My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 543 The Heavenly Demon Path

The weather is getting colder day by day, and the leaves on Qiluo Mountain are turning more and more yellow.

Beneath the inner gate of the Divine Statue Cave, Chen Mu huddled in a rocking chair, staring intently at the water curtain in front of the gate.

As the Lingbao Cardinal Chapter entered its fifth stage, the power of the Qiluo Mountain City God's Temple radiated even further, and the water curtain in front of the gate could display the scenery of the three neighboring counties, but Chen Mu had no interest in looking at it.

Images of the underground meridian nodes flashed through his mind from time to time. Whenever he thought of those half-dead Qi cultivators, his feelings became complicated and indescribable.

Boom!
A soft sound came from the water curtain.

Chen Mu subconsciously looked up and saw Li Buxian throwing a brand new Yellow Millet Gourd into the Dragon Locking Well.

This old man is fleecing the underworld again.

Chen Mu pouted.

However, the underworld itself is quite sinister, so...

They're all bad people!

"The method for leaving the dojo needs to be more comprehensive," Chen Mu sighed.

Putting everything else aside, I must grind the Lingbao Cardinal Chapter to its limit. At that time, the power of the Daoist temple will radiate to a wider range, and I might be able to teleport to the border of the Great Qian Dynasty in one go.

That way, the moment I leave the dojo, I can instantly distance myself from the Great Qian Dynasty.

"And we should try to minimize the time we spend away from the Divine Statues Cave in the future."

He was quite disappointed, as he had originally planned to visit the three neighboring counties during the Spring Festival.

The Absolute Breath Divine Power is indeed profound, but it is ultimately just a low-level Yin Soldier Divine Power, and there is a possibility that it can be broken.

His method of listening had already seen through it.

The Dragon Locking Academy has been targeting Qi Refiners for many years, so they might have a solution.

He didn't want to be buried in the earth's vein nodes like a chore by the Dragon Locking Academy.

"It's just about playing it safe, we've got experience!" Chen Mu said through gritted teeth.

For the past ten years or so, he has lived in caves and deep in the mountains. Even in the pitch-black city of Qiandeng, he could stay for a year or two without showing his face. How much more so in this Shenxiang Cave Heaven, where it is spring-like all year round and he has no worries about food and drink.

"Yes, unless absolutely necessary, my true form will never leave the Divine Statue Cave Heaven!"

……

Several days later, the weather in Luandu County grew colder, but the Shenxiang Cave remained warm as ever.

The rocking chairs under the gatehouse were empty, but the water screen in front of the gate displayed the bustling markets of four counties, including Luandu, Jiangyang, and others.

The sounds of street vendors hawking their wares, singing in brothels, and storytelling in teahouses mingled together and drifted into the courtyard through the open gate.

Inside the west courtyard, Chen Mu listened intently to the opera singing and storytelling while simultaneously using his Qi to sprinkle jade dew onto the vegetable garden.

The vegetable seeds sown more than ten days ago have already sprouted seedlings.

Having made up his mind to hide in the grotto of the statue and not show himself, he quickly adapted to the new rhythm of life.

He goes to bed early and gets up early every day, practices his skills step by step, and even has time to re-tille and replant the vegetable garden in the west courtyard.

With the Jade Dew Well there, he didn't lack food, but that didn't stop him from satisfying his appetite by cooking for himself.

only……

"This jade dew seems to have changed a bit." With a thought, a ball of pearl-sized jade dew flew in front of him.

Looking at the clear, jade-like dew, Chen Mu instinctively swallowed.

It's like seeing a bottle of chilled plum juice on a sweltering summer day; just looking at it makes you want to swallow it whole.

"That kind of allure..."

"It seems to have a bit of the Rejuvenating Soup vibe in it?" Chen Mu raised an eyebrow.

The Rejuvenating Soup can strengthen the body's foundation and nourish its vital energy. It requires the Seven-Turn Rejuvenating Mantra and various medicinal herbs extracted from the flesh and blood of strange beasts and monsters. His ability to condense the Yellow Spring Divine Aperture is entirely due to the help of this soup.

Moreover, the Rejuvenation Soup is extremely attractive to Yin spirits; even Shen Yan, the supervisor who was at the Divine Embryo realm, praised it highly.

"The changes at Jade Dew Well seem to have occurred within the last few days."

"Lingbao Cardinal?"

Chen Mu immediately understood.

The only recent change worth mentioning is that the Lingbao Cardinal Chapter has entered the fifth stage.

"The more profound the Spiritual Treasure Cardinal Chapter that the living deity possesses, the more perfect and powerful the City God's Taoist temple becomes?"

"Strange!"

……

In the following days, Chen Mu carefully observed the changes in the grotto-heaven of the divine statue. Before he could find anything unusual about the grotto-heaven, his own demonic body had already undergone a transformation, and its yin spiritual essence had inexplicably increased.

It's like rolling around in the River of Oblivion again, undergoing a second growth spurt. The exterior remains unchanged, but the interior is constantly being updated and reset, most directly manifested in a 30% increase in Yin Spirit power!
"This change actually occurred on the very first day I began cultivating the Spirit Treasure Pivot Chapter, but the increase was too small to be apparent."

"Now that we've entered the fifth rank, quantitative changes have led to qualitative changes, which has brought about a dramatic increase in divine power."

Chen Mu looked back carefully and suddenly realized.

"Therefore, the Lingbao Cardinal Chapter is not only to strengthen the power of the dojo, but also to give the living gods a special reward for guarding it for a hundred years."

"Then why do people in the underworld have such a poor opinion of living gods?"

"Is this a deliberate publicity stunt?"

"A disguised monopoly on the path to becoming a god?"

He carefully recalled the Yin soldiers who had accompanied him to their post as living gods, and immediately realized that several of them seemed to be personal guards of the young city lord, Lü Liang.

Chen Mu couldn't help but twitch his face.

"It's so dark, so very dark..."

While a solid foundation will not directly accelerate the cultivation speed of Yin spirits, it can reduce cultivation bottlenecks and, most importantly, raise the upper limit of Yin spirit cultivation.

Originally, one might not even be able to cultivate a divine embryo due to natural talent, but after being refined by the Lingbao Pivot Chapter, one might be able to cultivate a Yin Spirit!

"Tsk tsk... No wonder there's this so-called 'substituting one thing for another' method."

"On the surface, it's to let the second generation of Yinming travel to the mortal world, but in reality, it's to steal the Lingbao Cardinal Chapter?"

"It's all a routine, a routine everywhere." Chen Mu clicked his tongue and shook his head.

After reconsidering this change, a thought suddenly struck him.

"The Lingbao Pivot Chapter can enhance the Jade Dew. Is there some mysterious change happening in the Dragon-Locking Well outside, which contains a bottomless pool?"

Chen Mu immediately became interested.

……

In the east courtyard of the City God Temple, Li Buxian threw the Yellow Millet Gourd into the Dragon-Locking Well and turned back to his room.

He came to the desk, but instead of lighting an oil lamp, he used the moonlight from the window to open a wooden box on the desk and took out a black-covered scripture to read.

"The Crescent Moon Sutra, the Crescent Moon Sutra, can reciting it ten thousand times really relieve worries?" Li Buxian's eyes flickered.

The scriptures were obtained by him many years ago when he captured Qi cultivators at the Lock Dragon Academy.

He didn't rob or steal; it was a gift from an old man he couldn't beat or understand.

"That person called himself the Heavenly Demon Path, claiming that his lineage came from ancient times, yet he was different from Qi Refiners. Even if he practiced this scripture, he was not afraid of being ostracized and hunted down by the Dragon Locking Academy."

"According to that person, the scriptures can guide the demonic seed, cleanse it with the seven human emotions, strengthen the upper fetal spirit, and assist the underworld god in cultivation."

"But just hearing the name 'Heavenly Demon Path' doesn't sound like a good path," Li Buxian said hesitantly.

"But if we don't take a gamble, can we really replenish our spiritual energy with just millet wine?" Li Buxian's face darkened.

Although the success rate of making Huangliang wine has recently increased.

However, Luandu County is just a remote small county, and the silver gourd is only considered a medium grade among the Yellow Millet Gourds. Even if the success rate keeps increasing, can it still compare to the 100% success rate of the golden gourd?

Ah!
Relying on my own to refine millet wine, I definitely cannot replenish my spiritual energy!

Go fight again to earn military merits, and then become a temple keeper?
Li Buxian immediately shook his head.

Even if I wanted to do it, I knew I couldn't compete with those powerful families.

They wouldn't be chosen for good City God Temples; they would only be assigned to a newly built City God Temple as a temple keeper.

Once that line of work is completed, I'll have to spend time waiting for the conditions for the Dragon Locking Well to be met. Going back and forth like that, several years of effort will be wasted.

"I need to find myself a backer." Li Buxian said calmly.

"The martial arts of the Underworld God are about absorbing the power of gods and demons into oneself."

"It's not too much to ask to find a celestial demon as a backer, is it?" He couldn't help but look up and gaze through the window at the five ridges and six beasts on the main hall of the City God.

"City God, City God, I have been chanting scriptures for you for three years, but you are still useless. You can't even guarantee my success in making the Yellow Millet Wine."

"Humph!"

"In that case, don't blame me for switching allegiance and worshipping other gods."

"Heavenly Demons? As long as they can help me cultivate, even Heavenly Demons are gods!" Li Buxian snorted coldly, decisively released the black-covered scripture, and began to recite it softly.

Chen Mu, whose divine sense projection had just appeared: "..."

Is this old Deng really that pragmatic?
(End of this chapter)