The two Liuyun Sect’s disciples were totally exhausted, and even Liu Bi had problems resisting the illusion any longer. This Hallucination Array consumed the spiritual power of the cultivator, and the spiritual power used inside the array was ten times faster than outside, which was simply not enough for them to play a game with the cat.
The kitten nesting in Mo Tianliao’s arms yawned and scratched Mo Tianliao’s clothes.
“Are you sleepy?” Mo Tianliao lowered his head, kissed the kitten’s head, and glanced at Liu Bi, “Then we will come back another day.”
“Lord Duantian,” Liu Bi was a little panicked when she saw that he was about to leave. She had been stuck here for a long time, and there was no way to break the formation. She thought that Venerable Lord Duantian appeared suddenly because he wanted to talk to her, but she didn’t expect that he came just to coax the cat to play, “Venerable, could I have a word with you?”
Mo Tianliao’s steps in the void paused slightly and turned back slowly, “Does immortal Liu Bi have something to say to me?”
“That’s right.” Liu Bi nodded, changing from the previous arrogance, she now had a very sincere attitude.
Mo Tianliao stroked the cat fur in his arms, seeming to think whether it was worth talking with her.
Liu Bi clenched the veil in her hand and glanced at the two disciples around her. She suddenly shot out, and released the spiritual aura of her body, and instantly caused the two disciples to faint. “Venerable, please let me out, I will never reveal any news of the Mo Palace, and the relationship between Demon Venerable and Woyun Sect.”
With a sneer, Mo Tianliao squinted his eyes, snapped a piece of spirit stone, embedded it into the cliff next to him, and waved his hand.
There was a flash of light and when Liu Bi came back to her senses, she found that she was in a stone room. There was nothing but a table and a few chairs in the room, not even a door. She tried to use her own Qi, here it did not consume ten times like in the Hallucination Array, but…the Qi couldn’t be used at all!
Here, she was indistinguishable from those mortal women who had no power to bind chickens, and suddenly became even more flustered.
“You don’t have to be so polite, sit down.” A low and melodious voice sounded, and several glazed lamps lit up in an instant, reflecting the handsome and domineering face in front of the stone table. She didn’t know when Mo Tianliao had appeared. He sat in a chair, took out a tea set, and started to make tea.
Liu Bi took a deep breath and walked over with strong self-determination and sat down.
“Immortal Liu Bi does not need to be afraid. In this room, I am without doubt, also a mortal.” Mo Tianliao smiled, lowered his head to make tea with interest, made a cup and handed it to Liu Bi, “Compared to Immortal Liu Bi, I’m just a man, who has more strength.”
Liu Bi took the cup, her face didn’t look much better. This demon was really despicable. The meaning of these words were that even though neither of them could use their Qi here, Mo Tianliao was still a man with great strength. Should they fight, she would definitely be in a disadvantage, so she should know her place and behave.
“Meoww…” The kitten in his arms was also thirsty, grabbing Mo Tianliao’s hand and asking for water.
Mo Tianliao took the cup and turned the tea back and forth a few times, then lowered his hand, allowing the kitten to lie on his wrist to lick the tea in the cup. After drinking it, the kitten lowered its four claws and laid on Mo Tianliao’s wrist lazily. Mo Tianliao let him hang just like that, while he raised his hand and took a sip of the tea that the kitten had drunk.
Liu Bi’s eyes were about to fall. No matter how much she doted on her spiritual beast, she would never drink water in the same cup!
“The conditions put forward by Immortal Liu Bi are too funny,” Mo Tianliao put down his cup. “Only the dead could not tell the secret.”
While Venerable Demon Lord Duantian was having a secret talk with Liu Bi, Demon Venerable Landkiller Shi Di was also meeting with Supreme Demon Lord Ming Yan.
“That man is not Duantian,” Demon Venerable Shi Di waved his hand. “That kid’s name is ‘Mo Yunqi’, he is Duantian’s son.”
The Supreme Demon Lord Ming Yan, reclining on the broad throne, slowly raised his eyes when he heard the words. His black eyes were as deep as a pool, and you couldn’t see any emotions in them. After waiting for a long time, he said slowly: “Oh?”
Demon Lord Shi Di stroked the beard on his face. When Mo Tianliao had previously left his Demon Palace, he sent someone to follow him, but the kid slipped away. However, according to what the kid had said himself, he had been devoted to the righteous path, and was then going to participate at the Three Sects Assembly. The people of the Supreme Demon Palace quickly found out the identity of Mo Yunqi in the right way.
This time, everyone went to the Duantian Mo Palace. Although several Demon Venerables did not participate, the details were clear. Regarding the rebirth of Duantian, the news that the Supreme Demon Venerable received was that, that person looked exactly like the dead Duantian.
“That person is a puppet made by Duantian. Three hundred years ago, Duantian made him with his own essence and blood.” Lord Shi Di avowedly said, turning his head to look at the big lion for proof, but no trace of the demon pet was seen. When he looked up again, he saw that the big lion had already crouched beside the Supreme Demon Venerable Ming Yan’s throne and his furry head was already placed on his hand.
Ming Yan was not angry. He just stroked the lion’s head repeatedly.
There was no expression on the big lion’s face, but the fluffy fur on the tip of his tail had exploded happily.
“Puppet?” Ming Yan’s thin lips pressed into a straight line, he looked at Shi Di with idiotic eyes, and raised his hand to signal to the emissary in black next to him, “Send an invitation of the Demon Dao Supreme Conference to the Duantian Mo Palace.”
“The kid who just turned Half-immortal, why give him an invitation?” His eyes widened.
The Demon Dao Supreme Conference, like the Three Sects Assembly of the Righteous Dao, was held once every 100 years. Unlike the Righteous Dao’s friendly exchanges, the purpose of the Demon Dao Supreme Conference was to fight for the position of Demon Venerable.
The first competition was among the various demonic cultivators. Then, in the Demon Dao, any cultivator who had a cultivation level of Half-immortal or above could challenge any of the Demon Lords as long as he was within the top three in the previous competition. If he won, he could replace the Demon Lord. If he lost, it doesn’t matter if he was alive or dead. The invitations were issued by the Supreme Demon Lord, only to a select few demon masters.
Ming Yan ignored him and slowly closed his eyes, indicating that he could leave.
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Liu Bi was also kicked out by Mo Tianliao, with an inexplicable melancholy and excitement on her face.
“So, she agreed?” Qingtong just woke up and yawned in his human form.
Mo Tianliao smiled, holding his waist and letting him lean on him, “She has no choice.”
Mo Tianliao had thought about it from the beginning to let Liu Bi cooperate with him. Liuyun Sect had always regarded itself as the number one in crafting in the Righteous Dao, relying on many craftsmen and trading demonic beasts to get rich. But now, Ding Hu had been burned into a fool by his woodfire, and Liuyun Sect’s crafting line could be said to have lost its inheritance.
Mo Tianliao offered the temptation to teach Liuyun Sect disciples privately, and he didn’t believe that Liu Bi would not take the bait.
“With these, was the immortal Liu Bi afraid that she won’t be able to sit as the Sect Master?” Mo Tianliao personally added tea to Liu Bi who was nervously drinking water.
“I’m a female…” Liu Bi rolled her eyes and had to admit that the conditions given by Lord Duantian were very attractive. Without the assistance of Ding Hu, the position of Lord Liu Mang as Sect Master was indeed unstable, but now she would have real strength.
“The Demon Venerable Feng Su is also a woman, but is she not in the Demon Dao?” Mo Tianliao sneered, “If you are not at ease, I can make a blood oath with you.”
In the end, Liu Bi accepted it, made a blood oath, and agreed to cooperate with Duantian. But some couldn’t understand, with such a good standard as Duantian, it was entirely possible to directly find Liu Mang to cooperate, so why bother to beat around the bush?
“This Lord just finds him not pleasing to the eye.” Liu Bi kept pondering over his words, but just couldn’t understand where Liu Mang had offended Duantian, she could only conclude that it was due to the Demon Lord’s unpredictable moods.
“Where did he offend you?” Qingtong asked Mo Tianliao, letting him take off his clothes one by one, and then slid into the hot spring.
Mo Tianliao untied his belt, jumped into the pool, caught the man who was trying to wander away, and gently nibbled on his white neck. “He didn’t offend me, I just saw his eyes and wanted to use them to refine beads.”
In the next few days, the Old Ministries from the past came to pay a visit.
After the destruction of the Duantian Mo Palace, most of the forces were harvested, but a small part of the unknown ones remained. Hou Jing was very agile, and soon recruited the servants to fill the Mo Palace. Those who swept, cooked, planted flowers, and grew fish, were all good hands.
Each servant had to wear an ankle ring, and each ankle ring corresponded to a specific area, which would ensure that the servant would not be attacked by the array in that area, and at the same time also limit the scope of the servant’s activities to the specific areas.
Meng Hu also got a ring, but it was put on his neck, which allowed him to enter any area of the Mo Palace.
“You can perceive the servant’s whereabouts through divine thoughts.” Mo Tianliao patiently taught Meng Hu how to use this collar.
“What do I care about them?” Meng Hu was confused, he didn’t use these servants often, why did he need to know where they were going or what they were going to do?
“I’m going to be in seclusion for a few days. You have to take care of Master,” Mo Tianliao said solemnly. He handed him an account book of the Mo Palace. “If you want to take good care of Master during my absence, you have to know everything about the Mo Palace, lest you can’t find anything the Master wants.”
The big tiger found the reason a reasonable one and agreed to undertake the task.
Mo Tianliao smiled a little, then he shook his hand and went to the crafting room.
The crafting room of Duantian Mo Palace was located in the high mountain in the center of the Mo Palace. From outside, it looked like an inconspicuous mountain wall without any entrance. Only three small words “Duantian Mo Palace” were carved on it. One couldn’t see it without looking carefully.
He raised his hand and swept the wall with his divine consciousness and the whole person disappeared on the mountain wall instantly as if sinking into running water.
After a while, Qingtong, dressed in a snow white robe walked over slowly, put his slender and white hand on the mountain wall, and also sank in. As soon as he entered, he found a huge hollow inside, and fell down instantly.
After not coming for a long time, Qingtong had forgotten, and was startled, but before he was even able to protect himself, he fell into a warm embrace.
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Mini Theater:
“Demon Lord’s unpredictable moods” Scenes:
Rogue: Where did I offend you, you say, you say.
Carpenter: You looked at my cat (raise hand, click)
Yunyuan: And where did I offend you too, you say, you say.
Carpenter: You are fond of my cat (raise hand, click)
Yunsong: What about me? I didn’t look at him, let alone like him!
Carpenter: You bullied him (raise hand, click, click, click…)
Liu Mang & Yunyuan & Yunsong: QaQ
Thank you so much ‘somebody’ for the coffee 🙂 and for your support and motivations :)~zaki