I Start with a Mysterious Island

Standing by the roadside, Lin Li watched a quaint bicycle occasionally ride past on the street, a look of complete surprise on his face.

Although the styles of these bicycles were very plain—either black or brown, and far less attractive than the ones on Blue Star—they were still bicycles!

’Now that even bicycles have appeared, could there be even more surprising things in Dongwu City?’

"This thing called a bicycle seems pretty convenient for getting around!"

"It is convenient. My uncle bought a black one, and now he rides it everywhere he goes."

"How much does a bicycle cost?"

"Three to four hundred Copper Coins a piece. The price is okay, not too expensive."

"Three to four hundred! That’s really not too expensive... For ordinary people like us who can’t afford a horse, buying a bicycle to ride around on seems pretty good...

By the way, these bicycles just suddenly appeared in the last month or so. Do you know who invented them?"

"I don’t know who invented them, but I heard they first appeared in the Imperial Capital..."

The two passersby chatted as they walked past Lin Li.

Lin Li, who had been watching a bicycle ride off into the distance, turned his head to look at the two passersby and muttered to himself.

’The Imperial Capital?!!! The most important and prosperous city in the Chu Kingdom. It’s twenty to thirty thousand kilometers from Dongwu City. With my current strength, it would be a bit too risky to travel such a long distance to the Chu Kingdom’s Imperial Capital.

Once I’m strong enough, I can go take a look and see what the most prosperous city in this country is really like.’

Withdrawing his gaze, Lin Li thought for a moment before setting off with a clear destination in mind.

A moment later, Lin Li appeared at the entrance of a pawn shop.

Lin Li had spotted this pawn shop earlier while riding the bus to Willow Lane.

Although the swaying bus had made him terribly dizzy, he had immediately memorized the location of the roadside pawn shop the moment he saw it.

’On Blue Star, I couldn’t sell those two items due to various concerns. But now, in this Otherworld, I don’t have those worries anymore.’

Lin Li walked into the pawn shop and glanced around. He found that the shop’s furnishings looked much like those in the historical dramas he used to watch.

Inside the shop, a middle-aged man in his forties sat behind the counter.

When he saw Lin Li enter his shop, he promptly stood up and asked a question.

"Welcome, sir. Are you here to pawn something?"

"Yes, I have some things to pawn," Lin Li said, stepping up to the counter and addressing the Shopkeeper.

Hearing that Lin Li was there to pawn something, the Shopkeeper’s face instantly broke into a very enthusiastic smile. He boasted,

"Sir, you’ve come to the right place! My shop has been open for over sixty years. Go ahead and ask anyone outside—my reputation is top-notch!"

"Over sixty years? But you look forty-one or forty-two at most, Shopkeeper," Lin Li asked, confused.

"Ah, you wouldn’t know, sir. My grandfather opened this shop. From his time until now, it’s been passed down to me, the third generation. That’s nearly seventy years," the Shopkeeper explained with a smile.

"Oh, I see!" Lin Li nodded, then asked, "Shopkeeper, do you accept Spiritual Artifacts here?"

"We do."

The Shopkeeper hadn’t expected the customer before him, who wore a bamboo hat to hide his face, to be pawning a Spiritual Artifact. At that, his smile grew even wider.

After all, the more valuable the item a customer pawned, the higher the profit for the shop. And Spiritual Artifacts were anything but cheap!

"Alright then. Can you see how much this Spiritual Artifact Dagger is worth?" As Lin Li spoke, a thought crossed his mind, and the dagger he kept on the Mysterious Small Island materialized in his hand.

"Huh?!!!"

The Shopkeeper froze when he saw a dagger appear out of thin air in Lin Li’s hand. When he came back to his senses, he gasped.

"A Storage Space Superpower!!! Sir, you’ve actually awakened a Storage Space Superpower! What incredible luck!"

"Mm," Lin Li replied with a smile and handed the Spiritual Artifact Dagger to the Shopkeeper.

Cultivators who awakened a Superpower were relatively rare among their kind.

And among those who had awakened a Superpower, Cultivators with a Storage Space Superpower were even rarer.

The Shopkeeper had only ever heard that a few Cultivators could awaken a Storage Space Superpower; he had never actually met one.

Now, seeing Lin Li confirm he had one, this was his first time seeing a living example.

PHEW...

He took a soft breath to calm himself before accepting the Spiritual Artifact Dagger from Lin Li.

He channeled the Spiritual Energy in his Dantian, and a wisp of faint golden Spiritual Light appeared at his fingertip.

As the Shopkeeper infused the Spiritual Energy gathered at his fingertip into the Spiritual Artifact Dagger, in the next second, the dagger began to glow with a faint golden Spiritual Light.

’This pawn shop owner is a Tier One Peak Cultivator!’ Lin Li judged internally, sensing the Spiritual Energy Wave emanating from the man.

"Not bad. The quality of this Spiritual Artifact Dagger is quite good." The Shopkeeper inspected the dagger’s condition and quality, then smiled at Lin Li and asked, "Sir, will this be a final sale, or a pawn?"

A pawn meant he could redeem the item later. A final sale was equivalent to selling the item to the pawn shop outright.

Lin Li had already planned to sell the Spiritual Artifact he had no use for, so he naturally wouldn’t choose to pawn it. "A final sale."

"Sir, if it’s a final sale, I can give you eighty Gold Coins for this Spiritual Artifact Dagger. Is that price acceptable to you?" the Shopkeeper asked after hearing Lin Li’s decision.

One Gold Coin could be exchanged for ten Silver Coins, or ten thousand Copper Coins.

Eighty Gold Coins was equivalent to eight hundred thousand Copper Coins, which was like eight hundred thousand yuan on Blue Star.

Lin Li had looked up the price of this Spiritual Artifact Dagger online. On Blue Star, it sold for one million yuan. Pawning it now was like selling it for 80% of its original price.

’Eighty percent of the original price... That’s decent, I can accept that,’ Lin Li calculated in his head before speaking to the Shopkeeper, who was waiting for his reply.

"I accept. Shopkeeper, can I exchange the Gold Coins for Spirit Stones?"

After all, the currency of the Spirit Realm couldn’t be used on Blue Star, so Lin Li figured he should convert the Gold Coins into Spirit Stones.

Spirit Stones, after all, were a hard currency in both the Spirit Realm and on Blue Star.

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