I am grinding experience in another world-Chapter 722 - 710 Vital Energy Deficit

After resolving the problem of controlling the ghosts, Chen Mu's life returned to regularity.

Every day he practiced the Jade Cicada Secret Scripture, steadily progressing in Daoist Foundation cultivation, and during his rest, he continued to ponder the Plague Immortal Technique.

Every three to five days, he caught a strange demon, and the number of ghosts in the Five Ghosts Bag quickly reached twelve thousand.

As if coexisting symbiotically, the internal space of the Five Ghosts Bag began to slowly expand under the influence of the ghosts.

"There must be some profound mystery between the two," Chen Mu realized.

The practice of the Five Ghosts Bag came from the Thousand Mountains Sutra, and the Five Ghosts Paper Dolls, one of its cores, were made using ghosts.

"Perhaps only the complete Thousand Mountains Sutra records it, but unfortunately, it's nowhere to be seen."

The Thousand Mountains Sutra is widespread, but most are fragments.

Over the years, he traveled everywhere and browsed numerous collections in several Daoist sects, but found no related scripture scrolls.

Chen Mu pondered a bit and then paid no more attention.

After all, it's not something life-threatening.

As long as he goes far enough on the path of Qi Refinement and Immortal Cultivation, he might eventually come across it by chance.

Leave it to fate.

In his spare time from cultivation, Chen Mu occasionally gazed at the starry sky, wondering about the current invasion of nether demons and heavenly demons on the Fire Dao Star.

Sometimes, he worried that demons would descend from the sky, repeating the chaos of Hai Province.

But with billions of stars above, and lacking the skill of stargazing, he saw nothing.

"If the sky falls, let the tall ones hold it up."

"The Thousand Mechanisms Sect has guarded the corner wood stars for many years; they should have prepared plans long ago."

"I'd better honestly cultivate my immortality."

"Enhancing my Dao one more step, when confronting such great chaos, my ability to escape will also be a bit stronger."

...

The mountains are without sun and moon.

Chen Mu enjoyed brushing experience points every day, not caring much about the passage of time.

This day, as usual, Chen Mu sat in front of the wooden cabin, listening to the distant gentle sound of a small waterfall, and closed his eyes to practice Reversed Primordial Qi.

After a while, he opened his eyes, and a gray wall appeared before him.

Jade Cicada Secret Scripture: 5147/10000/Ninth Rank;

"More than halfway through the ninth rank, it shouldn't take long to reach perfection." Chen Mu's face was full of smiles.

Daoist Foundation cultivation is the fifth stage of Qi Refinement.

The first four stages of Jade Seed Joining, Gathering Talisman, Concentrating Spirit Acupoint, River Chariot Refining, no matter how mysterious, were still basically cultivating on the original foundation of the human body.

No matter how exquisite the secret technique, it couldn't break the human body's limits; it could prolong life, but was almost impossible for immortality.

Only by reforming the jade seed and changing the foundation can one completely shed mortal form, a necessary stage for cultivating a primordial spirit.

"It's almost here; soon, I'll be able to shed and reborn, entering a whole new stage."

After happily imagining the future for a while, Chen Mu suddenly felt as if something was missing.

Thinking again and again, he finally realized.

"Why hasn't today's strange demon appeared yet?"

In the few months he had secluded himself on Cloud Mist Mountain, every three to five days, a strange demon would appear.

Just like waiting for rabbits, without much trouble, hundreds of ghosts would be presented before him.

With the visible enhancement of Candle Dragon Transformation's power and the nourishment of abundant Yin Spirit Divine Power, the Colorless Seven Emotions Flame on the Yin Spirit Divine Fetus had grown by three points.

Chen Mu was like an old farmer waiting for the crops to sprout, looking forward every day.

"Yun Shan isn't at the City Divine Temple?"

Chen Mu used Truthful Listening Divine Power, but found that Temple Priest Yun Shan wasn't guarding the temple.

The previous strange demons were all driven by this person, who now had disappeared.

"All the strange demons around Zhang'an County have been collected by me, so he went further to seek them?"

Chen Mu thought a bit, and suddenly understood.

"Tsk!"

"I guess this counts as protecting the territory and the people then."

"Thinking this way, even as a slacking living god, I've done quite alright, hehe…"

...

One night, Chen Mu was snoring heavily in bed.

Suddenly, a rustling sound, like murmured whispers, reached his ears.

He initiated Truthful Listening Divine Power and opened his eyes, activities within a radius of twenty miles centered around the thatched hut flowed into his ears.

"Was it an illusion?"

Chen Mu frowned.

After several rounds of investigation, apart from various strange cries of nocturnal animals, there was no other abnormal noise.

In the following days, everything was calm. The faint whispers seemed just like auditory hallucinations from half-asleep muttering that night.

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Chen Mu awoke in the morning, washed and ate as usual, and began his day of cultivation.

He practiced Reversed Primordial Qi, visualized the Dao Foundation Map, reformed Jade Seed, and used Giant Spirit Divine to perform Soul Capturing and Essence Returning Technique with Replenishing Origin Soup and Nourishing Spirit Wine, feeding back rapidly to himself, a sequence of cultivation flowed like water.

After cultivation, Chen Mu casually glanced at the experience on the gray wall, but was stunned.

"One cultivation, and the experience value of the Soul Capturing and Essence Returning Technique increased by thirty points?"

"That's not right."

Before, using Giant Spirit Divine to perform Soul Capturing and Essence Returning only gained eight or nine points of experience per session.

But now…

"It's because the amount of vital energy captured by the Giant Spirit Divine is increasing! More precisely, my own vital energy is mysteriously depleting!" Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat.

This led Giant Spirit Divine to capture more vital energy to feedback, causing a significant increase in the experience of the Soul Capturing and Essence Returning Technique.

"The depletion of vital energy in Daoist Foundation cultivation mainly results from the need for a large amount of mana to practice Primordial Qi inversely."

"The amount of Primordial Qi I've refined these days hasn't changed, so it can't be due to Daoist Foundation cultivation causing a vital energy deficit."

"There's something that is inexplicably absorbing my divine energy and essence!"

He immediately thought of the strange whispers heard late at night days ago.

A strange demon!

It must be some kind of evil strange demon!

Chen Mu immediately deployed Truthful Listening Divine Power, exploring inch by inch, centered on the thatched hut on the mountainside.

After investigating for an Hour, he didn't find any trace of a strange demon.

No white fog, human-headed yinming insects, or strange roars, nothing.

Instead, he found the flora and fauna in the mountains appeared inexplicably listless.

"These plants and animals are withering under my nose, and I didn't notice it over five or six days?" Chen Mu felt a chill in his heart.

In the past few months, he hunted dozens of strange demons and had started to disregard them.

But the current situation immediately alarmed Chen Mu.

It wasn't that strange demons weren't scary, but that the ones he had hunted were just some insignificant small demons.

No wonder Yun Shan disappeared!

This old guy did not go out to hunt strange demons, but knew there was a big evil approaching and escaped in advance!

Damn bastard!

Chen Mu took a deep breath and suppressed his anger.

"This place can't be stayed in any longer."

If he couldn't find or see them, he couldn't do anything; the other party could secretly siphon off his divine energy and essence.

It was as if he were a frog slowly being boiled; if he didn't leave quickly, he might be drained silently one day!

...

Bringing the entire thatched hut into Thousand Lanterns City, in just a moment, Chen Mu turned into a golden light, quickly flying into the depths of Cloud Mist Mountain.

He fled five hundred miles, far away from Zhang'an County, before descending from the escape light, emerging in a dense forest.

He wasn't sure if he had already shaken off the strange demon, and didn't set up camp, immediately diving into Thousand Lanterns City.

The following dawn.

Chen Mu, who hadn't slept all night, emerged again.

He reversed the river chariot, visualized the Dao Foundation Map, and used the Giant Spirit Divine to absorb vital energy for Strengthening Foundation Cultivation, beginning the routine cultivation.

Chen Mu's eyes were fixed on the gray wall.

Yet he found that the experience gained from the Soul Capturing and Essence Returning Technique was even more than the previous day, increasing by fifty-three points.

"I rested in Thousand Lanterns City for a day, yet the depletion of divine energy and essence didn't decrease but increased?"

"That ghostly thing... could it be right beside me?!"

Chen Mu felt a chill all over.

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