My Master Knows It All

501: Chapter 181: Frequent Appearances of Heavenly Pride_4 501: Chapter 181: Frequent Appearances of Heavenly Pride_4 “Who knows what strange habits Cao Zhen has.

I heard that the more profound a cultivator’s cultivation base is, the more likely they are to have some special quirks.”

As everyone was discussing, Cao Zhen had already arrived in Capital City with his disciples.

Since flying was not permitted in Capital City, they had to descend beforehand and enter the city on foot.

Although the Immortal Martial Competition was taking place, where immortals would fight each other, one could still hear many ordinary people discussing the event while walking in Capital City.

“The competition must have already started by now, right?”

“It’s been going on for a while.”

“Speaking of which, don’t you all want to see what the battles between immortals are actually like?

Aren’t you curious?”

“Curious, how could we not be?”

“Curious, then why don’t we go take a look together?”

“Go look at what?

Some have already gone to see, and what they found was that it was crowded everywhere.

Even the nearby hills were already occupied by those who came earlier.

We would have to climb to a very high place to see the dueling platform for their battles, but we wouldn’t be able to reach such a high place.”

“No need to go today.

Even if it is a battle of immortals, it probably won’t be very exciting at the beginning, much like our ordinary battles.

It will only get interesting after a few days when the weaker immortals are eliminated from the competition.

Then we can think of a way to climb the hill and watch the matches.”

“Forget it, I’ll go to the betting house first and study the odds.”

“I mainly want to place bets on the competition between immortals, but I don’t know how to do it.”

“What’s there to be afraid of?

Tongbao Gambling House has an introduction for immortals, followed by the betting odds.”

Listening to the conversations of people around him, Cao Zhen suddenly realized, betting—he could go and place bets!

He could bet on his own victory, what would the odds be like.

Right now, his own capital was indeed quite substantial.

He quickly turned his head and asked Yi Sheng in a low voice, “Tongbao Gambling House, it’s not owned by your family, is it?”

He had previously noticed in Capital City’s Immortal Market that a Tongbao Gambling House occupied a particularly large space.

However, if Tongbao Gambling House was owned by Yi Sheng’s family, he would switch to another house.

After all, it was his little disciple’s family’s establishment, he couldn’t possibly fleece his own people.

Yi Sheng honestly replied, “Master, Tongbao Gambling House is not ours, my father is the chairman of Xing Kui Business Association, and there is Xing Kui Betting Shop in Capital City.”

“That’s good then.” Cao Zhen turned back to look at Ling Xi and asked, “For our return this time, did we bring all our family fortunes, all our money?”

Ling Xi directly looked at Yi Sheng.

She was not particularly sensitive to money, so the monies of Four Treasures Peak were managed by Yi Sheng, who came from a family of merchants.

Yi Sheng quickly said, “Master, all the money is with me.

Since you never asked before, I did not mention it to you.”

“It’s good that it’s brought.” Cao Zhen turned back to look at his disciples and said, “You all go back and cultivate divine skills first.

Yi Sheng, carry the money with you and follow your master to Tongbao Gambling House.”

Little Bei Yan, looking at his little sister apprentice who quickly left with their master, had nothing but envy in his eyes.

Why wasn’t he the one following the master for a stroll?

He also wanted to see what Capital City was like.

Cao Zhen arrived at Tongbao Gambling House with Yi Sheng.

However, surprisingly, there weren’t many people inside Tongbao Gambling House at this time, and the people there all seemed to be cultivators.

Apart from the shop assistants and the shopkeeper, he didn’t see a single ordinary person.

Seemingly noticing Cao Zhen’s puzzled look, Yi Sheng explained softly, “Master, the large gambling houses in Capital City usually have two branches.

One is exclusively for ordinary people to place bets, using silver that ordinary people commonly use.

The other is exclusively for immortals to place bets with Spirit Stones or Spirit Crystals.”

“So that’s how it is.” Cao Zhen nodded in understanding.

Today, being the first day of the Immortal Martial Competition, most cultivators had probably gone to the dueling platforms, which explained why this betting house specifically for immortals was not very crowded.

There were even fewer customers here than shop assistants.

Inside the betting house, boards were hung up everywhere, each with the name of a cultivator.

Behind the names were listed different odds.

The number of participants in this Immortal Martial Competition was not small, and many of these names belonged to disciples who were unknown outside of their own Immortal Sects.

Thus, the betting house could not possibly list every participant’s name.

Cao Zhen looked at the names on each board and noticed that they also included their cultivation realms and even had a short remark added to them.

The first board had the name of Star Lord Hao Yue written on it.

“Star Lord Hao Yue, from Thousand Caves Door: [Ten Different Phenomena of Golden Elixir Great Perfection], reincarnated person of Great Ability!

First-place odds at one to one point five.”

Cao Zhen was momentarily stunned—such low odds.

The lower the odds, the more it indicated that the public was confident in him.

This one point five meant betting one to get one point five in return.

In other words, if you bet ten Spirit Stones on Star Lord Hao Yue coming first, and he indeed won first place, you would get fifteen Spirit Stones in return.

With so many individuals participating in the Immortal Martial Competition, it was uncertain if there were hidden masters capable of facing Star Lord Hao Yue.

That Tongbao Gambling House had set such high odds showed just how much they favored him.