Beastmaster of the Ages

Tianming didn’t think too much about it. The archaionfiends were already right in front of him. Perhaps everything would become clear once he absorbed them.

“Tianming, from here on, it’s up to you,” Li Muyang said solemnly as he turned back. “The battle hasn’t begun yet on Vermilion Bird. Remember, advance steadily. Don’t rush.”

“Understood.” Tianming nodded.

Li Muyang left, leaving only Tianming in the Skyplunder Ark. He glanced around, and couldn’t see any other exits.

All he could do now was absorb the three colossal eyes before him. Fortunately, he had prior experience, and only had to repeat the process.

He opened the Plundering Eye, drawing the red point on the outer ring into the Taiji yin-yang fish. More than nineteen hundred blood-red compound eyes emerged, dyeing the surrounding space a deep crimson!

So far, Tianming had unlocked five of the nine gray points: Fatesteal, Vitasteal, Fiendsky Arm, Daosteal, and Constellationsteal.

Four gray points remained unopened.

Now, as Tianming continuously devoured the kilooptic beasts’ eyes, the crimson hue within the Taiji yin-yang fish began to gather into a vortex. The five existing abilities all received massive boosts at this moment, especially the Fiendsky Arm. The black light point on the outer ring representing the Fiendsky Arm grew even deeper and more profound.

When Tianming finished absorbing all three thousand compound eyes into his Plundering Arm, all the crimson light suddenly surged toward a gray point. It gradually shimmered with gold, and Tianming could clearly feel the power of Skylightsteal.

And at that very moment—

The vision perceived by his Plundering Eye suddenly began to contract, as everything around him started to shrink.

He first saw the black Skyplunder Ark, shaped like a divine sword in a sea of stars. Then came Nullity, then the entire Realm of Chaos... and after that, even the Upper and Lower Star Ruins of the Realm of Order were encompassed within the field of view of the Plundering Eye!

Finally, with a thunderous boom, some kind of barrier seemed to shatter as Tianming seemed to arrive in another world.

“Worldgazing begets primordial chaos!” That familiar voice echoed endlessly around him once again.

At this moment, it was as if countless worlds were being born beside Tianming. Everything around him was both unfathomably mysterious and boundlessly vast.

The scene before him felt strangely familiar. Back when he had just retrieved Little Sixth’s vital, Tianming had seen an incomparably shocking dream. Beyond the blood-red lightning gate of the Fiend Ruins lay an even more immense and expansive world containing a universe-spanning giant seated in meditation.

The various star ruins had made up his body!

But this time, he saw neither the Fiend Ruins nor the blood-red lightning gate.

As far as his eyes could see, there was only a universe far larger than the Realms of Order and Chaos combined, with countless star-ruin-like regions scattered throughout. Most crucially, this time Tianming saw streaks of golden cosmic rays coursing through this endless universe!

“Golden rays! Is that the power required to wield Skylightsteal?”

Tianming was shaken to his core. He witnessed those terrifying golden cosmic rays pierce through space, easily boring through multiple star ruins. Clearly, the ultimate limits of this power were far beyond anything he could presently comprehend.

Yet even stealing just a portion of it would be enough for him to unleash terrifying power far beyond his limits.

“Even if I don’t understand the nature of this power, the sky plunderers have never needed to comprehend, just steal it all!” To hell with the rest.

At this moment, Tianming directly activated the sixth golden point he had just unlocked. His Plundering Arm seemed to reach across worlds and space to touch those golden cosmic rays!

“Light, come...”

A terrifying vibration shook his Plundering Arm. Tianming felt as though his hand were about to be scorched to ashes. Yet, the Plundering Arm was a supreme natural creation of heaven and earth. No matter how fearsome the cosmic rays were, they could not destroy it.

“One steal, one catch! Catch the cosmic rays with the Fiendsky Arm, then release them in an explosive burst so that Skylightsteal reaches its strongest state!” Li Muyang’s words thundered into Tianming’s ears.

“Skylightsteal: steal the golden cosmic rays.

“Fiendsky Arm: catch the cosmic rays?”

Tianming’s heart clenched as he raised his Plundering Arm. The black point representing the Fiendsky Arm and the golden point representing Skylightsteal lit up simultaneously, and the Plundering Eye successfully formed a golden-black yin-yang fish that spun endlessly.

The golden cosmic rays he had stolen from beyond the universe finally merged into the golden-black yin-yang fish.

Once released, this would be the strongest state of Skylightsteal, with destructive power and penetration surpassing even what Li Tianzi had unleashed back in Violetblitz! “It seems my brother was still holding back. He took down Imperator Jian with Skylightsteal alone.”

And suddenly, Tianming’s perspective snapped back to a stone stele tens of millions of meters tall in front of him. The name engraved at the top of the stele instantly shook him to his core.

“Skypierce Finger? So this is the state I’m familiar with! You need to combine the Fiendsky Arm with Skylightsteal in order to unleash the true Skypierce Finger!”

In the past, Tianming had indeed relied on the Skypierce Finger to overcome many trials, but it had fallen off later on. Only now did he realize that its true power required cosmic rays.

Tianming stepped forward to examine the cultivation essentials of the Skypierce Finger recorded on the stele. It was far more detailed and profound than what he had seen before.

“Without activating the Fiendsky Arm, one cannot perfectly control the stolen cosmic ray power, and thus cannot execute the Skypierce Finger. Thus, the Skypierce Finger unleashed is far stronger than Skylightsteal alone.”

Tianming nodded in understanding. The stone stele had much to say, and he would need time to digest it all in order to better master Skylightsteal and the Skypierce Finger...