Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

"I didn't pick it."

"what?"

Ye Yuchan and Zhang Ruoxue were confused. Where did all these Pure World Ginseng come from if they hadn't picked them?

Yunping silently cracked open another peanut, his tone quite casual: "I thought that keeping this Pure World Ginseng might still be useful. I figured I could use it to research something someday. You know, research requires a lot of raw materials—"

"So I pulled out the roots and moved the ginseng tree away."

Ye Yuchan and Zhang Ruoxue: "..."

Their teacher is a real genius.

Back to the gambling table.

Duan Xingchen obtained another 400-year-old Pure World Ginseng, but this time she dared not blindly follow the trend again.

The people at the gambling table remained the same this time. Although some people almost emptied their pockets in the last round, they were only almost, not completely wiped out.

The situation is relatively stable. Currently, five people have placed bets, with three betting on small and two betting on big.

Finally, the female cultivator also placed a large bet, thus creating a stable situation with three people betting small and three people betting large.

That leaves only Duan Xingchen.

Should we bet on big or small?

Cold sweat slowly dripped down Duan Xingchen's forehead. Somewhat at a loss, she looked at Yun Ping again, trying to get a more accurate answer from him.

Yunping naturally noticed her gaze and glanced at the gambling table.

"One-on-one at eleven."

"Eleven... o'clock?"

Duan Xingchen was stunned. He thought to himself, "Why didn't this person bet on big or small? He just came up and gave me a number!"

But now, if she were to make the choice herself, she would feel that she would owe Yunping a lot if she lost.

Fine, I'll give it my all!

With a determined effort, Duan Xingchen pushed the Pure World Ginseng in front of him to eleven o'clock.

—They actually had a one-on-one match at 11 o'clock!

The demon girl frowned. She had bet on small, and if the result was eleven, she would still make a profit.

But the question is, is it really possible?

Was it a coincidence that he guessed the exact score on his first blackjack game, or...?

The moment to witness the answer has arrived.

The sound of dice rattling echoed in my ears, an array appeared, and the pitch-black dice cylinder shook continuously.

Then slowly, slowly, things returned to calm.

Everyone involuntarily held their breath at that moment.

The dice cup rose, revealing six dice placed in the center of the dim array.

One o'clock, four o'clock, one o'clock, one o'clock, two o'clock...

And two points.

It was still exactly the same, not too much, not too little, and still incredibly precise.

The skinny boss's icy gaze fell upon the young man in white, who wore a faint smile and sipped his wine, his tone utterly cold.

"Eleven o'clock."

The duel was a success.

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I've been a bit lazy lately...

Or perhaps I'm just a bit tired...

I feel like I need to take a break for a while.

Ugh.

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The odds for a straight 11-point bet are 4 to 1.

In other words, Duan Xingchen's bet this time is on a 400-year-old Pure World Ginseng, worth eight chips.

After the one-on-one match was won, the skinny boss threw out a full thirty-two chips, which were neatly arranged in front of Duan Xingchen.

They were three stacks of pale gold round chips, with unknown symbols and characters engraved on them. Apart from their appearance being slightly different from gold coins, they didn't look special.

This...this is it?

Duan Xingchen suspected that something was wrong with her head or eyes. She rubbed her eyes and shook her head a couple of times, but what she saw in front of her was still the exact eleven o'clock.

If the previous blackjack match was just an unexpected coincidence, then this successful 11-point match can no longer be explained by mere coincidence.

When the probability of a coincidence occurring is so low as to be close to zero, it can almost be judged as—

There's something inside.

So the question is, what's going on here?

The demon girl's astonished gaze swept over Yun Ping. She had won back some of the chips she had lost earlier because she had bet on the small bet, but at this moment her focus was not on the bet, but on this man.

Two incredibly accurate predictions—that's something most people can't do.

Before she left, she had heard from an elder of the demon race that some people who were extremely skilled in gambling could cheat without anyone noticing. Could it be that this man in front of her was also...?

In an instant, countless astonished gazes converged on Yun Ping, while the person who had suddenly become the focus of attention continued to drink his wine, his legs propped up on the gambling table without any intention of putting them down.

"It really is eleven o'clock. You could win by guessing anything."

Guess?

The demon girl couldn't help but sneer inwardly—she was still trying to bluff. The first time could indeed be explained away by guessing, but what about the second time?

Why don't you let someone else try to guess?

It's obvious that this guy is definitely—

"You cheated, didn't you?!"

A young demon suddenly stood up from his chair, glaring angrily at the young man in white.

Just now, he had bet almost all of his remaining chips on the big bet, gambling on whether he could turn things around in the final wave. When Yunping casually mentioned a one-on-one eleven-point game, he didn't take it seriously, but he didn't expect that the guy would actually win.

This made him suspect that Yunping was cheating, causing him to lose his last chance to turn the tables!

On that jet-black skin, so unlike any human's, the rugged features were almost twisted into a ball of rage, and the pair of scarlet eyes on that ferocious face were glaring desperately at Yun Ping, while the explosive muscles all over his body were throbbing incessantly.

Spiritual energy slowly dissipated from his body, clearly indicating that he was burning with rage and about to attack Yun Ping.

Yunping didn't even glance at him, and simply asked calmly, "How did you figure out I cheated?"

"If you weren't cheating, how the hell could you guess the dice rolls correctly twice in a row?!"

The moment this demon opened his mouth, his overwhelming aura of rage swept across the entire manor.

"I was just lucky." Yunping waved his hand and popped a peanut into his mouth. "I have no interest in studying such meaningless things as cheating."

The demon youth frowned angrily and took a step forward, causing the ground to tremble slightly. "I don't care if you're interested in researching it or not. If you dare to cheat, you'd better be prepared!"

Clearly, he was going to make a move against Yunping.

I'll teach this bastard a lesson with my own fists for daring to take away my last hope through unfair means!

However, before that, a cold voice came from beside the demon youth's ear—

"I don't think he cheated."

At this moment, the demon girl who suddenly stood up to speak for Yunping obviously caught the attention of the demon youth.

He twisted his neck, making a terrifying cracking sound, grinned, revealing his horrifying fangs, and turned to stare at the demon girl: "Demon girl, dare you say that again?"

“I said he didn’t cheat.”

The demon girl was not afraid of the so-called demonic pressure at all. She stared at the big guy in front of her with a calm expression, her eyes as cold and icy as a storm in the winter night.

The demon was terrified by her gaze and instinctively took a step back, but was quickly overcome by the rage rising within him, and roared:

"What makes you think he didn't cheat?! I saw you bet on small and made a profit. You're probably in cahoots with him, aren't you?"

“I’m not on his side, I’m just stating the facts.”

The demon girl gave Yun Ping a meaningful look, seemingly wanting a response from him, but Yun Ping seemed not to hear her at all, still looking like he was watching a show.

She bit her lip lightly, looked away from Yun Ping, and said calmly, "He has no spiritual energy in his body, and he didn't release any spiritual energy when he was rolling the dice. Moreover, he doesn't have any magic artifacts or formations on him. He's a complete nobody. The formation's operation wasn't disturbed either. I don't think he has any chance of cheating."

"Just because you don't think he cheated doesn't mean he didn't!" The demon continued to relentlessly pursue Yun Ping, his crimson eyes filled with hatred and a murderous intent that seemed to want to tear Yun Ping to shreds. "Otherwise, how do you explain that he guessed the dice correctly twice in a row?!"

"This……"

It can't be explained.

Even the demon girl who wanted to speak up for Yunping couldn't explain this problem.

Yes, this is truly absurd and unscientific.

No matter who it is, anyone who has ever sat at a gambling table, even someone like Duan Xingchen who has only recently started gambling, knows how low the odds are.

They couldn't think of any other possibility besides cheating.

Did Yunping really cheat?

"Shut up, all of you."

As the owner of this manor and one of the owners of the Fat and Thin Casinos, the Thin Boss roared angrily with an extremely gloomy expression.

These three words were like a command from the heavens. Both the demon girl and the demon youth, who had been facing off, suddenly shut their mouths and fell into complete silence.

Looking at the quiet gambling table, the skinny boss stared at Yun Ping with a complicated expression, then put an end to this farce.

“If he really cheated, I will throw him out of here because he broke our rules.”