Beastmaster of the Ages

Clearly, Tianming wouldn’t have brought those two with him if he had intended to kill Qin Feng. Along the way, Qin Feng constantly tested Tianming to see if he could learn what kind of people were in league with him, but Tianming simply wouldn’t say. Once they reached a deserted location, Tianming turned and drew the Grand-Orient Sword, surging to his full power.

”What’re you planning to do?” Qin Feng said, startled, more concerned about any ambush than Tianming.

”Just testing out abilities.” Tianming charged straight away without saying anything else. This time around, he didn’t have any omnisentient threads and was fighting only in his base form, including his lifebound beasts, totems, and his own power. Even then, the amount of power his sixty-meter-tall form could unleash gave Qin Feng quite a fright!

”Ugh!” Qin Feng didn’t know what Tianming wanted, but he quickly readied himself for a fight. He wielded a hundred-meter-long staff, Maplegod’s Nine Tribulations, a low-imperial-class artifact. It was covered in maple leaves and had nine segments, weighing quite a bit. Each segment contained a different kind of imperial-class cosmic impulse.

At the same time, his divine wonder, skyseal firepillar wonder, manifested as nine thousand-meter-tall pillars of flame before Tianming, making a formation that sealed off the surrounding battlefield and creating a domain. He was a divine wondermancer who wasn’t a wonderian! As Qin Feng was no cosmic god, he naturally didn’t have a cosmic god wonder.

His prowess, at least for someone under the age of five hundred years old, was rather decent. He definitely had a chance of becoming a cosmic god around a thousand years old. But as fast as he was, Tianming was faster! Tianming started with Monorigin Infernal Blaze and Biritual Chaos Thunder to strike against the pillars of flame. Then he gathered his totems’ power and charged Qin Feng in a melee.

Using only one strike, Tianming opened five stargates. Though the strike wasn’t nearly as powerful without the support of omnisentient threads, with the gates only around ten meters high, the celestial bodies beyond those gates still formed sword ki to fuel the strike. It was the most powerful move he had at his disposal.

”How strong!” Qin Feng was completely flabbergasted that his divine wonder was being completely suppressed by Tianming’s abilities, allowing his strike to pass through them. He waved his staff and nine bundles of orange-red blitzfire formed around his weapon as he readied himself for the clash.

With a loud clang, his ninety-meter-tall form was pushed backward. He scrambled on the ground as myriad strands of sword ki came slashing near his torso, causing tens of slashing wounds that were so deep that his bones were visible!

Tianming hadn’t fought non-cosmic gods for quite a while now, but his strike still managed to wound Qin Feng’s astrons. Overflowers were simply much easier to damage than cosmic god essence.

”Brother Lin, let’s talk it out! Why resort to violence?” Qin Feng said, coughing out blood as he fearfully scrambled back up. Seeing Tianming charge at him again, he ran toward Maplegod Mound.

”You’re scared just like that?” Tianming felt rather disappointed. He had gotten what he wanted from the test fight and didn’t bother to talk anymore with Qin Feng. ”Moran, give it a try too!”

”Okay.” She put the two cosmic god essences on the ground. Moran was about half as tall as those essences, which had powered up her divine wonders considerably. The moment she put her hands on one of those cosmic god essences, she seemed to connect deeply with it and started to mobilize the power of a dead wonderian cosmic god.

A cosmic god wonder manifested; it was the heaven-earth daochess wonder! The stone-like chess pieces were few in number, but they charged with the ferocity of a thousand armies, instantly pinning Qin Feng flat on the ground and flattening him completely!

”A cosmic god wonder?!” Qin Feng’s voice cracked completely from the shock. He didn’t know that Moran had been the one to use those divine wonders and instead looked around in a panic, thinking that the wonderians had come to punish him for his misdeeds. ”I was wrong! Forgive me! Spare my life!”

”If you cooperate with us, I’ll spare your life,” Bai Ye said before it sent one infant soul into Qin Feng’s astral brain.

”What are you...” Qin Feng cried. Whenever he dared to resist, Moran would suppress him with her wonder. Their powers combined allowed them to take down a ninth-level overflower with relative ease. Though Bai Ye no longer had omnisentient soul power, it had grown considerably stronger to make up for it.

Qin Feng’s cries went from venting his rage, to terror, and eventually quiet submission. He knelt before Tianming and looked at him pitifully. ”Who in the world are you? What do you want?”

”What do I want? I want to be your friend and hitch a ride, that’s all,” Tianming said.

Giving him a ride was easy, but the important part was becoming his friend. Otherwise, Tianming wouldn’t have the status to travel to his destination. Qin Feng managed to figure that part out. ”Oh, you want to go to the Ancient Flameyellow Ruins....”

”That’s right. From now on, do whatever I tell you to. Otherwise... hehe....”

”Yes....” Qin Feng could only nod. Tianming then asked him about the Ancient Flameyellow Ruins, especially its lower levels. Not many people in Maplegod were talking about it, as most people didn’t know much about the secret realm.

”So you’re saying that the lower ruins were open for a month during which people came and went. Then, half a year later, the Eightpart Pantheons made a heavenly oath to determine how to split things between them?” Tianming said.

”That’s right! That was a crucial time. Even now, the lower ruins haven’t yet completely opened,” Qin Feng said.

”Then it’s not too late for me to go.” Tianming turned to Qingyu and said, ”Sounds like Feng is safe for now, so I’d like to go to the Ancient Oldgod Domain.”

”Alright,” Qingyu agreed. She knew that if Tianming could conquer the next Ancient Oldgod Domain with Moran’s help, they would have an unlimited source of order and overflower fragments. The return of the other two Sixths would also grant Tianming an immense advantage in the Ancient Flameyellow Ruins.

”Ancient Oldgod Domain?” Qin Feng shook at the sound of that. He had a feeling that the three before him were far from simple, but his life was in their hands!

Tianming said, ”Alright, tell your dad to push back the departure to the Ancient Flameyellow Ruins. Then, bring us, your three friends, to Midsky Tristars with your ship, the Maplegod.”