Chapter 85

"Are you really calling a single copper coin a heavy bet?" Xiuying crumpled the betting slip in her hand. She now realized that her previous feelings of being moved were all wrong. She had thought that this miserly man had really placed a heavy bet, but it turned out that this was just what he considered a heavy bet.

"Of course! This single copper coin is what I saved by eating frugally!" Bu Zheng said proudly, leaving Xiuying speechless for a moment.

With your eating habits, you call that frugal?

"Go and collect the money quickly, I'm waiting." Bu Zheng urged.

"Now I don't want to collect it anymore." Xiuying tilted her head, looking unhappy. Of course, she was unhappy. It was just a single copper coin. Even with the highest odds, it would still be calculated in copper coins. She was now an ordinary disciple, and even without doing anything, she earned ten taels of silver a month.

"Why? You just said you would help me." Bu Zheng was surprised.

"Don't you know that women are fickle? What I'm interested in now is the sword technique you've been practicing recently. I found it very useful. What's the name of that move, and where did you learn it?" Xiuying asked a series of questions, only now realizing how important these questions were.

"Which move?" Bu Zheng was puzzled. How could he know which move Xiuying was referring to, given that he had practiced many moves.

"The one you've been practicing all the time, over and over again." Xiuying gestured as she spoke.

"You mean this one?" Bu Zheng understood.

"Yes, that's the one. Do you know how powerful this sword technique is? When I used it, even though I wasn't very skilled, I could still defeat Liu Xinyan, and after that..." Xiuying nodded, speaking excitedly.

"Is this sword technique really that powerful?" Bu Zheng was very skeptical.

"Of course it is. But the power of this sword technique is proportional to one's strength. The stronger you are, the more powerful it becomes. On you, it's very weak and drains a lot of internal energy. But as a finishing move, it's very good!!" Xiuying nodded, still very excited.

So, it's like that. It's related to one's strength. But if I were stronger, I wouldn't be a miscellaneous disciple anymore. I would be an outer gate disciple, and the pay would be much higher. I could also earn money by doing tasks.

At this moment, Bu Zheng was just thinking of advancing one level, which was quite normal. Ordinary people usually advance one level at a time. Who would think of advancing three levels at once? Although advancing three levels is everyone's dream, a dream is just a dream.

"Do you want to learn it?" Bu Zheng smiled, looking at Xiuying in a despicable way.

"Yes!" Xiuying was still excited and didn't notice Bu Zheng's despicable look.

"If you want to learn it, go and collect my money. Be quick. I'll give you an hour. If you take more than an hour, then I'm sorry, this move will be out of your reach." Bu Zheng smiled, his smile despicable.

"Scoundrel, I... I'll do it!" Xiuying was very angry, but she knew that Bu Zheng could be stubborn. If she didn't agree to his conditions, she would have to spend more time dealing with him. So, it was simpler to just run the errand.

"Then hurry up, don't wait until I finish refining the pill before you come." Bu Zheng said directly.

"Fine, I'll go!" Xiuying said angrily and ran towards the market. It was impossible for her not to know this place, as everyone in the Qingyun Sword Sect knew about it, even Bu Zheng.

So, Bu Zheng calmly refined the pill and took out the array formation manual to continue studying. He had recently found the array formation increasingly interesting, and what he liked most was that the manual didn't require reading skills to study.

Bu Zheng thought that in the future, he might find a few more array formation manuals without text to study. Maybe he could become an array formation master and help people solve problems, and then he would be rich!

Time passed quickly, and after almost an hour, Xiuying ran back, out of breath...

"You... you..." Xiuying wanted to say something but couldn't.

"Did you collect the money?" Bu Zheng only cared about this.

"Collected... collected!" Xiuying replied.

"Give it to me!" Bu Zheng didn't let Xiuying continue speaking, he just wanted the money first.

Xiuying gave Bu Zheng a piece of broken silver and, after catching her breath, said, "What's wrong with you? The odds were one to one hundred. Why didn't you bet more? Even if you had bet ten copper coins, you would have won one tael of silver!!"

When Xiuying was exchanging the bet, she was a bit surprised and even questioned the gambling house owner, "Did you make a mistake?"

In the end, Xiuying realized that the odds were actually one to one hundred, which was terrifying. If he had bet more, he would have been rich.

Recalling that moment, the gambling house owner was still sighing...

"This one to one hundred is actually on the low side. The probability is so low, but we can't set the odds too high. One to one hundred is the limit. I didn't expect that little junior brother to win!" The gambling house owner remembered Bu Zheng clearly. No one else bet like him, and he lost the money willingly. The probability was just too low.

"..." Xiuying was speechless at the time, hating Bu Zheng for not placing a heavier bet.

"But the unlucky one was Bu Haifeng. He bet against the junior brother, putting down one hundred taels. Now those one hundred taels belong to me. Ha ha, a big win." The gambling house owner was probably happy about this. He only lost one tael of silver to Bu Zheng, but he won one hundred taels from Bu Haifeng.

"???" Xiuying didn't understand what the gambling house owner was saying.

"You must be Li Xiuying. You might not know, but at that time..." The gambling house owner explained the situation, and she finally understood.

Thinking about it, she still felt that Bu Zheng was too unambitious, only betting a single copper coin. Why not one tael of silver? No, even one tael of silver would have been fine!!

...

"What if you lose?" Bu Zheng said, and Xiuying had already guessed this. She knew Bu Zheng would say this. Bu Zheng didn't like gambling, thinking that money won was not earned through hard work and wouldn't be cherished, while money lost was his hard-earned money.

In Bu Zheng's words, using his hard-earned money to exchange for money that wouldn't be cherished was not worth it!!

"Alright, I've done what you asked. Can you teach me that sword technique now?" Xiuying started talking about the main issue. This was the foundation of her future strength.

"Sure, watch closely, I'll demonstrate it for you!" Bu Zheng used his finger as a sword and demonstrated in the pill-refining room. This was very different from when he practiced, not only slower but also more like the original sword technique.

Bu Zheng often modified the sword technique, so what Xiuying learned could be considered a different sword technique. Fortunately, this was the case, otherwise, with Xiuying's talent, it would have been difficult for her to use this move at this stage.