The inner workings of love city were quite complex. The city was surrounded by high walls were only the gates were the entrance to the city. Due to various reasons the weather around the city could change in an instant.
Gu Zhi woke up to find it raining outside. Not only that, but he could vaguely tell that it wasn't the normal sunrise he was used to, it seemed more like noon, then morning, but again he couldn't really tell.
"Wake up" he nudged his wife gently as she stirred awake from sleep.
"We need a plan" he said as he went to go change clothes and wash up.
"*Sigh* this is going to be hard" she responded.
"We already know that, what we need to know is how to not get ourselves killed" he said.
"Ugh, we need disguise ourselves some way, not only do we need to disguise our face, but our build and height".
"I'll look out for some treasures or medicines that might be able to do that".
"Next, we need to not only increase or psychical strength but more importantly our political strength".
"Next to impossible to increase our political power here, but we can find ways to increase our cultivation" he said.
"If all else fails, we might have to abandon our original way back and stay in the city or find somewhere else to go" she said.
"I don't know how viable that is because no one who came back, had information about those who stayed".
"Those are the only ideas I have right now, if you think of any let me know, for now we should be looking for that treasure or medicine to change our appearance".
"That's fine, but that's not a perfect solution either, only so many people came into the palace, and only so many people will leave, It doesn't take a genius to start a process of elimination to find us".
"Then the best solution is just to stay for a while and try to go back to the flying wind sect discreetly later".
"They'll think were dead if we do that".
"No they won't" she said with a certain tone. "Our clan is a divination based one. Divining if someone is alive or not is basic divination".
"I thought they can't divine much about this place due to the formations and restrictions".
"There are ways around that, ways that our clan has, you don't know much about divining but I can tell you some information is easier to get than others. Divining whether or not your kin is alive with enough resources WILL produce results. With how much our clan has invested into us they will spare us the bare minimum amount of confirmations about our deaths" she added.
"What about diviners divining our location" he asked.
"We'll need some protection, the less they know about us the better our chances, we need just enough protection to block our enemies but not enough for were our clan can't find us".
"So many things we need, how are we going to get all these things".
She looked at him and rolled her eyes, "I think we both know exactly how were going to get them. Here there's only really one way to get all of those resources in such a short amount of time".
"Is that your way of giving consent?" he asked.
"Yes, we don't have much of a choice but I'm not happy about it" she said with a grumpy look on her face.
"I'll let you handle the arrangement, I think it's better for both of us if you do all the talking for that kind of stuff".
"Sure, I can get us the resources and screen out the ones I don't like".
"Should we wait to do it after the trial or use our little amount of time now and do before the next one".
"We don't know what the next trials going to be so it's better to start right now" she said.
"Okay who do we contact for this kind of thing" he asked.
"A city official is our best bet, I'll ask the receptionist here how to get into contact with one".
"Alright, then let's confirm our plan, we need to find disguises, stay later than everyone else and try to leave when its a place near our home, I'll leave that to you and your small background in divining. Next we need some small to medium levels of protection against diviners and either wait to be rescued by the clan once we leave, or to try and make it back home. And to find all of these things that we need, we will use my "services" to help repopulate the city with "new blood" is that correct" he said.
"That's right but your forgetting one thing" she said.
"What's that?" he said with a confused look on his face.
She yanked his robes bringing his head down so she could whisper into his ears.
"You're going to impregnant me first before I let you have a child with one of these whores" she said with a dead serious face. "No one else but me is going to have your first child".
That seemed to be an undisputable fact as in the next instant she completely leg locked him leaving him no room to maneuver.
"Then it seems we should finally stop the contraception and get to work" he said with a slightly heavy tone.
Cultivators had many ways to stop sex from producing kids, they also had ways that did the exact opposite. And Gu Xiao and Gu Zhi weren't going to play around anymore.