My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 757 Escape
In the far south of Tianhe Cave, dark clouds shrouded the sky, making it gloomy and overcast.

Inside the belly of an iceberg, a circular pool of water, tens of meters in diameter, sits in the center of a cave.

The surface of the pool was calm and still, like a bronze mirror.

Seven or eight palm-sized, semi-transparent fish swam leisurely in the pool, their bodies occasionally shimmering with a white light, making the cave appear strangely surreal.

A middle-aged man dressed in a purple robe with gold thread sat cross-legged in the center of the water, as if he were sitting on flat ground.

The other person had a full head of bright red hair, cheeks covered with fine scales, and a pair of small deer antlers the size of a palm on their forehead.

At first glance, his facial features bear a striking resemblance to Tang Zong.

After a long while, the middle-aged man opened his eyes.

hum!
The air vibrated, and countless tiny black hands suddenly appeared around him.

Some grabbed his clothes, others pressed his shoulders, firmly imprisoning the middle-aged man in place, unable to move.

"Damn, those Yin Ghost Sect members, they've sealed it off really tightly!" Tang Wang glanced at the small black hand on his shoulder and couldn't help but feel resentful.

"Tang Zong is most likely finished. I wonder who this Chen Mu is, that he can actually shake the Dragon Binding Lock." His expression was gloomy.

He tried to contact Tang Zong again just now and found that his spiritual energy was faint and indistinct, like a candle flickering in the wind.

The powerful avatar I had painstakingly cultivated is now ruined.

"Forget it, I don't want to."

"I've already given up my true form, let alone a mere clone of the Qi Fiend."

"As long as I escape, I will have a chance to make a comeback. If I train again then, it will just take more effort."

Tang Wang took a deep breath to clear his mind.

Then, looking at the small, dark hand on his shoulder, his expression turned serious.

As he channeled his magic, a crimson arc of electricity appeared on his shoulder.

The tiny, black hand was struck by the electric arc and, as if carbonized, quickly turned into black powder that scattered in a flurry.

"The Primordial Thunder Technique is indeed effective!"

Tang Wang breathed a sigh of relief and finally smiled.

After being trapped in Jinhe City for over two hundred years, they finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Without further hesitation, he immediately began to fully activate the Yuan Tu Divine Thunder Spell.

Crackling and popping...

Tiny electric arcs appeared densely on his body surface, and the small black hands covering his entire body continuously turned into ashes.

Tang Wang's face turned pale, and his breathing suddenly dropped significantly, as if he had been seriously injured.

But instead of stopping, he intensified his spellcasting.

Then he suddenly jumped up and soared into the air.

As if enraged, countless black hands appeared throughout the cave.

They flew over one after another, scrambling to cling to Tang Wang's body, trying to push him back into the pool.

The eerie black hand kept emerging, while crimson lightning flickered incessantly.

Despite his increasingly severe injuries, Tang Wang stubbornly resisted the dragging force of the dark hand, desperately climbing upwards little by little.

Swish!
A pitch-black sphere appeared silently on the top of the cave.

That is the water channel of the cave, which connects to the outside of the cave.

"Almost there, almost there. As soon as I touch it, I can teleport away from here immediately."

"After years of imprisonment, it's finally over!"

He laughed wildly, his eyes wide open, staring intently at the black ball, his right hand reaching out forward with all his might.

The fingertip was about to touch the black ball.

hum!
In the gloomy sky outside the iceberg, countless stars pierced through the clouds, enveloping the entire iceberg.

A powerful force descended from the sky, binding Tang Wang tightly in mid-air.

Tang Wang's smile froze instantly.

Shifting stars and changing constellations?

How can it be!

He used this secret method to switch places with Tang Zong and escape Jinhe City in a roundabout way.

just now……

Is this to send me back to Golden River City?

No, no!
Absolutely not!

His magical power surged wildly, and the crimson lightning suddenly increased by three times.

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't make any progress.

Tang Wang stared in despair at the black ball that was just a hair's breadth away from his fingertips.

Swish!
The whole person disappeared in an instant.

Instead, there was a black, iron-colored loach as thick as a wrist.

Inside the cave, countless tiny black hands seemed to have found a new target, turning to attack the strange mudfish.

Unexpectedly, a golden light flashed, and a figure appeared at the far end of the cave, none other than Tang Zong, who was firmly bound by the Soul-Locking Curse.

Like piranhas that have smelled blood, the eerie black hands all turned around and rushed towards Tang Zong.

But the black iron loach seized the opportunity to whip its tail and instantly plunged into the pitch-black sphere, disappearing without a trace.

Inside the cave, the spirit-locking curse on Tang Zong disappeared, and he regained his freedom of movement, but the suppressed disintegration technique also began to operate again.

He was like a deflated balloon, his energy and spirit rapidly declining. In just a few breaths, his hair became withered and gray, falling out in clumps.

Tang Zong wanted to roar, but he could only open his mouth, too weak to utter a sound.

He could only stare blankly at the black ball on the top of the hole, his face filled with grief and indignation, his spirit broken.

A small black hand leaped over, wagging its tail, and immediately grabbed at Tang Zong's face. But before it could even touch him, half of his face snapped off and shattered into powder with a crack.

The little black hand: "..."

This...this isn't my fault, is it?

He...he's faking an accident!
……

The light and shadow shifted in a pitch-black body of water.

A mudfish as thick as a forearm appeared out of thin air, and then rapidly grew into a monster tens of meters long, which was none other than the Dragon Bone Boat.

Inside the boat, in front of the Golden Dragon Hall, Chen Mu stood by the pool, staring intently at the light and shadow reflected in the misty mirror.

Seeing that dark body of water, I was immediately shaken!
"The Tongtian River!"

"This is definitely the Tongtian River!"

He immediately urged the keelboat forward and quickly ascended.

Before long, shimmering spots of light came into view.

puff!
Like a dragon emerging from the water, splashing water everywhere, the massive keelboat suddenly burst out of the river.

With a flash of golden light, Chen Mu was the first to jump out of the dragon bone boat.

He stood in mid-air, looking at the vast sky and earth, and finally revealed a bright smile.

"Finally escaped! Haha!"

They were trapped in Jinhe City for four or five months, almost half a year without seeing the light of day.

Now that he has seen the vast world, he feels an overwhelming sense of joy.

……

Three days later, in the evening.

The keelboat floated quietly on the surface of the Tongtian River.

Everyone from Tangshan Academy ran out of the dragon boat; some fished and played in the water, while others sat on the dragon boat chatting and enjoying the breeze.

Above the dragon boat, Chen Mu lay in a rocking chair, facing the setting sun, too lazy to move.

He hadn't had a moment's rest in order to leave Golden River City.

One thing after another kept happening, which really exhausted him.

He did nothing for the past three days, just slept all day. Only when he woke up today did his tense nerves slowly calm down.

"I wonder what that old mudfish was thinking. He's already run out of Jinhe City, why didn't he leave Tianhe Cave earlier?" After a brief review, Chen Mu wondered to himself.

"Is it that they don't want to, or that they can't?" A thought struck him as he recalled the eerie black hands inside the cave.

That's probably one of the methods used by the Yin Ghost Sect to capture people.

Good job catching them!

Chen Mu chuckled.

"It's fortunate that the old mudfish didn't leave Tianhe Cave Heaven, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to use Tang Zong to teleport and exchange with him."

"The Zhou Tian Xing Dou Fa Jie (a magical restriction) inside the Tianhe Cave Heaven cannot control the area outside the cave heaven."

"Moreover, if I hadn't been suppressed so severely by the Yin Gui Sect, even if I had completed the exchange, I probably wouldn't have been able to escape their dying counterattack." Chen Mu felt increasingly fortunate.

The seventh level of the Heavenly Demon Reincarnation Technique is the True Form Realm, where cultivation is equivalent to the primordial spirit of a Qi Refiner. It grants immortality and the ability to be reborn from a drop of blood, making it extremely powerful.

But that old mudfish had advanced even further to the eighth level of the Gang Sha Realm!

"It has to be the underworld that has the means."

"I wonder what that old mudfish was like before. His end is truly tragic." Chen Mu chuckled.

“That person might be from the Chen-character Heavenly River Water Mansion, or even the last mansion master.” Tang Zhimu, who had somehow gotten close to him, looked wistful.

Tang Zong was arrested and his personal belongings were confiscated. Tang Zhimu also obtained the jade tablet and notes of the Tang family patriarch.

After flipping through the pages, I actually found some things.

"The successive rulers of the Chenzi Tianhe Water Mansion all share the surname Tang, and our Tang family originally came from the Chenzi Tianhe Water Mansion," he continued.

The classic story goes that their ancestors were once very wealthy.

Chen Mu became interested.

Old Mudfish is a high-level cultivator in the Gang Sha Realm. He can refine dragon pearls, so his secret method must be related to the bloodline of a true dragon.

However, if the other party is a master from the Chen-character Heavenly River Water Palace, then it makes sense.

"Now that I think about it, the reason our branch left the Water Mansion and settled in Tangshan was to guard the entrance to the Cave Heaven Fire Eye." Tang Zhimu's expression became increasingly complicated.

"So, when your Tang family ancestor discovered the Cave Heaven Water Mansion, it wasn't an accidental find, but rather an inside job?" Chen Mu raised an eyebrow.

"I'm afraid that's the case." Tang Zhimu looked embarrassed.

The patriarch of the Tang family wasn't a good person either.

Chen Mu was amused.

I wonder if that old mudfish was lucky or unlucky.

He encountered a junior who was raiding his base, but this gave him a glimmer of hope, and he sent out his clone.

Unfortunately, he offended Chen Mu again, which extinguished his last hope.

Why did you provoke me for no reason?

Chen Mu couldn't help but purse his lips.

"Doctor, what should we do next?" Tang Zhimu asked Chen Mu after calming down.

"The next step."

"First, determine our current location, and then find a suitable branch of the Yellow Springs Sect to join." Chen Mu came back to his senses.

They originally intended to seek refuge with other branches of the Yellow Springs Sect to escape the dangerous situation in Yizhou.

Having been trapped in Golden River City before, their journey was delayed. Now that they have escaped, they naturally want to continue their travels.

(End of this chapter)