I am grinding experience in another world-Chapter 620 - 608 Root Device

At the edge of the Sky-connecting Peak,

Lian Xi looked up in astonishment at the huge eyeball that blocked out the night sky, "Is the Dragon Ball actually a gigantic eyeball?"

"What else would it be?" Not far away, a vertical pupil-shaped black hole lazily spoke.

"I... I thought it was some kind of pill condensed within the organs."

"That would be called kidney stones."

"Uh..."

"In fact, this thing should be called a Root Device."

"Root Device?" Lian Xi was puzzled.

"The fifth stage of the Heavenly Demon Reincarnation Technique is called Open Meridians. After success, one can obtain the True Form of Heavenly Demon."

"Transforming certain organs of the True Form of Heavenly Demon allows one to craft a Root Device; hence, the sixth stage of the Heavenly Demon Path is called Artifact Creation."

"The Root Device can generate a special kind of Vital Energy, which can refine and nourish the True Form of Heavenly Demon. It’s an essential item for achieving the True Form."

"The organ selected can be any of the five viscera and six bowels, it can be bones and skin, or it can be teeth and eyeballs."

"Clearly, the creator of the Tianhe Law Realm, the Water Mansion Master, chose the pair of eyeballs from his own Loach Dragon Heavenly Demon Body as his Root Device."

Now understanding the origin of the Dragon Ball, Lian Xi’s confusion grew, "The Root Device is the foundation of a cultivator of the Heavenly Demon Path. What use would Master Qiu, a Dao Foundation Qi Cultivator, have for it?"

"Obviously for the journey of the Primordial Spirit," the vertical pupil black hole chuckled with amusement.

"After perfecting the Dao Foundation, a Qi Cultivator must build an Immortal Platform to refine a Spiritual Treasure."

"The most important function of the Spiritual Treasure is to cultivate Pure Yang Qi, which can nourish the Dao Foundation and achieve the Primordial Spirit."

"Listen, doesn’t this stage sound familiar?"

The Root Device aids the Heavenly Demon Path in crafting the True Form; the Spiritual Treasure helps Qi Cultivators to cultivate the Primordial Spirit...

A thought struck Lian Xi, "The Root Device created by a cultivator of the Heavenly Demon Path is equivalent to the Spiritual Treasure Immortal Platform refined by Qi Cultivators in their sixth stage?"

"There are differences, but overall, they’re similar sorts of things," the vertical pupil black hole spoke cheerfully.

Hearing this, Lian Xi suddenly looked up, staring fixedly at the sky-blocking giant eyeball.

This was a Root Device comparable to a Spiritual Treasure Immortal Platform, an excellent tool for achieving the Primordial Spirit!

If he could obtain it...

"Do you want it..." The black and red flames flickered within the vertical pupil black hole, as a playful voice came through.

"Spirit Venerable jests. What Qi Cultivator wouldn’t want this thing!"

"You’re quite honest."

While they spoke, the situation on the altar changed once again.

The thirty-plus Qi Refining Cultivators around the altar suddenly looked up.

With their eyes closed and peaceful smiles on their faces, they looked rather eerie and abnormal at first glance.

As Master Qiu formed mudras and incantated, golden light flowed along the patterns on their faces, and strands of gold thread as thin as hair flew out from their foreheads.

Instantly, they shot up into the sky, piercing into that purple-blue giant eyeball.

At that moment, inside the sky-obscuring giant eyeball, a silver flow of Qi was flickering in and out of sight, moving rapidly like a fish swimming inside the eyeball.

The gold threads entered, and the Qi flow twisted and turned to evade, but was quickly bound by the gold lines.

As the fine gold threads pulled taught and retracted, the eyeball, five or six times larger than the Water Avoiding Shuttle, was yanked out of the void and began to fall.

As it descended, it shrank rapidly. By the time it floated above the altar at a height of five meters, it had turned into a sea-blue pearl about the size of a walnut.

Now the gold threads were taut, continually dragging on it, but the blue Dragon Ball kept rising and falling, hovering at a height of five meters in mid-air.

Master Qiu’s face, fractured like ceramic shards, became more frenzied, his heart hardened as he stared at the Dragon Ball close before his eyes.

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The air in front of him twisted and vibrated, and a sphere identical in shape but dark purple hopped out of the void.

This was the Loach Dragon Dragon Ball that Master Qiu had obtained earlier.

A thick golden line the size of a chopstick shot out from the dark red Dragon Ball and stabbed into the blue one. The previously twisting and struggling silver Qi flow abruptly stilled.

With just a slight exertion of force, the blue Dragon Ball was pulled down from mid-air.

Watching the blue and purple spherical pearls chase each other in a swirling dance, Master Qiu trembled with excitement.

Dragon Ball!

A complete Loach Dragon Dragon Ball!

He had sold off the Goose Sheep Path, gambled his entire wealth and life. Wasn’t it all for these two Dragon Balls?

"Once my ritual is complete, I’ll be ready to step onto the path of the Primordial Spirit."

"Once I’ve achieved the Primordial Spirit, all these forces, whether hidden or open, like Lock Dragon Courtyard, Thousand Mechanisms Sect, will have to bow down to me!"

He was indulging in thoughts of the future when—

Bang!

Like a breaking rope, a crisp sound suddenly rang out.

Master Qiu’s expression changed, his eyes involuntarily widening.

Then he saw that the chopstick-thick golden thread he had summoned had suddenly begun to show ceramic-like cracks, much like his own face.

Before he could cast a spell to repair it.

Boom!

The chopstick-thick golden thread exploded into powder.

Hum!

Two silver Qi flows burst out from the red and blue pearls, not giving Master Qiu a moment to react, and with a whoosh, they disappeared into the void without a trace.

The two crystal-clear pearls rapidly lost their luster, becoming murky and ashen, as if they were carved out of bone or stone.

Master Qiu felt his blood rising, his eye sockets turning blood red.

A tremendous aura burst forth, and the clouds atop the mountain were swept away by the rolling blast.

"Dragon Ball! My Dragon Ball!"

...

To the south of the Tianhe Law Realm lay a land of ice and snow.

Beside the Ice Cave Cold Pond, Chen Mu sat as usual against a post on the veranda of the wooden house on the edge.

He worked his fingers and murmured to himself.

A series of strange numbers tumbled through his mind. At the tip of his index finger, a strand of Mana underwent several changes before finally forming a soybean-sized ball composed of sparkling lights.

Resembling a Talisman with a secret technique, it contained obscure messages. It was the Ghost Gate mark deduced using the Nine Cups Calculation Scripture.

These past few days, aside from passing the Transmission Secret Method to the Ghosts, Chen Mu repeatedly calculated the mark to ensure precise return to the Loach Dragon Fire Path.

Thinking of this, Chen Mu took out a Jade Tablet as long as a forearm and as wide as a palm. Results of all his calculations these days were engraved on it.

He glanced at the starlight Talisman on his fingertip and then compared it with the eighty silver patterns on the Jade Tablet, falling into silence.

"Is this... calculating nine diagrams every day, and each time they’re different?"

"Ugh..."

He knew the Nine Cups Calculation Scripture was unreliable, but he hadn’t expected it to be this unreliable!

"Relying on this thing, can I really return to the Loach Dragon Fire Path?" Chen Mu worried, pulled out a piece of pork as large as a human head, and bit into it fiercely.

"The future looks bleak," he sighed, shaking his head with resignation as he picked up the jade bottle beside him and took a swig of the Nourishing Spirit Wine.

...

After dinner.

Chen Mu leaned lazily against a wooden pillar, watching six invisible little fish in the Cold Pond, rubbing his belly to aid digestion.

"All day long, I’m busy to the point of a splitting headache, while you lot don’t have to do a thing, just leisurely swimming around."

"It’s not fair!"

No matter how Chen Mu looked at them, the six fish just seemed more and more irritating to the eye.

Immediately, he employed the Qi Forbidden Hundred Miles, scooping up a head-sized sphere of water. Inside the water sphere, a purple-blue little fish was perfectly trapped.

Mana, Yin Spirit Divine Power, the Exotic Force produced by the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed in combination with the Seven Emotions Curse—all sorts of powers were thrown into the water sphere by him at once.

However, the little fish seemed to be no more than an illusion; the powers could not touch it at all.

In no time, the purple-blue little fish disappeared from view and then quietly reappeared in the Cold Pond.

Moreover, the little fish deliberately swam close to Chen Mu, leisurely gliding by the edge of the Cold Pond not far from him.

Don’t let me catch you!

Otherwise, I’ll definitely let you taste my cooking skills!

With a huff, Chen Mu raised his head, deciding out of sight, out of mind.

He then stretched his hand into the water sphere suspended in mid-air, drawing out the Earth Spirit Vital Energy contained within the water in the blink of an eye.

Inside the Jade Seed, the Divine Orifice, which had just completed its fifty-second tempering, slowly rotated, and the consumed mana began to replenish rapidly.

This was also the reason why he lingered around the Cold Pond and did not leave.

The Earth Spirit Vital Energy was thin in the outside world, but rich within the Cold Pond, which could supply his daily cultivation.

Although he did have the Exquisite Jade Plate, activating the plate required White Jade.

"Better save what little I can."

Currently, the Earth Spirit Element in his Grotto Heaven was scarce; even though he had more than twenty thousand pieces of White Jade, he always felt it wasn’t enough.

Discarding the completely energy-depleted water, Chen Mu once again scooped a water sphere out of the Cold Pond. Mechanically repeating the process, in no time, the Jade Seed Inner Magical Power was swiftly replenished.

As he scooped up the last water sphere, planning to end this cultivation session after draining its vital energy, he unexpectedly found that the purple-blue little fish wrapped within did not disappear.

"Hey! Interesting..."

More than half a month had passed, and it wasn’t his first attempt to capture the little fish in the Cold Pond.

Chen Mu pulled the water sphere closer, wanting to take a closer look.

But before he could inspect it closely.

Pop!

The water sphere suddenly burst, and the purple-blue little fish turned into two silver-white streams of Qi, zipping into the embroidered pouch hanging at his waist.

"What the hell!"

Chen Mu’s expression changed, and he instinctively grabbed the pouch and threw it.

But the moment the pouch left his hand, it abruptly exploded into pieces, and two streams of light, one black and one white, flew out. Before Chen Mu could react, they darted into the secret acupoint between his eyebrows.

A mishap?

It’s these two again?!

I haven’t settled the score for swallowing my Nourishing Spirit Wine, and now you bring me more trouble?!

Chen Mu, his brow now ice cold, felt a surge of shock and anger, leaving his face flushing red with rage!

...

Sky-connecting Peak.

Qiu Jinwu’s eyes were bloodshot, his porcelain-like face even more terrifying.

He stared unblinkingly at the vertical pupil black hole in front of him: "Jia old ghost, was it your doing?"

"Tsk tsk, your expression right now really resembles a mad dog," a schadenfreude voice sounded from within the dark red flame of the vertical pupil black hole.

A fierce light suddenly appeared in Qiu Jinwu’s eyes.

But the flame inside the vertical pupil black hole remained unconcerned, responding lazily, "The Dragon Ball Spirit Machine is the most spiritual, you almost caught and refined it to death, shouldn’t it have the right to escape?"

"You’re the one who was impatient for success, you started before your soul was fully recovered. The Dragon Ball Spirit Machine has run away, who else can you blame?"

"Besides, it’s not like you’ve gained nothing. At least, you got two Dragon Ball Embryos."

"Although they are no longer complete Root Devices, they are still of infinite use."

Qiu Jinwu took a deep breath, striving to suppress the tumultuous emotions within and slowly regained his composure.

He ignored the vertical pupil black hole and instead turned to Lian Xi, "Do you know the Qi Mechanism Tracking Secret Skill?"

"Now that’s the right attitude to solve problems," the voice within the flame chuckled.

"Master Qiu, I indeed possess such Secret Techniques, as part of the Nightmare Victory Secret Method."

"However, my strength is limited, and the object you’ve lost is too profound; I cannot guarantee the result of tracking," Lian Xi replied hesitantly with a handshake.

"I accept any result," Qiu Jinwu calmly stated.

Hearing this, Lian Xi glanced at the vertical pupil black hole.

"Go on, after all, Master Qiu is also one of our biggest sponsors, a provider for us non-Qi Cultivators. If we can help, we should," the dark red flame flickered.

"As you command." Lian Xi bowed respectfully, and immediately approached the Four-direction Altar, taking out various devices to set up.

...

An hour later.

A long table was placed in the center of the altar.

On the table was a human head-sized Bronze Incense Burner, from which wisps of green smoke rose, forming a curtain in mid-air.

A blue and a purple glass bead-like Dragon Ball, floated in the smoke.

As Lian Xi recited the incantation for the curse.

Images of volcanoes, oceans, glaciers, streams, and other vague scenes flickered by as if on a carousel.

But after a full fifteen minutes of flashing, until Lian Xi was pale with depleted mana, no definite picture emerged.

Pop!

A soft noise sounded, and the smoke in mid-air exploded.

Lian Xi looked up with difficulty.

"Master… Master Qiu."

"What’s the result?"

"It seems... it seems that what you’re looking for is everywhere, present in all places."

"How can this be?" Qiu Jinwu frowned deeply.

"Either someone skilled in the Demonstration of calculation is misleading and concealing the Qi signature."

"Or, this object truly is ubiquitous."

Spirit Mechanism is the core of the Root Device, and the Dragon Ball is a pillar of the Tianhe Law Realm; its Spirit Machine Qi might indeed be found everywhere!

So, the Tracking Secret Technique is useless, and even if you want to find it, you can’t?!

Qiu Jinwu: "…"

Fuck!