Beastmaster of the Ages

This time, she finally ran in the direction Tianming had pointed out. However, a lion burst out of the darkness, and it clamped its jaws directly around Jiang Yulian’s head! Her head was ripped clean off, turning her into a brainless person.

“Ahhh—!” Her wretched screams were filled with despair and panic.

“Please! Please, I beg you, spare us!” Jiang Yuheng knelt in front of the Eightpart Pantheons.

“There are still prey who deliver themselves right into our mouths?” The Skyfiendling appeared rather pleasantly surprised. He gestured to the lion and said, “This is just the appetiser, eat up.”

“No!” Jiang Yulian’s screams echoed through several long tunnels.

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“Oh? The siblings are dead, huh?” Tianming felt truly satisfied when Yin Chen reported to him. “Karma does exist.”

“But, the Eightpart Pantheons are chasing even faster now. Their warbeasts caught the scent and are following closely behind. It’s hard to shake them off for the time being....”

Tianming had no immediate solution. He could only continue to have Jiang Datou guide the others, helping them flee more smoothly and stall for a bit more time.

“Because they’ve attracted the enemy’s attention, I actually have some time now to study this golden ninelives fruit.” Tianming casually found a spot and took out the golden ninelives fruit.

A golden liquid flowed over the fruit, and an incredibly sweet aroma wafted out. As his primordial lungs inhaled the scent, its middlekin astrons seemed to grow in response. “This feels great!”

Xian Xian had been anxious for a while and shouted, “Stop dawdling and hurry up!”

“Yes, yes!” Tianming swallowed the three-meter-wide fruit in one gulp.

The fruit turned into a golden current that entered his body. Tianming immediately channeled it toward the radix liver, his fourth heptastar organ.

Xian Xian also fused into his leg, before extending upward and linking to the radix liver.

Although these four lifebound beasts occupied his limbs, they essentially shared his entire torso. His blood vessels, bloodlines, lungs, and so on had already mostly been converted to a cosmic god’s. With the liver added, his torso’s internal organs would almost fully ascend to cosmic godhood. That imbalance from before should no longer exist.

The golden ninelives fruit flowed into the radix liver, accelerating the transformation of astrons into middlekin astrons.

Among the seven heptastar organs, the liver was the source of life where new middlekin astrons were born. Tianming clearly felt the radix liver’s transformation speed was far faster than his heart or lungs. It went more smoothly than expected.

“The ninelives fruit really is a divine item for becoming a cosmic god. I’ve got to bring more of these out. Once Qingyu and the others become quasi cosmic gods, this could directly push them through and skip the hardest step!”

Tianming then used dozens of overflow fragments to further assist in transforming the radix order. As the other orders were just continuing their normal growth, only the radix order underwent a special transformation. Thus, focusing the overflow fragments on a single order actually made things more stable.

After all, the other orders didn’t advance too much.

A while later, the radix order transformed from a fortress into a colorful star. Flowers bloomed year-round on it, and vegetation thrived.

Vigorous vitality spread throughout Tianming’s entire body. This power of vitality was like a critical puzzle piece. Once the radix liver transformed, the torso’s five major organs lacked only the immortal kidneys.

“Success!” Tenth-level overflower! He was still a quasi cosmic god, but his middlekin astrons increased in number and he was soon nearly 400 meters in height.

“I need to start practicing abstinence!” Tianming had broken through too quickly lately, and he didn’t even know who could still match him anymore. Auntie was already looking miniature in comparison. Zi Zhen and Moran had also been left behind.

Compared to Tianming’s breakthrough, the bigger change came from Xian Xian! The Radix World Tree had undergone a key evolutionary leap.

Tianming still had plenty of manna with ten thousand apertures.

His radix liver was connected to countless of Xian Xian’s black roots. The two were like one entity. As Tianming’s radix liver transformed, the roots, branches, and flowers extending from the liver to his left leg also began evolving.

Like both arms and the right leg, the left leg now shone with brilliant stellar light. “My legs finally aren’t uneven!”

As for what major transformation Xian Xian experienced, Tianming had no time to ask yet. He stood up and headed straight toward Jiang Datou and the others. Yin Chen had just told him they were about to be caught!

It was faster than expected because Jiang Lincheng and the others had accidentally entered a cave where a group of devas were coincidentally harvesting ninelives fruit!

Tianming had just been busy breaking through and hadn’t given Jiang Datou directions. Now, it looked like they were about to be pincered. What rotten luck.

The only good news was that that group of devas had struck gold. They had just excavated a large hidden area filled with dense clusters of ninelives fruit! Just the golden fruits alone numbered in the dozens.