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The sisters backed each other up, leaving me no room to argue. Even if I refused to take them, they had legs of their own, and I couldn't stop them from following me. I could only bring them along. After all, Zhu Daoyun had only a fourth-grade Dao Body, forcibly raised to that level with pills, and wasn't particularly skilled in combat. As for Zhu Daohe, she had only reached the fifth grade in the past few days. She had undoubtedly gotten pills from Zhu Daoyun; otherwise, she couldn't have advanced so quickly, nor would she have needed pills to stabilize her cultivation.
As a third-rank official, I had my own residence and cloud carriage. Though I had never visited the residence, I certainly had the carriage, so I took the sisters aboard and soon arrived at the market.
With the betting slip in hand, I eagerly went to the casino, found the owner who had taken my bet, and told him I wanted to withdraw all my immortal qi discs.
"Oh dear, our establishment really can't produce that many immortal qi discs on such short notice..." The owner's surname was Lei, and his name was Lei Biao'er. He had the face of a thoroughly unscrupulous merchant.
At the words "on such short notice," my expression darkened. "Boss Lei, what exactly do you mean? A casino this large takes thousands upon thousands of bets, yet you can't pay out when I bet on just one contestant to win? You do know I'm a third-rank official of the Hall of Criminal Law, don't you?"
I hadn't bet on Han Shanshan, but on Meng Zhiqiu. My bet had paid out sevenfold. With an original stake of thirty years' worth of third-grade qi discs, he owed me two hundred and ten years'