The people who were trapped in the array couldn’t see the situation outside the array, but they could hear the sounds.
Originally, Immortal Liu Mang couldn’t beat Qingtong. But only because this place was brimming with heavy blood poison that could affect demonic beasts and would make them sluggish to the point that could get them killed that he dared to take Qingtong hostage. However, he never expected that he would meet Shi Di in this place.
If Shi Di was willing to stand on his side, there was at least a 90 percent chance of winning, but if Shi Di would not side with him, he would be in trouble.
“Venerable, if…” Liu Mang still wanted to continue negotiating, but Shi Di had already started attacking him.
Suddenly, Taishi Ground Breaking Hammer came on the scene and aimed for Liu Mang’s head directly. Liu Mang hurriedly took out his spiritual weapon to counter the attack.
Hei Yanshi took Qingtong some distance away and stood watching, without any intention of going to help Shi Di.
“You’re not going to help him?” Qingtong grabbed the fur on the big lion’s neck.
“If he can’t even beat Liu Mang, what’s the use of having him?” The big lion flicked his tail and roared. Fortunately, Shi Di couldn’t understand the language of beasts. If the same sentence was spoken in human language, Shi Di would directly throw his hammer at them.
In terms of personal strength alone, Shi Di was quite strong among several demonic cultivators, and it was not a problem for him to deal with the one-legged Liu Mang.
“Shimei, come and help!” The big sledgehammer and the axe were attacking him, one move after another. Liu Mang’s thin spiritual sword couldn’t bear the burden any longer. So he called Liu Bi to help him.
Liu Bi lifted her hand, looked at the big black lion and Qingtong who were watching on the side, and then looked at Shi Di who was fighting fiercely, she suddenly said in a loud voice: “Duantian, regarding what you said just now, do your words still count?”
Mo Tianliao, who was outside trying to break the trap array, heard her words and laughed out loud and said: “I, Duantian, once I have said the words, they will naturally count. My word is my bond.”
Reassured, Liu Bi put away her spiritual sword and stood idly to the side.
Immortal Liu Mang’s eyes widened: “Liu Bi, you traitor!”
“I’ve had enough of you for a long time.” Liu Bi wiped the corner of her mouth with a handkerchief and sneered. When the headstrong Liu Mang held Qingtong hostage, she knew that Liu Mang would definitely die. This mountain was too weird and mysterious and didn’t give an impression of a treasure cave at all. It was too ridiculous to think about treasure hunting when there was no guarantee for life.
Liu Mang had only one foot. He had to use his Qi constantly to maintain his stance. Soon, he would consume his true Qi and it would not be long before Shi Di would be able to knock him down.
Shi Di initially took out the Taishi Pig Killing knife, thought for a moment and felt that this knife was really detrimental for his image. So he pulled out the Taishi Sky Splitting Axe.
“Dinghu is dead, and the demonic beast he raised has escaped. If we don’t get the treasure, the Liuyun Sect will soon be reduced to a small sect!” Liu Mang supported the ground with one hand and spat out a mouthful of blood.
“To revitalize a Sect, it is simply useless to rely on external objects, what is needed is strength.” Shi Di raised his axe and said in a serious tone.
“You are also still relying on mining!” Liu Mang said hysterically.
The axe slashed down, and there was instant silence.
Shi Di shook off the blood on the axe and spat: “Damn it, who says that Laozi was relying on mining?”
“What he said was also correct.” Duantian’s voice suddenly sounded in his ears, and when Shi Di looked up, he saw the wall screen made of Chi You insects slowly collapsed, revealing a smiling Mo Tianliao.
“Duantian, you are looking for a fight, aren’t you?” Shi Di grabbed Mo Tianliao’s lapel with one hand.
“Why are you alone? What about your men?” Mo Tianliao pushed him away and picked up the beauty sitting on the black lion.
Qingtong hated that there were insects everywhere on the ground. He didn’t want to walk, so he turned into a cat and nestled in his arms again.
“Well, it’s a long story.” Shi Di sighed and said as he walked.
His subordinates came to hunt for treasures and Shi Di felt it would be fun, so he also followed them. At that time, the Taixuan Hidden Treasure Cave had just opened and just opening that cave door had wasted a lot of effort. Afterwards, when the door was opened, all the people nearby were sucked in by the huge suction-like force coming from inside the cave. The walls of the cave were full of Chi You insects, which resulted in countless deaths and injuries.
Shi Di relied on his formidable spiritual power and countless spiritual weapons to protect himself from getting hurt. Finally when the Chi You insects were full they stopped attacking. Unfortunately, the respite was short lived, as at the same time a terrible killing array got triggered again…. In short, his men had all died and he had stumbled down into this trap array along with Hei Yanshi. They were blindly trying to knock around in the array, trying to find a way out.
“From the time I entered this cave, Laozi began to regret it, and long wanting to get out.” Shi Di followed Mo Tianliao out of the cave and let out a long breath of relief.
“Then why didn’t you come out earlier?” Mo Tianliao glanced at him sideways.
“Damn it, if I remembered the way, wouldn’t I have come out?!” Shi Di jumped to his feet and said. With so many forks in the road, he didn’t know the way to get back. Hei Yanshi also couldn’t remember the way. One man and one beast could only stare at each other helplessly.
Mo Tianliao didn’t have time to mock him anymore. He waved his hand to indicate that Shi Di could go away, and then grabbed him again: “Wait, you help me to inquire about the Wisdom of Heaven and Earth.”
“How come you are also looking for the Wisdom of Heaven and Earth?” Shi Di looked at him suspiciously. Previously, Mingyan had released the news for all parties to look for it, how come Duantian was also looking for it now?
“I am looking for it to help the Supreme Venerable,” Mo Tianliao glared at him. “You look carefully in the mines. The more abundant the spiritual aura, the easier it is to give birth to spiritual wisdom.”
“What do you want to do with Wisdom?” Shi Di didn’t really care, “What’s it to me?”
“It’s about a demon beast’s ascension,” Mo Tianliao said, looking at Hei Yanshi who was scratching his neck with his hind legs, “Without this, in a few years you will ascend but Hei Yanshi would have to stay on earth by himself and slowly degenerate into an ordinary lion.”
“Bullshit…” Shi Di wanted to say that his demon beast had excellent qualifications, and he would surely ascend with him. But looking at Mo Tianliao’s serious face, and then looking at the cat in his arms, whose qualifications were much higher than Hei Yanshi, he reconsidered his words. After a long silence, he said slowly, “I’ll look for it.”
The two separated and each returned to their Demon Palaces.
“Hey, you really can’t ascend, huh?” Shi Di sat on the flying boat and poked the big lion with his foot.
The black lion turned into human form and slapped Shi Di’s stinky feet: “This is the first time I have heard about it too.”
“Find the spiritual Wisdom of Heaven and Earth and you’ll be able to ascend? Does the Heavenly Dao dislike you for being too stupid!” Shi Di tapped his head and seemed to understand something.
“You yourself can ascend even when you are so stupid, surely the Heavenly Dao will not stop me because of this.” Hei Yanshi sneered back.
“You dare to call your master stupid?!”
“Yeah! So? It’s not as if you can do anything to me!”
Mo Tianliao looked at the flying boat that kept shaking due to Shi Di and Hei Yanshi’s scuffling and just shook his head. He then took out the jade tablet given by Mingyan and pressed it against his forehead to check its contents.
“Xuan Jian was an artifact that could understand everything and anything under the heavens. In ancient times, it was said that the spirit of the immortals were transformed into an artifact, and the artifact was divided into male and female…..” Mo Tianliao’s eyebrows twitched. The words, though they sounded immensely profound, were in fact, utterly nonsense. The way it was said, why did it feel so familiar? He frowned as he listened to the recounting of the profound theory that was no less than 10,000 words with a lot of big words floating around. Finally it ended with, “However, all of the above are of little use in crafting Xuan Jian.”
If other craftsmen listened to this jade tablet about crafting artifacts, they would surely vomit blood in anger. But Mo Tianliao breathed a sigh of relief. He opened his eyes and was startled. Qingtong was sitting opposite him with his forehead very close to him and looking at the jade tablet curiously.
“Was it of any use?” Qingtong frowned, obviously seeing what was in the jade tablet as well.
Mo Tianliao smiled and lightly kissed his pale lips: “This jade tablet is written by the Old Bastard.”
“Your Shizun?” Qingtong sat up straight and frowned slightly, “That is to say, one thousand years ago, Shizun once sought your Shizun to refine the Xuan Jian.”
Mo Tianliao nodded. Taixuan Mountain back then must have been as dangerous as it was now. With the Old Bastard’s array attainments, it was not impossible for him to come out in one piece, and naturally he would have been discovered by Mingyan. Therefore, the Old Bastard boasted about how many treasures he got in Taixuan’s Hidden Treasure Cave, which was probably given to him by Mingyan.
“Although my Shizun’s character was not good, he was a genius craftsman. He dared to use everything. Some of his theories may seem unreliable, but if we really find the corresponding materials, we can test them out.” Mo Tianliao raised his hand and eliminated the seal on the jade tablet using Master Hundun’s technique, and the words inside were immediately displayed.
“The materials for tearing the time and space barrier should be White Tiger Claws, Green Dragon Scales and Vermillion Bird Feathers, when the three are combined into one, it can break the Jiazi barrier…” There were a lot of details that proved this method was feasible, but it was a pity that he didn’t have these three things.
“White Tiger Claws……” Mo Tianliao saw these three words and couldn’t help but feel his heart jump. He couldn’t use one of Qingtong’s hands!
“A thousand years ago, I hadn’t come out of my shell yet, so naturally he couldn’t find the White Tiger Claws.” Qingtong yawned and stretched out a slender hand, popping out five sharp claw hooks on Mo Tianliao’s arm with a “scratch, scratch” sounds. And after some grinding and scratching, he tore the sleeves with his claws leaving a lot of white marks on his arms.
Mo Tianliao was scratched and tickled by the White Tiger’s nails. He suddenly got an idea, like the Green Dragon scale and Vermillion Bird feather mentioned before, just a little of the White Tiger’s nails were enough: “Great! Baby, we can craft Xuan Jian!” After saying that, he grabbed the hand with claws to press a kiss, and immediately his face got scratched by the claws.
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Mini Theater:
Cultivator A: Wow, I found Master Hundun’s Treasure Book of crafting tools.
Item 1: collect 10,000 materials for crafting tools.
Cultivator B: (collect 10,000) Hoo, hoo, collection is done.
Item 2: Collect one spiritual fire of heaven and earth
Cultivator C: (scarred) Found it.
Item 3: However, it’s all useless, to craft weapons I have to teach myself.