My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 677 Heavenly Craft Camp

Three days later.

Chen Mu arrived at the Demon-Slaying Alley with a pale face.

"You haven't been sleeping in the Magnolia Fortress in the south of the city for the past three days, have you?" Manager Wu's eyes widened.

"Those girls practice the 'Desire Heaven Longevity Method,' they can stay there for three days without dying. Brother, you're amazing!" He looked at Chen Mu with admiration and astonishment.

I freaking want to.

But I need to have the strength.

Chen Mu twitched the corners of his mouth, revealing a polite smile. After bowing respectfully, he mingled to the edge of the crowd and closed his eyes to rest.

Jade Cicada Secret Manual: 115/10000/Tier 4;

"It's not easy."

Looking at the experience points on the gray wall in front of him, he felt relieved.

After three days and nights without sleep, I finally managed to advance the "Jade Cicada Secret Manual" to the fourth level.

Inside the jade, the originally white, translucent inner wall is covered with exquisite and mysterious golden patterns.

His aura was stable and harmonious, so unless Lü Yue investigated him at close range, his cultivation of the Jade Cicada Secret Manual would basically remain undiscovered.

"It's just that the Heavenly Demon body suffers." Chen Mu looked inward at the secret point between his eyebrows.

To ensure he had enough vital energy for cultivation, he used the Soul-Seizing and Rejuvenating Technique to extract the vital energy from the Heavenly Demon's body and nourish and strengthen his original essence.

After three consecutive days of extraction, the divine embryo bead in the secret aperture even became somewhat dusty.

Even so, the body still suffered from a loss of vital energy.

"I need to take good care of myself for a while."

Fortunately, the source of the disease was not damaged. As long as there is enough Rejuvenating Soup and Nourishing Wine, it can be basically restored in ten to fifteen days.

Then, by extracting the power of the Yin spirits and refining the cold white mist to nourish the Heavenly Demon's body, the Divine Embryo Pearl will soon become bright and round.

"Well, we can only suffer a little longer with the Heavenly Gourd."

……

Tian Guan Star is the first among the eighteen stars of Tian Guan.

The main city, Tianguan City, was already enormous, and there were seven or eight garrison cities around it, with countless soldiers stationed there.

Chen Mu had expected that the large number of soldiers dispatched this time would cause chaos and confusion.

However, after observing for a short time, he discovered that the entire Tianguan City was quite orderly.

The departure time and who set off were all meticulously planned, as if controlled by an invisible hand.

"It's Lord Jiao Mu Xing Jun." The crowd murmured among themselves.

"As long as the stars are not destroyed, the star lords will not die, and their lifespans will be endless. They are simply born gods."

"Tsk tsk, I heard that the alternation of day and night on our Tianguan Star is just a divine power of the Star Lord."

"Unfortunately, the stars were both its strength and its weakness; its potential is basically locked."

"Don't talk big. The upper limit of a Star Lord is a height that countless Qi Refiners can never reach in their entire lives."

"Too……"

Chen Mu mingled in the crowd, listening intently with his eyes half-closed.

He was very curious about this Star Lord Jiao Mu.

The spirits of stars are even rarer than demons that have become spirits, and no one knows what they look like.

Listening to the casual conversation, time flew by. Before long, the jade identity token hanging at Chen Mu's waist vibrated slightly. Information about the departure time and route appeared out of thin air in Chen Mu's mind.

“Records cultivation, verifies identity, and now it has the added function of receiving information from the Star Lord, tsk!” Chen Mu played with the yellow jade tablet with great interest, followed the others out of Xin Si Courtyard, and slowly walked towards Tian Shi Street following the information guidance in the yellow jade tablet.

From the air, one can see countless Taoist soldiers walking through the streets and alleys.

They were all dressed in tight-fitting clothes, carrying knives and swords. Their waist pouches were bulging, filled with mustard seed talismans.

Just like a stream flowing into a river, the crowd walked into Tianshi Street in an orderly fashion, and then lined up to cross the Tianmen Gate at the end of the street.

Chen Mu followed the crowd, calmly passing through the white jade heavenly gate. A chill ran through him, and the world before his eyes shifted. In the blink of an eye, he had left Tianguan City and appeared in a military camp.

The military camp was stationed on a hillside, and looking up, one could see an endless forest stretching into the distance.

Looking up again, an enormous star, seemingly as close as the moon, appeared in the sky.

In the blink of an eye, Chen Mu had already appeared on the distant planet Bianshe.

The Bianshexingtiangong Camp had made preparations for the arrival of Chen Mu and his Dao soldiers, and their food, clothing, lodging, and transportation were quickly arranged.

Then...then Chen Mu was stuffed with a basket of white jade snakes with eagle beaks, and before he could catch his breath, he was taken directly to work.

... It wasn't until two days later that Chen Mu arrived at the westernmost part of the camp, his face pale.

Following the information inside the yellow jade tablet, he found a jade-colored snail shell as tall as a person, which was the residence assigned to him by the camp.

Chen Mu didn't look around too closely. He glanced at his equally tired colleagues around him and followed their example by pushing open the round door panel on the shell and walking inside.

Immediately, a room far exceeding the size of the snail shell, the size of two bedrooms, came into view.

"The Thousand-Mile Household Courtyard Law?" Chen Mu nodded, looking at the patterns on the white jade-like inner wall of the snail shell.

"Now it's really like putting on a show in a snail shell." Chen Mu couldn't help but chuckle.

He took out a clean set of bedding and spread it on the wooden bed, then poured himself a gourd of nourishing spirit wine before falling asleep.

For him, dealing with the eagle-beaked white jade snake for two consecutive days was not tiring, but he was genuinely exhausted.

He had been binge-reading "The Jade Cicada Manual" for three consecutive days without much rest. His energy was severely depleted, and he remained listless and lacking in spirit.

Now that things were a little calmer, he wanted to do everything, but all he wanted to do was sleep soundly.

……

Several days later, in the afternoon.

At the Bianshe Starry Sky Workshop, Chen Mu left the Demon-Slaying Department as usual and returned to the snail shell.

After a few days, he had become basically familiar with his new life in Bianshexing.

I go to work at the Demon Extermination Department in the morning and return to my snail-shell residence in the evening. Apart from changing my workplace, my daily routine is not much different from when I was in Tianguan City.

"According to the rumors circulating in the camp, Lü Yue is indeed no longer on Bianshe Star."

"Even his black-armored warriors fled to Tianmen Star without leaving a single one behind."

"This is a good thing." Chen Mu rubbed his slightly aching forehead and took a sip of the Nourishing Spirit Wine.

"Most of the demons on Bianshe Star have been driven away, leaving only some small demons that resemble eagle-beaked white jade snakes. Their safety is basically not a concern."

He was afraid that Lü Yue would discover that he was practicing the Jade Cicada Manual, and he was also afraid of the chaos and danger posed by demons.

Now that these two threats are basically gone, I no longer worry.

"It's just a change of environment. Once I've recovered, it won't delay the reshaping of the jade seed at all."

Only now did he truly relax and have the mind to look around his residence.

"I heard that this Jade Snail is a rare breed cultivated by the Thousand Machines Sect, and it possesses some of the power of miniature magic."

"With a little refining, it becomes a fine house."

"When I have some free time, I might study the talismans on the room. Maybe I can even improve my Mustard Seed Spell." Chen Mu chuckled as he looked around.

Back in Yunzhou's Goose and Sheep Road, he participated in the crafting of the Water-Avoiding Shuttle, gaining considerable proficiency in Mustard Seed Spells. However, he put it aside afterward and made little progress.

"Of course, the most important thing is to continue to reshape the jade variety."

Chen Mu held his right index finger up to his eyes, and a flash of golden light appeared deep in his eyes. A tiny golden speck of sand appeared at his fingertip.

This is none other than the innate Qi mechanism unique to the Jade Cicada Dao Foundation.

"The Candle Dragon Transformation, the Five Thunder Spell, and the Heavenly Demon Armor—these secret techniques each have their own unique wonders, and they are all compiled by imitating the energy of gods and demons."

"They are indeed powerful, but they are ultimately just secret techniques. Their essence is different, and their upper limit is basically locked."

"But this bit of golden sand is my own innate energy, containing my essence, energy and spirit."

"Although we are weak now, we have endless possibilities in the future." Chen Mu's face was full of smiles.

He had been frantically training for the past three days, even to the point of exhausting his energy, only to find that his imagined enemy, Lü Yue, was not even on Bianshe Star. It was as if he was fighting against thin air, and all his efforts were in vain.

But looking at the energy before him, Chen Mu felt that it was all worth it.

The appearance of the innate Qi signifies that Chen Mu's foundation has been initially altered and reshaped.

The essence of life is enhanced, magical power becomes more agile, and even the supernatural ability of listening to the divine is strengthened.

As soon as Chen Mu had a thought, all sorts of sounds within a thirty-mile radius disappeared into his ears.

"The range of passive listening has increased from twenty miles to thirty miles, and the sound can be heard more clearly and deeply."

"Indeed, the foundation of the Dao is the most important thing."

"As one's essence improves, one's supernatural abilities will naturally improve as well."

"We're only at the third level of the Jade Cicada Secret Manual now. What will happen when we reach even higher levels..."

Chen Mu looked at the golden specks on his fingertips with a broad smile: "I need to recover my energy as soon as possible."

If his body hadn't prevented it, he would have loved to start cultivating the Dao Foundation immediately.

(End of this chapter)