Beastmaster of the Ages

Tianming’s lifebound beasts had survived and recovered their original forms! It was far more important than anything else. Soon, Xian Xian and Lan Huang also completely separated into a dryad and a scaly two-headed dragon with nine kui seas and mountains on its back.

”Xian Xian’s only surrounded by slight a divine aura, while Lan Huang’s pulsing with the raw energy of nature!” Tianming praised.

”That’s because I’ve been starved for so long that I’ve lost weight!” Xian Xian complained.

”Beauty or delicacy, you can’t have both,” Tianming said.

”I! Want! To! Eat!” Xian Xian glared at him, then entered the lifebound space and turned back into a tree, reaching the top boundary of the space.

Lan Huang also returned to the lifebound space to continue assimilating the energy of the manna and unlocking its bloodline chains. They were working hard to reach their peak as Primordial Chaos Beasts once more.

Tianming’s lifebound space was no longer as quiet as before. There was a pink sun in the sky, a gigantic tree with many flowers, a flaming phoenix perched on the tree, a lightning feline that ran around, and a two-headed dragon. Apart from them, there were nine hundred billion metallic insects crawling all about. They accompanied their three unhatched siblings, who could be beings that were even more puzzling than Ji Ji.

”Phew!” Tianming breathed a sigh of relief and stretched as he stood up. ”I feel completely relaxed!”

He looked in the mirror and saw his pure form had returned. He no longer had to hide his limbs with his sleeves—his body was perfect! ”How handsome!”

Even though he would no longer be as ferocious in combat, Tianming didn’t regret it in the slightest. In fact, after splitting with his lifebound beasts, their group combat capabilities would be even better.

He turned his focus to the changes within his lifebound space. After assimilating the manna, his lifebound beasts had changed in obvious ways. He saw that their bodies seemed to be growing in volume. Their astrons kept duplicating and increasing in number; it was an innate capability that humans simply didn’t possess.

Additionally, each of their astrons had also grown in size. It made it so that even though they were on the same level as Tianming, they had much higher cosmoforce capacities. Their abilities and raw combat power were also strengthened! The unlocking of bloodline chains allowed them to return to their former selves and eventually surpass them!

The one to finish absorbing the energy from its manna first was Ji Ji. It seemed to have the easiest time. After that, it began rapidly absorbing midsky essence from the surroundings and converting it into genesis ancestral nova source. Tianming could use it to increase his destructive capabilities. After two hours, the First Aeonic Ancestral Star reached its peak midsky essence capacity, growing to a diameter of 300,000 meters.

”Ji Ji’s Vaporize and Spiritual Attachment must’ve grown much stronger.” Such was the nature of that astral lifeform. It grew in size by absorbing manna. The more energy it stored, the closer it would get to being a truly mobile and wise star world! For now, it still hadn’t unlocked any new abilities, a sign that its volume still wasn’t sufficient. Tianming believed it had even more tricks up its sleeves or it wouldn’t be a member of the Primordial Chaos Beasts.

”You should’ve given this to me much earlier. It was easy peasy,” Ji Ji’s spiritform said, rolling its eyes.

”Amazing!” Thanks to Ji Ji’s growth, Tianming’s genesis ancestral nova source capacity had doubled, becoming among the biggest and most potent sources of energy in his body. His skin glowed a slight pink; those who didn’t know better would suspect that he was in close contact with Suishen Yao.

Ji Ji’s Spiritual Attachment was mainly used on lifebound beasts. As such, its own genesis ancestral nova source would no longer be able to be utilized by Tianming, since his beasts were no longer stuck to him. Even so, he believed it was the right move to make. It was much better for them to be free and healthy.

The other four also succeeded. Tianming could finally see what the eyes of lifebound beasts with star counts of 9.99 million looked like. Xian Xian didn’t have any clear indication of a star count, but they were visible on Ying Huo, Meow Meow, and Lan Huang’s eyes. Lan Huang’s especially had ten thousand stars form a larger star cluster. One had to squint to see the individual stars. The growth of their star counts was mirrored by that of their combat capabilities!

”I’m not even a foundationeer yet, but my lifebound beasts’ star counts are much higher than those of most eminents.... I’m definitely at the highest tier of Myriadpath Valley in that regard!” Using 700-aperture divine manna to resolve the lingering energies of 999-aperture manna was something completely unheard of.

Tianming wouldn’t really know how to explain away something like that. Ying Huo and Meow Meow were fine, since their smaller forms made their eyes hard to see. Lan Huang’s star count, on the other hand, was quite obvious. ”Surely I can’t have them fight with their eyes closed, right?”

As he agonized over that, his lifebound beasts came flying out of his lifebound space. The Aeternal Infernal Phoenix with black-and-red sword-like feathers had a wingspan of around a hundred thousand meters. It seemed like it could cross the boundary of the skies and soar into outer space!

Meow Meow had the fewest astrons of them all, and the Regal Chaosfiend was a form it used pretty often. When it maintained that form, it was tens of thousands of meters tall and so long that one could barely see one end to the other. It was a colossus of lightning.

Lan Huang and Xian Xian were even incomprehensibly larger. Tianming didn’t have them emerge in their full forms, lest everyone in Suishen Cave see them. Myriadpath Valley might have a lot of space, but most people would have their lifebound beasts adopt condensed forms for convenience of movement and combat. They would only use their full forms when they wanted to invade outer mundi.

In some sense, the size of a lifebound beast’s maximum form was a sign of their evolution. Ying Huo and the rest were incredibly highly evolved. Tianming immediately had them compress their astrons as much as they could once he’d taken a good look at their full forms. In the end, the little chick and black kitten looked as harmless and innocent as they always had.