Chapter 812
Settling In
Chapter 812 Settling In
"Does reciting scriptures ten thousand times automatically grant supernatural powers?"
"There's no pitfall here?" Chen Mu didn't believe it.
“How could that be? We’ve been reciting the Rootless Sutra since we were little, and there’s never been a problem.” The Duocai and Duobao brothers shook their heads with certainty.
"You've been studying since you were little? Then why haven't you two awakened your supernatural powers yet?" Chen Mu looked at the two of them suspiciously.
"We are the kind of people who achieve great things later in life," Duo Cai said earnestly.
“Yes, he’s a late bloomer!” Duobao nodded firmly.
Chen Mu: "..."
Tsk, these two oddballs are quite confident.
"What kinds of supernatural powers are you talking about?" he asked curiously.
Chen Mu had a deep understanding of the cultivation methods of Yin spirits in the underworld, but it was quite different from the chanting cultivation method that the two brothers in front of him were talking about.
"Supernatural powers? There are many." Duocai's face was full of longing.
"The most common one is strength. Once awakened, they possess immense strength. Seventy percent of the soldiers in the city defense battalion have this supernatural power."
"And there's Iron Bones, impervious to swords and spears, and immune to water and fire," Duobao added.
"The most amazing thing has to be the ability to travel a thousand miles a day with ease." His eyes, one big and one small, were full of eagerness.
"No, no, no, the most amazing thing is that it can move with the wind."
“Even if we encounter the Black Wind Demon, we can easily escape,” Duocai retorted.
"If you ask me, Divine Speed is still more powerful. Traveling a thousand miles a day is just the initial speed. When it reaches its peak, it can travel ten thousand miles a day." Duobao shook his head in disagreement.
"Can't you use a drill?" Duocai glanced at Duobao.
"Whether it can or not, it's still not as good as Shenxing," Duobao retorted, sticking out his neck.
"You fart!"
"You're the one talking nonsense!"
"Drilling wind is number one!"
"Invincible speed!"
Chen Mu looked at the two brothers arguing so fiercely that their faces were red and their necks were thick, and he was speechless.
You're arguing so seriously, as if you two have some kind of supernatural power.
"Alright." Chen Mu waved his hand to interrupt the two.
Watching the two men, who had kept quiet but were still elbowing each other, I felt utterly helpless.
Chen Mu had originally wanted to find out more information, but seeing that the two brothers weren't very bright, he figured he wouldn't get anything out of them.
"Consider the longevity rice you use to pay the rent as a loan; I'll pay you back in a while."
Without waiting for their reaction, he waved them away.
……
After watching the two leave, Chen Mu closed the courtyard gate, walked around the screen wall, and looked at the courtyard he had just rented.
The west side of the courtyard is covered with some messy flowers and plants, while the east side has two lush burdock trees. In the middle is a gravel path paved with pebbles, and the overall area is fairly tidy.
Chen Mu took out the few Extinction Stones he had and walked around the two-meter-high courtyard wall, burying Extinction Stones as he went.
"It's a pity there aren't any more Forget-River Stones, and I wonder if there are any in this Misty Ridge, which is similar to the underworld."
The Extinction Stone needs to be refined using stones from the River of Oblivion as a medium. If he had enough materials, he would love to cover the entire courtyard with Extinction Stones.
Chen Mu did not believe that he was the only one who possessed a secret technique similar to the ability of listening to divine sounds.
"There is also the prohibition against the shading of light by the mistress."
After circling around, Chen Mu returned to the center of the courtyard, made hand seals and chanted incantations. The soil at the corner of the courtyard wall seemed to gather and rise like liquid, quickly taking shape and fixing itself.
In the blink of an eye, five pillars covered with intricate magical runes appeared, enveloping the entire courtyard.
As several white jade coins were embedded in the groove at the top of the pillar, the air distorted slightly before settling back down.
"With this law protecting me, people outside can only see the plants and trees in the yard, but they can't see me moving around."
"It's like a fixed surveillance camera view."
"It's hard to say about experts, but it should be fine to block most ordinary people from spying on it."
Chen Mu felt somewhat regretful.
As his cultivation level increased, these two methods of concealing his aura became insufficient.
At least they can't defend against his current supernatural ability to hear.
"This is the only way for now."
"If I have the chance in the future, I'll learn some more powerful concealment techniques and forbidden secret arts."
……
Several days later.
On the east side of the courtyard, under a huge burdock tree, Chen Mu, lying in a rocking chair, opened his eyes.
A fist-sized, pitch-black hole hung beside him, from which wisps of mysterious demonic energy dripped down, which he refined and absorbed.
The mana he had consumed most of while refining pure yang energy quickly recovered. "Thanks to the large amount of demonic energy stored in Thousand Lantern City, I can continue cultivating through the Nascent Soul stage."
Having been in Misty Ridge for several days, it has been confirmed that there is no celestial or terrestrial spiritual energy here.
To refine pure yang energy to nourish one's Dao foundation, one can only rely on the previously stored ethereal celestial demon energy.
"But the culprit that led me to this place is probably these demonic energies."
"I don't know if it's lucky or unlucky."
Over the past few days, Chen Mu has repeatedly reviewed the events and has begun to speculate about what happened in the Misty Sky.
"It is highly likely that the Qi cultivator used the Zhou Tian Xing Dou (a system of celestial bodies) to perform the secret technique of shrinking the earth and moving the body."
"It's all for the purpose of banishing the demon race from the mysterious heavens."
"I accumulated too much demonic energy in Thousand Lantern City, and thus became an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire."
"Tsk, what bad luck." Chen Mu shook his head helplessly.
"Oh well, what's done is done."
"After all, it doesn't matter where you cultivate, it's still cultivation." He shrugged, his mind at ease.
The demonic energy within Thousand Lanterns City is abundant, but it will not affect the cultivation of the Primordial Spirit in the seventh level for a short time.
Moreover, the environment here is unique, resembling the underworld, where the power of spirits is highly active. This accelerates their recovery, actually enhancing the tempering of the spirit embryo.
"But the Plague Immortal Technique needs to be suspended for a while."
"The amount of demonic energy is limited, so we should conserve our magical power as much as possible."
"It is best to use the Yin Spirit Heavenly Demon Body Secret Technique for casting spells."
……
A moment later, when the magic power was fully restored.
The spiritual power consumed in refining the Netherworld Qi is automatically replenished.
Chen Mu looked up at the burdock tree overhead, laden with fruit.
"We need to find a way to get some longevity rice."
For a long time to come, I may have to live in Misty Ridge.
Longevity rice is a common currency; having some on hand makes things easier.
What's more, he also owes money to the Duocai and Duobao brothers.
According to Duocai Duobao, only the burdock tree growing in Misty Ridge can transform into longevity rice after more than three years of growth.
"The burdock beads on this tree right now, no matter how long they hang on the branches, will still just be burdock beads."
"Hoping that they will naturally grow into longevity rice is definitely a pipe dream."
“But it’s not impossible to use them to make artificial jade dewdrops to impersonate longevity rice,” Chen Mu said thoughtfully.
The main body of the Jade Dewdrop is also the Moon Burdock Pearl. When they absorb enough Yin Spirit Jade Dew, they will turn into Jade Dewdrops.
Its function is similar to that of longevity rice; both are considered food for spirits.
"The key is how to refine the Yin Spirit Jade Dew."
"Or rather... what can be used to replace the Yin Spirit Jade Dew?"
Although Misty Ridge resembled the underworld, it was not. Chen Mu cast the Dew Gathering Spell more than once, but to no avail.
We need to find another way.
Chen Mu summoned the gray stone door and looked at a long list of secret techniques and spells.
He immediately took out a grain of longevity rice, scraped off some powder with his fingertip, and put it in his mouth.
This is a single grain of longevity rice that he specially kept, just to see if it could be artificially replicated.
The moment the powder entered my mouth, my seventh-level culinary skills began to take effect.
This skill has been with him for decades, not only satisfying his appetite but also greatly assisting his spiritual practice.
The Rejuvenating Soup, used to nourish the body and strengthen the foundation, and the Nourishing Spirit Wine, which replenishes the spirit, both originate from culinary secrets.
"Rejuvenating Soup? Nourishing Spirit Wine?"
"Yes, we don't have Yin Spirit Jade Dew, but if we use both to make a concoction to imitate Yin Spirit Jade Dew..."
"There's hope!" Chen Mu's eyes lit up, and he began to unleash his sixth-order pharmaceutical skills, which he hadn't used in a long time.
Before long, several modulation schemes came to mind.
He immediately opened the Five Ghosts Bag and cast the Seven Revolutions Feasting Mantra and the Nine Revolutions Spirit Absorbing Mantra on the bottomless pool in the center of the bag.
To feed those 100,000 vengeful spirits, Chen Mu himself didn't know how many monster and beast corpses he had thrown into the bottomless pool.
The incantation had only been in effect for a short time when it produced a gourd of Rejuvenating Soup and a gourd of Nourishing Spirit Wine.
Reaching down from the burdock tree above his head, Chen Mu plucked a handful of burdock beads and began to try them out one by one.
After fifty or sixty attempts, a snow-white burdock seed with only a touch of crimson at the base of the stem appeared in my hand.
"Hey, it worked!"