TFHS: Chapter 167

Once Feng Ming returned to the stadium from outside, Shi Yan and Cheng Miao beside him received more attention.

At the same time, many people looked at Bai Qiaomo with subtle expressions, whether it was sympathy or gloating.

“Bai Qiaomo must be under a lot of pressure now. Feng Ming has bet more than 10 million yuan crystals on him. If he doesn’t win the final championship, so many yuan crystals will be wasted.”

“I’m not the one spending it, but it hurts my heart to think about it. Feng Ming is so rich. He might as well take out some yuan crystals to share with us. At least I can say more good things to him.”

“You are daydreaming. Why don’t you think about what will happen if Bai Qiaomo really wins the championship? Twelve betting games at 20 times the odds. My god, in the end, Feng Ming will be buried in a mountain of yuan crystals.”

“You say others are daydreaming, but aren’t you daydreaming too?”

“In fact, Feng Ming might as well collude with Zong Yupao and the others first. At worst, he can agree to split the yuan crystals in half.”

“You underestimate Zong Yupao and the others. As far as I know, Zong Yupao is a prince. What does he need with yuan crystals? For someone of such a status, reputation is more important than yuan crystals.”

Pei Yingmin, Chen Tianlang, and Jiang Qian were all amused and helpless about this. Even if Feng Ming had confidence in Bai Qiaomo, he shouldn’t be so ostentatious.

Moreover, this matter had spread in the stadium before Feng Ming got back. It must be that the people behind the 12 betting games had promoted it vigorously for him.

They just wanted to see Feng Ming and Bai Qiaomo make a fool of themselves. In other words, no one thought Bai Qiaomo could win the championship.

Once Pei Yingmin and Chen Tianlang received the news, they secretly asked someone to take yuan crystals and place bets on their behalf. Of course, they would never reveal this to anyone.

Moreover, they saw Elder Jiang Quan also ask someone to go out. The two of them intuitively felt that Elder Jiang was doing the same thing as them.

However, even more of the disciples of Sihong Academy were skeptical about this matter. After all, it was an indisputable fact that Bai Qiaomo’s dantian was destroyed before.

Compared with Zong Yupao, he was indeed delayed for a while, not to mention that the environment and resources possessed by the latter were many times better than those of Bai Qiaomo.

In addition, Zong Yupao’s own strength was one level higher than Bai Qiaomo’s. No matter how they looked at it, Bai Qiaomo would find it hard to win the championship.

They looked at the returned Feng Ming with great concern. No matter how many yuan crystals Feng Ming had, he couldn’t show off his deep affection for Bai Qiaomo like this.

“Senior Brother Bai,” someone patted Bai Qiaomo’s shoulder and whispered to comfort him. “You… Just do your best. Don’t push yourself too hard. Be careful not to get hurt again.”

Bai Qiaomo didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at these caring words. He could only nod and say, “I know what to do. Junior Brother Ming is still young. Let him play if he likes.”

The person trying to persuade him patted Bai Qiaomo’s shoulder again and gave him a knowing look.

Bai Qiaomo had no idea what the other person had understood. It seemed to be different from what he wanted to convey, or even the complete opposite.

Even Qiu Chen came to join in the fun. He ran up to Yu Xiao and whispered, “Your little disciple has so many yuan crystals. Could it be that they were given to him by you? You have seven disciples? Could it be that each of them gave a few thousand yuan crystals?”

Yu Xiao was also one of the people who got the news early. It wasn’t known if others told him out of jealousy or to amuse themselves.

Yu Xiao was a person who protected his own people without any principles. Besides, he knew very well that his little disciple had no shortage of yuan crystals. In particular, his ability to earn yuan crystals was first-rate.

Before Feng Ming became his disciple, he and Bai Qiaomo had earned nearly 50 million.

He just didn’t tell it to these people in case they became jealous of him. He said, “Feng Ming is the youngest, so his senior brothers and sisters will take care of him. I should also take care of him, right? It is just over 10 million yuan crystals. My six disciples and I can handle it.”

In other words, it didn’t matter if all of the 10 million yuan crystals were wasted. They could provide more support later.

Qiu Chen choked up. What was so great about having many disciples? What was so great about having a disciple who could spend yuan crystals? Who was still in need of a disciple? What he lacked was a disciple with the best talent.

Qiu Chen said unhappily, “You are just being stubborn. You will feel heartbroken when you can’t get any of the yuan crystals back.”

This reminded Yu Xiao. “If Qiaomo really wins the championship, those powerful people setting the odds won’t deny their debts, right? No, Old Qiu, you have to accompany me to collect the debt from them later.”

Qiu Chen was dumbfounded. This master didn’t really think Bai Qiaomo could win, right? Was he the same as his little apprentice?

Qiu Chen was choked up for a while. “Wait until he really wins the championship.”

Qiu Chen turned and left, no longer asking for trouble.

Yu Xiao strolled over to his little disciple, worrying whether he had enough yuan crystals to spend. As a master, he could provide some support.

The other disciples who heard it, including the disciple of Sihong Academy, were all envious and jealous of Feng Ming. They also wanted such a good master.

Feng Ming told his master that he still had a lot of yuan crystals on him. He was just worried that if he used them all up for betting, those wealthy and powerful people would end up not being able to pay and would default on their debts, so he only spent more than 10 million yuan crystals.

Yu Xiao felt that his disciple was very thoughtful. One should indeed not have too high expectations of these powerful people, so let’s do it this way.

Pei Yingmin and Chen Tianlang looked at each other. They pointed a finger at each other and nodded to show that they understood.

They both followed suit and bet 100,000 yuan crystals. They could still afford to lose more than 1 million yuan crystals, but if Bai Qiaomo actually won, they would be able to earn over 20 million yuan crystals. The thought of it made them excited.

Not to mention, after the news spread, quite a few cultivators actually became interested and followed Feng Ming to try it.

In particular, those who weren’t short of yuan crystals might follow the trend and bet a few thousand yuan crystals just for fun, as if they were going to a restaurant for a meal. Maybe the price of a good jar of wine might exceed this expense.

This made the people who opened the betting games very happy. The people who followed the trend only bet a few hundred or a few thousand yuan crystals, but Imperial City had a large population. This small number added up to a huge amount of yuan crystals.

At this time, they felt that they should be grateful to the Feng Ming couple for setting a good example, which allowed them to increase their income by a considerable amount.

Hopefully, they could maintain this good attitude to the end and still be able to smile.

Qiu Yi was unwilling to accept this result, so he asked someone to bet 10 million crystals for his uncle Zong Yupao to win.

By the time Ji Yuan found out, it was too late. Qiu Yi’s 10 million crystals had already been spent.

In order to make up for it, he secretly found someone without telling Junior Brother Qiu and spent a million to bet on Bai Qiaomo to win. However, this matter must not be known to Junior Brother Qiu and Zong Yupao.

Even if he compensated Junior Brother Qiu with yuan crystals in the end, he wouldn’t tell where the yuan crystals came from when he gave the money.

He was skeptical about this matter, but what if Junior Brother Qiu really lost money?

Ji Yuan really put in a lot of effort.

There was another person who followed the trend and bet on Bai Qiaomo to win the championship. It was someone no one would’ve thought of, and that was Kong Zhao, the silver armored guard.

He didn’t know why, but he found a man with an inconspicuous identity and spent 1 million yuan crystals to bet on Bai Qiaomo.

In short, this incident pushed Feng Ming’s reputation higher.

His reputation used to be positive, but now it had a bit of disparagement to it.

The most promising young alchemist was described with words like frivolous and ignorant.

This also doubled the attention of the entire Imperial City on Bai Qiaomo. Before, only the upper echelons of Imperial City paid more attention to him due to his method of repairing the dantian.

Now due to the betting, everyone focused their attention on the martial arts competition, wanting to know what place Bai Qiaomo would get in the end.

Not to mention outside, even inside the arena, the contestants and seeded players participating in the martial arts competition all paid more attention and watched Bai Qiaomo.

Some of them were here for fun while others had malicious intent.

Some of the groups decided that as long as Bai Qiaomo came on stage to compete for the arena, no matter who the final champion was, they would take turns to go on stage and knock Bai Qiaomo down, making it impossible for him to even think about being the champion of the arena.

In the end, Bai Qiaomo couldn’t even make it to the finals. Wouldn’t that be the biggest joke of this league?

Once it reached the afternoon of this arena defense competition, it was no longer just a stage for qi gathering realm cultivators. Essence liquid realm cultivators started to appear on the twenty arenas.

If a person didn’t step forward to seize the title of champion, the first day of defending the arena would come to an end.

Bai Qiaomo still stayed with Feng Ming to watch the fight in the arenas. Bai Qiaomo had no intention of going on stage to challenge the defending champion.

The afternoon’s arena battle was much more exciting than the morning’s. Bai Qiaomo continued to analyze the battles on the stage to Feng Ming.

Feng Ming was listening attentively, completely ignoring the criticisms of others when Pei Yingmin came up to them.

“Senior Brother, do you have something to say to me?”

Bai Qiaomo didn’t think that his senior brother wanted to casually chat with him at this time. His senior brother had to pay attention to the overall situation and didn’t have that much free time.

Pei Yingmin glanced around and acted as if he was chatting, but what he said was very serious. “I have something to tell you. According to the information I got, a group of people from the Imperial Academy are eyeing you. Every time you go on stage for a challenge, they will use a round-robin format to defeat you. Their goal is to prevent you from even making it to the finals.”

Feng Ming wanted to jump up and down when he heard this, but he controlled his expression very well. The people around them couldn’t hear their voices and had no idea what he said.

Feng Ming was scolding others at this time. “Can’t these people afford to lose? If they can’t afford to lose, then don’t come to the competition. They actually came up with this type of conspiracy. Do they think Zong Yupao will rely on this method to win the championship?”

On the other hand, Bai Qiaomo looked indifferent. “Let them stare at me if they want. I have six chances to challenge the stage.”

Pei Yingmin understood the thoughts of the two people as soon as he heard this. The two of them had completely different thoughts.

Feng Ming wanted to bring this matter to Zong Yupao’s attention to see if he would tolerate it. This was a humiliation for a strong person. His victory in the end could be called unfair, as if he had to rely on tricks to win the championship.

As for Bai Qiaomo, he wanted to play tricks in the area on these people with evil intentions.

Pei Yingmin felt that as a senior brother, he was worrying for his two junior brothers while neither of them was peaceful.