Beastmaster of the Ages

The ephemeral world and eightpart world wonders were low-infinitum-class divine wonders. And at the moment, the grand lexicon wonder was comparable to a low-fortuna-class one.

Anything that was fortuna class was impressive in the astralscape of order, whether they were nova source worlds, astralships, or divine wonders. As for battle techniques and cosmic artifacts, maniverse-class ones were much better. However, maniverse-class artifacts weren’t necessarily stronger than fortuna-class artifacts, depending on their exact purposes.

”These two divine wonders are capable of arming one’s astrons.... I wonder how stiff her body will be once she absorbs them—ahem!” Tianming needed to use all of his totems in his Grand-Orient Sword just to cut off the divine servant’s arm. Moran would grow much tougher if she could use them as well. ”It’s over! Even the hair on her body will end up stiff!”

The thought made him speechless. He took care of the divine wonder bits as Fengqing Youmeng returned. ”You provide a great delivery service.”

”That’s right! What else do you need me to bring from Infinitum?” Fengqing Youmeng said coquettishly.

”Enough with that tone. Go and get me—” Before Tianming could finish, the ground beneath him shook; it was no normal earthquake. Countless cracks appeared all over the ground. Rivers spilled over their banks and clouds undulated like great waves. Tianming and Fengqing Youmeng exchanged glances.

”The whole of Wondrium is shaking!” The core of Wondrium was in Fengqing Youmeng’s care as the acting rex mundi. As one of Tianming’s followers, she held a really high status.

”Are you the one doing this?” Tianming asked with a glare.

”No!” she disputed. It was precisely because of that that she found the whole thing unbelievable! How could the whole world shake without any interference from the core? ”The fusion formation seems to be sucking away nova source!”

”Wait, aren’t fusion formations supposed to contain nova sources at their cores? Why would it absorb nova source?” Tianming asked. Only astralguard formations needed to absorb nova source to activate! Fusion formations had no offensive function at all. Most of them just contained wild nova source and held up the rest of the world. Only the Sun’s fusion formation had Flameyellow Pillars, nothing else!

”I don’t know either!” Fengqing Youmeng cried.

Just then, a great white formation suddenly appeared where Godservant Hall used to be. It looked like a miniature Myriadpath Celestial Formation, but it still seemed ten times the size of a stareye. Its function seemed to be similar to the Myriadpath Celestial Formation’s based on the layout.

Tianming suddenly recalled that the wonderians were one of the most proficient formation users. Totemancers simply couldn’t compare. Wonderians were the ones who set up the wondersky realms, after all, so why wouldn’t they have a transfer formation if Myriadpath Valley had one?

”No...!” A fearsome thought suddenly occurred to him. ”I understand! Godservant Hall was just a facade! The fusion formation here is different from the one in Ebonia—it must have a transfer module built in that draws in nova source to activate!”

”What do you mean?!” Fengqing Youmeng asked.

”Wondrium itself is a supersized stareye!” Tianming cried. It wasn’t an entire transfer formation, but merely a stareye powered by a single sixth-class world. There was more than a thousand times the nova source of ten skypiercer-class worlds or a deific-class world.

”A supersized stareye? If it’s absorbing nova source now, does that mean someone’s coming?” Fengqing Youmeng asked, stupefied.

Tianming felt a chill run down his spine. ”Wonderians truly are formidable. They already received word that I killed the divine servant they sent even though they’re countless leagues away!”

It wasn’t that complicated when he thought about it. The wonderians had immediately looked into the intrusion of a fortuna-class astralship into their territory and sent a divine servant to look into it. The fact that a divine servant was nothing but a corpse puppet meant that it was a routine check and that the wonderians themselves hadn’t really paid it too much attention.

But when the divine servant perished not long after its arrival, they suddenly paid it more serious attention. After all, a divine servant was around a tenth-level foundationeer in power. A rex mundi was first level at most, so what could have killed it?

Tianming had destroyed Godservant Hall because he’d been worried about the wonderians coming, only to completely miss the fact that Wondrium itself was a stareye.

As a grand formation appeared where Godservant Hall used to stand, the world itself continued rumbling.

”Is there a way your formation core can be used to terminate the transfer?” Tianming asked. It took half a month for the Myriadpath Celestial Formation to transfer someone, but Tianming felt that the wonderians’ transfer was about to be completed in moments. It was something he had been completely unprepared for, much like how Myriadpath Valley had no idea what he could even do.

”I can’t...” Fengqing Youmeng said.

”That formation core’s useless....” Tianming was speechless.

”I’ve always felt that the formation core doesn’t give me many special privileges. It isn’t good for anything but defensive purposes.”

”Why’d you wait till now to tell me that?!”

”How could I have known? I hadn’t even heard of transfer formations back then!”

No doubt, information about that was top secret and only passed down through generations of reges mundi. Meng Ying didn’t have time to pass on the secret before they were killed. And the Weisheng Clan’s inheritors had also been killed.

Tianming furrowed his brows as the storm continued brewing. He decided to bet on something. The white formation itself started rumbling, so he figured that the wonderians were arriving.

He looked at the five white figures that began manifesting out of thin air. They glowed so bright that he could barely keep his eyes open! They appeared at the five corners of the formation, spreading a terrifying pressure all across Wondrium. The entire star was swallowed up by the blinding radiance as five divine existences stepped out of the light.

Their first step caused the whole world to shake. Then the second step struck terror into billions as every wonderian kneeled before the superior beings. The third step focused tons of pressure toward Tianming. It felt like a whole star was pressing against him! If it wasn’t for his Order Relic Universal Body, he would have been crushed. He had been targeted!

The higher beings’ voices reverberated everywhere. ”What kind of insect dares desecrate the divine servant and challenge the divine wondersky race’s honor?! Such an act of blasphemy merits the destruction of your entire mundus!”