Welcome to Ability Store-Chapter 75 - 74: Not Impossible After All

"It’s simply ridiculous! Why should I play such a childish game with you?" Liu Zhidong said angrily. The person in front of him was obviously not a sect cultivator; although he had acquired Qi sensing ability, his spiritual Qi was thin, making him only slightly stronger than an ordinary person.

He never thought he would be toyed with by such a person one day!

"You can choose not to guess and just admit defeat." Chen Xuan shrugged.

Guess the Coin can be cast with just physical contact, and the opponent has no right to refuse. It is indeed a rare ability to win big with small stakes. Even a woman of the red dust like Fei Wuniang can rely on Guess the Coin to reap widely and even cause casualties to the Dimensional Limit Mechanism during capture.

Liu Zhidong fell silent.

This spell seemed like a kind of truth spell with an unreasonable forcing effect, yet truth spells only enforce the strong over the weak; it was unheard of that the weak could control the strong.

Moreover, he vaguely sensed the powerful force behind this technique.

It was as if something was watching him through that hollow eye from the void.

Well, Liu Zhidong soon calmed down. He had faced crisis after crisis in the past, countless enemies wanted him dead, but in the end, he was the one still standing.

Just then, the first round of coins was tossed.

Chen Xuan did not command any extra large hand to shield; he had the Divine Eye Technique, and so did the opponent, making it essentially a fair showdown of open cards.

The moment the palm closed, he saw three coins [all heads up], the first being a counterfeit coin.

Indeed, he had thrown the counterfeit coin into the coin pool right in the first round.

Unfortunately, luck wasn’t too good; three heads were an unchangeable result; even flipping the counterfeit coin to tails still left it two heads, one tail, which counted as heads.

Both reported "heads" simultaneously.

And the bet stipulated that this coin game was a wager on defeat, so both being right equated to invalid.

Next was the second round.

This time, luck was better, the coins were [tails, tails, heads], with the counterfeit coin in second place!

After Liu Zhidong shouted tails, Chen Xuan immediately bet heads and simultaneously switched the counterfeit coin.

The result was displayed, and the original tail-tail-head arrangement astonishingly turned into tail-head-head.

Their score instantly became 1:0.

"Heh, somewhat interesting, but not much." Liu Zhidong snorted coldly, "I’ve long anticipated it wouldn’t be a game purely relying on luck... The less confident a person is, the more they like to rely on tricks to win. Let’s continue."

Chen Xuan showed no response on the surface, but inside he slightly frowned—he certainly hadn’t forgotten how he won against Fei Wuniang, nor did he doubt the opponent could find a way to counter it after a few more rounds. Yet, Liu Zhidong’s cold ridicule still slightly surprised him, as if the opponent had already seen through his counterfeit coin tricks.

Liu Zhidong had no future Lin Qing providing intelligence for him, mind you.

The third round of coins was tossed.

Then Liu Zhidong suddenly said, "Why do you always stare at one of the coins? First round you watched the first coin, second round the second coin, now it’s the third one."

Chen Xuan’s heart skipped a beat; at this point, he’s not focusing on the coins but instead splitting his attention to watch you?

"I don’t understand what you’re saying."

"Really don’t understand? The coin you’ve been watching should be a loaded dice... Because in the second round, I saw it was clearly tails in the end, yet you looked at it twice more as your fist opened." Liu Zhidong said unhurriedly, "So before tossing the third round, I added a small mark to it. The mark indicates it just happened to land in the last palm, coinciding with your hidden glance."

Mark? What method to add that?

Chen Xuan hadn’t noticed any action from Liu Zhidong just now.

To him, discerning which coin was the counterfeit coin was simple, as for those with abilities, the color and shape of the two coins differ. As soon as the hand is tossed, its sequence can be known.

It indeed fell in the third position like the opponent said.

The coin faces were [heads, tails, heads].

"This time, I guess heads." Liu Zhidong spoke first.

He seemed quite confident in his wager.

"Alright, then I’ll choose tails." Chen Xuan reported his answer while reversing the counterfeit coin’s face.

The fist opened, unexpectedly showing heads-heads-tails.

The second and third coins both changed!

"Looks like I thought correctly..." Liu Zhidong raised a corner of his mouth, "Too bad this spell doesn’t seem to hinder me from using small tricks. If loaded dice are your trump card for winning, then you ought to be careful."

The score was now 1 to 1; with just one more mistake, the game would end.

Liu Shuyue was also watching this gambling game—though she couldn’t speak or control her body, all her senses were still intact. When she saw Liu Zhidong win back a round, she felt her heart nearly stop.

If the perception ability of the Celestial Mist Skill was expanded, one would notice extra moving Spiritual Qi on the scene, which was precisely the Little Ghost Mountain Shifting Technique Liu Zhidong employed! This was not a technique of the Lotus Cloud Sect but rather an obscure magic used by some Loose Cultivators. It could drive a few invisible little ghosts, compelling them to execute simple commands of the spellcaster, typically used by Loose Cultivators to create illusions and hauntings.

Quickly, realize this! Liu Shuyue shouted anxiously, use the Heart Method to discern Liu Zhidong’s trick!

No matter how loudly she shouted, it couldn’t reach Chen Xuan’s ears.

What she didn’t know was that Chen Xuan hadn’t installed Celestial Mist Skill on himself at all. The upper limit of four ability slots rendered him unable to consider the entire store inventory as his combat configuration.

Without Celestial Mist Skill, he couldn’t probe the opponent’s Spiritual Qi; once the opponent used invisible means, he would find it difficult to detect.

Chen Xuan was fully aware of this.

However, even if he couldn’t see it, it didn’t prevent him from guessing that Liu Zhidong was using abilities to interfere with the result. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

"I must admit, your experience in magic contests is indeed quite extensive." As Chen Xuan observed the fourth round of coin flipping, he said, "But gamblers all over the world don’t just prepare a lead-loaded die. Can you still guess correctly this time?"

Liu Zhidong’s expression slightly tightened.

The coin he marked earlier did not appear in any of the three hands this time.

Has he changed his cheating method?

In a blink of an eye, the coin was grabbed into the palm, and finally, the face observed by Divine Eye Technique was [heads tails tails].

But it wasn’t over yet, Chen Xuan directly summoned three Thousand Thoughts Swords, piercing them into the fist in front of him, thus nailing the coin in place!

He stared into Liu Zhidong’s bloodshot spider eyes, word by word, said "I, bet, heads."

From Liu Zhidong’s perspective, he still maintained human form, using Liu Shuyue’s mouth to issue a cold sneer, "Very well, very well, this is good too, it’s just playing a few more rounds with you."

While speaking, he didn’t forget to repeat an old trick, letting the elusive little ghosts move the coins, but from the feedback of the Mountain Shifting Technique, the coins were indeed nailed, the little ghosts were powerless over them.

One of these must be the Counterfeit Coin.

But which one would that be?

Liu Zhidong pretended to be thinking on the surface, but he already knew the answer inside—the new Counterfeit Coin was the second one.

Previously, he openly said he had marked the problematic coin, but that was merely a smokescreen. Because he also stained all three coins with his Spiritual Qi, no matter which one his opponent swapped, he could detect it immediately. For example, now...the coin tightly gripped in the middle fist was the one never used in the previous three rounds.

As for whether the new Counterfeit Coin was a lead-loaded die, a magnetic bowl bottom, or a double-bone tile didn’t matter.

Maybe it could switch the heads and tails without flipping; maybe it could deceive the naked eye, looking like tails at a specific angle but was actually heads...no matter how it changed, as long as it was used once, the little ghost could see it clearly.

Once he knew how Chen Xuan counterfeited, he naturally had many follow-up moves to counteract.

"Then I’ll also bet heads." Liu Zhidong, having calculated, said.

First draw a tie, the next round is waiting for the opponent to fall into the trap.

Fists opened in sequence.

The faces of the three coins turned out to be heads tails tails.

"2:2, the bet ends."

With a low whisper from the netherworld, the fists all disappeared, leaving only that large shaking eye at the scene.

"Wait, why is it heads tails tails?" Liu Zhidong stared at Chen Xuan, his tone full of disbelief, "You didn’t tamper with it?!"

"Because I only have one coin that can be used to counterfeit." Chen Xuan sighed, in the coin pool there were just four coins, if the special Counterfeit Coin wasn’t used, the rest were ordinary coins. "Now it’s settled, you and I both have to die."

As soon as the words fell, two streaks of lightning shot from the eyeball, precisely hitting Chen Xuan and Liu Zhidong!

In an instant, Chen Xuan felt as if he were being torn apart, the unimaginable pain surged into his head, and at that moment, he heard a crisp cracking sound, as if a mirror suddenly shattered.

Crack——

After the sound echoed, the pain abruptly vanished.

Everything just now felt like an illusion.

However, Liu Zhidong’s situation was entirely different, the black spider entangled with Liu Shuyue quivered like in a seizure, occasionally bright light flashed across his body, like that lightning was running rampant inside him, greatly intent on slicing him into thousands of pieces. The unbearable pain made him scream miserably, but his cries sounded unlike human voices, more reminiscent of some kind of animal roar.

Seeing Chen Xuan’s calm expression, Liu Zhidong finally understood where the problem lay, but his final fury wasn’t directed at Chen Xuan, instead, he roared at Liu Shuyue, "You dare to... dare to give the fate constraint technique... to such a person..."

Then with a muffled bang, the spider exploded entirely!

Black as shadow blood splattered with flesh everywhere, but they quickly evaporated and disappeared, like a wisp of smoke, Liu Zhidong’s roar abruptly ceased.