Beastmaster of the Ages

Qingyu, Moran, and Zi Zhen no longer needed overflow fragments for their cultivation. Tianming let them do their thing and went to a quiet corner to devour large numbers of overflow fragments on his own. Countless Yin Chens gathered around him and entered his lifebound space, piling up like a mountain in preparation for consuming the ordered manna.

”Even though I had to give up on Sixth’s vita for now, my next step is clear as ever.” Tianming looked at Eighth’s gray coffin and began absorbing the overflow fragments’ energy. He then used the golden ninelives fruits to nourish his immortal kidneys, creating middlekin astrons within them.

The two potent consumables enhanced each other’s effects, causing boundless life force to be generated within his immortal kidneys, triggering the transformative chain reaction! The two glowing kidneys looked like blinding lights that illuminated the darkness. Once the astrons within had fully turned into middlekin astrons, Tianming could feel two powerful streams of energy rushing toward his seventh astral organ, giving it a strong and firm foundation.

”The cannon platform’s been fully upgraded. All I need to upgrade now is the cannon itself,” Tianming said with a straight face.

”What nonsense are you spouting now?” Ying Huo said.

”Huh? Nothing.” Tianming continued absorbing nova source to stabilize his unique minor-zenith Overflow level. It was nothing short of miraculous for a quasi cosmic god to constantly make breakthroughs without actually becoming a proper cosmic god.

While his transformation was going as expected, Yin Chen’s was far more varied. The power of its order had transformed at the same moment Tianming’s transformation took place, skipping a few levels until it turned into a hexagonal continent of metal. Then all the astrons that made up Yin Chen’s bodies turned into middlekin astrons, down to the tiniest cockroaches.

”Yin Chen’s finally starting to look like a proper Primordial Chaos Beast.” All of them returned to their small silver egg form within the lifebound space, turning it into a sea of silver stars. When they formed a long line, they looked like a river of flowing silver, brimming with beauty. Every single one of its bodies was transforming, gaining new and powerful functions. Once they emerged from the lifebound space, Tianming was actually surrounded by a true silver ocean, with each little egg glowing with a metallic astral sheen. ”How’s it feel?”

”Very good,” Yin Chen said.

”That’s it?”

”Be patient... you’ll see.” Yin Chen chose to keep the rest a surprise and maintain the mystery. ”Either way... cosmic sense... will not... spot me... any longer.” In other words, Yin Chen’s effectiveness would skyrocket. Tianming couldn’t wait to see what else it had in store.

”I need to break through two more times to become a cosmic god!” It was time for Sixth and Ji Ji to hurry up. Bai Ye, Bai Ling, and Ji Ji competed to be the next one to break through so that they could claim to be the senior among them! It was a competition that had them all on edge. They were also rushing Tianming to get them what they needed.

”Alright, got it!” Tianming couldn’t stand the pestering for too long. He wanted to become a cosmic god, too, but they had already arrived at the entrance of the Ancient Flameyellow Ruin. ”Let’s go into the Ancestral World and switch to the ark first. The little beastballs there will help stabilize my breakthroughs.”

He took the three girls with him into the Ancestral World. Within the ark, they would be much safer.

”Wow, you guys sure made quick progress,” Qingyu said, envious of the three. Tianming was still a quasi cosmic god, but he stood half a kilometer in height like a true astral giant. Lately, Moran had also become a fifth-level cosmic god, while Zi Zhen had reached the fourth level. Neither of them wanted to be the one that couldn’t keep up with Tianming in terms of height. Even Qingyu could feel the competitiveness between the two of them and couldn’t help but shoot him a secretive thumbs-up. ”You’re quite the capable handler, Big Brother.”

”It’s nothing.... I’d be in the top three in the Upper Star Ruin at most,” Tianming said with feigned humility. The ark continued trudging through the muck toward Miracle Mountain. Tianming was also surprised to find that Yin Chen no longer had any issue with traveling through the mud-like flameyellow void essence.

”What’s going on here?” He looked closer and found that it wasn’t that Yin Chen had overcome its obsession to remain clean. Instead, every single one of its bodies formed shields of light around themselves to keep the flameyellow void essence away from them. They moved around like tiny balls of light; though it would make them more conspicuous, it wasn’t really a problem within the muck.

”I’ll finally be able to map out the Ancient Flameyellow Ruin.” Yin Chen had finally regained full reconnaissance capabilities. Their return also triggered the awakening of the Yin Chens that had remained within Miracle Mountain. Before Tianming could start cultivating, he got a news update.

”What? Feng showed up?!” He really didn’t know how to take the news. Why had Lingfeng shown up all of a sudden after being elusive the entire time Tianming had been there before? Even though he wanted to reach cosmic godhood before leaving the ark, he was worried about missing the chance to run into Lingfeng again, so he had the ark cruise faster to Miracle Mountain.

”As they have tracing rings, it isn’t a good idea for you three to come with me since you’ve been seen helping me in at the Midsky Tristars, so they’ll link your identities and ’Lin Feng’ to my actual identity. So I need you all to stay here and focus on cultivating,” Tianming said to ZI Zhen and the others.

”I want to go,” Zi Zhen said.

”You can’t.”

”I can.” Zi Zhen took out another purple mask from her spatial ring.

”Oh? You have another one?” Tianming wasn’t expecting that.

”I found it in God Domain Nine. It’s something the me of the past left behind.” She put the mask on and was shrouded in a purple mist that made her unrecognizable, even after her transformation. It truly was the perfect item to obfuscate one’s identity that left no loopholes, as if it interfered with the ability of others’ brains to even cognitively recognize them.

”Sounds like the two of you will get to play the heroic couple,” Qingyu said, only to sense the odd atmosphere. She turned to Moran and saw that she was pouting.

Tianming was just about to say something when Zi Zhen tossed her another purple mask. ”Three masked heroes. Happy now?”

Moran didn’t expect Zi Zhen to be so generous as to give up on the chance to spend time alone with Tianming. ”Thank you, Miss Zi Zhen.”

”There’s no need,” Zi Zhen said.

”That’s great!” Tianming put on his mask and put his arms around both of them, completely without shame.

”Big Brother, bring Feng back to me as soon as possible! I can’t stand seeing you guys anymore!” Qingyu cried with some desperation.

”Alright, don’t worry.” Tianming stopped the ark near Miracle Mountain before leaving with a girl on each arm.