“What?” Mo Tianliao jerked his head up, and saw that Mingyan had already left with his hands behind his back. Mo Tianliao raised his foot and was about to chase after him, but he was pulled by Qingtong who was standing still.
The hands of the two were still holding each other, and since Qingtong did not move, naturally Mo Tianliao tripped.
“What’s wrong, Baby?” Seeing Qingtong staring at the forest, he couldn’t help but ask.
“Uncle Yan, he could still talk to me when I saw him last time.” Qingtong said as he looked at the big leopard who couldn’t beat the stag and was now climbing the tree to catch the bird.
“There will be a way…” Mo Tianliao took the person in his arms, kissed him, and sighed as he watched the big monkey running by the leopard to join in the fun.
After the old bastard ascended, he couldn’t return to the world. That day, the old bastard walked away with Maodan happily, and when he ascended to the Nine Heavens and found that there was no monkey beside him, he could not imagine what his mood would be.
When the leopard saw the monkey, he bared his teeth at it. The big monkey immediately grabbed a branch and covered himself, burying his head in the leaves, hoping that the other party would not see him. The leopard flicked its tail, bit the bird that he thought had escaped, and killed it. Then he plucked the bird’s feather under his paw, and spit the bird’s feather on the monkey’s head with a “Pah”.
“Kaaaah!” Maodan got angry immediately, and he dropped the branch to hit the leopard. The leopard swatted the monkey onto another branch with a paw, continued to pluck the bird’s feathers, and then turned his head to spit the feathers accurately on the monkey’s head.
Mo Tianliao’s mouth corners were drawn up into a smile. It seemed that the leopard’s intelligence hadn’t completely dissipated. Surprisingly, it could play a joke just like a human.
A smile also emerged in Qingtong’s cold eyes, and his voice became a lot lighter: “Demon beasts are also beasts, and it may be a good thing to return to their nature.” Carefree, licking their furs and basking in the sun every day, and hunting birds when they were hungry. When sleepy, they would just look for a branch and sleep for a whole day. There were no conflicts of interest, no human sophistication.
“Then if you return to your demon beast form, can I bury my head on your furry belly every day?” Mo Tianliao smiled and rubbed Qingtong’s cheek.
Qingtong elbowed him: “Then if you return to your true form, will you be able to let my Da Shixiong pee under your feet?”
Mo Tianliao choked for a while, thinking about himself as an everlasting tree standing in the mountains, then a Sect Master of Woyun would run over and raise his hind legs…….
His cat always would have the last word. Mo Tianliao embraced him and walked in the direction where Mingyan had left: “That will never happen. This root of mine, will only be kept for you.”
“I won’t do such a stupid thing.” Qingtong glared at him.
“Right, right, our Xiaozhao won’t do this kind of thing,” Mo Tianliao said, learning from the voice of Mingyan coaxing the child, “I would polish deep sea pearls into fine sand, it would be very good for our Xiaozhao to… Ow! Ow!”
After a while, Mingyan, who was sitting down in the pavilion drinking tea, saw Mo Tianliao walking towards him with claw marks on his face, but Qingtong was nowhere to be seen.
“Where is Xiao Liuli?” Ming Yan asked him.
“Who?” Mo Tianliao was taken aback.
“Ah, I meant Qingtong,” Mingyan raised his hand and motioned for Mo Tianliao to come over and sit, “When people get old, they always recall things of the past. Liuli was his nickname, and the child later named himself Qingtong. Then everyone called him Tongtong.”
Mo Tianliao swept his sleeves and sat down, smiling, but said nothing. Was Mingyan showing off his close relations with Qingtong to him?
“Qingtong’s parents died in the battle between Immortals and Demons, leaving behind only one egg,” Mingyan raised his hand and poured a cup of tea for Mo Tianliao. “The White Tiger Clan’s eggs should be incubated by their own clansmen, but there is no second White Tiger left in this world. So this child didn’t break his shell until 700 years ago. When you stole him, he was just a child.”
Mo Tianliao coughed embarrassedly : “It couldn’t be considered stealing…” At this point, a thought suddenly occurred to him, Mingyan was telling him about Qingtong’s age, could it be to exchange birthday characters? Thinking of this, he was suddenly excited, and took out a piece of jade tablet that had been prepared a long time ago.
On the black jade tablet, his birthday was scrawled in golden characters, and Mo Tianliao offered it with both hands. He respectfully said: “My parents have died early, and my master has also ascended. Now there are no elders, so I can only present the eight characters of birth myself. I hope Shizun will not blame me.”
The mortal exchange of Geng Tie and the exchange of birthday characters should be done by the elders, but when Mo Tianliao racked his brain, he found that he had no elders. The old bastard did not have any blood relatives that liked him, and his character was so bad that he didn’t even have a friend.
The corner of Mingyan’s mouth twitched impenetrably. He just wanted to tell Mo Tianliao about Qingtong’s life experience. How did it get involved in the exchange of the eight characters of birth dates? He silently raised his hand and took the black jade tablet that Mo Tianliao had raised above his head: “Even the Taoist couple in the cultivation world do not exchange Geng Tie.”
The person who cultivated towards immortality, cut off ties from the mortal world. Not to mention the long journey to immortality, so there was no need to think too much about the other person’s age.
Mo Tianliao touched his nose: “Because I don’t know the custom of demon beasts, I had prepared everything”
Mingyan looked at him in silence. When Mo Tianliao embarrassedly was about to take back the jade tablet, Mingyan took out a cyan jade piece from his sleeve and quickly wrote down the time when Qingtong came out of the shell with his fingers. His eyes slightly opened. A bright light flashed through his cyan pupils, and a dragon claw shaped spirit mark was branded on it and handed to Mo Tianliao.
Incredibly, he reached out and took the jade tablet from Mingyan. Mo Tianliao was a little excited for a moment and scanned it with his spiritual aura. In the jade tablet, Mingyan even engraved the names of Qingtong’s relatives, including his parents, teachers and brothers. In the column of ‘Master’, he filled in “Mingyan”.
Storing the precious jade tablet away carefully, Mo Tianliao slowly said: “I will take good care of him, and will love him for a lifetime.”
“My lifespan is only 10,000 years, and now it’s almost reached the time limit.” Mingyan looked at the vast sky above his head. There was nothing to fear about death, but it was a pity that he would not be able to see “that person” for one last time before he died.
“Shizun, just now you said that if I refine the mirror, you can make Qingtong ascend, but is it true?” Mo Tianliao leaned forward slightly, “What is the mirror for?”
“Have you heard of Xuan Jian?” Ming Yan asked rhetorically.
Mo Tianliao nodded, he knew this. In order to refine Taishi, he went all over the continent to check many ancient books, one of which contained records of several artifacts that have appeared.
The Xuan Jian was a mirror that wouldn’t reflect reality, but could only show illusion. In fact, ‘illusion’ would not be accurate, the mirror could go back in time, according to the spiritual power infused in it, and could see everything that happened in the past. As for whether it could foresee the future, it was not known.
“What Shizun wants me to refine is the Xuan Jian?” Mo Tianliao frowned. There was no record of the method of refining this artifact. The way to refine Taishi was completely found out by himself. If he wanted to specify what kind of artifact to refine, he was not very good at it, let alone where to find the second heaven and earth spiritual wisdom.
Mingyan nodded: “If you need any material, please come to me.”
“To refine a divine artifact, the most important thing is to have heaven and earth wisdom.” Mo Tianliao talked about the main materials needed for the divine artifact. Others were easy to handle. Only the wisdom of heaven and earth couldn’t be found easily. With Mingyan’s help it would be faster to find it.
After talking for a long time, Mingyan didn’t say anymore on how to refine the Xuan Jian. He only said that the Xuan Jian was the key to the ascension of demon beasts, and asked him to figure out the other things. As this man has studied it for 8000 years, he must know better than a layman.
Although refining the Xuan Jian would be indeed very difficult, there was hope at least. Mo Tianliao felt relieved in his heart and was ready to go back to research.
It was getting late. Mingyan asked them to stay in the demon palace for the night and leave the next day. Then he got up and left, where he went was not known.
“Baby, show me your childhood room.” Mo Tianliao found Qingtong who was fishing by the pond and hugged him from behind with a smile.
“What did Shizun tell you?” Qingtong let him hold him, because someone supported him, so he didn’t grab the tree by the pool, and stretched out his hands.
“He asked me to try to refine “that” mirror, and I exchanged Geng Tie by the way.” Mo Tianliao said lightly. Since the possibility of ascension was not known and Mingyan also was not very sure about it, he didn’t say much about it, so as to not let Qingtong be disappointed when the time came. So he turned the conversation to another place.
“Geng Tie?” Qingtong’s eyes widened. How could Shizun do such a thing?
“That’s right.” Mo Tianliao triumphantly took out the green jade tablet and shook it in front of Qingtong.
“Let me see.” Qingtong stretched out his hand but Mo Tianliao deliberately raised his hand. Qingtong turned around and pressed Mo Tianliao’s shoulder to grab it, then the bad hand went elsewhere.
Qingtong fell into Mo Tianliao’s arms unsteadily. The two of them hugged and rolled on the grass. Mo Tianliao turned over and pressed Qingtong under his body and kissed him on the pale lips. Qingtong’s attention was not on that matter. Taking advantage of Mo Tianliao’s laxity, he grabbed the jade tablet and stuck it on his forehead to check.
“It’s the first time.. I would know my parents’ names.” Qingtong curled his eyes slightly.
Mo Tianliao looked at him and his heart ached with sadness. He always said that his life experience was miserable, but at least he had seen his parents and brothers when he was young, but Qingtong had never even seen his parents.
Qingtong took Mo Tianliao to walk around Mingyan’s Demon Palace and found the palace where he lived when he was a child.
It was a room covered with cushions, with several nests inside it. It’s just that every nest was not small, except for a cat, there was enough space for another dog to sleep.
“When I was a child, I was afraid of sleeping by myself, so Shizun let Uncle Yan or my Shixiong accompany me to sleep.” Qingtong pointed to the huge nest, next to the big nest there was a string of wind chimes made of shells.
As he talked, the beauty in white turned into a kitten, and ran over to fiddle with the shells. The clinking sounds were very nice.
There was a thunderstorm in the middle of the night, and Mo Tianliao was awakened by the explosive thunder. He looked at the cat sleeping peacefully in his arms and looked out the window and saw a huge green dragon hovering in the clouds. When he got up and went out to have a look, he saw that the dragon passed through the mountain protection array and landed directly into the back garden. On the back of the dragon, there were big and small protective bubbles. In each bubble, a few little fur balls were squeezed in.
The next day, there was news that the Woyun Sect was besieged by the Righteous Path and the situation was critical.
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Mini theater:
Xiaozhao: Why is your master called Master Wonton?
Carpenter: Because he sells wonton in the world
Old bastard: Yo, this kid is good-natured, come and follow me to sell wontons.