My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 283 Layered Armor
As time passed, the weather grew colder.

Ten days later, the yellow rice was harvested, and Chen Mu sighed as he looked at the five bags of yellow rice in front of the wooden house.

"If this land were in Tongtianhe Xiayuan, it could yield more than 1,700 catties of yellow sprout rice."

"Look at us now, we should be thanking God if we can even get 600 jin!"

Old Yang, whom we hadn't seen in a long time, put down the black pottery jar that was half his height: "You should be content."

He glanced around and then pointed with his chin to the hillside behind Chen Mu.

"Your neighbor has more than eight acres of land, but he harvested less than five hundred catties!"

Chen Mu couldn't help but gasp: "Then wouldn't he have to give the lower courtyard nearly twenty white jade coins to offset the land rent?"

"Of course. Half of the wages earned from clearing the land in half a year were returned in one go, tsk tsk..." Old Yang shook his head and lifted the cotton cloth on the black pottery jar.

The rustling sound of insects crawling could be heard.

Chen Mu immediately took two steps back in disgust.

"You've seen them before, what's there to be afraid of?" Old Yang said irritably. "These little darlings are so cute!"

Chen Mu shuddered: "Not everyone has your strange hobby."

buzzing...

The gray swarm of insects, like waves crashing on a shallow beach, surged and rolled towards the yellow rice field. The withered yellow leaves were quickly crushed and backfilled.

"The harvest wasn't good this year. If you have any spare money, you should stock up on more yellow rice," Old Yang advised.

After thinking for a moment, he whispered a suggestion: "Since you planted it yourself, you can divert more of the water."

Chen Mu nodded inwardly, deeply agreeing.

After returning from clearing the wasteland, he specially used spring water with added ingredients for emergency irrigation to save the crop, but he only managed to harvest a little over 100 jin per mu.

Those that are completely left to their own devices are probably in an even worse situation.

A poor harvest of yellow rice is inevitable.

If the harvest is poor, prices may rise.

……

evening.

Chen Mu sat under the east window of the wooden house, with five knee-high gray cloth bags in front of him, each containing 100 jin of yellow sprout rice.

"Leave less."

After seeing Old Man Yang off, Chen Mu immediately went to Lengyuefang Grain Store.

Huangya rice still costs 100 jin per piece of white jade, but each person can only buy 200 jin.

Even with the 300 jin he managed to save, he only had 500 jin left. That would be enough to last him for at most three months.

I feel uneasy.

……

The next day, Chen Mu went to Lengyuefang Grain Store again.

"Two pieces of white jade weighing one hundred catties?" Chen Mu raised an eyebrow. The price had gone up so quickly?!
"Give me two hundred jin!" He didn't dare hesitate, who knew if the price would continue to rise tomorrow.

"I can't buy it, you've already reached your purchase limit for this month." The salesman in the gray shirt casually handed Chen Mu his ID card and waved him away.

"Isn't it just a limit on the number of purchases?" Chen Mu asked in surprise.

"New regulation. Each person can buy a maximum of 200 jin per month."

"Hurry up and leave, the people behind us still want to buy," the gray-clad shopkeeper said impatiently.

Are all the grain store clerks this arrogant now?

It's a seller's market.

Chen Mu, who had been squeezed out of the grain store, felt a sinking feeling in his heart as he watched more and more people buying grain.

The yellow rice harvest was just completed yesterday, and it's already so expensive.

There's still a year until next autumn's harvest. How expensive will rice be in the second half of next year?
Half an hour later.

Chen Mu carried a piece of cured meat made from the leg of an unknown beast and walked out of the butcher shop with a blank expression.

The price of exotic animal meat has also gone up.

Five catties for one piece of white jade, this cured pork leg cost him nine pieces of white jade, whereas before it would have cost at most four.

"The lower house is as dark as ever!" Chen Mu pouted.

This year, the wages for clearing land and reclaiming wasteland are high.

But now prices are getting higher and higher, and after going around in circles, the white jade coins that were issued have returned to the lower house.

"The General Affairs Bureau has a great talent!"

He's not short of money now, but he's really unwilling to be forced to eat expensive grains and meat.

"We were still not prepared enough."

When we first arrived at Pengyue Mountain, we should have stocked up on more squid and pork!

"Who would have thought that it would take half a year to clear the land?" Chen Mu lamented. He had originally planned to stockpile the yellow rice he had grown after the harvest.

pity……

……

In the following days, Chen Mu visited Lengyuefang several times.

Whether it's the rice shops and butcher shops in the lower courtyard or the free market in Lengyuefang East, the prices of rice and meat have increased.

The good thing is that although it doubled in price, it didn't continue to rise.

The bad thing is that although prices haven't risen yet, no one can say for sure whether they will rise in the second half of the year.

"Who would have thought that once people start seeking immortality and cultivating the Dao, eating would become a problem?"

Chen Mu glanced at the enormous sum of over 20,000 pieces of white jade in the Five Ghosts Bag. He felt slightly relieved. At least he could still afford to eat.

"You can't fight city hall, there's nothing you can do but focus on your training."

As the weather turns cooler and the land needs rest, the clearing and hunting have been completed. The entire Pengyue Mountain, like a gradually withering and quiet forest, slowly settles down.

Chen Mu also had enough time to gain experience.

……

A month later, the wooden porch in front of the cabin.

Chen Mu lay in the rocking chair, a soft animal skin blanket covering his knees.

Holding a cup of warming tea that was constantly emitting white steam in his left hand, and playing with a hollowed-out white bone sphere in his right hand, his eyes were fixed on the gray wall in the void.

"It's so great not having to clear land."

After staying at home for a month, Chen Mu spent all his free time, except for eating and resting, staring at the gray wall to gain experience.

The other items remained unchanged, but the Spirit Nourishing Spell, which he had high hopes for, had successfully advanced.

Spirit Nourishing Spell: 103/10000/Second Tier;

Thoughts shift.

The air barrier was activated within a hundred miles.

Ten meters away, a fist-sized rock floated in mid-air.

The next moment, like a bullet leaving the barrel, it tore through the air with a sharp whistling sound and went straight for Chen Mu's head.

In the blink of an eye, they were three meters in front of him.

A wisp of black smoke rose from the void, but Chen Mu actively restrained it.

The shimmering white light had just appeared when Chen Mu dispelled it.

The bone ball in the palm of his hand suddenly disappeared.

Inside the jade seed, the spirit-nurturing talisman, which had become a small, tangled mess, actively burrowed into the primordial talisman.

boom!
A seemingly real yet illusory hemispherical bone shield suddenly appeared in front of him.

The rapidly approaching stones were instantly sent flying.

"The Spirit Nourishing Spell nourishes the spirituality of the magical artifact, so it can enable Yang Cuo to protect himself?" Chen Mu raised an eyebrow.

Other secret arts require the initial use of incantations to form temporary talismans, which are then used to activate the secret arts or magical artifacts.

The Yin-Yang Mistake itself has the effect of a jade tablet. After being infused with magical power, it can replace the effect of incantations and form a temporary talisman.

This is equivalent to replacing the step of reciting incantations with a simpler way of transmitting magical power.

After the Spirit Nourishing Spell entered the second stage, it unexpectedly gained more spirituality.

This allows it to proactively detect attacks and autonomously channel mana into the bone sphere.

The spellcasting steps have been further reduced.

The process is fully automated.

They even saved Chen Mu money.

"Isn't this just a magical artifact version of the Spirit Armor?" Chen Mule exclaimed.

Upon careful listing, Chen Mu realized that, without realizing it, he had already put several layers of defense on himself.

First came the black smoke accompanying the spirit armor, then the jade seed's spiritual light, followed by the unexpected white bone shield, and finally, a layer of spirit armor technique that forged steel bones.

Occasionally, it can also be used to create a defensive force field by restricting air flow for hundreds of miles.

"These layers of defense... Haha!"

Back then, he practiced various physical training techniques, and he wanted to continuously stack armor to train himself into a muscular giant who could withstand heavy blows and fight, but he failed.

But now they've come up with an unconventional method of layering armor.

Whether they can fight or not is another matter, but they can definitely hold their own.

"It's like a dream come true."

(End of this chapter)