Beastmaster of the Ages

Imperator Ji’s expression darkened. Once the Adjudicator slew Li Tianming, the war would be over. However, Li Tianzi and Li Yanfeng had suddenly appeared, killing Imperator Zhu in an instant... only to then ignore Li Tianming entirely.

She couldn’t finish this train of thought before Li Tianzi was already upon them, brandishing a black chain as he attacked her and Imperator Tu. The two sisters were trapped within countless black chain-shadows.

“Attack!” Imperator Ji gritted her teeth. She dared not think too much and could only focus on resisting Li Tianzi. Her Star-Rainbow Mother-Child Flying-Daggers once again split into tens of millions of smaller blades, surrounding her like countless stars.

Beside her, Imperator Tu cast out the Net of the Enlightened, which spread like a vast crimson canopy.

Their cosmic relics clashed with the endless chain-shadows, neither side gained the upper hand.

“This Li Tianzi is terrifyingly strong!” Imperator Tu clenched her teeth, feeling an overwhelming threat.

“He’s holding his own against two imperatores...” Imperator Ji’s expression was equally grave.

Li Tianzi’s gaze flashed like lightning. Four colossal lifebound beasts rushed in from all directions, launching a joint assault on the two female imperatores with their divine abilities. The two women had no chance to counterattack.

On the other side, Imperator Tong intercepted Li Yanfeng.

The Yueling imperator erupted with astonishing power. Though she appeared soft and gentle, she was still an imperator. Beneath that facade, she was just as cold and ruthless as her sisters.

Their fierce battle created a no man’s land other cosmic gods didn’t dare trespass.

This scene stirred the blood of Sage Chen and Sage Xing as they watched from nearby. What had once been an absolute disadvantage had become an even match after Li Tianzi and Li Yanfeng arrived.

“Now that Tianzi has broken through, he’s invincible. If not for the Adjudicator, he alone could crush any imperator!”

“The problem is... Tianming may not be able to hold on.”

The two observed the whole battlefield with grim expressions.

Li Tianzi and Li Yanfeng wouldn’t find it easy to decide victory.

In the distance, Zi Zhen and Imperator Long fought ever more intensely, seemingly evenly matched.

Only Li Tianming’s side was different.

Crimson blood-tribulation power transformed into hundreds of millions of scarlet chains that bound Tianming within, his middlekin astrons starting to break under the strain.

It had taken all of Tianming’s strength to crack a single tombstone slightly. Now, there were eight, pushing him to the true brink of life and death. The current danger far exceeded the time Tianming had confronted three imperatores alone in the Upper Star Ruin.

Countless Yin Chens smashed into the chains like moths to a flame, only to be ground into powder by the tombstones’ power.

The lifebound beasts fused with Tianming weren’t faring well either..

“This bastard... is way too fierce!” Lan Huang muttered, its speech slurring under the pressure.

But no one answered him.

“Brother Chicken?

“Brother Meow?”

Lan Huang realised the other beasts were barely conscious, struggling against the blood-tribulation power with no strength to respond.

In truth, it was also suffering, its body breaking down as well.

Yin Chen had also run out of bodies in the area.

“Adjudicator! Adjudicator!”

Countless cosmic gods shouted in fanatic excitement.

Zi Zhen, Jiang Qingluan, and the others watched with anxious hearts.

“Li Tianming, your story ends here.” The Adjudicator’s voice was cold as he poured even more power into the tombstones.

It felt as if every heart had stopped beating.

The eyes of countless Aquamarine and Torch Dragon cosmic gods gleamed with savage delight as they focused on Tianming.

“This Skyplunderer imperial son has committed countless evils. Now he finally dies!”

“Wonderful! Once the Adjudicator kills Li Tianming, Li Tianzi won’t escape death either!”

“Hahaha! Opposing the Adjudicator was a dead end for the sky plunderers!”

Yet just as some began celebrating, golden-black light illuminated the world, overwhelming every other color. Vermilion flames, starlight, black ghoulish mist—everything vanished.

It was identical to the beam Li Tianzi had used earlier to pierce and kill Imperator Zhu, only at least ten times more intense and larger. It pierced through the blood cocoon, and the pressure on Tianming shattered at once.

“When Imperator Skyplunderer is present, who dares touch my son?!” A furious voice thundered, shaking the entire Vermilion Bird Starcage.