Starting My Cultivation With Time Management

Long Hu sat idly by, her fluffy tail swaying continuously.

In front of her, Jiaolong tightly coiled around Xuan Gui, resembling a Senran strangling its prey, yet they were actually dual cultivating with a breathing mental method.

The surrounding atmosphere gradually became more humid, indicating the high rank of the mental method, such that it could even influence the environment.

Logically, since Long Long had learned such a high-rank mental method, Long Hu should have congratulated him.

But the little fox was not happy; she felt an inexplicable sense of loss and sorrow.

She didn't want to stay there, so she left the secret chamber and wandered aimlessly outside until she bumped into Hu Li.

Marquis of Mount Tu from the Celestial Fox Clan of Qingqiu, who was also Long Hu's aunt, was said to be extremely proficient in spatial methods. For her, dining in West State's Qingqiu Mountain at dawn and staying in Eastern State's Jianmu Island by dusk was effortless.

Seeing her aunt appear in the Dragon Clan territory without knowing when she arrived, Long Hu wasn't surprised at all and just approached her with a gloomy face.

"What's the matter, little fox?" Aunt Hu Li hugged her and rubbed her head. "Why are you unhappy?"

"Can auntie tell?" Long Hu asked, lifting her head in surprise.

"Your little mood is all over your face," Hu Li said affectionately as she pinched her nose.

Reminiscing about her childhood, her sister also liked to pinch her nose like this.

Now it was her turn to take care of her niece...

With a flurry of thoughts, Hu Li only heard Long Hu say with a grievance:

"Auntie, I feel so strange."

"Strange?"

And so, Long Hu started to ramble on.

It wasn't a complicated matter. It was just that seeing Long Long and Gui Ling'er dual cultivating made Long Hu feel anxious and uneasy like she was being excluded.

This anxiety came so suddenly that Long Hu herself couldn't quite understand why:

Firstly, this cultivation technique was designed for the Dragon Clan and Xuan Gui to dual cultivate; secondly, they were both Water System Demonic Beasts, so it was normal for phenomena to occur during their combined practice.

But Long Hu was just unhappy, she didn't even know why she was unhappy.

"Silly child, this is possessiveness," Hu Li thought to herself and then patiently explained, "For our Celestial Fox Clan, this is quite normal."

"Possessiveness?" Long Hu didn't understand.

"When you truly fall in love with someone," Hu Li explained with a smile, "you will want to have everything of his."

"Not to mention dual cultivating with someone else, even if he speaks a word to another female, you will feel unhappy. That's what possessiveness is."

"So," Long Hu asked as if grasping the concept, "I have every reason to be unhappy because I like Long Long so much."

"That's right," Hu Li laughed and continued to enlighten her, "And it's all his fault for not giving you enough sense of security."

"Mhm mhm," Long Hu accepted this reasoning without any resistance, "But although that's the case, if I complain to Long Long, he definitely won't understand and will think I'm being unreasonable."

Hearing this, Hu Li knew Long Hu had fully grasped the essence of the Celestial Fox's logic and laughed heartily:

"Yes, so you must exercise restraint in your actions,"

"First, you need to be brave enough to express your unhappiness—don't feel guilty about it. As I said earlier, it's not that you're being unreasonable, but that he should give you enough sense of security, which he hasn't."

"Secondly, expressing your unhappiness doesn't mean venting your emotions, because men will only find that annoying. You need to reveal your feelings just right, but not so much that he feels it's deliberate—an inadvertent display is the best way."

"Finally, when he notices your moodiness and tries to make amends, that's exactly the opportunity for you to engage in reverse psychology... Little Fox is so smart, you surely understand what I mean."

"Reverse psychology, huh?" Long Hu said thoughtfully, silently noting his aunt's words in his heart.

After bidding farewell to Long Hu, Hu Li quickly walked down the Jianmu passage and finally arrived at another quiet room.

"What exactly is going on in Central State?" Hu Li asked sharply into the room, "Don't tell me that your actions in Central State have dragged in Little Fox and Long Long as well!"

"It was just an accident." Shi Yao walked out slowly from the back, "The first two assassination attempts, including plans against Long Long and Qi Weihuan, were all arranged in advance by the White Tiger Clan."

"I know the first two assassinations had nothing to do with you," Hu Li said irritably, tousling his hair, "but don't tell me that the assassination of Qi Qiaosong, the one that almost implicated Long Long and Long Hu, wasn't your plan!"

Shi Yao was silent for a long while before she spoke slowly:

"If Qi Qiaosong had died there, the alliance between White Tiger and Qilin would undoubtedly have been unable to continue."

"Xuanwu of North State would become the biggest winner, and to prevent this, Qilin and Azure Dragon would most likely join forces. By then, if your Celestial Fox Clan took action and persuaded the White Tiger Clan as well, there would be a high probability of creating a perfect 'horizontal alliance' to confront the Xuanwu Clan..."

"A pity Long Long saw through it, didn't he?" Hu Li said with a sneer, "Even if you didn't communicate with him beforehand, he almost instantly came up with the best solution."

"That's also what's been troubling us," Shi Yao said with a frown, "In our view, if a full-scale war can't be nipped in the bud, the Ancestral Azure Dragon will likely choose North State in the end."

"Although the Ancestral Azure Dragon seems rough and ready, he is actually overly cautious, especially in past major decisions."

"Considering the strained relations between South State and Central State, the Ancestral Azure Dragon can deduce that South State will side with North State, giving the Xuan Gui camp the upper hand. His risk-averse nature will most likely prompt him to choose North State, meaning the alliance between Central State and West State will be doomed to fail."

"And such a state of war will allow the Xuanwu Clan of North State to reap the greatest fruits of victory..."

At this point, Shi Yao's voice took on a rare note of icy chill:

"...This is an outcome we cannot accept."

"The Xuanwu Clan regards Long Long differently," Hu Li said coldly, "When all is said and done, you still don't consider him one of your own."

"You're wrong," Shi Yao replied calmly, shaking her head, "The Xuanwu Ancestor's choice of Long Long doesn't equate to choosing Jiaolong—they actually want to choose the Azure Dragon." Enjoy new stories from My Virtual Library Empire

"If Long Long can Dual Cultivate the Xuanwu Beiming Divine Skill with Gui Ling'er, it would lay a deeper foundation for the alliance between Xuan Gui and Dragon Clan. This is just the Xuanwu Ancestor's usual trick—don't forget he did the same with the Qilin Clan back in the day."

"...So it's just about finding a new turtle shell."

Hu Li was left without a response, lapsing into a long silence.

"Both Azure Dragon and Xuan Gui are our enemies," Shi Yao concluded, "for both the White Tiger Clan and us, the Jiaolong."

"Of course, I'm not blaming Long Long for doing anything wrong. Because he wasn't aware of the information above, and based on his position at that time, if the little Qilin prince had died there, it would have been harmful not only to Azure Dragon Clan but also would have brought a lot of trouble for him and Long Hu."

"You should trust us a bit more," Hu Li finally sighed, his expression softening, "We are your allies, and Long Long and Little Fox... are also the juniors of your clan."

"If it weren't for a lack of communication, things would never have developed this way."

"...Sorry," Shi Yao said weakly, "As survivors of the Jiaolong, trust is something very luxurious for us."