My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 165, Chapter 164: Revisiting an Old haunt
Chen Mu strolled through the thick white fog.

Terrified screams and howls echoed from the fog from time to time.

Occasionally, a few burly men would burst out of the thick fog and appear before Chen Mu, all covered in wounds and blood, attacking him in a frenzied frenzy of terror and collapse.

With his body covered in armor, neither the life-absorbing fog nor the crazed man could pose a threat to Chen Mu.

But he was momentarily at a loss.

You can't run away.

Walk, but have no direction.

"Where am I right now?" Chen Mu asked, his face grim.

I don't know how long I walked, but the fog in front of me suddenly thinned out.

The surrounding scenery became familiar, and Chen Mu suddenly looked up.

Tianyi Zhai?!

"When?!" Chen Mu's pupils suddenly contracted.

He was clearly on the banks of the Bailang River outside the east side of the city, but he didn't know when he entered the city or how he got here.

Unbeknownst to him, he had been bewitched by some unknown force, which had clouded his senses and disoriented him!

He turned around and wanted to run.

An invisible force suddenly enveloped my entire body.

He felt as if he had been thrown into the depths of the ocean.

The immense pressure from all directions relentlessly pressed him to the spot, rendering him completely immobile.

Immediately, the force gradually increased, lifting him into the air and turning him around.

"Sun Dawang, long time no see." A pretty figure dressed in a bright green traditional Chinese dress appeared before Chen Mu.

"Cui Cui?!"

Yes, only Cui Cui, a powerful and intelligent spirit, could influence my mind so subtly.

I lost my bearings and unknowingly ended up here.

This instilled fear in those who ventured into Qingshan County, leading to a frenzied battle.

A sudden realization dawned on Chen Mu.

To conjure terror and attack the mind—isn't this the very method of a vengeful spirit?!

And Cui Cui's power extends to the entire Qingshan County!
……

Qingshan County, East Gate.

boom!
Shangguan Ji flew backwards like a cannonball and crashed into the city wall with a bang.

He stared at the figure below in disbelief: "You?!"

Bai Miaojin grabbed Shangguan Yu's ankle with one hand and dragged him to the foot of the city wall. She looked up at Shangguan Ji with a blank expression.

Shangguan Yu is a once-in-a-century genius in their family. He is born with a Daoist spirit and his bloodline was activated at a young age.

Once they obtain the Thousand Machine Token and travel overseas, the Shangguan family will have the foundation to become a family that lasts for a thousand years.

But at this moment, he was being dragged along by Bai Miaojin like a dead dog, his fate uncertain.

Shangguan Ji's expression immediately changed.

Confusion, worry, and anger instantly filled my heart.

He pulled his limbs and body out of the city wall, took a deep breath, and forced himself to calm down, saying, "The Shangguan family and the Bai family have a century-old friendship. I want to know why?"

Bai Miaojin looked at him calmly, then pointed to Shangguan Ji's right wrist. "The Unfixed Ring."

"How dare you covet my family's heirloom artifact?!" Shangguan Ji narrowed his eyes.

He stared coldly at Bai Miaojin: "I guarantee I will make sure your entire Bai family is wiped out. Not even a dog will survive!"

Bai Miaojin remained unmoved, looking calmly at Shangguan Ji: "I'm just taking back what belongs to me."

"You haven't forgotten what's recorded in the Shangguan family's precepts, have you?"

Do you know how amorphous rings come about?

Shangguan Ji's pupils suddenly contracted.

According to the family's secret records, when the patriarch Shangguan was in dire straits, he encountered a mysterious person who gave him guidance.

Later, they borrowed the magical artifact, the Boundless Ring, to activate their bloodline, thus rising to prominence. Today, they have become the most powerful family in Nanyang Prefecture. Are the Bai family descendants of that extraordinary person from back then?
Yes, the friendship between the Bai family and the Shangguan family began more than a hundred years ago!

"Impossible!" Shangguan Ji categorically denied. "I don't know where you stopped digging into my family's secrets. But to think you can use this to steal my family's magical artifacts is simply wishful thinking!"

Bai Miaojin's expression remained calm: "Trying to stall for time? Activating the Unpredictable Ring?"

Shangguan Ji's pupils contracted.

Bai Miaojin gently raised her hand.

puff!
The dark gold ring that was firmly wrapped around Shangguan Ji's right hand suddenly contracted, instantly tightening and severing Shangguan Ji's right wrist.

It flew to Bai Miaojin in a flash.

She looked at the terrified Shangguan Ji and said calmly, "What is borrowed must be repaid. The debt from a hundred years ago should be repaid by your Shangguan family."

……

Tianyi Studio, Xishi, Qingshan County.

On the flat floor of the room, there was a large hole with a diameter of three meters and an unknown depth. From deep underground, a faint emerald green light shone on the cave walls.

After going more than ten meters deeper into the large hole, an underground space appeared, as large as a basketball court in the previous life.

The space is five or six meters high, and is inlaid with whole stone walls on all sides.

Inscribed on it are chapters of scriptures in flowing, large characters. The characters are ancient and covered with a thin layer of dust.

Chen Mu was lifted up by Cui Cui and floated horizontally to the ground. The first thing he saw was the Taoist scripture on the stone wall above his head.

"Without understanding the profound mystery of the universe, how can one know that lotuses can be planted in fire? Bring the white tiger home to raise it, and it will produce a bright pearl as round as the moon..."

It seems like I've seen it somewhere before?
Before he could figure it out, Cui Cui straightened his body and made him stand on the ground.

A square stone platform, at least four meters long and wide, comes into view.

The stone platform is waist-high, with a matte black surface and sharp edges.

A ball of black silk thread, two meters in diameter, floats suspended above it.

Upon closer inspection, Chen Mu saw that the black threads had no joints and were clearly the Yinming Silk of unknown length!
"How many lives would it take to cultivate this clump of Yin-Yang silk?" Chen Mu's scalp tingled.

Around the group of online figures were four jade gourds, like satellites, slowly rotating and emitting a green glow.

"What is this?" Chen Mu was shocked.

How could there be a Thousand Machine Token here?

"Surprised?" Cui Cui smiled. "This is the place where the Thousand Machine Tokens are gathered."

"Do you know what the materials used to make it are?" Cui Cui smiled meaningfully.

Chen Mu felt a chill run down his spine. He thought of those people above him, caught in a terrifying, frenzied battle.

Could he possibly know this kind of information?!
"We have no past grievances, no present troubles, and I even made you so much roast meat." Chen Mu looked at Cui Cui sincerely: "Can you please not kill me?"

Cui Cui looked at Chen Mu with a surprised expression: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"I didn't intend to kill you, I just want the little cutie who lives with you."

Chen Mu suddenly realized.

Is this why Cui Cui approached him?

But... I don't have a symbiotic spirit?
Those are just paper figures of five ghosts!

He hesitated for a long time, not rushing to talk about the Five Ghost Bag, but instead subtly probing, "What will happen to me if you take my symbiotic Yin Soul?"

Cui Cui sat on the edge of the stone platform, her hands supporting her body on either side, her legs swaying back and forth.

Hearing Chen Mu's question, she tilted her head, thought for a moment, and said with a smile, "I won't die."

Chen Mu showed no joy whatsoever.

Is it just that they won't die?
"How about this? I'll give you the symbiotic spirit willingly. You let me go."

Cui Cui shook her head and laughed, "Don't talk nonsense. We're already in a symbiotic relationship, how could you possibly take it out on your own?"

"Only a magical artifact capable of captivating the soul can draw it out."

Soul-stirring? Chen Mu felt a chill run down his spine.

Whose soul is being stirred, and whose spirit is being captured?!
Even if I don't die, I'll probably be crippled!

(End of this chapter)