Chapter 666

Xie Xie Juncong's heart and gallbladder had been plucked out by He Jiaqin, but he wasn't dead yet. He Jiaqin was still hanging onto his life, letting him watch with his own eyes how the twenty-plus people of the Ghost Hand Sect died.

These twenty-plus people were not ordinary sect disciples; they were the Ghost Hand Sect's strongest combat power, the foundation and backbone of the Ghost Hand Sect.

And now, these twenty-plus people had turned into corpses all over the floor in the blink of an eye, lying under the conference table, but Xie Xie Juncong couldn't even be bothered to look at them.

He Jiaqin leaned into Xie Xie Juncong's ear and asked: "Old Xie, the Ghost Hand Sect is finished just like that, don't you feel heartache?"

Xie Xie Juncong didn't want to listen to He Jiaqin speak; all he was thinking about now was how to save himself.

Even without his heart and gallbladder, as long as Xie Xie Juncong had a single breath left, he had to find a way to survive.

He Jiaqin placed Xie Xie Juncong on a chair in the conference room and laughed: "Back then, you tricked quite a few young juniors in the Dao Sect to Xiao Xiao Qianshou's side, turning living people into one of Xiao Xiao Qianshou's hands. You did so many wicked things for Xiao Xiao Qianshou, wasn't it just to guard the Ghost Hand Sect? And now that the Ghost Hand Sect is gone, what's the point of you living?"

"How can you say there's no point?" Xiao Xiao Qianshou's voice entered the conference room.

He Jiaqin stood up.

Xiao Xiao Qianshou slowly appeared beside Xie Xie Juncong and stuffed a heart into Xie Xie Juncong's body from behind his back.

He Jiaqin lowered his head and found that the heart in his hand was gone.

Xie Xie Juncong gasped for a long time and also began to slowly recover.

What kind of method was this?

Xiao Xiao Qianshou being able to steal back Xie Xie Juncong's heart—He Jiaqin didn't feel surprised by this point.

But when Xie Xie Juncong's heart was stolen by He Jiaqin, the blood vessels were all torn. How could Xiao Xiao Qianshou have a way to reconnect the blood vessels for Xie Xie Juncong?

Xiao Xiao Qianshou walked around the conference room, looking at the corpses all over the floor, and sighed: "Old Xie is a person of mediocre talent, and he doesn't do things cleverly. If you say he's loyal, that's even more nonsense. Who is he loyal to? To me? Or to the Ghost Hand Sect? It's all nonsense. There isn't a single person in this world loyal to the Ghost Hand Sect.

In Puluo Prefecture, if someone hacks a disciple of the Three-Hero Sect, even if it's just an ordinary lackey, by the next day, the Three-Hero Sect's copper seal will definitely bring people to take revenge. In the Ghost Hand Sect, have you ever seen anyone take revenge for a fellow sect member?

The small pincers steal things to offer to the big pincers, the big pincers steal things to offer to the old pincers. If there's no offering, tomorrow they'll trip you up, and the day after they'll stab you in the back.

The Ghost Hand Sect is just a bunch of trash like this. There's no mutual support among sect members, they are all disasters to each other. Who could care about such a sect? Who could feel heartache?

Crouching under these eaves is just to eat, drink, and live well. If you can't even live, how could Old Xie care about the Ghost Hand Sect?"

He Jiaqin nodded and said: "Grandmaster, you speak well. Since the Ghost Hand Sect is useless, you don't care that I wiped them out, so why did you come here to save them?"

"I didn't want to save them at all. I came here purely for you!" Xiao Xiao Qianshou revealed a smile, "Little rabbit, to lure you out, I was willing to sacrifice the entire Ghost Hand Sect. This face is big enough, right?"

He Jiaqin shook his head: "This isn't giving me face. Grandmaster, your grand arrival, wasn't it for the formula of the entry-level medicinal powder?"

Xiao Xiao Qianshou shook his head repeatedly: "Little rabbit, this trick of yours might fool Xie Xie Juncong, but it can't fool me. I give you a piece of iron-ribbed bamboo, and you can crack the formula? If the formula were so easy to get, would the peddler have put in so much effort back then?

You used this move just to lure out the Ghost Hand Sect, and then lure me out through the Ghost Hand Sect. I'm fulfilling you now. I've come. You see my sincerity is enough, right? Come with me!"

He Jiaqin frowned: "You want to turn me into your hand that much?"

Xiao Xiao Qianshou nodded sincerely: "I want to, I really want to. I've taken in so many disciples, but none have been as useful as you!"

He Jiaqin lit a cigarette and took a puff: "So much time has passed, you should have gotten quite a few hands, right?"

Xiao Xiao Qianshou flexed his wrists: "I've indeed found quite a few, and some hands are quite useful, but they aren't quite satisfactory to use because these things aren't of the same bloodline as me."

He Jiaqin laughed: "Grandmaster, never mind the bloodline. You just make do with them. My life isn't easy to take. If we keep entangling like this, I'm afraid you won't be able to keep your old life either."

Xiao Xiao Qianshou laughed loudly: "Rabbit, you talk big, but your actions are mediocre. You want to take my life? I'll put it right here for you to take. Do you dare to make a move?"

After saying this, Xiao Xiao Qianshou looked at He Jiaqin calmly.

He Jiaqin didn't speak.

Xiao Xiao Qianshou sighed with a laugh: "Rabbit, chickened out? I fancy your talent, but I really don't fancy your nature.

You say why did you choose 'Thief Cultivation'? Because you are greedy! There isn't a thief in this world who isn't greedy.

But you don't know what greed is. Guarding your He family's capital, does that count as greed? You relied on some schemes to bring down the Lu family, does that count as greed? Setting up the Hand-Foot Alliance to manage quite a few businesses in Puluo Prefecture, do you think that counts as greed?

Being a thief isn't that easy. You're still far off."

He Jiaqin asked earnestly: "Grandmaster, tell your disciple, how exactly should one be greedy, and how exactly should one be a thief?"

Xiao Xiao Qianshou pulled up a chair and sat opposite He Jiaqin: "It's rare for us to gather together. I'll tell you what greed is, and what a thief is.

In Puluo Prefecture, there aren't many people with more seniority than the peddler. I am one of them. When the peddler founded the Dao Sect back then, the first sect was 'Food Cultivation', because people have to eat.

The second sect was 'Joy Cultivation', because once people are full, they have to do proper business.

The third sect is our 'Thief Cultivation'. Do you know the reason for this?"

He Jiaqin pondered for a moment and shook his head slightly.

Xiao Xiao Qianshou explained: "Because our sect has many people, and because people in this world are very greedy. Seeing others have food and work, but not wanting to earn it themselves, they will think about stealing!

Our sect's disciples are all over the world. It doesn't necessarily mean you have to apply medicinal powder, enter the Dao Sect, and go to the street to pick pockets to be a 'Thief Cultivation' disciple.

Workers cutting corners, that counts as 'Thief Cultivation'. Officials lining their pockets, that counts even more as 'Thief Cultivation'. Merchants first squeezing the sellers, then cheating the buyers, eating their fill at both ends—these are the leaders of our 'Thief Cultivation'.

The 'Guanfang Hall' sent by the Outer Prefecture, what benefits have they brought to Puluo Prefecture all these years? Yet they have collected bowls full and pots full in Puluo Prefecture. This is the model of 'Thief Cultivation'.

Rabbit, you say you are greedy too, but what have you been greedy for? I asked you to go to the peddler to steal the formula for the medicinal powder, and you were timid and didn't dare to make a move. Ai Ai Qiandao asked you to go to Zhou Zhou Badou to steal the means to crack the boundaries, and you were so scared out of your wits that you deliberately made a big scene,

just to fight for a chance to escape.

Mother Bitter and Old Train asked you to steal the position of the Lord of Puluo, and they paved the road for you, but you didn't dare to walk it. You have the heart of a thief but not the guts of a thief. What big things can you accomplish? I really can't understand why they would fancy you. You must still have quite a few useful things on you that I haven't discovered yet."

He Jiaqin also pulled up a chair and sat down: "No wonder Grandmaster fancies me so much; it turns out you think I'm still useful.

But Grandmaster doesn't have to look down on me so much. I am indeed timid, perhaps because I cherish my life too much."

Xiao Xiao Qianshou laughed twice: "I cherish my life too. Cherishing life itself isn't wrong, but just thinking about keeping your life and not daring to do anything, what's the point of living?

After finishing the job, if we win, we can enjoy the blessings; if we lose, we can endure the suffering. That is the realm worthy of the 'Thief Cultivation' sect.

Your ancestor here has never been soft-hearted when encountering things he wanted to take. I've been beaten by the peddler three times, and the peddler dealt a death blow every time.

You should know what the peddler is made of. There isn't a single person in Puluo Prefecture who can withstand his methods, but did he beat me to death? I've snatched my life back from his hands three times. You just ask if there's anyone else in Puluo Prefecture who can do that?

Sun Sun Tiecheng, the Lord of Foolish City, is a ruthless man with poisonous methods and a black heart. Countless experts have died at his hands. You ask how many people in Puluo Prefecture dare to have designs on him?

I dare! I've stolen from him five times, succeeded three times, and was caught twice. Among them, there was one time I was really almost killed by him, but it was just by a hair's breadth. I still didn't die!

Old Xu of the Gold Cultivation looks honest, but he's kind in appearance and ruthless in heart. How many big shots have died by his spoon and bucket? But I'm not afraid of him. I steal from him just the same.

The madman Train goes crazy, and the mountains shake and the earth moves. Even the peddler sometimes has to avoid him, but I don't avoid him. I've collected quite a few good things from him.

The Heavenly People dare to contend with the peddler, and I've also snatched quite a few good things from beside the Heavenly People.

I've stolen from all the big shots in Puluo Prefecture. As long as they can't kill me, when we meet in a few days, I'll still dare to look for treasures on them! This is what's called greed. Do you understand?"

While speaking, this cigarette was finished, and the ring on He Jiaqin's finger turned half a circle.

"I don't understand, Grandmaster. I really don't understand why you like risking your life so much. Is your life worthless?"

Xiao Xiao Qianshou laughed loudly: "Because I'm a thief! Thieves are all like this, they remember the eating but not the beating! This is the essence of our sect!"

He Jiaqin also laughed: "Grandmaster is right, I truly admire you."

While speaking, the ring on his finger turned another half circle.

Xiao Xiao Qianshou stood up and said: "It's not just you who admires me; there are many people in Puluo Prefecture who admire me. Let's talk about Mother Bitter. She knows the 'Heavenly Union' technique, which is quite remarkable, but she has also suffered losses at my hands.

Mother Bitter, come out and say a fair word. I'm not lying about this!"

He knew Mother Bitter was here!

As soon as the words fell, Xiao Xiao Qianshou grabbed toward He Jiaqin.

Back then, Xiao Xiao Qianshou only had two of his own hands, so he had concerns when making a move, and He Jiaqin could really dodge it.

Now that Xiao Xiao Qianshou had quite a few hands, he made his move without any concerns, so fast that He Jiaqin couldn't even see his phantom image, and could only dodge with difficulty by relying on the foundation of 'Thief Cultivation'.

After more than ten moves, Xiao Xiao Qianshou forced He Jiaqin into a desperate situation. The blood gradually solidifying on the ground stuck to the soles of He Jiaqin's shoes.

Seeing He Jiaqin about to fall, Xiao Xiao Qianshou didn't rush to take He Jiaqin's life, but instead took the ring off his hand.

"Little rabbit, playing tricks on your ancestor, fearing you wouldn't lure me, so you hid Mother Bitter in the wind-sand land." Xiao Xiao Qianshou held He Jiaqin's ring, looking at the mechanism on it.

He guessed right. In Puluo Prefecture, "wind-sand land" refers to a hidden space. Because she was worried Xiao Xiao Qianshou wouldn't come, Mother Bitter had indeed hidden in the hidden space, but she hadn't expected Xiao Xiao Qianshou to have the eyesight to see through the wind-sand land.

Xiao Xiao Qianshou said to He Jiaqin: "This wind-sand land is even worse than the 'Unnamable Land'. If it were the 'Unnamable Land', I really wouldn't have been able to discover her, but the wind-sand land, I can still see quite a few traces. There's a lock hanging on the door of this wind-sand land. Now that you don't have the mechanism here, let's see how this Mother Bitter comes out!"

Xiao Xiao Qianshou guessed it all right.

This hidden space in the film company had a natural lock, which must be opened from the outside using a mechanism. This mechanism was turning the ring three times.

Now that He Jiaqin's ring had only been turned twice before it was taken by Xiao Xiao Qianshou, what could be done?

Xiao Xiao Qianshou rushed toward He Jiaqin again.

Xiao Qian Xiao Qian Sangxue, sitting beside the conference table, pinched the ring and turned it three times.

Xiao Xiao Qianshou's fingertips were about to touch He Jiaqin when Mother Bitter suddenly appeared and pulled a fingernail off her right hand.

Seeing this fingernail, Xiao Xiao Qianshou hurriedly retracted his hand, but unfortunately, it was already too late.

His fingertips cracked, blood gushed out, and the flesh and blood on his right hand peeled off rapidly starting from the index finger, spreading all the way to his wrist. The unbearable pain

made Xiao Xiao Qianshou tremble.

Xiao Xiao Qianshou cut off his hand without hesitation. This wasn't his original hand, so he didn't feel much heartache.

But he was curious about one thing: how did Mother Bitter get out?

"Because of you?" Xiao Xiao Qianshou looked at Xiao Qian Xiao Qian Sangxue and stole her ring. Xiao Qian Xiao Qian Sangxue still had no expression.

"Impossible, the thing on your hand doesn't look like a mechanism at all!" Xiao Xiao Qianshou looked at Xiao Qian Xiao Qian Sangxue's ring carefully, always feeling that it was just an ordinary piece of jewelry.

This time he was wrong. He Jiaqin had made more than one key; he carried one himself, and Xiao Qian Xiao Qian Sangxue also had one.

He Jiaqin said: "Grandmaster, you once said that you didn't fancy any of my other methods, only the ring I made could be looked at by you."

Xiao Xiao Qianshou leaped, seemingly wanting to escape.

Mother Bitter stabbed a knife into her own leg, and Xiao Xiao Qianshou's lower right leg broke off from the knee.

"Mother Bitter, you are truly ruthless!" Xiao Xiao Qianshou stretched out a foot and kicked the severed leg toward He Jiaqin.

The leg opened five fingers in the air, turned into a hand, and grabbed directly toward He Jiaqin's face.

How could a leg turn into a hand?

'Thief Cultivation' technique, "Stealing the Beam and Replacing the Pillar."

Xiao Xiao Qianshou made his move too fast, so fast that He Jiaqin couldn't even see the timing of his move.

He Jiaqin hacked the severed hand to pieces with a folding fan. Xiao Xiao Qianshou's fingertips trembled, and he came to pluck He Jiaqin's heart and liver again.

Mother Bitter drew a line on her arm with her fingertips, and the flesh and blood on Xiao Xiao Qianshou's right hand detached, leaving only white bone.

Mother Bitter drew a line on her cheek with her fingertips, and the skin on Xiao Xiao Qianshou's face peeled off, revealing his skull.

Mother Bitter drew another line on her forehead with her fingertips, and Xiao Xiao Qianshou's skull was lifted, but no brains were revealed.

A hand was hidden inside Xiao Xiao Qianshou's skull. This hand jumped out of the skull to grab He Jiaqin.

Xiao Xiao Qianshou's whole body scattered on the ground, with hundreds of hands crawling and groping in all directions, attacking only He Jiaqin, but not harming Mother Bitter in the slightest.

"Don't just keep coming at the junior, Old Xiao Xiao Qian, if you have any methods, let me see them too!" Mother Bitter sensed Xiao Xiao Qianshou's whereabouts and poked her own eye.

"Coming at you, what's the use? You have the 'Heavenly Union' technique; the more you suffer, the better you can fight. Making a move against you is just looking for trouble for myself." Xiao Xiao Qianshou, crouching on the chandelier, had an eyeball fall out of its socket.

This eyeball also turned into a hand and ran over to grab He Jiaqin.

"To be able to use 'Stealing the Beam and Replacing the Pillar' to this extent, I'm afraid you're the only one in this world!" Mother Bitter praised, took a bitter vegetable out of her pocket, put it in her mouth, and chewed twice.

Just these two chews, and Mother Bitter vomited.

This vegetable was carefully cultivated by her; it was truly too bitter.

Mother Bitter had tasted a bit of bitterness, and Xiao Xiao Qianshou's bitterness was magnified. He tasted three parts bitterness and couldn't help but vomit while crouching by the wall, unable to straighten his body for a long time.

He Jiaqin took the opportunity to grope around Xiao Xiao Qianshou's body and pulled half a lung out from behind Xiao Xiao Qianshou's back.

Plucking hearts and taking gallbladders—what can be taken isn't just hearts and gallbladders; He Jiaqin could steal any internal organ through skin and flesh.

After the lung was pulled out, He Jiaqin was about to pluck the other half of the lung. Just as he made his move, He Jiaqin suddenly felt his eyebrows relax, his body loosened, and he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

With this laugh, his technique slowed down a little, and what he pulled out from Xiao Xiao Qianshou's body wasn't a lung, but a hand.

This hand tightly grabbed He Jiaqin's hand and pulled hard, drawing out He Jiaqin's hand tendons.

He Jiaqin's right hand went limp immediately, hanging down like a noodle.

"Alright, stealing a tendon from you today is enough to break even!" Xiao Xiao Qianshou jumped onto the wall, wanting to escape, when he suddenly saw a hole open in his stomach.

Xiao Xiao Qianshou looked at Mother Bitter, but saw Mother Bitter take a knife and stab it into her own stomach.

Pfft!

Xiao Xiao Qianshou vomited a mouthful of blood, turned his head, looked at Mother Bitter, and said: "Mother Bitter, you're being so ruthless, is it necessary?"

Mother Bitter laughed: "I'd like to ask you, is it necessary? Is it necessary to take such a big risk for a He Jiaqin?"

Xiao Xiao Qianshou sighed: "I just wanted to try and see how useful the person fancyed by you and Old Train really is."

Mother Bitter shook her head: "Unfortunately, you won't have a chance to use him."

Xiao Xiao Qianshou still wanted to gamble once more; he wanted to find a hand to replace himself.

But under the intense pain, it was difficult for him to use his technique.

He deliberately looked up and sighed, as if in total despair, then burst into loud laughter, wanting to bring Mother Bitter to laugh along with him.

And for some reason, it was just that coincidental—two candles fell from the chandelier above his head, and one of them fell right into Xiao Xiao Qianshou's mouth.

'Fortune Cultivation' technique, "Fortune and Misfortune."

Xiao Xiao Qianshou's throat was blocked by the candle, his laughter stopped abruptly, and he couldn't use his 'Laughing Cultivation' technique.

Mother Bitter picked up the other candle, stuffed it into her own stomach, and set her internal organs on fire.

"What a Mother Bitter!" Xiao Xiao Qianshou sighed, and then his whole body caught fire, and he was burned to ash.

He Jiaqin let out a long breath, feeling a weight lifted from his heart, and turned to thank Mother Bitter.

Mother Bitter laughed: "Not bad, you were truly brave today, showing me some ability. I ask you, what did you want to do when you went to the Soda Kiln?"

He Jiaqin said: "There is an entrance to the Inner Prefecture there."

"What did you want to do when you went to the Inner Prefecture?"

"I want to rescue Senior Train."

Mother Bitter stared closely at He Jiaqin: "Is this true?"

He Jiaqin nodded: "Absolutely true."

"Consider that you still have some conscience." Mother Bitter nodded, though she felt this was not very credible.

Hands were scattered all over the conference room. Mother Bitter picked one up and looked at it carefully: "This hand is quite special, different from the others.

It doesn't look like a living person's hand."

He Jiaqin examined it for a moment and said: "This should have been made by some craftsmanship cultivator."

"This doesn't look like a craftsmanship technique from Puluo Prefecture." Mother Bitter took the candle out of her wound, waved her hand, and burned all the hands Xiao Xiao Qianshou had left on the ground clean.

He Jiaqin felt a bit of heartache; these hands were very useful to him.

Mother Bitter asked He Jiaqin: "Just now you took half of Xiao Xiao Qianshou's lung, where did you hide it?"

He Jiaqin flicked his sleeve, just about to take the lung out, when Mother Bitter waved her hand: "If you have a use for it, keep it yourself. How should your right hand be dealt with?"

He Jiaqin's right arm had its tendons pulled out by Xiao Xiao Qianshou; restoring it would be quite difficult.

The peddler had ointment for growing tendons, but He Jiaqin didn't dare to go find the peddler.

Mother Bitter should also have a way, but her temperament was strange; if he asked her directly, she might not be willing to help.

There was another path He Jiaqin had walked before: "It seems I can only go to the Broken Tendon Mountain in Three-Fork Junction and try my luck."

Back then, when he broke a hand, he went to Three-Fork Junction and it grew back. This sounded quite pitiful, and He Jiaqin thought Mother Bitter might help him.

Unexpectedly, Mother Bitter said: "That's fine too. Go to Three-Fork Junction for some training; perhaps you'll make some progress."

Mother Bitter left, and He Jiaqin let out a long sigh.

After sighing, he still had to hurry and do proper business.

The battle just now was fierce, but the commotion wasn't big, and no one else in the company building noticed. He Jiaqin picked up the dying Xie Xie Juncong: "Go back to the Ghost Hand Sect, call all the big and small pincers over, and tell them the boss has changed—changed to Xiao Qian Xiao Qian Sangxue."

Xie Xie Juncong nodded.

He Jiaqin added: "After you go back, do the job immediately, don't wander around aimlessly. Wherever you go, I can find you."

Xie Xie Juncong stood up with difficulty and walked out of the film company.

The two lookouts, one guarding the entrance and one guarding the roadside, were still standing outside.

Seeing the boss come out, the two went up to meet him: "Boss, was the matter accomplished?"

"Accomplished." Xie Xie Juncong nodded slightly.

"Boss, what about the other brothers?"

Xie Xie Juncong waved his hand, signaling them not to ask more.

Seeing Xie Xie Juncong walking with difficulty, the two lookouts hurriedly supported him and returned to the Ghost Hand Sect's lair.

He Jiaqin sent Xiao Qian Xiao Qian Sangxue back to her own bedroom, then went to the conference room to send the corpses of the thieves back to his own bedroom.

After cleaning up the conference room, He Jiaqin returned to his bedroom, took out half of Xiao Xiao Qianshou's lung, and placed it on the table.

He took a cap, put it on his head, pulled a wire out from the cap, and connected it to a battery.

He took a magnet and held it in his mouth.

Everything was ready. He Jiaqin turned on the switch on his cap, and his body began to twitch violently.

Ten minutes later, He Jiaqin turned off the switch, spat out the magnet, and coughed on the floor for a long time.

Xiao Xiao Qianshou's lung was gone, and he didn't know where it had gone.

He Jiaqin lay on the floor, coughed for a while longer, and coughed up two Profound Essence Pills.

"Good stuff, truly good stuff!" He Jiaqin sighed and walked toward the corpse of a thief.

In He Jiaqin's impression, this thief's cultivation wasn't low. Refining Profound Essence Pills was impossible, but refining a few Gold Essence Pills shouldn't be a problem.

Xie Xie Juncong returned to the Ghost Hand Sect's old house, rested for a moment, and arranged for people to hurry and prepare a banquet. He wanted to yield the position of Sect Master to Xiao Qian Xiao Qian Sangxue.

This matter couldn't be vague; he knew his life was in He Jiaqin's hands.

The two lookouts were tired after the whole night and went home to rest.

The one responsible for guarding the entrance arrived at his residence, and just as he lay down, he suddenly felt his scalp itching.

He scratched it twice, and his scalp suddenly broke, and a hand reached out from inside his skull.

PS: The thief's heart doesn't die, it really doesn't die!