Beastmaster of the Ages

To be honest, even Jiang Qingluan was somewhat shaken, not having expected Chen Yao and the other two to lose so quickly.

When Tianming looked at her, she still hadn’t reacted. Was today’s wager really over just like that?

Jiang Qingluan came back to her senses and met his gaze with her beautiful eyes. “I didn’t expect you to have such ability after all... but I refuse to accept this.”

“You still won’t accept it?” Tianming felt a headache coming on.

“Even at the cost of several precious moments of this kitty’s sleep, you still won’t accept it, meow. Might as well go back to sleep— Zzzz...” Meow Meow dozed off mid-complaint.

“Sure enough, women are the most unreasonable creatures,” Ying Huo muttered as it poked its head out.

“Brother Chicken, you’d better explain that sentence,” Xian Xian said ominously.

“Uh, don’t take it personally, you’re a tree...”

Xian Xian was ominously silent.

Tianming slapped the bird’s to knock it back in, stopping a storm in time.

He looked at Jiang Qingluan with a strange expression. This woman clearly intended to renege, but there was nothing he could do. So he could only ask, “Then what other conditions do you have?”

Jiang Qingluan simply raised her hand and swung the long whip coiled around her arm, flames scattering everywhere. “Simple. Fight me too. If you defeat me, you can take all the dazzling radiances.”

The current Jiang Qingluan was an eighth-level primocosmic god.

“Fight you?” Tianming was a little surprised.

“Afraid?” Jiang Qingluan chuckled. “It’s fine if you don’t fight. I won’t go back on my word about the previous wager. You can take half of the dazzling radiances.”

“Then let’s fight.” Tianming was equally decisive. He wouldn’t accept going home with half the loot after coming all this way. Vermilion Bird was the last place where he could obtain dazzling radiances.

Thinking about it carefully, Jiang Qingluan had never said how much he would get if he beat Chen Yao and the others... So it had been a setup all along.

“Fine, your words. Don’t say I bullied you later.” Jiang Qingluan snorted coldly, holding her long whip like a queen surveying the world as she strode toward Tianming.

After recovering, Chen Yao, Chen Hao, and Xing Que went to rejoin Sage Chen and Sage Xing. Seeing Jiang Qingluan personally take the field, they immediately felt schadenfreude.

“I didn’t expect the imperial daughter to act personally. That kid won’t escape unscathed.”

“That’s right. An eighth-level primocosmic god is far stronger than us.”

“Eighty thousand meters versus fifty thousand meters. Is this grandma beating her grandson?”

Watching Jiang Qingluan with the whip in hand, the three of them felt chills.

Her current state was simply terrifying.

At the same time, Sage Chen, Sage Xing, and the others watched from the side, their expressions somewhat helpless.

It was obvious that Jiang Qingluan wanted to vent her anger personally. An eighty-thousand-meter cosmic god against a fifty-thousand-meter one was just straight up bullying.

“Jing’er, he’ll have to endure this one,” Xue Lan laughed while covering her mouth, clearly not believing that Tianming was her match.

“Let’s keep watching,” Wei Jing said with a gentle smile.

Inside Vermilion Bird Capital, a tsunami of cheers erupted once more. If Tianming’s one-versus-three had been the appetizer, then his duel with Jiang Qingluan was the main course.

Even though Tianming had defeated Chen Yao and the others three-on-one, most didn’t think he had any hope of winning against Jiang Qingluan. In many eyes, this battle would be a crushing one, purely Jiang Qingluan venting her anger by beating him up.

Likely due to her all too long wait, Jiang Qingluan showed no martial honor at all. She struck from a great distance, her whip coiling toward Tianming amid endless flames.

The long whip in her hand was the Everbright Myriadstars Chain. The grand-dao-class weapon formed a breathtaking scene when paired together with her devilishly graceful figure.

However, it was anything but “breathtaking” for Tianming. The vast and surging cosmoforce made him feel tremendous pressure.

Yet he had once endured the siege of three imperators. Even without omnisentient power, he could now face an eighth-level primocosmic god without flinching.

The decapath era godswords shot forth, once more forming that heaven-defying totem sword formation, forming countless sword lights that acted as a shield.

“Shameless bastard.” Facing Tianming, Jiang Qingluan’s hundred thousand years of waiting, endurance, and expectation seemed to converge into a single burst of rage.

Divine radiance blossomed on the whip, as she displayed the cosmic art, Divine Bird and Crimson Lotus.

This grand-dao-class cosmic art was special in that it comprised a total of nine lashes.

Tens of millions of whip shadows wove two images in an instant. On the left was a burning crimson lotus, while on the right was a red vermilion bird tens of millions of meters long.

The lotus and bird charged in crashed down on the sword formation.

It was as if the divine bird and crimson lotus attacked from both sides, merging into a torrent of destructive force that intertwined with the sword formation.

“This girl is indeed something...” Tianming felt his decapath era godswords trembling under this destructive force.

And this was only the first lash.

He did not counterattack.

There was no choice. Tianming seemed to owe her, so he took it head-on.

“Why aren’t you moving!” Jiang Qingluan vented madly as the second lash struck fiercely, crashing down. The divine bird and crimson lotus targeted him again, erupting with even more violent destructive power.

Then came the third lash, the fourth lash...

Tianming felt himself engulfed in destructive power.

Even Ying Huo didn’t dare stick its head out, only wailing, “This queen’s whipping is too fierce!”

Its description instantly made it sound improper...

“You damn chicken, who taught you to be so dirty-minded?” Tianming almost spat blood.

It was in that brief distraction that a gap finally opened in the sword formation protecting him.