One divination a day, a trainee celestial master

Jiang Shou stood frozen in place with his hands raised, turning his head around somewhat blankly.

You have to understand, with his current physical fitness and reflexes, let alone catching a cat, he could even see how many hairs are on a fly's leg as it flies by.

But just now, he didn't even see the fat cat jump! Is this starting speed, which defies the laws of physics, something a round, fat orange cat could possibly possess?!

"Wow, you're quite agile despite being so fat."

Jiang Shou straightened up, dusted off his hands, and looked at the fat cat on the offering table with a disdainful expression.

"You little fat cat, aren't you going to show me some respect?" Jiang Shou said arrogantly, hands on his hips. "This immortal master has already embarked on the broad road to immortality! Have you heard that old saying? 'When one attains enlightenment, even his chickens and dogs ascend to heaven!' If chickens and dogs can ascend to heaven, then you, a cat, certainly can too! From now on, as long as you obediently follow me, I guarantee that you, this...fat cat, will also ascend to heaven! At that time, it won't just be fried fish every day; I'll even buy you cat treats and canned food by the case!"

Fat Tiger squatted on the offering table, listening to Jiang Shou's impassioned "pie in the sky," too lazy to even utter a sound.

It simply tilted its head to the side in a human-like manner, its long white whiskers twitching up and down on either side of its mouth. The expression was blatant mockery of the foolish human before it.

"Hey! What's with that look? You think my temper can't handle you?"

Jiang Shou felt his dignity as the abbot had been severely challenged. He stomped his foot hard. With a thud, the bluestone pavement creaked. Jiang Shou, like a cheetah, charged forward with lightning speed, directly to the offering table, reaching out to grab at Fat Tiger's furry neck!

"Where do you think you're going to run to!"

However, just as Jiang Shou's fingers were about to touch the orange fur, Fat Tiger casually took a small step to the side, then kicked off with his thick hind legs.

Its plump body traced a graceful parabola through the air, leaping lightly from the main hall and landing in the center of the courtyard.

"Trying to run away?!"

Jiang Shou's attack missed, but he didn't stop. His coordination was now astonishing. He made a smooth half-turn in front of the offering table, then stomped his foot again, launching himself directly out of the main hall. He landed right after Fatty Tiger in the courtyard and continued to reach out.

Fat Tiger glanced back, seemingly intrigued as well. It didn't bark, but flicked its tail and leaped into the air again. This time, it jumped directly towards the nearly two-meter-high brick wall at the edge of the yard, covered in withered yellow ivy.

In the blink of an eye, the orange cat landed steadily on the eaves.

"Where do you think you're going!" Jiang Shou's adrenaline surged, and without thinking, he stomped his foot hard on the ground.

"Whoosh~~" The wind whistled in his ears, and Jiang Shou felt his body lighten up. He was lifted into the air and his vision instantly rose higher.

With a "thud," Jiang Shou landed steadily on the nearly two-meter-high courtyard wall, without breaking a single tile beneath his feet.

"Wow!!!" Jiang Shou stood on the high eaves, looking down at the courtyard below, his scalp tingling with excitement. He grinned wildly and laughed, "I can do light-body kung fu! I can actually fly over walls and roofs! Hahaha!"

Seeing Jiang Shou gesturing wildly on the wall, Fatty Tiger rolled his eyes, turned around, and jumped down the wall towards the back mountain outside the Taoist temple.

Jiang Shou's gaze locked onto Fatty Tiger not far ahead. "Little Fatty Cat, let's see where you run to today!"

Jiang Shou exerted force with his feet, stepping on the green tiles of the courtyard wall, and pounced towards the fat cat.

Fat Tiger turned around and meowed, then, like a streak of orange lightning, disappeared into the vast forest behind Cuiwei Mountain.

"Don't run!"

And so, in the deep forests of Cuiwei Mountain, a bizarre "extreme chase between a man and a cat" unfolded.

Jiang Shou, relying on his body which had been transformed by true essence, moved through the mountains and forests like the wind, crossing ditches and leaping across streams as if walking on flat ground.

Fat Tiger, on the other hand, was strolling leisurely in its own backyard. Its plump body moved nimbly through the forest like an orange ghost, as if deliberately teasing Jiang Shou.

Whenever Jiang Shou exerted all his strength and his fingertips were already touching the tip of its furry tail, Fat Tiger would always miraculously leap forward by just half an inch, leaving Jiang Shou always just a hair's breadth away.

If Jiang Shou got tired and slowed down, this fat cat would deliberately slow down, even stopping on a large rock ahead to leisurely lick its paws. When Jiang Shou caught up, panting, it would turn back and give him a disdainful look that said, "That's it? You're too slow," before nimbly leaping away again.

Jiang Shou could not stand this blatant "cat-face mockery".

The person and the cat chased each other for nearly two hours in the back mountain.

Until the sun was directly overhead, the sunlight became somewhat dazzling.

In a pine forest on the back hill, Fat Tiger was leisurely squatting on a slender pine branch.

It lowered its head, looking at Jiang Shou, who was standing under the tree, sweating profusely, and panting heavily with his hands on his knees. The vivid sneer on its face reappeared. Not only that, but the fat cat even stretched out its two front paws lazily in front of Jiang Shou, stretched out its arms wide, and then opened its blood-red mouth and yawned exaggeratedly.

Provocation! This is an extremely egregious provocation!

"Fine...you fucking forced me to do this..."

Jiang Shou was completely enraged by the cat. He straightened up, his eyes darting around, a sinister smile flashing in them.

"I was originally planning to save you as a trump card, but today I'm going to use you, you fat cat, as a sacrifice!"

Jiang Shou took a deep breath, his mind instantly sinking into his lower abdomen.

With a thought, the warm true essence in his dantian, about the size of a lemon, suddenly split off a burst of violent energy, which surged into his legs along the meridians!

"boom!"

The force that suddenly burst forth caused several fine cracks to appear on the surface of the rocks beneath Jiang Shou's feet!

"Whoosh—!!!"

With a piercing whooshing sound, Jiang Shou transformed into an extremely blurry afterimage, his speed more than five times faster than before!

In the blink of an eye, Jiang Shou had already shot up from the ground under the tree like a cannonball and rushed to the branch.

"Got you!" Jiang Shou's face broke into a vicious grin, and his right hand, like an eagle's claw, lashed out with a whistling sound as it reached for the back of Fat Tiger's neck.

Faced with this lightning-fast attack, the fat tiger on the branch didn't even move, only a hint of mockery flashed in its amber cat eyes.

Just at that absolutely incredible moment when Jiang Shou's fingers were about to grasp the orange fur.

"Bang!!!"

A muffled impact suddenly erupted in mid-air.

Jiang Shou crashed hard into an invisible "wall of air"!

This invisible wall is extremely tough, like a large, transparent bubble filled with ultra-high pressure gas.

Under Jiang Shou's violent impact, the air wall caved in about two inches deep.

Immediately afterwards, a powerful recoil force erupted from the sunken "bubble"!

"Buzz..."

"Aaaaaah!!!"

Jiang Shou's screams echoed through the pine forest.

He was like a fly that had hit a trampoline, thrown off by the powerful recoil. He flailed his arms and legs in mid-air, tracing a clumsy parabola, before crashing heavily onto his back in the grass a dozen meters away with a thud.

Jiang Shou was thrown around so hard he was dizzy and disoriented, his mind filled with stars. He couldn't care less about the pain, and despite his vertigo, he struggled to lift his head from the ground, staring in shock at the fat orange cat licking its paws on the tree branch.

"Holy crap!"

"This little fat cat...it actually knows magic?!"