My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 641 Accident

Two months have passed in the blink of an eye, the weather has turned cold, but the peach blossoms on Qingqiu Mountain remain unchanged.

Inside Chen Mu's cliffside cave, a long table was placed next to the bay window.

The Fire Cloud Gourd, standing to one side of the table, spewed blue flames, forming a small cloud of fire in mid-air. Thin, snow-white slices of exotic beast meat rolled within it, sizzling and curling slowly, filling the entire cave with a unique fragrance.

Chen Mu picked a piece and put it in his mouth. The fresh and salty taste exploded, making him squint his eyes.

"As expected of a mutated monster in the Misty Forest, it certainly has a unique flavor."

The snow-white beast meat was the leg meat of the Hundred-Eyed Spider, a specialty of the Misty Forest. He had specially gone to the General Affairs Office to purchase it, and just five catties cost him twenty-three white jades.

If it were replaced with a fasting pill, the cost would be enough for an ordinary Qi cultivator for two months.

It is indeed a bit expensive, but...

"I've cultivated Tao for so many years, can't I enjoy myself a little? Heh..."

Chen Mu took a bite of the sweet Golden Rice and smiled contentedly.

In a whirlwind, everything was devoured, leaving the five wicked men with a table full of messy cups and plates.

Chen Mu slowly walked to the door, carrying a jade gourd filled with spirit-nourishing wine.

He lay down in the patina-covered rocking chair, looked at the fiery red sunset on the horizon, and thought about the harvest of the past two months. He couldn't help but smile again.

Two hundred and three!

After two months of busy work, he now has a total of 203 Peach Gods in his possession!

"With them protecting me from robbery and disaster, what do I have to fear about the backlash from the contract!"

Since using the Spirit Treasure Cardinal Chapter to intervene in the Ninety-Nine Heavenly Restrictions, the underground seal of the Hundred Illusions Sect has been completely opened to Chen Mu.

He found seven sealed caves and dozens of exotic peach trees, including the Ink Silver Tree.

With all the materials ready, the number of Peach Gods increased dramatically. At the same time, the experience gained from the Nine Lives Tribulation Technique also increased rapidly.

As soon as Chen Mu had a thought, the gray wall appeared in his eyes.

Nine Lives Dividing Calamity Technique: 7643/10000;

"Even if we were struck by lightning right now, we would..."

"Well, that probably won't work."

"Haha, getting cocky, getting cocky!" Chen Mu chuckled nonchalantly.

"We never intended to rebel against the Thousand Machines Sect, so there's no need to worry about being struck by lightning."

Taking another sip of the Nourishing Spirit Wine, Chen Mu felt refreshed and relaxed.

"Unfortunately, the demons in the Calabash Cave are either stupid or crazy, and it's impossible to trick them into releasing any of their demonic essence."

"Unlike that sucker, Jiu Shou."

"We can only go a few more floors to take a look."

"The Heavenly Demon Armor has been stuck at the peak of the seventh rank for quite some time."

As the sun set, Chen Mu lay in a rocking chair, swaying gently, sipping his spirit-nourishing wine and muttering to himself.

……

In the dead of night, deep underground within the Hundred Illusions Sect.

With a pop, Chen Mu skillfully slipped into the cave.

He used his listening technique to sweep through the area, confirming that there was no more usable ink-silver in the peach grove. He strode to the center of the cave and raised his hand to press down on the stone gourd.

With the activation of the Spirit Treasure Cardinal Chapter, his figure vanished without a trace in an instant. In the blink of an eye, he found himself in a completely new cave.

With familiar stone gourds and peach groves, Chen Mu quickly found nine brand-new exotic peach trees.

"Layer upon layer, similar yet different. The Heavenly Law Restriction Seal is truly wondrous."

He had observed that all the sealed caves were exactly the same, even the peach trees grew in the same locations.

In other words, the location and number of the silver peach trees in the inkstone are different, and the types of demons sealed in the gourd cave are different, which is why he was able to make a quick distinction.

In the blink of an eye, Chen Mu activated his Listening Divine Power and located the familiar crack on the stone gourd.

He instinctively tensed his muscles, expecting a frantic roar to fill his ears. But after waiting for a while, all he heard was silence.

"There are no extraterrestrial demons inside this seal?" Chen Mu raised an eyebrow.

"Was it never there to begin with?"

"Or perhaps it's because too much time has passed, and it has already been suppressed and disappeared by the Heavenly Laws?"

This was the first time he had entered nine layers of the seal in a row.

Fortunately, he had anticipated such a situation and was not too surprised.

The Thousand Machines Sect set up the Heavenly Laws and Restrictions with the ultimate goal of suppressing and killing demons. The current situation is entirely reasonable and justifiable.

After pondering for a moment, Chen Mu turned around and went to the peach grove to pick peach wood cores.

A warm, pale yellow fluorescence bloomed from within the peach blossom stamens, illuminating the cave.

The surroundings were silent, except for the occasional sound of Chen Mu's footsteps.

……

Time passed quietly.

At one point, Chen Mu looked up and stopped Peach God Lord's refining process.

With a flick of the fingers, the Nine Cups Algorithm runs.

"Time to go to the millstone workshop for roll call."

Chen Mu put away the Peach Godly Technique he had just mastered, looked at the time of day calculated in his mind, and couldn't help but shake his head with a smile.

"The Nine Cups Algorithm can actually be reliable sometimes."

He had mastered this secret method for many years. In the past, he used it to predict good and bad fortune, but it was only accurate a few times. It was only passable for predicting the weather.

I recently discovered that it seems quite useful for calculating the time of day and night.

"Weather forecast, world clock?"

"Tsk!" Just as he was about to leave the underground cave, Chen Mu had an idea. He came to the vicinity of the stone gourd again and used his Listening Technique to probe into the crevice.

"I used to think the howls of demons were just unpleasant, but now that it's completely quiet, the stillness is actually a bit creepy."

He chuckled self-deprecatingly and prepared to stop. But when he caught a glimpse of the cracks on the gourd's surface out of the corner of his eye, his heart skipped a beat.

"Why does this crack seem slightly larger than the upper seal?!"

"Could it be that the demons inside have escaped?"

He had felt something was wrong before, otherwise he wouldn't have come back to check the gourd seal before leaving, but he didn't expect to actually find a problem!

Chen Mu froze on the spot.

He activated his Divine Listening Power to its fullest extent and began to explore the entire underground cave inch by inch.

He was somewhat relieved after noticing anything unusual for a while.

"The Thousand Machines Sect must have considered everything carefully before sealing so many demons underground."

"The Ninety-Nine Heavenly Laws and Restrictions must have corresponding countermeasures. It's impossible for a small crack to allow demons to escape."

but……

"The Nine-Headed Demon seemed to be able to release its primordial energy in an attempt to escape before. Can the demons here do the same?"

Thinking of this, Chen Mu's heart, which had just settled down, jumped again.

"No, we have to go find that three-headed dragon and ask him!"

……

After a while.

Chen Mu appeared in the cave where the Nine Heads were located.

He immediately used his supernatural listening ability to probe the gourd and seal it.

A vast, silent cavern came into view, but the nine heads that should have been hiding at the bottom of the cavern were nowhere to be seen!

Chen Mu's scalp tingled, and his hair almost stood on end.

Undeterred, he used his supernatural ability to listen attentively and quickly found a cut-down peach tree in the peach grove—the very peach tree he had used to make the wooden stool.

Based on its location, Chen Mu was quite certain that the cave was the first layer of the seal where the Nine Heads were located.

"The demons that were supposed to be sealed within the forbidden area have actually escaped?!"

……

puff!

In a certain part of the Prison Valley, a shockwave exploded from the ground, revealing Chen Mu's figure.

"Oh no!"

He had just examined nine layers of the seal, including the nine-headed demon, and all the demons sealed within had disappeared.

and……

"Something's not right with the fog in this Prison Valley," Chen Mu thought, his heart sinking again as he looked at the impenetrable fog before him.

The fog in the valley was sometimes thick and sometimes thin, but you could still vaguely see human faces within 20 meters.

But at this moment, the fog was incredibly thick, obscuring the bright sunlight and turning the sky dark.

Moreover, none of the Daoist apprentices who should have been digging for demonic stones long ago are here!

"The Hundred Illusions Sect was wiped out overnight?"

Chen Mu's forehead was covered in sweat as he used his Divine Listening ability to spread outwards to the maximum extent possible.

Soon, on the cliffside steps, they saw many Taoist apprentices hurrying along. Their faces were blank, and they walked quickly in groups of three or five up the stone steps toward the summit.

Meanwhile, Lu Han, Yang Fu, and the others were knocking on the cave doors one by one to inform the soldiers and apprentices to head to the Qingqiu Palace on the mountaintop.

"Thank goodness, although something has happened in Prison Valley, there shouldn't be any major danger."

Chen Musong breathed a sigh of relief and turned to leave Prison Valley.

But as soon as he lifted his foot, he suddenly realized that a black figure had appeared not far in front of him.

"when?!"

Chen Mu felt a chill run down his spine and broke out in a cold sweat.

He had never turned off his supernatural hearing ability, so he didn't even notice when the figure appeared in the distance!

Even now, though he could vaguely see the edge of the other person's black-and-gold-embroidered long-sleeved dress, his listening ability revealed that the place remained completely silent!

"An extraterrestrial demon?!"

A tremendous sense of fear suddenly overwhelmed me.

Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat, and he froze on the spot, too afraid to move.

In the blink of an eye, it felt like an eternity.

A bead of sweat the size of a bean slid down from between his hair and slowly dripped into his left eye. Chen Mu blinked subconsciously.

When I lifted my eyelids again, the figure with the fluttering ribbons in the distance had already disappeared.

"Hallucination?"

"Can't you?"

Chen Mu quickly turned around and looked around, but found nothing.

Carefully approaching, a pair of shallow footprints were clearly visible on the ground where the figure had just stood.

"There really was someone standing here just now." Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief.

Real, existing individuals are always better than those mysterious, unpredictable things.

But he froze again after only managing to exhale half a breath.

The ground of Prison Valley is not soft soil, but hard demonic stone comparable to steel.

That person only stood there for a moment, yet he was able to leave a pair of footprints on the ground.

This……

"Could I have really run into some kind of demon or monster?!"

The Valley of Imprisonment was quiet. Chen Mu looked around suspiciously, feeling a chill run down his spine.

(End of this chapter)