Without saying a word, Mo Tianliao went to set up the Mountain Protection Array. He called Bai Luo and Zi Mo for help, and even Hua Qing was dragged over to join in the fun.
“I am an alchemist, I don’t understand arrays.” Hua Qing complained.
“You don’t need to draw an array,” Mo Tianliao gave him a groove, pointed to the mountain wall not far away, “Put this in.”
According to the directions of the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, seventy-two places in the mountain needed to be covered with grooves for installing spirit stones for the Mountain Protection Array. Mo Tianliao stood in the void with a hand on his chin, he used the array disk to determine the general direction. Special matters should be treated with more consideration. The geographical location of Woyun Sect was very special. It happened to have 72 blessed places, each of which had a different environment.
The four people brainstormed and thought of all sorts of unknown and hidden places.
For example, in Chiyan Cave, on top of the tower of Ten Thousand Book blessed land, there were underwater crevices that only Yuli and Yuanhai could find.
Mo Tianliao rarely saw them having such a good time, so he left them alone and went straight to the central Wotian Cave to set up the central array.
Yanlie was busy cleaning up the mess from the fight, but Tianlang was idle, so he followed Qingtong to Woqing Cave.
The little leopard, who hadn’t seen him for many days had lost a lot of weight. When he saw Qingtong, he rushed over, clutching his shirt tightly without letting go, and screamed “Woo.. Woo.. Woo”.
“Why did Little Fatty lose weight?” Qingtong sat down on the rocking chair and put the little leopard on his legs to smoothen the fur. The little leopard squinted comfortably and rolled over to show his belly for a scratch too.
The big tiger followed him, but was glared at by the Sect Master, so it flattened his ears and quietly went around to the back of the rocking chair and moved towards his master’s feet little by little.
Seeing the big tiger, the little leopard rushed over excitedly, plunged into the fur and rolled.
Tianlang dragged a stool to sit beside Qingtong and took his hand to feel his pulse. His pulse was calm and peaceful and most importantly, the incomplete spirit had been filled!
“He really cured you?” Tianlang couldn’t help exclaiming.
Xuanji had already told him earlier, but he couldn’t believe it. He hadn’t heard that dual cultivation could be beneficial to the soul. It might have been made up by that big liar to fool his Shidi. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be true. But at the same time, it also showed that his Shidi had given in to that big liar… Coughs!
Qingtong glanced at his Shixiong. The dog-like face’s expression was interchanging between happiness and anger, and it looked very funny. He couldn’t help stretching out his hand and slapping Tianlang’s head.
“Are you really going to be with him?” Tianlang crawled out of the mood of joy and sadness, and couldn’t help frowning. “He is now in the stage of Half-immortal. With his body of divine wood and his qualification, it won’t be long before he would need to face and overcome the tribulation, and then…”
Qingtong looked down slowly: “I don’t regret what I decided.” The hand hidden under the snow-colored wide sleeves slowly clenched.
Tianlang sighed and said nothing more. This cat was too stubborn and would not stay back even if he insisted, and it was useless to say more, so he could only watch and protect from the sidelines.
The mountain protection array was very complicated. It took Mo Tianliao seven days and seven nights to complete the layout and taught Tianlang and Xuanji how to use it. Then he went back to the bed of his Master in Woqing Cave and fell asleep.
Qingtong propped his head with one hand, slowly stretched out a slender finger, and gently traced that handsome but domineering face. As he traced and traced, he couldn’t help but slowly lean forward and lick the tip of that pretty nose.
This person was the best cat scratcher in the world, the best cat breeder, the best… He felt sweet and sour in his heart, Qingtong buried his face in the warm chest, and slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep.
When Mo Tianliao woke up, he saw a snow-colored kitten sleeping on the pillow with his head tilted, and his nose was covered with two small furry paws. He couldn’t help but smile, and went up to kiss on the pink paws.
The Demon Dao Supreme Conference was around the corner. Mo Tianliao could not stay any longer, so he packed up his things and left Woyun Sect the next day.
The little leopard was reluctant to leave Qingtong, but did not dare to act like a child. He just squatted on the ground and tentatively hooked the snow colored clothes.
Mo Tianliao took a look at the little guy. He was so pitiful that he picked him up and put him on the big tiger’s head. “Wherever the Big Fatty goes, the Little Fatty goes too.”
Big tiger bared his teeth. This guy dared to call him Big fatty before he had even passed the door!
Tianlang never agreed verbally regarding the two of them getting together, but silently accepted the gifts, and went to study the mountain protection array with enthusiasm.
Xuanji went with Yanlie with a bitter face to send off the corpses of Qingyun Sect.
The two set out again in the Crystal Palace. Time was short, so they went directly to the venue of the Supreme Conference.
The Demon Dao Supreme Conference was usually held near the Demon Palace of the Supreme Demon Lord. Because Ming Yan has been the No. 1 Demon Venerable for a long time, everyone was accustomed to convening in Ming Yan Demon Palace.
The ten major Demon Dao Sects and many rogue practitioners gathered on an open flat ground. This was a valley surrounded by a circle of mountains, and there was a boundary enchantment set up around it, ensuring that no matter how they fought, they would not damage the surrounding mountains.
All the Demon Venerables were sitting on a high platform in the void, with Ming Yan sitting on the main seat at the center, and the other Venerables on both sides.
The conference was about to start, but Mo Tianliao had not yet arrived.
“I told you he was a fake and didn’t dare to come.” The Demon Venerable Shi Di pointed to the empty seat and laughed. The black lion, Hei Yanshi sprawled at his feet, yawned and reached out to hook the peacock’s tail.
Feng Su’s spiritual beast was a very beautiful big peacock, dragging a long tail and standing with his head high. When the black lion scratched his tail, he slowly turned his head and glanced at him, then turned to ignore him.
The black lion got an inch and continued to scratch.
The peacock turned his head and pecked him vigorously, but the fur on his neck was too thick, and it didn’t hurt even if he was pecked.
“Stupid lion!”
“Smelly peacock!”
Because the demonic pets were being suppressed by their masters and unable to fight, the lion and the bird began to curse in animal language.
There was no demonic beast around Chi Xiang, and he did not interrupt when he heard the words of Shi Di about Duantian. He knew very well that the man was Duantian, because almost all the subordinates he sent to Woyun Sect had been killed, and only two of them came back alive. Woyun Sect was protected by Duantian, and it was much more difficult to steal the demon beasts than before. As he thought of this, he could not help but feel a little irritable.
Mo Tianliao was indeed still on the way, but he was not in a hurry.
A few days before the Demon Dao Supreme Conference, cultivators from the top ten Demon Sects would compete, and rouge cultivators who had advanced to Half-immortal stage must win the top three before they have the opportunity to challenge the demon venerables.
He put a little soy sauce on the steamed cold spring fish, and walked to the top floor. Qingtong was sitting in the rocking chair and looking into the distance.
“Baby, come eat some fish.” Mo Tianliao shook the fish in front of him.
Qingtong looked up: “I don’t want to eat now.”
Mo Tianliao put the fish aside, leaned over to pick up the person in the rocking chair, and leaned on the rocking chair by himself, letting him lean in his arms: “What do you want? How come you do not want to eat the fish?” He asked. His mouth went near the jade-white ears and took a bite of the soft folds.
“Hmm…” Qingtong trembled lightly and freed his ears from the naughty mouth and said, “When you get to the conference, let them know that I am your demonic pet.”
“Huh?” Mo Tianliao was taken aback. He had intended for Qintong to stay in his cat form in his arms. But Qingtong wanted those guys to see his human form? How did that even come about?! Although many people in the Demon Dao would not recognize the human form of Qingtong and relate him as the Woyun Sect elder. But it was not as if no one had seen his human form at all. Wouldn’t this kind of action expose the secret of Woyun Sect?
“I’m afraid that the sect’s affairs will be soon revealed and cannot be kept a secret any longer,” Qingtong pursed his lips. “They all have demonic pets on the court, and you won’t suffer.”
Mo Tianliao lowered his eyes and shook his head. Although Woyun Sect’s news had been leaked, the situation was still controlled. But the main point was that his baby was so beautiful that he didn’t want to show it to those people!
“I didn’t have a demonic pet before, but I can still sit in the position of Demon Venerable, what’s there to be afraid of?” Mo Tianliao chuckled, slowly licking the white neck, and digging into his clothes with his big hands.
“Hmm…” Qingtong struggled, wanting to get up, but Mo Tianliao pulled him back and kissed his lips.
Qingtong’s soul had already been repaired, and kissing again had no further effect of curing headaches, but Mo Tianliao still enjoyed it. While kissing, he untied Qingtong’s belt.
“No…” Qingtong opened his eyes suddenly and pushed Mo Tianliao away.
Mo Tianliao was caught off guard, he fell from the rocking chair, with his feet upside down, looking at Qingtong who was stunned, and couldn’t help laughing: “Baby, why are you so fierce, I was almost thrown by you.”
Qingtong pursed his lips and snorted coldly.
“Do you not like to do it outside?” Mo Tianliao got up and held Qingtong in his arms, “Then we go back to the bedroom?”
“No!” Qingtong pushed him away, picked up the fish on the table, and went downstairs to eat the fish.
Mo Tianliao scratched his head, feeling a little confused.
In the next few days, Qingtong refused to let him dual cultivate, saying that they would arrive in the Supreme Conference soon, and he had to keep his energy. What he said was also reasonable. Mo Tianliao could only meditate and sort out the wood fire in his body again.
“Stop!” The gatekeeper of the venue blocked Mo Tianliao’s way. The conference had been ongoing for three days and entry was now forbidden.
The people nearby looked over and found that it was a cultivator who was in Half-immortal stage. They were taken aback for a moment, and gloated a bit. Most likely that this man was a rogue cultivator without any followers and did not even have an invitation from the Supreme Demon Lord. He came to compete for the position of Demon Venerable with great enthusiasm, but was blocked because he was late.
Mo Tianliao ignored the gatekeeper, slowly raised his hand, and crushed the invitation card in his hand.
The cyan jade slip had the imprint of the soul of Ming Yan, and it could be released directly. Mo Tianliao took the cat in his arms and flew in directly.
Everyone was in an uproar, this person actually had an invitation card! But weren’t the several Demon Lords already on the stage? A demon cultivator had just started to ask the surrounding seniors.
“The Venerable Duantian! That must be the Venerable Duantian!” The senior demon cultivator suddenly exclaimed.
Although it was rumored that the Demon Venerable Duantian was dead, he was still in the position of Demon Venerable before his death. Now that he had resurrected, the position should be reserved for him, so he was naturally qualified to receive the invitation.
The Demon Venerables in the high platform were looking at each other, and seeing a black streamer from a distance hit their side, they stopped the movement in their hands. Suddenly, Mo Tianliao, dressed in black and beautiful clothes, stood on the high platform, smiling and arching his hands at everyone: “I’m late, I will punish myself with three cups of wine.” As he said this, he grabbed the wine flask in the hands of Shi Di, poured himself a cup of wine, and drank it all in one go.
“Duantian!” Shi Di was stunned for quite a while then jumped up suddenly. He smashed the cup in his hand and said, “It’s really you, you mother…!” That respectful puppet boy he knew would never snatch his hip flask!
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Mini theater:
“Demon Dao Supreme Choir Club”
Ming Yan: Everyone, let’s sing a song for Duantian!
Chi Xiang: You are poisonous, you are poisonous, you are poisonous ~~
Feng Su: If you want to leave me, return my spirit stone to me~~
Shi Di: You hurt me, and you laughed it away! You cheated greedily, you will pay for it!
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