[Sell And Buy]

"White Wolf of rank 2 low... for 1450 gold pieces"

"Royal Fire Eagle of rank 1 high... for 980 gold pieces"

"Shadow Jaguar of rank 2 low... for 1600 gold pieces"

"Saber-toothed Tiger of rank 2 medium... for 2500 gold pieces"

"Rock Turtle of rank 2 medium... for 2100 gold pieces"

Manager Lu was appraising the monster carcasses that Jian Ning had hunted, announcing their prices one by one in a voice that irritated Jian Ning to the highest degree.

After several long, boring minutes for Jian Ning and equally annoying ones for Manager Lu, Jian Ning was relieved to see the end in sight.

"FINISHED! We will buy these monsters for a total of 24,350 gold pieces," said Manager Lu, taking all the monster carcasses into his own storage ring and tossing a spatial ring toward Jian Ning containing the mentioned sum of gold.

"I also want to sell some medicinal herbs that I found," said Jian Ning, shaking his spatial ring again and causing hundreds of herbs and flowers, both rare and common, to appear.

Jian Ning had made good use of Ling's 'Heavenly's Eye' abilities, and thanks to this divine skill, he had easily gathered a large quantity of spiritual herbs.

Especially in the forest, where herbs grow abundantly, you can practically find a spiritual herb between every two weeds. The biggest challenge is knowing how to pick them, recognizing their usefulness, and determining if they are valuable or not. Fortunately for Jian Ning, Ling could easily handle this.

Unfortunately, all the herbs needed refining by an alchemist; otherwise, Jian Ning would have consumed them all.

"You seem to have been very lucky in finding all these rare herbs," said Manager Lu with an envious look.

The price of these herbs was exorbitant because many of them were used to refine rank 2 and rank 3 pills, making them extremely valuable.

Manager Lu took back the spatial ring he had given to Jian Ning and recalculated the total amount of gold pieces.

"Including the herbs and monster carcasses, the total comes to 59,870 gold pieces. Due to your large sale, we will round it up and buy everything for 60,000 gold pieces," announced Manager Lu with a commercial smile, handing over a spatial ring containing a golden card engraved with the Sky Commercial Company logo.

"I would also like to buy some rank 2 pills to improve the cultivation of Qi Gathering cultivators above rank 4," said Jian Ning.

Manager Lu's eyes lit up. Despite having rank 2 and even rank 3 alchemists in the small Tianjin branch, there were not enough buyers.

Thus, they had to export their goods, which required paying cultivators to protect the shipments.

Selling merchandise in Tianjin was far more profitable than selling it in other cities.

"Of course! Here are the rank 2 Qi Spirit pills; they are very helpful for Qi Gathering stage cultivators and cost 100 gold pieces each," said Manager Lu, presenting the pills to Jian Ning.

"Ling, could these pills cause any problems on my future cultivation path?" Jian Ning asked Ling, having seen this kind of mechanic in novels before.

[Ding, in response to the host: if the pill has a purity of over 85% and is below rank 3, it will not cause any permanent harm to the host.]

Jian Ning's eyes lit up.

"Manager Lu, I would like to buy 4 bottles with 5 pills each, but I want to choose them myself," said Jian Ning with a charming smile.

"Of course, take your time," said Manager Lu, maintaining his commercial smile while presenting numerous pills to Jian Ning.

"Ling, analyze the pills before me and show me the 20 with the highest purity," ordered Jian Ning.

Ling executed immediately, and Jian Ning received a flood of information in his mind.

[Qi Spirit Pill of rank 2, 87% purity]

[Qi Spirit Pill of rank 2, 98% purity]

[Qi Spirit Pill of rank 2, 91% purity]

[Qi Spirit Pill of rank 2, 95% purity]

Jian Ning's eyes lit up again at the sight of so many pills with over 85% purity.

He wanted to buy them all but knew this would suffice for now, as he would soon enter the Lingyun sect and planned to distinguish himself to find a wealthy master who would provide him with ample resources.

"I'll take this one, and that one, then this one... and finally, that one," concluded Jian Ning, pointing out 20 pills with a purity of over 88%.

"Of course, that will be 2,000 gold pieces," said Manager Lu, storing the pills in jade bottles.

"Here you go," said Jian Ning, handing over the same gold card Manager Lu had previously given him.

"Thank you for your purchase. You have 58,000 gold pieces remaining on the card, as you can see here," said Manager Lu, pointing to a part of the card displaying the number '58,000' with a '$' symbol after it.

Jian Ning nodded towards Manager Lu, taking the spatial ring containing the card and the rank 2 pills.

"Thank you for your hospitality," said Jian Ning as he left and headed slowly toward his home.

On the way, he did not encounter either Jian Shi or Su Xiao.

Jian Ning thought Su Xiao likely didn't hold much of a grudge against him, and even if she did, Jian Ning wasn't afraid at all. The only thing that worried him slightly was Jian Shi's incredible luck. After all, even though Jian Shi was his adopted brother and their relationship was generally good, Jian Ning had no doubt that a woman could strain their fraternal bond, especially in view of the recent personality of his adopted brother.

Jian Ning returned home and quickly assumed a meditative position.

He aimed to make a breakthrough today. Although he knew he would likely be the most powerful in the sect selection, he still wanted to impress the elders and secure a powerful master.

Especially since Jian Shi would also be joining the sect, Jian Ning could gain luck points and W.E.

"Well, I'll try to break through as quickly as possible," Jian Ning said to himself.

[Ding, congratulations to the host for taking a rank 2 Qi Spirit Pill, +2,500 cultivation points, +1,000 W.E]

[Ding, congratulations to the host for taking a rank 2 Qi Spirit Pill, +2,500 cultivation points, +1,000 W.E]

[Ding, congratulations to the host for taking a rank 2 Qi Spirit Pill, +2,500 cultivation points, +1,000 W.E]

...

[Ding, congratulations to the host for taking 17 rank 2 Qi Spirit Pills, +42,500 cultivation points, +17,000 W.E]

[Ding, congratulations to the host for breaking through. The W.E rate per minute has increased from 18 W.E/min to 20 W.E/min]