Beastmaster of the Ages

”This feels amazing!” Ying Huo and the rest relished in the hypercharge of energy. To counter the enemy divine wonder, Meow Meow, Lan Huang, and Xian Xian allowed their bodies to expand.

The Radix World Tree took root, while the little cat turned into the Regal Chaosfiend. All three of them combined could exert their influence over as wide an area as the eightpart apparitions could cover! Ying Huo, however, remained by Tianming’s side to take on Lin Ke.

”What?” When Lin Ke and Fengqing Youmeng saw what they were going up against, they were stupefied. It wasn’t like anything they had seen before.

”How could this....” The complexion on Fengqing Youmeng’s fair face turned paler than what should have been possible.

”Stop zoning out and fight!” Lin Ke turned desperate. Tianming’s boundless aura of a ruler made him feel inferior, like a dirty sewer rat. That feeling seemed to wound his pride, causing his blood to boil with rage.

”Okay!” Fengqing Youmeng grit her teeth and drew her sword. It was the very same Yellowspring Dream that she had used in the wondersky realm. Even though she had recently caused an infinitum-class sword to submit to her, one that was comparable to the Sword in the Forest, she hadn’t been completely successful yet so she hadn’t brought it with her.

She joined the countless eightpart apparitions and rushed toward Tianming, the flash from her weapon fusing with the apparitions to create a trifecta of sound, soul, and sword attacks! The power of nine cosmic charts fueled her attack, forming a blinding sword wave that shot toward Tianming.

”No matter what method you use to strengthen yourself, it won’t help you!” Fengqing Youmeng said, her hair fluttering like clouds. Hidden within her strike was Lin Ke’s dagger that was aimed toward Tianming’s neck! Lin Ke simply didn’t believe that someone without cosmic charts could possibly go up against him.

Ying Huo and Meow Meow intercepted the wave of apparitions with their link skill, Beacon Chaosswamp, and an extra large serving of it at that! Crackling lightning and fire swept out in a wave, swallowing up all of the apparitions in a soup of red fire and black and white lightning. The audience in the Sky Palace Formation marveled at the sight of such a divine ability.

”How powerful!”

”Our ruler, Tianming!”

The cheers caused the fighting spirit of everyone on the Sun to soar.

”Destroy those so-called geniuses of the Skydome Mundus!”

”Our ruler is unrivaled!”

As the cheers built up, Omnisentient Will formed a net and endlessly flowed toward Tianming. The reason he was so confident and dared to go in alone despite the danger was because this was his home turf! Trillions of his believers were with him. As long as he was here, he was invincible! ”You dare come to my turf to cause trouble?!”

Ying Huo and Meow Meow were more than enough to handle the divine wonder. Meanwhile, Xian Xian and Lan Huang made their own moves. Xian Xian launched her various abilities, while Lan Huang went with the tried and true combination of Primordial Sword and Kilofold Rings, grinding away at all the apparitions.

”Lin Ke, during the battle on the Skyhold Bridge, you told me that the real distance between us was far, right? Well, you tell me—how far are you from catching up to me now?!” Tianming laughed as he waved the Grand-Orient Sword while having the grand lexicon wonder dish out more suppression. ”Fengqing Youmeng, I’ll show you what my divine wonder is made of!”

With a flick of the Prime Starchain, waves of eightpart apparitions were slashed apart at the waist. Without the ephemeral world wonder working in tandem, the eightpart apparitions were far weaker! Then around four hundred words manifested, applying even more pressure on the remaining apparitions.

Fengqing Youmeng was losing it at all the restrictions she was suddenly experiencing. What was most shocking was how Lin Ke’s stealth had been forcefully dropped by the effects of some of those words! He appeared on Tianming’s left flank.

”You sneak thief, let’s see where you hide now!” Tianming split his sword in two and gave chase. Even though sky plunderers were ’bandits’, in a sense, they didn’t sneak around like the cowardly godshades. Each of Tianming’s two swords had five totems infused within, both possessing polar opposite elements. When Tianming spotted Lin Ke, he went all out with From Seas to Fields and Tristrike Worldshatter! The strongest spacetime sword arts he had in his arsenal exploded with Omnisentient Will.

”What?!” Lin Ke was completely disoriented when he found his own temporal flow disrupted. He struggled and let energy violently surge from his nine cosmic charts, but right after he shook himself free from the temporal strike, Tianming’s gold sword followed up with Tristrike Worldshatter, piercing the space right before Lin Ke’s eyes. Space itself shattered and contorted, the void tearing into his abdomen and immediately annihilating his lower body.

”Aaaaagh!” Even a ninth-level cosmic cartographer like him would take great damage after losing so many astrons. They hadn’t merely been disrupted by the attack; the individual astrons were wiped from existence and couldn’t reform in the cosmic charts! A look of absolute terror appeared in Lin Ke’s eyes as he began regretting how it had come to this. ”Impossible! Impossible!”

All nine of his cosmic charts defended him as he scrambled to escape. Even though Fengqing Youmeng wanted to help Lin Ke, Tianming’s lifebound beasts and the four hundred lexicon words kept her completely surrounded!

”Li Tianming, if you dare to harm me, it’s over for you! Do you know what kind of status I possess on Intrepidus?!” Lin Ke howled.

”Now that’s a joke if I’ve heard one. Weren’t you boasting about how amazing you are? Looks like you’re nothing but rubbish. You have no tricks apart from surprise attacks. How’re you even capable of threatening me after being beaten by me in a single move? Let me answer your question with my own: do you know what kind of status I possess in the Infinitum Mundus?!” Tianming’s laughter came ringing nonstop from behind Lin Ke.

”You’ll be shocked to hear who I really am! If you really dare to harm me, you, your world, and all the ants in it will die! Li Tianming, you’ll perish!” Lin Ke could barely maintain the integrity of his form as he frantically tried to escape. Even now, he was still being hampered by From Seas to Fields.