Beastmaster of the Ages

Chapter 3258 - Jiguang Sea

Tianming appeared in the Myriadpath Celestial Formation once more. Looking down at his body, he noticed that the starlight that radiated from him had finally gone away. Even the black and gold omnisentient threads with increased reach wouldn't be able to connect to him there.

"If Godfather and Old Lin manage to pull off their plan, I might have up to three quadrillion omnisentient threads the next tI go back!" Most importantly, the hundred trillion gods in Ebonia were his core base of power. If the other worlds in the Infinitum Mundus had enough omnisentient threads to serve as a relay for the Ebonian threads, Tianming would be able to unleash as much power as he had around Ebonia.

The more threads he had, the more his combat capabilities would rise as well. Once he returned to the Infinitum Mundus, it didn't matter how individually strong he was, though it was still a short-term boost at the end of the day. He would still have to count on himself to grow stronger.

"Not to mention, my weapons, battle arts, abilities, and divine wonders are also capable of channeling omnisentient power." Tianming was really curious how he would compare to the best in Myriadpath Valley when he was in the Infinitum Mundus. It was too bad that he wouldn't have a chance to test that out, not that he would try to create it since it would basically be suicide.

"Viridian!" Tianming immediately remembered what he had to do. The destruction of all life on an entire star was a cold damper to the exhilaration of the expansion of his empire.

"Brother, you're finally back!" said a familiar voice.

Tianming looked up and saw Suishen Zhao, looking both excited and troubled. "Why were you waiting here?"

"It's my sister. She kept impatiently pacing about and askedto wait for you here so that you go to Jiguang Sea right after you return," he said in resignation.

Normally, it would be sufficient for Fen Nu alone to wait there. Tianming did see the eminent when he turned around and couldn't just ask Suishen Zhao about world destruction with someone else listening in.

If nobody in the Million Mundi is capable of that, then only someone from Myriadpath Valley is. Viridian’s also too far away, so the people of that world probably haven't heard of my name. They might know Lin Feng better than Li Tianming, so people shouldn't have figured out that the Infinitum Mundus is my home. If I ask Fen Nu about it and he goes to Eminent Ranxing, who would likely know who did it, wouldn't I be exposing myself?

Tianming decided against asking Suishen Zhao about it. Even if Fen Nu wasn't around, he would have to carefully consider the consequences of such a question. He didn't doubt Suishen Zhao's character at all, it was just that the Three Exalted Houses' internal factions were far too complicated. There were all kinds of interests competing with each other, and a youth like Suishen Zhao wouldn't know about them nearly well enough to navigate all that. Even if Eminent Ranxing wasn't out to get him, he was still someone dangerous to be aware of.

Even though the Suishen siblings are on my side, I can't expect them to betray their house for my sake if I run into trouble. I have to tread carefully! Even though Tianming believed it wasn't particularly likely that Myriadpath Valley would be involved with a world so far away, he just couldn't think of any other faction capable of exterminating Viridian in such a fashion. It wasn't something a single top expert could do; it must have been skind of large-scale formation of sorts.

I'll use Yin Chen to look into it for now. After that, I'll see if I can ask Jian Qinghe about it. The closer he got to the Three Exalted Houses, the more he felt like he couldn’t align with them, especially with the way that Eminent Ranxing had treated him so far.

On the other hand, he felt that he could trust Jian Qinghe, even though he had only met her twice.

"Tianming, what’re you thinking about?" Suishen Zhao said, noticing that Tianming seemed to be in deep thought and wasn’t listening to his excited ramblings.

"Oh? Ah, nothing. I was just homesick again," Tianming said.

"Homesick?" Suishen Zhao didn't seem to understand the word that well. "I've never left Myriadpath Valley, so I wouldn't know what that feels like."

"Haha, how could someone who lives in the center of the universe feel homesick?" Tianming couldn't help but chuckle.

Suishen Zhao awkwardly laughed. Then he got close to Tianming and whispered, "I mean.... Well, forget that. My sister seems really impatient. I don't know what kind of prank she has in store for you."

"Huh?" Tianming was taken aback. "Can I not go?"

"No. Fen Nu’s here to bring you there on her orders. I won't be able to help you out here, so you should pray to your lucky stars."

"Dang.... You seem rather happy about my predicament, though."

"Oh, did I let it show on my face?"

Tianming wanted to give him a smack. On the way to Myriadpath Valley, he scattered Yin Chens around. People wouldn't look twice if they saw insects roaming around, even in Myriadpath Valley. They wouldn't think that it was the child spawn of sbroodmother-type beast either, and especially not insects with their own intelligence. Even if they did notice that they were Tianming's bugs, they wouldn't be able to do much about them.

"Your main mission is to investigate Viridian," Tianming said.

"You are... really naggy..." Yin Chen said.

"Oh, someone's feisty. That's the boss, Little Li, that you're talking to here," Ying Huo snapped.

"That is... because I... have dirt... on him...."

"What dirt?!" Ying Huo, Lan Huang, Xian Xian, and Ji Ji perked up their ears.

"Ahem, what? Nothing!" Tianming cleared his throat.

"What are you coughing for? Bug got your tongue?!" Ying Huo shot him a suspicious glance.

"Secrets are... meant to... be kept," Yin Chen said.

"Fuck! Tellalready!" Ying Huo was going to flip out.

"No no... no no... informants would... rather die... than sell... out others!"

Tianming shot it a thumbs-up for its professional work ethic.

"Well, it isn’t like you can die, so just let us hear it," Ying Huo reasoned. It felt like it was missing a great show and couldn't help itself from wanting to learn it.

However, Yin Chen wasn't buying it. "Are you... joking, bird? Dirt is... best kept... for my... own use!"