My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 541 Mastery
East courtyard of Qiluo Mountain City God Temple.

With a splashing sound, Li Buxian, soaking wet, jumped out of the Dragon Locking Well.

He returned to his room with a dark and gloomy face.

Chen Mu's divine projection sat by the Locked Dragon Well, watching Li Buxian with satisfaction.

"It was worth the whole day of hard work."

"Finally, I saw old Deng's furious, dark face."

"It was worth it."

He was happily about to return to the Divine Statue Cave when he looked up and saw Li Buxian, now dressed in clean black clothes, reappear.

A black gourd was tied around the other person's waist.

The gourd's skin was dark, with faint silver veins. Compared to the gourd from yesterday, it looked as if it had been carved from the same mold!
"So there's more than one of these things!"

"You were too happy too soon!"

Chen Mu's face immediately turned ashen.

……

Late the next night.

Chen Mu reappeared by the Locked Dragon Well, staring at Li Buxian.

He also stole Li Buxian's second gourd and put it into the Divine Image Cave.

It was like yesterday repeating itself.

Li Buxian first stretched out his arm and groped around inside the Dragon Locking Well, then jumped into the bottom of the well to check, and was rewarded with a face that was even uglier than yesterday.

Having learned his lesson, Chen Mu dared not be too happy too soon.

Sure enough, not long after, he saw Li Buxian, now dressed in clean black clothes, walk out of the room again, expressionless, carrying a black gourd.

"Just how many gourds did this old man prepare?" Chen Mu couldn't help but grit his teeth and glare.

Is it because the act of stealing a ghost is inherently risky and could fail, so they prepared many gourds in advance to mitigate the risk?
I miscalculated!

"If only there were just one black gourd," he couldn't help but sigh.

There was only one gourd; perhaps Old Deng would have already started weeping last night. Unlike now, where he just looks pale and quickly regains his composure.

"However..."

Having too many gourds isn't necessarily a bad thing.

"If I steal the black gourd from him every time, will the old man's face always look this grim?"

"One gourd can only make this old man unhappy for one day, but if there are many gourds, wouldn't they make him unhappy for many days?"

"Haha, let's do it!"

……

Several days later, at the entrance to the Divine Statue Cave.

Chen Mu lay in the rocking chair, watching Li Buxian on the water screen.

The other person placed a rope inside the Dragon Locking Well, then sat on the rope, staring intently at the black gourd underwater. They maintained this posture for an entire day.

"Old Deng has become smarter," Chen Mu chuckled and shook his head.

"What a pity, I wanted to stay a few more days." He said with some regret.

In the past few days, as he stole several black gourds in succession, Li Buxian's old face grew darker day by day.

To prevent accidents, they have now closed the City God Temple and squatted directly inside the Dragon Locking Well.

Li Buxian was a formidable opponent, and with such a powerful figure watching him, Chen Mu couldn't sneak the black gourd into the Divine Statue Cave undetected.

"Fine, let's leave it at that."

"There wasn't much of a grudge to begin with, so five or six days of this should be enough."

"We can't push too hard. If we attract that old guy's attention and he finds out that I can leave the Divine Statue Cave, that would be a real problem."

Chen Mu stopped looking at it and instead looked at the secret techniques and experience on the gray wall.

Lingbao Cardinal Chapter: 8838/10000/Fourth Order;

This secret technique has been his focus for gaining experience over the past few days.

As he focused his research, he discovered that this secret technique differed from most other Yin-Yang secret techniques. Most Yin-Yang secret techniques required the use of Yin-Yang power to create supernatural ghost patterns on the body of a Yin spirit.

The Dew-Gathering Incantation and Flying Flame Scripture directly borrows the power of the River of Oblivion to transform himself. His most powerful technique to date, the Five Dragons Scripture, borrows power from the Heavenly Demon Candle Dragon.

The secret methods of Qi cultivators are different; they mostly involve directly calling upon magical power to weave true meaning talismans according to certain rhythmic rules.

Whether it's the Jade Tablet of True Meaning or the Secret Scripture, they are like camera negatives or scaled-down physical models. They only provide cultivators with a template; the rest is up to the cultivators to shape and weave themselves.

The Lingbao Cardinal Chapter is also a simple method of drawing divine power to generate ghost patterns, without the involvement of external forces; all the secrets of the technique are contained within the scriptures.

"This seems to be the complete process of cultivating the secret technique."

"The way they learn the Yin-Yang Secret Techniques seems to involve some trickery."

"Hmm... doesn't this seem a bit like the passive version of the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed's Secret Technique Transfer?" Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat.

The Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed can transmit its own secret techniques to its host, either actively or passively.

The active version is where Chen Mu directly bestows the complete experience, while the passive version requires the spirit seed host to comprehend it with the help of the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed.

Even in the passive version, because of the complete experience to guide them, the spirit seed parasite will cultivate its corresponding secret technique far beyond that of ordinary people.

"Are there other celestial demons and mirages in the Netherworld?"

"Could those secret techniques and incantations be bait, like the Heavenly Demon Curse?"

"Could I have been infected?" Chen Mu was startled and quickly checked himself.

After checking both the physical body and the demon body several times, and finding nothing amiss, he finally felt relieved.

"It must be because of the River of Oblivion." He quickly calmed down.

"It is said that the River of Oblivion contains all the secrets of the underworld, and perhaps even various secret techniques and profound meanings."

"In that case, it's not impossible that the River of Oblivion has the function of guiding cultivation."

All the spirits originate from the River of Oblivion and are inherently connected to it. It is reasonable that they can use the power of the River of Oblivion to create ghost patterns.

"The underworld is truly wondrous." With a sigh, Chen Mu closed his eyes and silently recited the Lingbao Shuji chapter of the scriptures.

As the invisible meaning unfolded, wisps of yin spiritual power seeped into the silver vertical lines between the eyebrows.

Then, shimmering with silver light, it surged throughout the body along the supernatural patterns that resembled a neural network.

As streams of silver light flowed, new tiny branches immediately sprouted from the already root-like, mystical patterns.

On the gray wall, the experience points belonging to the Lingbao Cardinal Chapter began to climb steadily.

……

Inside the City God Temple, in the Locked Dragon Well, the bright moonlight illuminates the well.

At a certain moment, a ripple appeared out of nowhere on the calm, icy surface of the water. The Yellow Millet Gourd seemed to be being pulled up slowly by an invisible force.

Li Buxian, who was sitting cross-legged on the rope, shuddered and quickly grabbed the gourd.

He gently shook it, feeling the slight sloshing of the liquid inside, and a smile immediately appeared on his face.

Pull the gourd stopper open a little, and a faint aroma of wine wafts into your nostrils.

Li Buxian felt as if he had eaten a mint candy; a refreshing coolness rushed to his head, and his tense mind, which had been tense all day, finally relaxed completely.

"It's finally done!"

He had heard that there was a failure rate in making millet wine, but he didn't expect it to be this high. He lost five millet gourds in a row before finally succeeding on his first try.

"In the end, I still lacked military merit, so I only obtained the secret technique of the silver gourd."

"If I had received the Golden Gourd in return, I might have mastered it long ago," Li Buxian sighed.

"Even with the Silver Gourd, according to the Dragon Locking Academy, the success rate should be 40%. How come it's less than 20% for me?" He was quite puzzled.

If this success rate continues, can I really complete the necessary fetal spirit for the Nine Transformations of the Underworld God before my term ends?

"Could it be that he was too ruthless in his pursuit of military merits, which is why he's been plagued by bad luck?" he worried.

"How about we recite more scriptures for the City God and ask him to bless me with success?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Mu, who had been keeping a close eye on Li Buxian within the Divine Statue Cave, was immediately amused.

"I don't know about other City Gods, but if you worship me more often, I can really bless you with success."

As long as he doesn't cause trouble, the success rate can be greatly increased.

(End of this chapter)