Ch130 - Daily Life in the Immortal Realm (Extra 4)
More than 8,000 years ago, in the Great Demon-Immortal war, countless immortals and great demon beasts died. In addition, after the war, there were problems in the cultivation world and it was difficult for human beings to ascend, and the demon beasts simply could not ascend, resulting in a desolate and withered Immortal World. There were not many immortals in such a vast immortal world, how could this be solved?! As a result, the Emperor of Heaven began to encourage all the immortals in the Heavenly Realm to reproduce and create many offspring.
In order to lead by example, the Emperor of Heaven also tried every means to give birth to a prince. The Emperor of Heaven, who was a new father, naturally loved the child to the bones, which in turn led to the others in the immortal world, to spoil their children as well.
Most of the children in the Green Dragon Island nursery school were born immortal and were born with immortal roots, so their cultivation was naturally not weak, but…
Years of coddling made these “cubs” that were already three thousand years old, very weak and bad at fighting. Mo Xiaozhao, the little bully, wanted to clean up these guys who couldn’t even fight.
“Meow!” The snow-colored kitten waved his claws at Tianlang who was squatting at the side, and this Shixiong of his ran over and became the mount of the Overlord Xiaozhao.
Noisy, beat up!
Running around, beat up!
Disobedient, beat up!
Don’t look cute, beat up!
In a short time, the cubs in the garden were all packed up and lined up obediently, like soldiers waiting for inspection.
The prince saw that the kitten had cleaned up the cubs pretty well, and walked over happily. He stretched out his little hand to touch the head of the kitten: “You are very good, you can be the Great General of the Heavenly Palace in the future.”
The prince had a resemblance of a small human child. He was dressed in elaborate immortal clothes, with a gorgeous crown on his head, but since everything was shaped for a small child, he looked like an exquisite doll.
The kitten looked up at the prince who had left his post without authorization, and raised his paw.
“Woooo…!” The prince was immediately beaten. The elaborate immortal clothes were crumpled, the gorgeous crown on his head had tilted to one side, the neatly combed hair was scratched until it looked like a chicken coop, and he stood back to his position obediently.
Mo Tianliao let out a dry cough, seeing that Tongtong was having fun with the children, and since the Green Dragon Floating Island was within the control of Mingyan’s consciousness, he left the island with confidence that Qingtong was safe for the time being.
When he came to the Heavenly Realm, the first thing he did was to find his cat, and now that he found him, he then started to consider the issue of his livelihood.
Mo Tianliao wandered around in the Immortal Market Square and found that all the weapons used by the Heavenly Realm were immortal artifacts. It was no wonder that even the upper-level artifacts in the mortal world could not withstand the power of an immortal at all, even if his weapon was a low-level artifact, it was still an immortal artifact. He roughly understood the prices of immortal artifacts, because having the power of immortality, even ordinary craftsmen could make immortal artifacts, so the price was very average, far less valuable than the lower class immortal artifacts in the mortal world.
However, the immortal artifacts were also divided into levels. In the mortal world, the immortal artifacts were simply divided into three classes: upper, middle and lower. While the immortal artifacts in the Heavenly Realm were divided into seven classes of red, orange, yellow, green, teal, blue and purple.
Crafting immortal artifacts required a lot of materials. Because of the abundance of spiritual energy, many materials that were precious and incomparable on earth, could be found everywhere in the Heavenly Realm. However, not all materials could be picked up and used to craft a good immortal weapon, one still needed to buy some materials.
Mo Tianliao went to borrow money from his master.
“I’m a wonton seller, where could I find the money for crafting? If you don’t help, get lost, don’t affect my business.” Master Hun Dun shooed his disciple away like a fly and continued to sell wontons with great enthusiasm.
Mo Tianliao bristled: “I have to get married, I have no money to buy crafting materials, I can not afford the bride price.”
Hun Dun looked at his apprentice up and down, stroked his beard, and said earnestly: “Tie Dan, you are not young anymore. No, you can’t always think about relying on Lao Tzu. Besides, the White Tiger Clan don’t like your three melons and two jujubes. Let’s forget that idea. Going back, Master will find you a suitable one. Now, I will buy chestnuts next door. What a beautiful fairy she is, she’s just right for you!”
Mo Tianliao pouted, turned his head to look at Mao Dan who was earnestly wrapping wontons. He stretched out his hand, grabbed the monkey and carried it on his shoulders, then turned around and left.
“Hey, what are you doing!” Hun Dun shouted, grabbing the evildoer.
“I’m selling it for money.” Mo Tianliao shook off his Master’s hand and ran away.
“You evildoer!” Hun Dun yelled at his apprentice’s dis-appearing back, wiped away the non-existent tears in his eyes, and continued to sell wontons.
“Old Sir, don’t be sad, I’ll give you chestnuts.” The chestnut fairy next door handed him a chestnut. The fairy had a big waist and big breasts, and was as wide as two Hun Dun’s.
“Girl, you’re a sweetheart,” Hun Dun peeled off the chestnuts quickly, and then ate it with relish. “Hey, we had been neighbors for so long but I haven’t asked, which school did you belong to in the mortal world before?”
The fat fairy raised her hand to fry chestnuts with a shovel: “I used to be the elder of the Chixia Sect. Have you heard of Fairy Wanxia?”
Hun Dun widened his eyes. The Chixia Sect was a small school of upright Taoism, all of which were female cultivators, and had always been elegant. They were famous, and the Fairy Wanxia was one of the best, and the ancestor of the Chixia Sect. Her self-made Evening Shade Hand was very beautiful, making it like a ninth-heaven fairy dancing.
“The Evening Shade Hand? Isn’t that this!” said the fat fairy, picking up a shovel and stir-frying the chestnuts. Her hand technique was really like the clouds covering the sun of the Evening Shade Hand, but Master Hun Dun hadn’t noticed it even after being a neighbor for so long.
“Why did you think of selling chestnuts? Most of the female cultivators of Chixia Sect went to the Heavenly Palace to be dancers…” Hun Dun squatted at the junction of the Wonton and Chestnuts stalls, gnawing chestnuts earnestly.
To be a dancer in the Heavenly Palace, was to dance when there was a banquet in the Palace. The merit value was not small and the income was stable. Many female sisters wanted to go and be a dancer, not to mention this…
“Eih, my hobby was selling stir-fried chestnuts, no matter how you want to cultivate immortality, Chixia School is still that kind of place,” Fat Fairy scratched her head, “so I could only keep being graceful all the time. So finally, after ascending, I don’t want to keep suffering by doing something I don’t like, so naturally I do what I like.”
Hun Dun thought he had found a confidant: “Yes, I also really like selling wontons. If it weren’t for our Tie Dan wanting to cultivate immortality, I wouldn’t have to work hard to craft tools!”
“I’ve been wanting to say it for a long time, your pot for cooking wontons is very special.” Fat fairy started to fry chestnuts again.
“Ah, this is my old crafting furnace, called the Huntian Furnace.” Hun Dun was able to show off proudly.
Mo Tianliao didn’t know what his master was talking about with the sweet-stir-fried chestnut seller next door. He took Mao Dan to the Department Secretary.
This department single handedly managed the immortals who had just ascended, and would provide some jobs for those immortals who could not find a suitable livelihood in the Heavenly Realm.
Mo Tianliao spent a long time in the department looking through the board and scrolls, and found that the need for craftsmen was very high, and many jobs required a person that could refine and craft tools.
“The things in the immortal world are basically immortal artifacts.” One immortal officer in the department sighed. “It’s just that everyone, after ascending, likes to return to their original thoughts. Do whatever they like to do, and try to have a happy and comfortable life. Many people were unwilling to continue crafting tools.”
Mo Tianliao understood that when these words were said. Many craftsmen in the mortal world crafted tools and weapons just to earn spiritual stones for cultivation. Fortunately, his hobby was really crafting… …but only really very few wanted to craft.
The immortal in the department recommended Mo Tianliao a job with the highest merit value—pillar repair.
The railings and pillars in the Heavenly Palace have the magic array left by the ancient great immortals on them. Those were all immortal artifacts. Now they were in disrepair and were a bit dilapidated. Every time he could fix one, he could get tens of thousands of merit points.
Mo Tianliao frowned slightly, looking at other jobs, many of them were commissioned looking for crafting materials, or specially crafting tools for the nobles, all of which were time-consuming and labor-intensive. He didn’t have the time as he had to take his cat to the nursery school every day. It would be better to repair the pillars. He could work during the day and could leave at night.
Therefore, Mo Tianliao got a jade medal from a pillar repairing craftsman, and followed the secretary’s guide to the Heavenly Palace.
The Heavenly Palace was as magnificent and majestic as one could imagine, but the waves that were magnificent from a distance, were quite tattered on a closer look. These originally gorgeous and exquisite pillars, railings, and pavilions, were falling off in pieces, or crooked and out of shape.
“The immortal who was supposed to be on this errand in the past, quit after a few days.” The immortal helper led Mo Tianliao to the director of the Heavenly Palace, and the director looked at him, “Young man, work hard, as long as you can fix one, I will give you three thousand merits.”
Mo Tianliao got a set of immortal carving knives and a small pile of high-grade immortal stones. This kind of immortal stone was a material used to repair the pillars. It was cold and full of spiritual energy.
Mo Tianliao came to a slanted dragon column and sat down, holding the set of carving knives enthusiastically, and each one was very delicate. The hooks, files, and drills were much more complete than his previous carving knives.
“Wow, this is delicious, give it to me!” Taishi, who had been quiet after coming to the immortal world, suddenly woke up, yelled and threw himself on the set of carving knives, and quack quack quacked on the file.
“…” Mo Tianliao held the file with only one handle, and raised the corner of his mouth.
“Wow, this is delicious too!” After Taishi finished eating the file, he pounced on the pile of immortal stones, but was grabbed by Mo Tianliao.
“Behave!” Mo Tianliao rewarded Taishi with a fireball and let it be quiet for a while.
Taishi really shut up, and when the fire went out, he squatted aside and secretly hid a few pieces. Over the years, Taishi has opened up a small space in his body where he can store some things he likes.
Mo Tianliao pretended not to see it, and studied around the pillar. This pillar was indeed made of immortal stone, and the magic array on it was not complicated and not aggressive, just some magic array that can emit fairy light, so that the pillars would look magnificent from a distance.
After repairing the magic array in it, the pillars quickly stood up again, but the dragon carved on it was mottled and needed to be supplemented with immortal stones and re-carved.
Mo Tianliao took out his Duantian Furnace, made it smaller, put it by his feet, threw a few immortal stones in and burned it lightly, and then quickly attached it to the pillar.
The immortal stone quickly hardened as soon as it touched the cold air outside, and he didn’t have the opportunity to shape it at all, he could only slowly carve it with the carving knife. Mo Tianliao took out a carving knife and started carving on it. The knife broke…
Mo Tianliao frowned and motioned for Mao Dan to pass him another one.
Mao Dan was a very good assistant for crafting tools. He didn’t need Mo Tianliao to tell him what to give him.
Mo Tianliao poured his immortal power on the carving knife, and it was able to carve without breaking, but it was quite laborious. If this continued, within an hour, the immortal power in his body would be exhausted, and he would need to meditate for a day to recover. No wonder no one wanted to do this job. It would take at least three months just to engrave this pillar, and three months to earn tens of thousands of merits, it was better to sell immortal artifacts.
After a deep sigh, Mo Tianliao turned his head, and saw Taishi squeezing a piece of immortal stone in his mouth while he was not paying attention, and the food was crunching.
Mo Tianliao’s eyes lit up, grabbed Taishi, and shook a set of immortal carving knives in front of him: “These are all for you to eat, but you have to turn into these.”
“Okay, okay!” Taishi agreed without thinking about it, and ate the whole set of carving knives in one bite.
The immortal stone was a very hard stone, even if he had used an immortal tool, it wouldn’t budge, it needed the blessing of immortal power, and Taishi was a divine artifact.
The tortoise-shell carving knife quickly carved on the Dragon Pillar, and the extremely hard immortal stone felt like tofu in front of Taishi. In less than a day, Mo Tianliao had already carved the entire pillar, and in a good mood, he even carved two more dragon’s whiskers.
“Woong!” The jade token measuring the merit value made a crisp sound, and when his divine sense penetrated the token, there were already 33,000 merit points in it.
It turned out to be automatically paid! Mo Tianliao was a little surprised. He raised his eyes and looked at all the slanted pillars around him. He suddenly felt… fortune!
Seeing that it was getting late, Mo Tianliao stopped work and took Taishi and Mao Dan to pick up Qingtong.
The Green Dragon Floating Island was still very lively. A bunch of small fur balls were lying on the ground obediently, staring at the big mirror floating in the air. The mirror was showing scenes of the mortal world. For these natural immortals who had never been to the mortal world, it was really novel.
Mo Tianliao searched for a long time before he found his cat in the pile of fur balls. The snow-colored kitten with its belly upturned, was lying on its back on top of the cubs, slumbering. The cubs looked like they didn’t dare to wake him up. Mingyan was sitting behind the children, holding a fluffy little red chicken in his arms, and with a smile on his face feeding the little fat bird with fried bugs.
“Woof!” Tianlang, who was lying next to the kitten, barked loudly. The sleeping kitten opened one eye and saw Mo Tianliao carrying an oil-paper bag. He yawned, stretched and stood up, shaking his fur, and jumped into his arms.
“Baby, I bought a small fried fish.” Mo Tianliao took out a fried fish. It was said that it was raised in the heavenly pond and it was very delicious. It cost about 300 points for a catty.
Qingtong turned into a human form, took the package of fried fish, and took out one to eat. The fish was tender, crispy, and delicious, and Qingtong couldn’t help but squint his eyes in happiness.
Mo Tianliao smiled and said, “Let’s go, I’ll take you home.”
Qingtong pursed his lips. Although the tiger clan’s dwelling was also fun, he was used to sleeping with Mo Tianliao at night and he couldn’t sleep without him. He didn’t feel good being separated from him.
Mo Tianliao saw that Qingtong was upset, and knew what he was thinking, he couldn’t help but chuckle, and whispered a few words in Qingtong’s ear.
Qingtong’s low spirit immediately raised, he then raised his hand to beckon Xuan Jian happily: “Let’s go.”
The children who couldn’t see the pictures anymore suddenly got a little bit disheartened, and stood up one after another.
“Qingtong, will you come tomorrow?”
“Qingtong, I’ll bring you some delicious food tomorrow.”
“Qingtong, come to my house and play.”
…
Mo Tianliao was a little surprised, these kids were beaten one by one by Qingtong during the day. How did they suddenly all become so friendly? Turning his head to look at the Xuan Jian flying in the air, he immediately understood.
“Didi, look, this is the immortal stone I earned today, and it’s delicious!” Taishi took out the immortal stone and flaunted it in front of Xuan Jian.
Xuan Jian’s surface brightened, showing a red fat bird with an open mouth. It was his new expression today. At the same time, it showed a line of words: “Give me to eat!”
“Not for you, this is what I got as a reward for a day’s work.” Taishi was ready to put it away triumphantly, but it was directly sucked away by Xuan Jian.
“Ahhhh, my stone!”
On Xuan Jian’s surface appeared a fat red bird that was full, lying on the ground with a bulging belly.
“Ahhhhh!” Taishi’s desperate voice echoed on Green Dragon Floating Island.