Chapter 14 (2/2)

“Family head, I’ll go fight to the death with him…” Tie Ta said as he prepared to go up.

“What are you panicking over, get ready for a good show…” Ren Jie picked up an ironwood stool made of dense ironwood that weighed a good dozen pounds and, with his other hand, he took out a stack of gold notes.

“Gao Fei voluntarily agreed to bet with me for 500,000 taels of gold. If he can withstand an hour of beating from ironwood stools, then I’ll give him 500,000 taels of gold willingly. Now, everyone, listen up. If you want to earn money, then do something right now. Throw the ironwood stools in your hand. If you miss, you’ll get 100 taels of gold, but if you hit the target, you’ll get 1,000 taels of gold. If there’s blood, you get 10,000 taels of gold. There are 5,000 ironwood stools here. If you want to earn money, then get to work now.” Ren Jie bellowed out with the vigor in his body that was even more powerful than those at level-seven of the Body Refinement Realm. While he was unable to achieve the effect of sounding as if he was right next to you like Li Jun was able to, his words could still be heard clearly by everyone.

“Whoosh…” After he finished speaking, Ren Jie had already hurled the ironwood stool in his hand towards the center of the fighting arena.

Wh-what?

Since when did I bet this with you? What is this fellow talking about?

Gao Fei was incredibly confused as he stood in the center of the fighting arena. What was this fellow saying? When he saw the ironwood stool flying towards him, he quickly dodged it. Since it came from a great distance and it was so large, it was not difficult to dodge it.

“Haha, time to earn some money! If we hit the target, it’s 1,000 taels of gold, what are you waiting for?” Gao Ren immediately reacted when he heard Ren Jie’s words. Then, he immediately picked up an ironwood stool and hurled it after Ren Jie finished throwing his.

“Big Tie Ta, what are you standing there for? Throw!” Gao Ren reminded Tie Ta as he hurled it.

While Tie Ta had not come to his senses yet, seeing his family head and Gao Ren do so he also picked up a couple of ironwood stools and hurled them all at once.

“Ren Jie… you…” Gao Fei wanted to say something, but ironwood stools immediately came flying at him and he was soon busy dodging them.

“What are you all waiting for? Get to work if you want to earn money! There are a million taels of gold worth of gold notes here. If you hit the target, come and get 1,000 taels of gold from our family head here; The more you throw, the more money you’ll earn!” Ren Jie had thrown a stack of gold notes worth 100 taels of gold in the air as it rained down.

Obviously, nobody studying here was lacking money, but this was also why they had equally large expenditures and their need for money was much more than an average person. When Ren Jie did that, many people did know what was going on and really thought that this was the bet. Besides, Gao Fei had offended many people in the academy.

With that, a stack of gold notes and piles of ironwood stools immediately started raining down. A bunch of people who already had a grudge against Gao Fei immediately took the opportunity to hurl the ironwood stool in their hand. This was just like what happened with the clapping earlier. As long as there was enough money and thrill, the crowd would be mobilized even though they did not fully understand what was going on.

As long as one person started throwing, the rest would also follow suit. These rich kids at the academy gambled with everything, anyway.

In the beginning, only Tie Ta and Gao Ren were hurling with all their might, but Tie Ta was very fast and made it seem as though a group of people was throwing at the same time. However, when Ren Jie threw the stack of gold notes in the air, the people at the side also started cheering as they hurled their ironwood stools as well.

“Ren Jie… I… was betting with you… ah… you bastards…”

“Stop… I… it’s not…”

“You bastards, stop… now… make them stop!”

“Save… me…”

Gao Fei could still dodge the ironwood stools at first, but there were too many to do so as time went on as ironwood stools came flying at him from every direction. Since he could no longer dodge them, he could only try his best to block them. He was able to do so when the numbers were few at the start, but there were more as time passed and some of them came crashing down very hard. leaving Gao Fei in much pain as his painful yells filled the air. He wanted to leave the fighting arena but realized that he could not find a way to escape.

Throngs of ironwood stools came flying towards him non-stop just like arrows.

“Fuck…” The people who followed behind Gao Fei were dumbfounded. Save him? How were they going to do that?

The people throwing were getting excited. Looking at the ironwood stools flying towards the fighting arena, they would be knocked down before they even managed to get to Gao Fei.

They all stood there helplessly as they wondered why the situation had taken such a turn.

“That was great, here’s 1,000 taels of gold.” Ren Jie took out a stack of gold notes worth 1,000 taels of gold each and scrunched them up to throw at a group of people who had managed to hit Gao Fei’s head.

“That was a great roundabout throw, I’ll give you a special reward of 1,000 taels.”

“This one over here managed to get blood, here’s 10,000 taels.”

They were not really doing it for money, but nobody would say no to free money either. And besides, there were already a lot of people who hated Gao Fei, anyway. Some of them did not dare confront him in private, and these were the ones who were the fiercest when it came to hurling the stools. Anyway, with a few hundred people hurling at once they would not be blamed even if Gao Fei died in the chaos. Because of that, they were even more vicious in their attack.

Ren Jie only fanned the flames at the start, and in the end, he did not even have to do anything as all 5,000 ironwood stools in the fighting arena were soon hurled at Gao Fei.

In the end, Gao Fei was buried underneath all the ironwood stools, and the good thing was that they were not stones and thus, had many gaps in between that would make sure that at least he would not suffocate. Still, anyone could tell that even if Gao Fei was not dead, he would not be much better off.