When Ling Chuxi and the rest had finished placing their bets, they left the gambling house. Squinty-eyes passionately sent them off, then happily went to report the good news to his boss. That group betting on Ling Chuxi getting first place was practically sending them free money!
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The next thing Ling Chuxi and the rest needed to do was to prepare for war. There were many people participating in the fighting competition this time around and the battle that was going to be held in the first round was a chaotic large-scale fight. The conditions of the so-called large-scale fight was simply that groups of more than ten people would go into the fighting ring at a time and without differentiating between enemies and friends, they were to spar and the last person standing at the end would be the winner of that group! Then, all the winners from the first round would be eligible to enter the next round of the competition.
When I read/translated this chapter, all I could think was they're relatives, bro. Ling Yichen don’t stand a chance. Poor guy...