Beastmaster of the Ages

The flames in the clouds above wildly boiled while people down below looked up, their necks straining from the effort.

”Big Brother, he’s fine, right?” Qingyu nervously asked.

”Don’t worry. He’s a true man. He won’t drop the ball at a crucial time like this,” Tianming said with a chuckle.

”Don’t jinx him!”

”Ahem.”a

Just then, the Flameyellow Coffin exploded open with a loud boom. Then, a beam of crimson-and-gold light descended to the ground like a meteor and split in two! The larger one looked like a beast, while the smaller was a humanoid. They caused the entire ground to rumble when they landed. Once the dust clouds settled, the man with flaming crimson hair stood tall with his upper body bare. Back facing the crowd, he struck the pose of a powerful, lone warrior. Everyone continued to watch in silence.

”What’s with this? Where’s the cheering?” Wudi said, turning back when he lost his patience.

”Oh!” Tianming and Qingyu frantically began to clap.

”Amazing! That was awesome!”

”What’s your deal? You sound like you’re being forced to do this!” Wudi glared knives at them.

”How’re you doing? Quick, show us! Don’t make us wait,” Qingyu said with a roll of her eyes.

Wudi couldn’t quite stand being chided by his precious daughter. He quickly ran over as he snickered, ”My darling, don’t get angry! Your dad finally made it! I’ll make sure you’re able to eat and dress well from today onward!”

Nothing else had to be said. Tianming knew that Wudi had changed in a complete and total fashion! Before, Tianming had used springwater, baleflame, and Flameyellow Bloodsoul to forge Wudi into peak form, but even he couldn’t recognize what he was seeing. Perhaps he was a peak cosmic god.

This must be the spike in bloodline from the peak of the Foundation stage to the peak of the cosmic god phase! The Foundation stage couldn’t even be said to be the peak of the astral god phase, as that honor belonged to the Overflow stage, where people were quasi-cosmic gods.

Wudi’s astrons were all crimson-and-gold. Tianming couldn’t see things that small, but he could feel that Wudi’s bloodline had indeed been vastly strengthened. Countless powerful beasts seemed to roam through his astrons. At the very least, it was a bloodline that seemed to rival Tianming’s current selection of Primordial-Chaos-Beast bloodlines. The blood-colored kunpeng was identical to Wudi, but flames still burned all over its body so Tianming could barely tell what had changed.

”I’ll give you the simplest answer I can!” Wudi showed a confident smile. ”You two brats, go a little bit farther. I’m worried that I’ll scare the piss out of you.”

”Hurry up!” Qingyu snapped.

That old rascal feared nothing but his daughter, and hearing her angry shout immediately turned him into a disciplined boy. He manifested the power of his bloodline around him, and the instant he did, Tianming was able to feel the aura of the rulers of the astralscape. After using many order fragments that Tianming had given him, Wudi probably had twelve cosmic charts and was ready to break through to the Foundation stage. While cosmoforce on that level was of no threat to Tianming, he was still greatly started when Wudi demonstrated his unique skills.

”Totems, manifest!” The eight bane-rings across Wudi’s arms began brightly glowing. At the same time, his eyes also let out the same radiance. Gigantic beasts seemed to be trying to burst out of him.

”Godfather’s eyes have become bane-rings too!” Tianming was shocked. No wonder he seemed so powerful—Wudi was finally a decabane! House Suishen’s members had nine bane-rings at most, but ten totems, as one of them was a vital-origin totem made using the vita. Wudi, however, was a true decabane, the third one since Tianming and Yi Daiyan!

Dragons poured out of Wudi’s eyes and formed two dragon totems, one gold, one crimson. Tianming had never seen totems in the forms of dragons before! Many more appeared from his eight beastface bane-rings, namely a phoenix, qilin, shenwu tortoise, pixiu beast, great kun, great peng, xuanniao bird, and a baize beast! Wudi’s aura immediately grew more and more sacred.

All of his totems were beast types, with every single one of them giving off an aura of prosperity. They seemed to bring light to countless people around them, blessing the world with their illumination. Wudi himself seemed much more saintly than before.

Godfather’s totems were never like that! To think that the cosmic god blood changed him so much! Tianming was stunned by everything he had seen. Ten bane-rings, ten auspicious beast totems, and two of them were even dragons! Every totem seemed to have the fire aspect.

They surrounded Wudi, seemingly giving him the imposing aura of the Flameyellow Imperator that even made him seem serious despite his unkempt hair. Tianming truly couldn’t link the imposing person he was seeing with the Wudi he knew.

”Ahem! Was that already enough to stun all of you into silence?” Wudi patted his chest and laughed. ”Friends, the show is yet to begin! Watch!”

”Here we go, 30-fold simulacrum—”

”Wait a second!” Tianming interjected. ”Did I hear that right? Did you say 30-fold simulacrum?”

”I did! What’s wrong with you? Don’t interrupt me!” Wudi snapped.

”Alright, continue!”

Wudi’s auspicious-beast totems began morphing during the simulacrum. The highest simulacrum Tianming had seen was the tenfold Peak Immortals of Jiguang. He couldn’t have imagined that the cosmic god blood would actually give Wudi a 30-fold simulacrum. While Wudi’s cosmoforce wasn’t that powerful, his simulacrum already made his totems incomprehensibly mighty.

Every single auspicious beast lit up with patterns all across their bodies. The spirit in their eyes made them seem like actual, living beasts. The golden dragon, for instance, instantly had thirty times as many scales as before. It seemed to have a body of flesh. Its talons grew much sharper and it grew a pair of golden wings, as well as a sword-shaped spike on its forehead!

Even though Godfather isn’t a foundationeer yet, he’ll be able to crush fourth or fifth-level foundationeers—reverends—with his 30-fold simulacrum totems! That was Tianming’s estimation of his might. Dammit, I finally found someone who’s able to fight above his own level like me. I just didn’t think it’d be my godfather!

As Wudi’s level was still too low, he couldn’t quite support his 30-fold simulacrum for long; otherwise he would be even more terrifying.

If the limit of simulacra in Myriadpath Valley is tenfold, cultivators in the Upper Star Ruin must be aware of totem simulacra and should grow them even faster. I wonder if 30-fold is the limit of cultivation in the Upper Star Ruin. Tianming asked Bai Ye about it, who in turn contacted the wonderian sisters.