Beastmaster of the Ages

When the tensource beast died, its deafening lament reverberated throughout the entire valley, shaking even the myriadpath steles above. It was the strongest culmination of a deca-beastmaster, a beast with the equivalent power of ten lifebound beasts. It surpassed even the valley lord when it came to single-combat capability!

What was most shocking was that the tensource beast hadn’t perished as a result of aging and degeneration. Instead, it’d died while it was in its prime, albeit poisoned, and had been killed by two ostensible juniors. The youngest, Suishen Jiguang, had risen to the top echelons of power using its corpse as a stepping stone!

”Noooo! Tensource beast!” The reverends and eminents of House Qitian mourned with despair and horror.

”It deserves it! Go to hell!” cheered the specters of House Yumo. They initially didn’t dare to believe their eyes, but they eventually began mocking the Qitians.

”That beast finally paid the price!”

”The senior madame must finally be able to rest in peace after witnessing its laughable death!”

As for House Suishen and many other cultivators of Myriadpath Valley, they were stunned and didn’t know how to react. All they could do was look at Suishen Jiguang and Suishen Xiyue with a worshipful and manic gaze.

The cultivators unaffiliated with the Three Exalted Houses hadn’t known which side to exalt for quite a while now. On the one hand were the Qitians, who claimed to be the most powerful house ever and treated others like dogs. On the other were the Yumos, who committed mundicide to refine starblood and lived only by the law of the jungle. Those two houses were utterly disappointing.

House Suishen didn’t escape scrutiny, either, being perceived as cowards that didn’t know how to stand up for themselves. Yet Suishen Jiguang had managed to expose the valley lord’s fraud and even kill the tensource beast. The rabble finally saw a future for Myriadpath Valley in her and Suishen Ranxing, a banner to rally under!

Most of them were gold ring disciples, reverends, and eminents. Even though their ancestors were once from the Million Mundi, they already considered Myriadpath Valley as their home after many generations. Their love for the place wasn’t the least bit inferior to the Three Exalted Houses’.

Finally, House Suishen, the only exalted house with no obvious flaw, stood up to the task! The pink-haired, white-armored goddess proudly descended after heroically slaying the tensource dragon beast. That was how it would be depicted in the annals of history.

”Qitian Xiao killed his wife during the previous Ancestral Worship Ceremony, usurping the previous valley lord! And today, Eminent Jiguang killed the tensource beast and shook the world!”

”The tides sure have turned!”

”Even if we ignore who’s right, the two events definitely have similar ground-shaking effects!”

”That’s right! History will remember this moment!”

Who could have imagined that a tenth-level foundationeer whom people had thought of as nothing more than a mere beauty, a mere decoration to be admired a hundred years ago would be able to rise to these heights? There was no longer any question that she was the most impressive person of her age!

The death of the tensource beast put out the last embers of House Qitian’s fighting spirit. The morale of House Yumo and House Suishen’s fighters immediately skyrocketed. Many Qitians suddenly snapped to the realization that their valley lord really didn’t have any other tricks left up his sleeve. He wouldn’t be able to recover from this situation. That magnitude of shock shook their spirits to the core.

”Aah! Aaaah!” One reverend and eminent of House Qitian after another suffered the fierce attacks of Houses Suishen and Yumo

”You were the ones who started the civil war among the Three Exalted Houses! You broke the Myriadpath Sacred Code first, so don’t blame us for not showing mercy!”

”House Qitian did this to itself!”

The trust and tacit agreement between the Three Exalted Houses that’d been built up through the Myriadpath Sacred Code that their ancestors had passed down had been completely eroded when allegations of House Qitian murdering twenty eminents of House Yumo and killing their senior madame surfaced. The latter, especially, was a humiliation that would never fade! House Yumo wildly slaughtered away at the Qitians.

”You fiends don’t deserve forgiveness for the sins you’ve chosen to commit!” That was the only thing they had to say to their nemesis.

No member of House Yumo cared about preserving their own forces at all. The hatred that’d festered over the past ten years had completely erupted like a volcano. They had been mocked and teased over the past decade, their dignity completely trampled, not to mention being constantly bashed from using starblood.

The members of the house of strongest specters didn’t even dare to let out a single joyful smile in their despairing state! That despair was now all being converted into savagery that they completely channeled toward House Qitian. The floodgates opened upon the death of the tensource beast.

”How could it have come to this....” Qitian Muyu, Qitian Muyue, and Qitian Baba, the three major-zenith foundationeers, were completely pale. They knew more than anyone what the tensource beast represented.

”Dad....” The siblings turned and looked at their father, only to see an expression of shock and resignation on his face. It was the greatest shock he had felt in his life and it painfully tore into every single one of his astrons.

Sorrow, rage, and all manner of other emotions flashed across the valley lord’s eyes. When his son had lost his lifebound beast and needed consolation the most, he’d killed him. Essentially, there was no point in living once a beastmaster lost their lifebound beast.

This time around, however, he hadn’t lost just any lifebound beast, he had lost the tensource beast. Had his son’s lingering resentment come back to play one final trick on him? He couldn’t even groan from the frustration; his throat was completely dry.

”Hahaha! How does it feel to reap what you sowed, you old fool?!” Yumo Diyan’s laughter sounded like countless swords that pierced his heart. ”Without your tensource beast, even if you recover your super-zenith prowess, what can you do? You’re nothing but a sack of old bones!

”Qitian Xiao, new talents arise in every generation. Each era has its own heroes! You’ve become old, yet you stubbornly refused to acknowledge it and thought you could control everything.

”You even ignored the Myriadpath Sacred Code and broke its taboos! The stable relationship between the exalted houses that our ancestors painstakingly upheld for tens of millions of years was ruined by your actions alone! You are at fault for what Myriadpath Valley’s become! A sinner like you has no right being the valley lord!” His words were like fuel to the fire, stoking the flames of anger of the Yumos and Suishens that burned away at the organs in House Qitian’s body even further.