Rise of Humanity

The experts’ face turned solemn. The first stage was Great Monarch Zao Hua’s 80 tribulations; the second stage was the extreme evil Nine Lives Black Wok Mushroom; and the third stage would be Lady Monarch Shui Mo’s monarch weapon – the Picture of Armistice!

The Fuxi’s Ancestral Court was so difficult!

Just how many stages were there left? How many more obstacles await them?

“The Picture of Armistice had quite the reputation back in the ancient days.” Feng Yulan said, “I’ve heard the grand ancestor speaking of it before. He said that it recorded a period of history.”

Feng Wuji’s heart tensed up. This grand ancestor was none other than the Feng Tian Origin Lord. The first phoenix of the universe. She was an innate Deity King that ranked on the same level as Lei Zhe and Hua Xu. If even Feng Tian Origin Lord valued this picture that much, the Picture of Armistice must be something great!

“Lady Monarch Shui Mo, what does she matter?” Dark Monarch’s two Dao kids tidied their black robes and strode forward. The younger one smiled, “Wasn’t the lady monarch still killed by Dao Venerate Fu Min? If you don’t dare to move on, all you cowards can just stay here!”

Just as he finished speaking, bright lights shot out from the Picture of Armistice and shone upon them. Shua– Soon, they found themselves transported inside the picture.

“The Dark Monrach’s Dao kids sure are arrogant.”

Evil Emperor Gao Yin sneered, it was clear that he didn’t like the two Dao kids. He sneered coldly as he said, “This is the ancient universe we rule, and they dare to act so arrogantly in front of us! When the opportunity comes, I will kill them! Senior Martial Brother Yuanshu, are you interested?”

Mo Yuanshu led his surviving junior martial brother and moved forward. The other two demon Monarch’s disciples were killed by the Nine Lives Black Wok Mushroom’s illusions. He replied lazily, “The Evil Monarch and Dark Monarch have always been hostile. Why do you want to drag me into your affairs?”

Bright lights shot out from the Picture of Armistice and the two disappeared in it.

Rays flashed across Evil Emperor Gao Yin’s eyes as he laughed, “Brother Qiushan, your Celestial Monarch Palace is long-standing rivals with the Demon Monarch Palace. Why don’t you and I both work together and take down Mo Yuanshu first. This will help you get rid of a rival! In turn, you will help me take down the Dark Monarch’s Dao kids!”

Shen Qiushan led his two junior martial brothers and entered the Picture of Armistice. He said with a vague smile on his face, “Senior Martial Brother Gao’s offer is very enticing, but regretfully, your past has left me dubious of you. I fear that Senior Martial Brother Gao will stab me in the back instead.”

Gao Yin laughed, “Brother Qiushan, hear yourself, what are you saying? You and I, we will both be invincible here! Brother Qiushan, wait for me, we can discuss the details together!”

Feng Yulan, Du Ya, and the others also entered the picture and disappeared in it.

“Lady Monarch Shui Mo? The Shui Mo Six Paths World of the 3,000 Six Paths Worlds?”

Zhong Yue and Hundun Yu walked over and saw the experts disappearing in the pictures. He was puzzled while Hundun Yu was seen startled for a second. He took out a mirror from his Yuan Shen secret realms and the image of a lady monarch appeared inside of the mirror. Behind the lady floated a scroll of a picture.

Zhong Yue looked at the picture inside of the mirror and found it to be the same as the one in the Fuxi’s Ancestral Court. However, the one in the mirror lacked the latter’s vivid quality.

“So this is the Picture of Armistice?” Zhong Yue was curious.

Hundun Yu nodded, “My grand ancestor once helped Lady Monarch Shui Mo imprint herself in the mirror. Grand ancestor said before that he wanted to have a taste of the worldly emotions. He wanted to taste love and hate, among many other emotions. He didn’t want to waste his trip in the universe. Thus, he had a relationship with the lady monarch, but as time passed, their feelings faded, and their destiny together ultimately ended.”

Hundun Yu said as he slowly unfolded the unknown history, “The lady monarch’s Picture of Armistice was drawn based on a legend that dates far back. It was a catastrophic war that took place during the transition period from the prehistoric to the ancient era. She was inspired to draw the Picture of Armistice. Rumor had it that the Picture of Armistice had something to do with the Fuxi Clan too.”

Zhong Yue was startled, the transition to the ancient era?

That would be the period of time of chaos between the Fire Order Era and Earth Order Era!

That would be the period of time when the Fuxi Clan’s ancestors, Sovereign Xi and Goddess Nuwa, pacified the chaos!

Lady Monarch Shui Mo’s Picture of Armistice, was it the only record of that lost history?

He quickly looked at the Picture of Armistice. But the monarch weapon was too huge, it was impossible to see it all with one eye.

“Picture of Armistice?”

His heart skipped a beat, he saw the gods in the picture still moving, as if they were alive!

These gods were waging war in the battlefield. Their broken parts and severed limbs flew all over the place as their faces were vivid with bloodthirst. Some were seen gritting their teeth, some were ferociously roaring, and some were crying in sorrow. Not only that, but their expressions continued to undergo various changes as time passed.

“The Lady Monarch Shui Mo’s Six Paths Reincarnations sure has unimaginable power.”

Zhong Yue praised in awe of the picture. The picture itself formed a system of Six Paths Reincarnations. Every single thing in the picture was a creation of the Picture of Armistice’s Six Paths Reincarnations. They were just there in the picture, reincarnating endlessly.

Thus, the battles of the gods would go on, forever and ever!

Moreover, the gods in the picture were real gods. They were alive and had consciousness and intelligence. But unlike those outside of the picture, they were simply two-dimensional, creations of the picture!

In the flat picture, they had gone through life and death, endless cycles of reincarnations.

If one were sucked into the picture, they would turn two-dimensional too and fall into Lady Monarch Shui Mo’s Six Paths Reincarnations!

To be able to cultivate to this level, Lady Monarch Shui Mo was truly admirable!

Thus, it was clear that this stage was set to test one’s attainments in the Six Paths Reincarnations.

Zhong Yue mulled, Lady Monarch Shui Mo’s corpse was not here, there was no way he could keep the Picture of Armistice. That said, the only way to pass this stage was to enter the picture.

“Senior Martial Brother Yu, do you have the confidence to make it through?” Zhong Yue asked.

Hundun Yu smiled, “Mister Yi, don’t worry about me. My grand ancestor and the lady monarch are old friends, the Hundun Clan knows a little of her cultivation arts and techniques.”

Zhong Yue then remembered that the Hundun Clan grand ancestor and the lady monarch were once a couple. Although they didn’t end up together in the end, Hundun Yu would still be able to keep his life even if he failed the test in the Picture of Armistice.

Then, the two walked forward and the Picture of Armistice absorbed them into the picture as one of the many gods on it.

When he was sucked away by the bright lights, all Zhong Yue could see around were just pure lights. These lights were colorful and formed into one halo after another. The bright lights brought him through six halos, each time he passed through a halo, he could sense some changes happening in his mortal body and Yuan Shen. It was truly a strange feeling.

Finally, when the lights were gone, and he alighted to the ground. He inspected himself and found a peculiar truth.

He had become a two-dimensional entity!

His skin was the same colors, his clothes had the same patterns, but the mountains and rivers in the surroundings were all like paper, no having any thickness!

Zhong Yue tried to turn his hand and an even stranger occurrence took place. His hand was turning, but there were no actual sensations of it turning. All he could see was his hand turning from the top of his palm, to the back of his hand.

He turned around and found himself having no sides.

But what was stranger was that every time he moved, there would be endless changes to his size, different ‘angles’ with different ‘sizes’.

He visualized the divine dragon and the skill burst forward. Even the skill had turned into a paper divine dragon as it lunged forward, shattering the top of the mountain in front of it.

And even the shattered stones and rocks were flat as well

“What a peculiar world,” Zhong Yue couldn’t help but praise. Lady Monarch Shui Mo was one of the paragons during Dao Venerate Fu Min’s era. Her Two Yuan ¹ Six Paths Reincarnations was a brilliant idea out of the box!

To be able to utilize the Six Paths Reincarnations at this level, even Zhong Yue couldn’t have imagined it!

The era when the Six Paths Reincarnations was first established was a bright one. The monarchs were given the one right tool to unleash their potential. All kinds of ideas, inspirations, and imaginations came into being by the monarchs!

In this Two Yuan World, everything was unlike the real world, even the outside gods that entered the picture would become two-dimensional.

It was a new experience but was also fraught with dangers, because every skill in here was different from usual!

Here, there was no time, no sound. In the Two Yuan World, there was no medium, thus, sounds were unable to propagate. The cultivators could only use their psyche senses. However, without the sounds, there would be many dangers that follow. If they weren’t able to hear each other, they couldn’t differentiate between their friends and foes.

The only way to sense the others’ skills in here relied solely on their eyes, the senses on vibrations, and their psyche senses.

Did Senior Martial Brother Hundun Yu land on the same place as me?

Zhong Yue glanced around but couldn’t locate Hundun Yu. There were only four sides in the Picture of Armistice, up, down, front, and back. There were no east, west, north, south.

And the only way to exit Picture of Armistice’s Two Yuan Dimension was to continue advance forward until the end of the picture!

“Strange, what’s with the bubble on top of me?”

Zhong Yue looked up at the bubble and saw a sentence written on it. The words were the godly language, it wrote, “Strange, what’s with the bubble on top of me?”

“How strange!”

Zhong Yue was shocked, and the words changed almost instantly, “How strange!”

“What I wanted to speak appeared in the bubble!”

He was even more puzzled to see the words changing again, to exactly what he wanted to say!

“Lady Monarch Shui Mo is a little too playful, isn’t she?”

Zhong Yue was between laughter and tears. There were no sounds in the Picture of Armistice, and thus, Lady Monarch Shui Mo implemented speech bubbles instead. Her imagination had truly opened up Zhong Yue’s eyes.

He turned into his Fuxi True Form and bolted forward. He could feel his tail slithering awkwardly up and down instead of the usual left and right.

All of a sudden, Zhong Yue heard the cries of battle up ahead, and he looked over toward it. He realized that was a battlefield of the gods. Countless peculiar-looking gods were fighting in a bloodbath.

These gods already looked strange, but in two-dimensional form, they looked even weirder. Even the way they attacked looked weird.

The five light wheels behind their heads were also flat.

In order to walk out of the Picture of Armistice, one must fight their way through the battlefield!

Then, Zhong Yue bolted forward and entered the battlefield!