Chapter 1609

In Mini Red Heaven, Fang Yuan’s time path clone draws countless year beasts the moment it appears. An immemorial year rooster swallows most of the mortal year Gu the clone scatters. More scattering like rain leaves every year beast fed. These year beasts are the third of seven communities in Mini Red Heaven that Fang Yuan feeds. ^{ch. 1609}

Besides the captured immortals, the greatest spoils of the years flow execution formation plot are year beasts, among them seven immemorial ones. His soul foundation once sufficed for only one or two immemorial year beasts, and though shrinking lately, it now suffices for all seven. Each is weaker than his immemorial year monkey, which died in battle. Feeding costs have soared by dozens of times, and without the extorted immortal essence stones he might not have been able to feed them. He refines mortal year Gu with rank eight Immortal Gu Years Flow Like Water, which barely fills their bellies and spends his red date immortal essence. Dang Hun Mountain is eighty percent restored, and once it is completely restored the year beasts will become the new burden. He needs them for the coming battle in the River of Time, so he must solve the feeding. ^{ch. 1609}

Fang Yuan can choose among three plans. The first is a year essence pool, a kind of mini River of Time where year beasts survive, reside and procreate. It comes in rank six to rank nine sizes and saves space. It yields year Gu, and long management could produce day Gu, month Gu and finally a micro River of Time. Its cost is absurdly high: a rank six pool is already an enormous sum in the millions of immortal essence stones. A rank seven pool also needs rare immortal materials the market does not supply, and his seven immemorial year beasts need a rank eight. ^{ch. 1609}

The second plan is Golden Age Platform, a rank seven time path Immortal Gu House, which puts year beasts into deep sleep to cut their food and uses their strength without costing him immortal essence. Building it would consume the time path Immortal Gu he needs for his own protection. Fixed in place, it cannot help him fight in the River of Time. Wanton extraction of their strength could kill year beasts and destroy their time path dao marks. ^{ch. 1609}

The third plan is Twelve Zodiac battle formation, an ancient offensive formation with twelve species of immemorial year beasts as cores. Its cores sealed as statues need no food until released in battle, so it truly saves feeding expenditure. But it needs more immemorial year beasts of different species, and gathering them takes strength, luck and a very long time. After deep consideration Fang Yuan chooses the first plan, the costliest but also the most rewarding. With his own capital, a rank eight pool would probably push his finances into danger before even thirty percent was built. He is very affluent, but most of his resources, like Reverse Flow River, cannot be sold, and Heavenly Court presses him. But now is the best time to build it. ^{ch. 1609}

Fang Yuan throws an information path mortal Gu to Xia clan’s stall, demanding three portions of spiral dawn light before any negotiation. Xia clan replies that none of it is left in storage, because the production ground lies inside the first supreme elder’s immortal aperture. Slightly dazed, Fang Yuan answers that he knows this and raises the demand to ten portions as sincerity before talks. Xia clan says spiral dawn light is extremely rare, with no supply even in treasure yellow heaven, and agrees to three portions but asks where ten could be found. Fang Yuan cruelly replies that this is not his problem. ^{ch. 1609}