Beastmaster of the Ages

The flameyellow voidkin’s ancestors were former criminals among the flameyellow divinities who had been abandoned at the Fiend Ruins for tens of millions of years. Every new generation among them dreamed of returning to the Upper Star Ruin to destroy the Eightpart Pantheons in hopes that they would be redeemed in the eyes of the others.

Initially when they decided to join Tianming, they never thought that all their hopes and dreams would come true that quickly. The flameyellow voidkin teared up from how touched they felt. Their generations-held dream was finally coming true and it was all thanks to Tianming.

Ninefirm Imperius continued to shrivel up as the Flameyellow Divine Pillars continued to sap away at their energy. The Sun once looked like a tiny ball in comparison to that imperial-class world, but it soon began to assimilate the drained nova source and reached size parity.

Needless to say, Ninefirm Imperius was no longer considered an imperial-class world. The beautiful five-colored lights began to fade away as they became a part of the Sun. The fine beauty looked as if her skin was beginning to dry out into a husk.

As Ninefirm Imperius lost its nova source, its fusion formation began to shrink, causing countless continents to collide and crumble. Mountains that stood billions of meters in height snapped and fell straight onto the capital. The rampaging nova source proceeded to reduce the once-beautiful city into ruins as it swept across the surface of the world.

Even cosmic gods wouldn’t be able to survive a world-ending catastrophe of this scale. All those powerful elites of the Starfall Pantheon were shredded apart mercilessly by the massive forces that resulted from the star’s changes.

Tianming watched it all quietly, his heart filled with awe. ”I recall that when we were devouring Ninefold Hellstar, someone came to disrupt us too. It’s not going to happen again this time.”

That was unless the three other Undying Aeternals decided to appear before him right that instant. However, it was clear that they had yet to awaken. Otherwise, there was no point waiting until this point to take action, nor would they have watched Shen Wu get refined away. The only possibility was that not all their members had been able to assemble yet.

To prevent something like Shen Wu’s failure from repeating itself, there’s no way any of them would take action without a proper plan. They’ll definitely wait until everyone has assembled. That gives me more time to prepare, but it also puts a lot of pressure on me.

If only he could find out where they were hiding so that he could deal with one or two of them on the onset. Unfortunately, he simply had no idea where the Undying Aeternals congregated. It was pointless to ask Huang Qi either since there was no way she knew.

As he ran through his thoughts, Ninefirm Imperius’s glow turned dimmer and dimmer. It looked absolutely drained out. The cosmic gods that had been left on its surface were all wiped out without exception. This used to be a beautiful star world that was a pleasure to look at when its cloaking formation wasn’t active. Yet, it had been turned into a crumbled raisin. All of its continents, seas and city ruins were sucked into the Sun, giving it an extra five-colored sheen. The Flameyellow Imperial Star began to look even more like paradise while Ninefirm Imperius fell from grace.

”Everything this star has used to belong to the Flameyellow Imperial Star. We have finally reclaimed it!” Tianming was overjoyed. The Sun was much larger than before and shone even more brilliantly, resembling Ninefirm Imperius somewhat with its beautiful sheen.

It was too bad that the Sun wasn’t able to reach the imperial class straight away after absorbing all that nova source. Even so, it was on the brink in terms of size and only needed one final push.

Tianming picked Sundown Imperius as his next target. Before leaving, he dealt with a few loose threads of the Starfall Pantheon. With their world gone, the Starfall Pantheon had well and truly been exterminated. Their cosmic gods had almost been wiped out entirely as well.

While there were still some of their members lurking in other fortuna-class and maniverse-class worlds, Tianming wasn’t in any rush since he had control over all the imperial-class and fortuna-class worlds. There wasn’t anywhere for them to flee to. The only fate that awaited them was death.

***

The fall of an imperial star was something that happened only once in tens of millions of years in the history of the Realm of Order. Everyone in the Sun was struck speechless after witnessing such a grand event.

The Flameyellow cosmic gods and the flameyellow voidkin knelt firmly on the ground as they looked up at the sky, their tears of gratitude dripping onto the earth below them. Finally, the flameyellow divinities were about to rise again after tens of millions of years! They had waited far too long for this day. Far too many of their forebears had passed without getting to witness this event in their lifetimes.

”This isn’t over! Our next stop is Sundown Imperius.” Tianming piloted the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb, leading the Flameyellow Imperial Star once more into the Flameyellow Divine Pathway.

Once the Sun entered the black-gold vortex, all that was left where Ninefirm Imperius used to be was a black asteroid. It didn’t contain a single trace of nova source and had become a black land of death and silence, marking the grave of the Starfall Pantheon.

Meanwhile, the cosmic gods of the Sundown Pantheon have heard about the brutal extermination of Ninefirm Imperius. They panicked, despaired and shook in fear.

”Ninefirm Imperius just got wiped! Who’s next? Don’t tell me it’s us!”

”No matter who it is, none of the five allied factions or the wonderians would be able to escape.”

”Is waiting to die the only thing we can do?”

”No! We still have a chance! I heard that Li Tianming fancies the little empress! She still has relatives in Sundown Imperius!”

”Are you saying we should kidnap the little empress’s family and use them as hostages against Li Tianming?”

”You’re thinking too much. They’ve gone into hiding long ago. The grand general tried to hunt them down but couldn’t find them anywhere.”

The mood in Sundown Imperius was one of absolute doom.

On the other hand, the little empress on board the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb heard about the next target and begged to be allowed to see Tianming.