Beastmaster of the Ages

The coffin came slamming down flush on the ground, sending shockwaves tens of thousands of meters away. Dust rose into the skies all over, upending the entire battlefield not long after a Divine Wrath hit. All of it was thanks to the sun emperor and his two ultimate blows, sending divine judgment to the ground below! The sun emperor was at the very prime of his life; all the celestial orderians audibly swallowed in a state of awe and delusional worship.

"Li Tianming is dead! The corpse has been completely eradicated! Myriad Solar Sects, why haven't you surrendered?"

"There's no point in surrendering! Just die!"

A wave of silence spread through the ranks of the defenders as word of Tianming's death spread. The warriors of the Myriad Solar Sect felt like a spike had been driven through their hearts. Tianming's death and the sun emperor's death would have the same effect on their respective sides. Once their pillar of moral support collapsed, the house would crumble around them. The morale of the defenders instantly evaporated into thin air as the celestial orderians rapidly swallowed up their ranks. This time around, it seemed like the celestial orderians were the ones who were making a comeback at the Myriaddragon Mountains.

"Let's avenge our fallen comrades!"

"We'll sacrifice their blood ten times over for our fallen comrades!"

"Die!"

The celestial orderians' slaughter grew wilder and wilder. By that point, the battle was essentially over. Nothing could be changed and everything could only play out in the remaining time as if it were foreordained. The celestial orderians seemed able to draw power from the sun emperor merely by looking at his glorious figure in the sky; however, none of them could see the furrowed brow on his face.

The sun emperor knew that his coffin had struck nothing. Tianming, Lingfeng, and Weisheng Moran had all used incomprehensible ways to escape and disappear before his eyes. Not a single one of Tianming's lifebound beasts had died, which was something unthinkable moments before. The sun emperor had seen Lingfeng open some kind of gate, however. Though he couldn't be sure, he thought he saw something that reminded him of the xenomemory space.

"It's only fair. They didn't expect me to have the Flameyellow Coffin and I didn't expect that the brat could escape into the xenomemory space." Both sides had their own trump cards, but one was for offense while the other was for escaping. Either way, the difference had manifested as horrible losses for the Myriad Solar Sects. "Letting a tiger roam free in the mountains will have dire consequences, let alone two tiger cubs. Once they mature, they'll be thorns in my eyes!" He took a deep breath, trying to calm down. This was a great crack in his grand plan, one that could spread and prove to be fatal.

"There isn't anything I can do to counter it." He looked at the Divine Sun Palace, which was continuing to bombard the formation that seemed to be growing weaker by the moment. "Then again, as long as I take the Myriaddragon Mountains, it would be like taking down ninety-nine percent of the Myriad Solar Sects. I'll only need half a month to clear the remaining stragglers. That way, the Flameyellow Divine Pillars will be in place in short order. Once the astralguard formation is activated, I'll be able to hunt as I please, both inside and outside of the sun! It's a small setback, but overall it's still my victory."

A victory that came far too late was a victory nonetheless. According to his original predictions, he should have taken the Myriad Solar Sects the very day he used the backup core. "The voidheart worm is hiding within the Sky Palace Formation and controls half of the astralguard formation.... But don't think that just because I can't touch you that means I can't do anything about Skywolf. Skywolf doesn't even know what kind of star world they’re trying to invade!" He heartily laughed, further boosting the confidence of his troops.

"My warriors!" He opened his arms wide as he brightly glowed. "The so-called heaven's fate, Tianming, has been crushed at my feet. I, Li Wudi, am the true incarnation of heaven's fate! I am the one that received heaven's mandate to rule! Orderia has been fractured for far too long. Only through unification can we establish an era of peace and prosperity! I labored hard for the day we face off against the Myriad Solar Sects, and victory is clearly ours! I’d wanted to spare them if they had surrendered and left their defensive formations, but they disobeyed me. The consequences that follow when their defensive formations fall will spell the deaths of billions of them!"

Everyone had seen Tianming being defeated. By then, whether he was still alive no longer mattered. The sun emperor merely said that he had crushed Tianming without saying that he had killed him, but that was enough for the celestial orderians to think that Tianming had been completely eradicated, prompting them to inch ever closer to the mountains.

However, thanks to the nine billion Omnisentient Threads, many of the defenders could still feel the white-haired youth’s presence, so they knew he was still alive. Even so, the celestial orderians had been driven mad with fervor and the defenders wouldn't be able to hold on regardless. The time to turn the tide of battle had already passed.

Once more, Divine Wrath came blasting down, drowning the area in golden light. Every shot cast a shadow of fear in everyone's hearts. They were going to lose and die! Nobody could hold against the pressure. The sun emperor and his rabid soldiers were corroding their morale at every moment and the world of golden fire had crept right up to them, burning their families and friends and even their hearts.

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"Endure!"

"Keep holding on!"

"He's still alive, everyone knows that! He isn’t dead!"

They cried tears and blood as they struggled to turn the situation around, but mere words wouldn't help them accomplish that.