Rise of Humanity

On the coffin, Lord Kun, Zhu Jiumu and Wen Changgong ran quickly. As soon as they entered the ritual, they felt their energy beginning to careen out of their control, their soul was going to fly out of their body and merge with the ritual.

“Such a terrifying ritual! What is this?”

Lord Kun frowned deeply, and he immediately shrunk himself and said, “Be careful, do not cast any techniques like the Avatar! The larger you are, the stronger the power you will have to face!”

Right away, both Zhu Jiumu and Wen Changgong shrunk their body in shock. Fortunately for them, although their energy was about to spiral out of control, the centre of the ritual was not on the coffin but on the lamp floating in front of Zhong Yue. Thus, it posed little threat to them.

On top of the lamp, as soon as Wei Xue God flew out from the lamp, he was immediately immobilized by the power of the ritual; his blood ocean was evaporated and turned into raw energy that merged into the altar in Black Mountain.

The amount of blood in the blood ocean decreased rapidly, and a tremendous power sealed the movements of Wei Xue God, immobilizing him in one spot. No matter how hard he tried, he failed to escape!

Wei Xue God roared angrily, and one after another, Wei Xue Gods emerged from the blood ocean while the blood ocean turned into a huge face that started to fight back against the power of the ritual but all of these were in vain.

Even a god could not escape from the centre of the altar!

The trio were in shock upon this scene, they looked at each other and continued proceeding towards their destination. Just when they were about to leave the coffin cover, a nine headed celestial appeared at the other end of the coffin cover, blocking their path.

“Shi Buyi!”

Lord Kun snorted and whispered to the other two, “He is now a monster god! Wen Changgong, stop him!”

Right away, Wen Changgong flew up and swung his pike towards Shi Buyi as he shouted, “Shi Buyi! Your race will also be sealed by Zhong Yue, are you still planning to help him and when your race is facing destruction?”

Wen Changgong’s pike possessed incredible power; back in the West Barren, when he pointed his pike at Zhong Yue, Zhong Yue felt its incredible killing intent overwhelm him. However, on the altar of Black Mountain, where the power of the ritual surged everywhere, Wen Changgong’s power was greatly diminished.

On the other hand, Shi Buyi swung the Eight Extreme Malefic Weapons in his eight arms and charged back at Wen Changgong, “The blood flowing in us monsters is the same as the humans’, we all have ordinary blood flowing in us, yet we monsters managed to triumph throughout these years, climbing higher and higher. And now, we are standing at the same position as you celestial races. So, tell me how are we monsters going to be affected? Zhong Yue sealing all celestial bloodline in this planet will not harm us, but instead, benefit us by allowing us to become the strongest in this planet! By then, the monsters will be ruler of this world and the humans will still be slaves to us, of course I will help him!”

“You monsters dare to dream to achieve something even our celestial race failed to do!? Such stubborn creatures!”

Wen Changgong shouted, stared at Shi Buyi with his angry eyes and two extremely sharp golden needles flew out from his eyes. The needles were something forged from the Solar Divine Ray, but unlike Zhong Yue’s Solar Divine Saber, his Solar Golden Needles were much more smaller. The needles however, were much more condensed with power and they outperformed the saber in other ways!

To Wen Changgong’s dismay, before the needles could even reach Shi Buyi, they disappeared without a sign as they were disintegrated and merged into the ritual.

Wen Changgong had a shock upon seeing this but Shi Buyi also had a shock; Wen Changgong’s attack was out of his expectation and if the golden needles were not disintegrated, Shi Buyi will definitely be injured and the next moment will be his last.

As someone who had ascended into a god long before Shi Buyi did, Wen Changgong’s power was much stronger, thus, his techniques and equipments would be stronger as well. Once caught of guard, the two needles would inflict heavy injuries to Shi Buyi.

A crack then appeared on Shi Buyi’s forehead as nine Ming King’s celestial eyes emerged, shooting nine lasers towards Wen Changgong. This was the power of Ming King’s celestial eyes, and it could be considered his strongest technique. However, these nine lasers suffered the same fate as the golden needles of Wen Changgong; they vanished and were absorbed by the ritual!

“This is a very strange place, we can’t use our techniques here!”

Wen Changgong shouted as he swung his halberd and flapped his wings to circle around Shi Buyi. In just a blink of an eye, he had delivered a few hundred attacks. He warned the other two, “It is best for us to attack in melee, gentlemen, be careful!”

Lord Kun looked around and examined the totem carvings of the ritual and shouted, “Lord Demon, you must hold yourself at all cost! Do not summon the demonic tree and the black coffin back or we will all be trapped once the array formation is fully activated!”

Immediately, Lord Demon and Tuz Bawk’s expression changed; they had the intention of summoning the demonic tree and coffin back after Lord Kun and the others entered the Black Mountain for it will be very energy consuming for them to keep the demonic tree and coffin activated.

But now, they had no choice but to try their best after Lord Kun realized the dangers.

If they kept the demonic tree and coffin away, the array formation will be fully operating and by that time, Lord Kun and the other two in the Black Mountain would be turned into raw energy for the ritual.

“Lord Kun, can you sense your Divine Wing Saber now?” asked Zhu Jiumu suddenly.

Lord Kun quickly shook his head, “It’s very close, but I still can’t get in touch with it. I need to get even closer so that I can retrieve my it and destroy Zhong Yue in one strike!”

Without hesitation, Zhu Jiumu drew his bow and shot an arrow towards Zhong Yue. The arrow was about to pierce through Zhong Yue’s chest, but a godly sword had appeared out of nowhere and knocked the arrow away.

It was Xuan Yuan! He stood behind Zhong Yue and channeled power into his sword, blocking Zhu Jiumu’s attack. His face, however, was a bit pale after that.

“Xuan Yuan, do not be afraid, do not overthink. All you have to do is visualize the divine sword.” Zhong Yue said gently.

He then said again, “With that power of the divine sword of Human Sovereign, you are strong enough to protect me.”

While he talked, arrow after arrow flew toward him with incredible speed, but Xuan Yuan stood right there, swung his sword around and knocked the arrows away, creating loud and frequent noises.

Although young Xuan Yuan was no match for Zhu Jiumu, the divine sword of Human Sovereign was so strong that even if he couldn’t fully control it yet, he could still control where he wanted the sword to appear as long as the Human Sovereign is still here. Zhu Jiumu kept shooting arrows, leading the way and when he passed by the battlefield of Shi Buyi and Wen Changgong, he shot towards Shi Buyi immediately.

That arrow went straight for Shi Buyi, and when Shi Buyi wanted to knock it off, the sword appeared again and blocked the arrow once again!

The appearance of the sword had left Shi Buyi momentarily stunned!

“This kid actually managed to split his attention and help me. Not bad…”

Zhu Jiumu controlled his divine arrows with his psyche so that it circled around Shi Buyi. But the divine sword seemed to teleport as it halted the divine arrow onslaught without fail.

Although Xuan Yuan didn’t need to spend any energy to control the divine sword, he had to pay more attention to Zhu Jiumu’s attack, since his divine arrows could execute different moves at the same time, which was quite challenging for him.

Zhu Jiumu, on the other hand, moved forward and drew his bow. He shot another arrow directly at Xuan Yuan.

Cold sweat percolated on Xuan Yuan’s head, and he quickly block the attack with his divine sword.

“Not bad.”

As he guarded Lord Kun, Zhu Jiumu praised and shot another divine arrow towards Zhong Yue.

Xuan Yuan tried his best to fend off the four divine arrows, and though the divine sword was very powerful, the two words, “Jiumu”, Zhu Jiumu’s name signified that this old gold was a god whose expertise lay in archery!

“Mu” referred to the herdsman that would rely on his bow and arrows to fend off the invasive wild beasts that threatened his sheep, while “Jiu” meant nine, the highest number. This meant that Zhu Jiumu was the strongest archer in the entire Zhu Jian Celestial Race!

With only four arrows, Zhu Jiumu had already succeeded in keeping Xuan Yuan preoccupied, preventing him from sparing additional attention on other matters.

With that, young Xuan Yuan could only control the divine sword to fend off the four arrows.

Lord Kun was also amazed as he felt that Zhu Jiumu was indeed very strong; perhaps, only this aged god of the Zhu Jian Celestial Race could cultivate the divine arrows to such an extent where he could restrain an emperor level divine weapon with only four arrows.

And this was where Wei Xue God suddenly wailed and disintegrated after being sacrificed!

Zhong Yue kept his cool and retrieved Feng Wuji’s head and threw it into the ritual. As soon as the head disintegrated, totem carvings flew out along with the appearance of the Xiao Mang grand ancestor’s spirit which roared with his three Coiling Ao’s head and cast【Celestial Moon Howling Art】!

Right away, the totem carvings of the ritual were being pushed towards the outside of Black Mountain as if they were going to be crushed by the roar of the Xiao Mang grand ancestor.

Zhong Yue, however, did not do anything as Xiao Mang grand ancestor’s spirit also disintegrated and became merged into the ritual.

Even after Xiao Mang grand ancestor managed to run away alive from Tu Yu’s decree with his intelligence, his strength was greatly weakened, and that roar just now had almost completely depleted him of his remaining power.

“Xiao Mang grand ancestor! He is also captured by Zhong Yue!”

The heart of Lord Demon and Tuz Bawk who was outside thumped, and Lord Kun and the others all put up serious expressions.

The fact that Deity Overlord could also be melted by this ritual was not very good news to all of them.

Again, Zhu Jiumu drew his bow and shot out one arrow after another. In an instant, nine arrows crossed path with each other and knocked each other out of the air, causing them to ricochet everywhere!

The Jiumu Arrow Formation!

A formation named after Zhu Jiumu’s!

The horrendous arrow formation travelled everywhere, changing course time after time and preventing people from determining their course easily!

While not being able to use any totem carvings on the altar, Zhu Jiumu relied on the arrows to form an array formation instead of using totem carvings. With the addition of his own amazing handlings, this Jiumu Arrow Formation perfectly shrouded Zhong Yue, young Xuan Yuan and Shi Buyi!

And quickly, Shi Buyi immediately got injured by the arrows.

Zhe zhe zhe!

Holes also appeared on Zhong Yue’s after being pierced by the arrows; Zhu Jiumu’s power was considerable, and Zhong Yue could only focus on the ritual to prevent it from being stopped.

Upon seeing this, Xuan Yuan panicked. He had left himself unable to protect everyone properly and even placed himself in a very dire situation where he could die anytime!