Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 138 - How Many Tempers For The Next One?

Right in his eye!

“Sonnuva—!”

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Shu! Shu! Shu! Shu!

B-B-Bang!

Several hammer strikes landed on different points of Long Di’s body in quick succession!

His body trembled as the hammer strikes assaulted his body at an ever-increasing rate!

Bang Bang! Bang! Whoosh!

Three tempers landed on his body, followed by a miss, creating a vacuum that caused the flames within to rush in and fill the space.

This in turn caused Long Di’s body to be on the receiving end of a barrage borne by a tsunami of flames that caused his body to suffer the scorching heat brought on by this torturous tempering.

This made it so that any failure to complete a tempering would increase Long Di’s suffering.

Nevertheless, his gaze remained steady all the same. He could feel the somatic essence in his body growing stronger by the minute.

After a while, he lost his sense of time and drowned himself in improving his forging arts.

“Jade Forging!”

A shout echoed within the forge where only the roar of the fire reigned supreme.

First Temper!”

The hammer flew through the air in a bizarre trajectory before it landed.

Bang!

The hammer struck his chest, causing the fire to swirl in the spot where it hit allowing the temper to come through!

“Second Temper!”

Whoosh!

Bang!

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His temper came through full force once more, striking another part of his body.

“Third Temper!”

Bang!

“Fourth Temper”

Bang!

“Fifth Temper”

Bang!

“Sixth Temper”

Bang!

Long Di’s gaze sharpened, for the past two weeks, he always failed whenever he attempted the Seventh Temper, but he believed he grasped its profundity.

Long Di’s cauldrons rumbled as he ran the Foundation Forge Body Tempering Art at full speed. Right now, Long Di was performing the forgings of the Bone Chapter.

The Jade Forging belonged to The Jade Verse. Currently, he didn’t know what the second verse was. The later verses and scriptures of this cultivation method remained locked to him until he reached the necessary level.

Since the Jade Verse that Long Di was at only contains Nine Tempers, each of these tempers represents a substage within the Tan’tien Saturation Realm. This was where his somatic essence’s cultivation level had reached.

For him to have cauldrons while his somatic essence had yet to reach the Cauldron-Forging realm was probably something only he could experience.

Nevertheless, he needed to dig deep and reach the Seventh Temper. His strength grew at a frightening rate and a flash of enlightenment caught him unaware!

“Seventh Temper!”

Whoosh!

“Damn!”

He missed, he didn’t quite grasp it… not yet. He needed, more.

Ba-Ba-Bang! Bo-Dum!

Continuous clangings could be heard as Long Di used the energy fuelled by the drive to uncover the seventh temper!

Through Long Di’s normal cultivation path, he was well aware that every three stages for every realm that he passed so far, barring the vessel qi gathering stage, was a watershed to pass.

The difficulty required to go up a stage increases at a constant rate no matter the stage, however, once the time comes to move from three to four, or six to seven, the difficulty goes up by several times.

This meant that every three tempers were a new stage and as such, the difficulty from six to seven was incredibly immense!

To Long Di, this was moving from the late stage mid-immersion to early stage complete immersion.

Regardless, Long Di charged towards this door, and was banging on it relentlessly!

Suddenly, he closed his eyes to focus on this feeling wholeheartedly.

The pain? He now banished it to the far end of his mind.

The light of the flames? He now became blind to it.

The roar of their fury? They all became so distant, yet more familiar, all the same.

Long Di didn’t know why, but it was as if he was lost in a world all his own. The sound of the hammer’s clangour was dull here, and the flames were dark.

He entered a state of clarity, yet fog encompassed him all the same.

Bam, bam, bam…

The dull thuds possessed a rhythm that banged upon the door to the seventh temper much more effectively than his furious beatings ever could.

He could still feel the motions of his swings and just barely grasp the profound tempo within them.

There were nine tempers within the first stage. Three stages of three composed its entirety.

Three of three completed it… completed everything. This phrase was familiar… is familiar.

The dao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two give birth to Three. Three gives birth to All things.

This was the basic fundamental saying that explained the creation of all things from the primordial chaos.

Shing!

Enlightenment dawned and Long Di’s eyes opened in a flash!

‘I understand now!’

Bam! Bam! Bam!

The first set of three tempers was completed!

Bam! Bam! Bam!

The second set of three tempers was completed!

Vrrrm!

The hammer trembled as Long Di recited the phrase in his mind.

‘Two gave birth to three.’

He no longer viewed the first two sets of tempers as six tempers, but as two tempers instead.

With two giving birth to three, the third set, which held the seventh temper, was now laid bare before him!

Boom!

The seventh temper landed!

‘Not yet!’

Long Di was still unresigned, the ‘Third’ temper was not completed in his mind!

The hammer flew through the air, leaving behind afterimages!

It was a dance of beauty and power. Its profundity had reached new heights for him!

‘Forge for me!’

These Tempers, amidst the roar in his mind and of the flames without; through fiery tribulations, they landed!

‘Eighth Temper! Ninth Temper!’

Bam! Bam!

Boom!

A muffled explosion went off within the forge as the Long Di’s somatic essence exploded in volume and quantity!

Through this one action, Long Di was now at the peak of the tan’tien saturation realm for his somatic essence.

His body was soft from the numerous tempers he received, but as the fire washed over him, he could feel his bones, heated by the heat all around them, build themselves back up to cement his standing at the peak of this stage.

Ooongh!

The flames died down as the last of the spirit stones that Long Di had put in the groove had finally turned to dust.

“What a magical art,” he said to himself sometime after.

“To bring me all the way to the peak of the tan’tien saturation realm in two weeks? Even if I am broken, isn’t this too much? Not only that, my foundation is incomparably sturdy.”

Long Di was shocked that his cultivation base rose so quickly in so short a time.

“Hm?”

He could sense when the second verse of the cultivation method opened itself to him.

“Finally,” he entered a deep state of meditation to study it deeply.

He saw it referred to as the Second Forging or Sapphire Forging of the Sapphire Verse. He then looked to see how many tempers were needed to complete this one.

When he saw the number, he nearly choked on his own shock.

“Ninety-Nine Tempers? Really?”