"Born in Marquis Manor, possessing three terrifying Heavenly Fate Stars—Volcanic Refinement, Heavenly Hammer Strike, Heaven's Mandate as Material—you haven't let them go to waste. You're far better off than Pang Mingjing... but..."
Sunshine Boy made a brief deduction and finally understood what was wrong.
"Tempered Through Ten Thousand Trials is a thousand hardships, ten thousand difficulties for ordinary people. If ordinary people encountered such tribulations, they would probably die outright. With such a powerful Fate Mold, being tempered into a vessel should be effortless for him. But compared with the other three Fate Molds, this one is clearly much weaker. Either he has gone astray, or he needs even more hammering before he can advance further."
Sunshine Boy looked above the Fate Stars.
Above the four Fate Stars stood a Monster.
Starlight glittered all around the Monster, while stars interwove behind its head into a halo.
The Monster's body was bizarre. Its lower half was formed from countless beast bodies crowded together—tigers, lions, rhinoceroses, zebras, black wolves, leopards, elephants, and more, fused into one. Its body bore spots, stripes, and long fur, while beneath it stretched countless legs, claws, and hooves.
Its upper half was a lofty mountain of yellow stone. The mountain's foot connected to the bodies of the hundred beasts, while above its peak hung an irregular spherical blue lake that constantly swelled and shrank.
At the positions of its ears on either side of the blue water sphere, two waterfalls cascaded down.
Lake head, waterfall ears, mountain body, hundred-beast form.
The Monster seemed small within this Fate Mansion, but upon closer inspection, it resembled a mountain tens of thousands of zhang high—vast and majestic.
Where it stood, heaven knew no peace, earth knew no calm, all living things sank into ruin, and calamity endured for ten thousand