Beastmaster of the Ages

Chapter 3347 - Courting Death

"Ugh...." Gongsun Yan's eyes widened in horror. His body shuddered as he completely lost his mind, his eyeballs about to pop out. Absolute fear had swallowed his entire being.

Tianming said, "You managed to leave Skydome without issue, so I didn't plan on doing anything. I even forgot about you, yet you went and decided to bring others to Skydome to make a mess there. Tell me: what can that be if not courting death?!"

He didn't wait for Gongsun Yan to say anything else and immediately wiped him out at the moment when his despair was deepest. Lan Yun's second to fifth disciples were all dead. Tianming had said that he would get rid of all of them, but it was only an empty threat. He didn't want to do it unless he had absolutely no choice. The fact that Gongsun Yan had survived to this point was proof of that, yet fate truly likes to toy with people.

"I guess when one’s destined to die, there's no escaping heaven's way." The reason he had told Gongsun Yan everything was to vent the secrets that he normally couldn't speak about at all. Dead men told no tales, after all.

Once he left the Skymartial Blacksea, Tianming headed to the Myriadpath Celestial Formation. "Lan Yun, even though you're dead, why’re you still haunting me? Your disciples knew nothing, yet they just so happened to stumble upon my vital spot."

He was more concerned with the second matter that Yin Chen had brought up. It had something to do with Lan Yun, and the location of Infinitum as well.

"Back then, Lan Yun only issued that ultimatum to me after she went to Intrepidus and asked about Infinitum. That means that people in Intrepidus know Infinitum's location, and that they can reach it from Skydome."

House Yumo's search would no doubt cover Intrepidus as well. Tianming shuddered at the thought that he had almost forgotten about such a glaring loophole. Fortunately, the disciples that were supposed to be sent to scout Intrepidus hadn't left yet, due to scheduling. Yin Chen had happened to hear about him telling someone else that he’d been assigned to scout Intrepidus.

"The Intrepidus Mundus.... From the name alone, it must be another self-aggrandizing mundus that doesn't know their wider place in the world. They must be rather isolationist and think they're at the center of the universe, hehe."

That sole comment had reminded Yin Chen about the trouble with Lan Yun, so it’d immediately warned Tianming about it. It just so happened that the one who had said it was her first disciple, Tang Xiao, Tianming's former eldest senior brother! If it hadn’t been for the fact that he hadn't been sent on his mission yet, Gongsun Yan would no doubt have invited him to go to Skydome as well.

That was more troublesome for Tianming. Tang Xiao was a second-level foundationeer who had six levels on Tianming, being more or less at the level of Taihe, Li Fan's late master.

"He's on a mundus mission, so I can't really kill him. I should make him submit to me in Intrepidus before bringing him back!" No matter what, he couldn't allow Tang Xiao to tell House Yumo where Infinitum was.

While it was rather risky for Tianming to be moving about on his own without protection right after returning, he couldn't afford to borrow anything from Myriadpath Valley as it concerned Infinitum's safety. Yin Chen guided him on a path that allowed him to avoid everyone else. When he reached the formation, Yin Chen said that Tang Xiao had left.

"I can still make it." If Tianming waited in line, Tang Xiao would have been done already by the time he arrived, so he didn't bother hiding himself.

"Pathkeeper Li!" The hundreds of thousands of cultivators there had just heard about his victory over Qitian Jian and rise to second place, only to see their star show up before them in person.

"Everyone, I have some urgent business to attend to. Would it be fine if I go ahead?" Tianming asked.

"Minor Pathkeeper, surely you jest! Anyone of reverend status and above are allowed to leave as they please, let alone minor pathkeepers."

"That's right!"

"Very well. I’ll see you all again soon!" Tianming said.

"You're too polite, Pathkeeper Li."

Tianming activated the formation with his myriadpath ring and went straight to Intrepidus. While it seemed like it only took an instant, around ten days passed. He arrived in the nick of time and saw a youth clad in blue heading toward a gigantic, shining star. As there was a stareye in Intrepidus, there was a godshade stationed there to attend to Tang Xiao. Tianming arrived before they even spoke.

"Oh, yet another lord from Myriadpath Valley is here?" The godshade elder seemed rather taken aback. After Lan Yun had exterminated the enemies of the godshades, they’d managed to regain control over Intrepidia despite their lack of a foundationeer. However, their combined combat might couldn't even faze Tianming and Tang Xiao.

"Pathkeeper Li, why’d you come here?" Tang Xiao seemed rather taken aback. Tianming would never come to a place like this! He wasn't too familiar with Tianming, considering the fact that he had been in seclusion during Tianming's initial arrival. By the time he had left seclusion, Tianming's status was already really high, so there was no reason for him to stir up trouble with him.

"Tang Xiao, come here," Tianming said, waving him over.

"Of course!" Tang Xiao nodded, but he didn't know what to make of things. What made him even more speechless was that Tianming immediately suppressed him with the grand lexicon wonder. At the same time, he unleashed his totems' fourfold simulacrum and executed the Greatsun Suishen Art!

Even though Tang Xiao was a second-level foundationeer, he was actually weaker than Yumo Lingyue in combat. Like Lan Yun, he was also a totemancer. His octabane totems, gargantuan azuredragons, had fivefold simulacra. The moment Tianming attacked, he immediately manifested them, but it was too late.

Qitian Jian's full might wasn't able to defend against that move, let alone Tang Xiao, who had been caught off guard. If it wasn’t for Tianming not outright wanting to kill him, he would have immediately died instead of ending up heavily injured!

"Pathkeeper Li, why? We even used to have the same master..." Tang Xiao said, shaking and bloody.