Beastmaster of the Ages

Huang Daoxiong was about ten meters tall and far stronger than Huang Jihuang. His body was sculpted of metallic flesh and muscle, brightly glowing with starlight. Bloody crimson fur extended all over his body. His claws and talons were half a meter in length and as sharp as infinitum-class artifacts! Like Zi Zhen and Mister Taihe’s skyghoul transformations, his didn’t change the density of his astrons. Instead, it greatly strengthened his physical body and made it even more suited for combat.

A third eye opened up between Huang Daoxiong’s other eyes. It was vertical with three crimson irises from top to bottom. He had three eyes and five irises like Huang Jihuang, a sign that they were of the same bloodline. However, one was a noble lion, while the other was a leopard.

Huang Daoxiong definitely seemed burlier than Huang Jihuang. The crimson starlight coming from him was even more blinding, lending him a more savage aura. He also had one additional cosmic chart.

While Tianming’s physical body was comparable to a specter’s, he stood less than two meters tall, as he lacked a volume-shifting technique, so he looked puny in comparison. The comparison between the two combatants was almost comical.

Huang Daoxiong’s body began burning. It was a kind of ability of his bloodline. His eyes clearly displayed his star count of three million. The reward for getting first place wasn’t really tempting for someone of his status; what he wanted was the glory for breaking the precedent for the highest points in history.

To the other inner valley geniuses, the trial of the Skyward Grandpath was their debut performance. There was no way someone as prideful as him would let Tianming supersede him by a million points, an outer mundi genius no less! After changing into his gigantic werelion form, he let out a world-shaking roar and charged toward Tianming like a flaming meteor.

”How fierce!” The spectators couldn’t help but let out shocked gasps. While there were many beastmasters in Myriadpath Valley, specters also occupied a rather significant position there. After all, their fighting style wasn’t just impressive to look at, but they also often had the edge in single combat.

It was as if an entire world was angrily charging toward Tianming. His eyes glowed as he gripped his sword with both hands. While his opponent seemed rough and fierce, he was also more of a savage, brutal warrior than a refined one! Genesis ancestral nova source filled his body.

Huang Daoxiong clenched both fists and manifested two 10,000-meter-long snakes of crimson flames and whipped them toward Tianming. The snakes turned into flaming dragons and split into billions of tiny projectiles! It was an ability of a specter with three million stars, Grandpath Blazetrial!

The bloody flames immediately swallowed Tianming. Right as the crowd was about to cheer, however, the tricolored fusion of fire and lightning burst out from where he stood. The ball of lightning and fire exploded and scattered the astral fog. He had used his left and right arms together to cast Beacon Chaosswamp, which had been enhanced after his beasts had fused with him. It seemed even more potent than Huang Daoxiong’s abilities!

”You seem to have a trick or two up your sleeves!” Huang Daoxiong praised, though he kept reminding himself about the difference in their ages. He did

think that Tianming was powerful, but only relative to other outer mundi geniuses. He intensified his attacks, but Tianming soon counterattacked. Radiant Vines sprouted from the ground, intermixed with black roots. Huang Daoxiong tore a lot of them away, but they were still greatly hampering him.

The grand lexicon wonder worked its magic once more, with each word forming a part of the prison with unique properties. All of a sudden, the ’lock’ word (定) appeared in front of Huang Daoxiong. The remaining 998 Xia words entered it and caused it to grow in size and suppress him by quite a lot!

Huang Daoxiong felt like he had run into a wall of metal so hard that blood was about to be squeezed out of his flattened face! Blaze and smoke raged all over his body as he tried resisting the fused Xia word and he roared with immense fury at the annoying restrictions.

”Die!” Huang Daoxiong tore the divine wonder apart and turned his claws toward Tianming. He used an infinitum-class battle art, Bloodfire Hellclaw. Specters like him dared to fight without cosmic artifacts, as they were confident enough in the toughness of their bodies. Being a natural extension of their bodies, they were able to use them far more flexibly and quickly. However, their claws and talons lacked cosmic impulses.

Tianming had to admit that the thousands of claw strikes of the battle art were incredibly menacing. It was definitely what the top genius of Myriadpath Valley should be capable of! But he managed to hold up against the first wave of attacks, and even counterattack.

He forced Huang Daoxiong away with a flurry of abilities and his divine wonder. Then he wrapped the Prime Starchain around Huang Daoxiong countless times! The prime wonder had also considerably grown in power and was yet another of the many weapons in his arsenal.

After wrapping the specter up like a dumpling, he used his black arm to fling Huang Daoxiong to the ground with the chain so hard that the ground itself cracked apart. He then gripped the Grand-Orient Sword with both hands and shot toward his foe like a beam of fire and lightning.

Once more, he used Imperator’s Mural. The manifestations of the imperatores fused into one, constituting a blade of imperial rage. All ten decapath era godswords’ powers blended together, forming a sword projection that shot toward the specter.

Huang Daoxiong’s eyes trembled and his body kept shooting out blazing abilities to stop Tianming in his tracks, but the vines and roots, as well as the Ghoulface Fiendblossoms that had stuck to his body, hindered him while the two divine wonders greatly weakened him.

He only managed to break free after using all the force he could muster, but Tianming’s attack had already reached him. He grit his teeth and executed Bloodfire Hellclaw again to block the Grand-Orient Sword, only for his claws to be cut clean off! The sword’s power pierced through his body, cosmic impulses rupturing his astrons as they ran wild. The wave of destruction instantly swarmed his cosmic charts.