My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 662 Search

Late at night.

Four hundred miles underground in Qingqiu Mountain, in a pitch-black underground cave.

There was a soft popping sound.

Chen Mu, enveloped in a ghostly green light, emerged from the rocky cave wall.

With a flick of his hand, black mist filled the air, and a gray stone gourd, about the height of a forearm, appeared before him.

"Didn't they say the Heavenly Law was destroyed? How come this gourd is still here?" Chen Mu grumbled, "Couldn't it have been destroyed more completely?"

If the Thousand Machines Sect had been more efficient, I wouldn't have dug this gourd into Thousand Lantern City.

How dangerous this is!

"Fortunately, it's just a remnant of the Heavenly Law's restrictions." Chen Mu felt relieved.

He had already investigated using the Lingbao Cardinal Chapter, and the gourd now only had one layer of magical restriction left, and the demons sealed inside had disappeared.

"After all, it has sealed away countless demons. Even if the demons are gone, there might be other hidden dangers. It's better to get rid of it."

Chen Mu was always cautious, and he dared not keep something that could potentially cause big trouble by his side.

With a wave of his hand, the stone gourd that had been floating in mid-air fell to the ground and landed not far from Chen Mu's feet.

He glanced one last time at the stone gourd, his body wreathed in a ghostly green light, took a step back, and disappeared into the rocky cave wall.

……

A few days later.

West side of Qingqiu Mountain.

The Demon-Stabilizing Needle near Wanjing Cave also collapsed and shattered, and a small portion of the surrounding mountain was also crushed.

A middle-aged man dressed in black stood above the ruins, holding a white jade disc in his hand and chanting incantations.

Not far away in the peach grove, Chen Mu and the other Qi cultivators hid in the shade, taking a break while keeping an eye on the middle-aged man in the distance.

"Weren't they supposed to be here to set up restrictions? Why do the people from the Thousand Machines Sect seem to be looking for something?" someone in the crowd asked in confusion.

“If you want to set up new laws and restrictions, you have to clear out the existing ones first,” another person said.

"Not only that, I heard they're looking for the core artifact of the Chengtian Law Restriction." Another person whispered.

"A talisman?"

"That's right, it seems to be called something like Demon-Stabilizing Needle or Heaven-Bearing Gourd."

Before the crowd could continue their discussion...

boom!

The ground shook violently, and the base of the Demon-Stabilizing Needle, buried deep within the Imprisoned Valley, exploded, sending black and red pebbles flying in all directions.

A beam of red light shot up from the ground and into the sky, arriving in front of the middle-aged man in mid-air in the blink of an eye.

It emitted a constant buzzing sound, causing the air within several miles to tremble.

After a while, the red light subsided, and a thin needle, about the length of an index finger and in shades of silver and red, appeared in mid-air.

"No wonder the Demon-Stabilizing Needle is as thick as a hundred-meter-tall building, yet its name contains the word 'needle'."

"So its core element really is a needle!" Chen Mu couldn't help but chuckle.

However... the Demon-Stabilizing Needle, the Heaven-Bearing Gourd...

Watching the middle-aged man disappear into the light, Chen Mu felt a sense of unease.

He remembered the stone gourd he had thrown back into the ground a few days ago.

That thing is probably the Heavenly Gourd that the Thousand Machines Sect is looking for!

"Thank goodness I threw that gourd away early on," Chen Mu thought with relief.

The white jade plate that the middle-aged man was holding was clearly a special magical artifact used to search for the Demon-Suppressing Needle.

If we can find the Demon-Stabilizing Needle, we might also be able to find the Heaven-Bearing Gourd.

What if you spend ages looking for something right in front of you?

Tsk!

Chen Mu chuckled, and then joined the other Qi Refiners... to continue slacking off.

Old Hu was extremely dissatisfied with the forced dispatch of him to the Thousand Machine Sect as a Dao soldier.

So that heartless old man began leading a group of remnants of the Hundred Illusions Sect to swindle Taoshan Temple.

This old man is quite old, and his cultivation hasn't progressed much. It's likely he won't return after this trip, so Taoshan Temple really doesn't dare to interfere.

With him in the lead, Chen Mu and his gang suddenly became bolder. They worked for an hour, rested for two hours, and openly swindled Bai Yuqian.

"It's good to delay the construction period. If it's delayed for another day or two, I can finish the private work in Thousand Lantern City using the One-Breath Gourd."

Chen Mu chuckled and mingled in the crowd, listening to the chatter while simultaneously grinding experience points for the Ten Directions Hand technique.

……

Late at night, in the city of a thousand lights.

A gray-white sledgehammer, emitting plumes of smoke, pounded the ground with a series of loud thuds, like a ramming machine.

“The foundation can be raised a bit more, but we can’t dig up any more demonic stones.” Chen Mu skillfully picked up a demonic stone and clutched it tightly, pondering whether to go deep into the Misty Forest, dig up a few hilltops, and move them into the Thousand Lantern City Grotto.

With a crisp snap, the demonic stone in his hand was instantly crushed into fragments by his Ten Directions Hand technique.

"Never mind, let's wait a bit." Chen Mu casually tossed away the pebble in his hand, dismissing the thought.

"Several high-ranking cultivators from the Thousand Machines Sect are here. It would be troublesome if they were spotted."

"Besides, once they find the Heavenly Gourd and bury the new magic-restricting artifact, they will soon leave Qingqiu Mountain."

“I can wait until they leave before I start digging in the mountain.”

...Chen Mu had a good plan, but things never go as planned.

A few days later, Chen Mu followed Lu Han and the others to a secluded spot on the mountain to slack off.

Several streaks of light circled around Qingqiu Mountain in the sky.

"I heard they couldn't find the Heavenly Gourd."

"Isn't it just a magic artifact? Is it worth so many experts from the Thousand Machines Sect searching for it again and again?"

"It is said that the gourd was made from the bones of some kind of demon, and it is extremely precious."

"How about we go look for it too? Just in case..."

"I think you're dreaming. Those elders searched high and low with their magic artifacts and still couldn't find it. You think you can?"

"Is it really that hard to find?"

Yes.

Is it really that hard to find?

Sitting on a low peach tree branch, Chen Mu had a strange expression: "I only threw that gourd about four hundred miles underground. That depth shouldn't be difficult for the Thousand Machine Sect, right?"

Those experts from the Thousand Machines Sect possess specialized search tools.

Chen Mu was somewhat annoyed.

At the time, all I wanted to do was find a secluded place as soon as possible to get rid of that hot potato.

Who would have thought that it was lost so secretly that even the elders of the Thousand Machines Sect couldn't find it?

Go underground and help them get the gourd out?

He immediately shook his head.

If we were to collide head-on, there would be no way to explain it.

"Anyway, they have special magical artifacts and their cultivation is high enough. Since they have already started searching underground, they can always find it if we give them a few more days."

……

Five days later.

All the Qi cultivators on Qingqiu Mountain were summoned to the front of Taoshan Temple at the summit.

The elder of the Thousand Machines Sect held up a white jade plate, as if it were a demon-revealing instrument, and examined each person one by one.

This suggests that someone has hidden the Heavenly Gourd.

Chen Mu mingled in the crowd, looking at the dignified Thousand Machine Sect experts, feeling quite dissatisfied.

This group searched for half a month but still couldn't find it.

And this guy is an elder of the Thousand Machines Sect?

useless!

Chen Mu glanced at Elder Yan Ming, who was slowly walking towards him. While feeling disdain, he couldn't help but feel fortunate once again.

"Luckily, I didn't keep that gourd."

"Judging from the way these elders act, that white jade plate might be able to sense the Heavenly Gourd even through the mustard seed jade talisman."

Thinking this, Chen Mu suddenly felt a sense of worry.

"I wonder if that magical artifact can only sense the Heavenly Gourd, or if it can directly see everything inside the storage artifact."

"If everything could be reflected..."

The ghostly creature, the bottomless pool, the Seven Souls Dao Soldier Gourd—the things in his Five Ghosts Bag were quite eerie.

If these elders really see through me, I'm afraid I won't have a good outcome.

Chen Mu narrowed his eyes, his mind sinking into the shadowy eyes of Thousand Lantern City.

Even though Thousand Lanterns City is in ruins, it is still a hidden world that ordinary magical artifacts cannot penetrate.

The next moment, the Five Ghosts Bag, which was tied to his chest, fell silently into Thousand Lanterns City.

Chen Mu glanced at Elder Yan Ming, who was completely unaware of what was happening, and couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth.

Since acquiring the Shadow Eye, the control over Thousand Lanterns City has become exceptionally sophisticated. The actions of opening and closing the gates have become simple and covert; even those with the Divine Listening ability might not be able to detect them unless they are very observant.

"If I use my sleeve to conceal my movements, I might be able to create a hidden world within my sleeve."

Just as he was happily thinking about it, Chen Mu suddenly noticed something amiss in Ying Tong's large eyes.

The city of Thousand Lanterns, though seemingly empty, felt incredibly crowded.

It was as if some unseen behemoth had filled the entire city of Thousand Lanterns.

Chen Mu was surprised and immediately focused his mind on the Shadow Eye to search carefully.

then……

Then he found a familiar stone gourd in the ruins of a collapsed wooden building.

He looked up at Yan Ming, who was getting closer and closer, and then at the gourd in the shadow of the ruins.

Chen Mu felt his heart pounding with fear.

Not good!

Very bad!

(End of this chapter)