My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 195 Listening to the Lecture
The low hills north of Tongtianfang.

A cluster of ancient buildings with blue bricks and black tiles is built in a staggered manner on the hillside.

There is a spacious courtyard on the west side, filled with lush bamboo.

The bamboo is as tall as two people and as thick as a finger, with its main stem and leaves as green as jade.

In the middle of the bamboo forest, a four-cornered pavilion supported by gray wooden pillars and covered with dark blue-green tiles stands.

In the surrounding open space, black and white pebbles were laid flat on the ground.

At this moment, hundreds of people have gathered in the quiet bamboo grove courtyard, some standing and some sitting.

A middle-aged man in his thirties, tall and with a fair complexion, was sitting cross-legged on a futon under the pavilion, resting with his eyes closed.

In front of him was a long, low table. On the left was an ancient incense burner with rising blue smoke, and on the right was a white jade chime carved with cloud patterns.

Ding!
The jade chime automatically emitted a clear, crisp sound.

Just moments ago, I was whispering among myself when I suddenly felt a chill run down my spine and my thoughts abruptly quieted down.

Everyone immediately fell silent, looking at the middle-aged man with curiosity, awe, inquiry, and eagerness.

"Courage is the outward appearance, divine will is the root."

"The two are like mirrors, representing different forms of the three treasures of the human body: essence, energy, and spirit."

"Those born with Daoist bones conceal the Three Treasures within. Within the sea of ​​consciousness and its illusions, their divine will naturally gathers into a cohesive whole."

"If an ordinary person wants to advance further, they must cultivate their physical form and gather their spirit, achieving unity of mind and body, and thus attaining the acquired Jade Seed Dao Bone."

"Only then can one use this as a foundation to sense the earth's spiritual energy and complete spiritual light cultivation..."

The middle-aged man remained calm and composed, completely ignoring the various ambiguous gazes from the hundreds of people below.

He began to explain, without regard for his own words, the various manifestations of the unity of spirit and soul and the formation of jade seed.

Chen Mu hid in a corner of the crowd, listening intently to the sermon, looking completely enlightened.

He started with the Red Falcon Formation Technique and has been quietly grinding experience points on his own ever since.

No one had ever systematically explained cultivation to him.

Listening to a middle-aged person preach and share their insights based on their expertise, one immediately feels as if their eyes have been opened and everything is seen clearly.

This made Chen Mu so engrossed that he forgot about time.

……

Low mountain.

With a head full of insights, Chen Mu arrived at the yellow rice field.

Seeing the yellow rice lying on the ground in patches, covered with bite marks, he gradually came to his senses.

"Damn bald guy!" Chen Mu said with a pained expression.

Although he had controlled the five ghost spirits to devour the white-lined earth spirit rat.

But to avoid alerting the enemy, he could only make his move after the bald, burly man left.

This resulted in severe damage to the yellow rice field near the low hill where the earth spirit rats were first introduced.

"We need to transplant some yellow rice to cover it up," Chen Mu said, narrowing his eyes.

Dong Cheng and the bald, burly man, along with seven or eight others involved in the incident, were all rounded up by Chen Mu.

But if someone investigates, they might follow the trail of the white-lined earth spirit rat.

“There has never been a spirit rat here.”

"And production will not decrease because of the Earth Spirit Rat."

I had no time to reflect on what I had learned from the lecture today.

Under the cover of night, Chen Mu went to the other seven or eight acres of undamaged land.

Mature yellow rice sprouts were randomly dug up and transplanted to repair the first plot of land.

Sweep up broken branches and leaves to remove traces of the rat, and turn over the soil to cover up its tracks.

It took them an hour of work to successfully disguise the damaged fields.

……

Late at night, in the courtyard of Aishan.

I quickly chopped a pot of braised pork, blanched a pot of green vegetables, and cooked a pot of yellow rice.

Chen Mu sat at the square table and sighed, "The local powers are so impolite!"

"They will stop at nothing for money."

"If I hadn't discovered it in time, and they had actually surrounded and attacked us, the consequences..." Chen Mu couldn't help but shudder: "It would have been terrifying!"

Chen Mu said indignantly, "You can't escape these greedy parasites no matter where you go."

"I've already been so low-key." "I just wanted to focus on practicing my skills."

"Since you are heartless, don't blame me for being unjust!"

Chen Mu silently glanced inside the Five Ghosts Bag, where there was a mustard seed talisman that could open and close fifty-three times. Next to it was a small pile of coins mixed with white jade and gold.

"I refuse this kind of windfall," Chen Mu sighed.

"Sigh... I don't want to think about it anymore, let's eat!" Chen Mu wiped his face, took a breath, and solemnly warned himself: "These external things are all demons trying to corrupt my Dao heart! I'd better ignore them!"

……

For the next few days, Chen Mu acted as if nothing had happened.

Like other outsiders, they eagerly headed to the Lower House on Keelung Road.

He absorbed the cultivation experience explained by the aloof middle-aged man, Zhuang Fu, with great eagerness.

Tongtianfang, a courtyard of emerald bamboo.

"Strengthening the attraction of divine will is the key to the unity of the soul and the spirit."

Chen Mu, sitting in the corner, listened carefully and suddenly realized something.

All the various methods of unification are about altering the structure of divine intention. They make divine intention and divine power resemble two poles of a magnetic field, attracting each other more strongly.

The true meaning in the secret jade tablets of the Transmission Institute is the template for this kind of divine intention structure.

Imprint it into your consciousness, and gradually adjust the structure of the divine intention through repeated contemplation, imitation, and correction.

The incantations in the secret manual also have the same effect; otherwise, Chen Mu would not have been able to complete the introductory training of the White Yang True Explanation.

However, the former is like printing and copying, which is convenient and fast.

The latter, on the other hand, is meticulous and painstaking, requiring slow and difficult brushwork.

……

Under the pavilion, Zhuang Fu remained expressionless, barely interacting with the audience.

Regardless of whether the audience understood or not, the explanation proceeded quickly in a fixed order and rhythm.

"The process of uniting the spirit and the soul will cause the spirit and will to transform simultaneously, making them easier to manipulate."

"For this reason, countless secret techniques for jade cultivation were created, enabling various changes such as compression, extension, and deformation of spiritual power."

"Learning one of them will enhance your control over your spirit and accelerate the unification of your spirit and soul."

"If one is greedy for its power and practices multiple kinds of it, then one is putting the cart before the horse and wasting time."

Chen Mu raised an eyebrow upon hearing this.

"Back in Daliang, I heard Jie Jia mention the so-called secret method of 'power'."

"Its power is so great that it can even break through the protective aura of aristocratic families."

"Is the jade seed secret technique here an advanced version of the power secret technique?" A sudden realization flashed through Chen Mu's mind.

"This is probably the normal attack method during the stage of the unity of spirit and soul!"

"Then... how about finding a secret technique to practice?"

……

After the sermon ended, Chen Mu mingled among the listeners and slowly left Tongtianfang.

He noticed many familiar figures. They were all outsiders who had arrived this year on the white shuttle.

The rest were farmers from the basin plains, mostly from the Daqian Dynasty of Yunzhou.

Judging from the scattered conversations among the crowd, Chen Mu guessed that Daqian was a secular country controlled by Jilongdao, and also the main source of personnel for Jilongdao's lower court.

As Chen Mu walked through the residential area, he subconsciously looked at a three-courtyard house in the distance.

A Taoist priest in his forties with thick eyebrows and a solemn expression stood quietly at the door.

There were a few idle people standing around him.

Chen Mu recognized the Taoist priest as a lower-level supervisor, in charge of dozens of lower-level inspectors.

Chen Mu, like any ordinary onlooker, peeked in for a couple of seconds, then quickly left with an expression that said he was afraid of trouble.

"I have cleaned up all the traces I left when I entered the house."

"The clothes and masks were all destroyed."

“I took down all the insiders.”

"Huangya rice field also disguised and concealed itself."

"Hmm... I'll take the Fragrance-Nourishing Pills twice more after we get back."

"After changing body odor five times in a row, it's probably impossible to find anything in the smell."

(End of this chapter)