My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 713 Daoji
“From this day forward, no more evil spirits shall be brought here,” Chen Mu said calmly in the City God Temple on Cuiping Mountain.

Di Xing's expression changed, and he immediately clasped his hands in a fist and bowed, wanting to speak.

"Hmm?!" Chen Mu narrowed his eyes and looked indifferently at Di Xingyun and the other two.

Di Xing forced himself to open his mouth, but Yun Shan grabbed his wrist and pressed down his raised hand.

"I will obey the Lord's orders!" He said solemnly, like a soldier following orders.

Lord?

Chen Mu raised an eyebrow slightly.

The Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed is merely a bottom-line constraint of not betraying its owner; it will not make the recipient a puppet who blindly follows its lead.

That old fellow Yunshan immediately bowed down, truly...

As expected of a seasoned veteran, he's truly adaptable and knows how to bend and stretch.

"Very good." He glanced at Yunshan and nodded slightly.

He didn't want to be bothered by strange demons again, so he naturally couldn't let Di Xing drive the demons here.

"You don't need to worry. All I want is the incense offerings and spiritual energy. If you don't cause me any trouble, then we can all live in peace."

"Of course, I won't take your offerings for nothing."

Chen Mu took out two black-covered scriptures and handed them over.

"The Eastern Longevity Scripture? This is..." Di Xing looked at the scripture in his hand, somewhat puzzled.

"There is a wonderful method within; reciting it daily can aid in the cultivation of the Underworld God," Chen Mu said calmly.

The contents of this scripture came from the body of a celestial demon; originally, it only contained the Heavenly Demon Incantation for guiding the spirit seed of the celestial demon.

Later, he added the Seven Emotions Curse, which allows the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed to absorb the seven emotions of all living beings, nourish the fetal spirit, and accelerate the cultivation of the Underworld God.

Chen Mu always felt that incorporating other people's seven emotions into his own body wasn't pure enough, so he never dared to use it. But when he let Yunshan and Di Xing practice it, there were no problems.

The God of the Underworld is already absorbing the blood essence of gods and demons into his body, so a little more of the seven emotions of living beings wouldn't be a big deal.

He himself received the incense offerings and vital energy, while the two of them received the Seven Emotions Curse.

Only through such mutual benefit can we minimize the occurrence of troubles.

Chen Mu glanced at the two of them one last time, then used Yin Wind Escape to fly into the Cloud Mist Mountain.

……

I watched Chen Mu disappear into the horizon.

Di Xing turned his head and frowned at Yun Shan: "Why did you pull me just now? Do you know how many people will suffer if we can't continue to lure the demons to Yunwu Mountain!"

Yunshan rolled his eyes.

"I don't know if others will suffer, but I do know that if you had continued to speak, we would both have been in trouble immediately."

Seeing that Di Xing was still indignant, Yun Shan sighed and said with a hint of disappointment, "You're so stubborn!"

"If we can't lure the demons here now, does that mean we can't in the future?"

"Now that we know this expert can handle demons, wouldn't it be easier to ask for his help once we've gotten to know him better?"

"Some things require careful consideration before they can be done," Yunshan advised earnestly, fearing that this hothead would act rashly.

He was filled with regret when he thought about how he had listened to this guy's nonsense and led the great demon to Cloud Mist Mountain.

The Great Demon was indeed destroyed, but he himself was also subjected to a restraining technique.

Since your life is in someone else's hands, you naturally have to be pragmatic.

Di Xing's expression was conflicted, and it took him a while before he could only sigh and shake his head.

"Judging from the methods he is using, with gusts of cold wind, he must be a Dragon Locker. No wonder he needs incense and spiritual energy."

"I wonder what kind of methods he has to deal with the demons," Di Xing remarked.

"For the sake of your life, mine, and the lives of our loved ones, you'd better not pry into this secret," Yunshan said solemnly, glancing at Di Xing.

"This person would... kill someone to silence them?" Di Xing frowned.

"If you wanted to kill them, you would have done it long ago. I'm talking about those spineless cowards in the court," Yunshan sneered.

“At least this one gave us this.” He waved the black leather scripture in his hand. “But if it were those other guys… hmph!”

"Are you really going to practice?" Di Xing frowned again as he looked at the scripture in his hand.

"Since that person used this scripture to exchange for incense offerings, there must be some profound mystery within it; otherwise, it would have been better not to give it to them at all," Yunshan said with great interest.

"As for potential risks," he scoffed, "we've already been given a means of control, what's there to be afraid of!"

……

Deep in the Cloud Mist Mountain, Chen Mu once again took out the thatched hut from Thousand Lanterns City and placed it not far from the waterfall pool.

On the veranda in front of the wooden house, Chen Mu lay in a rocking chair, playing with a bronze plaque with a ghost face that looked familiar.

"It's a bit like an identity token issued by the underworld to spirits."

"However, the City God's ritual is the work of the underworld, so it's only natural that there's some connection." He understood.

With a thought, a wisp of Yin spiritual power surged into the Ghost God Token.

Like a floodgate being opened, a vast amount of incense and vital energy appeared in the void before him, surging towards Chen Mu. He opened the Five Ghosts Bag that he had prepared beforehand, and the massive amount of incense and vital energy was immediately absorbed into the Bottomless Pool.

Chen Mu's magical power trembled slightly, and the Seven-Turn Yuan-Supplementing Mantra and the Nine-Turn Spirit-Capturing Mantra were activated one after another.

Drops of Rejuvenating Soup and Nourishing Spirit Wine gathered and appeared on the bottomless pool like raindrops.

In no time at all, the two plump white jade gourds, each about the height of a forearm, were filled.

"Incense and vital energy, what a wonderful thing!" Chen Mu smiled.

With it, I can continue to cultivate the Jade Cicada Secret Manual at high speed.

"Is the incense offerings truly generated from the sincere worship of the people? Apart from various festivals, it seems that not many people go to the City God Temple to worship on ordinary days." Chen Mu had doubts in his heart, but he couldn't figure it out.

When he was a living deity, he had also conducted investigations. Unfortunately, at that time, he lacked experience with the Lingbao Cardinal Chapter and was unable to fully comprehend the mysteries of the Daoist temple, nor could he fathom the essential source of the incense's vital energy.

"It might be related to the River of Oblivion," Chen Mu secretly guessed.

“The spirits can use the Dew Gathering Spell to extract jade dew from the River of Oblivion, and the incense and vital energy might be from the same source.”

As Chen Mu refined the Rejuvenating Soup and Nourishing Spirit Wine, his thoughts raced.

He stopped his incantation only after filling all nine white jade gourds.

Despite such a large intake and refinement, the incense's vital energy continues to flow in.

"Half of the incense offerings in Zhang'an County are from temples, which is quite a lot," Chen Mu exclaimed.

Inside the Five Ghosts Bag, incense and vital energy cascaded down from the sky like a waterfall, continuously falling into the bottomless pool.

Clumps of grotesque spirits were circling around the waterfall of incense and vital energy.

The countless incense offerings and vital energy were like a dense catch of fish being poured out of a fishing net.

The ghostly creatures were like greedy cats, wanting to devour but not daring to, and were pacing around anxiously.

"We've found a way to feed the ghosts."

"Ha ha!"

……

Incense offerings provide vital energy to strengthen the body and nourish the spirit, while white jade coins activate the exquisite jade plate to provide ample spiritual energy from the earth.

Chen Mu continued his daily cultivation routine, and his life returned to normalcy and tranquility.

Several months passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, by the waterfall pool, a futon was placed on a smooth, large blue stone.

Chen Mu sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, solemnly reversing the River Chariot. All his magical power entered the silver and black River Chariot sphere, generating nine jade-white innate energies.

He took a light breath and skillfully inserted it into the inner wall of the golden jade seed.

hum!
The entire jade trembled slightly, then fell into an eerie silence.

The surging white mist-like magical power remained still, as if a freeze button had been pressed.

A faint golden light shone from a point on the jade, and then spread rapidly throughout the jade, like a swarm of bees flapping their wings or like overturned dominoes.

And the golden light continued unabated, breaking through the jade seed in the blink of an eye and sweeping across his entire body.

Even the surface of every cell in the body was constantly flashing with golden light.

Chen Mu underwent a rapid transformation, both inside and out, from the jade seed to his body.

After a while, he opened his eyes, and a golden light flashed deep in his pupils.

Feeling the lightness on his body, as if he could fly with a flick of his wrist, Chen Mu finally couldn't help but grin, revealing a big smile.

The gray wall appeared automatically, and he immediately saw the Jade Cicada Manual, which had been refined to its limit.

"It's done! This time, I've really succeeded!"

"Ha ha……"

As he was laughing, he suddenly realized that the gray wall in front of him was rapidly receding into the distance.

"No, it should be that my gaze is drawn much higher!"

This change had already occurred when he first mastered the Divine Aperture.

"Could it be that this time we'll finally see the full face of the gray walls?!"

Roughly calculated, the gray wall had been with him for twenty-eight years, yet he had never seen its full appearance.

Chen Mu's interest was immediately piqued, and even the joy of having just completed the Dao Foundation was overshadowed by this curiosity.

In the blink of an eye, the changes in the gray wall had already slowly stopped.

The walls, which previously seemed to extend infinitely to both sides, have finally revealed their boundaries.

However, gray clouds still obscured the view above, making it impossible to see the summit clearly.

Even so, it was enough for Chen Mu to discern the true appearance of the gray wall.

"This isn't a gray wall at all, it's an enormous stone door!"

A profound sense of satisfaction, as if it were all true, instantly filled Chen Mu's heart.

(End of this chapter)