Desolate Devouring Art

Chapter 511 - Turning Hostile

Pei Kun’s suggestion meant Liu Wuxie would have to gamble against him alone. No one else could join.

"I happen to have the same idea!" Liu Wuxie leaned back slightly, looking like an arrogant spoiled brat.

The youngest among the gamblers stood up. He had been disregarded ever since Pei Kun appeared. "Pei Kun, why are you excluding us from the game?"

"Young Master He, gambling for so long must have tired you out. I'll have someone prepare wine for you, so why don't you just spectate and enjoy the show for now?" Pei Kun politely replied.

Liu Wuxie glanced at the youth curiously.

His surname is He?

He wondered if the young man was a member of the Azure Mountain City’s He Clan.

The He Clan owned several aerial demonic beasts. Everyone had to rely on them to import goods.

Someone brought drinks and a hostess to Young Master He, finally making him give up. The others were then cleared out, allowed only to watch from the sidelines. Now, Liu Wuxie and Pei Kun were the only ones at the table.

"You have impressive skills. Why don't we take turns as the dealer and guess each other's roll?" Pei Kun proposed.

Each person would roll the dice for the other party to guess. The one who guessed correctly would win.

Liu Wuxie smiled mischievously. "Okay!"

"These dice are no longer usable. Bring a new set!" Pei Kun ordered.

Upon receiving a new set of dice and cups, he handed them to Liu Wuxie. "Please inspect them."

"No need. I trust you."

In truth, Liu Wuxie had already examined it with Ghost Eye. They hadn’t been tampered with.

Pei Kun planned to use his skills to defeat Liu Wuxie fair and square.

"As the host, I'll go first." Pei Kun grabbed the cup with his right hand and swiftly took the three dice. With a strange movement, the cup spun in the air, causing the three dice inside to collide.

The dice clashed loudly enough for the noise to echo throughout the second floor. Everyone held their breaths, fearing that they would interrupt the two.

Playing dice needed keen hearing. The slightest noise could affect their judgment.

When the cup was about to land, Pei Kun made the cup circle Liu Wuxie before returning it to his grip.

He placed his right hand on the table, smoothly finishing his dice shuffle.

"As expected of the Leopard Hand! Such impressive skills!" the people exclaimed in admiration, filling the room with praise.

"Please, have a guess!" Pei Kun said.

Liu Wuxie stretched his back and shoved all 32,000 spirit stones to the table. Without hesitation, he said, "One, two, and four!"

Pei Kun squinted, but his expression remained unchanged. He slowly opened the cup.

"One, two, and four! The kid is right!"

The crowd erupted into an uproar. Everyone paid attention to the dice shake earlier, and most of them guessed one, two, and three. Only Liu Wuxie managed to get it right.

"Your ears are quite sharp!" Pei Kun said. With a nod, he made an employee pay Liu Wuxie 32,000 spirit stones, doubling his earnings. 64,000 spirit stones were already quite large in Azure Mountain City.

"It's your turn now." Pei Kun handed the cup over and gestured at Liu Wuxie to proceed.

Hundreds of eyes fell on Liu Wuxie.

Chen Ruoyan looked worried. She wasn't afraid of Liu Wuxie losing. Millions of spirit stones, not to mention tens of thousands, were nothing to him. Rather, what she feared was the danger that he could attract. They were in the Teng Clan's territory. At this rate, they might refuse to let Liu Wuxie leave.

Liu Wuxie's primary objective in the Teng Clan's casino was to probe the situation and uncover the truth. He wanted to learn if the rumors were true that the Teng Clan's casino profited through dishonest means.

He casually picked up the cup and began shaking it. His method wasn't fancy like Pei Kun's or the dealer's; he simply shook it for a bit before placing it on the table.

"That's it?"

The spectators were speechless. Even if Liu Wuxie didn't know any dice-shaking tricks, he should at least perform. Why would he just casually shake it briefly before placing it on the table?

Liu Wuxie had already placed the cup on the table before everyone could understand.

"Time to guess!" Liu Wuxie gestured at Pei Kun to guess his numbers.

Meanwhile, the crowd began to murmur among themselves. Some of the seasoned gamblers even voiced their predictions.

"Two, two, five, nine points."

"I'm guessing two, two, and six."

There were various guesses, but strangely enough, everyone started their guesses with two twos. It was evident that many experts were in attendance.

Pei Kun glanced at Liu Wuxie's spirit stones. "I’ll match your 64,000 spirit stones. My guess is two, three, four, nine points!"

Liu Wuxie shrugged. "If I told you that even I don't know what the numbers are, would you all believe me?"

His words shocked the crowd. Although the people thought that it had to be a joke, Liu Wuxie didn’t look like he was joking around. After all, he didn’t need to know the numbers. He just had to make the dice collide in the cup.

Unlike the crowd, Pei Kun believed Liu Wuxie. After all, his eyes didn’t seem to be lying.

Liu Wuxie removed his right hand from the table and then turned to Chen Ruoyan. "You can open it for me!"

Chen Ruoyan extended her hand to the cup and lifted it. The people then gasped, realizing they had only gotten one right.

"Two, three, three, eight points!"

Pei Kun had lost. Liu Wuxie's spirit stones doubled to 128,000 spirit stones.

His earnings made many people envious. It was rare for someone to win over a hundred thousand spirit stones from the Teng Clan's casino.

Liu Wuxie pushed the cup over to Pei Kun. "Your turn!"

At that moment, a group surged out from the darkness and quietly closed some doors, making the spectators retreat immediately. They dared not stay on the second floor for even just another breath.

Liu Wuxie sneered a little. Pretending not to notice them, he leisurely scanned the surroundings instead. The second floor was emptied in seconds, leaving only a few people behind.

Pei Kun picked up the cup with a serious expression. Having a disdain for cheating, he still relied on his skills. He began shaking the cup for a full thirty breaths before slamming the cup back to the ground.

"Make your guess!" Pei Kun now looked pale. It had been many years since he last encountered a worthy opponent.

Liu Wuxie shoved all 128,000 spirit stones over. "Four, five, and one!"

Beads of sweat rolled down Pei Kun's forehead and onto the table. His right arm twitched like the woman before, but it was due to the rapid contraction of his muscles.

No one noticed this subtle movement except for Liu Wuxie.

"Very impressive!" Pei Kun exclaimed. He didn’t open the cup, but his words confirmed that Liu Wuxie had guessed correctly again.

"Thank you!"

Liu Wuxie remained calm, pretending to be unaware of the slowly approaching danger. Meanwhile, Pei Kun decided not to hand the cup and the dice over. After all, he no longer had to.

With this victory, Liu Wuxie had won over two hundred thousand spirit stones, pushing the Teng Clan's casino to its limit. Even if the casino could afford the payout, they naturally wouldn't let someone win such a large amount.

Two hundred thousand spirit stones were equivalent to their profit for an entire day. There was no way they would let Liu Wuxie leave with that many spirit stones.

However, Liu Wuxie couldn't care less about the spirit stones. After all, two hundred thousand was nothing to him. His objective was to probe the Teng Clan.

A group of people emerged from the shadows, and weapons clashing swiftly followed. With the second floor thrown into chaos, everyone immediately fled to the stairs in fear.

However, unlike the others, Young Master He just kept drinking his wine with a smile, ignoring everything in the surroundings.

Liu Wuxie's eyes turned cold. "Is the Teng Clan's casino incapable of taking a loss?"

He didn't expect the Teng Clan to already resort to violence, considering he had only won two hundred thousand spirit stones. He didn’t expect its casino to accumulate wealth in this manner either.

"Who sent you, brat?"

A few other clans also operated casinos in Azure Mountain City. Hence, they mistook Liu Wuxie for another clan’s agent. The Teng Clan itself had used such tactics over the years. The Jian Clan, which they had crushed, was one of their victims. All of their assets had fallen into the Teng Clan’s hands due to such underhanded strategies.

"The Teng Clan is planning to resort to violence?"

Having achieved his goal, Liu Wuxie now knew how the Teng Clan managed to crush the Jian Clan. This casino was so corrupted that everyone who came here would inevitably lose all their fortune.

Pei Kun glared at Liu Wuxie like a wolf. "Speak! Who sent you?! Tell us, and I’ll reconsider taking your life!"

It had been years since someone won against him in gambling. Not only did Liu Wuxie beat him, but he did it twice. Even the skills he was so proud of failed him.

There was only one explanation for this. Liu Wuxie was a gambling master with skills that surpassed even Pei Kun's.

"No one can stop me from leaving!"

Liu Wuxie stood up, alerting Chen Ruoyan. The people surrounding them were only in the True Core Realm. They could easily kill these weaklings with one hand.

However, Liu Wuxie didn't want to alarm the Teng Clan. After all, he was planning to be discrete at least until he had investigated the Jian Clan’s situation.

With tension filling the floor, a fight threatened to break out.

"You're the only person I’ve ever met who has the guts to cause the Teng Clan trouble. You won't be going anywhere today!" Pei Kun growled.

The combatants around them pounced on Liu Wuxie and Chen Ruoyan like tigers.

“You are merely courting death!” Liu Wuxie was enraged and disgusted by the Teng Clan's actions. He had visited many casinos in his previous life, but he had never been to one as dishonest as this one.