My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 485 Transfer
"How could you sense the Ghost Gate on the Youzi Flag?" Shen Yan frowned.

Based on the fact that you once secretly colluded with the Qi of the Gates of Hell?

fart!
I was the military supervisor of the Hai-character battalion, in charge of the Gates of Hell for many years, so why couldn't I sense it?!

"I just sensed it," Chen Mu shrugged.

Shen Yan frowned deeply: "This is a ghost!"

Chen Mu couldn't help but laugh. The entire Thousand Lantern City was full of evil spirits; wasn't that exactly like seeing a ghost?

The fact that I can sense this energy must be because the sixth-order Jade Gate Incantation is high-level enough.

"When will we return to the main camp?" After a long pause, Shen Yan finally asked.

He already had a guess at this point, knowing that Chen Mu's behavior was probably due to the Jade Gate Curse.

After more than a year of contact, he had long since discovered that the other party's talent in the cultivation of secret techniques was extraordinary. Although it was still hard to believe, the bastard in front of him had a level of control over the Jade Gate Curse that was probably comparable to that of City Lord Jian Chan.

"We still have to wait a while," Chen Mu shook his head.

He wanted to return to the main camp immediately, where ghostly soldiers guarded the area and there was a true gate to hell; returning to the underworld would be faster and safer.

but……

"Afraid of not being able to pass the camp's inspection?" Shen Yan asked with certainty.

An auxiliary soldier who escaped from the Youzi Camp could not only remotely locate the main camp, but also teleport across mountains and rivers to reach it. Without a reliable explanation, he would probably be detained immediately.

“Yeah, I can’t exactly tell them I know the Jade Gate Spell, can I?” Chen Mu said helplessly.

"Don't be afraid." Shen Yan quickly came up with an idea.

"Few people know the Jade Gate Incantation, but many know the Yellow Spring Crossing. You can use the Blood Sacrifice version of the Yellow Spring Crossing to cover up the Gate of Hell."

“Pu Lu comes from the Yellow Springs Department and has also developed ghost patterns. He is also a master alchemist. He is qualified and capable enough to be the source of the Yellow Springs Crossing Secret Technique.”

"As for the location of the main camp?" Shen Yan stroked his chin and pondered for a moment, then sighed slightly, "In the end, we still have to thank Lan Zhang."

"The Scripture of Carrying Mountains?" Chen Mu asked in surprise.

“Not bad!” Shen Yan nodded.

“Back then, Hu Cheng, the commander of the Yin Feng Division of the Hai Character Camp, used the Mountain Carrying Sutra to consecrate the Soul-Summoning Banner. At that time, your energy was already secretly connected with the Hai Character Banner.”

"The Hai character camp has collapsed and cannot be rebuilt in a short time. Moreover, the Soul-Summoning Banner is the key to the city lord's enlightenment. It cannot be allowed to be practiced haphazardly by Hu Cheng. Therefore, the Hai character banner will only be kept by the city lord in the main camp."

“This gives us an opportunity.” Shen Yan said solemnly, “Later I will teach you a method called the Nine Cups Calculation Manual. If you follow its rituals to perform divination and calculations, you will get a vague indication.”

"This indication may not be entirely accurate, but it's enough to fool the camp's investigation and serve as a cover-up."

"In this case..."

Chen Mu was overjoyed.

As expected, it was Old Shen who was knowledgeable and experienced; he could come up with a solution to his headache in no time.

"Once I've consolidated the Jade Gate Mantra a bit and made the sensation clearer, we'll set off immediately to return to the main camp."

……

Over the next few days, Chen Mu focused on gaining experience from the Jade Gate Curse.

The gray wall provides a constant stream of insights; according to its display, the Gates of Hell utilize the power of the seventh level of the River of Oblivion. This level contains the essence of secret techniques such as the Pot Heaven Technique and the Thousand-Mile Courtyard Miniature Technique.

There was a similar mysterious manifestation in Thousand Lanterns City, but unfortunately, his supernatural power came from someone else's legacy, and Chen Mu only knew how to use it, but did not know the reason behind it.

Nevertheless, frequent use brought him a wealth of experience, greatly helping him acquire experience with the Jade Gate Spell.

With experience rapidly increasing and promising results, the aura of the Ghost Gate on the Youzi Flag became increasingly clear. However, the Nine Cups Calculation Sutra used for concealment caused some trouble.

The first part of the mathematical classic is written in abstruse and difficult language, while the second part consists of strange rituals and complicated calculations.

Chen Mu excitedly read it once, and then all that was left in his mind was blankness.

"Understand? Why should I understand? How could I possibly understand? Divination and fortune-telling techniques have always been mysterious and enigmatic." Shen Yan's expression was inscrutable.

Chen Mu had no choice but to bite the bullet and try it as the arithmetic manual suggested.

He first went to the island to cut large bundles of slender grass leaves, then arranged them in a special way according to the weather, and then obtained a series of numbers through complex calculations.

Using this string of numbers, different passages of text are selected from the previous scripture to form a mantra.

The arithmetic manual says that as long as he keeps reciting it, he will receive a vague sense of enlightenment.

He recited it hundreds of times until his mouth was dry, but he didn't receive the slightest response.

Fearing he might have made a mistake, he started calculating from scratch, and then... he discovered that he would receive a completely different incantation each time.

What a fuss!

"Are you sure this spell, which changes every few minutes, really works?" Chen Mu asked Shen Yan.

"I don't know," Shen Yan said calmly.

Chen Mu: “…”

You don't even know if this thing will work, yet you want me to use it to lie?
You old devil, do you want me dead?
Shen Yan remained calm and composed, saying, "Not only do I not know, but even if City Lord Jian Chan were to use these nine cups of abacus, he would use them without uttering a sound."

Chen Mu couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"The Nine Cups Calculation Manual has been passed down for a long time, and the exact time is unknown. Some people say that it has a mysterious origin and contains great secrets, while others say that it is just a trick of charlatans." Shen Yan said calmly, "Sometimes it can indeed work, but sometimes it is useless."

"It's all down to luck, huh?" Chen Mu couldn't help but grin.

“It all depends on luck!” Shen Yan nodded, then said meaningfully, “It’s precisely because it’s uncertain that it’s easy to fool people.”

Good guy!
Fine……

Chen Mu couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, and could only grit his teeth and continue to ponder the arithmetic scriptures.

He worked tirelessly for seven or eight days straight, even calculating on his fingers while sleeping, and finally managed to make the secret technique appear on the gray wall. Although the bizarre operations in the arithmetic scripture still baffled him, he was finally able to get some vague senses from the ever-changing incantation.

Chen Mu didn't care where the sensation was pointing and immediately stopped practicing this secret technique.

It's only because of him; if an ordinary person were to think about it so diligently, they would go crazy!

Besides, if it's just a joke, why take it so seriously?

……

That day, Chen Mu got up early and, as usual, farmed experience points for the Jade Gate Curse.

However, the Yin Spirit's divine power had only been circulating for a short time when the previously fluctuating energy suddenly became clear, as if someone had wiped clean a glass covered in fog.

Chen Mu glanced at the experience on the gray wall.

Jade Gate Spell: 1002/10000/Sixth Rank;

It's only been a little over a thousand years, and the effect is already so obvious?

When the time came, he found himself somewhat unsure of what to do.

"How about I use the Nine Cups Calculation Sutra to calculate it for you?" Shen Yan said with a playful expression. "Back when I was alive, I was the Imperial Advisor. Don't worry, it's very accurate."

But pull it down!

Your calculations are probably less accurate than mine.

Imperial Preceptor?
Chen Mu rolled his eyes: "You didn't try to fool the emperor before you died, did you? You got killed by him."

Shen Yan looked completely unconcerned: "So, are you leaving or not?"

go!
Why aren't you leaving!
Returning to the underworld on their own would require a massive amount of spiritual energy, and it would probably take them two or three years to store it all up.

He wasn't afraid of waiting; what he feared was falling into unknown dangers during the hunt.

Just like the blue glowworms he encountered before, if it weren't for the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed breaking through the illusion, he would have been devoured by the insects by now.

"It's just a few days of questioning. If I can't fool them, I'll just hide back in Thousand Lantern City."

"But if you can fool them, you'll be safe and sound immediately, and you can even return to the underworld without any risk by passing through the Gates of Hell."

"Done!"

He immediately began to summon the spirits of Pu Lu and the original Hai character flag.

Pu Lu is the source of the Yellow Springs Ferry. The participation of the spirits of the Hai character flag in the soul-summoning banner ritual is a necessary condition for performing the Nine Cups Calculation Sutra.

Following the information provided by Shen Yan, he and the others rehearsed the possible interrogations several times.

……

In the afternoon, everyone gathered beside the bottomless pool.

Shen Yan stood in front of the crowd, waved his hand to activate the Mountain-Carrying Scripture, and apart from the hundred or so Yin spirits beside Chen Mu, the other Yin spirits instantly turned into a black cloud.

As the Jade Gate Incantation was activated, the humanoid Gate of Hell was unleashed, and a pitch-black curtain suddenly appeared in mid-air. Its surface rippled like water, but its interior was completely black, emanating wisps of icy aura—a sign that the Gate of Hell was opening.

Chen Mu took a deep breath, activated the Mountain-Carrying Scripture, and led the hundred or so people around him into the curtain.

His vision suddenly went dark, his mind became slightly disoriented, and his consciousness became a little sluggish, bringing back the feeling he had when he was at the bottom of the River of Oblivion.

Before he could fully appreciate it, a bright light appeared before his eyes.

Chen Mu looked on expectantly, and then his eyes met those of a head missing half a face.

The other person had pale skin and a burly build, with a single, eerie, black vertical eye between his eyebrows. The left half of his face, along with the back of his head, was completely gone, and the broken, grayish-white stone he was leaning against was stained red and white.

Chen Mu tensed up immediately and looked up sharply.

The expected ghostly soldiers did not appear; instead, a raging sea of ​​fire and billowing black smoke filled the air. A thick stench of blood assaulted his senses, and severed limbs and mangled bodies littered the mountains and fields. Countless mutilated corpses of three-eyed people nearly filled the entire area he could see.

"Is this really the main camp of Jigu City?"

Chen Mu's pupils suddenly contracted, as if he had been struck by lightning.

It took him a while to come to his senses before he realized that the gray-white stone the three-eyed man was leaning against was actually a fragment of the Gate of Hell.

As the Jade Gate Mantra was activated, a strong sensation spread throughout the surrounding area.

"No wonder I didn't see the Gates of Hell earlier, it's all been blown to bits, you couldn't see it at all!"

"This two- or three-meter-long broken stone in front of us has become the largest fragment."

"Are the three-eyed people native to the Underworld?"

"Sigh... I thought the main camp was safe enough, but who would have thought..." Chen Mu shook his head and smiled bitterly.

The surrounding mountains collapsed and crumbled, the ground was pitted and charred, and the white ash of the dead ghost soldiers and the mangled corpses of the three-eyed man were everywhere.

Chen Mu took a deep breath and felt an indescribable burning stench.

"We can't stay here any longer!"

He opened the gates of Thousand Lanterns City, intending to take the Yin spirits inside, when a thought suddenly struck him, and he looked again at the corpses covering the mountains and fields.

"Are we just going to leave them lying here exposed to the wind and sun?"

Although they were not of the same clan, Chen Mu still couldn't help but feel a sense of shared sorrow for the fate of his fellow tribesmen.

"No one even claims the body when someone dies, how pitiful!"

"Oh well, what can I do? I'm a good person." Chen Mu sighed and with a wave of his hand, five or six thousand Yin spirits appeared in Thousand Lantern City.

"Let's do our best to collect the bodies." He planned to find a burial place for these three-eyed people.

For example...

Bottomless pool!
(End of this chapter)