Xuanyin Takes the Stage

"Damn! Where the hell did we fly to?"

Wei Lin felt completely numb.

For the first time, he realized how frustrating it was to have no way to determine his location.

The Polar Temporal Zone was simply too vast, and there were far too few Eternal Night Time Falcons.

Three days, three whole days! He hadn't seen so much as a single feather!

If not for the clock right in front of his face, he would have died of old age here!

"There's nothing we can do. This is a region of temporal disorder, so we can't split up to search."

Huang Tianyi spoke helplessly. Even she would have to be prepared to die if she wanted to search for Soul Beasts in the turbulent currents of time.

"Um... I have an idea."

The Snow Empress suddenly raised her hand.

Wei Lin tilted his head slightly, an expectant look appearing on his face.

"What is it?"

"I wanted to ask, can we find the patriarch of the Eternal Night Time Falcons?"

"We can. That person is also on fairly good terms with Tianshu."

Wei Lin's eyes lit up at once.

That was right! If they couldn't find the people below, they could go to the one at the top.

When it came to who knew the Eternal Night Time Falcons best, it had to be the falcons themselves.

Wei Lin took out a silver feather. As he injected Soul Power into it, specks of starlight emerged from the feather, and a straight silver band stretched into the distance.

"Found them."

Rather than heading there directly, Wei Lin waited where he was.

Within time, the best way to close the distance was to wait in place.

After all, who knew which point in time the other party was at? If he actually tried to make the journey, he'd probably die running before he reached the place. He might as well let a professional come find him.

Meanwhile.

A woman searching for food at an anomalous point in time stopped in her tracks.

She had short silver-gray hair, and tiny hourglass symbols dripped slowly within her ice-blue eyes. The aurora patterns at the tips of her hair, set against the backdrop of time, added a splash of color to this silent world.

Dark silver wings spread behind her. The girl looked young, but an extraordinarily vast turbulent current of time enveloped her.

Even so, her form remained anchored.

"This feeling... is that the little fellow?"

Xuanyin's normally indifferent eyes lit up. She sensed the point in time for a moment. Hmm, it seemed to be ten thousand years ago.

Had she wandered a little too far? Should she bring him a little gift?

Her gaze settled on the Douluo Continent. It should be ten thousand years later there, right? Oh well, it wasn't her world anyway. As for a gift...

She turned her gaze to a point in time beneath her.

She reached out and grasped it, refining it in an instant.

A small silver ring appeared in her hand.

"A class 12 time-type Soul Tool, Time Flow Chasing. The craftsmanship should be pretty good."

Xuanyin no longer had any desire to forage. The most important thing now was to go see the little fellow.

"Little Lin, big sister's coming~"

With a beat of her wings of time, she turned into a streak of light and began blazing a path upstream against the river of time.

If anyone had seen this, they would probably have cried out that she had sliced time open.

That was right, she had sliced it open.

Her headlong charge forcibly carved a passage through the entire river of time. Only some time after she left did time reverse and flow back into place.

Of course, whether this would affect other places was anyone's guess.

By now, Wei Lin was sitting on the aircraft, enjoying the scenery.

He had to admit that although the place was silent, the occasional auroras were beautiful, if... one ignored how dangerous they were.

"She's here."

A sense of helplessness before death surged through the Snow Empress's heart, and her eyes widened in terror.

She saw a long river that seemed to swallow her whole in an instant.

No! Rather than helplessness, it was more like a lack of feeling.

It was as though... her time, her future, had been frozen completely at this very moment.

A small falcon, shimmering like an aurora, came upstream against the river.

Her body was predominantly dark, with ice blue and silver accenting the darkness. The tips of her feathers bore the colors of the aurora, and the time around her seemed to stop briefly with her arrival.

This being is definitely much stronger than Di Tian.

The Snow Empress had already begun assessing the difference in their strength.

It was probably a three-to-seven split: three seconds, and Di Tian would die seven times.

(Di Tian: You think far too highly of me! That being can come and go freely through turbulent currents of time! If I could really last three seconds, I'd dare to trample the Asura God underfoot right now!)

With a cry, the river of time froze for an instant.

By the time the Snow Empress and the others came to their senses, a gray-haired girl was standing before Wei Lin. Her gaze was utterly vacant, as though nothing was worthy of her attention.

The moment she saw Wei Lin, her cool expression fell apart.

"Ah, little brother Lin, long time no see."

Xuanyin grabbed Wei Lin's head and rubbed it as though he were a kitten.

Wei Lin: "???"

Seeing his puzzled look, she put on a sorrowful expression.

"Little brother, don't you recognize your big sister anymore? You've made your big sister so sad~ Boohoohoo~~~"

"..."

Wei Lin looked at the increasingly strange looks everyone was giving him, and the corner of his mouth twitched hard.

He wanted to say that he was even more baffled than they were, but he also knew that in this situation, any explanation would only make things messier.

The gossip-hungry look in Lu Rongrong's eyes only made him more certain of that.

If she made it back to Tianshu, she could make up enough children for him to fill a population of over a hundred million.

Xuanyin stopped teasing him and looked at Wei Lin with a serious expression.

"Xuanyin, patriarch of the Eternal Night Time Falcons, five hundred and forty thousand years old. Nice to meet you, or perhaps I should say, long time no see."

Wei Lin said nothing, only piling question marks over his head.

"We don't know each other now, but we will in the future. Isn't that feather one I gave you in the future? But for the two of us, today really is the first time we've met. And for the future me, hasn't it been a long time since we last saw each other?"

Xuanyin had spoken perfectly clearly, yet they simply couldn't understand her!

"Effect before Yin, or perhaps Yin before effect. Within time, who can say?"

Xuanyin smiled faintly. The hourglasses in her eyes flipped over in an instant. No one noticed, and no one dared to look closely.

Wei Lin declared that he hated riddle-slingers. He was a warrior, not a strategist. He really couldn't wrap his head around those words; he'd be better off pulling out his flag and slapping the other party with it.

Still, at the very least, they had finally met the patriarch of the Eternal Night Time Falcons.

The Ice and Snow Empresses exchanged a glance and silently shielded everyone in front of them.

The oppressive pressure from Xuanyin was simply too strong. They were genuinely afraid she might casually blow them up, or use the two of them as backup Soul Rings.

Cherish life, stay away from Xuanyin.