Beastmaster of the Ages

In the dark and lonely void of space, a nine-headed mechanical dragon circled around a Middlekin Star Ruin and scattered small silver objects. They were Yin Chen's bodies that had recently taken on a new form unlocked during the evolution: starcloud bugs.

It was an insect form that looked like space debris, able to vary in size, gathering together to form asteroids or splitting up and shrinking to the size of invisible stardust. No ship would notice the tiny fragments as they flew past.

Starcloud bugs had two advantages, the first being the expansion of surveillance range. After they were scattered, they floated in the void and absorbed small amounts of nova source that radiated in the surroundings to adjust their positions using attractive or repulsive forces. They were also incredibly hardy and could survive for a really long time. Yin Chen's bodies could be spread far and wide, unlike Bai Ye's soul seeds, which would inevitably be lost in the abyss of space.

The second advantage was that it had incredible powers of surveillance up to the level of energy perturbations, which allowed them to sense any kind of ship or cultivator in their presence. Tianming wanted to expand his surveillance completely over the Middlekin Star Ruin, which would be a huge advantage for him when it came to astral wars. His enemies would never be able to grasp his plans.

"During the Cosmic God Trial, I had Yin Chen infiltrate the various astral continents around to grow their numbers by consuming the fortuna-class ores there to reach its full capacity of ten trillion bodies, and it actually reached that number!"

Yin Chen was terrifying when it came to its full volume. Most of that volume didn't reside within Tianming's lifebound space, especially considering that Eighth had recently taken it over. The many Yin Chens were gathered around the astral continents in which they had feasted and multiplied, so Tianming had to collect them before he could scatter them around the Middlekin Star Ruin.

"In a few short days, I've already covered up to ten times the surveillance volume of the Middlekin Star Ruin. It should be enough, right?" He was never not impressed by the abilities that his beasts' bloodline chains unlocked. The latest of their transformations had greatly boosted their combined might, to the point that his totems and battle arts seemed like they were falling behind. Sometimes, he would be too lazy to use them and relied on his beasts' abilities for bombardment.

"I wonder how they’ll change once they completely transform into cosmic gods.... Maybe they'll change even more once we become overflowers. My totems, wonders, and battle techniques really have to catch up!" If they didn’t, he wouldn't be able to fight well with them anymore. At the end of the day, of all his boons, his Primordial Chaos Beasts were still the toughest of all of them.

"I still have time, so I should keep expanding this territory." Tianming continued letting the ship cruise along as he scattered more and more silver insects. He would have eyes in the sky that could see everything and would be able to avoid the powerful and target the weak with surgical precision. "This will continue until I get enough middlekin stars."

If he could deal with the three eighth-level overflowers that were guarding the Middlekin Star Ruin before the arrival of Fentian He, that would be ideal. "With Zhantian Le and nine million flameyellow descendants, I'll be able to take down everything!"