There was a three-chi-long splash of blood, Taishi turned itself into a hook immediately after the slash, caught the fallen arm, then cheerfully flew back to its master’s side. Mo Tianliao held Qingtong with one hand and the severed chunk of forearm wearing the wrist-guard with the other, his eyes were covered in a bloody haze.
Ding Ziyu held his neatly severed wrist and screamed.
“Give me the hand, boy!” Ding Hu rushed forwards, trying to grab the hand.
Humans and Demonic Beasts were different, torn off limbs could not grow back, if he wanted to heal the arm, he needed to have the severed piece and use the mysterious medicine that could make dead bones grow new flesh to reattach them.
Mo Tianliao sneered; he ignited some fire on the palm of his hand.
Ding Ziyu was a Nascent Soul cultivator, every part of his body was suffused with powerful qi, ordinary flames, even if they were made from condensed spiritual power, would not burn well and they would do so only briefly. Yet unexpectedly, by the time Ding Hu threw himself in front of Mo Tianliao, the hand had been reduced to ashes.
“Woodfire!” Ding Hu’s eyes widened. The flame was glowing cyan, as a craftsman, he recognized it at a glance.
Mo Tianliao suddenly met Ding Hu’s eyes. His violently furious divine soul pounced at him like a beast coming out of a cage.
“Aaahhh!” Ding Hu, caught off guard, was struck full force by the incredibly powerful divine soul, and immediately tried to block it with his own divine soul, yet he suddenly felt a sharp pain, as if his whole divine soul was being scorched by raging flames, the pain was so agonizing that he wished for death.
Mo Tianliao’s eyes were crimson, his woodfire ravaged through his meridians and even shot towards his divine soul, now he himself felt the same pain. However, no matter how terrible the agony was, it could not compare with the pain in his heart. He did not care anymore. So what if he revealed his identity? What did he care about his sect’s interests…? His Xiaozhao had been seriously injured, and only because of his wicked hands!
He could not forgive this! They deserve to die!
He put the bloody wrist-guard on his left hand and took out an entire piece of perfect-grade lingshi, it was crushed and instantly absorbed into the palm of his right hand, he raised his hand and poured it into Taishi, turning it into a huge nine-ring broadsword, it flew straight at Ding Ziyu, who fell to the ground.
“Divine weapon…” Ding Ziyu watched in horror as the tortoiseshell-coloured broadsword rushed straight at him. When he had fought against it before, he had already been amazed at seeing it being able to change its shape at will, but now that it had absorbed enough spiritual power, the pressure it exerted alone made him unable to move.
Duantian’s divine weapon, capable of destroying heaven and earth!
He should have thought of it before, he had studied with his father for hundreds of years. How could he forget that the divine weapon had a tortoiseshell-colour!
Without a fixed shape, without a fixed form, everchanging yet only one. It turned out that the divine weapon was not a pig-killing knife… This was Ding Ziyu’s last thought, immediately after, he was cut into a meat paste by the phantasm of seemingly infinite swords.
“Brat! You dare!” Ding Hu’s eyes burned with fury; he raised his hand to strike Mo Tianliao in the centre of his back.
Qingtong, lying on Mo Tianliao’s shoulder, opened his eyes, slowly raised his hand, and blocked the blow.
The enormous power razed the whole mountain to the ground.
The leader of Liuyun Sect, who was just arriving, grabbed Ding Hu who had been sent flying in the air. Ding Hu opened his mouth and spit out a mouthful of blood, before he could say a word, his eyes rolled back and he fainted.
Liu Mang Zhenren saw a pitch-black beam of light pass in front of him and immediately tried to stop it, he was hit in the head by a hard turtle shell.
The turtle shell was enveloped by abundant spiritual power, it had the force of ten thousand jun.
“Xuanji, what the hell are you doing?!” Liu Mang Zhenren was smashed directly on the back of the head, a big lump swelled immediately and he nearly fell from the air.
Xuanji took back his turtle shell and kept silent. Just now, a disciple of Woyun Sect had come looking for him and reported that someone wanted to kill Mo Tianliao. He had wanted to head there to take a look but he had been stopped by the Sect Leader of Liuyun Sect. If it were not for the recent explosion, he did not know how long this man would have pestered him for.
“Master’s pet has always been naughty, please don’t take offense Zhenren,” said Hua Qing insincerely.
“Liu Mang Zhenren, my shidi was captured by you and forced to fight against a Nascent Soul cultivator, even a Half-Immortal Elder was detained. Where is my shidi now?” Zi Mo asked coldly.
“Clearly it was Qingtong Zhenren who hurt our Elder Ding. Those who first offend will first complain!” The Liuyun Sect disciples said.
Elder Yun Yuan from Qingyun Sect wanted to say something, but Yun Song gave her a tug, indicating that she should not get involved.
“Sect Leader, this is bad! The two foxes are gone!” At that moment, the Liuyun Sect disciples who were in charge of keeping an eye on the Demonic Beasts came to report, covered in dust.
This was very close to the mountain where the Demonic Beasts were kept. Just now there had been a huge explosion which had affected the surrounding area, and the house on that mountain had collapsed. When they had sifted through the ruins, the two snow foxes that should had been breeding had disappeared.
The Liuyun Sect sunk into chaos, but the pitch-black beam of light had already escaped from the mountain’s large-scale defence array.
“Baby, baby, hold on!” Mo Tianliao clasped the man who could not stop vomiting blood tightly in his arms and fled thousands of li on his flying sword.
The towering mountain reached the clouds, its summit was pure white, more than a hundred li of snow that would not melt throughout the year.
Mo Tianliao saw the snow-capped mountain and immediately stopped. He took out the Crystal Palace which had just been refined last night from Qingtong’s storage bracelet and threw it.
The Crystal Palace became bigger in the air and crashed to the ground. Although it looked huge, it was very inconspicuous on the vast snow, furthermore, it was completely transparent and could not be seen when amid the clouds.
Mo Tianliao flew directly to the second-floor bedroom with Qingtong in his arms, he took out dozens of top-grade lingshi, all of which were embedded in the wall’s sockets.
The Crystal Palace, an immortal tool, immediately activated its large-scale defence array.
Mo Tianliao gently put the person in his arms on the bed, this gentle movement was still unbearable for Qingtong, he spit out another mouthful of blood. The snow-white robe had been mostly dyed red, and the beautiful and flawless face was so white it almost seemed transparent.
“Qingtong…” Mo Tianliao did not dare move him, without knowing what to do, he poured out all the pills from both their storage bracelets.
He found a bottle of heaven grade Blood Staunching Pills amongst all the others; it had been this that had kept him alive him all the way to Absolute Death Valley. It seemed that every time he used this thing, it was an awful situation.
Mo Tianliao poured out a brilliant red pill and put it between Qingtong’s lips. Yet the man had been seriously injured, his jaw was clenched tight, there was no way to make him swallow it.
“Damn it!” Mo Tianliao threw the jade bottle angrily, he put the pill in his mouth and chewed it, grasped Qingtong’s chin, then fed him mouth to mouth. He had to give him three pills one after another before he could barely stop the bleeding.
Taishi turned into a big mouth and flew around the bed several times. “He is too seriously injured; no medicine will be of much help. Give him your blood.”
By the time it had said this, Mo Tianliao had checked Qingtong’s injury using his divine sense. His internal organs and meridians had suffered a lot of damage, the most injured place was his Dantian. Because the blow that had rebounded had been originated by himself, it was impossible to block, so the force had rushed directly back into his Dantian, where the originally abundant spiritual force had already begun to slowly dissipate.
“My blood…” Faced with such a serious injury, Mo Tianliao suddenly calmed down, he bowed his head and looked at his own palm.
The endless vitality of the Everlasting Tree, if it could revive vegetation with severed roots, maybe it could also repair an injured Dantian.
Whether it would be useful or not, Mo Tianliao would still try it, he extended his wrist and summoned Taishi to cut him. He sucked a mouthful of his own blood and leaned over to feed it to Qingtong. At the same time, he put one hand on his neck, he massaged his throat to help him swallow, while using gentle wood qi to refine his blood.
Everlasting Tree, endless vitality. The divine tree’s power quickly circulated through his whole body, forcibly repairing several fatal wounds.
“Ngh…” Qingtong suddenly opened his eyes, the power of this forceful restoration brought with it unbearable pain, which caused him to arch upwards uncontrollably and savagely bite his lip.
“Baby!” Mo Tianliao held the man in his arms, grabbed his chin, and forcibly stuck his arm between his jaws.
Qingtong was delirious with pain, he immediately bit the flesh in his mouth.
“Mmph…” Mo Tianliao groaned, sharp teeth penetrated deeply into his forearm, and a steady stream of blood flowed into Qingtong’s mouth. Yet at the same time, the long black hair gradually turned snow-white.
After a while, the force of the bite slowly eased, Mo Tianliao attempted to pull back his arm and touched Qingtong’s ice cold cheek. “Baby.”
The coldly beautiful eyes slowly opened, his Liuli pupils had dimmed. A bit of light was escaping away.
“His divine soul! No!” Mo Tianliao was frightened, that dissipating light was his divine soul! This time, the injury was too serious, the damage to his divine soul had reached the dangerous tipping point. Qingtong had become unable to restrain his dissipating divine soul, at this rate…
“Feed him the Forget Sorrows Herb!” Taishi anxiously circled around, his divine soul was evaporating, that poor little divine soul could finally bear no more. It was like a damaged cabinet, it could no longer hold anything, and was about to fall apart, only by eating the Forget Sorrows Herb and removing some things from it would the cabinet be able to remain stable.
Forget Sorrows Herb… Mo Tianliao glanced at the scattered bottles on the floor, the Forget Sorrows Herb jade box looked dazzling lying on the pile of small jade bottles. After taking the Forget Sorrows Herb, Qingtong may not remember him.
If his cat forgot him, when the beautiful Liuli eyes opened once more, they would surely be full of detachment. Qingtong would ask him in a cold voice, “Who are you?” The snow-white little furball would no longer get close to him, he would keep away from him and stare at him warily. Just like when he had first taken him when he was a child, he would always scratch him, bite him and even used his beast soul to attack him.
Just thinking about it, his heart hurt like it was being torn apart.
His gaze suddenly rested on a small white jade bottle, Mo Tianliao’s eyes brightened, his hand turned into a claw, instantly snatching the small jade bottle. Heavenly grade Silk Tree Nectar!
It was the “offering” bought by Shi Di in Bahuang city to burn for Duantian. The marvellous item that could prevent cultivation backlash and assist men in dual cultivation! As long as he used this, he need not fear causing damage to Qingtong’s cultivation because of their unequal cultivation level!
Mo Tianliao slapped himself on the head, how could he have forgotten this? “Taishi, if we dual cultivate now–”
“Good, good!” Before the words were finished, Taishi rushed over excitedly and turned into a jade dick. “Double cultivation would heal part of his soul, he won’t need to eat the Forget Sorrows Herb!”
He raised his hand and slapped Taishi onto the wall. He sat next to Qingtong, bent over and kissed his lips.
His divine soul trembled; his baby must be in pain. He stabilized his divine soul with a long kiss, then stood up. Mo Tianliao scratched his head, spun in place a few times, then headed towards the bathroom.
Qingtong slowly opened his eyes, every single one of his internal organs hurt. However, because he had just been healed by something, the pain was still tolerable. Mo Tianliao was holding a warm wet cloth towel and gently wiping the bloodstains on him.
Mo Tianliao carefully wiped away the blood on Qingtong’s cheeks and neck, his fingertips trembled as they stretched towards the bloodied clothes, these clothes were actually transformed fur, normally they would clean themselves with only a thought from Qingtong. He was just about to help him take them off, when the clothes suddenly turned snow-white, there was not even the slightest stain.
Mo Tianliao looked up; his eyes met a pair of clear Liuli eyes.
Mo Tianliao threw the cloth towel away and put one hand on the bed, he then leaned over and looked at the pale Qingtong, holding one of his cool hands. Word by word he carefully said, “Baby, listen to me, you are badly hurt, your divine soul is dissipating.”
The barely open cold eyes widened a little, he listened somewhat dazedly as Mo Tianliao talked about the Great Ancient Beast dual cultivation method.
“The only way now is to dual cultivate with me,” Mo Tianliao said guiltily, his palms were sweating. “If you don’t want to…”
Qingtong looked at him quietly. If he did not want to do it, would he have to take the Forget Sorrows Herb? They had already found most of the heavenly materials and earthly treasures required for healing a divine soul, the only thing left to find was the Fanhun Tree. It was just, after forgetting his sorrows, would he still remember Mo Tianliao?
Mo Tianliao’s next sentence should have been “If you don’t want to, I will definitely find the Fanhun Tree by any means necessary.” But unexpectedly, without even batting an eye, he continued, “If you don’t want to, just think of it as being bitten by a dog. Just hit me once you get back your strength!” Then, without waiting for any protest, he began opening Qingtong’s belt.
Master: This is my new spiritual pet, a wooden dog
Carpenter: Baby, how can you say that about me!
Taishi: Master, you said it yourself, “just think of it as being bitten by a dog”
Master: *pushes away* If you don’t want to, then forget it
Unedited, please point out any mistakes
What a thought provoking title