I Am Grinding Experience in Another World

Time passed, and the sun and moon took turns dominating the sky.

Aside from teaching the three apprentices at the start of each month,

Chen Mu spent most of his time confined within the wooden tower, obediently taking medicines and cultivating.

During occasional breaks, he would make two or three furnaces of Fasting Pills, and by taking a portion from the previously gathered Elixir Pills, he assembled around six thousand to hand over to the Administrative Affairs Institute.

Pill Master Qi Hui would only make this quantity each month.

Without the Condense Aperture Secret Method consuming his Daoist cultivation voraciously, Chen Mu’s passion for cultivating his Dao power quickly declined. Handing over "a batch" of Fasting Pills each month was more than enough.

His life was regular, his days productive, and two and a half months passed in a flash.

Inside the Underground Secret Chamber.

Chen Mu took off his shirt and took a deep breath.

Hum!

Billowing black smoke rushed into his body.

Underneath his skin, it seemed like pythons writhed and squirmed, rising rapidly and entwining, suddenly transforming him into a muscular giant, three heads taller than a heavy-duty truck from his previous life.

His entire body was indigo with strands and threads of silver patterns that appeared faintly visible.

Even his hair moved on its own as if it were floating in water.

At the same time, waves upon waves of bloodthirst and devouring impulses assaulted his mind, causing his eyes to gradually fill with blood and turn a deep red.

Yet inside, Chen Mu was remarkably calm.

With the cultivation of the Condense Aperture Secret Method, both his body and mind were strengthening.

The maddening whispers of the Five Ghosts, which once could drive one insane, now seemed to be blocked off by some force; before reaching his limits, it could no longer easily shake his spirit.

Chen Mu silently counted the time in his heart, standing still.

For a while, the only sound in the Secret Chamber was his deep and long breathing.

At one moment, the murmuring in his mind suddenly intensified. Chen Mu exhaled and released the Five Ghosts Possession.

"About twelve minutes."

As he cultivated the Condense Aperture Secret Method, the duration of the Five Ghosts Possession had extended again.

"Strength and speed have also been enhanced to differing extents," Chen Mu observed as he clenched his fist, feeling the power throughout his body.

He called up the grey wall.

Netherworld Grand Summary: 7115/10000/Second Rank;

After two months of rigorous training, the second set of Talismans for the Condense Aperture Secret Method was seventy percent complete.

The originally web-like spherical Talisman was gradually becoming filled and solidified.

Dominated by silver-white with black threads as veins, it exuded an ancient and mysterious aura.

As the Talisman condensed, the Jade Seed expanded once again.

"There are nine Talismans in total, does the Jade Seed have to grow ninefold? By then, how powerful will my Mana be?!" Chen Mu couldn’t help but be amazed.

It was sheer luck that he was able to kill Sun Wuhuan.

"That Ghost really did me a big favor," he mused.

"Of course, I also gave that Ghost a little help. It’s all about mutual support when you’re out and about."

"I wonder if I’ll see it again. Hmm... It would be great if it could help me get rid of that old ghoul Sun Jian."

...

The next day, in the Eastern District of the Market District.

Chen Mu stepped on the muddy black soil, inhaling the pungent smell of blood, as he arrived at the butcher Lu Tu’s shop.

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"Still a hundred pounds of fresh meat?" asked Lu Tu with a smile.

"Make sure it’s the good stuff," Chen Mu nodded.

"I’d like to earn more White Jade from you, but I only have pigs and rabbits here," Lu Tu said helplessly.

"What’s going on? Are those rogue cultivators from East Ridge still on guerrilla operations?" Chen Mu frowned.

It’s been almost three months, hasn’t it? Hasn’t the Inspection Courtyard finished them off?

"Who knows what kind of exploration secret techniques those barbarians from East Ridge have cultivated; they’re like ghosts, impossible to trace."

As Lu Tu spoke, he tensed his right bare arm and brought the cleaver down with full force on the meat placed on the chopping block.

Bang!

The meat on the chopping board... just got a bit of its skin broken.

Lu Tu glanced at the cut and continued chopping unfazed, resuming the conversation with Chen Mu while swinging his cleaver.

"The moment personnel from the Inspection Courtyard show up, they are spotted. Then those barbarians turn tail and dive deep into the forest, and nobody can catch up with them."

"But if they run into a small hunting party, they pop up out of nowhere, launching all sorts of attacks and disruptions."

"It’s gotten to the point where nobody dares to hunt too far away, so they can only stay below the mountain, raising pigs and rabbits to sell."

Lu Tu chopped more than a dozen times, using his full strength with each stroke, and finally, on the sixteenth chop, the blade snapped.

Chen Mu leaned his head to the side, dodging the flying half of the blade, and looked at the butcher Lu Tu, speechless.

"You can’t even cut through tender rabbit pig without breaking the knife, why don’t you just buy a magic artifact knife?"

Lu Tu poked the tough rabbit pig meat, which felt like rubber, twice with his right index finger, staring at Chen Mu with an equally speechless look: "You call this meat tender?!"

What the hell are you, a monster? Your teeth are that sharp?!

Glancing at Chen Mu’s row of white, dense teeth that looked like a wide-toothed comb, Lu Tu suddenly realized something: "Have you been practicing some Strongman Technique or what?"

"No wonder you eat so much exotic beast meat, and I didn’t even notice?" Lu Tu marveled with a click of his tongue.

"Hurry up and chop the meat." Don’t tell me you didn’t notice, even Sun Jian didn’t see it coming! You really think I’m playing with the Fifth Rank Shape-shifting Technique.

But after Lu Tu mentioned it, Chen Mu also realized something.

Although cooking techniques could soften the texture of the meat, exotic beast meat was naturally tough to eat.

The reason he felt the rabbit pig was tender, even overly tender, was most likely due to the body-enhancing effects of the Netherworld Grand Summary.

"Will I eventually develop steel teeth, able to bite iron as if it were nothing?" Chen Mu mused happily while watching Lu Tu struggle with the new knife and the rabbit pig meat.

...

Carrying a basket of meat, Chen Mu entered the Red Grass Hall on the southern side of the Market Fortress.

The Rejuvenation Pills had run out, and he was planning to buy some nutritious soup medications as a stopgap measure. Once he confirmed that the situation in East Ridge had stabilized a bit, he would fly back to Jade Spring Mountain.

"One hundred and sixty-four White Jade? It’s gone up again?"

"Can’t help it, it’s difficult to transport goods." The shopkeeper said helplessly, "Normally, a transport convoy should have arrived three days ago, but it hasn’t arrived until today."

"It must be those barbarians from East Ridge causing trouble again."

"Who knows which bastard sold those barbarians an Exploration Magical Instrument, now they’re using it against us... so aggravating," the shopkeeper said angrily.

"Exploration Magical Instrument? Weren’t they said to have learned some secret scouting techniques?" Chen Mu was surprised.

"A bunch of barbarians, aside from playing with bugs and worshipping the Heavenly Demon, the rest are just brute cultivators practicing perverse methods. How could they possibly have a legitimate scouting secret technique?"

"If they had such a technique, they wouldn’t have been easily driven off from three mountains by us," said the thin shopkeeper disdainfully.

"It’s definitely an Exploration Magical Instrument! This is information coming from the Inspection Courtyard."

Exploration Magical Instrument?

Chen Mu suddenly thought of a fat man with smiling eyes that were barely visible.

No... Could it be?!

He then shook his head, chuckling at the thought.

Shang Huan and Jia Tian, the two fat men, didn’t have the skills for this; this was almost disturbing the situation in East Ridge—it couldn’t be...

"How about you wait another two days?" the shopkeeper suggested.

"Forget it, just wrap it up for me." Chen Mu shook his head.

With the way things were going, the longer he waited, the more expensive it would get.

While the clerk was busy scooping out the medicine as per the list, Chen Mu asked the thin shopkeeper, "Is it safe now to follow the transport convoy back to Jade Spring Mountain?"

"It’s a bit troublesome, but still relatively safe. After all, the convoy is escorted by the Inspection Courtyard," the shopkeeper said. "You just have to be vigilant against attacks and the journey will be slower."

Chen Mu nodded in agreement.

If the situation remained unsettled, flying solo would be dangerous. It might be a good idea to follow the transport convoy for a trip back.

Although it would take over ten days for a round trip, acquiring the Rejuvenation Pill would at least not impact his cultivation for the coming month.

After chatting with the old shopkeeper for a while and learning where to contact the transport team, Chen Mu, holding a half bag of medicinal herbs in his left hand and a basket of meat in his right, was ready to leave the fortress.

But just as he reached the entrance, he saw a disheveled convoy heading his way.

Four Seven-Star Centipedes, covered in cuts and bruises, missing legs and tails, crept weakly forward.

The personnel on both sides each bore bloody marks, with many having lost limbs or being disabled.

This... is this the late transport convoy?

Chen Mu suddenly had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, after a few days of close observation, the situation worsened.

Several convoys were attacked, with heavy casualties.

The local cultivators in East Ridge carried out a fierce retaliation against Jilong Road.

"With it being so dangerous, it’s not good to return to Jade Spring Mountain." Chen Mu sighed.

Given the current, increasingly chaotic situation, even accompanying a convoy protected by the Inspection Courtyard might not be safe, let alone venturing out on his own.

Thinking of the Condensing Aperture Technique that he hadn’t practiced for several days, the braised pork stewing for two hours in the pill furnace in front of him didn’t seem... well, it still smelled delicious.

But no matter how sweet and fragrant the braised pork was, it couldn’t stop his fear of that grumpy old man, Sun Jian, who wielded the Kui Water Yin Thunder.

After eating two large bowls of braised pork with pickled long beans, the worries and gloom in his heart eased slightly.

"It would be great if Eagle Grief Cliff had an Elixir Pill to substitute for the Rejuvenation Pill," Chen Mu wished.

Then, a recipe named Replenishing Origin Soup suddenly popped into his mind... Wait, a recipe?!

Chen Mu looked at the dusty wall with a puzzled expression.

Cooking: 13/10000/Sixth Rank;

"Ha!"

"What a pleasant surprise!"

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