My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 181 Song Wuji

Xianxian Teahouse.

Chen Mu stared at the small bowl in his hand with an inscrutable expression.

The bowl contained a fist-sized ball of rice.

This rice is extremely heavy; holding the small bowl in your hand feels like holding a stone!
The rice grains are a translucent yellow, as thick as the white rice of my previous life, but as long as peanuts, narrow and sharp.

Chen Mu picked up a piece and chewed it slowly.

A slightly sweet, glutinous aroma spreads in your mouth.

After swallowing, a faint warm sensation immediately spread through my stomach.

"Delicious!" Chen Mu exclaimed in surprise, "Yellow sprout rice is truly extraordinary."

He immediately shook his head and smiled wryly: "But its price is also unusually high."

A single portion the size of a fist cost him five hundred taels of silver!
"The prices in Yunzhou shouldn't be like this, right?" Chen Mu was deeply worried about his future life.

"How come the combination of Jia and Po resulted in a glutton?" Chen Mu asked helplessly.

The fasting pills are all gone.

The money is almost gone.

If he stayed any longer, he would have to use those seventeen white jade coins.

"I should have squeezed more money out of that old witch back then!" Chen Mu thought regretfully.

With the advancement of the Cloud Mirage Armor Technique, the body's transformation accelerated, and his appetite increased dramatically. Ordinary meals could no longer satisfy his needs.

"Is yellow rice the staple food after the fusion of Jia and Po?"

"This tastes a bit familiar," Chen Mu said, frowning in confusion.

"A fasting pill?" He suddenly realized.

Although the ingredients are still unidentifiable, Bigu Dan must be related to yellow sprout rice.

"I wonder if this thing is easy to grow," Chen Mu sighed.

He will be with this thing for the next twenty years.

……

In the cabin of Liuyimao on the left.

Chen Mu sat cross-legged on the bed.

The 1.0 version of the calming pill was still being smoked on the table.

In his mind, wisps of silver lines pierced through the thin mist and rushed to his eyes.

Chen Mu has gradually gotten used to this shock.

"The divine will intend to break through the fog and achieve the unity of the divine and the physical. Is this what is meant by opening the gates of heaven?" Chen Mu suddenly realized.

Chen Mu opened his eyes and looked at the gray wall.

Cloud Mirage Armor Technique: 7757/10000/Tier 6;

"Once all my spiritual power has undergone a qualitative change, I will be able to begin sensing and cultivating."

"It can't compare to Daoist bones. But it's still one step ahead of most people." Chen Mu nodded in satisfaction.

……

The white silkworm has reached Yunzhou, but it hasn't reached Jilong Mountain yet.

The scenery outside the transparent curtain wall remains unchanged. It's always a view of water, day or night.

If it weren't for the fact that they docked and sent people ashore every two or three days, Chen Mu would have thought they were still adrift at sea.

"No wonder it's called the Tongtian River." This doesn't even mention the spectacular sight of the river overflowing its banks, as described in the book.

Even with its width, which obscures the riverbank, it is enough to be called Tongtian (meaning "reaching the heavens").

As the people on the boat gradually left, several old acquaintances, including Zuo Sheng, Cheng Yi, and Tu Shan, disembarked one after another.

"I wonder when it will be my turn."

Even if you've prepared yourself mentally, it's still an unknown place, and it's hard not to feel uneasy.

"I should have given that old man a few more pieces of white jade money back then," Chen Mu thought with a hint of regret.

With more money, we might be able to arrange a better place.

……

Half a month later, just as Chen Mu's silver savings had fallen below five thousand taels, he finally arrived at Jilong Mountain.

Running up the boarding stairs to the exit, Chen Mu saw the gaunt old man who had stamped his passport again.

He checked everyone's marks one by one, and then led the more than one hundred people ashore without saying a word.

On the pale white back of the white turtle, a pentagonal shell is lifted upwards, revealing a straight passage.

The group walked out of the passage and onto the stone boardwalk.

The old man handed the seal to a plump Taoist priest dressed in a black robe. After exchanging a few words, he turned and left.

Chen Mu mingled in the crowd, carefully observing.

Looking out, one sees rolling, verdant mountains in the distance, shrouded in wispy white clouds. Turning one's gaze back to the end of the stone pier...

Streets, shops, vendors, crowds. Chen Mu even felt as if he had returned to the eastern dock of Lijiang City.

He turned to look at the north side of the dock and noticed a low hill there.

The side closest to the Tongtian River is a cliff with a near-vertical slope.

Five or six tall wooden buildings with black tiles were actually built and embedded in the middle of the cliff!

"To dare to live in a place like this, where you can't even sleep peacefully, you must be incredibly carefree," Chen Mu thought to himself.

If it really collapses, given the physical strength of everyone present, it's impossible for them to die from the fall, but they will definitely feel pain.

After taking another good look at this ordinary dock, a hint of disappointment flashed through Chen Mu's mind.

"Was the amount of white jade money really too little?"

Then he saw a figure suddenly leap out of the window of the low wooden building, its body instantly enveloped in a ball of shimmering white light.

After a slight descent, it slowly but then quickly soared into the sky.

Once it reaches the low hill, it makes a right-angle turn and shoots into the distant mountains in a flash.

Chen Mu: “…”

Hey!
……

The short, stout Taoist priest turned around and glanced at the scene, then said with a smile, "That is Song Wuji, the supervisor of our Chicken Cage Taoist Lower Temple."

"Our Abbot Song is a rare expert in the Qi Condensation stage," the fat Taoist priest said with pride.

"Most importantly, the abbot's starting point was exactly the same as yours!" the fat Taoist priest said with deep emotion.

"Supervisor Song also arrived in a white shuttle back then."

"He worked diligently and cultivated himself step by step, combining the jade seed, gathering the primordial talisman, and condensing the spirit aperture, eventually becoming an elder abbot."

"If you can work diligently and avoid causing trouble, you might become the next Supervisor Song!" the fat Taoist priest encouraged sincerely.

The crowd, who had just looked bewildered and disappointed, suddenly became excited.

It's not that these people are easy to fool, but rather that they are among the most outstanding individuals in their respective countries.

There's a certain "I can do it" attitude in them.

Even Chen Mu, a typical lazy homebody, couldn't help but get excited.

fly!
That can fly!

It's not the kind of floating that Five Ghosts Move Mountains, but a true flight that takes off from the ground!

And so fast!

Even though he knew the fat Taoist priest was just making empty promises, Chen Mu couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion.

"A true man should be like this!" Chen Mu was immediately filled with patriotic fervor.

……

three days later.

The grain store in the lower courtyard of Keelung Road.

"The purchase limit for yellow sprout rice is ten catties, which is equivalent to two thousand taels."

"Two hundred catties of silver pearl rice, totaling twenty-four taels."

"Guest, the total is two thousand and twenty-four taels of silver. You see..." A waiter in his thirties, dressed in a gray short-sleeved shirt, looked at Chen Mu with a smile.

Chen Mu's lips twitched. The passion he had felt three days ago was instantly worn away by the mundane realities of daily life.

Although prices have dropped significantly compared to those in Baihuo, they are still ridiculously expensive.

He had a total of 4,256 taels of silver left. This loss of more than half of it was truly painful.

But even that's only his food money for a month!
And that doesn't even include the cost of all kinds of meat and vegetables!

It's not easy to find a place to live...

……

Carrying two burlap sacks and a gray cloth bag, Chen Mu silently left the grain store.

Walk along the dock street towards the east.

Walk through the market street, through the residential area, leave the stone archway inscribed with Tongtianfang, and turn over the low hillside.

A vast, boundless basin plain appeared before him.

Neatly arranged plots of land lay on the ground.

Scattered houses can be seen in the fields.

"I'll have to make a living here for the next twenty years."

Although the difficulties were clearly visible to the naked eye, they also brought a slight sense of peace.

Chicken Cage Path is not some heretical sect, at least for now there is no immediate danger to my life.

Chen Mu tightened the burlap sack on his shoulder, strode off, kicking up clouds of dust as he sped and bounced away.

(End of this chapter)