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Before we knew it, Luandu County had entered autumn.
In the south of the city, in Ji'anfang, in a two-courtyard building, a group of people sat around a table eating and chatting.
"Has Southern Shu really been destroyed?"
"General Jin is indeed worthy of being called the General of the State!"
"I heard that the situation is being stabilized and we should be able to return in early winter."
"If we take the water route, we'll probably have to go through the Yudai River outside the city, and maybe we can meet again."
Everyone was chatting animatedly when several women appeared together.
One of the women was holding a big red swaddling cloth, which attracted everyone to stand up and come forward. They happily looked at the baby in the swaddling cloth for a moment and gave various blessings and praises.
This gathering is the 100-day party for the baby in the cradle.
In the corner of the room, Chen Mu's figure appeared out of nowhere, staring at the baby in the distance, and then he looked away for a long time.
The baby was born a hundred days ago, and Chen Mu saw with his own eyes the Yinming worm enter its body.
On that day, I could still sense the Yinming Worm's Qi, but on the second day, it was barely detectable. Today, the Yinming Worm's unique Qi has completely disappeared.
"Has it integrated into the human body and become something like intestinal flora?"
Chen Mu understood.
It is integrated into the human body at birth, grows with the baby, and completely becomes a part of the human body.
Even if it is observed by special secret methods, people would probably only regard the Yinming Worm as some kind of symbiotic insect in the human body. They would never think that it is a foreign parasite, let alone the various schemes of the Yin and Ming behind it.
"awesome!"
Because he had seen the Yinming worms being planted in the human body with the help of the power of the City God's Taoist temple, Chen Mu had always been very concerned about it.
During this period, apart from practicing, he spent his time observing Luandu County.
It turned out that the people in Luandu County had no other abnormal behaviors except that some of them were unusually strong and healthy.
Regardless of gender, age or status, most people suffered from few illnesses and disasters. In such a big city, there were only two medical clinics.
Moreover, the most common patients we deal with on a daily basis, besides injuries from falls, are pregnant women giving birth.
"For ordinary people, are these Yinming insects beneficial or harmless?"
“Interesting…”
Chen Mu shook his head slightly and took one last look at the baby. As soon as he thought about it, his figure suddenly disappeared.
……
Thirty miles outside Luandu County, beside the Yudai River, Chen Mu's figure suddenly appeared.
He stretched out his hand towards the river surface of the statue, and his palm immediately turned into fluorescent light and dissipated.
"It seems that I still have to keep working hard."
A gray wall appeared before my eyes.
Lingbao Cardinal Chapter: 5007/10000/Level ;
In the past few months, in addition to practicing the Peace of Mind Sutra every day to nourish the divine fetus that he didn't know when it would be complete, Chen Mu spent almost all his time practicing the Spirit Treasure Cardinal Chapter.
Practicing this secret method feels wonderful, and my heart is filled with peace and joy. The experience far exceeds any practice I have done in the past ten years.
Without the sense of accomplishment provided by experience values, he would immerse himself in it and gain experience all day long.
The result was quite encouraging. To date, he has reached more than half of the third level.
The distance of his divine consciousness projection also expanded, and now it can reach the Yudai River outside the city.
Chen Mu looked up at the sky, and dense and dense lines came into view. Some of them spread far away, and some fell down and penetrated into the ground. It was like a dragnet, stretching for hundreds of miles and covering the surrounding area.
"The City God's Taoist Temple does not refer to the courtyard of the City God Temple, nor does it refer to the cave where the statue is placed, but rather all the territories covered by the forbidden network?" Chen Mu understood.
He withdrew his gaze and looked towards the other side of the Yudai River, where there was an endless expanse of fertile farmland.
It is the golden autumn harvest season now. The fields are orange and yellow, full of plump and ripe pearl rice.
With just a glance, Chen Mu was able to roughly estimate the yield using the third-level planting technique that he had not used for a long time.
"The yield per mu is at least 1,600 kilograms. This is an extraordinary yield!" A strange look flashed in Chen Mu's eyes.
In his memory, pearl rice is the main food of Daqian. Under normal circumstances, a yield of four or five hundred kilograms per mu is considered high.
When planting in the mortal world, there is not enough fertilizer, the seeds are not specially bred and selected, and there is no way to irrigate in time. People rely on the weather for food all year round. The results are naturally not as high as the grain yields in previous lives.
But in Luandu County...
Chen Mu looked at the thin lines covering the surroundings again.
"Is it the power of the City God's Taoist temple?" He understood clearly.
"To make people well fed and well watered, to make them strong and healthy, and then to cultivate ghosts and monsters to maintain the existence of the underworld?"
"Taking humans to raise Yinming insects is a cruel and cold-blooded act no matter how you look at it, but it turns out to be a weird win-win situation?"
"Tsk! This world is so weird."
……
As the days go by, the weather in Luandu County is getting colder.
Soon, snowflakes began to fall from Qiluo Mountain, and the mountain and the surroundings were covered in silver. However, the inside of the Statue Cave was as warm as spring, and it remained unchanged.
Snowflakes were falling overhead, but they were like mirages in the mirror and could not fall into the cave at all.
As he thought about it, a gray wall appeared before his eyes.
Lingbao Cardinal Chapter: 2/10000/Level ;
"Whether it will succeed or not depends on today!" Chen Mu narrowed his eyes.
Standing in the middle of the courtyard, with the power of the Yin spirit, the true form of the celestial demon in the form of a bald boy suddenly appeared.
The Lingbao Cardinal Chapter was running, and Chen Mu turned his head to look, and found that the demon's true body was surrounded by invisible thin lines. It was wrapped in three layers inside and three layers outside, like a cocoon.
"really!"
"The original Conferred God Contract was signed with the Heavenly Demon's true body, so the one bound in the City God's Dojo is naturally the Heavenly Demon's true body!"
"In this way, as long as I leave the real body of the Heavenly Demon to take charge, won't I be able to escape from the Divine Statue Cave?!" Chen Mu was overjoyed.
He had guessed it before, but was afraid of backlash and did not dare to try it rashly.
Now that he has practiced the Lingbao Cardinal Chapter to the fourth level, the forbidden veins of the City God's Taoist temple are all revealed before him.
Only then did he confirm that his real body was not bound and he had a chance to leave the statue cave.
After carefully checking again and making sure that his real body was not involved, Chen Mu immediately mobilized the power of the Yin spirit to activate the Yellow Springs Ferry.
hum!
A pool of dark water suddenly appeared on the bluestone slab under my feet.
Chen Mu suppressed his excitement, carefully observed the reaction of the prohibition in the cave of the statue, and then slowly sank into it. When he appeared again, he had already reached the top of Qiluo Mountain.
He stood on a gray stone that protruded from the ground at an angle, his mind tense and his eyes carefully observing his surroundings.
The secret method of Huangquandu is always ready, and as long as there is something wrong, he will immediately return to the cave of the statue.
After a long while, nothing unusual happened except the whistling sound of cold wind in the sky.
"Finally..."
Chen Mu let out a long sigh and smiled widely. Looking at the snow-white Luandu County in the distance, he felt his heart suddenly filled with joy.
After returning to the world of the living for half a year, he worked hard to practice the Lingbao Cardinal Chapter, and finally succeeded in breaking free from the constraints of the City God's Taoist Temple and leaving the cave of the statue!
"Wuhu!"
He shouted loudly, and the Yin Spirit's divine power vibrated, and it flew up with a bang.
The mountain top was filled with raging winds and flying snow.
Chen Mu's figure suddenly soared into the sky, broke through the clouds, and flew towards the horizon at a high speed.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 526 Strange
Above the sky, Chen Mu had an excited look on his face. He used his almost perfect Yin Feng Dun to the fullest extent. Within two breaths, the Jade Belt River appeared before his eyes.
He was trapped in the statue cave before, and his divine projection could never reach the other side.
Now...
Chen Mu grinned, and with a bang, a circle of air waves exploded around his body, and he flew to the other side of Yudai River in a flash!
Now I can not only fly to the other side, I can fly even further!
Haha!
But he just laughed twice.
stretch!
It was as if a steel cable was suddenly stretched straight and taut, and an invisible force suddenly enveloped his whole body. Chen Mu was like a hound that was running wildly and then suddenly grabbed by the chain. His whole body suddenly stopped, and then he was pulled to the ground with a whoosh.
puff!
The mud splashed several meters high and a big hole appeared on the ground.
Chen Mu lay on his back at the bottom of the pit, his eyes wide open, staring at the sky with a dazed look on his face.
I knew it wasn’t that simple!
……
Five days later, at Yudaihe Wharf, on the second floor of Xinfeng Building, in a compartment facing the street.
There is a red clay stove in the middle of the square dining table. A casserole is bubbling on it. Pieces of pork and rabbit meat as big as baby fists are rolling up and down in the soup, and the rich meat aroma fills the air.
Chen Mu sat by the window, holding a black ceramic pot as big as a cantaloupe in his hands.
While slurping the cold black plum juice from the pottery jar with a straw, he looked through the half-open window with a sad face at the silvery white ice surface of the Yudai River in the distance.