Rise of Humanity
chapter-1021

The two Heavenly Wardens immediately noticed the abnormalities. They turned around towards the ship’s direction and Zhong Yue immediately felt that he was being locked on by them!

The two wardens grabbed towards the ancient ship, but without a sign, they groaned in pain and when they retracted their hands back, their hands were gone!

The two surprised wardens turned their wrists around and they could clearly see the veins, bones and flesh, there was even blood flowing in and out!

“Space Dao.”

One of the wardens examined the severed side of his wrist and tried to clench his fist, and he found that he felt that his hand was still there, but it wasn’t.

“Strange….”

The other warden also clenched his fist as he said, “Seems like an art from the Dark Age, no totems but a complete system, very much different from the Space Dao now.”

Their expression was very strange. Even when their hand was already like that, there was literally no shock or panic on their faces as if they wore the same expression forever.

After that, using their hand that was severed, they performed a jab and shouted, “Burst!”

A creaking sound sounded in the dimensions with that jab and pieces of severed hand flew out, the ancient ship’s wings sliced their hand into pieces, throwing these pieces into different dimensions. But with their immense power, the two wardens were able to summon their hand back by breaking the dimensions!

“Jia Zi, you stay here, I’ll go take a look at this weird existence that dares to intrude the prison.”

After that, one of them started following after the scent left behind by Zhong Yue.

Just as he was about to chase after Zhong Yue, Mister Bi Luo had walked out from Bi Luo Palace and asked, “What was that just now?”

Clearly, Mister Bi Luo was alerted by the movements just now and he decided to come out and take a look.

The warden called Jia Zi bowed, “Mister, there was something strange trying to sneak into the prison but failed. It used the Dark Age’s Space Dao to cut away our hand. Yi Chou is now in pursuit.”

“The Dark Age’s Space Dao?”

The surprised Mister Bi Luo said, “Dark Age’s art? There aren’t many practitioners in this day and age. Even those old monsters had given up on the Dark Age’s arts in favor of the current totem pattern cultivation system. Seems like they’re trying to sneak into the prison by not using his real arts and techniques.”

The warden reported, “Thankfully he failed.”

“You should have let him sneak into the prison.”

Mister Bi Luo rebutted, “If he entered the prison, then there would be nowhere to run. But now, Yi Chou might not even be able to catch him.”

At the side of the prison, the ancient ship sailed all the way downwards, diving through the wild lightning. This Heavenly Prison was just like an angry tornado, creating sparks as it spun around, emitting lightning constantly and formed a heavy thunder layer around.

When the ship sailed in the thunder layer, Zhong Yue’s heart was pounding nervously. The lightning’s power was far greater than what he had seen in the Lei Zhe sacred grounds!

In the Lei Zhe sacred grounds, the Desolate Lightning Tribulation there was for Qi Practitioners, but when compared to the Desolate Lightning here, the Desolate Lightning Tribulation was so much weaker!

Every strike of Desolate Lightning here was ridiculously thick and long, like an ancient dragon, each time they struck onto the ancient ship, the power rumbled the ship like a tiny boat in the raging ocean!

There is nowhere to go on the outside now and the power here is terrifying!

Zhong Yue did everything to stabilize the ship, looking at the Desolate Lightning and his eyes lit up, If I can cultivate Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace here, the cultivation speed will be incredible! If I absorbed the lightning here, I will be able to enter the next level with the lightning!

The [Innate Eight Trigrams] was activated as Zhong Yue tried drawing the lightning into his body, his [Innate Eight Trigrams] covered a wide span and it lit up brightly each time the lightning struck onto it!

Even so, the [Innate Eight Trigrams] looked so tiny before the overwhelming lightning.

Zhong Yue’s Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace was quickly activated and started absorbing the raging lightning power while the [Innate Eight Trigrams] turned the power into his own energy.

As the energy surged into his body, Zhong Yue trembled upon the overwhelming energy gushing out from Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace. Not only was his innate lightning Dao rapidly strengthening, but his other Daos were also experiencing leaps!

The Heavenly Prison was a dangerous place for others. But to him, it was a cultivation sacred ground!

Zhong Yue closed his eyes, suddenly, the totem patterns around [Innate Eight Trigrams] changed and from far away, it looked just like a massive Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace.

The Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace moved as the ship moved, devouring all the lightning that it came into contact with.

His cultivation speed increased by tenfold again and Zhong Yue praised, If only I can keep cultivating here….

Meanwhile, Yi Chou was flying swiftly, but oddly enough, the lightning around had nothing on this Heavenly Warden.

The ancient ship was struck by numerous lightning bolts, rendering it unable to hide within the dimension swiftly. The dimensions around were shattered by the lightning, exposing the thousand winged ancient ship from time to time.

And in no time, Yi Chou would arrive.

Zhong Yue frowned. If it were on the outside world, Yi Chou would never be able to catch up with him, but with fierce lightning here, it was impossible to shake him off.

However, neither was it easy for Yi Chou to catch up to him since the torn dimensions were still slowing him down.

Isn’t this Heavenly Prison way too long?

After sailing for god knew how long, Zhong Yue discovered that the surroundings looked the same as when he started.

This length was a little terrifying. It had even surpassed the Imperial Star and Heaven Court!

“Xin Huo, did you build this prison?” asked Zhong Yue.

“No.”

Xin Huo shook, “I only built the Earth Order Era’s Heavenly Prison. This is probably built in the God Order Era.”

Also amazed by what they saw, the little flame added, “The arts and techniques back then were not as advanced as the ones we now know. That person who built this prison was incredible. He was probably on the cusp of ascending to a Dao God when he built this prison, or there would’ve been no way to extend the tiny dimension around the prison to such an extent.”

The Heavenly Prison, small?

Zhong Yue took a look around and he slowly saw the reason why Xin Huo said this.

While the prison looked massive, this feeling intensified when he got closer to the prison, even the ancient ship needed a lot of time to reach from one end to another. It was even larger than the Imperial Star at first glance.

But after being pointed out, Zhong Yue quickly discovered something illogical around here.

Compared to the Heaven Court, which was a giant, the prison was just the little thumb of the giant.

The only reason why this prison looked so huge was that the creator of this prison carved minor totem patterns onto totem patterns.

It was just like drawing a massive totem pattern in the skies, then carving smaller patterns into the large one, and then carving even smaller ones, repeating until there was no more space left.

And that was just for reality, what about the dimensions?

By carving totem patterns into the dimensions nonstop, this amazing scene where there was no end to the Heavenly Prison was formed.

If someone were to fall into the totem patterns, they would be stuck in an endless loop of falling across different levels, from the largest pattern, to the medium and the tiniest patterns, falling from one dimension into another, before reaching the final point.

And that point was where the real Heavenly Prison was located, where dangerous characters like Crown Prince Fu Shang were all locked in!

During the falling process, one would not be able to see the Heavenly Prison but instead, they would feel that the prison was immensely vast with its ridiculous length.

In truth, the Heavenly Prison was just like a dimensional funnel shaped structure, it may be huge but not as huge as one saw.

Thank god I did not fall into the prison or I would have been trapped there forever!

Zhong Yue shivered at the thought. If he fell into the prison, he would land on the inseparable dot along with the ancient ship, where the chances of escaping was extremely slim.

So, how did Si Ming save Fu Shang from there?

But right now, there was no one to answer Zhong Yue’s questions. The Heavenly Prison was big, but there was still an end to it, after flying for more than ten days, they finally arrived at the end of the prison. Zhong Yue gradually saw the place that was described and marked out by Feng Xiaozhong on the star map. It was the place Feng Xiaozhong arrived at after exiting the Imperial Road of Heavenly Monarch.

“The ancient continent!”

Xin Huo shouted in excitement, “The Fire Order Era Imperial Star’s remnant!”

As they got closer to the ancient continent, Zhong Yue grew more and more excited; this continent was the pieces of the once Imperial Star of the Fire Order Era. The Earth Order Era’s Heaven Court preserved this vast and ancient land and with that, the Imperial Road of Heavenly Monarch created by Sui Sovereign managed to exist until now.

And now, Zhong Yue had arrived at the once Imperial Star, stood on Imperial Road of Heavenly Monarch and walk the path Yanzi Clan and Fuxi Celestial Race’s monarchs once walked!

Hong long—

The ancient ship trembled as if it sailed through an invisible barrier, breaching through a sealed dimension and entering the atmosphere of the ancient continents.

Zhong Yue looked up and saw a ridiculously long funnel.

The Heavenly Prison!

Just as he anticipated, this Heavenly Prison was a massive funnel and a terrifying innate monarch weapon!

The lightning and thunder layers around was a supernatural phenomenal created by it when it circled around!

Upon entering the continent, the entire Heavenly Prison could be seen emerging through the layers of dimensions that looked like a thick book. The funnel pierced through the book, absorbing and suppressing everything!

“Who made this dimension funnel? Heaven or the evil existence?” murmured Zhong Yue.

“This is one of the strongest monarch weapons in the world!”

With a serious expression, Xin Huo mumbled, “A monarch weapon even stronger than Hundun Clan’s Fusang Divine Tree! I wonder which is stronger, this dimension funnel or Dao Venerate Fu Min’s Heavenly Monarch Sword?”