Beastmaster of the Ages

The two wonderian starlords looked oddly like children, even though they had already borne children themselves, much like Meng Ying had appeared. They looked around three years of age and were rather babyfaced. Only one thing—they were two hundred meters tall!

The soft white astral glow that came from the wonderians made them look pale and devilish when coupled with their uncommon appearance. The male wonderian was called Tong, while the female was Zhi. Together, they were Tong Zhi by the common naming convention of wonderians. Female Mo was their daughter.

”Dad... Mom....” She had already told them everything she needed to using a transmission stone. She handed the Worldgazer Skyeye to them, which Tong Zhi had borrowed from the sacred lord of Saturatia-49, the one they served.

”The damage isn’t severe. It can still be mended,” Tong said, coldly looking at the artifact.

”However, our son was lost for good.” Zhi hugged Female Mo, speaking with a smile on her face. But deep in her eyes, one could sense a rising chilling frost.

”Letting the incident develop to this point is truly embarrassing for the Midsky Tristars,” Mo Tu said in a hoarse voice. ”How is it? That slave’s become a second-level cosmic god. Not only were we unable to kill him when encircled, but he even took Starmoon Haven. It’s best to have the sacred lord step in and deal with the matter for good.”

”The sacred lord’s been busy with matters in the Ancestral World, so he’s unable to come,” Zhi said, shaking her head.

”Ancestral World? Do you mean the Ancient Flameyellow Ruins?” Mo Tu’s expression seemed to heat up.

”Yes. I heard that some of the dualgod bloodline exist and thrive there, without heavenly shackles! Things are still in the preliminary investigation phase. Once we’re able to break through the walls of the Ancestral World, the maniverse-class worlds might form a united front and invade it,” Tong said.

”I heard that quite a number of slaves escaped straight into the Ancestral World to avoid the judgment of the Heavenly Dao.” Mo Tu turned to Starmoon Haven and continued, ”If the sacred lord can’t make it, I have no choice but to reach out to my pals from the Moonfiend Hunt in the Ninefold Hellstar.”

”What do we need to get them to take action?” Tong asked.

”Those slaves are rather interesting specimens. We have to send one or two for them to conduct research on, which can’t be helped. Without enough of an incentive, they won’t be bothered with our petty affairs. Everyone’s busy with their own projects. My colleagues will be even busier once we have more information about the Ancient Flameyellow Ruins,” Mo Tu said.

”Very well,” Tong agreed.

”By the way...” Zhi looked at Mo Tu and said, ”I heard that you have an ashura among the Moondfiend Hunt, someone with a maniverse-class nova wildbeast. Isn’t that peculiar?”

”Yes.” Mo Tu’s expression turned cold. ”It would be really interesting to see how they fare against those two slaves.”

***

It didn’t take long before Yin Chen discovered something noteworthy as it conducted rescue operations across Starmoon Haven.

”You’re saying you found the divine tomb of the Sundown Pantheon?” Tianming’s face beamed with a bright smile. The divine tomb of the Starfall Pantheon had long since been emptied out by Tianming, who had transported everything to the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb. The two divine tombs no doubt stored the most precious treasures of the two pantheons.

”Wait there, I’m coming right away!” Tianming left the ship and headed to the location Yin Chen had told him about. His forty-meter-tall form zipped through mountains and forests, crossing vast stretches of land, and stopped at a location of complete mundanity. To think that it was near the territory of the Starfall Pantheon....

”So they really did have each other’s divine tombs in their respective territories, huh?” Tianming landed and found a few formation cores within a storehouse. The cosmic gods who’d perished had left behind far too many cores, which Tianming hadn’t had time to assimilate. He picked out the ones for the defensive formations of the divine tomb and completely unlocked the formations, causing the grand mausoleum complex to turn visible. Countless tall tombstones stretched out into the vast distance.

”It seems to be on a grander scale compared to that of the Starfall Pantheon.” It was no surprise, considering that the Sundown Pantheon consisted of beastmasters, whose beasts had large carcasses and required much more space to entomb. Tianming’s legs pushed against the ground as he rapidly swept through the tombstones within, heading straight for its depths.

”Damn, even though the cosmic gods of the current era aren’t that amazing, their ancestors were pretty badass. Many of them are seventh or eighth level and have adventured far away from Starmoon Haven!” The cosmic gods within were a thousand meters tall, and many possessed galaxy-class orders.

”The tombstones also have battle techniques, some of which are even comparable to the high-imperial-class Desolation Stargate Sword Formation!” He could easily take the tombstones away for practice later on. First, he visited the tombs of the thousand-meter-tall cosmic gods.

”Beastmasters don’t have cosmic tribulation seas, so they can’t help my totems. But their corpses will still benefit the flameyellow descendants! They must be better than the Source Progenitor of Myriadpath Valley. Not to mention....” Tianming saw gigantic lifeless bodies of a beastmaster and beast in one of the tombs. The bodies of cosmic crest beasts were much more massive and would probably work much better for lifebound beasts.

”They even have two galaxy-class orders!” Both the beastmaster and beast possessed them.

”I got another fresh batch of galaxy-class orders, some from gigantic lifebound beasts. I hope these new experiences will help my orders grow, too.... If they do, I’ll really have to thank the ancestors whose descendants I exterminated.”

As the rescue operations continued, Long Xing continued to slaughter and pillage outside. Tianming, however, pushed that out of his mind and focused on gaining insight from the caeli. When he finally felt that the experiences he was looking through were no longer fresh, he used quite a number of grade-five overflow fragments to give himself a boost. Eventually, he reached a breakthrough point once more.

”Alright! Sixty meters, here we go!” His astrons changed as his orders grew. Tianming grew in height at double the rate of others, shooting up to sixty meters as a third-level overflower.

”Won’t I be around two hundred meters tall once I’m a quasi cosmic god? What about the other nine levels of the Overflow stage?” He wasn’t sure what that entailed. ”Guess I’ll find out when the time comes.”

By the time he left the divine tomb, Yin Chen had already emptied it out.