Beastmaster of the Ages

Tianming was her man, her mate! But he wasn’t even two meters tall, and she was sixty, so he looked like nothing more than a tiny doll for her to play with! How could he be her man?!

Jin Lin’s innards felt like they had been completely crushed along with his heart. Ah... what? What happened? Nothing makes sense anymore! Even so, he only thought the words, but didn’t dare to say them. He glared at Tianming with envious fury.

”Man....” The hundreds of aurumites watched Tianming for a long time before slowly gaining respect for him.

”Where’d that mixed-blood human get the kind of charm to make the goddess publicly say something like that?”

”I don’t see why she’d fall for that tiny squirt at all!”

”Maybe he’s cultured and knows how to write love poems!”

Either way, the proclamation hadn’t been without consequence.

”In other words, that man was never the goddess’s servant to begin with?!” Jin Xiao snapped with realization. ”Who was the one who blindly said that he was the goddess’ servant without even looking?!” He angrily looked around.

”It was my grandson,” Jin Shang said.

”It was my son,” Jin Ding said.

”It was me!” Jin Lin said, feeling terrible.

Jin Xiao glared at him before hesitantly turning to Moran. Moments before, he had been shocked when she’d made use of the divine wonders of the Yugong wonderians that had been defeated some time ago. It was such a terrifying ability that completely went against his understanding of wonderians! But someone that terrifying obediently stood beside Tianming as if he was their leader.

It can’t be.... When Jin Xiao thought of the possibility, he felt completely distraught. No, impossible! How could a goddess like her be willing to... share... a single man with other people?! Impossible!

Jin Xiao didn’t dare to let his mind wander any further. He looked around and noticed that others didn’t seem to have the same guesses he did. After all, only he and his son, Jin Shang, had seen the Yugongs’ divine wonders, and his son hadn’t made the connection yet.

”Jin Xiao!” Di Tang came over and pushed Jin Shang and Jin Ding aside. ”What did that tiny one mean when he said he could deal with xeno fatigue? Have you heard of that before?”

”No, I only just learned of it,” Jin Xiao honestly said. He personally doubted it as well, so he respectfully came toward Zi Zhen. ”Goddess! You might not know, since you don’t hail from the Ancient Oldgod Domain, but xeno fatigue is a terrifying tribulation that always leads to lives ending. It’s also called the ’Five Griefs of Celestials’ and is the other side of the blessing of order and overflow fragments. It’s the rage of the Sea of Order and the judgment of the heavenly way! Anyone who gets afflicted by xeno fatigue becomes untreatable unless it’s by the very incarnation of the heavenly ways itself!”

”Jin Xiao....” Zi Zhen pointed at him and continued, ”Did you know that I used to have grade-ten xeno fatigue?”

”What?” Hundreds of aurumites stared at her with looks of disbelief.

”Impossible! Goddess, your constitution is the utmost peak one out of all we’ve seen! How could you have gotten xeno fatigue before? Grade-ten xeno fatigue doesn’t exist! Not even people who live so close to the Sea of Order in God Domain Nine have had any cases of grade-ten xeno fatigue!” Di Tang shook his head and refused to believe something that deviated so much from his existing worldview. Xeno fatigue was simply too terrifying for something like that to be real!

No matter how powerful a specter or orderly in the Ancient Oldgod Domain was, cosmic gods or not, being afflicted with xeno fatigue was a nightmare that would only end in death. It instantly started crippling one to the point of no recovery, no matter how powerful. That was the reason they believed it was the side effect of the Sea of Order’s blessing, the sole curse of the heavenly favored!

”Goddess, are you saying that this little friend here helped you get over grade-ten xeno fatigue before you... got together?” Jin Xiao asked. Like Di Tang, he didn’t believe there was anyone who could resolve xeno fatigue, but unlike him, he trusted Zi Zhen and knew that she had no need to lie. She had already overpowered them in the first place.

Tianming answered without waiting. ”I think all of you have no time to waste. I want to save someone from the Taboo Ocean, so my time is limited. There’s more than a hundred aurumites who are being tortured. Let’s not waste time and go back as soon as possible! If I can help them, your tribe will become much stronger. If I can’t, you don’t lose anything. It isn’t like I’m charging you for the service.”

Jin Xiao and Di Tang exchanged looks. Before the latter could speak, Jin Xiao said, ”Makes sense! Let’s hurry home.”

”That’ll reveal our stronghold!” Di Tang said, gritting his teeth.

”They already knew where it was long ago,” Jin Xiao said. That was a fact. Yin Chen had already spread out far enough to find the main base of the aurumites.

”Let’s go!” Their main camp wasn’t far from the eye of heaven they were in. Along the way, Jin Xiao and Di Tang watched the thirty-two-meter-tall girl and the two tiny people around her with some nervousness.

”What would it mean for everyone if xeno fatigue becomes treatable?” Di Tang mused.

”It’d make him the only precious thing in all of the Ancient Oldgod Domain. Both we and the orderlies would treat him like a treasure,” Jin Xiao said.

”Impossible! Absolutely impossible!” Di Tang also knew the implications, but he simply couldn’t accept it.

”If the old matriarch can be treated, she’ll live for at least another thousand years!”

”Let’s pray for it!”

Soon, they reached somewhere deep underground where the eyes of heaven could barely illuminate. The entire place was starved of xeno source. Orderlies weren’t willing to come to places like that at all—not even to wipe out the specters, which was why they took refuge there.

The once-top tribe in God Domain One had been relegated to the dark corners of caves like rats and had all of the women in their tribe taken, completely cutting off their ability to reproduce. In essence, they had been rendered entirely impotent.

Any aurumite that dared to rebel would be put to death; but even if they didn’t fight, they would die all the same. Deep within their hearts, they, more than Tianming, desired to liberate their homes, land, and women from oppression!

”How do you feel about this?” Tianming asked Zi Zhen as they went deeper into this xeno-source-starved place.

”Perhaps it’s going on in all of the Ancient Oldgod Domain,” she said.

”Do you pity them?”

She shook her head. ”We aren’t, strictly speaking, part of the same race. There’s no blood ties between us, so I find it hard to dive into troubled waters for their sake, but....”

”But?”

”But I feel like this battlefield is more suitable for me than any other.”

”That’s right! So, can you become the queen bee of the Ancient Oldgod Domain?”

Zi Zhen rolled her eyes. ”The only ’bee’ I see here is you, you tiny little thing.”