Beastmaster of the Ages

Chu Xuan wanted another payout. Tianming looked around him. There was nobody else around, and Chu Xuan was just about to take the transmission stone out and start to deliver the precious cargo of Zhoutian Henfeng’s wife.

”Come on! I did you a huge favor, so be smart about it! I thought you knew how to read the room,” Chu Xuan said, patting Tianming on the head with some dissatisfaction at his silence. He was a cosmic god, and Tianming had always had lots of trouble back then, facing off against them, whether they were Fentian He or Yuan Long.

Chu Xuan looked at Tianming, his lips curved into a smile. Tianming could tell that Chu Xuan knew that he didn’t have any faction backing him in the Ancient Flameyellow Ruins, so he decided to take advantage of him, using any excuse he could. No doubt, he would find new excuses in the future to scam him. He wouldn’t kill Tianming, since dead people couldn’t bring him any new treasures. Instead, keeping him alive would maintain a steady trickle of protection fees.

”I’m your benefactor, you see. Don’t you get it?” Chu Xuan said.

”Yes, Brother Chu Xuan.” Tianming put his hand on his spatial ring.

Chu Xuan came over and said, ”Don’t try to fool me with junk!”

”Very well.” Tianming took out the Grand-Orient Sword, his gaze cold. He had patience, but even that could run thin. He channeled every bit of energy in his body, infusing his totems, cosmoforce, and his new cosmic-god infernal cosmoforce into the sword, and unleashed a sudden slash. Bai Ling’s twenty infant souls’ power exploded forth from the attack!

Chu Xuan’s expression was still a friendly one. He never would’ve dreamed that a quasi cosmic god that he had set his sights on would dare strike against a cosmic god like him. His expression shifted, not out of fear but of rage!

”How dare you?!” He roared and burst with power, raising an arm to block the sword. However, the sudden attack had given Tianming the edge. Though Chu Xuan was a wondermancer who reinforced his hand with his divine wonder to take the blow, the soul attack in Tianming’s strike flooded toward Chu Xuan’s face and tore away at his astral brain.

”Are you courting death— Aaaaaagh!” Bai Ling’s attack turned out to be rather effective. Chu Xuan’s head shattered as his spiritform middlekin astrons poured out. He widened his eyes in disbelief; how could a quasi cosmic god possibly be so powerful?!

”You must die!” Being injured by an astral god was a humiliation he couldn’t ever live down. He rapidly deployed his divine wonder, the nineheavens mystic lightning wonder, fully, causing nine gigantic serpents of lightning to manifest from his body. The lightning bolts took solid form and linked up with Chu Xuan, shooting through the sludge of flameyellow void essence and filling the surroundings with crackling streaks of electricity. Chu Xuan charged toward Tianming angrily, armed with the mid-imperial-class Mystic Blitzlance!

”Now, perish!” He was absolutely enraged from all the embarrassment. ”How dare you touch me?!” With a swing of his lance, the lightning bolts formed a domain of lightning around him, filled with the power of cosmic gods.

Yet, Tianming showed no fear, only dispassionate coldness. A divine phoenix glowing with boundless starlight spread its wings behind him, taking the brunt of the lightning.

”What in the world?!” Cu Xuan froze on the spot. How could a quasi cosmic god have a full-cosmic god beast? But before he figured it out, Tianming and Ying Huo charged in with their own assault. Though Ying Huo was no longer fighting in Tianming’s right arm, weakening him slightly, their total might didn’t change much.

Ying Huo used Infernal Blaze, causing thousands of phoenix shades to manifest. Then, other abilities like Sixpath Infernal Lotus and Infernal Blaze rained down on the cosmic god in question. Every single Infernal Swordfeather on its wings contained the destructive force of Monorigin Infernal Blaze.

”Together!” It was as if they had gone back to the days when they fought, Tianming at the front, Ying Huo coming in from behind. Then, they used the Desolation Stargate Sword Formation. Tianming opened six stargates, channeling three worlds’ energies into each of his swords. The infernal cosmic god cosmoforce in him fueled the brunt of the move. Bai Ling’s soul offense also saturated the sword strike.

Not only that, Meow Meow, fused with his black left arm, launched off more lightning abilities. Though they weren’t that powerful, they at least managed to neutralize Chu Xuan’s divine wonder because of the elemental similarity. Then, the first wave of Phantasmic Bubbles struck Chu Xuan’s head, greatly wounding his astral brain once more. Spiritform blood covered his entire face, and the pain enraged him even further.

With swift and fierce accuracy, Tianming deflected the Mystic Blitzlance with one sword and pierced Chu Xuan’s throat with the other! Behind Chu Xuan, Ying Huo used its sharp wings to slash straight through Chu Xuan’s waist and almost cut Tianming on the other side. The pincer attack was as swift as it was fatal.

”How could a quasi cosmic god be so powerful....” Chu Xuan was completely stunned. By now, the damage to the soul that Bai Ye and Bai Ling had done had completely saturated his astral brain. Tianming and Ying Huo’s cosmic god cosmoforce turned into countless strands of sword ki that wreaked havoc in the rest of his body, blasting it apart and causing it to reform into cosmic god essence as he cried out in pain.

”Brother Feng! Stop! Let’s talk it out!” Chu Xuan finally knew fear.

However, Tianming ignored him completely. He gave Ying Huo a look. ”Let’s crack him open and end him!”

”Don’t!” Chu Xuan cried and pleaded. ”Just take what Lord Henfeng gave me! It must be something good that you can use!”

”Oh? Then I’ll kill you and take it.”

Chu Xuan’s soul almost scattered at the sound of that. No matter what he said, it was pointless. Tianming had given him a chance. He was merely reaping what he sowed, having constantly tested Tianming’s patience. When the Grand-Orient Sword made a hole in the cosmic god essence, Bai Ye and Bai Ling did their work, wiping out the spiritform that had already been in tatters within.

”Now that feels good!” Tianming finally managed to vent. Not to mention, he managed to kill a cosmic god! ”This marks the start of my godslaying path.”