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

After parting with Bai Jie and the others, Zeng Wenyu returned to his tent and sat cross-legged again. Not long after, Xiaoli came back from outside the tent. It jumped lightly and returned to Zeng Wenyu's hood. It squeezed together with Xiaomeng who was also in Zeng Wenyu's hood, and then lay down to rest.

It was almost dawn when Longtan came back from outside alone. His expression was very calm, as if he had just gone out to do something ordinary. If it weren't for the fact that the wandering cultivators behind him had disappeared and his clothes were still covered with mud from the swamp, no one would have suspected him.

Not long after Longtan returned to the tent, it was dawn. All the cultivators in the camp woke up almost at the same time, but they did not doubt anything and just continued to do their own things.

"Fellow Daoist Longtan! Fellow Daoist Longtan!" A cultivator suddenly ran towards Longtan's tent, shouting loudly to Longtan.

Hearing this voice, Longtan came out of the tent and looked at the monk with a confused look on his face: "What happened? Why are you so anxious?"

"It's bad! It's bad, Brother Longtan! I found that many of our monks are missing!"

Longtan was surprised, then frowned: "Did he go out to do something? Did you look around the camp?"

"We've looked for them! We can't find them at all. They couldn't have been killed by those white and green snakes yesterday..."

"It shouldn't be. That Bai Lanyou didn't hurt us yesterday, so they won't come here to do anything at night. Come on, take me to the missing monk. Maybe I can find some clues."

The monk took Longtan to each tent one by one. Some wandering cultivators were missing from those tents to varying degrees. In some tents, all the wandering cultivators were missing. Longtan walked in and pretended to check, but unfortunately the tents were all pitched on the grass and no footprints were left. It could only be seen that they did not resist at all.

"I remember asking last night. There seem to be several monks among us who are good at tracking. What about them? Ask them to come over and try the tracking technique. We need to know their whereabouts. Are they missing, killed by something, or have they left here on their own?"

"We can't find them. We have thought of this method, but we can't find those monks at all. They seem to have disappeared..."

Longtan stood there, pretending to be silent for a while: "Do you think there is a possibility that they are in the same group, and those monks who are good at tracking and exploring magic found something, so they ran away at night?"

"It's possible... Then what should we do now? Should we spread out and look for them? Otherwise, what if they really got something good..."

"But we don't have any monks who are good at tracking and exploring here," Long Tan thought for a moment and looked towards the camp of Hua Zong. "It seems that we can only ask for help from the monks of Hua Zong. Otherwise, we will never be able to catch up with those who have left."

After Longtan said this, he let the monk leave first. The moment he turned around, a smile appeared on his face that he almost couldn't suppress. He didn't expect that the monk would believe him so easily. This made him feel a sense of accomplishment. It was this sense of accomplishment that made him unable to suppress his smile for a moment.

Today, Longtan did not bring Zeng Wenyu to Huazong's camp, nor did he bring anyone else. Zeng Wenyu didn't know what he said in Huazong's camp, but Zeng Wenyu could see that when Longtan came out of Huazong's camp, his face was not good, one could even describe it as bad. Zeng Wenyu knew that Bai Jie rejected Longtan's proposal, and he did not get any support from Huazong.

"How is it? Fellow Daoist Longtan? Someone from the Hua Sect?"

Long Tan had just returned to the camp of the wandering cultivators when the cultivator ran over to ask Long Tan. Although he saw that Long Tan's face was not good, he still asked the question.

"Haha, the people of Hua Sect don't care about those disappeared monks at all. They don't even agree to let us join Hua Sect!"

"What? This shouldn't be the case. The people of Hua Sect have always been very kind to us. Is there something you can't tell us?"

"What's the secret?! They said that there are not enough resources and that Hua Zong can't support so many of us with only the current resources. This is just an excuse for them not to accept us! They also said that we can take half of Haimen Zong's resources. There are so many of us. Even if we take half of the resources left by Haimen Zong, we won't be able to sustain for long. The majority of them were taken away by the white green snake along with the corpses of the Haimen Zong monks. What can we get?!"

"Ah? Did the people of Hua Sect say that? They shouldn't ignore us... Is it Brother Longtan who..."

"Ok?"

Before the monk finished speaking, Longtan glared at him, and the monk immediately shut up and stopped talking. His cultivation was not as good as Longtan's, and his reputation among the independent cultivators was also higher than Longtan's. He didn't dare to offend Longtan at this time, so it was better to keep silent.

Longtan walked back to the camp and called some monks when passing by several tents. These monks were the ones who tried their best to protect the wandering cultivators yesterday. After they entered Longtan's tent, it was unknown what they said. After leaving Longtan's tent, they hurriedly walked towards the wandering cultivators.

Not long after, the wandering cultivators were gathered together, and even Zeng Wenyu was called over by Long Tan.

Longtan set up a soundproof barrier next to the scattered cultivators. He looked at the scattered cultivators who had gathered and said, "Unfortunately, I have to tell you that a large number of people are missing among us. Although I don't know why, Hua Zong's attitude today is not right. I suspect that Hua Zong may be hiding something from us. Otherwise, why would Hua Zong, who is usually so good to us, suddenly reject us?"

"No way? Hua Zong has always been very nice to us, and if they really want to do something to us, they can just do it openly. We have a lot of people, but our cultivation levels vary..."

"Maybe it's to protect their reputation? When have these big sects ever considered the life and death of us independent cultivators?"

"Hiss... now that you mention it, it's really possible. Hua Zong may just want to give us a good impression before attacking us?"

For a while, the independent cultivators had different opinions, but the overall core was only one, that is, they did not trust the big sects.

"Okay, listen, let me continue," Long Tan waved his hand to quiet everyone down, "The Hua Sect is now preparing to drive us away. They only promised to give us half of the resources left by our Haimen Sect. How can we use these resources? They...they are forcing us!"