Beastmaster of the Ages

After cultivating a sword body and absorbing divine hazard sword ki, every attack of Ying’s carried the sword ki of the Azure Swordriver Storm with it. The Azure Swordriver Storm was a wind-type divine hazard sword ki that gathered around her Skycloud Soul. The sword activated its Skycloud Soulcutter patterns as well, and with the cherrywood sacrosun and her astralforce, each of her attacks carried quite a few abilities.

Tianming quickly responded to the aggressive attacks by splitting the Grand-Orient Sword in two. The black Grand-Orient Sword carried the power of the Frozen Glasstree, while the gold Grand-Orient Sword gathered the five grade-seven divine hazard sword kis he had.

The clash of sword ki created a screeching clang.

Ying seized the initiative and used the seventh-realm divine art, Omniflashing Blade, causing the Skycloud Soul to transform and combine with the cherry blossoms around her. The storm of sword and cherry blossoms surged forward. All of the trees in the area were immediately vaporized and ground to dust.

“Amazing.” Tianming wasn’t surprised that a supreme genius from a deific-class world would outclass Li Haochen by so much. It was the natural result of the combination of talent and resources. Tianming was using Li Haochen as the benchmark for his age group in heliacal-class worlds to compare to those from skypiercer- and deific-class worlds.

However, while Tianming may have fallen behind greatly on resources, his talent still stood at the top of the Mysterium Cluster! Using his gold Grand-Orient Sword, which was supported by five grade-seven divine hazard sword kis, he used Blooddragon Sacrifice to block the attack.

The dense sword ki from Ying’s sword art and the Azure Swordriver Storm sword ki practically swallowed Tianming up. But fortunately, his even more powerful left hand burst out with the black Grand-Orient Sword. The power of the Frozen Glasstree was perfectly infused into a sixth-fusion sword strike, freezing all of Ying’s sword ki.

Not far off, Bai Feng, who was personally witnessing the battle, was in disbelief. She had long had some inkling of how strong Ying was. However, Tianming, someone from a heliacal-class world, was resisting a top three genius from a deific-class world. It not only overthrew her worldview, but kicked up a commotion throughout the entire Mysterium Cluster.

However, battles constantly changed, and so did the emotions of those following it.

“Not bad,” Ying laughed. She didn’t dislike Tianming right now. Instead, she was well and truly enjoying her fight with him. Still, she did understand she had to beat him convincingly, so as to not embarrass herself, Skyway Tristar, and the faceless specters.

Omniflashing Blade was used one last time. Her seemingly weak arm surged with power comparable to Lan Huang’s, turning into a crushing blow when combined with her astralforce and cherrywind sacrosun.

Tianming’s gold Grand-Orient Sword forcefully took the blow. Alas, for him, another tragedy occured. The wondersky realm judged the Grand-Orient Sword incapable of withstanding the Skycloud Soul and it broke under the impact, causing the attack to land on Tianming. It knocked him away, nearly killing him.

“Seriously?” This was a depressing development. This sword was unbreakable in the real world, but the wondersky realm had broken it twice.

“I wouldn’t have to suffer this nonsense if I had that grade-nine Grand-Orient Sword.” While Tianming did think about getting it, he knew his chances weren’t high. Ying would roughly be in the top ten of the absolute lobby; if she was so fierce, what about Team Celestial Beings?

Anyway, he wouldn’t dare accept it even if the mysterians did bring it over after he won. He could only dream about that mysterious grade-nine Grand-Orient Sword. Fortunately, he still had the black sword. He knew he had to give it his all if he wanted to prevent a loss.

Ying’s powerful body was the basis of her suppression of him. Under that force, he violently collided with the Astralium Formation, causing it to blare alarms.

“I’m a human beastmaster and totemancer. Why am I trying to physically challenge her?” Giving up his advantage and trying to use his disadvantages to fight would be incredibly stupid. Specters were a special fusion of man and beast; Tianming trying to start a physical tussle was indeed just asking for suffering.

“Go!” The tiny Ying Huo and Meow Meow would be important supporters. Lan Huang and Xian Xian could help too. However, his nine decapath era godswords would be the most significant!

Ying wanted to chase and finish him off, but Ying Huo and Meow Meow blocked her.

Skyscorch Featherblast! Empowered by Blazebane, it was like over ten thousand sharp swords that were all covered in an incomparably hot flame.

At the same time, Meow Meow used its Soulchasing Hellthunder as well as two small but fast Cosmic Lances, firing them at Ying.

“Your lifebound beasts aren’t bad,” Ying chuckled and her body glowed with white light, the power of her ability complemented by her cherrywind sacrosun and immediately expanding.

“Are you not using your sacrosun because it’s too weak?” As she spoke, she unleashed an ability, Snowstorm Swordrealm. Streak after streak of white light merged with the surrounding cherry blossoms, instantly creating countless snowflakes that formed a sword formation around her. The surrounding area became a land of frost.

The powerful ability took not just Ying Huo and Meow Meow’s abilities head-on, but also Xian Xian’s Radiant Vines and Bloodrain Swords.

Despite Lan Huang’s size, it was rather agile in battle against a small opponent. That was especially true for its sword-like tail. It swept forward, smashing into Ying’s newly formed Snowstorm Swordrealm. It shattered, and she leaped out into a dense field of lightning that was assailing her from all directions. At the same time, her moment of distraction almost allowed the ghostly Ying Huo to ambush her.

Her Skycloud Soul clashed repeatedly with the bird’s wings. It not only failed to kill Ying Huo, but also gave it the chance to spit out Sixpath Infernal Lotus at her.

For the first time, she was covered in soot.

Ying had just stepped back when countless black roots burst out from the ground, trapping her in a ten-meter-wide sphere before attempting to dig into her flesh.