My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 289: Seemingly Real or Illusory
In the wind and snow, Chen Mu took the lead.

Each step covered seven or eight meters, and they rushed down Shuanggu Mountain at top speed.

As Chen Mu passed by the entrance of a Taoist temple, he glanced inside out of the corner of his eye.

Suddenly, they discovered that seven or eight disciples of various short-sleeved outfits were standing by the door.

Their eyes were all white, staring at him with indifferent expressions.

Chen Mu felt as if his hair was about to stand on end.

He used his superhuman speed to travel thousands of miles, and fled as fast as he could!

The six siblings of Wushan didn't say a word, but did their best to follow Chen Mu's footsteps and ran as fast as they could.

On the last level, Chen Mu didn't take the mountain path at all. Instead, he led his six siblings like dumplings being dropped into a pot, jumping directly down the seven- or eight-meter-high mountain path.

boom!
The rolling white snow was overturned by the force of their landing.

Before it could spread, it was broken by seven people and carried straight towards the Scripture Transmission Hall.

……

"Fu Duyuan!" Chen Mu shouted as soon as he entered the Library Cave.

But the aloof figure who usually sat behind the counter had disappeared.

The entire Library Cave was quiet. Only Chen Mu's voice, reflected off the cave walls, faintly reached my ears.

"I'll go in and look!" Ai Ji lifted his foot to walk inside.

But Chen Mu grabbed him.

A black moon blade suddenly appeared five meters in front of him.

boom!
A handful of snowflakes suddenly burst open.

Wow...

With a piercing scream, the exploding snowflakes dissipated slowly in mid-air like fireworks.

Only a barely perceptible black powder remained, scattered on the ground.

Chen Mu's heart sank suddenly.

Supervisor Song disappeared, and Chief Inspector Fu vanished.

The whereabouts of the last cultivator at the Qi Condensation stage, Young Supervisor Liang, are unknown.

This unknown threat is lurking nearby.

"Get off the mountain!"

We must leave Pengyue Mountain as soon as possible!
……

Chen Mu left not long ago.

A series of light footsteps suddenly echoed in the quiet Library Cave.

A black boot emerged from the shadows of the passageway, stepping onto the black dust.

"It seems like someone is calling me?" Fu Zi looked out of the cave in confusion.

South of Pengyue Mountain, everything in sight is covered with thick snow, a vast expanse of white.

"The snow has finally stopped," Fu Zidao said with his hands behind his back.

"I've lived in Tongtianhe Lower Temple for decades, and I've hardly ever seen it snow."

"Great, I can watch it all at once," Fu Zi thought with a smile.

He wondered if it was just his imagination, but he always felt that the snow had a faint blue tint under the dim light.

I glanced down at the fluorescent algae lights flickering in the Cold Moon Pavilion.

Fu Zi could almost immediately picture a scene of many lower-level disciples gathering in taverns and entertainment venues, listening to storytellers and chatting—a scene of great joy and laughter.

"Sigh...the excitement belongs to others."

"Only the tranquility of the Library Cave truly belongs to me." Fu Zi shook his head slightly, smiling with satisfaction. He turned and walked back into the Library Cave.

A faint sound of wind and snow began to gently linger at the cave entrance, masking all other noises.

And before anyone knew it, the patch of black ash on the ground had silently disappeared.

……

"Three Yin Slaying Demons!"

Accompanied by a low, chilling groan.

Thirty-six ghastly green blades of energy crisscrossed and rolled forward.

puff!
A pale-skinned human head floating in mid-air was suddenly split in two.

"What the hell is this."

Xu Rao stared at the human head on the ground, whose eyebrows and hair were all white except for its blood-red eyes, and his face was grim.

boom!
Ai Ji's right hand was bound by a black iron ring-like aura. With one punch, he sent a red-eyed flying head, which was howling and tearing at him with sharp teeth, flying into the air.

"Who cares what it is, just hit it!" Ai Ji shouted breathlessly.

Chen Mu was at the very front of the line.

The crescent blades surrounding him would occasionally strike, shattering one invisible snowball after another, leaving only a series of agonizing screams.

Since leaving the Library Cave, they have been constantly tormented by monsters in the wind and snow.

Although the red-eyed flying heads were dense and terrifying, at least they were visible. The six siblings of Wushan could barely handle them.

But no one can see that invisible monster.

Fortunately, the Yin Cuo Yue Ren possesses a unique spirituality, enabling it to automatically identify and attack.

……

They sped along the stone steps on the west side of Lengyuefang and arrived at the boundary marker at the edge of Lengyuefang.

The red-eyed flying heads that occasionally flew out suddenly disappeared.

Moonblade also became docile again, slowly circling around Chen Mu.

The six siblings from Wushan turned pale and breathed a sigh of relief.

The red-eyed flying heads are incredibly powerful and strange; they consume a lot of their inner strength and their stamina decreases rapidly.

"We've finally escaped those monsters' territory," Ai Ji said, panting heavily with lingering fear.

“That’s not necessarily true.” Lu Ku looked at Leng Yue Fang with a serious expression.

Upon hearing this, Chen Mu turned his head to look.

The streets of Lengyuefang were brightly lit, yet completely silent.

The once lively tavern was now completely silent.

Chen Mu felt a chill run through his body and dared not look any longer. He stepped over the boundary marker of Lengyuefang and hurriedly rushed down the mountain.

"We must leave Pengyue Mountain as soon as possible!" As for the so-called secret technique of condensing apertures...

With my life hanging by a thread, what's the point of thinking about secret techniques for condensing energy?

Let's get through this first!
……

A quarter of an hour later.

Chen Mu and his six companions stood before the boundary marker with grim expressions.

They had clearly crossed the boundary marker and walked down the mountain.

But they found themselves back at the boundary marker without realizing it.

It's as if the stairs they're walking on are all fake.

"Let's go again." Chen Mu pressed a finger into the boundary marker, making a dent, and ran down the mountain again.

This time he deliberately slowed down and carefully stared at the stone steps under his feet.

He would take a few steps and then look up to check his surroundings to make sure he was indeed heading downhill.

But he stopped after walking for a short while.

Not far away, a two-meter-high black rock stands tall.

One side of the rock was flattened, and three large characters were carved on it—Lengyuefang!

Chen Mu walked with difficulty to the boundary marker, looking at the still relatively fresh pit with a gloomy expression.

Have I stumbled into a crack in a parallel universe? Or am I trapped in some kind of infinite loop?

Many similar movies I had seen in my past life flashed through my mind one after another.

If it's truly an unsolvable state, even a master of the Qi Condensation Realm might not be able to break free, right?

A sense of despair welled up from the bottom of my heart.

"I don't believe it!" Ai Ji stormed across the boundary marker, with Xu Rao close behind.

Not long after, footsteps came from behind.

Chen Mu turned around.

really……

Ai Jixu and Rao appeared behind the group with expressions of disbelief.

"Impossible!" Ai Ji roared.

Xu Rao cursed a string of words in dialect that Chen Mu couldn't understand, then raised his hand and waved it toward the boundary marker.

"Three Yin Slaying Demons!"

boom!
The two-meter-high boundary marker was instantly shredded.

"Have you heard of it?" Lu Ku asked Wu Ruo.

"The folk legend of the 'strange wall-breaking'?" Wu Ru frowned.

"Or it could be some kind of large-scale legal prohibition." Lu Ku pondered deeply, "But there are definitely no legal prohibitions on Pengyue Mountain."

"Are we still being misled, never having woken up?" Lu Ku couldn't help but look at Chen Mu.

Just now at the dojo, it was Chen Mu who killed the invisible monsters and awakened them.

Could it be fake?

Chen Mu's eyes lit up.

That's it! This is neither infinite space nor a spacetime rift.

They are likely just being misled by their senses!
Even if that White Pagoda Immortal could transform into a black dragon and ride the clouds, there would still be traceable clues. He could not traverse space.

How could a monster more powerful than the White Pagoda Immortal appear in the desolate wilderness of Pengyue Mountain?!

"The Seven Souls Return to Their Origin!"

hum!
Ai Ji, who had been pacing back and forth in a fit of rage, suddenly collapsed to the ground.

Chen Mu stared intently at his surroundings, his eyes wide open.

"not enough!"

With a sudden thought, he once again connected with a star in the mist.

Xu Rao immediately followed in Ai Ji's footsteps and sat down on the ground.

A faint ripple of water flashed by in Chen Mu's peripheral vision.

"not enough!"

The next moment, Shi Xian also collapsed to the ground.

hum!
The video I'm seeing looks like it's from a slow internet connection; the swirling snow is causing it to stutter and flicker?!
"what!"

Yu Lin swayed suddenly and weakly knelt on one knee.

Chen Mu felt an unprecedented surge of power within him.

His eyes even began to shimmer with a faint silver light.

puff!
The snowstorm suddenly stopped, and what Chen Mu saw was like a movie screen that had been set on fire. The invisible flames burned away the screen and the images.

The blizzard was gone, the howling wind was gone, and the brightly lit Lengyuefang was now shrouded in darkness.

The entire Pengyue Mountain was covered in snow as usual, and it was quiet both on and off the mountain, as if no one was alive.

Lu Ku hesitated before asking, "Mr. Gongsun?"

"Tell me, is it still snowing?" Chen Mu asked instead of answering.

"Yes!" Lu Ku's expression shifted, and he replied respectfully.

What incredible supernatural power!

"Follow me, and whatever you see, don't pay attention to it!"

"Yes!" Lu Ku's face immediately lit up with joy.

……

A quarter of an hour later.

Chen Mu looked at the familiar wooden house in front of him with a look of relief.

"Is it still snowing?" Chen Mu asked Lu Ku behind him.

"It's gone!" Lu Ku was covered in sweat, but his eyes were full of joy.

Chen Mu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Finally... finally ran down the mountain!

(End of this chapter)