I am grinding experience in another world

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The atmosphere in the stone house was tense, and Chen Mu’s face was also gloomy.

He had come to Feng’an City to find a way back to the Yang Realm, never expecting that this place would turn out to be a quagmire, trapping him by the River of Oblivion.

He had thought that building a Ghost Gate would allow him to escape to Beyond Heaven. But now, with the Ghost Gate smashed by Li Wuyou, constructing a new one would surely take months. And Qingyang City would not just stand by as they built another Ghost Gate.

Chen Mu stared fiercely at the stone on the square table, full of cracks.

Despite being on guard against everything, he had not expected a Qingyang City spy to isolate the essence of the River of Oblivion and lure Li Wuyou into attacking the Ghost Gate.

“Damn Qingyang City!”

“Son of a bitch spy!”

As he was cursing the bastard who created the Extinguishing Breath Stone, a sudden thought occurred to him.

“If this thing can temporarily conceal the essence of the River of Oblivion, could it also interrupt Li Wuyou’s ability to lock onto my essence?”

“If I use this thing to cover my tracks and run ten thousand miles in one go, could I shake off Li Wuyou’s pursuit?!”

Chen Mu’s eyes suddenly shone.

“Has the spy who made this Extinguishing Breath Stone been found?” he immediately turned to look at Lü Liang.

Lü Liang, not understanding the significance, replied somewhat blankly, “Arrangements have been made to screen for him, but we’ve not found him yet.”

“Intensify the search. Conduct a thorough check overnight and make sure to find him before dawn tomorrow.” Chen Mu then turned to Shang Yang, “You help too. Find this spy who made the Extinguishing Breath Stone as soon as possible!”

“Is this thing that important?” Shang Yang couldn’t help scratching his head.

“It might just let us get rid of King Wuyou’s entanglement.”

Hearing this, everyone’s expression immediately turned solemn.

…

With the help of Shang Yang, a Divine Fetus realm Yin Spirit, and the full cooperation of the Yin soldiers of Feng’an City, Zhang Er and Shen Bu appeared before Chen Mu the next morning.

Chen Mu looked expressionlessly at Shen Bu. It was this man who had used the Secret Technique of Ground-Shrinking Teleportation to send him far away from Feng’an City.

“Isn’t your ground-shrinking teleportation technique very powerful? Why didn’t you run?” Chen Mu stared at him and asked.

Shen Bu’s face was bruised, and he forced a flattering smile, “I wanted to run, just… didn’t quite dare.”

“Didn’t dare?”

“There’s a sealing secret technique around here that limits teleportation distance. Can’t get far. If I’m not careful and fall into King Wuyou’s hands…” Shen Bu gave a bitter smile but didn’t dare to hide anything.

Chen Mu suddenly realized.

Lü Liang had previously secretly ordered Yin soldiers to experiment with Netherworld Ferry and already discovered that someone had sealed the surroundings with a secret technique, severely limiting ordinary teleportation techniques.

Chen Mu sighed inwardly.

He had wanted to use Shen Bu’s ground-shrinking teleportation technique to escape far from the River of Oblivion. Now, it seemed, there was no chance of that.

He immediately frowned and looked at Zhang Er, who also had a bruised face.

“Can’t your Extinguishing Breath Stone block King Wuyou’s tracking?” With the Extinguishing Breath Stone blocking, they should be able to escape.

“It can,” Zhang Er immediately nodded.

“But my power is limited. Each Extinguishing Breath Stone can only conceal essence for up to a quarter hour.”

“The Extinguishing Breath Stones I made before have all been taken away by the Secret Espionage Division. We don’t have enough stock, and even if we join forces to flee, we won’t get far.”

Chen Mu immediately understood.

When King Wuyou destroyed the Ghost Gate, the illusion of the River of Oblivion appeared soon after, which meant that the concealment time of the Extinguishing Breath Stone was very short-lived.

Since King Wuyou himself was a Strange Demon from the Heavenly Capital with formidable strength, the Extinguishing Breath Stone being able to conceal for a quarter hour was already quite extraordinary.

“Make an Extinguishing Breath Stone for me to see. If it’s useful, I can assure your safety. If it’s not…” Chen Mu narrowed his eyes.

“Useful, it’s definitely useful,” Zhang Er nodded repeatedly.

He took a stone the size of a chicken egg and placed it in the palm of his left hand. His right index finger touched the stone, and his Yin Spirit Divine Power vibrated and changed its quality, burrowing along his finger into the stone.

With a sizzling sound, like fresh meat placed on a red-hot iron plate, magma-like black-red lines began to crawl upon the surface of the stone, slowly weaving together to form a pattern resembling feathers.

After a good while, Zhang Er, drenched in sweat, withdrew his hand and carefully presented the freshly-made Extinguishing Breath Stone to Chen Mu.

“Just activate it with Yin Spirit Divine Power, and it can conceal essence and deceive Heaven itself.”

Chen Mu reached out and took it, immediately feeling a strange, tranquil power cling to the stone’s surface like a thin film.

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This thing…

might actually be useful!

…

Three miles from the banks of the River of Oblivion, Chen Mu’s figure appeared on a huge rock that was as tall as two or three floors.

No sooner had he appeared than a Li Wuyou was there, staring at him from a short distance away.

Chen Mu glanced at him and shook his head involuntarily.

He didn’t even know how many of Li Wuyou’s avatars he had tricked into the River of Oblivion from atop this rock.

But every time he showed himself, Li Wuyou would still appear.

“Tsk! So powerful yet so foolishly pitiful, it really is…”

He didn’t linger with his gaze and immediately infused the Extinguishing Breath Stone in his hand with Yin Spirit Divine Power.

An invisible force began to emanate from within the stone, swirling around his body.

Chen Mu took a deep breath, turned his form, became a Gentle Breeze, and vanished in an instant from the rock, appearing not far behind Li Wuyou.

And yet, Li Wuyou still stood in his original spot, dumbly staring at the large rock in the distance.

“There’s a way!” Chen Mu exclaimed with joy, “As long as there are enough Extinguishing Breath Stones to conceal my presence, I might be able to elude Li Wuyou’s entanglement!”

…

“I’m afraid that won’t be easy,” Zhang Er said with a troubled expression inside a stone hut by the river.

“I’m just an ordinary Yin Spirit; my Yin Spirit Divine Power is limited. Without eating or drinking, I can at most make nine Extinguishing Breath Stones in a whole day.”

“To continuously conceal one’s aura for three days would require nearly six hundred stones, and that… that might take more than two months.”

Yin Spirit Divine Power is limited?

This might just be a stroke of luck.

He immediately mobilized his Yin Spirit Divine Power, and the True Intent of the Mountain-Carrying Scripture Secret Technique instantly transformed into a silver thread before his eyes, then drilled into the void in front of his brow and disappeared without a trace.

“There’s no shortage of Yin Spirit Divine Power now, is there?” Chen Mu said gleefully.

Zhang Er trembled all over and couldn’t help but widen his eyes!

The Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed had such a miraculous use? It could instantly make one proficient in a Secret Technique?!

It had been a while since the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed had entered his body, and he had explored the black canopy it brought hundreds of times.

He had originally thought that the stars in the black canopy could assist in understanding Secret Techniques, but he hadn’t expected that they could directly bestow the experience of Perfection in Secret Techniques!

Impressive!

Zhang Er was shocked.

Chen Mu couldn’t help but smile.

With the protection of the Extinguishing Breath Stones, he wasn’t afraid of being located by Li Wuyou. As long as he was careful in concealing his form, he could probably escape ten thousand miles away in one go and might escape that cursed thing’s entanglement.

“Blessings and curses come together; although the Ghost Gate was destroyed, another path to escape has been found.”

“However, this method can only let a very small number of people escape the predicament; as for the Yin Spirits gathered by the River of Oblivion in Feng’an City…” Chen Mu turned his head to look towards the distant riverbank.

Right now, the people of Feng’an City were busy constructing a new Ghost Gate.

These people were still relatively safe for the time being, but once Qingyang City succeeded in capturing Lü Chengshan, the city master of Feng’an, the fate of the many Yin Spirits would probably not be too pleasant to behold.

He had originally wanted to take them with him to Beyond Heaven, but the city master of Qingyang City sent Shang Yang to destroy the Ghost Gate.

“That’s right, Lü Chengshan hid the Netherstone among the people of Feng’an City. These people are his anchor for returning to the Netherworld.”

“As long as Qingyang City keeps an eye on these people, they can easily capture Lü Chengshan; naturally, they won’t allow these people to flee.”

“This damned world!”

Chen Mu sighed helplessly.

Starting from Da Liang, he had travelled far and wide, but no matter where he went, there were always struggles and chaos. And the unfortunate ones were always them, the lower-class figures.

He did want to lend a hand, but he was already struggling to protect himself, making it difficult to save others.

Gazing at the busy figures in the distance, Chen Mu felt a heavy heart.

“If only there were more people like Zhang Er who could make Extinguishing Breath Stones, it would be great, but alas…”