Beastmaster of the Ages

It was time. The entire Violetcloud Battlefield violently shook, the boom of the war drums causing sky-high waves and cracks in the ground. The scene had the spectators bursting with excitement.

"Fight!!"

Although the people of the Violetglory Star seemed elegant and gentle, their courage and passion was no less than the people of Orderia.

The turbulent water roiled and the stars lit the sky. Above the sea, Tianming came face to face with Princess Shen Yu. The lifebound beasts around him were either taking a bath or surfing; they didn't seem to be aware of the impending fight.

Princess Shen Yu resembled a noble goddess. Her hand was wrapped around the hilt of a dazzling sword inlaid with seven gemstones of different colors—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Each gemstone shone like a star, adding to her brilliance. Of all the people Tianming had ever come across, she was the one who bore the closest resemblance to an empress.

At that moment she was wielding a colorful sword, her bright gaze fixed on Tianming's body. Her long dress was covered in stars and jewels and spread out around her. It was as if she was bathing in a sea of stars that revolved around her. The breathtaking, peerless woman had transcended the realm of beauty. She had become the symbol of the people's belief in majesty.

If she'd had the Primordial God-Emperor's inheritance, she could attract countless believers through her appearance alone. Her weapon, the Heptastar Divineglory, was comparable to Li Haochen's Crimsoncloud Dragonbane.

The splendor of the stars, the magnificent sword, and her peerless beauty sent the members of the Divineglory Alliance into a frenzy. They projected their own desire for battle onto Princess Shen Yu. Behind her were hundreds of millions of fiery gazes that followed her in examining Tianming.

"Lin Feng, can you feel it? Can you sense how much stronger I am compared to Mu Sha?" Her red lips gently parted as she spoke. On the battlefield, all she saw was her opponent. There wasn't a hint of a smile in her eyes. After all, Tianming had never been close to her.

"Just a little," Tianming replied.

"You're still so arrogant and boring." Princess Shen Yu shook her head.

Tianming might seem obtuse, but in fact, he was deliberately ignoring her teasing.

Fed up and irritable, Princess Shen Yu flew toward him, her divinespring exerting enormous pressure. Dazzling light burst from the grade-nine divinespring on her chest, instantly flooding her entire body so her fair skin glowed with starlight. In order to achieve victory, she had activated the divinespring's ultimate form. The divinespring was originally a special medium for astralforce. Once its ultimate form was activated, she could temporarily raise its power to the level of a legendary grade-ten divinespring so her strength soared. The only side effect was not being able to use the divinespring for the next few months. All she wanted was to win this battle. Violent astralforce burst forth.

"Lin Feng, lifebound beasts from blood pacts don't undergo symbiotic cultivation from the time they're young and can't grow with you. They're inherently fragile and incompetent." Princess Shen Yu showed contempt for Tianming.

"Then why don't you show me a real lifebound beast?" Li Tianming bluntly responded.

"As you wish."

Tianming had roughly browsed through information about her. She was an eighth-level constellier with a grade-nine divinespring. However, her divinespring's explosion of power was far stronger than Tianming had imagined.

The divineglorians had special lifebound beasts known as starbeasts. That was a surprise to Tianming, because the lifebound beasts of the Heptastar Aerial Sect in the Flameyellow Continent were starbeasts. The Draconis House of Jian had swordbeasts that could integrate with their weapons. It was obvious the system had been inherited from the astralscape of order. However, there was a vast difference between the divineglorians' and the Heptastar Aerial Sect's starbeasts.

At that moment, five dazzling stars emerged from Princess Shen Yu's lifebound space and soared into the air. Each star had a diameter of at least two kilometers. They were some of the largest lifebound beasts Tianming had ever seen. They were known as galaxy grandbeasts. As special lifebound beasts, they were essentially living stars. One could also consider them as living rocks or living metal.

They were quite similar to Yin Chen, which was also a special life-form similar to stars. The difference was that Yin Chen's body was infinite, while the five galaxy grandbeasts were individuals that couldn't transform into various insects.

The stars surrounded Princess Shen Yu as their bodies deconstructed and reconstructed themselves; the process was somewhat similar to the silver eggs' transformation into cockroaches and locusts. However, theirs was a designated transformation. They could only turn into one form, unlike Yin Chen, who had infinite forms.

After the transformation, the five galaxy grandbeasts were formed. They were violet, gold, scarlet, green, and blue.

The violet one had transformed into an enormous beast. Its appearance was somewhat similar to the Archaionfiend, with a fierce, dragon-shaped skull, sharp horns, scales all over its body, sturdy hind legs, sharp claws and teeth, a pair of giant purple wings, and starlight gathered within its body. Although it appeared ferocious, there was something majestic about it.

There were subtle differences in the details between the five grandbeasts. Although their general shape was similar to the Archaionfiend, the differences were in the details. The gold beast didn't have wings, but was covered in gold spikes and had sword-like teeth, while the scarlet beast had three heads and could breathe fire. The green and blue beasts either had a thousand tails or eight arms.

Individually, they were known as the violetstar grandbeast, goldstar grandbeast, scarletstar grandbeast, greenstar grandbeast, and bluestar grandbeast. They circled Princess Shen Yu, who held the Heptastar Divineglory in her hand, her grade-nine divinespring bursting with power. Tianming had to admit that Princess Shen Yu was just as strong as Li Haochen.

"It's hard to say who'd emerge victorious if the two royal descendants were to fight!"

In the match with Li Haochen a few days prior, Tianming had fought hard to defeat him with his lifebound beasts alone. Today, his opponent was another heaven's chosen who was just as powerful and also possessed various means. However, Tianming was surging with confidence.

The beasts roared, their starlight so bright the spectators found it hard to keep their eyes open. But in the face of all that, Tianming pointed the Grand-Orient Sword at the princess and asked, "Is that all, Princess Shen Yu?"

His provocation was heard by the members of the Divineglory Alliance, causing cries of outrage and dissatisfaction among the crowd.

"That's right. The question is, can you take it?" Princess Shen Yu said with her sword in both hands. The grandbeasts charged toward Tianming. In that instant, their abilities erupted, splitting the sea in two. Colorless starlight combined, forming a beam of light that threatened to engulf Tianming.

At that moment, the little bird beside Tianming suddenly turned into a black and red phoenix with a wingspan of a thousand meters, soaring into the sky while unleashing Infernal Haze upon its opponents. Tens of thousands of fiery clones swarmed the battlefield.

There was a vast difference in its abilities when it was a thousand-meter giant phoenix versus when it was a little bird—these flame clones could block the five grandbeasts. In the beginning, they were repeatedly destroyed by the beam of light, but they soon condensed, transforming into blazing meteors. It was Ying Huo's Death Inferno. Countless falling meteorites slammed into the grandbeasts and the thunderous boom of explosions spread across the battlefield. Black and red flames violently surged up, forming a layer of fiery clouds above the sea.

"None of you move! I'll handle them myself!"

Four of Princess Shen Yu's lifebound beasts were six-star divine beasts, while the largest violetstar grandbeast was already a seven-star divine beast. The grandbeasts were extremely powerful, but unfortunately for them, their opponent was the seven-star Aeternal Infernal Phoenix, whose abilities had been greatly enhanced.

Ying Huo's newly-enhanced flames burned the grandbeasts. Like maggots attached to the bone, the flames were impossible to extinguish. Not even the living stars could bear it. Each move the hot-tempered phoenix made was lethal.

"Take this!"

Ying Huo flew a thousand miles into the sky and generated a fiery tornado, its body covered in flames. Turning into a three-kilometer-wide sun, it emitted rays of light that swallowed the grandbeasts.

"How powerful!"

The moment the battle began, the audience was shocked by this scene.

"You're telling me these lifebound beasts are from blood pacts?"

Tianming had started with a bang, his Aeternal Infernal Phoenix amazing the audience. After accumulating enough power, Ying Huo let out an ear-piercing cry and plunged from the sky toward the grandbeasts as the scorching sun exploded.