Fairyland Sunshine

Chapter 130 Bet
The meteorite from heaven was coming with such force that even the Taihe Society's Abyss Sea Force Array could not reduce it in the slightest.

But after breaking through the abyss, its momentum suddenly decreased, and the light gradually faded. The figure of the gambling Taoist appeared majestically in the eyes of everyone, and his loud shouts resounded in all directions.

"Gambling Taoist?" Fu Xixuan showed a strange look on his face and asked in a low voice: "Brother Taoist, what on earth is this?"

Xu Heng thought of the adventure on the boat in Yunhu Lake, and had some guesses in his mind about the reason why the gambler came, but he didn't know how to answer.

At this time, Nangong Yu came hurriedly, followed by Elder Taihe who was in charge of presiding over the Star Picking Platform. Xu Heng felt his gaze on him, as if he was sizing him up.

"Fellow Daoist Xu." Nangong Yu approached without even taking a breath, and asked, "Is that Zhenkong Great Immortal calling you?"

"Perhaps." Xu Heng responded, and then said to Fu Xixuan: "I don't know the truth either, but fellow Taoist, you can rest assured that Zhenkong Daxian should have no ill intentions."

Fu Xixuan was born in Pengxuan and had a wide range of knowledge. Naturally, he had some understanding of the reputation of this great immortal Zhenkong.

He knew that this immortal had never done evil to anyone while playing around in the human world... Actually, apart from the word "gambling", the Taoist gambler seemed to not care about anything else and had no interest in it at all.

That was why Fu Xixuan was extremely surprised when the gambler suddenly descended on a star, as if he was heading towards Xu Heng.

The meteorite was getting closer and closer, and its speed was slowing down, until it reached a point where it was almost stationary. The towering mountain range was completely visible to everyone, obliquely blocking half of the sky above the Star-Picking Platform.

"call--"

The gambler jumped down from the meteorite, his wide robe fluttering in the wind, and slowly landed on the Star-Picking Platform. His two large sleeves were naturally folded behind his back, truly exuding the bearing of a profound and majestic master.

Upon seeing this, Elder Taihe wanted to step forward and greet him, but he saw that the Taoist gambler said nothing and raised his head slightly. He suddenly felt that he was looking up to him, and thinking of the great Taoist attainments of this immortal, he paused for a moment.

Xu Heng had come into contact with the Taoist gambler before, and was familiar with the style of this great immortal. Seeing this, he took a step forward, saluted with both hands and said, "Junior Xu Heng, nice to meet you, great immortal."

The gambler nodded slightly and said, "No need to be polite, kid."

Xu Heng didn't care and just asked, "Did the Immortal come for me?"

“Hehe.” The gambling Taoist laughed and said, “Of course. If it wasn’t for you, why would I go to that barren void to bring this shabby meteorite back to you?”

"What?" When these words came out, not only were others surprised, but even Xu Heng, who had already made some guesses, was stunned.

Many of the words of the gambling Taoist surprised Xu Heng. He couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that the meteor shower this time was also caused by the Great Immortal's trick?"

"Hmm?" The gambling Taoist said, "Why would you do this? It's just to take advantage of the situation and save unnecessary effort."

"..." Xu Heng noticed from the words of the gambler that although he denied that the meteorite rain was caused by him, it seemed to reveal that as long as he wanted to do it, he could do so. He suddenly had some new understanding of the breadth of this magical power.

He calmed down and asked, "Then what is this meteorite..."

"Hmph." The gambling Taoist snorted: "I have cheated countless times in my life, but I never break my promise when it comes to betting."

"I lost the bet and owed the old Taoist three conditions. The old Taoist insisted on counting you as one, so I went to the Ninth Heaven to find this meteorite for you." He pointed at the huge rock that looked like a mountain above and said calmly, "This broken meteorite contains a Nine Yin True Evil, which is enough to help you condense the evil spirit..."

Xu Heng was slightly stunned. Since he left the mountain, he had not experienced any hardships, but he had already found a Nine Yin True Evil.

Even though that True Evil was not enough to be used as a Combined Evil, but by chance, it was transformed into nourishment for his own cultivation of the Tao body. It can be said that he had gained a lot. Now, with the help of high popularity, he actually had the Nine Yin True Evil right in front of him?
This is really... It was obtained without any effort. Xu Heng felt it was quite a dream.

However, as the gambler spoke, his expression became a little stiff. He looked from Xu Heng's head to his feet, and suddenly asked in a deep voice: "Boy, did you eat an elixir? Or did you swallow some kind of treasure?"

"How long has it been since I left the Heavenly Realm? How come your magical power has increased so much?"

"Huh?" Xu Heng's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly remembered that after his physical body had condensed into evil spirit, his magic power had increased by about one-fifth compared to its original value, and it had not yet reached a bottleneck.

He estimated that his magical power might eventually increase by nearly half. This was based on his already very solid foundation, and was by no means an ordinary amount.

Seeing that Xu Heng didn't answer, the gambling Taoist didn't take it to heart. He just looked gloomy and said to himself, "Oh no, this Nine Yin True Evil is not enough. I shouldn't have tried to save trouble that day. I should have brought back all the fragments of the star..."

"That woman, if we go back to look for her now, we won't lose her, will we?"

Xu Heng's eyelids twitched. He seemed to have caught something extraordinary from the words of the gambler. He said hurriedly, "Great Immortal has taken the trouble to find the Nine Yin True Evil to send me off. I am very grateful. The bet is now complete."

The growth of foundation and the improvement of magic power are certainly not bad things, but it also means that if Xu Heng wants to condense evil spirit, his demand for evil spirit has become even greater.

In fact, Xu Heng has been thinking about this matter a lot in recent days and has some ideas in his mind.

Although generally speaking, practitioners would not make this choice, but if it is really impossible, he can only give up seeking to condense the evil spirit in one breath, and instead find two places of similar quality of evil spirits, and complete the stage of condensing the evil spirit one by one.

Now that the gambling Taoist sent him a Nine Yin True Evil, half of his hard work had been saved. Xu Heng was not a greedy person, so he said this. However, he did not expect that the gambling Taoist would reject his words outright when he heard it: "No."

"I bet that it's unreasonable for a Taoist to only do half of what he promised."

"Take you to the sky to condense the evil? That's a bit troublesome..." The gambler looked thoughtful. With the magical power of this kid, he was considered powerful in the Xuanguan realm, but he was still a long way from surviving in the void. He couldn't take him to condense the evil and have to look after him all the time.

Thinking of this, the Taoist Gambler decisively rejected this idea, but another idea came to his mind, so he decisively asked: "Boy, casually exploring your skills is not what a master does. I only look at the nature of your magic power and choose the Nine Yin True Evil for you, but I don’t know…"

"Can the Xuanming Yinsha be compatible with your Taoism?"

"Xuan Ming Yin Sha?" Xu Heng said subconsciously: "Of course they are compatible."

"Good!" The gambling Taoist clapped his hands and laughed, "If you had said that earlier, it would be much simpler. I will take you to the Nine Netherworlds to find the Mysterious Dark Evil!"

Xu Heng suddenly felt something was wrong.

(End of this chapter)