Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 181 - Heavenly Execution

BOOM!

The Jade Verse was now perfected.

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Fwish!

Because Long Di had Lord Whiskers put in another set of spirit stones to help him perfect the Nine Tempers, the fire within the forge was still going strong.

His body was built different, but it wasn’t that different.

As a result, he exited the forge in advance and took out the spirit stones and the flames within the forge died out pretty quickly.

He saw the terrain and the changes that took place.

“Man, I am like the common enemy of nature and everything else.”

He said this as he stared at the hellish landscape he had a hand in, no… single-handedly creating.

“Where the hell is…? Oh, there he is,” he found Lord Whiskers a fair distance away from the forge.

The heat was certainly not too kind even though it wasn’t at a level where it could harm a Shidashi Mao.

Regardless, Long Di didn’t focus on this too much, his mind descended into the depths of his own body to inspect the changes within.

His skeleton now had a faint sapphire-like lustre to it. There were even sapphire-coloured runes frequently flashing across them. They were extremely beautiful and one could even see the blood vessels within.

They were like pieces of blue crystal with lines of ruby lining the insides, which made for a stunning sight. Even Long Di was moved by it.

With the marrow now visible, Long Di could see as it ran through his bones while the lines of ruby intertwined within. It was like an amalgamation of runes made up the very core of his bones.

Not only that, he could see the somatic essence that surged within his bones. It was as if his bones were a channel for the turbulent river of somatic essence.

“This is good though,” he mumbled. “I finally gained an appreciation of the Nine Tempers.”

Once again, despite being able to use the Nine Tempers, they were never perfect. This was the case even though he had found the door to the Eleventh Temper. As far as Long Di was concerned, they, the tempers, were all the same. There were no differences between the stages save for their names.

As a result, his perfection of the Nine Tempers allowed for perfect power transfer into the Tenth and Eleventh Tempers.

He was far stronger than before after this session, but even then he was still not finished.

Lord Whiskers was still sleeping away, seemingly uninterested in what was going on.

“Looks like he isn’t interested in messing with tribulation lightning. Can’t blame him…” said Long Di to himself.

Paying more attention all around him, he realised it was nighttime. He knew that Yaomu Shou and the others should be fine without him. So there shouldn’t be any problem.

“Well, a Shidashi Mao is as good a protector of dharma as anything else. Might as well use this time to further raise my strength.”

Deciding on this, he put away the forge and the hammer, put on a fresh set of robes and sat cross-legged on the ground.

He soon closed his eyes and began driving his cultivation technique.

D-D-Dum…

His cauldrons erupted into existence as they rotated with magnificent pressure abundant.

Krrrsh!

Soon enough, lightning qi began flickering all over his body. In the sky above was a small dark cloud that was summoned courtesy of his cultivation technique.

In the distance, Lord Whiskers slightly opened his eyes amidst the disturbance. After taking in what Long Di was doing for a while, he closed his eyes and went back to sleep.

Long Di knew ‌he could rise through the realms easily thanks to the interference of the Destiny Scale.

Left to its own devices, his cultivation technique would absorb all the lightning-attributed spiritual energy for miles around. Then it would further extract or refine only the tribulation lightning. This was sure to guarantee Long Di’s slow growth despite his cauldrons’ grade.

However, now that the Destiny Scale was the equivalent of a merciless gold digger, the divine aspect was no longer hindering his speed since it was taking this divine element for itself.

This allowed the benefit of Long Di’s black crystalline cauldrons to once more come into play.

Thus, even though lightning-attributed spiritual energy wasn’t abundant here, the very nature of his cauldrons rendered that disadvantage null.

Whoosh!

The spiritual energy all around Long Di turned into a tsunamic flood that rushed into his cauldrons!

His cauldrons were like a black hole that couldn’t be filled. They drank up the spiritual energy like an overachieving alcoholic.

All the wounds that he suffered from Breaking Mundane Forging Heaven and the Foundation Forge Body Tempering Art were now being healed at a rate visible to the naked eye.

As he healed, Long Di began feeling the true benefit of the Foundation Forge Body Tempering Art. Even though he wasn’t running that cultivation technique currently, his body drank from the benefits it gave to him.

So it wasn’t only the spiritual essence that was healing him, his physical body’s natural healing abilities had a hand in pushing it further. It wasn’t long before the injuries were all healed.

As the power tunnelled through his body, Long Di drove them according to the will of his cultivation technique.

The Great Path also came into play as the spiritual essence went through a full cycle of refinement. All the opened main meridians in Long Di’s body were being used to the fullest as he purified the spiritual essence within him.

Once a grand cycle was done, he would send the energy to his dantian, where after a full revolution, it would then be sent to his two crystalline dantians.

Long Di’s crystal dantians were pseudo crystals so their capacity increased along with the primary dantian. As a result, Long Di had three times more spiritual essence than other Two Star Core Martial Masters.

Not only that, he only sent the spiritual essence to his dantians once their purity reached the absolute limit. This meant that no matter how many more circulations were done, his lightning qi could no longer be further purified.

This was not an easy level for any cultivator to reach unless a massive amount of time was taken.

However, one must remember that Long Di’s cauldrons flatulated in the face of common sense. This meant that time was taken completely out of the equation.

When he was sure that they were purified to the utmost, it was then and only then that he sent them towards his third cauldron for the final step.

A copious amount of lightning-attributed spiritual essence charged through his cauldron to light the third core.

Long Di went through several battles, and his spiritual and mental realm was high enough to ensure his advancement for some time now.

Shing! Shing!

The glistening core lit on and off several times, indicating that it was soon ready to become a true star core!

Long Di naturally felt this and continued his cultivation patiently. As the endless spiritual energy surged towards his cauldrons for his use, the time for his third-star core to come into being was rapidly approaching.

Hong!

Suddenly, a dense cover of dark grey clouds formed overhead which assimilated Long Di’s small dark cloud!

A terrifying pressure then locked Long Di in place!

‘What fresh hell is this now?’

He couldn’t move no matter what he tried, and his spiritual sense was severely restricted as well!

Lord Whiskers finally opened his eyes with a sense of wariness, and after taking in what was happening, a great rage took over.

It looked to the Heavens and let out an unwilling roar in retaliation followed by the eruption of its long-suppressed killing intent!

“Meow!”

His head swivelled around until he found Long Di. He rushed towards him and found the latter encased in lightning.

However, the pressure all around let Lord Whiskers know that something wicked this way comes.

A tribulation was on the horizon. No, this was no tribulation. This was something different.

This was a Heavenly Execution. The Heavens didn’t wish to test them with a tribulation; it wished to wipe them out!

‘This stinky human!’

Lord Whiskers cursed Long Di in his mind. After he continuously rejected Long Di and his divine lightning tribulation’s version of a pickup line, the boy decided to carry it out without his consent!

Lord Whiskers felt violated! Where was the trust between man and cat!?

Boom!

Grey lightning flickered through the grey cloud above. When the divine nature of the heavens had its presence felt, Lord Whiskers roared at it in response!

“Meow!”

Long Di’s eyes finally opened, and he calmly stood up. When he saw the situation all around, the situation being the dark clouds, the divine pressure that threatened to crush them, and the furious Shidashi Mao that stood opposite to him, he nodded in understanding.

As he did nothing for a while and was concerned about what prolonged silence would bring, he decided to break it by saying deadpan.

“It wasn’t me.”

Bullshit!

Who would believe him at this point? Not Lord Whiskers, that’s for sure.

“Based on my knowledge, I shouldn’t be facing my first tribulation until I get to at least the Star Creation Stage, and even then I should only be encountering a tribulation once I’m passing through a major realm. I’m just making an advancement through a minor realm. Plus, based on what Steely told me, I’m guessing this is a Heavenly Execution. Well… screw me from the fourth dimension.”

After saying this, he looked to Lord Whiskers, and the latter stared back as if he was saying.

‘Don’t you dare!’

“This is all your fault.”

‘I’ll kill you!’ Lord Whiskers was furious. How shameless could this human be!?

He was sleeping peacefully when calamity and pandemonium descended upon him like poverty upon the useless and/or unlucky.

Was the human insinuating that he somehow slept Long Di and himself to death!?

“If I’m correct in my guess here, this might be the end result of the karma that I got infected with because of you,” explained Long Di.

Hearing this, Lord Whiskers’s eyes opened wide as he remembered that for him to get stronger, a Heavenly Execution was a foregone conclusion.

Since that was his fate, this requirement must have been passed on to Long Di somehow.

Karma was a mysterious and ethereal concept, but there was no doubt that it existed. The karma that Long Di incurred by befriending and travelling with a Shidashi Mao, in addition to the destiny he beheld, was so great that it was enough to call down a tribulation of the Heavenly Execution level during his advancement through a minor realm.

“Fine.”

He resigned himself to this being the norm pretty quickly and, seeing that he was no longer joking around, Lord Whiskers readied himself as well.

Boom!

An explosion went off as a bolt of Heavenly Levyance execution lightning streaked through the clouds and came crashing down on Long Di and Lord Whiskers!

Long Di’s brows slightly rose when he saw this and he quickly erected a spiritual essence shield in preparation for the hell that just broke loose.

Boom!