The entire second floor of Immortal's Abode fell deathly silent.
More than a dozen gazes, like nails, were nailed firmly onto the azure token on the gambling table and the gray-clad young man.
Azure Cloud Token!
To most cultivators in Tianfeng City, this thing existed only in legend. It represented not merely an opportunity to enter the Azure Cloud Sect, but a broad road leading into a higher realm of cultivation!
And now, this legendary token had actually been placed on the table as a wager!
While the wager on the other side was merely one thousand spirit stones.
Although one thousand spirit stones was also an enormous sum to many people, compared with the Azure Cloud Token, it was simply a joke!
Everyone thought Liang Feng had gone mad. This gray-clad brat who had appeared from nowhere had gone mad too.
"Good! Good! Good!"
Steward Wang, who had been smiling amiably all along, had much less of a smile on his face now. He gave Chen Chen a long look, then glanced at Liang Feng, whose eyes were bloodshot, and said "good" three times in succession.
"Since Young Master Liang and this... guest have both agreed to this wager, then Immortal's Abode shall serve as witness."
He walked to the center of the gambling table and personally picked up the white jade dice cup.
"The rules are simple. I will shake the dice, and the two guests may place their bets as they please. In the end, the higher roll wins."
Steward Wang's voice was not loud, yet every person heard it clearly.
"To ensure fairness, the two of you may use your Spiritual Sense to inspect the dice at any time while I am shaking them. Immortal's Abode will absolutely not tamper with anything."
His words quieted the surrounding crowd, which had been somewhat restless.
Immortal's Abode had an impeccable reputation in Tianfeng City. Since Steward Wang was personally taking the field, there could be no possibility of cheating in this wager.
Liang Feng stared fixedly at the dice cup in Steward Wang's hands, the veins on his forehead throbbing.
He panted heavily, his chest heaving violently. Clearly, he was nowhere near as calm inside as he appeared on the surface.
He had lost too much, and he had been losing for too long.
This Azure Cloud Token was his last hope of turning things around, as well as the last shred of his dignity.
He absolutely could not lose again!
"Brat, it's not too late for regret!" Liang Feng turned and glared viciously at Chen Chen. "As long as you kneel and kowtow to this young master three times, then offer up your one thousand spirit stone stake, this young master can spare your life today!"
He tried to hide the tension and fear in his heart this way.
Chen Chen did not even raise an eyelid. He merely spat out two words indifferently.
"Too noisy."
"You!" Liang Feng was so enraged that he nearly spat out blood.
As the eldest young master of the Liang Family, when had he ever suffered such humiliation?
"Steward Wang! Stop spouting fucking nonsense! Shake them already! Today, I'll make him lose even his underpants!" Liang Feng roared.
"Fine."
Steward Wang nodded. With a shake of his arm, the dice cup in his hand began to emit a crisp rattle.
His movements were neither fast nor slow, yet they carried a peculiar rhythm.
Three dice made from demon beast bones rolled, bounced, and collided ceaselessly inside the cup.
For a moment, everyone's hearts rose to their throats.
The two Third Level of Qi Condensation guards behind Liang Feng wore expressions of utmost gravity, their hands already resting on the hilts of their blades.
They knew that if their young master truly lost the Azure Cloud Token, the Family Head would surely skin them alive.
Liang Feng pushed his Spiritual Sense to its limits, shrouding the dice cup tightly as he tried to catch even the slightest change within.
Yet it was as if a strange force inside the cup blocked his inspection, leaving him utterly unable to see the dice values.
He could only hear the increasingly hurried rattling, like a heavy hammer striking his heart again and again.
Compared to his tension, Chen Chen appeared excessively calm.
He had not even released his Spiritual Sense.
He simply stood there quietly, like an outsider watching from the sidelines.
Yet from an angle no one else could see, a demonic blood-red glow and a ghostly gleam intertwined and flickered in the depths of his eyes.
Eye of Asura, open!
The instant the divine ability activated, the white jade dice cup Steward Wang had shaken into a blur became transparent in his eyes!
The trajectories of the three rolling dice, the angles of their collisions, the final numbers they would land on...
Everything, every last detail, appeared in his mind with incomparable clarity.
"Four, five, six. Fifteen points."
A precise number surfaced in Chen Chen's heart.
He could even see that if Steward Wang's wrist shook even half a fraction more, one of the dice would roll over and the total would become fourteen.
The feeling was wondrous.
As if... he controlled everything.
Bang!
Steward Wang's hand came down heavily onto the gambling table, clamping the dice cup firmly in place.
The rattling stopped abruptly.
The entire second floor was so quiet that a falling needle could be heard.
"Place your bets," Steward Wang said in a deep voice.
"I'm betting it all!" Liang Feng nearly roared the words. He shoved the Azure Cloud Token forward viciously and howled, "I bet big!"
His eyes had gone red from gambling. He gave no thought at all to any consequences.
In his eyes, he had lost more than a dozen rounds in a row. By the logic of luck, he should be due for a big roll!
This was the most pathetic logic of a gambler.
Everyone's gazes turned toward Chen Chen.
Chen Chen still wore that indifferent expression. He casually pushed out the one thousand spirit stone chips before him.
"I'll follow you."
He was betting big as well.
Everyone froze.
Follow him? What did that mean?
Could it be that he was betting big too? Would that not make it a draw?
Liang Feng was stunned as well, then burst into wild laughter. "Hahahaha! Brat, are you fucking stupid? You're betting big too? You want a draw with this young master? Dream on! At Immortal's Abode, if it's a draw, the house takes everything!"
He assumed Chen Chen did not understand the rules and wanted to exploit a loophole.
Steward Wang also frowned and reminded him, "Guest, if both of you bet big, or both bet small, then according to the rules, both of you lose. The wagers will belong to Immortal's Abode."
Upon hearing that, Chen Chen finally raised his head and glanced at Liang Feng, his gaze like that of someone looking at an idiot.
"Who said I bet big?"
He extended a finger and lightly nudged his pile of chips toward the area marked "small."
The chips landed on the word "small."
"I bet small."
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