Buying all the good stuff (1)

Trevor was stunned by the massive variety of swords to choose from. There were all kinds of swords like Longsword, the Katana, the Rapier, the Scimitar, the Claymore, the Jian, the Sabre, the Cutlass, the Falcata and the Khopesh and many more.

However, Trevor once more considered the low common level of the sword, thinking that there would be more high-tech weapons up further on the list. Thus, he immediately went to the Mythical level swords to take a look.

However, to his great disappointment, nothing seemed different. Other than the swords looking shinier, there was nothing much different.

Trevor actually did not take into context that this was the 'Common' purchasing area, and thus will have no special all mighty god killing sword. He would have to look elsewhere...

Finally, after 10 minutes of deliberating between a katana and a khopesh, before deciding to use the cooler and sharper katana of the common section, buying for only 500 low-level spirit stones.

Although the amount may be small for a rich man such as Trevor, for the majority of the populace, they couldn't even afford a weapon at all, they were instead thinking about how to save money from food to cultivate.

Realising something, Trevor looked up from his screen after remembering the discussion between him and Lannan and Ferdinand. But, both men were still looking avidly at their system screen, probably purchasing stuff and looking around, thus, he quickly looked down again to buy stuff.

Trevor then moved towards the armour section. However, compared to the weapons section, this place seemed far more desolate. Looking at the higher ranks of armour, the diversity is much lower than the lower ranks, probably because armour eventually becomes nothing.

Thus, Trevor decided to buy some trash level clothes to use and some uncommon protection clothing, meant to reduce damage from blunt force attacks.

Trevor, quickly left the room to try his new clothes on, the other two men not noticing.

"Damn, these clothes are super comfy, i guess the extra cost to modify the clothes to have extra softness was good, I mean, it was only 1000 Low spirit stones."

One must remember that people only have 100 Low spirit stones.

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Once returning to sit down again, he moved towards the cultivation manual section.

He currently has a cumulative 499 Medium spirit stones and 996,067 Low spirit stones, and thus could afford to spend.

Again, he was greeted with a list of ranks of manuals he could purchase, from mortal level to Immortal Ascension, which were split between the five mainstream cultivation systems as well as a sixth miscellaneous row on the side. However, what surprised him was after the Immortal ascension rank, full of 'NOT ENOUGH AUTHORITY', the six rows merged into two, one for cultivation and the other for miscellaneous stuff.

Trevor wanted the best of the best, and thus moved to purchase an Immortal Ascension rank Qi cultivation manual. There were all sorts of manuals with weird names like "The Dragon's Breath Technique", "The Lotus Blossom Method" and "The Celestial Gates Manual".

However, when looking at the astronomical prices of 500,000 High spirit stones, and one even costing 7.5 Peak spirit stones, he quickly ran away towards the lower ranks. Finally, on the Soul Transformation page, he could see that medium spirit stones were being used, however, it was in the hundreds of thousands. Thus, he moved down once more into the Golden Core section, where he could afford most of the techniques, with some even being more than 5000 Medium spirit stones.

Just as Trevor was going to purchase one of the Golden Core rank cultivation manuals, Alice appeared.

[Trevor, it is advised for you to purchase the "9 Divine Qi Heavens manual". Of all the cultivation manuals, it is of the highest strength and the highest difficulty, as well as the high cost. However, this technique can bring you the furthest and produce an incredibly strong foundation for you NOT ENOUGH AUTHORITY]

Trevor was startled by Alice's sudden appearance, almost purchasing the "5 Elements manual".

Trevor already knew of this "9 Divine Qi Heavens manual" as it was the one that had costed 7.5 peak spirit stones in the Immortal Ascension rank. Thus after considering Alice's words, he moved down aggrievedly, to the Foundation Establishment section and attempted the purchase the manual for 7.5 Medium spirit stones.

[You must purchase or possess the Qi Condensation "9 Divine Qi Heavens manual" to purchase the Foundation Establishment "9 Divine Qi Heavens manual"]

Trevor felt like smashing his head into the floor.

However, he once more moved to the body refining stage's Qi cultivation manual.

[You must purchase or possess the Body Refining "9 Divine Qi Heavens manual" to purchase the Qi Condensation "9 Divine Qi Heavens manual"]

"What the hell do you mean, this system is rigged!"

Lannan and Ferdinand seemingly awoke from their stupor and stared at Trevor disapprovingly before once more looking down and drool.

Finally, Trevor purchased the Body Refining "9 Divine Qi Heavens manual" for 75 Spirit stones, then the Qi Condensation "9 Divine Qi Heavens manual" for 7,500 Spirit stones and lastly, the Foundation Establishment "9 Divine Qi Heavens manual" for 7.5 Medium spirit stones.

Though Trevor was angered by this purchasing of the "9 Divine Qi Heavens manual", others were even more angry.

Many people saw the expensive price of the "9 Divine Qi Heavens manual" and the other similar ones of the other systems like the "9 Divine Mana Heavens manual", they bought it, thinking that they would become all powerful and quickly break through to the Skin-refining stage. However, when they were trying to read through it, they didn't understand one bit of it, it was like an entirely foreign language even though they now knew every single language because of the reformatting.

They quickly went to the Global chat and asked for a refund from the Lord, but were quickly temporarily banned from using the system by the system for defamation of the Lord. News quickly became quiet and sooner than later, another tide of resentment came, before being once more dispelled.

Soon enough, a talent rank requirement showed up with the manuals, whereby the higher the requirement, the harder it is to cultivate.

The "9 Divine Qi Heavens manual" and similar ones had a rank 10 talent threshold, shocking many of the people with the absurdly high talent ranking. The most basic one they received was the Basic Cultivation Manual of their system at a talent requirement of Rank 99, most being unable to cultivate. However, all of the rank 100 individuals got leeway as the Body Cultivation path Basic Cultivation manual had no requirement whatsoever, however it would become absurdly hard to break though in later stages for them, as with life is unfair.

[Thank you for your successful purchase Trevor, would you like to change your Cultivation Technique to the "9 Divine Qi Heavens manual"]

"Yes"

[Name: Trevor Bianchi]

[Lifespan: 23 / 150]

[Race: Human]

[Cultivation: Perfection-Level Skin Refining (Rank 1)]

[Fighting prowess: High-Level Organ Refining (Rank 1)]

[Technique: 9 Divine Qi Heavens manual]

[Pets: None]

[Mystical Power: None]

[Equipment: Common steel Katana, Uncommon protection clothes]

[Authority: Level 1 (Level 5 temporarily)]

[Cultivation Potential: Top-tier (Rank 2)]

"Okay then", Trevor was finally happy to see his battle prowess being as it is.

"Now then, mystical powers."