74: Chapter 74 Which school is best for learning Origin Arts?

Before long, a purple herb landed in Yuan Pi's palm, with faint electric arcs flickering across it.

"It's a Thunder Herb, highly beneficial for those who Cultivate lightning-type techniques!" Someone immediately recognized the origin of the herb.

"Judging by market prices, this Thunder Herb is worth about eighty fangyuan!"

"That chaos original stone was priced at eighteen fangyuan. With just this one piece, Young Master Yuan earned sixty fangyuan. Isn't it too easy for the Yuan King to make money?"

"The Yuan Projection Technique is truly miraculous. It matches the items inside the chaos original stones perfectly!"

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Yuan Pi smiled lightly, clearly very satisfied with his own performance.

"Fellow Daoist Lin, it is your turn..."

Lin Bei's lips curled into a smile. "Very well!"

He casually picked one from his three chaos original stones.

"Wait!"

Just as Lin Bei was about to cut the stone, a voice rang out from the side, interrupting his action.

"Oh? Does Fellow Daoist Li have any advice?"

Li Jiuyou had previously been nearly squeezed out the door by a group of old men, and only managed to enter the stone garden with the help of a half-saint from the Yinyue Dynasty. It was he who spoke up to stop him now.

"Uh... that..." Li Jiuyou's expression was somewhat unnatural. "While Fellow Daoist Lin has not yet opened the stone, would you mind if I added a wager?"

"Damn! This prince of the Jiuli Imperial Dynasty is too shameless!"

As soon as the words fell, the old men watching broke into curses.

"Exactly! One side has already opened their stone, and he still wants to add a wager. I've never seen such a brazen and shameless person!"

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These old fellows were almost all with one foot in the grave, so they feared no one, and their insults grew increasingly harsh.

Yuan Pi was also somewhat speechless and looked at Li Jiuyou. "Brother Jiuyou, I'm afraid this isn't quite appropriate, is it?"

Li Jiuyou's face was awkward, wanting to cry but having no tears. Of course he knew this was shameful! But he had no choice!

He owed a massive external debt of ten thousand fangyuan, so he had to find ways to... get money!

He looked at Lin Bei apologetically. "Fellow Daoist Lin, I know this is somewhat underhanded, but this competition is decided by the total value of the items cut from three chaos original stones. Since only one has been opened so far, I believe there should still be an opportunity to add a wager!"

"To show my apology, I am willing to gamble with you at a ratio of two to three!"

As he spoke, he took out a Storage Pouch.

"There are six hundred fangyuan inside. If Your Excellency wins, feel free to take it. If Brother Yuan wins, you only need to give me four hundred fangyuan. What do you think?"

After Li Jiuyou finished speaking, he watched Lin Bei somewhat nervously. In his view, if the other party agreed, he would be shamelessly picking up money!

"Perhaps this guy is really foolishly overconfident and will agree?"

Lin Bei looked at Li Jiuyou with a strange expression. He swore that he really hadn't intended to scam this guy this time; it was purely the other party seeking it out himself.

Without a word, he raised his hand and took out another Storage Pouch, tossing it to the half-saint old man not far away.

After examining it, the half-saint old man looked at Li Jiuyou. "Prince, it is four hundred fangyuan!"

"Good! Fellow Daoist is indeed generous!" Li Jiuyou exclaimed, feeling exceptionally excited inside.

This fool actually agreed! Great! If there were more suckers like this, ten thousand fangyuan didn't seem like such a difficult task!

"No one else wants to add a wager, right?" Lin Bei scanned the circle. Everyone looked at each other.

Even if someone is foolish and rich, they can't be this stupid, right?

A few old men wanted to speak but hesitated, also wanting a share of the pie. In the end, they couldn't bring themselves to do it.

"Very well! Then I shall open the stone!" Seeing that no small fry took the bait, Lin Bei had no choice but to give up.

He sliced his blade into the chaos original stone. The same purple light appeared, accompanied by a thunderous roar. "Boom-crack!"

"What!" Yuan Pi was shocked. The watching old men immediately became excited.

"There really is something inside. This Lin Youcai is definitely not faking it; he must have some real skills!"

"But wasn't that chaos original stone checked by Yuan Pi's Golden Finger and showed no reaction?"

"If I say you're stupid, you really are stupid..."

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Yuan Pi stared intensely at Lin Bei as he cut the stone slice by slice. He naturally understood that neither the Golden Finger nor the Yuan Projection Technique were one hundred percent accurate. Especially when facing treasures with spiritual energy, they were very easily concealed.

"Boom-crack... Boom-crack... Boom-crack..." Every time Lin Bei's blade fell, there was a thunderous roar. Nine slashes in total!

After the nine thunderous roars, the chaos original stone had been completely cut open. What appeared was also a purple herb surrounded by electric arcs. It was just deeper in purple than the one Yuan Pi had cut, and the electric arcs were a different blue color.

"This is... the evolved form of the Thunder Herb, the Nine Heavens Thunder Herb! This is a Saint Herb!" The old men present were well-informed, and someone exclaimed.

However, just as he finished shouting, the purple herb landed in Lin Bei's palm, and with a gust of wind, it turned into ash.

"This..." The onlookers were stunned. The Jiuli Imperial Dynasty half-saint's gaze narrowed, and then he spoke leisurely.

"What a pity. This Saint Herb has existed for too long, and even the Chaos stone skin could not seal its essence from leaking away. By now, it has already been destroyed!"

"Those nine thunderous roars just now were its final act of resentment..."

Those old men sighed upon hearing this, only Yuan Pi revealed a look of joy. He wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Everyone, Seniors, since the item inside Fellow Daoist Lin's stone has been destroyed, it shouldn't count, right?"

"This... according to the rules of stone gambling, it indeed cannot count..."

Lin Bei's face darkened, no longer as calm and composed as before. "Fine, I accept it! Fellow Daoist Yuan, let's open the second stone!"

Yuan Pi didn't waste any more time and picked up the second stone; this was a chaos original stone worth fifty fangyuan.

As the stone skin was gradually peeled away, a fire-red crystal the size of a human head appeared before everyone's eyes.

"Oh my!" Immediately, one old man slapped his thigh wildly. "I wanted to buy this chaos original stone several times, but I hesitated!"

"Given the size of this Fire Source Crystal, it could be worth about a hundred fangyuan. If I had bought it, I could have made a net profit of fifty fangyuan!"

"Hehe... Old Man Li, this just means you don't have the luck! This kid from the Yuan Family is truly worthy of being the Yuan King; he never misses when he strikes!"

The Fire Source Crystal is a very volatile type of crystal, mainly used on the Desolate Ancient Continent to make Heaven-Shaking Thunder.

Yuan Pi carefully put away the Fire Source Crystal and looked at Lin Bei; the meaning was self-evident.

"Hmph!" Lin Bei snorted coldly and didn't waste any words. He took the second chaos original stone and began to cut it.

This time, there were no strange phenomena. What was cut out was a spirit fruit, but, it was rotten...

A group of old men were speechless. How does this guy seem like he came here specifically to collect junk?

Yuan Pi's mouth twitched, forcing himself to hold back his laughter. "Lin... Fellow Daoist Lin, I wonder where you learned your Yuan Techniques? Could it be that you were deceived by someone?"

"No... impossible!" Lin Bei was somewhat hysterical, appearing as if he had gone mad. "How could the techniques I learned at Lanxiang possibly have any problems!?"

He grabbed his third chaos original stone. "Yuan Pi, do you dare to add a wager with me again!?"