My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 45 Sacrifice
"I hope there's something strange about this." Chen Mu walked to the side of the street and squatted down in front of a bamboo craftsman's stall.

He casually picked up a bamboo basket, glancing at the approaching Constable Lu out of the corner of his eye.

"Boss, what kind of beast is this? Why does it keep tearing out the internal organs?" A constable, half a step behind Constable Lu, asked in a low voice.

“Wild wolves,” Officer Lu said calmly.

"But the wounds don't all look like they're from wolves," the constable said, puzzled.

Officer Lu glanced at the other man and said, "We'll talk when we get back."

The constable immediately shrank back, not daring to ask any more questions.

After the group had walked away, Chen Mu stood up.

He paid for a bamboo basket and continued on his way as if nothing had happened.

"The smell of blood and medicine... Is Constable Lu injured?" Chen Mu wondered.

Upon careful recollection, he shook his head again: "No. The drug's ingredients seem to be potent drugs that stimulate the organs' potential."

His third-tier pharmaceutical skills enhanced his sense of smell, allowing him to detect something amiss from just a faint medicinal scent.

"Forget it. Let's just stay away from it."

This Constable Lu doesn't seem like a good person.

……

Chen Mu woke up feeling refreshed early in the morning.

"It's been a long time since I've felt this good." Chen Mu stretched.

Since the injury, I always feel dizzy when I wake up every day.

Today I finally see a glimmer of hope for recovery.

Making money is secondary for those who produce imitation Sanyang Liujun Pills; healing is the key.

He doesn't need to worry about the cost, so he can increase the dosage.

Recently, he has also been researching medicinal cuisine to aid in the recovery of his injuries.

Cook the medicinal porridge in a charcoal clay pot.

Chen Mu sat on the recliner, watching the heat while taking out the Five Ghosts Moving Mountain Spell to study it.

After a long pause, Chen Mu sighed, "It's still no use."

He changed the text arrangement, but the more he changed it, the more chaotic it became.

I read it aloud again, word by word, but I still didn't understand.

Just as I was about to put it away, a sudden inspiration struck me.

Chen Mu subconsciously brought up the gray wall.

Writing: 1666/10000/Second order;

Drawing: 1533/10000/Second order;

Throw: 7597/10000/Tier 3;

Red Falcon Form Training Technique: 4009/10000/Tier 3;

Cooking skill: 806/10000/Tier 2;

Pharmaceutical Arts: 626/10000/Tier 3;

Hidden Blade: 816/10000/Tier 3;

Five Ghosts Moving Mountain Spell: 1/10000/Level 1;
"We're on the list!"

He immediately recited the scriptures again.

Five Ghosts Moving Mountain Spell: 2/10000/Level 1;
A faint sense of realization welled up in my heart.

He felt that the first sentence should be spoken faster, and the fifth word should be pronounced more heavily.

He thought it, and then he did it.

What was originally a scripture passage that would make people argue and feel annoyed suddenly became a little smoother.

As expected, my proficiency level increased by one again.

"The secret lies in the variations in speaking speed and emphasis!"

After a quick breakfast, Chen Mu immediately began chanting scriptures.

……

The bright moon is in the sky.

The chirping of insects could be heard from time to time on Xiaodong Mountain.

The Ancestral Hall of Qingfeng Temple was quiet.

Moonlight streamed through the open window and shone on the wall.

A scripture with flowing, ethereal handwriting is carved on the entire stone wall.

For some reason, the once beautiful strokes of the pen now resemble a long, winding snake, giving people a strange feeling.

He sat sincerely on the prayer mat, his eyes fixed on the scriptures without blinking.

A masked man in black suddenly jumped in through the window.

"Here's what you wanted, and here's mine." He said, placing a bronze medicine chest on the ground.

“Officer Lu, if you want to achieve something, you need to have enough patience,” Cheng Yi said calmly without turning his head.

Officer Lu quickly looked around to make sure no one was there before he breathed a sigh of relief.

He frowned deeply, his tone laced with sarcasm: "Is this the lesson you learned from your backlash against Feng Ren?"

"Backlash? What nonsense. Master is simply in seclusion," Cheng Yi said calmly.

"Give me the Five Qi Pill right now!" Constable Lu suddenly shouted angrily.

"You should eat less. Look, your temper is getting worse and worse," Cheng Yi said calmly as he stood up and looked at Constable Lu.

Officer Lu took a deep breath, suppressing his agitation, and said coldly, "I understand."

Cheng Yi smiled and pulled a wax ball the size of a ping-pong ball from his sleeve.

Officer Lu couldn't wait and snatched it away.

"Have you found the person I asked you to find?" Cheng Yi asked sincerely.

“We’ve found four, and we’re only missing one.” Officer Lu finally regained his composure, and explained with a slight frown, “I found someone who fits the criteria in the household registration. But that person’s whereabouts are uncertain, so it will take some time to find him.”

"Alright, we need to hurry." Cheng Yi said calmly, "They are the best medicinal materials for alchemy." "Can the top-grade Five Qi Pill really cultivate one's spirit?" Constable Lu couldn't help but ask.

"Haven't you improved your strength quickly lately?" Cheng Yi asked with a smile. He crouched down and opened the bronze box.

A strong smell of blood wafted out, and inside were human internal organs!

Lu, the head constable, revealed an excited look in his eyes.

He asked himself how diligently he practiced martial arts, having trained hard for over twenty years, and that he had only just begun to change his marrow.

However, after taking ordinary Five Qi Pills recently, he cultivated for a month faster than he used to in a year.

If it's a top-tier Five Qi Pill...

"Alright, I'll find that person as soon as possible." Officer Lu thought gritted his teeth.

He had witnessed countless deaths and injuries in the government offices, and knew countless innocent people who had died unjustly in prison.

It's just a few lives!

"What should we do with those people? Should we extract their internal organs to refine pills like before?" Constable Lu asked with a frenzy he himself didn't realize.

"No, no, no, they are special and need to be treated specially," Cheng Yi said calmly.

After a brief conversation, Officer Lu jumped out of the window and left.

Cheng Yi quietly watched the direction the other person had left in: "To actually believe in using human internal organs to refine pills? What an idiot!"

"He's blinded by a leaf. He's just been blinded by the Five Qi Elixir." An old Taoist priest with meticulously combed white hair and a ruddy, wrinkle-free face suddenly appeared in the Ancestral Hall.

"Master, I'll go refine the Heartless Bell first," Cheng Yi said, carrying the copper box.

The so-called "Five Organs Refining Elixir" was nothing but a hoax to fool Constable Lu.

Its true purpose is to refine the magical artifact, the Heartless Bell!

“Go ahead.” Feng Ren nodded.

Watching Cheng Yi leave, Feng Ren stood by the window, muttering to himself, "I hope it's not too late..."

……

Chen Mu was so obsessed with grinding for skill points that he couldn't extricate himself.

Whenever he had time, he would mutter to himself.

As his proficiency increased, his understanding of the scriptures deepened.

The content of the scriptures is meaningless; what is meaningful is the pronunciation of the words.

The garbled scripture, when read aloud at a special speed, will produce a different pronunciation.

It's like how we used to use Chinese phonetic symbols to annotate English words.

Watching his proficiency level increase rapidly, Chen Mu seemed to be obsessed.

I recite it during the day, I recite it at night, and I even think about it in my dreams.

……

half a month later.

On the west side of Xiaodong Mountain, in the familiar mountain forest pit.

A large black pig collapsed on the ground.

Chen Mu drew up the gray wall.

Five Ghosts Moving Mountain Spell: 1/10000/Second Tier.

Chen Mu took out the Five Ghosts Bag and placed it on the ground.

Take a deep breath.

A low, muffled incantation quickly escaped his lips.

It was as if a thousand people were whispering at the same time, even though it was just one person speaking.

A cloud of black mist emerged from the Five Ghosts Bag, gathered in mid-air, and contracted inward.

A pale paper figure appeared.

The little paper figure is covered in patterns, with the character "Winter" on its back.

"It's done!"

Chen Mu looked at the paper figure with curiosity.

A strange feeling arose.

It was as if he had suddenly acquired an extra hand.

"So that's how that round-faced Taoist priest controlled the paper figures!"

He was thinking about making the paper figure move.

Just as he had expected, the paper figure floated slowly in mid-air.

I was reminded of the description in "Five Ghosts Moving Mountains".

Chen Mu controlled the paper figure to crawl under the black pig's body.

"rise!"

……

The black pig didn't budge!

"It's too heavy," Chen Mu realized.

The paper figure was controlled to fly out, and it was replaced by a large rock with a human head.

The little paper figure floated down to the rock and used its hands and head to hold it up.

Chen Mu shouted, "Fly!"

……

The stone didn't budge!

Chen Mu: “…”

He suddenly had an ominous premonition.

A quarter of an hour later.

Chen Mu stared speechlessly at the little paper figure whose leaves were slowly drifting above his head.

This is supposed to be the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains?
Let's move the mountain like the Foolish Old Man!