The Great Ancient Beast’s dual cultivation method was really easy to use, and it could improve cultivation while complementing each other’s cultivation. However, this improvement was only in spiritual power, which was not helpful in improving the state of mind and cultivation techniques. This was also inevitable. After all, he has never heard that doing the deed with one’s sweetheart, could allow one to suddenly have a deeper understanding of the great values and ways of heaven and earth, nor would it allow one to successfully practice any extraordinary skills.
The only things that could be improved were their mutual feelings and their positions in bed… nothing more.
Qingtong looked at Mo Tianliao silently, and slowly stretched out a slender hand, his sharp claws protruded instantly.
“Owwww!” A scream resounded across the sky.
Taishi floated silently to the side of the pillar, turning into a tortoise-shell decorative flower that blended with the pillar. A big fluffy claw hooked up the flower. It was a big tiger lying on the ground, pretending to be a blanket.
Seeing the big tiger in the same pitiful and sick state as him, Taishi immediately became energetic. It turned into a collar, clasped itself around the tiger’s neck, and slowly climbed out with the big tiger.
“Hey, don’t go far anymore,” he said when the big tiger climbed to the steps outside the door. Taishi immediately turned into a big mouth and flew into the air, “I can’t be too far away from Master.”
The big tiger scratched his ears with his hind paws, tilted his head to look at the big mouth, turned into a human figure then sat on the steps, and whispered, “It’s been so long but I haven’t asked, what exactly are you?”
Taishi twisted unhappily, “Why do you speak like this?”
“What’s the name of the method that Shidi used to heal Master? Is it easy to learn?” Meng Hu was very curious about this method. Over the years, in order to heal Qingtong’s soul, the Sect Master devoted all his efforts and energy in finding the treasures of heaven and earth, but his soul didn’t show any improvement. On the contrary, after his Shidi came back, the frequency of Master’s headache decreased a lot. Later, with the method, it became better and better day by day.
“It is easy to learn, as a demonic beast, you can learn it by yourself without a teacher.” Taishi, with a smile, tried to carry Meng Hu with his elbow like a man, but he didn’t have a body, so he turned into a tortoise-shell colored stick and poked Meng Hu’s waist.
“Ah?” Meng Hu scratched his head. “Then can I also help Master repair his soul?”
“That wouldn’t work,” Taishi said in a deep voice, turning back into a big mouth. “You’d better not learn. If you harbour these kinds of thoughts, the Master will roast you into dry tiger bits.”
When Mo Tianliao came out with a white face, he saw the two guys talking with each other between a chicken and a duck. He rubbed the sawdust off his face and sat with them.
“Shidi,” Meng Hu looked at Mo Tianliao and frowned slightly, “What did you mean when you just told Master that you want dual cultivation?” He didn’t understand the healing techniques that his Shidi was using to heal Master, but he knew about dual cultivation. As a disciple, how could he say such treacherous words?
Mo Tianliao was taken aback, and touched his nose. “This…” He glanced vaguely inside the room. If there was only one big tiger, he could talk nonsense, but Qingtong was listening in the room, so he couldn’t talk nonsense. He was troubled for a moment.
Taishi, gloating, happily flew to his Master’s shoulder and giggled.
Mo Tianliao sighed, “It’s a long story.” At this moment, Mo Xiong came over with a plate of roasted meat. There were quite a few wild animals in the Duantian Mo Palace, and because no one had hunted and killed them for so many years, they had grown fat and strong.
“How can there be meat without wine?” Mo Tianliao stood up, went to the wine cellar to get a jar of spiritual wine, and took the two of them to sit at the jade table in the courtyard.
The jade table was placed on a small pavilion, surrounded by a hot spring stream. When the Duantian Mo Palace was still lively, there were often petal-shaped jade lamps floating in this stream, which contained a mouthful of wine and would circle around the pavilion with the stream. The kitten playing on the small pavilion could stretch out for a drink if it was thirsty.
It was a kind of sweet fruit wine for the cat. It did not have an alcohol taste, but it was a little sweet and sour.
Mo Tianliao touched the carved flower on the corner of the table. It was a spatial magical tool. From it, he took out three large wine glasses and filled it with wine. The wine was turbid and bright white, not clear, and it looked like a lot of fine sand.
“This is… Snow Sand Wine!” Mo Xiong couldn’t wait to take a sip. He stared and his eyes widened. The tiny particles melted in his mouth. The abundant spiritual power burst on the tip of his tongue, with the mellow smell of thousands of years of snow sand, the aftertaste was endless.
Mo Tianliao smiled and clinked glasses with Mo Xiong, “Mo Shixiong is also a good drinker?”
Mo Xiong looked at the wine in his glass and his face turned red with excitement. Snow Sand Wine was made from a kind of Snow Sand fruit. This kind of fruit only grows around ice springs. It looks no different from ordinary snowflakes. It was like fine sand in his hand, soft on one side and won’t melt. This kind of fruit was used to brew top grade spiritual wine.
Ordinary Snow Sand was hard to find, let alone Snow Sand of ten thousand years!
“He is a drunkard,” Meng Hu shook his head and raised his head to take a sip. “Don’t let him drink too much. If he drinks too much, he will go crazy. By the way, what is the long story you just said?”
Mo Tianliao took out a petal shaped jade lamp from the carving, poured a mouthful of wine into it, and slowly put it into the stream. “I’ll tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a Demon Venerable who happened to pick up a homeless kitten by chance and took it home to take care of it…”
The petal shaped jade lamp floated slowly in the flowing water, and was suddenly blocked by a snow-colored furry claw. The furry little head came up, stretched out a pink tongue and licked it. Feeling that the taste was normal, he released his claw and let the cup continue to float. The snow colored cat licked its mouth and stretched. It turned its head and looked at Meng Hu and Mo Xiong, who were weeping bitterly in their arms, tilting their heads for unknown reasons.
“That Demon Venerable was you, right?” Meng Hu looked at Mo Tianliao with a sad look and tears in his eyes.
Mo Xiong raised his head and drank the remaining half of the jar of wine. He threw the wine jar to the ground and sniffed, “Unexpectedly, such a cold person like Shishu is so serious about love and righteousness.”
“So, if the Sect Leader objects, you have to intercede for me. Without Qingtong, I really can’t live.” Mo Tianliao sighed.
“Wuuu…” The two brothers nodded tearfully.
The cat jumped on the jade table and looked at the two drunken brothers. They didn’t notice the cat at all and were still crying.
Mo Tianliao stretched out his hand, hugged the cat and kissed the furry head, “Baby, you woke up, are you hungry?”
The cat moved its ears and turned into a human form. He sat in Mo Tianliao’s arms and said, “What’s the matter with them?”
“After listening to a story, they felt emotional, that’s all,” Mo Tianliao smiled and pulled Qingtong to his feet, “Leave them alone, let’s go take a bath.”
Mo Tianliao’s soul was originally in the Half-immortal stage. For him to return to the Half-immortal stage, what needed to be improved was the accumulation of spiritual power and the control of spell techniques. Therefore, dual cultivation was really useful.
And Qingtong’s soul had not been completely repaired, so the benefits of dual cultivation were first to repair the damaged soul, and only when the soul was intact could the cultivation level be improved.
Mo Tianliao regularly provided spiritual wine to Mo Xiong, and asked him to patrol the mountains and tidy up the Duantian Mo Palace. For example, gather the wild beasts running around back into the forest, make a record of the collapsed palace and wait for Mo Tianliao to repair it. If he had nothing to do, he could see how many people in the trap were still alive.
And Meng Hu, because he knew the location of each spiritual stone groove in the large array, regularly checked whether the spiritual stones were in good condition.
Mo Tianliao’s current realm was a strange realm between Nascent Soul and Half-immortal realm. That is to say, he was in a Nascent Soul and Half-immortal realm at the same time, but his spiritual power had not yet been consolidated into its true essence. His mastery of fire technique had reached its peak, but he was still unfamiliar with the wood element.
Therefore, first of all, to improve his spiritual power, the most convenient way was dual cultivation; second, to practice techniques, and the most effective way was to fight against Qingtong.
As a result, the big black bear and the gorgeous tiger who patrolled the mountain, would witness first-hand the scene of Mo Tianliao being severely punished by Qingtong every day.
“The Venerable Lord Duantian is really patient with Shishu. He can still smile when he is being beaten like this.” Mo Xiong took a drink from the wine pot around his waist. The Duantian Mo Palace contained almost all kinds of spiritual wine in Taixuan Continent. So half a year had already passed, but still he had no intention to return to the Woyun Sect at all.
The big tiger squatted not far away licking his paws, with a tortoise-shell dog’s tail grass on his head, watching intently.
The giant ice dragon snaked up and rushed straight towards Mo Tianliao. Mo Tianliao retracted his hand and quickly gathered the flames full with spiritual power. However, no matter how strong the flame was, it could not block the ice dragon head that was long and wide. The huge ice dragon head passed through the circle of fire and its mouth grew ferociously.
In order to restore his strength as soon as possible, Mo Tianliao would not provoke the Duantian Heavenly Fire under the Mo Palace, nor would he use his woodfire, but only use his own spiritual power to condense the flames.
The ice dragon wobbled its tail impatiently and swallowed Mo Tianliao’s ring of fire in one bite. Mo Tianliao jumped up and released countless vines to trap the ice dragon, and at the same time, he crossed the ice dragon and struck Qingtong.
The two had passed a hundred moves in an instant. During this period, the green wood spiritual power and the white ice spiritual power crisscrossed and intertwined, accompanied with flames. The big tiger could see everything and was getting dizzy. He has pure fire spiritual power, so it was very good for him to watch Mo Tianliao fight with his Master.
The ice dragon broke free from the vines, and at the same time, Qingtong suddenly turned his palm into a fist and hit Mo Tianliao directly in the face. One punch broke Mo Tianliao’s defensive barrier and hit him solidly.
“Boom!” With a muffled sound, the tiger raised his paw and covered his eyes.
After that, it was a one-sided fight.
The world was never constant and ever-changing, while the long years were passing slowly.
In a blink of an eye, another year of spring arrived where flowers bloomed.
There were unwilling people who had been guarding outside the Duantian Mo Palace. They often saw all kinds of spiritual auras in the Mo Palace and expected that the people who went in were fighting inside. Because the mountain protection array was opened, there was no one inside to destroy it this time. The iron barrel of the whole Duantian Mo Palace was generally unbreakable. People were not allowed to enter and could only hope that there would be problems with the people inside.
On this day, the fierce battle in the Duantian Mo Palace was still going on.
The Ice Spiritual Power turned into thousands of ice thorns, surrounding Mo Tianliao in swarms.
Mo Tianliao called out thousands of wooden thorns and collided with every one of the ice thorns solidly. The wood thorns carried flames and immediately burned the ice thorns that were pierced through. Amidst the icy rain and sawdust, Mo Tianliao passed through in an instant, facing Qingtong with his palms.
The hands of the two were about to become a phantom. After a thousand moves in a flash, Qingtong once again turned his palm into a fist and hit Mo Tianliao’s face directly. Mo Tianliao raised his hand and circled Qingtong’s fist, making a clever trick. The defense formed by the power of the abundant true strength was not broken by his fist. With a long arm stretched out, he pulled Qingtong into his arms and kissed the tight thin lips without any explanation.
“Um…” The ice dragon in the air instantly scattered into countless pieces of ice. The surrounding flames also came around, hovering up, and no longer approached the two of them.
“Baby, you can’t hit me anymore.” Mo Tianliao said as lowered his eyes. His soul and strength were finally unified and he found the feeling of being in control of everything again. It was really good, and he couldn’t help but feel proud.
The cold liuli eyes darkened, the pink mouth opened… and bit!
“Oww! ouch, ouch, ouch!”
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The author has something to say:
Mini theater:
Reporter Gorgeous Tiger: the latest news from our agency, the Venerable Demon Lord has restored his Half-immortal cultivation! Please see the report from the front line: No, no, Lalala..
Xiaoshao: (wronged) Meow!!!
Carpenter: (stretching his face) Baby, don’t be angry. I’ll call you, I’ll call the reporters.
Gorgeous Tiger: ……. Don’t broadcast this pinch…
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Zaki: Hi guys, bear with me. I have not finished consolidating the glossary, so pls excuse whatever terms I had murdered in the translation.. I will finish looking through everything in the novel and will edit. And thank you to Chole and Animeart for ever so patient editing and tl checking 🙂