Chapter 171: The Pawnshop

Back in the city, Feng Wu Cai Yi brought news that there were enough capable people willing to purchase top-quality items.
Kai Xin quickly sent over five copies of “Ten Thousand Poisons Palm” along with “Thousand Corpse Hands” needed for lower-quality items, plus “Demonic Subduing Staff Techniques,” Silver Horn Staff, and two other top-quality martial arts manuals acquired in Luoyang.
A total of eight top-quality martial arts manuals! This caused Kai Xin’s savings to soar to over two million in an instant… once again ranking him at the top of the wealth list. Fortunately, no one could guess his current position, giving him a chance to safely “dispose of his loot.”
“What should I buy?”
Kai Xin wandered around the city in frustration…
If he didn’t spend the two million in his possession, it would surely attract the envy of many. Although his current strength meant he didn’t need to worry, constantly dealing with other players wouldn’t help him improve his martial arts skills.
He really wanted to take “Shadowless Footwork” to master level and also master “Swift Wind Shadowless Leg,” which had extremely fast attack speed.
Though “Swift Wind Shadowless Leg” had low damage, its ultra-fast attack speed was unmatched among top-quality martial arts at the Creation Realm level—weren’t such scenes common in movies? As soon as Shadowless Footwork was used, the opponent had no time to defend or react.
The same was true in “Jianghu.”
High-damage top-quality martial arts were indeed powerful, but if there was no chance to use them, they were useless—unless one’s equipment was several levels better, allowing them to ignore the damage from “Swift Wind Shadowless Leg.”
Walking through the streets of Luoyang City, Kai Xin tried several streets but still couldn’t find anything suitable. Frowning, he thought it would take forever to find what he needed, so he decided to enter a nearby pawnshop.
A pawnshop was actually just an ordinary store where players could leave items they needed for sale behind the counter, setting their own prices, though they had to pay a certain rent. Of course, they could also deposit money and post notices offering to buy certain goods.
Due to the high rent, it was difficult for players at this stage to afford it, so there were very few players in the pawnshop—only three men and one woman walking around the counter.
When Kai Xin entered the pawnshop, he immediately caught the attention of the four people inside!
Especially since his chest still bore the traces of the battle from returning from the mass grave—the terrifying claw marks of the Thousand-Year Corpse King were visible on his clothes. His handsome and carefree demeanor added a hint of lethality and danger.
The four of them seemed to be together.

They glanced at the particularly noticeable black-edged claw marks on the young man’s chest as he entered the shop, their eyes lighting up as they exchanged an interested look. “This guy just returned from outside the city; maybe from a mass grave.” They stopped looking around and stood still, observing his every happy movement.

Happy had been wandering the martial world for three years, with a weak internal energy constantly flowing through his body, so he was very sensitive to the gazes directed at him.

However, in the city, he didn’t mind it at all.

He walked over to the counter of the pawnshop and chose the items he wanted to purchase. After paying the rent, he effortlessly entered the amount of two million silver coins and noted it under the desired items: (Any top-tier martial arts technique—200,000 silver coins each.)

Two million silver coins could buy ten top-tier martial arts manuals, depending on whether anyone was willing to sell them.

But whether or not anyone took the money, it was temporarily deducted from the player’s wallet, so these two million would not be counted in the wealth ranking!

The purchase information was circulated nationwide through the pawnshops, with each city’s pawnshop able to handle such services, as indicated by special notices inside and outside the stores.

After setting this up, Happy turned and left without hesitation.

The three men and one woman in the pawnshop simultaneously turned their attention to another notice displayed inside the shop…

There, a new latest pawnshop transaction message appeared:

“Player **, 200,000 silver coins per copy—purchasing top-tier martial arts manuals! Current number of transactions: zero; remaining amount—two million silver coins.”

“Huh!”

The four of them exchanged glances.

They had already felt that this person had an extraordinary presence; it turned out to be someone who rarely appeared on the wealth ranking. They never expected to encounter such a person in a small pawnshop… (The name on the pawnshop listing was kept confidential.)

“Tsk tsk! What a huge sum!”

“Two million to buy ten top-tier martial arts manuals—must be a high-ranking member of some major guild.”

The three men were impressed and amazed.

Since entering the game, although it had become easier to earn silver coins as their level improved, there was no place in the martial world where nothing cost money.

Travel expenses, accommodation fees, medicine costs, city entry fees, manual costs, weapon and equipment repair fees, and so on… Additionally, eating and drinking cost money; maintaining a proper appearance as a martial artist also required a lot of spending. Without proper attire, one would feel shabby even to themselves. As weapons and equipment became more advanced, one also needed to save money for mounts. Truly, there weren’t many who had reached the ten-thousand silver coin level yet.

“Girl.”

“Hmm?”

“The secret manual in your hands is also an excellent martial arts manual that can only be used by those at the Creation Realm level, right? Hurry, sell it to him!”
“Huh?”
Inside the pawnshop, the only female player was momentarily stunned before showing a look of surprise and realization: “That’s right! He said as long as it’s an excellent martial arts manual, without specifying a particular name, nor requiring a complementary inferior martial arts manual!”
It turned out these four people hadn’t come to the pawnshop to buy anything but to check out what was available.
They wanted to see if there were any strange items for sale.
After all, they had a martial arts manual of their own that was hard to understand and impossible to practice—useless due to its high requirements, and targeted at such a niche group of players that no one wanted to buy it.
So they came here hoping for luck.
But so far, their luck hadn’t been good.
There were many in the pawnshop willing to buy excellent manuals, but they all had specific names or required both an excellent and an inferior martial arts manual…
The one they had didn’t meet those criteria!
All four noticed the flaw in the blue-clothed player’s setup and quickly showed eager excitement on their faces.
“Hurry! Hurry!”
“Quickly finalize the deal!”
Urged by the three men, the female player took a deep breath, nervously walked over to the pawnshop counter, retrieved the purchase listing from her Qi Bag, and took out a gray-covered martial arts manual that seemed unremarkable, with three characters written on it—Wind Spirit Spin.
She handed the manual to the bearded old man behind the counter.
Under the tense and excited gazes of the four, he picked up Wind Spirit Spin, examined it for a while, and nodded: “This manual does seem to match this purchase listing…”
He paused briefly before confirming again:
“Are you sure you want to complete the transaction?”
“Sure!” “Sure!!!”
The four replied in unison.
The next moment, the player who had planned to go check out the announcement outside Luoyang City, surrounded by countless players, heard a system notification that shocked him greatly:
“Transaction successful! One copy of Wind Spirit Spin purchased!”