Chapter 80: The New Gamble

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Walking into the cafeteria, it was indeed as Yuwen Tuo had expected. Dai Huabin's group was arguing with Huo Yuhao.

Although they hadn't developed a grudge during the freshman tournament, later, due to Huo Yuhao running for class president, Dai Huabin was forced to leave Class One. Though publicly he claimed to have voluntarily applied for a class transfer, everyone knew he had actually been expelled by Zhou Yi. And the cause of this incident was Huo Yuhao. With Dai Huabin's personality, how could he endure such a great humiliation?

A fierce conflict arose between the two sides. Although Huo Yuhao had obtained his second Martial Soul, it was unfortunately just an ordinary Ice Jade Scorpion, and he no longer had a four-hundred-thousand-year soul ring. How could he possibly contend with Dai Huabin? Teaming up with Xiong Gang, he was still sent flying by Dai Huabin's single palm strike. He was lucky enough to be saved by Wang Dong, but Xiong Gang was rather unfortunate, flying directly out of the cafeteria.

Wang Dong angrily wanted to intervene but was stopped by Huo Yuhao with a wave of his hand. He then looked at Dai Huabin and said, "Dai Huabin, if you want to fight, let's go to the Soul Dueling Arena. Fighting here is against school rules."

After a brief moment of anger, Dai Huabin quickly regained his composure and said coldly, "Huo Yuhao, you are not qualified to fight me in the Soul Dueling Arena. How about this: the promotion assessment is about to begin. Do you dare to make a bet?"

Huo Yuhao asked, "Bet on what?"

Dai Huabin said gravely, "Let's bet on the scores of your team of three versus our team of three in the promotion assessment."

"And the stakes?" Wang Dong asked imposingly.

"If you lose, I want Huo Yuhao to kowtow and admit his mistake in front of me, and publicly admit that he was overreaching himself by becoming the class president of Class One," Dai Huabin said. Since Huo Yuhao was no longer the freshman tournament champion, Dai Huabin naturally wouldn't ask them to bet their championship prize. He just wanted to thoroughly humiliate this great class president.

Huo Yuhao might back down against anyone else, but never against Dai Huabin, because this person was one of the main culprits responsible for his mother's death.

"Alright, a bet it is!" Wang Dong was even more impulsive than Huo Yuhao, but that also stemmed from her confidence. She had also advanced to three rings now, although her rank was slightly lower than Dai Huabin's. But being a Soul Elder, her soul ring configuration was extraordinary; among all the freshmen, only Yuwen Tuo could match her. She was confident she would absolutely not lose to this Dai Huabin.

"A bet, huh? I love those. I wonder if I can join in?" Yuwen Tuo walked in, carrying Xiong Gang, and tossed him towards Huo Yuhao's position, saying, "Here you go."

Huo Yuhao caught his teammate and found he wasn't seriously injured. The impact from being sent flying just now must have been largely absorbed by Yuwen Tuo, preventing him from suffering severe injuries. Huo Yuhao couldn't help but say gratefully, "Thank you. However, this is a grudge between me and Dai Huabin. Why does Student Yuwen want to intervene?"

Yuwen Tuo said, "I naturally have no interest in your grudges, but I'm naturally fond of gambling. You should have heard, right? The first time I gambled was by intervening in the soul duel between Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi, winning two Profound Water Pills and three million gold soul coins. The second time was your battle with Wu Feng, and I won another hundred thousand gold soul coins. I find I seem to have the potential to become a God of Gamblers; I've become fascinated with this feeling of winning every bet."

"Winning every bet? Hehe, Yuwen Tuo, you're far too arrogant. Since you want to bet, I'll include you. However, your stakes are different. I want the freshman tournament championship reward you obtained!" Dai Huabin said opportunistically.

He also had an old grudge with Yuwen Tuo. Since Yuwen Tuo had delivered himself to his doorstep, he naturally wouldn't let him go. Although he knew he was no match for Yuwen Tuo in a one-on-one fight, the freshman assessment wasn't about individual duels, but about scores. Even if Yuwen Tuo could get a perfect score, so what? He was confident he could also get a perfect score, making it a draw between them. And when it came to teammate strength, his teammates wouldn't lose to Yuwen Tuo's.

Lian Yue was an auxiliary-type Soul Master and wouldn't participate in this kind of individual combat-oriented practical assessment. Therefore, the one replacing her must be that Cao Jinxuan, whom Dai Huabin didn't think much of. Xiao Xiao's auxiliary abilities weren't weak; her performance in the freshman tournament was mostly supporting Yuwen Tuo, which also showed her individual strength was likely very average.

"Alright. Our freshman reward is a ten-thousand-year soul bone, and it hasn't been absorbed yet. Dai Huabin, if you lose, can you also produce a ten-thousand-year soul bone?" Yuwen Tuo asked.

Xiao Xiao, at the side, was stunned. A ten-thousand-year soul bone from the freshman reward, not absorbed? Wasn't it on her leg? Why was Tuotuo lying? However, she wouldn't expose Yuwen Tuo, because she trusted him.

The reason Yuwen Tuo said this was because he himself still had a fifty-thousand-year Destruction Impact Left Arm Bone. Even if he really lost in the end, he could just give this one away; Dai Huabin wouldn't know. Even with absolute certainty of winning, Yuwen Tuo would never, under any circumstances, bet Xiao Xiao's leg.

Hearing this, Dai Huabin's heart stirred. A ten-thousand-year soul bone, even in his Duke's Mansion, was a rare treasure. Of course, he wanted to bet, but he currently didn't have a matching stake on hand.

"Alright, I'll bet with you. However, I don't have a ten-thousand-year soul bone as a stake, but I can offer three million gold soul coins, the market price of a regular ten-thousand-year soul bone, as a stake. Is that acceptable?" Dai Huabin said.

"Acceptable!" Yuwen Tuo nodded. Actually, the soul bone he was betting was strictly speaking up to fifty thousand years old, while three million gold soul coins could at most buy one just over ten thousand years old; he was at a disadvantage. However, a fifty-thousand-year soul bone as a freshman reward was excessively generous. Saying it out loud would be a bit too much, so he temporarily treated it as an ordinary ten-thousand-year one. Anyway, Yuwen Tuo didn't think he would lose.

Three million gold soul coins were still very useful to him now. Before long, Shrek Academy's Treasure Gathering Pavilion would open. At that time, as long as one had enough money, money could be converted into power.

"Then Huo Yuhao, what about you? Want to bet with me?" Yuwen Tuo turned to look at Huo Yuhao again. He knew that although Huo Yuhao didn't have money, Wang Dong did. This Wang Dong was also a super-rich young lady. Yuwen Tuo remembered that in the original story, when she saw the Golden Earth Dragon soul bone in the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, her first thought wasn't to rely on Huo Yuhao's privileges to obtain it, but to buy it herself. A full nine million five hundred thousand gold soul coins, yet she didn't even blink. It showed how wealthy she was, probably not inferior to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan.

"Alright, we'll participate in the bet too. Three million gold soul coins." Sure enough, Wang Dong unhesitatingly took out a gold soul coin card and said. A ten-thousand-year soul bone might not mean much to her, but to Huo Yuhao, it was a treasure. She very much wanted to help Huo Yuhao become stronger quickly.

Huo Yuhao tugged Wang Dong's arm and whispered, "Wang Dong, don't be so impulsive. This Yuwen Tuo is not a simple person. What if we lose?"

"It doesn't matter if we lose. It's merely three million gold soul coins; I don't even bat an eye at it!" Wang Dong said nonchalantly.

Hearing this, Huo Yuhao no longer insisted, determined to give it a try. After all, a ten-thousand-year soul bone was still very tempting.

Under the witness of all the students in the cafeteria, the bet between the three parties was thus established.

If Dai Huabin's group scored the highest in the promotion assessment, then Huo Yuhao would have to kowtow and apologize to him, and Yuwen Tuo would have to give him a ten-thousand-year soul bone.

If Huo Yuhao's group scored the highest, then conversely, Dai Huabin would kowtow to him, and he would receive Yuwen Tuo's soul bone.

If Yuwen Tuo's group scored the highest, then the other two groups would each have to give him three million gold soul coins!