suffered such heavy loss.

These brave souls who fell in the battle were all their friends, brothers with whom they broke bread with, trained and lived with. But now, they were separated by the gulf that was life and death.

“Their morale is not looking good now.”

Yin Fukang looked at the soldiers and whispered to Zhong Yue, “Your army may have taken part in many battles but they have never experience such losses before. If you don’t resolve this problem, you will be the one who will be defeated in the next battle! You may be a strategist and a very smart general but if you lose the synergy with your army, you won’t be able to do anything despite your individual brilliance.”

Zhong Yue nodded and right away, he walked past his soldiers with heavy footsteps.

Dong dong dong—

His footsteps resonated with the heartbeats of the soldiers, sounding like drum beats and the soldiers’ hearts beat to his footsteps.

“My brave warriors, the war for the throne is here.”

With a sore, deep, calm and charismatic tone, Zhong Yue spoke in a steady pace but his tone hyped with each word.

“This war has nothing to do with us, but none of us can escape from it! This heaven we stand below and this earth we stand on had became a hellish oven with everyone of us trapped inside! No matter where we are, where we go, we wouldn’t be able to escape from it!”

“But, if we prevail from this hellish oven, we will rise and achieve things we could only dream of!”

“Our fallen brothers are still with us, standing by our side and watching us from above!”

“Everything they left behind, their mission, achievements and dreams, will be completed by us. Their brave spirits will be praying for us, rooting for us and we who are still breathing today will carry their dreams on our back!”

“We must not let them die in vain!”

The eyes of the many soldiers fixed on him, their eyes moved as Zhong Yue moved, heart beat along with his footsteps while their blood and soul boiled with Zhong Yue’s speech!

“Look at the sword in your hands, ask it, can it still fight!”

“Put your hands on your chest, ask your heart, can it still fight!”

“What do we want!”

“Victory!”

“What are we!”

“Undefeatable and victorious!!

“Undefeatable and victorious!!

Blood boiling battlecries were head, echoing far away while the thousand winged ancient ship sailed away quickly in the void.

The morale is good right now but once we suffer more losses, this hype will die off rapidly.

Zhong Yue looked at his pumped up soldiers and thought, Without an Innate War Spirit Body, the only way to keep these warriors blood thirsty and hunger for victory is to win battles, one after another and be victorious every time!

The Innate War Spirit Body could spike a person’s hunger for battle and victory, pushing the warriors to their peak form. In a peaceful era, Innate War Spirit Body would be useless, but at times like this, every one of them would be priceless. But similar to the Innate Curse Spirit Body, it was extremely rare.

Until now, Zhong Yue had yet fo find any similar innate spirit bodies among his men, the others like the Innate Plague Spirit Body, Innate Poison Spirit Body, Innate Life Spirit Body and others were also rare!

However, each one of them weighed as much as an Imperial Emperor’s affection towards the war!

There were more of these innate spirit bodies within the 3,000 Six Paths Worlds and the ancient universe. While Zi Wei also had these spirit bodies, the amount of them in Zi Wei was significantly less.

What caused this phenomenon was because most of the sacred grounds’ living beings lived in the Heavens and Zi Wei’s Heavens were often connected by the great presences and forged by Imperial Emperors.

Only some sovereign races possessed quite a number of wild and natural stars and only after being worshipped will these stars give birth to spirits.

On the other hand, the 3,000 Six Paths Worlds were formed by the monarch level existences’ Six Paths Reincarnation, making them much higher level than the Zi Wei, hence, there were more spirit bodies in the 3,000 Six Paths Worlds.

An example was Zhong Yue’s identity as Gu Yue, who had already gathered quite a number of innate spirit bodies.

And because of how ancient it was, there were also a lot of them in the ancient universe.

About ten days later, the many gods on the ancient ship could vaguely see the Panhu Navy and the reinforcements from the Heaven Riding Fortress.

The banners on Panhu Navy’s fleet stood everywhere as this sovereign race created a galactic river made of stars and intercepted the Heaven Riding Fortress reinforcements.

While Heaven Riding Fortress’s commander, Imperial Emperor Fu Ya’s soldiers was powerful, his navy was nowhere close to Panhu Navy; after a prolonged battle, both sides had suffered casualties.

Panhu Navy was here with only one purpose, to stall the reinforcements, therefore, they did not go all out against Fu Ya, but instead, harassed his army constantly.

But Imperial Emperor Fu Ya had nothing he could do against this situation, for his navy was not as strong as the Panhu Clan’s; just as his navy was dispatched, his fleet was devoured by the star beasts released by the Panhu Navy and got wiped out immediately.

As such, Imperial Emperor Fu Ya could only hide in his camp and engaged the enemy in small scale battles.

Out of nowhere, Zhong Yue drove the ancient ship right into the Panhu Navy from the back, the ship landed right onto the river, clashed with a Panhu Navy’s warship and shattering it, dropping the many Panhu soldiers into the river!

This Heavenly River was, after all, not the real one but something forged by the Panhu Clan, which allowed the Panhu soldiers to survive; seconds later, the Xian Tian Royal Guards rained down attacks into the river and killed all of the Panhu soldiers.

“Senior Martial Brother Fu Ya, are you there?” asked Zhong Yue loudly while standing on the ship’s bow.

“King Yi!”

Imperial Emperor Fu Ya flew into the air happily, looking towards the ship and laughing in joy and surprise, “This old man here is ashamed. I wanted to support you in the battle but instead, I needed your help! Be careful, King Yi, this river is a weapon they created and there are star beasts lurking in it.”

Hua la—

Massive beasts emerged from the water, their tentacles rampaged around and started twining around the ancient ship. With a roar, Zhong Yue rotated the ship around and when its wings flapped, these wings severed the tentacles like sharp blades!

At the same time, the warriors hurled down attacks into the river again, dying the water bloody red as the beasts were being killed one after another.

Zhong Yue then rammed the ancient ship towards another Panhu Clan’s warship and shouted, “Senior Martial Brother Fu Ya, can you still fight!”

Imperial Emperor Fu Ya burst out laughing and had all the warriors from Heaven Riding Fortress launch an all-out attack!

Suddenly, the Heavenly River rumbled, rogue waves soared high and the waves hurled the ancient ship into the air, throwing the Xian Tian Royal Guards off balance.

Then, the Heavenly River sank without a sign and the ancient ship fell between two rogue waves before warships emerged from the overwhelming waves, each filled with Panhu Clan’s gods. These three dog headed gods unleashed an arrow rain towards the ancient ship, attempting to kill Xian Tian Royal Guards while they were all thrown off balance!

“King Yi, you are really brave to charge right into our Panhu Clan’s Lesser Heavenly River!”

On one of the command ships stood a Panhu Clan’s Imperial Emperor. This one was that Panhu Clan’s elder, Pan Yue, who Zhong Yue saw him once a very long time ago; he was one of the two Imperial Emperors that were lured away by Bi An back in the unworldly world and the cause of Feng Wuji falling into Zhong Yue’s hands.

This old man had his nose pulled around by Fu Li and Bi An, chased them both across the entire Zi Wei Galaxy and after seeing Zhong Yue, who caused all the problems to him, the anger in Pan Yue burnt ferociously.

“Today, you will die here and I’ll see to your death personally!”

Before his voice even faded, the ancient ship trembled and vanished from his vicinity while the arrows landed in the water.

Pan Yue let out an angry roar and under his signal, the Panhu gods channeled their energy into the river, transforming it with their strength and spreading it across the galaxy like a silver dragon.

This silver dragon twined around in the centre of the Panhu Navy’s protection and suddenly, loud explosions sounded out as gigantic flying fortresses slammed right onto the silver dragon-like Heavenly River; the Heaven Riding Fortress’s army was controlling these fortresses and their attacks impacted the dragon heavily!

The thousand winged ancient ship appeared out of nowhere, ramming the dragon, shattering it into two parts. The Heaven Riding Fortress’s flying fortresses immediately exploited this chance by showering the dragon with attacks!

Four days later, Panhu Navy was entirely routed and as the thousand winged ancient ship disappeared into the air, it left countless Panhu gods wounded and dead.

“Senior Martial Brother Fu Ya, after cleaning up everything here, please head towards the Heaven Suppression Fortress first! My brave warriors, now, we will eliminate Pan Ji once and for all!”