Prison Valley.
Chen Mu felt a tingling sensation on his scalp under Lu Han’s eager gaze. He immediately followed the crowd, picked up a bamboo basket, chose a spot far away from Lu Han, took out his battle-damaged mining pick, and began trying to mine stones.
Ding!
Sparks flew as the dark rock in front of him seemed as though it were cast from steel, enveloped by an invisible repulsion force that firmly blocked the mining pick.
“Is the entire mountain valley cliff made of Demon Qi Stone?”
Chen Mu looked up and around at the cliff walls of the valley, his heart skipping a beat.
“Could it be that an Outer Heaven Demon is suppressed here?”
Back at the Heavenly River Water Mansion, he had heard that the Thousand Mechanisms Sect among Hai Province’s Ninety-nine Sects had set up a demon-sealing enchantment.
On one hand, it was to suppress the demons, and on the other, it was to train Daoist Soldiers.
This Prison Valley mine pit in front seems to be part of the demon-sealing enchantment, designed to facilitate the Daoist Soldiers to hone their Demon Dispel Skill.
Chen Mu had an epiphany.
Activating the Demon Dispel Skill, a cluster of green mist appeared in his palm. Like heavy rain falling on parched, cracked earth, the green mist just touched the mining pick and whooshed into it.
Buzz!
A ghostly green blade the size of a fingernail suddenly appeared on the tip of the mining pick.
“A specially made mining pick compatible with Demon Dispel Skill?”
“Interesting!” Chen Mu raised an eyebrow.
“Tools used for disassembling demon bones in the future are probably specially tailored too. There indeed is a well-established training system for Auxiliary Soldiers.”
He chuckled and focused on swinging his mining pick, clinking and clanging as he chopped at the rock.
Inside the Jade Seed, five silver rings combined into a larger ring, slowly rotating in a sea of Mana mist, with a distressing green light flickering incessantly on the rings.
The light varied in strength, continuously reconfiguring, and the emitted Demon Dispel Skill Exotic Force also varied.
Chen Mu continued to adjust, swinging his mining pick for half an hour before coincidentally finding the correct approach. The originally iron-hard Demon Qi Stone suddenly turned into a thin crust. With a puff, the mining pick easily knocked off a fist-sized stone.
But in the next moment, the fracture in the stone began to move like a living thing, regenerating at a visible rate.
In just over a dozen breaths, the gap knocked out by Chen Mu’s mining pick was completely repaired.
“This… This is a bit eerie!”
Looking at Lu Han who was composed in the distance, Chen Mu took a deep breath to steady his fluctuating emotions.
Tentatively swinging his mining pick, he struck the restored rock.
Ding!
Sparks flew, leaving the rock unscathed.
The combination of Demon Dispel Skill found earlier had already lost its effect.
“Each time a stone is mined, I have to adjust the pattern of the Demon Dispel Skill, no wonder…”
Chen Mu turned his head and glanced at the many colleagues in the distance who were swinging their picks more and more frantically, he couldn’t help but sigh and shake his head.
“This Demon Dispel Skill is indeed a bit tricky!”
…
In the evening, Chen Mu returned to the cave, covered in dirt and grime.
The Five Ghosts Black Smoke quickly cleaned off the dust on his body.
After tossing the bamboo basket and mining pick behind the door, he dragged out a rocking chair and placed it at the entrance, lying down to watch the setting sun lazily, not wanting to move.
“Busy all day and only managed to knock down about thirty pounds of Demon Qi Stone.”
“No wonder Hundred Illusion Sect sends Daoist Soldiers to Thousand Mechanisms Sect every three years.”
“This Demon Dispel Skill indeed requires enough time to be mastered.”
Chen Mu raised his right hand, with a ghostly green mist emerging in his palm.
“According to the information I gathered, the most recent time Hundred Illusion Sect sent Daoist Soldiers to Thousand Mechanisms Sect is about a year from now.”
“If the Demon Dispel Skill is not up to standard by then, I will have to wait another four years.”
“Waiting one year is still acceptable, but four years is a bit long.”
His visit to the Thousand Mechanisms Sect was to obtain the Daoist Foundation Atlas, such Secret Techniques definitely require massive amounts of Daoist Cultivation, which must be accumulated over a long period to achieve.
“It’s better to go to Thousand Mechanisms Sect sooner.” Chen Mu squinted his eyes.
“I need to think of a way to fake the Demon Dispel Skill!”
Staring at the Gray Wall with Secret Techniques flipping through, soon, a Secret Technique came into view.
“How does this Three Yin Slaying Demon Technique’s distressing green Qi Blade look so similar to this Demon Dispel Skill?”
Chen Mu’s heart suddenly skipped a beat.
Left wrist flipping, black smoke billowing, a fist-sized dark Demon Qi Stone appeared in his hand, which he specifically intercepted today.
Then, his right hand’s index finger raised.
Buzz!
A thumb-length, miserable green Qi Blade emerged at the fingertip.
Immediately, he gently slid it over the Demon Qi Stone in the palm of his left hand.
Swoosh!
Like a glowing hot knife slicing through solidified fat, the miserable green Qi Blade easily split the Demon Qi Stone.
The cut surface was smooth, like a finely polished mirror, even reflecting Chen Mu’s face full of surprise!
Indeed!
Slaying Demon! Slaying Demon!
This Triple Yin Slaying Demon Technique is probably meant for slaughtering demons!
Long ago, this Secret Technique from the Wu Mountain Seven Brothers was mastered to the peak, allowing him to conjure a hundred and eight miserable green Qi Blades with a mere thought.
However, as Chen Mu’s Cultivation advanced and he encountered increasingly stronger opponents, the Triple Yin Slaying Demon Technique proved insufficient. It could injure foes, but not kill them in one strike. Eventually, it was relegated to logistical use, becoming his specialized tool for cutting meat.
Chen Mu had never expected that this Secret Technique would be extraordinarily effective against breaking the Demon Qi mechanism.
“Think about it, there were signs early on.”
“Whenever I used it to cut Exotic Beast Meat, whether slicing or shredding, it was always smooth and unhindered.”
“I originally thought it was just because the Slaying Demon Technique was sharp enough, but now it seems that the Triple Yin Slaying Demon Technique is inherently miraculous.” Chen Mu had a sudden realization.
“Shouldn’t the act of grave-robbing by Wu Mountain Seven Brothers back then be praised, it was truly exquisite.”
“So many years have passed, and the value of that unnamed older brother’s gravesite is still increasing.”
“That saves a lot of effort.”
“Deserving of a reward!”
Chen Mu laughed heartily, immediately extracting a strand of Primordial Qi and sending it to the Seven Soul Gourd inside the Five Ghosts Bag.
The gourd transformed by the Wu Mountain Seven Brothers instantly swelled and grew, fattening significantly in the blink of an eye.
With previous intermittent feedings, what was originally a palm-sized gourd had now grown to the height of a forearm.
…
I don’t know what variety of peach blossoms abound on the mountain of the Hundred Illusion Sect.
Chen Mu has been here for over twenty days, and each day he could see both peach blossoms bloom and fall.
As the weather warmed further, the abundance of peach trees continued blooming, yet bore no fruit.
Early in the morning, Chen Mu, carrying a vine-twine darkened, worn basket and holding a rust-scraped, newly bound non-slip fabric handled, but still old-looking miner’s pick, strolled upon the rocky wall steps.
Through the light mist, he admired the distant mountain peach blossoms for a while, and then observed the waving tide of the plains’ rice paddies.
“Tomorrow I’ll go to Shuwu Cave to buy some Golden Yuan Valley to taste.”
“I wonder how it tastes.”
He has Replenishing Origin Soup and can refine Nourishing Yuan and Strengthening Foundation Pills, not lacking any such pills; he mainly wants to try the taste of Golden Yuan Valley.
Strolling leisurely into Prison Valley, he immediately met Lu Han’s eyes, full of scrutiny.
It was as if a mouse encountering a cat, a back-row slacker facing the class teacher, causing Chen Mu’s heart to skip a beat.
I…
I didn’t arrive too early, did I?
Without any outward reaction, he surreptitiously scanned the surroundings; among his peers who entered with him, only seven or eight were there splitting rocks.
Chen Mu relaxed instantly.
He still managed to perfectly control his arrival time in Prison Valley, maintaining a punctuality slightly below the median.
Nodding towards Lu Han, he carried his pick to a slightly remote area and started tapping away tirelessly.
After a while, feeling Lu Han’s gaze disappear from him, Chen Mu took a breath of relief, yet couldn’t help scratching his head.
This Lu Han, why is he so responsible?
Ever since their group entered Prison Valley, Lu Han had been like a supervisor, watching them daily as they practiced the Demon Dispel Skill.
He hardly had any time to slack off.
“There must be some factor here that I am unaware of.”
With this thought in mind, Chen Mu activated his Truth Listening Divine Power, extending it far into the distance.
In Prison Valley, their group wasn’t the only ones practicing the Demon Dispel Skill.
Five miles away, there was another group of miners, who had been practicing for a year and a half, busily tapping away at the rocks.
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