“Your soul?” Qingtong had stretched out his hand to push him, he paused, when he heard the words, he couldn’t help looking up at him. No wonder it had hurt. This fool had put his soul into the pendant?
The slender and soft hand pressed feebly against his chest just like a cat’s paw. Mo Tianliao could not resist holding the hand, he squeezed it and played with it. “Only a wisp of it. I wanted you to try and wear it, see if it helped.”
“Idiot.” Qingtong’s lips curled in disdain. “If it were so simple, this excellency would have already pulled the soul from you.”
“Would you?” Mo Tianliao leaned over and rubbed his forehead against him. “I was willing to spend 10 days refining this for you. I didn’t sleep at all while you relaxed out here, and even my head still hurts.”
On top of his head, his ears swivelled, Qingtong lowered his eyes and did not speak.
Mo Tianliao smiled and took the man into his arms. “As it turns out, kissing can cure headaches. If it hurts in the future, remember to tell me at once.” It was more effective than taking Soul Condensing Pills. Maybe a few more kisses would be enough to somewhat mend his baby’s soul.
“Perverted disciple…” Qingtong glared at him, wanting to ask him why he had kissed him just now, but he felt that such a question would sound a bit foolish, in the end, he pursed his lips and didn’t speak.
After the recent activities, they had exhausted all their strength. Qingtong, listening to Mo Tianliao’s prattling, soon fell asleep.
Mo Tianliao looked down at him, his previously pale face had recovered its colour, his thin lips were a little red and swollen. He could not resist raising his hand and stroking them with his fingertips. It was upsetting to think about what he might have done these past 300 years because of the pain. Did he often bite these beautiful lips until they bled, did he injure himself out of agony?
“Mmm…” The sleeping Qingtong was very pliant. He leaned into Mo Tianliao’s arms and buried his face in his chest, making a pleased purr.
He could not bear to part from this cat, so how could this cat bear to part from him? Mo Tianliao held him tightly and dropped a kiss on a furry ear. The sensitive ears quivered, their fluff itching Mo Tianliao’s chin, causing him to grin.
This foolish cat had mistakenly thought that he had made the pendant for somebody else and gotten angry. Such jealousy… Mo Tianliao stretched out his hand and caressed the long snow-coloured hair for a bit. Did he dare hope that his cat also liked him, and Lord Kitty had simply not realized it yet?
Mo Tianliao was actually someone with a one-track mind. When he had been a demonic cultivator he had been obsessed with crafting. His cultivation method had always been the Way of the craftsman. He never missed a chance to either cultivate or craft. He was only interested in precious materials or never before seen crafting methods, so giving him a Starfall Stone would make him happier than giving him ten beauties.
He liked all furry critters, whenever he saw one, he wanted to pet them and hug them. Of course, the one he loved above all others was his own Lord Kitty. Since he liked him, he gave him everything and shamelessly doted on him, so much so that when Mo Tianliao learned that Master was his own cat, he naturally and wholeheartedly spoiled Qingtong. In fact, such deep affection already went beyond the limits of ordinary relationships between master and Demonic Beast. Moreover, this was a man who was just too beautiful for ordinary people to resist.
The pair held each other and slept for a whole day and night.
Mo Tianliao was woken up by the sun and yawned. He lowered his head and found Qingtong still nestled in his arms, his normally pale and handsome face was a little pink, flushed from sleep. Mo Tianliao could not bear to wake him up, so he kept quiet, contemplating various things.
Lately, he had been too busy to think properly. The Demonic Lord named “Xiang” seemed to have carved up a portion of the demonic path for himself, Mo Tianliao did not know where his old forces were by now. He had thought about it carefully during the 300 years he had spent drifting around; when his Mo Palace had been attacked, for people to break through the many barriers around Duantian’s Mo Palace, there had to have been spies, and it must have been more than one person.
“Master, Master!” An excited voice called inside his mind, Mo Tianliao looked up and saw it. There it was, floating in the air. A tortoiseshell-coloured jade penis.
Blue veins popped on Mo Tianliao’s forehead. Seeing that the man in his arms had not yet woken up, he used his divine sense to talk to Taishi. “Why did you assume this disgusting shape again?”
“I- I- I have thought of a way to repair the little kitten’s soul!” The jade dick flew around Mo Tianliao’s head.
“What?” Mo Tianliao asked hurriedly, ignoring Taishi’s appearance.
“Do you see what I look like?” The tortoiseshell-coloured jade dick landed on the pillow and wriggled around. “This is it!”
“Don’t you understand?” Taishi jumped on the quilt. “You can relieve his pain by kissing him, which means that when you touch each other, your souls also touch. The Heaven's Way is to reduce excess and replenish deficiency, right now you have an excess amount of soul, while the kitten has a deficiency of it.”
Mo Tianliao frowned slightly; dual cultivation was indeed a kind of mutual mending, cultivators who practised it would mutually increase each other’s cultivation. But he had never heard about it mending the soul; at most he had heard that some demonic cultivators would dual cultivate with their own demonic pets to soothe their internal demons.
“Ordinary dual cultivation will certainly not work. Now you’ll have to rely on me!” The jade dick shook its head arrogantly.
Mo Tianliao’s face suddenly darkened. “Don’t even think about it! If you touch him even once, I’ll hack you into pizzle slices!
“Oh, my! Just what are you thinking?” Taishi purposely turned himself into a bullwhip, then broke itself into slices which were then made into a skewer “I meant that you have to use a secret Great Ancient Beast dual cultivation method, only then would you be able to combine your souls.”
Legend had it that when the Great Ancient Beasts joined together, not only their bodies but also their souls would mingle.
Mo Tianliao was silent for a moment, he slowly lowered his head, and looked at the sleeping man in his arms, dual cultivation…? He gulped, he would have absolutely no problem doing it; however, his cat still did not get it, it would be extremely reprehensible to use a possible cure as a reason for why he should let him do this. Moreover, it would affect Qingtong’s perception of his feelings.
“I see, give me that dual cultivation method.” The pizzle slices suddenly merged back into one member, it flew with great energy and enthusiasm and stuck itself to Mo Tianliao’s forehead. It was promptly grabbed by its master and forced into the shape of a brick.
When Qingtong opened his eyes, he saw Mo Tianliao hitting himself over the head with a tortoiseshell-coloured brick.
Taishi transferred the secret method the moment they touched. The secret Great Ancient Beast dual cultivation method was not complicated, it just contained several archaisms, which were difficult to decipher. He would need to study it slowly.
“Is there any other way?” Mo Tianliao was throwing the brick in the air. It did not transform, it remained a brick, its heart was like desolate ashes, longing for the sweet release of death. However, it immediately jumped up when it heard this question.
“Isn’t this method good? Like this you can… ehhehehe…” Taishi gave a filthy laugh.
“Just in case!” Mo Tianliao glared at it.
“Ah, good point.” The brick thought for a moment. ” For combining two souls, in addition to dual cultivation, there is another way, you could make a spirit channelling item that can accommodate the souls of two people.”
A spirit channelling item that could accommodate the souls of two people? Not even Mo Tianliao, who had lived for two lifetimes, had ever heard of such a thing. He picked up the brick in order to receive the knowledge on how to produce this item.
“What are you doing?” The clear and slightly dreamy voice rang in his ear, sounding a bit curious.
Mo Tianliao held the brick and stiffly turned his head, facing a pair of disdainful Liuli eyes. He threw the brick under the bed, smiled and kissed the smooth forehead. “Babe, you’re awake.”
The furry ears stiffened, turning a faint pink, yet the face only looked mildly offended. “Idiot.” He had been about to knock his head with a brick, ever since that piece of trash had come to life, this man was turning more and more stupid.
“Haha. Taishi found a way to mend your soul,” Mo Tianliao said, blinking. He really wanted to fondle those fluffy ears, but he held back. If Qingtong found out that his ears were visible, who knows what kind of temper tantrum he would throw.
“Did it…” Qingtong yawned, uninterested, and turned over to go back to sleep.
“After sleeping for a whole day and night, I can’t sleep anymore,” said Mo Tianliao, and pulled the man, soft with sleep, into his arms. “Didn’t the Sect Leader say something about attending the Three Sects Conference? When will you go? ”
“I haven’t decided yet.” Qingtong reached out and pulled out the purple pendant from under his pillow. “How do I use this?”
Mo Tianliao grabbed his hand, searched inside the storage bracelet on his wrist, and took out a silver chain, which he had previously made for the cat. At the time, he had wanted to hang a bell on it, but the kitten had violently protested.
He threaded the thin chain through the small hole on the pendant and hung it around Qingtong’s neck. The hollow lilac crystal hung between the white collarbones. Although it looked beautiful, it was too conspicuous. Mo Tianliao enjoyed the view for a moment, before letting the pendant hang lower on the chain so it could be hidden under the clothes.
“It can protect against the Soul Subjugating Horn; it can also nurture your soul. See this hollow part? Once Hua Qing makes some liquid Soul Condensing Pills, you just put one here and it’ll slowly seep out.” Mo Tianliao held the pendant in one hand, explaining its functions to him, and put the other hand around that sexy waist, discreetly taking advantage of the situation.
“Mm-hm.” Qingtong replied idly, as long as Mo Tianliao was around, he was unwilling to think. Mo Tianliao had spoken a lot, but he had not taken in a word of it. Anyway, the other man would remember it for him.
The well-rested pair left the inner hall, Qingtong shook his head, turning his hair back to black, his fluffy ears also instantly disappeared.
A white-clad maid came forward to wait upon Qingtong as he washed his face and rinsed his mouth. She said, “Xuanji Zhenren has just arrived.”
Qingtong raised his eyebrows, put down his towel and walked out of the hall.
There was a black turtle shell in the small bamboo pavilion outside the hall, around one chi in diameter, it was basking cosily in the sun.
Mo Tianliao looked at it curiously. The strange patterns on the turtle shell were exactly the same as the ones he had seen on the turtle shell in Woxuan abode’s big lake, this shell, however, was much smaller than that one. But, the shell seemed empty, it did not look like it belonged to a living creature.
Qingtong stepped forward and kicked the turtle shell. “What do you want?”
A black snake poked its head out of the shell, looked around, paused for a moment, then saw Mo Tianliao standing to one side, and shrank back again, slightly embarrassed.
The white-clad beauty promptly turned into a kitten, leaped over, jumped on the turtle shell, and reached his paws inside in order to fish it out. “You flinching turtle!”
Unedited, please point out any mistakes
This chapter was really full of 🍆 That final line also made me think of this Link.
This extra chapter is thanks to hobi_wan. Thank you for the ko-fi!