Chapter 1530: Not Much Difference

Her pink, moist nails applied slight force, pinching the back of Hearing Li Ang's hand to remind him to keep his attention, and the Cat Queen continued teaching unhappily:

"Feel the crystal ball in your hand carefully. This is a mineral that can only increase in diameter by a few centimeters or even millimeters every year, and takes at least millions of years to form. It almost doesn't react with anything else. As long as it doesn't break, it can even be maintained forever."

"Something like this, with an infinitely long past and an infinitely long future, is naturally the best carrier for time secret arts... I know what you want to say. Although stones are the same, they are not transparent like crystal, so they can't be used as your eyes. Don't get distracted! Focus!"

Following her mother's example, she blocked the question before Hearing Li Ang could open his mouth. The Cat Queen held Hearing Li Ang's hand, her voice slightly drifting as she whispered:

"Very good, you are slowly understanding this crystal, and from its existence, you have felt the special rhythm unique to time. Now, you have to adjust your rhythm and let your own existence lean toward the crystal... lean toward the crystal, not lean toward me!"

After pushing Hearing Li Ang, who was leaning toward her unconsciously, back with her head, the Cat Queen simply pressed her forehead against Hearing Li Ang's, holding his drooping head, and guided him with a soft and distant tone:

"After your rhythm is completely in harmony with the rhythm of the crystal, you will find that time is not something completely untouchable. Although you belong to the present, you have also possessed the past and will definitely exist in the future."

"Very good, learn from me to peel yourself away from the present, let your consciousness move forward toward the future along the rhythm of the crystal, but be one step faster than its rhythm... Right, that's it!"

Watching Hearing Li Ang, who under her earnest teaching, had his body slightly appear with some "ghost images" while his consciousness moved forward toward the future by about half a second, a look of surprise flashed in the Cat Queen's eyes.

He actually learned it...

Before, when he told her he wanted to learn Witch Secret Arts, she felt he was daydreaming. Someone without time talent or Great Court bloodline could never learn the secret arts of the Witch lineage. Even that prince with a face full of freckles had a higher probability of learning the secret arts than Hearing Li Ang.

But she didn't expect him to get started so quickly. He had officially entered the door in just two days. This learning speed and adaptability felt no worse than her own in the past!

"Hmm..."

After maintaining the state of being peeled away from the "present" for a while and increasing the "time difference" to one second, Hearing Li Ang's consciousness became slightly chaotic, and the hazy light and shadow around his body merged back with his current body, detaching from the state of Witch Secret Arts.

Shaking his head subconsciously to pull himself away from the strange feeling of moving forward in two different times simultaneously, Hearing Li Ang looked at the smiling Cat Queen in front of him, his expression somewhat dazed:

"Does this count as... learning it?"

"It counts, you have officially entered the door."

Looking at the gifted Hearing Li Ang in front of her, the Cat Queen couldn't help but smile, her eyes full of praise:

"Your talent is not much worse than mine. I feel that it won't take too long for you to truly master the Witch Secret Arts."

Master... just mastering is not enough!

Tapping the badge panel, after looking at the conditions required for 【Half-Witch Blood】 to advance to the gold level, Hearing Li Ang couldn't help but ask:

"If I want to cultivate Witch Secret Arts to 'proficient,' or even reach the level of an ordinary 'Great Witch,' about how much time will it take?"

"That will take a long time."

The Cat Queen thought for a moment and answered:

"From initial entry to proficient mastery, it's all considered an apprentice in secret arts. Once you can apply them freely and initially understand the essence of the mysterious power in secret arts, that counts as the level of a 'Witch'."

"And 'Great Witch' is the level I was at before accepting the Heart of the Great Court. Not only do you need to thoroughly understand the essence of the Great Court secret arts, but you also need to be able to make certain modifications to the secret arts to become a dedicated secret art that best suits yourself."

"..."

Is it so difficult to learn to the level of a Great Witch? Then can my badge still be upgraded?

After listening to the Cat Queen's words, Hearing Li Ang couldn't help but feel a headache:

"Meaning it's the same as you, I have to learn until I'm over a hundred years old?"

"Pfft! You're the one over a hundred years old!"

Faced with Hearing Li Ang's question, the Cat Queen was furious, her willow eyebrows standing up:

"Who told you I'm over a hundred years old? I'm only twenty-seven this year! I'm not that old at all! I'm basically as young as you, okay?" "I'm seventeen."

"..."

"..."

"Then... that's not much difference..."

Faced with the young man in front of her who was so tender, the somewhat autistic Cat Queen turned her head away, feeling a lack of confidence:

"Although it's more than half the difference now, after another seventy or eighty years, when we are both over a hundred years old, it will only be one-tenth the difference, so it's not much difference..."

"Fine, if you say it's not much, then it's not much."

When he needed help, Hearing Li Ang was generally very easy to talk to. He directly accepted the Cat Queen's "not much theory" and then asked curiously:

"Caitlin, can I ask a slightly presumptuous question?"

"It is indeed a little presumptuous, but you have already asked me this in several different futures..."

After nodding helplessly, the Cat Queen explained:

"I am a child born when my mother was thirty, but to ensure the inheritance of the Heart of the Great Court, my time has been frozen since birth, and it didn't start flowing officially until she was over one hundred and twenty-three..."

So that's how it is...

After listening to the Cat Queen's answer, Hearing Li Ang nodded with a look of realization, then stared at her and hesitated:

"Can you..."

"What do you want to do?!"

Seeming to have seen something in the future in advance, the Cat Queen leaned back abruptly, crossed her hands to protect her chest, and shook her head in shock.

"No! I won't say anything like being conquered by you! Pervert! Hopeless pervert! You really do have that kind of thought about me!"

"..."

To be honest, it's really not that I have thoughts about you, it's just that the badge advancement has no other way...

After looking at the advancement route of 【Half-Witch Blood】, Hearing Li Ang blinked helplessly.

To advance 【Half-Witch Blood】 to the gold level, one must cultivate all eighteen Great Court secret arts to the "Great Witch" level, or completely conquer all the bloodlines of the last Witch King, Renran.

And currently, he had already handled the other seventeen large societies, and he could complete the advancement with just one more Witch Secret Art. Plus there was the "disaster" of the Dead World coming up soon. If he could get another hidden golden badge, maybe he could completely change the situation...

After trying hard to build his psychological state and finding a reason he had to brush the badge, under the Cat Queen's terrified gaze, Hearing Li Ang first nodded apologetically, then actually got up and pounced over.

"Then I'm sorry!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1531 =====