My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 667 Retreat

Time passes day by day.

At the foot of Fuyang Mountain, cloud bats and flying boats came and went.

The soldiers of the ninety-nine sects of Haizhou arrived one after another, making the Diyin Sect even more lively.

Ordinary Daoist soldiers were assigned to the Five Directions Inn, but those with high-level cultivation were mostly invited to Mount Fuyang by the Earth Seal Sect.

On the one hand, it was to show respect by hosting them separately. On the other hand, it was to ask these high-ranking monks to help build the Heavenly Gate Altar.

Chaos reigned in Haizhou, and the Diyin Sect suffered severe damage. The Tianmen Altar, originally used to connect with Tianguan Star, was mostly destroyed.

Moreover, this time we need to receive the Divine Mirror of Bone Revelation, so a new altar must be built.

Every day, various colored lights flash on the mountaintop, and all sorts of secret techniques and restrictions are cast into Fuyang Mountain.

A faint, mysterious aura slowly permeated the mountainside.

……

South Wing of Wufang Inn.

Yangliu Street, Sparrow Tongue Teahouse.

Not far from the Taoshan tribe's mansion, many Taoshan Taoist soldiers gathered in a teahouse to chat.

"We caught another idiot who was bewitched by demons yesterday."

"That person even planted demonic energy in his friend's body, trying to frame him and confuse the public. But the trail led back to him, exposing the fool."

"With Lord Lü in charge and the Bone-Illuminating Mirror to discern, you think you can get away with it by creating chaos? Heh! How could that be possible..."

Hu Buwei, sitting alone in a corner by the wall, sighed softly.

He declined the invitation from Di Yinzong and instead hid at the Wufang Inn instead of going to the mountaintop, which was already quite conspicuous.

If someone connected to demons were to appear around me, I fear I would be implicated as well. If I were targeted and investigated separately, the nine heads within me might reveal a weakness.

He glanced at Chen Mu by the table near the window not far away, feeling quite regretful. He had originally planned to use the thief to distract them, but now it was proving to be a bit of a problem.

Chen Mu, who was cracking sunflower seeds, also glanced at Hu Buwei with regret.

The plan to plant the green worm gu on this old man is probably doomed to fail.

Just as I was pondering how to reduce the risk of exposure, I heard a series of neat footsteps.

Chen Mu looked out the window towards the end of Yangliu Street.

A group of people dressed in black armor walked past the screen wall at the entrance of the post station and entered Yangliu Street.

These people wore smiles, but their eyelids drooped halfway down. Their pupils were lifeless and unfocused, making them look like marionettes. They were the strongmen and Dao soldiers of the Thousand Machines Sect.

After quelling the chaos caused by demons, Chen Mu and his group returned to Qingqiu Mountain. However, the Dao soldiers were taken away by the Qianji Sect, and they unexpectedly encountered them again at the Diyin Sect.

"Pitiful."

"Indeed, even the dead cannot find peace."

"They shouldn't be considered dead, right? I heard that their souls were only damaged by the Green Worm Poison Gu, but their physical bodies and spirits are still intact."

"Wouldn't that be even worse?"

"It's all the fault of that celestial demon who recklessly spread poisonous curses!"

"I've heard that nine out of ten houses in Haizhou have been emptied this time, and most of them were destroyed by this Gu poison..."

Chen Mu slowly cracked open sunflower seeds, but a cold glint flashed in his clear black and white eyes.

"Knew it……"

"We still need to find a way to kill Meng Qingchan."

"It is too dangerous to let this person stay in Thousand Lanterns City."

With a thought, a gray wall appeared before my eyes.

Nightmare Spell: 9583/10000;

"It'll be soon. In another day or two, we'll be able to perfect this spell."

"At that time, we will use this as a bridge to stuff all the delusions and the seven emotions into the Heaven-Bearing Gourd."

"With the perfected Divine Embryo Heavenly Demon Body, plus the Yin Spirit Divine Power gathered from the four thousand Yin Soul Monsters, even if she isn't burned to death, she'll be crippled!"

……

The main hall atop Fuyang Mountain.

Lord Lü Yue sat cross-legged in front of the offering table with his eyes closed.

A young man dressed in black and red armor strode into the main hall.

"Master, of the ninety-nine Heaven-Bearing Gourds, seventy-three have been retrieved intact." The young man respectfully clasped his hands in a fist salute. "The primordial spirit of the green worm within has been fused and refined, greatly increasing the spiritual power of the Heaven-Bearing Gourds, enough to support you in opening up your own cave heaven."

Upon hearing this, Lü Yue revealed a satisfied smile.

"Have all the soldiers from each sect arrived?"

"At most three more days."

"Then we'll begin the screening in three days. We must find Meng Qingchan." Lü Yue's expression was solemn.

"Master, she was suppressed by you for three hundred years. Even if she is still alive, she only has a fragmented primordial spirit left. You went to great lengths to borrow the Bone-Illuminating Mirror for this, isn't that...?" The young man looked puzzled.

"Back then, Meng Qingchan was less captured and more like she walked right into a trap. I originally thought she had gone mad and lost her mind."

"Now that I think about it, it was probably something she did on purpose." Lü Yue's expression was grim.

At that time, I coveted her enormous primordial spirit, which she had forged by devouring demons and refining monsters, and I was eager to refine it into the Heavenly Gourd to increase its spirituality.

That's why the Thousand Machines Sect was prompted to establish the Ninety-Nine Heavenly Laws and Restrictions to divide and suppress them.

But now that I think about it, this is probably exactly what they wanted.

She wants to use the Heavenly Reinforcement Technique to refine her primordial spirit and advance to the next level!

Lü Yue's expression was not good.

He thought the other party was a pawn he could manipulate at will, but little did he know that he was the one being manipulated.

"We must find her, or there will be endless trouble!"

……

"You don't think I'm the only one who can use the Green Worm Gu, do you?"

Inside the City of Thousand Lanterns, Meng Qingchan lay in a rocking chair, her smile as gentle as ever.

What do you mean?

Chen Mu was stunned.

"Most of my skills come from the fragments of the Linglong Golden Chapter. This scripture is the fundamental secret of the ancient Linglong Dao, comparable to the Pure Yang Dao's Zhixuan Treasure Record."

“Lu Yue himself dared not practice it, so he indirectly sent the scriptures to me and used me as a test subject.”

"Now that I've scouted the path, after all these years, do you think he'll learn my methods?"

"The Plague Immortal Flag, the magical artifact I used to control plagues and gu, is now in his hands." Meng Qingchan glanced at Chen Mu with a half-smile.

"In order to escape the seal of the Heavenly Law, I did indeed use the ritual of the contract to shake the celestial stars and invite demons to invade."

"But the fact that the Green Worm Gu is rampaging through Haizhou, hehe..."

Instantly, the words "green worm, gu poison, strongman, Taoist soldier" began to swirl in Chen Mu's mind.

A chill ran down his spine.

Therefore, half of the chaos caused by demons in Haizhou was orchestrated by the divine lord Lü Yue himself.

hiss!

Chen Mu tensed up.

It seems I've discovered some big secrets I shouldn't have known.

If Lord Lü were to become aware of my existence...

Chen Mu immediately looked at Meng Qingchan with an unfriendly expression.

His expression shifted between light and dark for a while before he finally shook his head and sighed, "I'm afraid I won't be able to go to Tianguan Star for the time being."

Chen Mu was a soldier of the Thousand Machines Sect in order to obtain the Dao Foundation Record. However, with Meng Qingchan by his side, the route through Haizhou became much riskier.

"Qiongzhou, which is next to Haizhou, seems to be the territory of the Dan Ding and Huang Quan sects."

"I've heard that these two sects are equally ancient, comparable to the Thousand Machines Sect, and contain complete Dao Foundation Secrets." Chen Mu secretly pondered.

"You want to break the Dao-Bing Contract?" Meng Qingchan frowned slightly. "Aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning?"

Chen Mu immediately laughed.

"I have to thank you for this."

Meng Qingchan's Nine Lives Tribulation Technique is indeed extraordinary. If he hadn't possessed this secret technique, he would have been forced to become a Dao soldier of the Thousand Machines Sect and wouldn't have had the opportunity to choose.

"This is no ordinary backlash from a contract. If the Thousand Machines Sect investigates, the power of the Thunder Law will increase dramatically." Meng Qingchan's brows furrowed even more deeply: "How many Peach God Lords do you have? How can you be so confident that you can withstand the Five Thunderbolts?"

How many Peach Gods do I have?

Chen Mu glanced at the faint star map in his mind.

I can't even count them all!

He looked at Meng Qingchan with a playful smile.

Want to go to Tianguan Star? You'd better look for something else.

I'm not playing with you anymore.

(End of this chapter)