Beastmaster of the Ages

Tianming, Wudi and everyone else finally understood that Shen Wu used the heart to control Tian Jiu, or rather, Moran. The snow-white heart was like a key that controlled Tian Jiu. It could be used to inflict heart-piercing pain on all fifty of the ink-green silhouettes. Their struggle and shivering was a sign of the pain felt in their shared souls.

”Ugh...” Their gazes wavered as the pain continued to assail their bodies, making it difficult for them to move. Everyone thought they would fall just like that, but they recovered quickly from the unbearable pain and kept moving, continuing to deploy wonders.

The layered wonders trapped more and more wonderians within them, assimilating them quickly. All fifty of them were telepathically linked and bore the pain together. Not one of them wanted to submit. They shook and struggled all they could to assimilate the wonderians.

”Sisters, we have to hold on. Tianming is suffering. We can’t lose! We have to help him!”

”That’s right. Tianming is in danger. We can’t watch him die even if it means we’ll have to pay with our lives.”

”This heart-piercing pain is nothing. So what if it hurts?”

”I still remember how Tianming saved us from the devil back at the Sun. He took us out of a sea of pain and gave us new life. From that moment onwards, he was our everything.”

”Without him, we wouldn’t exist.”

”Even if it means we’ll die, we’ll never let anyone harm Tianming!”

”I just hope that Tianming will cherish us a little more...”

They had never wanted to fight with Tianming. They only wanted to receive more of his love. The only reason they left with Shen Wu in the first place was so that they would be able to assimilate more wonderians to grow stronger and help Tianming! Who knew that Tian Jiu’s heart would be used against them to stop them from returning to his side. They only made their appearance once he was in mortal danger.

Shen Wu’s long, silver sword pierced Tian Jiu’s heart once more.

”Are you trying to get killed?! Stop now!” she roared and gave it another pierce, causing the fifty beauties to pause for yet another moment. All of them wore expressions of grave pain. It hurt so much that they shuddered from it uncontrollably, but they didn’t stop!

They were both Tian Jiu and not Tian Jiu. As far as the wonderians were concerned, they were their founding ancestors. More and more of them were being assimilated into the hold.

Shen Wu pierced the snow-white heart again and again, inflicting more and more pain. Yet, even as they froze up, the assimilation process didn’t stop for a single moment, swallowing up countless other wonderians.

”Little Fish!” It hurt Tianming deep down to see this play out. He had never imagined that Moran would step out at this critical moment to save him. The flameyellow divinities were also shocked to their core by the sight.

The fifty beauties suffered endlessly. They shriveled up from the pain, but their ink-green eyes continued to glow with solid determination. They were willing to give their lives to Tianming, not relenting one bit. They were like goddesses who were being punished. The pain that spread through their bodies kept them shackled down to the point that they lost all feeling. Even so, divine wonders kept being deployed, sweeping in swathes of wonderians.

”Come back to me, Wondersky!” chanted all fifty of them even as the pain filled their minds and bodies.

The wonderians were utterly terrified by the suicidal Tian Jiu. More and more of them had become a part of the greater whole, strengthening her wonders more and more.

Then, Moran flashed and appeared before Imperator Shen. Her small, powerless, hands clutched her chest. Yet, her beautiful face was firm with resolution. Tianming’s love for her was a massive source of support. She was greater than she had ever been. Her identity as Tian Jiu allowed her to assimilate countless wonderians. She had a unique influence over even Imperator Shen themselves.

”This is bad!” The moment the imperator couple noticed they became Tian Jiu’s target, their expressions changed. They maintained the operation of the Heavenly Dao while unleashing their most powerful attacks.

The primordial wondersky imperial armament wonder turned into countless wonder armament constructs that could tear skies and destroy stars, slashing the universe itself! The primeval wondersky imperial gate wonder manifested countless gates of white stone that were practically impenetrable. Both of those wonders formed layers of the most powerful defense around Imperator Shen. Practically no being could bust through such heavy defenses. The imperator couple were even capable of defending against many other imperatores at once.

However, Moran’s expression remained completely emotionless. She channeled power into her wonders, layering them atop each other in a complex configuration to form nine heaven-swallowing mouths that attacked from all directions! They were so large that they blotted out entire skies, inspiring instinctual terror.

”Noooo!” The imperator couple shrieked as their most powerful imperial-class wonders got swallowed up by the massive mouths that Moran had conjured and ended up assimilated. The wonder constructs of armaments and stone gates didn’t even interact with the mouths; they were just sucked in and made part of Moran’s own wonder in mere moments! This was the kind of being Tian Jiu was. It was absolute domination by the bloodline of the founding ancestor!

The assimilated wonders were eventually turned against their masters. In almost no time at all, the imperator’s powerful wondermancy had been crushed completely. Their massive bodies were torn apart, middlekin astrons scattering all over the place. In an instant, they ended up at the brink of death.

The sight completely stunned all the cosmic gods in the vicinity. None of them could ever imagine the battle turning out like how it did. Even Imperator Shen’s divine wonders ended up assimilated! Tian Jiu, or Little Fish, demonstrated such unyielding intensity that horrified the wonderians and once more reinvigorated the flameyellow divinities.