Beastmaster of the Ages

Jiang Qingluan witnessed her soldiers falling one after another under the pincer assault of blazing fire dragons and raging vortices of water. After Prince Liehun raised the banner of rebellion, internal conflict broke out as well as Vermilion Bird cosmic gods turned their blades on one another.

“Scum of Aquamarine! Today, I swear eternal enmity with your whole damned lineage!”

“You weak Torch Dragon trash, this is all you’ve got? And you dare come kill your father?!”

“Two-on-one and you still lost. Are Aquamarine and Torch Dragon both full of losers?!”

Many powerful Vermilion Bird soldiers fought while hurling curses, their voices shaking the void.

Yet at the same time, many of average strength were being suppressed under the enemy’s overwhelming numerical advantage!

Countless cosmic-god essences spawned, but many continued to curse and scream even so. It was especially intense toward those cosmic gods who had followed Prince Liehun into betrayal.

“Fuck you traitors!”

“If your ancestors saw you groveling to the Adjudicator, they’d be so furious they’d jump out of their graves!”

“Kill the traitors first! Don’t let them die easily!”

“I’ve already taken down four; next is the fifth!”

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In Jiang Qingluan’s eyes, the Vermilion Bird cosmic gods on her side fought with incomparable valour. However, it wasn’t enough to overcome the numerical disadvantage. Prince Liehun’s rebellion also caused the frontline, which had previously been barely holding on under the Vermilion Bird Starsource, to collapse.

Jiang Qingluan wept uncontrollably watching the Vermilion Bird cosmic gods fall and their cosmic-god essences shatter.

If they had died fighting external enemies, she would have felt only tragic pride. But instead, they were slain by their own kin, making her hatred toward Prince Liehun burned without limit.

“Although this was foreseen long ago, there was no way to prevent it.” Imperator Cheng came to her side and said in a low voice, “All we can do now is endure. As long as we survive this battle, the soul of Vermilion Bird will never perish.”

“I know.” Jiang Qingluan wiped away her tears. Her expression turned cold, murder in her eyes.

Just as father and daughter prepared to plunge deeper into the battlefield and slaughter the enemy forces, the enemy’s true powerhouses finally took action.

“Jiang Cheng, don’t run!” Torch Dragon’s Imperator Zhu transformed into a blazing torch dragon that lunged at them. Plumes of dragonfire engulfed Imperator Cheng.

Imperator Cheng transformed into the vermilion bird constellation, crashing head-on into the crimson dragon breath! The clash of imperatores created waves of fire that forced all fighters nearby to retreat tens of millions of meters.

At the same time, Sage Chen and Sage Xing were also intercepted by enemy powerhouses.

Granny Long Ya wielded a white dragon-headed staff, her ninth-level primocosmic god cosmoforce remaining formidable despite her advanced age. Together with two eighth-level Torch Dragon primocosmic gods, she held Sage Chen at bay!

On the other side, Cang Shanyuan transformed into an Aquamarine constellation and with other Aquamarine elites, engaged Sage Xing in fierce battle.

Every front erupted violently, only Aquamarine’s Imperator Lan nowhere to be seen.

Jiang Qingluan stayed cold and alert. In the form of her Vermilion Bird Royal Constellation, she relentlessly hunted down any traitors who had followed Prince Liehun. Immune to the Vermilion Bird Starsource’s suppression, they posed the greatest threat to their own kin.

Suddenly, a vast wave of deep-blue saber light, spanning tens of millions of meters, manifested and slashed down from a vicious angle that sealed off all avenues of escape.

“Hahahahaha!” Amid wild, unrestrained laughter, Imperator Lan emerged behind the saber tides. “Vermilion Bird Imperial Daughter! I hear you’re deeply devoted to that Li Tianming, so much so that you dragged the entire starcage into war for his sake! If that’s the case, capturing you should break that scoundrel’s heart completely!”

Imperator Lan showed not the slightest pride as a senior, shamelessly sneak attacking at a junior to capture her.

“You shameless old bastard!” Jiang Qingluan cursed, her eyes blazing red.

Fortunately, she had been prepared, instantly reacting with her Everbright Myriadstars Chain to unleash countless fiery bird-shaped lashes!

Water and fire were mutually restraining forces, and the stronger side would suppress the other.

Imperator Lan’s sudden and razor-sharp saber tides crashed down, pulverising the fiery bird like rotten wood.

“Nine-layered Sea Prison!” Imperator Lan revealed himself fully. He shaped his saber light into a vast oceanic cage that wrapped around Jiang Qingluan. A dome covered Jiang Qingluan, and the rim sealed shut, completing the first layer of the prison.

Just as Imperator Lan thought the situation secured, flames erupted in the form of a soaring vermilion bird, shattering the cage. Imperator Lan’s expression flickered, but his sneer quickly returned. “Naive!”

The next instant, imperator-level cosmoforce formed the second and third layers of the prison, re-enveloping Jiang Qingluan just as she broke free.

Just as Jiang Qingluan’s Vermilion Bird Throne was about to be completely sealed—

A purple figure burst in, its violet claws tearing open the prison like paper! The cosmoforce collapsed completely, unable to form the Nine-layered Sea Prison any longer. The figure was wearing a red mask inscribed with a flower and brought boundless, murderous bloodlust that swamped the battlefield!