Beastmaster of the Ages

Tianming coldly smiled and wasn’t the least bit threatened by Suishen Yuan. He approached him, still shrouded by purple mist, and stretched out his hand to point at himself. ”Then, let me ask you: do you know who I am?”

Suishen Yuan widened his eyes and attempted to look past the mist, only to realize the futility of it. The black and purple mist blended together to form a kind of figure. There was no way to discover who it was without seeing them fight. Not to mention, the mask had also changed Tianming’s voice, making it sound hoarse and deep. It blended in really well with the yin-yang essence storm and was rather unpleasant to listen to.

”You can’t recognize me, yet you say I’ll face consequences when I go back? How naive.” Tianming arrogantly laughed. It was rather fun to be completely unknown before someone he knew. As long as he was powerful enough, he would be able to do many things in the Yin-Yang World.

”Do you think I won’t find out? Once I dispel that glamor of yours and tear off your skin, I’ll know. How dare a reverend of Myriadpath Valley stoop to an underhanded method like this?! How shameless!” Suishen Yuan was among the weaker ones in the Yin-Yang World, but people normally wouldn’t dare to touch him either way. Someone like him would come prepared with something to protect himself in a dangerous place like this. Not to mention, failing to kill him would ensure the end of one’s cultivation life in Myriadpath Valley.

Major pathkeepers like him still died in the Yin-Yang World from time to time, rare as it was. If it happened more often, most younger major pathkeepers wouldn’t dare show up at all.

Suishen Yuan once more manifested his ten totems. Ten celestial being totems that were similar to Suishen Zhao’s redlotus flaregods appeared in an incredibly domineering fashion. As a major pathkeeper and fourth-level foundationeer, Suishen Yuan was plenty talented and powerful in his own right.

His totems were called deepabyss flaregods and they were water and frost types. Within the Yin World, they were like fish in water. Using them, he could manipulate the storms around him and turn himself into a minor astral giant-like form. He and his totems shone with power as he unleashed his powerful foundation fortress like the king of the seas.

He had a high-maniverse-class artifact called the Deepsea Dragon’s Rage. It was a halberd that seemed even more powerful than Suishen Yao’s Kilostar Pearls and only marginally weaker than Suishen Yue’s Kunlun Watcher. There were many eminents that didn’t possess a weapon of that caliber, a sign of House Suishen’s might.

Tianming probably wouldn’t be able to take all that pressure as an eleventh-level cosmic cartographer, but he still really wanted to know whether he could face a reverend after his recent double breakthrough, as well as whether he would be recognized from his fighting style alone. That was why he stayed even though he could have just run from the fight. Without another word, he charged toward Suishen Yuan like a specter, Infinitum Stele in hand.

”A specter?!” That was Suishen Yuan’s first reaction based on how Tianming chose to close the distance and unleash his abilities. Thanks to the mask’s shrouding effect, Tianming’s totems would appear as nothing but thick, purple mist as long as they didn’t stray too far away from him.

”Look at you, being all mysterious!” Suishen Yuan roared as he unleashed his eightfold simulacrum, Invincible Deepabyss! He fused with his totems, the vital origin totem leading the other nine and forming a chaotic sea to suppress Tianming. At the same time, he used his totemic calamity, Starry Frostriver Road, creating a path of ice that led him directly to Tianming. He charged with the full force of his totems and Deepsea Dragon’s Rage!

”Overflowing Torrent!” Dragons howled from the depths of the raging sea of frost. Suishen Yuan’s maniverse-class battle art applied quite a bit of pressure to Tianming.

Tianming took a deep breath and let Meow Meow and Ying Huo unleash their abilities. Like the totems, they were masked as purple streams of energy, blasting away the enemy totems.

”Greatsun Suishen Art!” Tianming unleashed a sword art that Suishen Yuan was no doubt familiar with. He used it in tandem with his fivefold simulacrum, Eternal Tomb. The purple sword projection exploded with power!

Tianming could tell how ridiculous the masking effect was. The appearance of his move was completely different, especially within the storm. Nothing but a rush of purple energy could be detected.

His strike sent Suishen Yuan flying back, neutralizing all of his moves.

”What kind of power is that?!” Suishen Yuan was shocked and fuming at the same time. His body was densely covered with cuts from the Infinitum Stele, which was considerably worse than those of the Grand-Orient Sword. It appeared that he was destined to be on the losing end of the battle. When he recovered, he looked around for Tianming, who seemed to have disappeared.

”Don’t think you can run!” he roared, but Tianming was nowhere to be found, much to his chagrin.

”Who in the world was that?!” he hissed with furrowed brows. ”That was clearly a specter! His sword art was immaculate and his abilities were powerful! But....”

He looked at his wounds with some doubt. ”His energy also seems like a specter’s. It resembles House Yumo’s signature cosmoforce, yet I don’t recall anyone in House Yumo that uses purple energy....”

He couldn’t figure it out no matter how hard he thought. As he mumbled on, Tianming was watching from not far away using his Sky Plundering Eye.

I don’t think he’s found out! Tianming took off the mask. This thing actually masks all my energies. Even my totem ki appears to be Zi Zhen’s energy. How weird....

His different streams of cosmoforce, such as infernal, genesis, and so on; his totem ki, and even the Infinitum Stele’s black-and-gold sword projections looked like Zi Zhen’s energy. Otherwise, Suishen Yuan could have discovered that it was Tianming from seeing his moves and suspected him, even if he wasn’t certain.

”I wonder if this energy will convince House Yumo that I’m one of them....” Tianming looked forward to his masked journey in the Yin-Yang World.

”Vengeance for starblood....” His gaze turned incredibly cold.