Beastmaster of the Ages

Li Fan did a spit-take and almost knelt before Tianming. ”You must be kidding me.”

”Why would I need to?” Tianming shrugged.

”Are you serious?”

Wudi, Xiaodao, Lin Xiao, and Dongshen Yue were all flabbergasted.

”I am. I accidentally messed up and gave the Three Exalted Houses an excuse to hunt me down. Fortunately, there were people who protected me and sent me out of Myriadpath Valley before it all went down. I won’t be able to return to the valley in the short term.”

”Doesn’t that mean that you can’t go to the Xenoabyss, either?” Wudi asked.

”Yeah. I’ll think of another way, though,” Tianming said.

”Alright! Your safety is the most important. Don’t worry. In my experience, there’ll always be another place that you belong to,” Wudi said.

”That’s right! It’s good that you’re safe and sound. We have some resources ourselves, so it’s enough to tide you over for a while,” Lin Xiao said.

Tianming agreed. His family and friends wholeheartedly supported him, no matter where he chose to be.

”What kind of mistake could you possibly have committed to go from minor pathkeeper to top fugitive?” Li Fan’s face seemed melted. He’d had faith that Tianming would be able to carry him to glorious new heights in Myriadpath Valley, but his dreams had been dashed.

”Don’t pry too much,” Tianming said, rolling his eyes. ”I did indeed mess up, but I also got to the bottom of the disaster of Viridian. I’ve returned to avenge the trillions of victims.”

”The truth? Let’s hear it.”

Quite a few worlds had heard of Viridian’s destruction and people had begun discussing the hot topic already.

Tianming didn’t fear anything in Infinitum. He notified everyone connected to him through the omnisentient threads, and they would then go spread the news to those they knew. Phrases like ’Myriadpath Valley’, ’House Yumo’, ’mobile stareye’, ’Yumo Blood Crucible’, and ’starblood’ began showing up in common parlance. It was the new terror that came right after red dust. The common folk of the border worlds grew rather restless with fear, while Xiaodao and Wudi got mad just hearing about it.

”How could House Yumo be so morally bankrupt? Is that the true nature of the Three Exalted Houses?” Li Fan was absolutely stunned. His faith in Myriadpath Valley immediately collapsed.

Once more, people began to panic and worry. Hatred soon rose amidst the negative feelings. Tianming continued his thread-wide announcement, saying, ”The enemy has no principles. They’re absolutely corrupt. However, don’t panic! I, Li Tianming, have returned to fight those crooks to the death!”

The countless omnisentient threads grew hot with vigor.

***

Tianming arrived at Greensource after traveling through the Xenoworld. He only brought Li Fan and Fengqing Youmeng with him, the latter only helping Tianming out with quickly going from world to world.

Li Fan had come from Myriadpath Valley and Tianming wanted him to see the true nature of the strongest specters in the astralscape of order. Li Fan was a specter—a skyghoul, in fact. House Yumo was the object of his worship.

In the thousand years he had spent at Myriadpath Valley as one of the people on the lowest rung, House Yumo was the goal he aspired to reach. He used to be so far from them that he could only view them as mighty gods, the strongest specters in the astralscape with immense history and legacy. Every single member had the very best bloodlines that specterkind had to offer. They were the spiritual leaders of all specters.

That was why he refused to believe anything Tianming had said about them until he saw it with his own eyes. However, he knew Tianming’s character, and it made him panic. He didn’t know who he could trust.

Eventually, they reached Greensource, a world of dark green. It didn’t look as verdant as Viridian and wasn’t nearly as eye-catching, hence why Viridian was chosen in favor of it.

Tianming floated high up in space as he looked down at the mortal world below him. He had quite a few omnisentient threads in Greensource. When the people there felt his presence, their panic subsided; their Galactic Emperor was there.

As soon as he appeared, the omnisentient threads in the area explosively grew in number. More and more people placed their hopes on him. Tianming’s astrons glowed so bright that Fengqing Youmeng and Li Fan felt the urge to kneel and shudder.

”The more they need me, the more they support me. My power here has almost reached the same level as when I’m on Ebonia.” Tianming felt the pulsing power within his body. It was like he was no longer a single lifeform, but a formation core that spanned an entire world. His consciousness swept across every single person across the stars and the people connected to him felt their emperor right by their side.

They were linked together by destiny.

”Emperor! Emperor!” It was a title that represented someone who would bring the Infinitum Mundus into a new age. His imperial order resonated with them. As long as they offered him their faith, they would be connected to him through omnisentient threads, which in turn caused their heavenly wills and cultivation to rise. It only served to draw in more and more people to place their hopes on him.

”The enemy doesn’t know that the disaster that befell Viridian has spread to the whole mundus. It might’ve caused a panic, but it also lit a fire of hatred and vengeance! The countless lifeforms in Infinitum will no longer tolerate House Yumo!”

Tianming felt the rage of everyone in the mundus. The countless victims of Viridian were normal mortals who had gone about their normal, mortal lives. When the mortals in other worlds heard of their demise and how House Yumo wouldn’t leave their mundus alone, the only thing they could do was to fight by Tianming’s side. The entire mundus was united.