Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 247 - Medium-Grade Spirit Stones

He then addressed the collective group, saying, “We’ll trouble you to show us exactly where you last saw them.”

A long time after they left, a quiet rumbling took place.

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We made our way down the path, and a glint in the darkness caught our eye.

Yaomu Baiyin wordlessly made her way over to it. Seeing as how it was stuck in the wall of the tunnel, she spent a little time before she fully dug it out, causing it to drop to the ground with a clink.

Shing!

Goodness.

A blinding light erupted, nearly blinding everyone. The cave was so dark before that it took everyone a moment to acclimate to the sudden brightness. Personally, the visual whiplash was astounding.

Yaomu Baiyin took out a small cloth to mask some of the brightness and picked it up in confusion before her hand started trembling in shock. And that there kids, is what epilepsy looks like. I wonder if demons froth at the mouth, too.

Yaomu Shou noticed Yaomu Baiyin’s strange behaviour and called out to her, “Are you alright?”

It was good to know that Yaomu Shou still cared for this ‘younger sister’ of hers. Still, why was the latter acting like she had Tourette's?

Wait, did she really have epilepsy?

“L-L-Lady Yaomu Shou, t-t-this is a medium-grade spirit stone!”

Yaomu Shou nearly tripped over herself upon hearing this. “What!? Let me see!”

She quickly took it from the trembling Yaomu Baiyin’s hands and held it for everyone to see.

Shing!

As the cloth fell from it, its radiance shone unbound once more, and my tingling shoulder made me wonder if this was triggering some epileptic seizure. It took a while, but our eyes fully acclimated to it and we could all see it clearly.

“Oh, wow!” was the general consensus in the room.

Okay people, now I remembered when I first took out spirit stones and may I say, like a noob, I likened them to gems that rivalled the stars.

Stars? Stars!? Compared to medium-grade spirit stones, regular spirit stones were like a half-dead filament light bulb that a cockroach was crawling around in.

The medium-grade spirit stone was like the opposite of a college graduate’s future, so you know that shit was bright.

Simply put, it put the normal spirit stone I had before to shame.

Yaomu Shou stared at it in shock, and a slight spot of greed appeared in her eyes.

I could tell that a plot of some kind was brewing in her head. Lord help us all.

Seriously, I had never seen her like this before. Sure, she was easily excited when a treasure appeared. But for the most part, she wished to give it to someone else, normally me, so I could grow stronger and eventually help her out when the time came.

Now, however, I could see the want in her eyes, it was more than clear.

She then looked at me, “Long Di, I—”

“Let’s find it first,” I said, cutting her off. “No sense in asking. I have goals and experiments I wish to carry out, but considering all you’ve done for me, or will do with me, I won’t allow you to lose out.”

She smiled upon hearing this. It seems that went over well. Not gonna lie, the amount of mental gymnastics I have to do on the daily could be the reason why everyone is so brain-dead in these novels. Seriously, the sheer brain power that needs to be allocated towards having a simple conversation is flabbergasting.

Ergo, on that note, I finished it off by saying. “I mean, you already gave me enough where I can consider you an underage sugar momma.”

Her expression changed once more, and it was on this day that I came to know that I would never figure women out.

“Here,” Yaomu Shou shoved the spirit stone into Lu Pei’s hands.

“I—”

“Don’t even think about denying me,” Yaomu Shou said with a smirk.

She then tightened his grip over the medium-grade spirit stone when she felt the sign of his refusal before advising, “This’ll be the least of what we find in this place, I’m sure. We’ll benefit a lot. So my giving you this can be considered a shameless attempt to bribe you into not giving you anything more. Medium-grade spirit stones are worth a thousand regular spirit stones, so you’ll be able to get a lot stronger.”

After hearing how she put it, Lu Pei then accepted the medium-grade spirit stone. He remembered this matter in his heart as he committed both Yaomu Shou’s and Yaomu Baiyin’s faces to memory. He didn’t know when, but he’d repaid them for this. That’s what his expression told me. I told you that cultivators’ expressions were expressive as hell.

“That seems excessive,” I commented when I heard the conversion rate for the regular low-grade spirit stones to medium-grade spirit stones.,

Yaomu Shou shook her head. “You can’t think of it like that. It takes a great amount of pressure for a spiritual stone to undergo any sort of qualitative change. For a regular spirit stone, it takes 1000x the regular amount for it to become a medium-grade spirit stone. The purity and density of the spiritual energy contained in a medium-grade spirit stone is just… a regular low-grade spirit stone can’t compare.”

Hearing that, we continued down the path of this tunnel. To be fair, I don’t know what to expect at the end of this path, but Yaomu Shou somehow seems to have an idea.

My eye was drawn to a low-grade spirit stone in the ground this time. “This place is kind of a money pit ain’t it?”

“Yeah,” Yaomu Shou nodded. “They’re the minority here though, so it’s weird to get used to.”

Yaomu Baiyin only followed behind Yaomu Shou and observed everything without a word.

Lu Pei was the same as far as being mute was concerned, but the reason for his silence was different. He was simply shocked into speechlessness.

Then again, I can’t blame him. I mean, he’s not a mortal anymore, which is something I’m interested to know how he overcame, but it’s none of my business. But I digress, even if a normal mortal can’t use a spirit stone, just selling even the lowest grade one would allow them to enjoy riches and luxury for the rest of their life and the lives of several of their generations.

Good God, what do these things look like when you account for inflation? And on that note, how has the cultivation world not entered into a state of recession?

Meh… that ain’t my business, I’m just going along with the rise. As we went along the tunnel, the mist soon cleared up while the ambient spiritual energy grew.

Yaomu Shou quickened her footsteps, compelling everyone else to see.

The cave twisted into a bend, and when we turned the corner, a stunning sight came into view.

“Well, slap my ass and call me Sally.”