Beastmaster of the Ages

Three members of House Yumo perished before the eyes of the masses. The specters that’d instilled instinctual fear in them had been killed by their emperor like animals. The masses couldn’t be more proud and brave than they were at that moment. Every time Tianming had struck, they’d played a part!

When Yumo Xue died, the countless baleful souls of Viridian were finally released from his astrons. They shot Tianming a complex look before scattering away. Tianming felt rather guilty toward them, as he hadn’t arrived in time to protect them. But none of them blamed him; the disaster that had befallen them couldn’t have been predicted. If their deaths hadn’t warned Tianming, he wouldn’t even have known that House Yumo’s bloody claws had been turned toward Infinitum.

”Goodbye!”

”Farewell!”

The denizens of Greensource tearfully watched as their neighbors from Viridian ventured into the afterlife along with the other baleful souls from the other drops of starblood that Yumo Xue had consumed. Their suffering was finally over.

Tianming only breathed a sigh of relief once they were all gone. ”The Hellfiend is gone. This tragedy will never repeat in the astralscape of order ever again!”

He had done it—nay, the Infinitum Mundus had done it! Tianming looked to the sky and ascended as the people of Greensource watched. It was a great triumph. Evil had been extinguished and it was all over.

Everything that had happened there, including where House Yumo had come from and what they were like, spread across every star in Infinitum through omnisentient threads. As long as a star had ten thousand threads connected to it, the news would spread. The growth of Tianming’s dynasty also caused his omnisentient threads to explode in number.

Thanks to the battle, his omnisentient threads had experienced three bouts of explosive growths. The first was when he wiped out twenty eminents. The second happened after he destroyed the Hellfiend. And the third was when the entire affair finally came to an end after he killed the young geniuses of House Yumo and put the whole thing to a close. He was getting so many omnisentient threads now that his body seemed to extend across the entire mundus. His imperial will seemed able to reach every corner of Infinitum.

”So this is what it means to be a world god!” He was the god of the mundus, the god of countless worlds! With his fresh new perspective, he could see the tens of millions of worlds when he looked down at his body. His astrons seemed just like the worlds in his mundus.

”This is what I’ve become.” The reason that he could completely dominate Eminent Baigui was that Infinitum had helped him ascend beyond mere astral godhood. It wasn’t just a matter of having more power. Instead, his disposition itself put him as a higher lifeform than the specters of House Yumo using their own logic.

”There’s always someone better and more talented out there, so I can’t skimp on cultivation. This isn’t the end of my path. I can’t lose the humility and respect I have for life and the universe.” It was because of that basic humility that he had been able to gain the respect of the countless masses in turn.

Word of the incident spread across the countless nova source worlds in Infinitum. Most of those worlds were heliacal class, so they understood how terrible it was for an entire star to be exterminated. However, their galactic emperor had saved the rest of them from that fate. They cheered Tianming’s name and preached his glorious deeds!

Tianming could hear them even without using the omnisentient threads. He glowed even brighter than he did before the battle!

”Everyone!” His voice resounded across the entire mundus. ”I’m blessed to have your precious support as we embark on this path together. From now on, Infinitum is born anew. The Tianming Dynasty will bring about a better life for everyone! Our resources may be limited, but now you have me!

”You’re able to unite and gather all your power together. You defeated the strongest specters in the astralscape! As long as we stand united, we’ll create a prosperous mundus that outshines all the rest in the Million Mundi!”

Tianming gathered his thoughts, then continued, ”Lastly, this is our home! Anyone that dares to trespass on it shall perish!”

His subjects’ cheers shook the mundus.

***

Myriadpath Valley was as busy as usual. Word of Tianming’s status as a top fugitive had spread, and every day, many people decided to try their luck at the Myriadpath Celestial Formation in hopes of getting lucky and finding him.

The biggest benefactor of Tianming’s sentence was House Yumo. Many of its members seemed much more proud and arrogant than before. One of their own had glorified their house by taking first place on the Fortuna Ranking and everyone in House Yumo couldn’t help but laugh when they brought up House Suishen.

That day, around fifty eminents and five hundred reverends of House Yumo assembled at the largest square in Yumo Cave, all of them seventh-level foundationeers and above. The square was situated right outside Yumo Ancestral Hall, where the caeli of the ancestors were laid to rest. It was the haven of cultivation for members of the house.

As the meeting had yet to begin, all of them were rather relaxed, chatting and catching up with faces full of smiles. They talked much about the incident concerning Tianming and Suishen Yao, and occasionally Suishen Yue and Suishen Hongtian. They even brought up Eminent Ranxing and his late wife. House Suishen’s matters had become primetime gossip.

”Suishen Ranxing truly embarrassed himself this time around.”

”What a laugh. He wasn’t even prepared in the least for the possibility and ended up letting his daughter get taken before the wedding.”

”Well, you can’t really blame that on anyone in particular. The heavens just didn’t want to let House Suishen rise.”

”After Li Tianming obtained the legacies of the Suishen ancestors, some of them even wanted to use him to oppress us. But see where they ended up?”

”How laughable! Those foolish humans still hadn’t learned their lesson from the time House Qitian was absolutely trampled. Now it’s House Suishen’s turn, and what’s even funnier is that they got absolutely embarrassed before it all went down.”

”Haha, they reaped what they sowed.”

”They managed to solve a huge problem for us, too.”

”I believe that Diyan’s called us to talk about Li Tianming. That brat’s still alive. Even after losing the resources of Myriadpath Valley, he might still pose a threat. We can’t afford to let him roam free.”

”We really have to brainstorm a way to get him. Maybe offer up more rewards. Work with House Suishen to get rid of him for good!”

”I’m sure Diyan already has a plan.”

Eventually, the one they had been waiting for emerged from Yumo Ancestral Hall. He was an insidious-looking middle-aged man; his left side was entirely black, while his right side was white. There was a clear line that divided him into two neat halves from head to toe! Even his mask-like face was the same. On the right side, where his flesh was white, his eye was black. On the other side, where his flesh was black, his eye was white. He looked like a yin-yang diagram made flesh!