Chapter 74: Gamble
Sha Jin felt his consciousness blurring, he couldn’t help but take another sip of water.
A mouthful of cold water made him even hungrier.
It was like the feeling when he was a teenager, as if he wanted to eat everything, swallow a whole cow in one bite!
Since a few days ago, or even longer, he had followed the underground river and arrived here, trapped in this place, he couldn’t remember the time anymore.
The surrounding darkness messed up his perception of time.
He remembered when the Great Cai Armory first opened, he rushed in and found the True Realm cultivation method, but was blocked inside by those bastards from the Three Mountains and Seven Academies.
Thinking about it now, the people from the Three Mountains and Seven Academies must have known about the Great Cai Armory!
What main repository being excavated, the excavation of the main repository not going smoothly, 80% of it was a smokescreen or they were waiting for the right price!
Bastards!
But he didn’t regret it, because his life was all about gambling.
When he was young, he wandered the streets and almost starved to death like this.
Fortunately, he met a smelly Jianghu person, picked up a martial arts manual, and survived.
Then, after going through a lot of hardships and trying every possible way, he finally learned to recognize the characters in the martial arts manual.
He gambled all his hopes on the martial arts manual!
So, he started practicing martial arts.
Even though he was practicing martial arts, he only had a half-baked understanding of the manual, and a lot of it was guesswork.
Even though he was practicing martial arts, he couldn’t save enough medicinal herbs and food needed for the Blood and Qi Barrier, let alone achieving Blood and Qi Completion.
Under normal circumstances, a person like him might train himself to death one day.
Or he might go crazy, talking nonsense, and then offend someone he shouldn’t, and get beaten to death.
But, he won the gamble!
Whenever he couldn’t continue practicing, he would ponder in his dreams, figuring it out little by little.
He succeeded!
He didn’t have enough Blood and Qi Completion, and his Essence wasn’t abundant enough, but he still cultivated True Qi!
Becoming a True Qi expert, he turned his life around in an instant.
He was originally just a street rogue, and suddenly he became a hero.
Those who looked down on him all called him a hero.
Those who had bullied him all cautiously addressed him as Big Brother!
Some even tried to set him up with a wife!
He no longer had to go hungry, and no longer had to be ordered around like a stray dog.
This was the benefit of martial arts, this was the reward of a big gamble!
He wanted to continue gambling, that half-understood manual allowed him to stumble his way to the Qi Sea realm!
Thus, he was able to occupy a street in Juchuan City and collect protection fees.
He could even sit at the last seat during the City Lord’s annual meeting.
Even though 80% of the street’s income was handed over to the City Lord!
But he felt that he was no longer that beggar, but someone above others!
Until… his street was seized by the nephew of a certain Zhoutian expert!
Even though that nephew only had See the Truth cultivation!
He naively wanted to reason with the City Lord, but he couldn’t even enter the City Lord’s mansion.
Dejected, he was beaten up by the Zhoutian expert’s men, almost to death!
After the beating, he realized that without background or power, he was ultimately just a stray dog.
He was no longer that ignorant teenager, he knew how lucky he was to be able to cultivate True Qi from that picked-up martial arts manual.
He was really lucky to have reached the Qi Sea realm without dying.
He once thought he didn’t have to gamble anymore, but he was wrong.
Life is a gamble, others have countless things to gamble with, but he only has one life to gamble!
So, based on his half-baked understanding from that manual, he forcefully cultivated to the Zhoutian realm and killed the Zhoutian expert who had seized his territory!
At that moment, he felt incredibly satisfied!
Incredibly excited!
But the True Realm City Lord was slightly displeased, saying that he had broken the city’s rules.
From then on, the territory of the person he killed would belong to him, and he would have to pay an additional 10% every year!
From 80% to 90%!
Wasn’t that still being a slave to the City Lord?
Without becoming a True Person, he was ultimately just a duckweed in the Jianghu!
He was ultimately just a tool for others to make money and manage!
Therefore, he wanted to become a True Person, become a City Lord, become an existence admired by the Jianghu!
True Realm Sha Jin!
What a wonderful description!
So, he abandoned his comfortable life and took the risk to come to the Great Cai Armory, saw the True Person cultivation method, but got trapped.
Bastards!
But that See the Truth kid had a point, he and several other Zhoutian realm cultivators worked together. Although they didn’t find a way out, they dug open the ceiling of the hall, wanting to create an upward passage.
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The incredibly hard granite was not indestructible under the power of Zhoutian experts.
Open the passage before True Qi runs out, or wait for death after True Qi runs out?
This was also a gamble!
It was just unexpected that after digging for not long, they actually dug into an underground river!
With an underground river, with water, there was hope!
He jumped into the underground river, hoping that it would carry him to some large river!
As a result… in this darkness, he didn’t know where he was swept to. It seemed to be a branch of the underground river, where water could flow, but he couldn’t pass!
He used his last bit of strength to dig himself a small platform so that he wouldn’t be submerged in the water all the time.
Then… it was waiting for death.
This time, he lost the gamble.
It was just his own life!
Hehehe… he let out an unwilling laugh in the darkness.
He really hated it!
He hated that he couldn’t live on!
He hated it! He hated that he couldn’t become a True Person!
He hated it! He hated that he couldn’t kill those bastards from the Three Mountains and Seven Academies and all the other annoying bastards!
【 Are you just going to give up like this? 】
A voice came from the darkness.
He knew this voice, it was the voice that emerged in his dreams during his unconscious cultivation after practicing the 《Heart Gives Birth to All Things Formula《 taught to him by that young man.
There were many things he couldn’t understand in the previous cultivation method, 《Nine Heavens Burning Sun,《 and he had comprehended and cultivated them all in his dreams.
I can your mother’s leg!
He couldn’t help but curse. This voice claimed to be himself, and every time it would feed him chicken soup for the soul, making him believe in himself.
Can belief generate power?
Believe his mother’s leg!
【 I am you, you are me! My mother’s leg is your mother’s leg! 】
The voice said plausibly.
This was why Sha Jin felt this idiotic bastard was unreliable.
Even the way it retorted was different.
【 I know, you’re not reconciled! 】
【 I know, you don’t admit defeat! 】
【 You’re not reconciled to dying here! 】
【 It’s not because you lost, but because why! 】
【 Why were you born a beggar, why did you almost starve to death? 】
【 Why do you have to give 90% of your annual income to the City Lord? 】
【 Why have you lived your whole life cautiously, not daring to speak loudly? 】
【 Why can those bastards from the Three Mountains and Seven Academies slowly trap you to death? 】
Yeah, why?
Sha Jin said in his heart.
I’ll see what kind of chicken soup for the soul this bastard is going to feed me today!
【 Because you don’t have power! 】
【 Because you’re just a pawn on the chessboard! 】
【 Because you’re not a True Realm cultivator! 】
You fucking fart, is it that I don’t want to have power?
I have no father, no mother, no background, no master, do you know how hard it was for me to get to this point?
Sha Jin cursed in his heart.
【 So, you have to believe in us! 】
Us?
Sha Jin noticed that this voice was different from before.
There’s no martial arts practice without a little madness!
