Beastmaster of the Ages-Chapter 3468 - Im Sorry

The maiden basking in light had matured into a woman and seemed to have gained the final piece of the puzzle that made her beauty unparalleled. There were no words that could adequately describe her beauty. If there was a pinnacle of beauty, she would be it. The thought of someone like that telling Tianming so many stories and guiding him every step of the way was something that he could never forget. However, he chose to not let his thoughts linger on it.

I wonder what Auntie’s thinking after all this.... She can't possibly want to kill me, right? Tianming's thoughts raced. He couldn't say a single word and stood there watching her cultivate with her eyes closed. Maybe she also benefited greatly from that and started internalizing all of it.

Right after the ritual was complete, she’d already begun cultivating before Tianming had returned to his senses. It was clear who had ended up benefiting more from it. After all, she had broken through once before just through totemic bonding. In that sense, Tianming hadn't just helped her break through, but also saved her life, so he didn't feel too guilty about it.

That said, even though it hadn’t been his choice to come here in the first place, nor to participate in the ritual, he still ended up feeling weird about it. He decided not to overthink it and wait for her to voice her thoughts.

"Huh?" He saw her foundation fortress fully manifested. It stood tall at eleven stories.

Wait, that's.... He saw a twelfth floor of the fortress rapidly being constructed. Right as he discovered it, the whole floor had completely taken form. A foundation fortress with twelve floors? Doesn't that mean she's reached the major zenith? She's comparable to people like Qitian Muyu and Suishen Ranxing, heads of the Three Exalted Houses!

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In the entire astralscape of order, the only person known to have achieved the super zenith was the valley lord. The major-zenith foundationeers that followed only numbered nine in total, three for each of the Three Exalted Houses. Together, they made up the top ten elite of the astralscape.

House Suishen had the old patriarch, Suishen Hongtian, and Suishen Ranxing. They were supreme astral gods by the standards of the Million Mundi, each of them able to rule over a hundred thousand mundi!

So far, the youngest major-zenith foundationeer was around four thousand years old. But here, Eminent Jiguang had achieved the major zenith before the age of three thousand. It would break all precedent in Myriadpath Valley, as well as the minds of all its cultivators! Tianming could already feel the rumble of unfathomable power that forcefully radiated off her body. Being enveloped by power like that made him feel like a helpless child.

That's amazing! He was happy for her. At her level, only the valley lord could possibly put any pressure on her, and he would be unable to expel the toxin from his body within the next ten years at the earliest.

House Suishen's might has risen yet again. With Auntie being so powerful, I'm untouchable as well. As chaotic as Myriadpath Valley's current state is, House Qitian and House Yumo can't do a thing about me even if I show that I can fight people six levels above me. He could now be certain that his backing was firm. With Eminent Jiguang having his back, not even Suishen Ranxing and his brother would be able to touch him.

Auntie’s truly exceptional! It was already certain that Eminent Jiguang would be greatly valued for how quickly she had reached the major zenith. Others took at least a thousand years for that, yet it had only taken her ten years to rise all the way to the top of Myriadpath Valley.

It seems like, out of all the major-zenith foundationeers, she stands the most chance of becoming the next valley lord. And it was all thanks to Tianming and the monochrome giant. Though he was still perplexed, the good news helped relax him somewhat.

At the very least, nobody like Suishen Hongtian and Suishen Yue will be able to mess with her from now on. If she becomes the next valley lord, everyone will bow down to her. She'll be able to avenge herself by hunting down Suishen Hongtian! Tianming was happy for her for that reason in particular.

Reaching the minor zenith from the tenth level was already enough to reach near the top of Myriadpath Valley, but going from minor to major zenith was an even more crucial step that only a very few in the entire universe were capable of. Eminent Jiguang was definitely aware of what it signified, or she wouldn't have immediately started cultivating after the end of that ritual.

She finally succeeded in constructing the twelfth floor of her foundation fortress, then absorbed yin-yang essence and converted it into cosmoforce, a feat that was made more efficient thanks to her baleflame-forged body! A transformation like hers had built the foundation for her future breakthrough to super zenith.

Large amounts of energy poured into her body. Tianming nervously watched it all, as he still wasn't certain if she would let him survive after everything that happened.

Maybe she'll remove my mask at least? If she sees that it's actually me.... He couldn't imagine how things would turn out at all. If the senior who had been protecting him for so long found that he was the one who’d participated in the ritual with her, he would probably be so embarrassed that he would find a hole to hide in for the rest of his life.

While he was still mentally panicking over all of it, the light in front of him vanished. He started for a moment and looked up, only to see the graceful and absolute goddess staring straight at him. Her gaze was like a clear spring; she seemed capable of conversing through looking alone.

"I'm sorry," she said in a shaky voice before Tianming could say anything.

"No...." Tianming hurriedly continued, "The one who should be apologizing is me! I was—"

"It isn’t your fault. I was the one who lost control first," she interrupted. Her tone sounded calmer and more resolute. Throughout those ten years, she’d had more awareness than Tianming had, and it’d given her more time to process her feelings about it. Even if she had shed tears over it, that was only during the start. Thinking back at it now, she found that she wasn't able to cry over it at all. She had been thinking about how she would deal with the unexpected consequences of their little misadventure for ten long years.

She said, "Let's consider it a dream that we'll both forget. Let's not leave any strings attached, alright?"

Tianming didn't think that she would be so casual about the ritual, then recalled that she seemed rather perplexed over the matter as well. "That was a long dream indeed."

"Enough, don't bring it up anymore," she said, shooting him a stern look.

"Understood!" He took a deep breath and gave it some thought. "If you want me to take responsibility for this, I’ll give everything I have to protect you and I’ll treat you like the most important person in my life. If you want me to forget it, I will, and I won't ever bother you about it."