Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 254 - Sacred Celestics

Well, that was that. This should make everything easier.

“Then it’s time to get out of here.”

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However, upon hearing this, everyone realised that the spiritual energy in this place was a bit thin.

It had to be known that the spiritual vein root had only gone in the space of Long Di’s physique a few minutes ago at most.

The richness of the spiritual energy should have kept them here for at least a few days if they waited for it to normally dissipate. Well, it wouldn’t just up and evaporate into thin air, their bodies would subconsciously absorb it. However, around twenty percent was already gone!

Even the dense fog above them had depleted a great deal.

“What’s going on?” Yaomu Baiyin asked.

Suddenly, Long Di shifted his attention to Lu Pei who was still cultivating. When he saw the latter’s cauldrons, a lone eyebrow rose in response.

Yaomu Shou and Yaomu Baiyin turned to look at Lu Pei and their expressions changed.

Lu Pei was now a Fourth Duan Martial Disciple, which wasn’t that impressive.

To be honest, it was downright abysmal. Most of the more talented experts here had all nine cauldrons and were already condensing their cores.

As for Long Di, well… we don’t discuss Long Di’s situation since he’s a first-rate freak in arguably every sense of the word.

Regardless, it wasn’t his realm that garnered their shock; it was his cauldrons.

He was able to pass the particularly difficult gap separating the third cauldron from the fourth cauldron. Every three levels in each realm is a known watershed in cultivation. So three to four, six to seven, or the infamous nine to the next realm presents a level of difficulty that banishes the mediocre from the elite.

Still, it wasn’t this fact that moved them. Lu Pei’s cauldrons were no longer bathed in the golden rune’s glow on his forehead. So their true appearance came to light.

His four cauldrons weren’t bronze, white, red, orange or anything beyond that. In fact, his cauldrons were rusty. They were so rusty that they were ugly!

The rust was so dense that certain areas flaked upwards. Not only that, they gave off no pressure in the least. This was something unheard of since even bronze cauldrons gave off a modicum of pressure.

Yet these things, there was none to speak of.

“No one around you is normal, are they?” Yaomu Shou asked Long Di with a funny expression. She didn’t know what to make of it.

“Hey, I have no idea what’s going on here, either. Last time I saw him, he had a bronze destiny, so something’s clearly changed,” explained Long Di.

“H-He had a bronze destiny!?”

Both Yaomu Shou’s and Yaomu Baiyin’s brains nearly short-circuited when this piece of info hit them.

“Is that why he has these cauldrons!? Was he somehow able to somehow cultivate despite having such a shoddy destiny!?” Yaomu Baiyin was blown away by this piece of news.

Yaomu Shou was the same as well. She asked Long Di again if he was sure about Lu Pei’s initial destiny only to be dumbstruck when he confirmed it once more.

She looked back at the cauldrons surrounding him and saw the bizarre carvings and marks on all of them that were visible despite the rust that covered them. They all looked the same, even the fourth one, which was relatively new.

‘Is this the result of cultivating with a bronze destiny? Was he able to do it?’

Lu Pei slowly opened his eyes and released a turbid breath of qi. It took him a while to focus his eyes, but he soon found everyone staring at him oddly.

“What?”

He then saw that their eyes were focused on his cauldrons and he quickly recalled them before a scarlet blush covered his cheeks.

Lu Pei was extremely self-conscious about his cauldrons. They were ugly and granted him almost no help in battle.

They were so bad actually, that even when others chose to suppress his cauldrons with their superior cauldrons’ pressure, there was not much change in the situation since the help they could render was almost zero already.

Their appearance and their usefulness made him the butt of many jokes in the sect. It didn’t get any better when the nickname Rusty Mortal popped up. He had an idea who came up with it, but he couldn’t be bothered to confront them about it.

Any fight he entered, he would try his absolute best to not call out his cauldrons.

“I—”

Rumble…

Before he could explain any further, the lack of spiritual energy caused this dimension to destabilise.

Before anyone could ask, the dimension they were in started to shake as it began breaking down.

They were about to be expelled from here!

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Previously, outside the spiritual vein root’s space…

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Boom!

A massive explosion went off with lightning whipping about with an uncontrollable fervour!

It was quite some time before it died down. Just now Er Jinshu and the rest of the experts from the Demon Region along with Jixie Wudongyuzhong and the experts from the Divine Puppet Sect launched an attack that they thought would be able to destroy the mysterious lightning sphere.

Er Jinshu and Jixie Wudongyuzhong stared at the lightning sphere with fear and trepidation. They had never heard of a treasure being inside such a phenomenon before.

However, it was because of this that greed was still evident within both of them. What confused them though was the somewhat sloppy nature of this lightning sphere.

It was like someone’s first attempt at a formation or array of some kind. They didn’t dare to believe this thought though, as the energy being used here was something beyond their ken. After all, they were far from being qualified to come in contact with tribulation lightning.

It was because of all of this that their confusion was so apparent.

“My, it’s quite lively here.” a silvery voice drifted over that instantly quelled the chaos that was about to erupt.

Everyone looked over to see a group of white-robed, white-haired people coming over.

There was a young woman at the head of them that exuded an ineffable dao charm.

She constantly radiated a soft glow, and the very essence of the heavenly daos seemed to be contained in her every movement.

There was a thin line that ran from her brow to near her hairline. She didn’t emit any awe-inspiring aura, but both Er Jinshu’s and Jixie Wudongyuzhong’s light dimmed in comparison to hers.

This was a race known as the most gifted and loved by the heavens. A race whose power even the Ten Great Sects had to be wary of.

Sacred Celestics.