Beastmaster of the Ages

The tens of gold ring holders who’d wanted to reclaim their pride and dignity had only ended up courting trouble! They became background props that Tianming easily took out. He got better at it the more he fended off.

He already normally stood out quite a lot with his unconventional lifebound beasts, but his new fighting style after the fusion had become simpler, yet more savage. He could synergize better with Ji ji as a result, embodying five lifebound beasts in a single body. Apart from Yin Chen, all of his combat capabilities had been integrated into a single body.

The inner valley geniuses’ heptastar cosmic physiques shattered, causing their cosmic charts to crack. They were marked as defeated and eliminated from the battlefield and slipped from their ranking.

”You!”

”Ooof!”

Tianming went on to execute Tristrike Worldshatter and From Seas to Fields. The gold and black swords turned into channels of space and time, funneling boundless sword ki through. The rapid destruction of the space around them caused the enemies to be defeated even faster!

”Forget it, let’s not stick around him.”

”All we need to do is to wait. He’ll soon learn who Myriadpath Valley really belongs to.”

”What a fool. He won’t know the consequences of his stupidity until it’s too late.”

Only some five of the top ten remained, and they all stopped attacking. Seeing their comrades defeated by Tianming, they wanted to preserve their ranking and quickly scattered. Even then, they still retained their pride and sense of superiority.

”Did I say you could leave?” Tianming turned to look at them right after defeating another.

”What’s the meaning of this? Do you really not know your lowly place?” a girl coldly snapped. She was in fifth place and a specter from House Huang, boasting an athletic, heroic build and piercing visage.

But regardless of how authoritative she had tried to sound, Tianming immediately charged toward her with blaze, blitz, and bioterror in tow. He fused his swords back into one and slashed, while the girl returned a kick his way. The power of the Imperator’s Mural tore through her body, sending her flying deep into the astral fog and falling a few places in the ranking!

At that moment, a black name ascended above Huang Daoxiong’s, pulling quite some distance away from the former top three. Tianming had risen to first place! It was something that hadn’t happened for countless cycles!

”This might be something that has no precedent since Myriadpath Valley began taking in outer mundi geniuses!”

”That’s ridiculous! Myriadpath Valley has a history of hundreds of millions of years!”

”Either way, I haven’t heard of a black name rising to the top in... ever!”

The outer mundi geniuses teared up when they saw a black name like theirs rise to the top. They howled and cheered as they watched Tianming drive away those that ganged up on him, completely crushing them even as they ran! Only two of the dozen-odd inner valley geniuses managed to escape. It was an utterly shocking performance.

”Even if Li Tianming is twice their age, his combat power is unprecedented! I doubt that any other outer mundi can produce someone like him!”

”Yeah! He had less access to cultivation resources than the inner valley geniuses, too, like the Myriadpath Sourcespring! If he’d grown up here, he would’ve been much more powerful than the rest at around two hundred years old.”

”He doth truly be divine!”

The outer mundi geniuses were all convinced of Tianming’s supreme prowess. They hoped to see even more common-sense-defying results from him.

With Tianming performing that well, the three who were fighting the nightmare rabbit grew even more desperate. They were entangled for a good while, holding each other back and preventing each other from killing the rabbit.

However, they did manage to hurt it. It was completely bloodied and had weakened. It was planning to escape for the sake of survival. But Tianming had it in his sights!

”Li Tianming, go for it! You’re capable of it! Don’t submit to them!” many cried out.

”You have the power to go against the top three monsters of Myriadpath Valley! Trust yourself!”

As the others were worried that he wouldn’t keep pushing himself, they were surprised to see Tianming charge toward the nightmare rabbit without any hesitation at all. He turned into a blindingly fast beam of monochrome lightning.

”He’s coming!” Qiu Ciling said with horror, seeing the white-haired youth in her peripheral vision.

”So what? He’s only that ridiculous because of his age. Even if someone like him joins Myriadpath Valley, after all that doping, he’ll find it hard to become a foundationeer by the age of two thousand. What good is that?” Chu Tianyu said, his eyes that peeked through his heavy veil and robes showing a look of contempt.

”Either way, he’s ranked at the very top. Even if the ranking of the Skyward Grandpath is nothing but a temporary honor, it’s still incredibly humiliating for the three of us! I propose a truce until we deal with him. After that, we can settle our differences,” Huang Daoxiong said. Though he appeared savage, he was quite the master planner.

”I agree. We’re still friends at the end of the day, so it doesn’t really matter which of us wins. However, we can absolutely not let an outsider take it from us,” Chu Tianyu said.

”Fine! The nightmare rabbit is hurt and won’t be able to go far anyway. Let’s get rid of him fast,” Qiu Ciling said.

”It’ll take less than ten breaths’ time. Others won’t be able to take advantage of it,” Huang Daoxiong said with a grim smile.

Right after, Tianming reached where they were and they immediately switched to gang up upon him, surrounding him completely. Totems and lifebound beast abilities came blasting his way.

”Targeting me, eh?” The black smog in Tianming’s eyes surged. His lips curved into a manic smile as killing intent emanated from his body. ”Then, all three of you shall be my stepping stones! Come at me, all at once!”

He was ready to simultaneously fight all three, much to the shock of the outer mundi geniuses. But not even Tianming himself didn’t think that the situation would change once more. As the three top geniuses struck out at Tianming, one of them immediately turned toward the nightmare rabbit: Huang Daoxiong!

As a specter, he wasn’t just huge, but also incredibly agile. Changing trajectories without any warning was no big deal. Chu Tianyu and Qiu Ciling had been completely played! Huang Daoxiong was gone by the time they engaged Tianming.

”Shameless!” Chu Tianyu roared.

Huang Daoxiong would be all too glad if Chu Tianyu kept Tianming busy. It wouldn’t take that long for him to slay the nightmare rabbit, now that it had been injured, and he would get a million points in an instant.