Starting My Cultivation With Time Management-Chapter 927 - 67: First Entry into Beiming Fanyang

Chapter 927 -67: First Entry into Beiming Fanyang

In the ice cave, day and night became indistinguishable.

Long Long asked Ah Jing and came to realize that almost half a month had passed, yet there was still no sign of Beiming Fanyang.

Damn it! Seems like they’d been stood up.

Thinking about this, Long Long became furious.

But now, the two of them certainly couldn’t return to Eastern State; it would be difficult to explain their sudden disappearance.

Returning to Western State… Although Hu Li would surely take them in, Western State was too dry and barren, most of the Mao Clan were strangers, and Long Hu clearly wasn’t accustomed to living there.

Could it really be that they had to go back to Central State?

The agreement with Qi Yingzhu for a rendezvous was originally just an excuse to hastily send her away, but now it seemed it might actually come to pass.

Thinking about this, Long Long felt even more stifled.

What about the promised cod fishery bay in the northern corner? It had already been half a month since the agreed-upon date—why was there still no sign of anyone?

Surely we didn’t go to the wrong place…

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

If there were another spot in the North Sea like cod fishery bay, then Beiming Fanyang should have forewarned us. Otherwise, how could we outsiders possibly find it?

If there was no warning, then there must only be this one place filled with groups of cod!

So why still haven’t they come to find us?

Silent, Long Long left the ice cave and saw Long Hu sitting by the edge of a shattered ice layer, fishing.

Probably due to the competition for warmer currents, the codfish here attacked one another, resulting in especially tender, fatty meat.

The two of them were originally using Flying Swords to pierce the fish, grilling them casually to accompany their meals. However, recently, Long Hu had been so bored that she switched from fishing with the sword to fishing with a rod to pass time.

At first, the codfish were incredibly foolish—so much so that even if there was nothing but a stray tail hair on the hook, they’d rush forward and fight for it. Long Hu repeatedly pulled in fish by the bucketful.

But recently, they seemed to have grown smarter; they wouldn’t even glance at a tail hair. Without hesitation, they’d swim away.

After a whole morning’s effort, Long Hu only managed to fish up two or three, and now she was resting her chin in her palm, staring blankly at the water. Her fluffy, large tail swished left and right intermittently, exuding boredom.

Long Long quietly approached, grabbed the base of her tail, and hadn’t managed to stroke it a few times before the tail slipped out of his grasp, giving him a casual slap.

Thus, Long Hu continued fishing, and Long Long stayed behind her, playing with her tail.

When the sun was high in the sky and the midday heat was at its peak—warm and pleasant—the codfish rushed to the surface in droves to absorb the sun’s essence. Several foolish ones collided with the hooks.

Long Long finally filled the small bucket he’d brought, contentedly handed it to Long Hu, and said:

“One each: peppercorn seasoning, chili powder, five-spice mix, and salted roast.”

“Alright.” Long Long began to process the fresh fish, marinating them with seasonings.

The spices were leftovers from Miss Shi, stuffed into his Storage Bag at the time. Who would’ve thought they’d still come in handy now?

The two roasted the codfish to completion and feasted until satisfied. They then lay flat on the ice layer, unwilling to move, basking comfortably in the sunlight.

Kunlun Mirror finally couldn’t bear it any longer and asked:

“Are we just going to wait here like this?”

“What else can we do?” Long Long retorted, “If Beiming Fanyang won’t show up, we don’t have anywhere else to go… By the way, if it weren’t for Ah Jing being unable to scan Beiming Fanyang’s trail, would we have had to sit around here like lazy rabbits?”

“I…” Kunlun Mirror found herself momentarily speechless but quickly recovered, firing back, “If my scan doesn’t work, isn’t it up to you to use that supposedly intelligent brain of yours? Otherwise, if everything relies on my scanning, then what’s the point of having you? I might as well find a pig to be my host—it can root around wherever I scan!”

Pfft! Suming Sword burst into laughter nearby.

“Fine,” Long Long, never one to take anything seriously, laughed heartily too, “Then, Ah Jing, please feel free to recruit a higher being… wait, I mean, a higher pig! Suming Sword, you supervise—I want to see how she commands a pig to locate the Heaven-Mending Stone fragments.”

“You—” Kunlun Mirror started to rebuke, but her words got caught in her throat mid-sentence.

“What is it?” Long Long noticed her abrupt pause, asking, “Realized your mistake?”

“It’s here,” Kunlun Mirror replied.

“What’s here?” Long Long froze momentarily before abruptly springing to his feet, startling Long Hu next to him. freēnovelkiss.com

The two hadn’t yet exchanged any words when the seawater in cod fishery bay suddenly formed a massive vortex.

The vortex grew larger and larger, forcing the swarming codfish to the edges. Long Long kept a close watch, waiting to see what kind of demons and monsters would emerge from within. Suddenly, Kunlun Mirror shouted:

“Jump!”

Without hesitation, Long Long grabbed Long Hu’s arm and leaped into the vortex.

Amid the spinning chaos, the two resurfaced, finding the world suddenly open and expansive.

The original cod fishery bay, nestled within the fissures of colossal glaciers a hundred zhang high, had a somewhat oppressive feel due to its confined surroundings.

But this Dwelling Cave Heaven revealed a vast icy plain with no end in sight, except for a towering ice mountain piercing the Heavenly Dome in the distance—imposing against the sprawling ice field.

Long Long looked carefully and noticed that the ice mountain was narrow and lofty, bearing a resemblance to the design aesthetic of the imperial Divine Dragon Tower; it seemed crafted postnatally for Jiaolong to coil and rest upon.

As his gaze roamed around, Long Long saw a group of Jiaolong cultivators already closing in, roughly twenty of them.

Among them stood an elderly man, his hands bound behind his back, next to a burly middle-aged man interrogating him:

“The outsiders you secretly aligned with—are there only these two?”

The old man looked distressed, nodding and then shaking his head.

The burly man sneered and barked: “Seize them!”

The crowd surged forward, aiming to capture Long Long.

But Long Long was not one to sit idly and await doom. Moreover, scanning revealed that among the twenty, only five or six were Dong Yuan Realm; the rest were Transformation Realm.

No army of a thousand ancestors? And they dare to capture me?

He let out a sneer of his own, hoisted Long Hu onto his back, and transformed into his Jiaolong Dharma Body in a flash.

Upon entering Dong Yuan Realm, his Jiaolong Dharma Body had stretched hundreds of zhang long, instantly ripping through the crowd’s encirclement. Then, with a dragon roar, he unleashed Dragon’s Might, blanketing the surroundings.

His bargain mentor Shi Yao had once said that among the Dragon Clan’s myriad techniques, Dragon’s Might reigns supreme, followed by Spells, and then Martial Arts. The reason? Dragon’s Might is outrageously domineering and unreasonable. If your rank is inferior, you’ll be crushed alive by Dragon’s Might, unable to move.

Thus, the group of twenty Jiaolong cultivators, one by one, were slammed into the ground by Dragon’s Might. Those in Dong Yuan Realm could barely manage movement, while those in Transformation Realm fell to their knees, paralyzed and unable to resist.