svetikya Chapter 73 The Crushing Situation at Stone Garden
Chapter 73 The Crushing Situation at Stone Garden
Chapter 74 The Crushing Situation at the Eighteen Stone Garden
"An IOU?"
Tuoba Chang's temple throbbed twice.
Ji Biyue stepped forward at the opportune moment, her green dress flowing like water, and smiled brightly: "Young Master Tuoba, the Ji family's stone workshop has always been fair and just. If you trust us, I can vouch for you. Within three days, the Tuoba family will deliver one million catties of raw materials to the Ji family's account."
She took out a jade contract and pushed it in front of Tuoba Chang.
"Sign an agreement, and we'll start gambling immediately."
Tuoba Chang stared at the jade contract, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down.
He is not stupid.
Once the jade contract was signed, it was as if the Tuoba family's reputation in the Holy City was tied to this gamble.
The loss wasn't just a problem with the source—
It is the face of the entire Yuanwang family.
But thousands of cultivators were staring at him.
retreat?
"sign!"
Tuoba Chang bit his fingertip until it bled.
Divine power manifested as a seal, which was pressed heavily onto the jade contract with a blood imprint.
Ji Biyue put away the jade contract and secretly transmitted her voice to Li Xian: "Is the young master satisfied?"
Li Xian ignored her.
You can't give this kind of woman too much credit.
He turned around and his gaze fell on a small, bald figure in a white robe in the crowd.
"Little sister."
Xia Yilin was standing on tiptoe, peering through the crowd to see what was going on.
Hearing the call, it blinked its big, dark eyes and pointed to its own nose.
"I?"
"Lend me some resources."
The young nun was stunned.
His expression clearly conveyed four words—
You want to borrow it from me?
You possess the seed of a Qilin, the source of a divine being, the source of an ancient insect, and a plethora of treasures. The entire Holy City knows you are a walking treasure trove.
You're trying to borrow resources from a little nun like me?
"Of course it's you." Li Xian said without changing his expression. "I used up all my Pure Source yesterday. I can't just use up my Divine Source to buy stones at the first Stone Garden. That would be too conspicuous."
"Brother Li."
Xia Yiming quickly stepped forward.
He stood in front of his younger sister.
He took out a source bag from his sleeve and said decisively, "I have tens of thousands of catties of source here. Take it if you need it."
The prince of Great Xia looked sincere.
Li Xian glanced at him.
"A fiercely protective brother."
"I don't eat people."
"We don't need that much." Li Xian waved his hand, his gaze bypassing Xia Yiming and landing back on Xia Yilin. "Little sister Yilin, just lend me a source. I'll give you something to play with when I cut out something good."
Xia Yiming's brows were so furrowed they could trap a fly.
He has no shortage of resources and doesn't care about this small amount of money.
The question is, why did you insist on borrowing from my sister?
She was only eleven years old.
You beast!
"Then—remember to give it back to me, okay?"
The young nun carefully took out a small white jade bottle from her robe and handed it over.
A faint glow rippled within the bottle.
Not too much, not too little, a complete source of pure purity.
Li Xian took it and weighed it in her hand.
"She really is a little rich woman."
"Of course." He put away the small bottle and nodded to Xia Yiming. "Brother Xia, rest assured, what I borrowed is the source, what I'm repaying is the favor. I won't kidnap your sister."
Xia Yiming's lips twitched.
If you hadn't said that, I wouldn't have been so worried.
Why do I feel anxious after you told me?
Li Xian turned around.
I strode towards the first stone garden.
The game begins.
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The Ji family's stone archway has eighteen courtyards arranged in succession, with source stones piled up like mountains, and each stone garden is an independent casino.
Stone Garden No. 1.
Tuoba Chang chose a watermelon stone.
This type of stone has an emerald green outer skin and perfectly rounded patterns. In the stone appraisal manual of the Source Arts family, it is considered a "medium to high quality" stone, and the probability of it producing a different type of source is not low.
His right hand shimmered with crimson gold light.
He placed his palm on the stone surface, activated the Source King Stone Appraisal Technique, and decisively made his move after three breaths.
The stone skin is peeling off.
Green light blooms—
Green Leaf Source.
The size of a fist.
Superior quality.
The onlookers gasped in amazement.
"As expected of a descendant of the Yuan King family!"
Tuoba Chang smiled and looked at Li Xian.
Li Xian stood in front of an unremarkable terrazzo stone, and with a sweep of his divine eye, he raised his hand and cut it open.
Blue light emanates from it.
Blue diamond.
It's about the size of a fist and has a value comparable to that of amethyst.
"draw."
Ji Biyue announced.
Tuoba Chang's expression darkened slightly.
He thought he could dominate in the first game, but it ended in a draw.
Stone Garden No. 2.
Li Xian cut out a piece of pure source, inside which was sealed a ten-thousand-year-old miniature medicinal herb, its value far exceeding that of Tuoba Chang's ordinary heterogeneous source.
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Win.
Stone Garden No. 3.
Tuoba Chang cuts out ice and snow sources, which are of excellent quality.
Li Xian cut out the same quality of Fiery Red Source.
draw.
Stone Garden No. 4.
Li Xian cut out a piece of ordinary dragon marrow, whose value doubled and far surpassed that of the others.
Win.
Stone Garden No. 5.
Win.
Number six.
Win.
The ten stone gardens have been cut.
Except for two draws, Li Xian won all of his matches.
Tuoba Chang's expression hadn't been good since the fourth stone garden.
His prized Crimson Gold Divine Hand and Origin King Stone Appraisal Technique were like trying to compete with divine sense using an abacus in front of Li Xianyuan's divine eyes.
It's not a technical issue.
It's a dimensional crushing defeat.
The onlookers' discussion went from "evenly matched" to "one-sided", and then to "what's the point of comparing them?"
The lackeys behind Tuoba Chang had long lost their arrogance from the beginning; they all shrank back, not daring to even breathe loudly.
Stone Garden No. 18.
This is the last courtyard in front of the Tianzihao Stone Garden.
The quality of the stone has improved dramatically.
The price also increased several times over.
Walk from number one to here.
The two men each spent approximately 60,000 jin of raw materials to purchase stones.
Tuoba Changchi pressed his right hand on a piece of black stone, sensing it repeatedly for more than ten breaths before gritting his teeth and cutting it open.
A burst of golden light!
A divine source the size of an infant's fist.
It rolled off the stone, its whiteness like jade, its divine light contained within.
Tuoba Chang let out a long breath, and a smile finally appeared on his lips.
"Divine Source!"
The surrounding cultivators were in an uproar.
No matter how much we lost before.
Cutting out the divine source means hope of turning things around.
A special divine source the size of an infant's fist is worth at least 100,000 jin (50,000 kg).
"How was it?" Tuoba Chang turned his head, raised his chin to look at Li Xian, "Successor of Master Yuan, this round..."
He hadn't finished speaking.
Li Xian has already made his move.
In front of him was a grayish-white oval stone.
It's unremarkable, even the price tag on the stone archway is the lowest tier.
The Divine Eye of Origin detected that pattern in less than ten breaths, or even less than three.
One slash.
The stone skin cracked open.
A bowl-sized, shimmering white divine source slowly emerged from the rubble, its divine light illuminating the entire stone garden.
The entire room fell silent.
The bowl has a large opening.
The piece cut by Tuoba Chang.
It's more than four times bigger.
The smile that lingered on Tuoba Chang's face froze and shattered, like ice being pierced by a foot.
Li Xian put the two pieces of divine source into a jade box, sealed it with source energy, and casually put it into the Bitter Sea.
"Of the eighteen stone gardens, how many rounds did Young Master Mop win?"
He turned his head and asked casually.
Yao Yuekong waved her folding fan, laughing like a fox who had stolen a chicken: "Zero."
"It was a few games tied."
Xia Yiming corrected.
"Tie at three sets, lost at fifteen."
Ji Biyue chuckled, her voice sickeningly sweet: "Young Master Tuoba's Crimson Gold Divine Hand truly lives up to its name."
Add insult to injury.
It has to be you.
Ji Biyue's words were harsher than a knife.
Tuoba Chang's right hand, made of crimson gold, trembled uncontrollably.
He clenched his teeth.
My temples are swollen.
He couldn't utter a single word.
The surrounding cultivators looked at him.
What began as awe has now turned into pity.
There was even a hint of schadenfreude.
Young master of the Yuanwang family.
The eighteen stone gardens didn't win a single game.
This must be relayed back to the Tuoba family.
"Let's go." Li Xian didn't look at him again, heading straight for the bamboo raft dock by the lake. "The top-tier stone garden is the main course. The eighteen stone gardens are just appetizers—Young Master Mop won't be stuffed by appetizers, will he?"
He boarded the bamboo raft.
Her clothes fluttered in the lake breeze.
The lake's surface is as smooth as a mirror, reflecting the outline of the island in the distance.
Ji Family's Tianzihao Stone Garden.
The true holy land of jade gambling in the Holy City.
Tuoba Chang stood on the shore.
He stared intently at the departing figure.
Chi Jin's right hand clenched so tightly that his knuckles cracked.
"Young Master, how about we just admit defeat?" a servant whispered from behind.
"Shut up."
Tuoba Chang boarded the second bamboo raft.
His eyes had changed from shame and indignation to a resolute determination to gamble everything.
The bamboo raft pushed through the water and headed towards the center of the lake.
shore.
Yao Yuekong put away her folding fan.
He whispered to Xia Yiming, "The real showdown will be when each of us selects three stones from the top-tier stone garden."
Xia Yiming nodded as he watched the two bamboo rafts drift further and further away on the lake.
Behind him, the young nun Xia Yilin stood on tiptoe, clasped her hands together, and whispered, "Amitabha, what exactly is this fun thing that Benefactor Li Xian mentioned?"
A lake breeze blew by.
No one answered her.
And at this moment—
A dark shadow flashed past the stone shelf.
The man wore the gray robe of a servant of the Ji family's stone archway; his face was ordinary, but his eyes were as cold as iron.
Holding a black communication jade talisman in his hand, he whispered a sentence.
"No one came; everything was on him."
"9
The jade talisman shattered.
It turned into powder.