Mo Tianliao paused. He just realized there was something wrong with this action. What kind of disciple held their Master in their arms? He coughed, “Master has fainted again. I’ll take him to bed now.”
The man in his arms, however, did not understand his good intentions at all. He pushed him aside and slapped him on the back of the head. Qingtong smoothed his messy snow-white hair and glared at him with a pair of beautiful eyes. The meaning was very clear: “Evil disciple, you mussed this excellency’s hair!”
Mo Tianliao sat on the ground and pursed his mouth; he turned his head to look at the Sect Leader.
The Sect Leader was not surprised at all by the hair, but he was surprised by their behaviour just now. “You- you two…”
Mo Tianliao was perplexed again, but didn’t show it. He got up from the ground and sighed. Since the Sect Leader knew that Qingtong had hurt his soul and yet had continued to live for so many years, he must surely know that he was a Demonic Beast. He turned to look at the gapping tiger and faintly furrowed his brow.
“Everybody out, this excellency wants to… ng…” Qingtong rose, choked suddenly and held one hand to his forehead.
The big tiger and the Sect Leader came forward at the same time, but it was Mo Tianliao, who was closest to him, who took the man in his arms and said anxiously, “What’s the matter, headache?”
A thin layer of sweat broke out on his pale face. Qingtong closed his eyes and said hoarsely, “Take me back to bed.”
Mo Tianliao held the man in his arms, walked quickly into the inner hall and gently placed him on the big bed. He touched his sweaty face, and felt distressed. “Is there any medicine?”
Qingtong raised his hand, his wide sleeve slid down his arm to reveal the azure and silver bracelet.
Mo Tianliao touched it with one hand. This object made by Duantian was by no means ordinary. In addition to proving that it was his cat, it was also a storage bracelet that a Demonic Beast could use. The space inside was very large. As the owner, he could also access it at any time, it was very convenient for filling it with toys and snacks for his cat.
There were a lot of things in the storage bracelet. Mo Tianliao saw the nearest white jade vial had the inscription “Heavenly Soul Condensing Pills” on it. He hurriedly took it out, poured one into his palm and brought it up close to his nose to sniff. Yes, it was a Soul Condensing pill. He quickly fed it to Qingtong.
After swallowing the pill, Qingtong’s complexion looked better, he only seemed a bit exhausted. He didn’t speak.
The big tiger leaned over the edge of the bed and looked on with concern. Seeing that his Master was better, he drew his big head closer to help him clean his sweat with a lick, but Mo Tianliao grabbed him by the ear, “Big fatty, stop it.”
“Roaaar” The tiger was very dissatisfied with shidi’s disrespect toward his shixong.
Mo Tianliao flicked the tiger’s head, took the soft cloth towel handed over by the white clad maid and wiped the sweat of the man lying in the bed. He jokingly said that if he let this stupid tiger lick his cat’s face full of saliva, the fastidious white kitten’s hackles would rise.
Tianlang Zhenren saw Mo Tianliao use the storage bracelet and immediately understood everything. He patted Mo Tianliao on the shoulder and made a signal to follow him.
Mo Tianliao nodded in response, covered Master with a quilt, turned around and followed the Sect Leader out.
The big tiger saw them leave and came closer again to help lick Master’s hair. Qingtong, without even opening his eyes, raised his hand and slapped him on his fluffy head. The big tiger immediately became well-behaved, lowered his ears and, putting his head on the bed, stared unblinkingly at Master with a pair of big copper eyes.
“Sect Leader,” Mo Tianliao followed Tianlang to the courtyard.
“Are you the one who raised Qingtong for many years?” Tianlang, who had been all smiles not long ago, stared at him coldly.
Mo Tianliao looked at the Sect Leader. “He has been with me since he was little.”
“What a load of dogsh- cough, we got separated briefly when he was a child, and then he was stolen away by you, you shameless man!” While he said this, Tianlang was furious enough to explode. He thought about the many years he had been looking for his precious shidi, all the trouble he had gone through to find him and, in the end, he discovered him with his soul incomplete and close to death. How could he not be angry?
Mo Tianliao scratched his nose, feeling a little guilty. When he first saw the kitten, he just thought that it was really beautiful, he hadn’t even considered whether it was a Demonic Beast. At the time, he looked around and saw that there was no one there, so he took it into his arms and carried it away. He used his flying vessel, the first in the Taixuan continent, to put tens of thousands li of distance between that place and himself…
That little kitten was thought of as a shidi by the big and powerful Sect Leader… Mo Tianliao squinted and was about to say something when he was startled by the Sect Leader trying to punch him in the face. A Half-Immortal’s blow was too much for him to withstand, and he could not evade it. He instantly retracted his divine soul from his face.
The Sect Leader struck his Everlasting Wood body and immediately cried out, “OW!” He hadn’t used even a hint of spiritual power! A regular human fist had hit Everlasting Wood. It hurt!
“Sect Leader, are you all right?” Mo Tianliao suppressed a smile and said with concern.
Tianlang Zhenren was so angry that he raised his hand to beat him again. Wait, better not. He bared his teeth and said, “There’s nothing I can do since Qingtong is willing to keep you by his side. Only keep in mind he is in poor health, don’t let him fight and don’t let him cultivate any further.”
His soul was incomplete and he was already at the peak of the Half-Immortal stage, his soul wouldn’t be able to bear a tribulation.
“I know.” Mo Tianliao frowned. “The missing portion of his soul should still be in me. Can’t it be severed once more?”
After hearing this, Tianlang paused and looked carefully at Mo Tianliao’s face, he did not seem to be bluffing. He hummed, “It’s very easy to split your soul, if you want to be rendered an idiot.”
Mo Tianliao’s soul was not a beast’s soul. He could not stand the splitting, and even if it was cut off, it might not be possible to return it. Tianlang told Mo Tianliao that this splitting of the soul was a forbidden technique and their knowledge of it was incomplete. At the time, Qingtong was just desperately trying anything at all and did not know whether he would succeed or not.
In the end, Tianlang only asked Mo Tianliao to swear a simple blood oath not to speak of the secrets he saw in the sect, then left with a disgruntled toss of his sleeves.
Mo Tianliao stood in the courtyard for a long time, slowly tightening his fists. What did he care if it was forbidden? Even if he had to travel all over the world, he must find a solution.
Back inside the inner hall, the big tiger saw him come in and raised his head silently.
Raising his hand to pat the tiger’s head, Mo Tianliao leaned over and looked at the man on the bed.
Qingtong was not asleep, he opened his eyes when he sensed him.
“Does it still hurt?” Mo Tianliao asked tenderly.
Qingtong ignored him and propped himself up with his hands.
“Don’t move.” Mo Tianliao used his hands to help him. “I’ll get you what you want.”
“I want to bask in the sun.” Qingtong raised his hand and waved him away.
The big tiger who lay prone on the bed roared loudly, “Master, let me carry you.”
“You are finally willing to talk to me.” Mo Tianliao smiled, held the struggling man and carried him towards the courtyard. The big tiger followed discontentedly and tried to bite him on the ass.
I always carried Master before!
The spring sun was just perfect, it shone warmly on the bamboo rocking chair.
Mo Tianliao took Qingtong’s left hand and played with it. His slender white hand and pink palm reminded him of his little toe beans, he couldn’t resist trying to take a bite. As soon as he put the hand to his mouth, he felt a chill. Mo Tianliao looked up and saw those icy and beautiful eyes staring at him. His heart suddenly started pounding.
How could he forget, the one in front of him right now was not a cat but his beautiful Master!
Guiltily, he put the hand back and rubbed his two fingers on the bracelet. The gems sparkled translucently under the sunlight. It was very beautiful. “I don’t know where I lost mine, that’s why I don’t wear it.”
This bracelet was part of a pair. Mo Tianliao had had a wrist guard with a similar appearance, just with a slightly wider width. It should have been with his body in Absolute Death Valley, he didn’t know who had taken it.
Qingtong took back his hand and lowered his eyes without speaking.
“Well, no matter.” Mo Tianliao smiled. “I’ll be leaving for a while…”
“Why?” Qingtong looked up at him.
When faced with Xiaozhao, Mo Tianliao could always blather endlessly, but now looking at Master, he felt like he couldn’t talk or act as casually. They seemed to have a new understanding of each other, in part odd strangers, in part so intimate they couldn’t bear to part.
“Going out to gain experience, and to look for Taishi.” Mo Tianliao drew a bamboo stool close and sat by the rocking chair.
Taishi was the name given by Mo Tianliao to the unfinished divine weapon.
“Looking for that piece trash?” Qingtong frowned. He hated the incomplete divine weapon. If it weren’t for that harbinger of doom, the idiot wouldn’t have been hunted down by thousands of people and ended up as mincemeat. Now that he was alive again after such trouble, why go looking for misfortune again?
“It’ll be of great use.” Mo Tianliao smiled. He knew that his cat did not like Taishi. He did not seek the divine weapon to dominate the world or to avenge himself. Those reasons were just incidental. His main reason was because, to cure his cat, he must find Taishi.
A divine weapon was not called thusly because it could obliterate heaven and earth. Magical weapons and spiritual weapons were tools used by people, they lacked sapience and spiritual awareness. Even immortal weapons were only tools controlled by people. Only a divine weapon could be more than just a “tool” and give birth to consciousness.
A divine weapon was naturally endowed with millions upon millions of years of universal knowledge, it surely knew secrets beyond the reach of ordinary people. Therefore, Mo Tianliao had to first find it, finish the last refining step, then make it speak and ask it how to repair a damaged soul.
“You just achieved Foundation Establishment, it’s suicide,” Qingtong rudely poured cold water on his plans.
Once it was discovered, any magical weapon crafted by Lord Duantian before his death would be stolen. Their price was too high, it was very difficult to get the money to buy them legitimately. What’s more, the divine weapon that had caused his downfall, every time it resurfaced, triggered unimaginable bloodshed.
Mo Tianliao smiled. He had said he would bring it back, so naturally he had his ways.
When the tiger heard this, he gripped Qingtong’s leg with his mouth and shook his head.
Master, let me accompany shidi. I’ll ensure that he comes back in one piece.
Raising his hand to slap the tiger on the head, Qingtong said coldly, “This excellency will go with you.” After that, he glared at him with a hint of disgust, clearly expressing: “If this excellency were not to accompany you, you will surely be blown to bits again”
Mo Tianliao paused for a moment, then slowly raised a corner of his mouth. “Okay.”
“Shocking! Sect’s Weekly Gossip Magazine”
“Special Issue: Interview with Qingtong Zhenren”
Reporter Colourful Tiger: Honourable guest, if I may ask, where were you the first time you met Carpenter?
Special Guest Qingtong: Riverside
Reporter Colourful Tiger: Do you feel it was a “hero saving the depressed and suicidal beauty moment”?
Special Guest Qingtong: I was just fishing
Reporter Colourful Tiger: … I heard that the Sect Leader has agreed to you being together, is that correct?
Special Guest Qingtong: What does it matter to me whether that stupid dog agrees or not?
Reporter Colourful Tiger: … Ok. So, the union has received the blessing from the father!
Special Guest Qingtong: *slaps* Speak normally!
Reporter Colourful Tiger: No beating the reporter during the interview
Special Guest Qingtong: *claws flashing* Say that again
Reporter Colourful Tiger: You can beat the reporter at will during the interview QAQ
Unedited, please point out any mistakes
I like how sometimes the mini theatres give a slight hint about the next chapter Although these two might have different ideas about who should be the husband in the relationship…
All that talk of taking Master to bed at the start ended up sounding a little suggestive
Would you be interested in a little glossary with the names of the characters, places, etc?
Some fanart from the translator.