Ancient Yanhuang Relic, Nine Lives Cavern.
After Li Tianming slaughtered all the Huan Tian Divine Clan members and stuffed both their corpses and treasures into his Sumeru Ring, he turned around to find that the stunning Yanhuang Nether Clan beauty called Mushan Xue had already vanished.
"The universe's true pinnacle talent—a ninety-polar Eonic Beast, probably with ninety levels of manifestation too. That's incredible!"
Though he admired her, Li Tianming did not envy her. After all, she was two or three hundred years older than him. By the time he reached her age, he should have surpassed her with ease.
"This rescue might have startled the grass and alerted the snake, but no matter what, it has brought me closer to the Yanhuang Nether Clan..."
It was a good beginning.
Next, Li Tianming used quite a few Nine Lives Fruits to restore Jiang Lincheng and the others from their grievous injuries, slowly returning them from Astral God Origin to humanoid form.
Although they had recovered, they were visibly weak. Each of them had been scared half to death, and even after recovering, their faces remained rather dazed.
"J-just now, that was..." Jiang Lincheng asked blankly.
"You guess?" Li Tianming asked with a smile.
"Good heavens." Jiang Xiaobai's heart raced as he stared at Li Tianming. Curling his lip, he said, "You lied to us, saying you were from a minor companion-star clan. So your real identity is a native of the ancestral realm! Was that your mother just now?"
Li Tianming nearly fell over upon hearing that. "Don't talk nonsense. She's only around five hundred too—otherwise, why wouldn't she be subject to the Heavenly Dao Judgment?"
As for their misunderstanding about his identity, Li Tianming did not bother explaining too much. He could be from a minor companion-star clan, and he