Beastmaster of the Ages

Dust filled the sky, flying through the heavens and obscuring both the sky and the earth. The entire world seemed to fall into endless chaos. As the earth collapsed, countless lives were lost; the continent where the Yunmo Mound lay was one of the most prestigious locations within Starmoon Haven. Surrounding it were dozens of ordinary cities, clustered like moons orbiting it. Only the highest bloodlines of the Starfall Pantheon were qualified to live near there.

The flameyellow descendants who had fled the mound cities and normal cities naturally weren’t anywhere near the place. They had long moved far away from top-tier continents, living instead in desolate, uninhabited abysses.

In other words, Long Xing had chosen Yunmo Mound for his final stand for a reason.

Now, under the destruction of the Manicrest Dragonsource, countless Starfall Pantheon members had been slaughtered or injured.

”Quick!” The Ninedragon Imperial Tomb dove down, meeting with the cosmic god essence of Long Xing and his lifebound beast that were wrapped in Yin Chens.

Earlier, Yin Chen had already gathered countless bodies and waited outside the Yunmo Mound. Now, they finally served their purpose. While lifting Long Xing into the sky, an endless silver sea of bugs simultaneously filled the ruins of the destroyed Yunmo Mound and blocked the nine cosmic gods’ counterattack!

Deep within the ruins, the cosmic gods were on the verge of exploding in rage.

”How’s the Worldgazer Skyeye?” several cosmic gods immediately asked. Their greatest concern was still the cosmic god artifact. If it was damaged, all ten of them would be done for, as it was a borrowed treasure.

”It’s fine!” Mo Shen, who was closest to the Worldgazer Skyeye, hurried to check. Hearing that, everyone finally breathed a slight sigh of relief.

”Not good! Long Xing’s been taken away!” Yanri Huang’s lifebound beast, the evernight fiend, let out a furious roar.

”Chase them!” In the emergency, they temporarily abandoned the Worldgazer Skyeye and Xing Zhan and collectively charged upward. Mountains, rocks, and ruins along their path were pulverised.

At that moment, a swarm of silver bugs that was as ponderous as several mountains slammed down from above, blocking the cosmic gods’ path. They had seen the battle between Tianming’s side and the younger cosmic gods and recognized that it was Tianming’s lifebound beast.

”Get rid of it!” Their gazes grew cold. A stream of divine abilities and totemic calamities burst forth, instantly obliterating the swarm.

”You think you can come and go from our Starmoon Haven as you please?”

”Far too arrogant!”

Killing intent surged in the eyes of the cosmic gods. Being tricked, humiliated, and even slaughtered by Tianming again and again was already intolerable. And now he dared to drive the most cumbersome thing, an astralship, straight in?

It was absolute suicide!

After destroying the Yin Chen insect sea, their figures burst from the ground. Their cosmic senses easily penetrated the darkness and chaos, locking on to Tianming and Long Xing’s locations!

The Ninedragon Imperial Tomb was floating directly above them! It was incredibly close as well.

Tianming had taken the greatest risk to meet Long Xing there. He knew very well that within the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb were 1.5 billion flameyellow descendants. If even a single cosmic god entered the ship, those people would be annihilated in an instant.

All of the gambling was for just one chance to soar to freedom!

Tianming had succeeded just as the cosmic gods came out; the dragon heads had bit down on the cosmic god essences of Long Xing and the violet titanic dragon, swallowing them into the ship.

”Got them!” Tianming’s scalp tingled. He knew better than anyone how dangerously close he had come to failure. But the danger wasn’t over yet.

The nine cosmic gods watched Long Xing being taken into the astralship, and their gazes grew even more chilling.

If they escape, capturing them again will be even harder, and we’ll completely lose face. This thought flashed across every cosmic god’s mind. Failure wouldn’t be accepted.

”Break the ship and keep them here!” A series of explosive shouts shook the heavens, sweeping away countless dust clouds and crashing down upon the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb. In just an instant, they would be upon it!

At that critical moment, a door opened in the belly of the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb, and a pink infinitum-class middlekin star fell out.

”Hang tight!” Tianming roared, resealing the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb and activating another new function it had acquired, the Profound Dragon Aegis! A spherical shield wrapped around the ship.

Almost simultaneously, the pink middlekin star dropped to the nine cosmic gods. Genesis ancestral nova source erupted, triggering ultra-high-pressure transformations inside the middlekin star. A mass equivalent to that of Ebonia had been compressed to the extreme and a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering explosion detonated on the surface of the fortuna-class world.

Compared to previous explosions, it was undoubtedly the most destructive yet, and the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb was caught in the center of the blast radius.

Tianming had had no choice. If the cosmic gods pinned down the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb, it would be the death of all 1.5 billion flameyellow descendants. He desperately controlled the ship, pouring all of its stored nova source into the Profound Dragon Aegis.

The explosion swallowed the entire ship and the deafening boom almost rendered everyone deaf. The immense shockwave sent the ship hurtling skyward.

Tianming completely abandoned any thoughts of maintaining stability, choosing instead to let the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb go limp. In doing so, it would be easier to absorb the primal destructive force. If he resisted even slightly, he would have instantly been vaporized!

The nine-headed black dragon spun wildly through the sky as everyone inside was tossed about like rag dolls, bumping into walls and each other.

The Profound Dragon Aegis shattered within just three seconds, and the terrifying power continued bombarding the dozens of formations covering the ship and destroying large portions of the hull.

Ji Ji could protect Tianming’s body, but it couldn’t shield the entire astralship.

After surviving the first wave of destruction, even though the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb was now riddled with wounds, Tianming’s face lit up with a joyful grin! The tomb had successfully escaped the core of the blast radius.

”Ji Ji still managed to guide most of the middlekin star’s destructive force downward!” If above, the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb had suffered severe damage, then what about below? Tianming couldn’t afford to care.

The ship was still spinning and tumbling. Tianming used all his effort to reorient it, raising his head and glancing upward.

The gap in the Starmoon Guard Formation was still there. He abruptly swerved and the nine-headed mechanical black dragon twisted, then almost scraped against the edge of the gap as it squeezed out into the starry sky beyond.