Rise of Humanity

The Eighteen Emperors of the Heavenly Cloud and King Geng knelt on the ground while King Geng continued bowing at toward the former; when King Geng swore the oath with Zhong Yue, he once said that Qi Practitioners should never kneel at Realm Monarch, heaven and earth and they should only pay their respect to heaven and earth.

But now, he was kneeling and bowing non-stop as he cried at the unfortunate fate of his men.

With their vision gone, the Eighteen Emperors of the Heavenly Cloud fumbled forward and forcefully dragged King Geng up as they all cried together.

“Loyal men,” murmured Zhong Yue.

He silently lamented the disastrous fate that had befallen the eighteen men; they had tirelessly followed their lord’s order, patiently waiting for his return and refusing to surrender even after having their eyes gouged out and legs and arms amputated.

“Wow, so lively! Crying here and there and kneeling everywhere, it’s just as lively as a funeral.”

At the opposite, Prince Yun He sneered , “With things in the state they are in, King Geng will no longer be able to maintain his full power. Who knows how much of his power he can use now. Perhaps, he is coming close to his end already.”

He looked at the Heaven Realm Qi Practitioners beside him and he said, “They said King Geng is a proud man who only knelt toward the heaven and earth, not at the Heavenly Monarch and Realm Monarch. But now, he is kneeling before these blind and handicapped dogs. If we challenge him now, he will definitely accept our challenge in his grief. Killing King Geng will make us famous, maybe my father will start paying attention to me as well.”

As soon as he said this, the other nine Qi Practitioners’ eyes lit up.

And things were exactly just like what Prince Yun He said. Right now, King Geng was consumed with anger and sorrow, something that would greatly affect his strength; anger would cause him to lose his cool, and his grief would leave him irrational. Thus, the battle would be half won if they chose to fight him while he was in this state.

And Prince Yun He, whose eyes could see throug everything, dared to say, then it must be true that King Geng’s end was near.

He had obviously prepared himself for this moment and had come here with his men and sat opposite of King Geng in order to see King Geng’s death.

Unlike the Prison Realm’s Qi Practitioners that knew no limits and no boundaries and had no respect for the Realm Monarch who banished them and their child into the Prison Realm, the Qi Practitioners from the Heaven Realm had always wanted to get into the Heaven Court; they wanted to build a noble reputation, start a huge family with great power and make their ancestors and their family proud.

Thus, Prince Yun He’s proposal had greatly affected them.

One of them immediately stood up and shouted, “King Geng, I am Yuan Congxi from the Yuan Shen Family. I’ve heard that you are very strong and I wish to challenge you!

Another one stood up and said, “They said that King Geng once put up a tough fight with Realm Monarch and now, please allow me, Gu Xuanji from the Gu Family, to seek some teaching from King Geng!”

A lady laughed happily and she taunted, “King Geng, are you afraid of accepting a challenge from Qian Rou?”

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The Qi Practitioners around Prince Yun He all stood up and challenged King Geng while Prince Yun He smiled and continued enjoying his wine.

Zhong Yue frowned upon this scene and got out to stand in front of King Geng. At the same time, Li Tianxing, Yu Bochuan, Jun Wudao and the others also stood up to do the same.

Similar to those from Heaven Realm, Zhong Yue and the others could also tell that King Geng was not in the greatest state of mind right now. It was already good enough that King Geng didn’t let his emotion completely devour his consciousness and if he was to accept the challenges, he would be killed right here in the Inn of Heavenly Treasures!

The challengers were all Qi Practitioners that have reverse opened all six wheels, innate spirit bodies, cultivated perfect Six Paths Reincarnation techniques and with their overpowered bloodline, they would prove themselves foes equivalent to King Geng.

Besides, with his current condition, King Geng would not be able to put up a fight.

King Geng was a proud man but knew what he was doing, and this was what all the Prison Realm’s Qi Practitioners liked, which was also why they would still stand up for King Geng.

King Geng, however, stopped them and said with a very sore voice, “Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you for your kindness and I appreciate that. I am previously the ruler of Heaven Realm and if I do not accept their challenges, my fame will be tainted! Let me deal with them!”

Jun Wudao frowned and she quickly said, “You are not in a very good condition to fight. Why try so hard to kill yourself?”

Eighteen Emperors of Heavenly Cloud frowned as well and Heavenly King Lu whispered, “King Geng, no point getting so angry over some puny injuries on us. You must stay calm….”

“If I don’t accept their challenge and have them slaughtered, the anger and sorrow in me will not be abated and they will become a mental obstacle that will restrict my growth. Stand aside, I’ve made up my mind.”

With a very depressed and gloomy look, King Geng said, “Brother Zhong, please take care of these eighteen brothers of mine. If you become strong enough in the future, please help me to lift their seals.”

Zhong Yue frowned and an uneasy feeling crept up in his heart as he felt that King Geng was handing over the fate of Eighteen Emperors of Heavenly Cloud to him so that he could fight without any worries anymore!

“Isn’t better if you do it yourself?” Zhong Yue said as he still tried to convince King Geng.

King Geng burst out laughing and said proudly, “I can, but if I kill Prince Yun He, the Realm Monarch will probably want my head so I cannot let you guys to it. Brother Zhong Yue, were you telling the truth when you told me that your previous life’s age was fifty-four thousand years old?”

Zhong Yue nodded and replied, “I was lying but I was also telling the truth when I said that I am older than you in this life.”

“I knew it. but let the past be the past. In this life, you are older than me and since we have sworn the oath, I shall call you my elder brother,” conceded King Geng. “Did you know why I refused to call you my elder brother? My blood-related elder brother was the Realm Monarch and because of my respect for him, I was unwilling to call you my elder brother. Now, I am willing to call you my elder brother ever since you promised me that you will take care of the Eighteen Emperors of Heavenly Cloud!”

King Geng bowed at Zhong Yue and when he got up, the gloomy expression on as he looked at the many challengers with excitement, “Idiotic fools! When I fought with the Realm Monarch Yun Shan, you were all still drinking milk! I accept all of your challenges. Now come at me all at once!”

“Good!” The many challengers shouted and they all stepped forward immediately!

The interior of Inn of Heavenly Treasures was incredibly big; inside the Inn of Heavenly Treasures was a pillar and around it were round shaped buildings. The pillar had stairs that one could climb and flying bridges that were connecting the pillar to each floor of the Inn of Heavenly Treasures.

When standing on the top and looking down, the pillar appeared to be a gigantic circle.

And it was because of this pillar that the guests could move around the Inn of Heavenly Treasures easily.

However, it would still be way too small should a fight occurred here, especially so for the likes of King Geng and the others as a single skill launched by them would easily destroy a huge area of land and tear the skies apart.

However, Inn of Heavenly Treasures was entirely made from countless divine weapons; if a fight occurred, the interior of Inn of Heavenly Treasures would expand quickly in order to prevent the fight from disturbing the other guests.

Thus, as soon as the nine Qi Practitioners flew out, the platform on the pillar expanded and turned into a huge arena in an instant.

At the same time, King Geng moved forward and stars gathered around him. The stars then turned into a raging cosmic river where King Geng stood on the cosmic river as he charged at the nine Qi Practitioners of Heaven Realm.

These challengers were indeed amazing Qi Practitioners; as they unleashed their full power, light wheels appeared behind their head, where their Yuan Shen turned into horrifying beings such as thousand hand celestials, dragons, and gods with serpents and towers charging out of their hands.

And from the light wheels behind their head came the sound of prayers, which suggested that these nine Qi Practitioners had cultivated the perfect Six Path Reincarnation Techniques and achieved the Six Path Reincarnation within their body!

Apart from that, the Dao totem patterns danced around the arena and appeared in different forms; some appeared to be trees, rivers, volcanoes and even moons and these were the Dao totem patterns that they cultivated!

Their power spread across the entire arena as they unleashed the power of their bloodline and were shrouded in the divine rays of the Six Path Reincarnation.

The expression of Li Tianxing and the others changed tremendously and even Yu Bochuan was shocked at the power displayed by Yuan Congxi and the others; these guys were one of the strongest enemies they had ever come across, and they had to admit that the Qi Practitioners from the other realms were indeed stronger than those in the Prison Realm!

Li Xianxing was an extraordinary genius in the Prison Realm who had achieved all the state of extremity. He had also had his Six Paths Reincarnation activated and as an innate spirit body, his strength was among the strongest in the Prison Realm, allowing him to compete with the likes of Zhong Yue and the others. His only drawback was the fact that his bloodline was not that strong.

Yuan Congxi, Gu Xuanji, Qian Rou, and the others on the other hand, possessed the best of the best bloodline even within the Heaven Realm. One could imagine King Geng’s ending provoking the nine of them to attack him at once!

Finally, King Geng and the nine of them clashed, but at that moment, along with a shout from King Geng, his presence surged and thunderous noises echoed out from the inside of his body!

“Nice!” Zhong Yue and Yu Bochuan shouted upon seeing this.

In truth, King Geng had entered the Imminent Deity level from the True Spirit level at an instant; he had been suppressing his strength all the while and now, he unleashed the suppressed power and caught his challengers off guard.

In a split second, endless apparitions of gods rampaged around the arena, each standing on gigantic planets as divine rays lit up the heaven and earth!

Suddenly, the divine rays disappeared and King Geng charged straight at Prince Yun He after leaving nine corpses on the ground.

When the divine rays erupted, King Geng had cut down his nine challengers and flew straight towards Prince Yun He with unrelenting momentum!

King Geng was once one of those in the strongest tier in the Six Paths World, thus, even his level was still very low after being reborn, his experience and knowledge from the past life was still there and now, he immediately reached the peak state in the Imminent Deity level as soon as he advanced into this level!

On the other side, Prince Yun He’s hand was still in the air as he was about to drink his wine, his and terrified expression crawled onto his face. As fear consumed Prince Yun He, the gods standing behind him shouted in anger and they tried to intercept King Geng.

These gods were incredibly strong, but as they charged at King Geng, King Geng hurled out moves they had never seen and with lightning speed, King Geng ripped their head off, severing their limbs and tearing their Yuan Shen into pieces as corpses rained down from the skies.

At the same time, Prince Yun He backed away quickly and the cup in his hand fell towards the table top.

“From now on, the top ten of the Heaven Realm is no more!”

King Geng burst out laughing and as he dashed past Prince Yun He, he raised his hand that held onto Prince Yun He’s head.

King Geng tossed the head away like garbage and reached towards the cup before it landed onto the table. He then brought it up to his lips and drank the wine, “When I fought with your father, he did all he could to defeat me. What gave you the courage to think that you could kill me and who gave you the courage to think that you were my opponent? Realm Monarch Yunshan, I suppose it’s about time that you show yourself?”

Seemingly out of nowhere, a solemn voice echoed and the dimension within Inn of Heavenly Treasures froze as everything in it ceased moving completely.