"Scram!"
That was the only word Ye Yunfei gave them.
Young Master Liu's face darkened immediately. Given his status and position within the Beihuang Domain, only the peerless geniuses from the four major powers—the Tianxuan Sacred Land, the Jiuhua Sacred Land, the Li Clan, and the Heavenly Dao Academy—were worthy of making him wary.
Every other member of the younger generation martial artists were not worth a second glance in his eyes!
"Kid, you're looking for death!" The two attendants were infuriated, moving to charge towards Ye Yunfei from left and right, preparing to attack.
"Whoever dares to cause trouble in the Dahuang Stone Field will be immediately ejected!" A sharp shout rang out from an elder who had been meditating motionlessly in a corner of the courtyard.
The two attendants were startled and stopped in their tracks. Rumors said the Dahuang Stone Field was backed by a very powerful faction that few dared to provoke.
"Don't act out here," Young Master Liu cautioned his two underlings quietly.
"Kid, do you know Stone Gambling? How about this, we'll have a match. The stakes are one hundred thousand top-grade Spirit Crystals. What do you say?" Young Master Liu looked down at Ye Yunfei with a superior gaze.
"Hehe... Kid, do you even have one hundred thousand top-grade Spirit Crystals? If not, then get lost now and don't embarrass yourself here," one of the attendants mocked.
"We'll each pick one stone, and see whose stone yields something of greater value. The loser immediately gets the hell out. Of course, if you can't come up with the hundred thousand top-grade Spirit Crystals, you'll scram too," Young Master Liu declared. He had his eyes on Hu Miao!
"One hundred thousand top-grade Spirit Crystals? Fine, I'll take that bet," Ye Yunfei thought for a moment, then nodded. He had just experimented with the Stone Appraisal Art and was feeling confident. Money delivered to his doorstep was not something Ye Yunfei would ever refuse.
Besides, he had long stopped treating Hu Miao as a slave.
"Good! This is the hundred thousand top-grade Spirit Crystals." Young Master Liu flicked his finger, and a spatial ring flew out.
Ye Yunfei also flicked his finger, sending out a spatial ring of his own.
The confrontation between Ye Yunfei and Young Master Liu had long since attracted a crowd.
"Both rings contain one hundred thousand top-grade Spirit Crystals. The count is correct," an elder with white hair confirmed.
"Humph! Gu Lao, go and pick a stone. Remember, you can't lose to this kid," Young Master Liu snorted coldly. He had thought it would be difficult for Ye Yunfei to produce one hundred thousand top-grade Spirit Crystals and was surprised when Ye Yunfei casually did so.
"Alright. Young master, rest assured. This old man has studied stone materials for some years now, how could I possibly lose to a junior like him?" The yellow-robed elder beside Young Master Liu said, casting a somewhat disdainful glance at Ye Yunfei.
Next, Ye Yunfei and the yellow-robed elder began selecting their stones.
Everyone else in the courtyard had been drawn over to watch.
Such direct wagers were very common within a stone gambling field.
"I choose this one." Ye Yunfei quickly made his selection, pointing to an old stone placed by the lakeside. It seemed to have been there for quite some time, covered in dust.
Ye Yunfei had discovered that within this stone, wisps of over ten types of profound laws were intermittently leaking out!
In fact, before his rebirth, Ye Yunfei had frequented stone gambling fields. Given his status and position back then, the fields he entered were undoubtedly the highest-level gambling venues in the world, far beyond what the Dahuang Stone Field could ever hope to compare with.
'A stone bearing laws is never ordinary!'
Ye Yunfei recalled this saying and thus settled on this stone.
Simultaneously, Ye Yunfei also employed the Stone Appraisal Art to inspect the stone, seeing a radiant haze soaring skywards, dyeing almost the entire courtyard red.
"This stone material costs ten thousand top-grade Spirit Crystals," the elder meditating in the courtyard corner announced expressionlessly.
Ye Yunfei flicked his finger, sending a spatial ring flying before the elder.
"This stone material now belongs to you," the elder checked the ring and said with an impassive face.
"Hahaha... Kid, so you really don't know Stone Gambling! You actually picked a Ghost-Gnawed Stone! Look everyone, this stone is covered in dust, clearly having been placed here for a long time, which means no one has ever favored it. More importantly, this stone is misshapen like a defective fruit, full of pits and hollows. It has clearly been gnawed by the legendary Stone Ghost! Even if there were treasures inside, the vital essence would have long drained away!" The yellow-robed elder looked at the stone Ye Yunfei had chosen and burst into laughter on the spot.
"Indeed! It really is a Ghost-Gnawed Stone. Young man, it seems you know nothing at all, randomly picking stones. You've taken a big loss this time," an elderly man with white hair nearby sighed and shook his head.
Many others around them also shook their heads.
"Kid, as I said before, whoever loses must *scram* out, not walk. Pay attention! And if you lose, you will no longer restrict her freedom or be her master!" Young Master Liu fanned himself with his folding fan, staring at Ye Yunfei with a cold sneer.
"Agreed," Ye Yunfei replied blandly.
'A stone bearing laws is never ordinary!' Recalling this ironclad rule of the Stone Gambling world, Ye Yunfei felt settled.
Of course, average people could hardly tell whether a stone contained trace laws or not. Only true Stone Gambling masters, or those top experts who had already begun to comprehend the laws of heaven and earth, had a chance to see them.
Having once been a Heavenly Emperor, Ye Yunfei was naturally familiar with the myriad laws of the world and could perceive them.
"I've chosen as well. This one!" The yellow-robed elder pointed to a stone.
The stone was a good half-meter tall, appearing very heavy. Its shape resembled a crouching dragon, exuding a sense of gravitas and an aura of archaic simplicity.
"That stone is worth forty thousand top-grade Spirit Crystals!"
"That stone will definitely yield a treasure; the only question is its value," the other martial artists in the courtyard nodded slightly.
It was clear the yellow-robed elder truly had studied Stone Gambling. His experience was seasoned, and his selected stone was indeed extraordinary.
"I request the stone-splitting master perform the live dissection!" the yellow-robed elder announced loudly.
Soon, an old man wearing a short padded jacket, with arms so long they reached past his knees, came forward. He was the stone-splitting master of this field.
"Mine first," the yellow-robed elder urged eagerly.
Thus, the stone-splitting master placed the yellow-robed elder's selected stone on a stone table, wielding a splitting knife. The blade danced like a snake through the stone material, peeling away the outer crust bit by bit.
"What a huge piece of top-grade Spirit Crystal! And it's the extremely rare Purple Crystal!" The stone-splitting master exclaimed in wonder before long. A purple glow blossomed from within the stone, revealing a purple Spirit Crystal so flawless it seemed made of pure, crystalline light.
"This top-grade Purple Crystal is exceptionally clean and very rare. It could even be used in alchemy. It's worth at least three hundred thousand top-grade Spirit Crystals," the stone-splitting master said.
"Haha... well done, Gu Lao!" Young Master Liu laughed heartily.
"Kid, prepare to roll on out! Rest assured, when you roll out later, I will definitely record it with a crystal stone projection. I can even make a copy for you."
"Beautiful lady, see? This is power. I advise you to follow my young master from now on. This is an opportunity countless women throughout the entire Beihuang Domain could only dream of obtaining!" Young Master Liu's underlings all burst into arrogant laughter.
"Now, please open my stone," Ye Yunfei said calmly, with an unchanged expression, addressing the stone-splitting master.
"Honestly, I think the Ghost-Gnawed Stone you picked doesn't need to be opened. It would only be a humiliation," Young Master Liu fanned himself leisurely, wearing an expression of certain victory.
So, the stone-splitting master began dissecting Ye Yunfei's stone.
Honglonglong!
As soon as a corner of the stone was opened, a torrent of radiant haze erupted towards the sky, accompanied by a rumbling, tidal wave-like sound that shook the entire courtyard.
"Treasure revealed!" Everyone exclaimed in shock.
Everyone knew the more astonishing the phenomenon, the more valuable the treasure hidden within the stone!
"Impossible! How could this be?! That's clearly a Ghost-Gnawed Stone! Why would it produce such a shocking phenomenon!" Young Master Liu and the yellow-robed elder were furious, gnashing their teeth, their faces twisting with rage.