Beastmaster of the Ages

Starmoon Haven was so majestic that the space billions of kilometers around them was illuminated in a splendor of glory.

”Enter!” With the cloaking formation torn off, Tianming flew the mechanical dragon toward the bright, fortuna-class Starmoon Guard Formation. That was the true obstacle they would be facing.

”Can we blast our way through this formation?” Moran said, eyes lit up by the majestic planet before her.

”Of course not!” Tianming squinted at the sight of the formation. ”However, as long as we harass them nonstop, their cosmic gods will lose face if they don’t come to respond! They’d be completely shamed if they didn’t!”𝑓𝑟ℯℴ𝓂

”What if they come out and chase us down?” Moran asked, somewhat nervously.

”If they do, we’ll run! They outnumber us, after all. But once they leave their mound cities, Yin Chen will alert Long Xing to attack their homes!” Even though the mound cities had formations, they wouldn’t stop cosmic gods. That was why the other cosmic gods were so wary of Long Xing. The stalemate against him back then wasn’t enough to drive the cosmic gods to take action, but they could no longer afford to ignore it!

”Will attacking their homes have a point? We won’t be able to claim their formation cores if we defeat them that way,” Moran said.

”That’s right! At the end of the day, we still have to fight the cosmic gods themselves,” Tianming said, taking a deep breath. ”Though the heavenly oath guarantees twenty years of peace to the flameyellow descendants that’re still in captivity, it doesn’t stop us from killing their citizens as a means of psychological warfare. They can’t punish us for it at all! Not to mention, while they may have numbers, it wouldn’t be hard for us to find chances to fight them one-on-one.”

Fighting them as a group wouldn’t work, so Tianming chose to vex them instead. Even if all they did was infuriate the enemy cosmic gods, when word of it spread to Wargod and Wondersky Havens, it would help grow Tianming’s reputation and help him exceed the five-billion-thread limit.

”It’s always better to be doing something than nothing,” Moran agreed with a nod.

Tianming was capable of surviving, unlike when he was back in the Middlekin Star Ruin. He was no longer worried about sacrificing the 1.5 billion people with him, which was why he had returned to Starmoon Haven on an offensive. ”Keep attacking!”

The previous wave of attacks hadn’t incited any responses from the cosmic gods, who, according to Yin Chen, were monitoring the situation. This time around, Tianming had the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb absorb nova source from Starmoon Haven to charge up another blast of Manicrest Dragonsource. Yet another loud explosion resulted as the blast struck the Starmoon Guard Formation.

The sky of the world seemed to be blowing apart as seen from below. It almost looked like a middlekin star had exploded above the world, causing waves of destruction to ripple throughout the atmosphere for all to see. The nova-source-fueled balls of flame rained down, slamming to the ground of Starmoon Haven and wreaking destruction across vast stretches of land.

The Ninedragon Imperial Tomb had no limit and only needed a hundred seconds to charge up a full blast. For the denizens of Starmoon Haven, it felt like there was someone knocking on their heads with a heavy hammer again and again! It would be one thing if it was coming from a powerful elite, but the one behind it was merely a slave brat! It was a lone assault on their star! How could they endure it?

At the very least, Fentian He, who had attempted to chase Tianming down twice, couldn’t take it any longer. It was one thing for him to quietly pilot his ship in the dark reaches of space, but Tianming showed some real audacity by bringing it to his doorstep!

Starmoon Haven rumbled and creaked from repeated blasts that were fueled by its own nova source. Its denizens felt utterly ashamed and enraged.

”This is ridiculous!”

”This must be Li Tianming, right?”

”He’s gone insane!”

The members of the two pantheons had already been discontent at being forced to stay within their cities due to the slaves’ actions. But to think that they had to endure the humiliation of the slaves provoking them as well! It was like being stomped on the face!

”Why haven’t the cosmic gods killed him already?”

”They should stop slacking!”

”Last time, they failed to capture him, and this time he came all the way to our doorstep! Isn’t it a great chance? The cosmic gods can go out to space in their own bodies, right?”

They had once completely worshipped the cosmic gods, but they couldn’t help but feel disappointed now. It wasn’t that odd for them to feel that entitled, either. They were used to being the ones on top and had never really felt what it was like to be humiliated in such a fashion.

Fentian Mound was the mound city under Fentian He’s control. As the explosions rained down from above, he appeared and rose into the sky, his body burning bright with flames.

”Lord Cosmic God, please exterminate that pest and show him the might of Starmoon!” someone cried.

Fentian He glared at the denizens of the city; he didn’t need astral gods to tell him what to do!

Then someone with a completely pitch-black astral body appeared beside him. She was another cosmic god, shrouded in a black mist and demonic aura. Every single one of her astrons seemed like a skull that emanated black smoke. Behind her slender body was a gigantic hell-ring made completely of darkness.

She was the youngest cosmic god of Wargod Haven, Hei Xuan, Fentian He’s best friend. She was the one who had helped bring the eight hundred million slaves over from Wargod Haven. Lately, she had been cultivating together with Fentian He in Starmoon Haven.

The explosions continued shaking the skies as the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb hovered above Fentian Mound. It was a naked provocation! Fentian He exchanged glances with Hei Xuan, fuming.

”Go chase him down. He’ll eventually run out of middlekin stars!” she said.

”Shall we go together?” Fentian He asked.

”Of course,” she chuckled. ”I saw your battle with him. It was really interesting! We can’t let a monster like him run off again.”

The two of them zipped into the skies as streaks of crimson and black. Behind them, a few more flashes lit up. It looked like a few gigantic astral swords were flying toward the formation to slay Tianming! There were at least eight enraged cosmic gods, and the denizens of Starmoon Haven were elated to witness it. ”There’s no way he’ll survive this.”

***

Tianming immediately got word that eight cosmic gods were flying out to get him. ”I already expected that they wouldn’t engage me one-on-one.”

Tianming would retreat immediately, even if only two cosmic gods came after him, let alone eight of them at once! There was some distance from the surface of Starmoon Haven to the Starmoon Guard Formation, making enough time for Tianming to turn the ship around and fly off at maximum speed.

After unleashing a final blast of Manicrest Dragonsource, Tianming was already cruising through space.