Li Na has recieved a drug Lord system. This system will help her become the best drug lord in the world. let us see how she begin to become the best drug seller that the world have ever seen

The time I used all old bread. I started thinking, how  can I continue this game if I died because if hunger. I may respawned but my hard earned exp.  will be gone. 

I sit near the tree and feel the surrounding. Its really like real world, The wind, The smoothness of grass, the soil water all of them are so realistic.  It gives a feeling that Its another world. 

Then a Adventurer suddenly passed by me , 

Kid, your A player too,  He said

A well, yeah what about it., "I humbly asked. 

This middle age man looks good so I just talk with him for a bit. 

It's hard to see players in this city, even its a starting point because the quest. Given in here are all D rank,  The player said

Is that so?  I answer

Yeah, But by the way, Im Roger Im now level 10, but I still cant take on quest at the Guild. Because of my level is supposed to be S rank. 
Im Making a party so that we can take quest on. 

Oh, Im Naiver.  It sounds like not bad idea but how many money I can get if I join? 

Ahh??  Sorry did you really love money that much? Guild never gives money but instead they give Items. That is not for sale. Roger said

Ahh, well sorry Roger but I have to make money. I say it while walking away

Ahh Naiver, Wait leveling up is really hard in cities like this, If you change your mind
search for me at the Guild house. 

I just walk right away,  In games they injoy it by becoming an adventurer in the Guild house but Im not here to Injoy but to make money. I have to go at the market place. 

I ran fast towards the market place, but then a notification showed up. 

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You level up

Due to your way on leveling up, 
A skill is granted. 
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Sprint lvl1
For 2 minutes your speed is boosted 2°/.
mp:15       cd:2 hours
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Wow, so that's how to train skills in this game. 

Unlike other games that you have to buy skills in the skill shop. In this game you can get skill tru how you act while leveling up. But there are other source of skills
such as skill book( Monster drop ) or Player sharing(Can be given by a player or an npc)

I have to get a skill that can produce money.  

I been talking to my self, And didnt know that I arrived at the marketplace of the Only City. 

Why Did it became so noisy? I told my self

Its just like a real marketplace.  Loud sellers, and foul smelling. But I know I can have money in this place. 

So I started roaming, All stalls almost sells adventurer necessities Like potion, armour,  weapon and food.

To start a business I first have to choose What I have to sell. Weapons  are good it can be sell in high price but It is hard to make. Potions are easy to make but very cheap and the materials needed is hard to find.Armour is just the same as weapon.
For now the best choice is food Its expensive and the Materials are to be found in the farms around Only city.

But what will I gonna do?  cook on my own till I learn it when I level up? 
No, Ill just ask the seller.

What do you want sir? The seller ask

How can I learn cooking? I asked

Ohh, so you want to work here?  Its just the right timing I need worker. When your done I cab teach you how to cook. ok? The seller said

Ahh how money will I get? I asked 

What?  What do you really want money or a skill?  

Ahhh the skill mam. The skill

Ok,  now go outside the city and search for this.(She handed A list of matterials.)
I want that this after noon if You cant do it just dont came back. 

The list has 30 rare herbs, 10 rare vegies and 2 rare monster meat. 
All in all its not gonna  be easy. 
What will I do.

You want to have the cooking skill right? The food seller said. 

I dont have anything to do, Maybe its more safe if I join a party, So that I can have the cooking skill to make money  and my share in the party. 

Its time to go to the Guild hall!, "I said to my self

While on the way I suddenly get starve. Even when I eat in the game the hunger meter wont go up.  

Then I suddenly remembered that it was already a week Im in the game and its a day in a half in real life, so I guess that I need to eat real foods after all.

When A person lost its job 
it will always search for a way to live. 

Its only every people didnt get an opportunity or just tired

This is a story of how our mc live a life from rich to poor. 

Is playing a game really the answer to his problem?

When money is nowhere to be found
there's a loaner

But will you take the loan if it cause you 
a life.

See how our mc pay his debt.

and how bad it will be to be in debt


In this novel 
Our mc is in debt and forced to play a game To pay his debt. If he cant
his family will suffer

After Felix toggled a good distance inside the market, he lifted his hand, which had the AP bracelet attached to and called softly, "Queen, Please scan for those materials, Fountain Purity Drop, Darkstar Fly Dust, Golem Brass, Voidling's scales, and lastly, Uncommon Elemental Flower."
In a jiffy, the Queen used the AP bracelet scanning feature, making the bracelet emit invisible blue particles in 50 meters radius around Felix.
'I need to upgrade the bracelet.' Felix frowned his eyebrows at this limited range. He knew that the current new generation of Bracelets could allow the Queen to scan 500 meters or more. But for now, he focused on the materials. He just made a mental note to shop for another bracelet later on.
The players near him weren't surprised by his weird pose as a lot of players were doing the same in every part of the market. After all, in this market, there were thousands of sellers, yet no search bar to facilitate finding what one wanted.
Soon, the Queen finished her scanning and informed him, 'I found four materials of the mentioned list in those marked sellers."
Felix looked around and saw four sellers marked in red particles by the Queen. He thanked her and moved towards the nearest one of them.
After arriving near the seller, he saw that there was a small crowd of players that was surrounding him. though only one player was actually talking to the seller as the rest were gazing in focus at nothing.
Ignoring this sight, Felix aimed his bracelet at the huge hologram before him and the content of it was copied in his bracelet. 
After doing so, he went to an empty spot and stood like the others gazing at nothing. Though, that what appeared to the rest but for Felix, he was browsing items on an invisible holographic list.
This list was exactly the same as the prize pool list he had in his games. From the limited hundred items to the limited stock available to trade. The only difference between them was that none of the items were the same! Except of course the elemental stones.
"Got you!" After scrolling down to the bottom of the list, Felix showed a faint grin at finding the Darkstar Fly Dust. Plus, there were still 10 grams available in the stock! Though, Felix needed only 4 for the potion.
He already bought 1 gram from the Beethoven auction with 320 million SC! Yet now, he was looking at this material that cost just 1000 GP per gram!
Without wasting time, he closed the hologram and went to the seller.
"Trade or buy?" The seller asked him in a straightforward manner.
"I want to buy 4 grams of the Darkstar Fly Dust." Felix answered.
"As per the league's rules, please wire 4000 GP first and my 5% commission after the purchase." The seller informed Felix as he extended his AP bracelet to him.
Without an ounce of hesitation, Felix touched the seller's bracelet, sending him the needed amount. Felix was already familiar with the rules of the League, and he understood that he didn't need to worry about getting scammed or cheated out of his money.
Everyone here was a member of the League and based on rules, cheating another player had only one penalty, which was getting sent to mine elemental stones on mineral planets.
One should never forget that elemental stones get created in the most hellish environments, each based on the element. For example, fire stones could only be found on planets like Solaria planet, the one Felix played death race in!
Thus, those sellers could be trusted to not escape with his game points.
Ti-ring!
After hearing the sound of the notification, the seller withdrew his hand with a pleased smile on his face. He created a minimized version of the list and scrolled down until he located the material. He then clicked on buy four grams only and closed down the hologram.
"Contract or not?" The seller asked.
"Contract please." Felix replied expressionlessly.
Immediately after, the seller projected an invisible contract before Felix, entailing that Felix needed to pay him 5% of the total amount spent to buy the material. Reason? His labor fees!
That's right, his labor fees for reaching the gold rank and obtaining this randomized prize pool in his game!
You see, all of those players in the market were selling none other than items from the prize pools they obtained in their games!
Obviously, none of those items were actually belonging to them but to the SGA!
They were simply displaying the latest prize pool list they got after playing a game to those interested in the items they lucked out on.
This loophole was working only because players get 100 randomized items in the prize pool on each game. 
This meant, there was a high chance for a player to get not a single item or resource that he wanted while getting an item that was desperately needed by another player.
In other words, those two if they met, could totally trade items or buy them for each other with a small labor commission for the troubles.
This loophole was exiting for a long time now, and the SGA or the Queen never bothered to patch it up since it was actually beneficial for the Alliance's economy!
The players weren't doing anything wrong as they simply use their own game points which they earned rightfully in their games to buy items from other lists!
The only thing the SGA forbade was direct game points transfer. As for trading items or 'selling' them? They were never bothered about it.
Their indirect approval made this new emerging industry explode in popularity! to the point it got an official name: Prize Pool Free Trading.
Free Trading in the sense, every player in the platform no matter his rank was able to join as well, he just needed to play one game. That's all it took.
Felix literally could right now find an empty spot in the summit and display his prize pool with the intention to sell. 
Though, he would rather not embarrass him like this as he was still in bronze rank, which meant those items were also below the interest of probably every player in the League.
Thus, he only came here with the intention to buy the materials, nothing more, nothing less.
After finishing reading the contract that was filled with the usual known terms, Felix signed it and sent it back to the seller. Before getting told what to do, Felix touched the bracelet of the seller, wiring the 200 GP commission.
The seller nodded his head in satisfaction after seeing what he earned. He literally did absolutely nothing but display a list that belonged to the SGA and he earned 200 GP free. 
Though he did work his ass off to reach the gold rank, and that was something not any average joe could do.
Seeing his content expression, Felix smiled bitterly after remembering himself practicing this business on the Androxa's public market. 
Instead of getting rich players interested in buying from his prize pool, he was only getting commoners asking about what he was selling or even worse enforcers, trying to capture him due to selling without a permit.
This was one of the reasons in his previous life that got him obsessed with joining the Ivy League. The fact those sellers before him could just sit here and chill, yet game points fill their accounts without dropping a sweat. He always wanted to do the same, alas the trials were too hard for him.
"I believe you received the serial code of the materials?"
Felix's absent-mindedness was broken by the seller's polite question.
Felix nodded his head after he checked that indeed, four serial codes were added to his AP bracelet.
"Glad to do business with you." The seller gave him a polite smile and gestured with his hand for the player waiting behind Felix patiently.
Not wanting to block his business, Felix turned around and left, heading to the next seller that the Queen was marking. 
Felix wasn't afraid about the fact that his serial codes were known to the seller as the contract they signed forbade the seller from utilizing the code directly or indirectly.
Nothing could fool the Queen's vision.
...
15 minutes later...
Felix went through all of the marked sellers and obtained all the materials needed except for the last one.
The Uncommon Elemental Flower.
He spent around 19500 to buy 14 Fountain Purity drops, 1 Golem Brass, 4 Darkstar Fly Dust, and 2 Voidling's Scales. With the DawnTree leaf that he bought in the auction before, he currently only needed the All-elemental Flower and he could make contact with a witch to concoct the potion for him!
If it wasn't for the 2nd game and the massive amount of game points he obtained, he would have taken at least a year or so to gather those materials!
Though, he was still having difficulty finding the Uncommon Elemental flower. he continued to scan every once and a while, yet the Queen always gave him negative results.
Felix wasn't really surprised about the lack of this material as he knew that it was extremely useful to any bloodliner alive. This put him in a pickle as this material was a must-buy since it was the core of the potion!
It was known for being split into three grades, Common Element Flower, which possessed a petal for each of the 7 known common elements.
Uncommon Elemental Flower possessed a petal for those 7 common elements in addition to every uncommon element in the universe. Finally, the All Elemental Flower, which had every single element whether it's known or not. Sadly, this flower already went extinct.
This flower had many uses besides being a core material to the elemental potion. The most known use was actually ingesting it directly. 
Doing so helps to increase the affinity rating by 3%! Though, it was a must to have an element corresponding to a petal for that effect to take place.
For Felix, who needed the Uncommon Flower to make an Elemental Potion that had all the elements except for the rare ones, this made it challenging for him to acquire one.


Felix Maxwell was destined to be a loser, born on one of the weakest races and on the least favorable of situations, he was forced to face adversity head-on as he traveled across the vast universe where dangers laid in every corner, one day traveling in hopes of riches he stumbled upon a ruin where a supreme being laid imprisoned, in a stroke of bad luck the being laid its eyes on him and tried to take over his body, forcing itself upon him.

but fate hadn't given up on him!

he woke up in his younger body, 20 years in the past with the fallen being trapped in his soul.

 In his past life he had been a loser, giving up on things mid-way and never striving for greatness, he was a side character who made the strong shine even brighter, but not on this life.

he swore to himself he would strive for glory, he would take advantage of his knowledge and emerge as a supreme being!


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PS: This novel isn't a space exploration novel (Not in the first 8 volumes at least). It's mostly focused on the Universal Virtual Reality and the 'Supremacy Games' as the name implies, with some real-life situations as well of course!

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After the ceremony, all the guests were invited to a hotel nearby where Wang Mingbao had booked a few private rooms.
This was the usual process of an opening ceremony. After celebrating the opening of the store, all the guests would gather together to have a nice meal before they went home.
Wang Yao knew a few people at the table. They were all from the same village but they didn't really speak to one another. The only person he was friendly with was Wang Zexiao. The two of them sat together and chatted while the others were cracking melon seeds, smoking and waiting to be served. A moment later, the dishes arrived.
They were all pouring wine, cheering and drinking. The room was full of smoke and smell of alcohol.
Wang Yao didn't feel comfortable in the room. He forgot the last time he experienced something like this.
"You don't drink, Yao?" asked Wang Zexiao.
"No," said Wang Yao.
"I won't drink either!" Wang Zexiao put down the bottle of wine. Actually, Wang Zexiao liked drinking wine.
"Are you gonna go to work in the afternoon?" asked Wang Yao.
"No, I took a day off," said Wang Zexiao.
"Why not drink some wine? Did you drive?" asked Wang Yao.
"No wine today," said Wang Zexiao with a smile.
The others at the table were all drinking to their limits. After a short while, two bottles of wine had gone and everyone's faces went red.
After about 20 minutes Wang Mingbao came to the table to propose a toast. Wang Mingbao had become very articulate after years of experience in doing business. His speech made everyone at the table laugh.
"Why not drink some wine?" asked Wang Mingbao.
"No, thanks," said Wang Yao.
"Okay, have some more food then," said Wang Mingbao who didn't insist. 
"Sure, but don't worry about me," said Wang Yao.
After the meal, Wang Yao and Wang Zexiao chatted with Wang Mingbao for a short while. They made sure there was nothing Wang Mingbao wanted them to do before they returned to the village.
After returning to the village, Wang Yao stayed at Wang Zexiao's home for a while. He then went back to his own house to see his parents and then went up to Nanshan hill again.
Wang Yao resumed his quiet life on the hill. He worked in the herbal field, practiced his breathing and read scriptures. His life was similar to monks that lived in a temple.
Three days later, both the shanjing and guiyuan sprouted. Wang Yao had been using the ancient spring to water for those two special licorice roots to make sure they received adequate nutrients.
Are these herbs ready to use? thought Wang Yao.
After watering the licorice roots, he noticed the other herbs in the field such as radix gentianae and radix sileris were growing crazily due to the nurturing of the ancient spring water. They grew fast regardless of the change in weather. They even kept growing throughout autumn and winter, which seemed to be against their nature.
Ding!
Series of tasks: Garden of herbs.
Task one: Plant ten different herbs successfully within seven days. Reward for success: Random.
Punishment for failure: unable to proceed with other tasks.
"Does it have to be ten licorice roots?" asked Wang Yao.
No. The answer from the system was short and clear.
Good. The task would be very tricky if I were asked to grow ten different licorice roots. It won't be too hard to grow ten different common herbs.
Wang Yao had to visit town again for the task.
Later in the afternoon, Wang Yao returned to his home and bumped into his parents at the door. His father and mother were on the motorbike. It was beginning to get cold so his mother's face had turned red.
I should buy a car, thought Wang Yao.
Wang Yao expressed his thoughts of buying a car to his parents when they were having dinner.
"Well, I agree with you that we should buy a car. Quite a lot of people in the village have bought cars. A few days ago, Qing Bao's daughter-in-law was just showing off her new car, which cost over 100 thousand yuan," said Zhang Xiuying.
In fact, the villagers were very sensitive about losing face. Wang Yao knew his parents wanted him to become outstanding and successful. When his sister got a job offer from the Agricultural Bureau, his parents told everyone in the village about it.
"What car do you want to buy?" asked Wang Yao. He stayed on the hill most of the time, so he didn't have many opportunities to drive. He only went to town occasionally. He purely wanted to buy a car for his parents.
"It's up to you. Don't buy something too expensive. I heard Volkswagen cars have good quality," said Zhang Xiuying.
"Mom, I have to go to town tomorrow. Could you please look after the herbal field for me?" said Wang Yao.
"Sure."
Zhang Xiuying went up to the hill very early the next day. Wang Yao also got up early. He came down after practicing breathing and bumped into his mother.
"What were you doing on the hill?" asked Zhang Xiuying curiously.
"Exercise," said Wang Yao with a smile.
"Okay. It's getting cold. You should wear more clothes. Off you go," said Zhang Xiuying.
"I know," said Wang Yao.
Wang Yao rode his motorbike into town. The cold wind went straight through his clothes but Wang Yao didn't feel cold. Instead, he felt a warm trace of Qi inside his body.
It didn't take Wang Yao long to arrive. He bought some herbal seeds from the seller who seemed to still remember him.
"Young man, why do you buy so many seeds?" asked the seller as Wang Yao bought all kinds of seeds available in his store.
"I plan to plant all of them to see which ones suit me best," replied Wang Yao with a smile.
"You don't need to do that. I have a list here with all the herbs bought by big herbal growers frequently. Just give me one second and I'll fetch it for you," said the seller. "All the herbs on the list should be suitable to grow in the soil of Lianshan."
"Thank you," said Wang Yao. Although Wang Yao could grow all kinds of herbs using ancient spring water, he was grateful to this nice seller.
He went to a car dealership after he had purchased the herbal seeds. All the car dealers in Lianshan were located on one street. He picked a store and walked inside. A pretty girl came to greet him as soon as she saw him.
"Hello, sir, do you want to buy a car?" asked the girl.
"I just want to take a look first," said Wang Yao.
"What's your budget? What car do you like?" asked the girl with a smile.
"Well, maybe a Volkswagen," replied Wang Yao after some hesitation.
He walked into the showroom and unlike those 4S stores, there were different makes and models of cars on display. Apart from car sales, car dealers like this also made money from insurance, service and repair.


In an inaccessible village, there were a few houses on the hillside. 
People from far away were attracted here and the mountain road was crowded with luxury cars, because, in this town, there was a young man with incredible medical skills  who could cure all kinds of illnesses!

Zhong Yin, a disciple of the Summer Valley and a late Dharma adept, was also a personal disciple of an elder of the Summer Valley.
This elder of the Summer Valley was coincidentally an inner elder of the Lightning Sword Sect.
In the Lightning Sword Sect, if one wanted to become an inner elder, one had to be at the mid Primordial Soul stage at the very least. That was the threshold that the inner elders abided by.
As for those who wanted to enter the Lightning Peak and become an elder of the Lightning Sword Sect, the conditions were even stricter. One had to be at least a late Primordial Soul adept and above.
As for becoming an outer elder, one only had to be at the early Primordial Soul stage to qualify.
In other words, in the Lightning Sword Sect, even the most average and mediocre outer elder was also at the very least within one of the Primordial Soul stages.
"Bai Liqing!"
Zhong Yin floated to where Bai Liqing was in the sky, stabilized himself and stared beadily at Bai Liqing. In a low voice, he asked gravely, "I, Zhong Ya, have never offended you before, right?
However, you dared to sell fake Thousand-Year Red Wood to me?"
Zhong Ya had used 80 high-quality spirit stones in this exchange only to realize that the Thousand-Year Red Wood was fake; it was no wonder that he was greatly angered by it!
Originally, after he had arrived at the Winter Valley, over a period of time, his anger had already diminished slightly.
However, now that he was face to face with Bai Liqing, his anger was fueled yet again like a flame that was restarted. He raged, and now it was too late to calm him down.
"Zhong Ya, is everyone from the Summer Valley crazy!?" Bai Liqing asked solemnly.
"First, it was that Fang Baiwei who claimed that the Frozen-Blood Jade I sold him was fake... Now, you're here creating trouble and claiming that the Thousand-Year Red Wood I sold you is fake too?
"Are you going to act like Fang Baiwei and mention that you can't provide any evidence for your claims since the Thousand-Year Red Wood has already been in contact with fire and got destroyed?"
At this point, Bai Liqing was extremely frustrated and angered.
After all, Zhong Yin and Fang Baiwei were different.
Other than the fact that Zhong Yin had an inner elder backing him up, Zhong Yin's stage was also higher than his.
"You sold Frozen-Blood Jade to Brother Fang?"
Zhong Yin furrowed his brows.
"Furthermore, Brother Fang mentioned that the Frozen-Blood Jade was fake as well?"
"Hmph!"
Bai Liqing snorted coldly and replied mockingly, "All you people of the Summer Valley are clearly working together to malign me... You're still acting right now?"
"Bai Liqing."
Zhong Yin sighed deeply.
"No matter whether it is the Thousand-Year Red Wood that I wanted or the Frozen-Blood Jade that Brother Fang wanted, they are all items that we have been searching for from the shelves at the trade center for quite some time.
"Usually you wouldn't have these items, much less sell it to us... but today, you suddenly managed to present both items? Be it Thousand-Year Red Wood or Frozen-Blood Jade, both are not items that are commonly found!"
At this point, Zhong Yin glanced solemnly at Bai Liqing.
Now, another disciple of the Winter Valley, who was standing nearby, Zhang Weiyuan, overheard the entire conversation and gained a vague understanding of the matter at hand.
He glanced at Bai Liqing and asked, "Brother, the fortune that you mentioned you gained today was due to the fact that you had sold Thousand-Year Red Wood and Frozen-Blood Jade to Zhong Yin and Fang Baiwei?"
Earlier today, in the afternoon, Bai Liqing had randomly sought him out to borrow 20 high-quality spirit stones and had promised that he would return them by the end of the day.
At that point, Zhang Weiyuan had assumed that Bai Liqing had either borrowed the spirit stone veins to gamble or to sell some items and gain some profit.
Bai Liqing rarely gambled with others, and thus Zhang Weiyuan had assumed the latter to be more probable.
Now, he knew that his assumption was right, seeing as how a disciple of the Summer Valley, Zhong Yin, had appeared.
"Yes," Bai Liqing affirmed this statement.
"The Thousand-Year Red Wood and Frozen-Blood Jade were both bought from other people?"
Zhang Weiyuan asked again.
"Yes," Bai Liqing affirmed Zhang Weiyuan's words yet again.
"Who would be silly enough to trade through a dealer? The person who sold them to you could have sold those items to Fang Baiwei and Zhong Yin personally! If he did so directly, he could have earned much more than you did!"
Zhong Yin furrowed his brows in thought. "Furthermore, the items that they want are rare, and they have been searching for them for a long time. They had even left a possible reward on the bounty list of the trade center for them!"
"Brother Zhang, perhaps that disciple did not view the bounty list and were unaware that people were looking for these items!" Bai Liqing reasoned.
"However, the issue lies in the fact that both Zhong Yin and Fang Baiwei have claimed that the items are fake!" Zhang Weiyuan continued to speak.
"Brother Zhang."
Bai Liqing's face had changed.
"Do you not believe me either? For those two items, I carried out an authenticity check by myself.
Zhong Yin and Fang Baiwei both carried out authenticity checks personally as well and only passed me the spirit stone veins after ensuring they were satisfied with the products!"
"Brother, I believe you, of course. However, I feel like this is too much of a coincidence!"
Zhang Weiyuan shook his head as he glanced at Zhong Yin.
"Zhong Yin, you better not be fooling around. I hope that this isn't an instance of you teaming up with that Fang Baiwei to cheat Bai Liqing of his spirit stone veins!"
Just as he spoke, Zhong Yin's glance turned hostile.
Although they were both late Dharma adepts, he was not afraid of Zhong Yin. Furthermore, previously, in a showcase of skills by the four valleys, he had managed to defeat Zhong Yin within ten moves despite them being at the same stage.
"Zhang Weiyuan, it is not me who claims that the Thousand-Year Red Wood is fake."
Zhong Yin sighed.
"It is my senior who said that the Thousand-Year Red Wood is fake... I was looking for the Thousand-Year Red Wood as I wanted to ask my senior to help me create an ultimate Dharma spirit weapon that suits me. However, once his Wumei fire came into contact with the Thousand-Year Red Wood, the Thousand-Year Red Wood was immediately destroyed by the fire and turned to ashes and smoke.
"When the Thousand-Year Red Wood first reached me, my senior and I had both agreed that there were no issues with it at first."
As Zhong Yin spoke to this point, he looked at Bai Liqing with an unfriendly gaze.
"Did you witness the Thousand-Year Red Wood change into smoke and ashes with your own eyes?" Bai Liqing asked with a cold smile.
"When my senior creates weapons, he does not like bystanders disturbing him... What do you mean by that sentence? Are you trying to insinuate that my senior kept the Thousand-Year Red Wood for his own use and then lied to me?" Zhong Yin asked in return.
"Who knows?"
Bai Liqing gave a twisted smile.
"Bai Liqing, you best watch your mouth before you stir up some trouble."
Zhong Yin glanced at Bai Liqing coldly.
"If my senior wanted the Thousand-Year Red Wood, he could have just said so, and I would have automatically given it to him. He would not have needed to find such excuses to obtain it.
"If you do not believe this, I can bring him here to the Winter Valley, and you can argue with him yourself!"
The more Zhong Yin spoke, the colder his tone became.
"Brother, your words have crossed the line."
Zhang Weiyuan shook his head as he spoke. "Elder Ke Liang is at the Primordial Soul stage, he has no need to thirst over his disciple's Thousand-Year Red Wood!"
"Although Thousand-Year Red Wood is seen as precious in our eyes, to Elder Ke Liang, it definitely isn't worth much. Furthermore, at his current stage, the Thousand-Year Red Wood is mostly useless to him!"
Ke Liang was not only Zhong Yin's senior and the Lightning Sword Sect's inner elder but was also an elder of the Summer Valley.
"Senior Zhang, I was just making a joke."
Hearing as Zhong Yin was offering to invite his senior over physically, Bai Liqing's heart dropped slightly. Now, as Zhang Weiyuan was stepping up as well, he began to defend himself with an awkward smile for fear of further trouble.
"Zhong Yin, did you hear that? Bai Liqing was merely joking around."
Zhang Weiyuan glanced at Zhong Yin and said, "Furthermore... Be it you or Fang Baiwei, the transactions between the both of you and Bai Liqing were legitimate and paid for, pestering him further also leads to nothing.
"You can't just ignore sect rules like this.
"If you continue to chase this matter, it will also not lead to any positive outcome for you. Even your senior, Elder Ke Liang, cannot go against our sect rules," Zhang Weiyuan said.
"I am of course aware of this," Zhong Yin replied in a low tone.
"Since I paid for the items, even if they were fake, I know that there is nothing I can do... I merely came here to ask Bai Liqing for an explanation as to why he wanted to cheat me of my money.
"Of course, I also thought about the possibility that Bai Liqing himself also did not know that the Thousand-Year Red Wood he sold me was fake.
"Just now, I heard that the Thousand-Year Red Wood he sold me was bought from someone else? It seems like this possibility is becoming more likely, then."
As he spoke, Zhong Yin glanced directly at Bai Liqing.
"Bai Liqing, I am not asking for those 80 high-quality spirit stones back. However, I would like to know who sold you the Thousand-Year Red Wood," Zhong Yin asked gravely.
He intended to approach the original seller who had given the Thousand-Year Red Wood to Bai Liqing and question him.
If it were only Thousand-Year Red Wood he had bought that had an issue, Zhong Yin may have brushed the whole issue off as a coincidence. Perhaps the person that had sold the Thousand-Year Red Wood to Bai Liqing had also been unaware that it was fake?
However, Bai Liqing instead mentioned that the Frozen-Blood Jade that his fellow disciple from the Summer Valley, Fang Baiwei, had bought, was also fake as well!
Furthermore, be it the Thousand-Year Red Wood or the Frozen-Blood Jade, both were from the same original seller!
This made Zhong Yin doubt the credibility of this seller, and he came up with the theory that the original seller had planned to trick him and Fang Baiwei at the same time.
This led him to then wonder what he and Fang Baiwei had in common.
Well, they were both disciples of the Summer Valley.
Of course, even so, Zhong Yin was still inclined to believe that the entire series of incidents was a coincidence... If not, it was hard to imagine what exactly could compel one to create fake Thousand-Year Red Wood and Frozen-Blood Jade at the same time.
Could it be that coincidentally, the original seller had possessed both fake Thousand-Year Red Wood and Frozen-Blood Jade?
Of course, Zhong Yin wanted to investigate whether or not the entire incident was indeed a coincidence.
Just as Zhong Yin wanted to ask Bai Liqing for his source of the Thousand-Year Red Wood, from afar, a figure flew towards them in the air and landed somewhere near Zhang Weiyuan and Bai Liqing.
"Senior Zhang, Brother Bai Li, you are both here? Did you hear about what happened at the trade center?"
This person was a young-looking disciple of the Winter Valley.
"What happened?" Zhang Weiyuan asked curiously.
"On the bounty list of the trade center, out of the tens of items that the elders and disciples of the Summer Valley asked for... There are nine that have been cleared from the list today."
The young-looking disciple of the Winter Valley sighed and said, "Within a day, nine people from the Summer Valley managed to buy items that they have been searching for for a long time... The people of the Summer Valley are really lucky today. I'm so envious of them!"
Just as the words left the mouth of this Winter Valley disciple, Zhong Yin's face immediately changed, and he glanced meaningfully at Bai Liqing straightaway.
"Don't look at me!" Bai Liqing replied gravely. "I only sold two things off the bounty list to you and Fang Baiwei. The other items were not sold by me!"
At this point, even Bai Liqing could sense that something was amiss.


Zhou Donghuang, a man from the Earth, is able to destroy any planet in the universe without lifting a finger. His supreme will can sweep across the vast cosmos in the blink of an eye. And his immortal spirit can depart from his body and wander around the universe!
In Kunlun Mountains lies a circular slate, which brought him back to one thousand years ago...

That night the guards rode through the imperial city, with a list of names of people they needed to find an arrest. The clouds covered the moon, shielding the light of the moon from shining down upon the secrecy of the guards.

The entire imperial city was plunged into a state of chaos. 

The night filled with the sounds of horses galloping throughout the city, the sounds of screams of those who were arrested carried by the fierce winds blew throughout the city. 

Screams of those unwilling to silently go along with guards screamed atop their lungs, to let it be known that they were being arrested. They put up a struggle that was useless in the end.

It seemed that this would not settle down quietly.

The deployment of guards brought people back to the events that occurred seven years ago. 

To this day, that event still sent shivers down their backs.

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As morning came, the remnants left from the night before were still in the streets. The debris from the previous night's struggles served as a reminder

It was early in the morning when there was a notice posted on the bulletin, informing the citizens of consort Ning's grand burial into the imperial mausoleum three days later, the auspicious day on the calendar.

There was no one that dared to talk about any rumors. Everyone was silent as they went on with their everyday lives, whether they were setting up shops, or working as labors in another place.

The usually busy and bustling capital that was once the center of noise and gossip was now solemnly going about their everyday lives. In fact, it seemed that the grand burial a few days from today would be even more festive than this current atmosphere.

There were some citizens who went to the marketplace to buy some meat from the local butcher, only to realize that the butcher had been arrested because his sister was a midwife that had been present during consort Ning's labor.

The could only hang their heads low to walk away without their poultry. At least they could settle for a nice, good bowl of plump grain rice from the grain seller, who sold the best grains within the capital, no one can deny that every grain is plump and carefully picked at the height of the harvest, for the best flavors of nature.

Wait, the grain seller had also been arrested because his daughter was also midwife a that was present during that doomed labor.

Now that their butcher and grain seller had been arrested in the middle of the dark night, they could not get any of the capital's favorite delicious goods, leaving them feeling down.

But hey, there were some things to be thankful for, such as the emperor passing down the order to only arrest the immediate family and not the nine generations, because let's face it, they all knew a possible distant cousin that worked in the palace. After all, the imperial palace was huge and employed a large number of people.

It was also impossible to arrest that many people, considering there was not enough room to put the entirety of the population of the imperial capital.

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Within a tea shop and restaurant, on the second floor balcony looking down on the silence of the citizens walking around, a Taoist priest was silently sipping his cup of chamomile tea. It was a strange sight to see such silence in the always bustling imperial capital a grin could not help but spread on his lips.

His eyes looked upon the citizens with a sense of pity. As those who could look down upon the whole of humanity, it was a gaze that saw life as nothing, one that could see no worth in anything of the mundane world. Like an immortal having seen the ruthlessness and hypocrisy of humankind despising the falseness that they stood for.

Just as he finishes drinking his tea, a young waiter comes up to him: "Esteemed customer, is there anything else you need?" he asks, his face had on an amiable expression.

"No need, young man, may I ask why the imperial city is so quiet today?" 

"Esteemed customer must be new in the capital to not know." The young waiter says with a slight laugh.

"Yes, I just arrived recently and I am not aware of what is going on." The Taoist priest also laughs as he shakes his head to show that he is clueless about the events that happened recently.

"Oh, consort Ning recently died and the emperor ordered the arrest of all the doctors and midwives that were present during her labor. Just last night, he ordered the arrest of their immediate family, the citizens are just worried they might get arrested as well." The young waiter explains diligently.

"Oh, how much will it cost?" The man asks, changing the subject.

"Oh, chamomile tea, only two coppers." The young waiter says.

"Hm." The man acknowledges this and pulls out a piece of silver and places it on the battered table.

"Keep the change." Was the last thing he said as he laid his horsetail whip in his arm and walks away.

A tale of a young girl as she goes on her journey...
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Alternate synopsis (Chapter 13):

"Let me tell you about something of mine old friend, something that I have never told anyone, not even the most loyal of my servants know. Will you listen?"

"Do go ahead."

"It started long ago when I wanted to find a way to allow humans to be free from pain and death. I was on one of my travels when I came across a little child, she couldn't have been more than an infant, presumably abandoned. So I took her in. I wanted to make an elixir that could eradicate all disease and allow a person to live on, for a long time."

"You know that such a medicine is impossible, what you are talking about can only ever exist in the legends and myths."

"Oh is it…"

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E L James Grey After twenty-five years working in TV, E L James decided to pursue her childhood dream, and set out to write stories that readers would fall in love with. The result was the sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, a trilogy that went on to sell more than 125 million copies worldwide in 52 languages. In 2012 E T James was named one of Barbara Walters's "Ten Most Fascinating People of the Year," one of Time magazine's "Most Influential People in the World," and Publishers Weekly's "Person of the Year." Fifty Shades of Grey stayed on the New York Times Best Seller List for 133 consecutive weeks, and in 2015 the film adaptation —on which James worked as producer —broke box-office records all over the world for Universal Pictures. E L James lives in West London with her husband, the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard, and their two sons. She continues to write novels while acting as producer on the upcoming movie versions of Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed.

Jayne Rice opened her mail with glee. She knew the letter from her publisher would confirm the transfer of funds to her bank account in Escanaba, Michigan. It was the final payment for her latest novel, Midnight 'Til Dawn. The novel was another best seller. That made 10 in a row. The first of her Midnight novels was a good seller, but it didn't come close to being a best seller. It did, however, give her enough money to continue her writing career. She kissed the letter, smiled and went to the kitchen for another cup of coffee. She strolled out onto the deck of her home.

It was completely dark by 7 in the evening this time of year. The last days of October in Upper Michigan were nippy, with the temperature at night sometimes well below freezing. Snow is just around the corner, Jayne thought. Time to get the hell out of here. She gazed up at the northern sky. The northern lights were putting on another spectacular show, dancing with blue and white. The lights of Escanaba, across Bay de Noc, were sparkling along the far shore. Jayne shook her blond ponytail and retreated indoors. She glanced at a mirror on the door as she passed and smiled. Her smile was the best thing about her. Not that she wasn't pretty, but her smile was dazzling. It lit up the entire room when she turned it on, and she usually did.

Not bad for 35, she thought. Of course, the blond was not real. She had dyed it after her late husband had died 5 years ago. She needed the change and she liked what she did for her. It made her look 15 years younger. Everybody said so. She laughed. Of course, they are all my friends! What else can they say? Her figure was again trim. She stood five feet seven in her stocking feet. Not too tall, but not exactly a small girl either. Her twin 38's still had some substance, but gravity was doing its darndest to take over.

Jayne's true hair color was a mousy brown. In high school she wasn't the popular cheerleader type. She was more the biker girl type. She got pregnant when she was 15, quit school, and got married. She lost the baby and three more in the next three years. When she was 19 her husband was beating her up on the front lawn when the cop across the street intervened and kicked the shit out of her husband. After she divorced the jerk, she married the cop from across the street. John Rice was 30 years her senior. It was the best move she ever made. John treated her like a queen. They loved to come up to Upper Michigan and sail on their 26 foot Carver. Jayne gained over 100 pounds and topped off the scales at over 250 the first year they were married. John used to kid her about just having more for him to love. He wasn't kidding. He used to say she was "tons of fun!"

He meant it. It didn't dawn on her until after he died just how much he really cared for her. He used to say, "Honey, move over to the left a little, there's too much sun there where you are," or, "Honey, get into the center cabin to get out of the wind a bit." What he really meant was to move over, your weight is throwing the boat off center.
She completed high school with a GED and was happily married for ten years. They would spend most of the year in Rhode Island, where he was still a cop, a month or so in his family's summer home in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and a few times they would take a week or so to play poker in Vegas in the winter.

He loved it there in Michigan and she learned to love it too. Right after they were married, the last of his family died and the summer home became his. He couldn't wait to retire and spend the rest of his life in Michigan. He didn't make it. He died of a heart attack ten years after they were married.

Jayne went up to Michigan to sell the summer home and realized that she would rather sell the home in Rhode Island. She went back to Rhode Island; sold her home; packed up everything she had; dyed her hair a Marilyn Monroe blond and moved to the Stonington Peninsula in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She spent every summer there, and every winter in Las Vegas, where she played a mean game of poker. In the meantime she lost over 100 pounds and got back into great shape.
Jayne had always wanted to write, but her lack of education didn't lend much confidence in her ability to do so. When her husband died and she moved to Michigan, she had the time to spend on her writing.

She never did learn to spell very well, and always thanked God for the spell checker on her computer. She had never been able to see the nuances in the "too, two and to" and the "there, they're and their".
Her latest best seller, Midnight 'Til Dawn, was a novel about Las Vegas. It dealt with a female pit boss in the poker room in the Fremont Casino who had been murdered back in the 70's. Popular belief at the time was that the husband had killed her, but try as they might, the cops couldn't bring him to justice.

The book also dealt with a poker player called Michigan Slim who played poker there about the same time. Michigan Slim was reported to be a great player who chose to play in the small games. He would begin play at midnight, and play until dawn. Thus the name of the book.
"Midnight is when the dealers change shifts," he explained. "And they all think they can play the game well." Michigan Slim would win at least $300 every night in those small games. In the 1970's that was pretty good money. He lived quite well. One day he just disappeared. The dealers would joke about Slim being planted in the desert just south of Vegas.

In Midnight 'Til Dawn Jayne brought back Michigan Slim who was to solve the crime against the beautiful pit boss, and marry her equally beautiful sister in the process. The public loved it.

Jayne opened the refrigerator, took out a wine cooler, settled in the overstuffed recliner across from the large screen TV and clicked the remote, turning on the TV. She surfed until she found one of her favorite programs, Cold Cases. Immediately after finishing a novel, Jayne couldn't slow down without having an idea for the next one. Her favorite spot for getting her ideas was through TV and these old cases from years past.

The story tonight was about a child molester who was found shot to death in his own bedroom way back in 1955 in Newberry, Michigan. Hell, Jane thought, that's only about 80 miles from here! They sure must be hard up for a case for that one to make the unsolved list. The story was about the fact that there were no clues in the case save a partial thumb print that may or may not belong to the perpetrator. It was thought the father of the boy he molested might have been guilty, but without proof, the police could do nothing. Jane moved on to FBI Files. Then moved on to Unsolved Mysteries.

Unsolved Mysteries was about unsolved massacres. The most recent one was in 1983 in New York City. It seems that an entire mafia family had been wiped out on January 26th, 27th and 28 of 1983 without a trace. Twenty six members of the Tessinari family had been murdered. Nineteen were blown up in a pool hall and seven others had been shot in their homes over the three day period. It was deemed a mob hit where rival gangs were warring for some reason. No one ever knew for sure. The only clue was a partial thumbprint on the bathroom door knob of Tony Tessinari, the boss of the family. His head had been blown off by a shotgun blast from a 12 gauge with buckshot.

Jayne shot to attention. A partial thumbprint! she thought. And there was a partial thumbprint in the Newberry murder back in '55! Wouldn't it be something if they were the same? Shees! I think I have a new book here! Jayne was very excited, scenarios blowing across her mind like storms. It could make a wonderful story! She thought once again.

Born an outcast, Drazon grew up shunned by every other dragon in his home, except for his mother and teacher. Yearning for strength enough to defend himself and find his own way in the world, Drazon is forced from his home and on the run.

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The creature grinned, "Yes of course! Who else could it be."

The creature folded her arms and pouted. How could Vy forget who she was so easily? They had known each other for months now. A simple change would not have led to amnesia, right? Dotty did not realise that her appearance had changed drastically. 

While she started out without a form, then the shape of a sphere and now a fully functioning body; the differences were night and day! Furthermore, Dotty can now be heard, not just by Vy but everyone around them as well. 

Vy let out a laugh and replied, "I'm sorry! I was not expecting this much of a change! You look amazing Dotty."

Dotty grinned and flicked her hair in the wind, "Of Course I am! I am the great and powerful Dotty!"

Both of them shared a good laugh as they continued to look through the things in the stall. Dotty sat on Vy's shoulder, from time to time, she would fly out a little further away to collect the particles before returning to Vy. 

Dotty might have been upgraded twice now but it was not the end! Vy was glad that despite the upgrades, she was still able to communicate via telepathy with Dotty. There were conversations that were best kept between the two of them.

-Dotty, with your current upgrades, would you be able to read Elvish?- 

Dotty's face lit up and she nodded in reply. One of the many upgrades she had received included an ability known as Master of Languages. With this ability, both Dotty and Vy would be able to understand any language in the world and will be able to speak it fluently. 

In Vy's mind, everything would be translated into the language she is most familiar with. When she speaks, the person would also be able to understand every word she says.

The unique ability could also be managed, so as long as Vy wills it, she could choose what language she wished to speak. Dotty explained the ins and outs of how the ability work as they moved over to the book section. 

Vy could instantly tell the difference as she picked up the book that previously intrigued her. Looking at the wordings on the book, Vy could identify it to be written in Elvish; but the words were no longer just writing on the cover. She could actually read it. 

The book was titled 'Incantations Of The Mind'. She flipped it open to read its contents and to her surprise, she understood every word of it. For the next two hours, Vy stood there and read the contents of the book and a few others. 

The new knowledge intrigued her. Another book she had picked up was on the topic of Transformation magic, giving her more insight into the potential abilities she could achieve if she continued to practice her skills. 

As she continued her walk around the antique stalls, Vy noticed that with her upgraded vision, she could identify which of the items were of greater value than others. She wondered if she could put this skill to the ultimate test. From the corner of her eye, Vy noticed a stall that was surrounded by a large group of travellers. She walked over and joined in the crowd while being careful of her own belongings. 

Large groups like these often attract the prying eyes of pickpockets and thieves, it was always good to keep an eye out for signs of trouble. She made her way to the centre of the crowd and listened to the seller hauling his wares. The elf merchant was plump and had a full chestnut brown beard. He was all smiles as he showed off his wares. 

"Come closer and have a look! These are freshly mined from the Newark Mines in the North! Try your hand and you might find geode! Or who knows? Maybe a gemstone," the seller enticed the crowd. 

An onlooker yelled out from behind, "How much for the rocks?"

"Well, my good sir! We are new to the market so we are running a special," the seller went on to list the prices for the rocks. 

The smaller rocks that were placed in baskets went for 10 coppers for a basket. The medium-sized rocks, about the size of a tennis ball, were 5 coppers each. The large rocks, about the size of a watermelon, were 15 coppers each. The largest ones, almost the size of a toddler, were going for 3 silvers. The stall also provided services to cut or break open the rocks, at the customer's request. 

If they wanted, they could also haul it away and bring it somewhere else to be opened or evaluated. The prices must have been tempting for as soon as the seller finished listing the prices; while his assistance brought out a board with the prices, there were takers immediately. Most of them bought the baskets, while only one or two people purchased the larger ones. 

All of them asked for the rocks to be broken open on the spot. The first buyer was a dwarven merchant. He had picked out a basket and a large rock. The seller's assistant brought out some tools and broke open the rocks in the basket. The very first stone was a geode and everyone was hooked and in awe!

"This must be my lucky day," the dwarf exclaimed. 

The surrounding crowd was going wild, could this really be a method to strike rich?

What would you do if you woke up in a forest with no memories?

Would you cower in fear, or explore the strange new world?

Join Vyrena on her journey through Gaeia as she tries to figure out her mysterious past! With the voice in her head named Dotty, she will make friends, enemies, gain new powers and become the greatest warrior she could ever be!

Will she find out who she was before? What will the new world bring? Join her journey and find out! Will she find a dash of romance along the way? She just might!
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"Where am I?" Vyrena asked herself.

The girl tried to move her body, but all of her muscles and bones ached. Her throat was as dry as the desert, she needed water. In the near distance, Vyrena could hear the sound of moving water. Gathering all of her strength, she crawled inch by inch towards the water source.

Upon reaching the riverbank, she quenched her thirst greedily. It tasted clear and refreshing, a good sign. She could feel the dirt and grime that covered her entire body. Unable to bear it anymore, Vyrena dunked herself into the water.

The cool refreshing feel of the river water jolted her senses. As she emerged from the water, she could finally open her eyes and take in her surroundings.

-How did I end up here?- she thought to herself.

She tried to remember what she could. Memories flashed through her mind.

- I died -

The realisation shocked her to the core. Her eyes were wide open. Recalling the details made her head spin.

She recalled drinking a substance and laying down in her bed. A familiar hand held onto hers, his words echoed in her mind.

-I'm here for you. I'm here for you.-

But as soon as that memory faded, new memories from the host body bombarded her. When the recollection of memories was complete, a voice popped up in her mind.
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