I am grinding experience in another world - Chapter 752 - 740: Harvest
At the southernmost end of Tangshan Mountain Valley, beneath a small waterfall.
Chen Mu stood by the pool’s edge, several black smoke streams darting like pythons beneath the water.
Over a dozen silver-scaled fish, each about a meter long, were swiftly engulfed and devoured by the black smoke.
Feeling the addition of more than a dozen Ghosts inside the Five Ghosts Bag, Chen Mu’s face beamed with a smile.
Months ago, Chen Mu had implanted the United Heart Gu into the silver-scaled fish at the Tangshan Institute, using them to cultivate the Netherworld Worms, and today was the harvest day.
Excluding those that failed to transform and those not yet mature, this time yielded a total harvest of 2,321 Ghosts.
The more Ghosts he held, the more powerful the Candle Dragon Transformation would be, which gave him greater peace of mind.
“In just a few months, the number of Ghosts increased by one-tenth.”
“If I raise a few more batches…”
“Hehehe!”
…
The next day.
In a thatched cottage on the mountainside, Chen Mu lay in a rocking chair, with the Five Ghosts Bag floating above his head, open.
Ever since the Ghosts settled in, the Five Ghosts Bag had been slowly expanding, and now it was comparable in size to a small city.
Currently, over twenty thousand Ghosts were scattered throughout the Five Ghosts Bag, without feeling the slightest bit crowded.
With a thought, thousands of Heavenly Demon Spirit Seeds, glimmering with gold and silver light, flew out from his forehead, like a swarm of fireflies, dancing into the Five Ghosts Bag.
As soon as they entered, they quickly dispersed, swiftly sinking into clusters of black smoke.
Faint yet resilient connections appeared deep within his consciousness.
The more than two thousand Ghosts, transformed from the Netherworld Worms just yesterday, were easily implanted with the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seeds.
“The life force of the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seeds, refined using the Plague Immortal Technique, has indeed strengthened considerably.” Chen Mu nodded to himself.
In the past, even with the Yama Emperor’s Command subduing the Ghosts, implanting the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seeds required considerable effort, nothing like the ease this time.
“If only the Transmission Secret Method were this easy.”
To gather the Ghosts’ power to perform the Candle Dragon Transformation and Ghost Gate, the Ghosts must master the Mountain-Carrying Scripture and Jade Gate Curse.
The Ghosts, after all, are different from Yin Spirits and cannot learn autonomously, relying solely on Chen Mu to use the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seeds to transmit them one by one.
A blob of black smoke, over a meter in diameter, was extracted by Chen Mu from the Five Ghosts Bag.
The surrounding Yin Spirit Divine Power flickered, and thin silver threads appeared in the air, quickly drilling into the smoke blob.
The Ghosts’ black smoke rolled and churned for a moment before settling, the two secret arts of Jade Gate and Mountain-Carrying successfully imprinted into the Ghosts’ bodies.
With a wave of his hand, Chen Mu collected the Ghosts before him and took another to continue.
He continued transmitting one by one, working diligently for more than half a day before completing the task.
Feeling only slightly fatigued in spirit, Chen Mu relaxed his heart.
“Though somewhat tiring, there’s no headache—progress in Dao makes a difference.”
He happily took out some Nourishing Spirit Wine and sipped it, the slight spiritual fatigue soon vanished without a trace.
In the past, transmitting secret arts to these two thousand Ghosts couldn’t be completed in less than four or five days.
And because it drained his spirit, it would result in unbearable headaches, requiring a considerable amount of Nourishing Spirit Wine to fully recover.
“This is much better, saving quite a bit of Nourishing Spirit Wine.”
Chen Mu cheerfully shook the gourd in his hand.
Nourishing Spirit Wine can replenish the Spiritual Deity, and the stronger the Spiritual Deity, the smoother the cultivation. Especially when condensing Spiritual Treasures now, strong Spiritual Deity control is essential.
This wine was made from the remnants of the Exotic Beast Blood and Flesh. The demon and monster bones accumulated in Outer Heaven had long been exhausted, with no source of spirit essence left, Chen Mu had to rely on what he had. Each gourd of Nourishing Spirit Wine consumed was one less at hand.
Especially with the high-intensity cultivation of the Yellow Springs Gourd over the past two years, the consumption was enormous. Now he had only two and a half gourds left, certainly not enough to support completing the Sixth Rank Yellow Springs Gourd.
“For the next batch of silver-scaled fish, I’ll only use half to raise Netherworld Worms. The other half, should I use it to distill Nourishing Spirit Wine?”
Chen Mu pondered for a moment, then slowly shook his head.
“The silver-scaled fish are merely ordinary Exotic Beasts, lacking Spirituality. Even if I keep them all, they probably won’t make more than a few gourds of Nourishing Spirit Wine.”
“The value of such a small increase does not compare to cultivating more Netherworld Worms.”
After resting for a while, Chen Mu performed the Tongyou Spell, guiding the Yama True Ghost Pattern to start patching the Five Ghosts Bag.
He had performed similar operations many times before.
“If only the Yama True Ghost Pattern could be fully integrated into the Five Ghosts Bag.” Chen Mu pondered as he worked.
Currently, the Yama True Ghost Pattern was akin to a temporary coating inside the Five Ghosts Bag. Once the ghost pattern’s power dissipated, it needed to be applied again.
To integrate the true ghost pattern, he would not only need to fully master the Yama True Ghost Pattern but also reconstruct the internal structure of the Five Ghosts Bag, involving Artifact Refining Technique, which was beyond Chen Mu’s current capabilities.
“Fortunately, it’s still sufficient, just a periodic patching is needed, nothing major.”
After a busy session, the sun was gradually setting in the west.
Chen Mu fished out the silver-scaled fish king he had specially raised in the nearby pool and enjoyed a feast of fragrant pan-fried and boiled fish.
After a brief rest, he began a new round of cultivation.
First, he brushed up on the Spiritual Treasure Pivot Scripture’s experience, then took some time to train the Heavenly Demon Armor, and finally focused on condensing the Spirit Treasure Talisman of the Yellow Springs Gourd.
…
Seven or eight days later.
The Yellow Springs Gourd, the size of two walnuts, collapsed once again.
The dispersed Primordial Qi from the shattering didn’t go to waste, spreading into various parts of his body, slowly enhancing the body’s foundation.
“The Sixth Level of Qi Refining is called Casting Spirit Treasure, also known as Piling Immortal Platform.”
“This so-called Piling Immortal Platform is not about piling up Spirit Treasures, but rather one’s own body.” Chen Mu had a sudden insight.
“By accumulating the foundation of oneself through the dispersal of the Spirit Treasure Talisman after shattering the Primordial Qi bit by bit.”
“One step in cultivation, serving two functions, indeed Qi Cultivators are worthy of being the Profound Sect’s orthodox line.” He couldn’t help but exclaim.
After resting briefly, Chen Mu rose and left the thatched cottage, making his way into the Tangshan Institute’s mountain valley.
During the past seven-eight days of secluded cultivation by Chen Mu, Tang Zong had been leading the disciples of the Tangshan Institute in cultivating a new batch of silver-scaled fish.
The fish seedlings had now been released into the warm spring streams throughout the institute.
After a few days of adaptation, the fish seedlings were now able to survive steadily, and it was time to implant the United Heart Gu into them.
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By evening.
After implanting the United Heart Gu into 2,933 small fish seedlings, Chen Mu returned to the thatched cottage midway up the mountain.
“I wonder what the United Heart Rope is made of, it can continuously split out Netherworld Worm eggs, truly miraculous.”
Chen Mu couldn’t help marveling as he looked at the United Heart Rope in his hand, which seemed ordinary like a regular rope.
He had used the Spirit Treasure Core Mechanism Technique to probe it but found only a simple rune inside.
The rune had the elegance of talismans and primordial talismans, with a touch of Netherworld Ghost Patterns, appearing ordinary.
But just thinking about the United Heart Rope’s ability to continuously produce Netherworld Worms revealed the rune’s profound mysteries.
“Perhaps once the Spiritual Treasure Pivot Scripture reaches the Ninth Rank, its hidden secrets might be revealed.”
With a flick of his wrist, the pitch-black rope slithered like a nimble little snake, winding its way onto his head, automatically shrinking and coiling to tie Chen Mu’s long hair into a neat high ponytail.
Chen Mu then retrieved the Five Ghosts Bag, looking inside.
With the Yama True Ghost Pattern providing the Jade Dew, the newly arrived 2,000 Ghosts had passed the initial weak period. The black mist surrounding them had stabilized, with their life rhythms significantly enhanced by thirty percent.
He had a thought.
In the air before him, a black and silver light abruptly flashed, and a two-meter-tall dragon head emerged from the void.
The dark dragon head silently slid in front of Chen Mu, a pair of giant scarlet eyes reflecting Chen Mu’s image.
Behind it lay a vast expanse of black and silver mist, an enormous, winding, twisting body faintly visible within.
An intangible pressure gradually spread out.
At the foot of Tangshan, a Double Flower Rabbit, on its back, suddenly stiffened, as if the pause button had been pressed. Its mouth, chewing on a four-leaf flower, came to an immediate halt.
Seeing the soul-captivating, cold gaze in those scarlet eyes and feeling the significantly stronger aura emanating from the Candle Dragon Dharma Body, Chen Mu couldn’t help but sigh and shake his head.
“This is only with an addition of over two thousand Ghosts, and the Candle Dragon Transformation’s power has already noticeably increased by thirty percent.”
“If I raise a few more batches…”
“The first place throne for the attack power of the Yin Yang Qi Divine Power is probably in jeopardy.” He worried with concern.
“I am clearly an orthodox Qi Cultivator, yet each time I make some progress, those unorthodox paths prevail.”
“This isn’t fair!”
Chen Mu wore a face of indignation.
