Supreme Emperor of Swords

Vol 1, Chapter 54: Gambling

 

 

 

 

 

 

TL: Godspell

 

Wang Xiaoqi comes from a family of merchants, extremely rich, love spending quite a sum of gold and silvers like sprinkling water out.

 

 

Receiving the booklet, Ding Hao slightly bowed, and patted the shoulder of the Wang Xiaoqi gently, and said: “Junior Brother Wang, this help, I will always remember.”

 

 

“Senior Brother Wang you are so awesome.” Zhang Fan had also abandoned any previous grievances in his heart, holding the shoulders of Wang Xiaoqi excitedly, he said: “With this book, today in the martial arts competition, Senior Brother Ding's odds of success had increased a bit more.”

 

 

Wang Xiaoqi lightly smiles.

 

 

He is also very happy in his heart.

 

 

Especially after hearing Ding Hao's words, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

 

 

Wang Xiaoqi comes from a family of merchants, although his family had always been training him in martial arts, but from an early age he had always been influenced about what he sees and hears, due to this he had quite a big interest in doing business, especially his pair of eyes, can immediately see through a person if he is valuable or not.

 

 

Since he had entered the Inquiring Sword Sect, Wang Xiaoqi has always been observing everyone around him and choosing an object who is worth some of the investment.

 

 

 

After all, everyone had just entered the Inquiring Sword Sect as a Registered Disciple, the chance of entering in the Sect as an official disciple is quite low, Wang Xiaoqi thinks that he had not what it takes to enter as an official disciple in the Sect and that is astonishing Talent, but what if he can become a friend with a disciple who has an infinite future ahead, in this way his whole family could also obtain benefit from it.

(TL; Registered Disciple means Temporary Disciple)

 

 

At first, he did not place any importance on Ding Hao.

 

 

After all, at that time Ding Hao, was just a poor boy with no strong family background, although he had performed well in the overall ranking, but he had not shown any potential which is worth investing.

 

 

Therefore, Wang Xiaoqi after painstakingly searching the entire East River Bank, finally found Zhuo Yifeng worth investment, therefore he had to find a way to infiltrate Zhuo Yifeng small circle.

 

 

However, since the East River Bank Martial Arts Contest for selecting chosen disciples, Ding Hao had successfully defeated Zhuo Yifeng, Fang Tianyi, and all the other disciples.
After Showing his amazing sword skills, Wang Xiaoqi immediately understood, that his eyes were wrong from the beginning.

 

 

So after making up his mind, he began to find a way to get close to Ding Hao.

 

 

Within a short period of time, Wang Xiaoqi finally understood what sort of a person Ding Hao actually is.

 

 

At the same time, he could not help but admire Ding Hao’s bearing filled with righteousness.

 

 

In particular, Ding Hao is especially sincere to Zhang Fan this silly dumb kid, this made Wang Xiaoqi to gradually become ashamed of himself, which led him to unconsciously abandon all the businessman plans that were in his heart, now he sincerely wants to become friends with Ding Hao.

 

 

Therefore, he had spent a lot of energy and thoughts, in making this book overnight.

 

 

At last, Ding Hao took his stand, finally accepting him like Zhang Fan, accepting him as his roommate, making Wang Xiaoqi to become unusually excited in his heart.

 

 ……

 

Late in the morning.

 

 

The melodious sound from the ancient clock resounded through the entire Inquiring Sword Sect Mountain.

 

 

Outer Sect Martial Arts Practicing area had already become crowded with full of disciples.

 

 

The second day of the Five Banks Great Competition is soon about to begun.

 

 

After the first day of the competition, fifty chosen disciples were remaining from the Five Banks, now only the most powerful thirteen chosen disciples are remaining, today they will again continue to slaughter their way up, for the last seven spots.

 

 

Ranks of various Banks are, Central River Bank with the Seven Righteous Alliance had remain incomparable powerful, all the chosen disciples had been promoted to the next round, winning a total of 23 points, they had once again attained the first place.
Next is the South River Bank only two chosen disciple’s Lu Kuang and Wang Xiaoshi had been promoted.
After this is the North River Bank because of the Lin Xin outstanding performance and of Fatty Ren Xiaoyao heaven-defying luck of drawing an empty slot in the second round, had made both of them advance for the next round.
Lastly is the East River Bank Ding Hao and Li Lan these two chosen disciples that had advanced to the next round.

 

 

The most miserable is the West River Bank, after the second round, all the chosen disciples were unexpectedly eliminated.

 

 

Among the top 13, all the other chosen disciples are the most popular candidates, except only for two Dark Horses Ding Hao and Ren Xiaoyao, but the latter can only be regarded with a good luck, but Ding Hao is the real deal, successfully defeating all the powerful opponents all the way through, he is the only one most likely to be the Dark Horse, which had attracted a lot of people's attention.

 

 

Under the attention of many people, the top 13 chosen disciples walked towards their respective seat of each Bank, as usual after arriving at the first arena, all of them draw out their respected opponents.

 

 

……

 

Meanwhile.

 

 

On the balcony of the first arena, all of the Elders had already started gossiping, about the possibility of which chosen disciple is going to win in the end.

 

 

“Haha, according to this old man, South River Bank Lu Kuang, is inevitably the only candidate to become the winner of this Great Competition!”

 

 

“Elder Lu you should not be so sure, although Lu Kuang is a talented junior of your Lu family, but I think Li Lan from the East River Bank, had yet to reveal its true strength, maybe at the end, he will be the champion!”

 

 

 

“Haha, both of you should stop being so biased towards your own family candidates, I think it’s a bit selfish, look at the Central River Bank Seven Righteous Alliance, nobody can block their path, look at the First Seat Li Muyun: strength like of dragon and posture like that pf a phoenix, in all he had the bearing of a King, he is bound to be the ultimate champion.”

 

 

“Could it be that everyone doesn’t favor that Dark Horse Ding Hao?”

 

 

 

“This child is actually very good, but do not forget, this time there is a disciple with far better luck than anybody Ren Xiaoyao, I only feared that Ding Hao’s luck, will be restrained easily by Ren Xiaoyao!”

 

 

In the Balcony, many of the Elders of the Sect are seating together, both the Inner Sect and the Outer Sect, among them some of the elders are the family members of the 13 chosen disciples on the arena down below, therefore each had his own views, which led to quarrelling between each other.

 

 

There discussions, naturally passed over to the ear of the True Core Inheritance Disciples who are presided nearby.

 

 

“Senior Brother Yin, which chosen disciple do you think will win?” Lu Qi curiously asked.

 

 

 

Yin Yifei stroking his long beard, gently swept his gaze all over the 13 chosen disciples after a brief moment he said: “In Seven Righteous Alliance, there are at least four chosen disciples that can easily advance to top seven, from the East River Bank Li Lan, from the North River Bank Lin Xin and from the South River Bank Lu Kuang and Wang Xiaoshi, all of them are very strong, however in this round like before someone can draw an empty slot, as to see whose luck is so good, then the results may entirely be different from our expectations.

 

“Oh? Where's Ding Hao? Is it possible that Senior Brother Yin doesn’t favor Ding Hao, the Dark Horse from the yesterday’s battle?” Lu Qi is very surprised.
 

Yin Yifei nodded: “So far, Ding Hao was just lucky, he has only the strength of a 1-Martial Apprentice Realm, obviously for the upcoming round, he lacks the strength to do so.”

 

 

“Haha, why are you so sure Senior Brother Yin?” Another one of the True Inheritance disciple Cheng Fei hearing their words, suddenly laughed and asked:” I am actually very optimistic about this Ding Hao, his luck is also a part of his Martial Dao.

 

 

“Snort, Cheng Fei, what is there even a need to quarrel about, are you willing to make a bet with me?”

 

 

Yin Yifei eyes flashed with a deep hidden resentment, this Cheng Fei is really hateful, fighting with him wherever he likes.

 

 

“Oh, a Bet? Okay, how are we betting Senior Brother Yin?” Cheng Fei grinningly asked, thinking in his heart, if they knew that this Ding Hao is the candidate that their Martial-Uncle Qi Qingshan the old monster had taken a liking to, they will certainly become scared to death.

 

 

“Heard that, recently Junior Brother Cheng had obtained some Star Sand, are you willing to take it out for our bet?” Yin Yifei gently caressing his long beard, slowly said.

 

 

Cheng Fei after staring at him, immediately burst into laughter: “Good ah, originally Senior Brother Yin was unexpectedly coveting my Star Sand, Good, as long as Senior Brother Yin can take out an item comparably equivalent to my Star Sand treasure, I Cheng Fei will willingly accompany you in this bet!”

 

 

 

Star Sand is ranked at tenth in the Snow Province Foreign Treasure List, it is used to refine a Profound Divine Armament, a very rare treasure.