Beastmaster of the Ages

Tianming entered the passageway alone; the former valley lord didn’t follow him. White light continued emanating from his back.

”I can feel something similar to the astral giant coming from below. Is it the Source Progenitor?” Were cosmic gods beyond the level of the Foundation and Overflow stages?

Tianming had the persistent thought that the Source Progenitor smelled far too good. The entire place was filled with the fragrance of springwater. Jiguang’s fragrance also came from the same source. It was truly enthralling to breathe in.

”On the other hand, that astral giant from the Yin-Yang World smells like burnt charcoal....” They were on opposite ends of the spectrum. Tianming would be far more willing to go to the Source Progenitor for its fragrance rather than going to the astral giant of baleflame to be overtaken by his beastly impulses.

”Almost there.” Soon, he reached a gigantic underground cavern filled with mist and delicious fragrance. He saw a lake in the middle of the underground well, seemingly filled to the brim with milk. A long-haired astral giant with incredibly supple skin laid in the middle of it, emanating that pleasant smell. It was Myriadpath Valley’s Source Progenitor!

When Tianming first entered, he noticed that the corpse was transforming, the head in particular. A circular region appeared on the pure white head, fuming with dense mist. Something seemed to be emerging from it. As Tianming was powerful beyond imagination, he didn’t fear anything and immediately approached it.

”There’s something inside!” Tianming’s key had done something after all.

”The Three Exalted Houses didn’t have this key back in the day. Perhaps they never found the true legacy of the Source Progenitor.” The Source Progenitor didn’t look like any Qitian, Yumo, or Suishen. Tianming doubted that those three houses had truly descended from it, as they had claimed. Even though the Three Exalted Houses had immigrated to Myriadpath Valley before its fall, they weren’t necessarily the rulers of the world.

Tianming boldly descended upon the Source Progenitor’s forehead, where a new lake had formed. He jumped into it and got pulled deeper in.

”It smells good!” Even a Galactic Emperor like him felt euphoria when he entered the head of the Source Progenitor. The liquid that surrounded him felt a little too pleasant. He felt the order around his body increase to a certain extent. As he went deeper, the mist began dissipating, revealing nine miniature figurines.

”The monochrome figurine?!” Tianming was stunned. The nine figurines looked incredibly similar to the monochrome figurine, each with a unique color of its own.

The one closest to Tianming was a green one that gave off a powerful life force and vigor, as if it had been made from lush, green plants. It seemed rather similar to the myriadpath sourcespirits of House Qingchuan. As for the other eight, they had different elemental aspects, embodying things like sentient life, eternity, astral power, and so on.

He felt a strong sense of familiarity toward them all and got a sudden spark of inspiration. ”These are myriadpath idols!”

They were the very same idols that had appeared on the Prehistoric Path. The green one was the first one, the vitality idol. He recalled that it had appeared as a gigantic statue to him back then. It felt like a caelum to him, but not completely. Incidentally, the monochrome figurine was a caelum made solid, containing a planet-class order within. The nine figurines were solid as well, like the monochrome figurine. No doubt, they were the caeli of the Source Progenitor!

”Did the Source Progenitor really have that many caeli?” It turned out that cosmic gods’ souls underwent many changes. Perhaps these multitudes of caeli was one of them. Did that also mean that the Source Progenitor had cultivated nine streams of order? It was more than Tianming did!

”Let’s give it a try first.” He didn’t think too much about it and picked up the green figurine, letting his caelum enter it where he found himself in an empty void. There was nothing but a green glow in the void when he turned around.

It actually came from a gigantic green planet that looked just like one in real life. The planet was filled with hexagonal continents that were covered in boundless flora. It was a world of plants that seemed to form hexagonal fortresses together, all of them twelve stories tall and made of different types of wood on each floor.

Only one other kind of lifeform lived on the green planet: green bee-headed people. Like real people, they went about their busy lives in orderly routines, never resting as they built up the planet-sized order.

”By the heavens.... This is fucking amazing!” Tianming’s eyes lit up; it was yet another planet-class order! It would definitely be as beneficial to him as the one that the monochrome figurine contained.

”The vitality idol’s order seems tailored for the growth of my radix order....” Xian Xian was truly blessed. It could find many insights within this order to restore its Primordial-Chaos-Beast order to its former state.

”Holy crap...!” The thought of having eight more idol figurines like this one made him even more pumped. His caelum left the vitality order and entered another, only to find a planet covered in tumultuous lightning. It was perfect for his genesis order!

The next one had foundation fortresses on the planet that glowed with brilliant starlight. It was suited to the ancestral order from Ji Ji. The other figurines also had their own planet-class orders. There were nine in total, the first seven being the vitality idol, eternal idol, omnisentient idol, imprisoned idol, rampage idol, thousand face idol, and ancestral idol.

The eighth was called the primesoul idol, and the ninth was the myriadpath idol. Those were the ones that no myriadpath disciple had challenged before. The primesoul idol must have some kind of order that was attuned to soul cultivation.

”If I can bring Sixth home, I’ll be able to cultivate using these planet-class orders.”