My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 482 Advancement
City of Thousand Lights.

Ten dazzling soul-guiding lamps hung high in the sky. Chen Mu stood on the porch at the entrance and yawned widely. In the distance, green light shot into the sky from the camp, making it difficult for Chen Mu to open his eyes.

Wow! They're really good at making money!
For half a month, Chen Mu stayed up all night cultivating immortality with this group of old ghosts.

With the Rejuvenating Soup replenishing their essence, those guys became more and more energetic as they trained, but Chen Mu himself couldn't eat or sleep well, feeling completely unaccustomed to it.

"Hey! You got up a little late today. What, even someone as diligent as you can be lazy in bed?" Shen Yan rolled up his sleeves, picked up a small basket of freshly picked tender vegetables, and stood at the door teasingly with his hands on his hips.

"What do you know! This is called balancing work and rest!" Chen Mu declared confidently, "That's how we Qi cultivators cultivate!"

"Yes, yes, yes, good, good, you are a Qi cultivator, you are right."

"Go eat your vegetable leaves!" Chen Mu waved his sleeve and stormed into the wooden building.

You can't just blindly grind for experience points; you have to find a balance!

……

Five or six thousand spirits practiced the Three Yin Phosphorous Fire Spell diligently every day. Although they had not yet developed supernatural ghost patterns, their spiritual power was increasing day by day.

Chen Mu's stored multi-headed dragon meat was quickly consumed.

In order to maintain high-intensity cultivation, the Yin spirits in Thousand Lanterns City began to take turns going out to hunt demons and monsters.

At this moment, the Mountain-Carrying Scripture came in very handy. With the combined strength of hundreds of Yin spirits, their power greatly increased. While they couldn't kill a powerful monster like the Multi-Headed Flood Dragon, catching some jagged-toothed fish in the sea was no problem.

Chen Mu handed over the specific personnel arrangements to Shen Yan, and he was happy to have some free time.

He opens and closes the gates of Thousand Lantern City once a day, and refines the original liquid of the Rejuvenation Soup once a day. The rest of the time he hides in the small building, either practicing secret techniques or pondering cooking skills.

The monsters of the Underworld are ferocious, and much of their flesh is poisonous, but occasionally you can find some good ingredients that are not only exceptionally delicious but also have remarkable medicinal effects.

In the kitchen on the east side of the first floor of the wooden building, Chen Mu sighed and fed a strange fish with four claws to Wu Guidai: "Another day of missing Old Man Jia."

Although that old guy wasn't a good person, his ability to find ingredients from the Netherworld Demon Realm was extraordinary.

These past few days, the spirit has gone out hunting and brought back many strange beasts and monsters, but there are probably very few to eat. This is only because he has culinary skills and special methods of processing them; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to eat a single one.

Thinking of this, he brought up the gray wall and looked at the experience points he had been gaining in the past few days.

Cooking skill: 7975/10000/Level 6;

Yellow Springs Guide: 5390/10000; Fifth Rank;
Jade Gate Spell: 9351/10000/Fourth Tier;

"The cooking skills level up too slowly after the sixth rank. It's probably impossible to find ingredients from the Netherworld Demon Realm with this ability in the short term." Chen Mu shook his head, but he wasn't disappointed.

The purpose of searching for ingredients is simply to try new flavors; if I find them, I'm happy, but if I don't, it doesn't matter.

"The Jade Gate Mantra is about to advance in level, so I can practice it more these next few days."

This incantation was the key to their return to the underworld. Apart from collecting Weak Water every day without fail to perfect their divine embryos, he spent most of his other time on this secret technique.

……

In the following days, he stopped thinking about ingredients and spent all his free time grinding for Jade Gate Spell experience.

That day, in the long corridor to the left of the entrance, Chen Mu was lying in a swaying rocking chair, meditating with his eyes closed. Five small paper figures sat on the top of the chair back, swaying with the chair as if on a swing.

At one moment, a vague call suddenly appeared in his mind. After carefully sensing it for a moment, Chen Mu couldn't help but open his eyes.

"Someone actually triggered the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed?"

He looked up and saw that the camp not far away was still filled with green light, like the lair of some kind of ghost, which made Chen Mu's eyelids twitch.

Clearly, it wasn't these guys who triggered the spiritual seed; they were too busy working on the Three Yin Curse to have that kind of free time.

"Are they the spirits that escaped from the Youzi Camp back then?" Chen Mu raised an eyebrow.

He wasn't surprised that there were Yin spirits around, but what surprised him was the timing of when these Yin spirits touched the spiritual seed.

"They waited over a month before trying it? Tsk, they're really cautious."

He guessed that these spirits were probably also frightened by the upheaval in the Youzi Camp.

The Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed is a bit strange; it gives you skills without asking for anything in return, which looks like a trap falling from the sky.

Now, activating the spirit seed is probably a last resort, a desperate measure.

"Should we pass on the secret techniques to these people?" Chen Mu stroked his chin, undecided.

During this period, the supernatural ghost patterns flashed every day, and sometimes two fragments of the divine embryo could be extracted in a single day.

Chen Mu knew very well that this extraordinary result must be brought about by the return of the Heavenly Seed. "If we ignore it, these escaped Yin Spirits will probably die in large numbers soon, and then the Spirit Seed will return..." Chen Mu couldn't help but narrow his eyes.

After thinking for a long time, Chen Mu finally shook his head and sighed.

Ultimately, I am just an ordinary person.

He's not exactly a good person, but he also can't bring himself to harm others in their cultivation.

"It's just a matter of using a little bit of Yin spirit power..."

He is now powerful in his origin, possessing a vast amount of divine power, and can also borrow it using the Mountain-Carrying Scripture, so he can afford this little bit of loss.

"In the long run, the longer these people live and the stronger they become, the more benefits the return of the spirit seed will bring."

"I guess you could call this a long-term investment," Chen Mu said with a chuckle and a shrug.

Immediately, a mass of Yin spiritual power trembled and underwent a qualitative change before my eyes, transforming into strands of silver thread that recorded the Danshan Scripture, which then disappeared into the void.

……

Over the next few days, it was as if a switch had been triggered, and from time to time, evil spirits would touch the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed.

Chen Mu continued his cultivation as usual, using his divine embryo to shield his spiritual seed's communication when he was busy, and only responding to the spiritual seed's call during his free time.

Within a few days, those guys noticed Chen Mu's habit of activating his spiritual seed almost always in the evening.

After the initial peak of experience transfer passed, the number of people who were touched by the spiritual seed began to shrink precipitously.

Chen Mu guessed that it was because these people had scattered in groups and mostly gathered together.

After one person tried the spirit seed, others followed suit, and the number of people involved skyrocketed. Once everyone had tried it, the number of people who activated the spirit seed began to decrease sharply.

Chen Mu didn't take it seriously. He would pass on the secret technique to anyone who was touched, but he didn't think much about it if no one was touched. He spent most of his energy on the Jade Gate Mantra.

That day, Chen Mu moved the gray wall.

Jade Gate Spell: 72/10000/Fifth Tier;

He stared at the entries on the wall, but his eyes were somewhat unfocused.

A series of insights surfaced in Chen Mu's mind, captivating him completely. It took him two days to fully regain his senses.

"Do you think we could build our own Gate of Hell?" As soon as he woke up, Chen Mu excitedly found Shen Yan, who was loosening the soil in the vegetable garden.

Shen Yan straightened up, glanced at Chen Mu, and couldn't help but sigh. "I knew it wasn't good to be too comfortable..."

"Too mentally taxing!"

Chen Mu's face immediately darkened.

"Don't glare at me, I don't know how to make it even if you glare at me." Shen Yan rolled his eyes: "That thing is a secret of the Yin and Yang, and only city lords at the very least know it. How could a mere supervisor like me know it?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Mu curled the corners of his mouth.

The fifth-order Jade Gate Incantation contains the crafting information for Jade Gate Pass, but Old Ghost Shen knew nothing about it.

This old ghost's mastery of the Jade Gate Curse has probably been surpassed by me.

The old man had actually tried to use his years of experience practicing the Jade Gate Mantra to dig a hole for himself.

"It's a good thing you're on my side now, otherwise I would have definitely tricked you badly," Chen Mu said with a smile.

What do you mean?
Shen Yan was taken aback.

Immediately, a cluster of secret technique silver threads gathered and disappeared in front of Chen Mu. The next moment, a series of secret technique information appeared in his mind.

Upon closer inspection, Shen Yan was startled. This bastard actually knew how to build the Gates of Hell?!

"These things aren't in the Jade Gate Mantra, are they?" Shen Yan asked incredulously.

"That's because you lack comprehension and can't grasp it." Chen Mu raised his chin slightly, his face full of disdain and pride.

Shen Yan grinned as he listened.

He never expected that someone could glean information on crafting magical artifacts from a mere spell.

Does having two heads make you so quick to understand?

Or should I try practicing a secret technique for creating an external avatar and see how effective it is?
(End of this chapter)