Chapter 1400

Deeper in the tunnel, Feng Jiu Ge finds a wild rank three day Gu glowing brass in the dark, and because the River of Time teems with such time path Gu, he wonders whether a tributary lies here. If a tributary is truly here, Shadow Sect must have found it and hidden it, Feng Jiu Ge tells himself. Tributaries of the River of Time are common inside every Gu Immortal’s immortal aperture, but rare at true scale across the five regions and two heavens, where super forces fight for them and lone immortals hide them. Day Gu, month Gu and year Gu see wide use in Gu refinement, since a rank three day Gu holds three days that a refiner can spend to shorten a refinement by that much. They can also extend lifespan, but that method carves time path dao marks, and once those accumulate they bar the use of lifespan Gu. Feng Jiu Ge presses on. ^{ch. 1400}

A silent ripple of time, the size of a bed, appears ahead, a natural phenomenon that speeds or slows any life form caught in it while shaving away its lifespan. He detours around it rather than test it. Past it he grows more certain a tributary lies here, and only a tributary in the five regions and two heavens, where time flows at nearly the river’s own rate, is large enough to serve as an entrance. Deeper still the tunnel widens and the time path aura thickens until he hears running water and sees the tributary itself, and knows it is truly here. ^{ch. 1400}

A shadow pounces from a nearby ripple, and Feng Jiu Ge activates the sound path killer move Silence Surpasses Sound, one of several methods beyond the seven of his planned nine songs. Long practice lets him cast it instantly. Under its silence, his drum fist and bell palm from Spirit Affinity House’s Three Sounds true inheritance land without a sound, and the shadow’s own growls vanish the instant it opens its mouth. He has practised only these two of that inheritance’s three methods, and still has not learned the third, whistle finger. He quickly gains the upper hand. The attacker proves to be only a desolate level monkey year beast, and Feng Jiu Ge slaughters it, finds on inspection that it is truly wild rather than planted by Fang Yuan, and keeps it as spoils. ^{ch. 1400}

Watching the battle and connected to treasure yellow heaven, Fang Yuan is tempted to buy and enslave the year beasts on open sale there, especially after losing the upper extreme heavenly eagle, but his funds fall short of what the seller wants. With his hundred and eighty slaves killer move he could even enslave immemorial year beasts and gain another rank eight battle strength. To raise the funds he would have to sell the desolate and ancient desolate eagles he bought earlier, or sell Immortal Gu as he did to survive the battle of the dream realm, which he will not do without need. Thousand Transformations Ancestor, weighing offers of immortal essence stones, transformation path materials, and eagle beasts, is startled when one of those three buyers suddenly raises his offer to Immortal Gu. He accepts at once. All of his year beasts sell to that single Gu Immortal in one swift transaction. ^{ch. 1400}

Back in the tunnel, several year beasts, five desolate level and three ancient, burst from the tributary and attack Feng Jiu Ge. A moment earlier he felt the aura of an immortal killer move. He realizes he has been discovered and drops his restraint. He calls for Fang Yuan to show himself, but more year beasts keep pouring from the tributary, soon passing ten and still rising. Feng Jiu Ge wonders whether an entire group of year beasts lives near this tributary. ^{ch. 1400}