Beastmaster of the Ages

Moran’s order was like a kind of conviction. She and her sisters would live for the sake of the things embodied by their order, which greatly improved after they consumed the order fragment.

”Perhaps my fulfillment of the promise has nurtured their affection and allowed them to unite their minds and wills into one strong enough that won’t let me down....” That was the main reason all of them worked so hard! The more simple someone was, the more stubborn they would be in their chase. Such was the case with the innocent and simple sisters. Compared to them, Suishen Xiyue was thousands of times more complex.

It wasn’t surprising for people like them to exist in a world so diverse. Being simple wasn’t a bad quality. In fact, one could argue it was a kind of bliss, a bliss that was sustained by a single thread of determination. That thread was wrapped around Tianming, and if it was snapped, their hearts might perish. The sisters weren’t full people on their own, after all.

Tianming had seen everything and recalled that they had once absorbed so much nova source that they’d almost exploded to power their divine wonders. Even then, they hadn’t uttered a single complaint. Pain was nothing to them, compared to losing the thread that bound them together. ”I really can’t afford to let them down.”

He gave them even more order fragments and baleflame. He gave them everything they needed. To them, as long as they could stay by his side and help him, their lives would be worthwhile. Since his rise would be a risky one, they needed to be powerful enough to protect themselves.

In a few short days, Moran’s level shot through the Cosmic Cartography stage, rapidly breaking through like Tianming once had! No matter how bad her talent was, Tianming was able to raise it up by sheer brute force using baleflame. Even if Yumo Qiangming had used springwater from birth, he wouldn’t have absorbed close to a tenth of the benefits that each of the fifty sisters had.

Tianming had saved the Sun and Ebonia with only ten kegs of springwater, but Moran and her sisters each absorbed around a hundred kegs’ worth of baleflame. Not to mention, they used up more low-grade order fragments than Tianming had. By the end, they were at the sixth level of the Cosmic Cartography stage. They each had six cosmic charts, greatly stabilizing their survivability.

”It turns out that I can create geniuses using baleflame and order fragments.” Tianming was quite impressed with the results, though they were to be expected. There were a few levels of genius and talent. Yin-Yang Baleflame came from astral giants and was capable of creating geniuses on the level of Myriadpath Valley’s. Tianming’s Galactic Emperor abilities could even raise up all the denizens of the Sun to the level of normal gods through his imperial order, making them geniuses on the level of the Sun.

”Either way, they’ve greatly stabilized at this level. Even though I have more order fragments, I think breaking through too many times will mess up their order too much. They have to get that into order first.”

All fifty of them had become cosmic cartographers. While they were still quite far off from Tianming, cultivation level wasn’t the bottleneck of their growth—divine wonders were.

All of them seemed completely reinvigorated. Their faces beamed with bright smiles, though there was a hint of strong desire in the way they looked at Tianming from all the baleflame they had absorbed. Their gazes were hot, to say the least.

”Ahem! How does it feel?” Tianming asked.

”It feels... fine...” they muttered and blushed.

”Great! Then I’ll hand over the ten divine wonders. They’re a bit hard to absorb, though, since I only have chunks of the corpses,” Tianming said.

The sisters blankly stared at him. Moran said, ”You should ask us how we feel about it in more detail next time... okay?”

Tianming’s heart beat even faster after seeing how they looked at him. ”I’m a bit short on time, so I have to go absorb my own order fragments now. Call me if there’s any trouble, alright?”

Based on their talent, there shouldn’t be any problem with them absorbing the divine wonders. The only difficulty they might have was absorbing enough nova source to power those wonders. Tianming believed that they would be done by the time he finished cultivating.

”Okay,” they said with a nod.

”These fortuna-class wonders are really unique and can strengthen your astrons, making you harder to kill and stronger in close combat. When I wasn’t in my Galactic Emperor form, I couldn’t cut through them at all. I can’t imagine what it’ll be like once you absorb all ten of them and fuse into a single body....”

Those soft girls would have their defenses greatly hardened. Would Yin Chen, in its fully fused form, be able to stand up to her? Though she was strong, she would undoubtedly need Ji Ji to regulate the nova source from the ship’s power source for her to be able to activate all ten divine wonders.

”Leave it to us. You should go cultivate,” Moran said.

”Alright!” Tianming left them to their own devices and went to the room with the astral giant, making sure to shut the entrance tight.

”The attack on Myriadpath Valley is imminent! Little Fish will be my greatest weapon. No matter how many times I break through today, the attack will be carried out. I’ll stomp Qitian Xiao, Suishen Ranxing, Yumo Diyan, and the rest beneath my feet and conquer Myriadpath Valley and the astralscape of order for good! My empire will span the Million Mundi!”

He couldn’t help but smirk at the scope of his plans. ”There’s no way any of them would’ve expected me to defeat five super zeniths here. Their order fragments should be enough to shake Myriadpath Valley’s foundations.”

The baleflame from the astral giant completely swallowed Tianming up as he swallowed all the grade-ten order fragments and began cultivating.

”I wonder what level I’ll reach with this....”

He looked forward to the day of battle.