My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 335 Funeral
Five days later.

An underground river somewhere.

With a loud bang, a ghastly green blade of light burst through the collapsed rock cave entrance.

With the Yangcha Bone Shield on his head and a fist-sized fluorescent algae lamp floating beside him, Chen Mu cautiously entered this underground space.

As soon as they entered, they found a shriveled corpse at the entrance of the cave.

A large hole was torn open in the other person's chest, and his skin and bones were filled with terror, like a dried corpse buried in the desert for hundreds of years.

At this moment, it was floating on the surface of the Yinhe River, blocked by a rock, drifting with the current, slowly spinning in place.

"Why bother?" Chen Mu shook his head.

Sun Wuhuan was highly talented and came from a good family. He had no shortage of secret techniques and resources and should have become a high-ranking figure, but he still died a violent death.

"I've been avoiding you, but you still insist on cutting your ties completely. Sigh..." Chen Mu sighed.

"We did know each other, and even though we're enemies, I can't bear to see you buried in water after you die. Let me bury you myself." With that thought, Chen Mu activated his Qi Restriction to lift Sun Wuhuan up from a distance.

Then... he took out the Fire Cloud Gourd.

boom!
The raging flames instantly engulfed Sun Wuhuan.

Chen Mu stared intently, using his Qi Restriction Technique to press and strike the other party until he was completely burned to ashes.

Then they sprinkled the grayish-white powder into the Yin River.

"Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. As my enemy, I've already done more than enough to help you with your affairs after death, haven't I?" Chen Mu said with a complicated expression.

"Sigh... I'm just a pushover." He felt helpless about the kindness in his bones.

The world is a dangerous place, and being too kind-hearted may not necessarily lead to a good outcome.

"But that's just who I am." Chen Mu was very gratified that she could maintain this kind heart.

"If Sun Wuhuan knew this from beyond the grave, he would surely be moved." He thought with a sense of accomplishment.

"If he can still deliver messages, he will definitely use these possessions as payment to me." Chen Mu looked at the two items floating in front of him with a smile.

A heavy, red gourd that looked as if it were cast in iron.

A jade-green thumb ring with faint silver speckles.

"You're too kind!"

"This is what I should do."

"You're welcome!"

"Ha ha……"

……

Inside the alchemy room of the warehouse on the east side of Wuyan Mountain.

Chen Mu sat cross-legged on the soft couch, holding the black Hunyuan Furnace on the low table in front of him with both hands.

A low, buzzing sound emanated rhythmically from within the alchemy furnace.

After a while, Chen Mu released his grip and opened the lid of the alchemy furnace.

Eighty-one fasting pills flew out one after another and landed in a wooden box on the side of the low table.

"If only I had a Qiankun Furnace," Chen Mu thought with a hint of longing.

Even though he had thoroughly mastered the method of making Bigu pills, he was still limited by the size of the pill furnace and could only refine eighty-one Bigu pills at a time.

He had overheard Bai Xiuwen chatting and learned that there was a kind of Qiankun Furnace that looked small on the outside but was enormous inside, with one furnace being equivalent to ten furnaces.

"If we had a Qiankun Furnace, we wouldn't need to keep refining pills here." Chen Mu looked at the dozen or so neatly arranged wooden boxes under the soft couch.

It was filled with the essence of the five grains, accumulated over the previous month.

"Wasn't Qi Hui here to earn Dao merit? I was transferred away by Liang Yi before, why didn't he come?" Chen Mu asked in confusion.

"It's better that he didn't come. Now that Sun Wuhuan is no longer scheming, this merit should be earned by me." Chen Mu thought to himself with a smile.

Take a short break, clean the alchemy furnace, and continue refining elixirs.

……

More than ten days later, in the evening.

Chen Muzhu Building, on the long corridor outside the door.

The corridor is lined with incense sticks that hang in bell shapes on three sides to repel insects. A gentle breeze makes the crimson tips of the incense sticks appear and disappear.

A fist-sized fluorescent algae lamp hung from the top of the eaves, its warm white light illuminating the gradually darkening sky.

Under the lamp was a square table, with five large platters of dishes—three vegetarian and two meat dishes—arranged around it, and a round, imposing Hunyuan Furnace sitting in the center. Bai Xiuwen sat in a bamboo chair with a backrest, staring strangely at the Hunyuan Furnace. The bubbling, steaming braised beast meat inside made his eyelids twitch uncontrollably.

Stewing meat in a precious alchemy furnace?!

Really...

He couldn't help but glance at Chen Mu beside him.

"Eat up, why are you looking at me? This meat is stewed just right."

"Eat, I'll eat now..." Bai Xiuwen's face twitched, and he started eating with a wry smile.

Bai Xiuwen's eyes lit up the moment he tasted the stewed meat.

Can you practice your cooking skills while refining pills?
"Has there been any conclusion regarding that previous calamity?" Chen Mu asked, picking up a piece of cold vegetable salad and crunching it as he ate.

He stayed in the warehouse refining pills and wasn't very well informed.

"The Inspection Bureau has sent word that the mastermind is the wicked master Xin Ya, a senior figure from the Eastern Ridge sect." Bai Xiuwen's expression turned solemn.

"That man is skilled at controlling poisonous insects, and his methods are ruthless."

"Just look at that inhuman blood sacrifice ritual; you can tell how cruel this person is." Bai Xiuwen couldn't help but shudder. "Besides this place, almost all living things within a hundred miles have died out!"

Chen Mu was immediately speechless.

As expected, they acted in a wicked manner, with no restraint whatsoever.

"Fortunately, there are protective barriers around the mountain, otherwise..." Bai Xiuwen said with a look of relief.

"With this victory, we will not be afraid of any future attacks from evil forces."

"We've completely taken control of Misty Mountain now."

Chen Mu nodded in agreement.

With the mountain-protecting restrictions in place, and three experts—two humans and one demon—who are at the Qi Condensation stage, they are well able to control Misty Mountain.

"No news yet from Vice Commander Sun? And no explanation from the other residence?" Chen Mu asked calmly.

"I've refined so many fasting pills, but I don't know who to ask to exchange them for Daoist cultivation techniques." He complained in a slightly resentful tone, as if he really only cared about how to exchange them for Daoist cultivation techniques.

"It's probably a bad omen," Bai Xiuwen guessed.

"I heard that a master of the Sun family who has mastered the Qi Condensation Realm has come here. He has asked many people for information and even used a secret method to search the mountain."

"After circling around Wuyan Mountain for several days, we found nothing."

"As you know, this area within a hundred miles is completely dead, what can we find?" Bai Xiuwen said in a low voice.

"It's estimated that someone will take over the General Affairs Department soon."

A master of Qi Condensation? Searching for secret techniques?
Sun Wuhuan indeed had a powerful background.

It's good to gain nothing.

If there's no result, it's highly likely I won't be implicated.

"I hope so." Chen Mu sighed, feigning concern. "I think I'll stop for a few days before refining it. I'm not at ease having too many fasting pills in my hands."

……

The days after.

Chen Mu obediently stayed in the warehouse, showing his face every morning to refine two or three batches of pills and gain experience with the Five Qi Mixed Yuan Technique.

Then I picked up Ge's Herbal Notes and took the opportunity to think about insect repellent pills.

In the afternoon, he returned to the bamboo house and hid in the secret room to practice the Fire Cloud Spell.

Go to bed early and get up early, maintain a regular sleep schedule.

As the days and months passed, more than half a month went by in the blink of an eye.

One night, inside a cave 400 meters underground.

Fluorescent algae lamps illuminate caves that have been dark for who knows how many years.

A platform protruding from a rock face.

Chen Mu took out a large futon and sat down. He activated his Qi to restrict movement for a hundred miles and dug out a wooden box from the platform rock, then opened it.

A red gourd and a jade-green thumb ring lay quietly inside.

Chen Mu was so excited his whole body itched: "A flying sword..."

(End of this chapter)