Beastmaster of the Ages

Among astral god cultivators, only a small number would be able to obtain two or more streams of order from the sea of order. Most only had one, including Xiaoxiao, let alone three. Having too many streams of order to start with wasn’t ideal, either, as it could make it harder to advance. As such, most people only chose one astral organ to house one stream of order before converting their albi into astrons, resulting in an instability among their astral organs where one or two were much more powerful and the rest were average.

For instance, the cultivators of the Swordgod Lin Clan chose their heart to house their orders, making it stronger than their other astral organs. In fact, their hearts were even shaped like swords. That was why the explosiveness of their cosmoforce was more powerful than other cultivators’.

Yet Tianming had used six streams of order to trigger the change in his body. Even though his brain and seventh astral organ lacked their own streams, he was already much stronger than the average cultivator. At the very least, his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys had been pushed to the extreme, and they could even work in tandem with one another. There was creation, destruction, flames, lightning, and incredible suction force, forming a perfect cycle.

”Even though I wasn’t able to get the imperial and lifesbane orders, there’s always another chance to reach the sea of order when I reach the Cosmic Cartography stage. One day, I’ll make up for it!” Not having Imperial Will take its own stream of order would make his Omnisentient Thread growth rather limited. Even then, now that he had six streams of order, he was no longer restrained in controlling the vast amount of energy in his body.

”Having the same orders as my lifebound beasts makes it even easier for me to use the energy their codices produce.” Many in Ebonia had multiple streams of order, the most famous of whom was the Allrounder Swordgod Lin Xiao, who had six in total. However, even he’d only had one when he first became an astral god, with the rest obtained later. Given that that was possible, Tianming didn’t completely despair. Instead, it was his turn to crush Huang Qi’s will!

Huang Qi stayed silent for a moment before her formerly gentle voice turned into a howling screech. ”You accursed thing! If you keep going, I’ll destroy everything you care about, including you! You’ll constantly be beset by disasters!”

Her rage was so strong that she couldn’t help but tear at the membrane that kept her trapped in the gigantic hive within the mysterious ring, waking countless bee-headed people and causing them to howl. The ring even tried contracting to choke Tianming into stopping the transformation process.

”How laughable and futile.” There was no way a process pushed by six streams of order could be easily interrupted. His body glowed blindingly bright within the Fishguts like it was a galaxy in its own right.

”Big Brother....” Feiling, knowing what Tianming had been going through, teared up. Her tears glistened from the light coming from his body as his albi turned into astrons.

”Primordial breathing!” He used the astral breathing technique that Lan Huang had given him. The energy absorption was countless times more efficient than when he had absorbed nova source with his albi. He opened his mouth wide as his chest expanded like two dragon heads, one representing the mountains and the earth and the other representing the waves and the sea. He would suck in everything from the land, ocean, and universe!

Ebonian nova source surged toward him like a storm with him at the center, which was further split by his lungs into five parts. One part stayed in the lungs, while the other four went to his heart, spleen, liver, and kidneys respectively. Then the five lifebound beasts, excluding Xian Xian, used their respective symbiotic cultivation techniques, converting nova source into five different types of cosmoforce that filled five astral organs before spreading it through his body using the heart, replacing the primitive astralforce in his astrons. The astral discs within them scattered, no longer being tightly held by his Imperial and Lifesbane Wills, replaced instead by the cosmoforce that filled his astrons. The two divine wills that should have turned into orders had failed to do so, so they turned dormant and faded into the astrons themselves.

”I heard that the minor stellar charts in the walls of the albi will turn into dark cosmic atlases, which will remain hidden until the Cosmic Cartography stage....” Within his body where thousands of holes used to be, large amounts of astrons gathered, forming a kind of moving diagram within him. The acupoint-like diagrams were similar to his sacrosuns. For now, the dark cosmic atlases weren’t that useful, but they would be the foundation of the Cosmic Cartography stage. Once they finished forming, it meant that cosmoforce had spread throughout his body and the transformation was finished. In their symbiotic cultivation, Ying Huo and the rest only lacked cosmoforce to complete the puzzle, but they finally obtained it as well. All of them, Tianming included, had become advanced cosmic lifeforms!

”It’s time to assimilate the Order Relic for my own use.” Once that was done, Huang Qi wouldn’t be able to activate it as she pleased. The six walnuts were still present in his head, and Tianming knew what he could do to destroy them! His body had changed in a way he was aware of.

”The astrons of normal people are spherical, like nova source worlds. However, mine are different....” His astrons were spherical as well, but there were nine hundred and ninety-nine hexagonal holes on every single one of them, each of them seeming endlessly deep. The subtle difference was nothing to scoff at. Back then, the Order Relic and his albi hadn’t fused, but this time around, it had indeed completely fused with his astrons, becoming a part of his body.

”The Order Relic isn’t a tomb. It’s a vessel for a legacy called the Order Relic Universal Body. After becoming an astral god, it’s still in its nascent form, but it’ll eventually reach its complete form as my cultivation rises! Huang Qi managed to use a special function to kill Lin Yun and Lin Ziqing, but after absorbing it and turning it back into the nascent form, I won’t be able to do that anymore, though the Order Relic will truly belong to me. I’ll be able to unlock even more of its features in the future as well!”