The big tiger unresignedly shook his Masters leg again. “Let me go too, Master and shidi don’t understand the risks.” If he really thought about it, between these two, one had just reached Foundation Establishment, while the other’s soul was incomplete, he was definitely worried.
Mo Tianliao heard the big tiger roaring and yelling, and was somewhat curious. “What is he saying?”
He had previously thought that the tiger was Master’s Demonic Beast, now he knew Master was Mo Xiaozhao. As a Demonic Beast, it was naturally impossible for him to sign a blood pact with another Demonic Beast. Mo Tianliao narrowed his eyes and raised his hand to pat the tiger’s head.
Qingtong was silent for a moment and said, “He will come with.”
“How will that work? It’s a high-level Demonic Beast without a blood contract.” Mo Tianliao shook his head repeatedly. High-level Demonic Beasts had always been the object of struggle for high-level cultivators. If they took him out, he would paint a target on them no smaller than his unfinished divine weapon.
The big tiger froze for a moment, how could he forget, he was now a Demonic Beast, it would indeed be strange for shidi to agree. However, shidi just patted his head a moment ago, it probably wouldn’t look too impressive if he were to reveal his true identity now would it?
The atmosphere became a bit awkward for a moment. The big tiger lowered his head, turned and ran away.
Mo Tianliao looked at the back of the running tiger, smirked and raised his hand to pick up the teapot nearby and pour a cup of tea. Holding two jade cups at the same time, he poured the tea back and forth until it was no longer hot, then handed it to Master, with an ingratiating smile.
Qingtong accepted it and took a sip. “Speak, what do you want?” Every time Mo Tianliao made that expression, he either wanted to rub his belly or touch his tail.
“Lend me some money,” Mo Tianliao said shamelessly.
Qingtong paused, his pair of beautiful eyes flashing slightly. This brat actually asked him for money? He snorted, “How much do you want?”
“About 50,000 top-grade lingshi,” Mo Tianliao calculated roughly.
“50,000 won’t buy that trash.” Qingtong scornfully thought that although that piece of trash was good for nothing except causing trouble, the fact could not be denied that there were many fools in the cultivation world.
“I know.” Mo Tianliao was not going to be such a sucker as to spend money on his own things. “I’ll pay it back.” It was a bit embarrassing to borrow money from his own cat. He could have gradually gathered the money via crafting, but Qingtong’s current physical condition did not allow him to take it slowly, it was better to find Taishi as soon as possible.
“You are my man; it is only right to provide for you.” Qingtong took out a bag from the bracelet and threw it at Mo Tianliao’s face.
Mo Tianliao was stunned by the phrase “my man” and was therefore hit by the storage bag. Raising his hand to pick up the bag from his face, he looked at Master’s unruffled expression. Only then he realized that “my man” was said in exactly the same way he used to say “my cat”. He didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
While accompanying Master basking under the noon sun in the courtyard, chatting about this and that, the strange feeling lingering between the two of them gradually dissipated.
“By the way, this is the hemp twine from Woxuan Abode. I made a ball for you.” Mo Tianliao handed Qingtong the ball in his sleeve.
“Ugly.” Qingtong took it with some disgust and stretched out a slender finger to give it a poke.
“It’s for sharpening your claws,” Mo Tianliao smiled and looked at the fair and tender fingertip. He couldn’t help pulling it over and squeezing it. “Do you still remember the scratching post in our house, I made it from FuSang.”
“Mmm.” Qingtong pulled back his hand, threw the twine ball into his storage bracelet and narrowed his eyes in the sunlight.
“I’ll buy more FuSang wood later.” Mo Tianliao rested his chin on his hand and quietly looked at the beauty in front of him. He used to love to talk to Mo Xiaozhao. He always hoped that one day his kitten would turn into a person who could answer him. He didn’t expect that day would come so soon.
“No need.” Cold beautiful eyes swept over Mo Tianliao. Although the FuSang was also a divine tree, it couldn’t compare to the texture of the Everlasting Wood.
Seeing the look in his cat’s eyes, Mo Tianliao immediately felt a little pain in his arm. Fortunately, the beautiful eyes did not stay on his body for long, they had become faintly teary. Qingtong yawned gracefully and began to repose.
Although Mo Tianliao wanted to talk to him very much, he wisely kept his mouth shut. He stayed silent for a while waiting for him to fall asleep then quietly took his hand and held it.
The pink toe beans had turned into beautiful fingers. He remembered the first time he had tried to trim Mo Xiaozhao’s claws, because he was so nervous, he ended up drawing blood. Looking at the tiny bleeding claw tip, Mo Tianliao had felt so distressed that he had wanted to hit himself. From then on, Mo Tianliao did not dare to trim the cat’s claws, so he was scratched by Mo Xiaozhao almost every day.
Soon it would be past noon and it would be too cold to keep sleeping outside. The man in the rocking chair seemed to have no intention of waking up. He guessed that he needed a few more hours of sleep. Mo Tianliao hesitated for a moment then raised his hands to lift him.
The man in his arms did not wake up, he leaned against him naturally, sleeping soundly in his embrace. Mo Tianliao smiled silently and stepped into the inner hall.
In order to embark on a lengthy journey, some things needed to be fully prepared. Mo Tianliao was now in charge of the common affairs in the abode, so the things needed were easily procured. If he was just planning on going out alone, he wouldn’t have cared as much, but since he was taking Master with him, he could not be negligent with respect to the food and clothing.
He asked the maidservants to prepare Master’s commonly used bowls, chopsticks, bedding, and several sets of clothes. He also asked someone in the administration hall to buy some daily necessities. Mo Tianliao himself also went down the mountain to buy some materials, and took the time to make some useful magical trinkets just in case.
There were not many crafting materials in Ruyi Town, but there were still some Resplendent Stones. Mo Tianliao bought a piece of top-grade Fire Jade, some Resplendent Stone and a piece of Ruyi Crystal.
Resplendent Stones were what made controlling an item through one’s soul possible, while Ruyi Crystals could change the size of materials.
Granted, this was the most basic type of material, objects crafted using Ruyi Crystal could only have two forms, it couldn’t handle more changes.
Mo Tianliao rented a first-class forge to refine the Ruyi Crystal and Resplendent Stones, while the Fire Jade was repeatedly scorched with his woodfire to remove impurities.
His woodfire soaked into the Fire Jade, the originally crimson jade was gradually tinted with cyan. At the same time, the refined Resplendent Stone was melted into it and used to engrave a complex channelling array.
Because liquid stone solidifies rapidly, an ordinary craftsman could at most only engrave one channelling array using Resplendent Stone, thus creating an item that could be guided with the soul, a special weapon. Other additional functions needed to be introduced by adding other materials. Mo Tianliao, however, had engraved more than a dozen functions, channelling, transforming, flying, igniting, attracting wood…
The fingers flew rapidly, only their after image could be seen. These arrays actually worked best if they were engraved using the Resplendent Stone, because then they could be activated directly. It was not necessary to pass through the channelling array, so it was naturally much faster. However, a regular craftsman simply could not do it.
The Fire Jade containing countless arrays was carved into a longsword, he then dipped his qi wrapped fingers into the refined Ruyi Crystal liquid and quickly drew a space array on the body of the sword. Then, holding the sword in his hand, recited an incantation, shrinking it into a palm-sized sword-shaped jade hairpin.
It could become large or small, and it had moved beyond a special weapon into a spiritual weapon, which Mo Tianliao could fully absorb into his dantian. However, last time because of the bossy nature of his divine weapon, it had refused to accept Mo Tianliao as its owner because he had had another spiritual weapon in his dantian. So, Mo Tianliao did not take it into his body, he carved a palm-sized scabbard out of the remaining pieces of Fire Jade, sheathed the small sword and placed it in his hair.
After several days of continuous crafting, Mo Tianliao was exhausted, so he went back to his small courtyard to sleep.
In his dream, he felt like he was wearing a fur collar and was sweating a lot. When he woke up the next day, he saw the snow-white furball crouching on his pillow, pulling at the hairpin on his head. His originally neat hair had been scratched into a bird’s nest.
“Xiaozhao.” Mo Tianliao leaned over to kiss him and was immediately slapped.
Evil disciple, what are you doing?!
Mo Tianliao was stunned and touched his nose, he had forgotten that the little furball had become his Master and he could no longer kiss him whenever he liked.
Sect Leader: From now on, are you willing to be his cat, rich or poor, man or wood?
Sect Leader: From now on, are you willing to be his man, no matter scratching or gnawing, cat or human, and consent of your own free will to be a human cushion, scratching post, cat tree and also swear to give regular offerings of cold spring fish and glass marbles?
Unedited, please point out any mistakes
Have some fluffy Master by the translator.
I wanted to post the glossary today and it wasn’t like I didn’t have time to do it this week, unfortunately I just couldn’t concentrate on anything because my little cat is sick (and now it appears her siblings also caught whatever this is ) If you are reading this novel I assume you must like cats so please send good vibes