Beastmaster of the Ages

the wondersky realm just to watch the battle unfold.
Even though competition among the juniors wasn’t as intense as that of the senior solarians, Tianming and Mu Sha were both budding young talents that would define the generation to come.
Watching their talent and trump cards on full display would surely be interesting.
One could only imagine what kind of unparalleled lifebound beasts or totems they had, not to mention they still had room to grow and improve.

After Mu Sha accepted the challenge, Tianming had three days to go to the Violetcloud Battlefield.
Once word of it got out, many young disciples went there to wait.
The audience seats were filled to the brim in anticipation of such a grand show.

……

Tianming got a notification from the wondersky fairy within the pagoda.
The response to the challenge had come faster than he’d anticipated.
The problem was that he was currently in a crucial stage of his cultivation.
He’d finally made some kind of progress after two months of arduous pondering, and he had to follow through with that train of thought and couldn't exactly leave now.

“There's still three days, so it won't hurt to go there later.” With that in mind, he continued to search for the will to resist fate and destiny in the experiences of those solarian caeli despite knowing that it would only leave the audience members annoyed by all that waiting.
“I don't have a choice.”

He calmed himself and allowed the caeli to surround him once more.
He had a feeling that his Lifesbane Will was quite different from his Imperial Will.
“The traces of Imperial Will I see in these caeli concerns exacting even more control over many things, including seas and rivers, whereas Lifesbane Will focuses more on sympathy, empathy, and understanding….
To put it another way, it’s mutual resonance!”

He had finally found the key phrase.
Resonance! Resonance with all sentient life in its rebellious struggle against fate!

“People in this world are segregated by power levels.
There are the strong and the weak, the noble and lowborn, the rich and the poor, the rulers and the wretches.
Some people are destined to be born with the short end of the stick in life, like grass struggling against a strong wind.

“Yet none of that is set in stone! In every person is the potential to change and improve.
There will always be people and factions that rise and fall.
There’s no eternal hierarchy in this world.
Changing the status quo and surpassing oneself to change our destiny is an inherent desire in people.
Everyone can empathize and resonate with that innate desire!”

He closed his eyes and hugged countless stars.
“Godfather, the Li Saint Clan bravely struggles against the lifesbane curse, constantly being pushed to the brink of death and expected to crawl back stronger than before.
Their innate wills must also be a manifestation of one of this world's laws!”

He recalled the time he spent in the Grand-Orient Realm.
He’d met important benefactors there that had changed his life by instilling in him the will to never settle, never relent, and to keep walking forward.

“The demise of the sky plunderers…
the secret behind the Li Saint Clan being used as lab rats…
I’ll shatter all those veiling mysteries with the will I used to break the curse!”

Resisting destiny, changing his fate, and resonating with all life!

“In other words, Imperial Will controls astralforce through pure domination and assimilation, while Lifesbane Will resonates with astralforce by blending in with it to control its power from within!”

Resonance was a new way that Tianming had never explored before, but he wanted to give it a try.
Within his albi there were five astral discs, not including the Grand-Orient Vortices.
Infernal, primordial, genesis, radix, and immortal.
The five layers of different astralforce vortices orbited under the control of his Grand-Orient-Sword-shaped Imperial Will and the illusory tower that was the manifestation of Tianming’s Lifesbane Will.
After making it past the mental bottleneck, Tianming left the wondersky realm and returned to Fairman Peak to start breaking through in seclusion!