Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 206 - The Struggles Of An Overachiever

Yaomu Shou shot to her feet, “It’s open!”

Jia Yan and I, who had been cultivating this entire month with the help of the Crimson Horizon Flame, opened our eyes to see a stunning sight.

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In the sky above was an arch. The arch was colossal, and it was made up of giant blocks of solidified spiritual energy.

Each block was hundreds of li wide and thousands of li long. Each one housed a strange rune constantly flashing with a saintly radiance.

Spiritual energy could be seen gushing from the gateway like a roaring river.

Long Di could feel the spiritual energy in the atmosphere enriching itself in an instant and immediately wondered what it would be like to cultivate in such an environment.

“Incredible…” Long Di said subconsciously.

Yaomu Shou nodded, “It looks like something incredible has been birthed inside the Spiritual Bingqi Realm this time.”

Shu!

Wan Li appeared in a flash beside Yaomu Shou with a slight bow.

“Young miss.”

Yaomu Shou nodded before turning her attention to everyone else. “Let’s go, guys!”

Whoosh!

A gentle wind enveloped everyone, and Long Di nearly lost his bearings when his feet left the ground.

His arms flailed around wildly as his body spun and rotated in the air, causing everyone to erupt with laughter, moving them to tears.

It took him half a day before he was able to stabilise himself. He then looked to Yaomu Shou, asking. “What realm allows flight?”

This was the first time he experienced body-based aviation, and it immediately reminded him of a skill that all high-level cultivators possessed. Flying.

“Hahaha…” Yaomu Shou struggled to stifle her laugh as she wiped a tear from her eye, wanting to answer. “Uhm…”

“Flight becomes possible at the Cauldron Core Flame Fusion realm and above.” It was Wan Li who answered his question, surprisingly.

Long Di looked forward to this. “I’m not too far away from being able to fly, then. Can’t wait,” Long Di clenched his fist in anticipation.

Everyone just assumed he was in anticipation, since his face didn’t give anything away.

“There’s a lot of people,” Shen Ling, who was wearing her veil, saw hundreds of thousands of cultivators, maybe even more, rushing towards the archway.

Long Di looked farther with his heavenly gaze and commented, “There are so many humans. I didn’t think there were so many humans in the Demon Region.”

Yaomu Shou shook her head, “They’re not from the Demon Region. The Spiritual Bingqi Realm, like most other Unique Realms, distorts space. Those human cultivators that you’re seeing are from other regions entirely. They may look close, but they’re actually hundreds of thousands of li away, others are even millions of li away. If you look closely, you’ll realise that you’re not getting any closer to them.”

Long Di focused on the closing distance and realised that it wasn’t being shortened despite Wan Li’s speed increasing.

It was then that he noticed massive cracks stretching across the sky. This was a case of spatial displacement that allowed them to see others entering the realm but not necessarily communicate with them.

“What are those?” Jia Yan looked in another direction and saw beings in complete white, with a split on their foreheads. Their hair was white as well, and they were all abnormally beautiful.

The men were all dashing and handsome, while the women were elegant and graceful. There was a soft white glow around them that drew the eyes of others as if they were the favoured sons and daughters of the heavens.

They exuded a kind of dao charm that could be felt even from this distance.

Yaomu Shou’s expression became grave in an instant. “Sacred Celestics.”

“That’s them?” Long Di eyed this race that was rumoured to be the most talented at spiritual cultivation.

“Hm?”

Suddenly, a girl from this group noticed Long Di and smiled in his direction before facing forward and flying towards the gate with her group. A young man in the group noticed this but couldn’t pinpoint where or what she was looking at and could only give up.

Not just Long Di, but everyone else was shocked to see this. It wasn’t rare to find someone ‘looking’ at you. The space displacement caused you to be able to see countless people heading towards the archway to the realm.

This meant that even looking in one general direction, many people will see this as if you were looking at them directly. Because this was the case, no one took others staring at them too seriously, as you could be one of tens of thousands that the person could be looking at.

However, this wasn’t the case for Long Di. He visibly reacted to the girl staring at him and she smiled in response to this. She was able to notice Long Di staring at her through the space displacement with little trouble. Even Wan Li found this astonishing.

“Favoured sons and daughters of the heavens indeed,” he commented.

Eventually, they arrived before the massive arch and Long Di was finally able to see just how big it was.

The size of a single block was the size of an entire city. Going against the arch was like a firefly competing against the moon.

Without warning, Wan Li stopped, which caused everyone to do the same.

He explained, “There is a restriction in place that will not allow those above the Core Formation Realm to enter. So I must send the rest of you forward.”

Hearing this, Long Di raised a hand, “Uhm, I’m at the Core Flame Evocation realm. Sooo… doesn’t that mean I can’t go in?”

Wan Li forgot about this. He didn’t remember that Long Di was a freak of the highest calibre. However, was this his problem?

“I’m sorry,” was all he offered as compensation.

When Shen Ling heard this, she immediately expressed her reluctance to go. This instantly started a chain reaction that ended up with the entire group unwilling to enter because of Long Di’s prodigious exclusion.

“Second uncle, fix this!” Yaomu Shou ordered.

Wan Li didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at this. He was only a protector!

How could he fix this!? Why should he fix this? He didn’t cause it!

Plus, what was he to fix? Long Di doing everyone’s job at being a cultivator better than them?

Sure, that was a problem that highlighted everyone else’s incompetence, but that was hardly in his job description. He wasn’t being paid enough for that!

“Young miss, if I can only interfere so much on your behalf, then surely, SURELY you don’t expect me to be able to do so for someone else?” Wan Li tried his best to placate Yaomu Shou, appealing to her common sense.

However, she wasn’t about to let it end here. “Actually, if we’re being technical here, you are obligated to listen to me when it comes to the opening of a Unique Realm. That also requires the procurement of weapons, servants and bodyguards.”

Wan Li shook his head. “These aren’t servants, young miss. I already made a huge concession by bringing your friends here. Going any further would step within the bounds of the house helping and that would end up with you coming back home after this realm closes.”

“Oh, I know they’re friends. But Long Di is something else entirely,” advised Yaomu Shou.

Wan Li furrowed his brows in confusion, “What do you me—”

Long Di politely stepped forward, “Hello, my name is Long Di and I am Yaomu Shou’s bodyguard.”

Like hell you are!