Cultivation Kill

The woman on the second floor who introduced the magical artifact to Shen Zige was a Spirit Condensation stage cultivator. She was wearing a white robe and looked to be about thirty years old. Of course, cultivators don't show their age, so she might be sixty.

"Fire-avoiding fan, a mid-grade magic weapon, now on sale for 500 spirit stones." The woman pointed to the blue fan hanging on the wall. "This weapon is suitable for gentle and refined scholars. The fan surface is a painting of green mountains and waterfalls by Master Lingxu of the Bamboo Kingdom. Walking down the street and gently waving the fan can charm countless young girls."

"I'll consider other weapons." Shen Zige refused without hesitation. His purpose in buying weapons was to kill the monkey demon. This fan was only good for shaving the thick-skinned monkey demon.

Inside the True Artifact Pavilion, a basic magic weapon generally costs around two hundred spirit stones, a mid-level magic weapon costs around five hundred spirit stones, and an advanced magic weapon costs one thousand spirit stones. Shen Zige currently only has a little over eight hundred spirit stones and cannot afford an advanced magic weapon, so he simply walks over to any shelf displaying advanced magic weapons he comes across.

The saleswoman clearly noticed this as well, and stopped recommending high-level magical artifacts to Shen Zige.

"Young man, you can take a look at this mid-grade magic weapon spear." The woman pointed to a three-meter-long spear on the shelf and introduced it, "The spear body is made of Shangling wood, and the spearhead is made of century-old black bronze. It's decorated with red tassels. After you buy it, you can stand anywhere and look like a mighty war god!"

"It's too long, inconvenient to carry." Shen Zige didn't have a storage bag, and carrying a three-meter-long spear all day long made it inconvenient to even enter the house.

Just as the saleswoman was about to introduce other items, Shen Zige noticed a sword blank lying in the corner.

"The material of this sword blank is unknown, it is not easy to quench, and it is extremely difficult to forge." The woman introduced, "A wanderer found it and sold it to our True Weapon Pavilion. It has been here for decades. Several weapon forging masters have found it too troublesome to forge, so it has remained in the shape of a sword blank. If you want it, I will sell it to you cheaply for six hundred spirit stones."

Isn't this the legendary, hidden treasure? Shen Zige scanned the sword embryo with his divine sense, his heart filled with joy.

I've read quite a few novels about Earth, including stories of people who become rich overnight by gambling on stones; people who find unknown animals that turn out to be mythical beast cubs; and people who find rare treasures that no one recognizes.

"I'll buy it." Shen Zige took out spirit stones to pay, so quickly that she was afraid the other party would change their mind.

"Wait!" An elderly man with white hair and beard, at the Spirit Condensation stage, ran over from the side room.

"As expected, someone is trying to stop me!" Shen Zige thought to himself. According to the plot of the novels he had read, usually when such a treasure is acquired, a competitor will appear to compete with him, and in the end, he will have to take out more spirit stones to defeat the competitor!

"Here you go, this is a 10% discount card. Every customer who makes their first purchase of more than 500 spirit stones at the True Artifact Pavilion will receive a 10% discount card." The old man handed a gold card to Shen Zige.

This is unconventional! It seems most novels are just mindless lies after all!

Shen Zige thought to himself that he was not one of those protagonists who used spirit stones to crush their opponents. He was just an ordinary transmigrator. There were countless transmigrators in this world. He had never heard of anyone who came in and picked up a cheat code and a system, sweeping all directions with the invincible dragon. Once he opened his domineering aura, he would befriend a bunch of cultivators with higher realms than him, and countless people would willingly become his underlings and worship him!

The saleswoman wrapped the sword blank in gray cloth, tied it with two ropes as a carrying strap, and handed it to Shen Zige: "Take care, young man, come again next time!"

Shen Zige carried the sword embryo with him and left the True Weapon Pavilion.

After Shen Zige walked away.

"Shopkeeper, we've already sold five sword blanks today, only one left. It seems people who transmigrate from Earth really fall for this," the saleswoman said respectfully to the white-haired old man.

"Hehe, luckily we cooperated with that Earthling. But we signed an agreement that we'd give him 10% of the profits from the goods we sell," the old man chuckled. "That guy named Shi Yuan sold his ideas to most of the shops in the city. After learning his sales pitch and methods, even with just 10% of the profits, we're making money much faster than before! These sword blanks made from junk materials can fetch a high price. I need to go and forge a few more!"

The old man hummed a song and walked much faster than usual.

The saleswoman was good at observing and guessing the value of the spirit stones a customer possessed. If the customer had many spirit stones, she would sell them more; if they had few, she would sell them for less, since scraps and offcuts were worthless anyway.

Shen Zige tossed a tael of silver to Meng Bao, who was standing at the door, and left with the sword embryo on her back.

A few minutes later.

The manager of Zhenqi Pavilion hurriedly returned to the second floor of Zhenqi Pavilion and picked up the last remaining sword blank for careful examination.

"It's over..."

The shopkeeper slumped to the ground, muttering to himself.

"Shopkeeper, what happened?" the saleswoman asked, puzzled.

"I got too excited while forging weapons yesterday and accidentally turned a storage ring and some scrap materials lying around into a sword blank!" The old shopkeeper's forehead wrinkled even more. "That was a storage ring, worth as much as a spiritual treasure. It also contained rare materials that I had to hand over to the sect!"

The sales assistant was dumbfounded. She knew that the shopkeeper didn't like to wear rings when forging weapons, because, in his words, rings would affect the feel of the weapon. She never expected that he would accidentally forge his storage ring into the sword blank along with the weapon!

"Your storage ring is missing! How come you only noticed it a day later?" The saleswoman was also an outer disciple of the sect, sent to assist the old man for half a year as a training experience.

"I usually keep it on my wrist when I'm forging things; there are sect formations there, making it much safer than me, a mere Spirit Condensation cultivator, wearing it on my wrist," the old man explained. "It's just that I was too complacent yesterday and neglected it!"

"Could it be that the sword embryo of that kid contained a storage ring?" the woman said. "I must report to the sect immediately and issue a warrant for his arrest and capture!"

"Not necessarily, any of the five sword blanks sold could be involved," the old man said. "Do you remember what those five people looked like? Have the sect issue arrest warrants for all five of them."

at the same time.

Inside the cheap rented room, Shen Zige cast a fire spell to melt the middle of the sword blank. Then, she flicked a pebble with her right hand, hitting an unmeltable black block. The black block bounced off the ground and, judging from its shape, was a ring.

If his divine sense reaches the mastery stage of mind control, he can directly absorb with his divine sense without needing stones. However, mastery of mind control is generally achieved only at the Foundation Establishment stage. Once his divine sense reaches this stage, he can control flying swords and fly on them!

Shen Zige recast the area around the notch on the sword. Although it was still somewhat uneven, at least it was no longer an eyesore.

"made money!"

Shen Zige scanned it with his divine sense and confirmed that it was indeed a storage ring!

He was overjoyed; this was the greatest gain he had made since arriving in this other world!

Fortunately, he discovered the anomaly when he scanned the sword embryo with his divine sense. Inside the sword embryo was a black block that was exactly the same shape as the storage ring in the book. Moreover, the black block shook away his divine sense. He guessed at the time that it was a storage ring, and sure enough, he guessed right.

"You unscrupulous merchant, you've tricked me."

Shen Zige snorted coldly, using her divine sense to erase the divine sense imprint left in the storage ring by the True Artifact Pavilion manager, leaving her own imprint.

Fortunately, the owner of the storage ring was not nearby, otherwise he could have continuously channeled his mental energy to resist Shen Zige.

"Fantastic! The space inside the storage ring is estimated to be fifty cubic meters!" Shen Zige examined the black storage ring she had obtained. "It's comparable to an ordinary room. There are also some unfamiliar materials underneath, which should be worth a lot of money. I'll find an opportunity to sell them later."

Shen Zige re-tied the sword blank with strips of cloth. He left the temporary rental room behind, knowing that the sword blank would be useless to the monkey demon, and he would have to buy another weapon.

However, he didn't have many spirit stones in his pocket. For a monkey demon, at least a mid-grade magic weapon was needed, which would cost five hundred spirit stones. He only had a little over two hundred spirit stones left in his pocket.