Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 305 - Breakthrough To Three Core Martial Adept

“So you attacked him and then he somehow gave you an ear rub and that was enough to subdue you? Pffft… cheap! And you’re supposed to be the ancestor of all cats??? Well, you ain’t the ancestor of me. How could you sell yourself so cheap? Have some pride in yourself.”

“Meow!”

****

“Well, I’m more than aware of how godly his ear rubs are, but you can’t settle and give in so easily. Now he may have won me over by sharing a similar pain that I could sense from a mile away, but that was more emotional than anything else, and I was the one who told him exactly where to rub. Do you think humans know this by instinct? They’re dumb! Every one of them is! Long Di is like… I dunno, part-cat or something. That’s his saving grace. Yet he’s been diagnosed as clinically insane by human standards, crazy right!?”

‘Long Tian Yan, we need to get back. We are not supposed to be out for too long.’

As Pebbles was having a heated conversation with Lord Whiskers, he could hear Long Zhe’s voice in his head.

“Meow!”

‘Use your words you heathen!’

“Screw you!”

‘Hellspawn!’

Everyone else was confused when they saw Pebbles just shouting randomly until they saw him looking at a blank spot in the sky and deduced that he was probably conversing with Long Zhe.

“I wanna leave or walk or SOMETHING!” Mina was bored to tears. They had been here for days now just doing nothing while Long Di and Xiannu Liang were cultivating.

At this comment, Pebbles said, “Okay, the old lizard ab–”

“Die, then live and die again!”

“Meow!”

“Aaaaaah!”

Following an interruption that preceded a provocation followed by a shout of outrage, Pebbles continued where he left off.

“As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted. He told me that their cultivation session shouldn’t take much longer and then I will have three days to hang out with my best friend before I have to leave.”

Mina was ecstatic to hear this. “How much longer do we have to wait?”

Shing!

Just as Mina asked this, a shining light lit up the region where they all were, and they looked over to see a shining pearl-like object affixed firmly to the side of a cauldron.

It was incomparably pure and though it was a crystal; it was green as well; the insides were like glowing liquid emeralds that swirled about in a mesmerising fashion.

“I did it!” A wide grin appeared on Xiannu Liang’s face when she achieved her third core!

“Nice,” Log Di gave her a thumbs up since she deserved it. It wasn’t easy condensing cores like hotcakes. Then again, having access to spiritual energy greater than what any of the Ten Great Sects could produce played a huge part.

“It’s just like Long Di’s…” Mina said absentmindedly, thinking of how similar Xiannu Liang’s cores were to Long Di's unlit cores.

Long Di of course heard this and replied, “I could tell when I lit my first core. The purer and the more condensed a core is will allow you to form a star core that is infinitely close to whatever element you’re cultivating. Well, your case is a bit different, I guess.”

Mina opened her emerald-green eyes and a light flashing with spirituality lit the confines within before it disappeared entirely.

She heard what Long Di said and brought her three core-laden cauldrons to take a closer look at them.

They truly were like the cores in Long Di’s cauldrons before they were star cores, well, apart from the fact that they were green. It was only then that she realised that very few people had cores like Long Di’s.

Even Er Jinshu fell short just the slightest bit. Only people like Yaomu Shou, Untethered Monk and the like possessed cores as pure as these.

“But my bloodline cauldrons will allow me to effortlessly absorb the energy most compatible with me.” Xiannu Liang said after hearing what he said.

Long Di cocked his head to the side as he stared at her cauldrons before stating, “I don’t know much about bloodline cauldrons honestly. However, I do know that, based on what I felt, if your core isn’t pure to the utmost limit, when you absorb the energy required to light it up it will be ‘tainted.’ In your case, I’m guessing you absorbed the purest of whatever makes it green.”

“Tainted?” It was Shen Ling’s turn to be confused.

Though she couldn’t see, she heard everything and could paint a picture of what was happening. She was nowhere near their level, but knowing what to expect in advance was good.

In addition, Long Di was trying to explain it in a way that was easy to understand. He was from another world, so his explanation, while unconventional, could be grasped.

Thus, he went on to explain. “Imagine this. Say you asked someone for a cup of honey water, but they woke up salty as hell that day and decided to use the bowl that had hot sauce in it to–”

“What’s hot sauce?” Xiannu Liang asked with a raised hand.

Long Dis’s gaze slid to her in a way that caused her to blush with shame. She could feel it coming. He was about to say something to make her feel stupid.

“What do you think it is when you hear the words ‘hot’ and ‘sauce?’” he asked deadpan.

And there it is!

She knew it was coming, and yet she walked into it like a victim walking into their abusive spouse’s fist.

“Back to where I’m coming from,” Long Di went back on track, which was phenomenal considering how most of his conversations went.

“Now, with the remnant hot sauce in there, how do you think it would taste?” he asked the general public.

Shen Ling raised her hand excitedly.

“Yes, Shen Ling?” Long Di pointed to her even though she couldn’t see it.

“It would taste sweet and hot!?” she answered.

Long Di clapped his hands. “It would taste sweet and hot, correct.”

Shen Ling smiled when she heard she got it correct and smiled smugly to herself.

Mina glanced at her and commented. “You are too precious for him.”

“Ignore the class failure, everyone. She’s the salty person who puts hot sauce in honey water for children.” Long Di said.

“Screw you! That was an accident!” Mina barked at him.

Pebbles, Whiskers, and the others didn’t pay much attention to this conversation as their cultivation methods differed greatly in their entirety.

“So the water is… the spiritual essence, o-or core?” Xiannu Liang asked nervously.

Long Di turned his attention back to her with a raised brow. “Careful, you’re making me proud.”

She smiled upon hearing this and went quiet not wanting to ruin her record like Mina. After all, she doesn’t put hot sauce in people’s honey water. Only Minas (plural for Mina) did that.

“The water is the spiritual essence or core in this case.” Long Di continued. “If it has something in there already, it will affect how it turns out. The star core will be spicy honey water instead of just honey water. The hot sauce here is the impurity present in ambient spiritual energy, which is why the latter needs to be refined and concentrated for use, to rid it of the inherent ‘hot sauce.’ The failure that caused this is laziness also known as the salty Mina in your life, so you need to curb it. Well, resources are a factor as well, but that’s called poverty, which is also a Mina, so same thing.”

“Drop dead!” Mina was beginning to wonder if she could have a day of peace when Long Di was nearby!

“I get it!” Xiannu Liang felt enlightened after hearing Long Di’s lecture on the importance of the cores and their impact on the star core stage.

“You drop dead too!” Mina turned her anger on Xiannu Liang simply because Long Di alone wasn’t enough to vent her anger on.

Xiannu Liang giggled at this. She knew that Mina didn’t mean anything by it and was just driven to anger by Long Di, which was… understandable.

Nevertheless, she understood more of her own situation from Long Di’s explanation. The nature energy that made her cores green wasn’t ‘hot sauce,’ in her case, it was basically honey itself.

As a result, her cores weren’t made up of simple spiritual essence, but the spiritual essence of nature. This was something that only bloodline cauldrons were able to do.

“Alright.” Long Di stood up. “Let’s do this.”

Mina’s eyes brightened at this and stood up too. “We’re leaving!?”

“Eeeh…” Long Di twinkled his fingers at her.

“The hell does that mean?” Mina was confused.

“It’s my hand gesture for kinda, but not really.” Long Di told her.

Her brain nearly short-circuited again. “That was way off!”

“Potayto Potahto.”

“That doesn’t apply here! And why do I feel like you spelt that wrong when you said it!”

“So Xiannu Liang,” Long Di turned to the Nymph, completely ignoring Mina only to hear a ‘screw you!’ from over yonder before urging her on. “You know what to do.”

Xiannu Liang smiled and walked over to Shen Ling.