My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 133 Troubles
Lijiang City, Yongtongfang, Chen Residence.

Chen Mu slept until he naturally woke up, lifted the thin blanket covering him, glanced at the soul-stabilizing pillar standing by the window, and felt extremely satisfied.

Since discovering the miraculous effects of the Soul-Stabilizing Pole, Chen Mu has had a refrigerator and an air conditioner.

You don't even need to go through the trouble of making ice to make iced herbal tea.

Placing it by your bedside at night not only keeps you cool all night but also repels mosquitoes.

"Chao Tianwang is such a good person," Chen Mu said happily.

For a moment, he suddenly felt that the Thousand Mountains Scripture wasn't so eerie after all.

The Yin-Nourishing Strategy, combined with the twelve Soul-Fixing Stakes, would be quite nice as a large-scale central air conditioning system, wouldn't it?

"The problem lies with the mindset of these natives!"

“They were all filled with deep-seated hostility.”

Chen Mu couldn't help but shake his head and sigh: "There are just too few good people like me!"

Feeling sorrow once again for the people of this world, Chen Mu got up, washed, and ate breakfast.

After the meal, instead of immediately leveling up my skill level, I did some preliminary processing of the medicinal herbs I had bought on the way yesterday.

Some of the ingredients for the Blue Pills require a long processing time and need to be prepared in advance.

"It should be ready to use in about twenty days." Chen Mu placed the sealed fermentation jar in a cool, shady corner of the room.

……

After putting his things away, Chen Mu returned to the thatched hut.

He doesn't like to stay in his room during the day.

To protect the house from rain and wind, the windows are not large. They are all openwork wooden lattice windows covered with oiled paper, resulting in poor lighting.

The windows were all open, but the room was still a bit dark.

The thatched shed on the east side of the courtyard became the main activity area.

The original thatched shed was demolished and rebuilt by Chen Mu. Now the entire thatched shed is attached to the east wall and is five or six meters long from north to south.

The thatched hut was divided into two parts.

The floor near the room is paved with blue bricks, and there is a dining table, a low table, a rocking chair, and a wooden storage cabinet for teapots, bowls and chopsticks.

The side near the courtyard gate was also paved with blue bricks, but Chen Mu covered it with a layer of polished wooden planks as his daily training ground.

Under the thatched shed.

Black smoke and black water covered and flowed across the ground. The mess left from processing the medicinal herbs quickly disappeared.

At the same time, trash started falling down from above the wooden barrel behind the courtyard gate.

After cleaning up, Chen Mu rested for a while before walking to the wooden floor area on the south side of the thatched shed.

He took off his shoes, sat on the wooden board, bent his left knee, crossed his right leg over his left, and touched the ground with his big toe.

Place your left hand on the right side of your body, and your right hand around behind your back to place on the left side of your body, while turning your head back nearly 120 degrees.

"If I hadn't mastered the Heavenly Serpent Form Refinement Technique, it would have been really difficult to execute the movements of the Cloud Mirage Form Refinement Technique!"

The Cloud Mirage Form Refining Technique's breathing method has a maximum of 108 variations.

There are only thirty-six movements.

The Three Easy Forms practice involves twelve more movements at each level, each resembling a yoga pose from a previous life.

It requires a very high degree of physical flexibility.

Fortunately, he has mastered the form through repeated training, and his physical strength and resilience allow him to perform all sorts of incredible movements.

By slowly adjusting the breathing technique and trying it several times, one can gradually become proficient in the thirty-six breathing variations of the Yi Jin Jing level.

One cycle.

Five cycles.

Nine cycles...

Chen Mu was immersed in rhythmic breathing.

At one point, my whole body suddenly jolted. My muscles twitched slightly, but then returned to normal.

"It seems there's been a slight change in my muscles," Chen Mu said, snapping out of his reverie.

Then move on to the next movement and continue adjusting your breathing.

The body's muscles are also undergoing subtle adjustments in sequence.

"Sure enough, the enhancement and transformation of the body by the Body Refinement Technique is getting smaller and smaller."

Around noon, Chen Mu had finished going through all twelve movements of the Yi Jin stage once. With a thought, he brought up the gray wall.

A brand new entry appears at the bottom.

Cloud Mirage Form Refinement Technique: 137/10000/Second Tier;

As always, the Form Refining Technique skips the Tendon Changing stage directly.

"The training period this time should be shortened to eighteen days."

With each iteration of the Body Refinement Technique, the time required for the Three Transformations becomes shorter and shorter. "We should be able to start the next Body Refinement Technique around the end of September."

"From this perspective, the training of physical techniques is still insufficient."

"If only we had another kind-hearted person like King Chao," Chen Mu lamented.

"I wonder how that old man Ding is doing. He still embezzled a lot of my resettlement money," Chen Mu snorted.

……

Lijiang City, East City.

Old Man Ding, whom Chen Mu had been talking about, was sitting in a calligraphy and painting shop.

The shop wasn't big, just over forty square meters. It mainly sold writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones, as well as some popular novels and storybooks. Hmm... the kind with color illustrations.

There was a rocking chair in front of the counter, where Old Man Ding was nestled, holding a copy of "The Tale of the Demon Fox," his face flushed and his breathing rapid.

It took him a long while to look up, pick up the cool tea from the low table beside him, and take a couple of sips to calm his anger.

Looking up at the ships and merchants coming and going on the dock in the distance, Old Man Ding was still shaken.

"That was close." He almost died.

Fortunately, that bastard Zong Tai disappeared, and King Chao was in a hurry to retreat, so no one paid any attention to him.

When Shangguan Ji took over the government office, he forgave those who had served Chao Tianwang and released them as well.

He then immediately used the excuse of losing face to leave Nanyang Prefecture and settle down in Lijiang City to retire.

Thinking of this, Old Ding couldn't help but smile smugly: "I, Old Ding, am still a cut above the rest!"

"They raided my house?"

"Don't you know a cunning rabbit has three burrows?!"

"The assets of Nanyang Prefecture are just an empty shell!"

He had already secretly transferred his assets, and even bought a bookstore and a small courtyard house in Lijiang Weicheng.

The silver that Chao Tianwang amassed during his recruitment of soldiers was also scattered and hidden in various places throughout Nanyang Prefecture.

They were also taken out and brought to Lijiang City at this time.

"Now I can enjoy my retirement!"

Thinking of the beautiful concubine he had just taken into his room, Old Man Ding's face lit up with joy.

"I need to go find that silver-booted errand boy again and buy some more Jin Yang pills."

"The Xue family's trading post is truly resourceful; they can even buy the famous secret medicine of Nanyang Prefecture in this small city of Lijiang. Hehe..."

……

three days later.

Chen Mu stared at the gray wall in disbelief.

Cloud Mirage Form Refinement Technique: 892/10000/Tier 3;

"Is this another piece of trash?"

Three days to transcend the Bone Transformation Technique?!
"Or is it that you've accumulated too much physical training techniques, and your body has reached its limit?" Chen Mu wondered.

If that's the case, then the training time for the other three body-refining techniques will be shortened.

"Just try and you will find out."

He immediately buried himself in his training and continued practicing diligently.

……

Five days later.

Chen Mu sat cross-legged on the wooden floor under the wooden shed.

Cloud Mirage Form Refinement Technique: 15/10000/Tier 4;

"As expected, there were too many layers."

In a total of nine days, the Cloud Mirage Form Refinement Technique had completed three stages of refinement.

"Maybe we won't even need fifty Jia Po, forty Jia Po will do!" Chen Mu exclaimed excitedly.

"But where am I supposed to find so many body-training techniques?"

The faster you practice, the faster you accumulate points, and the shorter the time it takes to cultivate the Armor Soul.

But if it's too fast, it will leave him with no form-training techniques to practice.

"It seems we can only proceed cautiously, pushing the Limit Refinement Technique to its limits!" Chen Mu said helplessly.

This is a happy kind of trouble.

"Never mind, there are still three types I haven't practiced, so I won't worry about these troublesome things."

"On this joyous occasion, let's head to Ruyi Tower!"

(End of this chapter)