My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 377 Search
Dongling is located in the southeast of Yunzhou, where the weather is hot all year round.

The seasons cycle, and even in winter, the temperature won't be too low.

Unfortunately, the Eastern Tombs are filled with miasma, and the temperature, which is not low, feels unbearably cold.

Fortunately, most of the people living here are Qi Refining cultivators, all of whom are strong and healthy and impervious to heat and cold, so at most they just feel a little uncomfortable.

The third floor of the Chuanjing Pavilion.

Chen Mu, dressed in a gray long gown, sat quietly at the long desk by the window.

His body was enveloped in an aura that could be contained for miles around, and the cold, damp wind outside the window could not penetrate him at all.

He held the book "Detailed Explanation of Tongxi Baizhangdan" in his hands and carefully flipped through it, occasionally stopping to jot down his thoughts in the blank book next to him.

After a long while, Chen Mu finally raised his head and blinked.

"An interesting pill."

This was not the first time he had studied the Tongxi Baizhang Dan (a traditional Chinese medicine for treating various ailments). Unlike the Bigu Dan (another traditional Chinese medicine for treating ailments) and Peiyuan Dan (another traditional Chinese medicine for treating ailments), this elixir was not to be ingested, but to be worn.

Once the elixir is refined, it will generate a strange force that will autonomously cover a radius of two to three meters around it.

Within this range, it can filter and absorb toxic miasma in the air, thus protecting the wearer from its harmful effects.

The poisonous miasma incorporated into the elixir is like a sample; the more types of miasma, the stronger the elixir's efficacy, and the more miasma it can absorb and filter. It is a elixir with extremely high potential.

Currently, the Hundred Miasma Pill only covers nineteen types of poisonous miasma, but this is enough for the wearer to roam freely in the Eastern Ridge.

"Uncle Rongqiu is amazing," Chen Mu exclaimed.

"As expected of the Grand Master of Danbao Pavilion, he not only came up with the ingenious structure of the Hundred Miasma Pill, which is similar to a magic artifact, but also understood the poisonous miasma talisman of Dongling."

“I have the art of medicine making, and I can use the gray wall to deduce the essence of the pills and the magic talisman. I don’t know how my senior sister Rong knew about the essence of the poisonous miasma talisman.”

"Is it the skill of a master of Qi Condensation? Or a special supernatural power or secret technique?"

Chen Mu shook his head and stopped thinking about it, then summoned the gray wall with his mind.

Alchemy (Penetrating Rhinoceros Horn and Clearing Miasma Pill): 5340/10000;

Qinglu was elusive in the Scripture Transmission Pavilion; even with the Qi Restriction of a Hundred Miles, he could still track down his opponent. However, to avoid unnecessary trouble, he never practiced secret techniques such as the Yellow Springs General Principles within the pavilion.

There wasn't much to do at the Scripture Transmission Pavilion, leaving plenty of free time. Besides reading miscellaneous books to broaden his horizons, Chen Mu spent most of his time pondering the Rhinoceros-Clearing and Hundred-Plague Elixir.

He legitimately obtained this elixir from the Scripture Transmission Academy; it was an excuse he used to repeatedly switch factions so he could openly study it.

More than three months have passed, and all nineteen kinds of poisonous miasma talismans have been condensed inside the jade seed.

Next, all you need to do is refine the Tongxi Talisman and combine it with the already condensed Golden Pearl Pill-Making Talisman to try refining pills.

"I need to find some time to collect some of the essence of the poisonous miasma." Chen Mu turned his head and looked out the window at the misty, foggy mountain.

The initial excuse of coming to Misty Mountain to research the Hundred Miasma Pill wasn't entirely true; like Eagle's Sorrow Cliff, this place was also suitable for collecting poisonous miasma.

"How do I preserve the poisonous miasma I've collected? I can't just stuff it directly into the alchemy furnace, can I?" Just as I was pondering going to check out the market in Misty Mountain, a streak of light flashed before my eyes like lightning.

Chen Mu subconsciously peeked over.

Then a tall, thin old man dressed in black robes, exuding an aura of authority, landed in the courtyard in front of the Scripture Transmission Pavilion.

The other party waved to disperse the shockwave from the landing, glanced at the surprised and suspicious gazes around him, and then strode into the Scripture Transmission Pavilion.

Chen Mu felt a shiver run through his body, as if he had been electrocuted.

Sun Jian!

Why is that old ghost back at Misty Mountain again?
He immediately perked up his ears to listen.

Not long after, another burst of light appeared outside the window, a bright white light carrying air currents soaring into the sky.

Chen Mu looked away with a complicated expression.

"They're relentlessly pursuing us!"

"Is that red gourd really that important?!" Chen Mu was somewhat annoyed.

Sun Jian came here to request the register of the sale of the secret techniques of the Transmission Pavilion.

The last search only targeted practitioners of the "Steel-Forging Technique" method, but this time the scope is much larger, including all practitioners of the Earth Element Secret Technique.

"Fortunately, I learned how to turn the ground into steel by using gray walls."

"Otherwise, I would definitely be on the interrogation list." Chen Mu was relieved. Leaving Misty Mountain? The Sun family had just started their investigation, and he ran away; there was clearly something wrong with him.

"We have no choice but to hide."

"Who told me to be a nobody with such low strength for the time being?" He resolved to reduce unnecessary activities. He would avoid joining in any excitement and try to avoid encountering the Sun family.

"They're a master of the Qi Condensation Realm, what can I do?" Chen Mu said helplessly.

……

a few days later.

At Yanxiafang, halfway up Wuyan Mountain, people come and go.

With the development of Jilongdao, Wuyanshan no longer has the desolate scene it had when it was first captured.

Many disciples from the lower temples migrated here, and various shops in Yuquanfang also opened branches here. On the edge of the open space, there are also many people setting up stalls.

Yellow sprout rice, exotic beast meat, spiritual medicine, and spiritual materials are all available.

As Chen Mu walked through Yanxia Lane, he observed the goods sold by the roadside vendors while listening intently to gather information.

Listening to the workings of the Dharma, the chaotic sounds within the market were clearly distinct.

Not far away, a short, thin vendor with dark skin fiddled with herbs on an oilcloth in front of him while chatting with the burly man beside him: "Why didn't you set up your stall yesterday? Did you go to Jilei Mountain to dig soil?"

"I'd like to," the burly man said angrily, straightening the reddish-brown ore on his stall.

"I didn't do anything to anyone, but suddenly the inspection team took me in and questioned me all day long."

"Not only did it waste my time, but it also cost me ten white jade coins to escape!"

"We work hard digging in the dirt, and at most we can dig up two or three lightning stones a day. Even if we work hard for a month, we can't earn much white jade. Yesterday, we squandered almost half of it." The burly man said indignantly, "That fat Sun family guy is really a treasure!"

"The Sun family?" The dark-skinned, thin vendor became interested. "That man has been dead for almost a year, hasn't he? Still investigating?"

"If it were just a dead person, it wouldn't be so serious. I heard they lost a treasure?" The burly man lowered his voice, quite gleefully. "They say the Sun family's ancestral magic weapon was on that guy. He's gone, and the weapon's gone too. Heh!"

“Those who were initially arrested and interrogated suffered a lot, but you this time…” The dark-skinned, thin vendor sized up the burly man.

"If I hadn't used the white jade coin, I wouldn't have come out so early." The burly man said with a face full of resentment, "I've finally figured it out. It's true that the Sun family is looking for treasures, but it's even more true that those black-skinned patrolmen are taking the opportunity to make money!"

"Consider it a loss to avert disaster," the thin, dark-skinned vendor said with a grin, trying to comfort him.

"If only we could find that treasure of the Sun family, it would definitely be valuable."

"I want it too……"

Even if we find it, it's useless," Chen Mu thought helplessly as he paid.

The Sun family had marked the gourd sword box. He had obtained the treasure gourd for so long, but kept it buried deep underground and didn't dare to look at it even once.

"What a pity about that precious treasure." Chen Mu shook his head, but secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Near Wuyan Mountain is Jilei Mountain, which is shrouded in mist all year round and is frequently struck by lightning.

There is a reddish-brown ore on the mountain called lightning stone, which is a commonly used material for crafting weapons.

The rich mining area on the mountaintop is controlled by the General Affairs Office of the Chicken Cage Sect, but the surrounding small hills are not restricted. Many disciples go to the vicinity of Jilei Mountain to dig for soil and mine, earning white jade coins.

The burly man who sold ore was skilled in a secret earth-based technique called "splitting mountains and cracking rocks," and made a living by digging out and selling lightning-attracting stones.

Chen Mu had long suspected that the other party might be taken away for questioning. This shopping trip was specifically to find out.

"The black-clad patrol officers have started using this to make money, which shows that although the search area is wide, the intensity is not great."

Chen Mu felt relieved after thinking about it: "Chicken Coop Road isn't solely dominated by the Sun family, so how could they possibly control everything?"

Initially, everyone gave the Sun family face and allowed them to conduct a thorough search. But now that they've come back after so much time has passed, it's inevitable that some people will have complaints.

Chen Mu hummed an unknown tune and left the burly man's stall with a cheerful smile.

"It's good to have opinions."

If there are complaints from above, those below will become complacent. Chen Mu had even foreseen that this search would ultimately turn into a black-clad patrol officers' extortion spree.

"Hehe! Old Ghost Sun is probably going to waste his time!"

(End of this chapter)