I am grinding experience in another world

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Three hundred li west of Feng’an City, in a dense forest on a small mountain, the air twisted abruptly.

Pfft!

With a soft sound, Shen Bu and Hu Mang appeared in mid-air, their faces filled with panic.

No sooner had the two landed than they immediately stood back to back, warily scanning their surroundings. After a good while, they ascertained that it was safe and finally let out a long sigh of relief.

Hu Mang, trembling, supported himself on an old tree and sat down, while Shen Bu, regardless of the dirt and dust on the ground, lay sprawled on his back in the shape of a big character.

"I can’t do this job anymore!" Shen Bu pounded his fist on the ground covered with dead leaves and yelled at the top of his lungs.

"I had just uncapped that jar of Longevity Wine and hadn’t even started to pour it out when that Strange Demon burst out with a whoosh!"

"The Secret Spy Division only asked us to scatter the bait, but they never said the bait would be so enticing."

"A heads-up to be on guard would have been nice, but they’ve clearly sent us on a suicide mission!"

"Stop howling!" Hu Mang scolded coldly, looking just as upset: "Be grateful you’re alive after messing up the Secret Police’s assassination mission; even I, a Commander, have to do this dirty job."

"If you hadn’t dragged me into this, how could I have ruined their plan?!" Shen Bu glared at Hu Mang.

"Are you blaming me now?" Hu Mang shot Shen Bu a sideways glance.

Shen Bu’s expression froze, and he couldn’t help but shrink his neck: "Can’t I even vent my frustrations?"

"You’d be better off thinking about how to complete that mission than wasting time complaining," Hu Mang snorted.

"You’re so capable, why don’t you go and confront the Secret Spy Division?" Shen Bu grumbled under his breath.

"Sigh... Having to scatter a jar of Longevity Wine every fifty li means we are risking our lives with each fifty li interval."

"Meeting a nocturnal Strange Demon like today is one thing, but if we encounter a ferocious Strange Demon, both of us are done for."

"If you ask me, forget about every fifty li or not, I might as well use the Earth Shrinking Secret Technique and chuck the Longevity Wine away. It’s not like anyone’s closely supervising."

Upon hearing this, Hu Mang gave Shen Bu a fierce glare: "Shut your mouth! How can you spout such irresponsible words? Aren’t you afraid the Secret Spy Division’s inspectors will chop off your head?"

His face turned solemn: "Just remember to throw it far away."

Huh?

Shen Bu was startled, then immediately overjoyed as he got up with a roll.

"Just you watch!"

He immediately opened the Qi bag at his waist and began to take out wine jars. In no time, five or six dozen human-head-sized wine jars piled up into a small hill before them.

Stimulating the Yin Spirit Divine Power, a gray stream of Qi appeared, whirling around the jars. Then with a whoosh, the mound of wine jars vanished.

"All done, Boss Hu, shall we... head back to the city?"

Hu Mang maintained a calm demeanor: "No, we first have to hang around outside the city for a couple of days."

"We can’t afford to reveal any flaws to the Secret Spy Division’s inspectors."

...

Three days later, in a certain valley.

A series consecutive roars echoed through the valley, deafening.

In the air above the valley, Chen Mu hovered, with black Five Dragons Qi circulating around him.

Not far away, a one-legged monstrous bird covered in flames with seven heads struggled ceaselessly in the midst of the black smoke-like Qi.

However, the black smoke transformed by the Five Dragons Qi acted like a Heavenly Net, securely binding the demon within. As it activated its power to absorb spirits and souls, the demon started to deflate like a punctured ball, shrinking rapidly until it was completely devoured.

"The Nine Cups Calculation Scripture is as stable in its performance as ever."

"Hmm... reliably unpredictable."

"Tsk!"

Earlier, changing the conditions for calculation and adjusting the departure time daily, I indeed didn’t encounter any demons on the road.

But the joy didn’t last two days before another mistake was made. Today, only halfway through my journey, I crashed right into the embrace of this demon.

Luckily, this demon wasn’t very strong. Despite its body of flames that left no grass growing in its wake, it was only about as tough as the three-headed fox from before and was easily subdued by the power of Five Dragons Unification.

"They say the wilderness is teeming with Strange Demons, but encountering them so frequently these past three days—isn’t that a bit too much?"

"Is it because large cities have methods to drive them away, so they gather in the wilderness instead?"

"It seems that in the calculation process, adding only the departure times is still insufficient; I also need to clearly specify the requirement to avoid Strange Demons."

"Hmm... and I should shorten my daily travel distance."

Based on the experiments conducted in Black Wind Gully, the smaller the scope, the more accurate the results of the Calculation Scripture’s predictions. Shortening the distance would effectively improve accuracy.

The Five Dragons Scripture’s speed boost package is good but comes with risks, so it’s better not to be greedy.

He didn’t believe his luck would always be so good, always encountering only minor demons. If he were to meet a powerful one, he wouldn’t even be able to run. Experience new tales on NovelBin.Côm

"If the speed’s slower, then so be it. The priority is to ensure personal safety."

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Five days later, four hundred li outside Feng’an City, in an unnamed cave.

"Boss, you’ve got to help me!" Zhang Er pleaded loudly.

"Help you? I still have to go out and scatter Longevity Wine myself, how can I help you?" Hu Mang flatly refused, his face stern.

Zhang Er leaned in and whispered, "I’ve studied it; the Secret Spy Division did something to the wine jars. As long as the jars are opened, they’ll know."

"I bet they’re using this to monitor our assignment. But where and how we actually throw them, they can’t possibly know."

"Brother Shen’s Divine Skills are profound. Just let him toss the wine jars far away... Sigh!" Zhang Er clapped his hands together, a sneaky smile on his face.

"You’re trying to cheat the system, and that’s going to cause big problems!" Hu Mang snorted coldly.

"Just say whether you’ll help or not," demanded Zhang Er, jutting out his chin.

"You’ve been hiding in this cave for three days already, your Longevity Wine must have been disposed of by Shen Bu ages ago."

"If you don’t help me, I’ll... I’ll report you!"

Hu Mang’s face immediately darkened.

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What the hell did I recruit as my subordinates? They even dare to threaten me, their superior officer?!

And another thing...

"How did you know I’ve been here for three days?" Hu Mang glared hard at Zhang Er: "Did you do something to me?"

"I wouldn’t dare!" Zhang Er shook his hands quickly, then turned his head to look at Shen Bu with a sly smile: "I just made a small mark on Brother Shen."

Damn it, how did I not know about that?

Shen Bu looked totally clueless.

Marked and not even aware of it, why do I have such a bunch of defective subordinates?

Hu Mang raised his hand to his forehead, feeling his head buzzing.

"Get lost, get lost, get out of my sight!"

Is that... an agreement?

"Thank you, Commander!" Zhang Er couldn’t help but snicker.

As he was about to walk out with Shen Bu’s shoulder in his arm, a mocking voice suddenly sounded.

"Daring to deceive the Secret Operatives time and again, you’ve got some real nerve."

At the entrance of the cave, a man in black suddenly appeared. It was the middle-aged man with the long beard who had failed to assassinate Chen Mu, had his plans thwarted by Shen Bu, and had been duped by Zhang Er with the East Pole Longevity Scripture.

Hu Mang’s muscles tensed, and he stared intently at the man: "Your Secret Operatives, don’t you think you’re overstepping your bounds a bit?"

"Relax, don’t get me wrong, I’m not here to trouble you," the bearded middle-age man shook his head, then flipped his wrist, and a familiar large black pottery wine jar appeared.

Hu Mang immediately understood; it seemed this fellow had also taken on the task of throwing bait.

"I’m not against helping you, after all, we’re all part of the same group." The man spoke with a slight upturn at the corner of his mouth.

"However, I need to know how you found me."

Being so easily approached by the Secret Operatives wasn’t a good thing.

"Rest assured, Commander Hu, I didn’t absorb your qi," the bearded middle-aged man said, laughing and waving his hand.

"Then you..."

The bearded man didn’t speak, but gave Shen Bu a meaningful smile.

Shen Bu: "....."

What do you mean?

You also put a mark on me, huh?

Am I a soft persimmon for everyone to pinch as they please?!

Fuck!

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The chill sun cast its light upon the earth, while gray clouds hovered motionless in mid-air.

On the ground, the Black Wind whirled, abruptly vanishing only to reappear.

At one moment, a pitch-black wine jar suddenly appeared in mid-air.

Smash!

The jar hit the ground, shattering to pieces, its sparkling and translucent red liquid splashing around.

Immediately, the liquid seemed to come alive, swirling upward to gather together, and then quickly burrowed into the ground, disappearing without a trace.

Hum!

As if the heart of the earth had gained a heartbeat, ripples of silent pulsation swept across the distant places like water waves. On the quiet earth, restless qi began faintly to surface.

At one point, as this pulsation swept through a grassland, a dense white fog suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Roar!

A piercing scream exploded, spreading in all directions.

Just having crossed a great snowy mountain and enjoying the view of grassland, Chen Mu’s face suddenly turned pale.

Feeling the surging violent qi approaching, Chen Mu felt his scalp tingle.

You’ve got to be kidding me, this unlucky?

He almost instinctively drove his Yin Spirit Divine Power, executing Yin Wind Escape rapidly.

His whole body shot up like a monkey reaching for the sky, and then curved back, fleeing back towards the way he came. Accompanied by the continuous boom of air, Chen Mu vanished on the horizon in the blink of an eye.

After flying two hundred li in one breath, nearly back to where he set off in the morning, Chen Mu finally descended from the clouds, choosing a small hill as his landing spot.

He plucked some grass with an expressionless face and started calculating proficiently. Soon, new results emerged before his eyes.

Danger?

Of course, I know it’s dangerous when I’ve actually seen Strange Demons!

But wasn’t it said to be safe when I left this morning? How did it suddenly change? Totally playing with me!

While burning with indignation, a translucent gray wall materialized in front of him.

Five Dragons Scripture: 9999/10000/Fifth Rank.

Sigh...

As Chen Mu thought about his experiences over the last half month, he felt it was hard to articulate.

The acceleration pack was indeed handy, or else he wouldn’t have been able to cultivate the Five Dragons Scripture to the peak of the Fifth Rank so quickly.

But these totally random appearances of Strange Demons really kept him on edge.

Like today’s creature, which was terrifying from a distance, it was not the first time he encountered such a thing. If he hadn’t flown fast enough with his Yin Wind Escape, he might have become a meal in a Strange Demon’s belly.

Living these days like opening blind boxes, how could he not feel terrified and unsettled.

"Life... really fucking tough!"