My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 609 Root Potential
At the edge of the summit of Jintian Peak.

Lianxi looked up at the giant eyeball that blocked out the night sky, her face full of surprise: "The Dragon Ball is actually a giant eyeball?"

"Otherwise what?" The vertical pupil-shaped black hole spoke lazily from not far away.

“I…I thought it was some kind of cinnabar pearl condensed in the internal organs.”

"That's called a gallstone."

"Uh……"

"To be honest, this thing should be called 'root quality'."

"Root quality?" Lianxi asked in confusion.

"The fifth stage of the Heavenly Demon Reincarnation Technique is called Meridian Opening. Once mastered, one can obtain the true form of a Heavenly Demon."

"By modifying some organs of the Heavenly Demon's true form, one can create a root weapon, which is why the sixth level of the Heavenly Demon Heretic Path is called 'Weapon Creation'."

"The root essence can generate special primordial energy, which can temper and nourish the true body of the Heavenly Demon, and is an essential ingredient for cultivating the true form of the Heavenly Demon."

"The selected organs can be the internal organs, bones and skin, or teeth and eyes."

"It is obvious that the Water Palace Lord who created the Heavenly River Dharma Realm chose the pair of eyes from his own Loach Dragon Heavenly Demon as his root."

Lianxi understood the origin of the Dragon Ball, but she was even more puzzled: "Root ability is the foundation for the cultivation of demons and heretics. What use would Qiu Jinwu, a mere Qi Refining cultivator, have for it?"

"Of course, it's for the path of the primordial spirit." The vertical-pupiled black hole chuckled.

"After a Qi Refiner reaches the Dao Foundation stage, they can refine spiritual treasures at the Immortal Platform."

"The most important function of Lingbao is to nurture pure Yang energy, which can nourish the foundation of the Dao and help one achieve the primordial spirit."

"Listen, doesn't this level sound familiar?"

Root talent helps celestial demons and heretics cultivate their true forms, while spiritual treasures help Qi Refining cultivators develop their primordial spirit...

Lianxi's heart skipped a beat: "Is the root talent shaped by the Heavenly Demon Heretic equivalent to the spiritual treasure platform refined by the sixth level of Qi Refining cultivators?"

"There are differences, but they're basically similar things," the vertical-pupiled black hole said cheerfully.

Upon hearing this, Lianxi suddenly looked up and stared intently at those enormous, all-encompassing eyes.

This is a root material comparable to the Lingbao Immortal Platform, an excellent tool for cultivating the primordial spirit!
If I could get it...

"I want it..." Black and red flames flickered within the vertical pupil-like black hole, accompanied by a series of amused voices.

"You jest, Spirit Lord. Which Qi Refiner wouldn't want something like this!"

"You are sincere."

As they were talking, the situation on the altar changed again.

The thirty-odd Qi Condensation cultivators around the altar suddenly looked up.

Their eyes were closed, and they wore peaceful smiles, but at first glance, they looked rather eerie and sinister.

As Qiu Jinwu made hand seals and chanted incantations, golden light flowed across the lines on these people's faces, and strands of golden hair-like lines flew out from between their eyebrows.

It then shot up into the sky and plunged into that large, purplish-blue eye.

At this moment, within the enormous, all-encompassing eyeball, a silver stream of energy was faintly visible, resembling a swimming fish, rapidly moving within the eyeball.

The golden thread probed in, and the air currents twisted and dodged, but were quickly locked and bound by the golden thread.

As the golden thread taut and retracted, the eyeball, five or six times larger than the water-repelling shuttle, was pulled and fell out of the void.

As it descended, its size continued to shrink. By the time it floated more than five meters above the altar, it had transformed into a bright, sea-blue pearl the size of a walnut.

At this moment, the golden threads were taut and constantly being pulled, while the blue dragon ball rose and fell, constantly being pulled back and forth, always floating five meters in the air.

Akio's porcelain-like face grew even more fanatical as he looked at the Dragon Ball so close to him, and hardened his heart.

hum!
The air in front of him distorted and vibrated, and an identical, but dark purple, round bead jumped out of the void.

This is the dragon pearl that Qiu Jinwu obtained before.

A golden thread, as thick as a chopstick, shot out from the dark red dragon pearl and plunged into the blue dragon pearl. The silver energy that had been twisting and struggling instantly came to a complete stop.

With just a little effort, the blue dragon ball was pulled down into the air.

Looking at the two round beads, one blue and one purple, chasing each other, Qiu Jinwu trembled with excitement.

Dragon Ball!

The complete Loach Dragon Ball!
He sold the Goose and Sheep Path, risking his life and fortune, all for these two Dragon Balls!

"Once I complete the refining process, I will be able to embark on the path of the Primordial Spirit."

"Once I cultivate my primordial spirit, all those forces, whether overt or covert, like the Dragon Locking Academy and the Thousand Machine Sect, will have to bow down to me!"

Enjoying the future.

collapse!
As if a rope had snapped, a sharp crack suddenly rang out.

Akira's expression changed, and his eyes widened involuntarily.

Then he saw that the chopstick-thick gold thread he had activated suddenly developed cracks like broken porcelain, just like his face.

He didn't have time to use magic to remedy the situation.

boom!
The gold thread, as thick as a chopstick, was suddenly shattered into powder.

hum!
Two streams of silver energy shot out from the red and blue orbs respectively, giving Akijin Gou no time to react, and disappeared into the void without a trace.

The two crystal-clear beads quickly lost their luster, as if they were carved from bone and stone, and became hazy and grayish for a moment.

Qiu Jinwu felt his blood rush to his head, and his eyes instantly turned bloodshot.

A tremendous force erupted, instantly sweeping away the clouds and mist on the mountaintop with the surging air currents.

"Dragon Ball! Dragon Ball!"

"My Dragon Ball!"

……

In the southern part of the Heavenly River Dharma Realm, there is a world of ice and snow.

At the edge of the icy pool in the ice cave, Chen Mu, as usual, leaned against a pillar and sat on the edge of the wooden corridor.

He made a pinching motion with his right hand while muttering incantations.

A series of strange numbers swirled in his mind. At the tip of his index finger, a stream of magical power transformed several times before finally forming a sphere the size of a soybean, composed of tiny, fluorescent specks.

Its talisman-like structure contains hidden information; it is the mark of the gate to hell that he calculated using the Nine Cups Calculation Sutra.

In the past few days, while imparting secret techniques to the ghostly spirits, Chen Mu has calculated the landing point more than once, all in order to accurately return to the Qiulong Fire Path.

Thinking of this, Chen Mu flipped his hand and took out a jade plate about the length of a forearm and the width of a palm. The calculation results of the past few days were all engraved on the jade plate.

He looked at the star-shaped magic symbols on his fingertips, then compared them with the eighty silver patterns on the jade tablet, and fell into silence.

"Is this... calculating nine hexagrams every day, and each hexagram is different?"

"Tsk..."

He had known for a long time that the Nine Cups Divination Sutra was unreliable, but he never expected it to be this unreliable!

"Relying on this thing, can we really return to the Qiulong Fire Path?" Chen Mu asked worriedly, taking out a large piece of braised pork with a human head on it and taking a big bite.

"The future looks bleak." He sighed and shook his head, then helplessly picked up the jade bottle beside him and poured himself a mouthful of nourishing wine.

……

After the meal, Chen Mu leaned lazily against a wooden pillar, watching the six invisible little fish in the cold pool, rubbing his stomach to aid digestion.

"I'm so busy playing the game of pitch-pot that my head is spinning, while you guys have it easy, you don't have to do anything and just leisurely swim around all day."

"unfair!"

Chen Mu couldn't stand the sight of those six fish.

He immediately used his Qi Restriction Technique to scoop up a water sphere the size of a human head. Inside the sphere, a small, purplish-blue fish was imprisoned.

He threw all sorts of powers—magical power, Yin spirit power, and the strange power generated by the Heavenly Demon Seed combined with the Seven Emotions Curse—into the water sphere.

But the little fish was like a phantom, completely beyond the reach of these forces.

Before long, the purplish-blue fish disappeared and then silently reappeared in the cold pool.

Not only that, the little fish deliberately approached Chen Mu, swimming leisurely at the edge of the cold pool not far from him.

Don't you dare let me catch you!

Otherwise, I'll definitely let you try my cooking skills!

Chen Mu huffed and puffed, deciding to avoid seeing it altogether.

Then he reached into the water sphere in mid-air, and the earth's spiritual energy contained in the water was completely absorbed by him in the blink of an eye.

Inside the jade seed, the divine aperture, which had just completed its fifty-second refinement, slowly rotated, and the consumed magical power began to recover rapidly.

This is also why he lingered around the cold pool and didn't leave.

The spiritual energy outside the pond is scarce, but the spiritual energy inside is abundant, which can sustain his daily cultivation.

Although he possessed an exquisite jade plate, activating it required white jade.

"Every little bit helps."

The spiritual energy in the cave is currently scarce, and even though he has more than 20,000 pieces of white jade, he always feels it is not enough.

Shaking off the lifeless water ball, Chen Mu scooped another water sphere from the icy pool. Repeating this mechanically, it didn't take long for the jade seed to quickly replenish its magical power.

He scooped up the last water sphere, intending to drain its energy and end his cultivation session. However, he was surprised to find that the small, purplish-blue fish encased within the water sphere hadn't disappeared this time.

"Hey! Interesting..."

More than half a month has passed, and he has tried to catch small fish in the cold pond more than once.

Chen Mu pulled the water ball closer, wanting to examine it more closely.

But before he could examine it closely...

puff!
The water sphere suddenly exploded, and the purplish-blue fish transformed into two streaks of silvery-white air, which darted into the brocade pouch hanging at the waist.

"what!"

Chen Mu's expression changed, and he instinctively grabbed the brocade pouch and threw it away.

But the pouch shattered as soon as it left his hand, and two streams of light, one black and one white, flew out and entered the secret acupoint between Chen Mu's eyebrows before Chen Mu could react.

A coincidence?

These two things again?!

I haven't even settled the score with them for taking half of my Nourishing Spirit Wine, and now they're causing me trouble again?!
Chen Mu touched his cold brow and felt a chill run down his spine. He was so angry that his face turned red!

……

Connect to Tianfeng.

Akira's eyes were bloodshot, and his face, covered in broken porcelain shards, looked even more terrifying.

He stared intently at the vertical pupils of the black hole in front of him: "Old ghost Jia, was it you who did this?"

"Tsk tsk, your expression right now is just like a mad dog." From within the vertical pupil black hole, a gloating voice came from the dark red firelight.

A fierce glint suddenly appeared in Qiu Jinwu's eyes.

The firelight inside the vertical pupil black hole didn't seem to care, and lazily said, "The Dragon Ball Spirit is the most intelligent. You're going to catch it and refine it to death, so why can't you let it escape?"

"You were too eager for quick success and acted before your damaged soul had even recovered. The Dragon Ball's spirit escaped, so who can you blame?"

"Besides, you didn't come away empty-handed; you at least got two Dragon Ball embryos."

"Although it is no longer a complete root, it still has endless uses."

Akira took a deep breath, trying to suppress the turbulent emotions in his heart and slowly regain his composure.

Ignoring the vertical pupil black hole, he turned to Lian Xi not far away: "You know the secret technique of tracking qi?"

“That’s right, that’s the attitude we should have when solving problems,” the firelight inside the black hole chimed in with a grin.

"Master Qiu, I do indeed know this kind of secret technique; it is part of the Nightmare Victory Secret Technique."

“But my abilities are limited, and the thing you lost is too sophisticated. I can’t guarantee the results of the tracking,” Lianxi replied hesitantly, cupping his hands in response.

"I will accept any outcome," Akira Kingo said calmly.

Upon hearing this, Lianxi couldn't help but look at the vertical pupil black hole.

"Go ahead. After all, Master Qiu is our big benefactor. He provided a non-Qi Refiner, so we should help him if we can." The black and red flames flickered.

"Yes, sir." Lianxi clasped his hands and bowed, then immediately walked up to the four-sided altar and took out various utensils to begin setting up.

……

An hour later.

A long table was placed in the center of the altar.

On the table was a bronze incense burner the size of a human head, from which wisps of smoke rose and gathered in mid-air to form a curtain.

Two dragon balls, one blue and one purple, resembling frosted glass beads with red threads, floated in the smoke.

Recite the Lianxi mantra.

The blurry images of volcanoes, oceans, glaciers, and streams flashed by one after another like a marquee.

The image flashed for a quarter of an hour, until Lianxi's face turned pale and her magic power was exhausted, but no definite image appeared.

puff!
A soft sound rang out, and smoke exploded in mid-air.

Lianxi looked up with difficulty.

"Qiu...Dao Master Qiu."

"how!"

"The item you are looking for seems... seems to be everywhere, it's everywhere."

"How could this be?" Akijin Go's brows furrowed.

"Or, someone who knows how to use divination techniques is misleading and concealing the aura."

"Either, this thing is truly everywhere."

The spiritual energy is the core of one's inherent nature, and the Dragon Ball is the pillar of the Heavenly River Dharma Realm. Its spiritual energy aura could indeed be found everywhere!

So, the tracking technique is useless; you can't find it even if you want to!

Akira Kingo: "..."

Hey!
(End of this chapter)