Beastmaster of the Ages

”Only fortuna-class worlds in the Upper Star Ruin have flameyellow descendants. If I conquer every single one of those, I wonder if I’d be able to achieve the same results as I have here.” Tianming wasn’t too certain of that. He could feel the power flowing in from the Million Mundi and the insights they carried.

All of a sudden, he saw a small flash in front of him, which snapped his attention back to reality. Seeing the pink girl ahead of him, he couldn’t help but laugh. It took Yaoyao quite a bit of neck-craning to look up at him. ”A giant monster....”

Tianming put out his hand and cradled her in his palm, then lifted her until she reached eye level with him. After seeing how tiny she was, Tianming finally experienced the sense of superiority of being an overflower. Messing with her was too much fun! Her waist was thinner than even his fingertips.

”Stop touching and let go! My body’s going to come apart!” she grumbled.

”Yaoyao, sounds like you’ve been working hard for me,” Tianming said, feeling the power in his body.

”Hmph, at least you’re aware. I’ve been running around so much for your sake to recruit more believers for you!” She stretched out her hand and pouted. ”I want my reward.”

”What reward? Do you still lack things like order or overflower fragments?” Tianming asked.

”Come to think of it, not really,” she said after some thought.

”You should reach the Overflow stage soon. Only then will I be able to reward you,” Tianming said, smiling.

”Alright!” Yaoyao looked at him and then to herself before jumping off his hand and running off. Once more, she had been spurred into putting more effort into cultivation.

”I want to conquer the Midsky Tristars and claim all the ancestors in their divine tombs to provide springwater for Yaoyao and the rest. Once they get enough overflow fragments, they should be able to catch up rather fast.” For now, all they could rely on was the springwater from the Source Progenitor. Yaoyao’s cultivation wasn’t as complicated as Tianming’s, so it wasn’t that hard for her to make breakthroughs.

Then he suddenly smelled the fragrance of his beloved from behind him. It was a familiar scent that told him all he needed to know about the person!

A monochrome sphere landed and opened its door. A twenty-meter-tall woman stepped out from the ship, dressed in a long white gown. Her fair visage dotted with dashes of pink, smoking-hot figure, deep-valleyed ’heavenly pattern formations’, and long, slender legs had all been magnified!

Lately, Jiguang had rushed to reach the second level just in time. Tianming knew how hard it was for them to stay at the same level after reaching the Overflow stage. The moment he set his eyes on her, his brain handed the reins over to his seventh astral organ. The Blissful Union’s door immediately shut before the ship began to shake and rumble from within as Yaoyao stared wide-eyed from the distance.

”He seems to have been holding back for quite a while.... Is this what it’s like when overflowers get busy? These giants sure are loud....” She couldn’t help but be somewhat envious of her aunt. The two million denizens of Tianmingopolis joined her as they watched the Blissful Union shake in blissful union, drawing a cold breath of awe at the ferocity of overflowers.

***

After a month passed, Tianming sat cross-legged under the starlight with Jiguang leaning against his chest, her unkempt ten-plus-meter-long pink hair all over him. ”Auntie, I’ll leave some galaxy-class orders for you.”

”Why don’t you keep them for yourself?” she said, face still flushed. ”I’m unmatched in combat in the Lower Star Ruins. There’s no need for me to rush.”

”Well, I’m impatient! I don’t know if it’s my imperial order, but the more it grows, the harder it is for me! Without you to polish away some of its sharpness, I have to keep it shoved down hard just so that I can walk!”

Jiguang silently regarded him for a while before giving him a wry smile. ”Don’t you have many other girls around you?”

”None of them are the same level as I am,” Tianming sighed. ”The path of the strong is a lonely one.” All he hoped for was that Feiling would be around the same level as him when she returned. Having either one of them constantly having to chase after the other and never reaching parity would be tragic indeed.

”Wait a second!” Tianming said, his expression turning stern all of a sudden.

”What is it?” Jiguang slowly rose and gently held him with both hands.

”After returning, my imperial order’s grown again thanks to the omnisentient network spanning the Million Mundi. I feel that I’ll be able to break through to the second level of the Overflow stage soon.”

”Isn’t that a good thing? Why do you look so pained?” Jiguang asked, smiling as her beautiful eyes blinked.

”How can it be good?!” Tianming looked at her body, that was perfect down to every inch.

”What’re you thinking, you naughty little boy?” She felt her body tense up again.

”Let’s have another go before I make the breakthrough!”

***

After another ten-plus days, Tianming stood forty meters tall within the Blissful Union. ”My combat capabilities at this level have probably caught up to Zhantian Feng and Yanri Shuang.”

He had finally caught up to the level of five-hundred-year-old geniuses. Non-overflowers were only about as tall as one of his fingers. With every step he took inside a ship, the ship itself would rumble, and Jiguang appeared like a small girl before him once again.

”The path of cultivation is truly unfathomable,” she said, looking up at him and not knowing how to feel about it.

Tianming looked at her, now only reaching up to his waist height. Suddenly, he felt a spark of inspiration and sinisterly smiled.

”What’re you smiling about?” Jiguang felt her heart skip a beat.

”Do you want to try it again?”

”What...?” She was dumbfounded.

”You can do it! I believe you!”

”It’s impossible—”

***

After some time, Tianming finished dealing with his other affairs and went to the Myriadpath Celestial Formation to wait for the arrival of Zi Zhen. She was just about due to deliver overflow fragments to the imperial capital, and she sped up once she heard Tianming was there. She also brought one of Bai Ye’s infant souls with her.

Tianming could no longer afford to keep the wonderian sisters alive, now that he had to focus his full power on the war with the Midsky Tristars. Not to mention, Zi Zhen had gotten much stronger than before, so there was no longer a worry that killing them would alert others and cause them to go to God Domain One. One of Bai Ye’s freed infant souls was left there to stay with Zi Zhen, while the other would be with Jiguang in Tianmingopolis. The remaining seven would be part of its arsenal in fights.

Soon, a cold, purple-haired beauty appeared above the Myriadpath Celestial Formation with a flash. One would be sorely mistaken to think of her as a soft girl just by her appearance alone. When it came to savagery, she was patently inhuman! Her cultivation level was still higher than Tianming’s, but thanks to her base form of eight meters as a first-level overflower, she was close to sixty meters tall as a seventh-level overflower, only a head taller than Tianming.

His eyes lit up when he saw her. It had been a while since he’d seen her on a similar level; she had turned into a giant all the way back at God Domain One.

”Oh?” Zi Zhen furrowed her brows slightly when she saw him and bit her lip. ”You look like you can finally muster up a bit of strength now.”