Beastmaster of the Ages

Zhantian Feng crossed the star ocean with his eighty-meter-tall body and reached Luori Xuanlie’s Ninesun within the Middlekin Star Ruin.

”Miss Yanri, my little sister’s here!” Zhantian Feng called out toward the fienddragon ship.

”Got it,” Yanri Shuang’s voice rang from the ship.

Zhantian Feng waited, but there was nothing else. ”Didn’t you say you wanted to fetch her with me?”

”Yes,” Yanri Shuang said.

”Then, shall we leave?” Zhantian Feng looked at the ship. Luori Xuanlie and Xing Can were both in the middlekin star storage sectors, so only Yanri Shuang was in it. The two seniors would guard the stores while the young geniuses would be put in charge of receiving the slave shipment and settling all twenty million of them down.

”Just wait!” Yanri Shuang said.

”For what?” Zhantian Feng didn’t quite understand why she would dally at an important time like this. Anything could happen!

”I’m dressing up! I must make myself presentable!” she quibbled.

At the very least, Zhantian Feng reluctantly understood. ”You already look incredible, you know,” he said. He had come with an infinitum-class ship to pick her up.

Yanri Shuang had temporarily commandeered the Ninesun from Luori Xuanlie, so the two of them did have a fortuna-class ship to use. She completely ignored the compliment and took her time. Eventually, the door of the Ninesun opened.

Zhantian Feng approached and his eyes brightened at the sight of her in her beautiful, hundred-meter-long dress covered in countless fortuna-class jewels. It looked like she was wearing a galaxy on her body. Her curly golden locks and glistening skin made her outshine the entire Middlekin Star Ruin!

Stunned for a moment, Zhantian Feng said, ”We’re just going to see my sister. Why’d you dress up to this extent?”

”Come in!” Yanri Shuang said before turning around and walking back into the ship.

Zhantian Feng hurried inside as the ship’s doors closed and the whole thing powered up. Though they had taken quite a bit of time, Zhantian Feng reluctantly let it go considering that Yanri Shuang’s time did reflect in a far more pleasing appearance than he had thought possible. This must be what human beastmaster women are like. Our specter girls are sexier, but they aren’t nearly as refined! I bet that even my sister would be humbled at the sight of someone like that. Beauty alone isn’t enough compared to attention to detail.

Yanri Shuang piloted the ship and said, ”Your sister, Zhantian Le, is piloting the Feng Capital Ghoul, right?”

”Yes! She came from the south. Open the star map for a bit,” Zhantian Feng.

Yanri Shuang activated the star map of the Ninesun. Zhantian Feng pointed some distance away from the Middlekin Star Ruin and said, ”She’s going to enter the Middlekin Star Ruin’s illumination sphere soon. When she does, we’ll be able to see her. We should go there and pick her up just in case.”

The Upper Star Ruin was entirely shrouded in darkness so that the location of worlds wouldn’t be revealed. One would only be in danger of detection within the range of the Middlekin Star Ruin’s illumination. What Zhantian Feng didn’t know, though, was that Yin Chen’s surveillance range was many times that of the Middlekin Star Ruin’s illumination sphere.

”Alright.” Yanri Shuang looked at the location a few more times.

”Hurry up. My sister just told me she’s about to arrive soon,” Zhantian Feng said with a chuckle. ”She’s a bit of an impatient girl.”

”What’s to be impatient about? I’m making the Ninesun go as fast as I can!” Yanri Shuang snapped.

Zhantian Feng hadn’t thought that she would get mad with a light comment like that. She seemed rather weird today, unlike before. ”Alright, we’ll go at your pace.”

Hmph, so you think you’re hot stuff just because a cosmic god’s courting you? That isn’t that special. Despite being five hundred years old and towering over foundationeers, they were treated as nothing more than children. Some places only considered those over two thousand years old as full adults. Overflowers did live long lives, after all.

Zhantian Feng watched as Yanri Shuang piloted the Ninesun, brushing against one astral continent after another in a cute, clumsy way. ”Have you never piloted a ship before?”

”I was too busy cultivating to practice,” she plainly said.

”Should I have a go?”

”That won’t do. This is a fortuna-class ship of Starmoon Haven,” she said, staring at him. ”I know you won’t steal it, but it’s still inappropriate. I borrowed it from Luori Xuanlie, so it isn’t mine to give.”

Zhantian Feng was speechless, but there was nothing he could say in retort. ”Alright then. Take your sweet time.”

***

In a dark, quiet corner of space, an abyssal black astralship decelerated as it neared its destination. It was the Feng Capital Ghoul, a fortuna-class ship. From its point of view, the glowing spot could be seen ahead.

”So that’s a Middlekin Star Ruin,” said a seventy-meter-tall female specter near a sector of a ship that looked like a ghoul’s eye. Unlike male devas, like Zhantian Feng, female devas didn’t carry such a heavy aura. Their skin was only slightly paler and grayer than normal. She looked stylishly lifeless in a gothic manner, especially when one turned to her bombastic curves. Simply put, female devas were passably attractive in their esoteric way, unlike their male counterparts.

Zhantian Le was one of the top geniuses of Wargod Haven, being around four hundred years old. She was also from one of the prime bloodlines of Wargod Haven. Behind her in the darkness were nine million slaves, squeezed together in a tight space. Their gazes were dim and their bodies were lanky, as if they didn’t have enough astrons to fill them up. They looked incredibly weak-willed. Unlike those already in the Middlekin Star Ruin, they had been precisely picked out to not have any elites among their midst.