From a distance, Lü Bufan stood with his arms folded and watched the woman in black confer with the female martial warrior, who was as tall and burly as a bear. After a while, the two parted and each went somewhere quiet to rest.
Zhao Mu sat cross-legged on a rock with her eyes closed in meditation. Before long, a youth wearing a gray headscarf quietly approached her.
The youth stayed only a moment before leaving, but as he passed in front of Zhao Mu, his right hand lightly brushed the rock.
Lü Bufan glanced at Little Commandery Princess Jiang Yu, who was nearby, shouting with several martial warriors and idlers as they rolled dice and gambled for spirit pills. Then, with renewed interest, he watched the unremarkable rogue cultivators and low-ranking martial warriors who passed casually in front of Zhao Mu at intervals.
"A very clever trick!"
Lü Bufan had exceptionally keen eyesight, yet even he could barely detect that these seemingly insignificant people were all accomplices of the woman in black!
With each casual passing, another few Mustard-Seed Object pouches appeared inside the woman's sleeves.
"Lü Bufan! Look how much I've won! They said we should play for bigger stakes! They insist on winning back their losses... lend me some spirit stones. Pills will do too!"
Sword Abyss's little face was flushed with excitement. Holding a few ordinary pills that she probably would not normally have spared a glance, she was as happy as a child...
Lü Bufan wanted to tell her that these people were probably casting a long line to catch a big fish... but then he also wanted her to learn a lesson, so he took out twenty-odd low-grade spirit stones and handed them to Jiang Yu.
"What a cheapskate. Once I win, I'll pay