Wen Xu let out a long breath. "Don't ask a question you already know the answer to."
"Hahaha, don't be like that. Cheer up, just treat it as paying tuition. Next time we run into a trick like this, maybe we can trick them back and earn ten thousand Spirit Stones. What do you think?"
"...Not much."
Though being cheated out of Spirit Stones was indeed upsetting, it was rare to see Wen Xu-Xu sulking like this. "How about you go up to the Cloud Platform and fight a few matches too? When I first came in, I saw that there are rewards if you win."
Wen Xu thought it over. "That could work." But there was no need to rush it. They would be staying in Pingshui City for a while yet.
What neither of them had expected was that Chen Zui's duel... lasted rather a long time. It was not until the evening three days later, with the setting sun red as blood, that the two men on the platform finally decided the victor.
"You won?"
The battle intent had yet to fade from Chen Zui's face. "No."
"...That impressive?" Bian Chunchou wanted to keep watching too, but he truly could not wait any longer. After all... the Cloud Platform really knew how to make money. Free viewing came with a time limit, and watching for all three days would cost at least three hundred Spirit Stones. For that price, he could rent a decent cultivation room.
"Wang Li is at Late Golden Core. His body cultivation truly makes him impervious to blades and spears." This was the first person Chen Zui had encountered since coming down the mountain whose Body Tempering surpassed his own.
"Wang Li? Wang as in king, Li as in strength?"
Chen Zui gave