Beastmaster of the Ages

Princess Shen Yu looked at Tianming with a strange look. “Your personality is very different. You used to be like the boy next door, very easygoing. Now, you’re more arrogant. Are you acting? I know you want to show the Violetcloud Imperium your value so that you can get more support, but you don’t need to do that in front of me.” She was quite intelligent and could tell that this wasn’t Tianming’s true face.

He was actually a serious and calm person.

“So?” He knew there was a hidden meaning in her words.

“So… even though the situation is how it is now, you can actually still leave the Violetcloud Imperium and join our Divineglory Dynasty. As long as you’re willing to join, your position will be higher than Ye Chen’s,” Princess Shen Yu sincerely said, looking at Tianming without blinking.

“Why should I? You know that I’m quite happy where I am now. There’s no need to risk going to your Divineglory Dynasty.”

“Happy? But I suspect that you needed to waste a lot of effort to enter the Imperious Ruins. Using all their resources must be a struggle too. Perhaps Sovereign Starfeather even had to forcefully make you an astralking.”

Tianming smiled, a signal for her to continue.

“Li Tianming… right, that’s your real name. I think you should know by now that the sovereign and his Gong clan don’t have absolute authority in the Violetcloud Imperium. Their Pentarchy is arrogant, xenophobic, and hostile to the Gong clan. But here in our dynasty, we rule. My Divineglory Clan’s word is law. We can give you a position higher than an astralking.”

Princess Shen Yu flew across the lake toward Tianming. She landed in front of him just as she finished speaking. She waited for his answer.

“You can give me anything?” Tianming smiled.

“Yes.”

“What about you?” Tianming stared at the princess.

Princess Shen Yu was stunned, then shook her head. “Don’t fool around. I know you have a pretty primalwinger girl by your side.”

“Would I reject having more pretty faces around?” Tianming laughed. His heated gaze made Princess Shen Yu feel weird. She lowered her head and stepped back.

Tianming didn’t let up. “I can promise you, but you need to kill Ye Chen. One mountain can’t have two tigers, and I don’t want to continue competing with him.”

“Don’t go too far. You know that’s not possible.” Princess Shen Yu shook her head with an uncomfortable expression.

“Why bother talking if you know it isn’t possible then? Scheme less next time. If your dynasty has both of us, then all the initiative will be in your hands. Also, I’m sure the matter with Liu Wanwan before was your fault. I still haven’t settled that score yet! I came here today to tell you to stop all these petty actions. Don’t take others as fools!”

Tianming’s words made her expression more and more embarrassed. The Violetcloud Imperium may have many internal problems, but Tianming had already burned his bridges with the Divineglory Dynasty. Changing sides now would only label him a traitor.

“Princess Shen Yu, please don’t bother me again, alright?” Tianming seriously said. The girl was pretty, sure, but she had too many thoughts. She believed that everything was under her control when it wasn’t.

The princess inhaled deeply before speaking with displeasure. “I misjudged you. Your true nature is arrogant and rude.”

“I’m not that bad.” Tianming had completely ended her hopes.

“Still don’t be too excited. One win doesn’t mean you’ll win forever.” Princess Shen Yu had officially given up. Still, this was even better; it was best to focus completely on Ye Chen instead of trying to keep an unwilling backup plan. Perhaps, after having been born in a powerful clan, she subconsciously believed the best person in the world belonged to her.

“Correct. I may not win the next time I meet Ye Chen,” Tianming said meaningfully, before instantly vanishing.

“Does he know Ye Chen is a solarian now?” Princess Shen Yu was stunned.

Actually, Tianming wasn’t aware. He had said that as he’d trounced Ye Chen too one-sidedly the last time. If he fought Ye Chen again, he had to show the Violetcloud Imperium that Ye Chen could challenge him and wasn’t useless. Otherwise, the Pentarchy wouldn’t respect Tianming.

……

After leaving Princess Shen Yu, Tianming contacted his wondersky fairy and told her to prepare the path to the Astraldome.

“First, go to the wondersky realm’s ‘wondersky eye’. The path to the Astraldome is there.” The wondersky eye was the location where the wondersky realm met the outside world.

“Fine.” Tianming stepped into another vortex of light.

The miraculousness of the wondersky realms has two levels. The lower level is a connection within nova source worlds. Two sects millions of kilometers away from each other can have their people meet in the wondersky realm. The higher level is a connection between different stars in the vast astralscape of order; it eliminates the concept of distance, allowing people who should never have ever met to battle against each other.

Any nova source world the divine wondersky race stepped on, they would construct a wondersky realm. Each world had its own independent wondersky realm, and they were all linked to each other through the Astraldome, forming a network that linked the entire astralscape of order together.

Today’s astralscape of order seemed to have two different sides. One was a dark forest that was an endless space with infinite space between each nova source world. They would never make contact, and if they did, war over nova sources would begin. The other side had no concept of space. They were connected to each other and coexisted in harmony. They progressed together and even traded caeli.

One was a cold, practical reality and one was a warm and wondrous realm.

In the end, it was because the wondersky realm had no deaths and no nova source to fight over. Once there was a source of conflict, the world would no longer know peace.