Chapter 0159 Don’t you care about the person you’re trying to extort money from?(1/2)
Xiao Ran and his master had only walked half a circle around Hupan Street when they encountered a lot of things.
The mysterious beggar, the persistent clay figurine, the wife cake that ate the wife in the coming year, and two geniuses of the headquarters who I don’t know whether they found them intentionally or met by chance.
Just after rejecting Tianjiao's dragon-hunting invitation, the master stepped on a stone before he could get far.
It may be said that the stone has lifted it up, it is just a piece of soil that is relatively old.
Worth a copper plate.
As a result, the stall owner wanted to charge one hundred spiritual stones.
The reason is very simple, this is a stall selling gambling stones, and each stone costs one hundred spirit stones.
Xiao Ran was no stranger to gambling on stones. He often saw it in urban literature when he read novels in his previous life.
Stone gambling is a term in the jewelry industry. It is a trading method of jadeite rough and has the nature of gambling.
When jadeite is mined, it is wrapped in a layer of weathered skin, so it is impossible to know whether it is good or bad. Only after it is cut can the quality of the jadeite be known.
Therefore, the transaction of jadeite rough stones with unified price and weight is called gambling stone.
Gambling on stones is like gambling on life.
If you win the bet, you will earn ten times or a hundred times your money, and you will become a rich man overnight.
If the bet fails, everything is lost.
In urban society, ordinary people cannot distinguish the minerals inside the rough stone without cutting it open with the naked eye or even scientific means, so the trading of rough stones has an element of gambling.
But in the world of cultivation, monks have spiritual consciousness and can penetrate into the original stone to observe and clearly see the mineral components inside. There are very few people who gamble on stones.
This was the first time Xiao Ran encountered a stone gambling stall since he traveled through time.
This aroused Xiao Ran's interest.
The owner of the stone gambling stall is a golden elixir monk, and he plays a big game.
On the yellow cloth flag that was erected, the general rules of stone gambling were written——
The raw stones come from the ruins of the ancient master's cave. Each rough stone has one hundred spiritual stones, no price limit, no limit on size.
For Mahayana monks and below, spiritual consciousness can be used at will, and there is no restriction on the selection of magic weapons.
Pay the money first, then choose the stone. Each stone is limited to one stick of incense.
Xiao Ran glanced at the pile of stones. There were thousands of broken black stones piled up into a hill.
It is indeed an ancient stone mine that was just unearthed. There is also a layer of oxidized black scorpion on the surface, which exudes a strong Mahayana forbidden atmosphere and vague spiritual power of animal bones.
The same applies to the clods of soil that were accidentally trampled by Master.
The breath of Mahayana prohibition is real.
This cannot be faked.
However, because the method of concluding the Mahayana prohibition is too advanced, once the spiritual consciousness penetrates, it will become disoriented, lose the ability to distinguish, and cannot locate the accurate source of spiritual pressure.
This seems very fake, as if it is a special effect attached to the Mahayana prohibition, something that an ancient Mahayana monk made in his spare time, or even a replica made by today's Mahayana monks.
Even Xiao Ran couldn't tell the difference for a while.
But upon closer inspection, he found that this animal bone vaguely echoed the dragon bone on his body.
Is there a dragon bone?
Xiao Ran opened the second-level resonance consciousness to look in, but he could only slowly look in a little bit. It was very time-consuming and he could not immediately determine whether there was a dragon bone.
But there are two things for sure -
First, judging from the extremely thin and single spiritual pressure of the animal bone, there is only one animal bone.
Second, the level of the animal bones may be so high that even Mahayana prohibitions cannot be completely hidden.
Xiao Ran guessed that the Mahayana ban was to hide the existence of the animal bones. Because it was too old and the stone was broken, the spiritual pressure of the animal bones was faintly revealed.
The stone comes from the same ruins.
The ban comes from the same person.
The animal bones are real.
What the powerful Mahayana men tried so hard to hide would not be ordinary animal bones, at least they would be the bones of mythical beasts.
But it is impossible to tell which stone the beast bone spiritual pressure comes from, what kind of beast bone it is, and what the level of the original beast is...
Only in this way can you have the fun of gambling.
However, Xiao Ran guessed that based on the golden elixir cultivation of the stall owner, he was probably just a second-level dealer and did not know whether there were valuable animal bones in these stones, so he only dared to offer a price of one hundred spiritual stones.
Because Xiao Ran's intuition is that the value of a certain animal bone is likely to exceed one hundred spirit stones multiplied by the total number of stones.
the other side.
Ling Zhouyue accidentally stepped on a clod of soil and was asked for a hundred spiritual stones, which made her laugh out loud.
Raising his hand to grab him, he grabbed the middle-aged stall owner in the Jindan Realm from a distance, pinched his neck and hung his feet in the air.
"Don't you care about the person you are extorting money from?"
The middle-aged man's throat was strangled and he couldn't make a sound, so he shouted from his belly——
"Do I dare to extort Senior Fengshen Fengshen's money? This stone is worth this price!"
Xiao Ran smiled, this guy was very tough on his words, and if you look closely, he seemed to be cheating.
These stones are very concealable, and the stall owner deliberately scattered them on the side of the road.
As a result, the mortals who had no money did not step on any of them. The higher their cultivation level, the more they stepped on.
After all, only the strong have money, who cares about a mere hundred spiritual stones?
If you hit the mark, some will give you money, and some will even pay attention to the stone betting transaction, so you can make more money.
Moreover, the city lord of Chaos City is in the city and attaches great importance to the business environment in the city. Even if a strong person has objections to stone gambling, he does not want to make a big deal out of a mere hundred spirit stones and alarm the city lord.
It's a pity that he met the master.
Ling Zhouyue held the stall owner up an inch away, drunkenly, curled her lips and said:
"You said you're not a liar, then find a valuable stone and let me take a look."
The stall owner couldn't find it himself, so he immediately changed the subject and said:
"Hitting people doesn't count. If you choose a valuable stone, a hundred spiritual stones will be taken away with you."
As soon as they heard about the beating, passers-by on the street looked over.
Who is this? How dare you hit people in Chaos City?
Ling Zhouyue didn't fall for the stall owner's trick either.
She is greedy for money, but she is not a gambler.
I only used gambling to fish for law enforcement and extort money, but today I was blackmailed.
If she didn't go back, would she still be called Ling Zhouyue?
"Forget it if you extort my money, you are also extorting the money of the common people. Today, I will do justice for heaven. I will report to the Taoist League and accuse you of illegal business. The tall woman behind is my junior sister. She was arrested by the Taoist League headquarters today.
If you don’t give me 10,000 spiritual stones, I’ll ask her to arrest her right away.”
As soon as they heard that the alliance was reported, the eyes of passers-by were different. Even if the stall owner was indeed cheating, they all stared at Ling Zhouyue with evil eyes.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! There is no way, the citizens of Chaos City hate the Dao Alliance the most.
After all, the other four major forces only have one Dao Alliance Teleportation Array built near each force, but there are four teleportation arrays around Chaos City. Once a conflict occurs, the Dao Alliance can directly send troops to encircle Chaos City.
The stall owner was a little confused.
"Why do you need money to do justice for heaven?"
When the passersby around heard this, they were in an uproar. They were amazed and almost cursed with insinuations.
Xiao Ran felt that the atmosphere was not right.
Originally, wherever I went with my master, I was treated like a hero, but it is not good to suddenly become a bad guy.
He immediately took out two hundred spiritual stones, put them in a brocade bag, and threw them onto the stone mountain.
"Here are two hundred spiritual stones, one hundred of which are worth the soil that Master stepped on, and the other hundred will buy you a stone."
Ling Zhouyue frowned, threw the stall owner onto the pile of rocks, and turned to scold Xiao Ran.
"Why are you so stupid? I saw this kind of trick a lot in the Dao League headquarters back then. There are no bones of mythical beasts. These stones are all fake!"
"Maybe it's true."
Xiao Ran smiled calmly.
The stall owner put away the spiritual stones, stood up from the stone pile, and returned to the small bench behind the stall to sit down.
"Little brother, you still have a good sense. I wish you will find the treasure at first glance, but you only have one stick of incense, so don't hesitate when you meet someone you are satisfied with."
Xiao Ran nodded.
To be continued...