I am grinding experience in another world

"Your Precious Medicine works extremely well, it would be best for the Medicine Stone Sect to dilute and adjust it before giving it to the ordinary Yin Spirits for use."

"However, there are nearly six thousand Auxiliary Soldiers within Thousand Lanterns City, I fear that the materials you have stored may not be sufficient," Shen Yan expressed his concern.

"The problem shouldn’t be too big," Chen Mu thought for a moment and shook his head.

The ingredients for the Replenishing Origin Soup are twofold: one is Exotic Beast Meat, and the other is various medicinal herbs.

Exotic Beast Meat is easy to handle; Nether Demon Heaven’s Blood Sea is boundless, and it is teeming with numerous exotic beasts and demons that can be used as substitutes.

As for the medicinal herbs...

Based on Chen Mu’s many years of experience in concocting and consuming, those medicinal herbs are merely auxiliary, meant to make the Replenishing Origin Soup gentle and smooth to better suit his own consumption.

What suits Chen Mu may not necessarily suit others, especially now that it is meant for the use of Yin Spirits.

...

In the small courtyard, Shen Yan was manipulating a mass of River of Oblivion Water the size of a dining table, floating it in midair. Then, he summoned the black Nine Nether Green Flames, and soon, the clear water was boiling and bubbling.

Chen Mu took out a chunk of multi-headed Jiao meat the size of a suitcase and threw it in. When the pale meat became loose, he activated the Seven Turns Banquet Primordial Curse.

Droplets of dark crimson liquid rose, converging into a fist-sized mass, and fell into a wooden cup prepared in advance.

"The color is darker, the taste is richer, and the contained Vital Energy is more violent."

"Indeed, those medicinal herbs are for making the Replenishing Origin Soup better suit my consumption; it’s not from the innate power of the Seven Turns Banquet Primordial Curse but is provided by my culinary skills," Chen Mu turned and handed the wooden cup to a middle-aged man with a gloomy face standing beside him.

This man was tall and thin, dressed in a black robe, named Pu Lu, one of the Auxiliary Soldiers he had rescued from the ’You’ character camp.

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He was ruthless.

"The purity is comparable to a well-adjusted Awakening Spirit Soup, and the density of Vital Energy..." Pu Lu’s nostrils twitched, and his eyes flashed with excitement: "At least five times that of Awakening Spirit Soup!"

"So, does that mean it’s useful?"

"Extremely useful!" Pu Lu nodded vigorously.

Chen Mu understood.

With the issue of medicinal herbs no longer a constraint, what he needed to consider was whether there was enough Exotic Beast Meat and mana.

Exotic Beast Meat was easy to solve; he had surreptitiously stored several multi-headed Jiao corpses in the ’You’ character camp, which he could now make use of. Even if they were completely used up, he could go hunting in Nether Demon Heaven as a supplement.

When he had fallen into the water exhausted of mana before, he had caught a glimpse of a group of strange fish with teeth like saws. At the time, those creatures had charged at him fiercely, clearly seeing him as food.

"Humph! Wait until my True Form of Heavenly Demon recovers, then I’ll turn you all into my food!"

Compared to that, mana was somewhat insufficient.

The Seven Turns Banquet Primordial Curse required mana to perform, and to recover mana, he could only rely on White Jade Coins.

Thousand Lanterns City was not suitable for using the Exquisite Jade Plate; previously, to recover from his injuries as quickly as possible, he had directly extracted Vital Energy from White Jade Coins. But that was because of the urgency of his injuries, and he dared not do so again in the future.

"I have a total of four thousand left in hand; I need to be frugal," Chen Mu silently calculated.

"It would still be best to leave Thousand Lanterns City and make use of the Exquisite Jade Plate to use White Jade Coins with the highest efficiency."

...

In the days Chen Mu was recovering from his injuries, the one to two thousand Auxiliary Soldiers that he had brought with him from the ’You’ character camp had been settled by Shen Yan.

Most were stuffed into the wooden tower they had built earlier, and those who couldn’t fit were placed temporarily in clay-sculpted flat houses.

Fortunately, some soil had been secretly dug up and transported into Thousand Lanterns City to fill the foundation. It was because of these earth and stones that the flat houses were built; otherwise, the small wooden tower would have been even more crammed.

Shen Yan also classified the Yin Spirits within Thousand Lanterns City; according to the regulations of the Auxiliary Soldier Camp, around three hundred constituted a flag, and a flagship was chosen for each flag.

They were then divided according to their original affiliations into the Yuan, Netherworld, Craft, and Flame Sects, and a vice-general with outstanding strength managed each division.

After all, he was a former Military Supervisor, and he easily controlled five to six thousand Yin Spirits, making Chen Mu, who was inexperienced with such matters, admire him endlessly.

"Don’t forget the matter of improving the Cultivation of the Auxiliary Soldiers," Chen Mu reminded; this concerned their safe and smooth return to the Netherworld.

"Each flag has already tallied their age and innate talents," Shen Yan patiently explained. "Yin Spirits who have lived long and those who are newly born differ, as do those with good innate talent and those with poor innate talent; they cannot be held to the same Cultivation standards."

"Right, right, right, although the Three Yin Phosphorus Fire is gentler than the Nine Nether Green Flames, it will still burn the essence."

"One must progress steadily, combining work with rest, and not blindly force oneself to train intensely."

Chen Mu agreed wholeheartedly and, after thinking for a moment, gave his serious opinion: "There are a total of twelve Hours in a day, and they should be given at least half an Hour for sleep."

Shen Yan: "..."

Lucky you have the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed, otherwise those Yin Spirits in Thousand Lanterns City would’ve eaten you alive, the bastard!

...

In the days that followed, the entire Thousand Lanterns City buzzed with activity.

Although Chen Mu wished the auxiliary Yin Spirits would become cultivation fanatics, staying up all night to Cultivate Immortality,

Shen Yan clearly had no such plan. If it were organized that way, they’d probably turn to ash from exhaustion before they could ever develop Ghost Patterns.

He stuck to the original plan, dividing them into five main groups according to age and talent. He arranged different cultivation times and frequencies for each group, ensuring they cultivated as quickly as possible.

Chen Mu smacked his lips, walking around Thousand Lanterns City with his hands clasped behind his back like a rich landlord, inspecting the bustling Yin Spirits cultivating as if examining his own tenants and Spiritual Field.

"Sigh, it’s rare to see someone as diligent as me," Chen Mu expressed his regret towards Shen Yan’s work arrangements. After speaking, he embraced a cup of Replenishing Origin Soup and comfortably lay down in his rocking chair.

"Could you have a little shame?" Shen Yan couldn’t help but roll his eyes.

"Not to mention you only provide that little bit of Replenishing Origin Soup each day, not even enough to fill them up, and you still expect them to practice for a whole day?"

"It’s like ordering your soldiers to fight valiantly but refusing to pay them their provisions. Lucky for you, you aren’t a military commander; otherwise, your soldiers would surely revolt."

"Oh Shen, you’re a mature Military Supervisor now, you have to learn to come up with your own solutions," Chen Mu teased with glee.

"Then you do it?!" Shen Yan glared.

Chen Mu coughed twice and closed his eyes, pretending not to hear.

He certainly didn’t have the skill to manage five or six thousand Yin Spirits, how exhausting that would be. Instead of that, he might as well ponder on how to grind for experience.

More than half a month passed, and the injuries to his True Flesh Body had long since fully healed.

The vitality of the True Form of Heavenly Demon inside him became increasingly vigorous. He felt that he would return to normal shortly, probably within the next couple of days.

Once the Yin Spirit Body recovered, he could continue grinding the Secret Techniques like Netherworld Guide and Jade Gate Curse.

...

Three nights later, the sky above Thousand Lanterns City was dimly illuminated by ten Soul-Attracting Lamps, resembling the glow of moonlight.

Chen Mu was sound asleep on the top floor of a small building.

At a certain moment, his brow suddenly twitched, and a white jade bead flew out from between his brows, instantly bursting forth with light and filling the room as if it were daylight.

Chen Mu jolted awake and turned to see himself sleeping soundly on the bed.

Instinctively reaching for his head, he felt a smooth, bald scalp—the Yin Spirit Body had finally reappeared.

Checking through his tattered clothes, he saw not a single injury on his body. After more than twenty days of severe damage, the True Form of Heavenly Demon was finally completely restored.

"It’s probably not just that," he thought, and the walnut-sized Divine Fetus hovered before his eyes.

It looked as smooth and round as ever, emitting a pearly white, warm glow.

But previously, that was a mere visual illusion caused by luminescence. Up close, one would notice its surface was pitted and hollow inside.

Now, the surface of the entire bead had been completely sealed and filled with silver threads, resembling a white round pearl.

And the emptiness inside was also partially filled, losing the previous lightness and gaining a sense of solidity much like a ship’s ballast.

"Those hundred thousand or more auxiliary soldiers probably suffered quite a few casualties," Chen Mu sighed internally.

It was the deaths of that large number of auxiliary soldiers that allowed the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seeds planted within them to return, therefore vastly improving the Divine Fetus.

Not only did it save him years of hard work, but it also brought him an unexpected surprise.

Chen Mu pinched the Divine Fetus bead, carefully pondering the strange Curse Words that surfaced in his mind.

"The Heavenly Demon Curse?"

"Whisper the Curse Words to draw the Spirit Seed into the body, then you can transform your essence and become a Heavenly Demon, attaining Divine Skills and enjoying great freedom?"

Is it that scary?

Chen Mu wore a strange expression.

The Cloud Mirage Celestial Demon might have been rubbish at other things but was quite adept at boasting. If Chen Mu didn’t know what a Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed was, he would have almost believed it!

"Well, Heavenly Demon; just the name doesn’t sound upright. Making up some nonsense to bamboozle people is perfectly reasonable."

"The content about Heavenly Demon freedom and the like is certainly false, but the ability to open up the Spirit and help the Spirit Seed find a host might not be."

Thinking this, a smile crept onto Chen Mu’s face.

"Oh old Shen, your good days are coming!"