Beastmaster of the Ages

The Starfall Pantheon’s imperial-class world was called Ninefirm Imperius, which also happened to be the closest imperial-class world to the Flameyellow Imperial Star. As such, the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb only needed five days to reach it using the Flameyellow Divine Path, which was why Tianming picked it. He had the complete initiative while his enemies could only wait for their doom.

”The only way to win in war is to grasp the enemy’s weakness and take the initiative to strike it!”

To this day, the Eightpart Pantheons still had an unjustified sense of superiority, completely ignorant that their foe was no longer something they could easily handle.

The army of thirty billion was still being assembled at Calabash Windfiend. No matter how fast they moved, it would still take quite some time to rally troops from the various maniverse-class worlds. Most of their troops were in transit on the wormhole expressway.

Based on intelligence from Yin Chen, arguments occurred constantly within Calabash Windfiend, frequently involving the wonderians and devas. Meanwhile, Tianming was on his way to Ninefirm Imperius using the Flameyellow Divine Path.

”At the end of the day, the Eightpart Pantheons rely too much on underhanded tricks and have lost the ability to engage in a proper fight.” They relished in insidious violence and oppression. But in a full faceoff, they couldn’t even compare to the flameyellow divinities. That much was clear from the sheer difference between the Flameyellow Divine Path and wormhole expressway. Even the Heavenly Dao that they relied on was the creation of the flameyellow divinities!

”It doesn’t seem like they know much about the Flameyellow Divine Path either.” It was Tianming’s chance. ”They think they can crush me completely just by gathering forces, huh? Too bad for them, I’ll start picking away at them from their rear.”

There was no way they could be faster than Tianming, the one-man army. Eventually, the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb emerged from a vortex of black and gold.

”I’m here!” When the vortex subsided, a brilliant and colorful source of light could be seen ahead. There was a colorful, gorgeous star that couldn’t be adequately described by terms like ’dreamy’ or ’fantastical.’ It was about the size of Nullity, so it was definitely an imperial-class world. However, Nullity was gray and black, a stark contrast to the warm nest of colors up ahead. There was no comparison in their beauty at all.

”This is one of the lands that the Flameyellow have lost! No matter how beautiful the Starfall Pantheon has made it, it doesn’t change the fact that everything, from the fusion formation to the very foundations of the world, was created by the flameyellow divinities!”

He felt rather perturbed at the sight of the world of beauty. As far as he was concerned, he wasn’t leading a force to conquer foreign lands. Instead, it was a reconquest of the territories that had rightfully belonged to them. ”We will take back everything that belongs to us, starting from the fortuna-class worlds and Ninefirm Imperius.”

Flames of black and gold burned in his eyes. His irises that resembled hatching eggs made him look even more eerie and stunning.

Ninefirm Imperius had another name: Starfall Imperius. However, the crude name disagreed with the refined aesthetic of the Starfall Pantheon, causing them to name their world after the nine firmaments instead.

The reason the world shone brilliantly was that the Ninefirm Guard Formation was active. When the light that came from the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb reached the astralguard formation, storms began to stir on its surface as nova-source consumption increased.

”Enemy attack!”

”It’s Li Tianming’s ship!”

”How did it come so quickly?!”

”Curses! Why did he pick us?!”

The entire world fell into wild disarray. Countless cosmic gods began to mobilize all across the world. The many maniverse-class city-defense formations within the world were also activated, sealing their cities off, a sign that they had humbled themselves enough to fear Tianming’s name. Yet, the fact that they had sent most of their forces to assemble at Calabash Windfiend showed that they were still confident they could defend their world.

”Don’t panic! His imperial-class ship can’t breach the Ninefirm Guard Formation!”

”If he dares to come in here, he won’t be able to make it back out.”

The loud voices were amplified through the astralguard formation. It could only mean that they had a figure similar to Wudi who had high status and control over the astralguard formation.

Tianming, however, had Yin Chen, so he didn’t have to worry about traps or ambushes. He also had an idea of how well defended the world was.

The Ninedragon Imperial Tomb was hovering near the Ninefirm Guard Formation. It had descended close enough that the formation looked like a flat plane, devoid of curvature. Beneath the ocean of storms, many totemancer cosmic gods gathered, glaring at Tianming coldly. They also mobilized many ships in neat formations, with more than six ships being imperial class. It appeared that they had left a substantial force behind to defend against an invasion after all.

Then again, part of their deliberations probably involved the fact that the Starfall Pantheon’s relations with Tianming wasn’t the worst relative to the rest in the five pantheons, so they were counting on him not attacking them. Since the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb had bared its fangs, however, they had no choice but to take this threat seriously. The attacking and defending sides of the battle at the Sun had been flipped.

The Ninedragon Imperial Tomb surged with nova source and turned pink, powering up much more than the average imperial-class ship could! All nine dragon heads charged up with terrifying power. Then, each head launched a pink pillar of light against the Ninefirm Guard Formation, generating many massive rainbow-colored vortices of chaos!