Signing-In: The Lazy Moon Goddess
Chapter 103: 103: Stone Ore Gambling (1)

Chapter 103: 103: Stone Ore Gambling (1)

Crimson Cloud Sect's Stone Gambling Hall

The hall for stone gambling had a different structure from the auction hall. Unlike the floor-separated private rooms and public row seats, there are mostly no seats in this hall. Instead, there is an automatic conveyor belt, and on the belt are various-size rough stones. The rotation of the conveyor belt was extremely slow. It would allow one to check on the stone and return it on the belt if the customer didn't end up liking it.

At the entrance of the hall, there is a layer of mini baskets and push carts. The clients can take either of the two to place the stone they have chosen. A digital and wireless wrist watch-like tool will be provided to customers interested in buying stone. The use of this digital watch is to list the stones the customers had chosen, which will be shown at the cashier for payment.

Each stone had different prices. Once the customer is interested in a stone, the price will flash in hologram form in front of the buyer. Only when the buyer decided to buy the stone could he or she press the yes button to add the stone to the buyer's list.

In the Stone Ore Gambling Hall, there are certain rules that must be followed.

1. The customer who first grabbed a stone will have a priority in buying the stone. If another person is interested in it, a mini-auction for the stone between the two clients will be held. Intentionally raising the price without paying will lead to one being banned from entering the Crimson Cloud Hall.

2. Clients aren't allowed to steal someone's stone. This is a forbidden action, and the hall will be inclined to kick you out.

3. Raw stones can only be cut inside the hall. The hall had the choice to take it away if this rule was not followed.

4. There are two ways to take someone else's stone if you are interested. First, win the mini-auction, and second, you can initiate a stone gambling competition where each side will send a representative to the duel.

Stone Gambling Competition is a simple gambling game that measures a stone gambler's ability to observe or gauge whether a stone ore has a raw gemstone inside. After all, not all raw stone ore had gemstones inside; most of it was empty. So, it's based on the skills of a client as to whether he or she would be lucky to get a stone ore with raw gemstones inside.

The rules are simple. Both players are to choose three raw stones in the hall. It would be cut and compared, one at a time. Raw gemstones have classifications. The most common ones are jade with an emerald hue. The rare ones are glass-type. Each color represents an element. Blue is for water, yellow is for earth, red is for fire, violet is thunder, green is wind, black is for darkness, white is a non-element, and gold is holy.

Before entering the hall, to protect the privacy of the Divine Doctor, Lin Chiyu prepared a veil and a half mask for the ladies and Taiyang. A pure white veil hung on Yue Xuexia's face. With only her eyes exposed, she now looks more mysterious yet charming, even with half of her face hidden.

Tan Bingyu wore a black veil, making her look more like a shadow that protected Yue Xuexia. On the other hand, Taiyang couldn't hide his majestic demeanor; the aura he emits is no different from that of an emperor, so even with his face hidden, one could say that he isn't a man to be offended.

Only one watch was given to their group, and it was given to Tan Bingyu. It would be a shared account for Yue Xuexia and Taiyang, but Tan Bingyu will handle the purchase. A glove was also provided for the three of them, and Tan Bingyu pushed a small cart for their group. Obviously, her mistress had plans to buy a lot of these stones, as she needed a lot of raw gemstones.

The appearance of the three of them caught a lot of attention; after all, the Young Lord of the Crimson Cloud Hall was escorting them the whole way. There are those who wanted to approach the group out of interest in the hidden beauties within this group, but a single cold glance from Taiyang was enough to send them all away. There are also girls who stare in daze as they look at Taiyang, but no one dares to approach him as he is obviously someone in a relationship with the pretty lady with the white veil.

Taiyang asked, "Xue'er, which direction should we go first?"

"Let's go there. There are fewer people on that side. I don't like crowds," said Yue Xuexia, who looked at the south area with little people gathering around a conveyor belt. It is also smaller compared to the other area, as most things in this place are obviously scrap ores.

Lin Chiyu panicked as it seemed that he wasn't properly escorting the Divine Doctor and suggested, "How about I send a few people away and my lady can choose however you want. There are only scrapped ores in the south area?"

"You want to send the other customers away? There is no need. I will choose at my own pace. This is my first time here anyway. There is no need to send away your regular clients. Just don't let them crowd near us," said Yue Xuexia.

Lin Chiyu said, "As you wish, my lady!"

This conversation was overheard by people in the area. They couldn't believe that the Young Lord was willing to send regular customers like them for this lady and her group of three alone. It seems like the identities of these three people are not ordinary, as even the Young Lord of the Crimson Cloud Hall has to treat them no different from an ancestor.

Most people who can enter this Stone Gambling Hall are rich. They have enough money to back them and enough connections to keep their chins up. Though there are mostly mortals in this hall, as cultivators are not interested in ordinary ore stones, there are still some newbie cultivators in the mix.

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South Area's Conveyor Belt

Yue Xuexia and Taiyang stood in an open space before the conveyor belt. Tan Bingyu and Lin Chiyu were standing three steps away from the two in front. They let them do as they wished and stood on standby, not too far from the two. Taiyang helped Yue Xuexia wear the wool gloves on her hand before wearing his.

At this moment, Yue Xuexia heard the System's voice in her mind.

Xue'er, I suggest you activate your Appraisal Skill. It would be easier to check on these stones, which is useful.

Yue Xuexia responded, 'That's right! I have that kind of skill.'

She closed her eyes and slowly activated the Appraisal Skill among her talents. The moment she opened her eyes, information lines appeared before her and all things before her line of sight were appraised by her skills.

[Item name: Conveyor Belt

Materials:

Metal: 70%

Rubber: 30%

Uses: A revolving machine used to transport other items in circular motion.

Estimated Price: A few hundred thousand.]

[Item Name: Raw Stone Ore]

Note: There is no raw gemstone inside.

Price: 10,000 RMB

Est. price worth: 0 RMB]

[Item Name: Raw Stone Ore]

Note: There is no raw gemstone inside.

Price: 8,000 RMB

Est. price worth: 0 RMB]

[Item Name: Raw Stone Ore]

Note: There is no raw gemstone inside.

Price: 5,000 RMB

Est. Item Price: 0 RMB]

[Item Name: Raw Stone Ore]

Note: A pinky finger-sized raw wind-type gemstone.

Price: 5,000 RMB

Est. price worth: 8,000 RMB]

[Item Name: Raw Stone Ore]

Note: This is a fist-sized raw fire-type gemstone.

Price: 15,000 RMB

Est. price worth: 100,000 RMB]

[Item Name: Raw Stone Ore]

Note: There is no raw gemstone inside.

Price: 3,000 RMB

Est. price worth: 0 RMB]

A lot of information panels had appeared in front of Yue Xuexia, but she only grabbed the one with a fist-sized raw fire-type gemstone and turned to ask Taiyang.

She asked, "Yangyang, what's a fire-type gemstone?"

"In simple terms, it's a red jadeite. In complicated terms, it's a stone with fire energy in it. It can be used by cultivators with fire-type roots to increase their affinity with fire and fire energy," explained Taiyang.

Yue Xuexia said, "Then is this useful for you? Your aura is made up of a mixture of pure red and gold hues."

She noticed that not only Taiyang was stunned, but also Lin Chiyu and Tan Bingyu. Of course, only cultivators can understand the meaning of her words. Taiyang used a finger to gesture to Yue Xuexia to say no more than that. Yue Xuexia didn't even understand that; she had just exposed the main elements that Taiyang can control.

"Xue'er, you can expose anyone's elemental type just like that. It's a bit ill-mannered. I don't mind though," said Taiyang. After all, before absolute power, elemental suppression is useless.

Yue Xuexia nods her head after Taiyang places his fingers down. Then she asked again, "Then is this useful to you?" She placed the ore in her hand and handed it to Taiyang, and the latter immediately felt the strong yet murky fire energy in it.

Taiyang said, "Too little for me. It's useful for Tan Shenyu."

Tan Shenyu is the father of Tan Bingyu. Yue Xuexia picked the stone ore in Taiyang's hand and gave it to Tan Bingyu.

Yue Xuexia said, "Add this on the list of purchases and give it to Uncle Tan after it is cut."

"I thank the mistress for her father," Tan Bingyu said, placing the ore on the pushcart beside her.

Yue Xuexia once again turned around to look at the raw stone ore rotating on the conveyor belt. She was once again talking to the system.

'System, is it possible to filter what I can see with my appraisal skill?' Yue Xuexia asked.

The System responded, [Just think of what you want to find and see. Your skill will filter and limit the information to what you want.]

She closed her eyes again, trying to navigate her appraisal skills. Yue Xuexia controlled the filtering process in her mind. She chose the raw stone ores as her main priority. She wishes to see only the ores with raw gemstones inside. The next moment she opened her eyes, those raw stone ores that were empty lost the information lines on them. It was obvious that most of the ores in this area were empty. There are a few with raw gemstones inside, but most of them had a higher buying price than their estimated worth.

[Item Name: Raw Stone Ore]

Note: This is a two-finger-sized raw water-type gemstone.

Price: 3,000 RMB

Est. price worth: 60,000 RMB]

[Item Name: Raw Stone Ore]

Note: Two fist-sized raw wind-type gemstones.

Price: 25,000 RMB

Est. price worth: 150,000 RMB]

[Item Name: Raw Stone Ore]

Note: A thumb-sized raw holy-type gemstone.

Price: 3,000 RMB

Est. price worth: 500,000 RMB]

Yue Xuexia picked all the raw gemstones with an estimated price worth that is higher than its buying price. Anyway, she needed a lot of raw gemstones to practice weapon refinement. As long as the price was worth buying, she picked everything up, passed it to the two men behind him, and made them put it on the pushcart in Tan Bingyu's hand.

After choosing for a while, Yue Xuexia suddenly raised her head, which was looking at the conveyor belt, and turned around.

She said, "Next area."

They followed her to the east and west. Everyone who was observing them noticed that Yue Xuexia would grab a stone randomly and throw it in her push cart. In their eyes, this mysterious beauty is just a prodigal princess, what they didn't know was that most of the good stone ores had been taken by her. After moving into three areas in just 3 hours, the group finally heads to the north area, where all the said good stone ores are located.