I am grinding experience in another world

It’s the first time refining the Twenty-four Pearls, so it’s unavoidable to be inexperienced. Fortunately, I have the Yama Feasting Divine Power to devour the experience gained from the Twenty-four Pearls.

I failed a few times in the middle, but quickly progressed smoothly after learning from the lessons.

It ultimately took six days to refine all twenty-four pearls.

…

On the top of Weizhi Peak, in front of the thatched wooden house.

Twenty-four silver spheres floated under the eaves, emitting a warm, lustrous, white glow, resembling twenty-four luminescent globes, with threads of Heavenly Star Essence releasing from the pearls.

“The Twenty-four Pearls can indeed attract Heavenly Star Essence, but there’s just too little of it,” Chen Mu frowned slightly.

The pearls originate from the Little Circulation Star Battle Technique Forbidden, capable of drawing star battle vital energy from the Heavenly River Cave Heaven.

But now, outside the cave heaven, the pearls are countless billions of miles from the starry sky overhead. They can’t respond to the Heavenly Stars above, only gathering scattered Heavenly Star Essence around.

“If I can find a way to connect the pearls with the stars above, perhaps more Heavenly Star Essence could be attracted,” Chen Mu pondered.

Speaking of connections with the stars, there happens to be something available right now.

He turned his head to look at the brook on the west side of the thatched house.

The brook’s source comes from the underground waters of Weizhi Peak, containing sparse Earth Spirit Vital Energy.

And this vitality is a transformation of Heavenly Star Essence by the Earth Vein of Weizhi Peak.

The Primordial Earth Vein can respond to the Heavenly Stars, drawing the Heavenly Star Essence down, and converting it into Earth Spirit Vital Energy.

Weizhi Peak is remote, with a weak Primordial Earth Vein Forbidden Technique. The Earth Vein Spiritual Spring within the mountainside dojo is far inferior to other peaks.

Yet no matter how weak, the Earth Vein of Weizhi Peak can indeed respond to the Heavenly Stars.

“If I can integrate the two…”

Chen Mu’s eyes suddenly lit up.

…

Deep beneath Weizhi Peak.

Hard rocks turned into soft mud, flowing outward to form a large circular cavern before long.

A silver-black hollow sphere as tall as a three-story building was quietly floating in the center of the cavern.

Within the sphere, light flickered, with countless glowing star-point threads floating out to form a luminous ribbon running through the sphere.

The ribbon extended to both ends, finally immersing into the rocks and soil, rushing toward the depths of the earth.

With a flash of golden light, Chen Mu appeared in the cavern, carefully observing the hollow silver-black sphere floating mid-air.

This structure is one of the cores of the Mountain Protection Magical Barrier. The glowing mass at the center is the captured Primordial Earth Vein Acupoint.

“As long as I can integrate the Twenty-four Pearls within, I should be able to use the Primordial Earth Vein to connect with the stars above.”

Flipping his hand, he retrieved a pearl, tentatively placing it within the glowing star river ribbon.

However, it seemed like the two existed in separate dimensions, with the pearl passing through without merging at all.

“I’ll need to use some means.” Chen Mu called out a gray stone gate, looking at one of its entries.

Exquisite Ghost Pattern: Limit.

He first encountered this ghost pattern in Yunzhou Luan County, learned from a Lock Dragon Knight of the Daqian Lock Dragon Institute.

“If Lock Dragon Knights can use the Exquisite Ghost Pattern to embed the City God Dojo core into the Earth Vein, it’s likely I can also integrate the Twenty-four Pearls.”

With a thought, a massive surge of cold Yin Power floated in his palm.

The pearl was enveloped and flew once again into the glowing river ribbon.

Initially, it was as indifferent as before, but as the power of the Exquisite Ghost Pattern seeped in, it was like casting a stone into a calm lake; the slow-flowing glowing river finally showed slight disturbances.

“There’s a way!” Chen Mu’s eyebrow lifted, and he immediately channeled Yin Spirit Divine Power, continuously deploying the Linglong Secret Technique.

Previously, he needed to borrow the Ghost Channeling Technique to laboriously extract the power of the ghost pattern from the Nine Serenities Abyss.

But a few days ago, he had completely mastered the Exquisite Ghost Pattern using the Yama Feasting.

Now activating the Linglong Secret Technique, it was almost instantaneous, effortlessly achieved.

After two hours, changes finally occurred.

As if breaking through a separation, the Star Battle Pearl swam like a fish, agilely entering the glowing river. Then, swimming upstream along the river, it whisked into the Forbidden Earth Vein Acupoint within the Mountain Protection Magical Barrier.

“It’s done!”

Chen Mu was overjoyed and immediately repeated the process, continuing to integrate pearls into the acupoint.

Two days later.

As Chen Mu prepared to integrate the ninth pearl, he found the pearl couldn’t enter the acupoint and had to stop.

“It seems each Earth Vein Acupoint can only integrate eight pearls.”

Chen Mu realized.

Fortunately, the Primordial Earth Vein is vast; even if the Earth Vein of Weizhi Peak is weak, it still has five Earth Vein Acupoints, enough to hold all twenty-four pearls.

…

Several days later, at midnight.

Chen Mu stood atop the mountain, his right hand’s middle and index fingers formed into a sword finger. As his lips moved, a Dharma curse entered the ground.

The twenty-four pearls integrated into the acupoints trembled in unison.

Like the reversing Heavenly River, a vast amount of Heavenly Star Essence poured down from the sky, directly into the depths beneath Weizhi Peak.

Bzz!

The entire Weizhi Peak shuddered slightly.

After a while, the Forbidden Law achieved a balance, and the mountain’s tremor ceased.

At this moment, the Heavenly Star Essence was seven to eight times denser than before and was continuously channeling into the mountaintop of Weizhi Peak.

“Now it’s truly achieved!”

“Ha ha!”

With this Heavenly Star Essence, he could squander mana recklessly, not worrying about delaying the Yellow Springs Gourd cultivation due to mana deficiency.

With a flash of golden light, Chen Mu slipped back into the thatched house, immediately starting a new round of Spiritual Treasure refining.

…

Halfway up Weizhi Peak.

Beside the largest pond dojo, Li Chou sat cross-legged, eyes closed, practicing.

His secret acupoint opened and closed, ravenously absorbing Earth Spirit Vital Energy, continuously tempering his Heavenly Demon Body.

At a certain moment, the ground beneath him suddenly shook, and he abruptly opened his eyes, looking up to see abundant Earth Spirit Vital Energy gushing from the pond’s depths.

Prior, the vitality was like thin mist, but now, it seemed like he was immersed in a vast ocean of water.

The feeling of being engulfed by vitality caused him to widen his eyes uncontrollably.

“This… what’s going on?!”

…

“The main peak dojo of Nine Peaks Mountain, Star-picking Peak, is probably at this level.”

“Truly befitting a Daoist Foundation expert who once adventured Beyond Heaven; his methods are unfathomable,” exclaimed Tang Zhimu after being invited.

“Uncle Master, are you saying this is the handiwork of our Capital Institute head?” Li Chou looked astonished.

To be able to draw Heavenly Stars, this method…

“No wonder he chose the vitality-poor Weizhi Peak at that time; it turns out to be supported by such a method.” Li Chou realized suddenly.

“Fortunately, I didn’t leave Weizhi Peak before,” he said with a face full of relief.

Tang Zhimu nodded silently.

It could be seen as a blessing in disguise.

The Tang Family had deep contact with the counterpart, knowing too much. Previously, he feared they would turn against them and didn’t dare leave with people.

Yet, the dojo’s vitality was indeed scarce, unable to sustain his and Li Chou’s cultivation. He was forced to give up the Dao path and leave the dojo to younger generations.

Now it’s better; the vitality in Weizhi Peak is rich, even far surpassing the Tangshan Institute before.

Needless to say for him and Li Chou, even if there were five or six more practitioners, the dojo’s vitality could support them.

“Hmm, tell all disciples to cultivate honestly and not to speak out,” Tang Zhimu instructed with a pleased smile.

With such abundant conditions, although he was getting old, he could still make an effort to advance his Dao.

“Understood, quietly getting rich, I get it!” Li Chou laughed along.