My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 509 Restraint
At noon, the sky was cloudless, and the cool, white sunlight bathed the entire city of Feng'an.

The once bustling streets were deserted, and the entire city was eerily quiet, like a terrifying ghost town.

In a secluded courtyard at the foot of the city wall on the south side, weeds grew rampant.

A group of seven or eight men tiptoed into the courtyard.

“Brother, the city lord’s mansion said that the fox-faced scholar usually wanders outside the city. What if we run into him if we go out…” A short man said hesitantly.

"What? Regretting it now?" The bearded man at the head of the group glanced at the other man. "You didn't actually believe those lies from the City Lord's Mansion, did you?"

"Let me tell you, that fox-faced scholar doesn't just roam outside the city; the entire Feng'an City is his hunting ground," the bearded strongman scoffed disdainfully.

"And that damned Three Paths Curse, if it could really guarantee safety, how come Old Liu in Duofu Lane was killed by that fox-faced scholar who ripped out his heart?"

“Reciting the Three Paths Mantra is like burning insect-repelling mugwort in the wilderness; it can drive away ordinary mosquitoes, but it cannot stop fierce poisonous insects.”

"That fox-faced scholar simply dislikes the aura of magic; it's not like he can't force his way in." He swept his gaze across the crowd: "Staying in the city will only make them lambs to the slaughter!"

"Are you willing to entrust your lives entirely to the feelings of that damned thing?"

Everyone shook their heads.

“That’s right, you’re not willing to give up.” The burly man with the thick beard nodded fiercely. “Instead of waiting to die in the city, let’s go out with you and fight for that sliver of hope.”

Seeing that everyone was no longer hesitant, the burly man with the thick beard revealed a smile.

We've finally managed to fool these guys. How can we leave the city with peace of mind if we don't take a few down with us?

He was feeling smug when he looked up and found that everyone in front of him had turned around at the same time, as if they were being chased by wild beasts, and they had all jumped over the courtyard wall and disappeared in a flash.

The bearded man was taken aback, then seemed to realize something and his whole body trembled.

He tried to run away, but found himself seemingly frozen in place by a spell, unable to move an inch.

A fox-faced scholar?!
The burly man with the thick beard was greatly surprised.

He immediately opened his mouth, intending to loudly recite the Three Paths Mantra.

The next moment.

puff!
A bloodstained hand pierced through his chest, and a bright red heart was beating in that hand.

The burly man with the thick beard trembled violently, his face turned ashen, and in the blink of an eye, he turned to ashes and disappeared without a trace.

Li Wuyou withdrew his hand, tilted his head slightly, flared his nostrils, and carefully examined the heart in his hand.

The next moment, he suddenly opened a mouth big enough to swallow a human head and swallowed the still-beating heart into his belly.

……

In the vast, desolate wilderness, in a desolate wilderness.

A giant water sphere, as tall as a person, floated in mid-air, with Li Wuyou standing motionless inside it, wearing a strange smile.

Not far away, Chen Mu stood with his left hand on his hip, panting heavily, while his right hand was outstretched with fingers spread wide, remotely controlling the water sphere.

He dared not relax for a moment. As early as when he killed the twenty-third Li Wuyou, he had already discovered the restraining effect of the Yellow Springs River on Li Wuyou.

However, as Li Wuyou was killed more and more times, his strength increased, and the effect of the River of Oblivion gradually diminished.

He estimated that he could only hold the opponent for a maximum of fifteen minutes.

"What kind of monster is this?" Chen Mu asked, his face grim.

He had seen several strange demons, but none could compare to Li Wuyou before him in terms of being unpredictable and bizarre.

"We need to recover quickly."

In the blink of an eye, a square wooden box, about the height of a forearm, appeared in mid-air in front of him.

boom!
The wooden box exploded, and a large number of jade dewdrops scattered and floated.

Black smoke, streaked with silver threads, quickly enveloped the area. The Soul-Seizing and Yuan-Gathering Power within the Five Dragons' Qi was activated, and the crystal-clear jade dew instantly turned into powder and scattered.

At the same time, dense essence surged into his body, and the Yin Spirit divine power began to slowly generate and replenish itself. The water sphere of the River of Oblivion, which was teetering on the verge of collapse in the distance, also gradually stabilized. "Not enough, not enough, far from enough." Chen Mu frowned deeply.

The box of jade dew beads he had previously possessed was all he had left. Other pills and food that could restore his vitality had been completely consumed during the past five days of struggle.

At most, Li Wuyou would break free from the water sphere within fifteen minutes. The divine power restored by that box of jade dewdrops would not be enough to sustain him in battle again.

"You'd better be more reliable this time, oh my god."

In the blink of an eye, the dry thatch at his feet was cut off at the roots and flew up to him.

The Qi Restriction urges on for a hundred miles, like a pair of invisible, skillful hands deftly tying knots and arranging the thatch, while various data surges into the mind.

"Fifty miles to the southeast, a strange demon has appeared?"

Chen Mu was overjoyed and immediately began pulling weeds, tying knots, and calculating again.

A moment later, he couldn't help but smile: "After ten calculations, seven of them pointed to the same location."

"There's always a way out!"

Chen Mu glanced at Li Wuyou inside the water sphere, took a deep breath, and then poured most of his Yin Spirit Divine Power into the water sphere to maintain the Yellow Spring Guide, while he himself activated the Yin Wind Escape technique to soar into the sky.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the location for the arithmetic calculations was already in sight. The thick white mist was clearly visible even from five or six miles away, a scene only seen when a strange demon appeared.

As if sensing Chen Mu's approach, the enormous, sky-reaching fog began to churn and surge rapidly.

ooh ooh...

With a roar, a three-headed, six-armed, ten-story-high ape-like monster with its bare, bright red muscles charged out, its six millstone-sized crimson eyes fixed on Chen Mu.

A fierce aura swept over him, and Chen Mu's hair stood on end instinctively, but he was not surprised but rather delighted.

Five Dragons Formation!

boom!
Five ferocious dragon heads, each as tall as a three-story building, suddenly appeared and rushed towards the ape-like monster in the blink of an eye.

puff!

In the instant of the collision, the ape-like monster's two arms and one head were torn off by the dragon head.

The ape-like demon roared loudly, its four arms slamming down on the dragon head. The two dragon heads, which looked like they were cast from black glass, shattered into a cloud of smoke and vanished.

But in the blink of an eye, the dragon head that had vanished reappeared, accompanied by a series of soaring roars, easily tearing apart the ape demon's body, which seemed to be cast in steel.

In just a few breaths, the enormous, mountain-sized monster had been torn apart and devoured by the Five Dragon Dharma Forms.

boom!
A muffled thud exploded, sending up a blast of air and thick white smoke billowing out.

Chen Mu's tattered clothes fluttered loudly in the wind, and countless Yinming insects scattered in all directions like sheep breaking free from their pen.

Ignoring the regret of losing a small portion of the demon's corpse, Chen Mu immediately activated the Five Dragons Merge into One.

The five enormous dragon heads immediately turned into gray-white smoke and dissipated, while black smoke suddenly appeared around Chen Mu.

hum!
A powerful aura immediately spread outwards, a massive amount of essence surged into the body, and the nearly depleted Yin Spirit power continued to emerge.

When the illusory image of the River of Oblivion was drawn out by the Yin-Yang Insects, Chen Mu's Yin Spiritual Power had been completely restored, and the fatigue and weakness brought on by five consecutive days of fighting had also disappeared.

But before he could be happy for long, he felt a familiar, malicious gaze.

Chen Mu turned around expressionlessly, and sure enough, on a small hilltop three miles away, Li Wuyou reappeared with a beaming smile.

"You're a persistent ghost!" Chen Mu said coldly.

"But...didn't they always just ambush us at close range before? Why this time..."

He glanced at the slowly dissipating phantom of the River of Oblivion, then at Li Wuyou on the distant mountaintop, and immediately smiled.

"So you're afraid of the River of Oblivion, huh!"

(End of this chapter)