My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 799 The Gourd of the Underworld
Time passes day by day.

While resting, Chen Mu arranged the general affairs of the Renzi Battalion.

So much time has passed, and most of the wounded soldiers from the Battle of Mingling Island have recovered.

Now that they are stationed on Mingling Island and do not need to fight in various places, there are basically no more new wounded soldiers.

Moreover, the Renzi Camp has over a hundred more Taoist soldiers skilled in medicine, so even without Chen Mu in charge, there shouldn't be any major problems.

So Chen Mu dispelled the Giant Spirit Mystic Art and retrieved his scattered thoughts. At the same time, he delegated the general affairs of the Ren Battalion to three subordinate generals, thus freeing himself from any further burdens.

Then he began to focus on seclusion and spiritual practice.

……

Chen Mu is still more than a thousand experience points away from perfecting the Ninth-Order Yellow Spring Gourd Technique, with only the last spiritual treasure talisman remaining to be condensed.

This spirit treasure talisman is not much more complicated than the previous eighty, but it is exceptionally difficult.

Because it needs to connect all the original symbols, so that the eighty-one original symbols are connected end to end and flow together as one.

At first, as things were nearing completion, Chen Mu felt both anticipation and nervousness.

Every time I condense the spiritual treasure talisman, I can't help but observe the changes in experience on the stone gate to make sure I haven't gone astray.

Unfortunately, the more nervous you are, the more likely you are to make mistakes. After working for more than ten days, I only gained a little over a hundred points of experience.

After that, Chen Mu simply stopped paying attention to the experience on the stone gate and stopped thinking about successes and failures. He began to focus on condensing the spiritual treasure talisman at his previous pace, without being too hasty or slow.

Although I still fail frequently, I've lost the anxiety and restlessness. Instead, I'm more immersed in the process, gaining more experience with each attempt.

……

The sun and moon rotate.

Chen Mu secluded himself in the Jade Immortal Abode, ignoring everything outside and focusing solely on his seclusion.

this day.

As usual, he began a new round of refining spiritual treasure talismans.

From the large black vortex above their heads, demonic energy continuously descended.

The Jade Cicada Dao Foundation shimmered with golden light, transforming the pure demonic energy, now free of demonic poison, into immense magical power.

The central chariot of the jade seed reversed, refining a large amount of magical power into primordial energy.

Chen Mu skillfully manipulated the innate energy, starting to weave and construct it from the first elemental rune.

The Life and Death Seal cultivated through the Lingbao Cardinal Method, like smoke and mist, seeped into the gaps between the Yuan Runes. Efforts were made to explore and capture the resonant rhythm between the Yuan Runes, hoping to connect all the Yuan Runes into one unified whole.

Three, five, ten, thirty... one after another, the spirit treasure talismans were stacked up in an orderly fashion.

By the time they began trying the eighty-first talisman, a full seven days had passed.

Having learned from the failures of the past two months, Chen Mu felt calm. He casually moved forward, referring to the Yuanfu diagram of the Yellow Springs Gourd.

As he practiced, the diagrams of primordial symbols in his mind suddenly went blank.

It's like a musician turning the pages of sheet music while playing, only to suddenly discover that the next page is blank—a sudden jolt to the heart.

"Is the Yellow Springs Gourd Technique in my possession... incomplete?!"

Chen Mu hurriedly and carefully reviewed the Yellow Springs Gourd diagram in his mind.

After only a couple of glances, he suddenly realized what was going on.

With a mix of trepidation and excitement, he immediately focused his mind on the Dao Foundation Jade Seed.

Then I saw a small yellow gourd, slowly rotating in the center.

"Master Dao, I've... succeeded?!"

"what!"

Chen Mu grinned, revealing a big smile.

After more than ten years of cultivation, he really didn't expect that he would pass the sixth level of Qi Refining so easily in the end.

……

The next day.

At the entrance of Qingyu Xianju.

Chen Mu lay in the rocking chair with a smile on his face.

His mind sank into the Dao Foundation Jade Seed, admiring the Yellow Spring Gourd he had just completed the previous night, feeling that he could never get enough of looking at it.

At this moment, the pale yellow gourd occupied the center of the Dao Foundation. The original River Chariot Divine Aperture had merged with the Yellow Springs Gourd into one.

From the outside, it looks like an ordinary yellow gourd. But upon closer inspection, one can discover that a spirit resides within. It's like a young animal that has just opened its eyes; seemingly motionless, its eyes darting around, curiously surveying its surroundings.

"This sense of dynamism is probably the spiritual energy contained within the magical treasure."

Cultivating external magical treasures requires the union of the embryonic body and spiritual energy, just like his unexpected twists of fate.

It was because it accidentally fused with the Dragon Ball's spirit that its spirituality increased and it transformed into a magical artifact.

From then on, it possessed both illusory and real aspects, which could be incorporated into the secret acupoint between the eyebrows, and eventually gave rise to the supernatural powers of Yin and Yang, which were infinitely powerful.

The Yellow Springs Gourd belongs to the internal cultivation method of spiritual treasures. Once it is refined, it will naturally contain spiritual energy.

"Or rather, the process of condensing the spiritual treasure's talisman is actually simultaneously forging the spiritual treasure's spiritual energy."

"Moreover, this spiritual treasure must have been forged from a portion of my own spiritual essence!" Chen Mu recalled his experience of condensing the Yellow Spring Gourd over the years and had a guess in his mind.

In the past, each time a spiritual treasure talisman was condensed, it would consume a lot of magical power and also damage one's spiritual spirit.

The consumption of magical power is for reversing the innate qi, while the consumption of spiritual energy...

"I previously thought it was because the spiritual treasure talisman was too complicated and difficult to condense, which was why it was so mentally taxing."

"Looking back now, it's mostly because each time I condense a talisman, I need to integrate a portion of my spiritual spirit into the talisman!"

"No wonder those Qi cultivators who follow the path of internal cultivation of spiritual treasures often need decades or even hundreds of years of practice," Chen Mu remarked.

If one is not careful when cultivating a spiritual treasure, the talisman will collapse, and the spirit that was previously put into the talisman will also be destroyed and disappear.

Only after the spirit has fully recovered can the next attempt begin.

However, spiritual depletion is not so easy to recover.

Chen Mu has consumed countless amounts of Spirit Nourishing Wine in order to restore his spiritual spirit.

Other Qi cultivators who lack the precious medicine to recover can only rely on a long period of time to wait for their bodies to repair themselves.

It's understandable that the internal cultivation of spiritual treasures takes a long time.

"No wonder so many people are eager to learn how to use magical artifacts from outside sources."

As long as one finds the right innate talent and spiritual opportunity, it can take anywhere from ten to two or three years to pass the sixth stage of Qi Refining.

As long as one can cultivate pure yang energy to nourish the primordial spirit, everyone naturally wants to take a shortcut.

"As for whether there are any potential risks?"

"If you cultivate your primordial spirit, you can live forever. As for any hidden dangers, we can deal with them later."

Chen Mu gradually came to understand the psychology of most Qi cultivators.

……

After clicking his tongue in amazement a few times, Chen Mu looked at the Yellow Springs Gourd again.

With a thought, the small gourd slowly turned, and all the abundant magical power within the jade seed was absorbed into the gourd.

Before long, streams of pure black mist spewed out from the gourd's mouth.

"This must be the pure yang energy that can nourish the foundation of one's Dao."

The warm mist, upon touching the inner wall of the jade, was like a drizzle falling on parched earth, merging into it without any hindrance.

A layer of golden light immediately appeared on the foundation, and a sense of satisfaction welled up in his heart, like the satisfaction of someone who had been starving for a long time and had just eaten a full meal.

"The foundation of the Dao is like a seed, and pure Yang energy is the nourishment and food."

"As long as enough pure yang energy is provided, the Dao foundation will sprout and grow, eventually transforming into the primordial spirit."

At this moment, Chen Mu had a clear understanding of the cultivation path of a Qi Refiner.

"but……"

"Why does this feel so similar to the cultivation of Yin spirits?"

Chen Mu couldn't help but look inward at the space between his eyebrows, gazing at the round bead of the Yin Spirit Divine Embryo.

At this moment, it is absorbing the divine power of the Yin spirits on its own, refining a continuous stream of gray, nether energy, which is then dispersed into the nine orifices of the Yin spirits.

Each time the Nine Apertures digests a wisp of Netherworld Qi and integrates it into the Yin Spirit Heavenly Demon Body within the body, it will experience a sense of satisfaction, like having eaten its fill.

The foundation of the Dao is the jade seed, and the divine embryo has nine orifices;
Pure Yang energy, Netherworld energy;
Primordial spirit, Yin spirit...

The more I think about it, the more similar they seem.

Tsk!
It's unclear whether the Qi cultivator copied the Yin spirit, or the Yin spirit copied the Qi cultivator.

Chen Mu had a strange expression on his face.

(End of this chapter)