My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 606 Cave Heaven
Pingning Ship Water-Avoiding Shuttle Dojo, Xiaojilei Hall.

Chen Mu stood at the door, took a deep breath, and his chaotic thoughts were dispelled, with ideas for how to deal with the situation quickly emerging.

"These years of wandering haven't been all bad; at least I've gained experience in dealing with these kinds of situations." He chuckled self-deprecatingly and turned to look at Lei Hong.

"Send out the entire hunting party to search in all directions and see if we can find any signs of human habitation."

"Tell them to be cautious, focus on investigation and record-keeping, and absolutely not to provoke any unfamiliar strange beasts or monsters."

"I'll take care of it right away!" Lei Hong, who had been completely lost, suddenly felt reassured and hurriedly ran out of the Xiaoji Lei Hall.

Chen Mu then turned to Lei Cheng: "You personally step forward to reassure everyone inside the shuttle and make sure they remain calm."

“If anyone stirs up trouble…” He narrowed his eyes.

"Understood!" Lei Cheng replied coldly.

After giving instructions to the two men, Chen Mu quickly returned to the quiet room in the small building, took out the gourd sword box, and began to forge the Zhu Yu magic sword.

The Divine Listening ability, combined with the Crimson Feather Magic Swords, is an excellent tool for reconnaissance. Unfortunately, due to the strange events last night, all nine Crimson Feather Magic Swords have lost contact. To use this method to survey the surrounding area, he needs to quickly replenish the magic swords.

The magic power was poured into the gourd sword box, and the various golden essences piled on the table were sucked into the gourd.

With a series of buzzing sounds, the gourd sword box simultaneously tempered and fused the materials while automatically stacking and shaping the Zhu Yu magic sword.

"It's fortunate that I asked Lei Hong to find a few more sets of minerals beforehand, otherwise I really wouldn't have been able to train."

Glancing at the red gourd slowly spinning in mid-air, Chen Mu's mind sank into the jade seed, and his consciousness arrived next to a dark stone covered with holes of various sizes.

The smoke, emitting a dark green fluorescent light, flowed through the holes and swirled around the dark stone, looking rather eerie and sinister.

This is the core talisman of the Pulling Machine Technique. It is through the Pulling Machine Talisman Seed that Chen Mu was able to remotely control the Crimson Feather Magic Sword.

After carefully recalling the feedback from the gray wall, Chen Mu poured his magic power into a corner of the Pulling Mechanism Talisman, triggering its hidden function.

woo woo woo...

The slowly drifting dark green smoke suddenly accelerated and disappeared into the dark rocks in the blink of an eye.

Click!

In the darkness, Chen Mu vaguely heard a crisp cracking sound. A sense of emptiness washed over him, as if something closely connected to him had shattered in a very distant place.

Before he could discern the details, he sensed that the broken object had reappeared nearby, and the emptiness he had just felt vanished instantly.

puff!
Like a boiling kettle, the dark stone spewed out large plumes of dark green smoke.

A brand new talisman seed emerged from this vast expanse of dark green mist.

"Phew... Luckily I was able to retrieve the Pulling Talisman Seed, otherwise I would have suffered a huge loss." Chen Mu felt relieved.

The nine Crimson Feather Magic Swords have lost contact. What he lost was not only the nine magic swords, but also the binding talisman seeds embedded in the magic swords, which were the key to his control over the magic swords.

If he can't retrieve the talisman seed, even if he practices a new magic sword, he won't be able to use it to explore the surrounding area.

The feeling of shattering and rebirth just now was a manifestation of the old rune seed annihilating and the new rune seed being born.

……

In the midst of ice and snow, there is a huge cave space inside a glacier.

In its center lies a cold pool the size of a bedroom.

The cold pool was only half a meter deep, and the bottom was clearly visible. Five or six palm-sized, purplish-blue fish swam slowly in the middle of the water.

Chen Mu stood by the cold pool, urging his qi to restrict movement for a hundred miles.

Wow!

A ball of water the size of a human head was drawn out of the cold pool, and a small purple-blue fish was enveloped in the middle of the ball of water.

He pulled the water clump close to his eyes to examine it closely, and then he discovered that the little fish seemed to slowly dissipate like a phantom of light and shadow.

Then, in a way that Chen Mu could not understand, it reappeared in the cold pool.

“Strange…” Chen Mu frowned slightly.

Three days have passed since they arrived in the icy world.

The cave and the cold pool in front of them were not far from where the Water-Avoiding Shuttle had landed, and they were discovered the moment Chen Mu activated his Listening Technique.

The pool is not deep, but its water is inexhaustible.

The pool water was icy cold, yet it never froze.

The most amazing thing is the six small fish in the pool. You can see them, but you can't catch them. They don't seem to be alive, but they are full of spirit.

……

"The Dingziqi hunting team is back. They haven't found a trace of human habitation three hundred miles south." Lei Hong hurried to the edge of the cold pool, a hint of panic in his eyes.

There wasn't even a three-hundred-mile stretch, let alone a five-hundred-mile stretch.

Chen Mu nodded slightly, but he already knew perfectly well what was going on.

In the past three days, it wasn't just the hunting party that went out to investigate. The three Vermilion Feather Magic Swords he had forged had also flown hundreds of miles away.

The Divine Power of Listening had already swept across the surrounding five or six hundred miles. Aside from the ocean and icebergs, there were many strange beasts and aquatic creatures, but not a trace of human habitation.

“This environment is somewhat like the far north of the Great Qian Dynasty, similar to the territory of Chongshan Road back then.” Lei Cheng, who came with him, frowned and said, “But this place is obviously not the Great Qian Dynasty.”

“The earth’s veins have changed, and the earth’s spiritual energy has declined, but that only means the energy is thin. But here…” He shook his head, his expression grave: “I suspect that this place has no earth’s spiritual energy at all!”

"It does exist, but you haven't found the right place," Chen Mu said, pointing to the cold pool in front of him.

Lei Cheng squatted down in surprise and reached into the cold pool.

He shivered instantly from the icy water, his eyes widening in disbelief. He could indeed sense the earth's spiritual energy emanating from the pool, and at a considerable concentration!
“The way the spiritual energy exists here is quite peculiar.” Chen Mu raised an eyebrow, a hint of interest flashing in his eyes: “It doesn’t diffuse in the air, but dissolves in the water.”

“Deep in the ocean beyond the iceberg, although the energy is very thin, there is still some earth energy.”

"The spiritual energy in this cold pool can be described as abundant."

From this perspective, this place may not be entirely an outer heaven like the Netherworld, and may be closely related to the world where Yunzhou is located!

Chen Mu's heart stirred, and he couldn't help but think of Thousand Lantern City.

"A blessed land?" He nodded slightly, a few guesses emerging in his mind.

This icy, snow-covered world before us may very well be a similar blessed land.

It's just that it's larger and more complete.

"Perhaps, it's not that there's no way to leave this place!" Chen Mu slowly narrowed his eyes.

……

A few days later.

The caves inside the glacier have been expanded several times over.

Besides the cold pool in the center, near the cave entrance, there is now a dark pool of water that has appeared out of nowhere.

The pool is about a hundred square meters in area, about the size of three to five bedrooms. Its surface is still, like a mirror. Inside, it is pitch black and bottomless, like an abyss.

This is precisely the Yin-Yang magical artifact, the bottomless pool.

In the center of the cave, beside the icy pool, a delicate wooden house, more than a meter off the ground, appears with its back to the bottomless pool.

On the long corridor in front of the wooden house, Chen Mu leaned against a wooden pillar and sat on the side of the corridor, staring at the cold pool in front of him with great interest.

"The Qi cultivators inside the Water-Avoiding Shuttle have completed their assigned tasks according to their respective secret techniques. Tomorrow, they will all be able to set out to capture various exotic beasts and aquatic creatures." Lei Cheng walked up the wooden stairs to the corridor, cupping his hands in a fist salute.

"This will probably cost a lot of money in jade." Lei Hong, standing beside him, hesitated and said with a conflicted expression.

The spiritual energy here is scarce; every bit of magical power used diminishes it.

To restore the magical power of the Qi cultivators who participated in the hunt, we must grant them the right to use their dojos.

The reason why the inner dojo of the Water-Avoiding Shuttle has abundant earth spiritual energy is entirely due to the white jade coins.

"Afraid of doing useless work?" Chen Mu glanced at Lei Hong.

"No, no, no, I'm just afraid of wasting the white jade money." Lei Hong chuckled.

"Make them throw the beast's flesh and blood into the bottomless pool as soon as possible. Don't worry, I have experience with this." Chen Mu waved his hand confidently.

Back in the Netherworld, he was able to return to the underworld through the Gates of Hell.

What we are in now is merely a grotto-heaven closely connected to the world of Yunzhou. As long as we create the Gate of Hell, accumulate enough energy, and find the precise anchor point, we can naturally leave this grotto-heaven.

The Lei brothers, Lei Cheng and Lei Hong, exchanged a glance and breathed a sigh of relief.

Arriving in this unfamiliar place, it's impossible not to feel flustered.

Now that they knew there was a way to leave, the two of them felt relieved.

"I will focus on crafting the magical artifact for teleportation; I'll leave the task of capturing the strange beasts to you."

"This is crucial to our safe departure, so we must not be careless," Chen Mu instructed.

"Leave this to me, just watch!" Lei Hong shouted, patting his chest with a hearty laugh.

Lei Cheng also solemnly clasped his hands in a fist and bow, indicating that he would definitely handle this matter seriously.

After discussing some other details, Chen Mu waved for the two to leave.

He looked at the cold pool before him and couldn't help but frown.

"The Gates of Hell are not easy to forge..."

The main material for the Gates of Hell is the Stone of Oblivion, but there is no Stone of Oblivion here, so he can only use the original plan from the Underworld.

Since there was no Forget-River Stone at the beginning, he used the Yin Spirits as the foundation and gathered the power of the Yin Spirits with the Mountain-Carrying Scripture to form a living Ghost Gate.

There are no spirits here, and the cultivators on the Water-Avoiding Shuttle cannot learn the Yin-Yang Secret Technique, Yellow Spring Crossing.

Fortunately, he had thousands of ghostly spirits in his Five Ghosts Bag, and the spirits in the Underworld were essentially ghostly spirits.

Therefore, he can also use the ghostly monsters to perform the Yellow Springs Crossing, creating a living Ghost Gate.

“A spirit is a ghost, but a ghost isn’t a spirit.” Chen Mu scratched his head.

This is precisely where his pain lies.

The spirits possess a vibrant consciousness and can autonomously learn and perform the secret techniques for crossing the Yellow Springs.

However, the spirits are confused and unable to learn on their own.

To enable them to perform the Yellow Springs Crossing technique, Chen Mu had to rely on the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed to impart the secret techniques and experience to the Yin Soul Monsters one by one.

Even this doesn't guarantee success on the first try, since the ghosts are confused and truly mindless. What was already an extremely demanding task suddenly became even more difficult.

"I have a headache..."

After sighing for a while, Chen Mu took out the Five Ghosts Bag and prepared to get to work.

Having been inexplicably pulled into this icy world, Chen Mu couldn't help but tremble at the thought of who was behind it all.

"No matter how difficult it is, we have to get this done!" Chen Mu gritted his teeth: "I don't want to end up dead for no reason."

(End of this chapter)