My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 471 Youzi Camp

On a boundless beach of blood, countless dead, strange snakes lay on the rocky sand.

These strange snakes are tens of meters long and as thick as a person, with nine claws on their abdomens. What's even stranger is the number of their heads.

One head is rare, but three or five are quite common. Each one is covered with sharp, spiky horns like a hedgehog, and is as big as a two-meter-long bed.

Hong Xiu stood by the sea, surrounded by a cloud of flames as large as a basketball court, upon which lay piles of multi-headed serpent corpses resembling small mountains.

He was already used to this, but he stared blankly at the boundless sea of ​​blood, which exuded a faint fragrance, with a melancholy expression on his face.

Half a month ago, the remnants of the Hai Battalion were brought back to the main camp by Hu Cheng, and were quickly scattered. He then came to this beach battlefield belonging to the You Banner.

Hong Xiu, who considered himself extraordinary, used all his tricks since arriving in the Underworld Demon Heaven. However, after a long and complicated process, he ended up returning to his old ways, which were like the Flame Banner.

Good luck fooling people!
Just as I was feeling melancholy, a chill suddenly swept over me, as if I were being targeted by a great demon!
He instinctively looked up and saw the head of a strange snake, which had been lying dead on the Flame Chariot, leaping into the air and opening its mouth to swallow him whole.

For a fleeting moment, Hong Xiu even saw the blood-red sky above through the other man's severed throat. But this rather comical scene made his face turn deathly pale.

Besides the gaping maw, he also saw two rows of sharp, blade-like teeth gleaming with a cold light. And a single drop of deadly venom, capable of corroding even a minor soldier to ashes, meandered along its surface.

His whole body stiffened instinctively, and even moving became a luxury.

Just as he was despairingly awaiting death, he suddenly discovered that the enormous head was abruptly suspended in mid-air, with even a drop of venom hanging down above it motionless.

puff!
A ball of pitch-black flame suddenly burst forth before my eyes, engulfing the enormous head in flames. A strong, acrid smell spread, and within a few breaths, the enormous head was burned to ashes and scattered by the wind.

"Old Niu, what kind of crazy idea are you plotting now?" Chen Mu's figure suddenly appeared next to Hong Xiu, staring at Hong Xiu with a smile.

Hong Xiu's lips twitched.

The nickname "Old Cow" is just not going to stop, is it?

"Thank you so much, Commander-in-Chief, for saving my life!" Hong Xiu took a deep breath and bowed his hands in thanks with a frustrated expression.

"You're welcome, you're welcome." Chen Mu waved his hand with a smile: "Go on with your work."

Watching Hong Xiu leave, Chen Mu couldn't help but shake his head.

Having been here for half a month, as the newly promoted commander of the Fourth Banner of the Flame Army under the Youzi Battalion, he could at least stay in the camp and enjoy some leisure for the first few days. But recently, the beach has become increasingly dangerous, and casualties can easily occur, so he can no longer slack off.

Most of the Yin Spirits under his command came from Thousand Lantern City, and the remaining hundred or so were replenished when the remnants of the Hai Character Camp were scattered and reorganized. Many of them were familiar faces from the former Yi San Banner. He even saw the skinny old man Jia who organized the gambling game among them.

Whether they were complete strangers or not, Chen Mu couldn't simply ignore it, so he had to come here to keep watch and ensure the safety of his auxiliary troops.

"Tsk... I don't know why Jigu City values ​​these monster corpses so much, having to go through the time and effort to move them into the camp."

……

"Of course, it's for refining the Soul-Summoning Banner!"

Late at night, in Thousand Lanterns City, Shen Yan calmly revealed the secrets of Jigu City.

He had already given the Jade Gate Mantra to Chen Mu, so he wasn't afraid to say a little more.

"Tell me in detail!" Chen Mu immediately became interested.

"The reason why Jigu City is going to fight against the Netherworld Demon Heaven is to hunt monsters. One reason is to sacrifice to the River of Oblivion, and the other is to refine the Soul-Summoning Banner."

"Lord Jian has been a Yin God for many years. If he wants to advance further, in addition to waiting for the right time, he also needs some special methods."

"Those twelve soul-summoning banners are the key to his attainment of the Netherworld Spirit Realm."

"Netherworld spirit? I feel like I've heard that name somewhere before?" Chen Mu raised an eyebrow.

"You've never heard of that!" Shen Yan glanced at Chen Mu indifferently: "Condensing the divine embryo, shaping the nine orifices, nurturing the yin spirit, and then the yin and yang must be mixed to create a nether spirit."

"In the entire Jigu City, only the City Lord is at the Yin God realm, and only a few people in the City Lord's Mansion know about the Nether Spirit realm. How could a little brat like you possibly know?" Shen Yan said with a look of disdain.

"Or is it that your ancestral spirit or the heavens have granted you another divine intervention?" He sneered with a mocking smile.

Chen Mu: “…”

This old devil is getting more and more outrageous!

At that moment, he remembered where he had heard it.

Before coming to the underworld, he was being hunted down and seemed to vaguely hear that those people wanted to capture him to make some kind of underworld spirit embryo.

My arrival in the Underworld was not entirely by chance; those mysterious strange people back then were probably related to the Underworld.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Mu shook his head and stopped thinking about it.

He knows too little to figure it out, and even if he did, it wouldn't help him at the moment, so he might as well spend more time gaining experience.

In the blink of an eye, the gray wall appeared before my eyes.

The Sutra of Carrying Mountains: The Limit;

Jade Gate Spell: 7663/10000/Second Tier;

"What a pity about the Dancing Mountain Scripture," Chen Mu shook his head.

Once he has mastered the Dushan Sutra, as long as he can find a point of resonance on a nearby Yin spirit, he can forcibly connect the Yin spirit's divine power into one.

Unfortunately, everyone's energy is different, and unless you spend a lot of time together, it's not easy to find common ground. It looks impressive, but it's actually somewhat impractical.

Moreover, even if it were usable, he didn't intend to use it. The reason why the remnants of the Hai-character camp were disbanded so quickly was partly due to this carrying of the mountain scriptures.

This scripture could bypass the city lord's incantation to summon the soul banner. Although it couldn't completely take control, it was still somewhat troublesome for City Lord Jian. So, he returned to the main camp that morning and dispersed all the ghost soldiers under Hu Cheng's command that afternoon.

"The Jade Gate Curse is even more of a pity," Chen Mu thought with frustration.

They had been secretly rolling it up for so long, originally intending to surprise Shen Laogui when he secretly manipulated the Gates of Hell to escape.

But unexpectedly, Hu Cheng found them right at the gates of hell, ruining the plan. That way, we won't get to see Old Man Shen change his face.

"Are you plotting something again?" Sitting in a brand-new rocking chair, Shen Yan suddenly felt a chill and immediately stared at Chen Mu with a wary expression. "That's impossible." Chen Mu said solemnly.

"I was just thinking about the Mind-Peace Sutra."

"Really?" Shen Yan asked with a look of suspicion.

"Of course, I was just thinking about whether I should steal some Yin spirits to make the Pingxin Sutra run faster." Chen Mu said seriously.

Shen Yan's attention was immediately diverted.

"With the assistance of three thousand Yin spirits, your Pingxin Sutra hasn't reached its limit yet?"

"It shouldn't be."

"Does this mean that my Yin spirit has enormous potential and a bright future?" Chen Mu couldn't help but smile.

Shen Yan glanced at Chen Mu sideways: "Your so-called spirit seed can't even parasitize a newly born Yin spirit, and your ability to bewitch is a joke. With such a pathetic performance, what potential can you possibly have!"

"A bright future? Haha! A bleak future is more like it!" he said with a mocking smile.

Chen Mu's face immediately darkened.

"No light? Are you complaining that the environment in Thousand Lanterns City is too dark?"

"The weather's perfect today, how about we go out and show our faces in the sun?"

Shen Yan froze instantly.

The Hai-character camp was destroyed, and he bears a heavy responsibility. It's possible that Jigu City is already casting spells to hunt him down.

Go outside to sunbathe?! Are you trying to kill me?!
It's just that I said a few truths.

Why is this bastard taking it so seriously?

……

The Youzi Camp was stationed on a towering, isolated peak a hundred miles from the beach.

A platform was carved out of the mountaintop, on which stood a newly built two-story wooden building, which was the barracks of Bai Zhilang, the commander of the main camp.

The other ghost soldiers and auxiliary troops were stationed and arranged in rows on the mountain from top to bottom.

Late at night, at the auxiliary troops' camp at the foot of the mountain.

Inside a row of single-story wooden houses, two meters off the ground, more than a dozen auxiliary soldiers were fast asleep with their eyes closed.

A sliver of blood-red light emerged from between the brows of three of them, like a small snake, shaking its head and wagging its tail, and silently flew out of the wooden barracks.

The camp was quiet, and countless thin lines of blood-red light meandered and moved in the shadows, slowly converging at the edge of a small cliff next to a grove of tall trees.

Under the cold, pale moonlight, the blood-red light merged together, slowly surging and accumulating upwards, and in the blink of an eye, it condensed into a human form.

As the faint bloody light dissipated, Lan Zhang, dressed in white robes and with flowing black hair, appeared. He reached out a hand from the shadows, as if catching a handful of moonlight, his narrow eyes gazing at the mountain peak, a joyful smile slowly creeping onto his face.

……

The sky alternates between a blood-red sun and a pale moon.

The Yin soldiers of the Youzi Camp go to the Blood-Red Sea every day to lure the multi-headed monster snakes out of the water, and then kill them on the shore.

I don't know if I've stirred up a snake's nest, but recently the number of multi-headed snakes has not only increased, but they are also becoming more and more ferocious.

Chen Mu had witnessed the ashen smoke that turned into the corpses of the Yin soldiers more than once, so he had to follow the Wu Siqi and do his best to ensure their safety.

With so many people around, he couldn't even practice the Pingxin Sutra. Besides keeping an eye on the Yin spirits under his command, he could only pass the time by practicing the Yumen Mantra and the Yellow Spring Guide.

More than twenty days passed in the blink of an eye.

Even though he didn't practice very seriously, he still maxed out his experience with the second-tier Jade Gate Spell.

As evening fell, the auxiliary soldiers returned to camp.

Chen Mu stood at the entrance of his small wooden barracks, seemingly admiring the vast green forest in the distance, but his eyes were actually vacant as he silently absorbed the experience of the Jade Gate Spell transmitted from the gray wall.

He vaguely sensed a familiar aura emanating from the mountainside.

That's... the Ghost Gate of the Rooster Flag?
Chen Mu's heart stirred, and he curiously activated the Jade Gate Mantra, wanting to sense it more clearly.

next moment.

A low, humming sound suddenly came from the mountainside.

Chen Mu's expression changed, and he quickly cut off the Jade Gate Incantation. He turned around and went into the wooden house, kicked off his shoes, sat cross-legged on the wooden bed, and pretended to cultivate.

In an instant, the thin, misty fog that had been slowly flowing across the entire mountain peak suddenly began to accelerate, as if searching for prey, swirling and washing over the mountainside several times before gradually returning to calm.

Chen Mu, who was sitting on the bed pretending to be focused on practicing the Yellow Springs Spell, immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"so close!"

He didn't dare to stop immediately. Instead, he kept summoning the waters of the River of Oblivion and the Azure Flames of the Nine Netherworlds, pretending that someone was watching him. He practiced for more than an hour until it was completely dark before he finally stopped cultivating.

"I acted impulsively," Chen Mu said, scratching his head as he brought up the gray wall.

Jade Gate Spell: 56/10000/Third Tier;

"Hey! I didn't expect that just one move would give me over twenty experience points. If I had to train at the Gates of Hell every day, my experience points would be grinding like crazy!"

After daydreaming for a while, and using the method of listening to make sure that no one was around to investigate, I washed up a little and lay on the bed staring blankly at the ceiling.

Normally he would have already gone into Thousand Lantern City to cultivate the Peaceful Mind Sutra by now, but now that he has caused a little trouble, he has to give up his experience for today.

It hurts so much...

(End of this chapter)