My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 788 Refining
Chen Mu stood at the edge of the Five Directions Cloud Platform, looking at the distant flying island through the one-way light-transmitting clouds.

Countless plumes of black smoke were billowing up from there, and the once verdant mountains were now riddled with potholes and scarred.

After watching for a while, Chen Mu came back to his senses and looked at the white mist drifting below the island.

That was the unique demonic aura of the Mystic Realm. It was omnipresent, scattered throughout the air. Because it was so dense near the flying island, it condensed into a visible white mist.

“The abnormality of the Dao Foundation cannot be faked.”

"If Yu Chan Dao Ji can truly refine demonic energy, he might be able to cultivate the Yellow Spring Gourd using demonic energy."

"We have to give it a try."

He activated his Qi Restriction for a hundred miles, raised his hand, and captured a ball of demonic energy the size of a human head, pulling it into the Five Directions Cloud Platform.

But as soon as the demonic energy entered the boundary of the cloud platform, it began to surge violently, like boiling water. Accompanied by rapid hissing sounds, it was quickly burned away by an invisible force.

"It is the Five Banners."

Chen Mu couldn't help but turn his head to look at the apricot-yellow flag in mid-air.

The demonic energy contains demonic poison. In order to prevent cultivators from being harmed by the demonic poison, the Five Banners were specially refined to have the ability to dispel and burn the demonic energy.

"The Five Banners are designed to target the demonic poison. What if we extract the demonic poison first, leaving only pure demonic energy?"

Chen Mu seemed to be deep in thought, and once again used his Qi Restriction Technique to capture a wisp of demonic energy within a hundred miles.

But instead of pulling it into the cloud platform, he released the Giant Spirit God from the Five Directions Cloud Platform and then controlled the Giant Spirit God to use the Listening Skill on that mass of demonic energy.

The fully formed Giant Spirit God can gather and disperse at will, possessing a trace of the power of a Qi Refiner's primordial spirit. Moreover, both the Giant Spirit God and the Listening Divine Power originate from the Thousand Mountains Scripture, sharing the same source. Using the Listening Divine Power through a Giant Spirit God clone greatly enhances its effectiveness.

Chen Mu had only just used it when he sensed countless faint life pulses within that white mist.

"It really is a demonic poison."

He nodded knowingly.

Back in the outer reaches of the heavens, in order to obtain enough demon flesh and blood to refine the Rejuvenating Soup and Nourishing Spirit Wine, he had devised a method to remove the demonic poison from the corpses of the Bewildering Heavenly Demons. He was quite familiar with these extremely tiny creatures.

Chen Mu continued his actions, instructing the Giant Spirit God to activate the Plague Immortal Technique and infuse it with the golden sand-like Jade Cicada Qi. A cloud of golden mist-like Plague Immortal power then appeared in the Giant Spirit God's palm.

Chen Mu carefully guided it through the demonic aura.

The demonic poison within the demonic aura, which emitted a faint life force, was immediately drawn out by the golden mist.

Chen Mu casually dispersed the Plague Immortal's magical power, letting the demonic poison dissipate into the air, and quickly pulled the clean demonic energy into the Five Directions Cloud Platform.

The demonic energy that should have been burned away and dispelled was like a cotton candy, slowly drifting within the hundred-mile radius of the energy barrier, showing no sign of dissipating.

"The Five Banners are indeed only targeting demonic poison!"

Chen Mu smiled.

……

Two days later.

The azure sky stretched to the horizon, and the sea of ​​fog below also seemed endless, with the Five-Sided Cloud Platform floating quietly in the middle.

To make it easier to absorb and study the demonic energy, Chen Mu specially moved the jade conch shell to a corner outside the Renzi Camp, closer to the edge of the Five Directions Cloud Platform.

Inside the jade snail shell, Chen Mu sat cross-legged on a low couch.

On the wind chimes at the door, five paper ghost figures are swinging on a swing, laughing happily.

Looking out through the wide-open gate, a small market had spontaneously formed in the open space between the camps. It was bustling and lively at the moment.

After glancing at it a few times, Chen Mu looked away and turned his gaze to the long-necked jade bottle on the low table in front of him.

The bottle is jade-white with seven silver stars on it. This is the Seven-Star Jade Purification Bottle that he bought on the outer star to hold demonic poison, and now it is filled with purified demonic energy.

After several observations, Chen Mu discovered that the demonic energy after the demonic poison was removed seemed to be just a unique kind of energy similar to the earth's spiritual energy.

He flipped his hand and pulled out a fist-sized transparent jade ball.

Floating inside the sphere are a few sesame-seed-sized, translucent, fluorescent algae. They emit a warm glow and can survive with only a very small amount of earth elemental energy. They are often refined by Qi cultivators into various lighting devices.

The fluorescent bath ball in Chen Mu's hand glowed faintly, a result of him deliberately isolating himself from the earth's spiritual energy and starving for two days.

After observing for a moment, he extracted a wisp of demonic energy from the jade bottle and sent it into the jade sphere. The unconsciously drifting fluorescent algae immediately swarmed towards it, as if they had smelled fish.

Before long, the previously faint fluorescent algae began to glow again. In fact, its light was even brighter than that of the normal fluorescent algae, as if it had consumed some kind of potent tonic.

"This ethereal demonic energy seems to be extremely friendly to living beings. Whether it's a native demon or a visitor from outer space, it can digest and absorb them all." Chen Mu raised an eyebrow.

"It is probably precisely because of the active nature of demonic energy that the Mystic Heaven has nurtured a large number of diverse monsters and beasts."

……

A few days later.

The gates of Qingyu Xianju were tightly closed.

Chen Mu sat cross-legged on the low couch, staring blankly at the jade bottle.

In the past few days, in addition to a large amount of fluorescent algae, he also went to the small market outside the camp to buy two colorful pheasants for testing.

To this day, the two colorful pheasants are still lively and energetic.

At the same time, he specially separated dozens of ghostly monsters from the Five Ghosts Bag to join the testing, and found that the ghostly monsters could also digest and absorb demonic energy without any obstacles.

Therefore, it can be basically confirmed that as long as the demonic poison within the demonic energy is removed, the demonic energy is a harmless form of vital energy. Its effects are gentle, even more effective than the earth's spiritual energy.

"Try it?"

Chen Mu hesitated.

Feeling the excitement of the Dao Foundation Jade Seed once more, he took a deep breath and made up his mind. He then drew a wisp of demonic energy from the Jade Purification Bottle and sent it into the Dao Foundation Jade Seed.

then……

Then, that wisp of demonic energy vanished instantly, like rain falling on parched earth, while a large surge of magical power also erupted from within the jade seed.

Chen Mu dared not be careless and focused intently on observing the Dao Foundation Jade Seed.

After a while, not only did they not find anything unusual, but a faint sense of satisfaction emerged within the Dao Foundation Jade Seed.

"It cannot compare to the celestial energy, but it far surpasses the earth's spiritual energy."

"Moreover, it possesses unusual activity, capable of nourishing the Dao foundation!"

"Is this the natural effect of demonic energy, or..."

Chen Mu's mind raced.

Normally, only pure Yang energy can nourish the foundation of a Qi cultivator, allowing it to transform and grow into a primordial spirit.

But now this ethereal demonic energy can actually slightly nourish one's Dao foundation, which is clearly not right.

If demonic energy has the power over all Qi cultivators, they cannot possibly ignore it.

"It's the Jade Cicada Dao Foundation!"

The Dao Foundation Record was created by ancient Qi cultivators who understood the bloodlines of gods and demons and combined their true meanings.

Back in Jiufeng Mountain, Yu Chan Daoji was once aroused by the emerald green jade cicada demon from the Misty Heaven.

Chen Mu had guessed at that time that the Jade Cicada Dao Foundation Record might be related to the celestial demons and monsters at the source of the emerald green jade cicada bloodline.

And that emerald green jade cicada came from the Misty Heaven. In this way, it makes sense that demonic energy could nurture the jade cicada's Dao foundation.

"The Jade Cicada Dao Foundation Diagram that I practice comes from Meng Qingchan, and it is said to have originated from the Exquisite Golden Chapter."

"That exquisite golden seal..."

Chen Mu glanced at the Plague Immortal Technique, then at the golden Jade Cicada Qi, and thought of the bewildering Heavenly Demon Poison, which resembled a plague.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the exquisite golden seal was related to the Mysterious Heaven!

"Forget it, there's no point in thinking too much."

"All I need to know right now is that demonic energy can replace celestial energy, allowing me to continue cultivating the Yellow Springs Gourd Technique."

Chen Mu gathered his scattered thoughts and began to ponder how to collect and store demonic energy.