Chapter 19: Odds of One to Twenty

Odds of one to twenty? That’s practically handing me the money!

“Third Brother, I’m going to make you rich!”

Lin Yaoyao pulled Lin Feiyuan into Tianyuan Casino and looked around. Senior Brother Fang Jun had the most cheers, and the most bets were placed on him.

She walked up to her own name and placed her bet. “Lin Yaoyao to advance. Two hundred thousand spirit stones.”

The clerk froze. Someone was betting on Lin Yaoyao?

“What, I can’t bet on myself?”

So it was Lin Yaoyao, the useless young miss of the Lin family, betting on herself. More money than sense.

The clerk glanced at her, went inside to ask someone, then came back and wrote out the receipt.

Lin Feiyuan never expected his younger sister to care more about face than he did. She was obviously handing over money for nothing.

“Yaoyao, you bet all your money! If you lose, you’ll lose face and money. That’s a double loss!”

Lin Yaoyao smiled, her eyes firm. “There’s no ‘if’!”

His inexplicable confidence gave Lin Feiyuan the urge to bet.

“Fifty thousand spirit stones on Lin Yaoyao to advance!”

The clerk sneered and wrote the receipt. Birds of a feather flock together. The Lin family didn’t have just one fool; they had a whole nest of them.

On the day of the academy assessment competition, Lin Yaoyao saw Murong Tian again. As always, he acted as if she didn’t exist.

Was Murong Tian blind?

She had waved at him so enthusiastically. Couldn’t he see her?

He didn’t even spare her a glance, leaving her one-woman show feeling awkward.

Lu Yan’er teased, “Yaoyao, why isn’t your fiancé acknowledging you?”

Lin Yaoyao gave a strained smile. “He’s a judge. Of course he has to avoid suspicion.”

The fiancé on stage ignored her, but someone else responded enthusiastically. Lin Xuanzhong sat in the VIP seats, waving at Lin Yaoyao.

The king always loves the princess the most!

A husband could never be as reliable as a father.

Lin Yaoyao pulled Lin Feiyuan’s arm to wave back at Lin Xuanzhong. With so many people watching, Lin Feiyuan was reluctant, but he couldn’t win against her. His smile looked worse than crying.

More people had come to watch the final round of the academy assessment than the previous two rounds combined. Everyone around them chattered, making the scene lively.

The moment True Person Li Qing, the academy head, appeared, everyone fell silent.

True Person Li Qing had already reached the Spirit Transformation stage, a god-like existence in the Tiandu Kingdom.

Elder Hong announced that the rules for the final round had been changed. It would be divided into two rounds. The first was a group battle. Falling down counted as elimination, and twenty people would be eliminated. The second round would be one-on-one arena matches.

Group battle?

Lin Yaoyao was secretly delighted. Her “fanning the flames,” using public opinion to pit the academy’s factions against one another, had worked better than she’d imagined.

Even the rules for the third round had been changed. An unexpected delight.

Lin Yaoyao gave Lin Feiyuan a look, and Gu Mingchun took the hint. Together with Lu Yan’er, the four of them huddled and whispered until the competition officially began.

In the three years since she had transmigrated, Lin Yaoyao had watched countless arena battles. She had never thought she would one day stand on the stage herself. It was a little nerve-wracking.

But she quickly adapted, because no one on the stage attacked her!

As soon as the group battle started, the earth and wood factions went at each other, and the fire and metal factions were locked in fierce combat.

Zhang Yu and Zhou Linyue became the focus of attack, drawing most of the fire. Nobody had time to bother with Lin Yaoyao and the other small fry.

“Fight! Fight them to the death! Hit him! Hit him!”

Lin Yaoyao wished she had some melon seeds to munch on while she enjoyed the show.

But she was still on the stage, so she had to put on a show. She and Gu Mingchun exchanged blows, but her eyes never left the other fight.

Gu Mingchun thrust his sword at her. Lin Yaoyao was distracted, her foot slipped, and she nearly ran into the blade. Luckily, Gu Mingchun pulled back in time and caught her.

“Miss Lin, are you all right?”

Lin Yaoyao was startled. If she had fallen, she would have been eliminated, and those 200,000 spirit stones would be gone.

“Thank you, Senior Brother Gu.”

She pulled herself together and focused on the sparring match with Gu Mingchun.

Not far away, Lin Feiyuan and Lu Yan’er went back and forth, the two coordinating perfectly.

This was the plan they had agreed on offstage: the four of them would fight one another until the elimination round ended.

The faction disciples were eliminated one after another. The group battle was about to end, and Lin Yaoyao was waiting to reap the rewards.

After Lin Yaoyao’s earlier distraction, Gu Mingchun only used 30 percent of his strength when fighting her. Lin Yaoyao gave a light push and parried the attack. Clang! Gu Mingchun’s sword fell to the ground.

What was going on? Lin Yaoyao was confused. She hadn’t used any force; she was only going through the motions.

It wasn’t her. Someone else had attacked Gu Mingchun.

Snapping back to attention, she saw an earth faction disciple had appeared at her side. The attack just now had come from him.

Gu Mingchun was a wood faction disciple, so it made sense for an earth faction disciple to target him.

Lin Yaoyao immediately moved to stand beside Gu Mingchun. The two exchanged a knowing nod and attacked the earth disciple together, one on each side, forcing him to retreat.

Finding an opening, Lin Yaoyao kicked him square in the chest. He crashed to the ground and was eliminated on the spot.

Wow, she was that strong? Lin Yaoyao was stunned.

Gu Mingchun was dumbfounded. He hadn’t expected Lin Yaoyao to have such strength. She was at least at the sixth level of Qi Refining.

Last time in the Trial Tower, she had been at the third level of Qi Refining. In just a few days, her cultivation had surged. This training speed was terrifying.

She was a genius among geniuses!

The rumor said Lin Yaoyao was a useless girl without spiritual roots. Could she have been deliberately hiding her ability?

“Senior Brother Gu, let’s continue!”

Seeing that Gu Mingchun was still spacing out, Lin Yaoyao reminded him that the group battle wasn’t over.

After an incense stick’s time, Elder Hong announced that those still standing on the stage had passed this round.

Twenty people remained on the stage. Many of the earth faction’s experts had been eliminated by Zhang Yu, and the metal faction had suffered heavy losses too. Zhou Linyue had fought off the crowd all by himself. He wasn’t eliminated, but he was badly injured.

The long-standing grudge between the factions had moved from the war of words to the arena. How could these disciples not give it everything?

In this group battle, the faction disciples had exhausted their spiritual energy, and each of them was hurt to some degree.

Only Lin Yaoyao and her group came through without a scratch, easily clearing the round.

“Yaoyao!” Lu Yan’er hugged her excitedly in celebration. Lin Feiyuan was also thrilled, never expecting they would pass this round without even realizing it.

“Senior Brother Gu, I saw you holding my sister during the battle. What’s the story between you two?”

Gu Mingchun panicked and waved his hands in denial, stuttering as he explained what had happened.

Lin Feiyuan was just teasing him. He hadn’t expected Gu Mingchun to take it so seriously, his ears turning red.

Lin Yaoyao shot Lin Feiyuan a glare. He always liked to pick on honest people.

“Third Brother, if your future brother-in-law hears you say that, you might lose your life!”

She pointed at Murong Tian in the stands to scare Lin Feiyuan, and unexpectedly locked eyes with him.

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