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Chapter 75 is also not out of the question.

"How ridiculous! Why should I play such a childish game with you?" Liu Zhidong said angrily. The person in front of him was clearly not a cultivator from a sect. Although he had also gained the ability to sense spiritual energy, his spiritual energy was thin, making him only slightly stronger than an ordinary person.

He never imagined that he would be played by such a person one day!
"You don't have to guess, you can just admit defeat." Chen Xuan shrugged.

The coin toss can be performed with any physical contact, and the other party has no right to refuse, making it a rare ability to win big with a small investment. Even a worldly woman like Fei Wu Niang can use the coin toss to reap huge profits, even causing casualties to the authorities during their attempts to capture her.

Liu Zhidong fell silent.

This spell looks like some kind of mantra, with an unreasonable coercive effect, but mantra spells can only use force against the weak; I've never heard of the weak controlling the strong.

Moreover, he could vaguely sense the powerful force behind this technique.

It was as if something was peering at him from the shadows through that empty eye.

Well, Liu Zhidong quickly calmed down. He had faced countless crises in the past, and countless enemies had tried to kill him, but in the end, he was still the one who stood firm.

Just then, the first coin was tossed.

Chen Xuan did not order the extra large hands to cover the area. He had the Divine Eye Technique, and so did his opponent. Essentially, it was a fair and open duel.

The moment he closed his palms, he saw three coins [all heads up], the first of which was a cheat coin.

That's right, he put a thousand coins into the coin pool in the very first game.

Unfortunately, luck wasn't on my side. Three heads was an unchangeable result. Even if I flipped the thousand coins over, two heads and one tail would still count as heads.

Both of them simultaneously announced "positive".

The betting agreement stipulated that the coin toss game was a losing proposition, therefore it was deemed invalid.

Then came the second round.

This time I'm lucky, the coin is [negative negative positive], I'm second in terms of winning 1000 coins!

After Liu Zhidong called out "backs", Chen Xuan immediately bet on "heads" and switched the thousand coins to the other side.

The result showed that the coins, which were originally arranged in a negative-negative-positive pattern, had suddenly become negative-positive-positive.

The score immediately became 1-0.

"Heh, interesting, but not much." Liu Zhidong snorted coldly. "I had already anticipated that this wasn't a trick based purely on luck... The less confident a person is in themselves, the more they like to rely on opportunism to win. Let's continue."

Chen Xuan showed no outward reaction, but inwardly he frowned slightly—he certainly hadn't forgotten how he had defeated Fei Wuniang, nor did he doubt that a few more rounds would allow her to find a way to cheat. However, Liu Zhidong's sarcastic attitude still took him somewhat by surprise, as if she had already figured out his cheating method.

It's important to know that Liu Zhidong didn't have a Lin Qing from the future to provide him with intelligence.

The third coin toss.

Just then, Liu Zhidong suddenly spoke up, "Why do you keep staring at one of the coins? The first time you looked at the first coin, the second time you looked at the second coin, and now you've turned to the third one."

Chen Xuan's heart skipped a beat. At this point, he was actually not focusing on the coins, but instead was distracted by staring at him?
"I don't know what you're talking about."

“You really don’t understand? That coin you’ve been focusing on should be a lead die, right? Because in the second round, I saw it land tails up at the end, and you glanced at it a couple more times while your fist was open.” Liu Zhidong said calmly, “So before the third round, I put a small mark on it. The mark indicated that it landed exactly in the last hand, which perfectly matched your furtive gaze.”

The mark? How was it added?
Chen Xuan did not notice anything unusual about Liu Zhidong's actions just now.

In his view, it is easy to distinguish which coin is the cheating coin, because for the ability holder, the two coins are different in color and shape, and the order can be known the moment they are tossed.

Just as the opponent had predicted, this time the ball landed in the number three position.

The coin's face is [positive, negative, positive].

“This time, I’m right,” Liu Zhidong said first.

He seemed very confident in his bet.

“Okay, then I’ll choose the reverse.” Chen Xuan said, turning the coin around to face the other side.

When you release your fist, the result is positive plus negative.

The second and third coins have both changed!
"It seems just as I thought..." Liu Zhidong raised the corners of his mouth. "Unfortunately, this spell doesn't seem to prevent me from using some tricks. If using lead dice is your secret to winning money, then you'd better watch out."

The score is now 1-1; one more mistake and the game will be over.

Liu Shuyue was also watching this gambling game—although she couldn't speak or control her body, all five senses were still present. When she saw Liu Zhidong win a round, she felt her heart almost stop beating.

If one were to activate the perception abilities of the Heavenly Cloud Technique, they would discover the presence of moving spiritual energy on the field—the Lesser Ghosts Moving Mountains Technique used by Liu Zhidong! This wasn't a technique from the Lotus Cloud Sect, but rather a frivolous art used by some independent cultivators. It could command several invisible lesser ghosts, ordering them to carry out simple commands from the caster, and was usually used by independent cultivators for supernatural feats. "Quickly, notice this!" Liu Shuyue shouted anxiously, using her inner energy to discern Liu Zhidong's scheme!
However, no matter how loudly she shouted, it couldn't reach Chen Xuan's ears.

What she didn't know was that Chen Xuan hadn't even equipped the Heavenly Glow Technique. The limit of four ability slots meant he couldn't use the entire shop's inventory as his combat setup.

Without the Heavenly Cloud Technique, he cannot detect his opponent's spiritual energy. If the opponent uses a method invisible to the naked eye, he will find it difficult to detect.

Chen Xuan was fully aware of this.

However, even if he couldn't see it, it didn't stop him from guessing that Liu Zhidong was using his abilities to interfere with the outcome.

“I must admit, your experience in gamblers is indeed quite extensive,” Chen Xuan said, watching the fourth coin toss. “However, gamblers all over the world don’t just prepare one heavy die. Can you guess correctly this time?”

Liu Zhidong's expression hardened slightly.

The coins that had been marked earlier did not appear in the hands of the three this time.

Has he changed his cheating method?

In the blink of an eye, the coin was in his palm, and the shape observed by the divine eye was [positive-negative-negative].

But that wasn't all. Chen Xuan summoned three Thousand Thoughts Swords and stabbed them into the fist right in front of the opponent, thus nailing the coin to its original position!

He stared into Liu Zhidong's scarlet spider eyes and said, word by word, "I, bet, right."

In Liu Zhidong's view, he was still in human form, and he sneered through Liu Shuyue's mouth, "Fine, fine, this is not bad either. It just means I have to play a couple more rounds with you."

As he spoke, he didn't forget to use the same trick again, sending the ethereal little ghost to move the coins. However, judging from the feedback of the Mountain Moving Technique, the coins were indeed nailed down, and the little ghost was powerless to do anything about them.

One of these must be used for cheating.

But which one exactly?
Liu Zhidong pretended to be thinking, but he already knew the answer in his heart—the new cheat coin was the second one.

His earlier open statement that he had marked the problematic coin was a ruse. Because he had imbued all three coins with his spiritual energy, he could immediately detect which coin the other party switched to. For example, right now… the coin he was clenching in the middle was the one that hadn't been used in the previous three rounds.

Whether the new cheating coin is made of leaded dice, a magnetic bowl, or double-sided dominoes is irrelevant.

Perhaps it can change the front and back patterns without flipping it over; perhaps it can deceive the naked eye, making it appear as if it's the back from a certain angle, but it's actually the front... But no matter how it changes, once it's done, the little devil can see it clearly.

Once he knew how Chen Xuan cheated, he naturally had many countermeasures to deal with him.

“Then I’ll bet on it too,” Liu Zhidong said after calculating.

If you get a draw first, then in the next round you can just sit back and wait for your opponent to fall into your trap.

The fists opened one by one.

The faces of the three coins were indeed positive, negative, and negative.

"2:2, the bet is over."

With a whisper from the underworld, the fists vanished, leaving only the large, swaying eye in the scene.

"Wait, why is it positive-negative-negative?" Liu Zhidong stared at Chen Xuan, his tone full of astonishment. "You didn't tamper with it?!"

"Because I only have one coin to cheat with." Chen Xuan sighed. There were only four coins in the coin pool. If he didn't use the special cheat coin, the rest would all be ordinary coins. "Now we're both going to die."

As soon as he finished speaking, two beams of lightning shot out from his eyes, hitting Chen Xuan and Liu Zhidong precisely!

In an instant, Chen Xuan felt as if he were being torn apart, and unimaginable pain rushed to his mind. Just then, he heard a crisp cracking sound, as if a mirror had suddenly shattered.

click-

After the sound echoed, the pain suddenly disappeared.

Everything just now felt like an illusion.

However, Liu Zhidong's situation was completely different. The black spider that was entangled with Liu Shuyue was trembling violently, with flashes of light occasionally shooting across its body, as if the lightning bolt from before was sweeping through his body, threatening to cut him into hundreds of pieces. The unbearable pain caused him to scream in agony, but his cries did not sound like human voices; they resembled the roars of some kind of animal.

Seeing Chen Xuan's composed demeanor, Liu Zhidong finally understood where the problem lay. However, his final anger wasn't directed at Chen Xuan, but rather at Liu Shuyue, where he roared, "You actually... you actually entrusted the art of destiny... to someone like this..."

Then, with a muffled bang, the spider exploded!
Dark, shadowy blood splattered across the ground along with chunks of flesh, but it quickly evaporated and disappeared like a wisp of smoke, and Liu Zhidong's roar abruptly ceased.

(End of this chapter)