Beastmaster of the Ages

Qingyu wasn’t cultivating like Tianming at the moment. She glanced around and said, “There are over ten thousand of these little creatures, and together they take up quite a bit of space. Plus, there’s some people patrolling near this ruin’s entrance. If we try to take them out directly, it might cause an incident!”

They were living beings and might die if placed into a spatial ring. And since they weren’t lifebound beasts, they couldn’t enter the lifebound space either.

Moreover, Tianming still didn’t know if these ancestral world creatures could even survive on the Sun. After all, they were born of the flameyellow void essence, which was completely different from nova source.

“Most importantly, although they’re enticed by the order fragments, they’re still uncontrollable. If something goes wrong, they’ll probably all scatter,” Moran worriedly said.

“We still don’t know enough about them. Let Boss Chen observe more, and maybe he’ll uncover other secrets,” said Qingyu.

“Good idea.” Seeing that Tianming had entered a cultivation state, the two relaxed and decided to wait.

As long as Yin Chen didn’t speak, it meant no one had entered from outside. As for whatever secrets might exist, there was no need to run around like headless chickens with Yin Chen and Bai Ye on the case.

Soon, Yin Chen gave a definitive report. There were exactly ten thousand of the little beastballs in this heart-shaped ruin. It also reported that aside from these little creatures, it had found nothing else.

Tianming could only have them continue searching.

While waiting, Tianming used order fragments to attract the little creatures, but it was difficult as they were too hyper. Most were gluttons for the order fragments, but a few ignored him completely, showing that each creature had its own mind. Tianming managed to corral six thousand of the beastballs at the bottom of the heart-shaped ruin.

At the same time, Yin Chen and Bai Ye, carrying plenty of order fragments, helped him lure more. The goal was just to collect as many as possible.

Soon, there was a dense flock of little beastballs enthusiastically bouncing around Tianming. However, they weren’t stupid. If Tianming didn’t keep up with feeding time, they would bounce away, so Tianming had to keep the little beastballs’ food supply going.

When Tianming had tried to bring out an overflow fragment, the little beastballs had become even more hyperactive.

Fortunately, he could feed them with order fragments and not overflow fragments. “Thankfully, I brought enough.”

Later, Tianming tested using the spatial ring and confirmed they couldn’t be stored inside.

“That means if I want to take them, I’ll have to physically carry them.” But carrying them could easily cause problems, which gave Tianming a major headache.

He needed these ten thousand galaxy-class orders!

“I’ll have to let Yin Chen and the two Sixths figure something out. By the way, can you two Mr. Bais please stop fighting?” Tianming angrily shouted at the two entities in his mind.

“Who’s surnamed Bai? Take your stinking name back. I don’t want it,” Bai Ling cursed.

Tianming sighed. “Fine then, while we think of a plan, I’ll keep training.”

Since he was already using order fragments to drug the beastballs, not meditating would just waste them.

So he and Qingyu entered a cultivation state.

“Fortunately, this Ancient Flameyellow Ruins is saturated with flameyellow void essence, which makes it hard to detect any disturbances from the heart.”

“The flameyellow divinities’ orders really do resonate more with me!” Tianming received a pleasant surprise.

“If I want to take them away, the most important asset is still strength. With enough strength, I’ll have more options.” Thus, Tianming began racing against time to cultivate.

***

“Sister Yuan Long! Look!” A black-clothed young man stood in front of a large artery-like opening, excitedly pointing inside. “It’s a ruin! The door’s open, and it’s shaking! We’ve made a big discovery!”

This was Baili Liuyan, a scion of the cosmic gods from Saturatia-49’s orbiter worlds. Beside him was another black-clothed youth, his twin brother, Baili Feiyu.

Upon hearing the commotion, over a dozen people gathered. Leading them was a blue-clothed young woman who was already a cosmic god. She had ascended while at the same age as Yanri Shuang, meaning her talent far surpassed both Yanri Shuang and Fentian He.

“Sister Yuan Long, we discovered it first!” Baili Liuyan proudly claimed credit.

“I know. Any profits will be credited to you two,” the cosmic goddess nodded deeply, her gaze focused straight on the opening. She turned to the others and said, “Be careful and stay close to me.”

“Yes!” After wandering for so long, everyone was tense after finding this mysterious place.

Yuan Long led the way inside, while the two black-clothed twins also walked at the head of the pack.

“Don’t worry! Our parents’ power and status aren’t any lower than Yuan Long’s. If we find treasures, she’ll have to share them with us,” Baili Liuyan said to his brother.

“The others can forget about getting anything,” Baili Feiyu sneered back.

“Exactly! After all, we discovered it first.... Wait, what’s that?” Baili Liuyan had just entered when he spotted a small creature hopping about ahead.

“After it!” Without waiting for Yuan Long to speak, the two of them rushed forward and blocked the little beastball’s path!

The beastball chirped at them unhappily.

“What is this?” Baili Feiyu looked at his brother.

“An eternal life form of the ancestral world? Let’s check its core!” Baili Liuyan shouted and didn’t hesitate to draw his sword and split the beastball in half!

The beastball cried out in pain as it fell apart into two halves. It collapsed, blood gushing while its two big eyes glared at Baili Liuyan before slowly dimming. Then, it ignited and turned to ashes in moments.

“It’s gone?” The Baili brothers froze, staring at each other.

“What a worthless thing.” Both of them were annoyed.

“What are you doing?” the cosmic goddess glared at them. “I already said you’d get first dibs. Why so impatient?”

“Sister Yuan Long....” They grew even more displeased at her words.

“Go to the back!” Yuan Long ordered.

“No need!” Baili Liuyan grabbed his brother’s hand and muttered, “Whatever. If you can’t stand us, we’ll go our own way. That way, if we find something good, we won’t have to hand it over.”

“You’d better think twice. Your father asked me to look after you,” Yuan Long coldly said.

The brothers scoffed and dashed off into the darkness.