Xia Ping's alter ego and the people of Far East City were tearing into each other like mad, and with the news spreading, more and more ordinary people across the Five Great Star Regions came to know of the book Thirty-Six Stratagems of Deception.
"A super swindler who conned more than a billion Universal Coins wrote a book? What exactly does it say?"
"I heard it contains that master conman Wu Wudi's lifetime of experience in the art of deception."
"The price isn't cheap either—one hundred Universal Coins."
"No way. Even martial arts manuals don't cost that much. Has he gone mad with greed?"
"The fact that Wu Wudi dared to set such a price is enough to prove his confidence that it's truly worth that much."
"I think he won't sell a single copy. It's way too expensive. If it were five Universal Coins, I might be interested."
Many ordinary people learned of the news. They had never been duped by Xia Ping, so unlike the people of Far East City, they were not clamoring to beat and kill him. They merely found the name Wu Wudi somewhat familiar—a super swindler who had cheated people out of more than a billion Universal Coins—and that was about all they thought of him.
Many people were curious about a book written by such a swindler and wanted to know what it contained, but the price of one hundred Universal Coins scared off quite a few of them.
But there were also people who wanted to buy the book.
"The master conman Wu Wudi's new book, Thirty-Six Stratagems of Deception, looks rather grand. I wonder what he wrote in it."
"It's only one hundred Universal Coins, just pocket change. I'll buy it and have a look."
"I hope the contents don't disappoint