Beastmaster of the Ages

”Huang Daoxiong!” Chu Tianyu immediately gave up on Tianming, turning around and bringing along his smoke-like lifebound beasts. The pressure of his seventh foundation soul was powerful enough to suppress Huang Daoxiong despite the latter’s speed!

”You!” Huang Daoxiong raged as he was held back just as he was about to get the nightmare rabbit.

The two of them rammed into one another and began fighting near the beast. The creature wildly ran, screeching as two of its hunters tried to stop each other from killing it. Huang Daoxiong was physically stronger, but Chu Tianyu had an advantage when it came to the soul, allowing him to weather the rabbit’s screeches better.

”How ruthless!” Huang Daoxiong’s behavior was clear for everyone to see. That only showed how important taking first place was, even for the top scion of an ancient house.

”Hmph!” Tianming wanted to chase the nightmare rabbit as well, but Qiu Ciling stuck to his side. She was a doll-like cold beauty with incredible, elegant legs. She wielded a frosty longsword, seemingly infinitum class, that radiated totem ki.

”I can’t be bothered to join that messy fight. Since you’re so feisty, I’ll take you out first,” Qiu Ciling said.

”You seem rather arrogant,” Tianming said, glaring at her as his body pulsed with power.

”Heh, you’re just relying on your age. Do you think that you’re on the same level as the three of us? What a joke.” She shrugged and began tracing her fingers along her frosty sword. Her eyes gave off an aura of inviolable haughtiness.

Her totems were also longswords, nine of them in total. They seemed like really tiny, condensed ice crystals and were called spaceless nineswords. Their blades were translucent and incredibly sharp. All nine of them menacingly revolved around her, as if they were dancing around the sword she wielded.

”Hmph.” She literally looked down on Tianming and struck out with her sword and totems at once. Her seven cosmic charts were in full view behind her! Someone of her caliber would definitely far outstrip a seventh-level cosmic cartographer in any outer mundi; perhaps she could even rival the council members of the Swordgod Lin Clan.

Tianming had to face such a foe without omnisentient power. But not only did he not fear her, his fighting spirit soared to welcome the challenge. Evil impulses within him made his fused beast blood boil as he clashed with his foe without a second thought. ”Die!”

”Fivefold Simulacrum, Spaceless Swordrealm!” Qiu Ciling was not proud without a good reason. Her spaceless nineswords suddenly scattered and let out sharp hisses, forming a prison of sword ki similar to Yi Daiyan’s. It looked like an invisible cage of glass with Qiu Ciling at its core. Having dominated the battlefield, she charged toward him!

Before Tianming struck out with his sword, he let the Xia words do their job. They applied pressure onto the totem simulacrum. Qiu Ciling didn’t even pay heed to the few types of totem ki that were visible within Tianming’s sword. As a totemancer, she looked down on fragmented totems the most.

”Hehehe....” As she chuckled in her cold voice, she didn’t notice that Tianming’s Xia words had infiltrated her Spaceless Swordrealm. Before her strike reached him, the realm collapsed and all the sword ki scattered, completely revealing Qiu Ciling to Tianming!

”What?!” The eyes on her proud face widened all of a sudden. ”Sixfold Simulacrum, Swordblood Heartsoul!”

The fact that she could use a sixfold simulacrum at the age of two hundred showed how talented she truly was, not to mention her cosmic charts. Someone like Li Fan couldn’t possibly keep up. Talent was one thing, but strength of mind wasn’t something that could so clearly be quantified. At her age, she was still aloof and proud and hadn’t had any of the brushes with death that Tianming had.

Though abrupt, manifesting her sixfold simulacrum stabilized her spaceless nineswords. They turned into a beam of bloody sword intent that bloomed into bloody roses and scattered around her body, turning into a threatening storm that assailed Tianming.

”Go away!” she yelled, her voice filled with frost. A flurry of swords, bloody roses, and frost order shot toward Tianming.

The white-haired youth merely cackled as the Infernal Blaze in his body turned into many flaming abilities. Genesis Bolts and Chaos Fiendbolts fired off in different directions as well. Then followed the Ghoulface Fiendblossoms, Bloodrain Swords, Demise Greenloti, and the rest. Three waves of different abilities came one after another, greater than their individual parts! The abilities exploded against the sixfold-simulacrum roses and shattered them!

”What?!” Qiu Ciling’s eyes widened with shock. The sudden rush of power from the totems, divine wonder, and beast abilities caused all seven of her cosmic charts to rumble. Tianming crushed her totems for good the next instant and slashed at her with the totem-infused Grand-Orient Sword, complete with cosmic impulse power!

Qiu Ciling attempted to block with her sword, only for it to be sent flying out of her hand. Right after that, Tianming turned his powerful body in the air and kicked with his Primordial Sword-covered right leg! Myriadstar Swordrings rotated around his leg like a merciless chainsaw as, at the same time, Lan Huang unleashed its Primordial Soundwave to enhance the resonance of the attack.

Qiu Ciling’s eardrums shattered from the point-blank blast of sound. Then the leg kicked through her chest, collapsing her frail human body with pure brute force. She groaned in pain from the forceful kick and flew off into the distance, far beyond anyone’s field of vision! It was just like when the dark mirror spirit had sent Yin Chen flying into outer space from the Sun! Qiu Ciling’s shriek eventually couldn’t even be heard any longer.

The gold myriadpath ring fairly marked her as defeated from the injuries she had sustained, transferring thirty thousand of her ninety thousand points to Tianming and further widening the distance between him and Huang Daoxiong. He had around two hundred thousand points, twice as many as the former first-ranked specter!