My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 105 White Jade Toad
Tongyunfang, near Jian'anmen Gate in the north of Nanyang Prefecture.

In the dead of night, Old Ge hummed a little tune as he slowly walked home.

Reaching a fork in the road, Old Ge looked at the two paths in a daze.

The main road is straight and wide, but it's a bit far from home. The side road is a bit winding, but it gets home faster.

He rarely walked on the narrow and uneven path.

But it was late at night, and his eyelids were drooping with sleep. After a moment's thought, he turned and walked into the path.

Under the bright moonlight, a wisp of black smoke, like a ghostly flame, floated in the shadows behind him as he silently walked into the path.

……

Half an hour later.

Old Ge walked out of the alley and arrived at his doorstep. He couldn't help but shiver, and goosebumps appeared on his arms.

"I'm getting old, I can't even stand this little bit of chill at night." Rubbing his arms, Old Ge opened the door and went home.

After a quick wash, I crawled into bed and fell fast asleep.

A street away, perched on a large tree, Chen Mu sighed helplessly: "Such an important thing as the Body Refinement Technique, don't you even glance at it before going to sleep?"

"Be grateful you ran into me," Chen Mu snorted.

If other time travelers see this, you won't be able to find your way out of this dark alley!

"Never mind, there's always another time. I'll find another opportunity." Chen Mu sighed, got up, and left.

……

Half an hour later, Old Ge, who was sleeping soundly in the room, suddenly woke up with a start.

He got out of bed silently, quietly opened the door, and scrambled onto the roof to look around.

It took him a long time to get back to his room and let out a long sigh: "I guess I was just being paranoid."

On his way back, he kept feeling like someone was watching him.

This is the foundation upon which he has survived for many years in the underworld and built such a large business empire.

"The older you get in the martial arts world, the more timid you become. Sigh..." Old Ge shook his head and chuckled.

"It's better to be safe than sorry if we fall into a trap."

He went back into the room, lit an oil lamp, and pried a piece of blue brick off the wall.

The interior was hollowed out and contained a cloth scroll about the length of a palm and the thickness of an egg.

He walked to the long desk, opened it, and carefully studied it under the dim light.

"Alas... If I had practiced the White Jade Toad Form Refinement Technique back then, I would have already mastered it ten years earlier."

"Bad luck!" Old Ge couldn't help but feel resentful.

He must be an exceptionally talented person.

As a result, he was limited by the resources available for cultivation techniques, wasting his life and remaining stuck in the Marrow Transformation stage.

"Fortunately, my grandson has a higher starting point." Old Ge said with satisfaction.

The son wasn't particularly talented and was essentially wasted. His grandson, however, inherited his martial arts aptitude across generations. And then there's this White Jade Toad Form Training Technique.

As long as the accumulation period is managed smoothly, the Ge family will surely prosper.

He was watching with increasing focus: "Once I finish the Jinghong Gang mission, I'll immediately go home and teach my grandson the basics."

As I looked at it, the neat handwriting in front of me seemed to become blurry, alluring, and like a girl dancing in a brothel.

Pfft!
Old Ge slammed his forehead onto the long table.

"grass!"

"I definitely fell for their trick!"

……

Fifteen minutes later, two drowsy mice were lying at the entrance of a mouse hole in the northwest corner of the room.

A bat fell from the roof beam.

Beside the lamp, a circle of tiny insects and moths lay fast asleep.

puff!
A cloud of red smoke exploded at the tip of Old Ge's nose.

Old Ge, who was already in a deep sleep, twitched his body and then fell into an even deeper sleep.

Chen Mu pushed open the door and entered, looking with satisfaction at the effects of the bewitching smoke.

"What a wonderful method!" Chen Mu exclaimed, looking at the Jade Toad Form Refinement Technique.

If it weren't for the lack of divine intent, its value would be even higher than the Jade-Eyed Golden Ape Form Refinement Technique.

"After a thousand years of plundering, how many exquisite martial arts techniques must these aristocratic families have hidden away?" Chen Mu swallowed hard, his mouth watering with envy.

"Never mind... I can't act impulsively."

Chen Mu took out his brush, ink, paper, and inkstone from his five-ghost bag, casually tossed the sleeping, dead-sleeping Ge Lao onto the bed beside him, and began to copy the text. "Be glad you met me," Chen Mu sneered at Ge Lao as he quickly copied the text.

If it were someone else, they'd cut your kidneys off!

Old Ge, his face down and neck twisted, trembled as if he had some terrible nightmare.

……

The next morning, the sun shone through the cracks in the window onto Old Ge's face.

Old Ge lifted his eyelids, suddenly woke up with a start, and with a thud, fell back onto the bed.

But he didn't even bother to get up, and instead touched his neck, which was throbbing with pain, with delight: "Haha! It's still there! It's still there!"

He had a nightmare last night, dreaming that someone chopped off his head, and it hurt so much.

No matter how much pain he was in, he just couldn't wake up.

He couldn't wake up, so the dream kept repeating, and then he was being chopped in the neck all night long.

"So it was just a stiff neck." Old Ge breathed a sigh of relief.

Before his neck was chopped off, he had a strange dream.

I dreamt that I was poisoned and knocked out.

"It's true that the older you get in the martial arts world, the more timid you become. How could I possibly be fooled by a mere drug smoke..." Old Ge suddenly froze.

He craned his neck to look at the desk.

The White Jade Toad Form Refining Technique was fully activated, and a faint scent of ink lingered around the nose.

Mr. Ge: "..."

"grass!"

……

It took a long time for Old Ge to come to his senses.

He prepared to pack up his training techniques with a dejected expression.

Fortunately, the person I encountered this time was a decent person with some principles.

He didn't kill himself, nor did he take the Form Refining Technique directly.

"Don't expect me to be grateful to you!" Old Ge thought through gritted teeth.

He had never suffered such a great loss before. His face turned red with anger.

"I can't stay here anymore," Old Ge thought as he walked to his desk.

My home has been robbed; continuing to live here would be tantamount to suicide.

"What is this?" A porcelain bottle the size of an egg next to the scroll caught his attention.

Carefully remove the stopper and use chopsticks to gently pour the contents of the porcelain bottle from a distance.

Two peanut-sized scarlet pills rolled out.

"This thing looks so familiar, can't be?!"

Old Ge didn't even care whether it was poisonous or not; he quickly picked it up and smelled it.

Dragon Transformation Pill?!

Can’t be wrong!
What did the person who stole his physical training techniques leave behind?
"What is this? Charity? Humiliation? I will never be grateful to you!" Old Ge roared, his eyes bloodshot.

Without making a sound, he put the Dragon Transformation Pill into a porcelain bottle with his right hand and quietly tucked it into his bosom.

……

Ten meters away from Ge Lao's house, there is a breakfast snack stall on the street.

Chen Mu slowly ate the smooth wontons, occasionally picking up a piece of thin, crispy scallion pancake.

"It's probably unlikely that things will escalate." Chen Mu noticed Old Ge's honest right hand.

Chen Musong breathed a sigh of relief.

Anyway, he had no use for the Dragon Transformation Pills, so exchanging two for a wonderful Body Refinement Technique was a great deal.

"I wonder if I can trade with someone else." Chen Mu's eyes lit up.

Chen Mu knew that the Dragon Transformation Pill was harmful, but these martial arts practitioners didn't know that the Dragon Transformation Pill was a trap! He was immediately tempted.

But after thinking about it, I decided to give up.

"The world is a dangerous place, and fair trade is not easy to do." Chen Mu shook his head helplessly.

He genuinely wanted to exchange the Dragon Transformation Pill for the secret manual.

But those ruthless江湖 (jianghu) figures might want more. For example... his life.

"Since I've just gained another training technique, I might as well stick to practicing it."

(End of this chapter)