Chapter 424: Gathering Dew

The next day, by the Wangchuan River.

A group of people dispersed in twos and threes, wandering along the river.

Chen Mu stood beside Shi Dechun, looking at the endless and calm water surface with lingering fear. The memory of the fear of struggling at the bottom of the river still remained in his heart.

Just as he was staring at the river surface in a trance, a splash of water suddenly appeared.

A group of human-shaped black shadows suddenly jumped out of the water and sank into it again. As it rose and fell, it changed into a human shape for a while, and then turned back into a black smoke shape.

After struggling for dozens of times, it finally sank to the bottom of the water and disappeared. Only a circle of ripples slowly spread, but it soon returned to calm and became like a glass mirror again.

"What a pity." Shi Dechun's face was full of sadness.

Chen Mu frowned: "What will happen if that person falls into the river again?"

"What else can it be?" Shi Dechun snorted coldly.

Chen Mu's heart jumped.

Will he die completely?

He remembered that the water of Wangchuan River was highly corrosive, comparable to a terrible poison.

Shi Dechun's face was gloomy: "Of course, he is going to reincarnate."

Chen Mu's face froze: "It seems that there is nothing wrong with reincarnation, right?"

Shi Dechun had a sour face: "He can go to the world to be free and easy, but I lost five jade dew beads in vain."

"Niu Tou said that whoever helps him pick up a ghost from the river will be charged five less jade dew beads for the fare to Jigu City."

"It's a loss..."

Chen Mu couldn't help rolling his eyes.

I thought you were sympathizing with your own kind, but after all this time, you are worried about your own income?

Tsk...

But...

"Is there really such a thing as reincarnation?" Chen Mu expressed doubt.

"Why not?" Shi Dechun looked at Chen Mu strangely: "As long as you soak in the riverbed for a long enough time, you can wash away the marks of your previous life."

"Then your body will turn from black to white, and become as light as a feather, so you can fly out of the Wangchuan River and head to the Naihe Bridge."

Really? !

Chen Mu was full of doubts: "Have you seen the Naihe Bridge?"

Isn't this something in stories and legends? He has been practicing Qi for more than ten years, and has never seen such a statement in the serious Taoist scriptures.

Shi Dechun said calmly: "I have never seen the Naihe Bridge, but I often walk by the Wangchuan River and often see ghosts flying to reincarnate."

As he said this, he narrowed his eyes, raised his chin and pointed to the river surface as if he was watching a good show: "Look, there is one."

Chen Mu looked up in surprise and saw a ball of white smoke flying out of the water.

Its head quickly changed color, and clear facial features appeared, but below the neck, there was a white smoke ball like a long snake.

The man's face was dull, his eyes drooped, as if he was summoned by something. The white smoke tail swayed slightly, and he flew to the endless other side of the Wangchuan River, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Chen Mu froze, feeling creepy.

This is not the human-faced serpent monster encountered in Jilong Mountain!

How could it appear in the Wangchuan River?

This thing... is it the black shadows at the bottom of the river?

"Are you scared?" Shi Dechun looked at Chen Mu happily.

"It really scared me." Chen Mu came back to his senses and said with lingering fear.

He didn't care about the old man Shi's prank, and asked quickly: "What on earth is that?"

"The Yinming worm."

"The Yin spirits whose previous life marks were washed away by the Wangchuan River are like that."

"I was scared when I saw it for the first time, but I got used to it after seeing it many times." Shi Dechun looked like an experienced person.

Chen Mu couldn't help but grit his teeth.

When he was in Jilong Mountain, he used the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains to devour a group of Yinming worms. As a result, they not only did not die, but instead got into the Five Ghosts Bag and turned into ghost monsters.

In the Wangchuan River, he saw human-shaped black shadows turning into Yinming worms. Thinking about the shape of those human-shaped black shadows at the bottom of the river, no matter how you look at it, it feels like a ghost monster shaped into a human form.

So, under special conditions, Yinming worms and ghost monsters can transform into each other?

The human-shaped black smoke torrent at the bottom of the river...

Could it be that they are all ghost monsters? !

Chen Mu looked up at the Wangchuan River, which was unknown how wide and long, and felt his scalp tingling.

How many ghost monsters are there? !

It took him a long while to come back to his senses, and he looked at Shi Dechun again in confusion.

The black shadows at the bottom of the river are ghost monsters, so what is the state of the so-called ghosts of Old Man Shi?

Also, according to Old Man Shi, all the Yinming worms went to Naihe Bridge to reincarnate. So where did the Yinming worms in Jilong Mountain come from?

"I can't figure it out." Chen Mu couldn't help scratching his head.

"Forget it, I won't think about it anymore."

"What ghosts and spirits? Just think about it and you will know that there are a lot of hidden troubles."

"I am just a nobody. If I have that time, I might as well brush up the experience of the Dew Gathering Mantra."

According to Old Man Shi, these ghosts don't need to eat, they only need dew to exist.

And this kind of dew needs to be collected and absorbed using special mantras.

He looked up at the horned man Niu Sanmiao who was searching for ghosts in the distance, moved his feet quietly, blocked himself with Shi Dechun, pretended to patrol the river bank, but actually checked the experience on the gray wall.

Dew Gathering Mantra: 913/10000;

This skill is a scripture composed of hundreds of obscure characters.

Similar to the mantras of the Qi training secret method, they are all changed through sentence breaks and rhythm and tone, becoming another unique pronunciation, thereby inducing strange power and producing magical changes.

But compared to the Qi training secret method, he did not sense any trace of mana from this Dew Gathering Spell. It could probably only be explained by the special spell of the underworld.

He is just getting started now, and he doesn't plan to delve into it. When he gets more familiar with it, he will probably understand it.

"Tsk tsk, here comes the familiar part, let's work hard!"

His original body has been hiding in the dark space brought by the true form of the Heavenly Demon.

Although the damage caused by the corrosion of the Tianhe River on his body is slowly recovering, it is still terrifying.

He is unfamiliar with the place and doesn't know if there is any danger. He dare not rashly change his body.

He decided to follow the local customs and settle down first before thinking about the future.

...

By the Forgotten River.

Chen Mu followed Niu Sanmiao's team and strolled around for a whole day.

He encountered several Yinming insects and saw several ghosts who almost climbed onto the shore. Unfortunately, none of them successfully turned into Yin spirits. Niu Sanmiao's face was visibly ugly.

Especially when he found that Chen Mu was not working hard and looked leisurely like a spring outing, his face became even uglier.

After several glares and scoldings, Chen Mu respectfully agreed, and then continued to hide behind Shi Dechun to play around and gain experience.

Niu Sanmiao was so angry that he touched the whip on his waist several times, as if he wanted to whip him a few times.

Old man Shi Dechun was so scared that he stayed away from Chen Mu several times.

Unfortunately, no matter where he ran, Chen Mu followed him, making the old man angry. He wanted to yell at Chen Mu to leave, but he didn't dare.

He didn't forget Niu Sanmiao's weird behavior last night, and always felt that the little bald man in front of him was a little unusual.

...

At night, it was still the wilderness yesterday, and several bonfires had just been lit.

Niu Sanmiao came to the bonfire aggressively.

He looked at Chen Mu at a glance, holding the whip in his right hand.

Just as he was about to speak, he saw Chen Mu handed him a palm-length yellow gourd.

The gourd was heavy, and it felt heavy when he took it in his hand. Niu Sanmiao was stunned, and immediately pulled out the cork, and saw a gourd full of clear water-like liquid.

He quickly put it to his nose, and immediately smelled a scent of grass, and his face was stunned: "Jade dew?! When did you learn the dew-collecting spell?"

Chen Mu smiled: "Master Niu, are these jade dews enough?"

Niu Sanmiao stammered for a long time, and reluctantly moved his hand away from the whip.

He reached out and took out a transparent gel-like round bead as big as a longan from the leather bag on his waist and put it into the gourd.

He shook the gourd, and then turned it over. No jade dew flowed out, but only a cherry red round bead poured out.

Niu Sanmiao glanced at the round bead in his palm, and finally nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, let's continue tomorrow."

Chen Mu smiled and nodded.

Compared with picking up ghosts to earn travel expenses, he prefers to practice skills to condense jade dew himself.

After four days of grinding, the Dew Gathering Spell has gained more than 1,200 experience points, which is enough for use.

Today, he spent most of the day, and although it was difficult, he successfully condensed a gourd of Jade Dew.

After that, as long as he handed in a gourd of Jade Dew every day and let Niu Sanmiao make it into Jade Dew beads, it would only take more than ten days for him to collect enough money for the journey, so he naturally didn't worry about the bull-horned monster causing trouble for him.