Ch127 - Daily Life in the Immortal Realm (Extra 1)
After staying on earth for a few hundred years, Mo Tianliao finally ascended to immortality, but he was not happy at all because he was separated from Qingtong.
Previously, because he was afraid of being separated from Qingtong, he had suppressed his cultivation base and refused to cross the tribulation, waiting to go to the Heavenly Realm together with Qingtong. He had been preparing for the tribulation for several years. Everything, including lightning protection arrays, anti-thunder artifacts, ascension luggage, and even gifts for the Green Dragon, Vermillion Bird, and the Old Bastard had been fully prepared, but he had forgotten that the Thunder and Lightning Tribulation for humans and demon beasts were different.
In fact, even for ordinary demon beasts, they had to face several days and nights of lightning strikes to cross the tribulation, but Qingtong was a descendant of the ancient divine demon beast, the White Tiger Clan, and his lightning tribulation was only one day. Just like what happened to the Green Dragon and Vermilion Bird, a lightning tribulation struck him, which was bounced back by Xuan Jian, and then Qingtong turned into a bright white light and ascended…
Poor Mo Tianliao, he sat on the same place and endured the Thunder and Lightning Tribulation for nine days and nine nights. When he opened his eyes, Qingtong had already disappeared. So, in the Heavenly Realm, Mo Tianliao started his cat hunting journey once again.
Passing through the nine clouds and crossing the Ascension Gate, Mo Tianliao, who had just ascended, became a junior scattered immortal. A superior immortal at the Heavenly Realm was waiting at the door and gave him a jade token to welcome him to the immortal world.
The immortal world was completely different from what he thought earlier, this place was actually similar to the mortal world! The entire immortal world was under the control of a Heavenly Emperor, and immortals were divided into several levels: Scattered Immortals, Great Immortals, and Superior Immortals. These were not classified according to cultivation level, but based on merit. You could accumulate merits by improving your cultivation, receiving jobs and doing errands, and doing more good deeds. Merits could even be bought and sold. Merit value was the currency of the immortal world.
The jade token that Mo Tianliao got previously was the one that calculated merit. The jade token would feed back his merit value to the secretary of some department in real time. If the jade card was lost, you could go to the department to reissue it.
Mo Tianliao twitched the corner of his mouth. He didn’t know who made such a great invention. Looking at the pitiful and pathetic “little merit” in his jade token, Mo Tianliao once again fell from a local tyrant to a pauper.
The Heavenly Realm was much more vast than the Taiji Continent, and when he first arrived, Mo Tianliao didn’t know how to find Qingtong, so he wandered aimlessly in the marketplace of the Scattered Immortals to see if there was a place to ask for information.
The immortals in the immortal world were also very lively, perhaps because they were too lonely when cultivating towards immortality in the mortal world, that after ascending to immortality, people instead love the earthly ways of life more and more. In addition to the stores lined up on both sides of the street, there were also many stalls scattered around.
“Sweet fried chestnuts, five points a pack!”
“Fresh immortal peaches, ten points a catty!”
“Wonton! wontons, three points a bowl!”
Mo Tianliao heard the voice of the wonton seller and couldn’t help but stare. The old man’s voice, which was a little immodest, was selling wontons as if for fun. He had not heard this voice for many, many years. Slowly looking towards where the voice came from, he saw a small old man with a hairy monkey squatting on his shoulder, enthusiastically serving wontons to other immortals.
“Give me a bowl of wontons.” Mo Tianliao walked up to the stall and asked in a low voice.
“Okay, please wait for a moment.” The old man did not raise his head and served a bowl of wontons, quickly sprinkled it with a bit of seasoning, put a delicate jade spoon into it, raised his hand and handed it to him.
“Zi!” The monkey on his shoulder tilted his head to look at Mo Tianliao and leapt up to his shoulder, intimately picking up his hair.
The old man carrying the wontons, sensed that something was strange and looked up at him, “You ……”
Mo Tianliao took the bowl of wontons and ate it all in two or three mouthfuls. The warm, fresh and fragrant soup, a taste that was unique to the old bastard, was something he hadn’t had for many, many years.
“You stinky boy, do you have three points of merit?” The old man reacted, suddenly furious, he could see that this prodigal apprentice of his had just ascended, and with only one point of merit!
“I don’t have.” Mo Tianliao put the empty bowl back and wiped his mouth.
“You dare to eat when you have no merit?!” The wonton vendor’s voice resounded across the street.
That’s right, this stall selling wontons was Mo Tianliao’s Master, Hun Dun, whom he hadn’t seen for many years, and the monkey squatting on his shoulders was Mao Dan who had ascended when the two continents had connected.
But instead of a touching scene of the master and disciple reunion, Mo Tianliao ate a bowl of wontons from his Master without payment and was beaten by his Master, and finally couldn’t help but fight back and beat his Master.
The master and disciple squatted together at the wonton stall and looked at each other.
“Little bastard!”
“Old bastard!”
Mao Dan had told him about human affairs before, so Master Hun Dun was not interested in the news that Mo Tianliao brought, and immediately began to ask him to help cook soup and make wontons.
“Have you ever seen a particularly good-looking beauty, just ascended, named Qingtong.” Mo Tianliao asked while wrapping wontons.
“The immortal world is full of exceptionally good looking beauties, who knows which one you’re talking about.” Hun Dun bristled.
Mo Tianliao rubbed the bruises at the corners of his forehead, “He is the demon beast that has been with me ……”
“Yeah, that’s the kitten that Mao Dan spoke about?” When Hun Dun heard the words, he immediately dropped the spoon in his hand, jumped onto the chair and squatted, looking at his apprentice with a grin, “I heard that you had something going on with that kitten, didn’t you?”
Mo Tianliao looked at the white bearded old man with a cheap smile in front of him, held back and tried to endure, but finally could not resist to slap his head.
“You bastard who deceives teachers and destroys ancestors!” Hun Dun shouted and smoothed the wristband on Mo Tianliao’s left hand. “Yo-ho, this is a divine artifact! You boy, have actually crafted one!”
“Gaga!, Master! Hello, Shifu!” Taishi turned into a big mouth and greeted Hun Dun.
“Oh!! It can transform and talk, good, good!” Hun Dun was very happy and let Taishi turn into a stick, and used it to stir in the pot on the stove. “Just missing a fire stick.”
“Qingtong is a White Tiger, you should have heard of them.” Mo Tianliao summoned Taishi over, not giving him a chance to play, and told Master to answer the question honestly.
“White Tiger!” Hearing this, the old bastard couldn’t help but pause and then sighed, “White Tigers are noblemen.”
In fact, it turned out that the four divine beasts had a very high status in the immortal world. The Green Dragon, Vermillion Bird, Black Tortoise, and White Tiger each guarded one direction. They were automatically considered as Superior Immortals and didn’t need to do anything. As long as they guarded their side, they would get innumerable merits.
“The White Tiger Clan guard the west, see?” Hun Dun stood up and pointed to the floating island floating in the void in the far west, “That’s where the White Tiger Clan lives.”
Mo Tianliao immediately wanted to go, but was pulled by the Master: “That is a big noble family in the heavenly realm, look at you, a disciple selling wontons, how can you afford him? You’d better stay here and sell wontons with me.”
Why did it sound like the old bastard was gloating at his misfortune? Master even enthusiastically pointed out to him the broken shack where he lived, and told him to wait for the night to close the stall and meditate together in the broken shack.
Mo Tianliao quietly looked at his master for a while, flicked his sleeve, turned around and walked away, asking passers-by where Hun Dun lived.
“You asked for Immortal Hun Dun’s residence. It’s over there.” One enthusiastic immortal showed him the way, and Mo Tianliao quickly found a luxurious immortal residence. Along the way, many immortals waited in front of the door, holding all kinds of rare materials.
“Let me see Master Hun Dun, I have found this piece of cold iron with great difficulty, no matter what, please ask him to help me craft it …..”
The crowd was talking, and the immortal who was guarding the door politely refused: “The immortal is not at home.”
This is what his master called the pauper life…? Mo Tianliao walked directly in without any change in his facial expression, occupied a large courtyard for himself, brought out the master’s collection of fine clothes, put it on, raised his foot and went to the floating island in the west.
Originally, the immortal world was already very beautiful, but the view from the floating island was even better.
The birds were singing among fragrant flowers and the cranes were dancing.
However, through the misty curling clouds, a person was walking briskly. He was dressed in a snow-colored, wide-sleeved garb that had black with a hint of red patterns on it, and his long hem was swaying to the ground. Mo Tianliao flicked away the mist in front of him, and immediately saw the person’s face, his eyebrows were like a beautiful painting, delicate and flawless. Who else could be so beautiful other than Qingtong?
“Baby!” Mo Tianliao was about to rush over, when suddenly there was a huge immortal power rushing towards them. One person dressed in black and white wide-sleeved immortal clothes, wearing a crown of flowing clouds pattern, appeared in front of Qingtong in a flash, blocking his way.
“I don’t want to!” Qingtong panicked and dodged away, but was held by the man.
“Bastard!” Mo Tianliao’s eyes were furious, he immediately rushed up, snatched Qingtong towards himself, and gave the man a punch, straight towards the eye socket.
“Who?!” The man ducked his head sideways, and his eyes widened with anger.
Only then did Mo Tianliao see clearly that the man looked like a mortal in his twenties, and his appearance was very handsome. Mo Tianliao was immediately even more annoyed. This toy boy in the Heavenly Realm dared to have ideas on his Qingtong?! Turning Taishi into a long sword, he held it across his chest and protected Qingtong behind him.
Seeing Mo Tianliao’s stance, the man looked at Qingtong in confusion, “Tongtong, who is this?”
Qingtong hid behind Mo Tianliao and clutched his clothes: “I want to go with him.”
“No!” The man immediately got angry and leapt behind Qingtong with a single flash, grabbing him over with one hand.
“I don’t want to!” Qingtong struggled, Mo Tianliao immediately rushed over and fought with that person. Damn it! He dared to kidnap Qingtong in front of him. Anyone who dared to do so for so many years had died a horrible death.
“Grandpa, don’t hurt him!” Qingtong touched the hand that was scratched and painful, and rushed to the man.
Mo Tianliao was stunned. Grandpa? In this daze, he was knocked down by a punch from the opposite side and stepped on by his feet. The man grabbed Qingtong, who was struggling, and said with a grunt: “Children should go to nursery school! Your grandmother will spank you if you make any more noise!”
Mo Tianliao was dumbfounded as he watched the man transform into a huge white tiger in an instant, and grabbed Qingtong who had turned into a snow-colored kitten by the scruff of his neck.