In front of Jinyuan Gambling Stall's counter, Big Ear Nie Ting grandly flung out the betting slip he had just placed. The wager of up to 2.3 Million High-grade Spirit Stones made the shopkeeper, whose heart was bleeding from the losses, grind his teeth in hatred!
He was Master Xie's trusted confidant and knew the inside story. Knowing that Nie Ting was Di Kuohai's follower made him clench his teeth all the harder.
The reason was simple: Master Xie's scheme had gone badly wrong this time. It was not merely a matter of paying compensation. If things went badly, they would all be dragged down with it.
Big Ear had bought the highest odds, two and a half tenths. Although Ye Zhen's odds had been low, the wager had been enormous, and he had won a total of 575,000 High-grade Spirit Stones.
When the Jinyuan Gambling Stall's shopkeeper handed Big Ear Nie Ting the Storage Ring, his teeth creaked from how hard he was gritting them.
In the void, Red Beard Master Xie and Old Geng watched this scene, their hands trembling with rage. Yet they had little time to be angry.
This time, in their bid to make a killing, they had played too big and tapped into a huge amount of Changlin Merchant House's funds.
The two held fairly high positions within Changlin Merchant House. Master Xie in particular oversaw all of Changlin Merchant House's affairs on Five Immortal Island. But Changlin Merchant House was not theirs; it had another owner.
Over the previous several hundred years, they had pulled such jobs a few times, but never on such a grand scale.
This time, because Ye Zhen's cultivation was low and there were fewer variables, they had made their move even bigger.
For the sake of enormous profits,