Seven years.
While Wang Ba focused on cultivation, he naturally had not neglected the Spirit Beasts he raised.
Whether Spirit Chickens, Spirit Turtles, or a batch of Second-Tier Low-Grade Spirit-Communicating Ghost Loaches he had happened upon at the Market a few years earlier, he cared for them all meticulously.
However, since the requirements for bloodline breakthroughs were often extremely demanding, Wang Ba could still only cultivate them through lifespan breakthroughs combined with breeding.
Things had gone fairly smoothly with the Spirit Chickens. Wang Ba had used the bloodline breakthrough materials he obtained from Bai Yu on Jia Thirteen and several ordinary supreme-grade Spirit Chickens without hesitation.
It also served to put what he had learned to the test.
With the help of his faint Divine Sense, he adjusted some of the materials and their proportions and, by a stroke of luck, succeeded with several chickens.
Jia Thirteen was among them.
After its breakthrough, however, Jia Thirteen excitedly went to pick a fight with the Mountain-Moving Ape, only to unexpectedly get beaten half to death with ease.
This made Wang Ba take an interest in the Mountain-Moving Ape as well. Unfortunately, throughout those seven years, he never again encountered anyone selling one.
Only after asking the shopkeeper who had sold it did he learn that, although Mountain-Moving Apes were not high in grade, they were exceedingly rare.
Wang Ba could only abandon the matter with regret.
Whether because the Mountain-Moving Ape had dealt it such a crushing blow or not, Jia Thirteen reined in its violent temper somewhat and even occasionally favored Second-Tier Female Spirit Chickens of the same grade.
As Wang Ba saw it, perhaps it was venting on the Female Spirit Chickens after suffering at the Mountain-Moving Ape's hands.
It was the sort of good-for-nothing Male Spirit Chicken Wang