Beastmaster of the Ages

Another three rings of the Xi Hwa Gate quickly opened, which was equivalent to an eightfold hell-ring.

“The Xi Hwa Gate corresponds to the hell-rings of an adult cosmic god, while Emperor Yin has a ninefold hell-ring.” So, just how terrifying would the army of evil spirits from the eightfold hell-ring be? Tianming remembered that what came out of the sevenfold hell-ring were ghoul kings!

As expected, this time the reaction from the Xi Hwa Gate in his chest was extremely ferocious. Waves of thick, heart-palpitating mist spewed out, plunging the entire Sun into gloom and deathly silence. Only the Sky Palace Formation still seemed to maintain its calm, while everywhere else seemed to have fallen into hell.

First, from the sixth level of Hell came a number of quasi ghoul kings. They were massive in size, often several hundred meters tall.

Immediately after, the ghoul kings of the seventh level of Hell appeared, each over a thousand meters tall.

“The eighth-level ghouls should be called ghoul emperors!” Sure enough, one after another, ten-thousand-meter-tall evil spirits appeared before Tianming, shrieking. There were hundreds of them, every one a colossal existence. The sight dazzled Tianming’s eyes, as each one looked like a hellish overlord capable of suppressing an entire maniverse-class world!

The Sun was now a purgatory, and countless people all shrank away in fright.

“And this was only the eighth level of Xi Hwa....” There were a total of eighteen rings, and the summoning limit of the devas was the first nine levels. So what existed within the nine levels beyond that?

Opening three more rings didn’t just stop at bringing out a hundred ghoul emperors and a thousand ghoul kings, but also improved the summoning efficiency of the other ghouls by several hundredfold. In such a short time, the ghoul footsoldiers had already reached over ten billion in number.

Looking at this army of ten billion evil spirits, Tianming fell into a daze.

Not only him, but Wudi and the others were also dumbfounded.

“Just this Eighth alone can help my son Tianming sweep through the Ten Desolate Starforges, right?” Wudi stared.

“He can probably deal with that hundred million cosmic gods in the upper ruins himself too?” Qingyu said blankly.

“No, he doesn’t have omnisentient threads in the Ancestral World,” said Zi Zhen.

“True... but that’s fine. Our main battlefield is the Upper Star Ruin anyway.” Wudi’s eyes burned hot.

With the talent of this group, they wouldn’t lack powerhouses to face the Eightpart Pantheons. What they actually needed was a universe-spanning army! And this newborn Eighth clearly made up for this disadvantage of the Tianming Dynasty....

“Most importantly, this might be an apocalyptic threat for the devas,” Moran spoke softly.

“Add you in, and we can cripple two out of the three great divine races.” Zi Zhen glanced at her. “And the wonderians are the strongest.”

Moran bit her red lips lightly. She was still uncertain regarding Tian Jiu, so she could only force a smile. “Let’s hope so!”

While they were talking, Tianming had already learned everything he needed to know.

“How should I handle them?” he asked Xi Xi.

“It’s best to send them back, then summon them again when needed. They’re marked now and next time will be faster.... If they stay here, they’ll be affected by the nova source and over time they’ll naturally perish. That’s the case for the ghouls from the seventh level and above...” Xi Xi finally spoke her longest yet.

“Got it! Let them go back first.” When Tianming finished speaking, those ghouls reentered his chest like a gale. Tianming swallowed up all the ghouls even faster than their emergence. This speed and efficiency were enough for Tianming to do many things.

“Amazing!”

Very soon, the entire Sun finally cleared, and they also happened to finally leave the Flameyellow Divine Path and arrive in a strange, unfamiliar starry sky.

Everything was looking up. The vast and majestic Sun, along with Eighth’s birth made Tianming’s next direction clear.

“First, check on the Sun and the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb, then go to the Ancient Flameyellow Ruins to feed Little Fish her rewards.... Most importantly, I should be able to go to the Primordial Sands to find Ling’er!”

Raising his head, he saw the golden crystal star that almost seemed as if it were right above his head.

After putting away the ghouls, Ying Huo and Meow Meow lay exhausted in front of him, cursing. Wudi and the others also came out from the Sky Palace Formation.

“Xi Xi.” Tianming gave a gentle pat, and Xi Xi came out from his chest, once again becoming a gray coffin. A baby girl sat atop the coffin before hurriedly crawling into his arms, affectionately hugging his neck.

“Good girl.” Tianming became half a father again. He was still a little unaccustomed and could only give an awkward laugh.

Suddenly, he remembered something.

“That’s right, what about the other two eggs?” he asked Xi Xi.

“Inside.” Xi Xi turned back as she spoke, and the gray coffin opened. Inside appeared the last two Primordial Chaos Beasts eggs lying in the corner.

“You protected them well.” Tianming smiled, squatting before the gray coffin. He planned to place these two eggs back into the lifebound space and then continue searching for a way to hatch the last two Primordial Chaos Beasts.

He looked at the two eggs, smiling as he reached out to take them.

But suddenly, his smile froze.

“Golden and black?” He stared blankly at the two eggs, only now noticing they had developed extremely distinct colors.

Those two colours wouldn’t mean much, except that Tianming recalled the giant pair of eyes he had seen Xi Xi’s dream. At that time, he had vaguely seen a flying bird and a terrestrial beast within that pair of golden-black eyes....

In truth, Tianming knew Ying Huo had always been golden-red rather than pure gold, while Meow Meow was a mix of black and white.

But the eyes in that dream were either pure gold or pure black....

“Since Xi Xi is connected to them, could it be that those eyes weren’t Ying Huo and Meow Meow, but them?”

Just as this thought emerged in Tianming’s mind, the last two eggs suddenly transformed into beams of light that abruptly slammed into Tianming’s left and right eyes, vanishing into them!

“What’s going on? Did you eat the last two eggs?” Ying Huo came close, staring wide-eyed as it asked.

It had just raised its head when it saw Tianming’s gold-and-black eyes! Then, it couldn’t help but cry out....

“What is it?” The others all gathered around, their faces full of astonishment.