With loud roars, four fearsome lifebound beasts appeared around Yama. His body seemed tiny, in comparison to their huge builds, and each of them looked like their natural habitats were seas of corpses. Tianming didn't understand Yama's background, but he did know something about those lifebound beasts.

Each of them were fifth-order tribulation beasts with more than five hundred stars. Someone like Yama would definitely be able to overpower Xuanyuan Yucheng, the former top disciple of the Heaven Branch, and his four lifebound beasts were a good match for him too.

It was said that the reason Yama had been abandoned in childhood had something to do with those beasts. When they were born with him, they weren't nearly as powerful and were also considered bad omens. They were all of different species, much like Tianming's.

The first was a dreamless ghostfowl, a grey avian creature with spikes instead of feathers, making it look...