Rise of humanity, p.506
Rise of Humanity, page 506
She thought while heading back to the plaza. When she arrived, she heard the protocol officer announcing loudly, “Winner of the sixth group, Zhong Yue from the Prison Realm!”
Chapter 709: The Supreme Rule |
Zhong Yue walked down from Realm Monarch Si’s palm and he thought, I won because I had luck on my side. Things would be fairly different if my opponent was Xuan Xue.
The sole reason he managed to win against Zheng Yan was because her Five Elemental True Spirits were not awakened yet, thus, putting them at a disadvantage against his Sun Moon Twin Spirit.
But if it were Xuan Xue, Zhong Yue would not be able to channel and prepare for the [Mystic Dao Crusher] as he would be welcomed with a series of rapid chained attacks!
Meanwhile, the outcome of the battles among the other groups had yet to be decided and when Zhong Yue looked at them, he realized unlike his groups, the situation of the other groups were way different; Shu Ye who was in the first group was already defeated but since his teacher was Heavenly King Shang, his opponent spared his life.
On the second group, Bi was still fighting with Hua Zhenchuan from Earth Realm.
The third group, Li Tianxing was dueling with Yi Qianhu and after paying quite a great cost, Li Tianxing managed to defeat his opponent, but he was then sniped by Chang Shaobo and the situation was very dire.
For the fourth group, An had already stand his ground firmly on the top as his opponent couldn’t even put up a fight.
The fifth group, while Jun Wudao eliminated Si Moqiu and Jiao Ruye, Qian Zeng had already disqualified Zhu Yu and Dao Guang, resulting in a battle between Jun Wudao and Qian Zeng. However, from Zhong Yue’s perspective, Jun Wudao’s chances of winning were very slim.
At the same time, Shen Qi who was in the seventh group died long ago.
Whereas Yu Bochuan who was in the eighth group, Yu Bochuan was one of the strongest among them and with that terrifying [Sacrificial Prayers to Heaven] that even Zhong Yue was reluctant to deal with, the other Qi Practitioners from the other realms focused their fire right onto Yu Bochuan because he was a formidable one.
“What a shame, Brother Bochuan might lose,” murmured Zhong Yue; Yu Bochuan was not weaker than him but because of the very unique trait of the [Sacrificial Prayers to Heaven], he posed a very high threat to the others so it was natural that his opponents would band together to wipe him out first.
On the ninth group in which Ye Zhengming belonged, he too, had lost his life after running into a strong foe.
Although there was the Realm Monarch, the Heavenly Kings and the Realm Lords from the many realms, there were still high casualties in the competition as at least forty percent of the participants had been killed.
And what happened next was completely out of Zhong Yue’s expectation; Bi and An actually gave up at the most crucial moment as they jumped down from the palms of the two Heavenly Kings.
Realm Lord Fa of the Prison Realm frowned upon this scene and so did Realm Monarch Helian Yunshan, which prompted the Realm Monarch to summon Bi and An forward, “Dear brothers, why give up?”
He knew the origin and legacy of Bi and An, thus, he was very polite with them and did not take them lightly just because he was the Realm Monarch.
The brothers, on the other hand, looked at each other and they replied, “First or not does not matter for us. We are here merely to train ourselves and experience the bitterness and sweetness of life.”
Realm Monarch sighed and with a slightly disappointed tone, he said, “It doesn’t matter much for you but it matters a lot for us in the Wei Shen Six Path World….”
However, he did not force them even though the brothers did not want to try their best, “If possible, please contribute more for our world in the future. Thank you.”
Bi and An nodded and they said, “We will.”
Not long later, the winner within each groups had been decided; Yu Bochuan was dragged into a ferocious battle and at the final moment, he managed to force one of his opponent to yield and with the addition power he gained from the yielded opponent, he managed to terrorize the others with superior strength and slammed them out from the palm.
However, after going through a series of tough and dangerous moments, Yu Bochuan was so severely injured that as soon as he got out from the Realm Lord’s palm, he couldn’t withstand the wounds anymore and fainted right away. Immediately, Zhong Yue quickly rushed to his side and protected him.
With that, the competition among the ten groups ended and the ten strongest Qi Practitioners had been decided; they were Qi Tianzheng of the Elemental Realm, Hua Zhenchuan of the Earth Realm, Ju Ying of the Heaven Realm, King Xin Ling of the Earth Realm, Qian Zeng of the Myriad Realm, Zhong Yue of the Prison Realm, Bi Shan of the Celestial Realm, Yu Bochuan of the Prison Realm, Shi Yinji of the Heaven Realm and Que Yunfei of the Celestial Realm from the ten groups respectively.
Among the ten winners, two were from the Heaven Realm, Earth Realm, Prison Realm and Celestial Realm each, and the Myriad and Elemental Realm had one each. The Heaven Realm was still incredibly strong even after Prince Yun He and the eleven top tier Qi Practitioners had been killed. But Shi Yinji and Ju Ying from the Heaven Realm still managed to secure a place in the top ten Qi Practitioners!
But the Prison Realm had greatly surprised everyone, having two strong who occupied two seats in the top ten.
Fa Zhaozhen was extremely pleased at this sight as the Prison Realm had always been the lowest ranking Realm in the competition, giving him the title of the Realm Lord of the Worst Ranks.
But Fa Zhaozhen was still kind of disappointed upon seeing Bi an An gave up just like that.
If the Prison Realm occupied four seats, then things would have been extremely interesting. The faces of the other Realm Lords would’ve been a sight to see!
With the winners decided, the event officer stood out and dismissed everyone. The Qi Practitioners returned to their own quarters to prepare for the real competition against the other 2,999 Six Paths World.
“The competition will be taking place in the first Six Paths World,” announced the protocol officer, “The date, however, will be decided after the 3,000 Realm Monarchs come to an agreement. Be patient and get yourselves readied in your own courtyard in the Heaven Realm.”
Everyone then bowed and returned to their own courtyard.
Zhong Yue was confused and he immediately asked softly, “The first Six Paths World? Itsn’t it abandoned? Why there?”
He came from the first Six Paths World and now, after knowing the competition will be taking place at the first Six Paths World, his heart sank.
He had gone through a lot in order to get out of the first Six Paths World to head to Zi Wei Galaxy, yet now he was going back to where he started?
To his relief, Jun Wudao shook and replied, “Not that abandoned one but the Bo Luo Six Paths World that replaced the abandoned it as the new first Six Path World. The Realm Monarch of the Bo Luo Six Paths World is known as Dao Ming, the strongest of all 3,000 Realm Monarchs with countless exceptional subordinates under his command.”
“Realm Monarch Bo Luo, the strongest of all?”
Zhong Yue’s mind shifted slightly; in this universe, there are countless Realm Monarchs. While their Six Paths World might have a low ranking, their capabilities might not be as weak as everyone thought and vice versa, thus, Realm Monarch Bo Luo must very amazing to be recognized as the strongest Realm Monarch.
“They said that Realm Monarch Bo Luo is close to becoming an Imperial Emperor.”
Suddenly, a voice sounded and when Zhong Yue looked backwards, Zheng Yan was standing behind them sometime ago while staring at Jun Wudao with her beautiful eyes and she said, “Pretty. No wonder Evil God Zhong shamelessly set me up just for you. So, Evil God Zhong, who is the other girl?
Zhong Yue shook his head upon this question and he said, “You’ve misunderstood me. I did not ask for Senior Martial Sister Wudao.”
“What a playboy,” murmured Zheng Yan as she rolled her eyes and she said, “I can’t believe you have two other girls.”
Jun Wudao was puzzled and when she looked at Zheng Yan from head to toe, she praised her in her heart and asked, “And you are?”
“Myriad Realm’s Zheng Yan, thanks to the mercy of Evil God Zhong, I am still alive today,” introduced Zheng Yan herself and she said, “Be careful of this one, senior martial sister. He is a playful one and has a lot of girls.”
Jun Wudao bursted out laughing and clarified immediately, “We are not together. I never thought that the sinister Evil God Zhong would actually have mercy on someone, perhaps he has fallen for you?”
At this point, Zhong Yue felt that there was a need for him to explain for himself, thus, he quickly said, “Stop, I’m still a virgin….”
“Shut up!” shouted the two ladies in sync as they clearly did not believe Zhong Yue.
And it was at this moment that Fa Zhaozhen summoned them, “Zhong Yue and Yu Bochuan, come forth!”
His voice entered Zhong Yue’s and Yu Bochuan’s minds who regained consciousness, summoning them to the palace he temporarily resided. Upon hearing that, Zhong Yue quickly helped Yu Bochuan into the palace, where they met with a very happy Fa Zhaozhen. He was pacing about within the palace while rubbing his hands, “I promised you that if you entered the top ten and obtained the chance to represent us Prison Realm and clear our name, I will allow you to be reborn into the Heaven Realm with the best bloodline as the highest class celestial race! Now, I am here to fulfill my promise. Name a celestial race you want to be reborn to and I will grant you your wish no matter the cost!”
To his surprise, however, Zhong Yue shook his head and said, “Don’t worry about it, I think that the Prison Realm is fine and if you feel bad about it, why don’t you give me something else?”
Fa Zhaozhen widened his eyes and said with a laugh, “What do you wish for?”
“All humans within the Prison Realm,” replied Zhong Yue, to which Fa Zhaozhen frowned and said, “What did you say? I didn’t hear it clear enough.”
Zhong Yue immediately said, “If you feel bad about it….”
“I did not feel bad about anything.”
Fa Zhaozhe did not even flinch and he said shamelessly, “I won’t, don’t worry. How about you, Yu Bochuan?”
Yu Bochuan looked at Zhong Yue and he said, “Same. My bloodline is not that good in the Heaven Realm, but I can still win against those from the Heaven Realm. Whether or not my bloodline is good or not doesn’t matter anymore. If it’s possible, you can just give Brother Zhong what he asked for.”
Fa Zhaozhen stared at them angrily and he shouted, “Are you trying to defy me?”
Zhong Yue and Yu Bochuan were completely confused at Fa Zhaozhen’s response and upon seeing their confoundment, he sighed and sealed the dimension around the palace to prevent what he was going to say from being exposed. He said, “Are you getting tired of staying alive? How dare you speak of this? Do you know the story of the Prison Realm? All of the Prison Realms were not created to imprison those criminals but the humans! Zhong Yue! How dare you ask for such thing? Even if I grant you your wish, you won’t be able to receive it without getting yourself killed. I was doing this for your own good!”
Yu Bochuan was dumbfounded and after losing his voice for a moment, he shouted, “How is that possible! Humanity is the weakest race in the entire universe…. Brother Zhong, I’m not talking about you!”
Zhong Yue, on the other hand, remained silent at the revelation of Fa Zhaozhen.
Fa Zhaozhen shook his head and he explained, “This was revealed to me by the previous Realm Lord. He told me that there is this fixed rules that cannot be changed and this rule is that even after the other races escaped, all humans must be imprisoned within the Prison Realm no matter what. This is the supreme rule that all Prison Realm’s Realm Lord must abide to no matter the cost! I was once puzzled by this rule as well but when I dug into every single thing related to this rule, I failed to find any clues about it. There was an empty period in the ancient timeline where nothing was recorded.”
Chapter 710: The Incomplete [Art of Innate Reversal] |
Yu Bochuan was dumbstruck by this revelation.
The Prison Realm was, in fact, a realm to imprison the human race?!
The Prison Realm was the human race’s prison and the Prison Realm Lord acted as their warden. And that was the supreme rule of the Prison Realm!
Just how weak and petty was the human race?
Why was there even a need to specifically dedicate a realm just to imprison them?
And this wasn’t just an individual event where it only happened in the Wei Shen Six Paths World, but all the other existing 3,000 Six Paths Worlds had a Prison Realm that shared the same purpose!
What does the human race have that made Realm Monarchs of the Six Paths Worlds so fearful so as to imprison and continuously monitor the humans? Or perhaps, those that were afraid of the human race weren’t the Realm Monarchs, but someone, something much more greater than that!
“The human race must’ve done something extremely unforgivable, so severe that they were reduced to this state!” Fa Zhaozhen thought and said, “Every 3,000 Six Paths Worlds had a Prison Realm, just how serious was their transgression?”
Zhong Yue kept mum ever since Fa Zhaozhen spoke. While Yu Bochuan was completely clueless about it and Fa Zhaozhen knowing only a small piece of the big puzzle, Zhong Yue knew the whole picture very well in his heart.
The ancient presences didn’t care about the human race, what they wanted to imprison was the Fuxi bloodline.
The humans were the remaining Fuxi that had the power of their Fuxi blood sealed away. With their intrinsic power stripped away, the Fuxi Celestial Race waned day after day.
During the darkest days, the Fuxi Clan made a last ditch effort to rise against the evil forces but it ended with their terrible defeat, and that defeat marked the end of the Earth Order Era. But even so, fear stil lingered deep inside the hearts of their enemies, and that fear was that the great Fuxi Celestial Race would one day resurrect and rise higher than ever.
Thus, they’ve made the Prison Realms and ordered the remaining Fuxi to be contained in it. The ancient presences sealed the power of the Fuxi blood, imprisoned the humans while watching closely as they grew into insects that pose not a single threat anymore.
“You who are imprisoned shall never rise eternally!”
Those words were not spoken to the criminals that were thrown into the Prison Realm, but to the Fuxi and humans imprisoned in here!
“Hahaha…” Zhong Yue suddenly giggled foolishly, he now finally understood why there were so many humans in the Prison Realm, why all of them ended terribly in every life, why they were called the weakest and the most petty race, and why all of the other races could consume them as their food!
All of these were made to be so because someone wanted it to be that way!
Fa Zhaozhen and Yu Bochuan heard him laughing, and they both looked over puzzlingly. Their eyes became filled with sympathy. Although they didn’t know why did the human race was made so, but as one of the humans, Zhong Yue’s request for Fa Zhaozhen to grant him the human race in the Prison Realm was definitely to change the human race’s low social status so that they wouldn’t be made the food and slaves to the other races.
However, now that part of the truth was revealed to them, they all knew it was an impossible goal to achieve!
Zhong Yue’s aura grew terribly dark, his heart was filled with anger and his mouth struggled to remain closed as he was afraid that he would burst out raging in the many questions in his mind.
Why? Why are they still doing this? They’ve won, the Fuxi Celestial Race has been defeated, so why are they still doing this?
Are they afraid of the sealed Fuxi? Our power was stripped from us, what is there left for us to fight with? Are they afraid that the human race will rise once again? Yes, they are afraid, terror has consumed them and they are taking every precaution to ease their fear!
The humans had committed no wrongdoings, and the Fuxi committed no sins!
Not only did the human race not wrong the world, but their contributions were in fact, unparallelled to any other races. The countless Heavenly Monarchs buried in the Ancestral Star was solid evidence to this!
But look at where they stand now, the great celestial race that created the Six Paths Reincarnation was condemned to death, those that survived the blood massacre had their power sealed, imprisoned in the Prison Realms, and be treated like livestock, like slaves!
How could he not be furious?
“Other than the humans in the Prison Realm, I will grant any of your other wishes.” Fa Zhaozhen looked at Zhong Yue, and for the first time, the Realm Lord was apologetic as he said, “The Realm Monarch knows of the supreme rule of the Prison Realm. If I grant you the humans in the Prison Realm, it’ll only bring death upon you. But I am not a nobody either, I still have some connections and my own ways in the Six Paths World. You’ve earned me and the Prison Realm some face, and for that, I will reward you. How about this, tell me the names of the people from your clan, I will bribe the Hell officers and let them be reincarnated in their next lives.”
Zhong Yue shook his head, he inhaled deeply before answering in a solemn tone, “It’s fine, Realm Lord, there’s no need for that.”
Fa Zhaozhen quickly said, “Don’t, don’t, I don’t want to go back on my words. I’ve promised the two of you a wish each and if I fail to fulfil that promise, how are the people going to trust me in leading them? How about this, I have over 7,000 children, I’ll marry some of them to you? Oh no, how about a few hundred… or at the most one thousand of them! A thousand is really the all I can give to you. Anymore beyond that will include some of my elder daughters that have aged like a grannies. I bet you won’t have any interest in that…”
