My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 466 Jade Gate Curse

As evening fell, the setting sun glowed a dark, blood-red hue.

Within the narrow ravine, the wind howled incessantly, and pale gray mist swirled overhead, enveloping the entire ravine.

At one moment, a gray gust of wind descended from the sky and landed at the bottom of the ravine.

The whirlwind dissipated, revealing over three hundred yin spirits. Most of them were dressed in tattered clothes with bloodstains, their faces showing panic and utter disarray.

Hu Cheng quickly approached the group with a friendly smile: "I am Hu Cheng, the commander of the Yin Wind Banner. Please do not panic. Once you are here, you are all safe."

After offering a few words of concern and comfort to dispel everyone's unease, Hu Cheng waved to someone not far away. The medical staff who had been waiting nearby immediately stepped forward to treat the injured, while another group of people also came forward to give each person jade dew and clean clothes.

The arrangements proceeded smoothly, and the terrified crowd finally calmed down and obediently accepted the arrangements made by the Yin Wind Department.

"Another group of people has been rescued, that's great!" Seeing everyone being properly taken care of, Hu Cheng smiled from the bottom of his heart: "In this way, the power of the Mountain-Carrying Sutra can be increased by one more point."

"No wonder the city lord chose Lan Zhang as the commander of the Hai-character battalion. His talent is truly remarkable..." The more Hu Cheng cultivated the Danshan Scripture, the more he admired Lan Zhang.

"Unfortunately, the more talented someone is, the more unpredictable their mind becomes." Hu Cheng smiled with interest.

Leaving aside the truth behind the sudden change in Haizi Camp, this Danshan Scripture reveals a restless spirit inside and out.

"Gathering the strength of everyone into one person, bypassing the city lord's spell to consecrate the soul-summoning banner? Tsk... this is an attempt to establish themselves independently."

"However, now they will all benefit me."

"I have no intention of becoming independent, but if I could control the Soul-Summoning Banner and become the commander of the Hai-character Camp, it might not be impossible!"

That was a general who commanded hundreds of thousands of ghost soldiers, a position he never dared to dream of before.

Now that we have the power to gather everyone's strength, and our own power is sufficient, if we also acquire the Soul-Summoning Banner...

Even though Hu Cheng was a deep thinker, he couldn't help but show excitement on his face at this moment.

Just as he was planning for the future, another wisp of gray wind fell into the mountain stream, and Hu Cheng couldn't help but smile genuinely again.

"Another group of people has been rescued, that's great!"

……

City of Thousand Lights.

Chen Mu stopped practicing the Calming Heart Sutra, ending his afternoon session of cultivation. He stood up from the rocking chair and stretched out his arms.

Nourished by the Weak Water, the true essence of the Heavenly Demon's body became increasingly profound, and the blood and qi of his flesh and blood body also subtly improved. At this moment, he felt warm all over and was indescribably comfortable.

His gaze followed the more than a thousand spirits that had left the courtyard. A wide avenue stretched along the courtyard to the horizon. On both sides, rows of exquisite wooden buildings came into view.

"The people in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology are really amazing," Chen Mu couldn't help but admire.

These two clusters of nearly three hundred small wooden buildings, each housing over three thousand spirits, rose from the ground right before his eyes in just over ten days. The speed of construction truly opened Chen Mu's eyes.

"What's so great about them? They just copy from a template, all they do is show off their craftsmanship. If it weren't for their fast construction speed, I wouldn't have used them." In the courtyard, a dark-skinned middle-aged man behind Hong Xiu muttered under his breath.

"Shut up!" Hong Xiu turned around and glared at the other person.

"Is he the bricklayer you were talking about?" Chen Mu looked at the other person with great interest.

Looking at the neat and exquisite wooden buildings in the distance, and then at the middle-aged man in front of him, Chen Mu couldn't help but scratch his head.

In his opinion, those rows of small wooden houses were already very beautiful, and he simply couldn't understand what "full of craftsmanship" meant, he couldn't appreciate it.

"With such high standards, you must have worked on building imperial palaces before, right?" Chen Mu chuckled and teased.

"No, not at all." The middle-aged man said calmly, "In total, we only built two princely mansions and three large gardens."

Tsk... I got tricked.

"Shut up already." Hong Xiu tugged at the other man's sleeve, then turned to Chen Mu and cupped his hands in greeting: "The barracks for everyone are now complete. Shouldn't you and the supervising officer also have your barracks repaired?"

Chen Mu looked at the exquisite wooden building in the distance with envy. Compared to it, his own small bungalow, which he had built with his fingers as if turning the ground into steel, was really not presentable.

"Fix it! Fix it right away!" He nodded repeatedly.

……

Watching Hong Xiu leave with his men, Shen Yan, who had been listening for a while, couldn't help but speak up with a dark face: "Isn't it time to practice the Jade Gate Spell?"

"With such a lack of concern, do you even want to return to the Underworld?"

I still have to go back, but...

"Even if I master the Jade Gate Mantra, with just over three thousand Yin spirits, I still can't summon back the Gate of Hell." Chen Mu shook his head helplessly.

"Since you know there aren't enough Yin spirits, why don't you go and search the mountains?" Shen Yan glared. "Come on!" Chen Mu waved his hand.

"Bai Qing and the others searched in seven or eight different directions. In the past ten days or so, they have only brought back two or three hundred auxiliary soldiers. With me added, we can find a few more people."

"I estimate that those 100,000-plus auxiliary soldiers, if they weren't all dead, must have run far away." Chen Mu was also helpless; it wasn't that he didn't want to look for them, but that he couldn't find them.

Shen Yan also sighed.

The attack on the Hai-character camp by the red-eyed water apes occurred at night, and they did not discover the situation until the next morning.

Overnight, everyone had long since fled.

The newly emerged Yin spirits of the Caiyuan tribe were weak and slow, which is why they lagged behind and were found and brought into Thousand Lantern City. Now, of the more than three thousand Yin spirits in the cave, over two thousand come from the Caiyuan tribe—this is clear proof.

"So what are you thinking?" Shen Yan asked.

"It would be best to find both the Yin Wind Medicine and the Stone Medicine." Chen Mu pondered, stroking his chin.

"If those people have a way to return to the underworld, I'll hitch a ride with them."

"If there's no other way, there are so many auxiliary soldiers. It would be convenient to secretly seize people. It's better than searching aimlessly in these mountains."

Shen Yan frowned slightly.

No matter how he planned, without enough Yin spirits, everything was in vain. But finding the Yin Wind Flag was indeed a good way to replenish the Yin spirits.

But Hu Cheng knows the secret method of crossing the Yellow Springs, so he definitely has the ability to return to the underworld. If this guy in front of him gets a ride on his coattails and stops summoning the Gates of Hell, how will he escape control?

but……

The most likely option for Hu Cheng is to choose a blood sacrifice to open the Yellow Springs Crossing, which may require sacrificing some of the spirits.

Once the risks are made clear, given this bastard's cowardly nature, he probably won't come along.

As for handing the Jade Gate Curse over to Hu Cheng? Ha! Knowing that Hu Cheng would investigate thoroughly, he was certain that this trouble-averse guy wouldn't dare.

In this way, their plans can continue to be implemented!
"Then why not send out one or two more teams to stake out the area near the original site of the Hai-character camp? If the Yin Wind Banner wants to return to Yinming, it will probably need a lot of auxiliary troops, and they might even go back to the camp ruins to search." After quickly figuring it out, Shen Yan immediately made the suggestion.

"I already sent people there." Chen Mu chuckled, quite pleased with himself. "Even if we don't run into the Yin Feng tribe, we might still encounter other people returning to the Hai character camp. It's a win-win situation, so why wouldn't I send someone?"

Shen Yan was slightly startled. No wonder this bastard was so calm and collected; he had been planning this all along.

"Did they send people to find the Yin Wind Division so early because they were hoping to hitch a ride on the coattails of the Yin Wind and Medicine Stone Divisions?"

"And since you're so indifferent to the Jade Gate Spell, did you never even intend to summon the Gates of Hell?!" Shen Yan couldn't help but glare.

"They managed to break up such a large Hai-character camp, and you still expect them to do anything?"

"Do you really think those idiots can be relied on?" Shen Yan asked, his face full of disappointment.

"People must rely on themselves!" he shouted excitedly.

Chen Mu: “…”

No, why are you stealing my lines?

"Yes, yes, you're right. I'll go practice the Jade Gate Mantra now, okay?"

Chen Mu pulled up the gray wall with a helpless expression.

Jade Gate Spell: 8603/10000/Tier 1;
Looking at his experience points, which were almost at the peak of the first level, he appeared worried on the surface, but was secretly gratified in his heart: "It was worth staying up for half a month and secretly grinding away at night."

He gave Shen Yan a meaningful look: "That old ghost is right, people really have to rely on themselves, otherwise they'll be sold out and still have to say thank you."

The moment Chen Mu first grasped the Jade Gate Mantra, through the feedback from the gray wall, he knew that this old ghost was up to no good.

The Jade Gate Incantation is real; it can indeed connect to the Ghost Gate Ritual from afar. As long as one has sufficient divine power, one can use this connection to remotely activate it and summon the incantation to one's presence.

But Shen Yan didn't mention that the depth of one's mastery of incantations would determine control over the Gates of Hell!

With this old ghost's decades of experience, if he really summoned the Gates of Hell, he could easily escape by bypassing him and activating the Gates of Hell if he was even slightly careless.

"As expected of a 300-year-old devil, he's really got a sharp mind." Chen Mu's eyes were full of amusement.

"Hmm... I still have to keep rolling them secretly."

"When the time comes, we'll definitely give that old devil a surprise!"

"Ha ha!"

(End of this chapter)