I am grinding experience in another world-Chapter 661 - 649: Acquaintance

Qingqiu Mountain peak.

A strange wailing sound echoed, jolting the bewildered crowd awake.

Countless blood shadows surged out abruptly from the upside-down Blood River in the sky.

"Sealing Demon Curse!" Lu Han shouted loudly.

The results of repeated drills showed themselves as the Daoist Soldier Apprentices reflexively chanted the Sealing Demon Curse.

But just as the Green Dispel Relief Power began to rise, the crowd stopped chanting one after another.

They stared at the swarm of blood shadows filling the sky like locusts, then glanced at the mere hundred or so people on the mountain peak—a wave of peculiar emotion surged within them.

Lu Han, who was fully focused on casting the Sealing Demon Curse, suddenly snapped out of it. The look on his face darkened as his peripheral vision caught the expressions of those around him.

"The Sect Master has already activated the Contractual Decree. Deserting in battle will invoke Five Thunders Bombarding, leaving no chance of survival! Do not make a fatal mistake!" he loudly reminded.

Five Thunders Bombarding?

No chance of survival?

That's not necessarily true!

The previously hesitant Daoist Soldiers suddenly became resolute.

Like a flash of lightning tearing through the sky, realization struck Lu Han as he instantly understood what the Daoist Soldiers were plotting.

A secret technique to resist tribulation calamities?!

That damn thing is just a method to exploit Daoist Soldier Apprentices' White Jade. It's typically hinted at subtly before they are sent to the Thousand Mechanisms Sect.

But this bunch in front of me…

It's disaster! Absolute calamity!

Before Lu Han had a chance to warn them, someone within the crowd stepped onto a Flying Kite and soared into the air.

With mana bursting forth, the Flying Kite sliced through clouds and mist, shooting straight toward the Mist Forest outside Qingqiu Mountain.

As if a switch had been flipped, various escape skill secret techniques erupted simultaneously. The hundred Daoist Soldiers who had been gathered together scattered in a frantic burst.

Seeing this, Lu Han and Yang Fu's faces instantly turned ashen.

Those Daoist Soldier Apprentices may not know the power of the Contract, but don't they?

If the Secret Technique of Tribulation Resistance were effective, why would they still remain on Qingqiu Mountain at this moment?

Bang! Bang! Bang...

A series of sudden explosions echoed as the Daoist Soldier Apprentices who had just fled Qingqiu Mountain were blown apart mid-air.

Their shattered flesh and bones flew everywhere, blossoming like grotesquely beautiful scarlet fireworks.

The rippling air tremors struck chilling fear into those still stranded at the mountain peak.

Chen Mu stared dead-eyed at a drop of blood hovering mid-air not far from him, fixed on the electric golden-red lightning flashing within it.

In just three breaths, the blood drop had been evaporated by the lightning, leaving only traces of blackened ash, which scattered into the wind.

Chen Mu stood there as though petrified, unable to move an inch.

Five Thunders Bombarding—does it annihilate from the inside out?

A single drop of blood gets blasted and evaporated? How cruel is that?

Fuck!

...

Starlight flickered above Qingqiu Mountain.

A pitch-black rift, stretching for several miles, cut through the sky like a jagged scar.

At some point, a figure dressed in loose white robes had appeared beside the void.

His jet-black hair, loosely tied into a ponytail, swayed like antennae over his forehead, unaffected by the roaring blood river beside him.

His crystalline blood-red pupils gazed down at the scene below, a faint smile playing on his lips, his demeanor relaxed and languid.

"Lan Zhang, why did you pick such a destitute place?" A pitch-black shadow beneath his feet spread and expanded.

Swish!

Countless crimson eyes of various sizes emerged on the shadow.

Several thin black shadow blades, sharp and tapered like spikes, extended outward, suddenly aligning at Lan Zhang's ear.

A massive eyeball, spinning wildly in every direction, appeared in the center of the shadow blade.

"Not enough of those hairless monkeys around here—not much Primordial Spirit for you to snatch." The No-Eyed Child grumbled discontentedly, his voice like the murmurs of thousands, itching and maddening to the ears.

"They're called people, not hairless monkeys," Lan Zhang chuckled and corrected.

"I bet you've cooked up yet another sinister scheme!" The No-Eyed Child's eyes shone brightly with intrigue.

"I'm not from Nether Demon Heaven. Mo Nuo doesn't trust me, so he assigned me to such a barren place." Lan Zhang spread his hands, feigning innocence. "Here, even if I racked my brains, it's nothing more than making dojos in snail shells—I lack the conditions to attempt anything grand."

"Bullshit!" No-Eyed Child's massive eyeball glared fiercely at Lan Zhang. "Mo Nuo gave you five options—why would you choose this out-of-the-way dump for no reason."

"It's all for you!" Lan Zhang sighed deeply, his tone sincere.

The No-Eyed Child was momentarily stunned.

For us? Haven't we always wanted to devour each other?

Since when have we become this buddy-buddy?

"Use your bloodline Divine Power to sense. There's a Shadow Cave Heaven concealed in this place," Lan Zhang said with a smile.

"That special Ghost who escaped Nether Demon Heaven using the Mountain-Carrying Scripture?" The No-Eyed Child's eyes, big and small, sparkled excitedly.

Lan Zhang's smile grew more benevolent. "If you devour their Shadow Cave Heaven, you'll certainly progress further. See, I'm completely thinking of you."

"Thinking of me? Ha!" The shadow blades twisted like razors, the massive eye dead-locked on Lan Zhang. "You just want to acquire a more powerful Blood Shadow Clone."

Just like how he always coveted Lan Zhang's essence, Lan Zhang likewise wanted to assimilate him into the Blood Cloud.

"Facing your demise yet still so greedy—mastering the fourth-level Demon Realm Blood God Scripture isn't exactly easy, huh?" The No-Eyed Child jeered.

Lan Zhang's ever-present grin instantly vanished.

The No-Eyed Child burst into raucous laughter.

"You deliberately chose an impoverished location to prevent Blood God's Son from killing too many beings, thus accelerating the Blood God Scripture's process of losing control, didn't you?"

"Ha! Lan Zhang, I look forward to watching you go mad!"

With a series of delighted cackles, the No-Eyed Child's form vanished.

...

Bang! Bang! Bang...

The sound of dull impacts echoed atop Qingqiu Mountain.

The green arc-shaped Spirit Light Shield enveloped the Daoist Soldiers.

Countless blood shadows plummeted from the sky, crashing into the Sealing Demon Light, creating ripples upon ripples.

The enormous Sealing Demon Light Shield visibly shrank with alarming speed as the crowd's faces turned to despair, yet no one dared to halt the chant of the Sealing Demon Curse.

Chen Mu mingled among the group, channeling his robust mana and the Triple Yin Slaying Demon Technique's Exotic Force powerfully into the Sealing Demon Light.

"Had I known the Secret Technique of Tribulation Resistance was useless, I'd never have signed the contract!" Chen Mu cursed inwardly.

The Truth Listening Divine Power covered an area of thirty miles, ensuring none of the fleeing Daoist Soldiers escaped detection.

The best outcome for those who fled was being struck by Thunder Law, their bodies charred black—alive but left with only half a life.

"If we really defend Qingqiu Mountain, we'll undoubtedly be ripped apart and devoured by the demons."

With the Blood River suspended, blood shadows seemingly infinite, even his vigorous River Chariot Mana would eventually succumb to the demon onslaught.

Even Zheng Bailian at the Dao Foundation Realm fled outright—how could he possibly hold out?

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"Should I gamble on the efficacy of the Nine-Life Tribulation Splitting Technique?" Chen Mu hesitated deeply.

But the Pure Yang Daoist Ancestor's power was overwhelming; he wasn't sure he could endure the Five Thunders Bombarding.

Before he could make a decision, Yang Fu suddenly shouted, "The decree orders us to defend Qingqiu Mountain, but doesn't say we must risk our lives fighting demons."

"Hiding inside the Administrative Affairs Institute's warehouse sanctuary counts as following the order."

"There, the sect's Forbidden Law will be enough to protect us!"

The crowd's spirits lifted.

Staying on Qingqiu Mountain wouldn't count as disobeying orders?

Could the Contractual Decree really be interpreted this way?

Hidden within the crowd, Chen Mu rejoiced.

At this moment, the blood shadow demons in the sky swarmed like locusts, but most were heading for Mist Forest instead.

Remaining on Qingqiu Mountain were comparatively few.

If he could avoid death by sneaking into the sanctuary protected by Forbidden Laws in the mountain's depths, he might really survive!

"Finally, I don't have to gamble my life on the Nine-Life Tribulation Splitting Technique," Chen Mu exhaled in immense relief.

But the next moment, he felt his legs suddenly halt.

At some unknown point, strips of black shadow-like ribbons had wrapped tightly around his calves.

Like tangled underwater grass, they pinned him firmly in place.

Swish!

Countless eyes abruptly opened on the dark ribbon shadows.

"Lan Zhang wasn't lying; you really do possess my kind's Shadow Cave Heaven within you."

"An Earthly Realm Ghost not only mastering our clan's Divine Power but also possessing the ability to take over a hairless monkey to cultivate mana?"

"I can't bring myself to kill you, truly." The No-Eyed Child teased with a laugh.

Lan Zhang?

Ghost?

The lunatic who cultivated the Blood God Scripture and devoured the entire Hai Character Camp?

Chen Mu's scalp tingled.

Fragments of sealed memories from Nether Demon Heaven Dust surfaced in his mind.

No wonder I thought the blood shadows all over the sky seemed familiar—they're fucking Blood God Scripture entities!

I've actually been targeted by such a monstrosity...

I'm screwed!