Chapter 782: 567 Chapter Half Turn Head
Night Demon quietly pocketed half of the brick and then snapped his fingers, saying, "Yehun."
A middle-aged man with a composed expression immediately responded respectfully, "What are your orders, Young Master?"
"Did you see that item?" Night Demon gestured slightly.
Yehun followed the direction Night Demon had indicated and soon saw the half brick floating beside Li Qianluo. His expression turned to one of shock, "It's a sacred stone!"
He took a couple of steps closer in disbelief. After confirming it, he murmured, "This half of a sacred stone is actually with her!"
"It's like searching in vain only to find it where you least expect. We paid a heavy price in the Edge Corner Airspace to obtain this half of the sacred stone. We've been searching for so many years without a glimpse, and to think that this girl has it!" Night Demon squinted his eyes.
Remembering the past events, Yehun said, "Originally, a whole sacred stone broke into eight pieces, and we struggled so much just to snatch three of the tiny fragments. Did she manage to get the remaining five tiny pieces?"
The more Yehun thought about it, the more dissatisfied he became, saying, "She actually managed to collect five tiny fragments of the sacred stone!"
In his eyes, obtaining even a single small fragment was incredibly significant, and Li Qianluo having five was practically tantamount to showing off her wealth!
Night Demon coldly watched as Li Qianluo took out the sacred stone fragments, and said, "Go and test the waters, since she's brought this item out to gamble, she might not even know what it is."
"Yes, Young Master."
Yehun tried to maintain his composure, bowed slightly, and then vanished from the spot.
...
Li Qianluo was still cheerfully managing her gambling station, letting the bet items from others float in the air, recording each one.
Yehun had already arrived at the scene, his eyes briefly passing over that fragment of the sacred stone before quickly moving away and pretending to scan the other treasures that Li Qianluo had laid out.
"Fellow Daoist, do you see anything here that catches your eye? If you want to take something, you can bet an item of the same quality. Win, and it's yours," Li Qianluo asked.
"I'll have a look first."
Yehun examined some precious orifice transforming phase Beast Pills, his gaze lingering intently on a Demon Yin Beast's pill, seemingly very interested in this orifice transforming period Demon Yin Beast pill, deliberately avoiding looking at the broken brick.
"This is a fine item," Yehun remarked while looking at the Demon Yin Beast's pill.
Li Qianluo said cheerfully, "You should also know how powerful a Demon Yin Beast's pill is. Want to try your luck and bet with something of the same quality? I'll bet on Xiang Beifei winning."
"That's fine, I'll stake a Dazzling Lake Flower against your Demon Yin Beast's pill, betting on the Demon Tentacle Race's Elder Zhen winning," Yehun said promptly, taking out a purple-gold crystal flower.
"Same quality, both in the orifice transforming phase, alright! No problem."
After verifying the items, Li Qianluo snapped her fingers and a stream of Spiritual Power quickly spread out, connecting the Dazzling Lake Flower and the Demon Yin Beast in mid-air, while also stamping Yehun's aura imprint on them.
This way, if Elder Zhen won, Yehun would be able to directly take both the Dazzling Lake Flower and the Demon Yin Beast's pill. If Xiang Beifei won, then both items would belong to Li Qianluo.
After finishing, Yehun's gaze nonchalantly landed on the half brick and he inquired, "What's the story with this ordinary-looking broken stone? Are you gambling with it too?"
Li Qianluo spread her hands and said, "Picked it up on the roadside last time, a desolate beast at the Heavenly Connection stage was fiercely protecting it, so I thought it must be something good."
Yehun calmly asked, "What's its use then?"
"I have no idea," Li Qianluo said innocently and then tossed the half brick down, placing it carelessly on the ground.
—So she doesn't recognize its value! No wonder she's put this sacred stone fragment up for betting!
Yehun was inwardly cursing, utterly exasperated. This girl had no idea what the sacred stone meant, yet was casually displaying it like this, truly a waste of heaven's gifts!
"What quality of treasures are you planning to gamble with using that half broken brick?" Yehun asked.
"Of course, it's treasures from the Heavenly Connection late phase!" Li Qianluo declared cheerfully.
"Are you joking? You don't even know what it does and you dare gamble with Heavenly Connection late phase treasures?" Yehun pretended to be shocked.
"But since it was protected by a Heavenly Connection phase desolate beast, it must mean something, right?" Li Qianluo said earnestly.
"I guess no one will be interested then," Yehun laughed.
"No problem, if no one is interested, I'll just use it to prop up the table leg," Li Qianluo said nonchalantly.
Yehun's face twitched!
Prop up the table leg?
Are you kidding me? You're using such a precious sacred stone to prop up a table leg?
He was already cursing aloud in his heart!
But Yehun's face remained impassive. He looked at the half brick again, his gaze lingering reluctantly before moving away. Truth be told, in Yehun's eyes, the half brick was more valuable than any treasure of the Heavenly Connection late phase!
"How about this, I happen to be quite interested in strange and rare stones. How about I bet against this stone?" Yehun asked.
"No, each person here can only bet one item at a time, you've already made a bet, no more betting, that's the rule," Li Qianluo cheerfully refused.
Yehun wanted to say more, but Night Demon's voice resounded in his mind, "Come back."
"But she doesn't know the value..."
"Do not startle the snake by hitting the grass, she doesn't know the goods, we have plenty of opportunities, after all, everyone is trapped here, she can't escape," the Night Demon said.
Yehun suppressed his emotions unwillingly and then smiled, "Since that's the case, I won't disturb any further. I'll come to collect the Dazzling Lake Flower once the results are out."
"That depends on whether Zhen can defeat Xiang Beifei first!" Li Qianluo chuckled.
Without looking back, Yehun left, preparing to devise a long-term plan with the Night Demon.
Li Qianluo watched Yehun's retreating figure, grinned, and muttered to herself, "I finally know who has that other half of the sacred stone now."
Yehun thought Li Qianluo, this young girl, didn't know the goods, then he was too naive!
The Night Devil Sect sent Yehun to test Li Qianluo, little did they know that Li Qianluo was waiting for someone who knew the goods to come by, and thus determine who else had the other half of the sacred stone!
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The Demon Tentacle Race's Zhen and Xiang Beifei from the Congji Abyss, two masters of the Heavenly Connection realm, had a life-and-death duel, which almost all cultivators rushed to witness.
This was destined to be a spectacular battle!
When Xiang Beifei arrived on the scene, the split-headed man had been there for quite some time, watching Xiang Beifei with cold eyes.
"Quite gutsy to actually accept the challenge," the split-headed man sneered.
"Not bad."
Xiang Beifei looked at the split-headed man calmly, precisely speaking, he was observing the Heavenly Dao Laws the split-headed man was communicating with.
"Woof!" Xiaohei lifted his head next to them with a spirited look.
The split-headed man lowered his voice, sneering in a sound inaudible to others, "Xiang Beifei, do you really think I don't know your origins? From Congji Abyss, how ridiculous!"
"So what if you know? Do you want to tell all the cultivators here that I am of the Human Race?" Xiang Beifei retorted.
The split-headed man narrowed his eyes.
Was this guy so fearless?
"I know you dare not!" Xiang Beifei said.
"You think too highly of yourself!"
"Let me think, not only are you parasites coveting our Human Race's Dao embryo, but other tribes too. You all wouldn't divulge that I belong to the Human Race because you want to monopolize our Dao embryo, am I right?" Xiang Beifei said.
Only the Demon Tentacle Race had found Jiuzhou's location but always kept it a secret from the Yi Trib. Even the Moon God Race didn't know this time. They also wouldn't reveal that Xiang Beifei was of the Human Race, otherwise the Night Demon Tribe and the Moon God Race would intervene, and then obtaining Xiang Beifei's corpse would become very difficult.
The split-headed man's face darkened.
"You are very clever," he said.
"But clever humans do not live long," murderous intent shone in the split-headed man's eyes.
"That's hard to say."
Xiang Beifei remained very calm.
Swish!
A terrifying fluctuation suddenly lit up on the split-headed man's body, his body like a volcano, suddenly exploded with red light!
Hum!
Countless red tentacles rolled out, spreading outward from him, each of these tentacles immensely powerful, causing even the air to become stagnant!
"Such powerful tentacles!"
When the split-headed man revealed his true form, many cultivators were secretly shocked. The terrifying aura was no joke, capable of killing most of the cultivators present! Although they were already aware of the Demon Tentacle Race's ferocity, witnessing the split-headed man's action still left them extremely astonished.
"Fortunately, I was clever to join the Dawn Alliance led by the Demon Tentacle Races's Elder Zhen. With such tremendous power, he can definitely lead us out."
"Xiang Beifei from the Congji Abyss probably can't win this fight."
Many cultivators started discussing animatedly.
Shoo! Shoo! Shoo!
Thousands of red tentacles fiercely lashed out in the air, creating powerful ripples, making the entire void seem to twist, the dense tentacles like arrows, locked onto Xiang Beifei's aura, shooting towards him!
These tentacles were extremely formidable, their momentum far surpassing that of Jiao Yingguang. The target locked by the red tentacles couldn't move away at all!
Yet, Xiang Beifei simply calmly raised his head, watching the red tentacles coming from the sky, his black and white Spiritual Power subtly vibrated!
Hum!
A mysterious and vast aura circulated around him, the black and white Spiritual Power quickly transformed into a strange Eight Trigrams pattern under his feet, sinking into the air and forming an Eight Trigrams ripple around Xiang Beifei.
At that moment, the split-headed man suddenly furrowed his brow, then his eyes showed a hint of suspicion!
Because he somehow couldn't perceive Xiang Beifei's presence anymore!
To know that Xiang Beifei was clearly standing there, visible, yet seemed like an illusion. That wasn't the important part, the key was that his red tentacles, initially locked onto Xiang Beifei, lost their target as Xiang Beifei's aura disappeared, starting to become unstable!