Chapter 119 - 118: Buying a Cultivation Technique for the Tang Family
After leaving the Pill section, Tang Yi browsed through the Weapon, Equipment, and other categories, but he only gave them a cursory glance before losing interest.
Because they were expensive!
Any random item in these categories was a sky-high price!
Tang Yi browsed through the rip-off System Store once and came to a simple conclusion: it was expensive, expensive, and more expensive. That was his entire summary of the System Store.
Given his current financial situation, Tang Yi had no ability to make any purchases in the System Store. Even though the items were amazing, he could only window-shop.
But just as Tang Yi was about to exit the store, he suddenly noticed an icon.
The icon looked like a wicker basket, and beneath it was a short line of text.
Item Buyback: The Player can sell unwanted items to the System Store.
It was just a short line of text, but Tang Yi understood its function in a single glance!
’I can even sell items to the store!’
Tang Yi’s eyes lit up. He had just been worrying about how to get Battle God Points to buy things, and now a function like this had appeared out of nowhere.
Before, the only way to get Battle God Points was by completing quests, which was far too slow.
After all this time, Tang Yi had only managed to accumulate just under 200 Battle God Points.
But now that the System Store had this item buyback function, getting Battle God Points would be much easier.
’I can sell the equipment I’ve looted or the gear I don’t use in exchange for Battle God Points!’
Tang Yi eagerly clicked the item buyback icon, which took him to a screen showing his sellable items.
On this screen, a price appeared over every sellable item—the system’s buyback price!
Now, all Tang Yi had to do was focus on an item he wanted to sell and think the word ’sell,’ and he could trade it to the System Store for the corresponding amount of Battle God Points.
Among Tang Yi’s sellable items were not only weapons and equipment like the Shadow Remnant Sword, Ice Sword, and Divine Boots, but even Martial Techniques.
Aside from Finishing Moves, every Martial Technique could be sold to the System Store!
The Small Golden Wound Medicine, which he had just seen priced at 100 Battle God Points in the Pill category, had a buyback price of only 50 Battle God Points!
Only half price! A 50% markdown!
Seeing the buyback prices, Tang Yi couldn’t help but roll his eyes.
Full-Attribute Pills: 1 Battle God Point.
Shadow Remnant Sword: 100 Battle God Points.
Ice Sword: 250 Battle God Points.
Divine Boots: 100 Battle God Points.
Mountain Collapse: 25 Battle God Points.
Gale Blade: 25 Battle God Points.
Celestial Star Palm: 25 Battle God Points.
Celestial Heart Guidance: 100 Battle God Points.
Flame Dance: 200 Battle God Points.
Phantom Step: 25 Battle God Points.
Exotic Fire: 500 Battle God Points.
Celestial Eye Technique: 500 Battle God Points.
These were all the things Tang Yi could currently sell, along with their buyback prices.
But the prices were ridiculously low.
Flame Dance was a Heaven Tier Lower Grade Martial Technique. In the System Store, techniques of this level sold for 400 Battle God Points, but the buyback price was only half that at 200 Battle God Points. Selling it would mean a loss of 200 points.
Of course, Tang Yi had no intention of selling a Heaven Tier Lower Grade Martial Technique; he was just using it as an example.
The Full-Attribute Pills were quite effective, but because they dropped in such large quantities and had such a high drop rate, their price was forcibly capped at 1 Battle God Point.
’I have to admit, the System Store is a total rip-off.’
Still, Tang Yi couldn’t complain. The system’s word was law, and the fact that it even offered a half-price buyback was already quite remarkable. If there were no buyback function at all, he’d have even fewer ways to get Battle God Points and would be truly out of luck.
After thinking for a moment, Tang Yi decided to sell some things for Battle God Points, even if the system’s prices were terrible.
However, it seemed he didn’t have much he could actually part with.
He had a total of 107 Full-Attribute Pills—100 from leveling up plus his original 7. Tang Yi figured he could sell 50 of them for 50 Battle God Points and keep the remaining 57 as reserves.
After all, he had Little Tiger with him, and the little guy loved to eat Attribute Pills.
As for his Martial Techniques, Gale Blade was his only ranged skill. ’If I sell it, I’ll have no long-range attacks, so I can’t sell that.’
’Between the other two Martial Techniques, Celestial Star Palm and Mountain Collapse, I can sell Celestial Star Palm and keep the more powerful Mountain Collapse as my go-to Martial Technique for regular use.’
’I haven’t used Flame Dance yet, so I don’t know how powerful it is, but it’s my only Heaven Tier Martial Technique. I definitely can’t sell it.’
’I can’t sell the Shadow Remnant Sword, Ice Sword, or Divine Boots either. The Shadow Remnant Sword is the best weapon I can currently use, and the thirty percent speed boost from the Divine Boots is practically invincible. I’m not selling them until I find a replacement.’
’The Ice Sword requires Level 50, so I can’t equip it yet, but selling it would be too big a loss. In the System Store, a Level 50 weapon costs 500 Battle God Points, but selling this one would only get me 250. That’s a 250-point loss.’
’Besides, once I reach the required Level, I can equip this weapon. Keeping it is a good plan for the future.’
’And as for Phantom Step, Exotic Fire, and the Celestial Eye Technique, selling them is out of the question.’
’Phantom Step is an essential Body Technique for escaping and fighting, Exotic Fire is perfect for destroying corpses and erasing evidence, and the Celestial Eye Technique lets me appraise the Levels of enemies and monsters. All three are indispensable.’
’After all that, the only things I can sell are 50 Attribute Pills and one Earth Tier Martial Technique, the Celestial Star Palm!’
At this point, Tang Yi lamented, ’Why don’t more skills and equipment drop when I kill monsters?’
’Even if I don’t use them, I could at least sell them!’
’It’s all the Battle God System’s fault. The drop rates are just too low. If only they were a little higher!’
Resigned, Tang Yi sold the 50 Attribute Pills and the Celestial Star Palm to the System Store, receiving 75 Battle God Points in return.
With this, Tang Yi’s total Battle God Points reached 195.
After a moment of thought, Tang Yi closed the item buyback screen, reopened the purchase interface, and navigated to the Cultivation Technique category.
On the Saint Martial Continent, anyone who wanted to increase their strength and raise their Level had to follow the path of cultivation.
And to cultivate, one must have a Cultivation Technique!
Only with a Cultivation Technique could one raise their Level through cultivation.
Thus, Cultivation Techniques were indispensable, and their quality directly influenced a Martial Artist’s future accomplishments.
Because Tang Yi possessed a unique advantage like the Battle God System, he didn’t need to cultivate, nor did he need things like Cultivation Techniques.
He could increase his Level and strength simply by killing monsters or people.
So, when Tang Yi entered the Cultivation Technique section to choose a technique, he wasn’t buying it for himself. He was buying it for Tang Piaomiao and the others from the Tang Family.