Beastmaster of the Ages

Chapter 1873 - Righteousness and Vileness

The sun emperor's boisterous laughter resounded across the battlefield, striking fear into the hearts of the defenders. "Come! Kill me... if you can!" He pointed at the gigantic golden head. "Just cut off my head and it's your win. You'll have successfully gotten your revenge. Come!"

That was his true personality, nothing other than boundless self-centered pride. He didn't give Tianming any way to back off. But Tianming hadn't even been considering running in the first place. As history often showed, some events seemed inevitable. The current of destiny inevitably pushed things in place; there was no other choice but to fight to avenge his godfather and save the Myriad Solar Sects.action

"Let's beat that shithead up for good! Only after we overcome him can we freely soar unabated," Ying Huo said. It was the calmest it had ever been. The pressure from the sun emperor told it that he meant business. He was a fatal threat.

"If killing him can earn me a lot of rest time, I’ll give it my all," Meow Meow said, no longer joking. It assumed its Regal Chaosfiend form, surrounded by countless menacing lightning bolts.

Tianming pursed his lips and turned to Weisheng Moran. "If things go south, run. Don't needlessly die here. Your life isn't yours alone. There's still your sisters. They suffered much and deserve a good life."

"They said they'll fight to the death by your side," Weisheng Moran resolutely said.

Tianming didn't bother saying anything else. This would be the hardest battle he’d had to face yet, and the enemy wouldn’t give him a chance to turn back. The sun emperor manifested nine oppressive totems. Eight of them came stretching out from his arms, four from each, while the ninth, which grew from his chest, was much larger. It rose above the sun emperor's head like a grand mountain. All of them were humanoid celestial being totems, covered in flames and wearing imperial robes. They wore brilliant crowns that showed off their regal dignity, especially the one in the center!

They were kings among totems. All of the celestial orderians’ totems immediately hailed the sun emperor's. Each of the nine totems seemed like a miniature nova source as they hung above the sun emperor like bright stars, holding gigantic flaming swords. They were known as divine solar gods, their name echoing the old gods from eons ago. It was said that the divine solar gods were the rulers of the old gods.

The sun emperor was a tyrannical despot, and his totems symbolized the legitimacy of his rule. Their chaotic power seemed to be straightened out by an aura of absolute authority. Faced with such a symbol of absolute rule, most could do nothing but submit.

"The divine solar gods swallow and dominate all! They rule the battlefield without equal!" chanted countless celestial orderians as they intensified their suicidal slaughter.

Facing such an absolute sovereign, all three of Tianming's cultivation methods, his lifebound beasts, totems, and divine wonders, worked at full swing. Even so, his aura seemed to wane before the sun emperor's.

The sun emperor no longer said a word after he manifested his totems and turned into a pure fighting machine. He wielded a golden greatsword himself, one that resembled the Grand-Orient Sword. It was a grade-eight divine artifact, but it was incredibly close to grade-nine in power! It was called the Sunscorch Imperius, the finest weapon known to the celestial orderians. It was even more impressive than Li Wushuang's Skymoon Holyfiend. In a place like Orderia, where grade-nine divine artifacts didn’t exist, it was the most powerful weapon of all, and it was wielded by the most powerful man in Orderia.

The sun emperor launched his strike while his totems sealed off the space around them, swinging their own blades downward. The attack didn't seem to hold any deep mysteries; it was nothing but sheer brute force. His power and that of his totems surged to unimaginable heights, much to Tianming's peril.

Tianming felt a core difference that separated the sun emperor from the dreamless celestial emperor. He was much stronger than the rumors suggested. Perhaps that was the result of his gains in recent years and why he was confident that he could crush the Myriad Solar Sects! Maybe if Li Wushuang hadn’t died, followed by the changes in Primodragon Cave and Tianming's rise, the Myriad Solar Sects would have submitted to him long ago.

The battle of epic proportions absolutely dazzled the countless onlookers. That instant, Weisheng Moran attacked anyone that came for Tianming, using all forty-nine of her divine wonders across the battlefield. The additional forty-nine dreamless whales surrounded the sun emperor, moving faster and faster in the sea of flames and stars. All fifty divine wonders rapidly absorbed the surrounding nova source and channeled the power into their formations, obstructing the sun emperor and his totems.

In terms of combat prowess, she probably wasn’t far off from the dead dreamless celestial emperor. Her attacks seemed quite effective against the sun emperor, bringing the defenders much hope. Tianming and his beasts didn't let the chance go and doubled down on their attacks. Even Xian Xian was fighting nearby, as well as the swarm of silver eggs. Infused with the Omnisentient Will of seven billion people, he fought like a desperate madman.

Just as it seemed he was gaining an edge, Weisheng Moran's divine wonders shook, then shattered. One after the other, they collapsed from a terrifying outburst of power. The nine divine solar gods came bursting out, wildly swinging their greatswords and slashing the divine wonders apart like butter.