Beastmaster of the Ages

Shen Wu opened up distance, clearly intending to unleash that ultimate killing move against Tianming. “Your growth has exceeded my expectations, but everything you’ve done is merely a futile struggle before death.”

Imperator Shen also withdrew, ascending above the starry battlefield with Shen Wu.

Neither Wudi nor Tianming could halt their opponents.

Thus, outside the astralguard formation, Shen Wu stood at the center with the two Imperator Shen flanking her. All three looked down upon Tianming with chilling smiles.

“What are they planning?” Wudi, now transformed into a bronze Coffin Man, had immediately switched to slaughtering a path into the wonderian army. He looked up at Imperator Shen and Shen Wu, his expression turning grim.

Tianming remained calm. “I don’t know. But we have to stop whatever they’re planning.”

They were given no time to think.

Both Imperators Shen turned solemn, radiating a sacred brilliance that seemed born of the universe itself. Oppressive light engulfed the sky as eight illusory figures appeared in every direction—cold, indifferent arbiters upholding a vast, boundless formation.

“It’s the Heavenly Dao!” Tianming, Wudi, and countless flameyellow descendants all turned pale. It was the very power the Eightpart Pantheons had seized from the flameyellow divinities to rule the entire universe, and the foundation of their dominion over all existence!

Tianming had encountered the Heavenly Dao before, but he had never imagined to directly face that almighty force today.

The Heavenly Dao manifested as a formation far greater than the wonder-formation made from a billion wonders. It shimmered with incomprehensible power, seeming to blanket the entire universe and be all that anyone could see.

Deep within, it was as if a pair of judgmental eyes watched down upon all existence!

“Li Tianming. No matter how strong you are, can you surpass Heavenly Dao?” Shen Wu coldly declared.

She raised her hand, directing silver sword-light to merge into the Heavenly Dao formation. Its radiant layers condensed into a colossal blade that dwarfed even the Flameyellow Imperial Star.

Suspended above the planet, Shen Wu commanded its tip to lock directly onto Tianming.

A terrifying, overwhelming pressure descended upon him that not even Jie Ba could compare to!

When it was even larger than the star, Tianming was even less than a speck of dust before that blade!

“This is bad!” Everyone on the Flameyellow Imperial Star felt the terrifying pressure of Heavenly Dao!

Granny Yin and her devas grimly looked up at the sky. They had just recently received the good news that Zi Zhen had torn apart four imperatores alone at Deva Imperius, leading to their army being routed, ninety percent either slain or captured.

But in the blink of an eye, they were facing judgment from the Heavenly Dao over here.

“This Heavenly Dao isn’t like the one we knew!”

“We just received word from Imperator Yin that he suspects the Heavenly Dao had been altered...”

“And now it’s confirmed!”

“It was Shen Wu who modified the Heavenly Dao! The wonderians have colluded with outsiders and betrayed the Eightpart Pantheons!”

The devas burned with anger, but there was also deep anxiety and fear as they understood all too well the power of the Heavenly Dao. Once marked by this supreme law of judgment, there was no escape. Even Li Tianming could not possibly withstand its power.

The imperial-star elders all wore grave expressions. Although Shen Wu aimed the Heavenly Dao sword primarily at Tianming, behind him lay the entire Flameyellow Imperial Star.

“They’re forcing him not to dodge!”

The five elders were furious. In their eyes, Shen Wu had become the very embodiment of shamelessness. Everyone knew not even the astralguard formation couldn’t block this.

The people below looked up at the sky, their faces filled with fear and worry. They weren’t just worried about themselves, but also Tianming. They knew their Galactic Emperor would never retreat. But this was a Heavenly Dao sword, which not even an imperator could withstand.