Beastmaster of the Ages

Neither Suishen Xiyue nor Jiguang understood what any of it was all about.

The wonderians, driven by greed, scrambled to take action. A single thought kept echoing in their minds: The reincarnation of Tian Jiu!

As they rushed forward, the Blissful Union suddenly shook. Yin-yang essence activated, rapidly spinning to form a hurricane that blasted open a path.

“You want to escape?” Zhentian Shenhai ferociously sneered. Thirty-six wonders immediately pinned down the Blissful Union, making its speed drop by more than a hundredfold as if it had fallen into a swamp.

Even so, the Blissful Union managed to flee a considerable distance, arriving at a place far from the Progenitor’s Altar before it ground to a halt.

“Break open the astralship and seize her!” Zhentian Shenhai shouted as he stood on the Blissful Union. The astralship was driven into the ground of a continent, which shattered beneath it, its palaces and buildings collapsing to dust.

“Yes!” the wonderians shouted in glee, raising their weapons to tear through the divine astralship formation.

But just then, the Blissful Union’s doors burst open and a woman shrouded in five-colored light soared into the sky like a blazing ray of brilliance.

“Tian Jiu!” Zhentian Shenhai roared, his face lit with wild joy.

“Capture her!” The wonderians immediately abandoned the Blissful Union. A total of eighteen people, wielding thirty-six wonders, pursued the “fleeing” Moran.

She shrank the pentaphase heaven wonders to their smallest size, using them as defensive wonders to protect her astrons. As the five elements joined into a defensive wonder formation, the super- and major-zenith wonders assaulting her struggled to hurt her despite their superior numbers.

Moran fell and fell again. She crashed to the ground, creating massive craters, or landed in the sea, causing towering waves!

Each time she fell, she rose to her feet completely unscathed. The brilliant five-colored light on her transformed her into a radiant figure. Her jet-black hair wildly flew and her snow-white skin was resilient and flawless.

The sight didn’t discourage the wonderians. On the contrary, their gazes burned brighter and turned more frenzied.

“It really is the reincarnation of Tian Jiu!”

“A wonder devourer! How terrifying! That physique is incredible!”

Their eyes glistened with madness as they focused entirely on her body, utterly ignoring Suishen Ranxing and Myriadpath Valley.

“Take her down!” Zhentian Shenhai roared, his throat aflame.

Wonders and orders relentlessly struck. Again and again she fell. Again and again she stood up, sometimes even counterattacking as one woman singlehandedly fought eighteen wonderians.

She wasn’t skilled at combat, lacking proper techniques, but she simply refused to die. She couldn’t be stopped. Even the most powerful high-maniverse-class artifacts could only create ineffectual sparks on her Pentaphase Heaven Wonder Formation.

Was she truly trying to escape? Of course not.

She had told Tianming herself that these people madly coveted her. She could lure them all away, buying Tianming a fair chance to face Suishen Ranxing and the Three Exalted Houses in a decisive battle. There would be no fairness as long as the wonderians remained nearby.

It also meant that, if she were in danger, Tianming wouldn’t be able to help her. She would have to face every threat and mortal peril alone.

The eighteen wonderians weren’t entirely incapable of hurting her. Seven sets of super-zenith wonders’ constant abuse still caused her blood to churn and ruptured her heptastar organs. Zhentian Shenhai’s wonders, of course, posed an even greater, deadlier threat.

Moreover, she and Ji Ji relied on the Blissful Union’s yin-yang essence to fight. Her physical body was merely a container for wonders while her actual level was only that of a sixth-level cosmic cartographer. The longer she fought, the more her lack of combat experience and unstable foundation would be exposed, giving the wonderians a perfect opportunity that would spell her death.

Tianming hadn’t wanted her to take such a risk, but as she had said, she’d waited for him on the Sun for nearly a hundred years. This moment was the culmination of everything she had waited for in those hundred years.

“If I can’t fight for you, then what meaning does our lives have? Do you want us to remain sheltered in a greenhouse as fifty ornamental flowers? Or fifty pet fish?”

It was that one sentence that had made Tianming let go of his stubborn pride. To love someone, one must first respect them. He chose to respect her, but he also chose to not let her sacrifice be in vain!

So, as Moran used her life to buy him a chance, Tianming could only conquer Myriadpath Valley as quickly as possible.

“Suishen... Ranxing!” The moment Moran left, Tianming’s eyes burned with rage. His furious shout shook the hundred-plus eminents to their cores.

Tianming and Suishen Ranxing’s gazes clashed and the flames of war ignited. Two emperors’ auras collided, like a crimson star against a gold-and-black imperial star.

“Traitor!” Even in his dreams, Suishen Ranxing wouldn’t let go of his obsession of killing Tianming. And today, he had finally ascended to the super zenith, reigning supreme.

Tianming only had three people standing behind him, while Suishen Ranxing had the Qitian and Yumo eminents.

House Suishen had withdrawn from the battle. Even people like Suishen Ling remained still. Suishen Cang dared not move, either. If the couple moved, the hundred Suishen eminents around them would follow their lead.

Thus, there was a tacit understanding that the battle would be decided between Tianming’s four and the forces of Suishen Ranxing, House Qitian, and House Yumo. And Tianming and the Suishen patriarch would decide their life and death!

“Protect yourselves and fall back toward the Grand Myriadpath Ruins. I’ll kill Ranxing!” Tianming couldn’t risk Jiguang and the others being surrounded. He had his lifebound beasts, Fiveway Blitzrun, and the grand lexicon wonder, so he wasn’t worried for himself.

At that point, Jiguang and Suishen Xiyue could only choose to trust him.

So Tianming led the charge, plunging into the crowd like a fierce tiger scattering the wolf pack. His only target was the alpha wolf!

The previous valley lord, Jiguang, and Suishen Xiyue formed a team and solely focused on self-preservation. Even so, they faced attacks from over thirty eminents. However, there were only four minor-zenith enemies, while the rest were weaker than that.

“Don’t harm Suishen Jiguang and Suishen Xiyue!” Seeing them being surrounded, the Suishen eminents couldn’t bear it anymore.

Suishen Ling and Suishen Cang immediately addressed their fellow house members. “My fellows, will you just stand by while they slaughter our house’s super-zenith members?”

Truthfully, all of House Suishen hoped that their super-zenith powerhouses could stand united. House Suishen was far stronger than the other two houses; why should they waste their strength here?