Beastmaster of the Ages

”How is this possible?”

A living little beast actually had a caelum order hidden within its body? Or perhaps, was it actually formed from such an order?

Tianming was utterly shocked. He was viewing an incredibly vast galaxy that held countless stars, and each star was covered in hexagonal continents and oceans, which then contained hexagonal fortresses!

It was indeed a true order.

”Then... the master of this caelum is....” Tianming’s caelum roamed through the galaxy, closely observing each star. Every star and every continent harbored mysterious and profound transformations.

He then distanced himself from the galaxy. From a far enough perspective, he noticed that the stars arranged themselves into several words. ”Flameyellow divinity, Li Chenglong!”

Tianming shuddered. Sure enough, this was a galaxy-class caelum left behind by an ancestor of the flameyellow divinities.

”This proves that these Ancient Flameyellow Ruins are truly related to the flameyellow divinities.” Tianming had seen and experienced much, yet this amazed even him. For a caelum order to be hidden inside a little beast was just too magical.

He was just about to begin observing this galaxy-class order and focus on cultivation when something even more bizarre happened. His caelum, which had been swallowed by the little beastball itself, was spat back out.

This meant Tianming needed its consent to cultivate.

The little beastball chirped and glared at Tianming, as if it had sensed that the flameyellow bloodline within him was too thin. It puffed up its body in displeasure and wrestled free from him, stomping off angrily.

”Is this racism?” Tianming couldn’t help but laugh.

He, Qingyu, and Moran hurried to give chase. Truth be told, the little beastball was pretty strong and quite fast too.

Tianming could use his Skyscorch Desolation to tie it down, but he refrained.

”This creature is strange. Its physique isn’t like an astral god or cosmic god’s. It might be unique to the ancestral world. Who knows how many years this heart-shaped ruin has existed? It doesn’t seem to have a way to reproduce, yet it’s lived here for so long... could it be immortal?”

They were all extremely curious. To avoid annoying the little beastball further, Tianming simply followed it deeper into the heart.

“Maybe it’s connected to those departed ancestors of the flameyellow divinities.” Was disrespecting it the same as disrespecting one’s own ancestors? Tianming would never do that.

So, although curious, he remained patient.

At that moment, Yin Chen, who was scouting ahead, sent back a new message. ”So many! Little balls!”

”The same kind as this one?”

”That’s right!”

”How many in total?” Tianming asked.

”So far... several hundreds! My estimation... more than... ten thousand!” Yin Chen replied. It would soon get a hard number once it had fully spread out.

“Estimated ten thousand?” Tianming was stunned. “If each little beastball contains a galaxy-class order... then what does that mean?” Even the order reserves of a maniverse-class world probably didn’t reach that number.

Only cosmic gods above a thousand meters in height, said to be the second stage of cultivation for cosmic gods, could produce galaxy-class orders.

Hearing this, of course Tianming wanted to take these little beastballs back. But the headache seemed to be that he wasn’t able to earn their trust.

Tianming also worried that this glowing, trembling heart would attract more attention from outsiders.

”Let’s find a few more to observe.”

He continued deeper. With Yin Chen’s guidance, it didn’t take long to arrive at one of the little beastballs’ nests, where dozens of them had gathered.

As soon as Tianming entered, they all widened their eyes and chirped while excitedly bouncing up and down around him.

Several jumped into his and Qingyu’s arms. They sniffed them with their tiny noses, seeming to develop a bit of affection for them. Then, they pulled the siblings’ caeli into their bodies.

Yet again, a galaxy-class order appeared before Tianming’s eyes. But just like before, when Tianming tried to begin comprehending it, the beastball spat his caelum back out, then proudly strutted away again.

Qingyu had the same experience.

As for Moran, they didn’t even want to go near her, let alone pull her caelum in!

This proved they had their own ”recognition” mechanism.

”At this point, it’s almost guaranteed there are more than ten thousand galaxy-class orders! If I could bring these little beasts back to the sun, then not only I, but all the flameyellow descendants, would benefit immensely from our ancestors’ legacy!”

Tianming desperately needed to comprehend more orders to stabilize his cultivation. This was the biggest shortcoming of the flameyellow descendants. They had no caeli inheritances. They only had the dozen-odd caeli they had seized from the Midsky Tristars.

“To bring them back, I need them to cooperate. Any ideas?” Tianming looked at Qingyu and Moran.

”They’re like little animals. Maybe they can be lured by something new or curious?” Qingyu thoughtfully suggested.

Tianming began rummaging through his spatial ring, pulling out item after item in an attempt to tempt the little beastballs. Dozens of different things later, most of the little beastballs remained disinterested. They bounced around playing with each other, ignoring Tianming.

”We should’ve brought my dad. Maybe he’d be popular with animals,” Qingyu said with a helpless smile. Now that the ruin was already open, there was no way they could just leave these beastballs alone.

“Let me try this.” Tianming took out an order fragment. It was just an attempt, but unexpectedly, all the little beastballs immediately widened their eyes and rushed over, adorably chirping.

“Hmm?” Tianming’s eyes lit up. He held up one of the little beastballs and fed it the order fragment. It eagerly opened its mouth to swallow it. Then its eyes started spinning as if it was drunk, before it proceeded to deliriously roll around in his hands.

Tianming suddenly had a flash of inspiration and voluntarily sent his caelum inside. This time, he wasn’t thrown out!

The little beastball in his hands was totally drunk.

The others, smelling the order fragment, gathered at Tianming’s feet, chirping as they bounced up and down excitedly.

”The order fragment works?” Qingyu tested it as well, and she also succeeded in attracting a bunch of little beastballs, which gathered around her too.

“If this works... can we lure them directly onto the astralship and take them back to the Sun?” Moran asked.