Everyone in the Cloud Emergence Hall sat upright in silence.
For a Pill Sect master to dare wager more than a hundred billion top-grade Yin Stones on an alchemy match was itself an exceedingly rare event, scarcely seen since ancient times.
A hundred billion top-grade Yin Stones—what an astonishing fortune that was. Even mighty figures of the Alchemy Dao, who had seen all kinds of precious treasures beyond imagination, would feel their minds roar at the sight. Even a super sect might not possess a hundred billion top-grade Yin Stones in its treasury.
Forget a hundred billion Yin Stones—even ten billion or one billion Yin Stones would be enough to completely fill this Cloud Emergence Hall.
Of course, that referred only to a sect's top-grade Yin Stones, not the private collections of its cultivators.
What sort of existence was a Pill Sect master who could casually produce a hundred billion top-grade Yin Stones? The thought stirred the hearts of everyone present.
Everyone understood that the young man might not actually possess a hundred billion top-grade Yin Stones. He would certainly have other items converted into their equivalent value.
But even so, it was enough to make a Mahayana's expression change drastically. No Mahayana would truly take out such a fortune to gamble on alchemy. Just moments ago, everyone had thought this match would be absolutely foolproof, but after seeing Qin Fengming place his wager, they once again felt uncertain.
Before the people in the Cloud Emergence Hall had recovered from their astonishment, Elder Huang's expression suddenly changed again. He had received word that three more cultivators had arrived together—two men and one woman. Each had produced ten billion top-grade Yin Stones, betting that Qin Fengming, the Pill Sect master, would win.
After a brief silence in the square, the crowd