Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 182 - The Ill-Treated Stepchildren

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!

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The Heavenly Levyance lightning smashed into his shield with a powerful force!

His qi shield shattered and the Heavenly Levyance lightning struck his body with all the force of the high Heaven’s wrath infused within.

Krssshhh!

“Ack!” A mouthful of blood was coughed up while Long Di’s body, which was just newly healed was breaking down under the lightning’s onslaught!

Not only that, the scale of destruction didn’t avoid Lord Whiskers as the Heavenly Levyance execution lightning engulfed him as well.

This was not a simple lone bolt either, this was like a waterfall of lightning continuously pouring down.

‘This is far worse than I’d thought it’d be,’ thought Long Di to himself as he bore this as best as he could.

The Destiny Scale had once told Long Di that his tribulation lightning was quasi-tribulation lightning at best since his cultivation technique had not received its name. This placed several limitations upon it that even Long Di himself was unaware of.

But now, the Heavenly Levyance lightning he was hit with was infused with a monstrous killing intent increasing its power several-fold, turning it from tribulation lightning into execution lightning!

Right now, the Heavenly Levyance execution lightning was making Long Di and Lord Whiskers its ill-treated stepchildren!

“Meow!”

Lord Whiskers howled in pain and Long Di could hear it through even the roar of thunder that boomed all around.

“Lord Whiskers! Bear it!” Long Di shouted his loudest to encourage Lord Whiskers to hold on.

Within the scope of a tribulation, communication via spiritual transmission was no different from suicide, and though Long Di was experienced in that field, he didn’t feel the need to flex that skill here.

Pain wracked Long Di’s body. He didn’t scream to express it, but it was still there.

His body was bloodied following the initial contact, but he still stood up within the torrent of lightning that washed over him and stared upwards through the Heavenly Levyance execution lightning that showered him and Lord Whiskers.

Suddenly, he remembered something very interesting that the Destiny Scale had told him.

Steely told him that lightning and even more so, his tribulation lightning was something that could be used towards cultivating somatic essence and was useful in tempering the physical body.

Long Di felt like slapping his head. How could he forget cultivation 101!?

This was like common sense as far as cultivation tropes were concerned.

Then again, this Heavenly Execution came outta nowhere and whacked him like a stepmother who didn’t get her foot–rub. Combine that with the multiple concussions he suffered, and he was surprised that he still remembered his name was Long Dilly.

So that was as good a reason as any for why this wasn’t the first thing that came to mind.

Still, now that valuable piece of knowledge was rightfully lodged in his head, he had to make it work for him.

“I need to find Lord Whiskers first.”

Just as he decided this, the lightning that blanketed him lessened until it was fully gone.

“Oh, it’s done already?”

Long Di looked all over and realised that something was wrong. The dense cover of clouds above was still present. This meant that this tribulation, or rather, this execution, wasn’t over.

Seeing that this was the case, he had to act fast!

“But then where’s—”

“M-Meow…”

A weak voice came from a short distance away, answering Long Di’s question. He immediately took off, ignoring the injuries that plagued him at the moment.

He came upon a small crater, one a bit smaller than his. Within it was Lord Whiskers. His white fur was burnt black and some areas even had the skin burnt away.

The only part that fared better than the rest was the area on its head that Long Di had once attacked with tribulation lightning when they first met.

Even now, smoke wafted from its body, which showcased how badly injured it was.

“Why don’t you heal?” he asked while looking up every now and again.

“M-Meow, nyah. R-Reargh…”

“What?” Long Di was taken aback at Lord Whiskers’s reply.

For the less feline-vernacular inclined, Lord Whiskers informed Long Di that he was a rank 5 Shidashi Mao. He was born at this rank.

Like all Shidashi Maos, even throughout the process of childbirth, the Heavens will try its best to destroy the mother in an attempt to annihilate its mistake.

Of course, since Lord Whiskers was in the womb, he wouldn’t be affected by the execution lightning, but he could feel the Heavens’ hatred for him and his mother.

However, his being at rank 5 was his undoing here. He was only supposed to go through his tribulation when he was about to step into the sixth rank. This came too soon!

He wasn’t strong enough to face off against a Heavenly Execution yet.

“Crap.” Understanding this, Long Di couldn’t allow Lord Whiskers to go through something like this again for now.

Not only that, no healing was taking place. Heavenly Execution left no way for life and it only intends to destroy.

Even for Long Di, his injuries weren’t healing either. This was something that would take some time for him to recover from.

The only good thing here was that he could feel his power crazily growing even now. His mental energy, spiritual force, spiritual essence and even his somatic essence were all growing at an exponential rate!

Even though Heavenly Execution was nine parts death and one part life, its merciless nature made the benefits that could be hewn from it leagues above what Heavenly tribulation could bestow. One just had to live through it, which was easier said than done.

That ‘one part life’ mentioned wasn’t something the Heavens left in place. It was only the probability, NAY, the possibility, to survive.

It was the embodiment of high risk high reward.

Long Di knew that Lord Whiskers would come from this stronger than before, but he had to pave that way for him!

Hong!

Heavenly might descended once more and crashed down upon both of them followed by an accompanying killing intent.