"Haha, Brother Xu, you look a little pale?"
Wang Tianjing taunted him.
"Hmph, enough chatter... one earth."
Xu Hao steadied himself and calmly played the new target card.
"Still, for someone with your temperament to feel afraid, Brother Xu... could this Hand Crossbow be hiding some secret?"
Shaking his head in wonder, Wang Tianjing drew two cards from the middle of his hand and set them facedown on the table, raising his voice slightly:
"Two earths."
Lu Ze raised an eyebrow.
This fellow was just like many of the card players he had encountered in his previous life.
Whenever he lied, he talked at length to divert everyone else's attention.
"Uh..."
Chen Yiyun's gaze shifted back and forth between the cards Wang Tianjing had played and her own hand.
After a long while, she finally frowned and made up her mind.
"Challenge!"
"Huh?"
Wang Tianjing startled.
He had never expected the harmless-looking Chen Yiyun to challenge him in the very first round.
The cards were flipped over, revealing one heaven and one human.
"I knew it... Brother Wang, oh, Brother Wang! I never thought you were that kind of person. You actually lied to me!"
Grinning, Chen Yiyun fanned out her hand—
Four earths and one demon.
There were eight earth cards in the entire deck, and she held five of them.
That made Wang Tianjing's claim of two earths far too suspicious.
Surely he would not leave himself without a single genuine card?
"Things in an i-illusion... can you really call that lying?"
Wang Tianjing's face reddened, and he followed up with phrases like "all's fair in war" and "strategy."
He picked up the Hand Crossbow beside him and pressed it against his temple.
In an instant, his previously relaxed body went rigid.
"Haha, don't wet your pants, Brother