The corners of Shen Bing's mouth lifted, and he immediately completed the transaction with Sun Simiao.
As the hundred thousand Immortal Jade changed hands, Sun Simiao's hands trembled with delight.
This was Immortal Jade! What was Immortal Jade? Merit! Who in the Immortal Realm didn't value merit more than their own life?
Shen Bing, however, calmly looked over the nine Pill Furnaces. As he reached out and touched them, his smile grew even brighter.
He put the Pill Furnaces into his inventory one by one, then took them back out. Each furnace spent less than a second inside.
Sun Simiao finally shook off the spell of those hundred thousand Immortal Jade and remembered that their wager was still underway. If Shen Bing stumbled onto the best Pill Furnace through sheer luck, those hundred thousand Immortal Jade would be gone.
Still, the odds were only one in nine. Sun Simiao felt that his hundred thousand Immortal Jade were fairly safe.
But as he watched Shen Bing calmly put each Pill Furnace away and take it back out, his confidence somehow began to drain away.
After Shen Bing set down the last Pill Furnace, he pointed at them one by one. Medicine God Sun's heart pounded wildly with every movement of his finger.
If he were only going to lose his best Pill Furnace, Sun Simiao wouldn't have cared quite so much. But now a hundred thousand Immortal Jade were on the line too! How could Medicine God Sun possibly stay calm?
Finally, Shen Bing's finger stopped. When Medicine God Sun saw which Pill Furnace he was pointing at, he nearly passed out on the spot.
It was the finest of the nine Pill Furnaces, named Separation Fire.
Just as Medicine God Sun was wondering whether Shen Bing had simply gotten lucky,