The Mo Palace was beautifully decorated everywhere, even the guest rooms were no exception.
The maidservant brought Mo Tianliao to his room, situated close to Shi Di’s harem. In front of the room was a veranda overlooking the whole garden.
“Please rest, young master. This servant will be just outside if you need anything.” The maidservant brought Mo Tianliao into the room and respectfully retreated.
Mo Tianliao looked at the furnishings in the room. The dark red carpet covered the floor and a very wide low bed was placed by the window. It had no curtains and was covered with very thick cushions and bedding. It looked very comfortable. This was Shi Di’s favourite kind of bed, the rough man considered gauze curtains to be fussy and effeminate things, so the entire Mo Palace used this kind of straightforward low bed.
The little furball in his arms saw the big soft bed and jumped. He looked around with his head held high and found no strange smells or hidden traps. He then lay in the middle of the bed. As a precaution, even if the two of them were alone, Qingtong would not transform.
Mo Tianliao checked the whole room, but there was no other array except for the defensive one on the doors. He placed a few small magical items on the four corners of the room and put a barrier on the doors and windows. Only then did he turn around, took a couple of steps and threw himself on the bed, burying his face accurately in the snow-white fluffy fur.
“Ow, pain, pain, pain!” The white kitten did not even need to look at him, he turned his head and precisely bit Mo Tianliao’s eyelid.
He rubbed the hole on his eyelid against the quilt, then the deeply aggrieved Mo Tianliao moved his face and rubbed it against the kitten. “Xiaozhao…”
The kitten raised its paw and slapped him. Unfilial disciple. What did you call me?
“Master.” Mo Tianliao accurately read the look in the kitten’s eyes and immediately corrected his tone. “This is the only bed. I’ll have to trouble you, great sir, to sleep with me tonight.”
The kitten shook his tail, ignored him and went on sleeping.
He agreed? Mo Tianliao, smiling so wide his eyes turned into crescents, moved his body up the bed and took the kitten into his arms. The little furball immediately jumped, turned around and lay back down, pointing his tail at him.
“Are you still angry?” Mo Tianliao had the cheek to chase after the kitten and poked it in the back with the tip of his nose. “We used to kiss all the time when we were young, you never ignored me.”
Evil disciple, do you still dare to mention that?! The kitten looked back at him. You took advantage of this excellency’s youth and naiveté to wantonly defile him. Now that this excellency understands what everything means he would never again let you… let you, um…
The cat’s Liuli eyes widened instantly. This shameless man had kissed him again while he was lost in thought.
Mo Tianliao pecked the tiny furry mouth. “I didn’t mean to disrespect you; I just like you too much.”
The kitten who was about to bite him froze and looked up at him slowly. The deep eyes, like black pools, were full of tenderness reflecting the snow-white kitten’s head. Damn you, this excellency is not your spiritual pet!
In the end, Mo Tianliao’s face was scratched into wood shavings.
After being severely punished, Mo Tianliao did not dare let his hands wander again. He lay flat, decently and obediently, and let Lord Kitty climb up and use him as a meat cushion.
When Demonic Beasts took human form, they were very beautiful. The people of the righteous path were all hypocrites. When signing a blood pact with a Spiritual Beast, from the outside it seemed as if they were only using them as servants. But it was hard to say what they did in private. In any case, some people in the demonic path would only dual cultivate with their own Spiritual Beast.
A Demonic Beast could appease an unstable spirit and restrain internal demons. When under the assault of internal demons, if one used a shape-shifted Demonic Beast as a furnace the calming effect would be tremendous. People in the demonic path followed their instincts, didn’t care about appearances and were unrestrained. As for the hypocrites on the righteous path, who knew whether they could resist the temptation of a beautiful Demonic Beast in private.
Mo Tianliao looked at the kitten sleeping warm and soundly on his chest with a complicated look. When we were on the flying boat, I felt the situation was urgent, but did I really have no ulterior motives? Those pale, thin, slightly cool lips… Thinking of this, it was as if he could taste that sweetness once more, his heart couldn’t help but throb.
He raised a hand and touched the little furball on his chest, then Mo Tianliao slapped himself over the head. What are you thinking? Sleep!
In this Mo Palace, the danger was everywhere. Mo Tianliao did not dare sleep. He only closed his eyes and regulated his breathing, he let his consciousness extend to sense all movement within a li of his surroundings. If he were a Half-Immortal it would have been no problem to monitor the whole Mo Palace, but he could not let his consciousness drift too far, and if Shi Di found out he would be in trouble. He was now a Foundation Establishment cultivator; he couldn’t withstand an attack from Shi Di.
Shi Di had thrown Mo Tianliao into a guest room and then nothing happened for two days. Mo Tianliao was not worried. He had been able to use lingshi to gather the information, it was impossible that Lord Shi Di would not be able to find out what he needed. The fish had taken the bait, it would not escape.
Mo Tianliao brewed a pot of tea and sat at the table in the middle of the garden, leisurely watching the kitten play.
Shi Di was a rough person, yet he liked to present an elegant façade. The garden was exquisitely constructed and the tables and benches were all carved out of fine white jade. The garden was full of strange flowers and plants. Hundred-year spiritual grass could be seen everywhere. The paths among the flowers were paved with sparkling round stones. Upon closer observation, they were lingshi!
He was like a wealthy country bumpkin from the mortal realm who built a beautiful garden like that of a scholar but used copper coins to pave the paths as decoration. Utterly tasteless.
The snow-white kitten climbed up a laurel tree and stood on the treetop watching. Suddenly he saw a black mass nearby, approaching slowly.
Shi Di was dealing with affairs in the palace, Hei Yanshi was so bored that he went looking for the kitten. He hadn’t seen him in 300 years, all this time he had been the only lion in the Mo Palace. Shi Di occasionally rewarded him with subordinate Demonic Beasts, but they were all stupid and boring. From a distance, he caught sight of a bit of snow-white on a branch, the lion immediately lowered his body and hid himself in the dense flowers. Step by step, slowly, ever so slowly, he approached.
Mo Tianliao sat sipping tea, yet his divine consciousness was not idle, he had found the lion long ago. Considering the cultivation level of his cat, he was not worried, so he pretended not to know and continued drinking his tea and watching the flowers.
“Meoooow~” The kitten standing on the laurel tree held its head high and gave a long loud cry.
The big lion promptly stumbled, shook his fur, leapt out of the flowers and quickly jumped under the tree. The kitten looked down at him from his high position and shook his tail. The big black lion cocked its head and slowly extended its two front paws, putting his big head on them to express his submissiveness.
Mo Tianliao looked on curiously, he had known that Mo Xiaozhao was not afraid of the Spiritual Beasts of various Demonic Lords, he had always believed that it was because Spiritual Beasts who had signed a blood pact were not free to hurt people at will and had good tempers. However, he had not known that these two had this type of relationship. A giant ten-zhang-long lion stretched out its paws and bowed its head to a palm-sized cat. Wasn’t it a bit ridiculous?
The kitten jumped down from the tree and landed precisely on the thick long fur of the lion’s mane. It took him a couple of tries to climb on top of the lion’s head. Hei Yanshi stood up and shook his fur, but he did not shake his head.
“Meow!” Mo Xiaozhao let out a cry, presumably meaning “Giddy up” or some such. The lion leapt out of the flowers and, step by step, carried the riding kitten away.
“…” Mo Tianliao stared blankly, still holding his cup.
The place where Mo Tianliao was drinking tea was the front garden, frequented by Shi Di’s guests and subordinates, there was also a back garden for Shi Di’s concubines.
Unlike that weirdo Lord Duantian, who accepted beauties only to have them tend forges and work as blacksmiths, Shi Di had a relatively normal brain. He naturally took the beauties as concubines and threw them into his harem. It didn’t matter whether he planned on using them or not, it was a question of manly pride.
In the back garden, a group of magnificently dressed women were chatting. Some of them were attractive and seductive, some were elegant and lovely, some were delicate as a willow branch trembling in the wind, each had their own distinguishing charm.
“Greetings, sisters.” A woman in a light-yellow dress came to meet them. She had just been brought in yesterday.
“Oh, there is someone new again.” A woman in red who was eating melon seeds glanced at her, the rest also looked at her one after another.
They exchanged courtesies. Someone took the newcomer and introduced her to everyone one by one. Just as they were talking excitedly, they suddenly saw a man walking stealthily along the veranda.
“Who is that?” The new woman pointed at the man.
Mo Tianliao was worried about his cat and was quietly following him; he did not want to be stopped by the group of ostentatiously dressed women.
“Who are you? Milord’s new catamite?”
Pursing his mouth, Mo Tianliao looked up at the women.
Seeing Mo Tianliao’s face clearly, the women stared blankly for a moment. What a handsome man! In the demonic path, the strong were respected, what female cultivators loved best, of course, was a strong person. If they were powerful and handsome at the same time, it was simply the best. Just like with the late Duantian, how many young girls had gone to him like moths to the flame? Even if they were thrown to man the forges, they didn’t care.
The man kept walking steadily, his expression indifferent. He looked like a man who had been strong for many years, but once they looked more carefully, they knew that that was not the case. He was clearly at the Foundation Establishment level. It seemed that he was indeed the Lord’s new catamite. Obviously, this strong appearance belying his extreme weakness would powerfully arouse a man’s conquering instinct.
The woman in red had been in the Mo Palace for the longest time. Her mouth widening in surprise, she said, “You, you…” Why did this man look exactly like Lord Duantian? She felt like she had discovered some terrible secret!
The women whispered to each other, their chins dropping in shock in quick succession.
“Don’t be rude.” A deep and powerful voice came from behind them and they all turned. They saw a tall, handsome man in black coming up. Unlike Mo Tianliao’s elegant black and white clothes with silver dark stripes, his clothes were completely dark without any decorative patterns, the snowy kitten squatting on his shoulder was especially conspicuous.
When the women saw him, they immediately fell silent. This man was Hei Yanshi, no one dared to offend him.
Mo Tianliao was circled by the big lion, but he just took the kitten and turned to leave. Hei Yanshi’s mouth tightened. He doesn’t even know how to thank someone. Just as he was thinking this, the kitten lying on Mo Tianliao’s shoulder glanced at him with his pair of Liuli eyes; he immediately lowered his head and dared not speak.
“Who was that man?” The new woman asked, pointing to the exceptionally arrogant person dressed in black.
“He is Milord’s demonic pet,” the woman in red wrung her sleeves with jealousy. “Milord sleeps with him nine days out of ten.”
The sharp-eared Demonic Beast heard these words even though he was a li away. Hei Yanshi abruptly stumbled. How could he have an affair with his Master? He thought about his Master’s hulking appearance… The lion felt that he had been mentally scarred.
“Demonic Entertainment Weekly”
Headline: Lord Shi Di’s New Favourite Unexpectedly Looks Similar to Duantian
Special Column: A Love Full of Thorns, Shi Di and Duantian’s secret story of love, hate, lust and enmity through the years.
Candid Photos: Hei Yanshi Fallen Out of Favour, Alone and Broken-Hearted…
After reading the magazine: *Hei Yanshi mental damage +10000*
Big Lion: Protest against the mental pollution of rare animals. Ow! Roar!
Unedited, please point out any mistakes
Lord Kitty riding on the lion is sooo cute
This extra chapter is thanks to Beyond. Thank you for the ko-fi