Beastmaster of the Ages

”You’re all retards! I’m trying to save all of you!” Sixth roared. ”Yet you call my kindness traitorous behavior?!”

”You aren’t kind, you’re just an edgelord.”

”Sixth, return to big sis’s embrace! It’s cold and lonely out there!” Xian Xian pleaded.

”Shut up! You’ve been enslaved, don’t you see?! I’ll definitely devour this tyrant!” Sixth wanted to completely consume Tianming. That was its true goal all along. It had intentionally baited him from Antiquitas Mortis into this deep cavern. Even though Tianming feigned nonchalance at hearing that Sixth wanted to eat half his vita, he was acutely aware of how powerful its soul power was.

”If it wasn’t for that tower on your head, I’d have eaten you long ago! I wouldn’t have had to lead you into my territory!” The fact that it revealed its plans meant that it was already assured of its success.

Without saying anything else, it split its body into nine fat infants. In its cloudlike form, it was filled with pure soul power! Four of the infants attacked the lifebound beasts while the other five went for Tianming.

”Hold them back!” Tianming furrowed his brows. The fact that Sixth was similar to orderlies meant that it also had weaknesses! While Tianming and the rest were weak against soul attacks, Sixth was weak against normal attacks—especially the abilities of his lifebound beasts, which were rather effective on spiritforms and totems!

Tianming used all their defensive abilities like Infernal Shield, Ninefold Chaos Thunderscape, and Mountainsea World. Xian Xian turned into its tree form and shielded him and the Original Sin Pool with its thick roots and vines.

Then Lan Huang scattered the ghostly forms of those nine infants with its Primordial Soundwave, but they soon reformed again. No doubt, Sixth wasn’t nearly as fragile as normal orderlies.

Angered, all the ghostly infants spit out bubbles nonstop, looking rather cute while doing so. The dreamy bubbles shot toward Ying Huo and the rest.

”Childish!” Ying Huo laughed and unleashed Skyscorch Wrathlotus, but the bubbles passed through the ability unimpeded! ”Huh?” Stunned and surprised, Ying Huo inadvertently let the bubble enter its astral brain through its head. Then a chain of explosions could be heard as its astral brain’s astrons began burning. The attacks were poisonous to the soul!

”Aaaagh!” Ying Huo cried from the pain; the others weren’t faring much better. Apart from Xian Xian, who kept its spiritform hidden within Tianming’s lifebound space, the others all cried out in pain nonstop from the bubble attacks.

”Sixth hasn’t even engaged in symbiotic cultivation yet. How does it have so much energy?” Neither Tianming nor his beasts knew the answer to that. They couldn’t figure out how it had managed to cultivate on its own without a beastmaster.

But they didn’t have time to ponder as five times the previous number of bubbles came shooting their way. Like odd monsters, they couldn’t be neutralized by abilities and seemed to be unavoidable!

Tianming had no choice. Xian Xian still had a soul attack, Trisoul Fiendsong, while Tianming’s only option was Vitasteal.

”Take this!” He lifted one hand and slowed down the absorption rate of the Original Sin Pool. A red beam shot out of his left arm and illuminated the nine ghostly infants.

”Youuuu!” The infants cried in chaos and confusion. The moment the bodies were disrupted, the bubbles from its attacks popped! Tianming found it fortunate, for even he wasn’t sure that his Skysoul Tower would be able to take that attack head-on.

”Sixth seems to have found a way of breaking out of the symbiotic cultivation system. It’s just as powerful as Ying Huo and the others without engaging in symbiotic cultivation, but there must be a way to beat it!” Vitasteal was definitely one of them. The nine infants seemed like they were being torn apart by Tianming.

”How is it?” Tianming asked his beasts.

”It hurts!” they complained as they scratched their heads. Sixth’s soul power, when put into cosmoforce terms, was much stronger than the cosmoforce of Ying Huo and the rest, who were seventh-level foundationeers, but why? Wasn’t Sixth also a lifebound beast?

”Li Tianming!” The nine infants went completely berserk with rage. ”Enough! You pathetic pieces of trash have completely wasted my kindness and mercy! Since that’s the case, I’ll use all my cards and let you see my true strength! I’ll show you what the Primordial Chaos King looks like!” all nine infants yelled in unison.

The Primordial Chaos King was probably yet another title it came up with for itself, just like the Invincible Ultimate God of Old. The infants fused back into a large, cloudy, fat infant! It widened its arms as if it was a divine being who was descending to the lower realm. Its eyes began rapidly spinning and unleashing storms of soul power.

”The Invincible Ultimate God of Old has descended! My subjects, offer up your power to me!” the fat infant said.

”Pffft!” For some reason, Tianming found its serious and hot-blooded temperament rather laughable. It looked like a role player, king of the playground children.

But the very next moment, he and his beasts were utterly stupefied. Boundless soul power in their surroundings formed white threads that connected to the fat infant’s body, forming a web of souls. ”Give me your power, subjects of my soul empire! The holy war is nigh! I require you all to defend the glory of the Ancient Oldgod Domain!

”I’m the Invincible Ultimate God of Old! Nothing in these lands and under the firmaments of the universe shall escape my sight or sword of souls!”

Tianming was losing it at the passion Sixth was showing, but it wasn’t joking around. Yin Chen told Tianming that the enslaved specters in God Domain One had started heading toward the eyes of heaven, all kneeling and chanting, ”All hail the Invincible God of Old!”

Many white threads began to form and connect with Sixth, who absorbed their power and began wildly expanding, pulsing with soul power.

”What the...!” Ying Huo froze up.

”I think I’ll be missing a few naps,” Meow Meow said.

”Is it trying to copy omnisentient threads?!” Lan Huang began to cry.

”What in the world is this?!” Xian Xian was just as stupefied. It looked far too familiar of a sight. They all turned to look at Tianming, who seemed on the brink of exploding from embarrassment.