Beastmaster of the Ages

g it tremble on an instinctive level.

“I think so too.”

“What happened?” the little chick asked seriously.

“Not sure.
It suddenly changed.
My guess is that you didn’t escape your foe, and he’s come knocking?”

“Fudge!” the little chick cursed, before staring blankly at the black arm.
Truthfully, the two of them seemed to lack the qualifications to know the full truth.
Who was the black arm? Why did the black arm chase it down? Why was it lifebound to Li Tianming? Why did Li Tianming’s arm metamorphosize into that black arm? Guesswork alone wouldn’t answer these questions.

“No need to worry! If I were your foe, I’ll definitely give you a satisfying end.
Like, we’ll first go on an excursion up a mountain, pick some mushrooms, and then prepare mushroom chicken stew together.
How does that sound?” Li Tianming grinned, unable to repress his mirth any longer.

“Uh huh.
Is that why you were sticking your hand down your pants?” the little chick asked, disdain ruffling up its feathers.

“Well, it’s still a better sight than a certain someone attacking a male Flaming Hawk…”

“Shut it!” The little chick shot up, and pecked at Li Tianming.
Despite its diminutive figure, the power behind the peck wasn’t anything to laugh at.
Sparks flew as Li Tianming blocked with his left hand.

“I guess we’re at a net positive? Probably? It seems the arm is nigh-invulnerable.” Li Tianming examined the hexagonal scales under the candlelight.
He could indeed feel a strength that surpassed himself when he clenched his fist.

In the end, he used some white cloth to wrap up the left arm before changing to a new set of clothes.
At the same time, he put on a glove.
Now, his entire arm was effectively hidden.
Otherwise, whoever saw it would definitely take him for a monster.
The little chick accepted this development as well.
As a lazy chick, it made sense to adopt a wait-and-see approach to incomprehensible occurrences.

“Maybe I have some connection to the giant black hand?” Li Tianming pondered, thinking of that giant black hand that had assaulted the Aeternal Infernal Phoenix.
“Its origin may be uncertain, but it’ll give me additional chances for tomorrow’s selection!”

With breakthroughs in his cultivation, as well as the black arm, Li Tianming began to devote the remaining time to practicing old battle arts and ensuring his combat readiness.
He had quite a few battle arts, having once reached the spiritsource stage.

Battle arts had two types.
Martial arts, that were practiced by beastmasters, and beastial arts, which were practiced by lifebound beasts.
They were synergistic in nature, and only when executed in tandem could they display their full might.

As their cultivation increased, beastmasters and lifebound beasts would have access to more and more cooperative abilities, and battle arts were one of them.

Wildbeasts were incapable of learning beastial arts.

Battle arts were divided into five ranks of beast, source, unity, heavenly, saint, based on their power and complexity.
‘Beast’-ranked beastial arts were the most basic and were suitable for lifebound beasts in the Beast Vein stage.

They were then further divided into basic, intermediate and advanced.
Of course, extraordinary cases existed in the form of ‘supreme’ beast-ranked arts, which would allow one to dominate their peers in the Beast Vein stage.

Following that were source-ranked battle arts which were suitable for spiritsource stage beastmasters.
Supposedly, some Beast Vein beastmasters could grasp source-ranked arts.

While Li Tianming may have fallen from spiritsource, he still had his familiarity with his old battle arts.
It was only the little chick who had to master the beastial arts portion.
Still, that fellow was ridiculously talented.
Battle arts that Midas spent much effort to learn with Li Tianming, were easily picked up by the little chick.
These past few days, they had both reached mastery of many battle arts.

“Tomorrow is the day!” Li Tianming clenched his fists, his eyes ablaze with passion in the dark night.

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