My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 690 An unexpected surprise

Jieyao Alley, the inner courtyard of Xin Si Courtyard.

At the entrance of a spacious room, Chen Mu lay in a brand-new rocking chair, closing his eyes to rest.

"Slacking off again?" The short, stout Steward Wu suddenly appeared at the door, looking displeased. "I transferred you to the inner courtyard, and all you do is slack off and take it easy all day?"

Chen Mu didn't even lift his eyelids, lazily pointing to the demon-dispelling stone platform in the room.

"Two jade snails?!" Manager Wu, who had just been looking dissatisfied, suddenly beamed with joy.

He strode into the room, carefully examined the two snail shells, and his face grew even more delighted.

Even the most experienced demon solvers in the Demon-Slaying Alley can only process six or seven jade snails a day at most, but Chen Mu processed two in just one morning!

"You bet right!" He quickly returned to Chen Mu's side, his face full of fawning smiles.

Being able to handle the Jade Snail means Chen Mu will be able to deal with other, more complex demonic beasts in the future. With such a master demon-slaying expert around, the Xin Si Academy will definitely rise in status. This is a huge benefit for him, the steward.

"Can I slack off?" Chen Mu opened one eye and glanced sideways at the short, fat man.

"You're not slacking off at all; you're clearly conserving your energy for a better exorcism!" The short, stout Steward Wu's expression changed, and his face became solemn and serious.

Gee!

Your attitude changes so quickly.

"then you……"

"I'll leave right away and won't disturb your rest!" The short, fat man immediately picked up the two snail shells and turned to leave without hesitation.

Watching the figure disappear through the moon gate of the courtyard in a flash, Chen Mu nodded in satisfaction.

Since he demonstrated his skill in handling jade snails, he has been assigned to this small courtyard.

He didn't need to deal with the other lesser demon corpses; he only needed to focus on the Jade Snail.

Moreover, you can earn fifteen merits for each one you process, which is more than you would earn in a day.

With the Three Yin Demon-Slaying Technique at his disposal, Chen Mu only needs a quarter of an hour to process one. If he really went all out, he could process thirty or forty Jade Snails in a single day.

but……

"The best demon-exorcising master in Demon-Exorcising Alley can only process a maximum of nine jade snails a day."

"I can handle four a day, and it's best not to increase that in the short term," Chen Mu thought to himself.

As a novice, processing four jade snails a day was already somewhat conspicuous; any more would surely attract unwanted attention. He didn't want anyone disturbing his peaceful cultivation life.

……

Chen Mu tossed a Qi-Nourishing Pill into his mouth, then closed his eyes and sank into the jade seed.

Skillfully reversing the River Chariot Divine Aperture, in no time at all, all his magical power transformed into nine streams of primordial energy, which entered the inner wall of the jade seed.

A glimmer of golden light flashed across the inside and outside of the jade.

Several fine gold threads emerged from a certain golden pattern. The white jade-colored inner wall thickened by a barely perceptible amount.

These changes are so subtle that they might go unnoticed without careful comparison, making it seem as if the previous practice was completely ineffective.

Chen Mu, however, was used to it.

The process of reshaping the jade seed is like building a house, the Dao Foundation Diagram is the blueprint, the Primordial Qi is the bricks and tiles, and each cultivation is like adding bricks and tiles.

The effects may not be immediately apparent; only through gradual accumulation will they transform into towering buildings and grand mansions.

"It's not like I've never encountered such a thing before. Just keep practicing." Chen Mu shrugged, his attitude quite calm.

He turned his attention to the center of the jade.

The nine-layered divine talisman, about the size of a longan, stood upright and rotated randomly, continuously emanating strands of magical power.

There are also dozens of sesame-seed-like specks of various colors surrounding the divine aperture.

Chen Mu focused his mind on one of the dark green stars, and a dark green cloud suddenly appeared in his consciousness.

Within the clouds and mist lies a network of countless branches, resembling the nerve endings of the human brain, or the roots of tree branches huddled together—this is precisely the true meaning and talisman of the Plague Immortal Technique.

After observing for a moment, he began to construct the talisman as usual.

The branches at the edges constantly converge and disappear, and the entire cloud of branches slowly extends and expands in all directions.

After a long while, once the magical power within the jade seed was replenished, Chen Mu stopped cultivating the Plague Immortal Technique and turned to begin a new round of jade seed reshaping.

They would take turns like this, occasionally stopping to rest and taking Peiyuan Dan (a traditional Chinese medicine) to replenish their energy.

Time slipped by unnoticed, and before I knew it, the sky was already dimming, and it was almost evening.

Chen Mu stretched and got up, dealing with the remaining two jade snails while examining the gray wall.

Jade Cicada Secret Manual: 2149/10000/Sixth Tier;

Plague Immortal Technique: 2/10000/Tier 4;

More than twenty days have passed, and while the Jade Cicada Manual has steadily improved, the Plague Immortal Technique has entered a completely new level. ...

At night, the stars are bright.

In the courtyard of Yangdufang, in the year of Jiwei.

Chen Mu took out a piece of jade snail meat that he had prepared beforehand.

With the Plague Immortal Technique activated, the Jade Cicada's energy flowed into the body as if guided by its own arm, and it attempted to expel the demonic poison once again.

After a long while, the walnut-sized white chunk of flesh showed no reaction. The unique rhythm associated with the demonic poison was faint but never disappeared.

"Even the fourth-order Plague Immortal Technique won't work?" Chen Mu scratched his head.

Thinking about it carefully, it makes sense.

Currently, only the Nanming Li Fire can deal with demonic poison, and apart from the special magical artifact, the Heavenly Crafting Furnace, only the Primordial Spirit Divine Lord can control and master this fire.

If you calculate it this way, the Bewitching Heavenly Demon Poison must be something at the level of a Nascent Soul Divine Lord, so it's not so easy to remove.

“I only have a little over 14,000 pieces of white jade left, which won’t last much longer.” He frowned slightly.

"Should we slow down the cultivation speed of the Dao Foundation?"

Dao foundation cultivation requires magical power, and refining magical power requires the earth's spiritual energy and one's own essence, energy, and spirit.

Previously, with the Heavenly Gourd, there was no need to purchase pills to nourish the body's vital energy; all that was needed was to supply the exquisite jade plate to stimulate the generation of earth's spiritual energy.

But this one thing alone depleted sixty to seventy percent of his accumulated wealth.

I'll need to buy more materials for the Qi Cultivation Pill in the future, which will probably require even more white jade and Dao cultivation points.

How about processing more jade snails?

It's not impossible, but we need to find a way to get Steward Wu to cover it up.

Chen Mu squinted, seemingly lost in thought.

Hmm, a Nightmare Spell?

Hey! It's not impossible.

"It would be even better if we didn't have to give Taoshan Temple a cut of our earnings." He sighed and shook his head again.

If the Daoist merit hadn't been taken away before it was distributed, he would have dared not give that percentage.

Over such a long period of time, he had already mastered the Nine Lives Tribulation Technique. With countless Heavenly Demon Spirit Seeds sharing the burden of the tribulation technique, he was not afraid of the backlash from the contract.

……

"Hu Buwei's aura disappeared on Tianmen Star, so the Daoist cultivation bonus is canceled?"

"And the 1,043 points of Dao Merit that were allocated to the Hundred Illusions Sect over the previous two months can actually be returned?!"

This……

Is there such a good thing? !

At the entrance of Jiwei Courtyard in Yangdufang, Chen Mu looked at the bald, white-bearded old man who came to deliver the notice with a face full of surprise.

Although it was a bit underhanded, he almost burst out laughing when he heard that Hu Buwei was missing.

Just a few days ago, I was still getting a cut from the cricket-related Taoist practice, but today things have taken a dramatic turn for the better.

With the Hundred Illusions Sect gone, Hu Buwei was the only remaining recipient of the Daoist cultivation appropriation. One's own Daoist cultivation could only be appropriated by the Peach Mountain Temple if it first reached Hu Buwei's hands.

Now that Hu Buwei has disappeared, there is no middleman, so Chen Mu and the others cannot extract their Daoist cultivation.

What surprised him even more was that the Daoist cultivation he had distributed over the past two or three months could actually be returned.

"With these thousand-plus Daoist skills to purchase medicinal herbs, I can sustain my high-speed cultivation for another month."

"This is truly... a pleasant surprise." Chen Mu's expression was strange.

Upon closer examination, he even had to thank Lord Lü for releasing the plague.

Really...

"What, you don't like it? If you don't like it, you don't have to go get it." The white-bearded old man stared at Chen Mu with a face full of jealousy.

He was also a Dao soldier, and he didn't want to have his share taken.

"No, I'm just grieving for Elder Hu."

"Elder Hu was such a good person, how could he just leave like this?" Chen Mu grinned, his face full of "sorrow" as he cried out!

Bald old man: "..."

Elder Hu is truly unlucky to have a Daoist soldier like you as his junior!

(End of this chapter)