My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 363 Winter Moon God Lord
In the pitch-black passage, Chen Mu's face was grim.

When exactly did I fall into this trap? Never mind, I need to escape this secret passage first.

“Pointing to the ground… wait!” Chen Mu suddenly frowned.

"This feeling seems so familiar..."

He looked up again to examine the scene.

"An endless loop of secret passages...an illusion? A snow demon?!"

The unpleasant memories of Lengyue Mountain immediately flooded back.

The Seven Souls Return to Their Origin!

With his mental strength surging, Chen Mu's eyes seemed to burst forth with light as he opened and closed them!
He suddenly looked up.

The once pitch-black passageway now resembled a piece of paper burning from the back.

One by one, bright red holes appeared, revealing the real world that had been hidden behind them.

Chen Mu then realized that the entrance to the secret passage was only three to five meters above his head!
He even saw the inside of the brown wardrobe.

But before he could even feel joy, he turned around and discovered that the diameter of the dark passage had shrunk to one meter wide!

Is it real yet unreal? Is it both real and unreal?

Can't stay any longer!

Surrounded by a dazzling spiritual light, Chen Mu immediately darted out of the secret passage.

Looking up, I saw a huge cloud of black smoke, seemingly invisible and intangible, piercing straight through the wall and disappearing.

"Want to run?!"

boom!
The sturdy wooden house walls suddenly burst open, sending wood chips flying everywhere.

Chen Mu transformed into a four-and-a-half-meter-tall miniature giant, like a giant stone projectile thrown by a catapult. He flew into the air, drew an arc, and fell from the sky, crashing into the cloud of black smoke with a bang.

The ground was instantly blasted into a crater five meters in diameter, with snow and dirt flying everywhere.

But the black smoke suddenly dissipated in all directions, and then suddenly re-emerged in mid-air five or six meters away.

Hehe, hoho, haha...

As if mocking Chen Mu for overestimating his abilities, the billowing black smoke suddenly erupted with a rough, eerie laugh, like that of a night owl.

It immediately burst into the sky with a bang, carrying a large amount of snowflakes, and flew dozens of meters away in the blink of an eye.

fly?
what!
Chen Mu stared intently at the black smoke with bloodshot eyes.

The Art of Escape!

Woo!
Chen Mu was surrounded by billowing black smoke, which instantly reduced the distance between them by half.

The Bond of Unity!
A thin black line suddenly flew out from Chen Mu's palm, like a long spear, and suddenly pierced into the black smoke.

The originally formless and intangible black smoke suddenly seemed to have encountered its nemesis, and was immediately pierced by the chains.

Like a fish pierced by a harpoon, it kept expanding, shrinking, twisting, and changing.

All sorts of figures kept appearing and disappearing within it!
"Ha... a ghost!"

Chen Mu grinned, revealing a set of gleaming white teeth.

"Come down!"

With a sudden backward pull, Chen Mu dragged the ghostly creature and crashed to the ground.

The ghostly spirits that were just moments ago invisible and intangible suddenly seemed to have materialized, creating a shockwave that whipped up a large snowflake.

Then the black smoke, like burnt-out paper ash, crumbled into powder and drifted away.

What was originally a large cloud of black smoke, the size of a bedroom, quickly shrank and gradually took on a human shape!

Chen Mu raised an eyebrow immediately.

A humanoid ghost?!
With a thought, the slender concentric rope, like an anchor chain thrown out by a ship, tugged the humanoid black smoke towards him with a clatter.

The other party was dressed in a black robe, with black smoke gathering and dissipating at the edges of the robe.

Its head and face were covered by a cloud of black mist, which projected a series of constantly changing human faces.

Chen Mu narrowed his eyes slightly, and the Heart-Connecting Rope slowly tightened.

"Junior brother, spare my life..." A weak and feeble voice pleaded.

The ever-changing face finally stabilized.

A cold glint flashed in Chen Mu's eyes.

"Senior Brother Liu?"

……

After a while.

Inside Chen Mumu Building.

The broken wall has been simply covered up with a few fresh wooden planks.

Liu Hongyang looked at Chen Mu across from him with complicated emotions.

"Junior brother, you've been hiding it well."

He simply couldn't reconcile the gentle young man before him with the monster who was over four meters tall from before.

If I had known this junior brother was so monstrous, I would never have dared to provoke him even if you beat me to death!
"Were all those so-called witchcraft and curse incidents your doing?" Chen Mu asked expressionlessly.

Looking back now, the way those people died was exactly how those ghosts looked after their souls were sucked up.

"Yes!" Liu Hongyang nodded.

"Why?" Chen Mu asked, puzzled.

In his memory, this senior brother Liu was an honest and kind man.

Self-disciplined, diligent, and possessing an admirable skill of turning the ground into steel, he is a member of the Hall of Craftsmen. His future prospects and earning potential are very promising.

But now he has become a heartless and indiscriminate villain who kills indiscriminately?

"Why? Why don't you go ask Old Ghost Sun why!"

As if provoked, Liu Hongyang suddenly became agitated, his eyes instantly turned bloodshot, black smoke filled his face, and his face began to change continuously.

No matter how their faces changed, their expressions were all filled with hatred. "His life is Sun Wuhuan's life, but mine isn't?"

"Most of my accumulated Taoist cultivation was stolen. I'm the victim, so why am I the one suffering?"

"You want to ruin my path just because of a little doubt?"

"I have no hope of moving forward, yet not a single person speaks out for me!"

"Damn it! They all deserve to die!" Liu Hongyang roared in despair.

The sound was like the combined shouts of more than ten people at the same time, eerie and ferocious, carrying a strange force that could even drive people insane!

After a while, Liu Hongyang, who was in agitated, finally calmed down, and the black smoke on his face slowly stabilized.

Chen Mu looked at the other person in silence.

It seems that the methods used by the Sun family to investigate Liu Hongyang back then were probably not simple.

What he didn't expect was that this Senior Brother Liu was implicated because of him.

It took Chen Mu a long while to compose himself.

Ultimately, it was the Sun family that was too arrogant and domineering.

Sun Wuhuan, after failing to harm him for a little bit of Daoist merit jade, wanted to kill him to silence him.

In his desire for revenge, Sun Jian implicated many people without conducting a thorough investigation.

Senior Brother Liu was a victim, and so was I.

Sun Jian...

After squinting and thinking for a while, Chen Mu asked, "Why did you want to kill me?"

Liu Hongyang looked at Chen Mu with a complicated expression: "Heh... It's all your fault for being so stingy. I tried to ask you for it several times, but you always tried to fool me with that spicy soup."

"You really think I like spicy soup? What I want is that secret medicine!"

"How can I get it if I don't kill you?"

Soup with Pepper?
Secret medicine?

"Is this it?" Black smoke billowed out, and a palm-sized wooden cup appeared on the seat.

Liu Hongyang's expression changed drastically. He looked like a cat that had smelled blood, or a drug addict going on a rampage. His throat bobbed, and his eyes were fixed on the wooden cup, his face full of eagerness and greed.

Chen Mu suddenly realized.

When Liu Hongyang first peered out the window, he wasn't looking at him, but at the Rejuvenating Soup in the man's hand!
The wooden cup floated out of thin air and appeared in front of Liu Hongyang.

The other person quickly grabbed it with both hands and swallowed it in one gulp.

It was as if a thirsty person had drunk from a sweet spring, coughing incessantly but covering their mouth tightly, unwilling to waste a single drop.

Immediately, Liu Hongyang trembled violently, looking extremely pleased.

The face, which had been swaying like light and shadow, slowly stabilized!

"Junior brother, is there any more? Give me just a little bit more, just a little bit more..."

Chen Mu felt a chill run down his spine.

Is this really the Rejuvenating Soup I've been taking for months?
Is it possibly addictive?!

He couldn't help but squint at the gray wall in front of him.

Seven-Turn Feast Mantra...

What is the origin of this incantation?

After a while, Liu Hongyang, unable to get what he wanted, gradually calmed down.

He gave a wry smile: "Please excuse my poor appearance, junior brother. Ever since I became this inhuman, ghost-like creature, my every word and action is no longer under my control."

"Anger, greed, and confusion constantly fill my mind."

"Only by absorbing the vital energy of others can I gain a moment of peace."

"But that's like drinking poison to quench thirst; the more you inhale, the more confused your mind becomes."

“Sometimes, I don’t even know who I am anymore,” Liu Hongyang said, his face full of confusion.

Chen Mu fell silent immediately.

"How did my senior brother become... a ghost soldier?"

"Junior brother actually knew?" Liu Hongyang suddenly came to his senses and looked at Chen Mu in surprise.

He then gave a wry smile: "Junior brother has magical artifacts to deal with ghost soldiers, so it's not surprising that he knows my condition."

He immediately said with a hateful look, "This is all thanks to Sun Wuhuan!"

But then he became enthusiastic: "But I have to thank him."

"If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have been able to obtain that tortoise shell from the Dao Discussion Meeting, and I wouldn't have witnessed the great power of the Winter Moon God."

"Junior brother, look at me! It hasn't been long, and I'm already so amazing!" He puffed out his chest and swayed excitedly from side to side.

The love rope binding their bodies jingled as it swayed.

Chen Mu: “…”

"Hahaha... As long as I worship sincerely and absorb the life essence of a hundred or eighty people to offer to the God, even that old devil Sun Jian will have to kneel before me!"

Chen Mu: “…”

With your crazy appearance, you must have been worshipping an evil god!
“I was initially worried about things getting chaotic. But now it’s different!” Liu Hongyang looked at Chen Mu eagerly: “Junior Brother’s secret medicine can also please the Divine Lord!”

"Junior brother, come with me to worship the God!"

"As long as we serve the God well, Sun Jian and Dong Li are nothing but bullshit!"

"Junior brother! Quickly untie me, let's go and offer that secret medicine to the God."

"The divine lord is pleased and will surely bestow upon us a great reward!"

Liu Hongyang's face began to change like a kaleidoscope again.

His actions, alternating between resentment and fervor, sent chills down Chen Mu's spine!
Oh no, that Winter Moon God must be an evil god!

They even tried to recruit me into their religion?
I don't want to die!
(End of this chapter)