The whole world is cultivating qi, only I am cultivating the body

In the backyard of the inn were the stables and woodshed. There was a small door next to the backyard. The innkeeper led two people towards the small door.

The small door is the back door of the inn. Behind it is an alley that is not too wide. The alley is very clean. Guests who stay in the inn with mounts or something like that will basically be brought in from here. In order to prevent the mounts from getting dirty, the inn will have people clean up the alley every day.

There were some miscellaneous items piled up deep in the alley. The shopkeeper took Zeng Wenyu and Zhang Qing to the pile of miscellaneous items. The two then discovered that there was a door hidden in the miscellaneous items that required them to bend over to enter. Behind the door was a dark secret passage that led to nowhere.

The shopkeeper bent his right index finger and flicked his thumb at the knuckle. A flame appeared above his thumb, illuminating the secret passage.

They bent their bodies and entered the secret passage. The height inside the secret passage returned to normal. Taking advantage of the flame in the shopkeeper's hand, Zeng Wenyu and Zhang Qing began to observe the secret passage.

It is obvious that this secret passage is used every day. Although no one cleans the blue bricks on the ground, there are several fresh traces of footprints, as if someone had just walked through it not long ago.

The passage was very deep, extending far underground. The light brought by the small flame in the shopkeeper's hand could not reach the end.

Following the shopkeeper, Zeng Wenyu and Zhang Qing walked forward carefully. They didn't know if there would be any traps here, and the shopkeeper obviously didn't trust them very much and was on guard against them all the way.

After walking along the passage for a distance, the flame in the shopkeeper's hand in front suddenly went out, and the passage became dark. The shopkeeper's footsteps suddenly became dense and fast, and with a flipping sound, the shopkeeper's footsteps completely disappeared.

A fire lit up behind her, and Zhang Qing took out a tinder from her storage bag. The light from the tinder dispelled the darkness in the passage.

The shopkeeper in front had disappeared, leaving only a passage in front of the two people, which still led to an unknown destination.

"What should we do? Should we continue moving forward?" Zhang Qing asked Zeng Wenyu in a low voice.

"Let's go. We're already here. The shopkeeper must have taken a shortcut to the front to inform others. We'll definitely run into him again at the end of this road."

Zhang Qing nodded, holding a fire starter in one hand and extending the other hand towards Zeng Wenyu.

Zeng Wenyu grabbed her hand and the two of them walked towards the depths with the light of the fire.

In fact, the road was not far, and the two people only walked forward for more than ten minutes.

A beam of light shone down from above. Zeng Wenyu walked in front and was the first to walk out of the door.

Walking out of the door, there was a small hill behind him and a village in front of him. However, there were quite a few people standing between Zeng Wenyu and the village. They were holding various weapons in their hands and were looking at Zeng Wenyu and Zhang Qing who were walking out of the hill.

They were in no hurry to take action. The leader stepped forward and carried the long sword on his shoulder: "Who are you? How do you know our secret code?!"

Looking at the man in front of him, Zeng Wenyu took out a jade token from his storage bag and threw it to the man in the lead.

The jade token was given to him by Li Pingping before entering the city. It was something Li Pingping asked him to use to prove his identity. He said that the leader of the other party would believe him when he saw the jade token.

The leading man took the jade token that Zeng Wenyu threw over, and after carefully examining it over and over again, he held it in his hand and raised his head: "Where did you get this jade token?"

"A man named Mu Ziping gave it to me. He said that you will believe me when you see this jade token."

"Where is he now?"

"I can't tell you here. If you really want to know, come here."

The leading man thought about it, then he stuck the knife on his shoulder into the ground and walked in front of Zeng Wenyu despite the dissuasion of others.

"Tell me, where is he?"

Zeng Wenyu observed the people behind him and lowered his voice: "He is in a small forest thirty miles east of the city."

"Why don't you come back?"

"Because there is a high possibility that someone else has come here, so he must be careful."

When the man heard Zeng Wenyu's words, he frowned and looked at Zeng Wenyu. Just as he was about to speak, Zeng Wenyu stopped him: "I know you don't really believe it, but the jade token can't be fake. Next, I need you to cooperate with me and take the people here out and take them to Mu Ziping. Of course, I will stay in the village and wait for him to check everyone."

Although the man still didn't quite trust Zeng Wenyu, he chose to listen to Zeng Wenyu because of the jade token.

He brought Zeng Wenyu and Zhang Qing to the village and asked the villagers to keep an eye on them. The man walked to the door of a house alone. Another man walked out of the house, and the two of them left the village together.

Sitting on the chair in the room arranged by the man, he took out some food from the storage bag and put it on the table. He was not afraid that someone would do something bad to them, so he started eating with Zhang Qing.

Zeng Wenyu didn't know how Li Pingping could tell whether someone was one of his own people. He only knew that when the man came back again, he was no longer hostile when he stood in front of him, and the person who went out with him also walked into the house.

"How about it? Do you believe me now?"

"I apologize for any offense I've caused you before. I hope Brother Gao will forgive me."

"What's the big deal? If it were me, I would be suspicious too. This is nothing."

"Brother Gao, please stay in the village for a while. I need to take the core members over for a checkup first."

Zeng Wenyu nodded to show his understanding. After the two left, Zeng Wenyu closed the door of the yard. He took this opportunity to teach Zhang Qing Tai Chi and help her improve her physical fitness.

Maybe because there is really no such force-generating technique in this world, Zhang Qing learned Tai Chi very slowly, but she was very interested in what Zeng Wenyu said about improving physical fitness.

Zeng Wenyu took out herbs from his storage bag and asked Zhang Qing to eat them. Unlike Zeng Wenyu who usually ate these body-refining herbs, Zhang Qing felt the energy in her body was saturated after eating only five of them. She began to sit cross-legged and meditate to allow the medicinal power of these body-refining herbs to be absorbed by her body.

Zhang Qing was meditating and when she woke up again it was already evening and Zeng Wenyu was preparing dinner in the kitchen.

Standing up, Zhang Qing clenched her fists tightly. She found that her physical fitness had indeed improved. Both her body strength and power were much higher than before.

Zeng Wenyu came out of the kitchen with food in his hand. Seeing Zhang Qing finish her training, he felt that Zhang Qing's physique had improved a lot, so he put the food on the table and said, "Okay, you should understand that too much is as bad as too little. Today's training to improve your body ends here. When you have refined all the energy in your body, your body strength will increase a lot."