Inside the secret chamber, Chen Mu’s thoughts spun rapidly.
As he once again urged the Truthful Listening Technique in his hand, he leaped up like his butt was on fire and dashed straight for the chamber’s upper exit.
Almost the instant the feedback from the Truthful Listening Technique reached him, Chen Mu couldn’t help but shudder violently.
The two Condensing Aperture experts who had been two or three hundred meters underground just now had suddenly halved the distance between them!
That fast?!
He had just leaped out of the bamboo building when mana surged wildly within his Jade Seed.
Five Ghosts Escaping Earth...
Gua!
A flash of light and shadow changed on the open ground in front of the bamboo building.
A giant toad as tall as a basketball stand appeared out of thin air.Chen Mu stiffened all over, and the wails and howls that had just started rising around him were immediately dispersed by him.
Then, rustily, he raised his hand and robotically shook it left and right in greeting.
"You... hello."
This terrifying giant toad, damn it, was actually quite polite!
...
Underground, Xin Ya frowned at Wei Donglai.
"What was that just now..."
"It must have been Liu Ling setting up the Mountain Protection Restriction," Wei Donglai said with an ugly expression.
"We need to speed up."
"Or perhaps we should go kill Liu Ling first?" Xin Ya suggested with a sinister smile.
Wei Donglai glanced at Xin Ya: "Can you guarantee it won’t alert Jade Spring Mountain?"
"Fine," Xin Ya shrugged helplessly.
He threw another handful of insects into the green flames.
The wooden-faced insect thralls immediately trembled all over, their muscles bulged, and dark green lines crawled over their exposed skin, their entire demeanor visibly becoming more ferocious.
Like they were injected with chicken blood, they dug through the tunnel with frenzied punches and kicks.
...
"It’s you," Liang Yi recognized Chen Mu at a glance.
"I should have thought of it."
"To have cultivated the Truthful Listening Technique to this level, there aren’t many on Jilong Road."
"Minor Supervisor!" Chen Mu quickly greeted with respect and clasped fists.
"Just call me Liang Yi, the Lower Courtyard of Tongtian River is gone, there’s no Minor Supervisor anymore," Liang Yi said dismissively with a wave of his hand.
"In my heart, Minor Supervisor will always be Minor Supervisor!" Chen Mu said with earnest flattery.
Liang Yi looked at Chen Mu strangely.
You really have no shame.
He sized up Chen Mu, thinking of the fleeting sinister aura from before, and his brows furrowed.
A thick-skinned, sinister sorcerer, doesn’t seem like a decent person at all.
"How come you are on Mist Smoke Mountain?"
"Came for alchemy," Chen Mu replied honestly.
"You actually know alchemy?" Liang Yi raised an eyebrow.
The master really wasn’t wrong. In such a short time, you’ve already learned alchemy?!
Even Moshidi, hailed as the once-in-a-century genius of the Lower Courtyard, was no more than this!
"It’s all thanks to the nurturing support of Director Song and Minor Supervisor," Chen Mu sincerely thanked with a bow.
"Alright, alright, I didn’t really help you," Liang Yi rolled his eyes.
He was about to leave but then paused in his step.
"You were using the Truthful Listening to probe underground earlier, trying to find the Yin River to continue digging the tunnel?"
The master had once said that back on Peng Yue Mountain, this man even dug a secret path through the underground Yin River and successfully escaped the snow demon Qing Liu’s control.
"Yes!" Chen Mu did not dare to conceal anything.
"Can you find the underground Yin River?" Liang Yi’s heart stirred.
The Truthful Listening Technique was indeed skilled at probing.
"Would you like to help me?"
He was planning to sort out the earth veins, and with this person, the speed would certainly greatly increase.
"It would be my honor to provide assistance to Minor Supervisor," Chen Mu said sincerely.
Immediately his face showed difficulty: "But Mist Smoke Mountain has only one person who can refine the Fasting Pill."
"The warehouse’s Forbidden Spell is damaged, and the Yellow Bud Rice could mold and rot at any moment."
"If the Elixir Pills are not quickly produced, I’m afraid Elder Liu Ling..."
Liang Yi’s eyebrows twitched.
"Another courtyard has Brother Qi who can also make Fasting Pills."
"Why not have him transferred as a substitute?"
"That way, I’d be at your disposal," Chen Mu offered eagerly.
"Not keen on helping, huh?" Liang Yi looked at Chen Mu with amusement.
You got that right!
"How... How can you say that!" Chen Mu’s face showed a look of aggrieved innocence.
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"Guess you’re afraid I’ll silence you for knowing my secrets?" Liang Yi chuckled lightly.
Of course I’m scared!
"Director Minor, you really misunderstand me!" Chen Mu said urgently.
"Forget it, since it’s Uncle Master Liu Ling’s mission, just focus on your alchemy," Liang Yi said indifferently.
The Cold Moon Toad excels at Escaping Earth, so it’s just a few extra trips.
Besides, this guy is full of secret techniques and acts in such a bizarre way; I really don’t feel at ease letting him get too involved in setting up the Mountain Protection Law.
Haha, success!
"Director Minor, your misunderstanding of me is just too deep!" Chen Mu shook his head and sighed with a look of injustice.
"Since you’re so sincere, I’ll go and ask Uncle Master Liu for someone in a bit, how about that?" Liang Yi pretended to be moved.
Chen Mu immediately stiffened.
I acted too much!
"Heh..." Liang Yi laughed lightly.
"Just focus on making your pills!" he said, as light and shadow shifted around him.
With the big toad’s croaking farewell, he disappeared in an instant.
"Goodbye, Director Minor, toad revered one, take care!"
"Once I’m done with my tasks at hand, I will surely come to offer my humble services!" Chen Mu bowed with his hands clasped, shouting his farewells to the empty space.
After a good while, with only the rustling of leaves in the dense forest, there was nothing else. Chen Mu then breathed a long sigh of relief.
He finally left!
Everyone in Misty Glow Mountain knows Liu Ling holds the fort, but they don’t know that beneath it, Liang Yi and the Cold Moon Toad, two great Condensing Aperture beings, are hidden.
Just thinking about it, I know it’s going to be troublesome.
I really don’t want to get involved in that.
...
Five days later, in the evening, Chen Mu walked out of the warehouse’s alchemist chamber and returned to his bamboo building.
"This time I should have really dodged it," Chen Mu relaxed completely.
Ever since meeting Liang Yi, he had stayed inside the warehouse and buried himself in alchemy, fearing Liang Yi might come back for him.
After using the Primordial Furnace to make soup with two Exotic Beast bones, feeling well-fed and content, Chen Mu brought the rocking chair to the long porch in front of the door and lay down to watch the stars.
The location of his bamboo building was out of the way, but the area around it was open, and the Gentle Breeze blowing through the forest was quite pleasant.
After a while, Chen Mu floated a ball of luminescent algae above his head and took out a Bright Yellow Scroll.
Unfurling the silk-like parchment, a column of ancient characters appeared on the left side—"Ge Family’s Hundred Grass Notes."
This was the only item he had brought back from Sun Wuhuan’s debate conference.
It wasn’t that the item was particularly great, but because it cost only a little bit of Daoist cultivation, it was cheap.
Continuing to unroll the scroll, a series of dots and lines forming an unintelligible script appeared before Chen Mu.
"So it is indeed a cipher, who the hell can understand this!" Chen Mu shook his head in dismay.
"Cheap goods aren’t good quality!" In that moment, he didn’t feel too disappointed.
Perhaps he had lost all expectation at the moment he realized the other party wanted him to play the fool.
"There were indeed good items at the debate conference, but they were certainly not cheap."
"And that sales attitude... I always felt that if I really bought something, I would definitely get the short end of the stick."
Chen Mu also thought of the people at the conference who always started by teaching him how to get rich and then inevitably tried to sell him something, sending a shiver down his spine.
"I might as well be honest and save up money and Daoist cultivation," he thought.
"Those ways that supposedly make Daoist cultivation and White Jade Money double on their own are totally not for me," Chen Mu shook his head.
Hmm... isn’t it true that selling these so-called wealth management methods is itself the real way to double one’s wealth?
Anyone who joined the debate conference had to give Sun Wuhuan, the vice director of the conference, five points of Daoist cultivation.
There were also commissions to be taken from the exchanges within the conference, it was said.
"Tsk tsk... clever tactics!"
Chen Mu admired the ingenuity of these people for a while, then rolled up the scroll and prepared to go downstairs to cultivate.
But as his eyes swept over the ghostly script, a strange feeling suddenly rose in his heart.
Could it be, perhaps, maybe, that I can somewhat understand it?!
Moved by this thought, Chen Mu promptly summoned a gray wall.
He wrote: 9377/10000/Second Rank;
Indeed!
Who would have thought that the writing skill he had neglected for several years could actually help decipher a cipher?!
"What a pleasant surprise! Haha!"
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