I am grinding experience in another world

After the initial chaos, the camp soon returned to tranquility.

Chen Mu continued to leisurely gain experience in Thousand Lanterns City.

He thought Shen Yan would continue attempting to persuade him with indirect speeches, but the guy acted as if nothing had happened, diligently tending to his watering and farming.

Chen Mu observed him uneasily for many days, and upon seeing no suspicious activities from Shen Yan, he decided not to interfere any further.

He recited the "Safe Heart Sutra" day in and day out, and with the constant rise of experience points, more than twenty days had passed in the blink of an eye. He could now abandon the chanting of Curse Words.

That day, as he activated the Safe Heart Sutra, a familiar cool sensation surged in, instantly filling him with an invigorating sense of life force.

"To think that such a power full of life force could exist in the River of Oblivion, which is like a river of sulfuric acid, is quite remarkable." Although it wasn’t the first time he summoned it, he couldn’t help feeling amazed.

He released control and let the strand of weak water flow into his glabella. Just as he wanted to continue cultivating, the Divine Orifice at his glabella suddenly began to pulsate.

Glancing at Shen Yan, who was honestly watering next door, he immediately stood up and walked into his room.

Unleashing his True Form of Heavenly Demon, his consciousness dove into it, and instantly sensed the anomaly.

Silver Ghost Patterns that covered his body flickered, blooming with a silver radiance like breathing.

Tiny sparks of special power emerged like fireflies from the network of Ghost Patterns.

Then, this power began moving upward from the soles of his feet. Trailing along, it gathered through his legs, chest, abdomen, crossed his glabella, and finally, with a hum, accompanied by a gentle tremor in the air, a walnut-sized orb shot out from the top of his head.

In the next moment, a bright milky radiance burst forth, lighting up the dim room with clarity.

After a while, the light dimmed, and the room’s illumination returned to normal.

The orb still glowed but was no longer dazzling; it had the gentle luster of a luminous pearl.

"Is this… the Divine Fetus?!" Chen Mu exclaimed with great joy.

…

"It’s only an embryonic form!" Shen Yan looked at the softly glowing white orb above Chen Mu’s head with a face filled with shock.

The orb was round and plump, appearing to be a perfect sphere.

But on closer inspection, one would find it to be an illusion created by the soft white light it exuded. In reality, it resembled a hollow sphere tied together with silk threads.

"When this orb becomes seamless without any gaps, it will signify that the Divine Fetus is complete," Shen Yan said with a complex expression.

"I got happy for nothing…" Chen Mu pouted.

He had thought that he had completed the Divine Fetus.

"Be content!" Shen Yan retorted irritably.

"For ordinary people to achieve the state you’re in, it would take at least two to three years."

"How long have you been cultivating? Just a couple of months! What more do you want?"

"Really?" Chen Mu raised his eyebrows, couldn’t help but muse, "Indeed, the heavens reward the diligent!"

Shen Yan’s eye twitched at his words.

You, who go to bed late and rise late, concocting various barbecue recipes daily, dare to speak of your diligence?!

Do you have no shame?!

"Are you bad-mouthing me?" Chen Mu narrowed his eyes at Shen Yan.

"No, I’m just shocked by your hard work and diligence," Shen Yan replied calmly.

Chen Mu was full of suspicion; although what the guy said was true, something about it didn’t seem quite right.

Forget it, a three-hundred-year-old ghost, senile already, there’s no need to quarrel with him.

Chen Mu happily summoned the grey wall.

Safe Heart Sutra: 8779/10000;

"The Proficiency of the ’Safe Heart Sutra’ indeed accelerates the Divine Fetus’ cultivation progress," he noted.

"Once it’s completely maximized, it will certainly be faster."

"A hundred years? That’s the pace of a sluggard. I’m so driven, it certainly won’t take me a hundred years!"

…

A few days later.

Thousand Lanterns City.

"The Soul Summoning Banner has lost control again?" Chen Mu paused, his chopsticks holding vegetables mid-air.

Shi Dechun nodded while slurping up his scalding hot barbecue.

"This time it seems more serious."

"The Soul Summoning Banner had barely risen when it started darting madly about, and it took a good while before it returned to normal."

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It sounded very formidable just from the name.

"It seems this General Lan Zhang really is in trouble," Chen Mu couldn’t help nodding in agreement.

"Lan Zhang’s Yin Divine True Form is the Red-eyed Water Ape," said Shen Yan, across the table, with an indifferent face. "Water Apes have the habit of moon worship, and whenever they do, Lan Zhang’s power also greatly increases."

"But he has switched to cultivating the Nether Demon Heaven Blood Scripture, which means he’s no longer a pure Yin Spirit. This increased power has become a bane. Conflicts between the two forces make his loss of control and madness inevitable."

Chen Mu suddenly realized.

Immediately, he looked curiously across at Shen Yan.

As per his usual practice, Shen Yan should also be taking this opportunity to persuade himself to deal with Lan Zhang, but today he remained silent.

"Now that you know Lan Zhang’s weakness, a great opportunity lies before us. Why aren’t you continuing to goad me? Don’t you want to topple Lan Zhang?"

If I really did goad you, would you act?

Ha!

With your cowardly appearance, there’s no hope of relying on you for anything!

Shen Yan’s face was nonchalant, "What opportunity is this? It’s only an opportunity if Lan Zhang kicks the bucket, isn’t it?"

Chen Mu: "..."

I always feel like this guy is deliberately being cryptic and mocking me.

Indeed, I haven’t been doing enough splits!

...

Late at night.

Inside the stone temple at the center of Hai Character Camp.

Suddenly, countless pairs of eyes opened in the shadowy area to the left.

"Are you sure Shen Yan will take action?" Wu Mu doubtedly asked.

Lan Zhang, leaning back in his stone chair, slightly raised his eyebrows, "He can keep his composure, can he?"

Having shown signs of losing control twice, Shen Yan had not flinched. This wasn’t like the Shen Yan Lan Zhang knew.

"A mistake is a lesson learned; it seems our Military Supervisor Shen has become much more cautious."

"What if he never acts?" Wu Mu didn’t understand where Lan Zhang’s confidence came from.

"He will act," Lan Zhang said with a light laugh.

"He’s the Military Supervisor of the Hai Character Camp."

"On his watch, the main general of the Hai Character Camp defected to Nether Demon Heaven, the Soul Summoning Banner was lost, and hundreds of thousands of Yin Soldiers were devoured. Such a grave crime is too much for him to bear."

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"The loss of the Yin Soldiers is bearable, but the Soul Summoning Banner involves Master Jian from Antiquity City’s path."

"Having lost that banner, even if Jian Chan is magnanimous, he would still throw him into the Nine Serenities Abyss to burn to death."

"As long as he wants to atone for his merits and save his life, he will definitely act."

"So shall we continue the act?" Wu Mu asked.

"Act!"

"If twice doesn’t work, then three times."

"When it comes to his own life, no matter how much composure he has, he will eventually be unable to resist taking action!" Lan Zhang spoke confidently.

...

The very Shen Yan Lan Zhang considered to have a great deal of restraint was at this moment looking troubled.

He indeed wanted to take action.

But he couldn’t move!

Glancing at Chen Mu lying in the rocking chair next to him, swinging leisurely, Shen Yan chanted while he collected Jade Dew to water the plants, lamenting in his heart.

"When will these days end?"

Shen Yan was annoyed.

Lying in the rocking chair with his eyes closed, Chen Mu felt bothered as well.

The gray wall appeared before his eyes.

Safe Heart Sutra: Limit;

Gazing at the entry of the Safe Heart Sutra that had been trained to the limit, a series of realizations rushed to his mind.

He had fully mastered the secrets of this Secret Technique. Now, with just a thought, he could cause the Yin Spirit Divine Power to vibrate in a special rhythm of its own, thereby attracting the weak water from the origin of the River of Oblivion to promote the return of the Divine Ghost Pattern to its origins.

"Shen Yan said it takes a hundred years to cultivate a Divine Fetus. That’s complete nonsense!"

"With my proficiency in the Safe Heart Sutra, it will take at most seventy or eighty years."

"This pace... this pace is really damned slow!"

Chen Mu looked sullen.

"After all, the Safe Heart Sutra is a universal Secret Technique," he sighed with resignation.

To facilitate anyone’s initiation, reducing the difficulty of the Secret Technique becomes unavoidable, even with lofty intentions. Even if trained to the limit, the improvements are ultimately finite.

More importantly, Nether Demon Heaven is too distant from the River of Oblivion.

"It took me only four or five years to almost fully train the Divine Orifice, which is so difficult."

"And yet, just the beginning of the Yin Spirit Divine Fetus requires seventy or eighty years!"

"Isn’t this also too difficult?"