Beastmaster of the Ages

Chapter 3998 - You're Too Naive

"Big Brother...." Princess You You took a few steps back, her eyes still on the sixty-meter-wide white jade cosmic god essence, and slumped to the ground. She recognized Tianming, of course, and it hadn't been that long since their temporary cooperative relationship. She clearly remembered that he’d only barely managed to defeat her the last time as a quasi cosmic god, yet now he had two helpers that could even defeat a sixth-level cosmic god! And Yu Qing was completely unlike the physically weakest ashuras—he was a deva, strongest in close combat!

You You's mind froze in disbelief, but what shocked her even more was seeing Tianming take the Trilife Affection from Moran in preparation to kill Yu Qing. She rushed to him and shouted, "Don't kill him! Stop! Let's talk it out! We'll keep working together!"

"It's too bad that your tracing rings were on. Now everyone's on the way here," Tianming said as he thrust the Trilife Affection into the essence, causing Yu Qing to groan in pain. The cosmic relic made a hole in the unbelievably hard sphere.

"You You, run! Bring more people here!" Yu Qing roared. "So what if you kill me? The seniors and comrades of the Eightpart Pantheons will eventually wipe you out and enslave you! Flameyellow was defeated long ago. You’re nothing but remnants! Do you think yourselves our equals?"

"Is that so? It's a shame that you won't be around to witness the end of the Eightpart Pantheons." Tianming's soulbeasts flowed from his brain into the essence through the sword and began setting Yu Qing’s ninth dao soul on fire.

Yu Qing groaned in agonizing pain. "Run, You You!"

"There's no time," Tianming said to Zi Zhen and Moran. "Finish them off fast. We have to wipe them out and take the little beastballs away."

Yin Chen already had a grasp on the incoming reinforcements’ location. More and more people would gather at Miracle Mountain's entrance, which would greatly complicate things; they were short on time.

"Okay!" The two of them immediately charged into the cavern to reduce the remaining devas into essences, which would make them much easier to take care of. Yu Qing's cries finally faded away completely.

"Big Brother...." Princess You You's tears flowed nonstop. Eyes bloodshot, she looked at Tianming. "You're dead! How dare you kill him, you fiend! I’ll never forgive you!"

"Wait, are you misunderstanding something?" Tianming turned his fierce gaze to the princess after he pulled the Trilife Affection out of the essence.

"What misunderstanding?"

"Did you think we were friends because we worked together that one time? Am I supposed to beg for your forgiveness?"

"You!" She took a few more steps back in fright.

"You're too naive," Tianming said. Princess You You saw the killing intent in his eyes and started shivering nonstop. The next instant, she used everything she had, transforming into her thousand-armed-bodhisattva form and releasing her jianu ghoul king through her sevenfold hell-ring, then fusing with it to increase her speed and escape! She was indeed more talented than her brother, who hadn't inherited the imperial bloodline of the thousand-armed bodhisattva. The jianu ghoul king, though still a fledgling, was even more impressive than gemini ghouls.

"You’ll pay a heavy price for this!" But before she could zip away, Tianming appeared before her and launched a kick at her chest with his right leg, armed with ten thousand star rings! Lan Huang's ability exploded with force as nearly ten thousand layers of its Triflair Primordial World unleashed in an instant, coupled with the unthinkably powerful physical force of Tianming's muscles.

Princess You You was smashed into the ground with such force that it made the entire cavern quake and crack. Her body shattered from the force; not even her fusion with the jianu ghoul king could hold up against that kick. Struggling, she got up. The thousand arms behind her wriggled as the face of the jianu ghoul king appeared, creating an impressive array of illusions, though it was still too young to pose any threat to Tianming.

He charged toward her and hacked down with the Grand-Orient Sword! You You tried blocking the strike with her thousand arms, only for them to be broken in rapid succession. Most fatal was the terra sword ki from Bai Ling. Even though You You also had a ninth dao soul, it was still much weaker than her brother's! With every broken arm, more and more terra sword ki rushed into her astral brain and wreaked havoc.

"Aaaagh!" Her astral brain turned to mush right away. She looked at Tianming, eyes wide and still ignorant of the severity of the situation. Tianming and everyone he stood for weren't playing around. It was a real war for survival against the Eightpart Pantheons! The youth from the Eightpart Pantheons still didn't quite grasp that fact, filled with pride and taking things lightly. However, Tianming was clearly aware of the kind of path he would have to take.

If it weren’t for the hatred between their groups, he could have been Princess You You's friend. But she wasn't someone that could abandon the Eightpart Pantheons, and Tianming couldn't turn his back on the flameyellow descendants, either. There would be conflict down the line even if they managed to become friends, so Tianming would merely save himself some trouble and killed her without hesitation. Otherwise it would be unfair to those that supported him!

You You had been killed before she managed to turn into her essence, being a headless corpse.

"So that was the third-ranked talent in the Ten Desolate Starforges, eh?" No matter how talented one was, death marked the end of everything. The only thing left of worth in her tiny body was the jianu ghoul king. You You had died before her hell-ring could activate again, trapping the ghoul on this plane. It hissed at Tianming, still attached to the hell-ring.

"Why’re you lashing out? You're just food." Tianming tapped his chest and the huge dead fish eye popped out. Then a gray beam emerged through the purple smoke and locked on to the jianu ghoul king, who shrieked as if it had seen the most terrifying thing ever. It struggled to crawl away to no avail, only to be swallowed into the eye.