Chapter 210: Virtue +1

Chapter 210: Virtue +1

A pillar supporting the sky met with nothingness.

I thought the pillar supporting the sky would be epic, but instead, a handful of dice shattered completely.

Everyone was dumbfounded, especially since there was no sound of dice breaking when he shook them.

“What is this?!” Huang Hui shouted.

“What is it? It’s zero! Not a single die landed face up.”

“You’ve ruined the dice; this goes against the rules!”

“I only remember you saying that the points are counted for the faces that land up, and you didn’t say your pillar supporting the sky was reasonable.”

“You broke the rules; you’re the one who lost!”

Huang Hui yelled in dissatisfaction, convinced that his pillar supporting the sky was the strongest. How could he accept your broken diced sphere?

“One point to zero points, if you lose and still aren’t satisfied, you can die.”

This time, Lin Nuo didn’t let Qin Shili step in; instead, he directly swung down with his sword. The blade fell, blood sprayed, staining the gambling table crimson.

The people in the gambling house didn’t react in time; Huang Hui was directly killed by Lin Nuo.

Yet another one down, both skilled gamblers were cut down by Lin Nuo and his crew.

“You… you’ve killed again! Is this what a disciple of the Xuanyun Sect does?!”

“Curse the Xuanyun Sect all you want. But let’s be clear—when you gamble your life and lose, that life is worthless. If I kill him, so be it. You’ve run this gambling house long enough; you should know that what’s lost doesn’t belong to you, right?”

“You…!”

The gambling house owner was genuinely furious; this guy had clearly come to stir trouble.

At that moment, a subordinate rushed over to report:

“Boss, the Dark Alliance members have arrived.”

“Good, kill those two.”

The boss angrily ordered, and soon some members of the Dark Alliance strode in.

This was their territory; how could they allow outsiders to run rampant?

Qin Shili immediately became alert; after all, these newcomers carried impressive auras.

“What now?” Qin Shili asked.

“There are a few from the Dark Alliance; kill them. Tear down this gambling house.”

Lin Nuo immediately raised his long sword,

“I’ve had enough of this place.”

As soon as the words left his mouth, Lin Nuo launched a shadow clone attack, throwing hidden weapons and a sharp blade simultaneously at the Dark Alliance members.

The entire gambling house was thrown into chaos; gamblers ran, screamed, bumped into each other, and piled on the ground. Some even took the opportunity to snatch up money, leading to fights over the cash.

Seeing Lin Nuo in action, Qin Shili certainly wouldn’t stand by.

She couldn’t tell if it was just her imagination, but with Lin Nuo’s strength, he should have crushed the opposition.

However, it didn’t seem like that was the case; while Lin Nuo was agile and employing his shadow clone technique, the Dark Alliance members seemingly couldn’t hit him.

But it also looked like he couldn’t hit anyone else?

His seemingly flashy moves didn’t seem to have much impact?

Perhaps he was deliberately giving her a chance to showcase her abilities, not wanting to instantly crush and kill the foes.

It was her first time fighting alongside Lin Nuo. Although she appeared cold as ice on the surface, inside she felt thrilled, even thinking of commemorating this special day.

With her Ice Blade, the Frost Storm swiftly froze the limbs of all Dark Alliance members in place.

Kill!

At her seventh-tier high level, Qin Shili faced the Dark Alliance assassins head-on and, in just a few exchanges, wiped out most of the reinforcements from the Dark Alliance.

Swift and decisive, not dragging her feet.

Meanwhile, over with Lin Nuo, he was still busy performing showy moves, taking ages to finally take down a single Dark Alliance member.

“Alright, got one, keep killing. Hm, where are the others?”

After messing around for a while, Lin Nuo finally found his rhythm, only to see that Qin Shili had already slain everyone else.

Impressive, impressive. He bowed in defeat; bringing her along as a muscle was definitely the right call.

The scene inside the gambling house was extremely chaotic, with a pile of corpses littered everywhere, utterly ghastly.

Beneath the bodies lay the gambling house owner, still clinging to a bit of life, trying to wriggle free.

Lin Nuo spotted him and walked over.

Seeing Lin Nuo approach, the owner was trembling in fear, utterly lost on what to do, and hurriedly pleaded:

“Hero, Hero, spare me! I’ll pay you whatever you want; please, please let me live! I-I know I was wrong!”

At this moment, Lin Nuo raised his blade and said:

“I was initially going to spare you. But since you had the audacity to insult me, you and your buddies can head to the afterlife now.”

“Wa-wait, Hero, I swear I didn’t insult you!”

Lin Nuo was not in the mood to listen to his pleas; he brought his sword down, blood splattering.

I despise being called ‘Hero’ by others.

Lin Nuo hadn’t planned to turn the gambling house into a bloodbath, but since they summoned the Dark Alliance, he might as well go with the flow.

Those who had mocked him now lay cold and lifeless.

“Have these people had any grudges against you before?”

Qin Shili sheathed her sword and stepped forward to ask, sensing that Lin Nuo seemed to want to exterminate an entire clan.

“There are plenty who hold grudges against me; I don’t need a reason to kill them.”

Lin Nuo also put away his sword, as he was the unrestrained, reckless villain—since when did killing require justification? Kill if you want to kill!

“So you came for Ruo’er. May I see that IOU?”

“Here.”

Lin Nuo handed the IOU to Qin Shili, which documented how Ruo’er’s adoptive father had pawned her as a debt.

Ruo’er was an adopted daughter; even biological children sometimes faced being sold or pawned, let alone an adopted one. Although Ruo’er served Lin Nuo, at the end of the day, she was just working for him and wasn’t entirely sold off to the Lin family.

Parents here have the right to determine their children’s paths, not to mention it’s about ‘adoption,’ Ruo’er had no rights at all.

“To gamble and then use your adopted daughter as collateral; this Li Kунzong is truly scum.” Looking at the IOU, Qin Shili felt somewhat incensed.

However, Lin Nuo didn’t comment; he was the villain who defied conventional moral standards. Li Kунzong was just a lowlife, and if one were to investigate his past, he would turn out to be much worse.

“Let’s go.” Lin Nuo waved his hand, preparing to leave.

“Wait! I still don’t understand something; in that first round of betting, I clearly saw the fifth card had a pattern, why was it the fourth card?”

“What’s hard to understand about that? The card changes; they thought I would keep turning over the fourth card and claim it didn’t have a pattern, so they let it change to have a pattern.”

“Oh, I see.”

Qin Shili suddenly realized,

“So, you used their expectations against them by directly claiming there was a pattern.”

“Exactly.”

“You’re quite smart to think of that.”

“There’s nothing to brag about; if I lacked even this level of skill, I wouldn’t be out here making a name for myself.”

The gambling house was a wreck, partially collapsed, with the dealer dead or fleeing. It could no longer be operated.

Lin Nuo and Qin Shili exited the gambling house, ready to head back, when a crowd of commoners and officials appeared outside.

They suddenly knelt down, and at the forefront was a small official, tearfully saying:

“Thank you! Thank you for ridding the harm from our midst! This gambling house has harmed too many, nurturing bullies, taking the people’s money, and laundering cash for corrupt officials! Everyone was suffering terribly. Finally, finally, you’ve come to save us! We are truly grateful to you!”