Beastmaster of the Ages

Tianming carried nearly three hundred thousand units of dazzling radiances through the passage.

He arrived once more upon the Flameyellow Imperial Star, now nine times the size of a standard imperial-class world.

He immediately felt the reconnection of countless omnisentient threads and his ten orders reawakening, which let him sense his now countless believers throughout both the Upper Star Ruin and the Lower Star Ruins.

“Both Order and Chaos now fall under the rule of the Tianming Dynasty.” Tianming looked down upon the newly formed lands, mountains, and oceans, his heart filled with boundless ambition.

But when he raised his gaze toward the dark heavens beyond, he knew that four unknown and terrifying Aeternal Beings were still watching him from the shadows. And further beyond this universe-body of the Primordial God-Emperor lay the truly endless Realm of Worldgazing.

“This is only the beginning... As long as those four Number Monsters remain alive, the Tianming Dynasty is nothing more than a fragile illusion.”

Tianming steeled his resolve and returned to the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb. Little Fish, Zi Zhen, and the others were all there.

So was Huang Qi. She immediately noticed the flower and tombstone runes on the Grand-Orient Sword. She sneered coldly. “Heh. Those two deserved their fate... But Li Tianming, you’ve completely enraged them now. Disaster is coming for you soon.”

Tianming ignored her mockery. He merely glanced at her indifferently. “Don’t worry. Even if I die, I’ll drag you down with me first. If you’ve got any brains, start cooperating while you still can.”

By cooperation, he naturally meant having Huang Qi reveal the abilities of the remaining four Aeternal Beings in advance so he could prepare ahead of time.

But Huang Qi had long since stopped fearing death. She only continued looking at him as though he were already a corpse.

Seeing this, Tianming said coldly, “Give her some encouragement.”

The three Sixths immediately plunged Huang Qi into extreme agony through the Sourcepath Shackles.

Soon, she was dragged away.

Tianming then turned toward the two women before him, first looking at Little Fish in her dark green dress. “Little Fish, how’s the fusion of those wonders going?”

“Almost complete. I’ve already reached a new peak.” Weisheng Moran spoke softly, her beautiful eyes filled with affection as she looked at him. All fifty of her bodies had fused into one, and her slender hundred-thousand-meter body stood even taller than Tianming himself.

“Good.” Tianming nodded before turning toward Zi Zhen. “Jie Ba and Dao San were both killed by my parents. We need to keep improving too... I brought back a lot of dazzling radiances this time. Hopefully we can break through again before the final battle arrives.”

He could sense Zi Zhen’s unwillingness to fall behind. After fusing all the wonders, Moran’s combat strength was likely now greater than hers, making her even more helpful to Tianming. Zi Zhen would undoubtedly push herself to break through as well.

She was already at the imperator-realm. The question now was whether she could ascend even further through the dazzling radiances.

With time pressing, Tianming only spent a short while alone with Moran before parting.

He and Zi Zhen entered one of the rooms. As the astralship expanded, its rooms had grown alongside it, enough that they still looked vast and empty even with cosmic gods inside.

They sat facing one another. Before them lay literal mountains of dazzling radiances that bathed them in crimson light.

“This time, I need to become a primoscosmic god, which will create my constellation!” Tianming had been anticipating this for a very long time.

He had encountered many constellations during his journey, each with its own characteristics. But all of them shared one common element: the immense increase in combat power they granted their masters.

Tianming observed the inside of his body. “All ten of my orders must evolve into proto-universe body order.”

His previous struggle against the Heavenly Dao and Shen Wu had helped his imperial and lifesbane order take a vaguely humanoid shape.

Tianming activated Daosteal. His absorption speed was now so fast that he quickly got through a third of the pile in front of him. Violent torrents of order flowed into every middlekin astron within him.

Tianming could clearly feel his orders rapidly growing. They converged, forming one blurry form after another.

But among the ten humanoid universes, only the imperial order and lifesbane order took on true human forms that resembled Tianming himself.

The imperial order became a black-haired Li Tianming with gold and black eyes, looking like a demonic version of himself. It radiated overbearing majesty and authority.

Meanwhile, the lifesbane order appeared as a white-haired Li Tianming emanating an unyielding spirit of resistance. Most striking of all were the ten bane-rings visible along its arms.

The other eight orders each became proto-universe body orders taking the form of his lifebound beasts.

Clearly, their nature as innate orders of the lifebound beasts made them assume beastly forms. This made Tianming an extraordinary exception unlike anyone else, elevating the level of his orders to an unimaginable peak.

The moment all ten proto-universe body orders fully formed, his middlekin astrons underwent explosive growth once again.