Starting My Cultivation With Time Management

Chapter 413: Chapter 46: Since Ancient Times, the Fox Lady Has Been Full of Passion

The three moved stealthily through the palace corridors.

Long Long observed his surroundings once more, confirming that the interior decoration of the palace was indeed very similar to that of the Gui Xu Palace, and the Ghost Dragon Palace deep within the Five Qi Dynasty Yuan Cave—not exactly the same, but about eighty percent alike.

As expected, this place must also be a remnant left by the ancient Dragon Clan.

According to Qin Zhou, there weren’t many guards inside the palace. After all, Long Hu was said to be in “seclusion” rather than “house arrest,” and with the protection of the Formation outside, setting up more guards inside would give Long Hu a very unpleasant feeling.

Indeed, more guards were proved to be unnecessary. The two transformative Cultivators of the Dragon Clan who were responsible for guarding the palace gate were often deceived by Long Hu’s use of Illusion Technique and tricks, while the real hindrance was the great Array outside the palace.

Aside from Long Hu, there were also many other Cultivators of the Dragon Clan living within the palace, but they were almost all in seclusion and did not wander out casually.

Long Long nodded, remembering what the Qin siblings had said, but he wasn’t about to relax even a bit. He simply instructed Ah Jing to help scan the surroundings, ready to hide or flee at a moment’s notice.

They proceeded cautiously and without incident until they finally arrived at the chamber where Long Hu stayed.

Qin Ye pushed the door open and went in first, with Qin Zhou and Long Long following.

Long Long had already thought that if the little Fox Lady threw herself into his arms, he would hug her tightly.

If she pounced to bite him (perhaps blaming him for not coming to see her sooner), he would hold her head and rub her ears.

If she pounced on him with fierce kisses, he would… he would shoo the Qin siblings out of the room first.

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Hmm?

Looking carefully into the room, the three of them realized that there was no sign of the little Fox Lady.

Qin Ye was still somewhat puzzled, but Qin Zhou quickly reacted and exclaimed,

“Not good, she must have tried to escape again!”

With this thought, Qin Ye also broke out in a cold sweat and said,

“Then the guards will surely catch her and send her back here!”

“We need to hurry!” Qin Zhou quickly said.

So the three of them hastily retraced their steps back to the bathing pool, where Qin Ye tossed out a Formation Flag, reopening the temporarily closed Wormhole.

Fighting against the surging water, they entered the Wormhole and soon returned to the bottom of the Sea Abyss.

Qin Ye activated the Formation Flag once again, shutting down the operational Array, severing the spatial connection between the two sides completely.

After all this, Qin Zhou apologetically said,

“Long Long, this is terribly unfortunate, just when she wasn’t in her room… Shall we wait here a bit?”

“Maybe in half an hour, the guards will have brought her back.”

“Forget it,” Long Long said with an easy smile, “Since she was discovered trying to escape, the security there is bound to be tightened for the short term. There’s no need for you to risk danger along with me.”

“Next time. We’ll come again when there’s a suitable opportunity.”

Clamping her lips tight, Qin Ye hesitated for a moment, then handed the Formation Flag in her hand to Long Long, saying,

“We used to run to that palace often, looking to explore and see if there were any interesting places. Later, once we confirmed that all the rooms inside were chambers for cultivation, we didn’t go much.”

“Long Long, I’m giving you this Formation Key. This way, whenever you want to see Long Hu, you can just take this secret path.”

“Thank you, Qin Ye,” Long Long quickly expressed his gratitude.

The three transformed back into Water Vipers and swam upward.

Several hours later, they finally resurfaced and then swam back to their clan’s territory.

After bidding farewell to the Qin siblings, Long Long returned to his own room without a trace of disappointment or regret on his face for not seeing the little Fox Lady.

“Ah Jing, teleport me to that bath.” He locked the door, set up the Formation, and then said with a smile.

“Oh,” Kunlun Mirror responded.

As they had retreated back to the bath, Long Long had already tasked Ah Jing with recording the spatial coordinates, so he could conveniently teleport there afterward.

This Ah Jing’s time-space travel is far more convenient than any spatial array, isn’t it?

The reason why he did not set his coordinates to Long Hu’s room was that he feared he might encounter her failing to escape and being escorted back to the room by the guards. It would have been awkward to perform a major transformation before the guards.

As the world spun dizzyingly, Long Long had again fallen into the bath.

Only, the last time he entered, there was a shallow layer of sea water underfoot, courtesy of the wormhole.

But this time, as he plunged into the water, it was warm with quite a few bubbles on the surface.

Long Long stuck his head out of the water, only to see Long Hu, in the guise of a young girl, sitting across the bath, kicking the hot water for bathing, her gaze confusingly upon him.

In just a moment, her face turned beet red.

Long Long swiftly dove back under the water and hurriedly transformed into his Water Viper form. Before he could make an escape, he was snatched up by a pointed snout.

Long Hu, now in the form of a little fox, had caught Long Long by his critical point and lifted him directly out of the water, pinning him against the bath’s edge with her claw and growled softly:

“Transform back this instant!”

After wriggling a few times, Long Long had no choice but to transform back into his young human form and said:

“Long Hu…”

Before he could finish, the little fox transformed back into a young girl as well and hugged him tightly.

“Long Long!” she tried hard to suppress her sobbing, choking out, “I thought I would never see you again.”

Long Long’s instinct made him feel a twinge of pity and he wanted to comfort her. However, he found himself being hugged so tightly that he could hardly breathe.

But it was precisely because of the tight embrace that the human form of the little Fox Lady did not reveal anything inappropriate from the front, only exposing her smooth and delicate back.

Long Long’s hands swung awkwardly above and below, unsure where to place them, finally resting on her waist.

The two of them stayed like that in the bath, silently leaning on each other.

After a while, Long Hu rested her chin on his shoulder and whispered in his ear:

“How did you get in here?”

“Qin Zhou and Qin Ye found this secret tunnel for me,” replied Long Long.

“You’re lying.” Long Hu bit his shoulder, “I also know of this tunnel. When it’s opened, it will flood with sea water. Or did you think I wanted to occupy this bathhouse for no reason?”

Thinking about her current state, she felt a sense of indescribable shyness, but she was even more afraid that once she left to get dressed, she would return to find Long Long gone… Last time, after he had coaxed her to sleep in her room, he had disappeared just like that.

After a brief silence, Long Hu said in a low, aggrieved tone:

“I know what they are thinking.”

“They want to use my identity for their political marriage schemes.”

“Long Long, I don’t want to marry just anyone.”

“Don’t worry,” Long Long caressed her smooth back, “I won’t let you marry just anyone.”

He pondered for a moment in his heart, deciding not to mention his ongoing cooperation talks with Hu Li—whether or not Hu Li had let slip anything in front of Long Hu.

“What I mean is.” Long Hu hugged him even tighter, biting her lip as if mustering all her strength, and finally managed to say, “I don’t want to marry those random people.”

“Huh?” Long Long was immediately confused.

This “marrying just anyone” and “marrying random people” are two completely different things, aren’t they?

Before he could fully understand the distinction, he saw the little Fox Lady suddenly lift her neck, her pretty face flushed with a lovely red.

Then she cupped Long Long’s cheeks with her hands, closed her eyes, and kissed him.

In that moment, all plans, thoughts, and scheming faded from Long Long’s mind like a retreating tide.

There was only one thought left in his head:

This Fox Lady truly is bold in love and hate!