Beastmaster of the Ages

”Yes!” Yanri Shuang didn’t dare to think too much, as a monster was within her head.

”As for your parents and seniors, tell them you managed to drive the attackers away but couldn’t prevent them from looting it, so they don’t have to worry about your safety. Tell them we weren’t that powerful, but our ship was,” Tianming ordered.

Yanri Shuang could only nod. Once Tianming was done, he flew off into the stars with the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb.

”Sigh!” She huddled in a dark corner, drifting in the void of space and snuggling up against her dreambreach fiend for comfort. ”What do we do?”

”Nothing! Let’s just watch how things turn out!” Bai Ye said. Yanri Shuang knew that there was yet another monster that would forever be by her and the dreambreach fiend’s side.

Not long later, Luori Xuanlie’s fienddragon-shaped astralship, the Ninesun, found the remnants of the Cosmic God Palace and descended. Yanri Shuang had already healed her wounds by then. She rose and reassumed her cold, proud demeanor as she headed toward Zhantian Feng and Luori Xuanlie. ”The caeli have all been taken!”

”Are you alright?” Zhantian Feng said.

”Do I not look alright?” Yanri Shuang said.

”It’s good that you’re fine.” Zhantian Feng nodded and looked at the ruins of the Cosmic God Palace, furrowing his brows. ”His divine astralship is truly stunning! However, how’d he even find the Cosmic God Palace and track it down so accurately?”

”No idea,” Yanri Shuang said.

”Was it just good luck?” Luroi Xuanlie asked.

Yanri Shuang said, ”It can’t be luck. Li Tianming must’ve left some kind of marker in here during the trial!”

”That must be it,” Zhantian Feng said.

”That fiend robbed the entire place. My parents over in Starmoon Haven are raving mad and have instructed us to capture the slaves no matter what!” Yanri Shuang coldly said.

”Yes!” Luori Xuanlie nodded. He and Xing Can would be mainly responsible for that task.

”I’ll also stay here!” Yanri Shuang snapped.

”With your help, Miss Yanri, the lowly slaves won’t be able to escape!” Zhantian Feng excitedly said.

”I almost managed to kill Li Tianming. The only reason he escaped was his soul-type lifebound beast that kept my dreambreach fiend occupied,” Yanri Shuang said.

”Those people have odd powers, but they won’t be able to escape our grasp. The main problem is their ship. It was able to wreck the Cosmic God Palace so fast!” Luori Xuanlie said after inspecting the ruined husk of the ship. Not even the Ninesun would be able to cause such destruction.

”We have to deal with them as soon as possible, or it’ll leave a humiliating mark,” Zhantian Feng said.

”Zhantian Feng, have you ordered the slaves to be transported yet?” Yanri Shuang asked.

”The first batch of nine million has already been sent out. My sister’s personally escorting them here,” Zhantian Feng.

”Zhantian Le is coming?” Yanri Shuang furrowed her brows.

”Yes!”

”She’s indeed talented.” Yanri Shuang looked around the ruined ship. ”However, will she be intercepted before she comes to the Middlekin Star Ruin?”

Zhantian Feng incredulously shook his head. ”How could that be possible? This Middlekin Star Ruin is huge! And by the time she’s close enough, we’ll send a welcome party out to fetch her.”

”Let’s head back to the Middlekin Star Ruin first. Xing Can is alone there for now, so we have to make sure the slaves don’t take advantage of this and rob us of our middlekin stars,” Luori Xuanlie said. ”The combined might of their elites should be at most as hard to deal with as an eighth-level overflower, which isn’t the problem. Their ship is the biggest pain in the neck.”

”That’s right!” The thing they hated most about Tianming was the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb. The assault on the Cosmic God Palace had only proven their convictions even more.

Luori Xuanlie got a message from his transmission stone. ”There’s a new development in Starmoon Haven!”

”What is it?” Yanri Shuang nervously asked.

”They said it isn’t enough to rely on the slaves from Wargod Haven to solve this problem. They’re sending a cosmic god!” Luori Xuanlie said with an excited smile.

”Did they say who’s coming? Matters like the slaves and the Cosmic God Palace are rather beneath their status. It’s overkill,” Zhantian Feng said. It was clear that he wanted to deal with the situation himself, thinking that Tianming and Zi Zhen wouldn’t be that hard to deal with. He had already begun looking down on Yanri Shuang for not being able to stop Tianming from taking away all those caeli. But not even his wildest imagination could ever have conjured up something like an infant soul that could exert absolute control over a genius like Yanri Shuang.

”It sounds like Cosmic God Fentian He wants to come,” Luori Xuanlie said.

”Big Brother Fentian He? Is he that free?” Yanri Shuang seemed perplexed.

”He came for your sake, of course. He’s the youngest cosmic god in Starmoon Haven, and a bachelor!” What Luori Xuanlie left unsaid was that he was definitely waiting for Yanri Shuang to become a cosmic god as well.

Zhantian Feng’s gaze turned cold right away after hearing the name. His chances of having a casual fling with a beauty of ultimate talent had been dashed with a cosmic god that was vying for her hand in marriage in the picture, unless he became a cosmic god himself. The dilemma was that, if he became a cosmic god, his body would be physically incompatible with Yanri Shuang, an overflower. If he really forced it, astral gods would die from his attempt. That was why even a cosmic god like Fentian He had to wait!

Such was the nature of romance in the Upper Star Ruin.

”Alright, let’s head back!” Yanri Shuang said, uninterested in talking more about the matter. She boarded the Ninesun to return to the Middlekin Star Ruin.

***

”Alright, I’m leaving now. Make sure to be careful,” Zi Zhen said, looking at Tianming as she stood in front of the Suishenean.

”Looks like you’ll miss me quite a lot,” Tianming said, still as small as an insect compared to her huge face.

”I will,” she said with a pout. ”But I have to rush back to make more money for you and your huge family.” God Domain One was far too important for exactly that purpose.

”I’ll be missing you, too,” Tianming said in earnest.

”I don’t believe you,” she said, rolling her eyes. ”Forget it. I can’t be bothered flirting now. Make sure to start distributing the overflow fragments. There’s no point in saving them because God Domain One produces more every day. I’ll send someone to bring them to you once in a while.”

”Make sure you use the better ones for yourself first,” Tianming said.

”Got it!” She stood in the mobile stareye, causing starlight to envelop her. ”Become an overflower soon!”

”You sound impatient!”

”Nonsense!” The starlight had already completely covered her, her voice echoing in the ship. ”You look too small and weak to me as you are now!”