Beastmaster of the Ages

A month passed quickly; this felt no more than two hours for cosmic gods. Tianming had been busy scanning the orders before he received word from Yin Chen. Thanks to the Myriadworld Immortabeast, his life was made a breeze. Yin Chen was simply too convenient to have around. Tianming didn’t need to look out for opportunities or investigate anything at all. He could just rely on Yin Chen’s eyes and planning for the perfect scheme. Tianming familiarized himself with the power structures of the Ninefold Hellstar and tested out his combat capabilities to ensure nothing would go wrong. His first targets were the key figures.

”Have you picked them?” Tianming asked.

”I have.” An insect crawled into Tianming’s palm. ”This is... the daughter... of the... temporary starlord....”

”A thousand-meter cosmic god with galaxy-class order?” Tianming said.

”That’s right!” That put her around the same level as Mushan Xue. However, she was definitely not from an imperial lineage, given that she was over five hundred years old. That was why she didn’t enter the lower ruins.

”Alright, let’s go seek her out.” Tianming immediately flew across the rivers and mountains of the Ninefold Hellstar to the other side. This world was a hundred times the size of Ebonia. With his purple mask donned, he ignored the sonic booms that his flying caused and landed in the residence without a single worry. Yin Chen had already spread throughout the Ninefold Hellstar and had a constant grasp on which ways were populated or not. Not to mention, only cosmic gods lived in maniverse-class worlds, and they numbered far too few. Most of them stayed in mound or universe cities, with few if any living in the wilderness.

”Some overflowers might be able to endure the gravity of maniverse-class worlds. It’s too bad that the hierarchy here is too strongly enforced. If these worlds open up, I bet many more people can become cosmic gods.” It simply wasn’t a fair system. The elite was able to have a stranglehold on all the resources while the others in the orbiter worlds struggled to rise up. ”The conventional wisdom behind the reign of the Eightpart Pantheons is to hammer down anyone who challenges their dominance without question.”

Still, this led to a rather stable rule across many generations. However, that gave rise to oppression toward the orbiters and flameyellow descendants. Nobody cared about their welfare enough to say anything about it.

Tianming’s cold eyes swept across this massive world. ”It’s filled with treasures. What a shame! Their so-called peace is built upon the suffering of the weak. Once the weak are starting to rise up, they crack down upon them harshly!”

This attitude was clear from how the Eightpart Pantheons immediately mobilized a large army to crush the Primordial Sands as soon as they got the chance to, not caring about the devastation they brought.

”The many factions in the universe are fated to struggle against each other for resources, and now, nova source worlds and middlekin stars are the most precious resources.” Tianming was already starting to feel the lust to pillage this maniverse-class world. The Eightpart Pantheons rule the entire Upper Star Ruin, but all he had was a single Sun!

”Let’s start things off with this crucial step.” As he approached his destination, he gradually slowed down. A black crystal palace rose above the edge of the horizon, splendorous beyond belief. No doubt, many orbiters and flameyellow descendants looked at it with envy. This wasn’t a mound city, but rather someone’s private residence! Tianming landed on Yufu Palace, expression cold.

The palace was named after its owner, Ming Yufu. Yin Chen gave all the information about her to Tianming, ranging from her level, status, weapons, and history. She was a famous figure in the Ninefold Hellstar, so information about her wasn’t hard to find.

”Hmm, is Yufu Palace her harem?” Tianming recalled that she was the daughter of the acting starlord, Ming Xingwang. She seemed to be quite the promiscuous person.

He entered the palace right away. Though there were many barrier formations to keep people out, Tianming was the kind of being that could ignore all of it. He didn’t even trigger any alarms using his Sky Plundering Hand.

”The eye of the centuroptic beast is starting to show its limits. I wonder when I’ll get a chance to enter the Fiend Ruins proper....”

He entered the palace’s main hall, which was ten thousand meters in height and decorated decadently. Thousand-meter cosmic gods had no issue moving about as they pleased.

”Huh?” Tianming spotted three people within through the crystal palace’s window. One of them was a thousand-meter cosmic goddess, while her two subordinates were around eight hundred meters in height.

”Sister Yufu, if the Ninefold Wargod is unable to return, doesn’t that make your father the starlord proper?”

”Then Sister Yufu would be the grand princess of the Ninefold Hellstar!”

”Congratulations, Sister Yufu!”

”No, it should be Your Highness Yufu!”

They cheered merrily, oblivious to what was to come.

”Now!” Tianming stuffed Bai Ling and Bai Ye back into his head before charging in with the Grand-Orient Sword. ”Yin Chen!”

A sea of silver insects formed the Pentaphase Immortal Prison all over the hall. No matter how big a commotion this would cause, he had to ensure that their escape routes were cut off!