My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 324 The Symposium

"Junior brother, you have excellent skills!" Sun Wuhuan, the forty-something-year-old deputy director of the General Affairs Department, said with a smile, "No wonder Junior Brother Zhu sent you here."

"At your alchemy speed, even Qi Hui couldn't catch up!"

"No, no, I can't compare." Chen Mu shook his head repeatedly: "I can refine pills at this speed entirely because I work hard day and night."

"Compared to Senior Brother Qi's talent and comprehension, I am worlds apart."

Sun Wuhuan looked at Chen Mu's pale face and thick eye bags, and suddenly realized.

A cultivator at the Sensing Stage possesses a robust physique. However, this junior brother before him suffers from weak qi and blood, clearly due to overwork from staying up all night refining pills.

He couldn't help but ask with concern, "Junior brother, you must take care of yourself!"

"Thank you for your concern, senior brother."

Looks like my disguise was pretty successful.

Chen Mu secretly felt smug.

The reason why he worked day and night refining pills and the problem of his excessively fast pill-refining speed was immediately explained.

"Your task has no time limit. If you keep burning the midnight oil like this, what if you damage your foundation?" Jin Wuhuan advised earnestly.

Chen Mu nodded earnestly, feigning seriousness: "I know."

However, his face subtly conveyed an expression that he hadn't listened and would continue doing the same thing.

Sun Wuhuan sighed helplessly, "It's all because of the Taoist cultivation."

Who says it’s not!

Chen Mu nodded with deep feeling.

One Daoist practice has bound countless cultivators to serve the Chicken Cage Dao.

Sun Wuhuan looked at Chen Mu with emotion: "Seeing you is like seeing myself more than ten years ago."

"Back then, I also worked from dawn till dusk, accumulating Taoist merit at all costs."

"I dare not change the secret techniques, I dare not attend the small gatherings for Dao discussions, and I will not do anything that requires the use of Dao cultivation."

"We worked tirelessly for three whole years, cutting costs and increasing revenue, before finally obtaining the secret technique for condensing energy!"

three years?

Chen Mu was immediately startled.

Alchemists in Jilongdao are considered to have high-paying jobs.

Based on his accumulation speed calculation, it would take him at least twelve or thirteen years to accumulate enough power to reach 100,000 Dao points.

If we calculate based on Qi Hui's speed, it will take at least twenty years!
This fat man with a fierce face has actually accumulated enough cultivation in just three years?!
He immediately blurted out, "You...how did you..."

"Do you want to know how I obtained the secret technique of Condensing Apertures?" Sun Wuhuan looked at Chen Mu with a smile.

"Junior brother, please forgive my intrusion!" Chen Mu quickly clasped his hands in apology.

Sun Wuhuan waved his hand: "There's nothing that can't be said."

"That was two years, eleven months, and twenty-nine days after I began accumulating Daoist cultivation."

"A stormy day."

"After careful consideration, I discovered that I only have 1,126 points of Dao cultivation."

"At this rate, how long will it take me to save up?" Sun Wuhuan looked like he was looking at the past with a pained expression.

"So I ran to our Sun family ancestral hall, gritted my teeth, and knelt there for a whole day!"

That very night, my father placed a secret technique for condensing energy points in front of me.

Chen Mu: “…”

What a simple and wonderful story!

Sun Wuhuan sighed, "From then on, I realized a truth."

"To accumulate enough Dao power, besides hard work and diligence, you also need to have the means."

"More importantly, you have to be like me, not afraid of hardship!" Sun Wuhuan pointed to himself with a confident expression and said, word by word.

Chen Mu: “…”

Hey!
How the hell do you have the nerve to say that?!
……

"Do you think I'm showing off my family background?" Sun Wuhuan asked solemnly.

Is not it?
"You guessed right! I was just showing off my family background!" Sun Wuhuan chuckled.

Chen Mu: “…”

Is this how blatant people flaunt their wealth?
“I specially compiled my legendary experience into a book, and after it was verified by the Transmission Academy, I held a small discussion on how to manage Taoist practices.”

"The content includes common methods for quickly accumulating Taoist energy within the Chicken Cage Path."

"A plan for using Taoist cultivation techniques with the goal of self-cultivation, and with restraint and selectivity." "It also teaches you how to find leverage to turn one Taoist cultivation technique into multiple Taoist cultivation techniques!"

"With just five points of Daoist cultivation, you can acquire these practical methods."

"How about it, do you want to come and listen?" Sun Wuhuan looked at Chen Mu with hopeful eyes.

Chen Mu's face immediately turned strange.

what is this?
A financial management course in another world?

Have they even harvested leeks to another world?!

"Of course, there's a small segment after the discussion." Sun Wuhuan winked at Chen Mu.

"Everyone will also exchange their experiences and insights, or items such as ritual implements and materials that are beneficial to managing Taoist practices."

Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat.

After going through such a long and winding road, the main point is probably the smaller segment that follows this small discussion.

"To learn from others' insights and obtain special items, you should be given Dao merit, right?" Chen Mu asked, squinting his eyes.

"Junior brother, you have such good comprehension!" Sun Wuhuan's face immediately lit up with a smile.

“We’ve just conquered Misty Mountain. Many of my fellow disciples have quite a few good items that can enhance their Dao cultivation!” Sun Wuhuan said meaningfully.

Good heavens, they're selling stolen magical artifacts and secret techniques, and trading Taoist cultivation methods.

No wonder he was showing off his family background to me. He wouldn't dare do that without some status and connections.

Surname Sun?

There seems to be an elder surnamed Sun on Chicken Coop Road.

“If Junior Brother can’t make up his mind, then take some more time to think it over.” Seeing that Chen Mu understood, Sun Wuhuan was not in a hurry. He put away the fasting pill and handed back Chen Mu’s identity jade token.

Is this asking me to find out if it's true or false?

Are they so fearless?
"Thank you for your understanding, Senior Brother." Chen Mu bowed and left.

……

Three days later, late at night.

On the east side of Wuyan Mountain, outside the former Yanxia School cave warehouse.

Bamboo houses, suspended more than two meters above the ground, are hidden in the dense forest.

Six or seven meters underground from the outermost bamboo building, there is a secret underground chamber the size of two bedrooms.

The interior was brightly lit and the air was fresh.

"It's still more reassuring to stay here underground where no one knows me." Chen Mu nodded in satisfaction.

"Listen carefully!"

The invisible ripples were controlled by Chen Mu, starting from his right hand and probing downwards in a cone shape.

Rocks, soil, roots, and unidentified animals—a rich array of underground images flooded my mind.

Before long, a familiar, enormous underground space appeared.

"More than two hundred meters left? Tsk tsk... That's really deep." At the very beginning of the excavation of the secret chamber, Chen Mu had already set his sights on the underground river.

For more than twenty days, Wuyan Mountain has been peaceful.

But since it was newly conquered territory, rather than gambling on the safety of the Yanxia Sect, Chen Mu would rather spend time digging a secret passage.

"Should I learn some secret digging techniques?" Chen Mu pondered, stroking his chin.

I used to use the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains method to dig tunnels; it felt fast and convenient.

However, with the engineering depth suddenly increasing to over two hundred meters, it suddenly felt quite challenging.

"Perhaps we could go and take a look at the small discussion meeting."

He hadn't been idle these past few days either, and specifically asked Bai Xiuwen to help him inquire, and sure enough, he heard some rumors.

While the small gatherings on philosophical discussions do indeed take place, they are more of a facade.

The exchange session after the meeting is the key part.

Cultivation insights, secret techniques of unknown origin, and unusable magical artifacts can all be exchanged for Daoist cultivation through Daoist discussions.

In fact, such philosophical discussions can be found on Yuquan Mountain.

He just had been in seclusion gaining experience and had never come into contact with it.

"Let's wait a bit longer." Chen Mu decided to play it safe.

"If there are no problems, then go and broaden your horizons."

(End of this chapter)