My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 341 Condensing Aperture Cultivation
Five days later.

Cloud Palace on Misty Mountain.

Liang Yi handed the new identity jade token to Chen Mu.

On the side with the text, the words "Doctor of Transmission of Scriptures" were added in large gold letters.

"Your annotations earned you two thousand merits from the Scripture Transmission Academy."

"If someone buys it later, you'll get half of it."

Is this really true?
I thought they were just trying to fool me.

Chen Mu hesitated for a moment before accepting the jade pendant.

"What, did you think the Scripture Transmission Institute would just swallow your annotations for nothing?" Liang Yi glanced at Chen Mu.

"The head of the Scripture Transmission Academy is Senior Brother Yingtian Ceying."

“He is the direct descendant of the Dao Master, who would dare to play tricks under his nose?”

Daoist Master Dongli attaches great importance to the Scripture Transmission Institute.

Chen Mu suddenly realized.

Originally, I just wanted to find an excuse to go back to Yuquan Mountain.

Looking back now, being a PhD in transmitting scriptures doesn't seem so bad.

One annotation can be sold multiple times, and the Daoist merit jade will be produced in an endless stream. This is more cost-effective than the hard work of refining pills!
Chen Mu couldn't help but look at the gray wall.

How about writing a few more reflections?

Never mind, I'm still a little reluctant to part with it.

Since I already have the secret method for condensing the apertures, I'm not in a hurry to earn more Daoist cultivation.

……

Leaving Genting Palace.

He then began preparing to leave Misty Mountain.

A certain underground river space.

Chen Mu muttered incantations, and the soil beneath his feet quickly turned into soft mud.

He was holding a stone box in his hands, and slowly sank into the ground.

After sinking to a depth of over two thousand meters, Chen Mu found a huge rock, carved a hole in it, and stuffed the stone box containing the gourd sword case inside.

"What a pity for this treasure." Chen Mu's heart ached.

A flying sword leaps like a ball, capable of taking a head from a thousand miles away.

How dashing that would be!
Now, this dream sword is right in front of me, yet I have to bury it with my own hands.

"It's all the Sun family's fault!"

Despite his heartache, Chen Mu activated his "Finger of the Earth Turns to Steel" technique, applying another thick layer of coating around the large rock.

They even planted a layer of hidden energy vines around the stone ball.

"Even the Nascent Soul expert from the Sun family didn't notice it before."

"Now that we're two or three thousand meters underground and enveloped by the concealing vines, it's even less likely we'll be discovered," Chen Mu nodded in satisfaction.

He wasn't afraid of being questioned by Sun Chengye.

Zhang Lang, Li Huan, and the unnamed orange-skinned man were all fed into the Five Ghosts Bag.

Sun Wuhuan even gave Yang his ashes.

"As long as you remain calm and don't reveal any flaws, you won't be discovered."

Once he has accumulated enough Dao merit, he can exchange it for a copy of the Yellow Springs General Outline, and then he can openly cultivate his Qi Condensation Technique.

After processing the gourd sword box.

Chen Mu then filled in the secret passage downstairs.

Afterwards, he went to the General Affairs Office to report to Liu Bai.

Three days later, Chen Mu returned to Yuquan Mountain with a Seven-Star Centipede transport team.

……

Yuquan Mountain, the cave on the cliff behind the General Affairs Office.

Chen Mu sat on the soft couch in the alchemy room, looking out the window.

Nearly half a year after I left, the General Affairs Office at the foot of the cliff has been completely repaired.

The white-walled, black-tiled houses stretched out in a continuous row. Many disciples from the lower temples were busy moving about among them.

In the distance, the mountains are covered with lush green vegetation.

Through the thin mist above the mountains and forests, the spacious and bustling market town at the foot of the mountain appears as a line running east to west.

He has been back at Yuquan Mountain for seven or eight days.

I went to the Danbao Pavilion and the Chuanjing Academy to report my presence, met with Shang Huan and Elder Hao, and then had a meal with the three newly promoted alchemists, Bai, Feng, and Xue. Only today did I finally have some free time.

Thinking about the social engagements he'd had these past few days, Chen Mu couldn't help but shake his head: "I really still don't like it."

I brought up the gray wall, looked at the rows of data, and took a comfortable breath.

"If you want to be carefree and happy, you have to stay at home and grind experience points."

……

Inside Chen Mu's cave dwelling, in the alchemy room.

Chen Mu closed his eyes, and the magical power within the jade seed surged continuously.

A net-like spherical magic symbol, resembling the structure of the human nervous system, gradually emerged.

The talisman emitted a buzzing sound, and an invisible force spread in all directions.

Enveloped in magical power, it slowly collided with the inner wall of the jade seed. This force was gentle yet continuous, like countless tiny hands kneading and pushing against the inner wall of the jade seed.

The smoky magic was like ocean waves crashing and washing over the shore.

The jade immediately began to swell and grow larger.

A quarter of an hour later, the last condensed silver thread of the spherical rune trembled, then broke and disintegrated.

As the force that was pushing the jade to expand disappeared, the jade also shrank.

However, upon closer inspection, it can be seen that although the gap is only the size of a hair, the jade quality has actually been enlarged by a slight margin.

Chen Mu opened his eyes, took out the Linglong Dojo, and went inside.

Two quarters of an hour later, one-tenth of his mana was used up and then replenished.

"The jade variety is expanding slowly."

"The speed at which mana regenerates is also increasing."

"There seem to be slight changes in both my physical and mental state."

Chen Mu carefully sensed the changes in the condensation aperture.

Then look at the gray wall.

Yellow Springs General Outline: 1775/10000/First Order;
Expanding the jade seed increases magical power and also transforms the body.

"No wonder I lose a portion of my magic power every time I condense a magic talisman."

"They were probably all used for these modifications."

Chen Mu suddenly realized.

He couldn't help but think of those unorthodox methods of cultivating the Heavenly Demon Reincarnation Technique.

Those people could even transform into demons; the White Pagoda Master back then was essentially a black dragon.

This obviously requires significant changes and reshaping of the body.

"Humans have limits, so if you want to live forever, you have to transform yourself into something inhuman? Ha..."

Fortunately, I practiced the orthodox Taoist school, and the main changes were concentrated on the jade seed; otherwise, I might have turned into some kind of demon or monster.

"The Yellow Springs General Outline is still the most reliable."

"Unlike the Five Ghosts Possession, which produces billowing black smoke when used, it looks anything but legitimate."

"I am a member of the orthodox Taoist sect, a righteous person. I should be surrounded by a jade-white spiritual light, and my every move should be as graceful as an immortal."

Chen Mu made up his mind.

Once I've mastered the Condensing Aperture Technique, I'll switch to a few orthodox secret techniques to change the art style.

Otherwise, people would always say he has a sinister aura and doesn't seem like a good person.

Isn't this slander?!

goo goo...

A thunderous sound interrupted Chen Mu's reverie.

"This Qi Condensation Technique is great in every way, except that it makes you hungry too quickly."

"However, since it involves body modification, it is unavoidable."

"In my previous life, I needed to supplement my nutrition to get fit and shape my body, let alone this kind of fundamental change in an individual's life."

"We need to get Shang Huan to buy more exotic beast meat."

……

three days later.

Yuquan Mountain is covered in dense forest.

This is where Chen Mu practiced the Five Ghosts Escape Technique.

With a slight twitch of his ears, he could hear everything happening within a ten-mile radius. After confirming that no one was around, Chen Mu suddenly activated his magical power.

"Possessed by five ghosts!"

hum!
His muscles seemed to come alive, his bones cracked, and Chen Mu suddenly transformed into a giant over four meters tall, dressed entirely in indigo.

His hair moved on its own even without wind.

The muscles were knotted and bulged, like a steel cable with countless wires twisted together, and the skin was covered with raised lines.

His eyes were slightly narrowed, gleaming with a sharp light, and his brow shone brightly with a silvery light.

Its body was shrouded in black smoke, making it look like a ghost or demon.

Chen Mu stood there quietly.

Waves of urges to devour and kill surged through his mind, yet he remained as steadfast as a rock in the sea.

They can even conversely observe with great interest the origins of these murderous thoughts.

laugh!
A strong acid corroding sound rang out, and Chen Mu's eyes rolled, seeing a wisp of black smoke drift past the leaves of an unknown shrub around him.

Half of the palm-sized, emerald-green leaf instantly turned black and then scattered as black ash.

The edge of the remaining half-leaf also shimmered with a faint scarlet light, like the edge of a piece of paper that had been half-burned and then blown out.

Eight or nine minutes later, Chen Mu was freed from the possession of the five ghosts and returned to his normal appearance.

"Things are different now."

He used to rely on the Seven Souls Returning to Origin technique, but it only lasted for six or seven minutes.

Now, relying solely on himself, he can maintain the possession of the five ghosts for eight or nine minutes.

"The Condensing Aperture is indeed extraordinary."

Chen Mu clenched his fist involuntarily.

(End of this chapter)