Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 155.2 - Heaven's Drop (Pt 2)

Lu Pei was told to get Heaven’s Drop by the Di Ming. The problem was that Heaven’s Drop was something that was normally only useful for cultivators at the Tan’tien Saturation realm and above, and even then it would need to undergo several dilutive processes.

For a Vessel Qi Gatherer like Lui Pei to take it was nothing short of seeking death. So why did Lu Pei do something so risky where the chance of death was high?

This was owed to the Di Ming, as it advised him that he should be able to survive and that if he didn’t walk the line of life and death constantly to push his growth to the maximum that he would be left behind and that such an occurrence would end in his death.

He wasn’t sure why, but he trusted the Di Ming’s words and could feel something encroaching upon him. As a result, he needed to survive this or his will to defy his heaven-given destiny would have been a joke and nothing else.

However, he couldn’t deny that he was unable to control this much energy! Worse still, if he didn’t do something, he would truly suffer an undeserved death!

‘Wait!’ A thought suddenly occurred to him. ‘Who says I have to control the entirety of this energy!? A bit by bit should work!’

This revelation came to Lu Pei after he thought rationally about what he was trying to do. At the end of the day, the energy he was trying to control was something meant for Tan’tien Saturation realm experts and above.

With him being a Vessel Qi Gatherer, there would, of course, be no way for him to control that much energy. It was too much given his current realm.

However, a small amount should be no problem. After all, though man cannot control the raging river, thou art allowed to drink from its fury.

As a result, Lu Pei wasted no time, the energy was causing great harm to his body but he needed to focus on his more immediate goal.

Shi! Shi! Shi!

Strands of spiritual qi were being stripped from the torrential energy and being diverted towards the starting qi meridians for circulation through the great path!

Lu Pei kept a close eye on the first few strands, and once this small amount of spiritual qi was successfully refined, they were then fed to the fifth vessel.

‘Success!’ Lu Pei was ecstatic! A wide smile made its way across his face when he felt his fifth vessel filling up!

“Argh!” he spat out a grunt of pain when a mini-explosion took place within his body!

The energy was starting to wear and tear away at his meridian channels. Even his skin was split in several places as blood started to flow.

‘I need to hurry!’

There was a whole lot of energy with very little place to go in his body. As a result, the energy was starting to wreak immediate havoc all over!

He raced to diverge strand after strand towards the circulation of his Great Path!

Though these were mere strands of the river-like spiritual qi coursing through his body, they were incomparably pure and concentrated. As a result, they had a boon-like effect on something on the level of mere vessels.

This caused the following to make much more sense…

Fifth vessel! Empty, halfway, filled!

Dum!

Sixth vessel! Empty, halfway, filled!

Dum!

Seventh vessel! Empty, halfway, filled!

Dum!

Lu Pei’s cultivation base skyrocketed! He even found it hard to temper the foundation before it moved on of its own accord. However, his discipline was strong, so he made sure to use the abundant energy within to strengthen his foundation.

Nevertheless, there was too much energy left while he just reached the limit of the Qi Gathering realm!

‘No!’

Vrrrm!

Lu Pei’s body trembled as the energy came to a head and, with nowhere left to go, his body began to expand, the prelude to self-explosion!

‘No! Come on!’

He gritted his teeth as he desperately tried to use the energy to rush all the way to the Tan’tien Saturation realm, but it didn’t work!

However, this was to be expected, the Tan’tien Saturation realm could only be achieved by using the spiritual qi from within the nine vessels to bring to life the tan’tien!

As of now, this mass of spiritual qi was no longer a boon, but a poison as it reached the point where his life was in great danger!

‘Damn that thing! I’ll find it when I’m a ghost and haunt it for the rest of my afterlife!’

Shing!

Suddenly, a resplendent golden light filled the room as the ‘King’ character on Lu Pei’s forehead came to life!

While the ‘King’ character displayed its radiance, the swelling of his body came to a sudden stop before it started to… recede.

“What the—”

Lu Pei was surprised as he observed the current state of his body. He could see all the surplus energy that was so tyrannical before being dragged via the meridian channels towards a specific point.

It didn’t take long for him to realise that the concentration spot was his Ajna chakra point. In other words, it was the middle of his brow.

‘The ‘King’ character from before! What’s it doing!?’ Lu Pei not being an idiot, realised that it was the ‘King’ character on his forehead that was responsible for saving his life!

Within a few seconds, the energy that was about to kill him was absorbed by the ‘King’ character. The golden radiance died down shortly after, returning the cave to its previous state.

“Gasp!”

Lu Pei didn’t realise that he stopped breathing at some point as he laboured to catch his breath. His robes were soaked with sweat as he truly came close to death this time around.

He eventually calmed himself down and stared at the dark cave ceiling for a while before a sense of accomplishment welled up within him.

“Hehehe… Hahahahahaha!” a burst of raucous laughter erupted in the cave!

The feeling of cheating death combined with his arrival at the peak of the Vessel Qi Gathering realm resulted in him losing himself in joy, excitement, and everything else.

It took quite a while for him to calm down, and it only happened after his cheek started to hurt from laughing so much. It had been a while since those specific muscles went through such a workout, but he couldn’t say he didn’t like it.

Upon feeling the massive amount of energy in his body, he clenched his fist in the darkness before declaring to himself.

“Now I need to ready myself to enter the Tan’tien Saturation Realm!”