"Have you known him before?" Xia Huai asked Lu Jing, "Who is he to you?"
"I don't know him." Lu Jing shook his head, "He has nothing to do with me, but he has some connections with my master."
After a pause, he added, "Anyway, just remember to give him all the food you have on you later."
"All of them? What should we do?" Xia Huai asked.
"It's okay. We'll just find a town and buy it when the time comes."
Xia Huai wanted to ask again, but at this time the old beggar had already opened his dry lips and said, "Water... water... I want water."
Xia Huai took off his water bag and handed it over.
The old beggar was not polite. He took it and poured it into his mouth, and finally drank every drop of the water in the water bag.
Seeing this, Lu Jing threw his water bag to Xia Huai and asked Xia Huai to pass it to the old beggar.
Without saying a word, the latter picked it up and finished it. Then he wiped his mouth and asked, "Is there anything to eat?"
Xia Huai remembered Lu Jing's instructions, took out all the food on her body, and placed them in front of the old beggar along with the portion Lu Jing gave her.
The old beggar didn't even say thank you, he grabbed the food and ate it happily.
He obviously looks very old, and his body is a little thin, and his lower abdomen is flat, but he doesn't know why his appetite is particularly good.
The rations that Xia Huai took out were enough for an adult to eat for more than ten days, but the old beggar actually finished them in one meal.
Coupled with the two large bags of water he had just drank, Xia Huai was afraid that he would stretch himself to death.
As a result, the old beggar didn't even burp after finishing the meal, and his lower abdomen was still flat. Then he asked with unfinished content, "Is there more?"
"No more, this is all the food I have." Xia Huai said, "Old man..."
"Call me Mr. Ji."
"Mr. Ji?" Xia Huai almost didn't draw his sword when he heard this name.
Fortunately, the old beggar wrote his last name on the ground with his finger, and this solved the misunderstanding caused by the pronunciation.
"Since Mr. Ji is literate, he must come from a scholarly family. Why is he in this ruined temple?" Xia Huai saw that this plan was not the same as that of Ji Ji, sheathed his sword and asked.
When the old beggar named Ji heard this, he also showed a look of confusion on his face, "Yes, why do I appear here, what kind of place is this, and who am I..."
He lowered his head and thought for a while, but the more he thought about it, the more confused his mind became. Finally, he let out a loud roar and held his head in his hands.
Xia Huai also realized something at this time and looked at Lu Jing.
Lu Jing nodded slightly.
Xia Huai comforted, "Mr. Ji, don't be impatient. You can think about it slowly in the future."
However, the old beggar surnamed Ji seemed to have not heard anything. He raised his head again after a moment, but no longer paid attention to Xia Huai, but turned to face Lu Jing's direction again.
"That kid over there, I'm still a little hungry. Do you have anything you can give me to eat?"
"me?"
Lu Jing was a little surprised. He already knew what was going on with this ruined temple and the old beggar in the temple.
They are the [Gui Zi Zero and One] that Kui has mentioned before. This strange thing only appears during thunderstorms. Its external appearance is that of a mountain temple and an old beggar named Ji in the temple.
As long as people entering the temple provide water and food to the old beggar, he will also give a martial arts secret book in return.
According to Si Tianjian's statistics, usually the more food and water you give, the better it is to get the secret book.
This is how Zhang Sanfeng's transformation came about.
This thing is not so much a strange thing as it is a chance.
However, Lu Jing already has a lot of powerful martial arts skills, and he can't even practice them anymore. His need for martial arts secrets is not very strong.
So after figuring out what was going on here, he gave the opportunity to Xia Huai.
He even gave Xia Huai all the food and water he had on him to improve the quality of the secret books.
He didn't expect that the old beggar named Ji could come after him again.
Lu Jing couldn't help but feel embarrassed for a moment.
Although he does not have that much desire for martial arts secrets, the opportunity is rare. Now that he meets [Gui Zi Zero One] and takes the initiative to get in touch with him without giving him anything, he feels like he doesn't respect the other party very much.
But at this moment, his hands were indeed empty, with no food or water left.
However, Lu Jing had an idea and thought of something else.
So he walked up to the old blind man named Ji, stretched out a hand and touched the latter's back.
The old blind man named Ji felt his body tremble, and then a warm current flowed along Lu Jing's palm and poured into his meridians.
"This..." The expression on the face of the old beggar Ji became even more confused.
Then Lu Jing said, "You have eaten a lot of other things, why not change the taste and eat some internal energy."
"Can you eat it with your inner strength?" the old beggar surnamed Ji murmured.
"There's nothing you can't do. Internal strength is the most precious ingredient."
I don’t know if Lu Jing’s serious voice had an effect, but the old beggar named Ji actually accepted this magical setting and nodded, “Then I want to have a taste.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Jing felt a sudden suction coming from the other side of his palm. Just like when he met the boy named Ruan before.
His internal energy was no longer sent by him to the old beggar named Ji, but the latter sucked out his internal energy continuously.
Lu Jing was not surprised but happy because it was less than an hour before his next internal energy refresh.
He originally planned to consume the remaining internal energy by falling into the mortal world. Now with the help of the old beggar, he can save a pair of poisons, and the internal energy that was originally wasted can now be regarded as a waste.
The old beggar surnamed Ji sucked in faster and faster. In the end, it took less than a stick of incense to suck all Lu Jing's inner energy away.
This efficiency is much more powerful than that laozi whale suction method.
After he finished sucking, there was a rare look of satisfaction on his face, and he praised, "Yes, the taste of this internal force is indeed better than pancakes, even mutton can't compare...and the most important thing is that the quantity is enough." It's enough, the portion is big enough.
"It's been a long time since I've had such a satisfying meal. You're quite generous."
"It's just some internal energy, it's nothing to me." Lu Jing said, "Mr. Ji, you can eat whatever you want."
After hearing this, the old beggar named Ji actually stopped being polite. He nodded and said to the two of them, "I have eaten and drank enough now, and I plan to sleep for a while. You two can just do what you want."
"Okay." After hearing this, Lu Jing pulled Xia Huai and walked to the other side of the mountain temple to sit down, practicing while waiting for the rain to stop.
And the old beggar Ji, as he said, fell asleep again behind the mountain statue.
