Beastmaster of the Ages

Suishen Xiyue had planned things for a long time. Since they had temporarily given up on the plan concerning the copper coffin secret realm, she focused on stabilizing the situation at Myriadpath Valley.

She sent back some false information to make them think that the scouting mission was still ongoing. New scouts who came to Myriadpath Valley were all captured by her as well.

Jiguang, having taken control of the switch that enabled the stareye to send people back to Myriadpath Valley, handed over control to Suishen Xiyue. While she was worse than Jiguang at formations, that didn’t mean she was entirely incapable of dealing with them. Operating the switch didn’t require anything too complex.

”You’re able to fight tenth-level foundationeers now? That’s still a little subpar. Should I get you a few more girls to cultivate with?” Suishen Xiyue asked, smiling at him.

”No! Enough! I’ll rely on myself!” Tianming snapped, scared from his previous experience.

”Hahaha... I was messing with you, brat! Make sure to treat my daughter well from now on. Don’t make her sad.”

”Why didn’t you bring her up?” Tianming asked, pointing at Jiguang.

”Her?” Suishen Xiyue rolled her eyes. ”She’s more than capable of bringing herself to your attention. Why would I need to speak for her?”

”Shut up,” Jiguang said, blushing.

”No. That’s true talent. Jiguang’s the personification of a perfect helper. That’s why she’s unable to take the central role as the valley lord. But that isn’t a bad thing. Her man would definitely be the luckiest man alive, having such a caring and supporting wife. Where else would you find a woman like that?”

Tianming and Jiguang merely kept silent.

”So what do we do next?” Suishen Xiyue asked, changing the subject back.

”We’ll keep silently watching things while we continue our cultivation,” Tianming said. There were many facets to cultivation, such as the Yin-Yang Immemorial Art—a mid-maniverse-class battle art that required quite a lot of training. Tianming planned to focus on his swordsmanship after having taken quite a long ’break’ in the giant’s chamber.

”Those ten years were more like a working vacation....” He would never have dreamt that practicing the Yin-Yang Immemorial Art would turn out to feel like something relaxing, compared to what he had recently been doing.

***

Tianming was studying the sword art one day when all of a sudden, a xenogate opened up right beside him. Fengqing Youmeng ran out in a panic and yelled, ”There’s been an incident! A big one!”

”What happened?” Tianming asked, snapping to alertness when he saw her nervous expression. He had his doubts that it was serious, as Yin Chen would have been the first to notify him if something went down at the stareye, or maybe Suishen Xiyue or Jiguang would contact him, not Fengqing Youmeng.

”Come with me!” Fengqing Youmeng said, pulling him along.

Tianming followed her into the xenogate.

”A divine servant has come to meet you at Godservant Hall!” she said in an anxious tone.

”A divine servant? What’s that?” Tianming asked.

”It’s probably someone from the core divine wonderians! I felt so much power....” Fengqing Youmeng seemed truly stunned.

”The core wonderians?!” The beings who rented a thousand mundi in the astralscape of order...? Tianming immediately shuddered.

”Once I arrive, immediately bring Jiguang there!” Tianming knew that the situation was incredibly urgent from the way Fengqing Youmeng had gone straight to him. As for the stareye, he only needed one person to mind it at any given time.

”Noted! We’re almost there!” The wonderians traveled through the Xenoworld incredibly fast. In almost no time at all, an exit gate opened up, letting in an incredibly threatening aura.

Tianming knew that Godservant Hall was the most sacred place in Wondrium, as well as where the rex mundi contacted the core wonderians. But ever since Meng Ying had died, Godservant Hall had no longer been of much use. Why would a divine servant show up there all of a sudden? How had they made the trip without something like the Myriadpath Celestial Formation or the wormhole expressway?

There’s a chance that the divine servant showed up because I piloted a fortuna-class astralship here. Tianming hadn’t thought much of the ship’s reminder at first, since he had grown up in Skydome anyway and was a native there. So what if a native came back with riches and a big ship?

Fengqing Youmeng went to fetch Jiguang right after dropping him off. No matter how powerful the divine servant is, I’ll have to hold them off for at least a bit. If he’s too powerful, I’ll let Auntie deal with him. If she’s overpowered, we’ll have to completely abandon Skydome.

Tianming appeared in the sky above Godservant Hall, the pale gray building beneath him. It was clearly built with wonderian architecture, decorated with many statues of gods and goddesses in various indescribably lewd poses. The wonderians were a weird people who were conservative and liberal at the same time. Even Moran had inherited some of those racial traits.

”Over there!” Tianming immediately saw tens of thousands of wonderians prostrating themselves before the divine servant, singing their greetings. Some of them seemed to panic like Fengqing Youmeng, as they were Tianming’s agents. Others, however, seemed manically excited as if they had seen their sacred object of faith. Divine servants were something straight out of their most ancient myths!

The thought of Godservant Hall reminded Tianming of some distant people: Fang Qingli and Xuanyuan Yuheng, as well as Soulburn Hall. They had been devoted zealots as well.

He saw the target of worship and his pupils immediately dilated from the power he felt. At the same moment, that figure also noticed Tianming. Their gazes seemed to clash and explode in mid air! Tianming didn’t know whether to address the divine servant as ’he’ or ’she.’

The divine servant was bald, with a head that shone like the prettiest of pearls. They had two faces, a handsome and sharp male face on the front and a snow-white and alluring female face behind. The front of the divine servant’s body was male, like the face on that side, and the back of the body was a female’s, complete with curves. They looked like a man and woman who had been conjoined at the back. They had no backsides; both were front-facing sides.

Tianming was able to clearly see every part of the divine servant’s anatomy, as they weren’t clothed at all. He found them really odd to behold. Their body was flawless without a single blemish.

Eventually, he noticed something that puzzled him. There’s no vita at all.... How could there be a being without a vita? Was the divine servant even a person?

He descended before the figure and looked the male side in the eye. He felt a little uncomfortable and moved around to look at the female side, which felt much more pleasant to him.

The divine servant audibly turned their head around as they affixed their gaze on Tianming. ”Die!” Saying nothing else, it suddenly charged toward Tianming.