My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 637 Gourd

After many twists and turns, descending nearly a kilometer, Chen Mu emerged from a muddy swamp with a "pop" and entered an underground space the size of a football field.

A lush peach orchard suddenly came into view. The pale yellow stamens shimmered with fluorescent light, like the lights of a night market street, illuminating the entire underground space.

A few silvery flowers were hidden in the sea of ​​flowers, which made Chen Mu unable to help but smile.

"You've found the right place."

A moment later, Chen Mu inspected the entire peach orchard and discovered twenty-six Moli Silver Peach trees.

But instead of immediately extracting the peach wood core, he went to the middle of the underground cavity.

A huge stone gourd is now tilted and half-buried in the rock.

The upper part, which is half a person tall, is exposed above the ground and is decorated with mysterious silver and black patterns on the surface of the gray stone gourd.

"This thing..."

Chen Mu circled the gourd twice, then squinted.

The Thousand Machines Sect once suppressed many extraterrestrial demons beneath the Hundred Illusions Sect. This stone gourd before us seems ordinary, yet it is strangely buried deep underground; it might very well be part of a suppression technique.

Thinking of this, Chen Mu slowly retreated, moving away from the vicinity of the gourd.

"The peach wood core must be taken, but the suppression method forbids it from being touched."

"The demons from beyond the heavens are unpredictable. If you were to be attacked without warning, you would have nowhere to turn for help."

He was determined never to touch the stone gourd.

Just as he was about to turn and leave, a familiar aura appeared in the Divine Listening Technique.

Since entering the underground, he had been using his Listening Ability. Unfortunately, the omnipresent demonic energy stone was filled with demonic energy, which blocked and sealed his once invincible Listening Ability. After going deep into the demonic energy stone for dozens of meters, the Listening Ability completely lost its effectiveness.

However, precisely because the area above, below, left, and right was sealed off by the demonic energy stone, the power of the Listening Star was shrunk and concentrated, filling every inch of the underground cave.

Although the newly emerging aura was subtle and faint, it was no less than a thunderclap in Chen Mu's ears.

"Demon essence?"

"The mysterious aura that allowed the Heavenly Demon Armor talisman to be perfected so quickly actually came from here?!"

Chen Mu's face was full of surprise, and then... then he backed away again.

He walked in an arc to the opposite side of the gourd, and stared at the stone gourd carefully from a distance of five or six meters.

He immediately noticed a tiny crack, as thin as a hair.

The gap was at the edge of a black pattern, and Chen Mu wouldn't have been able to find it if it weren't for that demonic essence.

"Should we or not?"

"What if it's a demon trap?"

Looking at the eerie aura emanating from beside the gourd, reminiscent of a courtesan beckoning and swaying, Chen Mu hesitated for a moment.

"How about absorbing one of them?"

"Just one puff, one puff isn't much."

"No matter how mysterious the demons from beyond the heavens may be, what kind of chaos can they cause with just a single essence?"

Chen Mu's eyes were slowly filled with fervor.

……

Inside the stone gourd is a large, dark little cave.

The three dragon heads of the Nine-Headed Heavenly Demon were raised high, their fiery red scales trembling rapidly. Strange swishing sounds filled the dark space, disturbing the senses.

His six eyes, each with three pupils, were fixed on the gaping hole above his head that looked like a rift in the sky.

"The original energy of the Six Paths that was lost before was taken by this person, wasn't it?" Nine Heads sensed a familiar aura from the other party.

He had previously gone to great lengths to finally break free of the seal with his primordial energy, intending to strengthen his clones that had escaped the seal. However, they all disappeared in the end, which angered him for several days.

"To actually find your way here, it's like choosing the path to hell when there's a way to heaven!" Nine Heads grinned, the sharp, protruding fangs gleaming coldly.

hum!

Its massive body suddenly soared into the sky, hovering close to the gap in the ceiling, one eye peering intently at Chen Mu through the crack.

Looking at Chen Mu's conflicted and greedy eyes, which eventually grew increasingly eager, Jiu Shou's eyes were filled with laughter.

"Right, that is it!"

"It's just a wisp of primordial energy; what danger could it possibly pose?"

"After absorbing one, there's another. I still have seventeen strands of primordial energy on me. If you dare to ask for them, I'll immediately give you half!"

"Whether you'll still be yourself by then is none of my business." His smile was full of malice.

…Slivers of light pierced through the transparent jade and shone into the cave.

Chen Mu sat cross-legged on the stone bed, glanced at the gradually brightening daylight outside, picked up the palm-sized jade gourd on the low square table in front of him, and poured himself a mouthful of nourishing spirit wine.

The fatigue from staying up all night to cultivate immortality vanished in the blink of an eye.

Looking at the three grinning little wooden puppets standing in a row on the low table in front of him, Chen Mu's face couldn't help but twitch.

After a whole night of work, he created three more Peach Gods. Including those he had created before, he now possessed seventy-six Peach Gods, further enhancing his security.

This is the appearance of the Peach God...

"Forget it, out of sight, out of mind."

Chen Mu, with a sour face, put Peach God into the Five Ghosts Bag.

With a thought, a semi-transparent gray wall appeared before my eyes.

He skillfully found two entries that interested him.

Celestial Demon Armor: 8933/10000/Tier 7;

Nine Lives Dividing Calamity Technique: 6983/10000;

The core of the Nine Lives Tribulation Technique is the refinement of Peach God Lord. As the number of Peach God Lords in his hands increases, the experience value will naturally increase.

The Heavenly Demon Armor, however, was a completely unexpected bonus.

"A single essence of demonic energy increased the proficiency of the Heavenly Demon Armor by more than 400, which is equivalent to half a month of full-time cultivation. What a treasure!"

With a thought, a layer of transparent armor appeared on his body, with wisps of crimson patterns emerging from it.

"Besides the Qi-restricting protective ability that covers a hundred miles, there seems to be another kind of demonic Qi-based divine ability, which should have been developed after absorbing the essence of demons."

Chen Mu chuckled as he examined the patterns on the transparent armor.

In a daze, he seemed to hear whispers through the red patterns.

Before he could even listen carefully, the Heavenly Demon Armor Talisman vibrated on its own, and the source of the sound seemed to have its mouth suddenly covered, whimpering twice before disappearing completely.

What's going on?

Chen Mu scratched his head.

I carefully observed the feedback and insights the gray wall provided, but found nothing unusual.

"Forget it, the demon essence is just icing on the cake. It's good that the Heavenly Demon Armor has improved, but there's no loss if it hasn't."

"The most urgent task is to cultivate Mo Liyin in the underground space into Peach God Lord as soon as possible."

……

In the following days, Chen Mu resumed his old ways.

After digging up more than a hundred kilograms of demonic stones each day, they would turn around and leave.

Find a secluded spot, crawl into an underground cave to retrieve a core of black-inlaid silver peach wood, and then return to the cave to refine the Peach God puppet.

If he happens to encounter any demonic essence overflowing, he will collect it without hesitation.

As the days went by, the number of Peach Gods gradually increased, and the experience of the Heavenly Demon Armor and the Tribulation Dividing Technique also grew rapidly.

……

A hollow underground cavity, inside a stone gourd.

The nine heads coiled their bodies, covered in crimson scales, into a ball, their eighteen pupils staring with doubt at the crack at the top of the sealed cave.

"How much primordial energy did he absorb in front of everyone?"

"The initial six, plus the three more in the last few days, making it nine?"

"But how come this person hasn't undergone any assimilation or mutation?"

"I can clearly hear my primordial energy roaring from him, so why hasn't he become my clone yet?!"

Jiu Shou suddenly had a bad feeling.

Will all that primordial energy I sent out go to waste?

impossible!

Absolutely impossible!

It must be because he hasn't absorbed enough primordial energy!

Staring at the sound circling the gourd outside, Jiu Shouya gritted his teeth and threw out three streams of essence in one go.

"The piecemeal approach won't work; we need to burst this guy's belly in one go, make him choke!"

"With the three streams of primordial energy surging in together, this little thing will definitely become a part of me!"

"By then, we'll be able to earn back all the essence that was swallowed up before!" Nine Heads stared at the crack in the ceiling, his face full of anticipation.

(End of this chapter)