Beastmaster of the Ages

uggling.
It was all for the day I’d finally get my revenge.
Can you even imagine what I had to go through, spending all those days in the Blood Cauldron?

”You really had it easy, didn ’t you? You tricked me and traded me for a starmap, then casually taught me the Hexascript Sword Mantra, thinking that would solve all my problems.
You were the epitome of a heartless person! Do you think that mantra helped at all? No way in hell! ” His shoulders shook from another bout of manic laughter that forced even more bloody tears out.

”You will never understand this feeling.
In a time of peak despair and agony, only boundless rage and hate could sustain me! Sustain my being! Allow me to remain as myself, Jiang Wuxin! Master, you were the one who trained me in the way of the sword! You were the one that made me a monster! That ’s why I both love and hate you! Even though those choices were my own to make, I knew deep down that you cared more for the starmap than my life!

”How I wish I could just cast my sentimentality away and focus on the way of the sword! No matter how heartless, it ’s the path you chose to tread! The path you preached, right? So I’m very curious as to how a purportedly heartless swordsman like yourself can even feel pain for the death of Jian Wuyi.

”The only reasonable explanation is that you ’ve abandoned your way of the sword! Or, don ’t tell me you were never practicing what you preached in the first place? If even you can ’t do it, how can you expect me to, you hypocrite?! Do you have the answer you want now? I killed Jian Wuyi to mess with you and expose your hypocritical falsehoods! You’re someone that can care about someone after all! But like all the other dogs, you never cared about me! ”

Jiang Wuxin grasped his head and started laughing like mad once more.
”But there ’s one thing you were right about, even if you didn ’t do it yourself.
Someone that casts away their heart will never lose sight of their goal.
They’ll never be swayed, nor will they ever feel hurt.
That ’s why I came to an epiphany! My suffering in the Blood Cauldron felt like it lasted a thousand—no, ten thousand years! Since being a human is so painful and hard, why bother? The only good thing about this ugly, dirty, and cruel world was them.
Only they cared about me, nobody else! So now that they ’re gone, why should I care about any other humans at all? The world owes me too much, and the debt shall be paid!

”And now, it ’s perfect.
I’m a royal specter.
Perhaps one day, I ’ll even be king of the Ninefold Hell.
I’m no longer human and can no longer be hurt.
There ’s no reason I shouldn ’t start enslaving you and treating all of you like livestock! Since it ’s all going down anyway, I ’ll take everyone down with me.

”Once I finish dealing with Li Tianming and avenging my girls ’ deaths, I’ll no longer have any weaknesses.
That ’s why, Master, if you don ’t stop me here, I might even consider leaving your corpse intact.
That ’s right, I was planning to kill you after Tianming! You want to know why? That ’s because you’re the largest obstacle I still have to face in this world.
Your death will be my eternity. ”

He began approaching Feng Qingyu with his sword raised.
”Did you forget what you told me back on that snowy day at Taiji Peak Lake? You said you’d sell your soul to demons with me.
It must ’ve been easy to tell a plain lie like that.
However, I ’ll make sure to hold you to your word.
Your death will complete me.
Do you dare to make that sacrifice? Do you know how painful it was to eat fifty million lifebound beasts? Can you imagine eating your own swordbeasts? If you can ’t, don ’t even bother lecturing me about good and evil.

”I said that I’d be loyal to the Hexapath Divine Realm in life and in death, but what I am now can ’t be called alive! I ’m not even human anymore! I’ll ensure that the whole world dies with me.
Doesn ’t that just sound wonderful? ” 

It didn ’t sound like he was looking for a genuine answer at all.

”Master, you might not understand what I mean.
No worries, you will after I show you my true form. ” He giggled wildly and immediately began expanding into a gigantic mound of flesh five kilometers wide above Xuanyuan Lake.
Countless tentacles sprouted from his body, all covered in countless suckers.
Apart from the gigantic, bloody mouth, he looked like a fusion between a sea urchin and a squid.