Mo Tianliao was stunned for a moment and then hurriedly jumped up. He reached out and grabbed the dragon’s horn and took the kitten, that had almost fallen, into his arms.
With a loud roar, the green dragon hovered in the air for a moment, then dashed into the clouds instantly.
Mo Tianliao propped up a windshield, covered himself and the cat, and looked around. But he saw that the scenery on both sides had become a virtual shadow. After a while, the dragon stopped and hovered in the air.
Why did it stop? Mo Tianliao looked down and couldn’t believe his eyes. His eyes widened in surprise. Below them, it actually turned out to be the Mingyan Demon Palace, which was thousands of miles away from Taixuan Mountain.
Travelling thousands of miles in a flash, Mingyan was really worthy of being an ancient demon beast.
Mo Tianliao hugged the kitten and leaped from the dragon’s head, and the green dragon roared and flew into the demon palace.
“The Supreme Lord’s demonic pet is really domineering!” Several demonic cultivators outside the demon palace expressed their admiration one after another.
“To subdue a dragon is not something that ordinary people can do. He is really worthy of being the Supreme Demon Lord.” The others echoed.
Mo Tianliao’s mouth twitched, only then did he remember that Mingyan had been proclaiming to the public that his demonic pet was a dragon. Mo Tianliao had seen it before, whenever the dragon came, Mingyan would appear very soon. Everyone thought he was riding the dragon, but he didn’t expect that he was indeed the dragon himself.
After fixing his clothes, Mo Tianliao jumped to the ground with the kitten in his arms and went directly to knock on the door.
The people in front of the Demon Palace saw Mo Tianliao, and they made way for him and saluted.
He passed through the long and wide vestibule, bypassed the corridor, and came to the main hall.
Mingyan was already sitting in the open hall, holding a wine cup with one hand, gently swirling it. A wolf cub hovered around him, leaning his head and sticking out his tongue, wanting to taste the wine in the cup.
Seeing Mo Tianliao and the kitten coming over, Mingyan stood up and led them to the back.
The back garden of Mingyan Demon Palace was full of towering ancient trees.
“My Lord.” The guard in the back garden saw Mingyan and bowed in salute.
Mo Tianliao’s footsteps couldn’t help but pause. The guard’s cultivation base was very high, and it must be above him. Such a powerful person was just a gatekeeper for Mingyan?
“Tongtong is here!” The guard suddenly laughed when he saw the kitten in Mo Tianliao’s arms.
The kitten jumped down, turned into a human form, and nodded to the guard: “Uncle Chen.”
Mo Tianliao was very surprised, and it immediately became clear to him that there should be some high-level demon beasts in this garden, because they could not ascend, they stayed in Mingyan Demon Palace. In other words, these demon beasts were at least above the Half-immortal stages, one could imagine how strong the power in Mingyan’s hands was.
“In that case, why not unify the two paths: Righteous and Demons together, and rescue those demon beasts?” Mo Tianliao asked Qingtong in a low voice.
Qingtong lowered his eyes: “Even if ordinary demon beasts have cultivated to Transcend the Tribulation, their life span is not long. Shizun can live 10,000 years because he is an ancient demon beast. When he dies, who will deal with the revenge of human beings?”
Mo Tianliao pursed his lips, and quickly followed Mingyan, “Can the demon beasts that have signed the blood contract ascend? I remember my master’s demonic pet ascended with him.”
“Your master…Master Hun Dun?” Mingyan pondered for a moment, remembering who the master of Duantian was, and then raised his finger towards the forest, “Is he the one?”
Mo Tianliao followed Mingyan’s fingers and looked at what he was pointing at. A big golden monkey was squatting on a tree branch, quietly reaching out to steal the eggs from a bird’s nest. The big bird in the nest was sleeping soundly, not noticing that a bad monkey was trying to steal its child.
“Mao Dan!” Mo Tianliao couldn’t help exclaiming!
The monkey was startled, it flopped on the branch, almost fell and grabbed the bird’s tail instead.
“Quahh!” The big bird screamed, turned his head and saw the big monkey who had stopped his hand, and immediately became angry and pecked its head vigorously.
The big monkey screamed and ran away with his hands on his head, and ran to Mo Tianliao quickly.
Mo Tianliao immediately released a circle of flames to drive away the chasing bird. Then the big monkey leaped out happily, flailing at the big bird, and then climbed on Mo Tianliao’s legs onto his back, messed up his hair in twos and threes, and began to pick up lice inside.
“Mao Dan?” Mo Tianliao pulled the monkey in front of him and tried to call him.
The big monkey squeaked and grinned at him with a mouthful of white teeth.
His eyebrows gradually frowned. Mo Tianliao touched the monkey’s head and found the humble “little wonton” mark in the middle of his eyebrows, which was exactly the spiritual imprint of his master, the old bastard.
Mo Tianliao frowned. This monkey, named Mao Dan, was the demonic pet of the old bastard. Before his ascension, this monkey had already transformed into a human. He was even smarter than most human beings, and could help the old bastard refine his weapons. Now he looked so stupid!
Mingyan took a fruit in his hand and handed it to Mao Dan. The monkey happily took it, and ate the fruit with gusto, just like an ordinary monkey.
“The reason why the demon beasts can’t ascend is because there is no Lightning Tribulation available for the demon beasts in the Taixuan Continent.” Mingyan retracted his hand and sighed slowly.
Human cultivators didn’t know about this, and they always thought that they could take away their spiritual pets when they ascended, but that was not the case. If the demonic beasts’s cultivation base was not enough to survive the tribulation period, staying with its master, it would definitely be chopped to death by the lightning tribulations; If its cultivation base had arrived at the tribulation period, just like Maodan, it might be spared from death, but it would definitely be left in the world.
“The so-called blood contract is just a means by which human cultivators control the demon beast. The blood of the two is exchanged. Once the demon beast is separated from the contract owner for too long, the mind will regress.” Mingyan said, While taking Mo Tianliao to the depths of the forest.
Hidden in the forest were a variety of demon beasts, each had their own extraordinary and powerful auras, but what they did was no different from ordinary demon beasts. For example, you could often see a leopard in the tribulation period chasing a deer of the same tribulation period stage, running and starting to fight, and when the antlers with flames collided with the hairy paws that were strong enough to smash the boulders, the collisions could move the mountains to shake.
At this time, a guard like Uncle Chen would come out to set up the enchantment and control this power to prevent the fish in the pond from being harmed.
Mo Tianliao finally understood why the gatekeeper needed to be in the realm of tribulation period. All these demon beasts in the forest could fight to destroy heaven and the earth. With these “high-cultivation demon beasts” making trouble here, where could they have a spare time to unify the world?
All the demonic pets left behind by the cultivators when Crossing the Tribulations were picked up by Mingyan.
In recent years, it has been said that after the cultivators crossed the tribulations, a giant dragon would appear nearby. Now that one thought about it, it was not a miracle, but an old dragon scavenging up these abandoned pets.
Looking at the big monkey on his shoulder who was dedicatedly helping him catch lice, Mo Tianliao couldn’t help feeling a little sad. Although the old bastard’s character was not very good, he was still very good to the monkey. Before he ascended, he even gloated and said, “Boy, I’m going to eat delicious food in heaven with Mao Dan. You can continue to strike iron here, ha ha ha!”
“If they could ascend, they could regain their sanity at the moment when they survive the lightning strike, but it’s a pity…” Mingyan took Mao Dan off Mo Tianliao’s shoulder and threw it back into the forest.
Mo Tianliao couldn’t help but tighten his hold on Qingtong’s hand. This was another dead end in front of him. The blood contract didn’t help at all. On the contrary, it would make things worse.
“If you help me craft the mirror that could look through the past and the future, Qingtong may still have the possibility of ascending.” Mingyan suddenly changed the subject and looked straight at Mo Tianliao.
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