Time flowed on.
In the barracks next door, the Eighteenth Princess listened for a long while, yet heard nothing at all.
"Has he stopped playing with those pleasure star puppets?"
She had heard of Li Tianming's reputation in Hunyuanji. Though he seemingly had no ambiguous relationships with women, those three pleasure star puppets were said to each have their own distinctive traits—one fiery, one lively and unruly, and one with the bearing of a mother to all under heaven.
Thus, in many people's eyes, Li Tianming was a seasoned shut-in. Other than on important occasions, he never stepped out the main gate or the second gate.
In truth, he went out every day. It was simply that he remained in the Void Universe Astral Manifestation state, so no one saw him.
The Eighteenth Princess refused to believe it. She kept listening and listening, but several days passed without the slightest sound from across the way. It was as though no one lived there at all.
Well, there really was no one there. Li Tianming had no such proclivities, so he had used the Void Universe Astral Manifestation to switch to another barracks, hiding from the Eighteenth Princess.
Still, one could dodge the first day but not the fifteenth. With nothing better to do, the Eighteenth Princess often came looking for him, knocking on doors and even barging into them at the drop of a hat. Li Tianming had no way around it. He could only pause his cultivation for the time being, turn his attention to developments on the battlefield, and think up other solutions early.
Ever since the Eighteenth Princess had replaced Nan Xuan as strategist of the Eighth Expeditionary Army, the Yang clan members had kept a much lower profile. At last, they had tucked their tails between