Chapter 512 — The Crimson Moon Sect Comes Knocking
The sealed stone that Fang Mu Ge had chosen had produced the impossible—a young Vermilion Bird, its body no larger than a child's palm, yet its worth beyond estimation.
By comparison, the items unearthed by Nie Zhe and Wu Xingyun seemed pitifully ordinary. Both had lost the wager, and their treasures—the Five Elements Divine Talisman and the Demonblade—now rested in Fang Mu Ge's possession.
Only four sealed stones remained upon the platform, and though other cultivators purchased them eagerly, none were blessed by fortune. Some gained trinkets of minor value, others nothing but worthless shards of spiritual dust. Such was the way of stone-gambling: to win in rivers of gold or to lose in pools of blood.
When the Vermilion Bird's cry faded and the crowd dispersed, the Gambling Assembly gradually drew to its end. The grand hall, which had moments ago pulsed with heat and wonder, fell into murmuring calm.
