Beastmaster of the Ages

”We’re already sick of seeing these boring old battles day after day,” said the long-haired youth with a coquettish voice.

”Well, keep watching even if you’re bored,” said the shiva variant with a stern glare. ”I already told you in advance that we have to stay here to help the fools from the Ten Desolate Starforges get revenge. We also need to secure this path in preparation for the war with the Primordial Sands to give us an extra edge. No matter what, we need to keep this territory occupied. As the top figure under five hundred years old in Blackscatter, it falls to me to do so.”

”Alright, fine. You say the same thing every time.... Hmph,” said the bald specter. Tianming almost threw up at the wimpy display.

”Ughh.... Damn it!” Even though this was their local culture, Tianming just couldn’t bring himself to accept it. It creeped him out far too much. By now, he had charged into the black fortress openly and appeared before the merry-making devas.

”It’s him!”

”Kill him!”

Tianming had been taking action to piss them off over the years, so their rage immediately soared at the sight of him.

”Hehehe....” The shiva variant pushed the men beside her away and rose like a mountain. Tianming appeared slender compared to her; even one of her arms looked thicker than Tianming’s waist. ”In a rush to die, I see.”

With a loud boom, she stomped and jumped into the air, shaking the entire fortress. Tianming felt as if a divine astralship was flying toward him! She looked far too large! ”An eighth-level cosmic god of the imperial lineage! That’s even more elite than Qin Wangchuan!”

Both of them were top geniuses of their starforges, and both were devas. Yet, the gap between them was large. Fortunately, Tianming had made much progress since then. Their duel attracted nearly ten thousand devas around them, but they didn’t gang up on him on the order of the shiva variant. Instead, they informed those from the other starforges to form a dense wall that sealed off Tianming’s escape route.

”Kill! Kill! Kill!” they chanted, throwing out fists rhythmically as they glared at Tianming with bloodshot eyes. The shiva-variant deva roared and transformed into her three-headed, six-armed form. Her skin was entirely pitch black. Sharp fangs burst through her thick, powerful lips. Her face contorted as her chest muscles seemingly doubled in size. It was as if this was a lifeform that had been engineered to be a weapon.

Her savage face was a sign of the innate talent of shiva variants. Even though this imperial lineage didn’t seem nearly as mystical as the thousand-armed bodhisattva variant, they were far more physically powerful and rough. Despite her explosive build, a thin and fine curved blade appeared in her hand. It was shaped like a fang, covered in blood, and emanating an aura that caused the cosmic godbeasts all around to roar.

”A godshaker-class cosmic relic?” Tianming was surprised that something like that had shown up once more.

”I’ll use this Crimsonblood Fiendscourge to claim your pathetic life!” She grinned as the blade split into six, one for each hand. Finally, she had achieved her perfect fighting form. Before she charged, the sevenfold hell-ring on her back activated, allowing a ghoul with long, eerie limbs to climb out. It looked like a human-mantis hybrid, complete with blood-red eyes. This was the sealeye ghoul king, the very thing that Tianming had come for!

”Eighth is excited. It must be something good.” Tianming turned into a beam of golden light that shot toward the deva. Most of his power was concentrated within the Grand-Orient Sword, which he split into two as he adopted an agile, light fighting style. ”I need speed to cull so many of their numbers!”

Before Tianming executed his sword strike, he used his divine wonder! Twenty thousand glowing words appeared and applied pressure on the shiva variant, morphing into countless different permutations and configurations, each one applying a minor aspect of universal laws for all kinds of suppression. The shiva variant’s footsteps were restricted. It felt as if she was walking up a tall mountain. When she applied even more force in annoyance, those Xia words actually pushed into her body! ”A divine wonder?”

She was speechless. The reports didn’t say anything about Tianming possessing something like that! It had come so suddenly that she couldn’t quite react before Tianming’s attack was upon her. The power of the ten million chaos swordmaidens manifested as countless images from the black Grand-Orient Sword, followed by the 60-fold simulacrum, Decapath Skyvore Sworddragons, and lastly, Bai Ling’s soul power! All three sources of power fused together to fuel the fast and mighty sword strike, Heaven-Rending Star Diagram! Right after that, Tianming used Eternal Cage of Stars!

The shiva variant shook off the Xia words and swung her blades to intercept the black Grand-Orient Sword, forcefully neutralizing Heaven-Rending Star Diagram. However, the gold sword that Tianming had used to launch his second attack instantly shifted trajectory, piercing the head of the shiva variant! Amidst her pained cries, Tianming’s sword strikes got faster and faster, eventually shredding her entire body apart with a dozen sword strikes in rapid succession.

Switching to using two swords made him fast and furious. Most importantly, the Grand-Orient Sword had gotten much harder and sharper after absorbing Miracle Mountain, allowing it to deflect the Crimsonblood Fiendscourge and pierce the imperial-lineage deva’s body easily! Tianming’s efficiency just got better and better.

”If I had used Life-Death-Crush Dragons, it’d be even more powerful.” Tianming had studied the godshaker-class cosmic art for ten years and only just gained its initial insights. It truly was a deep and arcane art. He drew his sword out as the deva exploded into a fireworks show.

”Princess!” The ten thousand devas had just witnessed their top genius reduced to a cosmic god essence as she screamed in an utterly pathetic fashion.

Tianming ignored them and called out to the distance, ”Now!”

Two other masked figures appeared in the black fortress, kicking the slaughter off! The entire Upper Star Ruin began to notice what was going on.