My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 761 Celestial Star Qi
After meal.

On the veranda in front of the wooden house, Chen Mu lay in a rocking chair, gazing up at the stars in the sky.

He was lost in thought for a while before summoning the gray stone door and looking at the densely packed, long string of secret techniques.

After a quick glance, Chen Mu looked at the column he was most interested in.

Yellow Springs Gourd: 925/10000/Seventh Tier;

The Yellow Springs Gourd Secret Technique is difficult to cultivate. Each time, one must start from scratch to condense the spiritual treasure talisman. The slightest carelessness will cause the entire thing to collapse.

For the past six months, he has either been trapped in Jinhe City or on the road, and has not had a stable environment to cultivate.

Since the secret technique broke through to the seventh level, the experience level of the Yellow Spring Gourd has hardly changed.

Now that he's settled, he's ready to pick it up again.

“Other secret techniques need to be put on hold.” Chen Mu looked at the stone gate.

In the past, he would arrange some fixed training programs every day, such as the Spirit Treasure Cardinal and the Heavenly Demon Armor.

It doesn't take up much time, but I practice every day.

However, once the Yellow Springs Gourd Secret Technique is started, it cannot be interrupted for several days, so this daily task has to be stopped.

"Even the cultivation of the Yin Spirit Heavenly Demon Body must be stopped."

Previously, when advancing to the Heavenly Demon Body level, he unexpectedly cultivated the Nine Apertures of Yin Spirit, which allows him to cultivate Netherworld Qi to nourish Yin Spirit.

Now, for the sake of the Yellow Springs Gourd, they have no choice but to make concessions.

"Besides, the cultivation of Yin spirits is inherently slow. I've only recently mastered the Nine Apertures, and it's unknown how long it will take for me to transform into a Yin God. It wouldn't hurt to take a break," Chen Mu thought to himself.

"Well, I'll only take it out to repair it during breaks in my cultivation."

After a brief analysis, he immediately began to refine the Yellow Springs Gourd.

With the gray stone gate record, Chen Mu wouldn't be out of practice.

The golden Dao Foundation Jade Seed shimmered with a faint light, drawing celestial primordial energy into its body and transforming it into magical power. Then, the River Chariot Divine Aperture at the center of the Jade Seed reversed, transforming the surging magical power into primordial primordial energy.

In the blink of an eye, the primordial energy transformed into countless strangely shaped spiritual treasures and talismans, as elusive as clouds.

……

The Weizhifeng Taoist Temple is located on a gentle slope on the mountainside.

Here, mountain springs converge, forming dozens of large and small circular pools, resembling lotus leaves scattered across the mountainside.

The small pools were only one or two meters wide, while the larger ones were no more than thirty or four meters wide, with wisps of earth's spiritual energy rising from them.

Wooden houses and pavilions were built beside the pool, where cultivators of different ages and dressed in different clothes sat cross-legged, focused on cultivating their qi.

Beside the largest of the pools stood a two-story pavilion. On the long corridor at the entrance, Li Chou, the former head of the General Affairs Department of Tangshan Academy, looked at Tang Zhimu with a hesitant expression.

“Uncle-Master, the spiritual energy of Weizhi Peak is scarce. Even though this place is the core of the Daoist temple, the concentration of spiritual energy can barely support one person’s cultivation.”

"How about I go to the Zhaixing Peak Dojo? At worst, I can sign a Dao-Soldier Contract. It's better than stealing your cultivation energy."

Tang Zhimu shook his head: "I'm getting old, so this is basically it."

"You are still young, and you may be able to make further progress in your cultivation here."

"Didn't that person say we could come and go as we pleased? Why do you have to abandon your path..." Li Chou's face was grim.

“Those lower-level disciples can leave, but our direct descendants of the Tang family can’t.” Tang Zhimu sighed and waved his hand.

"Tang Zong got into trouble and almost killed that person. It's lucky they didn't take their anger out on us."

"The idea of ​​seeking refuge at Zhaixing Peak must not be mentioned again," Tang Zhimu said solemnly to Li Chou.

"Does he still dare to make a move in Jiufeng Mountain?" Li Chou frowned deeply.

"Why don't you dare?"

"You should take a look at that guy's secret techniques. He can unleash billowing black smoke with a wave of his hand and even raises evil spirits. He's definitely not a righteous person."

"You haven't forgotten that Nightmare Spell, have you?" Tang Zhimu glanced at Li Chou.

"If we really leave, we might be silently erased by that curse one day!" A look of seriousness flashed in Tang Zhimu's eyes.

"Alright, that's settled then. You stay here and cultivate quietly." He sighed, shook his head, and left.

Li Chou watched Tang Zhimu's retreating figure, then turned to look at the mountaintop, and had no choice but to accept the situation. He dared not gamble that the other party wouldn't resort to underhanded tactics.

We can only let our uncle suffer a bit.

Ugh……

……

Weizhi Peak is located at the southernmost tip of Jiufeng Mountain, almost on the outer edge. If it weren't for the recent shift of celestial bodies and the rise of vital energy, it wouldn't even be considered a main peak.

Even with the rise of vital energy, it is still not enough; at most, one can only plant some basic spiritual herbs and trees such as yellow sprout rice.

The training ground was small and couldn't support too many people practicing Qi. Not long after the people from Tangshan Academy arrived at Weizhi Peak, many of them were already considering going to other peaks.

At first, they were just testing the waters quietly, but after learning that Chen Mu had given his permission, only two days later, a third of the hundreds of people had left.

The rest are mostly direct descendants of the Tang family.

They wanted to leave, but with Tang Zhimu holding them back, they dared not go.

In this way, they could only settle down and cultivate the wasteland to plant spiritual herbs.

Although I'm not entirely satisfied, I have to accept reality and slowly regain my composure.

……

More than ten days later, at dawn, at the entrance of the wooden cabin on the mountaintop.

Chen Mu stood up from the rocking chair and stretched his arms and legs to move his body.

"The vitality of this Zhifeng is indeed not very good."

Based on past experience, cultivating the seventh-tier Yellow Spring Gourd usually takes about seven or eight days per attempt. However, this time the cultivation took nearly half a month because of insufficient celestial energy.

Before he could begin refining each spiritual treasure talisman, he would first accumulate enough innate qi, for fear that he would have to give up halfway because his innate qi could not be replenished.

"We need to find a way to improve it." Chen Mu's eyes flickered as he looked at the gray stone door.

Small Heavenly Cycle Star Combat Technique Restriction: 319/10000/Second Tier;

This forbidden technique originated from Golden River City, obtained through Yama's Devouring Divine Power by consuming the Twenty-Four Bright Pearls. It was using this technique to shift stars and move through the void that I was able to successfully escape Golden River City.

In addition, this method also has the ability to attract and gather the primordial energy of celestial stars.

Although we were trapped in Jinhe City, we never lacked energy because of the twenty-four bright pearls that gathered in the heavens.

"But this secret technique is compatible with the Lesser Heavenly Cycle of stars within the cave world. Can it attract all these stars?" Chen Mu looked up at the sky, hesitant in his heart.

The reason it has the word "small" in its name is because it is only a restricted technique within the cave world.

The Heavenly River Cave is vast, but it is ultimately just a cave, and its star formations and restrictions are completely incomparable to the outside world.

"Let's give it a try, what if it actually works?" Chen Mu flipped his hand and pulled out a fist-sized ball of mercury-like liquid.

This thing is called silver marrow, which is made by melting various kinds of gold essence and can withstand most magical restrictions.

The core of the protective mountain law of Tangshan Temple is made from this stuff.

Previously, Chen Mu had fled with all of Tangshan Academy's belongings, and the supplies in the warehouse were available for free use. With his current cultivation level, there weren't many things he coveted, and silver marrow was one of them.

The magic surged, and the mercury-like sphere slowly stretched and flattened, gradually transforming into a thin curtain that floated in mid-air.

Chen Mu took a deep breath, his magical power vibrating and deforming as he unleashed a series of Lesser Heavenly Cycle Star Battle Technique Restriction True Meaning Talismans. Strands of golden patterns instantly formed on the curtain.

Half an hour later, the entire silver curtain was covered with golden patterns.

Chen Mu pointed, and the silver curtain quickly retracted towards the center.

In a flash, it transformed back into a fist-sized sphere.

The sphere was no longer in a liquid state; it had become a hard, solid metal sphere.

With a little magical power injected, the sphere emitted a faint, shimmering white light, like a luminous pearl.

"After practicing twenty-four more, I can try to draw upon the celestial stars."

Chen Mu put away the sphere, took out a piece of brand-new silver marrow, and continued refining it.

(End of this chapter)