Beastmaster of the Ages

When the Infinitum Stele pierced the Lumistar Formation, Tianming felt like he was breaking another astralguard formation. In fact, it was indeed equivalent to an astralguard formation. In an instant, the power of the Lumistar Formation caged him, descending on him like a quagmire that prevented him from moving forward.

”It would’ve been too powerful for me before, but now... BREAK!”

Black-and-gold sword light in hand, the unstoppable Tianming forcefully broke into the formation that very much resembled a mini sun and entered the Outer Yin. As expected, he immediately felt cold the moment he passed through the formation.

An endless icy storm had swallowed him up. In front of him was the yin-yang essence which made up this terrifying hurricane, its destructive power similar to cosmic impulses. Its power not only tore things apart, but was also corrosive. Anyone with an unstable physical structure, like other cosmic cartographers, would be vaporized the moment they entered, not to mention normal gods and mortals.

”Even a deific-class world would be completely destroyed in an instant if it were to crash into this world. It wouldn’t stir up any waves, like throwing a stone into the sea!” Perhaps a sanctuary-class nova source world would only cause a tiny splash if it were to smash into it. How could such a lethal world not be terrifying?

And that was just the outermost storm of the Outer Yin. Despite stabilizing his body, Tianming still felt a stinging pain all over. The shield formed by his lifebound beasts’ abilities was the only way to resist the storm and the cold.

It was terribly dark all around him. There was no light in the world except for the Lumistar Formation behind him. Even with his Plundering Eye, Tianming could only see about a hundred meters ahead. Any further and his vision began blurring.

Yin Chen emerged from his lifebound space, and many of its bodies were annihilated in an instant! It was now in the form of a silver egg with a similar structure to a human body. After testing, Tianming found that individual Yin Chens could only stay alive in this world by remaining in its egg form. As soon as it transformed into bugs, they would be blown away and their limbs crushed.

”It can only spread out in this form.”

Tianming decided to take out a hundred billion silver eggs, each of which was half a person tall. Although a hundred billion seemed like a lot, the Yin-Yang World was vast. There was no guarantee that Yin Chen could find any baleflame. In fact, Tianming had to rely on luck. The reverends and eminents had their own means to track the flame, and all Yin Chen had was its eyes. However, Tianming still had an overall advantage!

”Fly, dandelion!”

He didn’t have to place Yin Chen in person. The wind would sweep the silver eggs away the moment he pulled them out. In Ying Huo’s words, it was as if Tianming was laying eggs.

A while later, every Yin Chen had been deployed. It would grow more widely dispersed as the yin-yang essence storm raged on, increasing its field of vision.

The preparations were complete and Tianming felt a sinking sensation.

”Is this space distortion?” As soon as he had ventured into the Outer Yin, Tianming discovered space there was completely different from a normal world. Aside from the distortion, he noticed spatial cracks where the storms were more violent.

Although Eminent Jiguang had said it was dangerous, he had to admit that it was more frightening to experience in person. All he could do was carefully control his every move, and like a defenseless mortal plunging into a vast ocean, a sense of suffocation washed over him.

The Lumistar Formation was the only beacon in the dark. With spatial distortions and the increasingly turbulent icy hurricane, Yin Chen was able to see more, but also faced more challenges.

”Even if Yin Chen discovers a tuft of baleflame, it’ll probably be swept away by the storm before I can reach it. It also affects the connection between its bodies.”

When the Yin Chen by his side wanted to take him elsewhere, the space distortion and yin-yang essence storm made it difficult for it to quickly locate its other bodies, a fact it had relayed to Tianming.

”It’s okay, just continue looking. We’re just trying our luck anyway,” Tianming said.

”Alright then!”

There was no taking back the hundred billion Yin Chens once they had spread out anyway, so Tianming would test first and increase their numbers if it worked. At present, Yin Chen was unsuitable for battle and could fully exert its treasure-hunting ability instead.

”The waiting begins!”

A one-man search was meaningless. Thus, Tianming hid in the dark storm. ”The yin-yang essence and the purple mask work together to conceal me, which will be useful in battle.”

As time passed, Tianming’s “eyes” slowly spread throughout the Outer Yin. There was nothing to do except practice the Pentagram Suishen Art in the storm. The sword art was slightly harder to master than the Greatsun Suishen Art. Although it was cold, stormy, and deafening in such a harsh environment, he still found stillness and peace. It was the perfect atmosphere for cultivating the sword.

As Tianming immersed himself in the sword art, the first fold emerged in his mind. The rotation of the special star formed a terrifying ripping force, much like a gear. “Ripping” was most likely its core.

At first, it was hard to imagine using a sword to “rip,” but now, he held the black-and-gold sword light, repeatedly swinging it to cut against the wind!

Sword ki exploded forth as Tianming kept practicing despite failure after failure. But as a genius in both comprehension and talent, he eventually mastered the sword art.

”The Greatsun and Pentagram Suishen Arts are complementary to each other!”

One was a violent opening and the other a brutal execution. He continuously honed the two sword arts, thinking about combo moves at the same time. Only he, who had inherited the arts of two great steles, could possibly combine both maniverse-class battle arts.

Days passed in that manner.

Yin Chen’s bodies were definitely inferior to reverends and eminents. Despite being swept across the world, it had yet to discover any baleflame due to its poor perception in the storm.

But Tianming was very patient.

Finally, about two weeks later, Yin Chen told Tianming that he could act.