Beastmaster of the Ages

“Imperator?” Tianming knew that historically, the Flameyellow Imperial Star had had nine imperators. All of them had been recorded in the Imperator’s Mural battle art.

And now, the ashuras were addressing this newcomer as “Imperator Yin?”

“The same title doesn’t make them all equals!” Tianming didn’t feel any panic at the Heavenly Dao and colossal figure’s intrusion. His omnisentient threads in the Upper Star Ruin granted him daring.

He had revealed the Flameyellow Imperial Star, then consecutively conquered four maniverse-class worlds. Such an explosive battle record had won over more and more flameyellow descendants and by now, his omnisentient threads covered half of the entire Upper Star Ruin!

And these followers were in complete lockstep with his will. His personal power was almost negligible now, and nearly all of the power he could command was fully powered by the will of all beings!

“It’s fine.” Tianming rose from the Sun like a blazing meteor to meet the multicolored Heavenly Dao. His radiance could even compete with that of the Heavenly Dao!

“Imperator Yin, please execute the rebel!” Many ashuras, watching their homeland’s destruction, were weeping and roaring.

From their reverence, one could see the status of this Imperator Yin.

But Tianming knew that Imperator Yin wasn’t of the ashura race, but of the deva race.

“He’s most likely the ruler of the devas, making him one of the most powerful existences in the entire universe.” Tianming had never imagined that his omnisentient threads could allow him to stand so calmly before such a peak existence.

That towering figure, tens of thousands of meters tall, immediately noticed Tianming’s presence when he arrived. No expression could be seen on that vast face formed of darkness that was shrouded in the colorful Heavenly Dao. He merely glanced at Tianming, then gestured, triggering a mad surge of the Heavenly Dao.

The Heavenly Dao condensed into a lightning bolt, clearly the power of heavenly punishment made manifest.

Tianming had committed no crime nor violation of the Heavenly Dao, yet Imperator Yin was using it to attack him. This showed that the Upper Star Ruin’s greatest formation had functions far more complex than imagined.

Tianming’s heavenly punishment protection seed was useless. This meant the Heavenly Dao had tiers of authority... and Imperator Yin might be wielding the highest level of authority.

“What terrifying heavenly punishment power!” It was as if the strength of the entire world was pouring into the Heavenly Dao. That bolt of lightning grew ever larger, locking onto Tianming and leaving him nowhere to escape.

“You came too late. The flameyellow divinities might have been able to restore their glory, but that chance passed tens of millions of years ago. The current Eightpart Pantheons and the Heavenly Dao have long surpassed your imagination.” Imperator Yin’s voice was as deafening as colliding stars, shaking the starry sky.

The Heavenly Dao’s punishment fell upon Tianming at terrifying speed. It was as enormous as a Flameyellow Pillar, and Tianming’s mere nine-hundred-meter-tall body was like a tiny fly before it!

“He’s finished!”

“Haha!”

The ashuras laughed. As far as they were concerned, the upheaval in the Ten Desolate Starforges was mainly caused by Li Tianming. If they could destroy this monster, the assaulted planets would still have hope!

They stared, not willing to even blink as the light of heavenly punishment illuminated their faces.

“Die, die, die!” Countless ashuras roared for his death. Who could withstand heavenly punishment? In their minds, even Tianming’s ashes were obliterated ten thousand times over.

Only Imperator Yin could see that this young man had maintained a steady, almost mocking, expression from start to end.

When the heavenly punishment was right before Tianming’s eyes, he spoke as well! “It’s you who came too late!”

The Sun was already close to regaining its peak, and Tianming had already begun his ascension!

In that split second before the heavenly punishment descended, Tianming’s chest suddenly split open, and a deathly gray eye emerged. This time, it actually left his chest, revealing its true form, a gray coffin made of wood.

The coffin was a thousand meters long, three hundred meters wide, shrouded in gray mist, and hovered just above Tianming’s head.

On its surface, hellish ghouls were depicted, as vivid and lifelike as if they truly lived within the coffin.

Then, the coffin opened. A sharp, grating crack sounded as the coffin lid moved. Inside was a dim, gray world, unfathomably deep like a bottomless abyss. The lightning bolt struck inside, and multicolored radiance flowed over the coffin’s surface as it trembled a few times... then there was no movement at all.

It just floated there quietly above Tianming’s head, unmoving, eternal.

With its stillness, the entire starry sky also fell into deathly silence. Countless ashuras stared at Tianming, and their minds went blank....

“What is that thing....” The colossal figure overhead had a tremor in his voice. Imperator Yin first looked at the gray coffin in puzzlement, then his expression changed drastically as he looked to the hell-ring in his own chest!

His massive hell-ring, which likely had 9 folds, suddenly spun and quaked violently. Somehow, multicolored heavenly punishment power erupted inside it, cracking its surface and even releasing a ghoul’s wails within.

“Ghoul imperator?” Imperator Yin looked as if he had encountered the most unbelievable thing in the world. Gritting his teeth, he muttered in shock, “The power of Heavenly Punishment... blasted into Hell?”

At that moment, a figure appeared amid the Heavenly Dao’s colorful glow before him, reporting, “Reporting to Imperator Yin, our entire race feels something is amiss with the hell-rings. Some are even cracking on the spot. The hell-rings seem to have been attacked by heavenly punishment.... What happened?”

“The entire race?” Imperator Yin’s projection shook.

“Yes! Even the infants with newly formed hell-rings.... Most importantly, no one can summon their ghouls right now!” that figure said in a daze.