My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 455 Mutation
January has passed in a flash.

There is no sun or moon in Thousand Lanterns City, so Chen Mu adjusted the brightness of the Soul-Guiding Lamp to simulate the day-night rhythm.

The guiding light was not the sun, and after a long time, something felt off.

"Forget it, given the current conditions, safety comes first, so sunbathing isn't that important anymore." Chen Mu sighed as he sat down at the round stone table.

He immediately picked up a slice of grilled meat covered in spicy seasoning and stuffed it into his mouth, revealing a satisfied smile.

"good to eat!"

Across the round table, Shen Yan stared at the black flames in mid-air with a complicated expression. This was the Nine Netherworld Azure Flame, emanating from the Nine Netherworld Abyss, capable of burning anything! It was one of the fundamental powers of the Yin and Yang! And this guy was actually using it to grill meat?

"Is there a problem?" Chen Mu glanced at Shen Yan.

Shen Yan hesitated for a long time before finally shaking his head: "No problem!"

I'm like a fish on a chopping board...

"Here, try these vegetables. You grew them; they taste great." Chen Mu smiled and pushed a plate of leafy greens towards him.

Shen Yan looked helpless.

How could someone as a dignified military supervisor of a battalion, a Yin Spirit at the Divine Embryo Realm, be reduced to growing vegetables for others?
Sigh... it really does taste good.

Shen Yan began to eat heartily.

Chen Mu watched in amazement.

All the meat and dishes on his table came from the mortal world, yet this 300-year-old ghost was eating with relish. Spirits are not the ghosts of folklore after all.

Chen Mu shook his head, stopped thinking about it, and began to eat heartily.

……

After meal.

The five paper ghosts clumsily manipulated the black smoke to wash dishes and clean bowls, while Chen Mu lay in a rocking chair, holding a cup of Rejuvenation Soup, watching with great interest.

Over time, the Five Ghosts Paper Doll became increasingly intelligent. In the past, when using the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains to clean up leftovers, he had to actively participate in controlling it; now, the Five Ghosts Paper Doll has learned to act on its own.

Five diligent little followers suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

proud!

Chen Mu squinted and brought up the gray wall.

The Heart Sutra: 4977/10000;

He recited the "Pingxin Jing" twice a month whenever he had a spare moment, and his experience with it increased rapidly, with his progress already nearly halfway complete.

Now, when he activated it again, he no longer needed to recite the entire text; he only needed to utter a short string of syllables, and an invisible force would enter the secret acupoint between his eyebrows and disappear. He immediately felt a jolt, as if he had drunk a mouthful of ice water on a hot day.

And then...and then nothing more.

After so long of cultivation, apart from sensing a vibrant life force, nothing else about the supernatural ghost pattern has changed.

"How long would it take for an ordinary person's Ghost Mark Talisman Seed to return to its origin and cultivate into a Divine Embryo?" Chen Mu looked at Shen Yan with a doubtful expression.

Did this guy set a trap for me in the Pingxin Sutra? After more than a month of practice, my supernatural abilities and ghostly patterns haven't changed at all. How come nurturing the divine embryo is slower than condensing the divine aperture?
"Not long." Shen Yan straightened his sleeves, his expression calm: "Only about a hundred years."

Chen Mu: “…”

This isn't considered long?
“Turning a ghostly mark into a divine embryo is a slow and meticulous process.”

"The Weak Water extracted from the Pingxin Sutra is more refined, and the divine embryo nurtured from it is more perfect, which in turn takes longer to cultivate."

"All things considered, a hundred years is already considered fast," Shen Yan said, seemingly unsurprised.

Chen Mu nodded, half believing and half doubting.

"If I could master the 'Peaceful Mind Sutra,' would it be faster?"

Shen Yan glanced at Chen Mu: "It will definitely be faster."

The prerequisite is that you must be able to practice until you reach perfection.

He secretly scoffed to himself.

Is the "Pingxin Jing" (平心经) as common as cabbage?

The phrase "easy to learn but difficult to master" is not my own saying; it is a summary of thousands of years of cultivation by countless spirits.

You want to master it? Ha!
……

Chen Mu could see through Shen Yan's perfunctory attitude, but he didn't explain.

Prejudice in people's hearts is a mountain that you can't move no matter how hard you try.

Gray wall, show me your experience bar! Let these locals see just how much I can grind!
As the days went by and his experience increased, Chen Mu's incantations became shorter and shorter.

As Shen Yan watched Chen Mu make rapid progress, he gradually began to question the meaning of life.

Was the "Peaceful Mind Sutra" I cultivated back then a fake? It's only been a little over a month, and this guy's cultivation progress is almost catching up with my own three years of cultivation!
Does having talent mean you can do whatever you want?
This is not sinister at all!

He really wanted to ask Chen Mu the reason, but he was too embarrassed to ask, so he could only watch helplessly as Chen Mu's cultivation progress far surpassed everyone else's.

Chen Mu didn't explain, and just cultivated in front of this Supervisor Shen every day.

Just one glance at the other person's bewildered expression could make him happy all day!

Haha!

……

That day, as he was enjoying Shen Yan's incredulous and shocked expression, a sudden feeling stirred within him.

Chen Mu suddenly snapped back to his senses, startled.

Shi Dechun triggered the Soul-Guiding Lamp?!

He didn't have time to think it through and immediately activated the divine power of the Thousand Lanterns City.

Swish!
A black light flashed and expanded before their eyes, and Shi Dechun's figure suddenly appeared.

Before Chen Mu could ask, he immediately said, "This morning, on the way to the expedition, the summoning banner collapsed and fell. The ghost soldiers were thrown out of the tornado of black smoke and fell into the camp like dumplings. A large area of ​​the Yisanqi barracks was smashed."

"The entire camp was sealed off and placed under martial law again. Rumors were circulating that a water monkey had launched a sneak attack and stolen the Soul-Summoning Banner."

“I think this is very important, so…”

"Important! Very important!" Shen Yan, who had been calm all along, suddenly became excited.

"You may not know this, but the Blood Nerve is a very famous secret manual of the Underworld Demon Heaven. It is powerful but extremely dangerous."

"Nine out of ten cultivators will go mad and die. The one who survives will only be spared if he changes his cultivation method early on."

"The loss of control over the Soul-Summoning Banner is a sign that Lan Zhang's control over it has weakened. Even if he hasn't gone mad, something serious has definitely happened to him."

"This is a golden opportunity for us to overthrow Lan Zhang!" Shen Yan looked at Chen Mu with excitement and anticipation.

opportunity?

What a chance!

If Lan Zhang were to kick the bucket, that would be a real opportunity!

Chen Mu curled his lip in disdain.

This guy never gave up on the idea of ​​overthrowing Lan Zhang, and he would urge me on whenever he had the chance.

"You'd better shut up!" Chen Mu glanced at Shen Yan.

You coward! How can you be so timid! Don't you know that fortune favors the bold?!
Shen Yan's face flushed red with anger.

“I think…” He was about to continue trying to persuade him when he saw Chen Mu squinting at him.

“I think this might be a flaw that Lan Zhang deliberately revealed!” Shen Yan said seriously.

"This is probably a trap, we absolutely cannot fall for it!" he said righteously.

Chen Mu looked away with a disdainful expression.

Ha! Coward!

He turned to look at Shi Dechun: "I'll have to trouble you to find out exactly what happened, but first and foremost, make sure you're safe."

Chen Mu glanced at Shen Yan: "Whether Lan Zhang goes mad or the Soul-Summoning Banner goes out of control, it's the big shots' business, it has nothing to do with us."

"If things go wrong, trigger the Soul-Guiding Lamp, and I will immediately pull you into the Thousand Lantern City for refuge, just like I did today."

Shi Dechun nodded repeatedly upon hearing this.

(End of this chapter)