Chapter-9

Seeing that Alan and Xiao Feifei had separated, the crowd that had followed them up naturally moved towards Estreth Deu and his men.

Had it been before, a beauty like Xiao Feifei would definitely be the focus of the crowd as one of the three beauties of this city and a prodigy with tier 3 martial talent. This was even more so now when genius like Estreth Deu was with her.

Logically, all of people should be following Xiao Feifei and Estreth Deu , However, there were still some people who followed Alan.

To them, Alan seems to be mysterious as he was handsome with his rare platinum blonde hair and crimson eyes but he was just wearing ordinary robes but was a close friend of Xiao Feifei who rarely hangs out with others.

Soon, joyous but prideful laughter was heard along with the crowd's praises sounded from nearby.

Even without looking, Alan knew that it must be because the Black Stone opened by Estreth Deu possessed quite a harvest.

Alan was indeed right after the few failures Estreth Deu finally managed to get a untiered spirit stone with size of finger nail.

As for Alan, he was walking and observing with his gluttony activated. Merely, he did not appear to be different at all. He looked just like a lazy youth strolling around.

To others, Alan was simply looking around with an ordinary gaze. They simply had no idea that Alan was using a special ability.

After observing the surrounding Black Stones, Alan finally stopped before a meter tall Black Stone.

"It seems that this kid doesn't have any talent for this type of gambling.Anyone can tell by just looking that this stone is of extremely poor quality."

"That's right. this kid must be blind.I think he just wants to test his luck.I have seen this stone from the time the gambling hall was opened but no one even dared to select it. I am practically certain that there's nothing inside that Black Stone. It is simply useless trash."

"Truly! How could a worthless Spirit Stone ore like that be placed here? Isn't this simply trying to scam people?"

"That's right, that's right! What a scam! I had originally thought that the second floor's Spirit Stones ores would be of high quality; never would I have expected them to be this disappointing."

Before Alan said anything, there were people from the crowd behind him that immediately warned him against it. They were determined that the Black Stone Alan had chosen was useless trash that did not contain anything.

"If you all knew things so well, you would not have been hanging out on the first floor for so long, and losing more than winning."

A mocking voice was heard. It was from an elder of the Estreth gambling Hall. After Alan arrived on the second floor, that elder had been following Alan. In his hand was a black blade

That black blade was called 'Stone Opening Blade.' It was especially used to cut open these Black Stones.

The reason why that elder had been following Alan was because he was waiting for Alan to select a Black Stone that he was interested in, after which he would cut it open it for him.

This guest service was a special characteristic of this Gambling Hall. There were actually a lot of elders like that whose job was cutting open Black Stones for their patrons.

"Humph, it's a worthless lump of rock to begin with. No matter what you say, it's still worthless."

"That's right, that's a worthless lump of rock. Kid, you must definitely not allow yourself to be deceived by him. He is trying to dupe you."

The surrounding crowd were filled with confidence. They felt that they possessed piercing eyes capable of seeing through the worth of the Black Stones. Even though that elder mocked them, they still refused to accept it, and continued to insist that their judgement was correct.

As for that elder, he merely chuckled at the words of the crowd. He did not bother to argue with them.

After all, in the Estreth Gambling Hall, there were more gambling addicts than honored guests.

Those gambling addicts did not possess any skill, but were exceptionally confident, and frighteningly stubborn.

That elder had witnessed countless people like them, and had grown accustomed to their behavior. Thus, he had no desire to bother arguing with them.

"Senior, could you help me open this Spirit Stone ore?" Chu Feng took out eight gold coins and spoke to that elder.

Eight gold coins was the price of that Black Stone. In the end, Alan had decided to open that Spirit Stone ore.

"Lad, why aren't you listening to our warnings? That really is a worthless lump of rock."

"That's right, kid, you must not be impulsive, you must reconsider things."

Seeing that Alan had made his decision, a some surrounding people immediately started urging him against it again.

At that moment, that elder was finally unable to contain himself. He shouted, 'Shut up!" Then, he said, "Since you all are not planning to open it yourself, you should shut up."

Seeing the reaction from that elder, the crowd became even more certain that it was a scam.They were sure that the elder was trying to dupe the kid.

Alan passed eight gold coins that were in his hand to that elder's hand.

The elder smiled at Alan's politeness. As he spoke, he raised the black blade in his hand and prepared to slice it at the Black Stone

That elder replied with a beaming smile. "Little friend, this old man will cut open this Black Stone for you right away, but do you want to reconsider."

Even the elder didn't believe that this stone had spirit stone so he kindly aked Alan if he wants to reconsider.

After getting Alan's approval, he started to carefully cut open the Black Stone with the black blade he held.

His movements were very skilled. However, he was also very careful. The reason for that was because the Spirit stone ores had to be cut open through special methods.

The one cutting the Black Stones had to make certain that the spirit Stones inside remained intact. As such, they had to be very careful.

"Although this kid looks handsome, his judgement of stones is simply lacking too much."

After that elder started cutting the Black Stone, many people started to shake their heads and sigh repeatedly. They were determined in their hearts that Alan's eyesight was bad.

In fact, there were even people that refused to bother looking at the result. They were practically certain that it was a worthless lump of stone without any Spirit Stone inside.

"Heavens! There really is Spirit Stone inside?!"

Suddenly, someone let out a cry of alarm. Following that, everyone turned their gazes over.

Upon doing so, the surrounding crowd were all astonished. In fact, even the elder cutting the stone revealed a surprised gaze.

He had almost cut the entire ore but a pale blue Spirit Stone emerged in front of everyone

Furthermore, judging by its appearance, it was of a size than a standard pellet.