A light of extreme confusion flickered in Curse Blue's crimson eyes.
As the eldest and most knowledgeable of the Eight Demons, he naturally knew of the two fundamental forces that maintained the world's balance—
dark chi and good chi, and their eternal, relentless conflict.
The utterly illogical scene before him forced him, like his 'good brother' the Holy Lord imprisoned in the statue, to arrive at the most logical deduction:
Could it be... that this human is the host chosen by dark chi for this generation?
Only this explanation could barely account for why Bansha's demonic energy would behave so... 'obsequiously'?
Why would all sorts of good fortune seem to seek him out as if it had eyes?
This was clearly dark chi doing its utmost to 'favor' and 'nurture' its agent!
But... a crack appeared on Curse Blue's eternally cold and indifferent face.
Even if Victor is a dark chi host, this 'treatment' is excessively good, isn't it?
This is no longer mere 'favor'. This is practically dark chi eagerly pulling out the family fortune it has accumulated over thousands, even tens of thousands of years, and carefully 'pampering' this little ancestor!
That level of meticulous care, that fear of him getting the slightest bump or scrape... If it weren't a father doting on his son, one might believe it was a son serving his father.
And... what about good chi?
Curse Blue's thoughts descended into deeper chaos.
According to the 'usual pattern' of countless past cycles, whenever the dark chi side made a move, especially when a host stirred up such a commotion, the good chi side would always promptly dispatch its agent—
those human mages who mastered chi magic would come to stop and balance things.
Like the Eight Immortals who banished them to hell.
But today?
Not only was there no interference, there wasn't even a shadow of a good chi agent to be seen!
This breaks the rules!
Curse Blue felt his demonic logic was crumbling.
Has the good chi side given up?
Or... has it been completely suppressed by dark chi?
Impossible. The balance between dark chi and good chi is a fundamental law of the universe... An even more absurd thought, one that could shatter the worldview of anyone in the know, struck Curse Blue like lightning:
It couldn't be... that the good chi side and the dark chi side... have joined forces?!
This idea was too earth-shattering. Even Curse Blue himself was startled and instinctively wanted to reject it.
dark chi and good chi, mutually generating and restraining, eternally opposing each other—this is an ironclad law! How could they possibly cooperate? Utterly ridiculous!
Hahaha, I'm overthinking it, overthinking it... "Royal Flush! Haha! I win! Pay up, pay up! All the pretty gems are mine!"
Aboard the now-repaired fairy plane.
Jade jumped up from her chair, hands on her hips, declaring triumphantly, her little face plastered with the arrogance of a 'gambling queen'.
She finally slammed the 'Joker' cards she had been clutching tightly onto the table with a crisp sound.
Then, she skillfully picked up the nearby strips of white paper she had prepared earlier and, with two precise *slaps*, stuck them onto the foreheads of Victor and Enid opposite her.
Victor looked at the terrible hand of cards he hadn't managed to play, a woeful expression on his face, then touched his cheek, which was almost covered in white paper strips.
With utter despair, he picked up the finest-quality ruby from the mountain of treasure and reluctantly pushed it toward Jade.
"Take it, take it... you little ancestor. Are you really playing Landlords for the first time?"
Victor's voice was full of suspicion and grievance.
"I've lost ten games in a row! Your luck is just too outrageous!"
He seriously suspected this little girl was using some unknown secret technique. How else could her luck be this good?
It was as if she'd been kissed by the Goddess of Fortune!
Enid, however, didn't mind losing much. Her azure eyes curved into happy crescents, finding the bickering between Victor and Jade particularly amusing.
She even kindly helped re-stick the paper strips that were about to slip off Victor's face.
"Victor, a bet is a bet," Enid said, her voice gentle with laughter.
"Exactly! Exactly!"
Jade grabbed the ruby, held it up to the sunlight to inspect it, then stuffed it into her already bulging little pocket with satisfaction before sticking her tongue out at Victor.
"Nyah nyah~ Loser!"
Her heart was bursting with joy: This was way more exciting than following Uncle jackie around looking for talismans! Adventure *and* winning gems? This was her dream vacation!
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