My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 744 Departure
Several days later, at dusk, in a wooden cabin halfway up the mountain, Chen Mu leaned against a wooden pillar and sat on the edge of the porch in front of the door.

The small dragon bone boat whizzed past in front of me, its movements so agile that you would never guess it was a magical artifact without a close look.

Using his divine hearing ability, the scene inside Tangshan Temple appeared in his mind.

At this moment, the disciples, led by Tang Zong, were searching the mountain inch by inch.

The lazy dappled rabbits that were grazing were caught and put into a bamboo cage.

Large swaths of purple four-leaf clover were dug up, roots and all, as if the turf had been peeled away.

Even the sediment at the bottom of the river is being sorted and dredged.

The way they were so eager to plunder the ground made Chen Mu's lips twitch.

He shook his head and looked away, then turned to the gray stone gate in front of him.

Mastery: 176/10000/Tier 4;

Yellow Springs Gourd: 9833/10000/Tier 6;

Lingbao Cardinal Chapter: 8699/10000/Eighth Order;

Loach Dragon Spell: Limit.

"It's good to have higher cultivation levels; it makes controlling magical artifacts much easier." Chen Mu nodded in satisfaction.

He hasn't done anything else these past few days, spending all his time practicing the Loach Dragon Spell, and the results have been quite pleasing.

He mastered the Dragon Spell to its peak, entered the fourth level of skill mastery, and even made significant progress in the Spirit Treasure Key Chapter, which aided in his training.

"The supplies for Tangshan Hospital are almost ready to be gathered, so it's not impossible to set off tomorrow."

"but……"

Chen Mu looked at the Secret Technique Yellow Spring Gourd.

Since arriving at Tangshan Academy, he has been regularly refining spiritual treasure talismans. Over time, his experience has steadily improved.

Today, we're about to enter the next stage. He's somewhat unwilling to just leave like this.

After all, for a period of time afterward, he would need to steer the Dragonbone Boat and also be distracted by controlling the Crimson Feather Sword to explore the way.

Moreover, without the earth vein restriction to continuously draw in celestial energy, he couldn't recklessly squander his magical power to condense spiritual treasure talismans.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to focus on my spiritual practice for the next two or three months."

"And it will only take seven or eight days of seclusion to master it."

Having made up his mind, Chen Mu immediately began to close his eyes and cultivate the Yellow Spring Gourd.

……

A few days later, early in the morning.

At the foot of Tangshan Mountain, there is a stream.

Long wisps of black smoke churned in the water. Large and small silver-scaled fish were quickly devoured by the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains Technique.

Once all the silver-scaled fish in the stream had been devoured, Chen Mu's consciousness sank into the Five Ghosts Bag. Looking at the dozen or so newly appeared, half-human-sized black smoke clouds, he shook his head regretfully.

"If we could stay for another two months, this batch of Yinming Insects could be fully developed."

"Harvesting and devouring ahead of time has indeed resulted in significant losses."

He didn't want to rush things.

But just yesterday, two hundred miles southeast of Tangshan, a severely wounded and dying white deer demon appeared.

First came the burrowing toad, then the great demon white deer. If we stay any longer, and even more monsters appear, we might not be able to escape without a fight.

Rather than being forced to leave when a large number of monsters attack, it's better to leave early.

It was with this in mind that Chen Mu harvested the Yinming Insects ahead of schedule.

Even though he had anticipated the outcome, seeing that the conversion rate was less than one in ten—more than two thousand silver-scaled fish that only produced three or four hundred ghost monsters—still pained him deeply.

After gaining complete control of the dragon boat, I didn't rush to leave. Besides wanting to farm experience from the Yellow Spring Gourd, I also wanted to allow the Yinming Worms inside the Silver Scale Fish to grow for a few more days.

Unfortunately, there wasn't enough time.

"Fortunately, it's not all bad news." Chen Mu composed himself and summoned the gray stone door.

Yellow Springs Gourd: 1/10000/Seventh Tier;

"We're one step closer to completely forging the Yellow Springs Gourd." A look of joy appeared on his face.

……

After chuckling for a while, Chen Mu used a secret technique to disappear underground and retrieve the Soul-Stabilizing Stake that he had previously buried. Although it was no longer useful, he had still crafted it himself, so of course he wanted to take it with him when he left.

Then they returned to the mountainside, first bringing the thatched hut into Qiandeng City, and then digging up the pecan tea tree that was only finger-high.

After carefully transplanting the plant into the large ceramic basin containing a human head that had been prepared beforehand, Chen Mu arrived at the Listening Tide Cave, his face shimmering with golden light.

At this moment, all of Tangshan Academy's hundreds of disciples had gathered here.

The leaders were Tang Zong, the supervisor of the Inspection Bureau; Li Chou, the supervisor of the General Affairs Bureau; and Tang Zhimu, the supervisor of the Sutra Repository.

Li Chou was Tang Zong's junior brother, while Tang Zhimu was Tang Zong's second uncle.

"No wonder they've guarded Tangshan Hospital for generations."

Chen Mu remained expressionless, but inwardly he was filled with admiration.

At least half of the disciples at Tangshan Academy are related to the Tang family.

They were either related by blood or passed down their skills from master to apprentice.

The prestige of guarding Tangshan Temple for generations is indeed considerable.

Ha ha!

……

"Lord Chen!" Upon seeing Chen Mu, Tang Zong and the others clasped their hands in a respectful greeting.

Chen Mu calmly waved his hand, not intending to exchange pleasantries, and directly threw out the dragon bone boat.

The palm-sized black iron loach swelled with the wind and, in just a few breaths, transformed into a colossal creature tens of meters long and as tall as a three- or four-story building.

Its entire body was covered in black scales that writhed, accompanied by a clanging sound like a machine turning. The giant loach opened its mouth to an exaggerated height of more than two meters, revealing a dark tunnel.

Tang Zong looked at the Dragon Bone Ship, which had been fully activated, with some excitement. He bowed to Chen Mu again and then led his people into the ship in an orderly fashion.

Before long, all the hundreds of disciples disappeared into the mouth of the loach.

Chen Mu used his supernatural ability of listening to scan the entire Tangshan Courtyard.

The valley was quiet at this moment, with only the babbling of the stream.

The mountain is riddled with potholes and exposed rocks, as if it has been patched up in countless places.

Everything of value in the entire Tangshan area was dug up by Tang Zong and his men.

The once magnificent Tangshan Temple now looks as if it has been bombarded inch by inch by someone using a secret technique.

"A Qi Refiner? You're not even as good as a bandit!" Chen Mu shook his head with disdain.

then……

Then he waved towards Tangshan in the distance, and a large cloud of black smoke suddenly appeared on the mountaintop.

With a loud rumble, in just a quarter of an hour, the towering Tangshan Mountain was moved into Qiandeng City.

"Qiandeng City is vast, but it has always lacked land."

"The top of Tangshan Mountain is constantly imbued with the earth's spiritual energy, making it far more fertile than ordinary mountain rocks and soil."

"If we plant these vegetables inside Thousand Lanterns City, they'll definitely grow lush and verdant!"

“Well, since we’re going to have to give it up anyway, why not let the monsters take it instead?” Chen Mu chuckled.

bandit?

What bandits!
I have deep feelings for Tangshan Academy and I want to run away with the sect and its members!
Chen Mu nodded with a determined look on his face.

The Zhu Yu magic sword transformed into several red threads that flew into his sleeve. After glancing at Tangshan Academy one last time, Chen Mu turned and walked into the Dragon Bone Boat.

next moment.

The enormous, jet-black loach slowly wriggled its scales.

Accompanied by a series of clanging sounds, the entire keelboat slowly floated into the air.

Immediately afterward, black and white light flashed, and the huge dragon bone boat rapidly shrank, transforming in a few breaths into a mudfish only three to five meters long and as thick as a wrist, resembling a python.

The fine scales began to wriggle again, the dragon-bone boat shook its head and tail, and then transformed into a black shadow, flying into the depths of the Tangshan Valley.

After arriving above the largest hot spring pool, it suddenly darted into the depths of the water and disappeared without a trace.

Inside the mountain, streams murmured, while outside, strange winds howled; the entire Tangshan Valley was utterly silent.

(End of this chapter)