Beastmaster of the Ages

”Hmm….” Tianming was surprised to find that this young ebon looked so immature, like a five or six-year-old child from Vermillion Bird. He was only about a hundred and ten centimeters tall.

”A child?” Even in Ebonia, a person of that height and youthful countenance would only be in their teens. The child’s long hair was silver and black and his eyes were like hell’s abyss, as black as ink, and his blood appeared to be silver, which gave his skin a silvery luster. ”How strange!”

At that moment, the young ebon reached the mysterious ring. He stretched out his hand and touched the ring, trying to pull it off the finger.

Tianming noticed that the palms of his hands were actually glowing silver.

”Silver eyes!” Tianming was astonished, because silver soul eyes were the mark of the highest talent, surpassing red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Every genius with silver eyes was an elite of the ebons. They were the most likely to make the top ten on the reges mundi ranking.

”I recall now. Silver eyes mean this kid is from the Guchi Clan. They’re slower to mature. It takes them hundreds of years to reach adolescence, so this guy isn’t really young. He may look like a child, but in fact, he’s close to a hundred years old.” Tianming narrowed his eyes. He was very far away and didn’t dare get close. Using his Plundering Eye, he tried his best to see the information on the man’s disciple card.

”Guchi Xiaoyin! I knew it! He’s from the Guchi Clan, the main clan of the ebons! Their family name is far more noble than Qi Qiling and Qi Hongzhen’s Qi Clan.”

Guchi Clan, silver eyes! The combination of these two elements proved that this young man was definitely the most powerful genius Tianming had come across in Ebonia.

”He is… tenth on… the minor… ranking ranking!” Yin Chen said. It had probably been paying attention to Guchi Xiaoyin’s battles.

”Tenth! He’s definitely much better than Lin Jianxing.” Lin Jianxing was in the two hundreds, so Tianming was definitely ill-equipped to compete against Guchi Xiaoyin if he was tenth on the ranking. He was powerless!

”I also… heard him… say that… his sister… Guchi Xiaoyao… was once… fourth on… the minor… ranking, so… his goal.. is top… three three!”

He was currently tenth and his goal was to move into the top three? That would make him a monster.

”I’m so sad.” The man wasn’t just strong, but was also surrounded by more than eighty ebons, including more than fifty astral gods. Tianming was completely hopeless.

”So that’s it? I was so excited!” Lan Huang sullenly said, pouring cold water on itself.

”Tortoise Bro… don’t waste… water. Let… me take… a bath.” A group of Yin Chens rushed out of Tianming’s lifebound space.

”Fuck off! What’s with that tone? Acting cute?” Tianming retorted.

”Shut up… I am… a straight… bug of… steel steel!” Yin Chen angrily said.

”You got the steel part right, but the straight part is still up for discussion!” With such a speech impediment, Yin Chen had never won against Tianming in any of their arguments.

Gushi Xiaoyin had already spent quite some effort, but he still failed to pull the mysterious ring off of the finger. His companions had already cleared up all the manna, and the other disciples could only anxiously look on, like Tianming.

”No!” Tianming suddenly had an ominous premonition as he watched Guchi Xiaoyin’s immature fist slam into the finger.

Smashed into smithereens, the ring finger fell to the ground. The mysterious ring was now buried under the pile of stones. Moving the stones aside, Guchi Xiaoyin lifted the ring. His face was slightly pale. ”Give me a hand. It’s quite heavy. I’ll see if I can place it in my spatial ring.” It was obvious that he thought of the mysterious ring as a top-grade treasure.

”Alright.” Several ebon disciples were just about to help him carry the ring away when something unexpected happened. With a thunderous boom, the ring shrank and wrapped itself around Guchi Xiaoyin’s neck.

”Danger!” The other ebons were startled.

”It’s fine.” Guchi Xiaoyin waved his hand, appearing very calm, his gaze deep. At this moment, the ring stopped shrinking and turned into a collar as the black glow faded away.

”It’s lighter now.” Guchi Xiaoyin shook his head, but he didn’t feel any strain at all. He smiled.

”Brother Xiaoyin, does it belong to you then?” a tall and slender woman asked.

”You can say so. No one can take it from me now. When we get back, my father can look into its mysteries,” Guchi Xiaoyin said, touching the collar around his neck as if entranced. ”Wearing this makes me look like a dog, but I’m sure it’s an awesome treasure… I hope I’m not disappointed.” He took a deep breath.

The other ebons beside him laughed. He could still laugh at himself; how down-to-earth this exalted genius with silver eyes was.

”Silver eyes, also known as divine soul eyes, have a powerful control over warbeasts!” Tianming enviously stared at Guchi Xiaoyin, who had collected the ring and all the manna. But aside from envy, there was also a little nervousness, because what he really cared about wasn’t the manna or the ring, but the finger itself. Unfortunately, it had completely fallen apart. Although the pinky finger had also been shattered, it’d shifted to Tianming’s right pinky for some unknown reason and brought him good fortune.

So, he thought to himself, can I go and take a look when all of them leave and this area is completely empty? Could the same thing happen again, even if it’s just a pile of rock now? Perhaps it was a good thing that Guchi Xiaoyin hadn’t taken note of the ring finger, but smashed it instead.

The ebons were still engaged in small talk, so Tianming had to hide and wait. It was interesting to see that there were newcomers to the area, even though all the treasures had been taken away by Guchi Xiaoyin. Except for the ebon disciples, none of them dared to make a move. Seeing that there was no hope of taking any treasures, the other disciples simply left without hesitation.

Yin Chen reported that the beast horde in the Pentaphase Ocean had begun dispersing, which might have been the result of taking away the ring and shattering the finger. The chaos in the Pentaphase Ocean had finally subsided, leaving the disciples who’d fought the entire way to the center a much easier way out.

”The beasts have begun to disperse. We can leave in a while.”

”We can leave now. The wildbeasts are moving away from the center.”

”So Brother Xiaoyin might have gotten good fortune.”

”The ring must’ve caused the nova wildbeasts to go mad. I think it might have great power over wildbeasts.”

”Wouldn’t that make Brother Xiaoyin invincible?”

”I’m so envious.... I think he’s going to be the tenth rex mundi’s most outstanding descendant!”

”Oh, what good fortune!!”