My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 116 Undercurrent
April 19th, 641st year of the Great Liang Dynasty.

Late at night, in Chongdefang, south of the city.

The Li Mansion is a large mansion covering an area of ​​five acres.

Artificial hills and water features are scattered throughout the courtyard, with rows of spacious houses made of blue bricks and tiles.

The guards patrolled the large mansion in groups of three, carrying lanterns.

Hidden along the walls, rows of black guard dogs lay prone. In the moonlight, their eyes occasionally reflected a faint red glow.

At that moment, a group of men in black suddenly scaled the wall and entered.

These people landed silently, as if they were already familiar with the patrol arrangements within the compound.

As soon as it landed, darts rained down, and the guard dog, who had just gotten up, fell to the ground silently.

They then quietly lay in ambush, waiting for the patrolling guards to pass by before launching a surprise attack.

After killing him with a single blow, he quickly lay in wait at the next patrol point.

From above the courtyard, seven or eight groups of men in black simultaneously charged forward, continuously narrowing their attack range towards the inner courtyard.

Wherever he went, the patrolling guards and night watchmen in the courtyard, and the sleeping maids and servants in the rooms were all silently silenced.

boom!
A door in the inner courtyard suddenly shattered. A well-off middle-aged man in his forties crashed through the door and fell into the courtyard.

A large, ghost-headed dagger was stuck in his abdomen, his face was covered in blood, and he glared fiercely at the figure that followed him out of the room.

"Shangguan Tong! How dare you?!"

As the stench of blood grew stronger, the veins on the well-to-do middle-aged man's neck bulged.

"Why wouldn't I dare?" Shangguan Tong, who was in his forties, had a fair complexion and stood with his hands behind his back, speaking slowly and deliberately.

"Li Shentong, since you dare to provoke my Shangguan family, you should be prepared to have your entire family wiped out."

"When have I ever provoked the Shangguan family!" Li Shentong couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood, his eyes bulging with rage.

Shangguan Tong looked at the other person with a gloomy expression: "You actually forgot."

"Eight years ago today, the Spring Breeze Pavilion selected its most beautiful courtesan."

"I was careless; I didn't bring enough money."

"I never expected you to take the lead and steal the spotlight."

"how dare you?!"

"Over the years, I have been practicing martial arts diligently, and I have long wanted to avenge the time when I stole the limelight!"

"I think we should do it today."

Li Shentong: "..."

"Back then, I spent money to buy the most beautiful courtesan, wasn't it all to give to you?!"

"So all you remember is me stealing your thunder?!"

Shangguan Tong: "..."

“Brother Shentong, I…I might have remembered it wrong.”

At this moment, a man in black suddenly appeared in front of Shangguan Tong and knelt on one knee: "Second Master, kill them all."

Li Shentong: "..."

Shangguan Tong looked dejected: "Never mind, let's leave as a family."

"Oh, and remember to take all his valuables with you. Especially the land deeds and house deeds."

……

Inside the Shangguan family's inner courtyard pavilion.

Shangguan Ji sat under the pavilion, leisurely looking at the chess score and slowly studying the moves.

"Brother, I've killed all those families!" Shangguan Tong rushed into the pavilion, beaming.

"How dare you say that the evil spirits causing trouble in the city are related to us."

"Spreading rumors and provoking the Shangguan family deserves to die!"

Shangguan Ji glanced at the excited Shangguan Tong.

"You must have made quite a bit of money last night."

Shangguan Tong immediately grinned.

"Don't always focus on those petty gains. They're just a few small households in the outer city."

"If you can find evidence that the inner city families are colluding with those people."

"Wouldn't we make even more money by destroying several major families?"

Shangguan Tong immediately scratched his head: "Big brother is still the best."

"Then... I should go find evidence?"

"Hmm." Shangguan Ji nodded calmly.

"Yu'er went north to find the Thousand Machine Token."

"This is an opportunity that our Shangguan family has been waiting for for a hundred years."

"Before we find the Thousand Machine Token, Tangshan Camp must remain stable, and Nanyang Prefecture must not be thrown into chaos."

"Those major families have always been restless; we must eliminate these destabilizing factors as soon as possible."

Shangguan Tong chuckled: "Just you wait and see!" "Whether there's evidence or not, I'll find it for you."

……

Linhengfang, Chen Residence.

Chen Mu had been chanting incantations for three days until his mouth was dry, and finally today he entered the door of enlightenment.

Soul-Locking Spell: 12/10000/Tier 1;
"Keep reading," Chen Mu said helplessly.

He likes to improve his skill level, but he doesn't like to rush into it.

However, he needed to replicate the Dragon Transformation Pill as soon as possible, so he had to abandon his other skills and recite the Soul Locking Spell day and night.

Fortunately, upon entering the first level, the increased proficiency brought continuous insights. Hundreds of words of difficult scripture were transformed into more than thirty strange syllables.

"The speed should be able to increase further later."

Three strange syllables came out of his mouth.

Five plumes of black smoke appeared in front of him.

"Five Ghosts Moving Mountains!"

The black smoke swirled into a circle, and a strong feeling of hunger suddenly surged into my heart.

Saliva was flowing uncontrollably from my mouth, and an irresistible urge to devour it kept assaulting my brain.

After a long while, Chen Mu dissipated the black smoke and recalled the Five Ghosts.

"It seems that I can slightly restrain the urge to devour."

"Is this the effect of the Soul-Locking Curse? To restrict the Five Ghosts? Or rather, to more powerfully control the Five Ghosts?"

"Let's wait until it gets popular before we watch it."

He took a sip of the throat-soothing herbal tea. During his break, Chen Mu unfolded the Thousand Mountains Classic.

The secret method for appeasing the spirits of the dead includes not only the Soul-Locking Incantation, but also a prescription for a medicine called the Ascension Pill, used to nourish the medicine recipient.

"This has absolutely nothing to do with nourishment." Chen Mu clicked his tongue as he looked at it: "It's a dangerous drug that forcibly stimulates vital energy without regard for life!"

"It seems to be to enhance the qi and blood of the medicine user..."

"Perhaps this can also be applied to livestock," Chen Mu pondered, squinting his eyes.

……

Luohe, Nanyang Prefecture.

A fifty-meter cargo ship drifted slowly on the wide river.

At the bow of the ship, a square-faced man in his forties sat cross-legged on the deck.

There was a small, square table in front of him.

A black porcelain jar sat on a low table, and a rich aroma of wine wafted from it.

There were two side dishes on the table: a plate of sliced ​​pig's head meat and a plate of fried peanuts.

A middle-aged man, enjoying the gentle breeze from the river, poured himself a drink with a contented expression.

"Brother, the third brother sent word that seven families, large and small, were wiped out in the outer city last night," a round-faced man said, clasping his hands in greeting as he approached the middle-aged man from behind.

"The prefectural government claimed that the chaos of war in the north had led to the rampant spread of evil spirits."

"Nonsense," the square-faced middle-aged man laughed.

“That’s utter nonsense.” The round-faced man said with a sneer, “Anyway, I’ve never heard of any evil spirit digging three feet into the ground to plunder valuables.”

"Third Brother has really gotten to work; he managed to trick seven families into helping us test Shangguan Ji," the square-faced middle-aged man laughed.

The round-faced man hesitated for a while before finally saying, "Two families."

The square-faced middle-aged man turned his head in confusion.

"The third brother only managed to persuade two families."

"What about the other five?"

The round-faced man shrugged: "The one who led the massacre was Shangguan Tong."

"Wow! They're after money!" the square-faced middle-aged man chuckled.

"Isn't Shangguan Ji afraid that Shangguan Tong will ruin things for him?" the round-faced man asked, puzzled.

"He did it on purpose." The square-faced man smiled faintly, "To deter troublemakers."

"They immediately made an example of someone just because of a rumor."

"I bet Shangguan Yu took that evil-repelling mirror with him!"

"Continue to let people test you."

"It would be best to preserve some evidence and implicate the major families in the inner city."

Let them fight it out first!

"Okay." The round-faced man respectfully clasped his hands in greeting.

"Find some uninhabited, vacant houses in the city and gradually bring our people in," the square-faced man continued, "Go."

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)