My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 387 Escape
In the underground cave.

Bolts of lightning struck, and even with his protective aura, Chen Mu was still jolted and winced.

He felt as if countless ants were crawling inside his body, causing both pain and itching.

"Turning the earth into steel!" Chen Mu gritted his teeth and activated his magic power.

An invisible force enveloped a half-person-deep pit beside them.

Immediately afterwards, a jet-black moon blade appeared and, propelled by the strange force, slashed fiercely towards the bottom of the pit.

Clang!
With a metallic clang, gravel flew everywhere, but the pit was only chipped away a finger's width deep.

At the same time, a bolt of Yin lightning from the Kui Water descended from the sky.

Chen Mu helplessly raised his spiritual light.

Crack!

The dark lightning dissipated, but his body was still enveloped in a series of electric sparks.

"Before we even dug the hole, I was already chopped to a crisp, tsk..." Chen Mu smiled wryly as he pointed to the gray wall.

Ground-based steelmaking: 8834/10000/Second-order;

"If I had reached the third rank earlier, I might have been able to counter the ground restrictions."

"Even if it can't be completely eliminated, it can at least be suppressed a bit more, sigh..."

He hadn't expected Sun Jian to set up a teleportation barrier underground. To escape the chaos, he plunged underground, which also meant he ended up inside a cage.

"It was set up in advance, and the restriction was activated precisely when Liyang Road attacked the mountain. The timing was so precise that Sun Jian might have known about the attack all along."

"I don't know if he was well-informed and found out in advance, or if he colluded with Li Yang Dao."

"I just hope that Misty Mountain can hold out a little longer, so that this old guy can arrive a little later."

Chen Mu sighed, enduring the increasingly severe injuries from the lightning strike, and continued to urge the Yin Cuo Digging Technique.

……

Thunderbolts fell one after another, and time flew by.

At one point, the stinging, tingling, and itchy sensation from being struck by lightning intensified dramatically.

Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat: "You're here?!"

He immediately suppressed his unease, perked up his ears, and slowed his breathing.

However, apart from the heavy breathing of the people who had been poisoned and knocked unconscious, there was no other sound inside the cave.

After examining it carefully for a while, Chen Mu's expression turned strange.

"It seems... it's because of myself."

"My physical condition improved, my senses became clearer, and the lightning strike injury was inexplicably healed."

"Not only that, but my body has also gained a secret acupoint. This..."

Unbeknownst to him, a brand new secret passage had been opened up inside his left ribcage.

It does not rely on any organs, exists in the void, yet is rooted in the body, which is truly strange.

"The secret passages have been opened, and the body has undergone a transformation. Because the newborn body is sensitive, it feels that the power of the Yin Lightning has increased many times over." Chen Mu suddenly realized.

A thought struck him, and he looked at a column on the gray wall.

Yellow Springs General Outline: 9174/10000/Fifth Order;

"It's still at the fifth rank?"

Previously, the body's secret points would appear after advancing to the next level of the general principles, but this time it was clearly different.

"Lightning strike?"

"Heretical demons?"

Chen Mu had a guess.

Chicken Cage Path is the orthodox school of Qi cultivation, but it also contains materials from unorthodox and heterodox schools.

Cultivators who practice the Heavenly Demon Reincarnation Technique must actively endure being struck by lightning to undergo the tribulation after their enlightenment is achieved.

It is said that the thunder of spring can stimulate the energy of celestial demons, helping to open more hidden passages and assisting in the transformation of meridians.

"So, I was struck by the Kui Water Yin Lightning and discovered a hidden trick?"

"Shouldn't we thank Sun Jian for that? Heh..."

"It's a pleasant surprise, I suppose," Chen Mu sighed, composed himself, and prepared to continue digging.

But as soon as he activated his magic, he sensed something was wrong.

The ground... seemed to be pulsating.

He had occasionally sensed this fluctuation before, but never as clearly as today.

"Secret?"

The moment the thought crossed my mind, the secret seemed to be activated, and a slight vibration suddenly appeared inside.

As if a heart begins to beat and lungs begin to breathe, a subtle ripple naturally spreads, enveloping the entire body. Then, upon contact with the ground, it abruptly adjusts, instantly resonating with the rhythm of the earth.

puff.

Like a pebble thrown into water, Chen Mu plummeted to the ground without warning and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

……

On the west side of the misty mountain, a hidden forest lies.

Chen Mu rose from underground.

"Earth-遁术!"

"This is the real earth-遁术!" Chen Mu couldn't help but jump for joy.

"It can blend into the earth and move rapidly underground."

"In comparison, what I did before was just like digging a hole and drilling into the ground using the method of turning the ground into steel." The first secret technique had given him the secret method of restricting qi for a hundred miles.

The opening of the fifth secret aperture unexpectedly brought him some innate supernatural abilities, allowing him to thrive underground and achieve true underground burrowing.

Just now, the secret passage resonated with the earth, and he seemed to become a part of the earth. The restrictions within the cave were rendered useless, and could no longer stop him from escaping.

"Even demons and heretics aren't entirely useless," Chen Mu said, a hint of excitement in his eyes. "Shall we go find some more lightning strikes?"

But just recalling the shock of being struck by lightning earlier, he dismissed the idea.

"Let's just let nature take its course. Anyway, the Yellow Springs General Principles can also trigger the opening of secret passages."

Chen Mu gathered his thoughts and scrambled to the treetop to investigate the situation at Misty Mountain.

The mountains were ablaze with fire, yet the sounds of battle were few and far between. Instead, the sounds of violent clashes echoed from outside the mountains.

"Is it over?" Chen Mu prepared to burrow underground, carefully activating his Listening Beast, and the sounds from all over the mountains and fields entered his heart.

"They fled from Liyang Road, while Jilong Road launched a counterattack?"

"Sun Jian was an inside traitor, yet he was beaten and forced to flee in terror?"

"You damn Qingdu Academy!" Chen Mu, perched on a treetop, couldn't help but burst into laughter. "Keep it up, Academy Chief! Try to chop that bastard to pieces!"

The counterattack from Wuyan Mountain was successful, and the situation is very favorable.

"Now there's no need to rush to run away." Chen Mu breathed a long sigh of relief: "Let's just wait until dawn, and I'll show myself when the situation stabilizes."

Although the spoils from looting corpses after a war are tempting, what if you suddenly appear and get killed by someone claiming you're from the Li Yang Path?
Having made up his mind, he sat cross-legged atop the tree, hovering in mid-air, straining his ears to survey the surroundings.

"It seems that Keelung Road was not entirely unaware of this attack."

In some conflict scenes reported by the Di Ting Fa, the disciples of the Chicken Cage Sect were well-trained and acted too decisively and ruthlessly.

That was definitely not the behavior expected of the farming and mining disciples of Yanxiafang.

"So, Keelung Road knew about the attack beforehand and turned the tables on them?"

"Tsk tsk...a bunch of old swindlers!"

"Hmm, it seems like someone we know went into that cave." Chen Mu's ears twitched slightly, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up.

……

100 meters underground.

A streak of dark lightning flashed by, illuminating the dim cave.

A tall, thin figure dressed in a fiery red Taoist robe struggled incessantly, thrashing about like a fish trying to swim ashore, but eventually collapsed on the spot, panting heavily.

"Damn it, traps, all traps!" His eyes were bloodshot and red.

Everything was fine until the protective barrier around the mountain was broken, and he and his fellow disciples seized the opportunity to launch a surprise attack.

Unexpectedly, Elder Huiming suddenly died, and the broken restriction was countered.

The disciples of Chicken Cage Sect, who had been fleeing in all directions, turned around and attacked together, killing several junior brothers instantly.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly and immediately activated the Earth-遁玉符 (Earth-遁玉符) to penetrate deep underground.

Just when they thought they had escaped, they fell into another trap.

"Where exactly did things go wrong?" The red-robed Taoist priest tried his best to remain calm.

"Don't panic, don't lose your composure, we have to find a way to escape!"

Suddenly, a deep pit in the distance caught his attention.

"Heaven is helping me!" The red-robed Taoist couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"The pit isn't big, but it's deep enough. As long as enough thunderbolt talismans are buried, we can blast a crack in the cave's restrictions!"

And this gap was his chance to escape.

He immediately crawled into the pit, feeling the invisible pressure on his body, which gave him more confidence in his escape plan.

"The invisible pressure comes from the mountain, and the restrictions inside the cave are also based on the mountain. If we can blast open the mountain, we can shake the restrictions of the underground cave."

They are most skilled in explosive fire techniques from Liyangdao, and are most familiar with the methods of blasting mountains and mining.

He encountered many people lying unconscious along the way, and he couldn't help but feel fortunate: "Luckily, I took the antidote pill in advance, otherwise I would have been knocked out long ago."

"This is the truth that Heaven never closes all doors." The red-robed Taoist was even more delighted.

With great effort, he finally crawled to the edge of the pit, enduring the pressure. Without even catching his breath, he immediately poked his head out to estimate the depth of the hole. While still pondering the power of the thunderbolt talisman, he looked down and was met with a strange, smiling face.

At the bottom of the deep pit, a person looks up.

His mouth was wide open in a grin, and his face was full of joy.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

"You..." The red-robed Taoist trembled violently as if struck by lightning.

puff!
Black light flashed and danced in the air.

A head fell silently.

It bounced left and right along the rough cave wall, but before it even landed, it was enveloped by a cloud of black smoke and swallowed up in the blink of an eye.

Chen Mu's figure flashed, disappearing into the ground to dodge the attack of the Yin Lightning, and reappeared at the edge of the pit.

"Sun Jian has escaped, what are we going to do with all these guys lying in the cave?"

"They've all been poisoned; it would be so pitiful if they all died."

"Sigh, it's only because I'm so kind that I helped you detoxify and send you a message, giving you a chance to escape."

"This is a life-saving grace!"

"I'm sure you won't have any objections to charging a small fee."

"It's a happy decision then."

"Ha ha!"

(End of this chapter)