A voice echoed from inside the store. Ron was startled a bit, but then did some calculations in his mind. The points per gram of gold are lower than for the vitality pill, but they are significantly higher than for the other items.
"Can you sell one pill for one hundred gold?"
Ron asked meekly if he could throw a stone in the water to see if there was any chance.
"Scram! You damn brat, how can you be so shameless to even ask that?"
An old man came rushing from inside the store with a stick in his hands. Dust flew all over the store. Ron brushed off the dust and gave a greedy smile.
"There must be something in this store that I can buy for 100 gold; can you please help me with it?"
"Hmph, kid, there's nothing in this store that you can buy with 100 gold. Now scram, before I break your head into pieces!"
"Hey, hey, what's the hurry, old man? Let me tell you something: no one's going to come to this store as long as it's not cleaned. Why don't I help you with it? I'll clean the entire store and make it shine like an imperial palace! I will show you sympathy and just take one of these pills in exchange. How about it?"
"What does it matter to you how my store looks? You lecher! Have you ever even been to an imperial palace?"
The old man immediately kicked Ron's butt and made him flee out of the store. The store's doors slammed and an angry voice came from inside,
"I'll break your legs if you come into my store again!"
Ron got up, rubbing his back, and sneered at the old man. He made the great offer of cleaning up that dirty store. Nasty old man!
"Hehe… Looks like the old man threw one more customer out of his store."
"If this continues, that old man will have no business at all!"
"Hmph, what do you know? I haven't seen a single customer buying something from there in the last 3 years! If not for the fact that City Hall knows him, no one would tolerate him"
Many store merchants murmured about the old man. Ron found it interesting—no wonder the store was so dusty—there had been no customer for the past 3 years!
He wasn't able to sense that old man's cultivation, but he surely is a strong one. as it's not so easy to stay in the city without some power or backing.
Ron left unsatisfied with the other markets. When he was passing by the fish market, he saw many strange and bizarre fish over there. He got a craving for fish hotpot, and it was also a good way to check out all the different varieties the Blue Realm had to offer!
He went to a fish vendor and asked about prices. The majority of the fish cost less than 15 silver per KG, but three in particular cost more than a gold coin per fish! He wondered how they tasted.
He picked up one of the costly fish and appraised it.
[Silver Amberjack: 3 points]
....
Ron was left agape; he immediately touched the other fishes and appraised them.
[Armored Banjo: 2 points]
[Blue Bowfish: 2 points]
"Give me all these fish!"
The vendor was shocked but ecstatic, as Ron didn't even bargain for the price.
"Sure, sir, let me pack them all for you. There are 15 silver amberjacks, 22 armored banjos, and 20 blue bowfish, so the total will be 62 gold. By the way, are you opening a restaurant by any chance? I'd surely like to visit it"
"There's no need to pack."
Ron waved his hand and collected all the fish into his system's storage.
"Alexa, sell all the fish for points."
Ding!
[Sold all the fish for 297 points!]
Ron also checked the other fish, but they were mostly worth 0.5 points or lower. He wondered why.
"Why are these fish more costly than the rest?"
"Sir, these are not normal fish and are really hard to catch. Ordinary people will never be able to withstand the force of these fish, so there are special boats equipped with inscriptions that go around the sea and capture them. That's the reason they are so costly"
The vendor was confused as to why Ron bought the fish if he didn't know about them; maybe he's just a rich kid with a silver spoon. Ron immediately left to scourge other vendors with his remaining gold. At the end, he was able to obtain 526 points! This was way more efficient than anything else he has come across! He was left with only 4 gold and 20 silver, which he decided to keep for the time being.
"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 sword, Yellow grade Formation plate, …]
[ Points: 576 ]
[ Task Progress: System Node placed - Time remaining 113 days ]
He knew that every level of the Body Refinement realm consumed 100 more points than the previous. That means to enter the fourth-level body refinement realm, he needs 400 points, and for the fifth level, 500 points, and so on.
To breakthrough from the third level to the ninth level of the body refinement realm, I'd roughly need 3,900 points!