In the Curtain Rollers' booklet, Jing Jiu ranked seventeenth in the Chess Battle, while Tong Yan ranked first. Presumably, the odds in those private betting pools were much the same.
If they bet on him taking first place in the Chess Battle, and he actually managed it, they should make a great deal of money.
Although he could simply give this family a chest of Gold Leaves, that would not be as clean and secure as this method.
It was only natural for the Jing Household to bet on their own son.
It remained to be seen whether this family would believe him and resolutely-or foolishly-stake a large sum of silver on his victory.
The Chaotian Continent was exceedingly vast. The region with the greatest concentration of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy ran through the continent's entire middle, shaped like a blue phoenix. Central Province, where Chaoge City stood, was that blue phoenix's head. In terms of the quantity and density of spiritual qi alone, it could be called unrivaled in the world. The blue phoenix's wings were the regions covered by Great Green Mountain, where the spiritual qi was slightly less dense but purer.
Even now, the cultivation world could not determine which of these two places was better suited to cultivation. For fetuses naturally breathing the vital energy of heaven and earth in their mothers' wombs, however, the density of spiritual qi mattered more. For precisely this reason, geniuses had always emerged in an endless stream from Central Province, directly resulting in the Zhongzhou Sect becoming the greatest sect of the present day.
Located in the southern continent, the Green Mountain Sect naturally would not pass up opportunities to select talented recruits around Chaoge City either. Among the dozens of Green Mountain disciples who had come