My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 624 Plague

"Chen Mu, seven years ago, saw through the illusion and condensed the Yuan Talisman, mastered a few minor techniques, and knew how to refine the Bigu Danzhu..." Inside the Hundred Illusions Pavilion, a burly man with a full beard spoke casually while pouring his magic power into a palm-sized, round-bottomed pale yellow jade tablet.

Before long, the burly man handed the jade pendant to Chen Mu: "Check if the information recorded inside is correct. If there are no problems, from today onwards, you are considered to have entered the Hundred Illusions Sect."

Chen Mu respectfully accepted the jade token and began to examine it in a pretentious manner.

Having decided to join the Hundred Illusions Sect, he didn't hesitate any longer and got up early in the morning to register at the Hundred Illusions Pavilion.

"Tell me, why didn't you go to Taoshan Temple?" The burly man stared at Chen Mu with amusement.

“My family has been butchers for generations, I love this skill!” Chen Mu said with a serious expression.

"Bullshit! I think he's just afraid of dying, and he's just going around in circles, ha!" the burly man said bluntly, scoffing.

Chen Mu put away the jade token and said with a smile, "I just think that old Taoist priest is not being honest. If demons were so easy to kill, the Thousand Machines Sect would not have such a constant need for Taoist weapons year after year."

“A smart man…” The burly man pointed at Chen Mu, a broad smile on his face.

"The Taoshan Immortal Ape Treasure Scroll Condensing Aperture Method is indeed profound. After the River Chariot is perfected, each reversal will yield three strands of innate Qi."

"But our Hundred Illusions Sect's Spirit Fox Secret Manual's Qi Condensation Technique is not simple either. Although it can only generate one strand of innate Qi each time, we recover Qi quickly!"

"It will take them three days to recover their energy, but we can replenish our mana in just one day. This will allow us to continuously generate innate energy and promptly restore our mana to deal with various dangers."

"In comparison, our Spirit Fox Manual is much more flexible and versatile," the burly man said proudly.

Yes, yes, you're right, I have absolutely no objection...

Chen Mu squinted, pretending to agree with the burly man, but inwardly he felt a sense of déjà vu, like two chickens pecking at each other.

Compared to the Yellow Springs General Principles, the secret techniques of these two families seem rather insignificant.

Previously, I only knew that the Yellow Springs General Principles were powerful, but I never expected that its advantages would truly be revealed after I mastered the River Chariot technique.

If it weren't for Old Ghost Sun's acquisition of the Yellow Springs General Outline, I wouldn't have been able to obtain this secret manual from his descendants.

Thanks again to my old friend Sun Jian.

……

It was dusk in Chaofeng Lane.

Chen Mu stood in the middle of the courtyard, looking around at the small courtyard in front of him.

To the left was a grape trellis and a pavilion; to the right, a well and a vegetable garden—all quite ordinary. In some corners, he even felt a sense of unfamiliar novelty. But in reality, he had lived here for over half a year, and had even successfully passed the fourth stage of Qi Refining.

"The past six months have truly been a rare period of peace and tranquility," Chen Mu sighed, shaking his head as he looked at the small courtyard.

For more than ten years, he traveled and moved around. But every time he arrived in a new place, he would encounter various upheavals and dangers.

"It's not that I'm having bad luck, it's just that the world is too unpredictable."

"I would like to cultivate in peace, but who can completely control the changes in the outside world? Tsk..." Chen Mu shook his head and sighed.

He had already made an appointment with Lu Han, the burly man from the Hundred Illusions Pavilion, that he could go to the Hundred Illusions Sect's mountain gate with him early in the morning four days later.

As I prepare to leave this familiar yet unfamiliar courtyard, a sense of reluctance fills my heart.

"There aren't many peaceful places like Dingyou Water Palace left..."

As he lingered, taking in the various parts of the courtyard, a sudden wave of drowsiness washed over him. A heavy wave of sleepiness washed over him, and Chen Mu felt as if his eyelids were filled with lead.

This feeling... this feeling is like a spirit being bewitched?

Could it be that someone else made a straw doll with a curse spell on me, just like I did?

Done!

By this point, Chen Mu knew perfectly well that he had fallen into someone else's trap!

The locals are so rude!

I was just praising the simple and honest folks here.

Damn, you praised me too early!

Before he could finish processing all his thoughts, Chen Mu suddenly felt dizzy and collapsed to the ground with a thud.

A gentle breeze, created by the Water Mansion's Breathing Technique, swept through the courtyard, leaving it completely quiet.

Half an hour, an hour, half a day... Time kept passing, and the sky brightened and then darkened again.

Twelve hours later, Jiao Shi, dressed in white robes embroidered with gold thread, suddenly appeared in the courtyard.

After glancing at Chen Mu, who was lying on the ground, Jiao Shi's face turned solemn. He then pulled out a large yellow clay pot with a human head on it.

As magic surged in, a large, pitch-black character for "plague" slowly emerged in the center of the pottery jar's round belly.

An invisible force spread, accompanied by a gentle breeze, and some kind of microscopic dust, invisible to the naked eye, slowly seeped into the yellow clay pottery jar.

He continued pouring his magic into the pottery for a full half hour, until the characters on the pottery jar were as black as ink, as if they were about to flow out.

Then he quickly took out a piece of dried yellow oil paper covered with bright red patterns and covered the pottery jar with it. After all that work, until he was sure the jar was completely sealed, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the ground.

"I even used this immature Yellow Millet Plague to bring you down, so don't disappoint me." With that, Jiao Shi took out the amber-colored Spirit-Seeking Pearl and recited a long and difficult incantation.

hum!

A faint buzzing sound, like the flapping of a mosquito's wings, appeared inside the Spirit Pearl.

"The Dragon Ball's spiritual energy wasn't completely refined after all!"

"It's my destiny to have this opportunity! Haha!"

Jiao Shi was all smiles.

With a light tap of his toes, he flipped Chen Mu, who was lying on the ground, over. Following the vibration of the Spirit-Seeking Pearl, he raised his hand to press the pearl between Chen Mu's eyebrows.

Snapped!

A hand shrouded in black smoke suddenly grabbed his wrist.

Jiao Shi's gaze shifted and immediately met Chen Mu's cold, icy eyes.

He was immediately startled by this sudden turn of events and broke out in a cold sweat.

"I'll tell you it's a misunderstanding, do you believe me?" Jiao Shi twitched the corners of his mouth, revealing an ugly smile.

"Once I kill you, I'll believe whatever you say!" Chen Mu's lips curled into a sinister smile.

boom!

A blast of air rolled in, filling the courtyard with smoke and dust.

Jiao Shi had already broken free from Chen Mu's grasp and retreated to the doorway.

He looked at Chen Mu from afar, regaining his composure.

"You should have just lay there quietly so I could extract the Dragon Ball's power."

"If I'm in a good mood, I might make use of you and even put in some effort to turn you into a puppet master, so you can continue to live in the human world."

"Now..."

As if stretching his muscles, Jiao Shi slowly shook his head around, and his open mouth was immediately filled with rapidly growing sharp teeth.

The black and white eyes suddenly transformed into vertical eyes of purple and blue, like a ferocious beast hunting, and a chilling malice suddenly spread throughout the courtyard.

Chen Mu felt a chill run down his spine, and his forearm was immediately covered in goosebumps.

He stared at Jiao Shi expressionlessly, his tone flat: "Where is Qiu Jinwu?"

"Ah, right, and Qiu Jinwu too." Jiao Shi's mouth split open, the crack extending all the way to his ears, his face becoming increasingly sinister and ferocious.

"That old man is very arrogant, but in reality he's a conceited fool. I easily fooled him with a little trick."

"He was still relying on the Daoist contract, thinking I would do everything I could to help him find the spiritual key."

"That contract was compiled by us, so naturally it was done according to our wishes. We only made a few slight changes to the wording, and we managed to fool him completely!"

"The spiritual pearl's secret lies right here, yet he lingered in the nearby Bixi Alley for over a month. He never realized it; from the very beginning, he went to the wrong place!"

"Ha ha!"

A rough, roaring laugh came from Jiao Shi's mouth. Fine scales grew on the skin of his five fingers, and his nails grew rapidly and became sharp. In just a few words, his hands had become like dragon claws!

Chen Mu was immediately alarmed, and his hair almost stood on end.

Not only were they shocked by the changes in Jiao Shi's body, but they were also stunned by what the other party said.

He never expected that Qiu Jinwu would be so close to him over the past month!

That was so close! So incredibly close!

If I hadn't been hiding at home cultivating all day, I might have already been discovered by the other party!

Looking up again at the bright yellow bead held in Jiao Shi's hand, Chen Mu couldn't help but narrow his eyes.

The beads cannot be kept, and the people must not leave!

"What are you looking at? Searching for the Spirit Pearl?" Jiao Shi teased with a playful expression.

"Why don't you come closer, so I can take a closer look?"

"No, I prefer to snatch it myself and look at it!" Chen Mu revealed a playful smile.

"What are you waiting for if you're not going to make a move after all this talk?" he said with a smile. "You've already completed your tribulation, it's just a transformation, all that fancy stuff, why would it take this long?"

"I'm setting up a breath-sealing spell to conceal my presence. You... you're not waiting for reinforcements, are you?" Chen Mu said with a grin.

"You think you can attract the Water Palace Warriors with the aura you emit?"

"That's probably not so easy to achieve." Chen Mu grinned, revealing a sinister smile.

Five Dragons Formation!

hold head high!

Five dragon heads, each two or three stories high and as black as if cast from black iron, suddenly appeared in mid-air.

Jiao Shi felt a sudden tightness all over his body as an immense pressure struck him, pinning him to the spot and rendering him unable to move.

(End of this chapter)