My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 585 Hidden dangers
Several days later, in a secluded spot at the edge of the water-avoiding shuttle.

The air rippled, and Chen Mu's figure slowly emerged from the air.

Since discovering the Crimson-Eyed Ghost Mark, he used the Five Elements Escape Technique to transform into an invisible breeze and secretly searched the inside and outside of the Water-Avoiding Shuttle.

The good news is that after several days of investigation, no other discoveries were made besides the initially found red-eyed demonic pattern.

He did sell quite a few Crimson-Eyed Ghost-Patterned Beads, but Goose-Sheep Path didn't just raise one Twenty-Four Solar Terms Turtle. His possessions, when spread out, were really insignificant. It was already quite rare for a tortoise shell to grow a Crimson-Eyed Ghost-Patterned Bead.

The bad news was that he discovered an even bigger hidden danger.

Chen Mu stared at the white jade disc in front of him with a gloomy expression.

At this moment, a faint, cool aura could be faintly seen inside.

"The power of the Yin spirits..."

"The Great Qian Dragon Locking Academy is truly a persistent ghost!"

This aura was extremely subtle, more like a specific mark. If he hadn't possessed the power of Yin spirits and had the aid of the Listening Technique, he would have had no chance of detecting it.

"Is it because of the City God's Taoist temple?" Chen Mu asked solemnly.

That thing is the foundation of the Dragon Locking Academy, and a key part of it is to bury Qi Refiners underground as the core of their meridians.

"Is the Dragon Locking Academy planning to ambush us when Goose Sheep Mountain is relocated?"

"This is troublesome."

……

Report it to Lei Wen?
Chen Mu shook his head.

Ordinary Qi cultivators, unable to unlock the Dragon Academy's Dragon Locker, would at most assume that this gloomy aura was a mutated characteristic of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Turtle.

Chen Mu didn't want to reveal too much about himself. Without knowing anything about the Great Qian Dragon Locking Academy, Lei Wen probably wouldn't take him seriously.

Did you not see it?

That's even worse.

I'll likely be traveling on this water-avoiding shuttle, and I don't want to be attacked by the Dragon Locking Academy halfway there.

"The simplest way is to completely erase this mark." With his mastery of the secret techniques of the Yin Spirit side while he was a Heavenly Demon, it was not difficult for him to do this.

Yet, in the vast Pingjiang Taoist temple, the first batch of water-avoiding shuttles numbered forty-three. Who knows how many identical vessels were hidden within this enormous fleet?

Moreover, he can erase them, and those lurking agents can be remarked.

If he alerts the enemy, and the markings are hidden even more secretly, then he will be in big trouble.

"We must capture that lurking person once and for all."

……

Two weeks later, late at night.

The Pingjiang Taoist temple was brightly lit, and countless Qi cultivators were busy doing their jobs like bees.

Inside a water-avoiding shuttle, an elderly man with gray hair and simple clothes casually passed by a secluded spot.

A quick glance out of the corner of my eye revealed that the previously deeply hidden aura had vanished without a trace.

The old man's pupils contracted slightly, but his face remained expressionless.

He turned around and continued to work with the other Qi Refiners, using the special bone bricks produced by the Hundred Refinements Hall to build the cabin.

As dawn broke and after clearly explaining the situation to the person taking over the shift, the old man, looking exhausted, stepped out of the water-repelling shuttle, put on the water-repelling bead, and dived into the Pingjiang River.

The brightly lit Pingjiang Dojo beneath his feet grew ever more distant, and just as he was about to emerge from the water, a dark whirlpool suddenly appeared behind him. Then, like a giant fish devouring a shrimp, it swallowed him whole and vanished.

……

In Thousand Lights City.

Chen Mu looked at the panicked old man with a half-smile: "You've been hiding it quite well."

"Seeing the spirit mark being erased, yet his heartbeat remained perfectly steady, it seems he has received special training."

If it weren't for the Seven Emotions Curse of the Heavenly Demon sensing something amiss in the other person's emotions, he might not have been able to discover this person at all.

He hadn't left the vicinity of the Water-Avoiding Shuttle in the past few days.

During the day, while pouring mustard seed mantras into the inner wall, I continuously monitored the environment around the cathode using the Listening Method.

Even after he got off work in the evening, he didn't leave. Instead, he secretly used his magic to hide underwater.

At first, no one was seen checking the mark, so they had no choice but to erase it, alerting the enemy, which allowed them to capture the person in front of them.

Upon hearing this, the old man opposite him slowly wiped the panicked expression off his face.

"You managed to see through my disguise; you're quite something." He looked calmly at Chen Mu: "Isn't it better to live a good life? Why do you have to seek death?"

"Aren't you afraid?" Chen Mu raised an eyebrow.

"Afraid? You should be the one who's afraid!" The old man sneered, and his whole body exploded with a bang, suddenly turning into countless ribbon-like black shadows.

A sound like a thousand people chanting aloud arose.

"Before my Thousand Illusions Demonic Transformation, all Qi cultivation techniques are useless."

"And if I just touch you, your entire body and spirit will belong to me!"

"what!"

With a loud shout, thousands of dark shadows shot towards Chen Mu like arrows.

Stab it!

The Kui Shui Yin Lei was summoned by thought, and countless bolts of lightning exploded in mid-air, rising as high as five or six stories, like ocean waves, crashing against the dark shadows. But those dark shadows seemed illusory, easily passing through the endless lightning without being damaged in the slightest.

"The Thousand Illusions Demon Shadow is impervious to all magic; no matter how powerful your lightning magic is, it's useless!"

"Prepare to die obediently and become a part of my Thousand Illusions Demon Shadow, hahaha!"

The voice just fell.

hold head high!
A thunderous roar exploded, and five black dragon heads, shaped like locomotives, appeared.

Just as it rushed in front of Chen Mu, the long, arrow-shaped black ribbon suddenly stopped, like a mosquito falling into amber.

hum!
Endless black smoke, shimmering with silver light, descended from the sky.

boom!
The countless black ribbons in the sky were like bubbles, bursting and disappearing in the blink of an eye.

An elderly man with gray hair was slammed to the ground, sprawled out, by the Qi-Binding technique, and could no longer move.

"You scared me!" Chen Mu patted his chest, his face twitching.

He truly hadn't expected that the Kui Shui Yin Lei would be completely ineffective against this old man.

"Fortunately, I have the Five Dragons Dharma Form as a backup, so dealing with the Underworld God Transformation based on the Yin-Yang Insects is a piece of cake."

Chen Mu stepped forward, took out the Eastern Pole Longevity Scripture, and said with a smile, "Come on, repeat after me."

Since one has practiced the Netherworld God Transformation, one will have the Netherworld Worm within their body, thus enabling the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed to be implanted and become one of their own.

……

"So, you don't know how many people the Lock Dragon Academy has hidden in Goose Sheep Mountain?"

"That shouldn't be the case. You're already a master of the Seventh Transformation of the Underworld God realm. At the very least, you should be a minor leader. How come you're just a frontline spy?" Chen Mu looked at the gray-haired Luo Fan with suspicion. "You're not trying to lie to me, are you?"

I'd like to, but how could I dare to have a spirit seed enter my body?

"It's mainly because of the Thousand Illusions God and Demon Transformation," Luo Fan explained helplessly.

"The essence of this secret technique is illusion; everything is illusion. It can make me immune to all spells, but that's all it can do; it has no offensive power whatsoever."

“If we were to face each other head-on, I wouldn’t even be able to beat a third-stage Underworld God.” He said with a bitter expression.

"Unable to charge and fight like a warrior of the underworld, nor to use the secret techniques of the ghost soul like a dragon locker, and because he can change and hide his aura, he is only suitable as a secret agent."

Is it that bad?

"Then why did you just lunge at me like that? Were you looking for death?" Chen Mu didn't believe it.

"My own strength is limited, but I can still use some special magical artifacts." Luo Fan smiled awkwardly and took out a dark short sword from his sleeve.

"It's sharp enough to pierce armor, and contains a strange poison. When used unexpectedly, it's remarkably effective." He said solemnly.

Chen Mu took the dagger and examined it, then broke out in a cold sweat.

Luckily, we caught this guy, otherwise, if he had been stabbed by this dagger, he might have ruined and wasted a piece of clothing!
"Your dagger isn't that great either," Chen Mu said, pursing his lips.

"My strength is insufficient to make any contributions, and I can't afford to buy good treasures. At most, I can only look at them." Luo Fan said with a sheepish expression.

So all that arrogance just now was just a bluff?
Chen Mu looked at Luo Fan speechlessly.

This is a bit troublesome.

Luo Fan was merely a frontline spy, without even a superior to whom he could communicate directly. Although he had captured the target, he didn't know how many Luo Fans were on Goose Sheep Mountain.

"Tell me about that marking technique," Chen Mu sighed.

I have to handle this myself.

Luo Fan dared not hide it: "That secret technique is called the 'Tracing Machine Imprint,' a secret technique of ghost patterns that the Dragon Locker left on my body in advance."

"I only need to expend some of my blood essence and blood, and then combine it with the incantation ritual to cast the spell." As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeve, revealing a walnut-sized birthmark-like blue mark on his left forearm.

"I know very little about the secret technique itself. To understand its mysteries, I'm afraid... I'm afraid only a Dragon Locker who has mastered the power of the Netherworld can make a discovery." As he spoke, he couldn't help but glance at Chen Mu cautiously.

The power to communicate with the spirits?

This is no coincidence.

Glancing at the countless incantations painted on the gray wall, which had long been exhausted, Chen Mu turned his head and stared intently at the blue stain.

……

It took three days.

With the help of the Netherworld Incantation and Luo Fan's cooperation, he successfully captured the ghostly energy of the Qianji Imprint within the Nine Netherworld.

Later, taking advantage of the night when he was off work, he used his listening skill to listen to each of the more than forty water-avoiding shuttles moored at the bottom of the Pingjiang River. He easily found the hidden point of the mechanical engraving in thirteen of the water-avoiding shuttles.

"Thank goodness we discovered it early." Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief in the quiet room on the second floor of the wooden building on the hillside.

Otherwise, if they are ambushed and attacked by the Daqian Lock Dragon Academy on the way to the relocation, it will cause another great chaos.

"This plan probably wasn't devised by Yuan Xian's faction, otherwise that old guy would have already found a way to inform me."

Over the years, he has remained somewhat confident in the efficacy of the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed.

Fortunately, he had discovered the Dragon Locking Academy's methods in advance, so he was no longer uneasy.

Chen Mu was in no hurry to erase the Qianji Imprint. If it alerted the secret agents of the Lock Dragon Academy and they used other methods, things would become difficult.

"Before the relocation, we will erase all the markings in one fell swoop. Even if the Lock Dragon Academy discovers something is wrong, it will be too late to remedy the situation. This will eliminate the hidden danger of the Lock Dragon Academy tracking and ambushing us."

Thinking of the expression on the face of the person behind the scenes when the plan failed, Chen Mu couldn't help but smile.

(End of this chapter)