Beastmaster of the Ages

Fentian He’s expression changed as all his astrons pulsed with light. His body glowed a hundred times brighter than before, outshining Tianming and illuminating millions of kilometers around them. A single person was glowing as bright as a nova source world! No doubt, Fentian He’s rage was boiling over.

He looked down and saw that both his arms were considerably charred, a sign that quite a few of his middlekin astrons had been destroyed. While it was a light injury, it had been caused by someone who wasn’t even a cosmic god!

”What’s going on here?” the grand scorchpath suanni asked with an odd look.

Fentian He suddenly laughed as he looked at Tianming, shining brightly black and gold. ”That fellow just got more interesting!”

”He’s able to injure you as an overflower. A new precedent has been set in the Upper Star Ruin...” the beast said.

”Not just that! Across the entire universe!” Fentian He’s gaze seethed. ”How odd.... Extraordinary! How does his combat capability work? How’d he get so strong? Why’d he seem that weak in the divine tomb? If he’d been so powerful to begin with, why would he need to run around so haggardly back at the Middlekin Star Ruin?”

He had far too many questions, all of which could be answered by knowing about the Primordial God-Emperor and Primordial Chaos Beasts. But, unfortunately for him, he knew nothing about them.

”Now that he’s grown arrogant enough to face us, it’s a good chance to capture him so we can dissect him for answers!”

”Interesting! Apart from Long Xing, I haven’t met another person who’s able to drive me to fight for my life.” Fentian He’s blood began boiling. Everything he had believed until now had exploded to smithereens.

With a loud boom, he charged toward Tianming with his beast by his side. Then he released a white sphere that rose above them, illuminating the surrounding area.

”What’s that?” Tianming asked.

”It’s the Starmoon Skyveil! With it around, all the major mound cities in Starmoon Haven will be able to watch me kill you in real time!” Fentian He said.

”Oh... is it only the mound cities?” Tianming plainly asked.

”What else? Do you want the slaves to watch you?” Fentian He raised a brow. ”If it were possible, I’d want them to watch and despair as you get killed by me. It’s too bad that they’re scattered in the wilderness.”

If the flameyellow descendants had been able to see him, it would be a great boon for Tianming. Either way, if he could defeat a cosmic god right there, he would still end up as a legend in the Upper Star Ruin.

”Don’t worry, I’ll record this and show them our magnificence later!” Bai Ye excitedly said. This battle was of huge significance; it was both a fight to the death and a performance. Tianming knew how powerful cosmic gods were. As long as he survived, it would be his victory!

With the Starmoon Skyveil out, Fentian He and the grand scorchpath suanni seemed even more excited than before. They exchanged glances before surrounding Tianming from both sides.

There was no ship nearby and no exploding pink middlekin stars, only flesh and blood in the vast battlefield of outer space. Shocking projections appeared above the various mound cities in Starmoon Haven. Within the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb, the 1.5 billion flameyellow descendants and their lifebound beasts joined in the fight without wasting a word!

Fentian He’s killing intent had long overflowed. With a huge swing, a mid-imperial-class cosmic artifact appeared in his hand, the strongest Tianming had faced to date. It was a thousand-meter-long chain, each link made from a ball that looked like a burning star of about two meters in diameter. His cosmic god power surged into the chain of stars, causing both him and the chain to burn brightly. It was the Skyscorch Desolation, one of the top cosmic artifacts in Starmoon Haven.

The suanni, on the other hand, roared so loudly that many asteroids around it were reduced to dust. It glared at Tianming, all three hundred million stars in its eyes glowing.

”Taking lifebound beasts into your body like a tainted mongrel,” the suanni said, feeling confident based on that aspect alone.

Tianming merely chuckled.

At that moment, countless silver insects appeared around him and shot toward Fentian He and his beast! A boundless sea of silver insects flooded the entire area. It was the first time Yin Chen was participating in combat since its transformation. The vast emptiness of the astralscape was the perfect battleground for it. Having reached the Overflow stage, every single body it had was ten times bigger than before. The sea of silver insects even crowded out the projections of the Starmoon Skyveil as it swallowed up Fentian He and the grand scorchpath suanni altogether.

”These insects again?” Fentian He’s guard was up as his anger rose. ”Just use cosmic sense!”

The many Yin Chens unleashed their abilities during their assault, while the man and beast unleashed their cosmic sense to wipe out the insects, but they were soon replaced by yet more metal insects!

”Why does it feel like our cosmic sense isn’t as effective as before?” Fentian He seemed to grimace. Back at the Middlekin Star Ruin, it had only taken a pulse of his cosmic sense to wipe out all the starcloud bugs. This time around, it took markedly more effort to wipe out one bunch, which would only be replaced by even more than had been destroyed before! The flow of metal forced Fentian He away from his beast, constantly colliding with their bodies and burning up like moths in flame. Their sheer numbers gave them quite a bit of momentum!

”Use Pentaphase Immortal Prison!” Tianming called out. It was an ability Yin Chen had never actually executed before.

”Stop nagging!” Yin Chen said as the sea of silver insects shone with five different colors. They changed into starcloud, yiwood, seaheart, forgeflame, and kuimont bugs. The oddly shaped bugs shook the world, turning into a prison of five vortices, out of which five streams of energy formed a hell of metal that pressed down on Fentian He and the suanni. The sea of silver turned into a complete sphere that rumbled so much that countless nearby asteroids crumbled into pieces.

”Trying to divide and conquer, eh?” Fentian He smiled despite being slammed by bugs from all directions.

”That’s right!” Tianming appeared before him at that moment.

”How much do you look down on me?” Fentian He gave the chain in his hand a powerful swing, eliminating all the Yin Chens in the surroundings. The grand scorchpath suanni also shook the bugs off with a supernova-like explosion.

”You’re overthinking it!” Tianming hadn’t been looking down on him at all. Instead, he still felt the immense power of cosmic gods despite being supported by 1.5 billion people. He had been fighting with his all!

He hadn’t been sitting idly by as Yin Chen kept Fentian He and his beast busy. He used his 30-fold simulacrum, Four Cardinals Swordhell, applying a storm of powerful totem ki to his sword! His twenty-meter form blazed with divine might as he opened his first stargate and unleashed the Ninefold Hell Sword Formation!

The Grand-Orient Sword was only about twenty meters long. With a slash, it opened a stargate that caused the Ninefold Hellstar to manifest. Through the Starmoon Skyveil, those of the Starfall Pantheon watched as Tianming executed their signature imperial-class sword art that their ancestor had left behind for them!

A hell of swords from a maniverse-class world pressed down on Fentian He.