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He Lingchuan shook his head. “That’s not a fair comparison. I pulled out every trick I had, but Deputy Commander Fan still hadn’t unleashed his final trump card.”
Bai Ziqi stroked the spirit deer’s mane. “You’re a modest child, but also far too bold. You opened with a wager of fifty thousand taels. There were over a hundred teams in the lotus contest. How could you be so sure you’d find the Overlord Lotus and take first place?”
He Lingchuan gave him a sly grin. “Naturally, I have a few low-grade methods of my own. Over the years, how many people do you think really won by relying on their own eyes and absurdly good luck?”
Only later had he learned that a winner several years ago had taken first place by releasing a swarm of more than two thousand bees to search the Lotus Palace for the Overlord Lotus.
How could an ordinary person possibly compete with that kind of efficiency?
So after that year, Baishajue amended the rules and explicitly forbade the use of swarming pets.
But the old saying still held true:
For every foot the Dao rises, the Demon rises ten.[1]
Perfect fairness? That was simply impossible.
Both men understood that Bai Ziqi had left one sentence unspoken: Zhongsun Mou just happened to die at precisely that moment.
But neither of them brought it up, because even if they did, nothing would come of it.
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