Beastmaster of the Ages

”I must understand that my true level is still a first-level cosmic cartographer. Once I leave the vicinity of the Sun, I’ll be nothing. Therefore, my next step is still to focus on cultivating! I also need to deter the wonderians. And... on Ebonia, there should be a Shenxi Xingtian who hasn’t died!”

Although Shenxi Xingtian was just a king with an empty title and wasn’t nearly as strong as Xiaodao—and thus wouldn’t pose a threat under normal circumstances—Tianming wouldn’t forget him!

”Yin Chen, have your bodies on Ebonia dispersed? Can you find Shenxi Xingtian?” Tianming asked.

”Not yet! Expanding again... needs time! Let astralships... disperse me!” it said.

”Alright!” Astralships could allow the billions of Yin Chens to move quickly on the two stars.

”In addition... something is... wrong with... the living... beings on... Ebonia Ebonia,” Yin Chen said.

Just now, it had still been battling against Yi Daiyan and it had to be fully concentrated on that, so it’d had no time to care about the situation on Ebonia.

”What’s wrong?”

”Blood mist... fills the... entire sky,” Yin Chen said.

......

The Sun was extremely lively. The people in the Sky Palace Formation, with joyful hearts, scattered all over the world. People and beasts roamed everywhere, contributing to a scene of raw chaos.

Even though Yin Chen’s individual bodies could see and hear everything in the chaos and process massive quantities of information, a black shadow emerged from nowhere, avoiding its surveillance. The black shadow used its foundation fortress to shroud itself in darkness; those who passed by him didn’t notice him at all.

”Universal celebration... it’s all over....” The black shadow had no head. He raised his arms and used the eyes on his hands to look around. His body emitted a sinister laughter. He turned his hands and saw the youth with imperial majesty standing in the sky. The radiance made the shadow appear even dimmer and more insignificant.

”Just like his real name, a true Son of Heavenly Fate! Admirable, admirable.” He had witnessed the battle between Tianming and Yi Daiyan. The boy had made grand proclamations, intimidated the astral gods, established the Tianming Dynasty, and unified the world. The black shadow had witnessed it all.

The eyes on his hands slowly turned envious. ”Abolishing the Infinitum Bodhimanda, dominating the Infinitum Mundus, weakening the clans, and strengthening himself! Those were the dreams of us ebons and Shenxi Xingtian. I didn’t expect you to accomplish all of that in such a short time. It truly makes people envious, jealous, and hateful!”

Shenxi Xingtian had never thought that Tianming would have the last laugh. And those allies who abandoned him—Meng Ying, Taihe, and Demoness Yin—were all dead!

”The world is unpredictable. When an unprecedented genius emerges, who can stop them? Hehe....” Shenxi Xingtian, like a fool, knelt on the ground, emitting a hoarse laughter. The people passing by couldn’t see him at all, happily and joyfully flowing past him.

”But!” Shenxi Xingtian’s voice turned ferocious, and his body, covered in the black and red blood mists, violently trembled.

”In this story, I, Shenxi Xingtian, and all ebons, from beginning to end, were all jokes! More laughable than Meng Ying and his wonderians, more laughable than the experts of Intrepidus! If I, Shenxi Xingtian, don’t do something, in the future, the Tianming Dynasty will laugh at me. The legacy of my ebons on Ebonia will be one of shame! I... can’t accept it, I can’t accept it!” His cries tore at his heart and the struggle expressed his pain. His failure wasn’t a one-off event, but a continuous one, just like the torture of dismemberment, where he was dismembered bit by bit.

Li Tianming and Yi Daiyan had taken turns cutting him until he’d gone insane! ”Hehehe... fortunately, my ancestors left behind the most beautiful thing – red dust!

”As red dust fills the world, an everlasting happiness! When the dynasty’s just been established, is the bliss of the people not a beautiful sight?” Shenxi Xingtian stood up, trembling and looking at the crowd pouring out of the Sky Palace Formation.

”I’ll leave Ebonia to the bloodline wisteria! The time has come! Lin Feng, Lin Xiaodao! You’ve harmed my ebons too much. Let all living beings pay the price with you! This is what you and they owe our ebons! Enjoy your bleak, powerless, gloomy, and painful reign! Red dust! Wonderful red dust! Hahaha!” Shenxi Xingtian stumbled around like a madman, running toward the front. He laughed and burned, all while producing a thick blood mist.

The blood mist, like a spark, rapidly spread through countless people.

”Hahaha—” Shenxi Xingtian laughed until he lost his voice.

”What’s this?”

”Who’s that?”

Shenxi Xingtian had revealed himself, and many people saw him. He was running against the flow, laughing so tragically and joyfully. No one knew who he was, only that his body was covered in blood mist that kept spreading out.

He ran into the crowd in the Sky Palace Formation, the most densely populated place. Many people hadn’t decided to leave yet. His body continued to burn with blood mist, entering the crowd, spreading through each person’s body.

In the beginning, people didn’t pay attention. Everyone was immersed in joy, chatting about the future.

The blood mist was initially thin. It mixed with the Sun’s nova source and entered people’s albi. When it came out, the quantity had multiplied countless times.

”What is this?”

”It’s red.”

”I don’t know, maybe it’s the mist from the blood that floated in from outside the Sky Palace Formation. There were too many casualties on the battlefield.”

”It’s really fortunate that we survived!”

”Yeah.”

No one paid attention to it because there was no harm caused.

People even felt more spirited, and their breathing became smoother. They laughed, gathered and dispersed, conversed, and joy filled every person’s face. Compared to ordinary times, people were even more joyful. They felt it was normal, as, after all, it was time for a new world and a new life to be born.

At that moment, Yin Chen, finally discovered clues.

”Red mist?” It was one thing to have this red mist on Ebonia. But on the Sun, too?

All of its bodies coordinated and checked, suddenly discovering that there was already a lot of red mist and the rate it was spreading was terrifying. Its volume multiplied by tens of millions of times after entering and leaving the human body.

It took just a moment for red mist to pervade inside and outside the entire Sky Palace Formation. That rate of diffusion and replication was countless times faster than Yin Chen consuming metal to split!

”Shenxi Xingtian!” When Shenxi Xingtian came out of his foundation fortress, Yin Chen finally saw him!

”What?” Tianming was taken aback when he heard the notice. ”He still dares to come to the Sun at a time like this? He’s simply seeking death!”