In Your Shoes, Who Would You Believe?

Chu Xinghe didn't care at all about the third or fourth level.

Chu Xinghe didn't even need to know who was behind all of this.

Because it makes absolutely no sense...

As the saying goes, "Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated; know neither yourself nor your enemy, and you will be routed in a single battle!"

I don't even care who's manipulating things behind the scenes with Chu Xinghe in this game. Tell me, how can I lose in this situation?

Given the current trajectory of events, and with my, Chu Xinghe, refuting this rumor, tell me, have people in the Evil Shadow Continent gone berserk?

Everyone would be fighting tooth and nail for those spirit mines...

Wouldn't the price of all those spirit ores be driven to an astronomical level?

In this situation, regardless of who ultimately buys it, when the so-called "spirit mine" is dug up and nothing is found underneath, do you think the victim would explode on the spot?

If that happens, wouldn't they immediately turn their guns on me, Chu Xinghe?

Putting everything else aside, do you know how much I, Chu Xinghe, will lose in terms of reputation alone?

Not only my reputation, but they all chose to buy spirit mines at high prices because they listened to me, Chu Xinghe, and now they've discovered there are no spirit mines at all, just waste mines. In this situation, if they come to my door, shouldn't I, Chu Xinghe, compensate them at the original price? Isn't that reasonable?

So this situation is clearly a loss in both fame and fortune!

Recently, on the ninth floor of the Technique Repository Tower, Chu Xinghe declared that he wasn't just a recluse; he had come up with yet another summary...

Why do I always have accidents in the past... even when I'm lying down and not doing anything?

After careful consideration, Chu Xinghe believed that the key issue lay in seizing the initiative.

Look at what happened in the past. Many times, it was I, Chu Xinghe, who took the initiative to get involved. Even though my actions were outrageous, I still gained the upper hand.

Under such circumstances, with all sorts of shady characters manipulating things, things always manage to develop in directions that even I, Chu Xinghe, couldn't have imagined.

So, out of nowhere, I made a fortune...

This whole thing... was a setup, a setup targeting me Chu Xinghe. In this situation, the trap has already been set, and all I, Chu Xinghe, need to do is jump in!

Could someone capable of setting up such a trap be an ordinary person?

So in this situation, not only do I, Chu Xinghe, do nothing, I also hand over all the initiative to the other party. As long as the other party makes this standard move, I'll be carried to victory!

I, Chu Xinghe, used to carry everyone else to victory. But watch this one, I, Chu Xinghe, am going to be carried to victory too!

Of course, Chu Xinghe told Senior Brother Shen Chun, "Don't worry, Senior Brother Shen Chun. Although we're definitely going to lose big in this game, the whole thing was orchestrated by me Chu Xinghe, and has nothing to do with you."

No matter how things turn out, I, Chu Xinghe, will protect you, Senior Brother Shen Chun, with my life. I will absolutely not let Senior Brother Shen Chun suffer even the slightest punishment!

In the days that followed, Shen Chun waited every day for Junior Brother Xinghe's various arrangements, but the longer Shen Chun, the more confused he became.

No matter what Senior Brother Shen Chun asked, Junior Brother Xinghe always said the same thing... Watch Quietly as Things Change!

Shen Chun was surprised to discover for the first time how profound the Dao of Watching and Waiting was... Was this purely Watch Quietly as Things Change truly feasible?

Not only was Chu Xinghe Watch Quietly as Things Change the situation, but Bai Yu had also Watch Quietly as Things Change for the past few days.

There's no way around it... If Bai Yu had any other opponent, Bai Yu would have already unleashed a barrage of powerful punches.

The problem is, the opponent is Chu Xinghe...

If anyone else had said what Chu Xinghe said during his live stream, even Zheng Yu, Bai Yu would probably have slapped them across the face to show them the power of rumors!

But a person's reputation is like a tree's shadow...

There's a saying in the Four Continents: the more outrageous Chu Xinghe 'Chu Xinghe plays are, the bigger his ambitions are in this game!

Therefore, faced with Chu Xinghe's outrageous actions, Bai Yu chose to Watch Quietly as Things Change and see...

Let's see how Chu Xinghe makes his move first, then choose the right moment to strike a fatal blow.

But Bai Yu waited and waited, and waited and waited, until the flowers withered, and there wasn't a single movement from the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

What the hell is this?!

So now we've created a very absurd situation: the rumor-mongers dare not act... and the victims of the rumors also dare not act...

But while these two sides remained still, the others were certainly not idle.

In a very short time, everyone was frantically offering prices for White Spirit Division!

This series of offers completely stunned the White Spirit Evil Lord...

The White Spirit Division originally planned to sell nearly a hundred spirit mines, many of which were beyond their capacity for extensive development. Of course, White Spirit Division of these mines were likely unusable...

After all, when you're selling things, there are good and bad items. Whoever buys a bad one can only blame their bad luck.

However, with Bai Yu's intervention, the White Spirit Evil Lord was overjoyed upon hearing the plan. Overnight, the White Spirit Evil Lord selected fifteen more so-called spirit mines for sale.

Of the fifteen spirit mines for sale, five are completely worthless. While it's not fair to say they're worthless, anyone who buys them will definitely be ripped off.

The abandoned mines weren't the most outrageous part; the most outrageous thing was that the White Spirit Evil Lord specifically found ten so-called spirit mine areas, all of which were located in the Down-and-Out Mountain of the White Spirit Division.

What kind of place is Down-and-Out Mountain? Just from that wretched name, you can tell it's truly desolate...

Forget about spirit mines in this Down-and-Out Mountain; even if you go in with spirit stones, the strange spirit-devouring power of the Down-and-Out Mountain will devour a portion of the Spirit Power from your spirit stones.

Down-and-Out Mountain is renowned in the Evil Shadow Continent, known as the land of spirit devouring. A Spirit-Devouring Vortex naturally forms here, and even dogs must leave behind their Spirit Power to pass by.

If you say there's a spirit mine here, the White Spirit Evil Lord says, "If you can dig out a spirit mine from Down-and-Out Mountain, I, the White Spirit Evil Lord, will take your surname from now on!"

Not only White Spirit Evil Lord, but the entire Evil Shadow Continent knows that Down-and-Out Mountain is absolutely incapable of producing any spirit mines.

Moreover, not only in the Evil Shadow Continent, but now the entire Four Continents know about the situation of Down-and-Out Mountain after detailed investigation.

A naturally formed Spirit-Devouring Vortex, this place is known as the Spirit Power desert of the Evil Shadow Continent.

Currently, ten of the White Spirit Evil Lord's mines are located in Down-and-Out Mountain.

But just when White Spirit Evil Lord himself began to doubt whether it was a bit far-fetched to say that these ten mineral veins were in Down-and-Out Mountain, Chu Xinghe's news spread throughout the Four Continents. Good heavens, in a short period of time, the price of these ten spirit mines in Down-and-Out Mountain skyrocketed many times over.

This price even made the White Spirit Evil Lord begin to doubt whether there were any spirit mines in Down-and-Out Mountain at all...

The White Spirit Evil Lord even personally made a trip to the Earth Sha Evil Spirits Division and invited the Earth Sha Evil Lord himself.

"Earth Sha Evil Lord, please help me... could there really be a spirit mine in this Down-and-Out Mountain?"

Earth Sha Evil Lord: "???"

The Earth Sha Evil Lord was completely dumbfounded... This old Old Bai, you traveled all the way to my Earth Sha Evil Spirits Division, you brought me here, and now you're asking me this?

You know, when the rest of us Evil Spirits heard you were selling spirit ore in Down-and-Out Mountain, we all thought it was outrageous...

We even think that by lying like this, you're not treating people like human beings at all...

Look at the spirit ore we sell in the Earth Sha Evil Spirits Division. Although we also mix in more than 70% waste ore, at least 20% or 30% of it is real ore...

You, White Spirit Evil Lord, are selling mines that are all in Down-and-Out Mountain... Do you even know that? If you told me you were selling the spirit mines of Down-and-Out Mountain to us, Earth Sha Evil Spirits Division, I wouldn't even consider it a scam; you'd be robbing us!

But now, White Spirit Evil Lord, have you lost your mind? You're asking me if there are spirit mines in Down-and-Out Mountain? There are some here, my ass!

It must be said that the Earth Sha Evil Lord's words contained a very high level of sarcasm...

But the White Spirit Evil Lord wasn't angry, because that's what made Chu Xinghe so terrifying. Originally, the White Spirit Evil Lord and Bai Yu were trying to deceive people, but now, because of Chu Xinghe's appearance, the White Spirit Evil Lord found himself completely insecure...

The situation at Down-and-Out Mountain isn't just known to the Evil Spirits of the Evil Shadow Continent; now, everyone from all Four Continents who come to buy spirit ore knows about it.

After all, knowing yourself and your enemy will ensure victory in every battle, right?

Evil Spirits are inherently bad, and doing business with Evil Spirit requires extreme caution.

So each family brought along experts... there are techniques involved in identifying spirit ore, you know.

Initially, when the spirit mine masters of the various factions heard that the White Spirit Evil Lord was going to sell ten spirit mines from Down-and-Out Mountain without a word, they were all furious!

The masters from all sides declared, "White Spirit Evil Lord, we treated you like a business rival, but you treated us like dogs!"

Look at the other Evil Spirit factions; at most, they just mix spirit ore into abandoned mines and sell it, which is already outrageous...

But you, White Spirit Evil Lord, you didn't even mix in a single drop of spirit ore, did you?

Are you just going to force a sale?

Do you think we don't know what that Down-and-Out Mountain is?

Even if we didn't know beforehand, shouldn't we at least go and investigate the spirit mine in person before buying it?

We entered Down-and-Out Mountain, and forget about spirit mines, even the spirit stones we carried were swallowed up by the Spirit-Devouring Vortex. You're telling me there are spirit mines in a place like this?

You can White Spirit Evil Lord our character, but isn't it a bit much to directly insult our intelligence?

Just when everyone was convinced that there could be no spirit mines in Down-and-Out Mountain and that the White Spirit Evil Lord was talking nonsense, Chu Xinghe's live stream caused a sensation across the Four Continents.

All the prospecting masters who had previously declared that there was absolutely no way there could be any spirit ore in Down-and-Out Mountain suddenly shut up!

If you were to ask the White Spirit Evil Lord to come out and say that there's a spirit mine in this Down-and-Out Mountain, not even a dog would believe it... Even if the White Spirit Evil Lord were to die to prove his innocence, nobody would believe a single punctuation mark.

The problem is... Chu Xinghe said he had... This suddenly makes the issue more complicated...

Not to mention ordinary prospecting masters, even the Cui Clan fell silent...

The Clan Head Cui took the Heart of the Earth to Down-and-Out Mountain... When the Heart of the Earth clearly indicated that there could absolutely be no spirit mines there, the Clan Head Cui's first reaction was, the Heart of the Earth is wrong!

That's right, this is Chu Xinghe's power!

If someone else says there's a spirit mine in Down-and-Out Mountain, will all the masters immediately jump out and point their fingers at you, saying, "Do you even know anything about spirit mines?"

What the hell do you know about spirit ore?

But when Chu Xinghe said that there were spirit mines in Down-and-Out Mountain, even though the Heart of the Earth said there were no spirit mines, everyone's first reaction was that the Heart of the Earth must be wrong...

After all, between the Heart of the Earth and Chu Xinghe, if you were in their shoes, who would you believe?