Chapter 4040 - The Final Step
Yin Chen was no longer bothered by the sludge-like flameyellow void essence that covered the entire lower ruins, so the whereabouts of those from the imperial lineages were clearly noted.
"Ever since Eighth absorbed the sakyamuni ghoul king, it seems much more vigorous than before. I bet it'll make even more progress once I deal with the folks from the imperial lineages." The pressure from the imperial lineages made it so that Tianming had to constantly move around as they kept a constant lookout on his tracks through the Heavenly Dao Arena.
"Yin Chen said that some of the devas that entered lately are thousand-meter-tall cosmic gods... they’re as tall as Mushan Xue...." Even if Tianming became a cosmic god, he would still be far from being able to deal with people from imperial lineages, so he decided to keep avoiding them.
Before he made his final push, he had Moran and Zi Zhen head to where the little beastballs were. The Eightpart Pantheons were targeting them, after all. After discovering that the Empyrean Yin-Yang Mirror could store organic beings, Moran used them to store the essences of dead wonderians; there was still enough space for a hundred million little beastballs in there as well.
"Make sure to hurry," Tianming said to them.
"Sure thing." Tianming wasn't too worried, since Yin Chen was keeping an eye on their foes. If they really ran out of time, they would have no choice but to leave with only some of the little beastballs. He went to the lower part of Miracle Mountain and stopped in a patch of wilderness.
"Let's absorb the cosmic tribulation seas first." His totems were connected to his lifesbane order. Not to mention, his imperial order had grown and reached its limits, while his lifesbane order somewhat lagged behind. He had a strong feeling that, if he could raise his totems' simulacra, he would be able to stimulate some growth in lifesbane order for that one final step. The three-thousand-plus people, including Tai Xingyun, had around three thousand cosmic tribulation seas in their possession.
Those unfilial little shits actually took their ancestors out of their peaceful rest so that they could break through on the road.... Honestly.... Tianming was long used to the amoral behavior of the Eightpart Pantheons. It didn't bother him, anyway, since he was the one to reap all the benefits.
To absorb the cosmic tribulation seas by force, he had to use his Sky Plundering Arm. It was a risk to do so, given that the Heavenly Dao Arena was surveilling him. Fortunately, Zi Zhen's mask cloaked his arm in purple mist, so all they could see was the mist touching the bane-rings of the ancestral corpses before the cosmic tribulation seas were sucked dry one after another. It took almost no time at all for him to absorb all of them into his decapath era godswords, raising their simulacra again and again. Even though the progress slowed down, it was still within his expectations.