My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 741 Harvest
At the southernmost end of the Tangshan Valley, beneath a small waterfall.

Chen Mu stood by the pool, several plumes of black smoke darting and twisting underwater like pythons.

More than ten silver-scaled fish, each a meter long, were quickly enveloped and swallowed by the black smoke.

Feeling the dozen or so ghostly spirits that had appeared inside the Five Ghosts Bag, Chen Mu smiled broadly.

Several months ago, Chen Mu inoculated the Silver Scale Fish of Tangshan Academy with the Heart-to-Heart Gu in order to cultivate the Yinming Insects. Today is the day of harvest.

Excluding those that failed to transform and those that were not yet mature, a total of 2,321 Yin spirits were harvested this time.

The more Yin Souls he has, the stronger the Candle Dragon Transformation becomes, and the more at ease he can feel.

"In just a few months, the number of ghosts has increased by one-tenth."

"If we could raise a few more batches..."

"hey-hey!"

……

The next day.

In a thatched hut halfway up the mountain, Chen Mu lay in a rocking chair, with the Five Ghosts Bag floating above his head.

Since the arrival of the evil spirits, the Five Ghost Bag has been slowly expanding, and now it is comparable to a small town.

At this moment, more than 20,000 ghostly monsters were scattered throughout the Five Ghost Bags, and they did not feel crowded at all.

With a thought, thousands of Heavenly Demon Spirit Seeds, shimmering with golden and silver light, flew out from between Chen Mu's eyebrows, like swarms of fireflies, dancing and darting into the Five Ghosts Bag.

As soon as they entered, they quickly dispersed and disappeared into the black smoke plumes.

A faint yet resilient connection appeared deep within my consciousness.

The more than two thousand Yin Souls transformed from Yin Nether Worms yesterday were easily implanted into the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed.

"The life force of the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed, after being refined using the Plague Immortal Technique, has indeed increased considerably." Chen Mu nodded to himself.

In the past, even with the Yama Emperor's decree to control the ghostly spirits and make them submit, it would still take a lot of effort to implant the Heavenly Demon Spirit. This time it was so easy.

"If only the transmission of secret techniques could be this easy."

To gather the power of the Yin spirits and unleash the Candle Dragon Transformation and the Gate of Hell, the Yin spirits need to master the Mountain-Carrying Scripture and the Jade Gate Mantra.

The Yin spirits are different from Yin spirits; they cannot learn on their own and can only be taught by Chen Mu through the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed.

A ball of black smoke, more than a meter in diameter, was taken out of the Five Ghosts Bag by Chen Mu.

His body was filled with the surging power of Yin spirits, and thin silver threads appeared in mid-air before disappearing into the black smoke.

After a moment of billowing black smoke around the ghost, it returned to calm. The secret techniques of the Jade Gate Mountain-Carrying Sect had been successfully engraved into the ghost's body.

Chen Mu waved his hand to put away the ghostly creature in front of him, and then picked up another ghostly creature to continue.

The task was carried out one by one, and it took most of the day to complete the process.

Feeling only slightly tired, Chen Mu felt relieved.

"Although I'm not tired, I don't have a headache. It's good to have higher cultivation levels."

He happily took out the Nourishing Spirit Wine and took a small sip; his slight mental fatigue quickly disappeared.

In the past, it would have taken at least four or five days to impart the secret method to these two thousand spirits.

Moreover, because of the mental strain, one will inevitably suffer from unbearable headaches and will need to consume a considerable amount of nourishing wine to fully recover.

"That's great, it saves us a lot of spirit-nourishing wine."

Chen Mu chuckled and shook the gourd in his hand.

The Spirit Nourishing Wine can replenish the spirit, and the stronger the spirit, the smoother the cultivation. Especially now, when condensing spiritual treasures, a powerful spirit is needed to control them.

This wine is made from the residual spirit essence within the flesh and blood of demons and monsters. The demon and monster corpses he had stockpiled in the Outer Heavens had long been exhausted; without a source of spirit essence, Chen Mu could only rely on his reserves. Every gourd of Spirit-Nourishing Wine he drank reduced his stock by one.

In particular, the intense cultivation of the Yellow Spring Gourd over the past two years has taken a huge toll. He now only has two and a half gourds left, which definitely won't be enough to sustain him in cultivating the sixth-tier Yellow Spring Gourd.

"From the next batch of Silverscaled Fish, only half will be used to feed the Netherworld Insects. The other half will be used to refine Spirit Nourishing Wine?"

Chen Mu pondered for a moment, then slowly shook his head.

"The silver-scaled fish are just ordinary exotic beasts, lacking in spirituality. Even if we keep them all, we probably won't be able to refine many gourds of spirit-nourishing wine."

"The value of this slight increase is far less than that of using it to cultivate more Yinming Insects."

After resting for a while, Chen Mu used the Netherworld Connection Spell to draw upon the Yama True Aperture Ghost Pattern and began patching the Five Ghost Bags.

This wasn't the first time he'd done something like this.

"If only I could completely integrate the Yama True Aperture Ghost Pattern into the Five Ghost Bag," Chen Mu thought to himself as he worked.

The current Yama True Aperture Ghost Pattern is essentially a temporary layer covering the Five Ghost Bag. Once the power of the ghost pattern dissipates, it will need to be re-enhanced. To integrate the True Aperture Ghost Pattern into it, he not only needs to completely master the Yama True Aperture Ghost Pattern, but also needs to reshape the internal structure of the Five Ghost Bag. This involves weapon crafting techniques, which are beyond Chen Mu's current capabilities.

"Fortunately, it's enough. It's just a matter of patching it periodically, so it's not a big deal."

After a flurry of activity, the sun was slowly setting in the west.

Chen Mu scooped out the silver-scaled fish king that he had specially kept in a nearby pond, and then pan-fried and boiled it for a big meal.

After a short rest, he began a new round of cultivation.

First, grind for experience in the Spirit Treasure Cardinal Chapter, then spend some time practicing the Heavenly Demon Armor, and finally focus your energy on condensing the Yellow Spring Gourd Spirit Treasure Yuan Talisman.

……

Seven or eight days later.

The gourd of the underworld, the size of two walnuts, collapsed again.

The shattered innate energy was not wasted; it was all dispersed throughout the body, slowly strengthening the body's foundation.

"The sixth stage of Qi Refining is called Forging Spiritual Treasures, also known as Building Immortal Platform."

"This so-called Immortal-Building Platform is not for building spiritual treasures, but for building one's own body." Chen Mu seemed to understand.

"Using the primordial energy that dissipated after the shattering of the Lingbao Yuanfu, one gradually builds up one's own foundation."

"One step of cultivation, two effects; Qi cultivators truly deserve to be called the orthodox sect of Xuanmen." He couldn't help but exclaim.

After resting for a while, Chen Mu got up and left the thatched hut, disappearing into the valley of Tangshan Temple.

For the past seven or eight days, Chen Mu has been in seclusion cultivating, while Tang Zong has been leading the disciples of Tangshan Academy to begin cultivating a new batch of silver-scaled fish.

Fish fry have now been released into the hot spring streams throughout the grounds.

After a few days of adaptation, the fish fry have been able to survive stably, and it is time to inoculate them with the Heart-to-Heart Gu.

……

evening.

After planting the Heart-to-Heart Gu in 2,933 small fish fry, Chen Mu returned to the thatched hut on the mountainside.

"I wonder what this Heart-Connecting Rope is made of, that it can continuously split into Netherworld Insect Eggs, it's truly amazing."

Chen Mu looked at the unremarkable concentric rope in his palm, which resembled an ordinary rope, and couldn't help but marvel.

He used the Spirit Treasure Cardinal Method to investigate, but only found a simple rune among them.

This rune possesses both the charm of a magic rune and the essence of a primordial rune, and also bears some traces of dark and ghostly patterns; it looks quite ordinary.

But just thinking about the ability of the Heart-Connecting Rope to continuously create Yin-Nether Insects reveals the infinite mysteries of this rune.

"Perhaps we will be able to see the secrets within when the Spirit Treasure Pivot Chapter reaches the ninth level."

With a flick of his wrist, the black rope, like a nimble little snake, darted up to his head, automatically contracting and coiling to tie Chen Mu's long hair into a neat high ponytail.

Chen Mu then pulled out the Five Ghosts Bag and looked inside.

With the Jade Dew provided by the Yama True Aperture Ghost Pattern, the two thousand-plus newly arrived Yin Soul Monsters have passed their initial period of weakness. The black mist surrounding them has stabilized, and their life rhythm has noticeably increased by three points.

An idea struck him.

Suddenly, a large patch of black and silver light flashed in the air in front of him, and a two-meter-tall dragon head emerged from it.

The dark dragon head slid silently to Chen Mu's front, its large, crimson eyes reflecting Chen Mu's image.

Behind it was a large expanse of black and silver mist, within which a massive, winding, and twisting body appeared and disappeared.

An invisible pressure slowly spread out.

At the foot of Tangshan Mountain, a two-petaled rabbit lying on its back suddenly froze. As if a pause button had been pressed, its mouth, which had been constantly chewing on a four-petaled flower, immediately stopped moving.

Looking into the captivatingly cold gaze within the scarlet pupils, and sensing the significantly stronger aura emanating from the Candle Dragon's body, Chen Mu couldn't help but sigh and shake his head.

"This is only the addition of two thousand Yin spirits, yet the power of the Candle Dragon Transformation has already increased by three percent."

"If we could raise a few more batches..."

"I'm afraid I won't be able to keep my position as the number one attacker in the Yin-Yang dual-energy supernatural power." He was worried.

"I am clearly a legitimate Qi cultivator, so why is it that every time I make progress, these crooked and evil methods always win?"

"This is not fair!"

Chen Mu looked indignant.

(End of this chapter)