Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 327 - The Ruby Verse

A giant rusty portable forge appeared out of nowhere, shocking Violet Flame Noble. He had never seen such a thing before.

What was Long Di going to do with this?

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He inspected it closely and was shocked to discover this was a high-ranked spiritual artefact. He wasn’t even sure of its grade.

One must know that Violet Flame Noble was the most gifted genius of Dao Flame Mansion. They were even in possession of a medium-rank Mortal-Grade spiritual artefact.

For the grade of this artefact to be something that not even he could identify meant that this thing escaped the secular grade!

‘Impossible! Those can only exist when…’

He looked at Long Di in boundless curiosity.

Who was this person? Just who did he choose to follow?

Violet Flame Noble was one of those rare geniuses who did not allow his status to keep him from interacting with others. This was why he could throw away his pride to beg Long Di to help him.

Nevertheless, it didn’t mean that he would follow just anyone. Scratch that, just following anyone would be an affront to him in any way, shape, or form.

BUT… he could tell that when Long Di struck him with lightning before, there was something about it. Long Di allowed him to see what level of power he had, but even then, it felt like a drop in the bucket.

“Here.”

While Violet Flame Noble was still lost in rumination, Long Di shoved a couple of spirit stones in his arms.

“Put these spirit stones in those grooves when I say when.”

Violet Flame Noble blankly nodded to indicate he understood.

This time, Long Di was using a larger number of spirit stones since he realised he was lagging behind in his somatic cultivation.

He took out his forging hammer, which induced a feeling of heaviness in Violet Flame Noble’s heart.

He flicked his storage ring to Lord Whiskers. “Take care of that for me.”

He then stepped inside the forge and advised Violet Flame Noble to start.

Whoosh!

As soon as Violet Flame Noble inserted the spirit stones in the forge’s grooves, a furious flame arose within the forge encasing Long Di within!

“What powerful fire energy!” Violet Flame Noble was shocked. He cultivated a special type of cultivation technique that manifested itself as a cloak of flames that covered his body.

“Just being able to cultivate near here would loosen my bottleneck, I’m sure of it!”

Meanwhile, inside the forge.

Foundation Forge Body Tempering Art on!

D-Dum!

His cauldrons exploded into being behind him, seemingly unbothered by the heat of the forge.

Furious somatic essence ran through Long Di’s body in a frenzy as a heavy aura radiated.

“Breaking Mundane Forging Heaven! Sapphire Forging, Ninety-Nine Tempers!”

The hammer swung in a flurry, causing numerous clangings to reverberate from within the forge.

The hammer landed on several key spots on Long Di’s body.

Back in the Spiritual Bingqi realm, Long Di had advanced in his practice with the Breaking Mundane Forging Heaven Technique.

Because of his Heavenly Execution, his Foundation Forge Body Tempering Art’s cultivation was already at the Ninth Duan of the Cauldron Forging realm. However, at the time, his Breaking Mundane Forging Heaven Technique was only up to Sixty Tempers.

Of course, these tempers were not perfected and as refined as they should have been, but he made sure to spend the next three months working on those sixty tempers to get them up to speed. Not only that, he perfected some more tempers with the remaining time and got all the way up to Ninety-Nine Tempers albeit not perfectly.

As of now, up to Eighty Tempers were as practised and as refined as his Jade Verse’s Nine Tempers. The remaining nineteen still needed some work before they were good enough.

Making up his mind, Long Di worked on remedying this.

“Sapphire Forging, Ninety-Nine Tempers!”

B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-Bam!!!!!

Ninety-nine tempers echoed out in quick succession. The shockwaves passed through Long Di’s body and battered his sapphire bones!

The sapphire gleam that covered his skeleton brightened before it dimmed in tandem with his hammer blows.

“Again!”

B-B-B-B-B-B-Bam!

Eighty Tempers echoed out beautifully, while the remaining nineteen sounded disjointed and filled with dissonance.

The Tempers weren’t all about numbers, each temper carried with it a profound path and trajectory that needed to be thought about deeply.

As each temper grew stronger and stronger, Long Di became more and more familiar with the remaining nineteen tempers.

As the hours went by, he could feel that one out of the nineteen tempers came totally under his control!

‘Success!’

He was making progress, but when he realised how long it took just to get that one temper under control, his excitement faded.

This particular temper was something he left unfinished back in the Spiritual Bingqi realm. He just didn’t finish it due to time constraints. In reality, the length of time it took to perfect a temper was lengthening with each subsequent temper.

‘Will it take me a few days to get another Temper? Wait… Crap doughnuts I forgot.’

Long Di just remembered that he had sealed his thoughts and feelings during his state of comprehension from the Phoenix Amber Bauble Wine during dinner for just such an occasion.

‘Time to use it,’ he thought.

Unsealing those feelings, releasing that moment, a bout of comprehension overwhelmed him.

Shu! Shu! Shu! Shu!

He saw countless hammer images flickering through his mind.

“I see,” he mumbled to himself.

He allowed his imagination to run free and countless hammer swings flew uninhibited in his mind’s eye.

His grip on his hammer tightened and as the knowledge filled him, the trajectory of the hammer shifted ever so slightly and the hammer landed on Long Di’s body to incredible effect!

B-B-B-B-B-Bang!

Several satisfying collisions echoed out within the world of flames.

Even though his bones were long brought to the limit of the Sapphire verse cultivation-wise, now that his Tempers neared completion, he truly felt more and more connected to the strength it brought him. It made it feel that this strength was now truly his to use as he saw fit.

A ceaseless clangour resounded that played the music of Long Di’s growing strength.

Long Di’s unholy talent in forging and cultivation superimposed on each other, allowing him to blaze through the remaining Nineteen Tempers that stopped him from entering the realm of the Ruby Verse!

Eighteen!

Seventeen!

Sixteen!

Fifteen!

Fourteen!

Thirteen!

Long Di was perfecting the remaining Nineteen Tempers at a terrifying rate! His somatic essence roared through his body as he unerringly brought them to the peak of their design!

Violet Flame Noble who was now cultivating beside the forge ensconced in a plume of violet flames heard the hammering from within the forge increase in tempo and nearing a crescendo that would deafen the heavens.

Lord Whiskers was also keeping an eye on everything, but he got bored and quickly went to sleep.

The flames of the forge broke down Long Di’s body mercilessly, rendering it malleable before the abuse of the hammer fashioned it into something greater!

His skin was a charred mess, but his bones shone ever brighter. They were now glowing instead of just assuming the colour of sapphire.

Their shine only grew stronger as time went on and as each Temper came to life.

Uncle Tian Lu would accuse Long Di of being a true demon if he ever saw what his disciple was doing.

Perfected Ninety-Sixth Temper!

Perfected Ninety-Seventh Temper!

Perfect Ninety-Eighth Temper!

Long Di was running through the Sapphire Forging like it was nothing!

This was all due to his talent AND his strength already being at the peak of the cauldron-forging realm.

As a result, it gave birth to…

Perfected Ninety-NinthTemper!

Boom!

Long Di’s somatic essence now matched perfectly with his attained Tempers and he could feel it.

Shing!

The hidden third verse finally revealed itself to him!

Ruby Verse!

“Breaking Mundane Forging Heaven! Ruby Forging Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Tempers!”

A muffled explosion came from inside the forge, shaking Violet Flame Noble from his cultivation session.

He stood up in a hurry to greet Long Di before he exited the forge. Long Di hadn’t told him what he wanted him for or what role he would be playing as yet, so he would fulfil both the roles of a servant and a fighter if need be.

Therefore, a good servant must greet his young noble once their cultivation session is over.

Creeeaakk…

The forge door groaned open and a potent heatwave rushed out.

The ground all around for a decent distance was a sea of slow-moving lava.

Lord Whiskers was spared a charred-skin fate since he learned that being near this forge while it was in use or after it was in use was a fool’s act.

Violet Flame Noble was shocked when he saw Long Di this time around.

The latter didn’t look any different, but there was something different about him. His aura felt heavy and suffocating.

There was an imposingness about him that made it look as if one stomp was all it would take to crush the firmaments and throw purgatory into chaos!

Despite all this, Violet Flame Noble couldn’t tell what his cultivation base was.

Long Di, on the other hand, was still reeling from his state of epiphany. Something very disturbing occurred to him while he was cultivating a while ago.

Something regarding the origin of his cultivation technique and just who may have it. If this was the case, a great war would soon ensue. One he himself would have to start.

He then mumbled to himself. “Karma is a hell of a thing. I need to get to a Ren’duan Dwelling just to check it on or off the list.”

Violet Flame Noble piped up. “I-I know where to find one.”