My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 711 Depletion of Vital Energy
Having resolved the issue of controlling the ghostly spirits, Chen Mu's life returned to normal.

He practices the Jade Cicada Secret Manual daily to steadily advance his Dao foundation cultivation, and continues to ponder the Plague Immortal Technique during his rest time.

Every three to five days, they would capture a strange demon, and the number of ghosts in the Five Ghost Bag quickly reached twelve thousand.

Just like a symbiotic relationship, under the influence of the Yin Ghost Monster, the internal space of the Five Ghost Bag began to slowly expand.

“There must be some mysterious secret between the two,” Chen Mu thought to himself.

The Five Ghosts Bag training method comes from the "Thousand Mountains Classic". The Five Ghosts Paper Doll, one of the core elements, is made from the ghosts and monsters.

"Perhaps it is only recorded in the complete Thousand Mountains Classic, but unfortunately we can't find it."

The Thousand Mountains Classic was widely circulated, but most of the copies were fragments.

Over the years, he has traveled around and browsed many books in several Taoist sects, but he has not found any relevant scriptures.

Chen Mu thought about it for a moment and then stopped paying attention.

After all, it's not something that involves life or death.

As long as you go far enough on the path of Qi cultivation and immortality, you might eventually run into them.

Recklessly.

In his spare time, Chen Mu would occasionally look up at the starry sky and speculate about the current situation of the invasion of the Netherworld Demon Heaven on Fire Path Star.

Sometimes I worry that demons will descend from the sky and repeat the chaos of Haizhou.

But there are billions of stars in the sky, and he doesn't have the skill to observe them, so he can't see anything at all.

"If the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up."

"The Thousand Machines Sect has been guarding the Horned Wood Star Cluster for many years, so they should have had a contingency plan."

"I'll just stick to cultivating my immortality."

"With each increase in one's cultivation level, one's ability to escape in the event of great chaos will also be stronger."

……

There is no sun or moon in the mountains.

Chen Mu happily spent his days gaining experience points and didn't pay much attention to the passage of time.

That day, Chen Mu sat in front of the wooden house as usual, listening to the gurgling sound of the small waterfall not far away, and practiced his innate qi with his eyes closed.

After a while, I opened my eyes and saw a gray wall in front of me.

Jade Cicada Secret Manual: 5147/10000/Ninth Rank;

"I'm more than halfway through the ninth stage. It shouldn't be long before I reach perfection." Chen Mu's face was full of smiles.

Dao Foundation Cultivation is the fifth stage of Qi Refining.

No matter how mysterious the first four stages—Jade Seed, Yuan Talisman, Spirit Aperture, and River Chariot Refining—are, they are still just cultivation based on the original human body.

No matter how ingenious the secret techniques are, they cannot break through the limits of the human body. They can extend lifespan, but it is basically impossible to achieve immortality.

Only by reshaping the jade seed and changing its foundation can one completely shed the mortal body, which is an essential step in cultivating the primordial spirit.

"It'll be soon, I'll be completely transformed and enter a whole new phase."

After happily imagining the future for a while, Chen Mu suddenly felt as if something was missing.

After much thought, it finally dawned on me.

"Why hasn't today's monster shown up yet?"

During the months I lived in seclusion in the Cloud Mist Mountain, a strange demon would appear every three to five days.

Like waiting for a rabbit to run into a tree stump, without much trouble, hundreds of ghostly monsters were delivered to their doorstep.

The power of the Candle Dragon Transformation increased visibly, and under the nourishment of the vast Yin Spirit Divine Power, the colorless seven emotions flames on the Yin Spirit Divine Embryo became three times stronger.

Chen Mu was like an old farmer waiting for the chives to grow, looking forward to it every day.

"Yunshan isn't at the City God Temple?"

Chen Mu activated his Listening Divine Power, only to discover that the temple keeper, Yunshan, was not stationed inside the temple.

Previously, the strange demons were all led and driven away by this person, but now this person has disappeared.

"I've already subdued all the monsters around Zhang'an County, so I'm going to search for monsters in more distant areas?"

After a moment's thought, Chen Mu suddenly realized something.

"Tsk!"

"I suppose I've done my part in protecting the region and its people."

"Thinking about it this way, I, this shirking my post and living god, am actually not doing so badly, hehe..."

……

One night, Chen Mu was fast asleep in bed when he suddenly heard a rustling sound, as if someone was whispering.

He activated his supernatural ability to hear, opened his eyes, and with the thatched hut as the center, all sounds and noises within a twenty-mile radius of the mountains and forests came to his ears.

"Illusion?"

Chen Mu frowned.

After searching back and forth several times, apart from the strange calls of nocturnal animals, there were no other unusual noises.

For the next few days, all was calm. The faint whispers seemed like nothing more than a hallucination from a hazy sleep that night.

A few more days.

Chen Mu got up in the morning, washed up and ate breakfast as usual, and began his day of cultivation.

He practiced the innate Qi in reverse, visualized the Dao Foundation Diagram, and reshaped the Jade Seed. He used the Giant Spirit God to perform the Soul-Seizing and Rejuvenating Technique to absorb the Rejuvenating Soup and Nourishing Spirit Wine, quickly replenishing himself. He mastered a series of cultivation steps and became extremely proficient.

After finishing his cultivation, Chen Mu casually glanced at the experience points on the gray wall, but was taken aback.

"One practice session increases the experience points of the Soul-Seizing and Rejuvenating Technique by thirty points?"

"Something's not right."

In the past, when the Giant Spirit God used the Soul-Seizing and Rejuvenating Technique to replenish himself, he would only get eight or nine experience points at a time.

But now...

"It's because the amount of vital energy absorbed by the Giant Spirit God is increasing! To be more precise, my own vital energy is inexplicably depleted!" Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat.

This is why the Giant Spirit God can absorb more vital energy to nourish himself, which in turn leads to a significant increase in his experience with the Soul-Seizing and Rejuvenating Technique.

“The cultivation of the Dao Foundation consumes vital energy mainly because it requires reversing the cultivation of a large amount of magical power to cultivate innate qi.”

“The amount of innate energy I’ve refined these past few days hasn’t changed, so it’s impossible that my cultivation of the Dao Foundation has caused a depletion of my vital energy.”

"Something is sucking away my spirit and essence out of thin air!"

He immediately thought of the eerie whispers he had heard late at night a few days ago.

A strange demon!

It must be some kind of evil or strange monster!
Chen Mu immediately activated his Listening Divine Power, using the thatched hut on the mountainside as the center, and explored outwards inch by inch.

They searched for an hour but found no trace of the monster.

White mist, shadowy insects with human heads, strange hissing, nothing at all.

On the contrary, the plants and animals in the mountains seemed inexplicably withered.

"These plants and animals have been weakening right under my nose, and I've been turning a blind eye to it for the past five or six days?" Chen Mu thought with a chill.

In the preceding months, he had hunted down dozens of strange demons, and no longer took them seriously.

But the current situation immediately alerted Chen Mu.

It's not that the monsters aren't scary, but rather that the ones we hunted before were just insignificant little monsters.

No wonder Yunshan has disappeared!
This old guy didn't go out to look for evil spirits at all; he knew a strange and powerful creature was coming, so he ran away in advance!

What a fucking bastard!
Chen Mu took a deep breath, suppressing his anger.

"This place is no longer safe to stay."

Unable to find or see, and powerless against the other party, yet the other party can secretly absorb one's spiritual energy and essence.

Like a frog being slowly boiled in water, if you don't get away quickly, you might be silently drained dry one day!

……

After moving the entire thatched hut into Thousand Lanterns City, Chen Mu transformed into a golden ray of light and flew rapidly towards the depths of Cloud Mist Mountain in a short while.

After running for five hundred miles, far away from Zhang'an County, Chen Mu finally dissipated his escape light and appeared in a deep mountain forest.

Unsure whether he had shaken off the demon, he didn't rush to set up camp and immediately entered Thousand Lantern City.

The next morning.

Chen Mu, who hadn't slept all night, reappeared.

Reversing the river chariot, visualizing the Dao foundation diagram, the giant spirit god absorbs primordial energy to strengthen the foundation and cultivate the origin, a routine cultivation practice begins.

Chen Mu stared intently at the gray wall.

However, they discovered that the experience gained from the Soul-Seizing and Rejuvenating Technique was even greater than yesterday, increasing by a staggering fifty-three points.

"I rested in Thousand Lanterns City for a day, but my depletion of vital energy and spirit has actually increased instead of decreased?"

"That damn thing... could it be right next to me?!"

Chen Mu felt a chill run through his body.

(End of this chapter)