Beastmaster of the Ages

”Don’t rush. Let that old geezer see for himself in three days! Right now, those guys probably think Yumo Yuanni can avenge his previous defeat. Hehe, I’m looking forward to seeing their frustrated expressions in three days,” Suishen Yao said with a cold smile.

”Sis, let’s not make a big deal out of it this time. Yumo Yuanni has already been badly beaten . We should stop at an appropriate point. My brother Tianming should convince people with his martial skills so that House Yumo doesn’t have a reason to go crazy,” Suishen Zhao said.

”Fine!” Suishen Yao rolled her eyes and looked at Tianming, saying, ”If it weren’t for your safety, I’d definitely mess up those specters.”

”Little Master is so good to me!” Tianming flattered.

”You’re good at flattering. Later, give me a massage,” Suishen Yao replied.

Tianming didn’t know how to reply to that.

As they returned to the Suishen Cave, they ran into Eminent Ranxing, Suishen Yuan, and Suishen Yue. The two major pathkeepers had also seen the results of Tianming and Suishen Zhao and knew they were about to receive great rewards.

”Father! My disciple earned a fivefold reward for Little Zhao, what do you think?” Suishen Yao proudly asked.

”Let’s wait until they get it,” Eminent Ranxing calmly said, neither happy nor angry.

Suishen Yue and Suishen Yuan didn’t speak, but their eyes told Tianming that they hoped he wouldn’t appear in their sights after three days.

***

This time, Suishen Zhao brought Tianming to the Suishen Ancestral Hall. They also encountered some elders of House Suishen on the way, but they no longer had any objections to Suishen Zhao’s actions. Some of the elders were even very interested in Tianming. Compared to Eminent Ranxing and others, they were much kinder, and some reverends advised Tianming to surrender in three days to avoid losing his life.

Tianming thanked each of them.

”This shows that my performance on the Prehistoric Path and my support for Suishen Zhao are recognized by the entire House Suishen!” Thus, no one stopped Suishen Zhao from bringing him into the Suishen Ancestral Hall.

”I can enter the middle ruins now that I’m in the top thousand! But in comparison, the Suishen Ancestral Hall with all of its caeli should be better for me.” The grand hall before him was filled with extremely dense midsky essence.

”Go on in!” As the host, Suishen Zhao was very generous. Born into a noble cosmic family, he had a high status and almost no friends of the same age.

”Thanks!” Tianming stepped into the Suishen Ancestral Hall! It was another endless dark world, with only the howling winds caused by the dense midsky essence.

He walked forward. He didn’t use his order to seek resonance with the caeli yet, as he wanted to use the environment to first condense his fifth cosmic chart. He sat down and began absorbing the midsky essence using the primordial breathing technique. Vast power entered his body.

Under the dual growth of his imperial and lifesbane orders, his fifth cosmic chart began condensing.

”It’s completely sufficient! I’m even close to the sixth cosmic chart.” The two idols had actually caused one and a half levels of order growth. Tianming had already had a chance to condense his fifth cosmic chart after the omniscient idol, in fact.

He tried. The sixth cosmic chart had a rough framework, but it wasn’t fully condensed and couldn’t support cosmoforce and order yet.

”After the fifth idol, I’ll definitely reach the sixth cosmic chart! By then, I might be invincible below the Foundation stage! Of course, even now, I should be able to contend with some twelfth-level cosmic cartographers.”

There were differences in combat strength even among twelfth-level cosmic cartographers. The prospective eminent Huang Daosheng was stronger than ordinary black ring disciples who reached the twelfth cosmic chart, but he wouldn’t be as strong as minor pathkeepers like Suishen Zhao or Yumo Yuanni when they were twelfth-level cosmic cartographers.

”Yumo Yuanni’s current combat strength is roughly equivalent to an ordinary twelfth-level cosmic cartographer. Maybe slightly weaker than Huang Daosheng?” It was hard to say. Combat strength varied, but it also depended on actual combat effectiveness and attribute match-up.

Tianming’s combat power had soared from the equivalent of a seventh-level cosmic cartographer to a twelfth-level cosmic cartographer in Myriadpath Valley. Now, on his own, he could achieve power equivalent to using the omnisentient threads in the Infinitum Mundus.

And in over ten years, Suishen Zhao hadn’t made a single advancement!

”Stay calm!” Tianming adjusted his mindset. ”I must get this tenfold reward. The Myriadpath Sourcespring is obvious, and the tenfold merit is enough to get me a full set of manna with 700 hundred apertures. Last time, Ying Huo and the others absorbed the manna with 300 apertures, resulting in 4.5 million stars, and they almost detached from my body. With a 700-aperture manna, they’ll have a high chance of fully utilizing the power of the 999-aperture manna and possibly successfully evolving to detach from my body!”

The fifth trial was extremely important. As long as he survived that, his reward would be secured.

”Time to experience the caeli of House Suishen’s ancestors!”

Tianming began unfolding his cosmic charts, using the power of his orders to induce resonance with the caeli and attract them. The same changes as in the Grand Myriadpath Ruins occurred in the Suishen Ancestral Hall.

There were almost as many inherited caeli in the Suishen Ancestral Hall as in the lower ruins.

The difference was that all the caeli here belonged to House Suishen, and there were eminent and valley lord caeli among them.

For a moment, bright stars lit up in the darkness, turning the dark starry sky into a galaxy of stars, of which Tianming was the center. Huge, radiant stars came forth, making the other stars retreat as they descended directly before him. The dense cluster of stars made it impossible to see him.

”Over there?”

”Hey, isn’t this what happened at the Grand Myriadpath Ruins? How do we have it in our Suishen Ancestral Hall, too?” many young people of House Suishen couldn’t help but ask.

”It’s said to be a natural phenomenon.”

”Oh, I see!”

”So many caeli! Let’s go take a look.”

The Suishen Ancestral Hall became lively.

Tianming also felt somewhat flattered. ”I didn’t expect the ancestors of House Suishen to also care for me so much!” The huge stars before him were much bigger than the caeli of eighth-level foundationeers in the lower ruins.

”The biggest ones should’ve been valley lords of Myriadpath Valley, the number one in the astralscape of their era!” History was too long, so there were many number ones in the starry sky. Tianming was indeed thrilled at being surrounded by so many of them.