Beastmaster of the Ages

”Here you go.”

Mushan Xue was a straightforward person. As soon as Tianming asked, she took out a gold-and-black dragon-shaped seal from her spatial ring and handed it over to him.

”What is this?” Tianming weighed the dragon-shaped seal in his hand, finding it rather heavy.

It was composed of two parts: the upper part was a coiled divine dragon, while the lower part was a cube-shaped seal, similar to the imperial seal used by empires.

”It’s a cosmic art. It’s like the jade slip from last time. But this one’s a godshaker class, which is more complex and requires a higher-quality vessel to carry it,” Mushan Xue seriously said.

”Got it.” Tianming lowered his gaze to the dragon-shaped seal, then looked at Mushan Xue and smiled. ”Care to give me a little introduction?”

”No time. Figure it out yourself.” Mushan Xue glanced at him. ”Let me be clear, you’re the one who chose the godshaker class. If you can’t learn it, don’t blame me. And don’t even think about trading it back, I won’t bother with you.”

”Can’t learn it?” Tianming put away the dragon-shaped seal and said cheerfully, ”Alright, if I can’t learn it, it’s on me, not your fault.”

”To be honest, you really don’t have much of a flameyellow bloodline. Our cosmic arts rely heavily on bloodline affinity. The chances of you failing to learn it are actually quite high,” Mushan Xue said seriously.

”Then what about that Grand Fortuna Starcrusher?” Tianming asked.

”That one was too simple. Any genius could learn it,” Mushan Xue said, unwilling to elaborate further. ”Stop talking. I’ll take you back to the Ancestral Void Ark. What you do next is up to you. We have time, so don’t rush it.”

”Alright.” Tianming had his own rhythm for doing things. Now that he had become a cosmic god, there was no point in rushing things.

Whether it was the chaos swordmaidens, the more complex godshaker-class cosmic art, or unsealing the grand lexicon wonder, all required a great deal of time and accumulation.

***

Soon after, Mushan Xue brought Tianming back near the Ancestral Void Ark and turned to leave.

”You little thing, your luck with women really is something. Everywhere you go, there’s a beautiful girl tagging along.” As she left, she turned back and teased him.

”I treat people sincerely. It’s only natural that some girls would want to share life and death with me,” Tianming beamed.

Mushan Xue rolled her eyes and completely vanished, leaving behind a snort.

Tianming, now richer a godshaker-class cosmic art, returned to the Ancestral Void Ark. Upon returning, he noticed that Zi Zhen and Moran were both in closed-door cultivation, possibly avoiding him....

”You’re inexperienced, but you still try to tease. Now you know to be scared?” Tianming couldn’t help but laugh.

He wasn’t someone who would push too hard, so this matter would have to wait until they were mentally ready. Only then would things naturally fall into place.

After all, they were already a done deal and had nowhere to run.

Most of his focus now was still on cultivation and improving. After returning to the Ancestral Void Ark, he entered a secret chamber and took out the cosmic art given to him by Mushan Xue to study it.

”The flameyellows’ lifebound beasts are all kinds of auspicious beasts, with dragons being the most standard. So, divine dragons are their symbol and the core of many of their battle arts....” This dragon-shaped seal’s cosmic art clearly had to do with divine dragons.

As Tianming closed his eyes, his caelum entered the dragon-shaped seal. In that moment, the golden-black dragon on the seal trembled, as if coming to life, and split into two. One gold and one black dragon tightly coiled around Tianming’s arms, binding him securely.

Tianming’s caelum entered a void filled with darkness.

”Life! Death! Crush! Dragons!” Four words boomed out of nowhere, almost shocking Tianming’s caelum out of the dragon seal.

In the darkness, something quickly began to take form! Tianming peered ahead to see three vast star clusters taking shape in the distance.

Countless stars, stardust, and light congregated, forming three boundlessly large stellar dragons. These three divine dragons were grand and domineering, each with their unique natures. They sparkled brilliantly, each clearly embodying different powers.

The dragon on the left had a radiant, nine-colored glow. Like a dragon of life, its body was covered in plants and trees, with countless spiritual entities flowing within.

“Life-Death-Crush Dragons consists of three dragons: Lifedragon, Deathdragon, and Crushdragon. The one on the left should be the Lifedragon. It probably responds to plant-, vitality-, and soul-type orders,” Tianming inferred as he met the gaze of the nine-colored divine dragon. From its eyes alone, he gleaned this information.

He then turned to the right, where there was another dragon that was the polar opposite of the nine-colored dragon. This one looked fierce and brutal, primarily gray in color, but with lightning and fire surging across its scales.

”Deathdragon. Represents destruction, thunder, fire, and similar forces.” Tianming recalled that when he was cultivating the Imperator’s Mural, he discovered that the orders of the flameyellow race’s powerhouses resembled those of his own Primordial Chaos Beasts. There was an Imperator Death who even corresponded to Eighth’s attributes.

Although not an exact match, they were close enough to align.

This Deathdragon could also resonate with orders like infernal, genesis, and ancestral.

”Xian Xian and the two Sixths can focus on the Lifedragon. Ying Huo, Meow Meow, and Ji Ji can focus on the Deathdragon.”

Tianming then turned his eyes to the middle divine dragon, the Crushdragon. This dragon was visibly larger and more imposing than the other two. What surprised Tianming was that it was a twin-headed dragon.

However, its form was more similar to the twin-headed dragons in the Gladean Ruins, unlike Lan Huang, who was bulkier and came with mountains and seas.

”This Crushdragon holds the power of the mountains and seas. At its core should be the concept of ‘crushing’, involving stability, hardness, and vastness. It also overlaps with Yin Chen’s immortality!” Tianming grinned.

”Mushan Xue really knew what to pick. The orders of all seven of my lifebound beasts match up perfectly!”

He even felt that his lifesbane and imperial order would aid him in cultivating the Life-Death-Crushdragons as well. The imperial order supported Death and Crush, while lifesbane aligned with the Lifedragon.

”We’ll start with the Lifedragon!” Seeing the cluster of stars made it obvious how profound this god-path was. It was obviously a massive cosmic art, far more complex than that Grand Fortuna Starcrusher.