Beastmaster of the Ages

Tianming put the chaos worldbangle away once he was done with the conversion. ”I wonder if Feng has a method to convert his energy too... Or does he even need it if he’s temporarily crossing over?”

He turned around and could see that the vortex was actually a deep path. By the time he finished converting his energy, a point of black light appeared at the end of the pathway. Though it was a ’black’ light, it seemed incredibly bright.

”Let’s go.” Tianming took his curious beasts with him and crossed the pathway to reach the light. The closer he approached it, the faster he seemed to travel towards it. Space around him seemed to twist and compress. The resonant sound in his ears reverberated nonstop before he found himself right before the point of light and passed through it. All of a sudden, his body felt empty and weightless as if he had just jumped out of the surface of water. The ’water droplets’ on his body trickled away, leaving him in a ’hollow’ state.

He immediately turned his attention around his environment, observing it. The first impression he got was darkness. He could feel that there was a starscape around him, but it felt not too dissimilar to the dark sky of the Upper Star Ruin where the stars had cloaked themselves. Yet, there was a stark difference. The Upper Star Ruin’s stars were intentionally cloaked, making it dark, whereas the starscape here was dark because the energy here was dark and hollow.

”Over there!” Yin Chen left the lifebound space and immediately started speaking.

Tianming felt an incredible mass of energy behind him and snapped around. ”How huge!”

He felt the same when he saw Ebonia for the first time. Back then, he had been less than two meters in height, marveling at the size of Ebonia from afar in his ship. The closer he got, the flatter Ebonia’s surface looked, seemingly stretching out forever with no end. It felt so overwhelming like it was falling from grace.

Similarly, the massive black star before him gave him the same sensation even though he was five hundred times his previous size! Didn’t that mean that this star was also five hundred times the size of Ebonia? Needless to say, it was easily bigger than the Flameyellow Imperial Star.

”If my guess is correct, this should be equivalent to the standard size of an imperial-class world!” That made it at least a thousand times the size of Ebonia. It was the first time he had seen something on this scale, and he had never expected that he would be in the Realm of Chaos.

He felt somewhat distraught looking at the black star. Soon, he realized that this black star in particular were different from the others that he knew, namely, Ebonia and Ninefold Hellstar! Not a single point of light could be seen on it, whereas on Ebonia, one could see continents covered in bright lights, making the blackness underneath sparkle. This imperial-class black star was purely black and gave off no light.

He soon realized something that was even harder to believe. ”It indeed doesn’t have astralguard and fusion formations! There’s no trace of divine celestial patterns at all!”

”An imperial-class world that’s unclaimed? How’s that possible? With it being this size, anyone would want it! Even infinitum-class worlds can count as precious middlekin stars, let alone this one,” Ying Huo said.

”It must have something to do with the elemental aspect of the nova source here.” He inspected it closer and noticed that it was completely different from the Flameyellow Imperial Star, being a source of pure nova source, but one that was subdued and implosive. It was a self-condensing devourer!

”Even though it looks like a sphere, it’s actually a hole that swallows up the energy in its surroundings... So this is a true black hole, unlike nova-source worlds in the Upper Star Ruin,” Tianming said.

”I got it!” Xian Xian exclaimed. ”Normally, a vortex starts off flat. But as it absorbs more inward-spiraling energy, it remains stable even without using order to control it. This imperial-class unordered nova source is just a gigantic spherical vortex! That’s why it’s a huge mass that doesn’t scatter. It even keeps absorbing energy from outside!”

”That’s right. This is a spherical vortex,” Tianming agreed.

”Interesting! Since it’s not defended at all, I’ll go straight in and swallow it to turn it pink,” Ji Ji said.

”Wait a second.” Tianming pointed at the black star. ”There are people living inside, so this world isn’t really unclaimed.”

”Someone is... also coming... towards us,” Yin Chen said.

Tianming looked ahead and saw a black figure about a thousand meters in height approaching, clad in a solemn black dress. Her skin was snow-white and she wore a veil that gave her a mysterious aura. Once she reached Tianming, she said, ”Tianming, the Nullity Starcage welcomes you.”

As she spoke, she looked tearfully at him. It turned out that the Nullity Starcage was an imperial-class world with cosmic gods!

Tianming asked the veiled girl, ”Are you Comma Girl?”

”Comma carries a meaning of something coming after it, ’to be continued.’ It represents our story, one that has yet to end,” she said, smiling despite the tears. Looking at him, she removed the veil from her face. ”I have waited for you far too long to resume our karmic destiny.”

Tianming watched her face as the veil fell, his mind blanking out. ”Mu...”