My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 516 Secret Records
"Hmm...it seems there is a way."

Inside the stone house by the River of Oblivion, Chen Mu's heart stirred, and he turned to look at Zhang Er: "Is your ability to create the Extinction Stone a supernatural power or a secret technique?"

Zhang Er was puzzled, but dared not hide it: "It is a supernatural power."

What a pity.

If it's a secret method, then it's simple.

Chen Mu took out a large, light-colored wooden bookcase from the Five Ghosts Bag and began searching through it.

The bookshelf contains copies of scriptures, secret methods, anecdotes, and biographies he has collected over the decades.

A moment later, he pulled a brownish-yellow animal hide scroll from the lower wooden box. Unfolding the scroll, the four large characters "Secret Record of Embroidery Techniques" immediately caught his eye.

When Jilongdao was relocated to Dongling Mountain, there were constant conflicts with the local tribes.

The Eagle Sorrow Cliff Villa on Chicken Coop Road was destroyed by a coalition of barbarians, and Chen Mu experienced this calamity.

After escaping by using the "pointing to the ground to create steel" technique, he by chance obtained this animal skin scroll.

This secret technique allows one to absorb the aura of a demon and seal it within their own body, nurturing and strengthening it with their own blood and essence, thereby acquiring some of the demon's innate abilities and supernatural powers.

The innate supernatural abilities of Yin spirits are extremely similar to those of demons; if this secret technique can be mastered…

Chen Mu looked at Zhang Er and couldn't help but smile.

……

Three days later, by the River of Oblivion, inside a stone house.

A drop of blood, glowing with a shimmering red light, flew from Zhang Er's fingertip and landed in Chen Mu's palm. Enveloped and guided by the power of the Yin spirit, the blood slowly seeped under the skin, leaving a red dot the size of a mung bean, resembling a mole.

"It's done!" Chen Mu was overjoyed.

The Embroidery Manual originates from the Eastern Mausoleum Barbarians in the mortal realm. Most of the operations carry a primitive, rough, and bloody quality, and are largely a crude application of the essence, energy, and spirit of living beings. However, there are still some steps that require the use of magical power to guide them.

Spirits only possess divine power but not magical power, so simply copying their methods will definitely not work.

He spent the last few days and nights pondering the matter, figuring out the working principle of the secret record through feedback from the gray wall, and then using the power of the Yin spirit to simulate and replace it, finally succeeding.

"Fortunately, this secret technique has an extremely primitive foundation. If it were a truly sophisticated magical technique, it might not have succeeded." Chen Mu was relieved.

"All that's left is to invest your essence and blood to stimulate growth, and there's a very high probability that you'll acquire Zhang Er's Breathless Divine Power."

"Although the upper limit is only up to Zhang Er's current level, it is enough for the time being if the Yin Spirit Divine Power far exceeds Zhang Er's own level."

Chen Mu got up and went to the window, looking at Li Wuyou, who was faintly visible in the distance.

Qingyang City intends to trap everyone in Feng'an City by the river in order to lock onto the Netherworld Stone. Once the city lord of Feng'an City returns from the Outer Heavens, he will immediately fall into Qingyang City's encirclement.

"If I were to quietly take away all the spirits of Feng'an City, I wonder what kind of interesting expression the person behind it would make."

Just thinking about the frustration and anger the City Lord of Qingyang felt when he learned that everyone from Feng'an City had disappeared without a trace made Chen Mu unable to stop smiling.

He had no grudge against Qingyang City, but why did they insist on trapping him around the Wangchuan River?

He's not that kind-hearted to save people for no reason.

However, he would be very happy if he could cause trouble for Qingyang City or even directly ruin the other party's plans.

"It's all about reciprocity, I'm just a polite person. Hehe..."

……

evening.

Chen Mu lay in a rocking chair on the long corridor outside the stone house.

In the distance, the calm surface of the River of Oblivion meets the sky. The dim setting sun hangs halfway in the sky and half sinks below the horizon, as if it were about to sink into the River of Oblivion.

The evil spirits of Feng'an City are still busy building the Gate of Hell.

"With such an undisguised action, Qingyang City will probably send people to cause trouble again."

"Given the example of the One-Horned Ghost King Shangyang, wouldn't it be safer to secretly build the Gate of Hell?" Chen Mu looked at Lü Liang with a puzzled expression.

Trying his failed human-shaped hellish escape plan would be fine too.

Lu Liang, who was sitting on a bamboo chair next to Chen Mu, did not speak, but gave Chen Mu a meaningful smile.

Chen Mu suddenly realized. This guy had already been making moves in secret?

Is this a cover-up, a two-pronged approach? On the surface, it's attracting the attention of Qingyang City's spies, but secretly, another gate to hell is being built?

Good guy!
Even he himself hadn't realized that this young city lord Lü was quite something.

"Can this work out?" Chen Mu became interested.

Lü Liang sighed with a wry smile, "All I can say is to do my best and leave the rest to fate."

Qingyang City has long coveted Feng'an City, and countless spies are hidden among the Yin spirits, making it impossible to capture them all.

He was careful enough, but he still couldn't guarantee that he wouldn't leak any secrets.

"At worst, we'll fight to the death." Lü Liang said calmly.

Chen Mu immediately raised an eyebrow.

"Do you know why Qingyang City is besieging us but not attacking?" Lü Liang chuckled. "The Netherworld Stone is indeed hidden among the spirits of Feng'an City. But if too many of these spirits die, the Netherworld Stone will instead vanish into the void and disappear completely."

Chen Mu suddenly realized.

“I have a secret technique called Returning to the Void, which can open the gates of the Nine Netherworlds and plunge people into the Abyss.” Lü Liang said calmly, “Since they can’t escape, I will use the Mountain-Carrying Scripture to drag all the Yin spirits of Feng’an City into the Abyss of the Nine Netherworlds.”

Chen Mu was immediately startled.

The Nine Netherworlds, containing endless azure flames, are the final resting place for yin spirits. Is this a ploy to drag everyone in Feng'an City down with them?
That guy's ruthless!

"Actually, it wasn't that there was no chance to escape," Chen Mu said with a light cough.

"You mean the Extinction Stone?" Lü Liang's mind raced, and he looked at Chen Mu in surprise: "Could it be that you can plunder someone's supernatural abilities and transfer them to everyone using a spiritual seed?"

After learning about Zhang Er's secret technique, he had already rehearsed its application. Clearly, Zhang Er alone could not support everyone's escape from the River of Oblivion.

"No, that won't do." Chen Mu shook his head.

"But it's fine for everyone to borrow that guy's supernatural powers temporarily." He smiled and handed the animal skin scroll to Lü Liang.

"The Secret Manual of Embroidery Techniques?" Lü Liang raised an eyebrow.

……

half a month later.

Night had fallen, and the moon had just risen.

A light mist drifted across the River of Oblivion as usual.

A gentle breeze blew by, and the mist moved with the wind, slowly enveloping the riverbank. As time passed, it grew thicker and thicker until it completely covered the entire riverside campsite.

Have you thought it through?

"For the past twenty days or so, no one in Qingyang City has come to cause trouble. If we continue to stay by the river, we might actually be able to build a gate to hell."

Inside the stone house, Chen Mu slowly calmed the Yin Spirit divine power. Through the increasingly dense fog that shrouded the divine, he could vaguely see the light of the campfire in the distant camp.

“Impossible.” Lü Liang shook his head with a wry smile: “I’ve thought it through these past few days. Now that Qingyang City knows we have the ability to build the Gate of Hell, there’s no way they’ll let us succeed.”

Although he had made two preparations, he was building the gates of hell both openly and secretly.

However, Feng'an City's overall strength was ultimately limited, while Qingyang City had existed for a thousand years and had countless hidden forces like Shang Guiwang.

If several divine embryonic spirits emerge simultaneously, all the methods prepared beforehand will be useless.

Moreover, with the ability to conceal his presence, Chen Mu clearly wouldn't remain by the River of Oblivion. Leaving him to guard the area with his men would likely end badly. Rather than waiting to die, he might as well take a gamble and try to escape.

"I'm worried that someone might block the way from the outside," Lü Liang said anxiously.

Chen Mu, on the contrary, smiled.

"As long as we can get rid of the troublesome King, everything else will be fine."

At worst, we can just hide inside Thousand Lantern City.

As long as you avoid the strange being that is King Wuyou.

Without anyone else to guide him, he didn't believe anyone could find and invade the Thousand Lanterns City Grotto from the vast void.

(End of this chapter)