219: Chapter 132 Slaughter Pig_Platter_1 219: Chapter 132 Slaughter Pig_Platter_1 Every time the Hundred Peaks Sect holds the Hundred Peaks Grand Competition, it’s the busiest time for the gambling houses, but this year, in addition to the gambling houses, the pawnshops discovered that their business was booming in an incredible manner.
The Hundred Peaks Sect has several pawnshops that compete with each other on normal days, wishing for everyone to pawn their items at their establishments.
Today, the shop assistants in the pawnshops, seeing customers come in, almost all said the same thing.
“Kind customer, why don’t you take a look at the pawnshop next door.”
“It’s not that we’ve stopped doing business, but we simply have no more Spirit Stones to offer you.
Recently, there have been too many pawning customers, and all the Spirit Stones have been spent.”
Liu Zhixing and Yue Chong visited four pawnshops before they finally encountered one that still had Spirit Stones.
They pawned everything they had and, holding the Spirit Stones they had just gotten from the pawnshop, ran at full speed to the nearest gambling house.
Today, only three days remained until the Hundred Peaks Grand Competition, and the gambling house was already overfilled with people, so much so that one couldn’t even squeeze inside.
The gambling house had to hang bamboo lists outside, showing the betting odds for rankings of each peak, with most of the crowd gathering around the Four Treasures Peak lists.
With every Hundred Peaks Grand Competition, most peaks’ positions wouldn’t fluctuate much; a change of five or six places was considered significant, and a shift of ten places was definitely an anomaly.
Since the fluctuations weren’t great, the odds naturally were not high.
To earn more, you’d bet on a peak with greater ranking fluctuations.
Take Four Treasures Peak, for instance.
No one believed that it would continue to linger in the bottom ten places, and even fewer people bet on it being ranked below eightieth.
The rankings of Four Treasures Peak fluctuated greatly, so the odds were naturally high, and betting correctly could yield a significant profit.
Of course, odds like Vermilion Bird Peak falling out of the top fifty, or Flying Immortal Peak dropping from the top ten were also extremely high.
If you bet ten thousand liang of Spirit Stones…
Then you would lose all ten thousand liang of your Spirit Stones.
These odds are high, yes, but even a fool knows they’re impossible to hit.
Four Treasures Peak is different, though.
Everyone knows that Four Treasures Peak’s ranking is sure to rise significantly, but no one knows by how much.
That’s why the gambling houses won’t offer super low odds.
If you bet accurately, you can still make a tidy sum.
Liu Zhixing didn’t even look at the odds listed on the signboard, and simply ran straight to the betting area.
Although the gambling house added extra staff to take in Spirit Stones for betting today, there were so many people betting that lines were still necessary.
After waiting for a good while, Liu Zhixing finally had only one person left in front of him.
“I’ll bet five thousand liang of Spirit Stones on Four Treasures Peak ranking between sixty-first and sixty-fifth,” a man said, laying down a Spiritual Stone Ticket worth five thousand liang on the counter.
Initially, when betting on the rankings of the Hundred Peaks Grand Competition at the gambling houses, there were no ranges—bets were placed on specific ranks.
For example, for Four Treasures Peak, you could bet on it ranking sixty-first, and if you hit the mark, you’d get the corresponding payout in Spirit Stones.
If you were wrong, you’d lose everything.
If you wanted to bet on Four Treasures Peak ranking anywhere from sixty-first to sixty-fifth place, you had to buy all five different odds from sixty-first to sixty-fifth place.
This could lead to a situation where even if you eventually hit the mark, the payout might not be high enough to cover your bets, resulting in a loss.
But if you only bet on one or two ranks, the chances of hitting the mark were too low since even members of one’s own sect could only roughly predict their possible ranking, not the exact place they would end up in.
As a result, initially, people were very cautious when betting on Hundred Peaks rankings, until one gambling house introduced this range betting method.
You could bet directly on a range of ranks, and, naturally, the odds were not as high as betting on a single rank, but the chances of winning were higher.
So everyone started to bet at this gambling house, and the others, seeing this trend, quickly followed suit.
If they didn’t, all the money would go to that one gambling house.
The gambling house assistant quickly took the Spiritual Stone Ticket.
While writing a voucher, he said, “Betting on Four Treasures Peak ranking between sixty-first and sixty-fifth, the odds are two to one…”
“Wait a moment,” the man who had laid out his Spiritual Stone Ticket called out, pressing down on his ticket, “This morning the odds for Four Treasures Peak ranking between sixty-first and sixty-fifth were two and a half to one.
How come it’s only two to one now?”
The assistant hurriedly explained, “These are the new odds set by the boss just recently.
Kind customer, if you find the odds too low, you don’t have to bet.
However, these odds are already the higher ones; other gambling houses have even lower ones.”
The gambling house’s odds weren’t set in stone; they would change based on the amount people bet and various snippets of information.
The reduction in the odds for Four Treasures Peak ranking between sixty-first and sixty-fifth indicated that more people were optimistic about Four Treasures Peak reaching that range.
“Fine, I’ll bet,” the man hesitated for a moment, then decided to go through with his bet.
If he waited any longer, he feared the odds would drop even lower.
The man quickly took his voucher and left, and it was Liu Zhixing’s turn.
“Fifty thousand liang of Spirit Stones, all on Four Treasures Peak ranking between fifty-sixth and sixtieth,” Liu Zhixing announced as he laid his Spiritual Stone Tickets emphatically on the counter.
This was everything he could gather after pawning all that he could pawn.
If he lost the bet, he would be left with nothing, but he still went ahead, trusting his own judgment.