Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 149: Qu Yuan loses his luck and picks up a big leak of purple information

Qu Yuan's old face flushed, and he fumbled all over his body, trying to find some more money for incense and offerings. Liu Qing couldn't bear to watch this anymore.

He advised, "God, let's just forget about it today, okay?"

Unexpectedly, Qu Yuan ignored Liu Qing's advice and thought that Liu Qing looked down upon him. He immediately shouted angrily, "How could I, a dignified fifth-rank god, be short of money?"

"Hey, that Black Iron Monster, can I take him down with one more hand?"

As he spoke, Qu Yuan stretched out his left hand towards the gambling table, grabbed it with his right hand and pulled it, and suddenly let out a muffled groan. When he looked at his left hand again, it had been torn off and thrown onto the gambling table, turning into an ingot of incense silver several feet high.

The reason why the God of Incense is called the God of Incense is because his entire body is transformed by the power of incense.

The incense and divine power that had escaped from Qu Yuan's body was used up, and he was left with only one set of clothes. He was concerned about his reputation and did not want to take off his clothes for silver, so he had to tear off one of his arms as incense silver.

Liu Qing shook his head with disdain in his eyes, really looking down on such gamblers.

"If we add this hand, it will indeed be enough, and there will be more. I, the little demon, will make the decision. I can let Master Lingguan choose two purple-skinned robbery stones!"

Qu Yuan was immediately overjoyed and said to Liu Qing, "Boy, you don't know that the probability of this purple-skinned robbery stone producing a stone embryo is as high as 99%, and the probability of producing a magic treasure or acquired spiritual treasure is almost half."

"It's just a hand. When the Dragon Boat Festival comes, I'll collect the incense and I'll be able to transform again."

"You can give up your hands, but you can't stop gambling on stones. Boy, watch me open your eyes and find a magical treasure!"

On the opposite side, Tie Wu wiped his mouth and took out more than ten purple-skinned calamity stones. Each of them was covered with a thick calamity aura of the Gods, and underneath this calamity aura, the spiritual charm could be vaguely seen.

Qu Yuan pointed at two of them with one hand, his eyes wide open, his hair and beard standing up: "Black Iron boy, open it for Master Lingguan!"

Tie Wu nodded, took out the two selected by Qu Yuan, and put the others back into his mouth bag.

The stone-skinned man Shi San handed over the magic saw. Tie Wu chose a place outside the robbery stone and began to saw carefully.

The mountain monsters and river monsters who were watching, as well as the several incense gods who had covered their faces, all held their breath and watched nervously.

Qu Yuan almost stuffed his head in front of the saw, and as the saw went up and down, he kept muttering: "Increase, increase, increase it for me!——"

The magic saw cut through the outer stone skin, and the murderous aura from the Conferred God period quickly dissipated, and a crack appeared.
Qu Yuan hurriedly released his spiritual sense to check.

"Damn it, it's actually a hollow egg!"

Qu Yuan suddenly jumped onto the gambling table and grabbed Tie Wu by the collar: "Little bastard, didn't you say that the probability of this purple-skinned robbery stone producing a stone embryo isn't 99%? Why is mine a hollow egg again!"

Although Tie Wu's eyes flashed with fear, he was not panicked: "Master Lingguan, you also said that the probability of this purple-skinned Jieshi producing a stone fetus is 99%. Who knows, you are that 1%..."

Qu Yuan paused, cursed again, his face turning blue and red, and it was a long time before he let go and went back in disappointment.

"I don't believe I'll be unlucky all day today. There's one more. Open it for me."

The result was another hollow egg.

"Well, Master Lingguan, a 1% hollow egg doesn't mean there's only one. You must understand this."

Tie Wu said cautiously, looking at Qu Yuan with pity in his eyes. What bad luck he had in gambling. Two purple-skinned robbery stones in a row turned out to be hollow eggs.

I wouldn't say it's a rare sight, but at least since I, Tie Wu, transformed into a demon and started working in this gambling den, I've never seen anyone with such bad luck.

He is a fifth-rank incense god, but I think he is the god of bad luck.

The onlookers, both large and small, as well as the incense gods who were hiding their whereabouts, all shook their heads when they saw this scene.

This Water Spirit Officer's luck is too bad. The probability of getting a hollow egg from a purple robbery stone is even lower than getting a spiritual treasure. Even with such a low probability, he still encountered it, and encountered it twice in a row.

Don’t be a water spirit officer anymore. Go back and change your job to the god of bad luck. You will surely become a god.

Qu Yuan's face was pale and he collapsed on the ground dejectedly. The light in his eyes had long gone out, his hair was disheveled, and he looked like a beggar on the street.

Liu Qing cursed inwardly, too lazy to look at him, and winked at Shui'er, asking Shui'er to help him out of the gambling den.

To prevent him from getting carried away again and cutting off his other hand or both feet to gamble.

Gambling dogs may hurt their bodies at best, or even ruin their families and die a miserable death.

Seeing Qu Yuan's miserable state, Liu Qing lost interest in seeing the world and pulled Hong Gu to leave the gambling den in Beizhongshan.

At this moment, the illusory intelligence treasure box in front of him suddenly trembled violently, and then burst into a dazzling golden light.

[Today's Intelligence: Purple Level. The stone waste on the gambling table that was opened by the Water Spirit Officer Qu Yuan is actually a fetus within a fetus, hiding a secret and a treasure.]

Oh?
A fetus within a fetus?

Liu Qing's eyes lit up and he looked back at the gambling table. Tie Wu had returned to the house and Shi San was back online. He was throwing the purple-skinned robbery stone that Qu Yuan had gambled with under the table as waste.

Liu Qing turned around and said to Shi San, "Excuse me, can you sell this scrap?"

The rules of the gambling den here are that gamblers cannot take away the waste materials from the robbery, but must take them back to fill the mines of Beizhong Mountain. Otherwise, if this continues for a long time, how can Beizhong Mountain still exist?

Shi San laughed and said, "Brother, are you looking for a bargain? Haha, there were other monsters like you before, who wanted to pick up some scraps that had been opened.
But let me warn you, brother, none of those who tried to get a bargain before have ever succeeded.”

"The so-called waste is what's been discarded after a hole was opened and the shielding killing aura dissipated, and the demon consciousness and divine sense carefully scanned it. Think about it, that fifth-rank spiritual official's divine sense is so powerful, how could he leave behind treasures for you to pick up?"

The other mountain and river monsters who hadn't left yet all laughed when they heard this: "Boy, this is your first time here, right?"

"That's right. If I had come here a few times, I wouldn't have thought of picking up scraps."

"Give up, Shi San is honest and honest. I didn't lie to you. There is no way there can be treasures among the waste."

Facing the monsters' shouting and laughter, Liu Qing remained silent, only looking at Shi San: "Brother, you misunderstood. It's not like I found a bargain. It's just that my wife has been cleaning up her cave recently and is short of stone. I saw that your purple stone is so gorgeous, so I planned to take it back to use as building materials."

Shi San suddenly understood: "Oh, I see. That makes sense. To be honest, the stones produced in our Beizhong Mountain are as hard as ordinary spiritual materials. They are most suitable for building cave dwellings."

"But, I can't give it away for free. For these two pieces of purple leather scraps, you, you have to give me one thousand taels of incense silver."

Who said Shi San was kind? This guy is clearly a very evil person.

Liu Qing used the excuse of taking it back to use as a brick, but the lion was still worried that someone might get it for nothing, so he asked for one thousand taels.

Liu Qing sneered and turned away. "One, two, three"

When Liu Qing turned to leave, silently counting to three in his mind, Shi San could no longer hold back: "Brother, go away. I was just joking with you. How can I ask you for a thousand taels for two stones? How about this, you can take five hundred taels."

Liu Qing said nothing and did not stop, pulling Hong Gu and continuing to walk out.

"Take the three hundred taels and consider it as making a friend?"

"Never mind, never mind. One hundred taels, one hundred taels of incense silver."

Hong Gu blinked, meaning that it was almost done, but Liu Qing smiled and continued to walk out.
When Liu Qing reached the gate and was about to step out of the gambling den, Shi San called out again, "Brother, we really can't talk any more. How about fifty taels?"

"Ten taels! Can you at least give some hard work money to our brothers who stayed in the mountains to dig stones?"

Liu Qing stopped and hesitated for a moment before coming back. He reluctantly took out ten taels of silver and took away the two pieces of purple-skinned stone waste.

Watching Liu Qing's departing figure, Shi San smiled innocently: "I met a fool and picked up ten taels of incense silver for nothing."

Liu Qing pulled Hong Gu out of the gambling den, took a few quick steps, and met Shui'er who was waiting outside. Then they came to the corner of the alley, let out a long sigh, and looked excited.

"I met a fool and picked up two treasures for nothing."

Before I traveled through time, I, Master Liu, was a frequent visitor to the town’s pedestrian street. Even the auntie selling clothes couldn’t fool me, let alone you, a guy with a stone head?
The hypocritical act just now was simply to conceal the truth from others, so that they wouldn't think they had really found a bargain and cause unnecessary trouble. Otherwise, let alone a hundred or a thousand taels, even if it was ten thousand or a hundred thousand taels, they would have taken it.

You know, for these two purple-skinned stones, the Lingguan Master Qu Yuan spent all his incense and divine power, plus one hand,

It has also been certified as a treasure box, and there are treasures hidden inside, so it is worth spending any amount of money on incense and money.

But now, Liu Qing only spent ten taels to get this purple-skinned robbery stone, which was really a big bargain.

At the corner of the alley, Qu Yuan, the spiritual official, slumped to the ground again, his back against the wall, his eyes dull, having not yet recovered from the blow.

Liu Qing felt quite embarrassed.

Qu Yuan spent a lot of money on gambling on stones, but I got lucky. If it weren't for Qu Yuan, even if I had the treasure box to remind me that there was a treasure in this purple-skinned stone, I would probably have spent hundreds of thousands of taels of incense silver.

Now that the treasure is in hand, the money for incense and offerings is saved because of Qu Yuan.

Master Lingguan Qu Yuan is such a good man, Liu Qing praised him in his heart, and now looking at Qu Yuan again, his face was full of gratitude.

Master Qu Yuan Lingguan has saved himself so much money, he can't be left here alone.

Liu Qing was a kind-hearted person. He then asked Shui'er to support Qu Yuan, and together they walked out of the City of No Return and then out of the River God Temple. Only then did he put him down and left with the others.

After getting a little further away, Shui'er's body twisted and transformed, revealing her true form. Liu Qing grabbed Hong Gu and rode on her.

"Xiaoqing, don't gamble anymore. Look at that old man Qu Yuan. He lost everything he had gambling away, and even his hands are gone."

"Don't worry, sister, I won't."

"Well, that's good. Gamblers are the worst. Not only do they harm themselves and others, but they also delay important matters. Before we went in, that old fellow said he wanted to buy a mount in the Dharma Realm. Look at him now. He's a pauper. Where would he get the money to buy one?"

"Don't worry, the Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon. It won't be long before people become rich again."

"Sister doesn't like this old guy, Xiaoqing, let's not eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival, right?"

"No, no, I don't care. I'll do as you say, sister. Let's eat noodles with臊子."

"Shui'er, run faster, let's go home."

Liu Qing was urging them to deliver the goods urgently. Hong Gu also guessed that there might be something hidden in the two pieces of purple leather scraps Liu Qing bought, so she also helped to urge them to deliver the goods.

The master and the mistress were urging him, but the water-avoiding golden-eyed beast Shui'er was very angry. He just roared, stepped on the waves when he met water, and flew into the air when he met mountains. He did not take any detours and ran straight towards the snake pond.

This time, it only took half the time to return to Snake Pond.

Liu Fu threw the spiritual treasure towards the crooked mulberry tree. The crooked mulberry tree stretched out a branch to catch it, and then released it to the top of the tree. The spiritual treasure, which was only the size of a palm, spun and grew bigger, as if it had built a nest on the crooked mulberry tree.

Liu Qing took Hong Gu's hand and stepped into the Liu Mansion.

The Water-avoiding Golden-Eyed Beast shuddered, transforming into the appearance of a pretty girl, sticking out her tongue and panting heavily: "Master, Madam, wait a minute—"

Liu Qing didn't have time to wait. As soon as he entered the spiritual treasure space, he took out two pieces of purple leather waste, summoned a stream of river water, turned it into the shape of a saw, and continued to saw along the opened cut.

Hong Gu looked at it curiously and couldn't help asking, "Xiao Qing, what kind of treasure do you think is hidden inside? Pills? Magic spells? Or spiritual treasures?"

"How about you make a bet, sister? If I guess wrong, I'll let you kiss me, and if I guess right, I'll let you kiss me?"

"Bah, gambling dog."

After a long while of hard work, Liu Qing finally sawed through the thick outer layer of stone skin, revealing the stone core inside.
The stone core was oval in shape and about the size of a washbasin. Liu Qing used a water saw to saw to one side, avoiding the center, and started sawing again.

"Xiaoqing, I used my spiritual sense to penetrate inside and took a look. It is indeed hollow. There is no treasure hidden inside."

Liu Qing smiled mysteriously: "That old man Qu Yuan also thinks so, sister. But, I can guarantee that there are treasures inside."

Hong Gu was full of disbelief, but seeing that Liu Qing was very certain, she could only frown in confusion and wait patiently.

Finally, the stone core was sawed open. Liu Qing stared at it carefully, but did not find any stone embryo.

Still not believing in evil, he sent out his demon consciousness to check, and it was the same. Liu Qing was completely confused. What the hell, was he fooled by the intelligence box?
Hong Gu rolled her eyes and said, "Hey, who was it that just now so confidently promised me there was a treasure?"

Liu Qing was a man of his word, so he offered his face and said, "I admit defeat, kiss you."

Hong Gu was not polite either. She reached out and hugged Liu Qing, and took the bet fiercely: "I'll teach you a lesson this time. Let's see if you dare to gamble next time, hum——"

Liu Qing brushed his cheek with his fingers, thinking back, "This shouldn't be the case."

Speaking of trust, the relationship between the time traveler and the cheater must be the best example. The intelligence treasure box has always been honest and simple, and would never lie to itself.
Could it be
Liu Qing suddenly turned his head and looked at the thick layer of stone skin that he had sawed off at the beginning.

The stone skin was all purple and three inches thick. Because the killing aura on it had not yet completely dissipated, both the demon consciousness and the divine consciousness were blocked and could not penetrate and observe it.
As time goes by, the murderous aura contained in the stone skin will slowly dissipate until it is completely gone, and the stone skin will also change from purple to the original color of the stone, so that it will no longer block the demon consciousness and divine consciousness.

The treasure mentioned in the intelligence box may be inside the stone skin.

(End of this chapter)