Beastmaster of the Ages

Xing Zhan was the oldest and most experienced cosmic god in Starmoon Haven. The younger generation members that Tianming had killed—namely, Xing Han, Xing Can, and Xing Yue—were all among his numerous descendants.

That fellow’s only just restored his cosmic god body. Tianming appeared right before him, manifesting the many omnisentient threads to power his 30-fold-simulacrum totems within the Grand-Orient Sword and the beasts in his body.

The faster I act, the more cosmic gods I’ll kill! He didn’t say a single word and charged toward Xing Zhan.

”You snot-nosed brat!” Xing Zhan’s heart pounded in a panic as his attempted retreat was intercepted by Tianming. His totems surfaced from his bane-rings, forming nine layers of astral seas, which turned into nine stormy stars that surrounded Tianming.

”You’re already old enough. Time to die.” Tianming smirked and slashed hard. The four cardinal godswords within the Grand-Orient Sword opened up three stargates at the same time, revealing the Ninefold Hellstar, Saturatia-49, and the Ninesky Mistress. They were sword-ki-filled maniverse-class worlds that contained imperial-class sword formations! The three stars manifested using the ki of Tianming’s totems.

The attack split the myriadform galaxy that Xing Zhan had been holding in two. Then the boundless sword ki blended with Meow Meow and Ying Huo’s abilities as they ravaged Xing Zhan’s body. The fire and lightning perfectly meshed with the cosmic impulses and simulacrum for a trifecta of destruction!

”Die!” Bai Ye’s wave of Phantasmic Bubbles crashed into the spiritform middlekin astrons in Xing Zhan’s head, completely stripping his capability to resist. He cried out in pain and agony as his head felt like it was being torn apart, no longer able to block Tianming’s sword attacks.

The Grand-Orient Sword, which was tens of meters long, slashed down at Xing Zhan’s head, splitting him into two neat halves that subsequently exploded. The Desolation Stargate Sword Formation’s power spread all throughout his body, causing millions of chain explosions and turning the cosmic god into yet another flurry of fireworks. It was the second such explosion within such a short period of time! As a result, as Xing Zhan’s cosmic god essence formed again, it appeared to be full of cracks and holes, dimly glowing as if he was near death.

”You...!” Xing Zhan perceived Tianming with complete despair. It was one thing for Long Xing to be terrifyingly powerful, but even a youth had managed to defeat him in one move. Xing Zhan wasn’t weak, but he had been pushed to the absolute brink! But even then, it took Tianming’s strongest techniques to take him down.

The thought of what had happened to Fentian He made Xing Zhan quite worried. ”Stop struggling. No matter what you do, things will always come to an end! Putting aside the two starlords, the owner of the Worldgazer Skyeye, and many more cosmic gods that’re much more powerful will come for your puny lives! There’s nowhere in the Upper Star Ruin for you to run!”

Tianming had long grown bored with such rhetoric. I’m sure defeating this old fool has significantly lightened Brother Long Xing’s burden.

He didn’t celebrate and ignored Xing Zhan’s essence, which didn’t even have enough energy to reform his body. ”Next!”

He looked around for his next target and was shocked to realize that Long Xing and the violet titanic dragon had already wiped out two more cosmic gods that bore partial formation cores! They were much faster than Tianming was and had already moved on to the final core bearer: Yuanyue Ming. The other cosmic gods weren’t as important as the six bearers in particular.

Then again, though the rest aren’t that important, I should still kill them if I can! Tianming didn’t care about anything else. The Yin Chens in the surroundings couldn’t be wiped out by cosmic sense alone, allowing them to track the location of the cosmic gods at all times. Tianming and Long Xing had constant updates on their locations.

Long Xing was naturally the star of the show. No matter how hard Tianming tried to chase, he could only barely keep up with a single cosmic god, whereas Long Xing and his dragon were wreaking havoc all across space! The six core bearers of Starmoon Haven had perished while the other cosmic gods were pushed closer to Tianming by Long Xing, surrounded by many Yin Chens all around.

”Once we take them down, we’ll have conquered Starmoon Haven!” Tianming was feeling much better. What had once been a dream was becoming reality! ”Long Xing’s truly powerful at the second level.”

As expected of a flameyellow descendant who had inherited cosmic god blood! And it was just beginning; Long Xing’s future could see him dominating in the Upper Star Ruin.

”What’s even better is that I can use the remaining cosmic god blood legacy to create many more Long Xings!” That was the true form of the power he wielded.

Tianming followed Long Xing as his rampage continued. Laughably, the cosmic gods who’d been escaping toward Starmoon Haven had finally realized what was going on after noticing that the controllers of the formation cores had been taken down. Soon, Starmoon Haven would fall to Tianming! Some of them decided to flee toward Wargod Haven, while others went for Wondersky Haven.

Long Xing gave chase quite far away, and Tianming followed suit with the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb, capturing one cosmic god essence after another. ”These cosmic gods sure have huge spatial rings!”

Of course, he was claiming their treasures as well. All those rings were filled with countless ordered manna, divine ores, and other resources. A large pile of loot was forming within the ship.

”I’ll make sure to scour Starmoon Haven clean!” The rise of the Sun required an incomprehensible amount of resources. The mound cities within Starmoon Haven contained the estates of many cosmic gods and overflowers, as well as their divine tombs, which were filled with all kinds of other cultivation goodies that the flameyellow descendants sorely lacked. Not even Tianming had enough ordered manna to go around, despite being a sky plunderer. And the six cosmic god essences next to him were the keys to the wealth of Starmoon Haven.

”Taking over the astralguard and fusion formations makes me the owner of the star! I’m the new management! All the nova source of this world is mine to use! Just reducing these cosmic gods to essence form isn’t enough to claim the cores, though—those will only emerge after I kill them!”

While Long Xing worked on culling the enemies outside, Tianming focused on ending the lives of the stubborn essences. Yanri Huang, Xing Zhan, Mo Shen, Yuanyue Ming, and the others were in for a treat.

He brought those essences to the deepest chamber in the ship and gathered them together.