My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 468 Yin Wind Division

With the Dancing Mountain Scripture, the search area expanded several times over, and within three to five days, three to four hundred more Yin spirits appeared in Thousand Lantern City.

Chen Mu accepted them one by one, planted the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed, and then passed on the Three Paths Mantra to assist his own cultivation.

Nourished by abundant weak water, the divine embryo became more and more perfect each day, and its pitted and uneven surface became slightly smoother.

Feeling the Yin Spirit's divine power constantly surging, Chen Mu became completely absorbed in it.

Of course, he didn't forget to secretly practice the Jade Gate Mantra in the middle of the night. He has two bodies, one for resting and one for cultivating, making him an absolute master of staying up late.

As the days went by, his skills and experience increased rapidly. It was just a pity that he didn't have enough spiritual energy. Otherwise, he would have mastered the Divine Aperture long ago.

……

That day, on the third-floor balcony of the exquisite little wooden building, Chen Mu was lying crookedly in a rocking chair, practicing the Mind-Calming Sutra.

The bricklayer was highly skilled, and with the help of the Ministry of Works' secret techniques, Chen Mu moved into the small building within two days of obtaining the "Mountain Carrying Manual".

Shen Yan also moved to another similar wooden building next door.

The original courtyard was not abandoned; Chen Mu gave both courtyards to Shen Yan... so that he could continue growing vegetables.

Even as his thoughts raced, Chen Mu didn't stop cultivating.

The palm-sized silver thread pattern formed by the Pingxin Sutra emitted a faint glow on his chest, slowly absorbing the Yin spirit's divine power and transforming it into a strange force that probed into the energy of the Wangchuan River surrounding the small building.

Like a magnet attracting iron filings, strands of weak water were drawn into the body.

As he was experiencing the changes in the ghostly patterns, a familiar tremor suddenly stirred in his mind.

Chen Mu raised an eyebrow and immediately activated the divine power of Thousand Lantern City. A dark, circular shadow, like a bottomless pit, appeared in the courtyard. A rather disheveled Yin soldier emerged alone, carrying a white leather lantern.

Of the more than one hundred people in the group, only one returned. Could it be that they were attacked by monsters again?
Chen Mu quickly jumped off the wooden building.

Did we encounter the Yin Wind Division?

Were the others picked up?

Did he sneak back to deliver the message?

Before long, Chen Mu figured out the reason, and a smile immediately appeared on his face.

"Great news!"

……

Two hundred li north of Haizi Camp, in a certain mountain forest.

Chen Mu stood on a gray-white rock protruding from the ground, gazing at a mountain peak twenty miles away.

The mountain isn't high, maybe only about thirty stories high.

A giant tree emerged from the mountaintop, its massive canopy resembling a mushroom cap, completely obscuring the small hill.

Its leaves are lush and glistening, and the dense aerial roots hanging down to the clouds shimmer with a bluish light, making it quite eye-catching.

"It's better to take a detour." Chen Mu admired the view for a moment longer, then had to shake his head.

Upon learning that the Yin Feng tribe was searching for auxiliary soldiers, Chen Mu immediately decided to align himself with the Yin Feng tribe.

He recalled all the troops he had sent out and selected over two hundred spirits to form a team. Then, following the message from the messenger, he led his men northward.

Now it is the seventh day of their trek through the mountains, and Chen Mu has also witnessed the dangers within the Netherworld.

Aside from the endless stream of strange, poisonous insects and plants, the mountains and forests are also home to powerful monsters that resemble great demons. The large tree blocking the way ahead is one of them. Using his Listening Technique, even from a distance, he could clearly sense the immense life force it contained.

Chen Mu immediately led his men to turn east, intending to go around the giant tree.

But as they walked, they looked up and found that the giant tree was still blocking their way.

"Something's not right!" Chen Mu's expression changed.

“The direction is correct.” Yin Bing Bai Qing looked up at the sky, his expression solemn.

"Can this thing run away?" Chen Mu felt a chill run down his spine.

"Take the mountain!"

Two hundred carefully selected, long-accumulated evil spirits instantly transformed into clusters of black winds, gathering into a black cloud the size of a basketball court in the sky. Chen Mu hid within it, his eyes fixed on the giant tree, and flew rapidly eastward.

As the glowing giant tree grew smaller and smaller, Chen Mu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But in the blink of an eye, the tree vanished abruptly.

Chen Mu was startled and, realizing a certain possibility, immediately turned around.

But they discovered that, without them noticing, the giant tree had already moved ahead of them!

I was only five or six hundred meters away from them, and I almost plunged into them.

Chen Mu's expression changed drastically, and he instinctively activated his Yin Spirit Divine Power.

"Fire bell!"

Countless clusters of ghastly green flames rained down on the giant tree.

A series of booming explosions rang out, and the entire tree was instantly covered in ghastly green flames.

The tree suddenly seemed to come alive, twisting and turning. Countless flying insects emitting blue fluorescence buzzed out of the tree, carrying specks of pale green flames as they fled in all directions. However, they were completely burned to ashes and scattered before they could fly far.

The giant tree then let out a series of ear-piercing screams, its aerial roots and branches flailing wildly, trying to extinguish the flames on its body. It even uprooted its roots from the ground and fled into the distance.

Unfortunately, the Fire Bell Secret Technique's flames were extremely sticky, and no matter how much the giant tree struggled, it couldn't get rid of them. It only ran three or five miles before collapsing and turning into a raging fireball.

Chen Mu observed coldly for a moment, then urged the Yin Wind to continue northward.

But after flying for only ten miles, in the blink of an eye, an identical giant tree blocked his path again. Chen Mu felt his scalp tingle and the hairs on his body stand on end.

He turned around abruptly and found that the ghastly green flames that covered the mountains and fields had disappeared without a trace, and the giant tree that could run away had also vanished, as if everything just now was an illusion!
……

As the sun began to set, its crimson rays pierced through the leaves and spilled onto the gray-white stones, slowly entering Chen Mu's eyes as it moved.

As if stimulated by the light, he shuddered and suddenly came to his senses.

"It really is the Bewitching Illusionary Realm!" Chen Mu's eyes were filled with apprehension.

He glanced at the giant tree in the distance, then at the setting sun, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

They discovered the giant tree at noon, and it didn't feel like much time had passed, but they didn't expect it to be evening!

"Fortunately, I have experience with the Seven Souls Returning to Origin technique." Chen Mu was still shaken.

His experience of encountering the Snow Demon Qing Liu Illusion in Chicken Cage Road gave him a solution. Although the Wu Shan siblings no longer had the ability to use the Seven Souls Return to Origin, he still had more than two hundred Yin Spirits carrying Heavenly Demon Spirit Seeds to provide him with a way to communicate.

If one person is misled, then all the spiritual seeds can be connected and shared together.

At that moment, he simultaneously connected with the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seeds within the bodies of more than two hundred Yin Spirits. Looking at the large tree in the distance, he immediately noticed that its figure was constantly flickering and swaying, like a distorted three-dimensional virtual image.

As the light gradually dimmed, the giant tree's silhouette suddenly swayed, and with a whoosh, it transformed into countless fluorescent lights that flew into the forest below and disappeared.

"It's just a bunch of bugs?!"

Feeling the bewitching power enveloping his mind, Chen Mu couldn't help but marvel.

I was just about to urge the yin wind to move away quickly.

A gray cloud of wind appeared on the horizon.

"The Yin Wind Banner!" Bai Qing couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "That wisp of gray wind is the Yin Wind Banner of the Yin Wind Tribe!"

Chen Mu immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he had encountered fierce demons before, he had managed to fight them off. But encountering this giant tree phantom today truly unsettled him.

He was just thinking about whether to hide in Thousand Lantern City and wait for the Yin Wind Tribe to find him.

fortunately……

Now we don't have to wait.

……

The narrow gorge at the top of the Yixiantian mountain stream is wider at the bottom, resembling an upside-down trumpet.

A cloud of gray wind burrowed into the valley and landed on a wide open space, revealing hundreds of ghostly soldiers enveloped in eerie wind.

Qiu Zhi, dressed in a gray undershirt and a brown leather armor on his upper body, with a smile on his round face, led Chen Mu and the others to the stone wall on the left side of the open space, preparing to register everyone.

“We call those insects blue glowworms. They don’t have much offensive capability on their own, but when they gather together, they can release bewitching rays that can captivate any creature with just a glance. Once they die from exhaustion, they become food for the creatures.”

"You are the third batch of auxiliary soldiers I found from that place, but also the only ones who actively broke free from the illusion." Qiu Zhi looked at Chen Mu and Bai Qing with admiration.

"I was also awakened by external forces; I was just lucky," Chen Mu replied, looking still shaken.

Qiu Zhi nodded; he had guessed the same thing. The swarm of blue fluorescent insects was enormous, and it wouldn't be so easy to escape their illusion.

They had now arrived at the foot of a mountain wall. Outside a row of more than ten arched doorways, a large procession of spirits stood in long lines.

"You've come at a bad time," Qiu Zhi said with a smile. "Three days ago, our Yin Feng tribe found the hiding place of a large number of auxiliary soldiers."

"It was a natural cave. Although the environment was bad and there was not much food, it was very safe. Tens of thousands of auxiliary soldiers from the Caiyuan, Gongzao, and Yanxing tribes hid inside."

"After several days of relocation, these people are the last group."

“General Hu used to personally receive you, but now there are too many people, so you probably won’t be able to see him.”

Tens of thousands of spirits? A cave?
Chen Mu suddenly realized.

No wonder he didn't find many scattered spirits even after expanding the search area.

Qiu Zhi looked around and led the group to a smaller group on the edge.

"No matter where you came from before, you will all be incorporated into our Yin Wind Division from now on." After seeing everyone lining up in an orderly manner, Qiu Zhi approached Chen Mu and Bai Qing and solemnly spoke.

"You are probably more aware of the dangers of the Underworld than I am."

"Although this narrow passage is safe, it is still unknown whether we will encounter monster attacks."

"As members of the Yin Wind Division, we must do our part."

Here they come! This Hu Cheng of the Yin Wind Department is so openly rescuing the Yin spirits, which is quite different from the selfish nature Shen Yan described.

He definitely had something in mind!
Chen Mu's heart tightened involuntarily.

Shen Yan said that Hu Cheng will most likely use a blood sacrifice to activate the Yellow Springs Crossing. Could he be planning to use us as sacrifices?
Hmm... how about we sneak into Thousand Lantern City tonight, then immediately run away with the bucket?
"The Yin Wind Department protects our safety; if ordered to do so, we will go through fire and water without hesitation," Chen Mu said with a seemingly sincere demeanor.

"It's not that serious." Qiu Zhi said with a relieved smile.

"All you need to do is practice one spell and provide a little divine power."

This requirement... why does it sound so familiar?

Then he saw Qiu Zhi pull a black leather scroll out of his pocket, and three ancient characters immediately came into view.

The Sutra of Carrying Mountains?
Chen Mu felt a sense of relief.

Looks like we don't need to run away for now.

(End of this chapter)