My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 413 Undercurrent
Ganhe Lower Courtyard.

The mountaintop temple on the north side of the valley entrance.

Mo Wuzhou stood respectfully before the incense table.

On a curtain woven from wisps of blue smoke, Rongqiu's figure appeared.

"Soon, a group of people from the Hall of Crafts will secretly go to the Lower Temple of Ganhe."

“Find them a secluded location so they can focus on building the deep-sea ferry.”

Mo Wuzhou's expression turned solemn: "Master, are we really going to move the entire clan to Haizhou?"

Rongqiu sighed: "Ancient books record that the earth's spiritual energy is like waves, with peaks and valleys."

"We were unfortunate to be born in a year of great change, and Yunzhou was at the bottom of the wave."

"Only by preparing early and chasing the tide of vital energy can we have the opportunity to continue cultivating."

Mo Wuzhou nodded solemnly: "Master, rest assured, I will definitely guard the Ganhe Lower Courtyard well."

"Don't put too much pressure on yourself. Your senior brother Liang Yi went to the lower courtyard of the stone cave and did something similar to what you did."

“Chicken Coop Road can’t put all its hopes on one place; it has prepared several alternatives,” Rongqiu comforted her gently.

Mo Wuzhou immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Rongqiu chuckled, then her expression turned serious: "You must be careful, someone might cause trouble. Your Senior Uncle Song has already begun investigating."

"These people have mysterious origins, and we still don't know which Taoist sect they belong to. You should be very careful."

Mo Wuzhou frowned, and he immediately thought of the group of strange men in black he had encountered at Jilong Mountain.

After answering some of Mo Wuzhou's questions about cultivation, Rongqiu's figure slowly disappeared.

……

"How cunning, humans," the Black Smoke Monster suddenly remarked.

"On the surface, we sent you to this poor and remote place, but in reality, we put you here to oversee the construction of the Ganhe Ferry and prepare for the relocation of the entire population."

"Is that elder who's so happily occupying Chicken Cage Mountain going to be in trouble? Tsk tsk..."

"Not only did you not tell him about the migration plan, but he didn't even know that there were ghosts and demons lurking in Jilong Mountain, did he?"

Mo Wuzhou's lips curled slightly: "So that white mist monster is called the Netherworld Ghost Demon?"

"Insidious! Truly insidious!" Tu exclaimed. "You humans are far more filthy than we demons and heretics."

"At least we humans won't hide inside someone else's jade seed and never come out?" Mo Wuzhou sneered.

"How do you know no one does that?" Tu Le chuckled and asked back.

Mo Wuzhou was stuck.

Who knows, some people really do try to seize another's body for power and longevity. He had heard of a secret technique called the Six Desires God-Slaying Method, which supposedly allows one to possess a demon's body and achieve a different kind of immortality.

"Not going to say anything now, huh?" Tu chuckled strangely.

"Shut up!"

"Ha ha……"

……

Wooden house corridor.

Five days after feeling the vibration in my right chest, the new secret appeared naturally.

Chen Mu sat on the edge of the corridor, leaning against a pillar.

A flash of black smoke appeared on his right hand, revealing a piece of dark metal—a leftover scrap from when he forged the Zhu Yu magic sword.

He sensed it carefully and noticed a ghostly fluctuation emanating from the metal ingot.

Just like blinking, Chen Mu instinctively activated his escape technique.

The next moment, the metal ingot seemed to have gained the ability to pass through walls, easily passing through the palm of the hand and falling off the ground.

He then took out a piece of unrefined crimson ore, activated his escape technique again, and the ore easily pierced through his palm.

"From now on, even if I encounter a hard rock vein, I'll dare to forge my way up!"

"Ha ha!"

As expected, a brand new secret technique was discovered, and the escape method was upgraded once again.

"Everyone says that the Heavenly Demons and Heretics are stupid and reckless, and that practicing them is painful and makes them look ugly."

"But here, these demonic heretics aren't entirely useless either."

"Sure enough, the method is still the same; it all depends on who practices it. Hehe..."

Just as he was feeling smug, ripples appeared in the open space on the west side of the courtyard, and the figure of the giant toad Yuanbao slowly emerged.

Beside him floated a strange fish. It was over a meter long, with two golden whiskers the length of its forearms, and its body was covered in jet-black scales.

"You didn't put it in your mouth, did you?" Chen Mu stared at the giant toad with a suspicious look. Yuanbao's eyes were full of helplessness: "Croak..."

"Captured with magic? Floating around me the whole time? That's good."

"Crack."

"You think I'm long-winded and don't trust you?"

"Ah!"

With a sour face, Chen Mu activated his Qi Restriction for a hundred miles, summoning the Golden-Bearded Black-Scaled Monster Fish to his side: "Ever since you told Mo Wuzhou about my information, you have lost all trust in me!"

The giant toad drooped its eyelids, slowly turned its body, turned its rear end towards Chen Mu, and looked up at the sky on its own.

Chen Mu: “…”

How dare you show your ass to me?! Do you even want to maintain your vitality?!

I want to eat fish again tomorrow!

"Croak..." the big toad drawled, its reply full of reluctance.

Chen Mu smiled smugly.

He carried the golden-bearded monster fish into the kitchen.

To avoid being captured and used as a source of experience points for Hunyuanqi (a type of internal energy), Chen Mu has been staying in the wooden house and has not shown his face during this period.

Having wandered for many years, he had collected various vegetable seeds in his Five Ghosts Bag. With his Level 3 Planting Technique, he had no shortage of fresh wild vegetables.

As for the exotic beast meat required to brew the Rejuvenating Soup...

Chen Mu looked at Leng Yuechan in the courtyard with a smile.

With this amphibious hunter in his monstrous form, he felt that it wouldn't be long before he could devour all sorts of strange beasts near Ganhe Lower Temple.

Chen Mu hummed a little tune, his right hand fingers flicking the strings.

As the Three Yin Demon-Slaying Blades whizzed through the air, the tender parts of the strange fish instantly transformed into thin slices. A minor Frost-Freezing spell was casually cast over them to temporarily freeze and preserve them. The tougher, older parts were then separated and thrown into a wooden barrel, where they were soaked in cold water along with medicinal herbs. They would later be used to extract the Rejuvenating Soup.

He skillfully cut and processed the enormous golden-whiskered monster fish in no time.

Wind chimes tinkled in a corner of the corridor.

The big toad squatted in the yard, its eyelids drooping as it dozed off.

Five little paper figures darted into the vegetable garden, hopping and skipping around catching insects.

Chen Mu sat back in the rocking chair, picked up a wooden cup and took a sip of mountain tea, then looked at the gray wall and one of the columns.

Yellow Springs General Outline: 7990/10000/Seventh Rank;

Recently, he has devoted more time and energy to refining divine aperture talismans. After years of cultivation, he has become increasingly proficient in condensing divine aperture talismans. Although the talismans have become more numerous and complex, the speed of condensation is significantly faster than in previous years.

"The next phase will be at most a month away."

Chen Mu leaned back gently, and amidst the creaking of the rocking chair, he comfortably closed his eyes.

……

夜晚
The bright moonlight shines into the Gan River.

A small, covered boat floated quietly in the middle of the river.

The current was turbulent and rapid, but the small boat remained motionless, like a rock in the river.

"What's this guy's strength?" A tall, thin man in a gray robe asked from inside the cabin.

Opposite him, a burly, tall man in half-black armor shook his head: "Hard to say."

"According to the information provided by the Night Wanderer, the other party exchanged the Yellow Springs General Outline about a year and a half ago, and seems to have mastered many strange and secret techniques and has some tricks up his sleeve."

"On the surface, it looks like nothing special, but the Spirit Lord told us to wait for General Jin'e to arrive before we make a move."

"Wow! He likes to play dumb to fool others? He's hiding his true strength." The middle-aged man in the gray robe raised an eyebrow.

The burly man in black armor nodded: "Otherwise, the Spirit Lord wouldn't be so cautious."

“But we can’t just do nothing.” The middle-aged man in the gray robe shrugged. “I don’t want to see that barbarian giving me a sour look.”

"Let's first check if he has any acquaintances at the Ganhe Lower Courtyard."

"We'll set a trap to lure him out. Taking action near the Ganhe Lower Courtyard would be too drastic and pose a risk."

The burly man in black armor nodded, but his face also showed helplessness: "You may not believe it, but since we arrived at Ganhe Lower Temple, the other party has not shown his face again."

"Nobody in the lower house even knew of this person."

"As for acquaintances," the black-armored man asked with a strange expression, "would Mo Wuzhou count?"

"Tsk... What a hassle."

(End of this chapter)