Beastmaster of the Ages

Chapter 4085 - No Pain No Gain

It wasn't that Ming Yufu looked down on Tianming; some things were simply impossible to do with the power of a sole person, especially when the tyrants of the Eightpart Pantheons had long secured their rule over the Upper Star Ruin. Not to mention, the devas of the Ninefold Hellstar were no fools. As Tianming conducted his massacre, they escaped from the settlements into the vast wilderness of this massive world, much like the flameyellow descendants in fortuna-class worlds had done. Killing all of them was harder than finding the scattered flameyellow descendants in relatively smaller worlds.

Tianming answered her doubts with a smirk. "Just watch. You'll see."

He didn't have any weaknesses left, so he didn't mind showing his cards. Instantly, he flew out of the Ninefold Hellstar. When the devas saw that his blazing body had left the world, they began to crawl out of their holes.

"He left!"

"He's finally gone!"

They began to loosen up and sat down on the ground, relieved. Even though they were no longer in danger of losing their lives, they suffered a heavy blow from the humiliating losses. There was nothing left in them but sky-filling head.

"When will our reinforcements arrive? We have to let him experience so much pain that he'd pray for his misery to end!"

"He's killed at least a hundred thousand cosmic gods!"

"Only by wiping out all the slaves can our anger be quenched!"

Curses rang out endlessly all across the Ninefold Hellstar. Yet, they didn't dare to return to their cities and settlements. Chances were that they would stay put until the Eightpart Pantheons had properly taken the world back.

"Did he really leave just like that?" Ming Yufu was rather surprised, though she had a feeling that Tianming would return.

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Tianming commandeered an astralship and used the wormhole expressway to return to the vicinity of the Sun. Flying toward it, he glowed brighter than the fortuna-class world itself!

"Emperor!" The one trillion flameyellow descendants in the Sun were Tianming's most fervent believers and the first to follow him in the Upper Star Ruin. They were the models for countless other people. Long Xing and the others had rendered a huge merit indeed. It would take time for them to experience a proper rise, but their spirits had already begun to help Tianming revive their people.

"The fortuna-class Sun is at the edge of atrophying. It looks far too dim. It'll drop in class for sure if I don't inject more nova source into it." No doubt, Ji Ji's past refuelings had sapped the Sun considerably.

There simply weren't enough middlekin stars for the Sun to grow substantially in the fortuna class. "If the Sun changes, the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb changes with it! I need a huge base to fight in the Upper Star Ruin, so I have to raise the Sun to the maniverse class...."

The imperial class, however, was still too far off and the final destination of the Sun's journey. "Alright, let's work on the penultimate step!"

Tianming entered the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb in the Sun where Zi Zhen, Moran, Wudi, and Qingyu waited.

"Are you sure about this?" Wudi asked, smiling.

"We've been waiting for quite a while, so let's do it!" Tianming's lips curved into a smile. "That battle to break out of encirclement has caused my omnisentient threads to spread to thirty percent of the flameyellow descendants in the Upper Star Ruin. If I show them the Flameyellow Imperial Star, I should be able to make even more progress!"

"Thirty percent? What level does that put you at?" Wudi asked. Wasn't Tianming only the third most talented in the Upper Star Ruin? Things were starting to sound insane.

"I'm unmatched by anyone in maniverse-class worlds. Even if I go to imperial-class worlds, people there can't even kill me," Tianming said. In other words, he'd become a certified monster in the Upper Star Ruin. He had established his foundations in the Lower Star Ruins, which allowed people who worshipped him to spread like wildfire. While he had thirty-percent coverage in the Upper Star Ruin, that number was almost a hundred percent in the Ten Desolate Starforges specifically. It was an explosive boost.

"Let's put that aside for now. We're starting!" The father and son were just as excited; the Flameyellow Coffin would get a boost if the Sun grew again, after all. Wudi already had an edge over Tianming when it came to breaking through, so imagine if that got even more potent.

"Flameyellow Atlas, display!" Tianming opened it up and locked onto the Ninefold Hellstar in the display. He then took a deep breath while the others watched nervously. "Flameyellow Divine Path, open!"

The Sun would be making a leap. Everyone returned to the Sky Palace Formation as the Sun began to burn even brighter. They set their sights on the distance where a gigantic black-gold vortex explosively came into being before expanding at a rapid rate to form a universal flower.

"Enter!" Tianming controlled the Sun using the fusion formation as he would when he piloted the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb. As the Sun entered the pathway, everyone could see a brilliant river of Flameyellow, majestic and vigorous! It was the first time flameyellow descendants from the Midsky Tristars witnessed the Flameyellow Divine Path, giving them quite the shock. Everyone connected to Tianming could sense Tianming's feelings about the move they were about to make. They were about to make history!

"Omnisentient threads are not easy to generate, but once I achieve certain milestones toward restoring our kind to its former glory, everything gets easier...." For instance, it would be too difficult to rely on glory alone to produce omnisentient threads at Violetglory or Myriadpath Valley.

However, this very same strategy netted explosive gains in the Upper Star Ruin because Tianming brought the Sun and stood as the hopebearer of the restoration of the flameyellow divinities' glory. The hope reminded them of the rage that festered as a result of being oppressed, which fueled the explosive growth. They wielded Tianming as their weapon of vengeance. The whole experience of the opening of the Flameyellow Divine Path was shared by everyone connected to the omnisentient threads. Not long before, the Flameyellow Divine Path and the Flameyellow Imperial Star had been nothing but myths within their dreams.

"When the Sun reaches the Ninefold Hellstar, it'd no doubt shrink back to the infinitum class after consuming so much energy, but it doesn't matter." Tianming could feel the nova source within the world drain beyond the capacity of a fortuna-class world. The fusion formation began to shrink.

"No pain, no gain, after all," Wudi said.

"That's right!" With a loud explosion, the black-gold vortex opened up on the other side where the Ninefold Hellstar was.

"What is that?!" Many people in the orbiter worlds were stunned by the sight. As they watched a whole nova-source world emerged from the depths of space. They had forgotten to breathe and looked as if they were going to asphyxiate!

"What in the world is it this time...." Their eyes shook as the crimson-yellow world continued its course toward the Ninefold Hellstar.