I Am Grinding Experience in Another World

As dusk fell.

The clouds on the horizon glowed red as fire.

A gentle breeze came, blowing away the summer heat.

Outside the new residence, on the wooden corridor, two meat and two vegetarian dishes were placed at the center of a square table.

Ever since he had the Replenishing Origin Soup, his appetite had plummeted.

He was no longer like a rice barrel as before.

Picking up a piece of steamed pork rib with rice flour, Chen Mu crunched it, bones and all, to pieces.

The more he chewed, the more he felt something was amiss.

"Sigh... this isn’t what I had in mind."

The other’s cultivation was high, and he didn’t even dare to slack off.

"How on earth did that old man appear behind me?" Chen Mu was quite annoyed.

Even when he pushed his Truthful Listening Technique to the utmost, he still couldn’t hear any movement from the other person.

"Weird!"

Chen Mu glanced at the grey wall.

Truthful Listening Technique: 8836/10000/Sixth Rank;

"The Truthful Listening Technique is still lacking a touch."

Previously at Eagle Grief Cliff, he had been ambushed by two barbarians, and at that time his Truthful Listening Technique had been deceived by their Harmonious Light Secret Technique.

The unpredictable Qing Lu was even more formidable.

Silent, Chen Mu didn’t even know when the other was standing right behind him.

With that thought, he couldn’t help but turn his head and look back.

"The Qingdu Institution really harms people deeply," Chen Mu said with a wry smile.

No wonder that chubby fellow disciple ran so fast. He probably got scared by the Qingdu Institution.

"If I were secretly practicing the Five Ghosts Possession and the other was standing behind watching..."

Hiss!

Chen Mu couldn’t help shivering.

He was afraid too.

Chen Mu had many secrets; if someone were to track and investigate him so stealthily, it would be a disaster.

"Can’t dig out the secret chamber, must stop cultivating, can’t take risks!"

Having eaten his meal without much enthusiasm, he rushed to wash up and then returned to the second-floor bedroom.

Not going to sleep, he hung the Truthful Listening Technique on his ear and started grinding away.

...

Several days later.

In front of the bamboo cottage, on the corridor.

Chen Mu lay in a rocking chair with his eyes closed, swaying back and forth.

The bronze wind chime hanging in the southeast corner of the corridor clinked.

In the distant woods, the collision of leaves created a rustling sound.

His ears twitched slightly, carefully distinguishing the various sounds within five hundred meters.

After a while, Chen Mu opened his eyes, satisfied, and looked at the grey wall.

After days of contemplation, his Proficiency in Truthful Listening Technique had surpassed nine thousand.

"It’s a pity I don’t dare to use it actively," Chen Mu shook his head.

The passive version of the Truthful Listening Technique merely amplified his hearing, allowing him to hear more and further.

The active version of the Truthful Listening Technique involved echo probing, requiring him to actively release his vital energy, then rely on his hearing to gather the feedback vibrations.

Actively using it would net more experience but would also make it easier to be discovered.

"Move away from Mist Smoke Mountain to practice?"

"Forget it, what if I run into a demon?"

Chen Mu thought about it and discarded the tempting idea.

"No rush, just grind it out slowly. What’s the big deal if old man Qing watches for a few more days."

As he was thinking this, footsteps reached his ears, and Chen Mu turned his head to look at the path through the woods not far away.

Bamboo baskets as tall as five or six basketball hoops first caught his eye.

Looking down, he saw a small bald head grinning.

Jia Tian?

The delivery of rabbit-pig meat and medicinal herbs had arrived.

...

Inside the back kitchen of the bamboo cottage, the cleaned rabbit-pig meat was neatly placed on the wooden rack.

Chen Mu ran his hand over it, and instantly a layer of white frost covered the meat.

"I haven’t seen you for a few days, Big Brother’s Minor Frost Descend Method is truly becoming more exquisite," Jia Tian said with amazement on his face.

Chen Mu’s eyes rolled, and he gave the other a faint glance, "No matter how much you praise me, you still have to give me the Minor Frost Descend Talisman you promised."

With a pained expression, Jia Tian reluctantly fished out a bundle of palm-sized brown leather talismans, murmuring about losses under his breath.

Chen Mu eagerly grabbed them and swiftly tucked them into the Five Ghosts Bag.

At a loss? Ha!

If he didn’t make this little scoundrel swallow some loss, who knows what kind of trouble he’d stir up next time?

Shang Huan and the East Ridge barbarians’ smuggling scheme was all started by this fellow, which attracted unwanted attention, dragging him into a chaotic fight as well.

"If it weren’t for the destruction of Eagle Grief Cliff, who knows if it would have been noticed and exposed," Chen Mu commented as he glanced at the little bald kid.

He would have to tell Shang Huan to keep a low profile from now on.

This little prince was no docile subject.

Chen Mu casually asked, "Why did you think of coming to Mist Smoke Mountain instead of making a fortune at Jade Spring Mountain? These goods aren’t worth you delivering them in person, are they?"

"Who made me a native of Da Qian, and a little prince at that?" Jia Tian said with a bitter face.

Chen Mu was startled, "Because of Pavilion Master Zhu’s Heavenly Demon Rebirth Pill?"

"Indeed, not." Jia Tian shrugged his shoulders.

"Pill Treasure Pavilion has diverted a large number of Da Qian warriors to conduct inspections, hoping to corroborate whether the elixir pills are safe."

"Is the truth really that important? Ha!" Jia Tian sneered.

"I’ve seen more than enough of these power struggles and their hidden perils. I certainly don’t want to lose my life over nothing."

Chen Mu’s eyelids twitched slightly, and he looked at the other party with surprise.

This little baldy was certainly clear-headed. Not for nothing had he been a young prince.

"The powerful barbarians have mostly been taken away by Wei Donglai, and East Ridge is becoming ever more stable."

"I plan to wander among the other four mountains for a while and have no immediate plans to return to Jade Spring Mountain."

Smart move!

The local East Ridge forces had been crippled, and Jilong Road had taken complete control of the five great mountains.

The subordinate courtyards were entering a period of rapid development; more and more disciples from the Upper Court were arriving, intensifying the internal strife.

The change of Pavilion Master at Pill Treasure Pavilion was just the tip of the iceberg; who knows how much more chaotic Jade Spring Mountain might become in the future.

In comparison, the four mountains like Mist Smoke and Liulian, lacking Earth Spirit Vital Energy, were much more peaceful and safe.

"With Replenishing Origin Soup, the Condensing Aperture Technique, and a stable and secure living environment, Mist Smoke Mountain is just the place to hole up and grind experience."

Thinking thus, Chen Mu’s lips curled up in a smile.

"Comfy!"

Feeling buoyant, Chen Mu habitually glanced back over his shoulder.

And then he saw Jia Tian, looking tense and apprehensive beside him.

"Senior Brother, is there... is there something dirty behind us?"

"Within such a short time, you’ve looked back three times already?!"

Chen Mu stiffened involuntarily.

He didn’t want to be so jumpy, but Qing Lu’s uncanny ability to appear and disappear made him constantly look back to check.

"Whether there is something or not... I really can’t say."

Jia Tian: "..."

Could you not say it in such a scary way?!

...

"So, you’re the unlucky one?"

In the Scripture Pavilion, a man in his forties looked sympathetically at Chen Mu.

The unlucky one?

Who are you calling that?!

Chen Mu’s face soured.

"Little Yuan really hit the jackpot with you, finding such an easy... scapego... cough cough, replacement." The middle-aged man looked regretful. "When will I have that kind of luck?"

An easy mark, a scapegoat, is that what you were going to say?!

Chen Mu pretended not to hear.

If it weren’t for wanting to get some information from this colleague, he really felt like smacking the man upside the head.

"Don’t blame me for talking nonsense." The middle-aged man sighed.

"Our Qingdu Institution pays promptly and doesn’t ask for much, just to keep the Scripture Pavilion clean and tidy. He doesn’t care about anything else you do."

"But... well..."

He hadn’t finished speaking when a voice suddenly interrupted.

"The Water Walking Secret Technique Area on the first floor needs cleaning."

The middle-aged man shivered, his head not turning as he shrugged helplessly at Chen Mu.

See?

Chen Mu, however, couldn’t help but look.

And he saw a lean old man standing quietly not far away, as if he had always been there.

This time not directly behind me?

Noticing the reaction of his middle-aged colleague across from him, Chen Mu was taken aback.

After taking a careful look at Qing Lu’s position, his face involuntarily started twitching.

Qing Lu might not have been standing directly behind him this time, but the position he did choose was in the blind spot of both himself and the middle-aged colleague’s lines of sight!

Does this Qingdu Institution have a screw loose?!

As Qing Lu slowly descended the stairs, Chen Mu muttered softly, "Hasn’t anyone talked to the Institution about this?"

"Would you dare?" The middle-aged man cast a sideways glance at Chen Mu. Stay tuned with

"I wouldn’t dare?" Chen Mu said, feeling wronged.

The old man from Qingdu Institution had a habit of coming and going like a phantom, his formidable strength clear for all to see.

With his eternally stern face and his unapproachable demeanor, who would dare to offer suggestions to such a powerhouse.

"There’s really no other way?" Chen Mu persisted, unwilling to give up.

Being watched like that was too frightening.

The middle-aged colleague suddenly became animated: "You could practice the Dust Avoidance Technique."

"As long as you ensure the Scripture Pavilion is clean and tidy, the Institution won’t need to show up."

"Including the time just now, the Institution has appeared twenty-one times today."

"Do you know? My lowest record was twenty-four. With a bit of effort, maybe I can break that record today!" The middle-aged man’s face was full of excitement.

What’s there to be excited about that?!

"When my Dust Avoidance Technique is perfected, and the Scripture Pavilion is free of every speck of dust, perhaps the Qingdu Institution won’t come to scare people anymore." The colleague’s eyes brimmed with yearning.

Haven’t they all learned to motivate themselves now?

Chen Mu looked at his middle-aged colleague with pity, like looking at a middle-aged office worker who had been ground down by the corporate world in his previous life.

"Really no other way?"

The middle-aged colleague didn’t speak, only giving Chen Mu a meaningful look.

Is that it...?

Find another easy mark like me to take the fall?

Chen Mu’s face instantly darkened.

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