The Moon Worship Cult.
Excluding the possibility that the 'Taijun' next door had attacked, seeing this name, Suke basically knew immediately that BB was trolling.
After confirming with BB via message and spending a good amount of time persuading Jing Yuan and the others, they barely accepted the explanation that this "Moon Worship Cult" was more of a fan club than a religion.
Of course, the main reason was the miraculous power BB displayed.
When BB waved her hand and collected all the Abominations of Abundance formed from the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus remaining on the Luofu Xianzhou into MOONDUBAI, this Divine Foresight General realized he had still vastly underestimated Suke's group.
This display of arbitrary, willful mighty power... he wondered which Aeon's Emanator could achieve such a thing.
However, comparing himself to Emanators of other Aeons, he, an Emanator of The Hunt, really fell short. He didn't have that much functionality, and his power was basically all in the Lightning-Lord...
Jing Yuan didn't dare to think any further. Who knew if the Reignbow Arbiter could hear him?
Exalting Sanctum, Celestial Jade (Mahjong) Parlor.
Because of Qingque's strong recommendation, Suke, who had reunited with Stelle and the others, simply agreed to play a round with her.
The stakes were simple since Qingque couldn't offer anything Suke needed anyway.
They simply decided that during the settlement, the second, third, and fourth place players would each have to fulfill one request within their power for the first place winner. Additionally, the fourth place would have to fulfill an extra request for the first place winner, just to add to the fun.
There were two sets of rules: one similar to Sichuan Mahjong from before Suke's transmutation, and one similar to Cantonese and Japanese Mahjong. After some consideration, Suke chose the latter, as he was more familiar with it.
You have to know, he was once a master of Mahjong Soul, having played his way all the way to the Throne Room rank!
Neither Stelle nor Yuki looked proficient in this art.
He might not be able to beat Qingque, but wouldn't handling you two be a piece of cake?
However, after dealing into Tsukishiro Yuki's winning hand for the fifth game in a row, Suke began to doubt life.
He looked at Qingque across from him, then at Stelle on his left and Yuki on his right.
And at Abigail, who was lying on the back of Stelle's chair watching her play with great interest, as well as Hikami Meruru, who was staying by Tsukishiro Yuki's side with a face that constantly switched between nervousness and relaxation.
Suke wouldn't believe it if you told him there was nothing fishy about this damn game.
Also, Little Abi, aren't you being too obvious? Not staying by your own guardian's side but running over to Stelle... did you two really not make some secret deal?
"Nobody move!"
"I want to check the tiles!"
In the fifth game, just as the automatic Celestial Jade machine finished dealing and everyone had just arranged their tiles, Suke, who was sitting as the dealer and was supposed to play first, suddenly pushed over all his Celestial Jade tiles!
At this moment, his score had already dropped from first place to third. He was losing every battle.
"Um, Animus, according to the rules Miss Qingque stated, doing this will result in a penalty, you know?" Tsukishiro Yuki reminded Suke.
At this moment, her score was first, while second and fourth were Stelle and Qingque respectively.
He didn't know if Qingque's skills had regressed or if Stelle's dog-luck had manifested, but Suke felt there was definitely something shady going on here—
"Fine, penalize me!"
"Push down all your Celestial Jade tiles right now! I want to see if anyone is cheating!"
Taking out a point stick representing the value of a Limit hand, Suke no longer cared about winning or losing.
He suspected Yuki was setting him up, but he had no evidence!
"Boss, you know me. How could a person as pure as me possibly cheat?"
Stelle pushed down the Celestial Jade tiles in front of her. It was a standard two-shanten hand. Although her luck was good, it was within a normal range, showing no traces of cheating.
"Boss Suke, it's normal to win and lose in Celestial Jade. Look at me, Little Queer, the former champion of the Luofu Jade Tournament. My luck isn't any good today either~"
As the reformer of the Celestial Jade rules and the number one Jade Master on the Luofu, Qingque was equally depressed about being dead last.
But after thinking about it, she let it go. After all, her current identity was a local guide; the most important thing was for the bosses to have fun.
Checking Qingque's hand, her tiles were even worse than Suke's own—a peerless trash hand with seven disparate tiles.
Suke naturally ruled out her suspicion as well.
"Little Yuki, what about yours?"
Suke's gaze fell on Tsukishiro Yuki, who had been delaying pushing her tiles.
In fact, Suke had started suspecting her even before he dealt into her hand five times in a row.
Early ripples, ready hands, instant self-draw wins strong as a monster, and she hadn't dealt into his hand once the entire time!
Suke wouldn't believe she wasn't hacking!
"...Animus, where is the trust between us?"
Tsukishiro Yuki remained silent for a few seconds, then sighed.
But Suke noticed that the expression of Meruru beside her became visibly nervous.
"It's precisely because of trust that you should show your tiles, Little Yuki!"
"I definitely believe in you, Little Yuki, but you know there are so many people here..."
Suke thought he had grasped Tsukishiro Yuki's weakness, though this weakness was useless to him.
He couldn't exactly go up and say, 'Miss Great Witch, you don't want everyone to know you're cheating, right?'
Wouldn't that be a sheep entering a tiger's mouth, fitting her intentions perfectly, and perhaps adding a bit of spice for her?
"Well."
"Since that's the case, I'll let you off this time, Animus."
Tsukishiro Yuki pushed down the stack of tiles in front of her, causing everyone's eyes to hurriedly converge on them.
However, when they saw clearly the tiles she revealed, the room fell into a brief silence for a second.
"Blessing of Heaven with Thirteen Orphans?!"
Qingque was the first to cry out in alarm. One had to know that the probability of this hand appearing was less than one in 3.18 billion!
Her cry of alarm directly transmitted out of the private room where Suke and the others were, causing people in the Celestial Jade Parlor's main hall to stick their heads out and look!
"No, is this right?"
Suke was also dumbfounded. He pointed at the Celestial Jade tiles in front of Tsukishiro Yuki, then pointed at himself. You're telling him she wasn't hacking?
"I truly did not cheat. Meruru can testify."
How can using magic to interfere with fate be called cheating?
"Y-Yes, woo... Lord Great Witch did not cheat. Sir, you can rest assured!"
The pure and innocent Hikami Meruru nodded. She seemed to be shedding tears over Suke suspecting Tsukishiro Yuki, feeling that such a thing was simply too inappropriate.
In the romance novels Meruru had read, the male and female leads should have no secrets and no doubts between them to fit her definition of romance.
How bitter; even Meruru couldn't help but close her eyes!
Sitting back down at the Celestial Jade table resentfully, Suke really had no moves left.
He suddenly realized something: even if he suspected Tsukishiro Yuki of cheating, he couldn't prove the method. Couldn't her good hand simply be pure good luck?
"...Little Yuki, can we settle the game now?"
"No can do, Animus. We agreed earlier to finish these rounds."
Tsukishiro Yuki smiled faintly, but in her smile, Suke only saw a hunter salivating over prey that was about to be caught.
Could Little Yuki's goal be to crush him down to fourth place and then make him agree to two of her requests?
It's over. He's going to look pathetic now!
"Senpai, BB-chan senses that someone here needs BB-chan's assistance~"
And just at this moment, BB's figure appeared at the door of the room. having just finished the official registration of the "Moon Worship Cult" with the Xianzhou authorities and becoming a legal religious leader, she spoke with great enthusiasm.
Name: "Moon Worship Cult". Worshipped Aeon: "Faceless Heavenly Lord". He didn't know how the Xianzhou officials dared to approve her.
Suke, seeing the registration photo sent by BB via the public channel, could only marvel at Jing Yuan's big heart. It was only because he didn't know this "Faceless Heavenly Lord" was BB and thought it was an alias for some Aeon.
Otherwise, he'd probably be scared enough to resign from his position as General on the spot!
"Senpai, are you guys playing Mahjong?"
"Mahjong is great. BB-chan is the best at these board and card games. Let BB-chan join in too~"
BB came to the table. After listening to Stelle and Qingque briefly explain the rules and stakes, she very naturally took the seat of Qingque, who had already begun to suspect that her Celestial Jade skills were actually trash.
She didn't mind in the slightest that the amount of point sticks she held as Qingque's replacement was the lowest in the house. Instead, she glanced at Tsukishiro Yuki with a smile and directly started the game.
He didn't know if it was his illusion, but Suke smelled a faint scent of gunpowder in the air.
Sure enough, after just one round, the ranking of point scores changed drastically!
Stelle fell from second to third, and BB rose against the trend from fourth to second, the gap with the first-place Tsukishiro Yuki becoming smaller and smaller!
And the intensity of the battle was still escalating!
Suke looked at the solemn-faced Stelle and Abigail behind her, whose hair had already turned from blonde to white, staring at the table with full concentration, a keyhole even emerging on her forehead.
Suke, who had become fourth place with almost no power to resist, was already speechless.
To think he thought he was hacking by wearing [Pardofelis's Cat Collar] which increased luck, and secretly eating a Magic Rock Candy.
Turns out every single one of you isn't even pretending anymore!
Three distinct, terrifying auras collided continuously on the field, making anyone with a slightly weaker constitution feel breathless.
The rankings of the top three fluctuated back and forth; even Tsukishiro Yuki briefly fell from first place for a while.
If anyone was observant, they would discover that there was hardly anyone left in the hall of this Celestial Jade Parlor.
All the passersby who couldn't withstand the pressure radiating from these auras had retreated outside the parlor. They watched the broadcast of the Jade game from the private room on the holographic screen set up by the boss outside, sighing in amazement at the various maneuvers in the game.
It was comparable to the tennis match next door played with the power to create black holes. Three Supremes battling into the West Wind round, grinding even the Dao to dust!
Standing behind Suke's chair, Qingque could no longer understand the game. She had the illusion that this wasn't Celestial Jade being played at all.
'Boss Suke... I say, Boss Suke.'
'What?'
'Those ladies of yours won't get so heated playing cards later that they flip this place over, will they? This is the Jade Parlor closest to the Divination Commission. If you guys flip it, I, Little Queer, won't have a place to slack off anymore!'
Qingque lowered her voice. Her breathing was a bit heavy; if not for the protection of Path energy, she felt she would faint from the pressure of this aura.
She suddenly regretted bringing Suke and the others to play cards. If she had known they could generate this kind of momentum just playing cards, she would have chosen another activity!
'I'll try my best, but you don't need to worry too much.'
'Even if you accidentally get killed by the shockwaves from the fight later, they can pull you back. No big deal.'
Qingque: ???
Another draw game ended. The Celestial Jade machine automatically washed the tiles and redealt.
As the final game of this round, unlike before, the three people other than Suke were in no hurry to flip up the Celestial Jade tiles covering the table.
"Let BB-chan speak a word of fairness. It's boring to keep spiraling like this, isn't it?"
"How about we decide the winner with this single game? Our scores aren't far apart now. No matter who wins this hand, we can end the game~"
"Agreed." Tsukishiro Yuki nodded expressionlessly.
"Abi has no objections either~"
Abigail, behind Stelle, smiled. In fact, Stelle, acting as her proxy, already had bloodshot eyes and looked like she was about to expire.
Mainly because Suke did not allow underage little girls at the table (looking underage wasn't allowed either), Abigail had no choice but to use this poor strategy.
Three terrifying auras expanded and collided continuously, spreading out of the Celestial Jade Parlor and even beginning to cover the entire Exalting Sanctum residential area!
"?!"
Even the Seat of Divine Foresight near Exalting Sanctum sensed it. Jing Yuan, whose bottom hadn't even warmed his seat after returning to the Seat of Divine Foresight, stood up as if triggered, looking sharply into the distance!
What happened! Did the Ambrosial Arbor revive?
Or has the Antimatter Legion led by a hostile Emanator or the Abominations of Abundance attacked?
Should he immediately request aid from other Xianzhou ships?
But after his phone buzzed and he saw the report message sent by Qingque, the alarm on Jing Yuan's face gradually turned into astonishment.
What does it mean that playing Celestial Jade created the oppressive sensation of an Emanator descending upon the world??
It had to be said that the passerby players surrounding the Exalting Sanctum Jade Parlor were quite hardcore.
Even though their bones and joints were clicking under the pressure of the aura—which was merely the scattered scraps comparable to an Emanator—they still stared at the live broadcast screen with excitement!
To witness such a battle of the strong with their own eyes, it would be worth the ticket price even if they died! Wah!
But on the table, the covered Celestial Jade tiles had still not been flipped up!
Suke, who was the last player (West) this round, couldn't understand what the three in front were doing, staring blankly without moving.
Can you guys hurry up? Speed is precious in war!
Suke simply flipped up his own Celestial Jade tiles first, intending to arrange his hand and see what was up.
But the moment he flipped the tiles, Suke, along with Qingque beside him, froze in expression on the spot.
He saw the patterns carved on the Celestial Jade tiles before him changing constantly like LED indicator lights!
Sometimes all Characters (Wan), sometimes all Circles (Tong), sometimes all Red Dragons!
This isn't something that can be solved by saying "I want to check the tiles" anymore! Where is your Luofu Xianzhou God of Gamblers? Go invite him to save us, quick!
Rumble, rumble, rumble...!
When the invisible output of the three women reached a certain critical point, a thunderous noise resounded in the ears of everyone on the Luofu Xianzhou simultaneously!
Accompanying the respective backward leaning of Tsukishiro Yuki, BB, and Abigail, the card table trembled along with them!
But what dumbfounded Suke didn't stop there.
He watched as the carved patterns on the Celestial Jade tiles in front of him vanished completely, all turning into White Dragons (blank tiles)!
Likewise, it wasn't just this Jade Parlor in Exalting Sanctum; every Jade Parlor on the entire Luofu Xianzhou, and perhaps even the entire universe, might have been affected!
Suke was silent. Qingque was dumbstruck.
Even the personnel of the Artisanship Commission responsible for the Celestial Jade production line, who relied on this for extra income, were confused.
Clearly, they could still print Celestial Jade patterns just a moment ago; how come they couldn't print them on now?
Did the production machine malfunction? No?
It was as if the existential concept named "Celestial Jade" had been forcibly erased. Everyone knew what Celestial Jade looked like, but it simply couldn't be made.
All that could be made were the White Dragons from the Dragons set.
In an instant, Qingque, as the reformer of the Celestial Jade rules, received countless messages on her phone!
They were all messages from Qingque's fellow players asking her what happened and why all the Jade tiles had turned into White Dragons!
There was also news from the Artisanship Commission saying that the set of combat-use Celestial Jade she had previously customized suddenly couldn't have patterns carved onto it, even though there was no problem with the machine.
They said delivery might be delayed as they were looking for a solution.
It was also at this moment that Qingque finally realized something was wrong. Her heart gradually turned cold.
She looked at her trembling small hand holding the phone, her pupils quaking violently.
She looked at the three women by the table, each exhaling a breath, appearing to have consumed some energy in this confrontation, and at the Trailblazer who had already started drooling and lost her mind.
"Uwah...!"
After being forced to understand and accept this desperate reality, finally, Qingque slumped to the ground and cried out!
"Jade tiles, woo woo...! My Celestial Jade tiles..."
"I, Little Queer, don't want to live anymore—!"
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