Hu Li morph into Yu Bing and stroll in the streets. While Hei is walking beside Hu Li. They meet Du Wei in a tavern and he is surprise to see Hu Li bring along a stranger who looks like a tough man. Anyway they sit there and talk on how to go into the palace where they place all the royal carriages. Looking at the palace map that Du Wei have bring along with him, there is no such place for all the carriage. Most likely they are place outside each courtyard of the royal family members.
After two hours, they parted and continued what they are needed to do.
Back in the Princess's courtyard, she ask her maids about where to find the royal carriages.
"They are park within the stables."
"When can i inspect my carriage?"
"Why? Princess no one in the royal family inspects their own carriages."
"I just want to see it."
"But ... you ride it almost every other day out into the city."
Suddenly Hu Li feels very foolish. She smile and said that she is joking about it. She ask to be leave alone. The door is close as the maid leaves. She place her cat down and he morph back to is usual look.
""I can go have a look and return fast."
"You don't even know what we are looking for."
"Just tell me."
"No we have to go somewhere out of the city with it."
The next day, she informed her maids that she want to go to the royal temple. Thus by a mid morning, she is riding in the carriage with Hei towards the royal temple. Once they reach the temple, she take time to get off. Inside of the carriage, they have search every corner by feeling it. Nothing unusual thus it might be outside of the carriage. She pretend to let go of her cat who run under the carriage. She seach for the carriage while trying to catch her cat. Hei meanwhile is looking up if there is a any special patterns on the board. After awhile, there isn't any thing special on it. She have no choice but to go inside the temple. Hu LI entrust her cat in the carriage. Since no animals are allow inside. She close her eyes and sigh before she steps in the temple. Inside, She feel the energy of the divine being. She will have to answer to her. A nun come up to them and Princess Wang Ching excuse her maids and guards. She follow the nun inside for prayers.
"Finally you are here. Is Hei outside?"
"Yes master, he is."
"Did you know what you are doing now?"
"Yes master Bai Xuan. I understand."
"Interfering with fate is not what magical beast does. Once this is over, you have to go for your punishment. "
"What type of punishment ..."
"Something that you have done before and you have seen recently one sea creature who is still living in it."
"The ... scroll painting. "
"Yes. That will be your punishment after this."
"Why not now?"
"You already have disturb the flow therefore you need to continue on her life story till the end of her life."
"What ... when is the end of her life?"
"You will know when it is coming."
"For now what i want to tell you is that, since you start something end it with without suspicions. You are not human and can never be one. When the time comes, just die and don't attempt to revive her life and carry on what you what to do. It's her life that you are coping now."
She left the temple and enter the carriage with without a word. Hei who is watching her thinking that she might have been scolded by Bai Xuan. He have been scolded numerous times, so it is not a surprise. They reach the palace and she walk to the fish pond to feed the fishes and hear their complains.
That night Hu Li think of the things that she have done so far. To her it's a meaningful time when she actually did something for the two legged creatures. All her long boring life, she have make some friends and watch them leave when their time is up. However in this city she find a purpose to save lives and live every minute to it. Hu Li siting alone for awhile knows what she should do. She will never regret her decision she made and will accept the punishment when it is all done.
Hei watch her in a distance, he roughly know what his master tells Hu Li. Most magical beast try to escape from the desire to help but Hu Li leap in without a thought about it. Since he love her from the start, when she falls in love with a human, he allow her to find that little happiness and stay away. Till the day the human pass away, he return beside her. Now stay beside her, he knows she have a fondness for humans and always pity them. Hei decided to stay by her side this time to prevent her from doing anything crazy. However, there is something strange that he feel on his body, as a fox, he never have been so muscular and occasionally it is causing him pain. His fangs are growing longer. Soon he will have to go and secular in snowy land or sneak into the lotus pond to revive himself.