Qingtong stared at Mo Tianliao without blinking, trying to read any falseness in his words from his eyes. It was a lifelong wish for any cultivators to ascend and become immortals. However, in order to make him happy, Mo Tianliao would give up on his ascension with just one seemingly unreasonable request from him?
And yet there wasn’t any hesitance! There was nothing perfunctory in those deep, gentle eyes. Mo Tianliao was really serious in answering his question.
“Are you even aware of what you are really saying?” Qingtong asked, pausing between each word.
“Of course, I am aware,” Mo Tianliao stopped smiling and gradually tightened his arm around Qingtong, “Without your existence in the Heavenly Realm, what am I going to do alone?”
“Mo Tianliao…” Qingtong’s voice became a little hoarse, as if something was choking his throat, “there are many beauties in the Heavenly Realm and they all look much better than I do in my human form. Furthermore, the White Tiger Clan resides in the Heavenly Realm and you can find any number of cats to take care of.”
These words were uttered extremely slowly, as if each and every syllable used up his entire body’s strength into exhaustion. Mo Tianliao’s voice was also a bit low and husky, but his manner of speaking and tone remained gentle and serious: “Then, will there be a cat that would tear their soul for me?”
The glass-colored eyes had reddened a little, Qingtong blinked, but did not speak.
“Will there be a cat in the Heavenly Realm who would block the lightning tribulations for me?” Mo Tianliao smiled faintly, and his own eyes began to sting with tears.
Qingtong’s lips trembled, uncontrolled, a single drop of tear fell down the pale cheeks.
“In those beauties, are there any that are named Qingtong?” The last sentence came out softly, Mo Tianliao couldn’t help himself and also started to shed tears. For him, Qingtong was no longer simply a cat or a beauty. He was his life!
Big tears rolled down from the light colored glazed eyes. Qingtong slowly closed his eyes: “I… can’t ascend… I will die in thousands of years…”
Mo Tianliao gently kissed the trembling eyelashes and kissed away a falling tear: “I know.”
“You know?” Qingtong opened his eyes and looked at him in surprise, “When did you know?”
“Before you woke up,” Mo Tianliao caressed the cool cheek, this stubborn cat, except for occasionally being bullied in bed, never shed tears, “I guessed.”
“Mo Tianliao…” Qingtong called out his name in a hoarse voice. He could not speak any more. He bowed his head, buried his face in his chest, and slowly embraced his warm body.
Mo Tianliao took a deep breath to calm his heart: “If you live for a thousand years, I will support you for a thousand years. If you live for ten thousand years, I will accompany you for ten thousand years. When you die, I will build a coffin and put us both in. After many years, a furry everlasting tree will grow on the coffin. We will never be separated.”
There was a damp heat in his chest. When he heard that “furry everlasting tree”, the person in his arms could not stop shaking. At last, he finally laughed.
“I’ve never seen a furry tree.” Qingtong looked up at him with a smile in his red eyes.
“It could be a kitten with leaves too?” Mo Tianliao also followed with a smile and raised his hand to pinch the snow colored furry ear.
“Don’t touch my ears!”
“Ow! Ow! Ow! It hurts!”
After playing on the throne for a while, Mo Tianliao took Qingtong in his arms to take a bath.
The Duantian Mo Palace was full of hot springs. You could just choose the one you like on any day and jump in. Today, the sun was a bit too hot, so Mo Tianliao found the one hidden in the woods.
The big trees covered the sky, blocking the sunlight. Only a few streaks of light leaked through the dense canopy. Qingtong’s skin, which was white as jade, was more and more attractive in the clear water. After washing for a while, Mo Tianliao couldn’t help but kiss him.
“Uhhh… Don’t…” Qingtong moved his body, trying to break away from Mo Tianliao’s arms.
Mo Tianliao looked at Qingtong who pushed him away and had swam to the other side of the pool.
He didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Combined with what Qingtong had said earlier, he could guess that he was worried that Mo Tianliao’s cultivation would rise too soon, causing him to ascend and leaving his cat behind.
But in fact, dual cultivation was not that useful for him anymore. Earlier on, his cultivation increased rapidly because he did not have any hindrances in his mind and soul.
Besides the accumulation of spiritual power, it was more important to improve the state of mind and the cultivation of soul. In his previous life, Mo Tianliao had the soul in the stage of Half-immortal, so the difference in advancing to Half- Immortal from Yuanying was just the difference in the accumulation of spiritual power.
Therefore, using the dual cultivation method to accelerate the accumulation of spiritual energy was very useful for him. It could be said that only dual cultivation could improve the cultivation to return to his previous Half-immortal stage.
But now, it was different. He was already back to the peak of his cultivation. The soul and the body were consistent with each other. It was not so easy to go upwards in his cultivation. He had to honestly temper his mind and cultivate his spirit. If he didn’t diligently cultivate himself, it was useless to only improve his spiritual power through dual cultivation.
Mo Tianliao carefully explained this to the escaping cat whom he had caught back.
“Is that so…” Qingtong lowered his eyes. Before, he thought, “I forgot that you are a human…”
“If I am not a human, what else could I be?” Mo Tianliao kissed the somewhat reddened furry ears.
“Wood.” Qingtong mumbled and bit his neck.
Mo Tianliao couldn’t help laughing and caressing the smooth back: “Baby, why can’t you ascend?”
“Demon beasts can’t ascend,” Qingtong said, pursing his lips, “I don’t know exactly why. You can ask Shizun some other day.”
“Shizun?” Mo Tianliao was stunned. He suddenly remembered that the leader of the previous generation of Woyun Sect, Immortal Qingming, had already ascended to the Heavens. But he had sent his Shizhi to teach Qingtong, which showed that the guy was still in the world. It seemed that he was also a demon beast.
“Where is this Shizun? What’s the old man like? Let’s go to see him another day.”
The cold eyes lifted up and looked at Mo Tianliao, who was already planning to bring a gift: “You saw him a few days ago.”
“Huh?!” Mo Tianliao was stunned. When did he see the Shizhi of Immortal Qingming? Counting up, that man should have been a cultivator in the period of crossing the Tribulations, such a powerful person…
Thinking about this, Mo Tianliao’s back suddenly froze, and all he could think of was… Mingyan! It’s not what he thought, was it?!
“Gah, master, I know who he is!” Taishi, who was pretending to be a mushroom at the root of the tree, flew over and said gloatingly.
“Shut up!” Mo Tianliao rubbed his brow and looked down at Qingtong who was playing with his hair, “So that day he grabbed your hand, was it to check your cultivation level?”
Qingtong shook his head: “Master wanted to see if my soul was repaired.” At that time, when he tore up his soul for Mo Tianliao, if Mingyan hadn’t come in time, he would not have survived. All these years, he tried his best to repair his soul. Even holding the dragon pearl in his arms to sleep, could only slightly alleviate his pain.
Mo Tianliao didn’t ask in detail anymore. Previously, he planned how to beat Mingyan, so that he would know that he couldn’t just touch other people’s cat’s paws. Now it seemed that Mingyan should be the one who wanted to beat him more.
Originally, he wanted to catch Qingtong and make love again in the hot spring pool. However, a big tiger came out of the woods suddenly, with a chubby leopard on his head.
“Roarrr, roarrr!” The tiger roared at Mo Tianliao.
Qingtong had already changed into a cat as he climbed to the shore, and was shaking his fur. Mo Tianliao reluctantly put on his clothes and said to the tiger, “Speak human words.”
The big tiger froze and hurriedly turned into human form: “Urgent news came from the Hundred Rumors Pavilion .”
Xuanji and Yanlie returned to the Woyun sect safely, but also completely tore up the Qingyun Sect. The disciples of Yunsong in the Qingyun Sect were almost wiped out. It was said that the demonic cultivators had attacked while they were at Woyun Sect, but there were hardly any casualties from the Woyun Sect. As the leader of the Righteous Path, the Qingyun Sect immediately summoned the Sect Leaders of the major sects of the Righteous Path to meet and discuss this matter.
“My subordinates have received news that the Qingyun Sect has declared that the Woyun Sect has colluded with the Demonic Path and brutalized the Righteous Path, and is now ready to bring all the people to crush it,” said the steward of the Hundred Rumors Pavilion who was kneeling in the main hall, “The scouts have reported that the Immortal Yun Zhu had privately told these sect leaders that the Woyun Sect had many shape-shifting demonic beast cultivators, and among them was the Immortal Qingtong. ”
“That Immortal Qingtong is already a demonic pet of Demon Venerable Duantian.” Yun Zhu stroked his beard with a pained look.
“Self-degradation.” The Spiritual Sky Sect’s Sect Leader gritted his teeth and said. As an elder of one of the three great sects of the Righteous Path, to go and be a demonic pet for someone else was really disgraceful.
“He was a demonic beast to begin with. How will he have an understanding of what’s degrading or not?” The Spiritual Sword Sect’s Sect Leader couldn’t stand it and jabbed at him, talking as if people were going to be male pets.
“Those demons, which one is not using a demonic pet as a furnace? I think that when the Demon Lord Duantian was hidden in the Woyun Sect, he had the first and last words with Immortal Qingtong.”
All of them glanced at Yunyuan who was standing at the side, turning blue. She had never mentioned the unsuccessful marriage agreement she had with Immortal Qingtong.
The conversations of the Righteous Sect Leaders reached Mo Tianliao without missing a word. When he heard these people’s words, he couldn’t help but sneer. These hypocrites, saying others are despicable when it is them who are despicable? People in the righteous path have been raising their spiritual pets as a beast, and if they transform, they are used as a furnace. People in the Demonic Path, even if they have close relations with their beasts, it has always been open and honest.
“That’s bullshit!” Mo Tianliao smashed the jade talisman, grinding it into dust. Shi Di and the black lion Hei Yanshi have a pure and innocent relationship.
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“Ahh–cchoo!” Shi Di, who was lying face down on the ground for the big lion to step on and massage his back, sneezed and rubbed his nose, “A little bit up, hey no, a little bit lower!”
The big lion with narrowed eyes, was stepping happily, not caring about his Master’s request, stepping wherever he wanted.
“How many times have I told you not to step on my head!” Shi Di plucked the big paw that was on his head, fiercely rolled over and ready to punch the lion.
The lion weighing several hundred catties fell unsteadily on Shi Di with a ‘thud’, trapping him firmly on the ground. He was so heavy that Shi Di couldn’t catch his breath and could only groan.
Just then, a new concubine came to invite their favour with a bowl of iced watermelon. Seeing this scene, she screamed and ran out. The jade bowl she was holding fell to the ground and smashed into pieces, the fruit scattering on the ground.
Shi Di saw the retreating back of the concubine, and then looked at the large pile of fur still pressed against him, and his face blackened.
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Mo Tianliao carefully explained what his subordinates should do next, and then considered when he would go to meet Mingyan again. Although he does not mind staying with Qingtong in the mortal world, not being able to ascend meant that his life expectancy would always come to an end. Rather it would be best to find a way to allow Qingtong to ascend.
“Why can’t demon beasts ascend, do you know?” Mo Tianliao poured a glass of wine and drank it slowly.
“I don’t know,” Taishi said dryly, adding hastily when Mo Tianliao’s fingertips burst into flames, “Oh, when I was just born, demon beasts could ascend, but after the Immortal-Demon war, the aura of heaven and earth had changed. I don’t know if this was the reason. Maybe you should go to Taixuan Mountain to have a look.”
Taixuan Mountain was located in the west of Taixuan continent. The whole mountain range was very long. It was said that it was the main battlefield of the Immortal-Demon war 8000 years ago.
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Green Clouds: The world is declining, the Demonic Path is really rotten
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Handsome and Elegant Peacock King: This picture is too in-elegant. There should be more roses in the background.
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Zaki~ Shi Di and Hei Yanshi are always caught in a very compromising positions. LOL