My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 547 Qingnang Chapter

Inside the City God Temple on Qiluo Mountain, Li Buxian was terrified.

Why would the City God appear in the mortal world?

According to the records of the Lock Dragon Temple, in the nearly three hundred years since the founding of the Great Qian Dynasty, no City God has ever appeared. On the contrary, there are frequent rumors of statues of gods being destroyed and living gods disappearing together.

Is he really so shameless that he deserves to be seen by the City God in person?

The person in front of me...

The person in front of me is probably not the City God at all!

Li Buxian felt a sense of relief.

Was it the Great Demon King using the City God's face to give me a taste of his power?
He shook his head inwardly.

Although he discovered that the demonic energy was indeed connected to the person before him, he became increasingly skeptical. The Great Heavenly Demon, who resided high in the Nine Heavens and never descended to the mortal realm, was not so idle.

This is probably some fellow member of the Heavenly Demon Path using divine and demonic authority to intimidate others.

Li Buxian sneered inwardly.

I got to where I am today entirely through real fighting and bloodshed.

They're trying to trick me, thinking they can bully me?
Ah!
"I wonder which fellow member of the Heavenly Demon Path is here. You'd better reveal your true form and meet me."

"The majesty of gods and demons is inviolable. Your unauthorized impersonation will likely incur divine retribution!" Li Buxian said coldly.

Chen Mu immediately raised an eyebrow.

Are you traveling with the Heavenly Demon Path? Will you reveal your true form?

No wonder this old guy was trembling with fear just now, but suddenly became tough. He's mistaken me for a fellow member of the Heavenly Demon Path who's impersonating the City God to scare people.

And I'll be punished by heaven? This is practically a curse on me in a roundabout way!
"Are you sure you want to see my true form?" Chen Mu raised an eyebrow slightly.

"What? Is your face something you can't show to anyone?" Li Buxian sneered. This was indeed a bastard from the Heavenly Demon Path who wanted to extort money from him!

"I'm just afraid of scaring you away," Chen Mu said with a smile.

I've seen all sorts of storms, why would I be afraid of you!

Just as Li Buxian was about to utter a sarcastic remark, a familiar face appeared before him.

"Gongsun Sheng, the Dragon Soaring Through the Clouds?!"

"How dare you appear before me so blatantly!" Li Buxian's eyebrows furrowed and his face was cold.

"The Dragon Locking Academy has never given up on bringing you to justice. You..."

"You weren't discovered when you arrived, were you?"

"But is there something you need me to do?"

"Just give the order, and I promise to do everything in my power to help you achieve it!" Li Buxian, who had been so murderous just moments before, now looked as kind as if he had seen his second parents.

Your face changes so fast!

That old fox!
"I still prefer your defiant face from just now," Chen Mu chuckled, teasingly.

You think I don't want to? Well, I still need to be able to beat you.

Li Buxian's expression remained unchanged, but his heart was already in his throat.

He didn't want to experience that feeling of having his ribs broken and the bone piercing his heart again.

To grovel and fawn?

No, no, no, I call this compromising my principles.

It's about saving your life, nothing to be ashamed of!
……

Two days later, the Divine Image Cave Heaven.

Chen Mu sat in a rocking chair under the moon gate, holding a thin book in his hands.

The three ancient seal characters of the Qingnang chapter are written on the title page, which is the starting point of all the cultivation of the Underworld God Transformation.

This exercise is divided into two parts: dynamic and static. The dynamic exercise consists of seventy-two guiding postures, while the static exercise is a difficult and obscure scripture.

He has been pondering this for two days and has also tried to practice.

In his opinion, the seventy-two-form exercise was graceful and beautiful, and could relax muscles and improve blood circulation and digestion. It was utterly useless!
The physical tempering effect he had imagined did not materialize at all. He also recited the meditation scriptures hundreds of times, but to no avail.

After two days of struggling, the gray wall hadn't given him any experience whatsoever!

Having cultivated for many years and come into contact with dozens of secret techniques, even the deceptive calculation methods of the Nine Cups Calculation Scripture could provide some insights from the gray wall. Yet the Green Bag Chapter offered no feedback whatsoever.

"That old bastard Li Buxian is trying to fool me?"

"So bold?"

……

"Tiandu Lake?"

"What is that?" In the east courtyard of the City God Temple, Chen Mu sat across from Li Buxian at a square table, looking at him with a puzzled expression.

After struggling to grasp the essence of the Qingnang Manual for two days, he immediately rushed to find Li Buxian. The old man before him had already reached the pinnacle of the Seven Transformations of the Underworld God and was most familiar with the Underworld God Transformation.

"In the Great Qian Dynasty, there are three main ways to learn the Netherworld God Transformation: military camps, the Dragon Locking Academy, and family inheritance by noble families." Li Buxian spoke respectfully, answering all his questions without reservation.

"Besides mastering various precious paths of the Underworld God Transformation, the most important thing about these people is that they were allowed to build the Heavenly Capital Pool."

"Tian Du Pool can gather the vital energy of incense offerings and summon the energy of gods and demons. It is an indispensable part of the cultivation of the Underworld God Transformation."

"The purpose of cultivating the Qingnang chapter is to change one's physique and shape the Qingnang. One must cultivate in a place with abundant incense and spiritual energy, otherwise the progress will be very slow."

Does the Qingnang chapter require incense and vital energy for cultivation?
Chen Mu couldn't help but look up at the top of Qiluo Mountain, where a large, stable cloud of incense energy was visible.

Without external interference, this stuff was absorbed by the Dragon Locking Well and was not found in the Divine Statue Cave, so it could not assist in the cultivation of the Qingnang Chapter.

Is it because the incense and vital energy are lacking that the gray walls are so devoid of experience?
Chen Mu slowly shook his head.

According to Li Buxian, cultivation is very slow without incense offerings and vital energy, but it is not impossible to cultivate.

Incense offerings and vital energy have an impact, but my progress in the Qingnang chapter is still nonexistent, so there must be other reasons behind it!

He couldn't help but squint.

What exactly is the difference between me and Li Buxian? Is it because I am a Qi cultivator?

The noble families of the Great Qian Dynasty already had members who cultivated Qi, yet they were still able to cultivate the Netherworld God Transformation as well.

If there's anything truly different... it's that I wasn't born in the Great Qian Dynasty!
Anyone born in the Great Qian Dynasty has the Yin-Yang worm entering their body from a young age, and the Yin-Yang God Transformation is closely related to the Yin-Yang.

"The Yinming Insects." Chen Mu suddenly realized.

There are limits to the mortal martial arts path. If you want to continue to advance, you either need to refine your essence and energy to forge your armor and soul, and then combine your spirit and soul to cultivate the jade seed before starting to cultivate qi and immortality.

Either consume the Heavenly Demon Rebirth Pill, absorb the essence of demons, cultivate the Heavenly Demon Rebirth Method, and change your physique to transform into the true form of a demon.

The Yinming Insect has the ability to strengthen the host's physique, and the Mingshen Transformation can elevate mortal martial arts. It is possible that it was developed and derived from this.

"Those seventy-two guiding techniques are not meant for humans to practice, but for the Yin-Yang worms inside the body."

"So, I need to figure out how to put the Yinming Worm into my body first?" Chen Mu shuddered.

That thing is alive!

This...this is a bit difficult.

……

Several days later, at dusk, the Divine Image Cave was discovered.

Under a tree beside the moon gate in the east courtyard, Chen Mu lay in a rocking chair, squinting at the fiery red sunset.

A simple, black rope loop hangs from the index finger of his right hand, which, when twirled by his thumb, slowly rotates in his hand like a rosary.

"The Heart-to-Heart Rope, the Heart-to-Heart Mantra, and the Heart-to-Heart Gu—this series of magical artifacts and secret techniques are all related to the Yin-Yang Insect."

"The Five Ghosts Bag and the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains are both related to ghosts and monsters."

"Both of them originated from the unorthodox and secret text, the 'Thousand Mountains Classic'."

"It seems that the ancient unorthodox sect, the Thousand Mountains Sect, also studied the Underworld." Chen Mu's thoughts wandered.

"Fortunately, the seven brothers of Wushan only planted the Heart-to-Heart Gu on me, and I didn't have the chance to come into contact with the Underworld God Transformation. Otherwise, I would probably have been finished when I first came into contact with it."

Chen Mu looked down at the Tongxin Suo.

To escape the cave, he needs to use the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed to connect his Heavenly Demon Body with his physical body.

To infuse the Heavenly Demon Spirit into one's blood and flesh, one must cultivate the Underworld God Transformation.

To practice the Netherworld God Transformation, one must first incorporate the Netherworld Worm into one's body.

He had been agonizing over this for days, even trying to come up with other ways to avoid being present, but unfortunately...

"There's no other choice..." Chen Mu sighed softly.

As the magic surged, a thin black thread, as long as a finger and as thin as a hair, was separated from the concentric rope and floated slowly in front of Chen Mu, as if it were alive.

Rather than using the City God's temple to plunder the Netherworld Insects and ultimately being controlled by the Netherworld, it would be better to plant the Heart-to-Heart Gu in oneself.

The Tongxin Gu is essentially a Yinming worm, and with the Tongxin Rope in hand, the Yinming worm is completely under one's control.

Once the thought was made up, the black, thread-like worm darted into the heart in a flash.

He got up and began to practice the Qingnang Chapter's dynamic exercise method.

After only one ring, a sudden buzzing sound came from my ears.

A faint but completely different heartbeat appeared silently in his body, as if he had two hearts.

"It's done..."

(End of this chapter)