My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 781 Try
"The only drawback is that this Divine Dispatch Token has been passed down for too long, and its power has been severely worn down. It can only be used for a year at most," Yuan Zhen said apologetically.

a year?
It's been a great year!

For at least the next year, I will have no shortage of Heavenly Star Essence for cultivating the Yellow Spring Gourd.

Chen Mule smacked her lips, showing no sign of disgust.

"Fortunately, we won't be staying here for too long," Yuan Zhen added.

"We will be able to reach our new home before the power of the Divine Command is exhausted."

"At that time, there would never have been a shortage of celestial energy."

"The Upper House has made arrangements for us?" Chen Mu's eyes lit up.

"I don't know the specific arrangements either," Yuan Zhen said, shaking his head helplessly.

"They didn't say anything about counterattacking Jiufeng Mountain, nor did they tell us to go and seek refuge at Wanxiang Temple in Bazhou."

"They only told us to stay here temporarily, gather the scattered Qi cultivators from Yizhou, and recruit them as Dao soldiers, the more the better."

Should we concentrate our efforts on eliminating the rebellious demons in Yizhou?

Chen Mu thought back to his experience in Haizhou.

Back then, when the demons and monsters of the Underworld were causing chaos, that's exactly what the Thousand Machines Sect did.

If a fight breaks out, there will likely be many more casualties.

Fortunately, I am now more skilled and have more ingenious secret techniques, making me both capable of fighting and running away.

If you do get involved, just be careful; there's no need to worry too much.

……

After chatting for a while, Yuan Zhen took his leave.

He has just emerged from seclusion, and there are still many things on and around Jiufeng Mountain that require his decision.

Chen Mu watched the disappearing light vanish into the distance, then returned to the door of the wooden house and took out the Divine Dispatch Token to examine it.

The jade tablet was jet black and about the size of a palm.

There is a silver "遣" character on the front, and two smaller characters on the back – 太阴.

The Taiyin Divine Command?
Can this thing really control the Moon Goddess?
Chen Mu was skeptical.

He had once stayed on a star in the outer heavens, but he had never seen the star lord, though he had heard people talk about him.

Star Lords are the convergence of the spiritual essence of the stars, and are innate deities. They control the movement of the stars and unleash their spiritual light to ward off demonic invasions.

However, the Star Lords are rigid and cold-blooded, only acting according to established rules. In Chen Mu's understanding, they are like a cold and emotionless artificial intelligence.

Can a small token command the Star Lord to mobilize the celestial energy?

“Yuan Zhen wouldn’t try to fool me with something like this, especially since this token comes from the legendary Hundred Intent Dao Ancestor,” Chen Mu thought to himself.

According to ancient records, Baiyi Daozu was the oldest Daoist ancestor, who had the merit of creating heaven and earth.

Legend has it that he was the master of three Daoist patriarchs: Chunyang, Luofu, and Tianhe.

Chen Mu's heart stirred, and he took out the Life and Death Seal, which Lingbao had cultivated, from the Big Eye of the Cardinal in Thousand Lantern City, and drove it to summon the Divine Order.

However, the silver snake, upon slightly touching the Divine Command, seemed to encounter a raging flood or ferocious beast, and darted back into the secret acupoint between the eyebrows.

Is she really that cowardly?
how?

Could there be Dao Ancestor's aura within this token?
Chen Mu looked completely bewildered.

wrong!

It's actually more accurate to say that the token contains the aura of the Dao Ancestor!

Without the power of the Dao Ancestor, how could he have the ability to command the Taiyin Star Lord!

Chen Mu was thrilled.

Or, try?
He looked up at the midday sun.

The Taiyin star refers to the moon, but I don't know if it's usable in broad daylight.

The thought crossed his mind, but it didn't stop Chen Mu from channeling his magic power into the token.

As the magic was activated, the token flew into the air. The pale gold patterns on its edges lit up, flashing like signal lights.

In just over ten breaths, the surroundings subtly changed.

Chen Mu carefully sensed it, but found nothing.

It was as if... as if someone was watching me from afar!
"The... Taiyin Star Lord?!"

Chen Mu froze.

He stood there stunned for a while, and when nothing more happened, he took a deep breath and came back to his senses.

"But no more celestial energy has descended?"

Chen Mu looked around the calm and peaceful wooden house and scratched his head.

"What, do I have to kowtow to the Star Lord?"

After waiting a while longer and seeing that nothing had changed, he simply began to cultivate the Yellow Spring Gourd.

A large amount of magical power was reversed through the River Chariot Divine Aperture to become innate Qi, which then intertwined and transformed into golden and black spiritual treasure talismans.

The Dao Foundation Jade Seed also shimmered with golden light, autonomously absorbing the celestial energy around it to replenish its consumed magical power.

At the same time, Chen Mu also paid attention to his surroundings.

Then he discovered that although he had absorbed a significant amount of the celestial energy surrounding the wooden house, the concentration of the energy hadn't decreased at all. The amount he absorbed before was exactly the same as the amount after!
Is this the order to send the gods?

Hey!
No wonder it was personally bestowed by the Dao Ancestor!

Chen Mu's face was full of joy.

The Lesser Three Talents' Light-Shielding Technique conceals and hides, the Breath-Severing Stone isolates the aura, and the Giant Spirit God monitors the surroundings.

Chen Mu decided to immediately begin a new round of cultivation with the Yellow Springs Gourd.

"With no shortage of vital energy, it's time to test the power of a perfect-grade spiritual treasure."

The life-and-death seal that had just entered his brow was immediately absorbed into the jade seed.

……

Time passed little by little, and the sky darkened and then brightened again.

As the spiritual treasure talismans condensed one by one, Chen Mu gradually discovered the wondrous uses of the Life and Death Seal.

In the past, with the help of the Stone Gate, he would never fail to condense a spiritual treasure talisman again once.

It's like climbing a mountain; once you succeed, the stone gate will help you remember the path.

But even if this path is successful, it may not be the optimal one.

Now that the Seal of Life and Death has intervened, it is like flowing mist, permeating the Yuanfu inside and out, allowing Chen Mu to perceive it more delicately.

In this way, he can more easily find the barriers between the elemental symbols, making the transition between different elemental symbols smoother.

In the past, it would take six days to successfully condense the sixty-three spirit treasure talismans in the first seven layers.

But this time, with the aid of the Life and Death Seal, it only took five and a half days to complete the entire task.

"The Seal of Life and Death optimizes the condensation path of spiritual treasure runes!"

Chen Mu was in high spirits and, in one go, began to work on condensing the eighth-tier spiritual treasure talisman.

Two days later, the sixty-fourth Yuan Rune, which had been stuck in progress, was finally successfully condensed.

"The Divine Decree provides celestial energy, and the Seal of Life and Death assists in cultivation."

"If everything goes smoothly, the Yellow Springs Gourd Technique might only take half a year to reach the ninth level!"

"Ha ha!"

"Double happiness!"

Chen Mu couldn't help but grin.

……

in the afternoon.

The sea, not far from the shore, rippled, but a raft remained motionless on it.

In the middle of the raft sat a large oil-paper umbrella, beneath which was a comfortable recliner. Chen Mu, dressed in shorts and flip-flops, lay leisurely in the recliner, fishing with a rod in hand.

After seven days of seclusion, he completed the sixty-fourth spiritual treasure talisman of the Yellow Springs Gourd and prepared to take a break.

He reached into the white jade gourd and took out his usual mouthful of nourishing wine, only to find that the gourd was already empty.

Condensing spiritual treasure talismans is extremely taxing on one's spirit. To quickly advance to the next round of cultivation, one must find a way to replenish one's spiritual energy.

Some use special secret methods, some use elixirs and precious artifacts, and if none of these are available, one can only endure it and wait for the spirit to recover on its own.

Chen Mu relied on the Nourishing Spirit Wine.

This item was a gift from a culinary skill, essentially a recipe. However, the ingredients are special; they are scattered fragments of the soul within the physical body of a living being.

His consciousness probed into the Five Ghosts Bag and cast the Nine Revolutions Spirit Absorption Spell on the Bottomless Pool. Drops of jade-white, soybean-sized nourishing spirit wine flew out from the Bottomless Pool, filling more than half of the gourd in no time.

However, after that, no more Spirit Nourishing Wine flew out of the Bottomless Pool.

Clearly, the bottomless pool, which contained the flesh and blood of strange beasts, had been drained of its soul essence.

"We need to go to the sea and catch some exotic beasts to replenish our supplies."

puff!
The water rises,

Five paper ghost figures emerged from the seabed, together supporting a water sphere the size of a human head.

A white fish covered in black spots was swimming rapidly inside the water sphere, but it couldn't jump out no matter what it did.

"Hmm, a fish I don't recognize."

Chen Mu glanced at it, but didn't think much of it, and continued to stare at the strange fish.

On the gray stone gate, the section for cooking skills flickered slightly.

Before long, some insights came to mind.

"The whole body is poisonous, except for two parts behind the cheeks, which are edible and exceptionally delicious?"

"A good result."

Chen Mu smiled and waved, and the black-spotted fish landed with a splash in the wooden bucket beside him.

"Well done, keep it up."

The five paper ghost figures were immediately encouraged, and they puffed out their chests and bulged their bellies, looking smug.

Watching the little paper figure, all hooting and laughing, dive back into the sea to catch fish, Chen Mu couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Tsk!
So easy to fool!

(End of this chapter)