My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 414 Nine Apertures
Half a month later.

Late at night, deep in the mountains of Dongling, a small awning boat drifted quietly on the middle of the Gan River in the upper reaches of the river.

Dressed in light black armor, Tantai Zong knelt helplessly in front of the low square table.

“We have people working for us among the butchers, vegetable farmers, and grain shop clerks in Gukou Market. But so much time has passed and we haven’t seen that person show up even once.”

"And the few spirit fields closest to that hillside are also being cultivated by our people; we haven't seen that guy come down the mountain at all."

"Young Master, that person didn't die in the house, did he?"

"Go away!" Lin Su, the middle-aged man in the gray robe, glanced at the other party with annoyance.

Tantai Zong looked helpless: "How can he stand staying in that little wooden house all day?"

"I'm starting to admire these Qi-cultivation parasites. Don't they get tired of eating fasting pills all day long?"

"How can you be sure he hasn't left the house?" Lin Su, dressed in a loose gray robe, sat cross-legged, her fair fingers lightly tapping the table.

"Young Master, are you saying that he knows secret techniques like stealth and concealment?" Tantai Zong was surprised.

"I reckon they'll disguise themselves, otherwise the guys in the market wouldn't have gone completely unnoticed," Lin Su said with certainty.

“No wonder,” Tantai Zong said in realization.

His face immediately fell into a grimace: "He's so cautious, it'll be hard for us to track him down. Should we really arrest Mo Wuzhou and lure him here?"

Lin Su shook her head calmly: "Mo Wuzhou and he are just casual acquaintances. It's impossible to expect him to save people."

“Then let’s…” Tantai Zong said blankly.

Lin Su chuckled: "He doesn't care about others, but he definitely cares about himself."

"Send a few people to keep watch, but don't use your own brothers, hire a few idle people instead."

"When carrying out the operation, it can't be too conspicuous, but it also can't be too secretive; he has to see it."

Tantai Zong's eyes lit up: "This guy is so cautious, he'll definitely react if he notices someone is watching him!"

“That’s right!” Lin Su’s eyes flashed with a sharp light: “Once he discovers he’s being followed, he will either kill the person directly or follow them to eliminate them completely.”

"I bet he'll choose the latter."

"So this will lure him into the Dragon-Trapping Well?" Tantai Zong laughed heartily, "Young Master is brilliant!"

"It's a pity that Jin Manzi is too useless; he can even lose track of people while chasing them." Lin Su shook her head: "If he had helped, the success rate of the plan could have increased by another 20%."

……

A small hill deep in the Ganhe Valley.

On the wooden corridor, Chen Mu lay on the rocking chair with his eyes closed, grinding experience points.

Within the jade seed, smoky magical power gathered in an orderly fashion, and tiny magical runes emerged. They then rapidly stacked and wove together into delicate branches, connecting and extending in all directions.

Soon, the entire divine aperture talisman connected into a net, and a silver hollow sphere appeared.

Chen Mu glanced at it indifferently, then began to review the gains and losses of this operation, quietly waiting for the spherical magic symbol to dissipate.

Each layer of divine aperture talisman undergoes hundreds or thousands of collapses during its condensation, a process he has long been accustomed to.

At first he was frustrated and complained, but later he realized that it was inevitable.

Each talisman's creation involves shaping and perfecting the entire person from the inside out. Talismans are easy to condense, but the transformation and advancement of the body are very slow. If the shaping is incomplete, the talisman will be unstable, and its disintegration will become inevitable.

Just when he thought the magic talisman would collapse again, the entire jade seed suddenly trembled.

Centered on the divine talisman, an invisible wave spread outwards in all directions. The quietly floating magical power suddenly surged like a tide, and the boundaries of the jade seed expanded outwards with a rumbling sound under the impact of this magical power.

"This is... a success!" Chen Mu couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth.

After several days of attempts, the seventh layer of the divine aperture talisman was finally successfully condensed.

At the same time, he felt a throbbing sensation near his lower back, and a brand-new condensed aperture slowly emerged from the void.

"The ninth secret?"

"Double happiness! Haha!"

Before he could examine the new secret aperture, the other eight secret apertures began to vibrate as well. The originally independent secret apertures seemed to have formed some kind of connection.

This connection is like an invisible network, linking the nine secret points into a whole, within which a strong vitality is slowly being nurtured.

"This feeling... is like having an extra body..." Chen Mu was greatly shocked: "Could it be the true form of the Heavenly Demon?!"

He had consulted information about the Heavenly Demon Heretics at the Scripture Transmission Pavilion and was familiar with their cultivation path.

The ultimate goal of their cultivation is to develop the true form of a celestial demon, thereby gaining various supernatural powers.

“Although it’s only in its nascent stage, it’s clearly the true form of a Heavenly Demon.” Chen Mu’s expression was strange. “Should I start practicing Heavenly Demon Reincarnation?”

He toils day and night on the method of concentrating the liver and condensing the orifices, yet he has not yet master

The unorthodox techniques he hadn't practiced diligently were now already taking the form of a celestial demon.

"Tsk..."

"Unfortunately, the Heavenly Demon Reincarnation Technique is fraught with difficulties at its advanced levels."

"This is only a prototype. Without the detailed diagram of the Heavenly Demon's true form, it cannot be fully developed."

"Furthermore, Qi cultivation has always been the orthodox practice since ancient times, while the Heavenly Demon Technique is ultimately just a heretical path."

"Moreover, most of the Heavenly Demon Laws are filled with demonic energy, which is not the style I want."

……

After calming himself down, he was able to focus on the changes in his body.

The jade seed expanded, the magical power doubled, the protective aura strengthened and thickened, and the rainbow light across the ground increased by three-tenths of its speed. These normal changes in the condensation aperture were all within his expectations.

It is more concerned about the connection of the nine orifices of the Heavenly Demon.

He discovered that the Primordial Qi had begun to circulate autonomously within the secret passages. Moreover, as if it had acquired a core, the Primordial Qi changed from spreading wildly to moving in an orderly manner.

"Is it because of the true form of the Heavenly Demon?" Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat: "With this kind of attraction, will the Primordial Qi still leak out?"

"Ingots!"

Chen Mu immediately got up and called to the big toad squatting in the yard.

Secret techniques such as restricting qi for hundreds of miles and possessing the five ghosts were activated one by one.

It was quickly discovered that the primordial energy was indeed locked within the nine orifices. "Well done!"

"If I stop using the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains technique, the Five Ghosts Bag will remain closed, and its internal energy will not leak out. Wouldn't the hidden dangers of the Primordial Qi be completely eliminated?!"

"Haha! Now I don't have to worry about being used as experience points anymore!"

Furthermore, since the Five Ghosts Paper Man and the Five Ghosts Bag are two separate systems, the Five Ghosts are not needed to transport or store items, nor does it affect his ability to use supernatural powers such as Five Ghosts Possession.

Chen Mu sat on the edge of the corridor with a cheerful smile, his dangling right leg unable to resist poking Leng Yuechan.

"Yuanbao, isn't it time to keep your promise?"

The giant toad looked at Chen Mu with a puzzled expression.

"Let's go to the brothel!" Chen Mu quickly reminded him.

"Quaa?"

"I don't like it? I really don't like it."

"I'm mainly doing this for your sake," Chen Mu said solemnly.

"Now that you've said it, how can you not keep your word?"

"You're a great demon, you can't break your promise!"

Yuanbao: “…”

That's utterly shameless!

……

In the end, Chen Mu did not go to the brothel.

Because the White-faced Boat of the Heavenly River Water Palace never comes to the Lower Temple of Ganhe.

"It's all Mo Wuzhou's fault!" Chen Mu said angrily.

"You've been here for so long, yet you haven't developed the Lower House properly. If you made it more prosperous, how could the White Fleet not come to the Lower House?"

"And the Lord of the Heavenly River Water Palace, he doesn't even make money. Is he really that arrogant? Even a mosquito bite is still meat. Sooner or later, he'll make you lose everything!" Chen Mu was full of resentment.

In the end, he could only eat lavish meals for three days in various ways.

As for going to the Heavenly River Water Palace on one's own initiative.

Chen Mu never even considered it.

Going out might lead to murder and robbery, or getting caught up in some conspiracy—wouldn't that be troublesome? That's what they always wrote in novels from my past life. It's safer to stay home!

……

Ganhe Lower Courtyard.

The mountaintop temple on the north side of the valley entrance.

Mo Wuzhou clasped his hands in greeting to an elderly man in his fifties with gray hair: "Uncle Hu, it's been a long time."

Hu Quan chuckled as he looked Mo Wuzhou up and down: "Senior Sister Rong has a worthy successor; Little Mo's cultivation is becoming increasingly profound."

After exchanging pleasantries, his expression turned solemn: "Your senior sister has already told you why I'm here, hasn't she?"

Mo Wuzhou nodded solemnly: "Uncle-Master, rest assured, I have already selected a site deep within the valley, and construction of the dock can begin at any time."

"Few people go there; it's secluded enough that we don't have to worry about being discovered."

"Once we carve through the mountain at the bottom of the valley, we can directly access the Gan River behind the mountain, which will make it easier to test the ferry."

Hu Quan nodded in satisfaction: "I need to focus on shipbuilding, and I'm not good at fighting. You'll have to put in some effort to ensure the shipyard's secrecy and security."

Mo Wuzhou solemnly clasped his hands in a fist and said, "Uncle-Master, rest assured."

“I have refined enough Wood Spirit Brocade. Once it is released later, the ground around the dock will be covered with our eyes.”

“Underground, there is Master Song’s demonic pet, the Cold Moon Toad, and I have also made arrangements in the sky.”

"At that time, any slight movement will be detected immediately."

"Xiao Mo has considered everything thoroughly." Hu Quan immediately smiled with satisfaction.

……

It’s noon this day.

Chen Mu was lying in a rocking chair, dozing off in the dappled sunlight filtering through the trees, when a sound of churning mud reached his ears.

"Who made the ground turn into steel?"

He knew that sound all too well; it was the same sound when the ground turned from steel to mud.

As the method of listening attentively unfolded, the scene within a radius of twenty miles slowly appeared in my mind.

"Mo Wuzhou?"

"Why is he bringing people here to dig a hole instead of cultivating?" Chen Mu couldn't help but wonder.

Before he could figure out what the other person was doing, a series of clattering sounds suddenly appeared at the courtyard gate.

A tiny wooden rocking horse, no bigger than a palm, emerged from the ground and quickly circled Chen Mu's courtyard. It shook its head and looked around, seemingly quite pleased with itself.

Chen Mu immediately had a bad feeling.

The next moment, the little wooden horse suddenly jumped and flew into the sky above the courtyard.

Then, unsurprisingly, the little wooden horse fell into the yard and landed on its back.

With a somersault, it nimbly flipped and jumped up, looking up to meet Chen Mu's eyes.

Chen Mu: “…”

You didn't choose any of the many big rocks in the mountains!
They just had to choose the fakest piece as their foothold!
Chen Mu forced a stiff smile and waved at the little wooden horse's expressionless face.

"Hi?"

Mo Wuzhou, more than ten miles away: "..."

Hilarious my foot!
He opened his eyes and silently looked at the distant hill.

Several months passed, and he thought Chen Mu hadn't come to the Ganhe Lower Temple, but it turned out he was hiding here cultivating.

You didn't choose any of the many places in the valley!
You damn well chose to build your little courtyard near my secret shipyard!
Hey!
(End of this chapter)