Several days later, at noon.
Chen Mu strode out of the Grinding Stone Workshop.
"Senior Brother Chen, you're..." Several Dao Soldier apprentices gathered in the corridor outside the door ran into Chen Mu and could not help asking in confusion.
"Oh, I'm going to the Myriad Sutra Cave." Chen Mu casually lied.
"You're truly studious. You must be seeking to draw inferences from one instance to another. No wonder your Demon Slaying Technique has progressed so quickly, letting you leave Prison of Essence Valley so early." The man praised him with a smile.
"Can't be helped. My talent is poor. The only thing I can show off is diligence." Chen Mu sighed.
The man's mouth twitched, and he nearly failed to maintain the smile on his face.
Diligence?
In the entire Grinding Stone Workshop, you arrived the latest and left the earliest, yet you had the nerve to call yourself diligent?
Chen Mu cheerfully nodded to them, then strode away carrying a small Wooden Bucket filled with Demonic Energy Stone Powder.
"Three days fishing, two days drying nets. Give him another three years and he still won't clear the Grinding Stone Workshop. And he calls himself diligent." One of them could not help muttering.
"That may not be so. What if he has connections?" Another maliciously speculated.
"What do you mean? He bribed Senior Brother Lu to get out of Prison of Essence Valley?" Someone beside him raised his brows.
"Don't talk nonsense!" The first man to speak frowned and scolded him. "That Elder Hu at the Myriad Sutra Cave is probably the one who was really bribed."
Everyone immediately came to a realization.
"Stop! Where are you going?" At the entrance to the Grinding Stone Workshop, Yang Fu fixed Chen Mu with his tiny eyes.
"Senior Brother, I'm