Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 214 - The Location Of The Spiritual Artefacts

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Long Di clapped his hands to grab everyone’s attention. “Alright, since we’ve all made leaps and bounds forward in our cultivation, let’s get some spiritual artefacts.”

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“Do you know where to go to find any weapons?” I asked Yaomu Shou after a while.

She thought for a moment before she answered.

“The legends say that there was a huge war that caused a huge number of experts to die here. The resentment you feel in the air is probably because of that. The laws in this world were so impacted by it that it made the Spiritual Bingqi Realm a very unusual place.”

“How so?” I asked her, thinking that I could never get enough of lore.

“Well, now this place births weapons somehow,” she answered like that made perfect sense.

A place that births weapons, huh? Classic wuxia. If this place is the mother, then who is the father? Why haven’t these questions been asked, yet?

She went on, “Every time this place opens, the spiritual artefacts are present but in different ways.”

“Spiritual artefacts?” Jia Yan heard this term again and wanted to know more.

Yaomu Shou nodded. “Weapons that are far more powerful than the secular weapons you’ve been using,” she explained.

Jia Yan also grew interested in hearing about this and took out his battle-axe. “What’s the difference between them?”

“They’re able to handle a lot more power than secular weapons.” Yaomu Shou explained. “Think about Long Di’s bronze sabre, which is a high-grade black-rank weapon. It’s no longer usable because of his power. If he was using the appropriate spiritual artefact, it could easily support his power.”

“My family owned a spiritual artefact once.” Zi Yu piped up. “It was lost long ago. But when I heard the elders talk of it, they said it could unleash a torrential storm of blades to rent their enemies asunder.” She spoke of it with an air of longing.

My head swivelled around to her a bit too fast might I add, but whatever.

“So… So no one is gonna say anything about how she’s talking as if she remembered a long-lost lover when in reality she’s reminiscing about mass murder. I mean… I’m not judging but…”

A blush of shame darkened Zi Yu’s face when I brought this up, “I’m not reminiscing about the mass murder! I’m reminiscing about the power of our spiritual artefact… before it was lost.”

“Anyway!” yelled Yaomu Shou loud enough so that she could finish what she wanted to say.

“It’s not technically correct to say that this place births weapons, but that it regurgitates the weapons that were lost in it so long ago. The laws here were impacted so much that the spiritual artefacts have become in a sense one and the same. Every opening is a race to find out where the spiritual artefacts are. They can be anywhere.”

“Anywhere?” I asked her.

“Anywhere,” she nodded resolutely. “I heard there was one time the spiritual artefacts were in the middle of massive boulders.”

“That explains a lot,” I told her.

“What?” her brows furrowed in confusion.

I didn’t answer her, I just made my way over to the corpse of that Monarch Gale Crow.

Funny how we never took care of it all this time. It’s just been there, all dead and unalive.

I mean I’m not the cleanest baby wipe in the baby wipe box mind you, but that cannot be sanitary.

Nevertheless, I made my over to it because I sensed the strangest thing from it and now it all made sense. I could also sense everyone here just watching me.

They watched me a little too close now that I think about it. Even Shen Ling was watching me… and that didn’t even make sense.

Did they think I was gonna desecrate its corpse or something? A spear had been plunged through its asshole to its back. Its back was quite literally blown out. There’s nothing I can do to this thing that would be worse.

Krrrsh!

Anyway, I digress, as soon as I got close enough I constructed another lightning spear.

“Long Di?” Shen Ling took a step forward when she heard the lightning crackle.

I looked at her and I’d be lying if I said that seeing her like this didn’t hurt.

“It’s okay,” I told her. “I know it's dead, and I think I know where the spiritual artefacts are located this time around.”

Yaomu Shou reacted to that and came a bit closer as she looked at me with undisguised shock. “You can’t mean…”

“Oh, I do mean.”

After that little banter, I used the lightning spear, to gouge a hole at a particular spot on the massive corpse.

Under the urging of my spiritual force, A fist-sized black crystal flew into my hand. This was the beast xin of the Monarch Gale Crow, which I thought to take out now rather than later.

After that, I scrutinised the Monarch Gale Crow carefully, since I knew what I sensed wasn’t wrong.

And just like that, it came into view.

I stooped down and in front of everyone’s shocked gazes (except Shen Ling… get it?) I lifted the Monarch Gale Crow’s wing and saw a collection of black feathers oddly smaller than the rest.

I ripped it off without too much trouble, probably because it was dead, and threw it to Zi Yu.

“!”

She was caught off guard and fumbled with the feather several times before she caught them firmly.

“Think fast?” I realised I should have said that before I threw it. My bad.

Her brows furrowed in confusion. “Why are you giving me the—”

I would roll my eyes if I could, but I just told her. “Look at it closely.”

he then focused back on the ‘bundle’ of feathers in her arms and her eyes widened in shock when she realised that it wasn’t just a bundle of feathers she held but a folding fan.

It was actually an exquisitely designed black feather-folding fan. The black feathers that made it up were pitch black much like the Monarch Gale Crow in its entirety.

There was also a spiritual fluctuation that it gave off which was aptly of the wind element.

They were all affixed together by a material I couldn’t quite make out. Not only that, runes ran the length of the folding mechanism as well.

There was no doubt in my mind, this was a decent spiritual artefact.

“So they’re in the magical beasts!” Yaomu Shou got it and a mischievous smile made its way across her face.

Every time she made that face I felt like she wanted to watch the world burn.

“L-Long Di thank—”

“Don’t thank me,” I activated my wingman mode in an instant. “Thank Jia Yan. It’s actually a gift from him.”

“It’s a gift from… Jia Yan?”

“Yes, the minute I saw it, and was about to put it away, Jia Yan sent me a spiritual transmission to give it to you instead.”

“He did!?” her eyes widened in shock.

“I did!?” Jia Yan did the same.

I looked at him and he seemed to just barely get the gist of what I was doing.

she looked at Jia Yan who looked back at her, still a tad confused as heck before a deep blush coloured her cheeks.

“T-Thank you, Jia Yan,” she cupped her fist in gratitude.

Jia Yan was flabbergasted upon seeing this. “I-I don—”

‘Mess this up and I will metaphorically kick your ass.’ I sent him a spiritual transmission of true encouragement.

“M-Miss Zi Yu is too kind!” Jia Yan cupped his fist in return before a blush made its way to his cheeks as well.

“Aw… that’s nice. Now before we leave, how about we have Xiannu Liang heal Shen Ling before we run off and commit all sorts of anarchy.”

As soon as I said this, our collective attention turned to the Nymph in the room who nodded with newfound confidence.