The Yellow-clothed woman said, "What a hassle. Still, it definitely won't be more than ten thousand."
As soon as she finished speaking, the crowd suddenly erupted in gasps. "Well done, Empty Guest! Well done, Xu Yi! Who would've thought you'd be so cunning? What a pity, what a shame. You useless fools have taken a terrible beating today, haven't you? I've always said that mathematics contains the Great Dao and must have its uses..."
"Who's that guy? He's pretty full of himself." The Yellow-clothed woman glanced at the skinny man in white, who was shouting loudly. Yi Bingwei said, "He's a repeat student from the previous cohort. I don't know his name. I think he's obsessed with numbers."
Then someone asked, "Senior Brother Zhang Cheng, can you work out exactly how many Profound Yellow Pills that is?" The skinny man in white grinned smugly. "The answer will scare you to death. By the twenty-eighth square, the total already exceeds one hundred million: 134,217,728. After another twenty-seven squares, by the fifty-fifth square, you'll have 134,217,728 times 134,217,728. And the final, sixty-fourth square holds 512 times what's on the fifty-fifth: 922 trillion, plus 33,720,368 billion, plus 54,775,808. And that's just one square. If you add up all sixty-four squares on the board, you get twice what's on the sixty-fourth square, minus one: 1,844 trillion, plus 67,440,737 billion, plus 9,551,615..."
Zhang Cheng's tongue-twisting numbers left everyone dumbfounded.
"Explain it clearly. Exactly how much is it?" Yi Bingwei couldn't help asking.
When had Zhang Cheng ever had the chance to talk to Yi Bingwei? He was so excited that his brows danced. "Put it this way: even if you exchanged each Profound Yellow Essence at the highest price, one essence would only fetch around 110,000 to 120,000 Profound Yellow Pills. Jia Zhaoxian and the