I am grinding experience in another world - Chapter 768 - 756: Escape
In the southernmost region of the Heavenly River Cave Heaven, dark clouds loomed over the sky, casting a heavy gloom.
Inside a certain iceberg, a circular pond with a diameter of several tens of meters was settled in the center of the cavern.
The pond’s surface was calm, like a copper mirror.
Seven or eight palm-sized, translucent little fish swam leisurely within, occasionally emitting a white glow that painted the cave in bizarre colors.
A middle-aged man dressed in a purple robe with golden threads sat cross-legged at the center of the water, as if seated on solid ground.
He had a head full of fiery red hair, cheeks covered with fine scales, and a pair of delicate deer antlers the size of palms on his forehead.
At first glance, his facial contours bore a five to six part resemblance to those of Tang Sect.
After a long while, the middle-aged man opened his eyes.
Buzz!
The air trembled, and countless tiny black hands suddenly appeared around him.
Some grabbed his clothes while others pressed on his shoulders, firmly trapping the middle-aged man in place, unable to move.
“These grooves of Yin Ghost Sect members, the restraints are damn tight!” Tang Wang glanced at the tiny black hand on his shoulder, secretly resenting.
“Tang Sect is likely finished, and I don’t know what background that Chen Mu has, to be able to shake the Dragon Binding Lock.” His expression was gloomy.
Just now, he attempted to contact Tang Sect again, only to find its Spirit God Qi Mechanism flickering, like a candle in the wind.
The hard-earned Gang Sha Avatar was now considered destroyed.
“Forget it, no use pondering.”
“I’ve even sacrificed my True Form Body, let alone a Gang Sha Avatar.”
“As long as I escape, I have a chance to rise again. Training a new one would just take some additional effort.”
Tang Wang took a deep breath, dispelling distracting thoughts.
Then, he focused on the black hand on his shoulder, his expression turning serious.
Mana circulated, a crimson arc of electricity appeared on his shoulder.
The black hand struck by the arc turned to black powder, quickly drifting away.
“The Primordial Slaughter Divine Thunder Technique really works!”
Tang Wang let out a long breath, finally smiling.
After being trapped in Golden River City for over two hundred years, he finally saw hope for escape.
He didn’t hesitate any longer, immediately starting to fully activate the Primordial Slaughter Divine Thunder Technique curse.
Crackling…
Tiny arcs emerged densely on his body, and the black hands covering him continually turned to ash.
Tang Wang’s face turned pale, his aura plummeted significantly, as if severely injured.
Yet he not only didn’t stop, but increased the force on the curse even more fervently.
He suddenly leaped up into midair.
As if enraged, countless black hands appeared throughout the cavern.
All rushed forward to tightly cling to Tang Wang’s entire body, trying to press him back into the pond.
The eerie black hands swarmed continuously, while the crimson blood lightning flickered incessantly.
Tang Wang’s damage worsened, but he persisted, desperately struggling upwards against the pulling hands.
Swoosh!
A pitch-black sphere appeared silently atop the cave.
It was the Water Eye Passage of the Cave Heaven, connecting to the outside of the Grotto Heaven.
“Almost there, just a little touch, and I can teleport away with Ground Shrinking.”
“After years of captivity, it’s finally over!”
He laughed wildly, eyes wide, staring intently at the black sphere, his right hand stretching out desperately.
His fingertips were on the verge of touching the black sphere.
Buzz!
Above the iceberg’s gloomy sky, countless starlights pierced through the clouds, enveloping the entire iceberg.
A formidable force descended from the sky, locking Tang Wang rigidly in midair.
The smile on Tang Wang’s face instantly froze.
Star Shifting?
How is that possible!
Originally, he used this secret technique to swap positions with Tang Sect, escaping Golden River City.
Now…
This is going to swap me back to Golden River City?
No, no, no!
Absolutely not!
He desperately surged his mana, the crimson arc suddenly growing threefold.
But no matter how he exerted, he couldn’t advance even a bit.
Tang Wang looked despairingly at the tiny gap between his fingertip and the black sphere.
Swoosh!
He disappeared instantly.
In his place, was a wrist-thick black iron loach.
Within the cavern, the countless black hands, as if finding a new target, turned to surge towards the strange loach.
But before they could, with a flash of golden light, a figure appeared at the cavern’s far end, it was Tang Sect, tightly bound by the Lock Spirit Spell.
Like piranhas smelling blood, the eerie black hands turned round, brushing brushing towards Tang Sect.
The black iron loach took the opportunity to whip its tail, and quickly darted into the black sphere, disappearing without a trace.
Inside the cavern, the Lock Spirit Spell on Tang Sect vanished, he regained freedom of movement, but the halted Dismantling Technique began running again.
He was like a deflated balloon, his spirit dwindling rapidly. In a few breaths, his hair withered, turned gray and fell out in large clumps.
Tang Sect wished to roar in anger, but merely opened his mouth, unable to utter any sound of weakness.
He could only stare lifelessly at the black sphere on the cave ceiling, his face full of grief and indignation.
A small black hand wiggled its way over, immediately reaching for Tang Sect’s face.
However, just as it touched, half of his face snapped and shattered into pieces.
Black Hand: “…”
This… this isn’t my fault, right?
He… he’s playing the victim!
…
The lights and shadows shifted in a pitch-black watery realm.
A small-arm-thick loach appeared out of nowhere, rapidly expanding into a monstrous beast tens of meters long, which was the Dragon Bone Boat.
In front of the Golden Dragon Hall inside the boat, Chen Mu stood by the water pool, closely watching the lights and shadows in the Fog Smoke Mirror.
Seeing that pitch-black watery realm, his heart trembled violently!
“Tongtian River!”
“This is definitely the Tongtian River!”
He immediately activated the Dragon Bone Boat, moving swiftly upstream.
Soon, flickering light spots like waves came into view.
Splosh!
A flood dragon burst out of the water, splashing droplets everywhere as the massive Dragon Bone Boat suddenly surged out of the river’s surface.
With a flicker of golden light, Chen Mu was the first to leap out of the Dragon Bone Boat.
Hovering mid-air, gazing at the vast world, he finally flashed a brilliant smile.
“Finally got out, haha!”
Trapped in Golden River City for four or five months, nearly half a year without seeing the light of day.
Now, suddenly witnessing the vast world, he felt an irrepressible elation.
…
Three days later, at dusk.
The Dragon Bone Boat quietly floated on the Tongtian River’s surface.
The people of the Tangshan Institute all emerged from the Dragon Bone Boat, some were fishing and playing in the water, while others sat on the Dragon Bone Boat chatting and enjoying the breeze.
Atop the Dragon Boat, Chen Mu lay lazily in a rocking chair, basking in the setting sun, unwilling to move.
Previously, he hadn’t had a moment to rest in order to leave Golden River City.
One thing after another had exhausted him greatly.
During the past three days, he did nothing but sleep for three days straight. Until he woke up today, his taut nerves gradually eased.
“Wonder what that old loach was thinking, having escaped Golden River City, why not leave the Heavenly River Cave Heaven earlier?” Replaying events a bit, Chen Mu mused privately.
“Didn’t want to, or couldn’t?” A thought crossed his mind, remembering those eerie black hands in the cave.
Those were probably the Yin Ghost Sect members’ method of capturing.
Good catch!
Chen Mu chuckled softly.
“Luckily, that old loach didn’t leave the Heavenly River Cave Heaven, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to swap places with Tang Sect through teleportation.”
“The Heavenly Cycle Star Battle Forbidden inside Heavenly River Cave Heaven doesn’t reach outside the cave heaven.”
“And if it weren’t for the Yin Ghost Sect members suppressing too fiercely, even if I completed the swap, I might not have escaped their dying counterattack.” Chen Mu felt increasingly fortunate.
The seventh level of the Heavenly Demon Reincarnation Technique is the True Form Realm, its cultivation equivalent to a Qi Cultivator’s Primordial Spirit, granting immortality and the ability to regenerate from a drop of blood, incredibly powerful.
But that old loach was one step further, at the eighth level, the Gang Sha Realm!
“It seems the Netherworld has its means too.”
“I wonder what identity that old loach had before, such a miserable end.” Chen Mu laughed gleefully.
“He might have come from the Chen Character Heavenly River Water Mansion, or even been the last Mansion Master.” Tang Zhimu, who had unknowingly come closer, looked desolate.
Tang Sect was captured, his belongings seized, prompting Tang Zhimu to obtain the Tang Family Patriarch’s notebook jade slip.
After a thorough read, he indeed found some things.
“All the past Mansion Masters of Chen Character Heavenly River had the surname Tang, and our Tang Family originally also came from Chen Character Heavenly River Water Mansion.” He continued.
Classic rags-to-riches ancestors!
Chen Mu became intrigued.
The old loach was a High Cultivator in the Gang Sha Realm, capable of forming a Dragon Ball. His secret technique must be connected to the True Dragon Bloodline.
If he were an expert in the Chen Character Heavenly River Water Mansion, it would make sense.
“Thinking back now, our branch leaving the Water Mansion to root in Tangshan was probably to guard the fire eye entrance to the cave heaven.” Tang Zhimu’s expression grew increasingly complex.
“So, was the discovery of the cave heaven water mansion by your Tang family’s ancestor not an accidental find, but a case of an inside job?” Chen Mu raised an eyebrow.
“That’s likely the case.” Tang Zhimu looked embarrassed.
This Tang Family ancestor wasn’t a good person either.
Chen Mu laughed.
Who knows if that old loach was lucky or unlucky.
Encountering a thieving descendant, yet finding a glimmer of hope to send out an avatar.
Unfortunately, he also provoked Chen Mu, who snuffed out that glimmer of hope.
Why’d you mess with me for no reason?
Chen Mu couldn’t help but purse his lips.
“Capital Institute, where do we head next?” Tang Zhimu composed himself, looking at Chen Mu and asked.
“The next step?”
“First, determine our current location, then find a suitable Yellow Springs Sect Lower Branch to take refuge in.” Chen Mu came back to his senses.
They were initially intending to seek refuge in another Yellow Springs Sect Lower Branch to avoid the dangerous situation in Yizhou.
Previously delayed by being trapped in Golden River City, now having escaped, they naturally intended to continue onward.
