Beastmaster of the Ages

Regardless of faction, even the surrounding cosmic gods paused their battles for a brief moment when Zi Zhen managed to shatter the eight strike.

“So strong! She blocked Imperator Lan’s assault with nothing but her physical body...” Jiang Qingluan watched from afar, completely stunned. Her worry had been for nothing. Zi Zhen was even fiercer than she had imagined!

“Imperator Lan, did you not eat today? You can’t even suppress a woman?” Imperator Zhu snapped while tying down Imperator Cheng of Vermilion Bird. If Imperator Lan couldn’t take down Zi Zhen, how could they possibly force Li Tianming to show himself?

Who could bear that responsibility?

“This woman is strange,” Imperator Lan said, his expression growing increasingly grave.

He looked at Zi Zhen before him. With her sixth hall eye active, the murderous aura she radiated made even an imperator feel uneasy. Most of all, his proudest skill, the Raging-Seas Eight-Slashes, had still failed to defeat her even when empowered by his constellation.

Realm of Order imperatores might still pose some threat to Zi Zhen now, but Imperator Lan couldn’t!

After a brief lull, the battlefield plunged once more into chaotic slaughter. The Vermilion Bird army continued to give ground while red cosmic-god essences were shattered one after another.

Zi Zhen noticed this, and her killing intent spiked as she looked at Imperator Lan.

Imperator Lan was about to strike again when he noticed something amiss with Zi Zhen’s red flower mask. Before he could react, Zi Zhen unleashed an entirely new divine art that made her six hall eyes release terrifying red waves that condensed into six blood-red vortices shaped like flowers!

This was the Six Paths of Oblivion, which Zi Zhen had accessed thanks to her recovered cultivation and mask.

Countless figures could be seen howling and rampaging within those six vortices. There were devas, humans, ashuras, ghouls, beasts...

They formed six distinct vortices, each embodying a path of reincarnation and hungry to devour the living.

“What is this?” Imperator Lan felt his scalp go numb. Such power had never appeared in the Realm of Chaos!

“Raging-Seas Omnidefense!” The three prongs of the trident created three layers of oceans so vast it encompassed both his constellation and body. Dragons swam within, capable of crushing any intruder into dust.

And just as these three layers of vast seas took shape, the six blood-red vortices arrived like a meat grinder! The seas didn’t even hold for a moment, its cosmoforce swallowed, shredded, and crushed by the crimson vortices.

The six paths of reincarnation spared nothing.

The cosmic art collapsed first.

Then, the cosmic constellation fell.

Imperator Lan didn’t even have time to flee before his body was next, torn apart and his middlekin astrons disappearing into the scarlet vortices. The entities within seemed to have found the greatest of delicacies, and fought to be the first to feast on his body!

“Impossible!” Imperator Lan felt an utterly terrifying power tearing his body apart. All his strength was completely suppressed while countless middlekin astrons were lost!

Finally, Imperator Lan’s body gave and he was reduced to a cosmic-god essence. He fled in panic, not daring to leave any parting shots.

The Vermilion Bird army had been retreating steadily, but the situation had suddenly reversed.

“Someone from the Skyplunder Imperial Son’s side is helping us! They crippled that Aquamarine imperator!”

“Damn, this feels good!”

“The sky plunderers are mighty!!”

“Your imperator’s almost gone and you’re still fighting? Get lost and crawl back home!”

The Vermilion Bird cosmic gods erupted with unimaginable ferocity. Jiang Qingluan seized the moment, rose into the air,taking the form of a vermilion bird of flames as she shouted across the battlefield, “Imperator Lan has been heavily wounded! The enemy army is on the brink of collapse. Victory will belong to us, Vermilion Bird!”

At that moment, she was moved to tears. Zi Zhen’s incomprehensible power had let her see hope of victory.

Zi Zhen’s brutal crushing of Imperator Lan restored confidence to every vermilion bird divinity.

“Imperator Lan has been gravely wounded!”

“Spread the word! Imperator Lan has been beaten into a ball!”

Countless cosmic gods spread the news throughout the battlefield in an instant.

With morale soaring, the Vermilion Bird army launched fierce counterattacks.

As for their enemies, their faces turned ashen, as if their parents had just died. They had never imagined that their side’s imperator would have been blasted into a cosmic-god essence so soon after the battle began.