My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 558 The Method of Connecting with the Netherworld

The long, grayish-white grass swayed in the wind, but the entire Lingxu Cave was deathly silent.

Yuan Xian collapsed to the ground, his scales falling off, slowly revealing his original appearance. His body became transparent, gradually disappearing into the Spirit Void Cave.

Chen Mu's expression changed, and he immediately picked up Yuan Xian's right arm, which he had torn off, and used the force from it to crawl out of the desolate cave.

In a daze, the scene before my eyes changed; the gray-white world disappeared, and Mount Qiluo in the pitch-black night came into view again.

The thick fog on the mountain has mostly dissipated, leaving only a thin layer of mist, like a veil shrouding the mountaintop.

Inside the courtyard of the City God Temple, Chen Mu descended from the sky and, looking at Yuan Xian, who was lying paralyzed on the ground with severed arms and legs, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The mastermind, Yuan Xian, was crippled by his own attack, which at least temporarily saved the safety of the City God statue.

"who are you?"

Before Chen Mu could speak, Li Buxian suddenly shouted from not far away.

Chen Mu turned to look at the bewildered Li Buxian, and thinking of his current appearance as a celestial demon, he immediately revealed a meaningful smile.

He signed the deification contract in the form of a celestial demon, and he also sat in the grotto heaven in the form of a celestial demon. Therefore, the statue of the City God looks exactly like the celestial demon.

The appearance of the Heavenly Demon at this moment is practically the manifestation of the City God!
"What's wrong? You've been chanting sutras for the Great Demon King behind my back every day, don't you recognize me anymore?" he teased with a playful expression.

The City God has appeared!

Li Buxian was dumbfounded.

"You've worked hard guarding the statue, didn't you say I should thank you? Well, here I am."

I was just kidding!

Upon seeing the bald young man who bore a striking resemblance to the City God statue, Li Buxian's face turned deathly pale.

Ah!
Old man, weren't you quite tough before?
So you do know fear after all.

Chen Mu chuckled and casually tossed Yuan Xian's severed arm to Li Buxian. He activated the Yellow Springs Crossing technique, instantly switching between his flesh and blood body and his celestial demon body.

The statue of the City God was still not safe; he dared not leave his physical body in the cave for too long.

Ignoring Li Buxian's relief at seeing Chen Mu appear, Chen Mu stepped over to Yuan Xian's side.

At this moment, the other party had disheveled hair, and his facial features had grown back, making him unrecognizable as the monster covered in scales from before.

He used his remaining left arm and right leg to support himself as he retreated, barely managing to sit on the threshold of the City God's main hall.

"You are a Qi Refiner." He stared at Chen Mu with a gloomy expression.

Chen Mu remained calm: "Knowing too much is not a good thing."

"Spare my life, and I can give you a secret manual for Qi Refining cultivators," Yuan Xian said, looking at Chen Mu.

"This inheritance comes from the Liyang Path and contains the secret of gathering and refining the Hunyuan River Chariot. There are only a handful of such exquisite secret techniques in the entire Yunzhou."

Chen Mu remained outwardly calm, but his heart skipped a beat. He had cultivated the Divine Aperture for a year, and his initial reason for eagerly leaving the Divine Image Cave Heaven was to find the next secret teachings of Qi Refiners.

“I can also cover for you and get you out of Daqian safely.” Yuan Xian said solemnly and sincerely: “You know the secret of my demonic transformation and qi deviation. For my own sake, I would never tell the Lock Dragon Academy about your identity as a Qi Refiner.”

"No, no, no, only the dead can keep their mouths shut, that's truly safe!" Li Buxian leaned closer to the two of them and said quietly.

Yuan Xian suddenly turned his head and stared intently at Li Buxian.

"What are you looking at? You said it yourself, Headmaster!" Li Buxian glared at Yuan Xian defiantly. He had tried to beg for mercy earlier, but Yuan Xian had no intention of letting him go.

Yuan Xian's face twitched, and he turned away from Li Buxian, looking at Chen Mu again and saying, "I'm not the only one who covets the City God statue."

"Spare my life, and I will be able to better mobilize the Dragon Lockers to help you protect the statue."

Chen Mu narrowed his eyes slightly.

What that old guy said makes sense. Besides, he is, after all, the head of the 29th academy of the Lock Dragon Academy. If he really dies on Qiluo Mountain, it will definitely cause a lot of trouble.

His expression changed, and he immediately stepped forward with a smile, flipping his wrist to reveal a black-covered scripture: "Come, repeat after me."

Yuan Xian's expression changed: "This is..."

"This is a secret scripture that can help you suppress the rebellion of the will of gods and demons," Li Buxian said with a grin.

Haha!

This old guy is about to step into the pit of the Heavenly Demon Path!

Scriptures that suppress the rebellious will of gods and demons?
Ha! It's probably some evil curse controlling me!
Yuan Xian's eyes were like knives as he glared fiercely at Li Buxian.

He immediately turned his head with a tense face, staring coldly at Chen Mu.

"I'll read it!"

He recited it thirty times in a row, until the moon was high in the sky, but still did not trigger the Heavenly Demon Curse.

This old guy is resentful; he's playing tricks on me!

"What are you waiting for?" Chen Mu asked coldly. "Waiting for those Dragon Lockers to come and provide support?"

With a wave of his hand, the dark, deep, mirror-like gate of Thousand Lanterns City appeared. One by one, black-robed figures landed in front of Yuan Xian like dumplings being dropped into a pot.

Yuan Xian's pupils suddenly contracted as he realized that even Yuan Dong and his two siblings were among these people.

In other words, the Bingchen branch is basically finished and can't provide him with any support.

We've really messed up...

Noticing Chen Mu's cold gaze, Yuan Xian took a deep breath and began to recite earnestly.

After reciting it only three times, the familiar fluctuations of the Heavenly Demon Incantation came through, and Chen Mu immediately put a Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed into Yuan Xian's body.

Li Buxian chuckled as he carried Yuan Xian's severed hands and feet forward, cupping his hands in a gloating gesture: "From now on, we'll be fellow disciples. I hope you'll take good care of me, Headmaster."

Yuan Xian glanced coldly at Li Buxian, took the severed arm, and pressed it against the cut on his shoulder.

The grayish-black muscles immediately began to writhe, and in just a few breaths, the severed hand had regrown onto the shoulder. Yuan Xian could even press on the shoulder and make the arm rotate!

Watching Yuan Xian reattach his severed leg in the same way, Chen Mu couldn't help but twitch his face.

Limb reattachment? Has the God of the Underworld become that powerful?
This vitality is so strong it's almost inhuman!
"You can decide how to appease these Dragon Lockers, but you must expedite the transformation of the City God Temple as soon as possible."

"And remember to deliver the River Chariot Secret Technique you mentioned to me." With a flash, Chen Mu returned to the nameless desolate mountain.

……

The next day, on the nameless desolate mountain, the black-robed dragon-locking warrior who was the first to be defeated by Chen Mu was now standing respectfully in front of him.

"So, you Dragon Lockers aren't practicing the Underworld God Transformation?" Chen Mu looked at the black-robed Dragon Lockers in front of him with surprise.

“That’s right, we practice the Netherworld Connection Technique.” The man in black robes nodded in agreement: “The foundation for building the City God’s Taoist temple is the Yin-Yang Ghost Pattern.”

"The method of communicating with the underworld allows us to borrow the power of the spirits, connect with the Netherworld, and thus master the underworld ghost patterns."

The Netherworld Ghost Mark? Is it something like a restrictive talisman used by Qi cultivators?
Chen Mu understood.

And there's this method of communicating with the spirits...

He felt the power emanating from the black-robed dragon-locking warrior and couldn't help but marvel.

He had previously felt that the power used by the Dragon Locker was familiar, but he hadn't expected it to come from a Yin spirit. Now, upon closer inspection, he immediately realized that it resembled the power of a Yin spirit to some extent. Chen Mu became interested and immediately inquired about it in detail.

"The method of communicating with the spirits is extremely difficult to cultivate. It requires the cultivator to die and be reborn in order to attract the spirits of the dead into the body for further cultivation."

"This trial is the foundation of everything. Ten thousand people cultivate it, but perhaps only one can succeed." The black-robed Dragon Locker did not hide anything.

First die, then live, to lure the spirit into the body?

Ah!
This is probably just a way to fool people!

People born in the Great Qian Dynasty have Yinming worms in their bodies from birth.

Rather than saying it's about drawing in spirits, it's more accurate to say it's about transforming the spirits already present in the body into spirits through death!
Strengthening the Yinming Insects allows one to cultivate the Yinming God Transformation, turning them into Yinming Monsters, and also enables one to cultivate the Netherworld Communication Technique.

As expected of a grand plan spanning tens of thousands of years in the underworld, it has even developed two complete cultivation systems for mortals.

"Tell me how to accelerate the transformation of the temple." The Tongyou method is mysterious, but accelerating the integration of pulse points into the meridian apertures and improving the safety of the City God statue is the top priority.

“It’s the Lingling Ghost Pattern,” said the black-robed Dragon Locker. “The pulse points are the foundation of the City God’s dojo, and the ghost pattern needed to refine it is called Linglong.”

"The dojo's vein points also rely on the exquisite ghost patterns to infiltrate and assimilate the earth veins, binding the dojo and the earth together."

"What we can do is to actively activate the ghost runes and help accelerate this process."

Chen Mu nodded slightly in understanding: "I wonder about that exquisite ghost pattern..."

“It’s not that I don’t want to teach you,” the black-robed dragon-locking warrior said with a troubled expression. “It’s just that we simply can’t describe how to teach.”

What do you mean?
Chen Mu was taken aback.

"There are countless Yin and Yang ghost patterns within the Nine Netherworld, and the Exquisite Ghost Pattern is one of them." The black-robed Dragon Locker explained helplessly, "We are merely connecting to the Nine Netherworld and borrowing the power of the ghost pattern for our own use."

"I can only teach you the Netherworld Incantation and then guide you to master it in the Netherworld, but I cannot directly pass on the Exquisite Ghost Pattern to you."

Wonderful!

Chen Mu couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

According to his understanding, the exquisite ghost pattern is like the various restrictive talismans in the Lesser Three Talents Obscuring Light Technique.

If he wants to set up a light-blocking spell, he must first condense these basic restriction spells within the jade seed, but this will consume a great deal of time and mana.

Moreover, the Dragon Locker was just an ordinary person; without the Niwan Jade Seed within his body, he couldn't condense ghost patterns at all.

At this point, the Nine Netherworlds act as a unique shared jade seed, containing countless Yin and Yang ghost patterns. The Dragon Locker can connect to it using the Netherworld Connection Spell, and then copy and borrow its internal ghost patterns.

It's really amazing!
……

Three days later, on a barren mountain, a gray wall appeared before Chen Mu's eyes.

The Spell to Connect with the Netherworld: 13/10000;
"It's done." Chen Mu nodded slightly.

The Dragon-Locking Master used the Yin Spirit to cast the Netherworld Spell. He did not have a Yin Spirit in his body, but he had the body of a Heavenly Demon and the power of Yin Spirits. He succeeded after a little attempt.

While contemplating the gray wall, Chen Mu closed his eyes and chanted a mantra.

A wisp of yin spiritual power, carrying strands of blood and vital energy, appeared in mid-air before him. Then, under the influence of the Netherworld Incantation, it transformed into the cold divine power wielded by the Dragon-Locking Warrior and vanished into the void.

Chen Mu felt a blur before his eyes, his consciousness plummeted, and he was plunged into darkness.

As if sensing Chen Mu's appearance, a ball of silver threads, resembling the veins of a leaf, slowly appeared before her eyes.

It emitted a gentle light while drifting and swirling before his eyes like a jellyfish in water.

Chen Mu curiously reached out and touched it.

Upon contact, the silver thread spool seemed like a startled insect or snake, its whole body trembling violently.

hum!
Chen Mu was like someone who had stirred up a hornet's nest, with all sorts of silver threads surging forth. In the blink of an eye, the pitch-black world was instantly illuminated.

Some of them resembled roots, while others looked like fishing nets. Like a school of piranhas that had caught the scent of activity, they rushed towards Chen Mu as soon as they appeared, burrowing into his body all at once.

Chen Mu felt a sharp pain in his head, his consciousness was filled with countless strange symbols, and his consciousness was instantly squeezed back to the desolate mountain.

After a long while, he came to his senses, only to find his head empty and throbbing, as if he had just woken up from a hangover.

Chen Mu couldn't help but turn his head and glare at the black-robed dragon-locking warrior not far away.

"That's how the Netherworld Connection Technique works," the black-robed Dragon Locker explained in a low voice. "There are too many Netherworld Ghost Marks. If you're not careful, you might be driven mad by the impact of those Ghost Marks."

"We must exercise restraint and adapt."

Chen Mu rubbed his temples helplessly: "There are so many Yin-Yang Ghost Marks, are we supposed to touch them one by one?"

"Then how long would it take me to find the Exquisite Ghost Pattern?"

"You can intercept my Netherworld Divine Power as a catalyst to make the Exquisite Ghost Pattern appear automatically," the black-robed Dragon-Locking Warrior said cautiously.

"Why didn't you say so earlier that you had a method to prepare the medicine?" Chen Mu couldn't help but glare.

"I didn't expect you to be so talented, mastering the basics so quickly," the black-robed dragon-locking warrior muttered under his breath, sounding rather innocent and resentful.

……

In the following days, with the assistance of the black-robed dragon-locking warrior, Chen Mu successfully cast the Netherworld Spell and quickly mastered the method of invoking the exquisite ghost patterns.

The Dragon-Locking Master uses the Netherworld Connection Technique, which requires him to stop every half hour to recover his energy and prevent the evil spirits within his body from rebelling.

Chen Mu's body is filled with Yin spiritual power, and there is no risk of backlash, so he can cast the Tongyou Incantation day and night to stimulate the transformation of the Daoist temple.

In just three days, the Daoist temple at the foot of Xiaohuang Mountain successfully integrated into the earth's vein meridians.

After that, he kept traveling to various Taoist temples in Luandu County to pay for their services, further accelerating the transformation of the temples.

During this period, there were attacks on the City God Temple, but anyone who showed up disappeared after entering Qiluo Mountain. They were all buried deep in the mountains and forests by Yuan Xian.

Yuan Xian had suffered a setback at Chen Mu's hands and was feeling resentful but unable to retaliate when these people happened to walk right into his trap.

Two months later, all forty-five vein points in Luandu County sank into the earth's veins, and the City God statue became as solid as a rock and as heavy as a thousand mountains.

By this time, the City God statue was firmly anchored in Luandu County, impossible to move or damage, and was therefore safe enough.

……

On this day, Yuan Xian, who had disappeared for a long time, reappeared on Qiluo Mountain.

He brought a flat wooden box that was about the length of a forearm and the width of a palm.

As soon as the other party entered the City God Temple, Chen Mu immediately appeared to meet him.

"This wooden box..."

Yuan Xian didn't say anything, but directly pulled off the sliding cover, revealing a long white jade plate inside.

Jade tablets containing secret techniques for Qi cultivators?
what!
Chen Mu immediately smiled.

He had been practicing the Divine Aperture for a year, and he was worried about where to find the follow-up secrets of Qi Refiners. Unexpectedly, Yuan Xian delivered it to his door.

"The City God statue is now safe, and the Qi Refiner's inheritance has been obtained."

"Double happiness!"

(End of this chapter)