My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 306 Processing
a few days later.

Chen Mu's cultivation was interrupted by the knocking on the door.

Looking out the window, the world was already shrouded in darkness. Before he knew it, he had spent another day grinding for experience points.

Of course, the results were very gratifying, Chen Mu looked at the gray wall.

Listening Method: 6/10000/Level 5;

Five Qi Hunyuan Method: 196/10000/First Order;
He had already entered the basics of the Primordial Chaos Technique. What he hadn't expected was that the Listening Technique had more than four levels.

The techniques he had previously practiced, such as the Illusion Technique and the Sand-Containing Technique, were mostly only at the fourth level.

"I've found a bargain!" Chen Mu thought to himself with a grin.

The seven brothers of Wushan were quite skilled in choosing secret techniques.

"What about the other secret techniques..."

Chen Mu couldn't help but feel anticipation as he looked at the Three Yin Demon-Slaying Technique.

I got up and opened the door, and there was that young man with the oval face delivering food again.

The burly, dark-faced man diagonally opposite had already received the food box and was now opening the lid, tearing off half a watermelon-sized roasted chicken, and chewing on it, meat and bone together.

While eating, she complained to the girl with the oval face, "They're taking more and more money, but giving less and less in return."

"The roast chicken from last month was much bigger than this!"

The young man with an oval face smiled broadly: "The prices of all kinds of supplies in the Water Palace have gone up, and there's nothing we can do about it."

The dark-faced man glared at him with disdain: "What do you mean there's nothing we can do? Tongtian Tower is run by the Water Mansion. You purchase your supplies directly from outside the Water Mansion, and prices haven't gone up outside!"

With her oval face, she could only offer a helpless, forced smile.

"I think the Water Mansion is obsessed with the White Jade Coins. What do you say, young man?" The dark-faced man looked at Chen Mu and spoke, trying to gain his support.

Chen Mu smiled and nodded in agreement, but didn't want to say anything more, and was about to turn around and close the door.

The dark-faced man suddenly spoke mysteriously: "Young man, do you know why the Water Mansion has raised its prices?"

Chen Mu paused involuntarily.

"Wasn't the plan to repair the Dragon Gate of the Water Palace?"

Could there be another reason?

The dark-faced man stepped out of the room and approached Chen Mu's door.

"Repairing Longmen? Heh! That's just a deceptive excuse."

He waved away the eavesdropping young man with the oval face, then approached Chen Mu again and whispered, "It's said that there's a problem at the Golden Pearl Dojo."

"The temple's ability to draw upon the earth's spiritual energy was insufficient to maintain the Dragon Gate talisman, which caused the Dragon Gate to collapse!"

"Why the price increase? Hey!"

"Reduce costs and get rid of people!"

"With fewer people, the earth's spiritual energy will be consumed less," the dark-faced man winked at Chen Mu.

Is this kind of news something you can just casually spread?

Chen Mu couldn't help but glance at him sideways.

Seemingly noticing Chen Mu's confusion, the dark-faced man waved his hand dismissively.

"More than a month has passed, so it's no longer a big secret."

"Many people staying at the Golden Pearl Dojo are complaining about the lack of vital energy and the increased fees."

"Although it wasn't explicitly stated, just thinking about it makes perfect sense," the dark-faced man muttered, leaning against Chen Mu's door as he offered various speculations.

Chen Mu's heart stirred.

The earliest news I heard about Chongshandao was that its lower courtyards couldn't grow yellow sprout rice and were forced to disband. This seemed to be related to insufficient earth spirit energy.

Now even the Heavenly River Water Mansion is having problems...

Chen Mu felt a sudden, inexplicable sinking feeling in his heart.

Could it be that some major disaster or upheaval has occurred?
"Alright, I won't disturb your meal, I'm going back now." The burly, dark-faced man waved goodbye, waving half a roasted chicken in his hand.

Chen Mu smiled and nodded, watching the other person return to their room and close the door.

I inadvertently noticed a tall, muscular man standing at the door of the other room to greet me.

Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat.

The rooms along this corridor are all small single rooms.

Two strong men, crammed into a single room for seven or eight days?

People who eat the exotic seven-colored pheasant every day probably don't care about a few coins for white jade. Yet these two are still huddled together…it seems they've discovered a big secret!

Homosexuality?!
A bearded man with a dark face and long arms... This is quite a heavy taste!

Although I'd heard of it in my previous life, in this relatively conservative other world, isn't it a bit too avant-garde? And it's two rough, uncouth men...

Can’t think about it, can’t think about it.

Hmm... I wonder what they usually call each other, like in the movies from my past life? Little baby?
what……

Chen Mu couldn't help but shudder.

Stop being so curious! Time to eat and practice your skills!

Chen Mu carried the food box to the French windows.

"How about... we listen to their conversation?"

This...this is unethical, isn't it?

With a conflicted expression, Chen Mu urged the passive listening technique.

"I was just experimenting with a new fifth-tier skill, I was definitely not eavesdropping! Yes! That's it!"

hum!
A soft ringing sound came from my ears.

Inside the stomach, there were gurgling sounds of intestinal peristalsis; inside the jade pipes on the wall, there was a rustling sound of fluorescent algae floating and rubbing against the pipe walls; inside the washroom, there was the dripping sound of water falling.

Various sounds from all directions slowly flooded into my mind.

At first, it only happened in Chen Mu's room.

The next moment, Chen Mu was only thinking about it when the sound of the draft from the corridor outside the room entered his ears.

The feeling of freely adjusting the range of hearing is wonderful.

It's like looking at a landscape with your eyes; you just naturally look up and see it.

He wanted to hear a sound from a certain direction, and as long as he focused his mind in that direction, he could hear it.

Chen Mu kept his mind focused and used his listening ability to slowly approach the room of the dark-faced burly man.

He was terrified that the other party would deliver a shocking blow at the start of the event.

The next moment, the crunching sound of chewing chicken bones could be heard.

Chen Mu immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Yet, an overwhelming sense of disappointment rose within me.

They're obviously eating right now, what nonsense could they possibly be talking about!

Chen Mu immediately criticized himself harshly.

What the hell am I expecting?!
bah bah bah!
Your heart is so dirty!

Ok……

I'll listen to it when I'm going to sleep.

……

"That pretty boy's room is roughly the same layout as ours. There's a floor-to-ceiling window at the very back."

There was a large futon in front of the window, about nine and a half steps from the door.

“Looking at the bed and the soft couch, there are not many signs of sitting or lying down, but the futon has wrinkles.”

"I reckon that pretty boy spends most of his time meditating and cultivating on that futon," Zhang the steward muttered as he chewed on a roasted pheasant.

"I'll rush straight to the prayer mat as soon as I break down the door."

"I guarantee I'll break through his protective aura immediately, grab his throat, and snap his neck."

"We will never let him make a sound."

Zhang Duguan meticulously planned with an attitude of caution completely at odds with his rugged appearance.

"No!" Steward Zhang shook his head and squinted.

"Let's use a spirit-searching talisman first to confirm whether it's right there on the futon by the French windows."

"Don't be stingy with your magic power, directly activate your innate secret technique to ensure everything goes smoothly."

"And we all need to wear a spirit talisman, for double protection with both spirit armor and spirit light," Zhang Duguan said in a low voice.

"With such a well-thought-out plan, that pretty boy is doomed!" the long-armed, muscular man exclaimed in admiration.

"Ha ha!"

"He's just a stumbling block; Mo Wuzhou is the real focus tonight."

……

A certain pretty boy who was hindering the testing of the Listening Technique: "..."

"People's hearts have changed!"

"I thought you were a talkative guy with a fierce face but a kind heart and some quirky little hobbies."

Who would have thought that he was actually a wicked outlaw?

"His mouth is all about plans, and his mouth is all about murder!"

Chen Mu looked dejected.

He often faces the world with optimism and kindness.

But the world always seems to treat him with unexpected malice.

Chen Mu also understood that the world couldn't be full of good people.

But shouldn't the majority be ordinary people who are neither good nor bad?
Why are there so many evil people appearing in front of me?

"The world is out of balance!" A sudden realization dawned on Chen Mu.

The normal distribution curve describing good and bad people—the one that's bulging in the middle and low at both ends—is out of balance!

Those on the evil side want to look up!
"Killing is for the sake of protecting life; cutting off karma is not the same as killing people—now I understand!"

In that instant, Chen Mu gained a completely new understanding of this seemingly sophisticated line from a novel in his previous life.

It's not nonsense!

Only by eliminating the wicked can we adjust the skewed curve of good and evil!

"Make your move!" Zhang Duguan's serious and cautious voice reached our ears.

Chen Mu felt no emotion whatsoever.

He sat cross-legged on the futon, his hands clasped together, his mind entering a strange state of tranquility.

A barely perceptible ripple swept across the area.

The next moment, the tightly closed door opened silently.

The burly man with the dark face suddenly jumped into the room.

On his exposed skin, such as his cheeks and the backs of his hands, fine yellow hairs quickly sprouted, covered with ring-shaped black spots.

A pair of eyes suddenly changed color and elongated into golden vertical eyes! Reaching out towards Chen Mu's right hand, the nails were sharp and protruding, and the fingers were full and swollen, like a giant cat's paw.

Her thighs were so swollen they looked like large water bottles, while her calves, which were as thick as a human head, appeared surprisingly slender.

At this moment, the burly man leaned forward, bent his knees and squatted down, making his already thick right leg bulge even more.

A surge of power suddenly erupted!

boom!
A wave of air surged at the doorway, and the burly man's figure appeared out of thin air behind Chen Mu.

Her right hand moved nimbly, swiftly, and silently toward Chen Mu's throat.

The sharp nails were about to touch Chen Mu's neck.

hum!
An invisible force suddenly descended.

Zhang Duguan, the black-faced official, who had been flying through the air and was almost half-lying in the air, suddenly came to a stop.

The air can be contained for a hundred miles!

Chen Mu slowly opened his eyes.

Possessed by five ghosts!

The Seven Souls Return to Their Origin!

Chen Mu's body swelled up as if it had been inflated.

Indigo skin, taut muscles, and a silver sheen between his brows.

Zhang Duguan's golden vertical pupils suddenly contracted!
Black smoke billowed from the spirit armor, and protective spiritual light appeared.

The magical power surged and flowed, and the muscles in his right forearm swelled up to the size of a basketball.

Golden flames swirled at the fingertips.

He immediately broke free of his restraints and viciously stabbed at Chen Mu's back!
Golden Fiery Claws!

Clang!
Like metal clashing, a hollow, pale, bony hemisphere suddenly appeared.

Sparks fly!

An unexpected twist of fate!

Chen Mu stood up, his height of over three meters almost touching the ceiling.

He turned and looked down.

Although his movements were swift as the wind, in the eyes of the dark-faced Zhang Duguan, there was a contrasting sense of slowness and composure.

Meeting the other person's pupils, which had narrowed to slits, Chen Mu grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

Indigo's right hand suddenly reached towards the other person's neck.

Innuendo!

A black and red sphere flashed in the palm of his hand.

The spiritual light and smoke flickered only twice before being instantly corroded and shattered.

His large, fan-like hand, as if gripping a mop handle, tightly squeezed Zhang Duguan's neck in the middle of his palm.

Click!

Manager Zhang didn't say a word.

Chen Mu had already broken his neck.

"You said you couldn't make a sound." Chen Mu smiled sinisterly.

His eyes darted around, noticing the tall, muscular man at the door, but Chen Mu remained indifferent.

What a blunder!

At the entrance, the burly man with long arms, who had just affixed a spiritual talisman to himself, felt a flash of black light before his eyes. Then, the world spun, and his head slid down his back to the ground.

Before it even touched the ground, an invisible force appeared out of nowhere.

They grabbed his head and body and quickly pulled him into the room.

The door closed slowly, and the corridor was silent.

Only a single drop of blood remained in mid-air, landing on the yellow and white floor of the corridor with a barely audible sound, splattering into tiny blood spots.

……

The 62nd floor of Building 9, Gengzi District.

Mo Wuzhou sat cross-legged on the soft couch.

The snow-white, cold moon toad squatted quietly beside him, like a jade sculpture.

"Senior Uncle Song and Senior Brother Liang appeared one after the other near the inn street."

"There is a high probability that Yang Huan came here to kidnap people."

"If you really face this expert at the Qi Condensation stage, can you catch him?"

quack!
"You say you can eat three in one bite? You're bragging!" Mo Wuzhou stared at the snow-white toad.

quack!
"Song Wuji, you swallowed them all?"

"You've eaten with Master Song? I just don't believe it!" Mo Wuzhou said, his face full of suspicion.

quack!
"What? You'll demonstrate it to me when Song Wuji gets back?"

"No, no, no! You don't need to demonstrate for me!" Mo Wuzhou was immediately covered in sweat.

呱？
"I believe you! I believe you, okay?!" Mo Wuzhou was speechless.

Although this giant toad is a powerful demon who has awakened his spiritual senses, comparable to a human expert who has condensed his spiritual senses, he is quite simple-minded because he spends most of his time in the wild.

If he dares not believe me, I'll really eat this toad to prove him right!

"It's not necessarily Yang Huan who's coming."

"He might go directly to entangle with Senior Uncle Song, to lure the tiger away from the mountain, and then send others here to arrest people."

“After all, as long as we capture more core disciples at the Spiritual Light Breaking Realm in the lower courtyard, we can eventually try to find Mount Pengyue,” Mo Wuzhou said.

"Yuanbao, let me tell you something."

"If it is Yang Huan who comes, you may attack him at will."

“But if the person who comes is a disciple of Chongshan Dao who has not yet condensed his Qi, you can’t just swallow him whole.”

"Just beat him half to death."

"These people are meant to be used as bargaining chips."

呱？
"What do you mean by 'half-dead'? That's hard to say." Mo Wuzhou scratched his head.

呱？
Does having your neck twisted under your armpit count as being half-dead?

"It's twisted right under the armpit, it's definitely broken, and the person is already dead."

"If you encounter something like this, you might as well just eat it whole. It'll save you the trouble of disposing of the body."

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt a flash of red light before his eyes.

When Leng Yuechan, the toad with the gold ingot mouth, opened it, two more legs appeared beside its mouth.

The leg would occasionally kick and thrash.

Mo Wuzhou: "..."

"Where the hell did you get these legs?!" Mo Wuzhou was shocked.

Before anyone could stop it, the giant toad suddenly opened its mouth, raised its head, and lunged forward—plop, its leg was gone.

Mo Wuzhou: "..."

Do you even know who this is?! You dare to eat it!

Yuanbao remained unmoved by Mo Wuzhou's wide-open eyes. He raised one front leg and continued to fiddle with the rope around his mouth.

Only then did Mo Wuzhou recall that the hemp rope near the toad's mouth seemed to be tied to those legs.

Mo Wuzhou immediately followed the hemp rope to the window.

I cautiously peeked out from beside the broken window and looked up.

Looking up, I was met with a head that was also sticking out of the window.

Chen Mu looked at Mo Wuzhou with a smile.

"Senior Brother Mo, I'm new here and brought you a small gift. Do you like it?"

Mo Wuzhou felt that if his facial muscles hadn't been so stiff, his face would definitely have twitched a couple of times.

Is it appropriate to give away a dead person with a broken neck as a souvenir?
Get sick!
……

After a while, in Mo Wuzhou's room.

"Is that person a disciple of Chongshan Dao?" Mo Wuzhou asked expressionlessly.

"He's practicing the Heavenly Demon Reincarnation Technique, I guess so," Chen Mu said with a smile.

"What are you doing here, Junior Brother?"

"Admiring the demeanor of the abbot and senior brothers? That's why I want to live closer."

"Then why don't you live on the 62nd floor?"

"That won't do. We can't disturb the abbot and senior brother," Chen Mu said earnestly.

Mo Wuzhou remained silent.

You're just afraid of dying.

I dare not stay in an inn, nor on the 62nd floor, for fear of being affected by the attack from Chongshan Road!
Hey! Too bad, you still got caught in the crossfire!

Chen Mu couldn't help but smile wryly.

He hadn't expected that Chongshan Dao would plan to attack Mo Wuzhou from above. Living directly above Mo Wuzhou, he became an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire.

"Although I broke the neck and shattered the internal organs of that person."

"But he's a barbarian who practices the Heavenly Demon Reincarnation Technique. His vitality is extremely strong."

"Arrest them and interrogate them; maybe we can get some classified information."

"If we can use this opportunity to allow Supervisor Song to strike at the heart of the enemy and capture the mastermind behind the attack."

"Then the crisis on Chongshan Road will be resolved!" Chen Mu said expectantly.

"I wish I could too." Mo Wuzhou turned to look behind him, his heart filled with melancholy.

By now, the person has turned to mush, what's the point of interrogating them?

He has already inquired about the area upstairs and downstairs.

It seems that Chongshan Dao only sent these two people.

They originally intended to capture a disciple of Chongshan Dao to use as leverage.

That's all ruined now.

Chen Mu couldn't help but follow Mo Wuzhou's gaze.

In the huge room that was originally empty, the light and shadow shifted, and a large, snow-white toad suddenly appeared.

Chen Mu's face twitched. That dark-faced burly man had been eaten by this toad.

quack!
Chen Mu: “…”

"Okay, okay, you too!" Chen Mu waved his hand stiffly. This toad was actually quite polite.

(End of this chapter)