Beastmaster of the Ages

Suishen Xiyue thought for a moment and said, ”I feel like the core wonderians might reside within a place like the Yin-Yang World within the Million Mundi. If they’re really beings akin to astral giants, why would they need to rent territory? They could simply conquer Myriadpath Valley and rule over the Million Mundi. But for some reason, our forebears didn’t talk about the wonderian threat in the slightest.”

”Did the Blissful Union ask you to not enter the territory rented by the wonderians?” Jiguang asked.

”We’re already there,” Tianming said.

”Is that alright?”

”It should be fine. This is where I grew up!” The Sun and the Flameyellow Continent were originally in the Skydome Mundus. As such, Tianming’s true home was Skydome, not Infinitum.

”Alright.” They put aside their worries for now as the Blissful Union left the wormhole expressway.

”We’re finally here!” A dreamy white, pearl-like star appeared in their field of view.

”Whoa! How pretty!” Suishen Yao said, her eyes lighting up.

”You’re acting like you’ve never left home before,” Suishen Zhao said.

”Shut up.” Suishen Yao looked at Wondrium with awe. ”To be honest, all nova source worlds look more pleasant from the outside than Myriadpath Valley, which is nothing more than a deep abyss. The myriadpath steles floating above it look like grave markers.

”You don’t say. Even a normal heliacal-class world might have better sights to see than Myriadpath Valley,” Tianming said. Stars were indeed rather beautiful against the backdrop of the void of the astralscape. The monochrome sphere-shaped ship emerged right beside the snow-white Wondrium.

”The seas of this star look like they’re filled with silky milk!” Suishen Yao praised.

”Sister! Brother-in-law’s here to protect his home, yet all you care about is playing around,” Suishen Zhao said.

”Go mind your woman and leave me alone!” she snapped as she glared at him. Then she turned to Suishen Shuang. ”Shuangshuang, keep your man’s mouth shut.”

”That won’t do. If anything, her mouth is shut from being stuffed full,” Suishen Zhao confidently said.

Suishen Yao turned back, shocked, while Suishen Shuang blushed. ”Who... who’d you learn that from?”

”Who do you think?” Suishen Zhao turned to Tianming.

”Hey, don’t go around slandering me now,” Tianming said, facepalming.

As they bantered, they reached the stareye that was surrounded by an array of ten skypiercer-class stars.

”They should arrive in another day or two,” Tianming said, furrowing his brows. He wasn’t worried about elites, but a large group of goons. He couldn’t afford to let them spread out and enter Wondrium. If it had only been a few elites, they might have just asked the wonderians to take them to the copper coffin instead.

”Are we going to kill them all? There’s only three of us, while they have a thousand. The moment they see us, they can escape using the stareye and report back—then they might send an army next,” Suishen Xiyue said. Activating the myriadpath ring for a transfer could be done in an instant. Even though only three of the thousand were eminents, it wouldn’t be easy to kill them all in one go.

”There must also be Suishens among them. We can’t kill them all,” Tianming said.

Suishen Xiyue and Jiguang breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that. They had been worried that Tianming would wipe out the Suishens as well. They weren’t trying to completely wipe out the Three Exalted Houses; while they didn’t care about House Qitian or House Yumo, they still wanted to try to preserve as much of House Suishen as they could.

”I have a plan,” Jiguang said, prompting looks from Tianming and Suishen Xiyue. ”Let me leave the ship first.”

They left the ship and approached the stareye. Jiguang turned to the ten skypiercer-class worlds, basking in their light. ”This stareye’s made of the fusion formations of the ten skypiercer-class worlds below with a structure that matches the Myriadpath Celestial Formation’s. I won’t be able to destroy it, but I’ve looked into a way to cut off the nova source coming from one world. That might temporarily deactivate the stareye without destroying its core.”

”So we can temporarily disable it?” Tianming and Suishen Xiyue’s eyes lit up.

In terms of formation research, both House Qitian and House Suishen excelled, but the Suishens were definitely more proficient. Not to mention, Jiguang was the only one of her siblings who had the time and capacity to properly study them. Among the Three Exalted Houses, the ones most proficient in formations were Qitian Xiao, the old patriarch, and Jiguang. And she was by no means inferior to the other two.

”If we can disable it, we can cause them to be stranded here, right?” Suishen Xiyue said with a smile.

”That’s correct!” Tianming didn’t want to destroy the stareye. Putting aside the Myriadpath Celestial Formation, the value of Myriadpath Valley itself was far too high. Not to mention, it was his only ticket to the Xenoabyss. He couldn’t afford to have the formation destroyed, so deactivating the stareye was an ideal compromise.

Not to mention, destroying the stareye would also ruin the copper coffin trap. He was still hoping that he would have a chance to wipe them out in one go. He knew that Suishen Ranxing was afraid of the Grand Myriadpath Ruins, so he would definitely find a way to get his people to check if it was still around.

Either way, that was a problem for another time. He had to deal with the scouts first.

”Basically, we have to make sure that they can’t send any information back.” Merely seeing Tianming there would be enough to shock those back in Myriadpath Valley. How could he have crossed the astralscape without using the Myriadpath Celestial Formation?

”Two days isn’t a lot of time, so I’ll start looking into it.” Jiguang picked a nearby nova source world and started studying the formation’s structure. ”Fusion formations all have cores. Where’s the intersection point of this skypiercer-class world?”

”I’ll have that wonderian girl from last time lead you to it,” Tianming said.

”Good. We need her help,” Jiguang said.

The Yin Chens on this side of the astralscape awoke and summoned Fengqing Youmeng. It didn’t take long for her to arrive, only to be stunned by the sight of the gigantic astralship.

Seeing the goddesses of allure and grace once more, coupled with the goddess of frost, Suishen Shuang, and the mischievous pixie Suishen Yao, stupefied her again. She had seen Jiguang before, and her foundationeer aura caused her to not dare to raise her head. But now she was facing four top beauties of House Suishen who were greatly lauded all across the entire astralscape at once.