Beastmaster of the Ages

There were actually more than twenty grade-ten order fragments of legend! ”The moment I saw them, I was just as shocked as you are,” Tianming said, completely elated. He was so happy that he felt himself turning stupid.

”Where did they come from?” Suishen Xiyue asked, her mind almost completely blank.

”Each of the divine envoys had a few of them. Apart from grade-ten ones, there’s tens of thousands of grade three and above!” Tianming said. They were far too rich. Those divine envoys’ combined wealth exceeded that of Antiquitas Mortis! The wonderians truly had deep pockets.

”Does that mean they have ties with the Xenoabyss as well?” Jiguang asked.

”It wouldn’t be surprising if they do. They were able to construct wondersky realms inside the Xenoabyss to connect with powerful figures within and are allowed to travel around as they please. Why wouldn’t they have order fragments?” Tianming said.

Myriadpath Valley had only managed to establish relations with the Xenoabyss, but the wonderians had been there long before.

”That makes sense...” Suishen Xiyue and Jiguang both agreed, still shocked.

They now had more than enough baleflame to use and more than twenty grade-ten order fragments. Coupled with the astral giant’s unique cultivation-boosting effects, there was no worry at all that Tianming wouldn’t be able to improve.

Little did they know that Tianming also had Moran and her forty-nine sisters who could absorb those ten fortuna-class divine wonders, which was an even bigger deal. The divine wonders had been used by divine envoys, after all!

”Perhaps those wonderians went to places like the Ancient Oldgod Domain. There aren’t any grade-ten order fragments in Antiquitas Mortis, after all.” It was too bad that Tianming had had to kill them from the worry that they would be able to escape, or he would have liked to question a few of them.

”The stareye’s already been shut off, so there’s no need for us to stay in Skydome any longer.” Tianming’s main base was still Infinitum, and that was also where Moran was. ”Come, I’ll take you to my real home.”

”Okay....” Their eyes burned bright with passion as they nodded. With the two stareyes disabled, he left everything else to Fengqing Youmeng, who would inform him if anything changed.

Then the Blissful Union entered the wormhole expressway to return to Infinitum. Suishen Xiyue and Tianming stood together separate from the rest in the ship.

”Tianming...” Suishen Xiyue said, then paused.

”What is it?” He could tell that there was something on her mind.

”When you were cultivating over the past few years, I had heard a few long tales about you in Wondrium,” Suishen Xiyue said, looking at him weirdly.

”Oh? Did you go out looking for them?”

”I didn’t have to. Your legends are being retold over and over again in that world, including the time you used your ’Lin Feng’ disguise. I couldn’t have avoided them even if I wanted to.”

”I see.”

What she said made sense. Fengqing Youmeng had been wildly spreading the legend of the Galactic Emperor to increase his influence in Skydome. If believing in Tianming brought so many benefits, who would pass up the chance?

”I also heard a lot of tales about the beautiful flowers you keep by your side,” Suishen Xiyue said with a mean smile. It wasn’t surprising that that was where she focused. ”Is that Ling’er girl beautiful?”

”She isn’t just beautiful. She’s been with me since I was sixteen,” Tianming said. Her place in his heart could never be filled by anyone else.

”Sixteen? Weren’t you just born around then? You couldn’t have been taller than half a meter. Are you even human?!” Suishen Xiyue was completely dumbfounded. Their understandings of what constituted a sixteen-year-old were completely different. Sixteen-year-olds in Myriadpath Valley did indeed resemble toddlers.

”Alright, I’ve got it!” Suishen Xiyue grimaced and said, ”I’m speechless! I thought Jiguang managed to take the top spot in your heart, but I didn’t think that even she would be late! The position of main wife’s already been taken! Dammit!”

Knowing what kind of person Tianming was, she no longer bothered with something that had no hope of coming true. She turned back to him and asked, ”I heard that you also have two concubines in the Swordgod Lin Clan apart from your wife.”

”Yes....” Tianming had wanted to say that it was merely in name only, but Suishen Yao’s marriage had started like that, too, and was later turned into an established fact by her mother’s machinations. There was no way she would believe him.

”So one concubine of yours is missing, while the other’s back at home taking care of your grandparents and family, right?”

”That’s right. You’ll meet her soon.” He had wanted to formally introduce Moran to them, but since his mother-in-law had already figured everything out, he’d saved quite a bit of effort.

”You’re quite something, you casanova, you!” Suishen Xiyue said, seemingly appearing rather gleeful. ”Then again, five’s too small a number. That’s why you don’t have a single child.”

Tianming had no idea what his mother-in-law meant by that.

”I’m worried that once you establish such a large empire, it’ll be horrible if you have no successors to inherit it! It’d be a huge waste! Once you’re gone, it’ll all fall apart and your subjects will suffer for it. If I were you, I’d have tens of thousands of children!”

Tianming was utterly shocked. It sounded like she was the one who wanted to be an emperor more than he did. It was too bad that she had been born as the wrong sex.

It seemed that her falling out with Suishen Ranxing wasn’t solely over his affair with Yumo Lianqing. It was because he couldn’t tame such a woman like her and even attempted to kill her!

Suishen Xiyue laughed, ”I’m just joking with you. As a mother, I definitely hope that there are as few women around you as possible. But as a subordinate that wishes you’ll have a successful empire, I feel like it’s a huge waste for someone of your talent not to make more children and bless the world with it!”

”Do Auntie and Yaoyao know about all that?” Tianming asked.

”They do. They were the ones who wanted me to sort things out with you. How do I say this.... The other three girls got to know you much earlier, while what happened between you, Jiguang, and Yaoyao was in part due to an external influence.

”You didn’t intend to consummate your relationship with them at all. So, it isn’t up to Jiguang and Yaoyao to accept or reject the other three girls. Instead, they’re the ones who have to ask the girls to be accepted as your women. Does that sound fair to you?”

”Fair enough.”

”I also heard that your wife and two concubines are as talented as you are, being legends in their own right in these two mundi. I really want to see what they’re made of with my own eyes.”

”Alright,” Tianming nodded. ”You’ll meet them soon.”

The Blissful Union arrived at the Sun right as the conversation reached that point.