A year has past since they finally revealed their secrets to each other.  After swearing to never tell a soul the other person's secret, they both worked hard to achieve their goals.  

Takeshi, had nursed himself into tip top shape.  With his cultivation and martial skills at a peak Heavenly Dragon Martial Stage, Takeshi's skin turned younger and smoother.  His 10 years in the cave has made his sun kissed skin, a pale white.  His hair grew long past his shoulders and his features became sharper and more menacing. His silver still held a coldness to them, but when it looked upon the girl with poisoned tattoo markings all over her body, his couldn't help how it softened.  

With the help of Takeshi, her martial skills have increased. By passing the first tier, and the first stage of the second tier, Lihua is now at peak Water Bound Martial Stage. He trained her everyday, teaching her fight skills and tactics.  He taught how to fight with a sword and had found that she has some skills with it.  

Not only did she train physically for the past year.  She has also trained her body to with stand poison by poisoning herself.  Every time she poisoned herself, a new poison marking will show up on her body once it invaded her dantian and corrupted it.  

On her body, there were several animals created by poison.  After the tiger, there is the black, red, and yellow snake that wound up from one arm across her back and wound around her other arm where the tail ended.  A black and red phoenix spouted out from her heart dantian, that covered her chest.  A blue bear laid on it's belly sleeping as a full back green, gold and black dragon covered her her back, from shoulders to her butt.  The dragon had made it's home there and refused to leave, when Lihua became inpatient one day and started collecting all the snake poison in the forest that she could find.  With over 100 snake poison in her hands, she mixed it with several poisonous herbs and drank it down.  It took a month for her to be able to detoxify herself, but by that time, the poison markings made itself known as a dragon and corrupted all her dantians on her back.  On her right leg was a pride of lions, gathered around each other, while her left leg was a troop of monkeys.  

If anyone saw Lihua, they would be scared from all the markings on her body.  Her aura alone, could scare people into thinking twice before messing with her.  With her body poison marked, she would be considered deformed in their culture.  She wouldn't be considered marriage material, so instead of crying over it, Lihua embraced it.  Her blood was poison itself. There was none who had her special set of skills.  How can she not love her body the way it is. 

With her qi, she was able to control the poison marking on her body.  She controlled the animals on her with an iron fist.  Letting them know that she ruled over them and not the other way around.  Using the qi inside her, she could summon the animals from her body.  The animals would fight for her.  Any scratch mark they could inflict onto the other person or animal, would be poisoned immediately.  With this special set of skills, she could be the best assassin in the country.  

A year together in the cave and Takeshi and Lihua have become closer than before.  Although they have not gone past hugging, holding hands and kissing.  They have gotten used to sleeping next to each other or sitting next to each other while cultivating.  Both of them were too concentrated on their task to take their relationship a step further.  They had too much on their minds to be thinking about such things until a tonight, while laying in bed,  Lihua could stop herself from touching his face.  

She would draw his eyebrows, trace his nose and lips with her finger.  She swiped his jaw and made its way to his ear.  She knew it was going to be soon, that they would leave this place of peace.  She wasn't ready yet, but she knew Takeshi stayed because of her.  He stayed to help her prepare for her revenge.  

She would catch him standing on top of the mountain late at night staring at the city with its city lights on.  She would stand next to him and wrap her arm around him and lean her head on his chest as they look towards the city together.  Them walking the same road of revenge, but for different reasons.  

"What are you thinking."  Takeshi whispered as Lihua's hands threaded through his hair.  

"We should leave tomorrow."  Lihua stated the obvious.  

"Ehm."  Takeshi agreed as he closed his eyes in lust.  Her pulling his hair always turned him on.  

Takeshi pushed forward and pins her down on the bed.  He leaned down and their lips touched. As the kiss heats up, without words, their clothes fell off their bodies.  Their naked bodies pressed onto each other from head to toe.  His hard penis lay between him and her stomach as Lihua grinds her wet vagina against him.  

Takeshi, took his time worshiping her body.  He kissed and licked every inch of her body from the neck all the way down to the valley of her legs.  He licked and touched her lower lips and with her instructions, he was able to penetrate her with his fingers.  She kept telling him what felt good and what he did right.  She encouraged him to add another finger then another.  And when she cried out his name in pleasure, he stared down as the precious person who slowly crept her way into his heart.  

With hurried movements, he entered her quickly and broke through her maidenhead. In mere moments and short, forceful thrusts, he himself had cum.  

They laid their in each other's arms afterward in silence.  They both knew their tranquil life here in the cave is coming to an end.  They knew they would have to go back into the world and face the truth.  But for one night, their last night there.  They wanted to live in the peaceful dream they accidentally created for themselves.