Chapter 263: Empty Hands

The Green Water Beggar was right in front of him. He Jiaqing panicked for a moment, but soon calmed down.

The button on his chest was still trembling, and the contact hadn't been interrupted.

He Jiaqing had the confidence to escape, but the premise was that he hadn't been hit by the Green Water Beggar's technique before escaping.

"Senior, do we have any grievances between us?"

"No grievances," the Green Water Beggar smiled, "I have a friend who wants to ask you a few questions. He wants to know what path you are on, what your cultivation is, and what your intention is for running to his house to cause trouble."

He Jiaqing was startled and replied in a humble tone: "Senior, I can tell you my path and cultivation, but you say I went to your friend's house to cause trouble, this matter makes me a bit confused."

The Green Water Beggar shrugged his eyebrows: "If you say you're confused, then you're not sincere."

Below the corner of his eye, a sore burst, and green pus flowed slowly down his cheek.

He Jiaqing's eye corner twitched. He knew the Green Water Beggar was about to take action: "Senior, I know the rules of Green Water Bay. Logically speaking, you can only show your face once a year. Wasting such a precious opportunity on me isn't worth it, right?

There is clearly a misunderstanding between us. Before the matter is clarified, you can pretend you didn't see me, and I can pretend I didn't meet you. Just pretend you never showed your face. Do you think that's appropriate?"

The Green Water Beggar frowned, then relaxed: "You kid know how to talk, and you even know where my harm lies. It's a pity your abacus was wrong.

To tell you the truth, I didn't show my face because I didn't go out. This is my home!"

He Jiaqing was surprised: "Senior, you don't mean to say the whole Green Water Bay is your home, right? This kind of talk can fool me, but it can't fool the rules."

The Green Water Beggar's smile didn't change: "I'll say it again, this is my home."

Hearing this, He Jiaqing used his peripheral vision to look at the passing pedestrians.

He Jiaqing was now a decent gentleman in decent clothes, blocked by a beggar covered in sores. Encountering such an abnormal phenomenon, there wasn't even anyone on the street watching the fun.

All pedestrians treated them as transparent. Those walking walked, those chatting chatted, as if these two people didn't exist on the street at all.

He Jiaqing immediately understood the situation. The Green Water Beggar indeed hadn't gone out; it was he who had entered the Green Water Beggar's home.

Blundered in?

Impossible.

The probability of such a coincidence occurring can be ignored.

The real reason is that the Green Water Beggar used methods to lure He Jiaqing into his home. This proves that the Green Water Beggar had been squatting and waiting for He Jiaqing, and had been prepared for a long time.

How could the Green Water Beggar grasp his whereabouts?

Between his thoughts flying, the first person He Jiaqing thought of was Lu Maoxian; it was he who saw him in the cinema.

How could Lu Maoxian know I was in Puluo Continent?

The news sent to him by Xiao Zhengong.

What is the relationship between Xiao Zhengong, Lu Maoxian, and the Green Water Beggar?

It's not known yet. The urgent matter at hand is how to escape from the Green Water Beggar's hands.

"Senior, it was my fault for breaking into your mansion. Junior will apologize to you first." He Jiaqing bowed.

While bowing, He Jiaqing's right hand suddenly stretched forward, wanting to touch the Green Water Beggar.

His movements were extremely fast, so fast that even the Green Water Beggar couldn't see the trajectory of his strike.

But the Green Water Beggar's experience was too rich. He was prepared in advance, dodged to the side a step earlier.

"A world away, at your age, you can actually cultivate to the ninth layer of traveling cultivation."

The Green Water Beggar smiled. His judgment was correct; He Jiaqing indeed wanted to use the skill of 'A World Away'.

As long as he pushed the Green Water Beggar, He Jiaqing could escape.

One move failed, He Jiaqing swept his arm horizontally, wanting to touch the Green Water Beggar again.

Sores on the Green Water Beggar's body burst, and the pus turned into pus mist, spreading out.

"You dare to touch me? Aren't you afraid of getting sick? You really have guts!" The Green Water Beggar smiled.

The speed of the pus mist spreading wasn't fast, and it wasn't difficult for He Jiaqing to dodge.

But he had nowhere to escape.

Because he couldn't escape the Green Water Beggar's home, and the pus mist would definitely cover every corner. As long as He Jiaqing touched a drop of pus, his life might be gone.

This battle seemed to have ended. The Green Water Beggar was thinking about how to deal with He Jiaqing, whether to kill him directly or keep him for a while to ask some things.

Suddenly he heard He Jiaqing shout sharply: "Life and death are two worlds!"

As the words fell, an invisible barrier separated the Green Water Beggar and He Jiaqing, and the thick mist was blocked.

The Green Water Beggar stopped smiling.

"Same text, same rules?" The Green Water Beggar looked at He Jiaqing in surprise, "What layer of literary cultivation are you?"

He Jiaqing used the literary cultivation skill 'Same Text, Same Rules'. The Green Water Beggar had indeed died once and had some differences in life form from He Jiaqing. Between life and death, he used the technique to create a barrier.

Literary cultivation techniques consume cultivation. The techniques of low-layer cultivators have limited effects in front of high-layer cultivators.

But the effect of He Jiaqing's technique was very good, and the pus mist was completely blocked. This proved that his literary cultivation was not lower than his traveling cultivation.

Taking this opportunity, He Jiaqing bowed again: "Senior, I admire you very much. I have long wanted to come and visit you. Can we talk calmly for a few sentences?"

"Sure, let's open the skylight and speak brightly!" The Green Water Beggar coughed and spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm.

The thick phlegm hung on the barrier, the barrier smoked, and a hole was corroded.

The pus mist spread over. He Jiaqing still wanted to use the skill of 'Same Text, Same Rules', but didn't dare to open his mouth rashly.

There was a strange smell in the air. Besides the pus, the Green Water Beggar also spread other pathogens.

Now He Jiaqing was likely already sick. If he opened his mouth to speak and inhaled more pathogens, he might die on the spot.

The situation was critical and could not be delayed. He Jiaqing actively lifted the barrier and took out a pocket watch from his bosom.

Pressing open the watch case, the three watch hands spun wildly, and a vortex rippled on the watch face, sucking the surrounding pus mist and pathogens clean.

The Green Water Beggar smiled: "Good magic treasure, let's see how much you can suck!"

The pus on his body gushed out continuously, and the pocket watch sucked to the limit in the blink of an eye.

Taking this opportunity, He Jiaqing rushed forward and reached out to the Green Water Beggar again.

The Green Water Beggar frowned: "You still dare to touch me?"

The pus spread rapidly on the Green Water Beggar's body, but He Jiaqing really found a gap on his lapel.

That gap had no pus and was no bigger than a sesame seed.

Seeing He Jiaqing approaching, the Green Water Beggar splashed the pus all over his body like raindrops.

He Jiaqing's fingers skillfully dodged all the pus and touched the gap with his fingernails.

At the moment of contact, He Jiaqing's body retreated rapidly and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

A world away, he succeeded.

The Green Water Beggar's body retreated accordingly, but only retreated two steps.

He pushed back the skill of 'A World Away' and didn't fly out himself.

But He Jiaqing had already flown away. The skill of 'A World Away' ignores obstacles.

The Green Water Beggar stood in place for a long time and muttered to himself: "In my own home, he actually let him run away. What a strong young man.

Ninth layer of traveling cultivation, literary cultivation is at least ninth layer too. At such an age, how could he have such cultivation?

Is this the benefit of the Profound Life Red Lotus?

Is he really a double ninth-layer cultivation?

Why did he dare to touch me?"

The Green Water Beggar stared at his tattered clothes for a moment, seemingly finding the answer.

"Could it be Empty Hands?

If it's really Empty Hands, this makes sense.

Should I tell that old thing about this?

Let's see.

First talk about the double ninth layer, scare him."

The Green Water Beggar sat in his home, watching the pedestrians passing by on the street.

He really wanted to go out and beg, find a place as simple as Blue Willow Village to beg. As long as he didn't receive three alms, he could go out and do things, do things as he pleased.

He could find a place to eat, drink, and play.

He could also find an Earth Deity nearby to teach a lesson and grab some territory.

He could spread a small epidemic in a certain place and eliminate all the old and weak.

He could also spread a big epidemic in a certain place and make the whole territory restless.

He could also make the whole Green Water Bay completely peaceful. As long as there were no people in this place, it would be completely peaceful.

Does he really want to do this?

"Will this young man come to find me again?" The Green Water Beggar smiled, "Wait a bit longer, let's see if he can survive first."

Relying on the positioning of the hook, He Jiaqing flew all the way into the deep mountains and old forests and landed beside Wan Jinxian.

Seeing He Jiaqing, Wan Jinxian hurriedly greeted him: "Jiaqing, what happened? I just heard you fighting with someone. Who was that person?"

He Jiaqing sighed and said: "I'm afraid to scare you by saying it. That person is... hiccup~"

Halfway through his words, He Jiaqing hiccuped.

It wasn't a full hiccup, but the kind that wouldn't stop once it started, medically known as diaphragmatic spasm.

He Jiaqing hiccuped non-stop. Wan Jinxian watched for a moment and found the situation was wrong.

This is an illness, a serious illness!

He didn't say much and prepared to use a disease cultivation technique to suck out the pathogen.

He Jiaqing waved his hand: "You, can't, absolutely, don't!"

He knew how serious his condition was. Every time he hiccuped, his internal organs were shifting. In less than a hundred times, his internal organs would be torn to pieces.

Can it be stopped?

If it were that easy to stop, it wouldn't be the Green Water Beggar's method.

He Jiaqing looked at his left hand, then at his right hand, pondered for a moment, and chose his left hand.

He rolled up his sleeves and shouted at his left hand: "Transfer flowers, graft wood!"

This wasn't 'Same Text, Same Rules', this was 'One Word Becomes Truth'.

After a while, He Jiaqing stopped hiccuping, and his left hand began to tremble.

He transferred the disease on his diaphragm to his left hand.

Wan Jinxian said: "I see the root of the disease, leave it to me."

He Jiaqing stopped him: "I said, you can't. This is the root of the disease planted by your Patriarch. If you suck it away, your life will be gone."

"Patriarch, you mean..." Wan Jinxian's cheeks twitched, he didn't dare to mention that person's name, "Jiaqing, you must get rid of this root of the disease quickly, otherwise your hand will be waste..."

Before he finished speaking, He Jiaqing pulled out a knife and cut off his left hand.

Wan Jinxian widened his eyes, looking at He Jiaqing's wound that was still spraying blood.

He Jiaqing frowned: "Jia Zhi Zhu looking, hurry up and stop the bleeding for me!"

Wan Jinxian immediately bandaged He Jiaqing: "Jiaqing, why bother, let's think of another way!"

"Way?" He Jiaqing smiled bitterly and didn't say much.

He had elixirs and magic treasures on him, and he also knew some methods to slowly resolve the root of the disease.

But this required time.

The Green Water Beggar never gave people time.

First the hand trembled, then the arm trembled, then the whole body trembled together. After trembling for a few minutes, the whole person would be shattered.

He Jiaqing set a fire and burned his left hand into ashes.

Old Wan kept smacking his lips: "What are you doing again? Keep the hand first, wait for a chance to reconnect it."

He Jiaqing shook his head: "Can't reconnect it, this hand is already waste. I must return to the Outer Provinces quickly. Zhou Changhong's side has been exposed."

Old Wan said: "Then what should you do about this hand?"

He Jiaqing sighed: "I'll go to Three-San San San Tou Cha to try my luck, see if I can grow a new one. Time is urgent, there's no other good way."

Wan Jinxian looked worried: "Jiaqing, don't rush back to the Outer Provinces first, deal with the injury before talking. Those bird people in the Outer Provinces don't dare to do anything to you."

He Jiaqing shook his head: "I'm not worried about the people in the Outer Provinces, I'm worried about the people in my own home. I'm afraid someone will spread the news."

He family mansion, He Haiqin sat in the room, speechless.

Hearing that He Haiqin hadn't eaten for nearly a day, He Yuxiu was scared to death. If a Food Cultivator didn't eat for a day, something big would happen.

"Brother, what's wrong with you? Tell your sister if there's anything."

He Haiqin looked dull, looked at He Yuxiu, and said weakly: "Sister, someone said, Jiaqing has returned to Puluo Continent."

He Yuxiu was surprised: "Brother, what nonsense are you talking about? Isn't Jiaqing lying in the hospital in the Outer Provinces?"

"Yes, everyone says he's lying in the hospital. Then my own son, he has returned to Puluo Continent now, and I don't even know. Do you dare to believe this?"

PS: Can a hand really grow back at Three-San San San Tou Cha?

I always thought only heads could grow there.

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I had always thought that place could only grow heads.

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