Beastmaster of the Ages

What was even more terrifying was that the Three Exalted Houses back at Myriadpath Valley had no idea that Tianming had all these things in his arsenal. Yumo Qiangming had thought that they would always have the upper hand, but he was starting to find it likely that his side would be overtaken by this youth! He felt nothing but doom and gloom.

”Yumo Qiangming, Qitian Yi,” Tianming said, moving toward them and out of Suishen Xiyue and Jiguang’s protection. ”I’m giving you a second chance to live.”

”What do you mean?” Yumo Qiangming coldly asked.

”The two of you, come at me at the same time!” Tianming said as he drew his sword. He needed to use his own power to take over Myriadpath Valley at the end of the day, so honing his talent against other geniuses was crucial. If he only relied on his abilities as a Galactic Emperor, he would be confined to his own little corner of existence.

Luckily for him, those two were decent sparring partners.

”You?” Yumo Qiangming and Qitian Yi exchanged glances, their terrified expressions shifting into ones of savagery and hope. They’d been afraid of Tianming’s future potential and the treasures he had, but they weren’t afraid of his current self!

They had two thousand years on Tianming, after all, and they were unmatched even among those their age! Being able to take him as a hostage in this situation would turn the tables!

”Be careful. He must have some kind of trick given how bold he is,” Qitian Yi said.

”I don’t give credence to any unverified rumors. Nothing’s impossible, but miracles are that by definition because they almost never happen! Work with me!” Yumo Qiangming said.

Qitian Yi didn’t argue and charged toward Tianming without hesitation after seeing Suishen Xiyue and Jiguang not moving a muscle.

Yumo Qiangming was a bloodfiend variant specter. As he transformed, his body grew by a few sizes and grew a covering of red scales. His face was red and adorned with threatening teeth. His six irises emitted a bright, bloody glow and his claws grew longer than Tianming’s Grand-Orient Sword!

In terms of savagery, the bloodfiend variants in House Yumo had the strongest claim. As he charged, he left a bloody trail of light behind him, emitting a bloody mist toward Tianming.

It was such a fierce attack that the other scouts saw a ray of hope. They didn’t dare to surround and attack Tianming, since Suishen Xiyue and Jiguang were there, so all they could do was watch.

Qitian Yi didn’t sit idly by, either. As Qitian Muyu’s daughter, she was older than Qitian Muchen, her late uncle. Her lifebound source beast was an eightsource beast that had a chance of becoming a tensource beast. Being an eminent, she was much stronger than Qitian Muchen had been when he was still alive!

The eightsource beast took the form of a kirin that was a shade of white that perfectly complemented Wondrium. It emerged from Qitian Yi’s lifebound space; the two of them made the perfect pair. They charged over with battle arts and abilities flying in support of Yumo Qiangming. As long as the two Suishen eminents didn’t intervene, there would be no stopping them.

”Even though Wondrium doesn’t have many omnisentient threads, they still give me a slight boost.” Tianming’s gaze turned stern as he watched them approach.

Before, he had stood there as stable as a mountain. The moment he made his move, the mountain seemed to shatter! Right at the start of the fight, he already had his lifebound beasts in place. Ji Ji had infused its genesis ancestral nova source into all of them, causing Tianming to glow bright pink. Those that didn’t know better would think that the pink aura of Jiguang and Suishen Yao had rubbed off on him.

”Yumo Qiangming....” Tianming watched the bestial specter that menacingly charged at him. Bloodfiend variants were powerful indeed, but Tianming’s sovereign aura completely overwhelmed it!

He used the grand lexicon wonder, manifesting thousands of words that targeted Qitian Yi’s kirin instead of the specter. Yumo Qiangming was the strongest of his assailants, followed by the eightsource beast, then Qitian Yi herself. After all, the eightsource beast was as powerful as eight ninth-level foundationeer beasts combined, and Tianming was only a third-level foundationeer!

The words of the divine wonder embodied countless laws of the universe, forming a large net that pushed back against the kirin’s powerful ability as Tianming manifested his totems and used his sevenfold simulacrum, Pinnacle Swordpath!

He had learned that move thanks to Suishen Yao and Jiguang, who had helped him forge his totems. The decapath era godswords overlaid atop each other and formed a skyward sword path that kept Yumo Qiangming locked in place. Then Tianming shifted the totems into their Swordheart form and infused them into the Grand-Orient Sword, using them in tandem with the cosmic impulses and black-and-gold sword projection!

”Brothers and sisters, watch my back!” Tianming called out as he put the bloodfiend variant at swordpoint. He could leave Qitian Yi to Ying Huo and the other three.

Their physical bodies and cosmoforce were fused with Tianming’s, so the only thing they could do was fire off abilities toward Qitian Yi. Meow Meow easily helped Tianming avoid all of Qitian Yi’s attacks with Fiveway Blitzrun as Tianming unleashed the Greatsun Sword Art, Flood!

He gripped his sword in both hands, tapping into the energy of the Wondrium wonderians who were linked to him as he unleashed a move that not even the body of a powerful specter with incredible astron density could withstand.

Tianming seemed to have a firm grasp on victory despite being ganged up on! The radiance coming from his sword showed them how powerful the totems and the Grand-Orient Sword were. Coupled with his high-maniverse-class battle art, he smashed through Yumo Qiangming’s barrage of attacks with one strike that put his absolute ruler’s might on full display.

”What?!” Yumo Qiangming was mentally shaken and didn’t have any time to react. His barrage of abilities had been torn to shreds so easily. When his claws clashed with the sword, he heard sharp, grating sounds. There was no way he could resist the sheer overwhelming might of the strike at all—he had lost, both physically and mentally!

The Grand-Orient Sword eventually shattered the specter’s claws and slammed into his head with the weight of a hundred thousand mountains, tearing through the tough body that he had been so proud of.

”Qitian Yi, where are—”

Before Yumo Qiangming could finish, he had been completely bisected by Tianming.