Beastmaster of the Ages

Unlike the other eight-armed regal apes that were covered in gold fur, the fifth beast was covered in seemingly impenetrable dragon scales. It also had ten arms instead of eight, all bursting with power and covered in scales. The arms also had golden ears. Tianming could see a dense sea of over eight thousand stars in its eyes. In other words, it was a sovereign beast.

The Warlord hadn’t had a sovereign beast back then, so it was obvious that he had gotten a manna imperius from the sun emperor. It was no wonder that the wargodeans would give their lives for the celestial orderian cause. A sovereign beast could greatly increase their fighting strength. Perhaps that was also why the sun emperor had called him the second strongest on the sun. This sovereign beast was called a regal dragonape.

The Warlord stood above the beast’s golden dragon head. Without hesitation, it thumped its chest, roared, and charged alongside its siblings. They were giants, compared to Meow Meow and Ying Huo, so they wouldn’t be that agile.

The two sides spectacularly clashed! It was the most impressive fight inside the formation. Countless people were anxiously awaiting the results of this battle. Tianming had charged so furiously and caused so much commotion that the entire battlefield was aware of him. Quite a few people turned their attention to the fight, even though the slaughter still continued around them. The results of this battle would determine which side morale would swing toward!

Before the two sides collided, Meow Meow and Ying Huo charged to the front. The flaming phoenix expanded in size to match the eight-armed regal apes, something it had been able to do since it became a sovereign beast. ”Don’t panic! I can take on two myself!” Infernal Blaze ignited all across its body while Infernal Armor fortified it. Then it rained down Skyscorch Featherblast toward the two apes on the left and charged rapidly downward, drawing an impressive and agile arc in the air. Using Cosmic Blade with its sword-ki infused wings, Ying Huo slashed away at the sixteen arms of its two opponents. Thanks to the pandemonium sacrosun, it was unrelentingly swift in breaking down the opponents’ defenses.

The apes wanted to drag it down before engaging in slaughter, but the bird had a fiercely tough defense, its divinely burning feathers being able to withstand the strikes of the golden apes. Ying Huo’s Skyscorch Featherblast alone was able to overwhelm the opponent. Not to mention, Tianming’s Omnisentient Threads also gave it a huge edge in terms of power.

If Ying Huo was able to be so agile, Meow Meow was even harder to deal with. There was nothing about Meow Meow that was balanced. Once it assumed its Regal Chaosfiend form, it had impressive physical fighting capabilities. However, it still chose to maintain a distance from its enemies and bombarded two of them with its lightning abilities. It had a lot of leeway, thanks to being a sovereign beast.

From the very beginning of the battle, they hadn’t appeared to be that powerful. It was mainly thanks to Tianming slaying three enemy leaders while leading the troops to break through the wargodeans’ defenses that he had managed to get twenty million Omnisentient Threads from the Ninedragon Army troops. He had almost thirty million in total now, and they were quite close to him, which made him even more powerful, which in turn fueled his three sovereign beasts.

The Warlord had thought that he would dominate in terms of lifebound beasts, but he began feeling shaken at seeing how easily Ying Huo and Meow Meow had each handled two of his apes. What was worse was that the regal dragonape he had put his hopes on was entangled with Lan Huang. It was a clash between two sovereign beasts, which the troops of the Ninedragon army anxiously watched.

”While the Imperialdragon Princeps’ two-headed dragon is a little nonstandard, it’s still a proper dragon. It also has a draconic aura and boasts an even purer bloodline than our dragons. On the other hand, the Warlord’s regal dragonape is an ape at its core, despite its dragon head. It merely used a dragon-type manna imperius to evolve! What an abomination! Let’s hope the Imperialdragon Princeps crushes that impure mongrel!”

The Imperial Tomb Army placed their hopes in Lan Huang, who was fighting with its all, almost seeming berserk, unlike its usual lackadaisical attitude. It roared as it charged toward the regal dragonape with the momentum of ten thousand mountains, smashing into it with its spiked scales unsheathed. The enemy fought back with its ten arms and the spike on its head. Despite being pierced through multiple times, it still withstood Lan Huang and began breaking off some Primordial Swords to drive back into it.

”Die!” the roars of the regal dragonape rang out ceaselessly.

”In your dreams!” Lan Huang rolled its eyes. While its body was huge, it was quite agile as well. It spent most of its time running around and exercising, after all, and its favorite pastime was to spin around like a top. It had been relatively harmless back then, but now, its spikes only made the spin even more dangerous. The regal dragonape’s flesh was immediately torn apart as Lan Huang started spinning. It managed to tear quite a few scales off Lan Huang, but thanks to the Greenspark Tower, its wounds rapidly recovered, not that the enemy was aware of it.

Lan Huang spun and spun, causing the regal dragonape to groan in pain before being flung off. Right after regaining its balance, it saw a flash in the air before a gigantic white tower landed above it. It was even larger than Lan Huang and seemed heavier than tens of thousands of mountains! The prime wonder came crashing down, fueled by nova source and centered around the formation in Tianming’s body. The fact that it could directly use nova source showed that it had high affinity for energy compatibility, which was why it could also tap into the power of his Omnisentient Threads. While divine wonders weren’t as powerful as lifebound beasts or totems, it was a nightmare in the hands of Lan Huang when used like a weapon.

The prime wonder smashed against the regal dragonape’s head, immediately snapping all ten of its draconic horns. Those were injuries that couldn’t be regenerated. In other words, the lifebound beast had permanently lost a powerful weapon in its arsenal. Its body was then pushed deep into the ground, completely disappearing from sight, though its shriek could still be heard. Lan Huang charged on and bit the regal dragonape, plucking it from the ground and swinging it in circles before smashing it back down, causing the entire area to shake. In a few short moments, the Warlord’s five lifebound beasts had incurred heavy injuries as troops on both sides watched with shock and awe. Those from the Divine Sun Palace felt utterly devastated.

”He’s only a brat in his twenties!”

The fact that everyone on the battlefield was older than him was the hardest to believe. And it wasn’t just them, even the Warlord thought that he was going insane. That short battle had already crushed his confidence, especially with how badly his regal dragonape was faring against Lan Huang.

”Don’t disperse, gather together!” Thankfully, the Warlord had a lot of battle experience and wouldn’t be defeated that easily. He quickly went into damage control, limiting the injuries to his lifebound beasts; plus, he could still escape. All five beasts returned to his side while Tianming, his totems, and three beasts were giving chase. The ability bombardment resumed as the prime wonder continued mounting the pressure. The sea of totem swords swarmed the Warlord and his beasts, not giving them any time to react.

The Warlord and his beasts roared as they synergized with their warsky sacrosun. The beasts turned into five glowing stars, unleashing a golden brilliance.