Beastmaster of the Ages

Chapter 2007 - One Wielding a Sword, Two Carrying a Coffin (1)𝘧𝑟𝙚eｗ𝑒𝒃n𝒐𝘷𝑒𝚕. c૦𝙢

Flint infernal sword ki strands swam inside the Sword Imperealm Formation. Countless dark red swords appeared within a hundred-thousand-meter radius of the battlefield. The sun emperor had never seen a deific-class world before and didn't even know about the wondersky realms, so he had no idea about cosmic impulses, either. As such, Tianming knew that the sun emperor's comment was just a bluff.

He felt as assured as ever and wouldn't let the sun emperor's words sway him. Ying Huo and the rest were sending suppressive fire using their abilities, while he had managed to successfully deploy the Imperealm Sword Formation. Then he manifested the Prime Mountain, bringing a second formation to the battlefield. One formation came from the Grand-Orient Sword, while the other came from the Prime Tower.

The two formations could move around Tianming or his lifebound beasts. One of them had absorbed some Flint Infernal Impulse, making the swords far sharper, while the other absorbed power from the Omnisentient Threads and gained incredible mass.

Between the two great formations was Tianming with his sword, activating the flint infernal sword ki, causing it to surge into a red vortex beside him. All of the swords were pointed toward the sun emperor and his coffin.

"Oh, that looks sinister and ominous. It doesn't quite seem like your style." The sun emperor didn't seem to take much notice, and even mocked it for looking dark and sinister like Ying Huo's Infernal Blaze, while his own power of the sun was bright and righteous!

Just as Tianming attacked, he snickered and gave the coffin behind him a smack. It was the core of the Flameyellow Guard Formation where they were fighting. All of a sudden, countless waves of fire drowned Tianming and his sword formation in flaming clouds. From a distance, it looked like a platinum-colored bump had formed on the Flameyellow Guard Formation.

"Is that little formation of yours all you’ve got? Let's see if my Flameyellow Guard Formation or your little formation is better." The sun emperor’s laughter echoed through the flamescape filled with rampaging beasts of fire. More and more of them gathered, further sealing Tianming off. The Imperealm Sword Formation and prime wonder were like nested formations, shielding Tianming and his beasts from the flaming beasts that roared and gnawed at them. As expected, the beasts were coming for him now that the formation was controlled by the sun emperor and he wasn't inside the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb. Their savage roars competed with the loud crackling of the flames around them.

"Brat, let's see how you escape my grasp now!" The sun emperor let out a lion-like bellow as the Flameyellow Coffin once more turned into a flaming meteor to attack Tianming alongside the flaming beasts. The sun emperor seemed like an avatar of fire; however, Tianming had never feared fire since the very beginning. The baptismal flame only made him, his swords, and his lifebound beasts look even more sinister.

"Die!" With a great swing of the sword, the countless blades of the Imperealm Sword Formation struck in unison with the power of fifty billion Omnisentient Threads, further enhanced by the Flint Infernal Impulse. The dark red sword ki pierced through the sea of flames, causing countless explosions that scattered the myriad flaming beasts of the formation. More than a billion of them were reduced to ash in one sweep by the ubiquitous sword ki, which also formed a protective cage around Tianming and the rest. Any that dared approach it would be reduced to nothing.

A single explosive strike from Tianming had given him an unbelievable edge, immediately neutralizing the pressure from the Flameyellow Guard Formation and forcing the sun emperor and his coffin back. He had to rely on his crows' totemic calamity to defend against the flint infernal sword ki-charged Imperealm Sword Formation!

I really can't imagine the kind of power the Grand-Orient Sword will have after the power of all nine cosmic impulses is released.... A single strike alone was enough to recharge Tianming's confidence. He had a completely new impression of the sword he held. It was time for him to press the advantage for more follow-up attacks.

Despite being wiped out in a single sweep, even more flaming beasts came swarming toward Tianming. It seemed that the Flameyellow Guard Formation was boundless in power, given that it was supported by a sun that was five times its former size. The longer the fight dragged on, the less chance he had to win.

"Go!" He didn't want to waste a single word on the sun emperor. All that mattered was settling their fight for good.

"Charge!" Ying Huo cried in a hot-blooded manner. While Tianming's lifebound beasts were usually carefree and optimistic, even they were annoyed at being forced into a corner by the sun emperor so many times.

Meow Meow, especially, knew that it would never get any peaceful sleep so long as the sun emperor lived. "I'll kill you for an eternal nap!" It turned into a bolt of lightning then mixed its Genesis Bolt and Chaos Fiendbolt together to form an electric net that layered over the Imperealm Sword Formation.

"Me first!" What they didn't expect was that Yin Chen would be the one to lead the charge at the very front. Tens of millions of silver stars came swarming out from behind Tianming. While each one was miniscule compared to the fire around them, all of the ladybugs gathered together let out a blinding flash that drowned out everything.

Then a gigantic silver ball that was larger than Lan Huang's body appeared before Tianming. It was glowing far too brightly, so it was impossible to tell that it was made entirely out of eight-starred ladybugs. Every single bug had eight points of light, and all of them together made a glow so intense that even Tianming and the sun emperor had to shut their eyes! The light seemed to carve a path through the flaming clouds like the Ninedragon Apotheosis had. It even seeped through the Flameyellow Guard Formation, allowing the denizens of the sun to see it.

In an instant, the silver ball flew straight toward the sun emperor with overbearing might. He furrowed his brows and gathered all nine of his totems before him before turning them into nine suns that exploded with power. The balls of flame clashed with the silver ball of light, which exploded to generate even more radiance as the individual metal shards from the explosion continued their charge, tearing into three three-legged golden crows and smashing them apart. Only when they bumped into the fourth did Yin Chen's bodies crumble and scatter. Many silver eggs were burnt to a crisp, with some even being vaporized, but it didn't matter to a being with countless replaceable bodies. It was Yin Chen's strongest strike, and the eight-starred ladybug was its most offensive insect form. Their coordinated assault was basically akin to a lifebound beast's ability.

"It wiped out three totems by itself!" The sun emperor only had six left, while Li Wudi had nine.

"You're a badass, Yin Chen!" Seeing their youngest sibling open the battle with such flair, the other four beasts didn't want to hold back. All of them used their strongest abilities and charged toward the sun emperor alongside Tianming.

Ying Huo had quite an easy time absorbing nova source amidst the flaming clouds and turned into a flaming sun that was even larger than the three-legged golden crows. Comparatively, it looked even more like the bird that represented the sun!