My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 520 Lord Meng

Qingyang City Lord’s Mansion.

Xiao Jingbai sat in the hall with an expressionless face.

Pei Jiang, the chief of the Secret Service of Qingyang City, walked quickly into the hall and took out a piece of letter folded into a square from his air bag.

"City Lord, I just got the news that Feng'an City received a batch of Conferred God Contracts. What I have in my hand is the list of dojos corresponding to the contracts."

"Everything else is normal, except for a land guard in a remote location. They received two deeds."

"A substitute for a dead person? Someone from Feng'an City wants to go to the mortal world?" Xiao Jingbai couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Does Lu Liang want to go and take a look, or does Lu Chengshan have other plans?"

"It's not important." Pei Jiang shook his head and said, "It's not cost-effective to target Feng'an City on a large scale. But it's not difficult to send someone to make this person deviate from his landing point."

"The world of the living is so vast that a slight deviation could mean a huge difference of tens of millions of miles. If you are not careful, you will be torn into pieces by the gates of hell."

"If that person is Lu Liang, the city lord can vent his anger. Even if he is not, Lu Chengshan's plan has been ruined, which can be regarded as a small revenge. You see..."

"Old man! You are still insidious!" Xiao Jingbai couldn't help but smile: "Let's do it."

The strange demon King Wuyou has been captured by Yinshan Prefecture. His path to enlightenment, which he had been preparing for over a hundred years, was forced to be interrupted. He hated Feng'an City to the core.

For several months, he had been keeping a close eye on Feng'an City, hoping to find a flaw so that he could take revenge.

Unfortunately, Lu Chengshan and his son acted cautiously, and he never found any flaws.

"Withdraw the spies from Feng'an City and send someone to inform our living gods to select new Netherworld embryos and try to send them to the underworld. I want to continue practicing in the Netherworld realm."

"The city lord is wise!" Pei Jiang clasped his fists respectfully: "As long as you mix Yin and Yang and complete the qualitative change of Yin God, little Lu Chengshan, you don't have to do anything, the Lord of Yinshan Mansion will automatically send him to you."

Xiao Jingbai nodded slightly, his face cold: "Let them jump around for two more days."

……

Three days later, by the Forgotten River.

A group of hundreds of people fell from the sky and landed on the shore.

"As long as we hold the Book of the Gods and fly to the other side of the Wangchuan River, the Naihe Bridge will appear?" Chen Mu was surprised.

Although the Forgotten River is called a river, it is actually boundless. No matter who you are, you will only appear on one side of the river.

No one can reach the other side except the Yinming insects whose past has been washed away and their spiritual essence has been dispersed in the Wangchuan River.

The Naihe Bridge is said to be on the other side of the Wangchuan River.

"Don't worry, sir. The Book of the Gods has existed for thousands of years and nothing will go wrong." Lu Liang said with a smile.

"Is there really no effect of the Li Dai Tao Jiang method?" Chen Mu was still a little worried.

There would definitely be no problem with a normal Book of the Gods, the key was that the book in his hand was abnormal. After being concealed by a secret method, its Qi fluctuations were half as strong as those of an ordinary contract.

"As long as you stay with Le Dian, nothing will go wrong." Lu Liang explained patiently.

"The Conferred God Deed contains the Qi of the target dojo. With the help of the dojo in the mortal world, you can be accurately sent to the dojo's location."

"The Li Dai Tao Jiang method did reduce the strength of the Qi in the contract book, but the effect of the contract book was only slightly reduced."

"Besides, the deed in Le Dian's hand is the same as yours. As long as he stays with you, he will guarantee that he can take you to the same place."

Chen Mu looked at the short and strong man beside him with a respectful look on his face and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The other person's name is Le Dian. In the future, this person will take his place to guard the land temple in Xiaowa Town for a hundred years.

"The contract itself has the power to block the Forgotten River. Even if you don't stay in the Taoist temple, you can stay in the world of the living for a while." Lu Liang bowed and said, "After this farewell, I'm afraid we won't see each other again until a year later. Take care, sir."

goodbye?

It’s better not to see each other again.

After more than three years in the underworld, he was displaced and nearly died several times. This time when he returned to the world of the living, Chen Mu was determined to stay away and never return to the underworld.

At this time, Lu Shisan had already completed his briefing with the living gods sent by Feng'an City.

Chen Mu bowed to Lu Liang Lu Shisan, turned around and turned into Yin Feng, taking Le Dian and more than a hundred Yin soldiers with him, and flew to the other side of the Wangchuan River.

……

"When you go to the world of the living, you have two things to do." In the Secret Service Department of Qingyang City, Pei Jiang looked at the square-faced strong man in black clothes below and said.

"The first thing is to help the city lord find the Nether Spirit Embryo."

"We have already found several suitable candidates among the living gods. Your task is to repeat the same trick you used against King Wuyou in the past and find ways to make him fall into the underworld."

The square-faced sturdy man Qian Huan took a deep breath, bowed and clasped his fists: "As you command."

Pei Jiang nodded slightly: "You followed me to capture King Wuyou, so you know the process well. If you follow the rules, you will succeed."

"You don't have to worry. If you really encounter difficulties, just let the living gods contact Yinming. I will definitely give you the greatest support."

Qian Huan's expression eased a little: "I will definitely live up to Si Shou's trust."

"This second thing is a small matter, but you have to do it with all your heart." Pei Jiang said as he handed Qian Huan a white jade bell the size of a walnut.

"Inside this Thousand Mile Soul Locking Bell, there is a breath sealed, pointing to two identical copies of the Conferred God Contract."

Qian Huan's expression changed: "Li Dai Tao Jiang method?"

  "At this time?"?

"But now that you know our plan, do you want to interfere and mess things up?"

"It is better to kill someone by mistake than to let him go, not to mention that this person is from Feng'an City, so..." Pei Jiang had a cold expression and gave Qian Huan a gloomy look.

"I understand!" Qian Huan said solemnly.

……

On the boundless Wangchuan River, white mist was everywhere, sometimes thick and sometimes thin, blocking everyone's sight. Looking back, the shore where they were standing before had disappeared. At a certain moment, a weak pulling force came from the Book of Conferred Gods in Chen Mu's sleeve.

The hundreds of ghost soldiers seemed to have received the signal and turned almost at the same time. Chen Mu's mind moved, and he immediately changed direction and followed the ghost soldiers to fly to the horizon.

They didn't know how long they flew, but when they broke through a thick fog, an ancient gray-white stone bridge appeared in front of them.

The stone bridge was extremely long, with one end protruding into the thick fog, seemingly infinite in length, and the other end leading to a bank that looked like a long, fiery red line.

At this moment, the Yinming insects with human heads and long snake-like bodies shaped like white smoke were floating in the middle of the stone bridge in an orderly manner.

The expressions on the faces of those Yinming insect people varied, some were furious, some were ecstatic, some were indifferent, and some were resentful. But no matter what the expression, they all, without exception, lined up obediently on the bridge and walked forward.

Chen Mu was slightly startled, and followed the ghost soldiers to quietly fly onto the bridge.

The bridge deck was not very wide, only wide enough for three carriages to run side by side, and was paved with stone slabs cut from the Forgotten River Stone.

The stone slabs seemed to have been weathered by wind and rain for many years, with mottled pits and holes, and also seemed to have been trampled and rubbed by countless people. The surface was smooth and round, revealing a sense of vicissitudes.

Holding the railing which was also carved from Wangchuan stone, Chen Mu looked down at the bridge.

However, he discovered that the reflection on the water was actually a brand new silver-white jade bridge. It seemed that it was not the reflection of a stone bridge, but another brand new jade bridge hidden under the river.

Is this Naihe Bridge?

It's a bit weird!

Chen Mu looked at the line of Yinming insects that stretched out to who knows how far and were lined up quietly, and he couldn't help but tense up all over.

The other ghost soldiers were also stunned by the silent and eerie scene, and they walked obediently along the side of the stone bridge, in the direction of the Yinming insects.

After walking for half an hour, a scene of fiery red came into view.

The red line that everyone saw before slowly extended and spread out, but it was discovered that it was not a red embankment, but a large flat river bank covered with clusters of fiery red flowers.

At the end of the gray stone bridge, an octagonal pavilion with gray tiles and wooden pillars appears.

The pavilion was surrounded by white jade bead curtains, and a woman in a red shirt with wide sleeves was sitting in the middle of the pavilion.

The other person was dressed in red with faint golden dragon patterns on it, she was wearing a colorful brocade shawl and a golden phoenix hairpin on her head, looking dignified and majestic.

"That is..." Chen Mu couldn't help but look at Le Dian beside him.

"My lord, that is Lord Meng, the one who controls the reincarnation of the dead, and the one who guards the Naihe Bridge."

Reincarnation of the ghost?

  Guarding the Naihe Bridge?

Is your surname Meng?

Isn't this the Meng Po in folklore? !

That Meng Po soup...

Chen Mu immediately became interested and turned to look.

As expected, in front of the pavilion, there was a half-human-high, three-legged, two-eared jade tripod filled with a pool of emerald green soup, with a faint aroma of wine wafting around. A Yinming insect with a wildly laughing expression was standing obediently in front of the jade tripod, as if waiting to be fed.

"Is the Meng Po soup in the Jade Tripod?"

"No, that's the wine of afterlife!"

Afterlife wine?

This is quite different from the folk legend.

Chen Mu looked at it with interest for a few seconds, then raised his head and looked towards the center of the pavilion.

Through the beaded curtain, a stern face that looked like it was cast in metal suddenly came into view, with black and gold mottled and interwoven on it, like broken pieces of porcelain.

Between her brows was a cluster of flowers, as bright as the endless fiery red flowers on the shore.

  The bright silver hands crossed on the abdomen have distinct joints, like a mechanical puppet!

As if noticing Chen Mu's gaze, the other person's stern and majestic face suddenly turned towards Chen Mu.

In an instant, Chen Mu felt as if he was standing in front of a statue that blocked out the sky. An invisible sense of oppression came over him, as if someone was grabbing his heart. He stood there in a daze, not daring to move.

"Sir, don't dare to look too much!" Le Dian hurriedly pulled Chen Mu's clothes.

Chen Mu suddenly came back to his senses and quickly lowered his head to avoid looking.

He caught a glimpse of the other person's hands, which had gaps at the joints and looked like mechanical devices, and his expression changed involuntarily.

"This Lord Meng..."

"You know the Terracotta Warriors and Ghost Soldiers, right?" Le Dian leaned close to Chen Mu and whispered.

"Those paper figurines?" Chen Mu raised his eyebrows.

When he was in Jiugu City, he once met an acquaintance, the owner of Yupinxuan, Leyang Anle.

The other party was extremely fond of terracotta warriors and ghosts, just like collecting figurines, and had a whole cabinet full of paper and pottery figurines of various shapes.

"Could it be that this Lord Meng..." Chen Mu looked incredulous.

Le Dian shook his head: "The God is not such a dead thing."

"It is said that the God was personally enlightened by Emperor Yama, and he has his own conscious spirit."

"It is very powerful, able to split into tens of millions of clones, and has the same lifespan as the underworld. It has been guarding all the Naihe Bridges since ancient times."

"Even if the Lord of Yinshan Prefecture is here in person, I must address him as Lord God and not be disrespectful."

Chen Mu felt a chill in his heart, but he couldn't help but feel a strange feeling.

He glanced at the other person's hands that looked like mechanical creations, and the more he looked at them, the weirder they seemed.

  Mechanical puppet Meng Po?

Isn’t this Meng Po a bit too cyberpunk?

(End of this chapter)