Living as a Mortal: Grinding Experience Starting from the Underworld

"Roar~ Roar~"

Just as Zhang Feng finished collecting his spoils, a series of dense roars of dark beasts came from the city wall.

Without the assistance of the formation, the elders are probably no match for Huang Tiangu, who is going all out.

After all, Zhang Feng felt a bit threatened by Huang Tiangu's transformed form.

Zhang Feng rushed over to check the situation. There were three ferocious beasts; if he was lucky, he might be able to get one or two large beast crystals.

Stepping onto the city wall, Zhang Feng's gaze swept across the battlefield.

Unable to control the harassing tentacles of the array, Huang Tiangu, after transforming, was able to handle the attacks of the three elders with ease, but after fighting for a long time, none of the four were injured or killed.

Logically speaking, Huang Tiangu should have been able to easily deal with the three of them.

Zhang Feng sensed a conspiracy.

The moment the formation failed, the three elders sensed the danger.

"What a bunch of useless trash! They can't even handle a group of ordinary people!"

"It's not that they're useless, it's that a powerful figure has intervened."

"Unexpectedly, the only cultivator we rejected became the main reason for our failure."

"I'm truly unwilling to die in this dark and gloomy place!"

The three elders' gazes swept over Zhang Feng, filled with sorrow, anger, and a hint of resentment.

"Fellow Daoists, you have already lost. Why don't you surrender and submit to capture?"

Huang Tiangu, as a firsthand witness, was the first to discover the changes on the battlefield.

"Surrender? Ha, I'll be your dog for decades more, then die of old age in this godforsaken place?"

"I am a cultivator, a free and unrestrained cultivator. I have already let my Dao heart be tarnished in order to survive."

"What's the point of continuing to eke out a living?"

Elder Li roared angrily, his expression agitated.

"Fellow Daoist Li, please calm down. Old Ghost Huang, we're leaving, and you can't stop us!"

Elder Liu stopped Elder Li, who was about to go berserk, and spoke to Huang Tiangu.

"Oh, this Fellow Daoist Zhang needs the Yinming Beast Crystal for his cultivation techniques, so why would he let you go so easily!"

"Fellow Daoist Zhang, if we join forces, I only ask to kill these three people. As for the Yinming Beast Crystal, it will all belong to you."

Huang Tiangu spoke up on both sides, offering his advice.

Zhang Feng frowned slightly. This old ghost was still trying to drag him into this mess and force him to choose sides. Moreover, there was something fishy going on between the four of them.

Elder Liu noticed Zhang Feng's slight silence and immediately saw an opportunity to win him over:

"Fellow Daoist Zhang, you mustn't! Old Ghost Huang is a man of his word, but the three of us have a way to command him. If you just stand by and do nothing, I will definitely offer you the cultivation technique."

Another attempt to win them over? Zhang Feng remained silent for a moment.

"Fellow Daoist Zhang, don't listen to their nonsense. I was the one who taught them this beast-taming technique. If you help me, I'll give you all the cultivation methods afterward!"

Huang Tiangu's urgent voice rang out. He dared not gamble that Zhang Feng would not be tempted, so he had no choice but to offer an even bigger bargaining chip.

After all, the request to protect the villagers was made under duress.

Zhang Feng couldn't help but feel a little wistful as he watched both sides trying their best to win him over.

This may be the first time since embarking on the path of cultivation that I have been sought after by so many people.

"Brother Zhang!"

Just as Zhang Feng was silent, Huang Tianhe's slightly immature voice rang out.

"Please..."

"Oh no!" The three elders and Huang Tiangu suddenly felt a jolt of fear.

Before he finished speaking...

Zhang Feng's figure darted out, surrounded by black mist, and the flying flame in his hand gleamed with a cold light.

"Quick! Stop him together!"

Whoosh whoosh!

One by one, bone spurs covered in green slime followed Zhang Feng's footsteps, which he left behind.

"No, his speed is wrong!"

"Be careful, he's a body-refining cultivator!"

No sooner had Elder Liu finished speaking than Zhang Feng appeared before him.

Pfft!

His head was thrown high, and blood splattered everywhere!

"How dare you! Senior Brother Liu is a direct descendant of a Nascent Soul elder from the Taiyi Sect of the Great Jin Dynasty. How dare you, a mere rogue cultivator from a remote area..."

Zhang Feng remained unmoved, his body shifting as he continued walking.

"No matter how noble your status, you only have one life!"

As the sword flashed, Elder Qin's life was frozen at the moment he uttered his reprimand.

"Young friend, spare my life! I surrender! Senior Brother Huang, I admit defeat and surrender! Spare my life!"

Seeing the miserable state of his two fellow Daoists up close, Elder Li was finally terrified. He no longer talked about enslavement or freedom, and only wanted to survive!

Despite their prolonged battle with Huangtu Valley, the three of them suffered no injuries whatsoever.

The reason is that in this dark and gloomy place, resources are scarce, and healing medicines are even scarcer, making it difficult to treat injuries once they occur.

Therefore, the four of them tacitly agreed not to use lethal force, just to determine the winner.

As for the mortals and cultivators of Huangtu Village, they are all renewable resources, and compared to the four of them, they are always a level below.

But Zhang Feng, who suddenly appeared, was ruthless and decisive, showing no regard for the consequences and immediately seeking to take lives.

Elder Li immediately felt that it was better not to compete for the position of village chief.

As for climbing Storm Mountain, a body-refining expert like Zhang Feng will climb Storm Mountain sooner or later; we'll just wait for him to leave.

"Hey, hey~ Fellow Daoist Zhang, please stop!"

Huang Tiangu, who was standing to the side, was really startled. The stalemate had suddenly turned around when two elders died.

Could it be that Zhang Feng has really mastered the Netherworld Body Refining Technique?

That's impossible! The Netherworld Body Refining Technique he gave me was clearly incomplete; it could only be used with the help of beast crystals to cultivate Netherworld power in the limbs and increase their strength.

It has no body-refining effect!

Moreover, the Yin-Yang power within this beast crystal is extremely corrosive, and cultivators' flesh and blood have very little ability to absorb and utilize it, with significant side effects. How could they possibly use it for body tempering?

But Zhang Feng's appearance before him clearly showed that he had reached the Great Perfection stage of the first level of the Netherworld Body Refining Technique: Skin Refining!

Could he really be a body-refining genius?

Then this old man...

Huang Tiangu dared not think any further.

"Fellow Daoist Zhang, the Yinming Beast has not yet dispersed. Please spare his life. If he intends to perish together with us, Huangtu Village will surely be razed to the ground by the Yinming Beast!"

Seeing that the situation was clear, Huang Tiangu also showed weakness, so he deactivated his transformation and, with a weak aura, persuaded him.

Elder Li felt somewhat relieved upon hearing this. As long as he was still useful, he could keep his life. He maintained a humble attitude, after all, the Killer Star was still in front of him.

Zhang Feng didn't care. He could tell from the state of the battle that Huang Tiangu and the three elders must have had a bottom line agreement before they started fighting, but he couldn't care less about that!

At least he was certain that this bottom line was probably above the lives of himself and the mortals and cultivators of Huangtu Village.

Otherwise, there wouldn't have been so many casualties among mortals and cultivators, although most of the cultivators died at his hands.

As for the beast tide, it will disperse once the three ferocious beasts are dead.

"Father, we can't do this! So many of us have died or been wounded; how can we just surrender and make up for it?"

"Yes, Father, how can you expect to win people's hearts if you act like this?"

Huang Qing and Huang Ci immediately stood up to object.

"Grandpa, Dad and Second Uncle are right. And where did the elders take Xiao Cui and the others?"

"Brother Zhang, can you capture him and hand him over to us for trial?"

Huang Tianhe also mustered up the courage to express his opinion.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Feng became interested. Mortals judging cultivators?

That sounds really interesting!

Such a scene could only happen in this dark and gloomy place.

Zhang Feng really wanted to see this scene unfold, and how Huang Tiangu would deal with it.

Funny! Funny! So much fun!

A smile crept across Zhang Feng's lips, and Elder Li glanced at him furtively, looking as if he had lost his parents!

Zhang Feng used both hands simultaneously, and with two clicks, Elder Li's arms fell limply to his sides. He grabbed Elder Li's belt with his right hand and swung him around, throwing him towards the city wall.

Handing over criminals to the victims for processing is a fair and just practice!