My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 419 Shadow
In Thousand Lights City.

Chen Mu stared intently at the shadow beneath his feet.

But after a long while, his shadow remained motionless.

"I clearly saw the shadow moving."

The air can be contained for a hundred miles!

His brow twitched, and an invisible force spread out in all directions from him.

The initial sensory feedback granted by the true form of the Heavenly Demon.

Chen Mu stared intently at the surrounding shadows.

His own shadow was fine, but the shadows of the surrounding tables and chairs were strange. Outwardly calm, yet inwardly filled with subtle, sinister malice!
These shadows, they are alive!

The next moment, these shadows suddenly began to move and sway, instantly twisting into countless monstrous claws and fangs.

A surge of malice came crashing down, and countless black tentacles emerged from the surrounding shadows, instantly lengthening and straightening, binding Chen Mu's shadow tightly in the blink of an eye.

As if he had just stepped out of the bathroom and been hit by a cold wind, Chen Mu felt a sudden chill and couldn't help but shiver.

His face immediately darkened.

"This shadow can actually absorb my vital energy and blood?!"

This was the same sensation he experienced when he used the Soul-Seizing Rejuvenation Technique on himself before!

boom!
In the blink of an eye, the protective aura suddenly expanded, shattering tables, chairs, and benches, and causing the shadow tentacles to crumble and dissipate.

But the next moment, from the shadows of the wall and the corner of the room, countless sharp shadows pierced out, like arrows, and plunged into Chen Mu's shadow.

Chen Mu shuddered, as if someone had suddenly ripped a large tube of blood out of him, and his whole body went limp.

"Damn it!"

He suddenly sprang into the air, crashing through the roof and soaring into the sky.

The feeling of having one's vital energy drained only disappeared when one was completely free from the great city beneath their feet.

He stared intently at the city below. On the surface, everything seemed quiet, but he keenly sensed that countless malicious gazes were hidden in the shadows of those nooks and crannies.

In that instant, he even felt as if the entire city was alive.

Compared to this menacing behemoth, Chen Mu, floating in mid-air, was as small as a sesame seed.

Before he could figure out the true nature of the shadow attack, countless shadows throughout the city began to writhe.

The next moment, the shadows seemed to take on a physical form. Countless pairs of pitch-black tentacles suddenly surged into the sky from all directions, instantly surrounding Chen Mu.

"We've got you!" A frenzied cheer, as if millions of people were speaking at the same time, exploded out.

A tremendous force of attraction descended from nowhere.

Chen Mu's body temperature dropped rapidly, and his face turned pale at a visible speed.

But he laughed, which was unusual for him.

"You caught me?"

"I caught you!"

His hands suddenly turned crystal white, and a captivating magic unfolded upon them.

Then he grabbed the shadow that was wrapped around his body and pulled it up tightly. The shadow, which should have been weak and unable to withstand the force, was suddenly pulled up by the force.

"Soul-Seizing Return to Origin!"

The instant he took to the air, Chen Mu had already figured it out. If this dark figure could absorb vital energy, then it must have a path. And as long as he allowed the Soul-Seizing Returning Hand to connect with this path, he could sense its core!
Despite his vital energy being drained away one after another, Chen Mu's eyes suddenly lit up.

"The shadow is just a decoy; the lantern is your true form!"

"Ha ha!"

"Three Yin Slaying Demons!"

A dense array of ghastly green energy blades suddenly filled Chen Mu's surroundings, and in the next instant, they flew into the center of the city like a torrential downpour.

Each air blade seemed to have eyes, precisely slicing through the lantern and extinguishing the flames burning out of thin air without any oil or wax inside.

Almost instantly, the entire city was plunged into darkness. The immense and unstoppable suction force within the shadows that enveloped him suddenly eased, only to surge again.

"come on!"

"Let's see if you'll suck me to death first, or if I'll destroy you first!"

Chen Mu's face was filled with madness.

Three Yin Slaying Demons!

Three Yin Slaying Demons!

The entire city seemed to be shrouded in a torrential downpour of ghastly green gas blades.

Sensing the changing power of absorption within the shadows, Chen Mu's expression grew increasingly fierce.

A flash of black smoke appeared, and the black-skinned Fire Cloud Gourd materialized beside him. He pressed the Pulling Talisman, which he had retrieved from the Zhu Yu Magic Sword, into the gourd and quickly manipulated it to take flight.

The next moment, the blue flames filled the sky like molten steel being poured down from a steel furnace, and the entire city was instantly turned into a sea of ​​fire.

Suffering this severe blow, the dark shadow instantly contracted backward, and Chen Mu, who was in mid-air and firmly holding onto the shadow, was pulled down.

"Trying to run? Too late!" "Soul-Stealing Return!"

Her originally jade-white hands suddenly turned deathly pale, like withered bones.

The tips of his five fingers shone with a bright scarlet light.

boom!
A massive suction force erupted, forcefully pulling back the tentacled shadowy creature that was trying to escape through the path of energy absorption.

Seemingly stimulated, more shadow tentacles shot into the air, entangled Chen Mu, and increased their ability to absorb vital energy once again.

The excruciating pain, like a full-body cramp, caused Chen Mu's entire body to tremble involuntarily.

However, it was this surge in the absorption of vital energy that abruptly awakened the nascent true form of the Heavenly Demon.

Like a ferocious beast shaking its shoulders and swaying its arms, a jolt ran through the secret point between its brows.

Three inches in front of Chen Mumei, a pitch-black sphere the size of a lychee appeared out of thin air.

A tremendous force of absorption emanated from within, and the tug-of-war between the shadow and the shadow suddenly eased.

Immediately afterwards, the dense shadow bindings attached to Chen Mu were instantly sucked into the sphere without any resistance.

At this moment, countless dark tentacles stretched across the sky above the city, one end covering all four corners of the city, and the other end disappearing into the black sphere in front of Chen Mumei.

In the next instant, all the tentacles straightened, and a tremendous force suddenly pulled them upwards, dragging countless enormous, twisted, monster-like shadows into the air.

"Ah ah ah ah..."

A series of shrill screams suddenly came from all over the city, as if countless people were wailing and howling at the same time.

The enormous, strangely shaped shadows of various colors struggled incessantly, but in the end, they were all forcibly dragged into the black sphere between the eyebrows.

Swish!
The brightly lit city suddenly went dark, and the screams and cries vanished in an instant.

Apart from the fire that Chen Mu had set off, which was still crackling and burning, the shadowy monsters that had spread throughout the city had all vanished without a trace.

The black ball between its brows seemed to have eaten its fill, spun around, and disappeared amidst a flash of black light.

Immediately, a surge of rich vital energy flowed into his body, instantly replenishing the vital energy he had just lost.

As if afraid he hadn't replenished his energy enough, two more streams of vital energy emerged from between his brows, making Chen Mu's face glow with health. He didn't look like he'd just fought a fierce battle; rather, he looked like he'd eaten and drunk his fill and had a long sleep!
"Hey!"

"This true form of the Heavenly Demon is truly amazing!"

"Ha ha……"

……

In the dense forest.

Qianmu, carrying Shang Huan, smiled and said, "The seven Heavenly Capital Primordial Embryos plus one Netherworld Primordial Embryo were all captured by the General."

"For such a great service, the Spirit Lord will surely grant you permission to go to the Jade Dew Cave for secluded cultivation."

"Haha, this humble general wishes the general a speedy mastery of the Eight Transformations of Gods and Demons!"

Jin'e couldn't help but curl the corners of her mouth into a smile.

Having been trapped in the seventh transformation of gods and demons for many years, he finally saw hope for a breakthrough and couldn't help but feel overjoyed.

"Let's go to Thousand Lanterns City."

"By now, Liancheng should have succeeded."

"The sooner we settle this matter, the sooner we can return to the capital to claim our credit."

Qianmu nodded upon hearing this, abandoned Shang Huan, and reached into his robes to pull out a compressed, folded white lantern.

With a flick of the wrist, the white lantern stood upright.

He cut his right palm, and bright red blood flowed into the lantern.

puff!
The white lantern showed no signs of blood; instead, it glowed with a dim, yellow candlelight.

Under this light, the ground in front of them turned into a dark shadow.

The two were unfazed; they picked up Shang Huan and stepped into the darkness.

In a flash, the dense forest disappeared, and the two suddenly appeared in the middle of a narrow alley paved with blue bricks.

A lantern hangs from the eaves of a house by the alley, and the two people are standing in the candlelight.

Before the two could properly assess their surroundings, a mournful wail reached their ears. They looked up at the sky and were immediately drawn to the dense, dark shadows in mid-air.

Before they could react, they saw all the dark shadows being pulled into the sky and disappearing in the blink of an eye.

At the same time, the lanterns illuminating the alley suddenly went out, plunging the entire street into darkness.

Qianmu looked up at the sky, then looked down at the dim, white lantern in his hand.

Immediately, as if he had seen a terrifying demon, his forehead was covered in a fine layer of cold sweat.

"Liancheng is dead, and Thousand Lanterns City will surely be lost in the void!"

"We don't have teleportation abilities!"

"General, we...we're going to be trapped and die in Thousand Lanterns City!"

Jin E, who had just come to his senses, suddenly froze.

(End of this chapter)