My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 364 Jade Statue
Chen Mu looked at the deranged Liu Hongyang with pity, watching his ever-changing faces.

The other party has absorbed the vital energy and essence of too many people and merged with the memories of too many people. He is sometimes clear-headed and sometimes confused, and living is a kind of suffering.

"I am an envoy under the command of the Winter Moon God, you cannot kill me!" Seemingly sensing danger, Liu Hongyang glared fiercely at Chen Mu.

"You can't live even if you kill me!"

Chen Mu sighed.

"After all that underhanded stuff, where is your god-king?"

Liu Hongyang's expression changed drastically.

He would respond obediently one moment and act erratically the next, secretly praying for divine blessings.

Can……

"Blessed by the divine lord, all taboos are lifted?" Chen Mu asked softly.

Liu Hongyang felt as if a thunderclap had sounded in his ears. He shuddered, his eyes bloodshot as he glared at Chen Mu: "How could you hear that?!"

I didn't expect that either.

Chen Mu looked at the dark rope, which was about the thickness of his little finger.

As expected of the Ghost-Binding Rope, it not only bound Liu Hongyang's ghostly soldier body but also restrained his sinister supernatural powers.

Liu Hongyang's prayer, transmitted through the hidden fluctuations, was intercepted by the Ghost-Binding Rope and sent into Chen Mu's ear.

"Senior Brother Liu, I'm very curious, what will you do to me after I ask the God of War for a blessing?"

"No, no, no! Junior brother, please don't misunderstand..." Liu Hongyang shook his head and waved his hands repeatedly. Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly turned into a cloud of black smoke and began to scatter in all directions.

"Senior brother, you can't escape."

Chen Mu spoke slowly, his hand silently tightening the love knot.

what……

A piercing scream rang out.

The black smoke that had just flown out was immediately pulled back by an invisible force, and reassembled to reveal Liu Hongyang's form.

Before the other party could beg for mercy, Chen Mu gently clenched his right hand.

Oh oh oh!
With a strange whistle as the rope was pulled rapidly, Liu Hongyang exploded into a cloud of black smoke, like a bomb with its bowstring pulled.

Spots of crimson light lingered in the black smoke, like embers of a bonfire or burning paper money.

Countless human faces flashed in the black smoke.

The face of the person belonging to Liu Hongyang was covered with large, copper-wire-like flame-like markings.

As the stains spread and burned, he frantically rushed toward the roof.

"Lord Fuyutsuki! Lord Fuyutsuki..."

But before he could even touch the roof beam.

A black rope suddenly flew over.

Snapped!
A loud bang, like the crack of a whip, or like a muffled thunderclap.

Liu Hongyang was instantly dispersed, turning into specks of crimson sparks that slowly drifted away in mid-air.

The next moment, the Heart-Binding Rope slowly appeared behind his head, automatically binding his hair like an ordinary black rope.

Chen Mu stared at the roof beam, momentarily stunned.

His path was destroyed, he worshipped evil gods, killed people and committed murder, and now he is dead and his path has vanished.

The world is ever-changing and truly unpredictable.

……

More than a hundred meters away, Liu Hongyang's residence is located more than ten meters underground.

Inside a three-story-high, densely packed room, Chen Mu walked around, looking around at this enormous underground space.

Rather than a secret room, it should be described as a temple.

The walls are covered with images of ghosts and gods, and the six pillars are inscribed with scriptures praising the power of the deity.

The most eye-catching feature is a jade statue of a deity deep within the main hall.

Chen Mu had assumed that Dongyue Shenjun would be a strangely-looking evil god.

But the jade statue in front of them was a female deity with a gentle temperament, wearing a front-opening, long-sleeved ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress), with her hair styled in a lingxu bun, and surrounded by flowing jade belts.

"This...is this really an evil god?"

Chen Mu couldn't help but take a closer look.

The more I look at it, the more I feel that this statue of the deity has a gentle temperament and an ethereal, otherworldly aura, which makes people feel happy just by looking at it.

"Divine Lord, please sit down. How exactly did Liu Hongyang manage to turn himself into something neither human nor ghost?"

"How could such a gentle and beautiful deity be an evil god!" He couldn't help but walk up to the statue of the deity.

"Liu Hongyang is right about one thing: when you encounter a true god who can display supernatural powers, you must worship him with utmost sincerity!"

Thinking this, he walked to the long table and looked down for a cushion.

But when you look down, a withered figure kneeling on the ground comes into view.

Who is it? Just kowtow a hundred or two hundred times, it's so annoying to be taking up the prayer mat!
Chen Mu kicked the man over, and as he rolled, a gaunt, skeletal face was revealed.

He looks familiar... Oh, it's Liu Hongyang.

Liu Hongyang!
"Fuck me!"

Chen Mu snapped back to reality, startled so much that his hair almost stood on end.

Before coming here, he was convinced that Dongyue Shenjun was an evil god, but now that he has seen the jade statue, he actually wants to worship it?!
"This is so damn weird!"

Chen Mu lowered his head and quickly searched Liu Hongyang's body, finding the ring talisman. Black smoke billowed and engulfed the man's dried corpse.

He dared not look at the statue any longer, and leaped into the hidden passage above.

Without turning around, he pointed fiercely at the underground temple.

"Turning the earth into steel!"
boom!
The solid walls instantly softened into mud, and like a mudslide, they broke through the walls and covered and submerged the entire temple in an instant.

Surrounded by spiritual light, Chen Mu fled in a disheveled state along the secret passage as if being chased by evil spirits.

……

Two weeks later, in the afternoon, leaden clouds hung low, and a heavy snowfall was imminent.

Halfway up Eagle's Sorrow Cliff, there is a wooden building next to a small waterfall.

The damaged walls have been restored to their original state, and the indoor heating in the room is burning hot.

Chen Mu sat in a rocking chair by the stove, holding a cup of Rejuvenating Soup in his left hand and a worn-out book with tattered corners in his right hand, carefully examining it.

"After three months, the magic talisman has finally been condensed."

"I really envy Junior Brother Zhang. He actually has a jade pendant to attend classes at the Scripture Transmission Academy. I'd better start saving up some money..."

"Damn it, damn it! That damned Doctor of Scripture Transmission, I have already handed over the Daoist Jade, why is he still greedily demanding more?!"

"Finally, we've gathered all the white jade. Now we should be able to understand the key to turning the earth into steel."

"Damn Doctor of Scriptures!"

"No, no, I've done it wrong, I've practiced it completely wrong, ahhh..."

"Haha, after half a year of hard training, I've finally broken through the barrier..."

"No, what exactly is going on?"

"I'd rather die than attend the scripture lectures..."

"Finally, I've mastered the skill of turning my fingers into steel! Now I can take on jobs and earn money. The future looks bright, haha..."

"damn it……"

"The jade seed has shattered, I'm finished! What a load of rubbish about my cultivation path, it's all over! Hahaha..."

"God, God, God, please grant us blessings!"

After a long while, Chen Mu put down the scroll, took a sip of the coffee-flavored Rejuvenation Soup, and sighed silently.

The scroll contains Liu Hongyang's cultivation notes.

Some describe the key points of cultivation, while others record incorrect cultivation practices and the experience of correcting them.

As Chen Mu read through the entire piece, the honest and simple figure in his eyes became clearer and clearer.

He seemed to see the other person hiding in a secluded place, practicing the secret technique over and over again until their magic power was exhausted and they were so tired of it that they wanted to vomit.

Suffering injustice and unfairness, yet powerless to resist, they can only silently endure and walk alone.

Despite the ups and downs, they remained steadfast in their pursuit of the Way.

Until he was tortured by Sun Jian using bewitching magic, until the jade seed was torn apart, and his path was cut off.

"Pity……"

Chen Mu couldn't help but feel dejected.

If it weren't for Sun Jian.

With Senior Brother Liu's down-to-earth and hard-working approach, although progress is slow, he is taking one step at a time and will eventually be able to condense his acupoint. In fact, as Senior Brother Liu himself said, his future is promising.

"What a pity."

He wore a listening device on his ear, listening to sounds from over a hundred meters away.

Half a month passed, and Senior Brother Liu's death did not cause the slightest commotion.

It was as if it had never existed; no one paid attention, no one inquired.

This is a damn world! Good people don't get rewarded!

Chen Mu sighed.

He brought up the gray wall and looked at one of the entries.

Ground-based steelmaking: 69/10000/Second-order;

Inheriting the legacy of Liu Hongyang, I spent half a month studying his cultivation notes.

Originally, he was just practicing casually to make it easier to dig secret chambers, but he easily broke through to the second level with his "Pointing to the Earth to Turn into Steel" technique.

Chen Mu couldn't help but get up and look out the window at the lonely wooden building, his expression becoming increasingly complicated.

(End of this chapter)