Ron stayed in the private room after the auction ended and received his items. He took out a yellow-grade vitality pill and studied it. Before consuming it, he wanted to know how many system points it could be exchanged for. If he sold it to the system shop, wouldn't he have an endless supply of vitality pills?
[Yellow Grade Vitality Pill Found!]
Would you like to sell it to the system shop?
"How many points will I receive?"
[It can be sold to the system shop for 50 points]
He bought the vitality pill for himself and his family, but as the pill bottle had six pills, he still had some spare, so he sold one of the pills to the system.
"Status"
[ Ron Rogers (SilverSurfer) ]
[ Cultivation: Third Level Body Refinement Realm (Low Level D Rank)]
[ Vitality: 1.2]
[ Focus: LOCKED ]
[ Skills: - ]
[ Storage: Tag Change Token, Yellow Grade Vitality Pills, Yellow Grade Sword, …]
[ Points: 50 ]
[ Task Progress: System Node placed - Time remaining 113 days ]
Ron opened the marketplace and saw the vitality pill; his mind was blown. 500 points are required to purchase a single Vitality pill!
"System, why is the buying and selling price of the Vitality pill so huge! That's cheating! You can't be so black-hearted!"
Ron cried out, demanding a refund.
[Host, the system has its own rules when establishing prices for items. There is a disparity between the prices because the system has included the energy required to generate the vitality pill. Things cannot be created out of thin air; there is a law of equivalent exchange]
Hearing the system blabber about the rules and what not, Ron decided to shut up for now.
"Hey, I don't like to keep calling you 'System', can I just call you something else? Like Alexa, maybe?"
Ding!
[Congratulations, host, for completing a hidden mission, 'Give me a name!']
[Reward: Level 1 Appraisal Skill]
[Appraisal Level 1: You will be able to appraise the value of any item you touch in terms of system points ]
Ron rejoiced at this sudden reward. He no longer needs to keep selling items to System just to figure out their worth. As long as he touches something, he will be able to find its value.
"Hey Alexa, why does it feel like you were desperate to have your own name?"
Alexa didn't respond, and seeing Alexa ignore him, he just shrugged. He took out the yellow-grade sword and formation plate to appraise them.
Ding!
[Low-Tier Yellow Grade Sword: 300 points]
[Low-Tier Yellow Grade Guardian Formation Plate: 250 points]
He didn't expect the value to be so high for the sword and formation plate. But when he did the calculations, his face turned ugly. He actually made a big loss, as the points per gold are way worse for these items compared to the vitality pills!
Well, there's nothing he could do about it. Ron left the room to exit the auction house.
"Mister Ron"
Assistant Vox called out, Ron stopped in his tracks as Vox took out a card from his pocket and handed it over to Ron.
"Madam wanted me to give this to you. This is our Heavenly Treasure Hall's Silver VIP Card. You will be able to gain a 5% discount on all your future purchases at any of our stores"
'At least I got some additional benefits'
Ron nodded and stored it away. He was initially planning to directly head to the Zhang Sect's selection, but now that he has an appraisal skill and a few more gold left, he wanted to continue shopping, but obviously not in the core market zone. He figured it would be much more efficient to go into the outer area of market zone.
Once in the outer area, he looked for pill shops, as he realized that the points per gold were way better for pills. After walking a while, he found a shop called "Sam's Alchemy Store", Strangely enough, the name of the store is the same as his brother's name.
He walked in and was greeted by a gloomy and dark store. It was quite dusty, and spiders were crawling along the corners full of webs.
"Hello? Anyone there?"
His voice echoed a bit, which was creepy. Ron sighed and thought about heading out, but before leaving, he wanted to check the point values of the pills in the store.
He walked towards a rack and found rows of pill bottles. It looked like none of them were made recently, as the labels were covered in dust. He picked up a random one and blew away the dust. He instantly covered his mouth with his sleeve as the dust was all over.
He coughed up the dust and then looked at the label; it read "Violent Qi Pill," a high-tier yellow-grade pill. He took one out to appraise it.
[Peak Yellow Grade Violent Qi Pill: 200 Points]
"That'll be 10,000 gold for that pill bottle!"