My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 525 Escape
The Divine Image Cave is quite unique, as the sky inside is connected to the outside world, and whatever the weather is outside, it will be exactly reflected inside.

Chen Mu lay in a rocking chair under the tree, looking at the cloudless sky and appreciating the clear, azure blue that broadened his mind.

The pines and cypresses overhead remained lush and green, but the surrounding Qiluo Mountain was covered with yellowish-green, half-dried leaves.

Before we knew it, autumn had arrived in Luandu County.

In the south of the city, in Ji'anfang, a group of people sat around a table in a two-courtyard house, eating and talking.

"Has Southern Shu really been destroyed?"

"General Jin truly lives up to his reputation as a pillar of the state!"

"I heard that the situation is stabilizing and that we should be able to return home in early winter."

"If we travel by water, we'll probably have to go through the Jade Belt River outside the city, and maybe we can meet again then."

As the group was chatting animatedly, several women appeared, surrounding each other.

One of the women was holding a large red swaddled baby, which attracted everyone to stand up and gather around. They happily looked at the baby in the swaddle for a while and offered various blessings and praises.

This gathering is a 100-day celebration for an infant in swaddling clothes.

In the corner of the room, Chen Mu's figure appeared out of thin air, staring at the baby in the distance before finally looking away.

The baby was born a hundred days ago, and Chen Mu had personally witnessed the Yinming worms entering its body.

The Yinming Insect's aura could still be detected that day, but by the second day, it had become almost imperceptible. Today, the Yinming Insect's unique aura has completely vanished.

"Has it integrated into the human body and become something similar to gut microbiota?"

Chen Mu understood.

It integrates into the human body at birth, grows alongside the infant, and becomes an integral part of the body.

Even if observed by special secret methods, people would probably only regard the Yinming Worm as some kind of symbiotic worm in the human body, and would never think that it is an alien parasite, let alone the various schemes involving the Yinming behind it.

"awesome!"

Because he witnessed the Yinming insects entering a human body through the power of the City God's temple, Chen Mu has been quite concerned about it.

During this period, aside from his cultivation, he spent his free time observing Luandu County.

However, it was discovered that apart from being unusually strong and healthy, the people in Luandu County showed no other abnormalities.

Regardless of age or gender, most people there were few illnesses or disasters, and in such a large city, there were only two clinics in total.

Moreover, the patients we treat most often, besides those with sprains and bruises, are pregnant women giving birth.

"For ordinary people, are these Yinming worms beneficial or harmless?"

“Interesting…”

Chen Mu shook his head slightly, taking one last look at the baby. With a thought, his figure vanished in an instant.

……

Thirty miles outside Luandu County, beside the Jade Belt River, Chen Mu's figure suddenly appeared.

He reached out his hand to the surface of the river, and his palm immediately turned into a fluorescent glow and disappeared.

"Looks like I still have to keep working hard."

A gray wall came into view.

Lingbao Cardinal Chapter: 5007/10000/Third Order;

For the past few months, aside from his daily practice of the Pingxin Sutra to nourish his divine embryo, which was yet to reach completion, Chen Mu had spent almost all his other time working on the Lingbao Pivot Chapter.

This secret method feels wonderful to practice, filling my heart with peace and joy, an experience far surpassing any other practice I've had in the past ten years.

Without needing experience points to provide a sense of accomplishment, he would immerse himself in it and spend all day grinding for experience.

The results were quite pleasing; to this day, he has already reached more than half of the third tier.

His divine sense projection range has also increased. He can now reach the Jade Belt River outside the city.

Chen Mu stared intently at the sky, where countless fine lines came into view. Some stretched into the distance, while others descended and plunged into the ground. Like a net covering the heavens and the earth, it stretched for hundreds of miles, covering the surrounding area.

"The City God's Daoist Temple doesn't refer to the courtyard of the City God Temple, nor does it refer to the grotto of the deity statue. Rather, it refers to all the areas covered by the forbidden network?" Chen Mu understood.

He turned his gaze to the opposite bank of the Jade Belt River, where a vast expanse of fertile fields stretched out before him. It was autumn harvest season, and the fields were a sea of ​​orange-yellow, filled with plump, ripe pearl rice.

With just a glance, Chen Mu, using his long-unused Tier 3 planting technique, was already able to roughly estimate the yield.

“The yield is at least 1,600 jin per mu, which is quite remarkable!” A strange light flashed in Chen Mu’s eyes.

In his memory, pearl rice was the staple food of ordinary people in the Great Qian Dynasty. Under normal circumstances, a yield of four or five hundred catties per mu was considered high.

When planting in the mortal realm, fertilizer is insufficient, seeds are not specially cultivated and selected, and timely irrigation is impossible. Relying on the weather all year round, the results are naturally not as high as the grain cultivation in the previous life.

But in this Luandu County...

Chen Mu looked again at the thin lines that enveloped the surrounding area.

"Is it the power of the City God's temple?" He realized.

"To feed and water people until they are well-fed and strong, and then incidentally cultivate some ghostly monsters to maintain the existence of the underworld?"

"Using people to raise Yinming worms is a cruel and heartless act, yet it has created a bizarre win-win situation?"

"Tsk! This world is bizarre."

……

As the days went by, the weather in Luandu County grew colder and colder.

Soon, snowflakes began to fall on Mount Qiluo, covering the mountain and its surroundings in a blanket of white. But inside the Divine Image Cave, it remained warm and spring-like, unchanged.

Snowflakes drifted down from above, but they were like reflections in a mirror or the moon's reflection in water, never actually reaching the cave.

With a thought, a gray wall appeared before my eyes.

Lingbao Cardinal Chapter: 2/10000/Fourth Order;

"Whether it works or not depends on today!" Chen Mu narrowed his eyes.

Standing in the middle of the courtyard, the Yin Spirit activated its divine power, and the true form of the Heavenly Demon, resembling a bald-headed youth, suddenly appeared.

As the Lingbao Pivot Chapter activated, Chen Mu turned his head and saw that the Heavenly Demon's true form was surrounded by invisible fine lines. It was wrapped in layers upon layers, like a cocoon.

"really!"

"The original Investiture of the Gods was signed in the true form of a celestial demon, and the City God's Taoist temple naturally also binds the true form of a celestial demon!"

"In this way, as long as I leave the Heavenly Demon's true form to guard the place, wouldn't I be able to escape the Divine Statue Cave Heaven?!" Chen Mu was overjoyed.

He had suspected it before, but fearing a backlash, he dared not try it rashly.

Now that he has mastered the Lingbao Cardinal Chapter to the fourth level, the entire restriction network of the City God's Dojo is now visible before his eyes.

Only then did he realize that his true form was not bound and that he had a chance to leave the Statue Cave.

After carefully checking again to confirm that his true form was indeed not involved, Chen Mu immediately mobilized the Yin Spirit Divine Power to activate the Yellow Springs Crossing.

hum!
Suddenly, a pool of dark water appeared on the bluestone slab beneath their feet.

Chen Mu suppressed his excitement, carefully observed the reaction of the restrictions within the Divine Statue Cave, and then slowly sank into it. When he reappeared, he was already at the summit of Qiluo Mountain.

He stood on a gray rock that jutted out from the ground, his mind focused, carefully observing his surroundings.

He was always ready to use the Yellow Springs Crossing Secret Technique, and if anything seemed amiss, he would immediately return to the Divine Statue Cave.

After a long while, nothing unusual happened except for the howling of the cold wind in the sky.

"Finally..."

Chen Mu let out a long breath, a big smile spreading across his face. Gazing at the snow-covered Luandu County in the distance, he felt a surge of joy and contentment.

After returning to the mortal realm for half a year, he diligently cultivated the Lingbao Pivot Chapter and finally succeeded in breaking free from the City God's Taoist temple and escaping the Divine Image Cave Heaven!

"Wuhu!"

With a loud shout, his Yin spirit power surged, and he was sent flying with a bang.

Air surged and snow swirled at the mountain peak.

Chen Mu's figure suddenly soared into the sky, breaking through the clouds and flying rapidly towards the horizon.

(End of this chapter)