Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 104 - Using Somatic Essence

Protector Gang’s brain short-circuited for a split second before it came back to normal. Yet, the only thought it was capable of projecting, is as follows;

‘SHIT! I’M DEAD!’

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Protector Gang, who was still currently in mid-jump towards Long Di, yet still giving us enough time to explain so many things in pure detail, like any good anime character, was despairing inside.

Why, you ask?

Simple.

Not only did Zhen Song offend an unknown junior, but he also offended a freaking lightning element cultivator!

However, Zhen Song didn’t stop there. He also offended someone who was also able to wield fricking sabre intent!

But was Zhen Song satisfied? Oh no, of course not!

Because, that same lightning element cultivator who could wield sabre intent? Remember him? Yeah, he was also a Two-Star Core Master Master genius at the motherloving Core Flame Evocation realm!

“W-What kind of cauldrons are those!?”

A shout from the side compelled Protector Gang to pay close attention to the cauldrons behind Long Di when his hair stood on end.

He had no idea why, but those cauldrons imbued a sense of despair within him. He felt as if his own cauldrons weren’t even worth mentioning in front of them.

Was there no way for him to win!?

However, before the shock could pass, the lightning that danced furiously around the blade dimmed in intensity to a relatively tame level, before disappearing entirely.

Long Di wanted to feel out the power of sabre intent, so he didn’t think adding lightning qi to the mix was necessary. That was just overkill.

But then, you may ask, why did he do it before? That’s easy. He wanted to flex.

When Protector Gang saw that the lightning disappeared, he naturally felt better, but was still apprehensive.

At this point, he could only use his physique to overpower Long Di. He had more battle experience than the latter since he appeared young-ish, so surely he could win… right?

Even though all of this took a long time to describe, it happened in a flash (like any good wuxia and/or xianxia novel) and Protector Gang finally appeared before Long Di.

He fired a punch towards Long Di. The air twisted in response to the power of the attack.

Long Di reacted quickly and used the bronze sabre to parry the blow, offsetting Protector Gang’s punch!

Because his blow was defused, there was a bit of time before he could readjust himself to continue his attack. Long Di silently circulated a bit of the somatic essence granted by the Bone Chapter when suddenly the lightning on the sabre flickered into nothing and then…

“Puah!”

“Long Di!” Shen Ling’s scream echoed out when she saw Long Di suddenly coughing up a mouthful of blood.

“I-I’m fine,” Long Di told her while blood leaked from the side of his mouth.

‘What the ever living fudge bucket was that?’ Long Di was confused about what just happened when he tried circulating his somatic essence.

Was there something wrong with the Bone Chapter?

‘No, I must have done something wrong.’

While Long Di ruminated this, Protector Gang already recovered and, with somatic essence blazing on his leg, he fired a kick at Long Di!

Long Di could only put up a clumsy defence with the sabre in return before the attack landed.

Bang!

A shock wave spread from the point of impact, kicking up a cloud of dust at the same time.

Shu!

A shadow flew out from the dust cloud before crashing into one of the buildings lining the street!

Everyone took a look to see that it was Long Di who lay in the wreckage of the building.

“L-Long Di!” Shen Ling and the others trembled upon seeing this, as they had no idea what just happened.

Long Di’s cultivation was clearly higher than Protector Gang, so why was he losing?

Zi Yu also furrowed her brows at the development, but remained silent to see how this would play out.

Even Protector Gang was shocked that he was able to one-up Long Di like this.

‘It seems that he’s using some item or technique to forcibly raise his cultivation base. But for some reason, it’s backfiring,’ Protector Gang thought to himself with a sneer.

Seeing Long Di as a weak fence, Protector Gang shot off towards Long Di once more and Feng Yu, Shen Ling and the others tensed in anticipation.

Protector Gang was already in front of Long Di by now, before launching a claw strike!

Krrrrsh!

Without warning, an eruption of lightning went off, blinding everyone for just a moment.

Shung!

The same went for Protector Gang who squinted in the face of this, only to hear a sabre humming with the destructive nature of sabre intent imbued within!

“F-Four Arm Metal Bulwark!”

Protector Gang quickly drew back his arms into a cross block before a metallic sheen covered both of them. They appeared sturdy enough to handle any blow; but how could Protector Gang defend against sabre intent!?

  What was the role of the sabre? To tear through, to rip asunder, to overwhelm and to destroy!

  The sabre landed on Protector Gang’s arms in a clear trajectory for all to see before it tore through his defences without much resistance!

Boom!

Blood flew like a fountain as the sabre ate into his arms before it landed on the bone, which sent him flying down the street digging a ditch until he came to a stop.

He quickly got up and stared at Long Di with wariness and anger. A stinging pain assaulted him and he quickly looked at his two arms to see a large gash there that slowly dripped blood.

This was terrifying!

It should be known that body cultivators such as demons possessed a powerful physique and naturally strong defences as well.

Spiritual energy cultivators needed to erect a qi shield, qi armour or a defensive martial technique to be able to block the move or attack of a body cultivator at the same cultivation level or a normal attack from another spiritual cultivator.

If they dared to block such a person with just their physical body, then at best they would end up with severe injuries, while at worst, they would end up dead.

Somatic essence could be circulated much faster because it existed and resided throughout the body cultivator’s fleshly body. Spiritual energy, on the other hand, needed to be circulated, starting from the dantian.

As a result, though spiritual energy was more versatile, somatic essence was more or less tuned for battle. Its speed in a fight trumped spiritual energy, no questions asked.

So even though Long Di had a higher cultivation base, his physical body still lost out to someone like Protector Gang.

However, now everyone nearby could see just how dangerous sabre intent truly was. It made that even though Protector Gang used a defensive technique; he was still unable to stop the attack.

His heart beat fast as he squared off against Long Di.

He increased his vigilance towards this junior as he began to plan another sequence of attacks. He had to be careful, or this could easily end up with his loss.

Boom!

He channelled the tyrannical somatic essence in his body, and formless pressure assaulted the surroundings.

As he stared at Long Di, a malicious smirk made its way across his face. He slowly lifted his feet as if he wanted to see if there was a doodoo on the underside, a travesty for all cultivators, of course.

Suddenly, without warning, his foot descended with a crushing might! This was not to check for doodoo at all!

Boom!

A massive explosion erupted, however, this explosion was very peculiar. Rather than spreading out from the epicentre with blatant disregard for friend or foe, it instead moved forward in the shape of a wave!

The ground was tearing up to signal the arrival of the Protector Gang’s attack!

Long Di didn’t dare to look down on this assault!

The wave of destruction was much too wide and high. Long Di couldn’t dodge it. He could only choose to block!

He planted his feet, held his sabre in a guard-style, and took a deep breath. He was going to try his somatic essence once more.

He circulated the Bone Chapter to maximise his defences. This time it didn’t backfire on him in the least. It filled his body and he could feel the growth in his strength. He wondered why what happened the first time happened, but he couldn’t think about it.

He didn’t allow the unique pressure borne by somatic essence to leak out since allowing this freak with a fetish for arms to know that he could dual cultivate would be a real problem.

This was a breaking of conventions, and couldn’t be easily revealed until he was strong enough.

Vrrrm!

His cauldrons spun at high speeds until people could barely see them!

Bang!

The wave crashed down with a relentless destructive intent!

“Ack!”

A mouthful of blood erupted as the attack crashed into him, sending him reeling back with little control. The energy tore apart his flesh in a bid to rip him to shreds!

“Long Di!”

The other cloaked figures were visibly shaken by the attack released by Protector Gang!

Even Zi Yu was blown back by the power of this attack!

No wonder her family wanted to establish relations with the Zhen family. Their power would increase and allow them to stand on equal footing with the medium size clans in the Demon Region if they were successful!

Long Di was a sorry sight at the moment. The attack had ripped his hooded cloak apart, so it was painfully obvious the huge chunks of flesh the attack tore off!

His robe was soaked with blood that streamed down from the wounds in excess.

The mortals had long since run away from this kind of battle, leaving only cultivators behind, but even they were shocked by what they saw.

Long Di wore an eerily calm expression on his face throughout all this. Absent was anger, fury, frustration, or any other emotion that would be appropriate given the current circumstances.

His calmness and the spectator’s shock stood on polar opposites. Yet, the one who was most shocked at the moment would be Protector Gang.

He knew the destructive potential of his attack and it should have obliterated Long Di!

However, he could see that not one of Long Di’s bones was broken. Only the flesh was damaged. What kind of freak among freaks did he encounter!?

Long Di circulated his spiritual essence in a bid to heal his terrifying injuries. At the same time, his sabre shone with a gentle glow. This was the manifestation of his sabre intent.

Protector Gang’s expression changed. ‘You look like a deformed inverted hedgehog, why won’t you stop!?’