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

"Is it wrong?" Huo Da stopped Hua Wu Yue who was about to speak and walked to the front. "You are not wrong. Everyone wants to climb up, not to mention that you are relying on the tribute from the Central Imperial City. If they can get a little bit of resources from their fingers, you can live a life of luxury. What's more, you can get promoted quickly by following them, right?

But have you ever thought about whether they really want to help you or just want to use you here? Have you ever thought about whether these worshippers have looked at you straight in the eye?"

"Bah! Huo Da! Don't be so deceitful here! Do you know what those priests gave me on the day I betrayed them? They gave me the Heavenly Spirit Grass! That is the Heavenly Spirit Grass that can be used to make pills and has no bottlenecks before reaching the Consciousness Realm! The value of one plant is enough to cover the tax revenue of the border city for several years! Huo Da? Can you be so generous?!"

Looking at the complacent Zhang Manting, Huo Da couldn't help but shook his head. The means used by these worshippers were too superficial. Why did those worshippers directly give Zhang Manting Tianling Grass instead of Tianling Pill? They were taking advantage of Zhang Manting's psychology. If Tianling Grass was not refined into Tianling Pill, the medicinal power of Tianling Grass would not even allow a cultivator to ascend from the Qi-gathering realm to the Qi-gathering realm. But once it was refined into Tianling Pill, no matter whether the cultivator had not yet started practicing or was in any realm below the consciousness realm, he could experience a lifetime. This life experience would help the cultivator to break through the realm before the consciousness realm without bottlenecks. However, after reaching the consciousness realm, the bottleneck of each breakthrough of the cultivator who took Tianling Pill in the consciousness realm would be much stronger, until the consciousness realm was fully perfected, and that bottleneck could hardly be broken through, and it was almost impossible to break through to the divine realm.

Although the Tianling Pill is an elixir that works very well in the early stages but has huge flaws in the later stages, there are still many cultivators who are crazy about it. After all, the average cultivator in the entire Tianyi Continent is at the Infant Realm, and cultivators at the Consciousness Realm are already rare, not to mention the Divine Realm and Tribulation Realm above. Therefore, once the Tianling Pill appears, it will attract a large number of cultivators with poor talents to scramble for it. Each Tianling Pill will almost be auctioned for the price of several top-grade spirit stones, and yet there is still no demand for it.

The Zhang Manting in front of him was the kind of cultivator with poor talent. He had been stuck in the middle stage of the Infant Realm for a long time. That bottleneck, like a solid wall of steel, had been restricting him. He had been trying to break through the bottleneck for more than ten years, but the bottleneck was still as solid as a rock, without the slightest fluctuation. This was the reason why Zhang Manting joined those priests for the sake of the Heavenly Spirit Herb.

But the Heavenly Spirit Pill was precious, and the Heavenly Spirit Grass was even more precious. When those priests came to the Border Guard City, Huoda had already seen through their true nature. They were the second-generation ancestors in the Central Imperial City, and they were the most useless second-generation ancestors in those families. They went to various cities to bully others under the name of priests. Huoda was imprisoned because he didn't want to listen to them and let them harm the Border Guard City. As for why Huoda didn't resist? Wasn't it because the other party was a priest? The priests from the Central Imperial City were higher than him as a city lord in the border. In addition, Huoda was not careful at the time and his family was captured by the other party. In order not to bear the crime of betrayal, he could only choose to compromise.

"Zhang Manting, you know you are no match for me. It is not easy to train soldiers in a border city. If you take the soldiers of the First Army away now, I will not attack you."

"Bah! Since I have already surrendered to those gentlemen, I must stick to this path to the end! And do you think you are still the city lord? Your status as city lord has long been revoked by those gentlemen. You are just a commoner now. What right do you have to order me around?"

"Alas..." Huoda sighed. He knew that Zhang Manting was no longer the general of the First Army guarding the border city. He had become a running dog of those second-generation rich kids, and running dogs had their own ideas. Now he could only beat them.

Just when Zhang Manting ordered Zeng Wenyu and others to be arrested, a whirlwind appeared on Huoda's right hand. This whirlwind was thrown out by Huoda, and it immediately expanded rapidly as soon as it touched the ground. Then only the soldiers' screams were heard. They were blown into the sky by the whirlwind. A few seconds later, all the soldiers outside the prison were blown high up and fell from the sky. The soldiers, who had low cultivation to begin with, were knocked unconscious and suffered some injuries.

Resisting Huoda's whirlwind, Zhang Manting laughed: "Huoda, are you old? You are a little whirlwind that can't even kill people, how dare you sit on the position of city lord? If I were you, I would have abdicated long ago!"

As soon as Zhang Manting's laughter died down, a fire snake suddenly appeared behind Huoda. The snake suddenly stuck its head out, and the two venomous fangs in its big mouth were erected, biting towards Huoda's leg.

It seemed that Huoda had anticipated the fire snake behind him. He didn't even turn around, but just stretched out his right hand lightly and grabbed the fire snake's vital point.

Being suddenly grabbed by the seven inches, the fire snake struggled frantically, constantly whipping Hoda's arm with its body, trying to break free from Hoda's hand.

But the fire snake was known for its poison, and it did not have enough physical strength to escape from Hoda's hands. Hoda clenched his hands tightly, and the fire snake suddenly stopped moving, and its body drooped limply.

“Zhang Manting, don’t take out this little snake. If you really want to use the fire snake you raised, take out the ancestor snake.”

After Huoda finished speaking, Zhang Manting waved his right hand, and a fiery red poisonous snake as thick as a man crawled out from behind him. The snake had triangular eyes and a bright tumor on its head that kept shaking. The tumor was extremely bright, and as it crawled along, the attention of the soldiers lying on the ground beside it was completely attracted.

"What's that smell?" A sweet smell suddenly appeared in the air.

"Seal your mouth and nose!" Huo Da said to Zeng Wenyu and the others around him, "This is the poison of the fire snake. This smell will slowly accumulate toxins in the monk's body. When it accumulates to a certain level, the monk will lose his mind and walk towards the fire snake and be swallowed by it."

Of course, the only one who didn't know about this was Zeng Wenyu. Huoda's reminder was also for Zeng Wenyu, but Zeng Wenyu didn't think it was a big deal. He could feel that after he inhaled the sweet smell, his body immediately reacted, even though the toxin in the smell was very subtle and was being discharged from his pores. However, Zeng Wenyu was still very grateful for Huoda's reminder. Just as he was about to speak, Zeng Wenyu saw that several of the soldiers behind Zhang Manting were severely poisoned and were slowly getting up from the ground and walking towards the poisonous snake.