Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 201 - D-Did I Break It?

Was he going to witness the fall of a generation’s genius right here?

Yet the next scene caused his eyes to bulge in shock. “What!”

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Whoosh!

An oceanic tide of spiritual force collided with the Crimson Horizon Flame!

Normally, spiritual force was invisible, but as Long Di let go of all restraints, it was possible to see his spiritual force, which brought shock to the figures watching him from afar.

It was translucent with a light grey tinge, to the point where it appeared like brilliant silver and it continuously shimmered with a sparkling effect. It was like a river’s surface reflecting the sun’s radiance with a starry gleam.

This was the result of his spiritual force mutating thanks to being inundated with tribulation lightning-based spiritual essence.

“Hm…” Long Di reacted as he felt the scorching heat of the Crimson Horizon Flame affecting his spiritual force. However, what was odd was that the Crimson Horizon Flame was finding it hard to burn away Long Di’s spiritual force, and it also didn’t trigger any backlash.

Of course, Long Di wasn’t aware of the potential danger his current actions carried and went along with it.

Vrrrm!

The Crimson Horizon Flame trembled as it edged closer and closer to Long Di, following his spiritual force-fuelled coercion.

He could feel the temperature rising the closer the Crimson Horizon Flame got.

When it was a few feet from Long Di, the heat it emanated burned away his spiritual essence at a much faster rate. Right now, he was on his last crystal dantian!

“I don’t have much time to think about this.”

Realising that he was running out of time, Long Di’s spiritual force drilled into the core of the Crimson Horizon Flame, where the rune for it lay.

Ktch!

Whoosh!

A violent combustion went off as a furious blaze erupted within the Earth Flame!

“Oh…” Long Di exclaimed as his spiritual force caught ablaze!

Though the incineration of his spiritual force was slow, the pain from it remained the same. However, pain was something that Long Di was used to though this level of pain was solely on the spiritual level.

What Long Di didn’t know, was that anyone else who attempted to do what he was now doing would have long had their spiritual force incinerated and their mind sea, where their mental energy and spiritual force resided, gone up in flames killing them!

However, Long Di’s spiritual force and even his mental energy that he had yet to use had gone under a unique type of mutation. This was caused by the constant baptism of divine energy that they were subject to because of Long Di’s cultivation method.

Though tribulation lightning had the effect of increasing the quantity and quality of a person’s spiritual force among other things, this was only under the rare moments that a cultivator crossed a major realm in the later stages of cultivation, as these were normally the only moments that a lightning tribulation would be summoned.

Long Di, on the other hand, practised a method that continuously drew tribulation lightning energy into this body. Though it was now being stripped away courtesy of the Destiny Scale, the long-term effect of it prior to this was starting to show itself.

This was also the reason why his spiritual force was visible following the increase in quantity he released. This was a mutated form of spiritual force that possessed effects that Long Di himself was unaware of.

However, one could now speculate that Long Di’s spiritual force had far more durability than normal spiritual force. Hence why it was able to last as long as it did under the fierce burning of the Crimson Horizon Flame, even though it was just a slow burn.

Coupled with the fact that the amount of spiritual force he controlled was tremendous, far more than someone of his realm should possess because of the benefits of tribulation lightning and the latest Heavenly Executions, he had more force to draw upon.

What he was doing was branding a seal on top of the rune of the Crimson Horizon Flame. This was Long Di’s spiritual Soul Seal, a type of character that came to Long Di the minute he expressed his intent to subdue the flame. He wasn’t sure why, but he knew this rune was his to use in this manner.

‘I guess some things just come to you when you go for it. That explains why some MCs can do shit with no explanation.’

The feeling his seal gave him imparted the fact that if he could brand it on top of the Crimson Horizon Earth Flame rune, then he’d be able to call this Earth Flame his own.

However, this was easier said than done. Every mark his spiritual force left on the rune was incinerated by the rune’s extreme heat!

Ttsssss!

Long Di’s several layers of spiritual protection were burning out as his energy reserves were reaching dangerously low levels.

His qi armour was now absent from certain sections of his body, and those sections were being burned away.

Yet despite this, he remained unfazed and continued to drive his spiritual force to engrave his Soul Seal atop the rune.

With each attempt, his strokes were burnt away, but he continued all the same.

He realised that the robes he wore were able to resist the Earth Flame to an extent, so he removed his qi armour from the areas where his robes covered and reallocated it to the parts that weren’t covered like his head and hands.

Fwhoosh!

A tumultuous sea of spiritual force surged forward as Long Di sought a slightly different approach.

Seeing that he was failing so many times, he decided to just go all in. Following his control, he twisted the shimmering spiritual force into the shape of his Soul Seal. Of course, it also caught ablaze, but this was composed of so much spiritual force that it was like a slow-burning torch.

Long Di sent the burning Soul Seal atop the Earth Flame, and the entire thing shuddered.

Before long, the flames surrounding the rune sputtered and before Long Di’s gaze; the flame went out and the entire chamber descended into silence.

Seeing this, Long Di began to sweat as he asked out loud.

“D-Did I break it?”