“You forgot the method to come down here again?” Mo Tianliao slowly descended to the ground holding Qingtong. Every time he crafted weapons or equipment, the cat would follow him, but he always forgot the special features of this crafting room and choked with fear every time.
Qingtong pursed his lips. Without answering, he pushed him away when they reached the ground, and walked around.
The entrance of the refining chamber was on the mountainside, but the floor inside was dozens of meters away from the entrance. The whole mountain was like a hollow nest. The room was hot all year round because of the Duantian Forging Fire beneath. Fortunately, Mo Tianliao carved a magic array on the mountain wall to keep it warm but not hot that it caused people to sweat.
The uneven stone walls inside, under the year-round burning of Duantian Forging fire and the fumigation of countless natural materials and heavenly treasures, had turned into a crystal clear appearance. Looking up, it was as if they were in a crystal cave. This crystal wall was engraved with a complicated and winding path, about four fingers wide, just enough for a cat to pass. The path was carefully glued with a layer of flannel cloth to make it easy for the cat to walk.
In addition to the paths, the walls were evenly embedded with glazed lamps, reflecting the entire refining room like daylight.
For ordinary refining rooms, in order to prevent being scorched by flames, the ground would be usually covered with bluestone slabs, or sometimes more luxurious jade, and then a few futons will be put next to the stove. However, Mo Tianliao’s refining room, aside from the luxurious jade slabs and scattered futons, a large soft carpet, covered the ground!
Light gray woolen blankets also covered every corner of the room, and in the middle of the room, a huge furnace stood quietly.
Mo Tianliao walked over, slowly raised his hand, and stroked the silver furnace body. This was the furnace that made him the Venerable Demon Lord Duantian——Tai Chi Heavenly Burning Furnace. This furnace was left to him by the old bastard, a Half-immortal.
“This is for you, to celebrate your departure from Master.” The old bastard said, smiling so wide that all his teeth could be seen.
“Who recognizes you as a Master!” Mo Tianliao snatched away the palm-sized small tripod, waved his hand to beckon him to get out, and got a kick on his ass.
“It’s you who should go away, I’m going to ascend!”
With his fingertips across the left ear handle, a line of slanted small characters, “Gifting my apprentice a golden pill, and I’m going to ascend” were engraved on it. The right ear was also engraved with a line of words, but the font was domineering and arrogant, same as the huge sign outside the gate, “As the parasol trees cover the clouds, there will hardly be strong winds.”
“Wow, the Heavenly Burning Furnace, I remember!” Taishi turned into a big mouth and flew around the furnace. When he was an ignorant little wit, he just squatted at the side and watched Mo Tianliao throw in all kinds of rare heaven and earth treasures to practice making the pig-killing knife…
“Do you want to go in for practice again?” Mo Tianliao raised his eyebrows and asked Taishi.
Taishi turned into a rattle drum, and shook vigorously. But it couldn’t change into anything soft. The two “ropes” of the rattle drum tied with beads were thus as hard as iron, and they couldn’t hit the drumhead when it shook, so it had to give up. It changed back to a big mouth: “No need, no need.”
“What do you want to craft?” Qingtong walked over and sat beside Mo Tianliao, and Taishi immediately turned into a dog’s tail and dangled in front of him.
“I’m going to make an array disk, and some small magical weapons,” Mo Tianliao leaned in, while he fiddled with the dog’s tail grass, and stole a kiss on the fair and handsome face. “It should be the Demon Dao Supreme Conference some time soon, I have to make some preparations early.”
One must know that Venerable Lord Duantian had always been famous for fighting with his magical weapons. In the Death Valley, while he was escaping for his life back then, he ran out of all the small magical weapons. It was so shameful as he couldn’t grab a handful of small magical weapons in the fight afterwards.
“Master, you already have the most invincible weapon in the world. You don’t need any other weapons!” Taishi immediately quit being a dog’s tail and turned into a tortoise-shell bowl, banging against the furnace, accusing Mo Tianliao of taking away his job.
Mo Tianliao twitched the corners of his mouth, “Then I will turn you into a nail to pierce the soles of people’s feet during a fight.”
“No problem!” Taishi turned into an ugly nail spontaneously and twisted triumphantly with pride.
Mo Tianliao rewarded him with a ball of woodfire, “If I use you to prick others’ feet, how will I use you as a skewer in the future? Go away”
“Oww! Hot, hot, hot!”
After dismissing Taishi, Mo Tianliao took out several materials from his storage bracelet, then threw two spirit stones into the Tai Chi array at the bottom of the furnace. He accurately inserted them into the eyes of the Yin Yang fish, and used his divine thoughts to drive them. The two Yin and Yang fish immediately began to rotate, turning faster and faster, and with a “boom”, the crimson burning sky fire came out from under the ground and instantly enveloped the entire bottom of the furnace.
The fire light turned Qingtong’s face red. The temperature was a little high, which made him retreat.
“There is tea and food over there,” Mo Tianliao pointed to the small crystal cabinet placed against the wall. Inside were the things he had just filled in, and they were all fresh. “Call me if you need something.” After that, he turned his head and started handling the materials, letting Qingtong play by himself.
The things to be crafted this time were very complicated and many materials needed to be processed in advance. For example, for today’s spider silk array, he needed to use a jade knife to peel off the outer hard shell of the spider silk and slowly re-draw the silk. The raw spider silk was very fragile so he needed to be very careful to prevent it from breaking.
Qingtong looked at it for a while and felt bored. He turned into a snow-colored kitten, climbed onto the wall, and ran slowly up the narrow path. There were glazed lanterns hung on the path, the location was just right, and it wouldn’t hinder him from moving forward. Each lamp was different, some were lotus lamps and some were octagonal lamps, carved with different patterns. These lamps were also to help Mo Tianliao remember array patterns. Sometimes he couldn’t remember what patterns were carved on the tools, so he would look up at these glazed lamps.
The little snow-colored paws stepped on the dark blue flannel. He walked for a while and looked down at Mo Tianliao below, flicking his tail, before climbing to the highest point where there was the most beautiful glazed lamp carved like a small fish. Raising his paw and scratching the Fish Lantern, he walked around and there was a long slide.
The kitten looked at the slide, and looked at Mo Tianliao who had finished drawing the web and started throwing things into the furnace. He laid down on the slide and slid down.
Mo Tianliao threw the processed materials into the furnace in order. The advantage of the Heavenly Burning Furnace was that no matter how much materials was thrown in, it could be fired at the same time and would not affect each other. Mo Tianliao only needed to control them in the furnace with his divine thoughts and each would stay in the same area. Closing his eyes, he passed his divine thoughts into the furnace, and started to separate the materials.
The snow-colored fur ball fell from the sky and slid directly to Mo Tianliao’s side.
Crafting tools was a very time-consuming task. Mo Tianliao burned things while cultivating as the spiritual energy in the treasures of heaven and earth was very useful for the body of spiritual wood.
Taishi was not afraid of burning anymore. He squatted directly on the top of the burning furnace and absorbed all the auras that escaped. When Mo Tianliao was carving the semi-finished products, he squatted on the side and chewed the leftovers.
“Where is the soul crystal I just put here?” Mo Tianliao pointed to the crystal stone that was obviously missing one.
“Who, who knows? Maybe it’s in the furnace.” The big tortoise-shell mouth twisted, shaking off the spare powder still on it.
Mo Tianliao squinted, raised his hand and threw Taishi into the furnace.
“Oww! hot, hot, hot!”
Countless of days later, Mo Tianliao opened his eyes again, breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand. The cover of the furnace opened itself and a light green array disk jumped out and landed firmly in Mo Tianliao’s hands.
The entire array disk was in the shape of a spider web, with a turquoise disk underneath and turquoise spider silk on top. It was supported by tiny pillars, which looked like a complicated zither.
Having reached back the stage of Half-immortal, the true essence in his body was extremely vigorous, and refining a spiritual weapon would not tire oneself as much. Feeling the warmth on his waist, he looked down and saw that his cat had transformed into a human form, surrounded him with a slender body, while his head on his lap, sleeping soundly.
His heart suddenly softened into a puddle of water, bowed his head, and gently dropped a kiss on the smooth forehead.
Qingtong snorted, turned over, held Mo Tianliao’s waist, and gently rubbed the tip of his nose against it.
“Hmm…” Mo Tianliao hummed. He had a fire attribute and his body was brimming with fiery Yang energy after cultivating for several days. Being squeezed like this now, his lower abdomen suddenly tightened.
Throwing the array aside, he stretched out his hand to pick up the person on his lap.
“Ummm…” Qingtong was awakened, opened his eyes in a daze, reached out to keep the “bed” still, and found that he was placed on a somewhat hard floor. Although there was a blanket under his body, the floor was too hard and a little uncomfortable. He suddenly woke up and saw that Mo Tianliao was already untying his clothes.
“What are you doing?” Qingtong raised his foot to kick him, but Mo Tianliao grabbed his ankle and slid his hand in along his fair calf.
“I have stayed by the furnace for a few days, I’m a little heaty,” Mo Tianliao leaned over and kissed the moist thin lips, “Let’s purge my ‘hotness’.”
Refining the spider web disc array was completed, and countless small magic weapons were also crafted. When Mo Tianliao came out of the crafting room, he received the blue jade slip from the emissary in black.
The jade slip was exquisitely carved, and the word “Supreme” was written on it, filled with golden crystal sand. There was a cyan soul imprint on the back, shaped like a dragon’s claw, and with a glance one could clearly sense the incomparable soul power on the imprint.
“Please thank Supreme Lord Ming Yan on my behalf,” Mo Tianliao raised his hand and handed a set of cyan tea sets to the black-clothed emissary. “These little gadgets have just been refined and are of no value to pay homage.”
The black-clothed emissary took it with both hands, bowed to him, and without saying much, he turned around and left.
Mo Tianliao stood in front of the hall with his hand held down, looking at the black streamer disappearing into the sky, and slowly rubbed the jade slip in his hand. Ming Yan was always like this, no one ever knew what he was doing or thinking. He didn’t know if he was making such a show of kindness in order to use him to deal with Chi Xiang, or if he had other purposes. But no matter what Ming Yan wanted to do, he had to accept this act of kindness.
“What is this for?” Qingtong’s voice came from behind, calling Mo Tianliao back from his thoughts.
Qingtong, who had just taken a bath, held the spider web array with his hair still wet and took a closer look. He wanted to see it in the refining room before, but he couldn’t care about it later.
Mo Tianliao walked over helplessly and raised his hand to dry his long hair. “This is a betrothal gift.”
“A betrothal gift?” Qingtong was taken aback, and slowly raised his head to look at him. A betrothal gift he knew was something that a mortal man would give to his wife’s family when he married her… Many people’s faces flashed through his mind, he filtered through all the people who had seduced Mo Tianliao, and finally settled on Feng Su’s coquettish face. To regain the position of Demon Venerable, it was necessary to find another reliable Demon Venerable to join forces…His pale thin lips lost their bloody color bit by bit.
“We will go to Woyun Sect in a few days and give this to the Sect Master.” Mo Tianliao smiled slightly and carressed the thin lip, which was slightly open with dismay, and then… and then he was bitten.
“Oww! Ouch, ouch, ouch!”
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Mini theater:
Xiaoshao: Is this your dowry, meow?
Carpenter: It’s a dowry!
Tianlang: Is this your dowry?
Carpenter: It’s a betrothal gift!
Tianlang: No! Does my younger martial brother only have the worth of this broken plate?
Carpenter: Well, this is the dowry, and there are another ten boxes of Tianshan lamb big bone sticks.