Feng Yuqin cast a disdainful glance at him and said calmly, "Do I know you well? Why should I tell you?"
Ran Xiucheng was left speechless.
"You cheated," Ran Ziling panicked at this moment.
The stakes of this bet were extremely high.
The storage rings they had brought with them were still pawned at the Gambling Stone Workshop.
Ran Ziling remembered that it was she who proposed the gambling - stone bet with Feng Yuqin and also suggested inviting her second elder brother.
If they lost this time...
Her eldest and second elder brothers might not be in great trouble, but she knew very well that she would surely be doomed.
So Ran Ziling was even more panicked and terrified than Ran Xiucheng at this moment.
Feng Yuqin raised her eyebrows and asked, "Miss Ran, tell me. How did I cheat? With what?"
"I..." How could Ran Ziling know how Feng Yuqin had cheated?
She had been keeping a close eye on Feng Yuqin all the time.
However, she hadn't noticed anything amiss.
"Shall we continue?" Feng Yuqin said calmly, "We've only opened five stones so far. There's still a bit of time before our agreed - upon limit. It's no problem to open a few more. If you don't want to continue, then just admit defeat."
Ran Xiucheng glanced at the hourglass, gritted his teeth, and said, "Open them. Keep going..."
Soon, another five gambling stones were opened.
It was still the same as before.
The value of the jade Feng Yuqin opened was always just a little higher than Ran Xiucheng's each time.
This time, everyone present looked at Feng Yuqin with strange looks.
They couldn't understand how Feng Yuqin had managed to do this.
Even Cai Heng and Jiu Tianhua were thinking that Feng Yuqin still had many unopened gambling stones.
When choosing the gambling stones for the first time, Feng Yuqin had picked a large number.
Judging from her control over the gambling stones in these rounds...
They could all imagine that there must be many treasures in the uncut gambling stones Feng Yuqin had.
"Time's up," Cai Heng's voice rang out.
Ran Xiuzhe was too shocked and angry to say a word this time.
When Ran Xiucheng heard Cai Heng's words, his legs went weak, and he slumped to the ground.
"How could this be? How could you control it so well?" Ran Xiucheng murmured, "I don't believe it. Even the most skilled people in our Hidden Family in gambling stones can't do what you've done. You must have a treasure on you to help you cheat."
"That's right. You cheated," Ran Ziling jumped out and angrily accused Feng Yuqin, "We agreed that you would gamble stones with my second elder brother. My second elder brother chose the stones honestly on his own, while you cheated."
Feng Yuqin sneered, a mocking smile curving her lips. She scoffed, "So you're planning to renege on the bet after losing? And then find an excuse to say I cheated to erase the fact that you lost?"
"You'd better hand over whatever treasure you have on you. Otherwise, if we find it later, the outcome might be different," Ran Xiuzhe's words made Feng Yuqin's eyes turn cold.
She had long anticipated that the people from the Ran Family would renege on the bet if they lost.
So she drew her sword and neatly disarmed Ran Xiucheng of his arm.
"Ah..." Sitting on the ground, looking distraught, Ran Xiucheng never expected Feng Yuqin to suddenly attack and so neatly disarm him of his arm. The pain made him scream.
Not only Ran Xiucheng, but no one present had expected Feng Yuqin to be so decisive in disarming Ran Xiucheng of his arm with her own hands.
The whole audience was stunned by Feng Yuqin's fierce move.
Ran Xiuzhe reacted and immediately attacked Feng Yuqin, even forgetting the rule that no fighting was allowed in the Gambling Stone Workshop.
Jiu Tianhua sent a wave of power over, his voice as cold as ice, "How dare you start a fight in my Gambling Stone Workshop? You're seeking death."
The next moment, Jiu Tianhua's powerful aura followed.
Thud...
Unable to withstand such a powerful aura, Ran Xiuzhe couldn't help but kneel on the ground.
This was a great humiliation for the eldest young master of a family.
"Please... show mercy..." Ran Xiuzhe was extremely reluctant to yield, but the opponent's strength made him understand that he had no room to resist.
This aura was comparable to the strength of the ancestor of their Ran Family.
All the people he had brought with him today combined couldn't possibly defeat this opponent.
"You... can get out..." Jiu Tianhua's cold and indifferent voice echoed through the Gambling Stone Workshop.
"No," Ran Ziling was extremely scared and terrified.
However, thinking of the consequence of losing, she summoned the courage to stand up and said, "Feng Yuqin cheated. She couldn't have won against my second elder brother without cheating. Moreover, she cut off my second elder brother's arm."
"Miss Ran, the stakes were agreed upon by yourselves," Cai Heng stepped forward and said calmly, "You should accept the outcome of the bet. You have no evidence to prove that Divine Doctor Feng cheated. Even if she did cheat, if she has a treasure on her, that's also her skill. Do you expect to heal your wounds by yourself without using any pills?"
"That's right. We're not deaf. The stakes were proposed by you three siblings. It has nothing to do with Divine Doctor Feng," Shen Jiang also stepped forward and said.
"At first, Divine Doctor Feng didn't provoke you. It was you who kept pestering her. Now that you've lost, you want to renege on the bet? Is this the character of the people from your Hidden Family?" Cai Heng's calm words were like slaps on the faces of the people from the Ran Family, making them embarrassed and angry.
Ran Xiuzhe's cold and piercing gaze fell on Ran Ziling.
From the very beginning, it was Ran Ziling who had initiated this.
She was also the one who proposed the gambling - stone bet.
If she were his own full - blooded sister, he would even suspect that Ran Ziling was an insider.
"Yeah, it was you who wanted to bet, and now it's you who refuses to admit defeat. Are all the people from your Hidden Family so overbearing?"
"If you can't afford to lose, you'd better stay in your Hidden Family and stop embarrassing yourselves."
"Divine Doctor Feng was just following the bet. She didn't do anything excessive."
People didn't have much goodwill towards the people from the Hidden Family.
After all, the Hidden Family was more powerful than them.
Cultivators always competed for resources.
Based on the performance of the Ran Family today, if the Hidden Family were to come out, any sensible person could tell that it would bring no benefits to them.
So they were happy to use this incident to suppress them and prevent them from coming out casually.
Ran Ziling still wanted to argue with these people, but was stopped by Ran Xiuzhe, "Forget it. Let's go."
"Big brother..." Ran Ziling looked at Ran Xiucheng in confusion, "Second elder brother has lost an arm. Are we just going to let it go like this?"
Ran Xiucheng also covered his arm, looking sinister as he said, "Big brother, I've lost an arm, and you're saying we should just forget about it?"
"Then what do you think we should do?" Ran Xiuzhe looked at Ran Xiucheng, his expression cold and detached.