"Wasn't it because you were greedy and stingy?" Green-robed Xiao Hua mocked.
Jade Slip Xiao Hua did not refute him. He held out his hand and said, "Fellow Daoist, do you have any medicinal pills for healing? Take some out! Never mind the hair—it vanished long ago—but the wounds on my body need tending. Do not damage the handsome looks with which we gaze proudly upon the world."
"Take them, take them! This poor Daoist had prepared them long ago!" With a wave of his hand, green-robed Xiao Hua produced several jade bottles before Jade Slip Xiao Hua. "It is only that this thing that is neither fire nor water is truly strange. I do not know whether these medicinal pills will work!"
"Many thanks, Fellow Daoist!" Jade Slip Xiao Hua took the jade bottles and cupped his hands. "This poor Daoist will try them first."
At that very moment, Jade Slip Xiao Hua frowned, and the expression on his face shifted slightly, as though some new change had occurred outside the space.
"Please..." green-robed Xiao Hua raised a hand in invitation. Jade Slip Xiao Hua said nothing and vanished in a flash. Green-robed Xiao Hua stared blankly at the spot where the Thunder Water box had disappeared, starlight flickering in his eyes. Then he, too, vanished.
After leaving the space, Jade Slip Xiao Hua hurriedly looked around. The surroundings remained pitch-black, with no unusual changes. When Xiao Hua once again used Heavenly Eye and opened his Dharma Eye, he saw only faint light nearby, nothing particularly remarkable. The passage his Dharma Eye had just seen was likewise gone. The area around him was boundlessly vast, as though he stood upon a silent prairie.
"How strange..." Xiao Hua felt somewhat bewildered. Once his Dharma Eye had opened, that ominous feeling