Beastmaster of the Ages

hound that thought it could still toy with them suddenly found itself rolling on the ground, then smacked in the mouth by Lan Huang ’s sword tail.

”Damn you! Respect your elders! ” it cried.
However, Ying Huo ’s palm-sized body immediately appeared in front of it and attacked with two sword strikes.
The first, Hadean Reincarnation, was blocked by its eyelid, but the second, Empyrean Reincarnation, pierced into its eyeball and caused it to rupture.
With that exchange, it lost one eye.

”Are you going to keep biting, old dog? ” Ying Huo then shot its ability, the Sixpath Samsara Lotus, into its mouth for another explosion.
Both it and Meow Meow were too fast.
No matter how powerful the hound was, it couldn ’t reliably hit the two of them.

But during that time, the other three enemies closed in on them.
Xian Xian and Meow Meow faced off against the two grand moon guides together, while Lan Huang and Ying Huo dealt with the two hounds, supported by Xian Xian’s Evernight Curse and Bloodrain Swords, and protected by many of Xian Xian ’s roots.
As the two of them had the same elemental attributes as their foes, they weren ’t afraid of them.
It would be a grand melee of life and death.
Unlike before, they weren’t fighting passively at the pace of their foes.
Ying Huo ’s surprise attack on the desolate forgehound had significantly wounded it.
Surprise attacks were its forte, after all.
The hound howled and roared in pain as it blasted its abilities with abandon, but Ying Huo was so small that it easily evaded them.
Like an annoying tick, it jumped around the hound ’s body and kept pecking away with power disproportionate to its size.

”Here comes another! ” 

Everywhere Blazebane struck, wounds appeared.
The hound couldn ’t even see Ying Huo properly.

”Let ’s see you fight back now! ”

The desolate forgehound could only groan as it waited for a chance to fight back against the rapid attacks.
However, Xian Xian made sure to cut them off from the rest of the battlefield, allowing the rest of Tianming’s beasts to focus on their own respective enemies without worrying about anything else.

The two grand moon guides didn ’t seem to be fighting that hard.
Since Tianming had showed them his ten totems, all they were trying to do was stop Lan Huang from destroying the formation core rather than kill him.
They were afraid he would be another person on the level of the Ninemoon Goddess, and feared his retaliation.

”Just hold on and prevent him from destroying the formation core, ” said one of the guides.

”But three moon guides already died at his hand! ” cried another.

”Let Her Majesty bring him to justice! This isn’t someone we can afford to cross! Let ’s see what the saint moon guide wants to do about this. ”

Liu Qinghuan was engaged in a fierce battle with Tianming elsewhere on the battlefield.
Tianming had clearly seen everything that had happened to his lifebound beasts.
They were able to counterattack and fight as a team; given his trust in them, he wasn ’t worried about them at all.

While they might have been polar opposites in the past, I ’m now the rope that ties them together. They weren ’t just fighting for survival.
They were completely in tune in a perfect synergy.

Naturally, it hurt him to see Lan Huang and Xian Xian injured.
Now that Liu Qinghuan had joined the fray, his chances of failure were exponentially growing.
Ying Huo and the rest looked like they couldn ’t hold out much longer against so many totems and beasts many levels higher than them, either.

Maybe I can drag the fight there.
That way, I can use some of my godswords to help them. Though that was his initial thought, he dropped the notion after seeing them get it together and fight desperately to buy time for him.

”Don ’t care about us! Just use your totems to break through! ” Ying Huo said to him through their mental connection.
It was also anxious to tip the balance of battle in their favor, as reinforcements might come soon.

Liu Qinghuan was more than happy to take his time.
”You fight fiercely.
As expected of a genius.
If only you ’d put all that effort into doing good.
What good will going against the divine moonrace do you? ”

Tianming ignored him.
It looked like he was addicted to guarding the place for the divine moonrace.

”Whatever.
I ’ll spar with you then, ” Liu Qinghuan said as he drew a gigantic warblade with a long handle.
One side of the blade was blue with roiling waves, while the other was red with burning flames.
The blade was a fusion of fire and water, called the Heaven-Earth Sunderer.