Beastmaster of the Ages

demonstrated the might of billions.
It was as if he ruled all over them.
His mastery over the move was growing more and more, becoming closer to the original.
Even now, he was still perfecting the sword intent of the Mortal Dao Sword.
Back then, he could only achieve really minute mastery, but now he was a tenth of the way there.
There was no way the strongest sword art on the continent was only this powerful.

The intricacy of the strike caused a turmoil across the Dimensional Battlefield ’s audience, though Tianming couldn ’t hear any of it.
He was entirely focused on channeling the sword intent, trying to embody life in one sword and death in the other.
It was just one move, yet there were countless variations.

The gold Grand-Orient Sword struck the Thousand-Lightning Sword countless times in a fraction of a second.
Fang Hongxuan couldn ’t harm Tianming at all, but he slowly gave ground from the intense attacks, much to his shock.

”How could you— ” Before he could finish, the black Grand-Orient Sword struck like a cobra, embedding itself in his clavicle.
His bone was pierced straight through.
He cried out in pain, sweat forming on his forehead as an expression of fear surfaced.
Instantly, his left arm slumped down.

Tianming ’s next strike was even more ferocious.
With a simple flick of the wrist, the Grand-Orient Sword ’s tip cut the finger off from his left hand, allowing him to take the spatial ring and completely eradicating the finger at the same time.

Once more, Fang Hongxuan cried out in abject pain as his face paled.
The sword in his right hand was still thrusting, only to be blocked by Tianming ’s gold Grand-Orient Sword.
Somehow, he felt like he was fighting two people at once.
That was the main advantage of splitting the Grand-Orient Sword; it was like each one had a mind of its own.

”My Scarletflame Tome! ” he cried.
Tianming had immediately tossed the ring into the ocean, so it was practically impossible to recover.

”It ’s no more. ” Tianming cracked a smile as he spun the Grand-Orient Sword around before tapping Fang Hongxuan ’s head as he would a vegetable on the chopping block.
It caused him to bleed and almost made him faint.

”How could you be so strong?! What are you going to do?! ”

”Don ’t worry, as long as you ’re obedient, I’ll spare you. ” The smile on Tianming ’s face gave him a bad feeling.

Tianming bound him tightly with the Three-Thousand Starfield and claimed his sword for himself.
Now, Fang Hongxuan was his to play with as he pleased.

Now that that was done, Tianming ’s ’s eyes darted around the battlefield.
He saw that Meow Meow and Lan Huang were at their limits—their opponents were much stronger than them, so they could only buy time.
Ying Huo, however, was doing much better against the handless Fang Bihan.

She was trying to ignore Ying Huo and work with her brother to stop Tianming, but she was too late.
Ying Huo took the chance to attack her from behind in a pincer attack with Tianming from the front, using Ninenether Fiendgod Claw.
She was just a helpless girl.

”I surrender! ” she said, casting her sword away and lifting both arms in the air.

”Now that ’s more like it! ” Given that he was about to be overwhelmed by the disciples of the Azureriver Faction, he would have had to kill them if they didn ’t surrender.
Fortunately, he changed his claw to a normal slap on her head, causing her to spit up blood.
She was about to curse about being hit after surrendering, but had no chance when Three-Thousand Starfield wrapped around her.

”If you move, I’ll tear them to shreds! ” His voice rang throughout the battlefield.
The siblings, having experienced his ruthlessness, didn ’t dare to even twitch.
Tianming had his lifebound beasts come back and took Lan Huang back into his lifebound space for convenience, leaving Ying Huo and Meow Meow behind, each perching on one sibling ’s head respectively.

They smiled as they watched the other disciples still being shredded by the Imperealm Sword Formation.
Most of them were sky saints, and unable to deal with the sword ki at all.
Quite a few experienced ones knew to stay behind without charging in.
By the time they arrived, Tianming had taken their lords captive.

”Have your subordinates stand down or you’ll lose your remaining fingers! ” Tianming grabbed his left hand that only had four fingers remaining.

”Forget it! ” he cried.

”Oh? You want to do this the hard way, do you? ” Tianming immediately squashed his pinky finger flat.

His cry of agony was so loud that it echoed across the entire battlefield.
”Li Tianming, do you ever consider the consequences of your actions? This is the Archaion Sect! ” he said, his face pale.