"What do you offer here?" Alex questioned.
"In the Golden Moon Pavilion, we pride ourselves on creating the finest oxtail heart soup in all of Azurewind City, and we a.."
But before she could complete her sentence, Alex interjected, "Bring me a bowl of your oxtail heart soup."
"That will cost you two Qi stones," the young woman informed him.
In the world of cultivators, Qi stones functioned as the standard currency.
Unfortunately, Alex didn't possess any. The person he had reincarnated into, Li Wei, relied on exchanging beast Qi cores for sect contribution points, which were only valid within his sect.
"I don't have a Qi stone with me at the moment," Alex confessed to the young lady.
Upon hearing this, the young woman's expression shifted to a state of mild panic.
She was unsure how to handle such a situation.
From her reaction, Alex deduced the current predicament.