Beastmaster of the Ages

As soon as Tianming’s caelum entered the monochrome figurine, it felt like he had arrived in a vast, open universe. In front of him was an endless dark void, and behind him was a bright light hitting his back; there was something behind him!

What could it be?

Tianming turned around and looked behind him. A vast nova source world composed of black and white quietly rotated in this void. Of course, it was a world inside the monochrome figurine, so it couldn’t be a real nova source world, but an image.

”Is this a legacy caelum?”

Tianming thought of the legacy caeli in the Suishen Ancestral Hall and Grand Myriadpath Ruins, which also existed in the form of planets. The orders of past generations of Myriadpath Valley were a city with bees. Given his experiences with caeli, he sensed that something was wrong after just a brief look.

In the Grand Myriadpath Ruins, he had achieved resonance with the legacy caeli through his orders. Only then was his caelum able to enter the legacy caeli to observe and study them. Here, he already felt as if he was observing it when he first laid eyes on the monochrome planet.

Could it be....

An incredible thought popped up in his head. He was afraid to find out but his caelum was one step ahead, moving toward the planet. It turned out that his caelum was still far away, and he only realized how big it was when he drew close enough. No ordinary legacy caelum would be so big. As his gaze passed through the mist and clouds, falling upon the surface of the planet, he suddenly discovered that the continents and oceans were actually hexagonal!

One piece after another, the continents, oceans, abyss, and sea of ​​fire combined to form a large monochrome spherical planet! The familiar hexagon reminded Tianming of the bee room in the order hives, as well as the walls of foundation fortresses.

”This isn’t a legacy caelum. It’s... an order! An order higher than the foundation fortress of a foundationeer. The monochrome figurine in my hand is a caelum! A caelum that’s... materialized?”

After a person died, their caelum and order were mutually dependent. The caelum contained the order left by the deceased. If it wasn’t preserved, it would dissipate with the order and return to the cosmos. If this monochrome planet with hexagonal continents and oceans was a type of order, the monochrome figurine that encapsulated it was undoubtedly a caelum. It reminded Tianming of the idols on the Prehistoric Path. When the monochrome figurine had still been a big statue, it was very similar to the divine idols, except that one was real and the other was illusory.

”If the myriadpath idols are also caeli, could I have failed to see this planet-shaped order because I didn’t really acquire the idols?”

The disciples on the Prehistoric Path only participated in the trials, unlike Tianming, who actually had the monochrome figurine in his hand. The reason he was sure that this monochrome planet wasn’t a legacy caelum, but rather an order, was because he saw countless familiar and terrifying things on the continents and oceans of the planet—that is, the bee-headed people!

As he continued his approach, he was shocked to see that countless bee-headed people lived on the monochrome planet. Like the young bees in a foundation fortress, they were busy constructing the world over and over again.

There was a clear division of labor. Even though Tianming’s caelum had appeared among them, they didn’t react at all. They remained unchanged and maintained the operation of order.

Their every move, expression, route, trajectory, and action was more mysterious and profound than the bees in the foundation fortress. Some of the bee-headed people were even training and fighting. It was more complicated to observe trillions of bee-headed people performing different tasks, yet Tianming found the process more compatible.

”From the spherical honeycomb briquette of the Order stage, to the hive of the Cosmic Cartography stage, to the fortress of the Foundation stage, and finally... it becomes a planet with countless hexagonal continents, oceans, and bee-headed people?”

It seemed that there was some kind of logical progression.

Planet-class order!

It was most likely the endpoint for every cultivator’s order. Tianming had just developed his own foundation fortress and the bees in his hive had crawled out and begun working on it. Would his bees grow up to become bee-headed people as well? What was the relationship between them and the bee-headed people with physical bodies, bones, and cosmic cartographer caeli?

He choked at the thought. It would be horrifying if the bee-headed people that were components of order eventually developed physical bodies and souls. The path of cultivation beyond the Foundation stage was undoubtedly growing more mysterious to him.

”Is there a transitional level between fortress-class and planet-class orders? Or perhaps one would immediately achieve a planet-class order after the Foundation stage....” Tianming had countless questions.

”Most importantly... are astral giants the next step after Foundation? Is this the order of an astral giant?”

There was no answer to that question for the time being.

”There’s no use being curious. I have to keep going. I’ve just reached the Foundation stage and I can only take one step at a time.”

The cosmos was enormous. After becoming a foundationeer, he barely felt like he was a stronger presence in the vast cosmos.

”In such a vast universe, is infinitely enlarging one’s physical body while maintaining the same density and increasing the number of astrons like an astral giant the only way forward? Would I be able to jump directly from one super star to another if I continue growing larger?”

Tianming still had the ring left by Huang Qi. Although she was silent for the time being, he still remembered how frightening she was.

Myriadpath Valley was the place to pursue a breakthrough beyond the Foundation stage and find the next threshold of cultivation. Foundationeers had the body of a minor astral giant. It didn’t matter what else came next. From minor zenith to major zenith, and even beyond to super zenith, he was sure that his next step was becoming an astral giant.