Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 395 - Does He Have That Dog In Him?

When Tan Yongzheng saw how Long Di disregarded him, he sneered, “You shouldn’t eye other people’s slaves!”

And to this, Long Di only had one thing to say.

“Those are mine.”

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Everyone’s eyes widened when they heard hard what Long Di said.

Those are mine?

Who was he talking about?

It couldn’t be the Five Nobles, right?

Wait, did that other guy just call them his slaves!?

What the hell was going on here!?

The crowd couldn’t keep up with this.

The confusion didn’t last long, however, as the people outside who saw the absolute domination that Tan Yongzheng held over the Seven Heroes and Heavenly Sun Noble and Violet Flame Noble quietly spread the news among those present.

As the story made its rounds, people’s expressions changed one by one.

It grew increasingly unbelievable when they also heard he defeated a peak Martial Master. Most people didn’t dare to believe this. They thought that these people were purposefully embellishing the story.

Long Di, with his monstrous stores of spiritual force, heard all this and knew it was most likely true. These people didn’t need to lie. Just the story of him defeating the most outstanding experts of the younger generation was nigh unbelievable, there was no need to embroider a grander tale upon it.

‘Steely, this guy…’

The Destiny Scale didn’t remain silent this time. [Yes, Keyholder, this person is from the Central Realm and he wields spiritual essence. It is not impossible for him, a mid-stage Martial Adept, to kill a peak Martial Master.]

‘Isn’t that too exaggerated, though? I don’t even know if I can fight that far above my realm unless I use my most powerful attack. The difference in realm is no joke.’

[You’re looking at it too simply.] The Destiny Scale told him. [Spiritual essence is far more potent than spiritual qi. One can be thought of as water vapour whilst the other is ice.]

‘Don’t you guys normally say something like, if expert #1’s energy can be likened to a truck full of ice cream minus the truck, then expert #2’s energy would be more like a three-inch nail?’

[ಠ_ಠ]     

‘I feel like you’re judging me.’

[Why are you like this?]     

‘I did nothing wrong.’

[Do you truly believe that???]

‘I wanna say yes?’

[You’re even questioning yourself! How do you not see this!?]     

‘So you’re saying that the difference between spiritual essence and spiritual energy is that large, eh? One is heaven while the other is mud. This is no laughing matter.’

[Don’t just shamelessly change the subject, you pestiferous creature!]

'Wow.'

[I'm sorry.]     

'Are you though? You know what…? It's fine. We'll talk about this later.'

Long Di's blank look disappeared and was replaced with the same blank look when he refocused his attention on Tan Yongzheng.

“What do you want from me?”

“Hmph!” Tan Yongzheng scoffed at the sight of Long Di, now sure that he found him based on the latter's response. “I'm here to take your dog life!”

Long Di's expression didn't change... well it couldn't, but if it could, it wouldn't. “You're not the first, and you're certainly not the last,” he told him.

Tan Yongzheng smiled. “Well, I might not be the first, but I sure will be the last.”

“Amazing wordplay there Shakespeare, you got me.”

Tan Yongzheng didn't mind Long Di's sarcasm and was about to say something else when another person chimed in.

“Brother Boring Di, it's not his fault. He's a beta!” yelled Jiancheng Shu.

Tan Yongzheng's expression darkened. He'd been repeatedly insulted by the scaled cat thing, the little girl and now the Ren'duan.

Did these people think he was afraid of them!?

“Wei Yun? Is that you?” Qin Ling just noticed Wei Yun among the people around this Tan Yongzheng.

Wei Yun saw Qin Ling and grew confused when she saw a girl she didn’t recognise calling out to her, and so familiar at that. “Who are—”

Suddenly, Wei Yun's eyes widened slightly when her mind got to work. This girl wasn't among Long Di's group, yet she was walking with Xiannu Liang.

In addition, Qin Ling was nowhere to be found. Or to be more accurate, Qin Ling as she knew her, was nowhere to be found.

“I—”

“Put a pin on that,” Long Di cut this conversation short since it would need time, which he didn’t have, to get to any meaningful conclusion.

“It seems your usefulness has reached its end,” Wei Yun stated, seeing that Qin Ling was back to her normal self.

Long Di's gaze finally landed on her, “What is that supposed to mean?”

“It's about time for you to die. Ice Phoenix Hall wills this.”

“Wei Yun!” Qin Ling paled when she heard Wei Yun's declaration and Ice Phoenix Hall's intention.

“Well, that explains a lot,” Long Di nodded in understanding.

“Explain your mother!” Tan Yongzheng exploded. “You will die here by my hand! I have no idea how a dog from some backwater place garnered the attention of those powers from the Central Realm but once I kill you, my fame will spread far and wide!”

“Long Di, he called you a dog,” Pebbles was not pleased.

“Maybe he's saying he's got that dog in him?” Jianchen Shu tried to smooth things over.

Pebbles landed his gaze squarely on the young Ren'duan. “I specifically told you that it's not a compliment. Humans are clinically, metaphorically, and physically unwell. They consider being called dogs to be a compliment and a certain name of my kind to be an insult. It's no wonder their latest generation is beset by mental illnesses with the only difference here being that they have superpowers!”

“When you’re right, you’re right!” Jianchen Shu took everything Pebbles said as gospel.

“Pebbles, whether I have that dog in me or not doesn't matter. This arrogant pustule who walks the Dao of disappointment to its peak and back put the name of my mother in his mouth. I'll have to beat his ass... non-respectfully of course.”

“Oh my, he's upset-ish,” Pebbles put a paw to his mouth in mild surprise.

“This isn't normal?” Jianchen Shu asked when he saw Pebbles's expression.

“Well…” Pebbles thought for a bit about how to word this. “You can't anger Long Di easily. He's got a tall pain tolerance and his annoyance tolerance is impressive to boot. Arrogant masters get under our skin, but that's only when they're unkillable cockroaches. Now, while this guy looks like the aforementioned cockroach, he hasn't proven himself by getting out of here alive. Back to what I was saying, it seems that Long Di has acquired the proverbial reverse scale, or in other words…”

“He pressed the parents' button,” Mina trailed the conversation with her knowledge.

Krrrsh!

Long Di unsheathed his Thunder Dragon Rhino Sabre before letting its lightning run loose. “You shouldn't have done that.”

His voice was low and menacing.

Tan Yongzheng's eyes narrowed when he felt the aura of Long Di's spiritual artefact.

“I see, so you used a powerful spiritual artefact to achieve certain things before you spun them as your feat!” Tan Yongzheng heard everything about Long Di from the likes of Black Fortress Guo Da and Jixie Wudongyuzhong.

He didn't believe the latter when he said that Long Di stood up and beat a Divine Imperial Edict. Which idiot would?

However, they all said that Long Di wielded lightning that had a suppressive effect. They also stated that he was capable of fighting across realms.

Tan Yongzheng didn't believe that there was such a talent out in the boonies. However, now that he saw Long Di's spiritual artefact, some things became clear to him.

Long Di obviously got his hands on this spiritual artefact and found a way to activate its full power using some unique method. After that, he fooled people into thinking he was some unrivalled expert. This was what Tan Yongzheng thought about Long Di.

“Where's the golden key?” Tan Yongzheng already considered Long Di dead, so he wanted to make it easier on himself to get the key or keys he had on him.

“Ready yourself,” Long Di said, his voice now low, nearly a whisper.

Tan Yongzheng felt slow anger rising, bubbling under the surface. He asked once again. “Where is the key!?”

“Erect your defences,” Long Di crouched down with the sabre in hand.

Tan Yongzheng hated being ignored. “You!”

“And don't die from one hit,” Long Di continued. “This should only be a lesson. You are not worth death... yet.”

Shing!

Tan Yongzheng took out his spear and the tip of it was on the neck of Heavenly Sun Noble.

“If you don't hand over the key, I'll kill her right here and now. They're your friends, right!?”

Long Di saw as the Tan Yongzheng pushed the point of the spear against Heavenly Sun Noble's neck, and blood beaded from a paper-thin cut.

She looked at Long Di, and he espied her unyielding nature. It shouldn't stop him.

Long Di took out the golden key from his storage ring and threw it to Tan Yongzheng.

Jixie Wudongyuzhong caught it and added it to his collection.

“Finally, some obedience. Now surrender your sabre,” said Tan Yongzheng said with a touch of greed. He saw that this sabre was stronger than his spear. So if he could get it and the unique method to unleash its full power, who could touch him?

“That wasn't part of the deal,” said Long Di.

“Just do it!” Tan Yongzheng roared.

“No,” Long Di said calmly. He liked this sabre, why should he give it away? He had his own thoughts about the key, but not the sabre.

“I said do it!” Tan Yongzheng pressed the spear in further, causing blood to flow more freely. “I said do it!”

“Then kill her,” Long Di suddenly said, shocking everyone, including Tan Yongzheng.

“What!?” Tan Yongzheng didn't believe he heard right.

“What? You're going to kill me, right? So in that case, kill her. You don't keep your word. So who's to say you won't kill her after you kill me? Plus, I don't know her enough to sacrifice myself for her. Not to mention, she looks like she'd rather die than stay with you. So not only are you a beta, you have no rizz, and I refuse. Also, Firecracker over there has a lot of pride, he won't take being a hostage, so he'd rather die too. So you have two hostages willing to die, and a boy who's not going to die. So not only are we back at square one where I'm going to kick your ass, I've upgraded your subscription plan from kick to decease.”

“What?”

"I'm going to kill your ass," Long Di clarified. "Both the metaphorical one and the physical one."

Boom!

Dum!

Before anyone could react, cauldrons exploded into existence at the same time Long Di shot after Tan Yongzheng!