Beastmaster of the Ages

Tianming saw the baleful souls, and they saw him too.

”Save me! Save me!”

”Please, save us!”

”You can see us, but others can’t!”

The voices rang out near Tianming’s ear, causing his imperial order to suffer a huge blow.

”Aaagh!” He roared with rage as he stopped seeing Yumo Lingyue as a genius girl of House Yumo and began seeing her as a bloody beast covered in sin. He also didn’t expect that the dark mirror spirit’s evil impulses would resonate with his rage.

The instant Yumo Lingyue reached him, she used an ability, North Pole Ghostrealm, in tandem with her order suppression! Coupled with her foundation fortress, the ability produced a unique synergy that caused a world of frost to manifest in the Fortuna Arena. The frostfiend specter suddenly got a speed and agility boost, while Tianming began slowing down from the extreme cold.

In a competition of abilities, however, his were even more potent than specters’! Ying Huo, in its independent beast form, could unleash new abilities. But when fused with Tianming’s arm, it could unleash bursts of Empyrean Flame Vortex with every slash of the Grand-Orient Sword, paving a fiery path through the world of ice and snow! Meanwhile, Meow Meow fired off Chaossky Blitzsource with swings of his other sword, bursting through Yumo Lingyue’s abilities and striking her!

Even so, a tough specter wouldn’t go down to that alone. She grit her teeth and took the blasts of fire and lightning, the momentum of her attacks considerably dulled. What Tianming didn’t expect was that a beastly specter like her would draw a white longsword. Normally, specters fought with the bodies they were so confident in. Few ever used cosmic artifacts, for they weren’t remotely more useful than their own bodies.

The sword was a fortuna-class artifact called Fiend of Pale White. It seemed to have been custom made to fit every one of Yumo Lingyue’s needs, covered in bone spikes that mirrored the ones on her body.

”You want to compete with me in swordsmanship?” Tianming smirked and gripped his sword with both hands before charging through the path of fire and lightning he had created.

”Is this a fortuna-class battle art?!” Tianming immediately noticed that her technique was much better than any of his former opponents.

Her sword art was aggressive and overpowering. She had to have learned it from the myriadpath steles. Only the top ten fortuna disciples and foundationeers would be allowed that kind of privilege. If it wasn’t for the powerful sword art, perhaps Yumo Lingyue wouldn’t use a sword at all.

Using Eighthell Soulcatcher, she formed an eight-layered prison of ice, each one colder than the previous. Working together with the order from her foundation fortress, the entire place was covered in trailing sword strikes, each of them fatal and looking like scattering snowflakes.

Specters usually fought in a brutish manner, so those who focused so heavily on refined technique like Yumo Lingyue were quite rare. It was her killing move! What Tianming didn’t expect was that she had other abilities that could complement her finishing move to deliver a killing blow.

”Be careful of her irises!” Suishen Zhao yelled when he had a bad feeling. Tianming heard the warning loud and clear.

Right after that, Yumo Lingyue’s six irises all affixed their gazes on Tianming. He seemed to see a hexagon formed from the irises. When it began to spin and turned into six white dots, he felt confusion set in.

”Hexapath eyes?” In Tianming’s vision, Yumo Lingyue split up into six different snow fiends who came charging at him with their swords from all directions. There was no way that was actually the case, so it had to be her eyes playing tricks on him. It worked just like Zi Zhen’s hexapath eyes. The eyes were the window to the soul, so it was a kind of soul attack.

”Trying to use that against me, huh?” Tianming smirked. In the next instant, the Skysoul Tower absorbed much of the blow of the soul attack. Then he loosened the grip of his left hand and the eye in his palm turned blood red. The compound eyes began manifesting and emitted a red beam toward Yumo Lingyue.

”Aaagh!” she shrieked when Vitasteal hit her in her irises, causing them to spurt blood. She was temporarily blinded, causing the five illusory copies around Tianming to vanish.

Then he used the decapath era godswords, first using his onefold simulacrum to fuse them into the Grand-Orient Sword, then using his twofold simulacrum, Decapath Projection, to greatly extend his range.

”A twofold simulacrum!” Many totemancers immediately noticed the difference. The Grand-Orient Sword pulsed with power once the twofold simulacrum had been applied!

Tianming descended from the air with a slash from Imperator’s Mural. While his fusion strike was lacking the final, ninth strike, it was still stronger than Eighthell Soulcatcher!

Though the specter still bled from her eyes, she was still able to strike at Tianming with her sword. Right before they clashed, Lan Huang’s heads, one at the knee and the other at the foot, let out a Primordial Shockblast. It was so powerful that even Tianming felt like he was being shaken from the echoes of the blast. Yumo Lingyue, as the main target, shuddered so hard that her Fiend of Pale White unstably wobbled.

How could she possibly be perfect if Tianming was around? In terms of variety and completeness, his arsenal dominated! As the cherry on top, the grand lexicon wonder applied even more pressure on her head.

Tianming’s strike sent Fiend of Pale White flying, breaking Yumo Lingyue’s stance. The sword projection from the Grand-Orient Sword slashed into her head in the meantime.

Thanks to her bestial appearance, Tianming didn’t even feel bad for injuring a girl. He let his sword tear through her and the energy of the Decapath Projection and cosmic impulses bisected the fiendish specter into two halves!