My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 382 Alchemy
three days later.

On the mountainside of Wuyan Mountain, west of the General Affairs Office.

Following the wooden sign, Chen Mu slowly walked into the Green Bamboo Garden.

According to the notice posted at the entrance of the General Affairs Office, Cuizhu Garden is responsible for the cross-regional allocation of personnel.

If a lower house is short of staff, the news will be sent to the Green Bamboo Garden in each of the General Affairs Offices immediately.

The Green Bamboo Garden will then use missions to mobilize manpower to the understaffed Lower Courtyard.

He came here today to see if there is a suitable job that would allow him to leave Dongling Wushan.

Killing Sun Wujiu would ultimately be a hidden danger.

Upon entering the room, Chen Mu quickly scanned the surroundings.

Two openwork screens stand on either side of the entrance, dividing the house into two relatively independent small rooms, east and west. The rooms resemble studies, complete with bookshelves, desks, writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones.

At that moment, two people were talking in the west cubicle. Chen Mu glanced at them briefly, then walked straight to the east cubicle.

Behind the desk there sat a bald middle-aged man in his forties.

The other person was dressed in all black, with droopy eyelids and an indifferent expression.

Before Chen Mu could speak, the bald middle-aged man reached out his hand, slightly impatiently saying, "Give me your identity jade token."

Having inquired about the procedures, Chen Mu was well-prepared and quickly handed over the jade token.

The other person took the jade token, a faint white light flashing in their eyes: "You know how to refine Bigu pills?"

"Yes." Chen Mu nodded.

Upon hearing this, the bald middle-aged man's expression softened: "Which mountain do you want to go to?"

"I wonder if there are any places outside of Dongling that need to refine Bigu Pills?" Chen Mu asked calmly.

"You want to go to another lower house?" The bald middle-aged man frowned slightly.

Before Chen Mu could explain, the other party suddenly realized, "That's right, Dongling only pays for refining Bigu Pills with white jade. If you want to earn Dao merit, you really have to go to other lower courtyards."

"Such a thing is possible?" Chen Mu was surprised.

He came to Misty Mountain mainly to cultivate in peace. Apart from the pretense of being a proofreader in the Scripture Transmission Pavilion, he hadn't refined pills for the General Affairs Office for a long time, but he never expected such a change to occur.

However, it's good that I don't get any merit! With this excuse, I can leave the Five Mountains of Dongling legitimately.

“It’s a bit difficult.” The bald middle-aged man frowned. “Your request involves all the lower courtyards of Chicken Cage Road. It’s not easy to find a suitable task in a short time.”

"Thank you for your trouble, sir." Chen Mu stepped forward, took out a gray cloth bag from his sleeve, and quietly placed it next to the pen holder on the corner of the table.

The bald middle-aged man waved his hand and put the item into his sleeve, his brows immediately relaxing: "Then I'll take a look for you."

As soon as he finished speaking, he leaned back slightly and rolled his eyes upward. Immediately afterward, countless silvery-white specks of light appeared from the depths of his eyes. The specks of light jumped and spun continuously, like a sky full of stars.

Chen Mu looked at the other person's eyes in surprise.

Previously, whether in the Tongtianhe Lower Courtyard or the Dongling Five Mountains, he always found work locally. When the officials in charge of the General Affairs Office assigned tasks, they would take notes from books and search for them on-site.

this……

"Could it be that he memorized all the information?!"

The personnel relocation involved in the entire Chicken Coop Road area involved a lot of information.

This……

A humanoid computer!

Chen Mu's interest was piqued, and he stared intently at the other person.

"No wonder Qinglu knew the location of every scripture in the Scripture Transmission Pavilion; he probably had this secret method." Chen Mu suddenly realized.

"Found it!" Not long after, the light in the middle-aged man's eyes dimmed.

"Your luck is truly extraordinary." The bald middle-aged man looked on in surprise: "The Chicken Cage Path Academy is actually short of people to refine the Bigu Pill!"

Going to the Upper House? Is there really such a good thing?!

“A disciple of Danbao Pavilion wants to come to Dongling, and we are short of replacements, so…” The bald middle-aged man looked at Chen Mu with a hint of envy on his face.

"That's the core upper courtyard of Jilongdao. Why would they think of coming to this remote and impoverished Dongling Wushan?" Chen Mu asked, puzzled.

Since the Five Mountains of Dongling were fully opened up, disciples from the Upper Academy have been coming here in an endless stream.

“Not surprising. Although this place is remote, it’s inexpensive.” The bald middle-aged man said calmly, “The Yuquan Mountain Dojo is newly built, and the price is only half that of the Upper Academy.”

"The other four mountains will also be built one after another, and the price may be even cheaper."

"In terms of food, housing, cultivation resources, and all other aspects, it's more cost-effective than the Upper Academy."

Chen Mu suddenly realized. This was just like a first-tier city in his previous life. It was indeed more prosperous, but the cost of living was also higher.

The newly developed Dongling Five Mountains offer low prices and numerous opportunities, attracting a large influx of disciples from the Upper Temple.

"If you want to go, I'll make a note of it for you."

"Once the Moon Cloud Bat Flying Boat arrives, you can go with it to the Upper Courtyard of Chicken Cage Road."

Chen Mu nodded immediately: "Thank you, Steward."

He possesses a delicate jade plate that can gather the earth's spiritual energy, thus limiting his reliance on the Taoist temple.

While others complained about the high cost of the Upper Temple, he valued its stability and security even more.

……

The mountainside on the west side of Wuyan Mountain.

In the dense jungle, a barren, treeless area looked like an unsightly patch, with a thin, gray mist permeating it.

A black-feathered bird, the size of a fist, glided through the gray mist, then immediately began to sway wildly, as if drunk. It hadn't flown far before plunging headfirst into the dense forest.

In the center of the open space, on the first floor of the bamboo building for alchemy.

Chen Mu sat cross-legged behind a long table, his hands resting on the Hunyuan Furnace, concentrating on controlling his magical power to refine pills.

puff!
A muffled thud was heard, and Chen Mu sighed, his face full of regret.

"Just a little bit..."

Drawn by magical power, the lid of the alchemy furnace sprang up and floated in mid-air. A cloud of gray smoke immediately rose and spread.

With a wave of his hand, he stirred up a strong wind, blowing the broken miasma out of the room. Chen Mu used the Five Ghosts Moving Mountain technique to clean the alchemy furnace while reviewing the events.

Although somewhat disappointed, I am not discouraged.

The numbers on the gray wall told him that although he had failed, he had gained a lot of experience.

At this stage, Chen Mu had mastered all the essential magic talismans for collecting poisonous miasma, the rhinoceros horn magic talisman used to absorb poisonous miasma, and the golden pearl magic talisman used to make pills.

"Once I'm familiar with the fusion conditions required for the Hundred Miasma Pill, such as the Qi Restriction and Thunder Sound, I can successfully create the pill in one go." With that thought, Chen Mu summoned the gray wall.

Alchemy (Penetrating Rhinoceros Horn and Clearing Miasma Pill): 8280/10000;

"almost."

After resting for a while, he once again put the poisonous miasma and the essence of the rhinoceros horn into the furnace and started refining pills again.

With previous experience, he became increasingly skilled at controlling the Qi-suppressing Thunder Sound under the Wind and Fire Cardinal Mantra.

In just a quarter of an hour, the Primordial Furnace suddenly trembled. Chen Mu probed into the furnace with his senses following the magical power, and his tense expression immediately relaxed.

He quickly opened the furnace lid, and the gas was captured from a hundred miles away.

A gray, semi-transparent pill, about the size of a quail egg, floated before my eyes.

"It's done!"

……

Outside the wooden alchemy building, a rocking chair sits by the east-facing window.

Chen Mu lay in the chair, holding the freshly made Hundred Miasma Pill and looking at it.

He could clearly feel a faint, ethereal power circulating around him, centered on the pill.

Under this force, the light gray mist that had been swirling around the bamboo house was drawn slowly toward Chen Mu.

Once they approached within three meters of Chen Mu, they were gathered together by an invisible force, transforming into countless thin, invisible threads that disappeared into the Hundred Miasma Pill.

"The miasma absorbed by the Hundred Miasma Pill itself, released through a special method, can actually be used to refine more Hundred Miasma Pills. Tsk tsk..."

"Ingenious idea, Aunt Rongqiu has a good method."

After pondering for a while, Chen Mu put away the pill.

"The completion of the Hundred Miasma Pill can be considered a major accomplishment."

"We need to figure out how to leave Misty Mountain."

He is currently a scribe at the Imperial Academy of Classical Learning. If he wants to leave, he will first need to find a replacement.

However, the salary for the position of Proofreader at Misty Mountain was too low, and Du Qinglu, a member of the Imperial Academy, was a perfectionist with many demands. Apart from someone like him who had no shortage of white jade and wanted a stable cultivation environment, there weren't many people willing to take the job.

Furthermore, the Five Mountains of Dongling have recently experienced significant development, with numerous ways to earn money from jade. Therefore, they are looking for someone to take over this arduous task...

"It's a bit difficult."

(End of this chapter)