My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 478 Serious Injury
Chen Mu had a dream.

He dreamed that he turned into a fish, and was first gutted and scaled, suffering excruciating pain.

Then, while it was still fresh, it was thrown into a large pot of boiling water, steaming gently. Floating on the surface were many unidentifiable seasonings, and the aroma... it smelled wonderful!

Based on his culinary experience, the seasoning ratio is acceptable, but the chef's skills are a bit rusty; he can't control the heat properly and only knows how to stew over high heat.

The stew made him so thirsty and sweaty that he woke up from the heat.

He felt sore, aching, and weak all over, and it took a lot of effort to finally lift his heavy eyelids a crack.

Then he found himself soaking in a large wooden tub, the first thing he saw being white steam. Moving his gaze downwards, he saw densely packed medicinal herbs being pushed up by the bubbling bubbles.

Looking up again, Chen Mu saw Shen Yan with a strange expression. His still somewhat sluggish mind couldn't help but ask, "Old ghost Shen, are you going to stew me and make soup?"

Shen Yan looked at Chen Mu's face, which was swollen and his eyes were squeezed into a line, and said with a playful expression: "No, no, no, I just wanted to braise some pig's head meat."

Chen Mu looked at Shen Yan with a dazed expression, then at the boiling water in the wooden bucket, and sighed deeply.

"Old ghost, listen to my advice, let's change the chef, the heat is too high..." After saying that, Chen Mu nodded and fell asleep again.

Shen Yan: "..."

He looked at Shi Dechun and the others with a regretful expression.

"It's a pity I don't have a recording stone, otherwise I would definitely have written it down for him!"

……

When Chen Mu woke up again, it was two days later.

Thousands of spirits in Thousand Lantern City are busy building mud houses as temporary camps for newly arrived spirits.

In the small courtyard in front of the wooden building, Chen Mu lay motionless in a rocking chair, his entire body wrapped in bandages.

"What's going on?" He slightly raised his chin, gesturing towards the ten large fireballs in the sky that resembled searchlights.

"What? Did you hurt your head? You don't even recognize the Soul-Guiding Lamp anymore?" Shen Yan teased with a smile.

Chen Mu couldn't help but grit his teeth: "I know it's a soul-guiding lamp, but why is it so bright?"

In his memory, the soul-guiding lamp was just a white lantern that could be lit with a little bit of the power of the spirits; it was a common lighting tool in the underworld.

Unlike the sky, where ten enormous fireballs soared into the air, truly illuminating the City of Thousand Lanterns as if it were daytime.

"Do you remember the ghost lanterns that patrolled the camp day and night?"

"Those pale green fireballs don't look like it at all," Chen Mu said in surprise.

"That thing is essentially the same as the Soul-Guiding Lamp, just a bit more refined and complex. It's the work of the Yellow Springs Department, used to monitor and guard the entire camp," Shen Yan said.

"Some of the auxiliary soldiers you brought in last came from the Yellow Springs Department. I figured they were just idling around, so I had them set up these ghost lanterns for lighting."

"Without the interference of surveillance and guarding techniques, the color of the firelight is naturally different."

Chen Mu nodded knowingly.

He only managed to do half of the movement before the pain in his neck and head froze him in place.

Shen Yan glanced at Chen Mu: "I advise you to move less. It's a miracle you're still alive. You should cherish it."

Chen Mu forced a wry smile.

He never expected that forcibly using the Mountain-Carrying Scripture would have such a devastating consequence.

The true form of the Heavenly Demon was eroded by a large amount of Yin Spirit divine power, becoming riddled with holes. At this moment, it lay motionless in the secret acupoint between its eyebrows, and could not manifest no matter how it called out to it.

Its physical body was almost crushed by the immense pressure, with its muscles, bones, and internal organs all cracking, even more severely than the damage caused by the corrosion from the River of Oblivion.

Just as Shen Yan said, it is indeed a miracle that they survived.

"What's wrong with all the generals in your Jigu City?" Chen Mu asked, somewhat annoyed.

First came Lan Zhang, then Bai Zhilang, both betraying him without hesitation. If it weren't for these people causing trouble, he wouldn't have forced himself to use the Mountain-Carrying Scripture to escape, and he wouldn't be suffering from all these injuries.

"And what about that military supervisor, Gong Huan? Didn't you say he was upright and strict?"

Without Gong Huan's cooperation, Bai Zhilang would never have been able to quietly devour the Yin Soldier Camp.

Chen Mu felt angry when he recalled Shen Yan's confident expression back then. If it weren't for Shen Yan's assurance that the other party was alright, he would have been more cautious and might have discovered the problem much earlier and escaped sooner.

"Shouldn't you settle the score for those three thousand somersaults?" Chen Mu glared at Shen Yan.
Shen Yan's lips twitched, then he calmly replied, "What's there to calculate? I didn't say anything wrong."

“I’ve asked around. That day, someone on the mountain was the first to escape, carrying a soul-summoning banner and a gate to hell.”

"The fact that he can activate both the Soul-Summoning Banner and the Gate of Hell at the same time means that he must be the supervising officer Gong Huan. This shows that the other party's cooperation with Bai Zhilang is just a pretense."

"Was I wrong to say he was upright and loyal? Not at all! He just abandoned you all." Shen Yan became more and more confident as he spoke, his main point being to deny everything.

Chen Mu was so angry he laughed: "Wait until I'm better, then you'll see how I deal with you."

Upon hearing this, Shen Yan became even more composed: "Okay? Hehe... then we'll have to wait a while."

Chen Muxin's heart sank.

"It's fortunate that you brought in that group of Yin spirits at the end. Not only were there members from the Yellow Springs Department, but also many from the Yin Wind and Medicine Departments."

"It was thanks to the help of the people from the Medicine Department that your life was barely saved."

"As for a complete recovery... your Thousand Lanterns City has nothing. If you want to recover more, you'll have to rely on your own recovery ability."

"If you are an ordinary Yin spirit, it's fine. As long as you can summon the power of the River of Oblivion, the Medicine and Stone Department can always help you a little."

“But your body isn’t some simple Yin spirit…” Shen Yan looked at Chen Mu with a playful expression: “Want to recover quickly? Heh…” Chen Mu’s heart skipped a beat.

Did you notice...?

Although the spirit's body has flesh and blood, it is fundamentally different from a real human body. Normally, this wouldn't be noticeable, but now that he was severely injured, Shen Yan examined him repeatedly and finally discovered that something was wrong.

"If you can't tell the difference, why didn't you kill me while I was unconscious?" Chen Mu narrowed his eyes.

Upon hearing this, Shen Yan immediately glared at him: "Then you fucking have to give me a chance!"

"Your five little devils are always watching me like I'm a thief."

“When you first came in, I couldn’t even get within 300 meters of you. If I dared to step on the line, they would make me do the splits and somersaults at the same time.”

"Just throw me to the ground! My thigh is all swollen from the fall!"

Chen Mu twitched the corners of his mouth, looking at the five paper ghost figures sitting in a row on the stone table beside him with a wry smile.

The Yama Emperor's Decree originates from the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains, and the foundation of the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains is the Five Ghost Paper Dolls. Therefore, as long as one releases control, these five increasingly agile little paper dolls can actually also unleash the Yama Emperor's Decree.

He released the five ghosts before he fell unconscious, intending only to intimidate Shen Yan, but he didn't expect these five little ghosts to go so far.

Listen to that, his thigh is all swollen from the fall!
What if it affects someone's ability to continue their family line?
Chen Mu glared at the five kids pretending to be well-behaved, annoyed: "Well done!"

Shen Yan: "..."

Damn it! I shouldn't have organized a rescue team for you!

……

Another two days passed.

Chen Mu remained in the rocking chair, all the bandages removed, and his previously swollen body had subsided and recovered. Even though the muscles and bones inside were still torn and had not fully healed, the speed of his recovery was enough to astonish Shen Yan.

"That shouldn't be the case. How could you recover so quickly?" Shen Yan was completely baffled.

Chen Mu toyed with a white jade coin, his face full of unfathomable mystery: "Guess!"

I'm guessing your sister's guess!

Shen Yan rolled his eyes at the sound of it.

"Is this the method of you Qi Refiners?"

Chen Mu raised an eyebrow: "You recognized me?"

"I'm just curious, how exactly did you, a living Qi cultivator, manage to enter the Yin Netherworld?" Having spent so much time together, and having examined Chen Mu when he was seriously injured, the knowledgeable Shen Yan had already recognized Chen Mu's true form.

"It's nothing serious, just the same old chase and escape scenario," Chen Mu waved his hand.

"Chasing and escaping? Tsk! I'm not surprised at all." Shen Yan clicked his tongue in amazement with a playful expression.

What do you mean?
“Look, if you stay in the Hai camp, the Hai camp will be finished. If you come to the You camp, Bai Zhilang will betray you.”

"You're practically cursed with bad luck, haha..." Shen Yan teased with a laugh.

Chen Mu's face immediately darkened.

How the hell can you blame me?
That's all because Lan Zhang and Bai Zhilang were greedy, which caused all the trouble!

Chen Mu was indignant.

All I want to do is stay home and grind experience quietly, why is that so difficult?

……

The ten little suns of Qiandeng City lit up and went out, and Chen Mu's injuries improved day by day. But gradually, he realized that something was wrong.

His injury is recovering so quickly!
Since the exquisite jade plate could not be used within Thousand Lanterns City, Chen Mu resorted to the extravagant practice of directly drawing spiritual energy from the white jade coin to restore his magical power.

With magical power, his body's self-healing ability was enhanced, and his injuries healed faster. He also used the Soul-Absorbing and Rejuvenating Technique to absorb the essence of jade dew to aid in his body's repair.

"Even so, it shouldn't have recovered so quickly!" Chen Mu frowned.

Not long after regaining consciousness, he realized the severity of his injuries.

With shattered bones, damaged internal organs, and torn muscles, the person is like a porcelain doll covered in cracks, ready to shatter into pieces at the slightest carelessness.

Yet, despite such severe injuries, he recovered more than halfway in just five days. Back then, after being corroded by the River of Oblivion, his physical body had to lie in Thousand Lantern City for three or four months before recovering.

"The order is wrong too." Chen Mu's expression was solemn.

He spared no expense, even expending his meager silver coins, to cultivate magical power and restore his body. Logically, his true form should have been repaired first, and then used to nourish his celestial demon form.

But the truth is quite the opposite.

At first he didn't notice, but now that he observes carefully, he immediately realizes that the reason his physical body recovered so quickly was entirely due to the connection with the Heavenly Demon True Form.

A faint, almost imperceptible cool aura would occasionally seep from the secret point between his eyebrows; it was this power that fed back and rapidly repaired his body.

In comparison, the magical power he painstakingly cultivated, and the essence he absorbed through the Soul-Seizing and Rejuvenating Techniques, were more like icing on the cake; he could do without them.

"Could it be that this clumsy god-demon, the Heavenly Demon Cloud Mirage, has some kind of ability to bring the dead back to life and recover quickly?" Chen Mu raised his eyebrows involuntarily.

"has a problem!"

"There's a huge problem!"

(End of this chapter)