I Am Grinding Experience in Another World

Two days later.

At the end of the third floor of the Scripture Pavilion.

Chen Mu picked up a silk scroll from the top shelf, activated Qi Forbidden Hundred Miles, and absorbed the dust from the crevices of the adjacent scrolls.

After cleaning, he put the scroll back in its original place.

He repeated this process until he reached the middle of the bookshelf, where five or six stacked scrolls appeared before his eyes.

Chen Mu cleaned the dust as before, but in the end, he deliberately left one of the scrolls beside him.

The next moment, Qing Lu’s voice emerged.

"The third volume of ’The Mirror of Tongtian River Water’ is placed in the wrong position."

Chen Mu turned around, bowed respectfully, and said, "Thank you for reminding me, Director."

Immediately, he activated the Truthful Listening Technique and, as expected, caught the familiar aura from the first floor.

"This place is the farthest from the counter on the first floor, and the entire octagonal wooden building is within the coverage of Qing Lu’s Secret Technique."

Watching Qing Lu leave, Chen Mu continued his silent cleaning.

At noon, Chen Mu used having lunch as an excuse to temporarily leave the Scripture Pavilion.

After exiting the pavilion, instead of hurrying back to his bamboo building, he strolled slowly along the bluestone path outside the Scripture Pavilion.

At the same time, he silently activated Qi Forbidden Hundred Miles and absorbed the dust and loose soil from the side of the road, spreading it on the ground.

Before long, a tall and thin young man in his twenties came up the mountain path, walked along the bluestone pavement with shoes full of dust, and hurried towards the Scripture Pavilion.

As they brushed past, Chen Mu’s face showed nothing, but his Truthful Listening Technique firmly locked onto the young man.

After the young man entered the doorway of the Scripture Pavilion, Chen Mu’s heart couldn’t help but lift.

Yet, until he left the Scripture Transmission Institute area, Qing Lu did not appear.

"That young man stepped on the loose soil. With Qing Lu’s cleanliness, he would have called me to clean it up under ordinary circumstances, but now..." Chen Mu narrowed his eyes.

"Is it that he cannot or does not want to?"

"Most likely, he does not want to," Chen Mu frowned.

Old man Qing was someone who followed the rules; once Chen Mu had left the Scripture Pavilion, he wouldn’t bother him.

However, this made it difficult to calculate the coverage of Qing Lu’s Secret Technique.

...

After lunch.

On the second floor of the Scripture Pavilion, in the Qimen Secret Arts District.

Chen Mu stood between two rows of gray bookshelves.

From the bottom shelf on the right side, one bright yellow scroll after another floated up, queuing in front of Chen Mu.

"’Far Sight Technique,’ seeing dozens of miles as if they were before one’s eyes, a human-powered telescope?"

"’Smell Identification Technique,’ distinguishing hundreds of scents, identifying people by smell, like a dog’s nose, heh..."

"’Mirage Technique,’ mist forming a mirage decoy, this is far inferior to Qing Lu’s Secret Technique..."

Chen Mu skimmed through the scrolls at a glance.

Continue your saga on

He tried to find some clues about Qing Lu’s Secret Technique and it would be even better if he came across a targeted Investigative Secret Technique.

The Scripture Pavilion was sparsely populated.

The occasional disciple from the Lower Courtyard who came here was also in a rush to leave.

Chen Mu had no concerns, he stood in place and rapidly swapped the scrolls in front of him using Qi Forbidden Hundred Miles.

Whether useful or not, he read through each one, seemingly just to broaden his knowledge, so he wasn’t afraid of Qing Lu finding out.

Deeply engrossed, a departing aura from the Scripture Pavilion caught Chen Mu’s attention.

"Was that the tall and thin young man? Did he choose his Secret Technique?"

Suddenly, Chen Mu pursed his lips in frustration, "Now that he’s gone, old man Qing should be coming."

Just as he was about to put the hovering scrolls back in place, he resisted the urge.

The moment the young man left, he was ready to clean up instantly; it was clear that he possessed a sophisticated Investigative Secret Technique and was using it unabashedly within the Scripture Pavilion.

Wasn’t this just looking for trouble?

"I wonder what kind of Secret Technique old man Qing is practicing. Why is it so strange? Can the Truthful Listening Technique really not deal with it? Do I need to level it up another Rank?" Chen Mu kept pushing his Truthful Listening Technique to its limits, unwilling to give up.

He had little hope.

But the next moment, he suddenly felt as if he had acquired an object in his hand.

And that object was not small—it was the size of a person!

Chen Mu swiftly turned around.

He saw Qing Lu appear out of thin air with a smack. It was like a rough cut from a horror movie edited together without transition or warning, so sudden and jarring it sent a shiver down one’s spine.

"This sensation..."

Qi Forbidden Hundred Miles?!

Ha!

Chen Mu’s skin twitched, as he struggled to keep from laughing out loud.

He hadn’t expected that the figure which Truthful Listening Technique couldn’t capture would actually be discovered by Qi Forbidden Hundred Miles!

Qing Lu slightly turned his head, looking at Chen Mu with curiosity.

"You... are you alright?"

Alright?

Hey!

How could he be alright?

There was something! Something joyous!

In the past, he only used Qi Forbidden Hundred Miles on a small scale, laying it out on the ground or on the surface of bookshelves to replace Five Ghosts Moving Mountain for cleaning tasks.

Today, when he was reviewing materials to save time and effort, he expanded Qi Forbidden into a sphere, covering the bookshelves within a five-meter radius.

He hadn’t anticipated that besides Qi Forbidden Shift, he could also detect Qing Lu’s clone.

What a pleasant surprise!

From now on, he would never have to worry about being sneakily approached from behind!

"But you want me to dust off?" Chen Mu asked with a face full of surprise.

Qing Lu: "..."

This new scriptorium scholar... does he actually like this job that much?

"Just leave it to me with confidence, you see my Formless Secret Hand, it’s best at Teleportation and moving things, I assure you I’ll clean things up spotlessly." Chen Mu spewed nonsense enthusiastically, grabbed dozens of book volumes and manipulated them to sway noisily in the air.

For a clearer demonstration, he used the books to outline the shape of a cow first, then arranged them into the number thirteen.

Grinning while he directed, he said, "You see, impressive right?"

Qing Lu: "..."

This new scriptorium scholar... he doesn’t have any issues, does he?

...

The next day.

Scripture Pavilion third floor.

"Don’t ask me again, I can’t help it. If there was a fool willing to take over, I would have quit this scriptorium scholar job long ago," a colleague in his forties said meaningfully while looking at Chen Mu.

Who the heck are you looking at!

I’m not the fool here!

Chen Mu explained earnestly, "I actually quite like the job of a scriptorium scholar."

The middle-aged colleague sneered: "Like it? With all the bizarre comings and goings in the Lower Courtyard, aren’t you scared?"

"Not scared at all," Chen Mu said with an unfazed face.

"Ha!" his middle-aged colleague said with disdain.

"Don’t believe me?" Chen Mu raised an eyebrow.

Then he casually took a black leather-bound book that needed sorting and archiving from the other’s hand.

With a whoosh, he threw it to a random spot.

The middle-aged colleague only felt his scalp tingle, his eyes uncontrollably widening.

But before he could figure out what was going on, a voice suddenly rang out.

"’Records of the Hundred Thoughts of the Daoist Ancestor’ should be placed on the fourth shelf of the fourth layer."

The middle-aged colleague immediately shuddered at the ghost-like sudden appearance of the voice.

He quickly turned around to comply and swiftly corrected the placement of the wrong book.

After watching Qing Lu leave, just as he turned to scold Chen Mu, he was met with Chen Mu’s grinning face: "Exciting, isn’t it?"

The middle-aged colleague: "..."

This guy... he must have some serious problem, right?!

...

Chen Mu looked on with regret as his colleague left in disarray.

He had wanted this colleague to help him test a few more times to get the hang of it.

What a pity...

Arriving on the second floor at the Qimen Secret Techniques District, Chen Mu continued flipping through the books. Meanwhile, the acupoint in the center of his brow twitched and he spread Qi Forbidden Hundred Miles around, encompassing a ten-meter radius.

"If I wasn’t afraid to use Five Ghosts Possession, this range could be even greater... huh?"

"It seems like it can be a bit larger indeed!"

Thinking so, he tentatively spread Qi Forbidden Hundred Miles further outward.

The secret acupoints in his chest and abdomen pulsed simultaneously, and Qi Forbidden Hundred Miles indeed expanded outwards!

"What’s going on?!"

Qi Forbidden Hundred Miles originated from the Cloud Mirage Spirit Armor Technique, and it originally could only restrict at ten meters, but with Five Ghosts Possession, it could be amplified to a hundred meters.

But now...

"This must be two or three hundred meters, right?!"

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