novelden Chapter 124 Shameless and Without Boundaries
Chapter 124 Shameless and Without Boundaries
"I'll leave everything to you?"
Shen Rugo looked at Xingchen Daoren with a puzzled expression, but her hand still unconsciously handed over the large basket of slips of paper.
"That's right, leave it to me."
Xingchen Daoist quickly took it, a strange smile appearing on his lips as he spoke.
"Master, what are you going to do?"
Shen Rugo immediately sensed something was wrong and quickly shouted.
However, before her scream could even finish, the entire basket of paper strips burst into flames.
It happened incredibly fast; in the blink of an eye, the entire basket of paper strips turned to ashes.
"You, how could you do this?"
Shen Rugo stared in disbelief at Xingchen Daoren, dumbfounded.
"This saves so much trouble. It saves us from having to tally and calculate everything one by one. With your clever mind, we can't waste time on this."
Xingchen Daoren spoke with righteous indignation, as if he had done something extremely ordinary and had no psychological burden whatsoever.
"Aren't you going to pay back the spirit stones to the person who put me as collateral?"
Although Shen Rugo had long known that Xingchen Daoren was shameless, she never expected him to be this shameless.
"Of course we must pay. Although our Star Palace is short of spirit stones, we can't be so shameless and unscrupulous."
"But the notes have all been burned, how are you going to pay them?"
"Well, it's very simple. There are definitely no more than twenty people who would actually bet on you."
Besides the two of us old guys, there are those five brats and eight peak masters.
Do you think anyone would bet a spirit stone on you, even the elders?
Therefore, we only need to pay these people.
They're all on our side, so paying them back won't be difficult at all.
"It's only natural," said the Star Daoist.
"Child, don't worry, it doesn't matter who you give the spirit stones to."
Besides, everyone who stakes spirit stones on you is someone we trust most. We would never treat them unfairly.
At this moment, Qinghe Daoren, who was standing to the side, also spoke up as if it were perfectly natural, as if he was not at all surprised that Xingchen Daoren burned all the evidence.
"So you had it all planned out all along, and you never intended to pay them back, but instead wanted to keep all these spirit stones for yourselves?"
Despite her reluctance to believe it, Shen Rugo couldn't help but cry out.
This is utterly shameless! A pair of shameless old bastards.
How can someone like that become the guardian and leader of the Star Palace?
"Don't get excited, kid."
"Rest assured, aside from the money I used for drinking and the payments I made to these people, the rest of these spirit stones will belong to our Star Palace and will be used and managed uniformly within the Star Palace."
"That's what Qinghe Daoren said."
"You had planned this all along, and even I was kept in the dark."
“We wouldn’t dare to scheme against you, my little darling.”
Burning all that evidence was just that brat's spur-of-the-moment idea. I, an old man, could never do something like that; only this brat would!
Qinghe Daoist immediately shifted the blame to Xingchen Daoist.
"Now, let me ask you, how do you plan to distribute the spirit stones to those people, and what are the odds?"
"We don't know how many spirit stones there are in total. The odds are really hard to calculate."
I, an old man, won't get involved in this kind of thing. You two kids should figure it out yourselves.
However, our share must be paid in full.
Qinghe Taoist continued to shift the blame.
Shen Rugo frowned as she looked at Xingchen Daoren.
"Ruge, I was just about to discuss this with you. What odds do you think we should set for them, and what percentage should we pay out?"
Master Xingchen smiled kindly, his expression as warm and friendly as could be.
Those two old bastards are utterly shameless. They clearly planned this all along, yet they still come to ask me.
"With so many spirit stones, I think the odds can't be lower than a thousand times, or we should pay out a thousand times?"
"What, a thousand times?"
Xingchen Daoist jumped up instantly, his eyes wide open, and even Qinghe Daoist frowned deeply.
"Is it too little? How about two thousand times?"
"Young master, there are only so many spirit stones in total. How can there be such a high odds? Are you going to pay them out of your own pocket?"
Let's be realistic, let's be realistic.
"Be realistic, then tell me what odds you're planning to offer?"
"Twenty times, twenty times!"
Xingchen Daoist gritted his teeth and held up two fingers.
"Twenty times? You actually shrunk fifty times?"
Although Shen Rugo didn't have specific data, she roughly knew that the odds were definitely over 500 times.
The old man, Xingchen Daoren, has shrunk by several dozen times.
The way he gritted his teeth when he said twenty times clearly showed that he originally planned to do even less.
"Young Ancestor, you must not say such things carelessly. If word gets out, I'm afraid those people will go crazy. They will do anything for spirit stones, and our entire Star Palace will be destroyed."
Twenty times, or even twenty-five times, that's the absolute maximum.
Xingchen Daoist hurriedly stamped his foot and said.
When he said twenty-five times, he was gritting his teeth.
"Absolutely impossible, twenty-five times is too low."
“Young Ancestor, the 1,500 top-grade spirit stones that you and your Uncle have bet will naturally not be paid according to this odds. We will give you the highest odds, even far exceeding the odds you mentioned.”
The odds I'm referring to are for Chen Tianba and his group.
"Are you trying to win me over?"
"How could I be trying to win you over? I'm being sincere."
These spirit stones were all earned by you. If you asked, I would give them all to you without batting an eye.
You are the greatest blessing to our entire Star Palace. The rise of our Star Palace depends entirely on you. I am not stingy with anyone, and...
The Starry Sky Taoist kept flattering him.
"That brat is right, little ancestor. You are the core of the three of us, and the key to the resurgence of our Star Palace and the restoration of its former glory."
If you're willing, we'll give you all these spirit stones without batting an eye.
But for others, it absolutely won't work.
"You earned all of this through your unparalleled wisdom and by bearing immense pressure; how can you let these people have it for free?"
The Taoist priest from Qinghe was also shouting from the side.
These two old guys have been quite good to me. Shen Rugo could tell that they were speaking from the heart.
"Okay, but we can't just cheat them like this."
How about this, we'll give them fifty times the odds directly.
Shen Rugo frowned helplessly.
What they said makes sense.
With so many spirit stones left behind, the two of them wouldn't keep them for themselves. At most, Daoist Qinghe would drink a little more wine, which wouldn't cost much.
In the end, all the spirit stones will be used in the Star Palace.
If all the spirit stones were given to those people, they might be squandered.
"Fifty times, little ancestor, isn't that too much?"
"Fifty times is absolutely not going to work, how about forty times!"
Both Xingchen Daoist and Qinghe Daoist shouted in denial.