“What can I do for Peak Master Ding?” Zi Mo, who was in charge of receiving visitors, saw Ding Ziyu coming and greeted him warmly.
Ding Ziyu said with a smile, “I’ve always been obsessed with crafting, so I wanted to ask fellow cultivator Mo to please give me some advice.”
When the people around them heard what he said, they displayed a bit of curiosity. This Ding Ziyu had already been exposed as a fake pretending to be Lord Duantian’s successor, yet he still dared to come searching for Mo Tianliao?
Mo Tianliao fed a fried fish to Master, who was leaning against the tiger and let Zi Mo grill Ding Ziyu for a long while, then he slowly turned to him. “This humble Mo is not talented; I would not dare to give Peak Master Ding any advice.”
Ding Ziyu came closer, smiled and said, “I heard that fellow cultivator Mo is not going to participate in the next competition. There are still several days left in the conference. Why don’t you visit my peak’s crafting room?”
Mo Tianliao lowered his head, scooped out the tea leaves in the jade container with a wooden ladle, put them into the pot, heated the water in the pot with his fire qi, and poured it into the teapot to rinse the tea. Pouring, rinsing, soaking, brewing, and removing the foam, this way of making tea was like floating clouds and flowing water, a feast for the eyes. When the cup of tea was ready, he took out a cold jade cup and poured the tea inside it, he repeated this action twice. Once the temperature was right, he handed it to the beauty beside him. Qingtong barely spread his lips, just enough for the tea to enter his mouth, and drank it in small sips.
Only after seeing Master drink did Mo Tianliao take his eyes away from the cup and condescend to give Ding Ziyu a look. “I just could not pause while brewing Master’s tea, I made Peak Master Ding wait for a long time.”
Ding Ziyu furtively clenched his fists and supressed his temper. He was a Nascent Soul cultivator, so most Golden Core cultivators were extremely deferential when they saw him, not to mention that he was already a Peak Master. Even if this person was really Lord Duantian, he was a mere Golden Core cultivator now, what right did he have to put on airs in front of him?
“Of course, Zhenren‘s tea can’t be neglected.” Ding Ziyu, still wearing that same gentle smile, stepped forward, seemingly inadvertently revealing the wrist-guard under his sleeve. “I have some of Lord Duantian’s things. I wonder if brother Mo would be interested in taking a look.”
When Mo Tianliao glanced at his wrist, his face changed, and he glared at him coldly.
Ding Ziyu nodded and used sound transmission to say to Mo Tianliao, “See you at Lianyu peak tonight.”
Mo Tianliao was silent for a moment then nodded slightly.
When Ding Ziyu left, the anger in Mo Tianliao’s eyes evaporated immediately, he grabbed a cup of tea and rubbed against his Master, watching the rest of the matches together.
The competition did not continue at night. At sunset, everyone went back to their respective areas to rest.
Mo Tianliao followed Master back to their small courtyard, he heated some water for a bath, but when he went to call his cat, he saw Qingtong lying on the bed, staring absorbedly at the little Crystal Palace.
“Baby, time for a bath.” Mo Tianliao approached and put his arms around the narrow waist.
Qingtong ignored him and poked at a crystal-clear wall with a slender finger. “This thing is transparent. If one were to sleep in it, wouldn’t it show everything?”
“Once it’s refined, you can change its colour.” Mo Tianliao picked up the lazy Lord Kitty. “I’ll teach you after your bath.”
“This excellency will go by himself.” Qingtong struggled to free himself from Mo Tianliao’s arms. Since he had accepted Mo Tianliao’s confession, this guy had gone back to treat him exactly like a cat, he had to be constantly holding him even in human shape. If not for the fact that there were too many people around during the day, this idiot would have carried him around all the time.
“The bathroom’s floor is wet.” Mo Tianliao made up a lazy excuse, then smugly took the beauty to the bathroom, and personally removed his shawl.
The mermaid silk shawl was a separate piece, the white wide sleeved robe beneath it was actually transformed fur. Mo Tianliao removed his shawl, then untied his belt and stripped off his robes, the clothes quickly vanished from sight.
The hand that had already reached inside the inner garments was slapped, Mo Tianliao embarrassedly retracted it and said, “I’ll help you take everything–”
He had not yet finished saying the words when Qingtong leapt into the bathtub still wearing his clothes, his white inner garments disappearing instantly. The alluring body was submerged in the water, Mo Tianliao’s eyes almost flew out of their sockets, but he could not see much.
“Didn’t you promise to go see Ding Ziyu?” Qingtong glanced at him.
“Mm-hm.” Mo Tianliao took a soft cloth towel, wet it, and slowly cleaned the arm laying on the bathtub’s edge. “I won’t go see him as long as you kiss me.”
“Humph.” Qingtong pulled his arm away, closed his eyes, and leaned back in the tub. It doesn’t matter whether you’d like to go or not, this excellency doesn’t care about you!
Mo Tianliao smiled and gently kissed away the water droplets on Qingtong’s chin.
“Ow, pain pain pain!” Mo Tianliao, who had gotten overconfident, got a bite on the chin in response and was kicked out of the bathroom.
Qingtong took some water and washed his chin. Idiot, covering this excellency with spit just as I got clean. If he did that then how long would it take to finish bathing?
Ding Ziyu’s stood on the terrace atop of his peak, hands behind his back and face grim, a hand slowly rubbed the storage wristband on his other arm. This thing had been extremely important to Lord Duantian, if that person was really him, he would definitely come to ask for it. At the moment, Duantian had only reached the Golden Core level, it would be very easy to kill him given that his own cultivation had reached the Nascent Soul level.
Dark clouds covered the moonlight, and the whole of Liuyun Sect was shrouded in shadow. It was a dark, windy and deadly night, at midnight the yin qi was the thickest, an omen of violence!
The assassin hidden in the darkness waited patiently for his prey, but the prey…
After taking a bath, Mo Tianliao lay comfortably on the bed side by side with Qingtong.
“One drop of blood, come on.” Mo Tianliao reached out a hand in front of his cat.
Qingtong tilted his head to look at his hand, held out a finger, extended a sharp and hooked claw, and stabbed him!
“Hisssss.” A drop of blood immediately beaded on Mo Tianliao’s fingertip. “I meant your blood.”
Mixing his own blood with Qingtong’s, Mo Tianliao raised his hand, used the blood drops to draw an array in the air, then flicked his fingers to send it into the Crystal Palace. The immortal weapon, which had been quietly lying on the bed, immediately rose and started rotating in the air.
After refining, the Immortal Palace could be shrunk even further, becoming the size of an egg. Mo Tianliao grabbed it and said, “If you don’t feel well, don’t take it into your Dantian, just throw it in the storage bracelet.”
Immortal weapons required many lingshi to be activated, it was simply not enough to rely on the qi inside the Dantian, it was just a convenient place to put them.
Qingtong was sleepy after lying down for a while, so he put his head on Mo Tianliao’s shoulder. “Hmm.”
Mo Tianliao was flattened until he had to lie down on the bed, then an arm, rosy from the recent bath, was lazily shoved in front of him, its meaning obvious, “put it in”. This guy was getting lazier and lazier. Because he was being pressed down and unable to move, he could only reach out with one hand to grab the miniature Crystal Palace on the pillow and put it into the storage bracelet.
The storage bracelet inlaid with dark blue precious stones was fastened on the white wrist, it looked very beautiful. Mo Tianliao could not help dropping a kiss on the forearm, he immediately got a slap on the head.
“I just took a bath, don’t get my fur dirty.” Qingtong rolled over on the bed and closed his eyes.
Mo Tianliao’s mouth twitched, he chased after him and hugged him, the delicate fragrance of his body after the bath was enough to make him slightly lose control. “Baby…”
“Hmm?” Qingtong opened his eyes and looked at him. His limpid pupils held not even a blemish. In those beautiful eyes there was a sleepy grumpiness, impatience at being woken up, and an attachment that he himself did not know.
Mo Tianliao had not dared to believe it before he had confessed, but now that everything had become clear, he could obviously recognize it. There was an inexpressible ache in his heart, he dropped a kiss on the beautiful eyes and said, “It’s nothing, sleep.”
The Way of dual cultivation was a Way of mutual nourishing. When two people with unequal cultivation dual cultivated, if the one with the lower cultivation was not used as a furnace, it would damage the person with the higher cultivation, and lead to spiritual backlash. Therefore, before he became a Half-Immortal once more, Mo Tianliao had to endure. Even with the beauty in his arms, he did not dare to take advantage of the situation, otherwise, if he were to get something started, the one who would end up suffering would be him.
“Aren’t you going?” Qingtong yawned, got closer, rubbed against Mo Tianliao’s neck, and put his upper arm on his chest.
“When did I say I was going?” Mo Tianliao pulled up the quilt to cover them, flicked out the candle flame, and started reviewing the Great Ancient Beast dual cultivation method inside his mind.
He knew full well that it was a trap, so how could he willingly jump inside? Besides, he had to bathe his baby and put him to sleep. How could he have the time to meet some random layabout?
It was a dark, windy and deadly night, and Ding Ziyu stood on his peak the whole night in vain.
The next day, on the way to where the conference was held, Mo Tianliao was stopped by several Liuyun Sect disciples.
“Our sect lost some of our Wenyu fruit some days ago, we ask fellow cultivator Mo to please come with us.” The people showed him the tokens given to them by the Sect Leader.
Mo Tianliao frowned and said, “So your sect lost some Wenyu fruit, what does that got to do with me?”
“A great deal, all cultivators who expressed interest in the Wenyu fruit must be examined individually. Fellow cultivator, you will need to accompany me there in order to prove your innocence,” the leader of the group said with a false smile.
The mountain road was full of people, individuals from other sects were also being escorted, if one were to refuse to go at this time, it would be seen as a sign of guilt. Mo Tianliao explained the situation to Master and followed the group.
Because earlier this morning Peak Master Ding had suddenly told the Sect Leader that he had found a way to find out the thief, and the Wenyu fruit was of great importance, Liu Mang Zhenren had ordered the competition to be postponed and immediately gathered all the people he could. Mo Tianliao had naturally become one of the major suspects because he had asked Ding Zijin for a Wenyu fruit before, which had been seen by Ding Ziyu.
While walking down the mountain and through the woods, a white figure suddenly came running over from behind. Mo Tianliao sensed it and turned around, catching the snow-white kitten. “Sorry, this is my spiritual pet, he just ran out to play.”
After a couple of looks, the people did not have much to say, as a Golden Core cultivator from a major sect favoured by his Master, and also a craftsman, it was normal for him to have a spiritual pet.
The Liuyun Sect people took them in on a meandering walk before finally arriving at the main hall of the Liuyun Sect. Both Liu Mang Zhenren and Ding Hu were there, and Ding Ziyu stood beside the Sect Leader, his face glum.
“The thief touched the array set up by Peak Master Ding on Yushan. You will only need to fight for a bit against Peak Master Ding for him to determine whether you are the thief who stole the fruit,” the Liuyun Sect disciple in charge of speaking explained.
Mo Tianliao smirked. Your plot failed so now you are going to do it out in the open? He bowed his head and kissed the furry head poking from the front of his clothes. It was the perfect time for taking back his storage wrist-guard.
Master: Why are the walls transparent?
Carpenter: So that I can still see my cat when he goes inside to sleep!
Master: And when I’m in human shape?
Taishi: So something dirty can be done on the walls!
Carpenter: Don’t say it, asshole!
Unedited, please point out any mistakes
Thank you for the ko-fi, Missing Narwhal
So sorry for the wait! I will work harder from now on