My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 404 Shadow
"Elder Song has left?"

On the porch at sunset.

Chen Mu and Mo Wuzhou sat facing each other on either side of a low square table.

"If it hadn't left, this giant toad wouldn't have appeared in front of your door." Mo Wuzhou glared at Leng Yuechan with annoyance.

He then looked at Chen Mu suspiciously and asked tentatively, "You really didn't bewitch it?"

He suspected that the accelerated development of Yuanbao's bloodline was related to Chen Mu.

"You can ask Yuanbao," Chen Mu said with a chuckle, squinting his eyes.

Mo Wuzhou rolled his eyes. If this big toad were willing to talk, I would still be asking you.

Oh well, it's not a bad thing anyway, I was just a little curious.

“I requested that Senior Uncle Song bring over a batch of rare materials that can be used to refine the Peiyuan Pill.”

Consider this a thank you gift for helping Yuanbao develop his bloodline. You can go to the General Affairs Office to redeem it tomorrow.

"It's a pity you're unwilling to explain the situation, otherwise you wouldn't have had to spend any money on these materials."

Chen Mu was just overjoyed when he froze on the spot.

Help Yuanbao develop his bloodline? Is that true?
"Is there some mistake?" Chen Mu asked, bewildered.

Can the Rejuvenating Soup also unlock the bloodline of demons?
I've eaten so much, but I haven't seen any new secrets or tricks developed.

"You don't know?" Mo Wuzhou glanced at Chen Mu, his expression full of disbelief.

"Please enlighten me, senior brother," Chen Mu said sincerely.

Mo Wuzhou rolled his eyes: "You're putting on quite a good act. Do you think I'll believe you?"

Chen Mu couldn't help but twitch his lips. Why is it that no one believes him when he tells the truth?

Mo Wuzhou chuckled: "You can ask Yuanbao, see if it will tell you?"

Chen Mu couldn't help but turn to look at Yuanbao.

The giant toad remained motionless, squatting in place and looking at the sky, completely ignoring Chen Mu's probing gaze.

Chen Mu immediately felt depressed.

It's not good for this big toad to have such a tight-lipped mouth.

Mo Wuzhou chuckled and said no more, focusing on the feast before him.

……

Time flies, and a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

Chen Mu went to the General Affairs Office to hand over a batch of Bigu Pills, and then went to the market at the foot of the mountain to buy a hundred catties of fresh deer antler black mutton. He then strolled back to Chaoyang Mountain.

He sculpted a large vat from the clay he had just tapped, poured in water, added special herbs to soften the meat and remove its gamey smell, and then soaked the newly bought deer antler-colored black sheep meat in it. Chen Mu brought out a rocking chair and sat comfortably in front of the door.

As he sipped the green tea-flavored Rejuvenating Soup, he watched the disciples of the Lower Temple bustling about in the terraced fields below the mountain, as if he were seeing his younger self in the past.

At that time, he had just arrived at the Tongtianhe Lower Temple and relied on growing yellow sprout rice to survive and cultivate.

“I wasn’t as robust as these disciples back then.”

"Those days weren't actually that hard, were they?"

"Cough cough, I don't know how much sweat I've shed to get to where I am today."

"One must be diligent and hardworking to have a good life."

Chen Mu, feigning reminiscence of past hardships, spoke shamelessly without blushing at all.

After indulging in self-pity for a while, he smacked his lips and, still feeling unsatisfied, activated the Listening Technique.

The next moment, the sounds of the market town at the foot of the mountain reached my ears.

He concentrated, listening carefully and discerning the details.

After a long while, he stopped circulating his magic with some regret.

"Nobody cares about the white smoke monster anymore."

He also wanted to find out where the monster came from.

Unfortunately, while the monster was bizarre, this world was never short of strange creatures. Aside from the initial astonishment, the people of Chicken Cage Mountain lost interest. The topic of conversation shifted back to the battle for the expansion of Chicken Cage Road. Who had struck it lucky, who had found a fortuitous opportunity—this was the ever-present hot topic in the market.

"But this monster can be associated with ghosts, it doesn't seem that simple."

"Are we just going to abandon Keelung Road like this? What if they come back again?"

One or two white-faced, serpentine monsters are manageable. But what if you encounter a colossal creature capable of engulfing the entire Chicken Cage Mountain? Will the Yama Emperor's Decree still be able to immobilize the monster and protect you?

After thinking for a long time, Chen Mu still couldn't figure it out. He raised his right hand and shook it gently.

stab.

A white-tinged blue-green lightning bolt appeared between his five fingers.

"Demons and monsters should be afraid of lightning, right?" Chen Mu smiled as he admired the flickering, eerie lightning.

Sun Jian's domineering and sinister lightning had left a deep impression on him back then.

He looked at the experience on the gray wall with a smile.

Kui Shui Yin Lei: 103/10000/Second Rank;

"Once I've mastered the Thunder Technique, I'll cleave all those ghostly spirits and white smoke into oblivion!"

He clenched his middle and thumb fingers together and then flicked them outwards.

puff!
The compacted mud ground in front of the door was suddenly blasted into a small pit.

"Tsk..." Chen Mu grinned and shook his head: "Still need to keep grinding."

The second-tier lightning spell wasted too much mana, lacked precise control, and its power was unsatisfactory.

"It's not even enough to fight the enemy; it can only be used to slash at yourself."

With a thought, the magical runes within the jade seed, resembling a bird's nest with countless branches gathered together, suddenly flashed with light.

Crackling.

Chen Mu's palm suddenly flashed with light, as if he were holding a ball of lightning.

He took a deep breath, focused his mind, and tensed all his muscles.

The next moment, the ball of lightning in his palm suddenly exploded. A bolt of lightning as thick as a forearm shot into the air, then turned in mid-air and hurtled straight towards Chen Mu's chest.

boom!
Just like being hit by a dump truck, he and his rocking chair were instantly blown away.

After a long while, Chen Mu finally emerged from the room with a dark expression. His clothes were tattered, broken bamboo strips were on his head, and wisps of smoke were rising from his body.

The bamboo rocking chair that had been with him for many years finally couldn't live to see the end and was smashed to pieces.

Chen Mu's face twitched involuntarily.

"It's so careless."

Thunder is thunder after all. He had only slightly increased the power of the second-tier thunder spell because he thought it wasn't strong enough, and it still managed to strike him hard.

"We can't be impatient; we have to proceed step by step."

……

late at night.

Jilong Mountain is in front of Jiaquan Mountain.

A small building stands alone among the sparse trees on the west side of the hill.

At one moment, the man in his forties, who was sleeping in the room, suddenly woke up. He frowned, got up, and looked around.

The bright moonlight streamed into the room through the window. Half of the floor was bright, and the other half was dark.

The man let out a long breath, still puzzled by the tremor he had felt in his sleep.

"You're going to the new lower house tomorrow, worried about your future, so you're uneasy?" The man shook his head and chuckled.

"If you want to make a name for yourself and earn more money, how can you not take risks?"

Thinking this, he got up and went to the window, looking at the bright terraced fields under the moonlight.

"Farming is stable, but it doesn't allow for rapid resource accumulation. How can one cultivate without competing or vying?"

Just as I was feeling sentimental about leaving the familiar environment where I had lived for several years, a wave of unease washed over me again. The skin on my back tightened for no reason, just like when I was hunting a beast and it stared at me from behind.

"wrong!"

Turning around abruptly, I saw that the shadow under the moonlight seemed to come alive, crawling rapidly forward along the ground.

Before he could react, it suddenly sprang up from the ground and engulfed him in its wake.

A short, painful scream was heard but then abruptly stopped.

Outside the window, the moonlight remained the same.

Inside, all was silent.

It was as if nothing had happened.

(End of this chapter)