As a divine weapon with the spiritual wisdom of heaven and earth, Taishi’s intelligence was based on the perception of heaven and earth instead of seeing it with his own eyes, so he could feel that the clues to the problem were in Taixuan Mountain, but could not tell what it was. But the perception of heaven and earth couldn’t be wrong, since Taishi said that he should see it, he must see it.
“Baby, do you want to go out to play?” After meeting and making arrangements with a group of people, Mo Tianliao returned to the inner palace to wake up the lazy cat who was still lying in bed.
The snow-white fur ball was sleeping in the middle of the big bed, with his head resting on the warm belly of the little leopard.
“Wooo!” The little leopard, who had long been awake but hadn’t dared to move, looked at Mo Tianliao with a pair of big slick eyes.
Mo Tianliao reached out and prodded on its nose. This little thing was saved when his cultivation level was still very low. If he hadn’t made a move that time, this cub would have to follow Yun Song’s useless grandson all his life. Thinking of this, he couldn’t help sighing.
“Meow…” The cat sleeping soundly did not want to open his eyes, he raised his paw to cover Mo Tianliao’s mouth, buried his ears in the fur of the leopard and then went back to sleep.
“I’m going to Taixuan Mountain. If you don’t want to go with me, just stay home and wait for me, I’ll be back in ten days to half-a-months time.” Mo Tianliao leaned down and kissed the pink paw.
“Meow?” The kitten opened his eyes, yawned, and immediately turned into a human form.
His slender body was stretched out on the spacious bed, his head still resting on the furry little leopard. The little leopard was crushed into the soft bedding, leaving only a big tail dangling outside.
“What are you going to do in Taixuan Mountain?” Qingtong slowly sat up.
“Taishi asked me to go and have a look. I don’t know what’s there.” Mo Tianliao didn’t directly say that he was going to research on why demon beasts could not ascend. He had just managed to coax the cat well. He was afraid that Qingtong would overthink; it was better to have a ‘less talk-less mistakes’ strategy.
Qingtong frowned slightly: “I’ll go with you.” In the eyes of Master Cat, Mo Tianliao was always easily fooled, and easily hurt.
Although there was nothing to worry about with a divine weapon with him, Mo Tianliao had so many enemies who might come to seek revenge. A half-immortal cultivator was not invincible, but if two half-immortals were together, as long as they didn’t encounter large-scale encirclement and suppression, they could basically walk across the Taixuan Continent.
As expected, Mo Tianliao smiled and took out a newly made outer shirt and put it on Qingtong.
The shirt was a gauze garment woven with silk thread, it was embroidered with some complicated, strange patterns with silver thread that could not be seen instantly, but when the sun’s rays hit the garment, the shining pattern would be revealed. These patterns should be a kind of array.
“I engraved some arrays for Mother Zhi to weave in,” Mo Tianliao fastened his belt, “A magic weapon that can prevent demon beasts from being caught.”
Now, it was well known to everyone that Qingtong was the demonic pet of Venerable Duantian, so when dealing with Qingtong, they would definitely use some special methods that are used to subdue demon beasts. In the past, Qingtong used to appear in front of people in human form, so he was not as sensitive as other demon beasts in dealing with these kinds of tricks. Mo Tianliao specially made this array vestment just in case.
“Wooo!” The little leopard crawled over and stumbled on the soft bed, grabbing Qingtong’s hem, and following along.
Mo Tianliao picked the little leopard and threw him to the big tiger who was grinding his claws under the tree: “I will go out with Qingtong for a few days, and the palace matters will be handed over to you.”
Because Hou Jing was the first to show his loyalty, and he lived up to his reputation as the “monkey spirit ancestor”, Mo Tianliao gave him the position of Chief Manager. Originally, Hou Jing would take care of the things in the Duantian Mo Palace, but now that the magic treasure pavilion was reopened, there were a lot of external matters to be taken care of. He had no more energy to manage the internal affairs of the Mo Palace, so all matters here fell to Meng Hu.
The big tiger’s ears suddenly drooped when he heard the words. He somehow became the Chief Manager of the Duantian Mo Palace. He worked hard every day. It was okay when Mo Tianliao was there as he could deal with important matters, but now he was going away and he would be too busy to even shed hair!
Mo Tianliao patted the tiger’s head, explained a few words, then took out the newly refined flying boat and hugged Qingtong and jumped on it.
This flying boat was very small and could only accommodate two people sitting down, it was shaped like a barracuda. Mo Tianliao put the two raised seats together, sat behind Qingtong, and let him lean in his arms. He raised his hand, and an arc-shaped light curtain wrapped the entire flying boat, and rushed out instantly.
Qingtong suddenly fell back unexpectedly and leaned on that strong and warm chest. Mo Tianliao put his hands around his waist and fixed them firmly, so he didn’t need to worry at all.
The flowing clouds in front of him kept retreating, and the eagle and the falcon was also left behind. Qingtong looked around curiously, at a speed similar to that of Mo Tianliao’s boat in his previous life. It should be the fastest flying boat in Taixuan Continent.
Taixuan Mountain Range was located on the westernmost part of the mainland. The mountain range was extremely vast and was connected to Mount Yanhuo to the south.
Mo Tianliao remembered the three hundred years of wandering in Mount Yanhuo, and suddenly felt a little emotional: “Baby, do you want to see Mount Yanhuo?”
“I don’t want to.” Qingtong said bluntly. After he was better at the beginning, he once asked his Master to take him to find Mo Tianliao, but Mount Yanhuo was too vast, and his perception of half of his soul was so vague that he couldn’t find it. Later, as long as he felt that Mo Tianliao’s spirit had not dissipated, he didn’t like going to Mount Yanhuo.
Mo Tianliao saw that he didn’t like it, so he didn’t say more. Previously, he also talked about going to Death Valley to see, but Qingtong was not very happy, it seemed that he really hated that place.
At Mount Yanhuo, although the top of the mountain was blazing with fire all year round, at least there was still lush vegetation at the bottom of the mountain, but this Taixuan Mountain was different. From a distance, you could see an expanse of gray area without any greenery. There were broken rocks and collapsed potholes everywhere, and as soon as they approached, he felt a strong, bloody and evil aura surrounding them.
Qingtong frowned, this place made him a little uncomfortable.
“Put this on.” Mo Tianliao took out a bright white jade pendant from his storage bracelet and tied it to Qingtong’s waist. There was a lot of blood spilled here and the evil aura was thick. The resentment of Immortals and Demons from the war lasts for a long time. It was not good for any demonic beast whose spirits were very sensitive.
As soon as the jade pendant approached his body, Qingtong felt a clear light in front of him. That nauseating feeling suddenly disappeared. Qingtong’s eyebrows gradually relaxed, allowing Mo Tianliao to take him by the hand and jump off the flying boat and both flew slowly around the mountains.
The flying boat was too fast for them to observe the surroundings carefully, so the two of them walked and watched in the void.
“Shizhun!” Qingtong was about to yawn when he suddenly saw a person dressed in a cyan wide-sleeved garb, standing in the void with his hands behind him, quietly watching the never melting snow on the main peak.
Hearing the call, the man slowly turned his head around, he was very handsome, his lines were cold, like an axe and a knife. It was Mingyan! A pair of dark green eyes flashed with dim light, and when they saw someone coming, the green eyes quickly turned black.
He used to think that Mingyan’s aura was too strong, and no one dared to look him directly in the eyes, so that there was still no circulated information about Mingyan’s appearance. In fact, this man was really handsome to the point of inhumanity.
Mo Tianliao pulled Qingtong over, and respectfully called Master.
When Mingyan looked at him, his eyes returned to dark green: “I remember that you are Qingtong’s apprentice, so call me Shizu.”
Mo Tianliao brazenly said: “I didn’t know that the Master was still alive before, so this Seat has proposed to the Woyun Sect. Master TianLang has already accepted the betrothal gift. You are Qingtong’s Master and naturally my Master too.”
Qingtong felt embarrassed and turned into a cat and got into Mo Tianliao’s coat, hiding a pair of pink ears.
Mingyan smiled slightly, nodded, and did not care about it anymore, but continued to look at the mountains: “Eight thousand years ago, the Taixuan Continent was not called by this name, and this place was not called Taixuan Mountain.”
Mo Tianliao had also heard of this, but there were very few specific records.
“Originally, this continent was more extensive than it is now, and it was called the Taiji Continent.” It seemed that Mingyan had been alone for a long time, and finally found someone to share the burden with him. Without waiting for Mo Tianliao to ask a question, he slowly said, “This mountain was called Liangyi Mountain.”
Mo Tianliao frowned slightly. He thought that Mingyan knew that he had come to explore the matter that demon beasts could not ascend, so these words must have something to do with it. In front of his father-in-law, he had to perform well, so he knocked Taishi in his sea of knowledge: “Do you know anything about this?”
“I know, originally the continent was bigger than this, but the Immortal-Demon war divided the continent. I guess there is also a Taibai Continent over there.” Taishi’s mouth started to run off again as he spoke. The last half of the sentence was pure nonsense.
However, the nervous Mo Tianliao didn’t hear it, and said directly: “In this way, there should be a Taibai Continent.”
Ming Yan stopped and looked at him suddenly.
Mo Tianliao clicked in his heart. Did he say something wrong? Taishi screamed in his sea of knowledge: “Ahhh, I’m just talking nonsense!”
Now was not the time to teach Taishi, Mo Tianliao swallowed his saliva in nervousness. Just as he was about to say something to save himself, he heard Mingyan say: “How do you know?”
Huh? Was there really a Taibai Continent? Mo Tianliao widened his eyes and coughed softly: “Guessed it.”
Mingyan nodded in satisfaction, raised his head and looked at the void, not knowing what he was looking at: “In the battle between the Immortals and Demons, the spiritual energy has changed greatly, the human cultivation was invaded by the evil spirit, and the demonic cultivation…”
“Why can’t demon beasts ascend?” Mo Tianliao couldn’t help asking.
Mingyan took another look at the snowy mountain and sighed: “It’s not suitable to talk about it in detail here. Come back to Mingyan Demon Palace with me.”
“Meow!” Hearing this, the snow colored kitten suddenly came out of Mo Tianliao’s shirt, jumped up to Mingyan’s shoulder and grabbed his hair to climb up.
Mo Tianliao suddenly felt like tasting a jar of vinegar: “Baby, what are you doing?”
“Meow!” Qingtong shook his tail excitedly.
Mingyan slowly curled his lips, and he burst into a smile: “He wants to ride on a dragon and fly.”
Mo Tianliao was choked by saliva immediately. He looked at the stern face of Mingyan in surprise. He never thought that he would say such childish words as if to coax a child.
It really turned out that Mingyan was just trying to coax the child. A burst of cyan light flashed, and a cyan dragon that was more than 30 meters in length suddenly appeared in front of him. The body was like a long snake, with a layer of cyan scales, just like emerald crystals, dazzling in the sun; a unicorn head, a carp tail, and the two dragon horns which appeared were very mighty, and long whiskers on the face floating slowly in the air.
The snow colored kitten was standing on the dragon’s head, stretching its claws, reaching for the dragon’s whiskers.
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Mini Theater:
“Mingyan Kindergarten Daily”
Ming Yan: What’s the matter?
Xiao Tianlang: Wuwuwu! Shidi killed the mouse I caught!
Xiao Xuanji: Wuwuwu! Shidi stole my shell to play as a ball!
Mingyan: (Serious Face) Do you know what’s wrong?
Xiao Shao: (Stretching Furry Claw) Big dragon, big dragon, fly, fly, meow!
Mingyan: Okay, hold Shizhun, we fly, fly!
Xiao Tianlang & Xiao Xuanji: QAQ
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Zaki~Thank you Pessi and Eliza for the weekend treat 🙂