Rise of Humanity
chapter-781

The Ninth Divine City.

Zhong Yue stood here and he felt like he was standing at the center of the universe where the sun, moon, and stars circled the city.

The strangest thing was that the stars he saw here were just balls of light rather than real stars. Besides, these lights were so close to the city, if they were just within reach.

Everything here was strange and novel to Zhong Yue. The Ninth Divine City was the beginning of everything. And from the city, everything outside was as they were since the inception of the universe. The heaven and earth were born after the big bang and evolved constantly. Only by walking out from this city will someone realized that this universe was actually that ancient.

In this city located at the center of the universe, there was no concept of time; everything was frozen at the time when the universe was born.

But this frozen time flow applied only to the view around; for Zhong Yue, Jiang Yiqi and the others who were not innate gods, they were not part of the frozen time flow, thus, they would still die of old age or killed even if they were inside the Ninth Divine City.

“This is the center of the universe where all things started. The Zi Wei Galaxy is inside another higher-level dimension.”

Jiang Yiqi said, “That place is only accessible through the portal in the center of the universe. One can only get there from the other place if they possess overwhelming power.”

He suddenly remembered something and said, “Oh, there is another way! The Imperial Road of the Heavenly Monarch, a path left behind by the Heavenly Monarch in the ancient Fire Order Era! That is a much quicker path for it was a Dao path created by the Heavenly Monarch. Through that path, we can get there much quicker than the teleportal but it was already abandoned for more than billions of years. However, not long ago, Imperial Road of the Heavenly Monarch lit up as some mysterious figures walked on it and right into Zi Wei, causing quite a ruckus!”

Imperial Road of the Heavenly Monarch? It must be Feng Xiaozhong, Senior Martial Brother Feng!

Zhong Yue asked in excitement, “Did they find this person?”

Jiang Yiqi shook his head and replied, “A lot of them searched around but found nothing. However, this had caught Imperial Emperor Xian Tian’s attention; thus, he and the other Imperial Emperors forged the Skymetrical Scroll and Divine Tree of Knowledge to seal the Ancestral Star at the other end of Imperial Road.”

Zhong Yue was shocked and he shouted, “So that weird-looking layer and the strange tree is Skymetrical Scroll and Divine Tree of Knowledge!”

“The Skymetrical Scroll seals the heaven and earth, locking off the Ancestral Star’s dimension and the Divine Tree of Knowledge altered the heaven and earth’s Dao, allowing a fake Dao to take over the Ancestral Star’s Dao, supplanting the Dao in the Ancestral Star.”

Jiang Yiqi added, “The Human Sovereign, however, knew that Imperial Emperor Xian Tian was creating the Skymetrical Scroll to seal the Ancestral Star long ago. Thus, he went to Skyfire Wasteland to harvest the sparks of the Heavenly Fire and cultivated it secretly before handing it to me. He told me to look for a chance to burn a hole in Skymetrical Scroll to open a hole for the humans in Ancestral Star. Sometime later, I succeeded and burnt a small hole in Skymetrical Scroll.”

Zhong Yue was even more shocked at this time and he felt extremely weird.

This hole Jiang Yiqi talked about was the one hole Zhong Yue found and used when he left the Ancestral Star!

In truth, that hole was not as small as Jiang Yiqi described; the hole Jiang Yiqi burnt was as huge as a planet and King Zi Guang had to choice but to move an entire planet to cover it!

For Zhong Yue, all he knew before this was that the Human Sovereign took great care for the humans in Ancestral Star and that he wanted to change help the humans there to change their fate. Now, he knew that the way he managed to get out from Ancestral Star was closely related to Human Sovereign and Jiang Yiqi.

He then told Jiang Yiqi about this, who was did not see things coming and after some time when he recollected his thoughts back, Jiang Yiqi said, “Human Sovereign asked me to destroy Skymetrical Scroll and you escaped through it… is this destiny?”

Zhong Yue then said, “Fate….”

Jiang Yiqi nodded, “Fate it is. Fate had decided that the Fuxi will not die and the humans will prevail, thus, such coincidence. Shame, I wonder if Human Sovereign saw all of these….”

An unknown pain engulfed him and after a moment, he led the way and before getting onto the platform, he said, “After you, Fuxi.”

They got onto the final teleportal and after Jiang Yiqi activated it, a light shot up into the skies and pierced through the dimension above the center of this universe.

At this moment, Zhong Yue felt the ripping of time and space. As the light surrounding him flew further away, he saw the universe’s evolution since its nascent days unfold before his eyes.

When the universe was born, there was nothing but eternal darkness. As time passed, light emerged from the darkness and endless stars were formed. The cycle of life and death slowly built up and innate gods were born into this universe from the marvelous pure Dao sacred ground. Years later, civilizations formed and they lit up the universe like fire and after a period of shine, everything turned calm and quiet.

The universe was growing and endless bright history flashed across his eyes, he felt that he had experienced hundreds of billions of years but when he tried to look back carefully, he saw nothing.

Suddenly, this unique feeling vanished and they all entered a higher level dimension.

They had arrived at the Zi Wei Galaxy.

And Zhong Yue looked around with excitement. He had now finally stepped foot in Zi Wei Galaxy!

Back when he was still immature and young, he dreamt of leaving Ancestral Star with the hopes of making the humans great again, leading them out from the Ancestral Star and the galaxy.

He came here with the hopes of improving the human situation, to change everything but things did not go after his ways. First, he accidentally arrived in Wei Shen Six Paths World, took part in the 3,000 Six Paths Worlds’ competition, went through a series of difficulties, experienced the suppression of Heaven Origin Reincarnation Mirror for 30 billion years, ran into the sinister existence, had Xin Huo almost extinguish forever, seen the impossible world and all sorts of unique encounters.

Now, the young man became an adult, a god and finally, he entered Zi Wei Galaxy.

The Zi Wei Galaxy was located in a higher dimension was because when standing in the Zi Wei Galaxy and looking up into the skies, one could have the entire 3,000 Six Paths Worlds included in his vision. Standing here felt like a person stood on a superior position and had the god’s eyes view.

This place was far superior to any of the sacred grounds in the lower worlds and perhaps the place that gave birth to the innate gods were as good as this place. Here, there were divine rays everywhere, the clouds were made from divine Qi and sacred grounds were all over. Those ancient continents floating in the skies were also filled with a jaw-dropping amount of resources.

The lower worlds were extremely vast and nurtured lots of living beings and though this place seemed smaller than the lower worlds, Zhong Yue had this feeling that this place was much larger than the lower worlds.

And this was a very surreal feeling.

“You felt it?”

Jiang Yiqi was surprised and he praised, “With that level of yours, you managed to realize the differences of Zi Wei Galaxy and the others. Impressive. This place is not as small as it seems, it appears at most as big as a galaxy but it’s actually much bigger than the entire lower worlds combined. In the lower 3,000 worlds, those that govern and rule are called the Heavens’ Kings and the word Heavens was derived from Zi Wei Galaxy.”

“Heavens? What does it mean?” asked a confused Zhong Yue.

“Zi Wei Galaxy doesn’t seem big at all but within this galaxy are hidden endless Heavens, each controlled by the rulers of each race. These rulers are crowned as the sovereigns. For example, the human’s ruler holds the title of the Human Sovereign, and our current Human Sovereign is called Nong Sovereign. It is the same for the other races, the Celestial Sovereign for the celestial races, the Demon Sovereign for the demon races.”

Jiang Yiqi continued the journey with Zhong Yue and he continued explaining, “The sovereigns in Zi Wei Galaxy are the rulers of each race. Some had the cultivation level of only the Deity Emperors and some are Creators or even the level of Imperial Emperor. But then there are also some that only had the cultivation level of Deity Overlord but this is mostly among the smaller races and is a very rare occurrence.”

They got past one after another sacred grounds and when Zhong Yue looked at the sacred grounds, all he saw were unique and mysterious phenomena where divine ray shrouded the divine mountains and not even the Heaven Courts in the 3,000 Six Paths World had something like that.

“The sovereigns in each race all had their very own Heavens. Each Heavens is a realm themselves and each of them is on par with the lower world’s Heaven Realm. The spiritual power there are abundant and condensed, and there are a lot of resources there. These Heavens are also the place where the many races lived in. Thus, the Zi Wei Galaxy that is formed by these Heavens is actually much bigger than it seems.”

Jiang Yiqi said, “There are even sovereigns that once suggested to the Heavenly Monarch to abandon the lower realms since the lower realms are much poorer. However, such a foolish and short-sighted suggestion was discarded by the Heavenly Monarch right away.”

Zhong Yue then asked, “Why so?”

Jiang Yiqi explained, “Initially, there were no Heavens in the Zi Wei Galaxy, they were just creations of the great paragons throughout the years. This was the case for the Heaven Realms in the 3,000 Six Paths Worlds. Thus, the really precious lands are not located within the Heavens or the many Heaven Realms. Instead, the really precious ones are the Pure Dao Worlds that exist in the ancient universe since the beginning of time. These are places where the innate gods were born and lands that no one can artificially create.”

Zhong Yue nodded in agreement; the Pure Dao Worlds existed in the heaven and earth along with the birth of the universe, they weren’t something that could be created. Discarding the lower worlds meaning they would have to inevitably discard these natural precious lands as well.

In short term, there wouldn’t be any problems but in the long run, if a genius was born within the ancient universe or the 3,000 Six Paths Worlds, he would definitely conquer the lower worlds and then, the Zi Wei Galaxy!

Thus, abandoning the lower worlds was definitely a suicidal idea.

“We humans too have a Heavens but this Heavens is the worst among all. It was created by Human Sovereign after placing everything on the line. He spent his whole life trying to perfect it but the humans are in a difficult situation, especially those in Zi Wei….”

Jiang Yiqi shook his head and he showed no intention of talking anymore.

After a few months, the places they passed by gradually appeared to be more and more developed and the number of sacred grounds they saw increased tremendously. The places they passed by were also the territories of the ancient yet awfully strong celestial races.

And that was when Zhong Yue finally knew what they meant by taking a hostage.

The Human Sovereign’s palace was surrounded by so many strong races not because they respected him and viewed him highly, but because they wanted to keep an eye on him.

Finally, they arrived at the Human Sovereign’s palace where there were also prosperity clouds and bright divine rays. However, granted humanities situation, everything here was much worse than the other races’ main palace’s.

And this place was more than just quiet as there were no visitors at all and not as developed as the other sacred grounds.

Jiang Yiqi got excited in his heart and he walked quickly into the Human Sovereign’s palace in the sacred ground where the many young humans resided and managed to palace.

“Human Sovereign, I’ve completed our promise so don’t you dare die right now!”

Jiang Yiqi murmured and as he charged right into the palace with Zhong Yue, he saw an old man in white robes standing at the palace doors appearing to be searching for someone. After seeing the two of them, the old man immediately smiled and he approached them.

Jiang Yiqi laughed happily and after he greeted, he shouted, “Senior martial brother! You’re still alive! I thought you’ve passed away and I even mourned for you….”

“Mister Yiqi! Mister Yiqi!”

Suddenly, from the side came a human god and as he ran towards Jiang Yiqi, he cried and shouted, “Mister Yiqi, Human Sovereign… has passed away!”

“Nonsense!”

Jiang Yiqi was angered by this human god and scolded, “My senior martial brother is standing right in front of me….”

He suddenly stunned and when he looked at the old man in a white robe and looked at the palace again, sadness swallowed him wholly and he shouted, “Senior martial brother! Why are you still here after you died! You should have gone to the Void World!”

Human Sovereign had indeed passed away and this old man bearing his looks was just his soul. In the palace was a coffin that was left uncovered and the body lying in the coffin that could be seen vaguely had the exact same look as this old man, except that the body was much older and deprived of life.

He did not manage to hold himself together until Zhong Yue’s arrival.

He passed away but his dream did not come true, thus, his soul lingered in the palace, waiting for Zhong Yue and Jiang Yiqi’s arrival.

All this just to see Fuxi again.