Beastmaster of the Ages

”Okay!” Lingfeng’s eyes seemed to burn passionately. The Soulfiend manifested from his body; the three-headed, six-armed creature was more than thirty thousand meters in height and the biggest thing on the battlefield. Granted, its combat capabilities weren’t much against human cosmic gods, so it could only serve a support role for Lingfeng.

What really surprised Tianming was the weapon that appeared in Lingfeng’s hand, a pitch-black pillar stretching ten thousand meters that immediately caught everyone’s attention.

”Is that the Evil Suppression Pillar?” Tianming recalled that it was a weapon comparable to the Grand-Orient Sword.

”That’s right,” Lingfeng said.

”It seems different.” The Evil Suppression Pillar back during the days of the Decimo Dao Palace was nothing but a stick without any particular level. This time around, it looked like it was combined from eighteen different stick segments, with spikes sticking out of every connection point.

The segments themselves also seemed to be hollow and had a window-shaped hole on them. The hollowness didn’t contribute to any structural weakness at all. In fact, Tianming could feel something within each one of the windows and they felt like they were alive. The ferocious aura they emanated even caused his lifebound beasts to regard them warily. Tianming felt like he had encountered an Archaionfiend in the sense that he was faced with a being that couldn’t quite be read or understood.

When the pillar appeared, it began to rumble. Apart from the last solid segment, the other seventeen hollow ones emitted howls that seemed to come from distinct beasts. The aura that the windows emitted were so terrifying that Tianming worried that they would erode his skin.

The window of the segment at the very top also had a dusk-yellow eye plastered to it that glared at Tianming as its owner cried, ”Nian! Nian!”

Tianming asked, ”What in the world are these?”

”No idea. The Evil Suppression Pillar just turned out this way after being unsealed,” Lingfeng said.

”Are they harmful?”

”Nope. As I grow stronger, I can use more of their power. They’re nothing but imprisoned savages.”

”It seems like you’ve developed it more than I have my Grand-Orient Sword.”

Lingfeng snickered. ”I don’t have nearly as many treasures as you do, so this stick is the only thing I can pour my attention into.”

He was right; Tianming did have far too many things that he had to upgrade, especially Prime Tower, which had been stuck for some time.

”Let’s go!” Tianming said, pointing at the rapidly approaching Yueling Dui.

”Yeah!” Lingfeng and the Soulfiend charged into the sky immediately. The next instant, the Evil Suppression Pillar clashed with Yueling Dui’s spear.

”Yueling Dui might be stronger than Feng, but the fiendish energy from the Evil Suppression Pillar and Feng’s soul vortex are nothing to scoff at!” Tianming could immediately tell what was going on. Since Sixth’s caelum and terra returned to him, he had managed to develop some soul offense of his own, but that was different from the techniques that Lingfeng used. Lingfeng focused on swallowing souls, a power that was greatly amplified by the Soulfiend, while Tianming focused on control and destruction!

Tianming watched as seventeen streams of savage and dark energy emerged as the Evil Suppression Pillar struck. It was as if seventeen world-ending beasts bit into Yueling Dui at the same time! Despite being the weaker one, Lingfeng had managed to counter his foe’s strike and landed a hit on his head.

”Aaaagh!” Yueling Dui shrieked as his face began to rot away. His undying cosmic-god body began to melt as if it was poisoned by the toxins of the Evil Suppression Pillar, which then went on to absorb the melted fluid into it through seventeen windows.

”Eat! Eat!”

”Still hungry!”

”Stupid brat, why was that strike so weak? Keep hitting harder!”

Savage voices came from the tiny windows as they fought to absorb the liquefied cosmic god. Even Tianming was startled to witness that, let alone the rest.

”Forget it, I’m no saint either. What’s the difference between killing or devouring someone anyway?” The higher Tianming rose, the less it seemed possible to hold off on old taboos. It had been something he used to find troubling, but Lingfeng, his close brother, had been devouring vitae from the very beginning. Going from that to devouring cosmic-god bodies with the Evil Suppression Pillar was hardly a stretch.

Tianming knew that Lingfeng had suffered from a very young age and was forced to do many things that he would prefer to not have to do. Even now, he still had to fight Di Yi for control of his own body, and even then, he still came to Tianming’s aid. Tianming truly cherished the brotherly loyalty that Lingfeng showed.

”Brother Tianming, I’m sorry. I can’t control them,” Lingfeng said, turning back helplessly.

”Just follow your heart instead of seeking my approval. You’re old enough to do that,” Tianming said.

”Okay.” Lingfeng nodded deeply. He had been holding back and hadn’t killed for a long while, driving those fiends in his weapon mad with hunger. Yueling Dui alone wasn’t able to satisfy their appetite!

”Marshal Dui!” The tens of millions of Yueling cosmic gods were stupefied and enraged at the sight of a quasi-imperator being devoured in a single move. They went wild with rage and immediately charged in from all directions. ”Die!”

The spectators outside the Ruinless Zone were stunned into silence. They heard nothing apart from the sound of their hearts breaking.