I Am Grinding Experience in Another World

Underground cave.

Lightning strikes fell one after another, and despite the Body Protection Aura, Chen Mu still gritted his teeth in pain.

He felt as if countless ants were burrowing inside his body, both painful and itchy.

"Point Ground into Steel!" Chen Mu clenched his teeth and activated his mana.

Invisible Exotic Force enveloped a nearby pit half a person deep.

Suddenly, the Jet-black Moon Blade appeared and, following the Exotic Force, fiercely chopped at the bottom of the pit.

Clang!

With a metallic collision-like noise, rocks splattered, but the pit was only chiseled one finger deep.

At the same time, a Kui Water Yin Thunder descended from the sky.

Crackle and pop!

The Yin Thunder dispersed, but a series of electric lights still lingered around his body.

"The hole isn’t dug out yet, and I’ve already been zapped to a crisp inside, tsk…" Chen Mu said with a wry smile as he summoned a grey wall.

Point Ground into Steel: 8834/10000/Second Rank;

"If I had reached Third Rank earlier, maybe I could have countered the ground restrictions."

"Even if I couldn’t completely eliminate them, at least I could have suppressed them a bit more, sigh…"

He hadn’t expected Sun Jian to have set up Teleportation Prohibition underground. In trying to avoid the chaos, he had burrowed into the ground, and also into a cage.

"To pre-arrange it, and to just happen to activate the prohibition when Jilong Road attacked the mountain. Timing it so precisely, perhaps Sun Jian had known about the attack all along."

"It’s uncertain whether he got wind of it early due to being well-informed, or if he’s in cahoots with Jilong Road."

"I just hope Mist Smoke Mountain can hold on a bit longer, and that this old fellow arrives a bit later."

With a sigh, Chen Mu could only bear the increasingly severe injuries from the lightning strikes and continue to stimulate the Burrowing through the wrong layers.

...

Yin Thunder fell one after another, and time flew by.

At a certain moment, the piercing pain and tingling numbness of the Yin Thunder struck his body increased sharply.

Chen Mu’s heart skipped a beat, "Is it coming?!"

He immediately stopped burrowing and pricked up his ears, slowing his breathing.

But aside from the heavy, uneven breathing of the people stunned by poison, there was no other sound in the cave.

Upon closer listen, Chen Mu couldn’t help but have a strange look on his face.

"It seems... it’s because of me."

"My physique has strengthened, my senses are sharpened, and the damage from the lightning strikes has inexplicably healed."

"Not only that, but a secret acupoint was unveiled in my body. This…"

At some point, a brand new secret acupoint had opened inside his body, under the ribs at the side of his abdomen.

It didn’t rely on any internal organs, existing in the void, yet rooted in the body, truly strange.

"A secret acupoint opens, the body transforms. Because the regenerated body is sensitive, that’s why I felt like the power of the Yin Thunder increased." Chen Mu suddenly understood.

With a thought, he glanced at a certain section of the grey wall.

Netherworld Grand Summary: 9174/10000/Fifth Rank;

"Still Fifth Rank?"

Previously, when a secret acupoint appeared in his body, it was always after the progression of the Grand Summary, but this time was clearly different.

"The thunder strikes?"

"The Heavenly Demon Path?"

Chen Mu hazarded a guess.

Jilong Road is an orthodox school of Qi Cultivation, but it also has materials on the Outer Paths.

Cultivators who practiced the Heavenly Demon Reincarnation Technique had to actively withstand thunder strikes to transcend the Thunder Tribulation after opening acupoints.

It was said that the hit of the spring thunder could stimulate the Heavenly Demon’s life force, aiding in the opening of more secret acupoints and assisting the transformation by Opening Meridians.

"So, the Kui Water Yin Thunder strike has forged a secret acupoint for me?"

"Then I should probably be thanking Sun Jian? Heh…"

"An unexpected boon then." Chen Mu sighed, collected his thoughts, and prepared to continue digging.

But as soon as he stimulated his mana, he noticed something amiss.

The ground... seemed to have gained a rhythm.

He had occasionally sensed this fluctuation before, but it had never been as clear as it was today.

"The secret acupoint?"

Just as he thought about it, the secret acupoint seemed to activate suddenly, and a slight tremor emerged from within.

Like the heart starting to beat, the lungs beginning to breathe, a faint rhythm naturally radiated, enveloping his whole body. Upon touching the ground, it suddenly adjusted and instantly resonated with the earth’s rhythm.

Poof.

As if a pebble had been tossed into water, Chen Mu’s entire body plunged into the ground without a trace and vanished in the blink of an eye.

...

On the west side of Mist Smoke Mountain, hidden in the depths of the secret forest.

Chen Mu rose from the ground.

"Escaping Earth Technique!"

"This is the real Escaping Earth Technique!" Chen Mu couldn’t help but leap for joy.

"To merge with the earth, to travel swiftly underground."

"Compared to before, that could only be considered digging holes with the Steel Transformation Technique."

The first secret method had once brought him the Qi Forbidden Hundred Miles Secret Technique.

And the opening of the fifth secret passage also unexpectedly brought him some Innate Divine Strangeness, allowing him to move through the underground as if he were a fish in water, achieving true Escaping Earth.

Just now, his secret passage resonated with the earth, and he felt like he had become a part of the earth. The restrictive spells inside the cave were as if non-existent, no longer able to prevent him from escaping.

"The Heavenly Demon Path isn’t completely useless after all," Chen Mu felt a bit eager to act: "Shall I go look for some more thunderbolts to strike me?"

But just recalling the previous excitement of being struck by lightning, he dismissed the idea.

"Let’s just go with the flow. After all, the Netherworld Grand Summary can also drive the opening of secret passages."

Chen Mu collected his thoughts and leaped onto the treetops, preparing to scout the situation at Mist Smoke Mountain.

What met his eyes was a mountain alight with fires, yet the sounds of killing on the mountain were few and far between. Rather, from outside the mountain, intense impact noises occasionally rang out.

"Is it over?" Chen Mu made preparations for Escaping Earth and carefully activated Truthful Listening, letting the sounds from all over the mountains reach the bottom of his heart.

"Liyang Path fleeing, Jilong Road counterattacking?"

"Sun Jian is a traitor, and also got beaten into a rueful escape?"

"Qingdu Institution rocks!" Chen Mu couldn’t help laughing out loud from the treetop: "Keep it up, Qingdu, aim to chop down that traitor Sun!"

Mist Smoke Mountain’s counterattack had been successful, and the situation was very favorable.

"No need to rush to flee now," Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief: "Just wait it out, wait for daylight, wait for the situation to stabilize before I show myself."

While the prospect of looting bodies after a battle was tempting, what if he appeared too hastily and was mistaken for someone from Liyang Path and killed?

Making up his mind, he then floated cross-legged atop the treetop and listened attentively in all directions.

"This attack... It seems that Jilong Road wasn’t entirely clueless about it."

The images fed back from the Truthful Listening Technique showed the disciples of Jilong Road well-trained, displaying excessively decisive killing intent.

That was certainly not the expected behavior of the Xianxia Sect’s disciples, who were usually busy farming and mining.

"So, Jilong Road knew of the attack in advance and set up a counter-strategy?"

"Tsk, tsk... A bunch of old Yin Coins!"

"Eh, that person entering the cave... seems to be someone I know," Chen Mu’s ears twitched slightly, and the corners of his mouth couldn’t help but curl up.

...

A hundred meters underground.

A bolt of Yin Thunder soared, illuminating the dim cave as clear as day.

A tall, thin figure in a fiery red Daoist Robe continued to struggle, like a fish flailing out of water, but eventually, he lay exhausted and panting on the ground.

"Damn it, it’s all traps!" His eyes were bloodshot and red.

Everything had been going well, the Mountain Protection Restriction was broken, and he and his senior brothers took the opportunity to launch a surprise attack.

Who would have thought that Elder Huaiming would suddenly die, and the broken restrictions turned into countermeasures?

The escaping Jilong Road disciples turned around to join hands and attack, and several of his junior brothers were killed on the spot.

Luckily, he reacted quickly and immediately activated a Burrow Jade Talisman to dive deep into the ground.

He thought he could escape to safety, but who knew he would fall into another trap.

"Where did it go wrong!" The red-robed Daoist tried to remain calm.

"Don’t panic, don’t be hasty, I have to find a way to escape!"

Suddenly, he noticed a deep pit in the distance.

"Heaven is helping me!" The red-robed Daoist couldn’t help laughing loudly.

"The pit isn’t big, but it’s deep enough. Just bury a sufficient amount of Thunderbolt Talismans, and it will blast open a small crack in the cave’s restrictions!"

And this crack was his chance for survival.

He immediately crawled toward the pit, feeling an invisible pressure on his body, which made him even more confident in his plan to escape.

"The invisible pressure comes from the great mountain, so the cave’s restrictions must also be based on the mountain. If I can blast open the mountain, I can shake the foundation’s restrictions."

They from Liyang Path were most adept at the Explosive Fire Technique, very familiar with blasting mountains and mining.

Along the way, he found many people lying unconscious, and he couldn’t help feeling fortunate: "Thank goodness I took a Detoxification Pill in advance, otherwise I’d have been laid flat long ago."

"This is what they mean by ’Heaven never bars one’s way.’"

With great effort, he finally reached the edge of the pit under the pressure. Without time to catch his breath, he immediately peeked out to estimate the depth of the pit. As he was considering the power of the Thunderbolt Talismans, he looked down and met a sinister smiling face.

At the bottom of the dark pit, someone was looking up.

The mouth was wide open with a big smile, and the face was full of joy.

"Long time no see."

"You..." The red-robed Daoist trembled violently as if struck by lightning.

Pfft!

Black light flashed, and yin energy danced.

A head silently fell.

Bouncing off the rough cave walls, before it hit the ground, it was enveloped by a cloud of black smoke and swallowed up in the blink of an eye.

Chen Mu’s figure flashed, merging into the ground, dodging the Yin Thunder attack, and reappeared by the pit.

"Sun Jian ran away, but what about this hole full of guys lying around?"

"Each of them has been poisoned; wouldn’t it be pitiful if they died?"

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"Sigh, it’s only someone like me who would be so kind, to help you detoxify, to help you send a message, to give you a chance to escape to safety."

"This is a life-saving favor!"

"Charging a bit for the service, I’m sure you won’t mind."

"That’s happily decided then."

"Haha!"

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