My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 630 Substitution

Imprisoned Valley.

Chen Mu felt a chill run down his spine under Lu Han's intense gaze. He immediately followed the others forward, picked up a bamboo basket, chose a spot far away from Lu Han, took out his battle-damaged pickaxe, and began to try digging for stones.

Ding!

Sparks flew everywhere, and the dark rocks in front of us seemed to be cast from steel. An invisible repulsive force enveloped the entire mountain, firmly blocking the pickaxe.

"Are the entire valley's cliffs made of demonic stones?"

Chen Mu looked up and surveyed the valley cliffs from all sides, his heart skipping a beat.

"Could there be extraterrestrial demons being suppressed in this valley?"

As early as the Dingyou Tianhe Water Palace, he had heard that among the ninety-nine sects of Haizhou, the Qianji Sect had set up a demon seal.

On one hand, it was to suppress demons and monsters; on the other hand, it was to train Taoist soldiers.

The Prison Valley mine in front of us is probably part of the demon seal, designed to help Taoist soldiers hone their demon-dispelling skills.

Chen Mu suddenly understood.

He activated the exorcism spell, and a cloud of green mist appeared in his palm. Like heavy rain falling on parched, cracked earth, the verdant mist vanished into the pickaxe the moment it touched it.

hum!

A tiny, eerie green blade, the size of a fingernail, suddenly appeared at the tip of the pickaxe.

"A specially made pickaxe adapted for dispelling sorcery?"

"Interesting!" Chen Mu raised an eyebrow.

"The tools used to dissect the corpses of demons in the future will probably be specially made. They really do have a mature auxiliary soldier training system."

He chuckled and focused on swinging his pickaxe, chopping away at the rocks with a clanging sound.

Inside the jade, five silver rings formed a larger circle, slowly rotating in the sea of ​​magical mist, with a pale green light flashing incessantly on the rings.

The light varies in intensity and constantly combines and changes, producing different kinds of magical powers to dispel demons.

Chen Mu kept adjusting, swinging his pickaxe for half an hour before finally finding the right direction. The demonic stone, which had been as hard as steel, instantly turned into a thin, brittle pancake. With a soft "thud," the pickaxe easily knocked off a fist-sized rock.

But the next moment, the broken part of the stone began to wriggle as if it were alive, and it grew at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just over ten breaths, the gap that Chen Mu had knocked out with his pickaxe was completely repaired.

"This...this is a bit strange!"

Chen Mu glanced at Lu Han, who seemed completely unperturbed in the distance, took a deep breath, and calmed his turbulent emotions.

He tentatively swung the pickaxe, striking the restored rocks.

Ding!

Sparks flew everywhere, but the rocks remained intact.

The set of exorcism techniques I just found has already lost its effectiveness.

"Every time a stone is dug up, the rules for breaking the sorcery need to be adjusted. No wonder..."

Chen Mu turned his head and glanced at the many colleagues in the distance who were waving their pickaxes and getting increasingly agitated. He couldn't help but sigh and shake his head.

"This exorcism technique might be a bit tricky!"

……

In the evening, Chen Mu returned to the cave covered in dust and dirt.

The five ghosts were enveloped in black smoke, and quickly swept the dust off their bodies.

He tossed the bamboo basket and pickaxe behind the door, moved a rocking chair out and placed it by the door, lay down inside and watched the setting sun, feeling lazy and unwilling to move.

"After working all day, we only managed to knock down about thirty catties of demonic energy stones."

"No wonder the Hundred Illusions Sect sends Dao soldiers to the Thousand Machines Sect only once every three years."

"This exorcism technique does indeed require a considerable amount of time to master."

Chen Mu raised his right hand, and a faint green mist appeared in his hand.

"According to the information I have gathered, the last time the Hundred Illusions Sect sent Dao soldiers to the Thousand Machines Sect will be about a year from now."

"If the exorcism is not successful by then, we will have to wait four years."

"Waiting for a year is acceptable, but waiting for four years is a bit too long."

He went to the Thousand Machines Sect to obtain the Dao Foundation Record. Such secret techniques definitely require a massive amount of Dao cultivation, and it would take a long time to accumulate merits to achieve them.

"It would be better to go to the Thousand Machines Sect sooner rather than later," Chen Mu said, narrowing his eyes.

"We need to think of a way to pretend to be someone who can dispel demonic magic!"

Staring at the secret techniques on the gray wall, he soon came into view a secret technique.

"Why does the pale green blade of energy from the Three Yin Demon-Slaying Technique look so similar to this Demon-Dispelling Technique?"

Chen Mu's heart suddenly skipped a beat. He flipped his left wrist, black smoke billowing out, and a fist-sized, dark demonic stone appeared in his hand, which he had deliberately intercepted today.

Then he raised his right index finger.

hum!

A pale green blade, about the length of a thumb, appeared at the fingertip.

He then gently brushed the demonic stone across his left palm.

Swish!

Like a red-hot knife slicing through solidified grease, the pale green blade of energy easily cleaved open the demonic energy stone.

The cut surface was smooth, like a finely polished mirror, and could even reflect Chen Mu's face full of surprise!

Yes!

Slay the demons! Slay the demons!

This Three Yin Demon-Slaying Technique was probably originally used to kill demons!

Long ago, he mastered this secret technique, which he obtained from the seven brothers of Wushan, to the highest level. With a single thought, he could unleash one hundred and eight pale green energy blades.

However, as Chen Mu's cultivation level increased, the opponents he encountered became stronger and stronger, and the Three Yin Demon-Slaying Technique became insufficient. It could injure the enemy, but it couldn't kill them with a single blow. In the end, it gradually retreated to the sidelines and became his special kitchen utensil for cutting meat.

Chen Mu never expected that this secret technique would be so effective in breaking through the demonic energy.

"Thinking about it carefully, it seems there were signs all along."

“In the past, when I used it to cut the meat of strange beasts, whether it was slices or shreds, it was all smooth and effortless.”

"I originally thought it was because the Demon-Slaying Technique was sharp enough, but now I think it's probably because the Three Yin Demon-Slaying Technique itself has miraculous effects." Chen Mu suddenly realized.

"To be honest, the seven brothers from Wushan did a really good job digging up graves back then."

"So many years have passed, yet the value of that unknown guy's grave is still increasing."

"That saves a lot of trouble."

"You deserve a reward!"

Chen Mu laughed heartily and immediately took out a primordial qi stick and gave it to the Seven Souls Gourd in the Five Ghosts Bag.

The gourds that the seven brothers of Wushan transformed into immediately swelled and grew, becoming much fatter in the blink of an eye.

With the intermittent feeding, the gourd, which was originally the size of a palm, has now grown to the height of a forearm.

……

I wonder what kind of peach blossoms cover the entire mountain of the Hundred Illusions Sect.

Chen Mu has been here for more than 20 days, and every day he can see the peach blossoms blooming and falling.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the peach trees on the mountain are still in full bloom, but they just won't bear fruit.

In the early morning, Chen Mu carried a worn-out, blackened rattan basket on his back and a mining pickaxe, its rust removed and now bound with new non-slip strips, but still looking old, as he strolled along the rocky steps.

Through the light mist, one can admire the peach blossoms in the distant mountains for a while, and watch the rice paddies on the plains sway like waves.

"Tomorrow I'll go to Shuwu Cave and buy some Jin Yuan Valley to try."

"I wonder what it tastes like."

He has the Rejuvenating Soup and can also refine the Nourishing Essence Pill. He has no shortage of nourishing and strengthening pills. His main wish is to taste the flavor of Golden Essence Valley.

Strolling into the Valley of Imprisonment, I was immediately met with Lu Han's critical eyes.

Just like a mouse encountering a cat, or a troublemaker in the back row running into the homeroom teacher, Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat.

I……

Am I too early?

He glanced around calmly. Of the dozen or so fellow Daoists who had entered the sect at the same time as him, only seven or eight were there splitting stones.

Chen Mu immediately felt relieved.

He still precisely controlled the time of arrival at Prison Valley, maintaining a level that was neither too early nor too late, slightly below average.

He nodded to Lu Han, then picked up his pickaxe and went to a slightly secluded spot, where he started clanging away with it.

After a while, feeling Lu Han's gaze disappear, Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help scratching his head.

How can Lu Han be so responsible?

Ever since their group entered the Valley of Imprisonment, Lu Han has been like a supervisor, watching over their cultivation of demon-dispelling techniques every day.

He doesn't even have time to slack off.

"There are probably some factors involved that I am unaware of."

With this idea in mind, Chen Mu activated his Listening Divine Power, extending it to distant places.

In the Valley of Imprisonment, they weren't the only group practicing exorcism techniques.

Five miles away, there was a group of miners who had been practicing for a year and a half, and they were also hammering stones at that moment.

(End of this chapter)