My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 645 Progress

Several days later, at noon.

Chen Mu strode out of the millstone workshop.

"Senior Brother Chen, what's going on here..." On the long corridor in front of the gate, a few Daoist apprentices gathered together met Chen Mu and couldn't help but ask in confusion.

"Oh, I'm going to Wanjing Cave," Chen Mu lied casually.

"You are truly eager to learn. I suppose it's to make connections between different things. No wonder your demon-slaying skills have improved so rapidly, allowing you to leave the Imprisoned Valley so early," the man said with a smile.

"There's nothing I can do. I'm not very talented, so all I can offer is hard work," Chen Mu sighed.

The man's lips twitched, and he almost broke into a smile.

diligent?

Of all the people at the millstone workshop, you arrived the latest and left the earliest, yet you dare to shamelessly claim to be diligent.

Chen Mu nodded to the group with a smile, then picked up the small wooden bucket containing the powder of the demonic energy stone and strode away.

"He works only sporadically, even if you give him another three years, he'll never pass the millstone workshop. And he's supposed to be diligent?" one of them muttered.

"That's hard to say. What if they have connections?" another person speculated maliciously.

"What do you mean? He bribed Senior Brother Lu to get out of Prison Valley?" The person next to him raised an eyebrow.

"Don't talk nonsense!" The person who had spoken first frowned and scolded. "Elder Hu from Wanjing Cave is probably the one who really took the bribe."

Everyone suddenly realized what was going on.

……

"Stop right there, where do you think you're going?" Yang Fu stared at Chen Mu with his small eyes at the entrance of the millstone workshop.

"Senior brother, I'm going to the Ten Thousand Scriptures Cave. Elder Hu Buwei wants to pass on the secret true scriptures to me, which can speed up my cultivation to dispel demonic arts." Chen Mu made up a story with an air of seriousness.

Does Old Man Hu have a shortcut to undoing sorcery and cultivating?

I do not know how?

Yang Fu looked completely incredulous.

"Look, I only spent half the time today and I ground fifty catties of demonic energy stone powder. That's progress!" Chen Mu said with a serious expression.

"Really?" Yang Fu scratched his head in confusion.

“It’s definitely real with me.” Chen Mu nodded immediately.

“But whether Elder Hu admits it or not, I can’t guarantee it.” He raised an eyebrow at Yang Fu with a knowing look on his face.

Did that greedy old man start a new business?

And they haven't even given us any white jade yet?!

Yang Fu frowned immediately.

Yes, hurry up and find that old man's bad luck!

Chen Mu's expression remained unchanged, but he secretly chuckled and encouraged him.

I did this simply because the old man's life rhythm sounded suspiciously familiar, and it was definitely not because the old man had swindled me out of 300 white jades back then!

……

Three hundred miles south of Qingqiu Mountain, in a vast, boundless dense forest, thick, large trees nearly a hundred meters tall are densely packed.

The broad canopy of trees blocked out the sunlight, and even at noon, the area under the trees was somewhat dark and cold.

A gentle breeze blew, and Chen Mu's figure appeared in the woods.

Ding!

A sound like a needle falling onto a rocky ground rang out, and Chen Mu's protective aura appeared.

He turned his head to look at his right shoulder, where a thin, transparent needle, about the length of a melon seed or a strand of hair, had appeared.

It floated steadily in mid-air, continuously and powerfully pushing forward towards the ear canal, even creating a cone-shaped dent in the protective aura.

If it weren't for his cultivation level and the strong protective aura around him, he might have already been pierced in the ear by that transparent needle.

ding ding ding...

With a series of crisp sounds, countless transparent needles suddenly appeared on the protective aura, instantly turning Chen Mu into a hedgehog.

Unbeknownst to him, the dense forest in front of and behind him had long been shrouded in what appeared to be fine needles.

"With these invisible needles covering the ground, what kind of prey could escape?" Chen Mu exclaimed in astonishment.

"No wonder the Hundred-Eyed Spider is the tyrant of the Misty Forest, and no one dares to hunt it easily."

Even one's own protective aura can be dented by a puncture; the protective aura of an ordinary Qi Refining cultivator at the Yuanfu realm wouldn't last long.

Just then, a rustling sound reached his ears, and Chen Mu looked up.

Then you can see clusters of large, dark, millstone-like shapes silently descending from the treetops hundreds of meters high.

Upon closer inspection, it became clear that they were all enormous spiders.

Their entire bodies are covered with transparent, fine hairs, which are the source of countless transparent needles.

Eight thick spider legs were attached to its abdomen, gripping a thin silk thread, controlling its massive body to fall rapidly.

Countless tiny black eyes covered the spider's back. Just one glance sent shivers down Chen Mu's spine.

"This thing looks a bit creepy."

Black smoke billowed in front of him, and a red gourd, about the height of his forearm, appeared in mid-air.

Ripples spread across the gourd's surface, and with a soft rustling, nine crimson feather magic swords slowly emerged, forming a ring around Chen Mu. He activated his Listening Divine Power, locking onto the Hundred-Eyed Spider's life rhythm core.

next moment.

Whoosh...

Nine crimson rays flew into the dense forest.

pat!

A drop of blue blood fell from mid-air, bending a blade of grass, then fell to the ground from the tip of the blade, scattering into countless tiny specks.

A huge black shadow descended from the sky.

boom!

A massive, hundred-eyed spider crashed to the ground. Its eight legs twitched a few times unconsciously, then it quickly lost its life force and ceased moving completely.

A wave of black smoke surged in, quickly engulfing the Hundred-Eyed Spider's massive body.

The colossal Hundred-Eyed Spider, as large as a small mountain, rapidly shrank, as if melting into the ground. When the billowing black smoke surged forward, the spider's corpse had vanished without a trace. Even the blue blood that had fallen onto the grass had disappeared.

"With these Hundred-Eyed Spiders replenishing our supplies, the Yin Spirits should be able to feast for more than ten days." Chen Mu probed the Five Ghost Bag with his magic power, sensing the increasing essence in the Bottomless Pool, and smiled.

The General Affairs Bureau had too little beast meat to support the transformation of the Heavenly Demon Body, so he set his sights on the Misty Forest.

The Misty Forest stretches for thousands of miles, teeming with countless strange beasts and monsters, enough to feed the Yin Spirit and support his cultivation.

Using the Zhu Yu magic sword, Chen Mu discovered many gathering places of strange beasts while slacking off during the day.

As the dominant species in the Misty Forest, the Hundred-Eyed Spiders were numerous and vigorous, quickly attracting Chen Mu's attention.

Thus, the Hundred-Eyed Spiders, who had roamed the Misty Forest for many years, encountered a life-or-death crisis.

Thump thump thump…

Amidst the crisscrossing red threads, one by one, the Hundred-Eyed Spiders were killed and fell to the ground, then quickly collected into the Five Ghosts Bag.

At first, swarms of Hundred-Eyed Spiders tried to overwhelm Chen Mu with their spider swarm tactics. But before they could even reach Chen Mu, they were already killed by the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains.

After several unsuccessful attempts, these mutated spiders, lacking much intelligence, realized how troublesome Chen Mu was and quickly scattered in all directions.

As dusk fell, Chen Mu stood atop a giant tree.

In the distance, the treetops rustled and rippled, spreading outwards in waves, as the Hundred-Eyed Spiders scattered in all directions.

"Unfortunately, about half of them have already run away."

"There are still too few Zhu Yu magic swords, and their killing speed is a bit slow."

"If I had a hundred or eighty Zhu Yu magic swords, tsk..." Chen Mu said with a hint of regret.

"That's good. If they're all really dead, it won't be easy to find such a large herd of strange beasts again."

"Let them reproduce. Once the essence of this batch of Hundred-Eyed Spiders is drained, we'll harvest them."

"Such sustainable development might be achievable with just the Hundred-Eyed Spider and the Spirit Seed Tribulation Technique." Nine Crimson Feather Magic Swords transformed into red threads and flew into his sleeve. Chen Mu chuckled and turned to return to Qingqiu Mountain.

……

A large number of Hundred-Eyed Spiders filled the bottomless pool, giving the Yin Spirit Monsters ample essence to continuously provide Yin Spirit divine power to support their cultivation.

Chen Mu's life became regular again.

Every day at dawn, he would go to the stone mill to check in, grind out about fifty catties of demonic stone powder, and then start to seriously put on a show.

His attention was focused on the secret point between his eyebrows, transforming the cold white mist, and concentrating on nourishing and transforming his celestial demon body.

He left early and returned late, ate well and slept well, and made progress in his cultivation every day, living a rather leisurely life.

Evening, the cliffside cave.

After dinner, Chen Mu lay in the rocking chair by the door and looked at the sky.

While watching, he controlled a wisp of innate energy to enter between his eyebrows.

At this moment, a misty haze filled the space between his brows, accumulating a considerable amount of cold, white fog.

However, as the innate Qi entered the Heavenly Demon's body through the secret aperture between the eyebrows, the cold white mist that had accumulated due to slow absorption instantly decreased by half.

"Indeed, both the innate Qi and the cold white mist can promote the growth of the Heavenly Demon Body, but they have different focuses."

Innate energy fills the foundation, shaping a taller and larger skeleton.

The white mist can accelerate growth and development, allowing the muscles on the skeleton to quickly become fuller.

This was not the first time he had conducted such an experiment.

"One to twenty-three."

"A wisp of innate energy combined with twenty-three parts of cold, white mist can enable the Heavenly Demon Body to undergo transformation most quickly."

"There are still more than four months before the signing of the military treaty."

"Perhaps I can go to the Thousand Machines Sect this year, instead of waiting three more years," Chen Mu thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)