Beastmaster of the Ages

“This ghoul legion from the first level of the Xi Hwa Hell has numbers, but relatively limited offensive power.” Tianming let them chase Ying Huo. First, it was to test whether they obeyed orders, and second, to see how strong they were in battle.

“Unexpectedly, these ghouls, once separated from the bodies of the devas, are still able to fight on their own....” This was a pleasant surprise for Tianming.

He looked far into the distance. Ying Huo soared across the heavens, with hundreds of thousands of figures of all different kinds chasing behind. Some ghouls were human-shaped, some beast-shaped, some an amalgamation of human and beast parts. Most were grotesque and bizarre. There were long-tongued and long-necked female ghouls, purple infants with fangs like green seedlings, and countless other savage and violent forms!

“Waaaah....” In stark contrast to them was the big gray cute eye on Tianming’s chest. As it spewed out ghouls, the ghouls simultaneously also scared it terribly. If not for Tianming’s command, it wouldn’t have dared to move at all.

“Hey there, it’s fine, they’re all afraid of you.” Tianming could only try his best to comfort it! But what he thought inside was: Since you’re this scared anyway, why not test where your limit is?

At present, only the first of Xi Xi’s eighteen hell-rings had opened, yet it already summoned such a vast ghoul legion. If more rings were opened, what would happen then?

The Xi Hwa hell source circulating in his body was the power source of these hell-rings that determined how many he could open and how long it would last.

“No worries. Your Chicken Bro was a bad guy. We must summon more ghoul babies to defeat him. We must never let this perverted scoundrel continue to run free!” Tianming said solemnly.

“Bad guy? Then let’s beat him up!” Xi Xi said nervously.

“That cat is also a bad egg. Let’s beat it together... so let’s try opening the big door together. No matter what, I will protect you!” Tianming spoke with righteousness.

“Damn!” Meow Meow had been enjoying Ying Huo’s misfortune, but who would have thought the fire would burn it too? It immediately scampered away.

“Filthy stray, don’t run!”

Tianming encouraged Xi Xi, patiently guiding it.

Perhaps seeing that those ghouls were afraid of it and didn’t hurt it, Xi Xi finally grew a little braver and worked together with Tianming to pour both their Xi Hwa hell source into the hell-rings.

“It’s starting....” Tianming’s eyes shone. This was a true weapon of war.

Tianming lowered his head and saw that the concentric rings on the gray wheel on his chest began opening one by one. The hole in the middle grew larger and larger, each unlocked ring seeming to access a new world. Fresh smoke erupted wildly from within, turning Tianming into a fountain. So much was spewing out that it was endless!

“Damn it!” Ying Huo and Meow Meow saw this and began cursing.

On Tianming’s chest, the fifth ring opened. Try as he might, Tianming couldn’t open the sixth ring.

“Xi Hwa hell source’s limit is five rings.” In the lower ruins, many of the deva geniuses he had fought against had sevenfold hell-rings and summoned ghouls from the seventh level of the Xi Hwa Hell to battle.

So at first, Tianming thought that being stuck at the fifth ring was a little regretful, not very useful... but very soon, he became excited!

“Geniuses like Princess You You and Qin Wangchuan can summon higher-tier ghouls with the seventh hell-ring, but most of them were still immature ghouls! Yet the ghouls Xi Xi summoned are the mature forms! So my standard of comparison shouldn’t be against geniuses, but rather against those cosmic gods on the Ninefold Hellstar with fivefold hell-rings and who have cultivated for thousands or tens of thousands of years!” The ghouls Xi Xi summoned from the fifth hell-ring were, in terms of battle strength, the same as the mature ghouls summoned by those deva geniuses who had reached their peak.

Even ghouls from the fifth level of the Great Xi Hwa Hell Realm were very strong and comparable to cosmic gods hundreds of meters tall.

“Most importantly, there are just so many of them!” Tianming sustained it until the Xi Hwa hell source was almost depleted and the hell-ring closed, but a legion without end had already spawned.

Tianming scanned the endless cloud of violent resentment and brutality before him. Lurking within were at least a thousand fifth-level ghouls, at least five thousand fourth-level, twenty to thirty thousand third-level, and over a hundred thousand second-level.

As for the first-level ghouls, there were no fewer than a million!

“The Xi Hwa hell source of Xi Xi and I, once consumed, can still continuously be replenished. So this was just my reserves, not my limit... I could still summon more after regenerating energy!”

Tianming couldn’t help but laugh. With Yin Chen, he already counted as an entire army by himself. But Yin Chen’s optimal role was as a scout and intelligence, so Tianming didn’t want to waste it on mere combat.

And now, this eighth Primordial Chaos Beast, the Great Xi Hwa Hell Realm, truly defined what it meant to be a one-man army! These ghouls were all special combat units unafraid of death, and once dead, they would also be devoured back by Xi Xi.

This army of over a million ghouls wailed and shrieked, plunging half the Sun into a chilling and sinister atmosphere.

Ying Huo and Meow Meow were chased so hard that Xi Xi laughed and clapped in amusement.

“Amazing....” Tianming’s heartbeat quickened as he watched. Tianming hadn’t even augmented the summoning with his omnisentient power yet.

“What if I used the omnisentient power?” Tianming looked down. At that moment, Xi Xi was already feeling better, giggling at the sight of Ying Huo and Meow Meow’s miserable state.

Tianming smiled softly. Without asking Xi Xi, he suddenly drew upon the faith of half the flameyellow descendants across the entire Upper Star Ruin. A giant galactic net instantly spread, connecting everything, and poured into Tianming’s body.

Xi Xi had said before that as long as this power was clothed in Xi Hwa hell source, it could be used to activate the Xi Hwa Gate.

“Don’t worry, let’s test the limit!” While comforting Xi Xi, Tianming’s eyes burst with blazing golden-black divine light. In that moment, both he and Xi Xi shone brilliantly.

“Continue opening!” When that vast power struck the gray hell-rings, it trembled violently. Shrill and brutal screams howled, followed by a deafening roar that shook the heavens!