My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 562 Plot

The statue cave.

The concentric rope split into a black thread as long as an index finger in front of Chen Mu.

As he thought about it, the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains was performed. A black smoke emerged in front of him and swallowed the black thread-like Yinming insects into the Five Ghosts Bag.

Chen Mu immersed himself in it, looking around with great anticipation.

Not long after, a black fog as big as a human head appeared in the Five Ghosts Bag.

"Is this... successful?" Chen Mu was delighted.

But the next moment, the black fog around the human head began to tremble continuously, and then it shrank and expanded repeatedly on the spot.

Then, as Chen Mu watched anxiously, it exploded with a pop, like a popped bubble, breaking into fluorescent dots and disappearing.

The joy on Chen Mu's face suddenly froze.

When a Yinming worm dies, it turns into a ghost monster. There is nothing wrong with the process. How could it fail?

……

Half a month later, the statue appeared in the cave.

Under the big tree beside the moon gate in the east wing, Chen Mu was lying in a rocking chair, his face pale as he opened his eyes.

After accumulating for nearly two months, he completed the cleansing of his spiritual power again.

He replaced the exquisite jade plate on the stone table beside him with a brand new white jade coin. While Chen Mu absorbed the earth's spiritual energy to restore his mana, he also experienced the changes brought about by the qualitative change of his spiritual orifice.

Although I have only completed three cleansings, my body has undergone significant changes and is slowly transforming into an active state. Like a newly sprouted seed or a newborn baby, I feel a fresh sense of vitality.

"The fourth stage of Qi training for Qi cultivators is to practice the River Wheel, and the ultimate goal is to nurture the innate Qi. These changes are obviously to lay the foundation for nurturing the innate Qi." Chen Mu understood.

"It's a pity that there are too few ghosts, so we can't speed up the cleansing."

Chen Mu took out the Five Ghosts Bag again and sank his mind into the space inside the bag.

The original Five Ghosts Bag was only the size of a bedroom.

Over the years, with the nourishment of the flesh and blood and magic power of various exotic beasts, the internal space has continued to expand and is now comparable to a football stadium.

Chen Mu glanced at the groups of ghosts floating at the edge and shifted his attention to the center of the Five Ghost Bag.

There was a black wooden stick as tall as a person, standing upright on the ground.

Three balls of black smoke as big as human heads, like kittens warming themselves by the fire, huddled obediently beside the pillars.

"Four more died. It turns out to be a failure after all." Chen Mu couldn't help but sigh.

During this time, he never stopped cultivating ghosts. The ghost monsters he created at the beginning would 100% dissipate. Later, he accidentally discovered the black pillar in front of him, and then he changed a little.

The pillar is called the Soul-Fixing Pillar, which comes from the borderland Daliang more than ten years ago. It is a matching magical tool for the Huanyin Strategy and also comes from the Qianshan Sutra Secret Volume.

Because it was cold all over, he originally used it as an air conditioner or refrigerator, but he didn't expect that it could actually delay the death of ghosts and monsters.

"Unfortunately, it can only delay but cannot completely prevent the death of these newborn ghosts." Chen Mu shook his head and sighed.

"Is it because there are too few soul-fixing stakes? Or are these Yinming insects inherently deficient?"

"I'm afraid the plan to cultivate ghosts will not work."

"I really hope a strange monster will appear."

There are a lot of Yinming insects around that thing. As long as one of them appears, you can use the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains to devour it and transform it into hundreds of Gintama monsters.

What a pity...

My thoughts are flying.

A soft sound came from beside me.

Chen Mu came back to his senses and skillfully replaced the white jade coins on the exquisite jade plate.

While playing with the blank white jade, he was thinking about the subsequent training plan.

"We still have to rely on Li Buxian and his team to collect and accumulate ghosts and monsters."

"I'm afraid Bai Yuqian won't be able to finish the cleansing of his divine orifice."

Sun Ke left 20,000 white jades, but it could only support him for two years at most. However, according to the current progress, it would take at least fourteen years to refine his divine orifice.

"There's no need to think about Luandu, Jiangyang and other counties. The Qigong practitioners have long been captured by the Dragon Locking Academy. But the territory of Nanshu has just been occupied by Daqian, so there should still be wild Qigong practitioners lingering around."

"Before I get caught by the Dragon Locking Courtyard, maybe I can sell some pills and earn some white jade money." Chen Mu was thinking about the case in his mind.

……

In the next few days, Chen Mu stayed in the Statue Cave and used the cave water curtain to carefully investigate the two counties of Qutian and Yongmian.

These two counties originally belonged to Southern Shu. They were the two new counties that were included in the radiation range of the Taoist temple during the previous advancement of the Lingbao Cardinal Chapter.

But for several days in a row, Chen Mu didn't find a single Qi Refiner.

"This isn't right!"

"We just conquered Nanshu, so there should be a few Qi Refiners left. How come they disappeared so cleanly?"

"Should we continue to go deeper into Southern Shu? Go to the counties outside the radiation range of the Taoist temple to look for Qi Refiners?" Chen Mu was a little embarrassed.

Within the radiation range of the Taoist temple, he can quickly explore with the help of the water curtain of the cave.

But when he was outside the power of the temple, he could only use the Di Ting Fa to search aimlessly. At most, he could use the unreliable Nine Cups Calculation Sutra to calculate.

"It's difficult..."

……

Time passes.

On this day, in the east wing of Qiluo Mountain City God Temple.

In the main room on the north side, Chen Mu sat on the armchair on the left. On the coffee table beside him was a wooden box filled with white jade coins. A glance showed that there were at least 30,000.

Chen Mu raised his eyebrows and looked at Yuan Xian. "This is..."

"Sir, your Seven Emotions Spell helped me eliminate the hidden danger of the backlash from the Tiandu Transformation. These few white jade coins are not worth mentioning." Yuan Xian smiled and bowed.

"It's a pity that there are too few Qi Refiners around Yiyang County, otherwise I could collect more white jade money for you." He looked regretful.

Is this the white jade money obtained by looting all the Qi-refining practitioners nearby?

Chen Mu looked at the wooden box again and found that most of the white jades were ancient and old, and a few of them had faint bloodstains on them.

Behind this box of white jade, I wonder how many Qi cultivators were buried underground as pulse points!

Chen Mu's expression changed slightly.

No wonder I couldn’t find any Qi Refiners in the surrounding counties. It turned out that they were all killed by Yuan Xian!

This was a desperate move. There were no Qi-refining practitioners left within a radius of thousands of miles, and his plan to earn white jade money by selling elixirs was killed in the cradle.

Yuan Xian noticed that Chen Mu's expression changed, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, but then he returned to his solemnity.

"I have stayed in Luandu County for too long. I will be heading to the Dali border soon."

"The fighting there is fierce, with casualties every day, and a large number of ghosts haunting the place."

"Why don't you leave Luandu County with me. It will be safer if I personally escort you out of Daqian. And if you want to collect a large number of ghosts, it will be more convenient near the battlefield." Yuan Xian looked at Chen Mu and advised him in a flat but clear tone.

"Do you want to drive me away from Daqian?" Chen Mu raised his eyebrows and looked at Yuan Xian playfully.

The thank-you gift and farewell were real, but using the ghosts from the front line to lure him away from Daqian was probably the main point of this old guy's visit!

"No, no, no, I just want to repay your kindness to me." Yuan Xian said with a smile.

"It was you who caused the villagers around Luandu County to migrate to Southern Shu, right?" Chen Mu narrowed his eyes.

"No, that's not possible. It's the imperial court's order, and I have no control over it." Yuan Xian smiled.

"You deliberately killed all the Qi-refining masters in the surrounding counties, right? Was it to prevent me from getting more white jade coins?" Chen Mu grabbed the white jade coins in the wooden box with his right hand, which made a clattering sound, but his eyes were always sideways at Yuan Xian.

"You misunderstood. The Luandu County Dojo has undergone a transformation, but it is still newly built and needs more Qi Refiners to build meridian points."

"I am the dean of the Dragon Locking Academy. It is only natural for me to arrest Qi Refiners and protect the City God's Dojo." Yuan Xian shrugged with a relaxed look on his face.

  Ah!

First reduce the number of ghosts, and then inform the Dali front line of the location where a large number of ghost monsters will be generated.

Kill all the Qi Refiners so that I can't get more White Jade Money.

As a Qi cultivator, I cannot practice without the spiritual energy of the earth. The white jade money in this wooden box can only last for two to three years at most, and that's because I have the exquisite jade plate.

To sum up, if I want to practice, I have to leave Daqian as soon as possible.

What a good plan!

"Is it because of the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed?" Chen Mu understood.

"I just think that the Dali Eyang Dao may be more suitable for you to practice." Yuan Xian's expression returned to normal.

Chen Mu's eyes turned slightly, and he looked at Yuan Xian through his narrowed eyes. "Tell me, what are your plans?"

"I have a way to get you into the upper courtyard of Eyang Road." Yuan Xian said calmly: "The ground veins of Yunzhou have changed. You have to admit that this place is no longer a paradise for Qigong practitioners."

Chen Mu fell silent when he heard this.

"Eyangdao will be relocated soon, and they will go to Haizhou via Tongtian River."

"It is said that the spiritual energy there is abundant, which is more suitable for practicing Qi and cultivating immortality."

Chen Mu couldn't help but sigh.

The statue cave was indeed safe, and the ghosts could be accumulated slowly, but he couldn't do anything about the lack of earth spiritual energy.

Daqian was killing all the Qi Refiners. Even if Yuan Xian hadn't targeted him, it would have been difficult for him to find more white jade coins from the surrounding areas. It was only a matter of time before Daqian left.

Yuan Xian has found his own weakness.

"Are you so sure that Goose Sheep Road will be relocated?"

Yuan Xian smiled slightly: "I went to Dali this time to drive away the strange monsters that destroyed their mountain gates and ground veins. For the sake of the Taoist tradition, they had to move!"

Chen Mu was shocked and immediately thought of Jilong Mountain.

At that time, a strange monster appeared in Jilong Mountain, which caused the spiritual energy of the earth to dissipate.

There is also the original Chongshan Road. The changes in the ground veins at the mountain gate may be caused by this group of Hades-transformed warriors!

Seeing Chen Mu's expression change, Yuan Xian continued to persuade him: "You are a Qi Refiner, you need to consider the long-term..."

"Okay, let's do as you say." Chen Mu waved his hand to interrupt, looking quite bored.

  So what if you guessed Daqian’s conspiracy?

On the surface, it was the Daqian warriors who were causing the chaos, but standing behind them was the entire underworld.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters, natural disasters and man-made disasters...

"In that case, going to the Upper House on Dali Eyang Road doesn't seem to be a bad idea."

Yuan Xian couldn't help but curl up his lips: "Okay, I'll arrange it right away. Let's go to the Dali front first, and then go to..."

"No, let's go directly to Eyang Road." Chen Mu shook his head.

"You're not going to the front line to collect ghosts." Yuan Xian was surprised.

"I found a better one." Chen Mu suddenly smiled playfully.

Old man, you have to work hard and try to drive more monsters to Eyang Mountain.

  As for the mission of destroying the earth veins of Goose Sheep Road...that's none of my business, I don't belong to the Daqian Dragon Locking Courtyard!

Thinking of this, Chen Mu looked at Yuan Xian and his smile became brighter.

Yuan Xian felt his scalp tighten and he suddenly had a bad premonition.

(End of this chapter)