Blue Phoenix Chapter 64 – Bathtub Trouble

Listening to Hui Yue’s words Sha Yun did just that, and the young boy heard the slithering sound of her moving into the attached bathroom followed by splashing sounds. The sounds brought a relaxed smile to Hui Yue’s face.

Laying in the bed, Hui Yue enjoyed how the fabric was smooth and gentle like silk against his skin, cooling him but not allowing him to get cold. The soft embrace of the warm bed was such a contrast to anything he had experienced in the last few weeks, and a gratified expression appeared on his face. Although there was only one big bed, it was not as bad as he had assumed at first.

Hui Yue enjoyed the smooth fabric, the soft embrace, and the quiet surroundings. Though quickly a frown appeared on his face, as he heard a low hissing sound along with small creaking sounds from inside the bathroom, even though the sounds were muted by the closed door.

Hearing these hissing sounds it was clear to Hui Yue that the bathing session was not working out as intended. An exasperated sigh escaped his lips, as he forced his tired muscles to once more support him on the short walk from the tempting bed towards the bathroom, which contained something that was highly likely to cause his headache to reappear.

‘Wahoo!’ Lan Feng cheered within the dantian cave as Hui Yue moved towards the bathroom, causing Hui Yue to narrow his eyes, contemplating which perverted comment would emerge.

‘You are finally growing a pair, huh?’ Lan Feng asked. But before Hui Yue could even open his mouth, the perverted bird continued, ‘This is what it is like to be a man. We need to indulge in the usual man things like walking in on a naked woman.’

‘You do realize she has been naked all day right?’ Hui Yue pointed out with a sigh. It was indeed true that Sha Yun had not been wearing anything before Hui Yue had purchased her a cloak. Even so, she had not appeared naked due to the protective scales all over her body.

‘Naked is naked,’ Lan Feng stubbornly claimed. ‘Imagine those scaled soaked in water.’ He mused, and Hui Yue was slightly disturbed by a feeling which was invading him from Lan Feng’s soul.

‘If you are a good boy, I’ll even tell you how to do it with a snake-woman.’ Finally, Hui Yue had had enough. He forcefully shook his head trying to dislodge all the words left behind by Lan Feng. He gently knocked on the bathroom door convincing himself that Lan Feng’s temptation was something he could easily withstand.

A hiss could be heard, this time slightly more frantic than the previous ones, and loud sounds of crashing items followed, causing Hui Yue to close his blue eyes in dread of what could be happening.

Upon slowly opening the door revealed a room filled with steam. It had taken a few moments before Hui Yue had a clear view of what had happened. Before the steam completely vanished, Hui Yue tried everything within his power to strain his eyes to their limits to see what had gone wrong. Unfortunately, as soon as it was visible Hui Yue could not help wishing that he had never opened the door.

The bathroom was a generous size, definitely living up to its reputation as the biggest room in the inn. In the middle of the room, a big wooden barrel bathtub had been placed on top of a small charcoal stove which kept the water in the bathtub warm.

Flower petals had been floating generously on top of the water, yet currently, these petals were either adorning the floor or stuck on Sha Yun’s scaled skin.

Sha Yun was currently seated within the bathtub, but she was apparently situated in an incredibly awkward position. Her tail was simply too long to enter the water along with herself. It seemed as though she had forced it into the already cramped bathtub, causing her to be jammed within and the water to overflow.

This was, however, not the worst that Hui Yue noticed. The last meter of the tail was unable to fit into the bathtub together with the rest of her. Now that she noticed she was stuck, slight panic had overtaken her, causing her tail to thrash around, knocking down bottles of interesting items.

Upon looking at the floor, Hui Yue groaned. He saw jade bottles which had contained scented oils, sweet fragranced soaps, and a few medicinal pills. Everything had been broken or smashed by the thrashing of her tail.

Carefully walking through the room, Hui Yue moved to the middle and observed the snake-woman’s plight. He considered how he might get her free, yet no matter how much he thought, only one way seemed possible.

A blush appeared on his face as he grabbed the tail and started pulling. At first, he expected that it would be relatively easy for him to help Sha Yun out. After pulling as hard as he could, he found out that it was no easy task. Sha Yun was firmly stuck in the bathtub.

Lines gathered on Hui Yue’s forehead as he looked at the bathtub situation once again. This time, not even considering Lan Feng’s previous taunting, he looked at the coiled snake within the bathtub, and helpless laughter escaped him.

The entire situation was very bizarre. It appeared as though Sha Yun as well felt it rather odd. She didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Hui Yue tried pulling Sha Yun’s tail from various angles. No matter what he did it was all for naught, as the only result he got was the snake-woman twisting her face in discomfort.

Eventually, Hui Yue had had enough! He gritted his teeth as he started to circulate his qi through his body and focused it into his hands, multiplying his previous strength a hundredfold. Although this could turn slightly uncomfortable, it was nothing compared to the pain Sha Yun had already experienced in their pulling competition.

Using qi resolved the issue swiftly, and Hui Yue started to wonder why he had not used it before. Finally done a deep sigh escaped Hui Yue once again, causing the young boy to feel as though sighing had become as natural to him as breathing.

Changing the sigh into a smile, Hui Yue cast one last glance at Sha Yun. He had to admit that she was indeed an enchantress. Her beauty was alluring and so was her curvy figure, as it now lay in the bathtub with the coiled tail roaming around lazily. She looked like a siren from the old stories.

Shaking his head, Hui Yue laughed and finally forced himself to drag his eyes from the tempting sight as he moved out of the bathroom and back to the bed. Allowing his body to slump onto the bed, it did not take him even a moment before everything turned black and he gave into the comforting feeling of sleep.

In another courtyard within Riluo City was Wang Ju Long seated in her room. From a very young age, Wang Ju Long had focused on nothing apart from training at which she had always wished to excel.

When Wang Ju Long’s mother had gone into labor, a fortune-teller within Riluo City made the prophecy that if the Wang family were to get a son, then they would flourish beyond belief, yet if they were to get a daughter, then they would suffer tremendously.

Having heard such a public prophecy everyone within Riluo City was curious to see whether or not the Wang family’s new child would be a boy or a girl. As she was born, her father had personally executed everyone present and then informed the masses that it was a boy.

Since then, Wang Ju Long had lived as a boy. She had never been given a female name, nor had she been allowed to wear female clothes. Living a life in which her father refused to look at her and her mother had cast her away, Wang Ju Long quickly found a great love in the quietness of meditation.

She saw how the guards would meditate and she copied their gesture. Her first strand of qi was refined when she was three years old. Even back then it had the pure and shining luster for which it was very famous.

Refining qi at the age of three had awakened everyone within the Wang family to suddenly realize that Wang Ju Long was not just the shame of their family. She could perhaps become the new genius of a generation as long as no one knew her real gender.

Since then, Wang Ju Long started to understand what the world was truly like. A place where the strongest survived and those with talent would be treated as celebrities, while everyone else would be treated with hostility. Had she not become useful, then it was obvious that she would have been left alone for her entire life.

Still, within this world, there was one person who did not seem to care about her real gender and who had even gifted her an irreplaceable cultivation technique. Although Wang Ju Long was young, she still felt gratitude towards this person. For the first time, she wished to be strong for the sake of someone else.

So far her strength had been a way for her to secure a safe lifestyle within her family’s home. Now she wished to improve so that she was worthy of her position as a rival of Hui Yue.

These thoughts had been blazing within Wang Ju Long’s mind for days on end. She had completely skipped eating and sleeping for the sake of cultivating and improving her cultivation base. Now, after two months of constant cultivation, she had managed to advance into the fifth star Disciple rank.

A great feeling of accomplishment washed over her tired body as she finally reached her goal. Hui Yue was likely to be still above her in rank, yet she knew that even if he was slightly stronger, she still had the ability to catch up. He had granted her this opportunity, and it was one of which she would never let go.

Thinking about Hui Yue caused Wang Ju Long’s cheeks to turn slightly red, but she quickly slapped them hard. She had been told to live her life as a man, and that was what she would do. Still, she wished that there was a possibility for her to become Hui Yue’s friend in the future.

Hui Yue was sleeping deeply while Wang Ju Long finally managed to break into the fifth star of the Disciple rank. He had gone without proper sleep for weeks. Although the training had been greatly rewarding, it had also caused him to feel fatigued by using his abilities to their limits.

Sleeping within the bed, Hui Yue finally looked like the young child he was supposed to be, and his previous vigilance and sharpness were nowhere to be found.

Sha Yun had been enjoying the bath for a long time, especially the bubbles. When she finally emerged from the bathroom, it had been more than an hour since Hui Yue had left. As she moved into the room, she noticed the sleeping boy on the bed and a gentle expression appeared on her face.

Today had been the most exciting day in all of Sha Yun’s life. Looking at the many different things which had happened, she did not regret her choice of initiating the beast pledge even a little.

Moving towards the bed, Sha Yun used her snake-tail to wrap around Hui Yue and move him further into the bed before she laid down next to him. She refused to let go of his waist and instead pulled him closer, keeping him within her scaled embrace. A smile appeared on her face as she, too, fell into a deep sleep.