Beastmaster of the Ages

It all happened so quickly that nobody saw it coming. When the ninefold hell-rings opened, the most terrifying aura of a ghoul imperator seeped out of it and spread across the battlefield, immediately causing the expressions of the other imperatores to change.

Imperator Mo who was hiding far behind was flabbergasted. ”Ninefold hell-rings?!”

Imperator Ming had a look of disbelief on his face. ”How could this be?! Many generations of deva imperatores have not been able to unlock ninefold hell-rings! How could you do it?!”

”Why couldn’t I?” Imperator Yin smirked. ”Just because trash like you don’t have this kind of talent doesn’t mean nobody in this world has this kind of talent.”

”Looks like he’s been hiding his power the whole time!” Imperator Yinne said with a grim look on her face.

Imperator Cang and Imperator Yan waited anxiously on the sidelines as the hellish aura surrounded them.

”Looks like he’s the strongest fighter in the Upper Star Ruin,” said Imperator Yan, his starlike eyes trembling with shock.

Ghoul kings were summoned from the seventh layer of hell while ghoul emperors were summoned from the eighth level. Ghoul imperatores from the ninth level of hell were the strongest rulers of all ghouls within the realm of hell!

Imperator Yan’s five-headed, ten-armed form was already threatening enough with the eight white-bone blades that he wielded. The hell-rings at his chest pulsed with the pitch-black power of hell as a massive black ghoul imperator crawled out of it.

The ghoul imperator was bald and had a pair of pitch-black eyes that contained nary a shred of emotion. It coursed with powerful energy from hell, descending onto the battlefield like a massive black buddha statue. Its black eyes seemed to emanate hellish energies of compassion, as if it had brought the death, despair and resentment from hell into the world of the living. This was the imperator of countless ghouls, Compassionate Ksitigarbha!

Imperator Yin’s massive specter form and the Compassionate Ksitigarbha stood side by side like two massive statues, both surrounded by horrifying energy from hell. The imperator looked at his five peers with five pairs of pitch-black eyes. ”My brother, those who have witnessed you fight by my side have all returned to ash. I didn’t think that we would once more find ourselves in a situation of such peril!”

”Indeed, Yin. Let us fight.” Even though Compassionate Ksitigarbha was a ghoul from hell, it could communicate with its incredibly bone-chilling voice. From the tone of its voice, one could tell how sincere of a relationship it had with Imperator Yin. They had fought with one another long ago and slain countless tough foes together.

”Very well! Let both of us have our fill of battle!” Imperator Yin laughed manically, his massive and powerful form becoming the object of his deva subjects’ worship.

They absolutely adored the sight of his legendary ninefold hell-rings and couldn’t stop cheering and crying tears of joy. Their imperator was still the strongest cosmic god in the entire Upper Star Ruin, far surpassing Imperator Shen of the wonderians! When they felt the sincere relationship between him and his ghoul imperator, they finally understood why Imperator Yin wanted to support Tianming.

”We have a symbiotic relationship with our ghouls! We triumph and perish together!”

”The hell-rings are fundamental to us devas! Without them, can we still claim to be the divine devan race?”

”Since Li Tianming has control over hell, it’s not a bad thing for us to stand on his side for the sake of our ghoul brothers!”

”Kill! For the glory of the devas and our hell-rings!”

Fighting spirit returned to the countless devas as the power of hell manifested explosively all across the battlefield. Countless hell ghouls, armed with the protective scales from the astralguard formation, fought with their deva partners, resulting in massive casualties for the Eightpart Pantheons!

The Eightpart Pantheons already didn’t have a numerical advantage to begin with. When they also lost their morale supremacy, they were thirty percent weaker than before.

The battle had reached its peak after Imperator Yin summoned Compassionate Ksitigarbha. They focused on one target, Imperator Ming, a fellow specter, and charged at him with wild abandon! The bandage-covered imperator’s ninety-seven eyeballs launched pale-white beams nonstop at the pair that came charging.

”Begone!” The bald ghoul imperator, Compassionate Ksitigarbha, stretched its hell-energy-infused right arm towards the beams and grasped in the air, forming a five-fingered mountain that blocked many of the beams. With a single grasp of its palm, the universe itself seemed to explode!

”Realm of Hellish Compassion!” Compassionate Ksitigarbha’s gaze turned cold as black hellish beams emanated from its black eyes, forming a hellish realm within which countless ghouls howled. The realm surrounded Imperator Ming and isolated him from everything around him.

A massive ghoul of hellish energy formed within the realm and leaped towards Imperator Ming. At the same time, all of Imperator Yin’s Eightworld Wargod Blades slashed into the Realm of Hellish Compassion.

All five pairs of his eyes pulsed with murderous will. His eight bone warblades unleashed eight blade projections that tore the astralscape apart, each reinforced with the destructive hellish energy from the ghoul imperator!

The bandage-covered Imperator Ming could feel that this power was completely beyond him. The combination of Imperator Yin and Compassionate Ksitigarbha’s powers amplified each other! This was the sheer might of the most powerful ninefold hell-rings in the universe!

”Save me!” Imperator Ming cried. The bandages that covered him finally began to break off as many pale-white bones grew explosively from his body. He could no longer afford to hold back and transformed into his specter form! He was completely pale white in color and covered in an endless sea of bone spikes. His ninety-seven eyeballs were concentrated at the center of his upper torso, forming a massive compound eye.

”Die!” Imperator Ming unleashed as much power as he could in that instant, launching another fearsome combined white beam at his enemies!