Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 374 - Ways To Master A Physique

“Oh yeah, I’ll need you to send a message and some stuff to the Demon Region’s Jia Yan if you could. I’m also gonna need a map to Emerald Forest and a full metal alche—I-I mean an alchemist teacher. The map I need now, the alchemist teacher I’d like delivered to Sabre Mountain in about a month’s time. That’d be greeeaaat.”

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I was on my way back to the others and I have to say that was quite the useful trip I made to the auction house.

I have someone gathering information; I sent mail to the Demon Region, AND I’ll have an alchemist teach while I’m honing my sabre arts at Sabre Mountain. I hope those two things don’t conflict with each other too much.

Now that I think about it, this might be the first time that I’ve been on my own, even though I’m walking to join up with my friends.

I eventually came up to a secluded courtyard. This is where everyone was staying last.

I opened the gate and the first thing that caught my attention was a mass of darkness in an out-of-the-way area of the courtyard.

Shen Ling’s cultivation was skyrocketing by leaps and bounds recently. She stated that more than anything else, her cultivation depended on her comprehension of the Abyss Scripture.

Xiannu Liang, Mina and Pebbles were gone, most likely exploring the city.

Qin Ling was here though, cultivating at the moment. It was then that I noticed that five of her cauldrons had cores inlaid within them.

Her cauldrons orbited her in a profound manner in response to the cultivation technique I created for her. I observed it for a while and noticed an area of opportunity to improve it. I needed to make it a tad smoother as far as drawing in the spiritual energy for conversion is concerned.

“She’s a peak Five Core Martial Martial Adept. Not bad.”

Her cultivation was stronger than Violet Flame Noble and the others, that’s for sure.

Shing!

Just as I said that her sixth cauldron had a flash of light that flared up before falling into darkness.

“It seems her fifth core is all but completed. She can start going for her sixth core any minute now.”

Vrrrm…

Her cauldrons trembled before they all slowed down, and they entered a calm orbit. It wasn’t long before they shattered into ice-like particles that returned to the ether.

Her lashes fluttered gently before she opened them to see me. Her expression was as cold as I had ever seen her, but before long, her expression warmed and a beautiful smile made its way across her face.

“Hi, Long Di.”

“Hey, can you come and take a look at something for me?”

As soon as I said this, I made my way to the fountain that sat in the middle of this place.

I assumed the lotus position on the edge of the fountain and waited until she got closer before I stared.

“What is it?” she asked.

“So I would like your advice. Hoe Down Giga Lad Let Me See Physique.”

[That’s not its name you cur! It’s Profound Myriad Heavenseize Physique!]

‘Hey Steely, glad to hear from you. Back from the milk store already, eh? What’s been up, buttercup?’

[I have nothing to say to you. Just call your physique by its proper name.]

‘I only promise to try. I am not responsible for the results.’

Hong!

A heavenly pressure unfurled that placed more shock on Qin Ling’s face than it did when she heard the name I gave this physique.

I could feel it as my body became a microcosm in the purest sense. I sensed all of the energy within me and I immediately remembered that I needed to get my Crimson Horizon Earth Flame a star.

Apparently, these things are awesome.

What they do is effectively allow whatever energy source they are injected with to take on the characteristics of a star along with other stuff.

I can’t even put it into words. I’ll just allow you to see the awesomeness of them within due time. I don’t even think I’m anywhere near figuring out what this physique is capable of.

Qin Ling looked at me, and the shock on her face took a while to recede.

“W-What could you want from me?” she asked as she looked me all over.

“Hey, eyes up here,” I told her and her face snapped up to my eyes before a blush coloured her cheeks

She then puffed up her cheeks and pouted. “You’re teasing me!”

“You’re not inaccurate,” I told her. “Anyway, are you able to command the power of your physique without turning on your physique?”

She smiled when I asked this and she reached out to touch a section of my robes with her finger.

Without warning, a layer of frost covered me before the shadowy nature of my shadow silk robes slowly rose with black thick tendrils that allowed the frost to simply fall right through.

“Neat. Now teach me how to do that since my summoning this thing is pretty eye-catching.”

“You do realise that you won’t be able to use it to its full potential if you do it like this, right?”

“I kinda figured. However, I still wanna learn since it's good for keeping a low profile,” I told her.

“Okay,” she nodded. “What you need to do is to feel the presence of your physique even when it’s not activated. My physique is quasi-awakened for the most part at all times. This is so I can communicate with it better.”

“So you’re always partly awakened?” I asked her.

She sheepishly nodded.

This was incredible. Even for me, keeping my physique on came with a certain level of burden on my body. It also increased the more familiar I grew with it.

“Now try to remember the feeling of your physique and slowly dismiss it while keeping that feeling in mind.”

I did as she said. The feeling I had now was one of all-encompassing. As if everything was under my control. A single flip of my hand was able to bring a world to ruin and the stars to fall.

The feeling dimmed though, as the physique receded.

“Don’t focus on the physique itself, but the aura of its presence. Remember the feeling you have!”

Listening to her words, I tried my best, but the feeling was fleeting the more I tried to grasp it.

Before long, the physique was recalled and not much had changed.

“You need to practise this regularly in order to reach the most fundamental level. It took me a while just to reach the door to this realm.”

“I’ll keep on trying. No efforts made, no prizes gained.”

She nodded in acceptance and just sat beside me as I repeated the same thing over and over again for just the basest level of mastery.

Hours passed and Shen Ling eventually exited her cultivation and I could tell at a glance that her cultivation had increased again.

She just barely touched the door to the second core of the Core Formation Realm.

Man, blinding her was like the biggest W we never saw coming.

Nevertheless, it was peaceful right now, and for the first time, I felt like I wouldn’t mind if this continued.

Boom!

Life represented everything wrong with the incarceration system, as it violated me with the adjective aggression in tow, and would proceed to do it again, I’m sure.

So the gate exploded, sending splinters flying everywhere before Mina, Xiannu Liang, and the harbinger of destruction Pebbles came crashing through.

Somehow, this was the story of my life.

“Long Di, grab thy shit and come hither! The relic is about to open!”