Beastmaster of the Ages

”You two? Become cosmic gods?” Ji Ji mockingly laughed. ”Stop dreaming! Your big sister is next! You two young ones come after!”

”Nonsense! Just you wait!” Bai Ye snapped.

”What a joke! Little sisters should get in line!” Bai Ling snapped. That was probably the only thing they could agree on. Normally, they were constantly arguing with each other.

”You’re confident that you can defeat all those people at the entrance if you become cosmic gods?” Tianming asked.

”Why don’t you try it and see?” Bai Ye said.

”Fine! If something urgent comes up, I can pause my cultivation and bust my way in.” Even though there were many blocking the entrance, they weren’t that powerful, so it wouldn’t be completely impossible. ”Not to mention, they won’t waste that much time waiting for me. In time, they’ll think it’s pointless and scatter on their own.”

Tianming calmed down and focused on what he needed to do. The little beastballs’ galaxy-class caeli, overflow fragments, and ninelives fruits should be enough for me to become a cosmic god.

He had Yin Chen increase its surveillance coverage, especially near the peak of Miracle Mountain. At the same time, he moved the ark to be as close to Miracle Mountain as possible without being discovered. The three-headed six-armed Soulfiend stood at the ark’s entrance day in and out, so it should be able to sense Lingfeng if he showed up.

”What’s going on? Are there people from the Primordial Sands and Eightpart Pantheons fighting near the peak?” Tianming asked Yin Chen.

”They are... holding back... for now. They want... to enter... the hole... in the... sword, but... nobody has... made it... so far.”

”What a waste of effort.” Tianming didn’t believe there would be anyone who could claim the shard of the Grand-Orient Shard before he could, so he kept training in seclusion within the ark. Moran, Zi Zhen, and Qingyu did much of the same.

Qingyu, especially, had worked nonstop to cultivate lately. Having much more talent than Princess You You, she was still growing rather fast even after becoming a cosmic god. If it weren’t for monsters like Moran and Zi Zhen, who didn’t even really need to cultivate in the normal sense, nobody would be able to keep up with her. Not to mention, Tianming had been making more progress than her lately, though that was due to being able to use overflow fragments as he was still an overflower.

”I’ve used quite a few overflow fragments lately, so I should stabilize myself.” Tianming hugged many little beastballs, thoroughly studying their caeli while consuming overflow fragments and ninelives fruits like candy. ”I’m sorry, Ji Ji!”

He naturally knew which of his lifebound beasts would reach cosmic godhood first. There were three parts in him that hadn’t undergone that transformation, namely, his astral brain, seventh astral organ, and the rest of his body. Ji Ji’s ancestral order resided within his body and not any specific astral organ, while Bai Ye and Bai Ling’s lifesoul order resided within his astral brain. Normal quasi cosmic gods would transform all their astral organs’ astrons into middlekin astrons before transforming the rest of their body, so it was clear that his astral brain would be next!

Apart from the seven streams of order from my lifebound beasts, I still have imperial and lifesbane orders. I wonder how the three remaining orders will transform.... Not even he was aware of what would happen.

The medicinal effects of the ninelives fruits and overflow fragments did indeed flow toward his astral brain. Bai Ye and Bai Ling’s spiritform astrons were still only normal astrons, which heavily limited their offensive and defensive capabilities. If they’re able to kill cosmic gods right now, wouldn’t they be insanely powerful once their spiritform astrons become middlekin astrons?

He ignored the lifesbane order that also resided within his astral brain and focused entirely on the lifesoul order as he used the ninelives fruits’ effects to convert the astrons in his brain to middlekin astrons. From the outside, it looked like his head was intensely glowing. His long, white hair flared out and wildly danced. His black and gold eyes also beamed bright, illuminating the entire ark. The little beastballs watched the light show with great excitement.

”I knew it! The next wave to change is the astral brain! Little Li and the two Ji Jis will have to wait!” Bai Ye said, laughing nonstop.

”Which two Ji Jis?” Bai Ling asked.

”There’s one in his lifebound space and one in his body,” Bai Ye said, rolling its eyes. ”Why can’t you understand something so simple? Fool.”

”Die!” They began squabbling even as Tianming was undergoing the transformation.

As the astral brain was the most intricate and fragile part of his body, he didn’t dare to carry out the conversion too fiercely and chose to go at it step by step, making sure to pause after converting each part to let his headache subside before going on to the next. His lifesoul order began changing thanks to the overflow fragments, surpassing its hexagonal, continent form to become a planet-class order that glowed brightly in his astral brain.

”The order transformation’s finally done.” With that, his entire vita transformed at a rapid pace. Bai Ye and Bai Ling stopped arguing and left Tianming’s astral brain, taking the form of two swirling and transforming clouds. Their soul seeds were in fact spiritform astrons, the smallest parts that made up their being, including the infant souls. Every single soul seed transformed into middlekin astrons. It was a transmutation akin to that of wood to gold. It wasn’t a simple matter of an increase in quantity, but a fundamental change in quality. The lifebound beasts that had been born since Yin Chen had a strong focus on innate qualities, which could drastically change at each stage of development.

”Finally, I’m a major-zenith overflower!” With his astral brain transformed, Tianming wasn’t far from reaching cosmic godhood—there were only three streams of orders left to transform. He opened his eyes right as the two clouds exploded into two nebulae. Other cosmic gods would turn into essence form if they exploded to that extent, but that didn’t apply to them. They would instead turn back into their soul seed state and fill the entire ark.

Tianming stretched out a hand as a nigh-invisible soul seed landed on his finger. Even though it was a tiny spiritform astron, Tianming could almost feel it making funny faces at him. ”Now tell me. What’re you going to do to help me sneak into Miracle Mountain?”

”Just open the door of this crappy ship. Watch your dad and learn!” Bai Ye confidently said. Its arrogance was once more off the charts.