"Pfft, where did this greenhorn come from? He brought over a whole sack of Red-Eyed Rabbits?"
"He's probably a student leaving the city for the first time. Tsk, he probably doesn't know the value of Red-Eyed Rabbits. Bringing so many looks intimidating, but unfortunately, they aren't worth much."
"It was exactly the same when I first left the city. But I wasn't as foolish as him back then. I didn't gather such a pile of worthless junk."
"Quit worrying about other people. Hurry up and prepare your weapons. Think about how to hunt a few Level 1 Ferocious Beasts and bring them back. Level 1 Ferocious Beasts aren't easy to deal with."
Because Li Ziyu had brought too much stuff, the burlap sack had already begun to split.
The corpses of the Red-Eyed Rabbits inside were exposed.
In the hall.
Several people dressed in simple combat uniforms and carrying various weapons saw this.
Pointing at the Red-Eyed Rabbit corpses on his back, they burst into laughter.
Li Ziyu rubbed his nose, unconcerned.
Red-Eyed Rabbits really weren't worth much. He knew that.
For ordinary Martial Artists, and even people who hadn't become Martial Artists yet,
even if they killed Red-Eyed Rabbits, they would be too lazy to carry the corpses back.
However.
Who told him he was poor?
Even the tiniest mosquito had meat on it.
Li Ziyu thought this as he moved forward.
A tall woman walked toward him from the front. She wore a light-green embroidered qipao, had her hair pinned up like a hairpin, and possessed dignified features.
She wore a professional smile.
"Hello, Martial Artist. I'm a sales clerk here. May I ask what you need?"
Even after seeing that the corpses on Li Ziyu's back were Red-Eyed Rabbits, the Beautiful Clerk's smile did not diminish, and her attitude remained enthusiastic.
From the clerk's service attitude alone, one could tell what the shop's overall service was like.
He had come to the right place.
Li Ziyu thought inwardly. Then he set down the burlap sack behind him, revealing the Red-Eyed Rabbit corpses inside, their eyes still open in death.
"I'm here to sell Ferocious Beast corpses—forty Red-Eyed Rabbits."
"Of course. Our Precious Martial Pavilion calculates the price of Ferocious Beast corpses by weight. If they're Red-Eyed Rabbits, the price is three hundred Great Xia Coins per jin."
"Please wait here for a moment. I'll have our master weigh them for you."
The Beautiful Clerk led Li Ziyu to a resting area beside the hall.
She picked up a teapot and poured him a cup of tea.
After smiling and saying a few words, she swayed her hips and headed into the shop to call the master.
"Oh, right. There's also the corpse of a Shadow Cat. Please calculate its price as well."
The Beautiful Clerk had just turned around when Li Ziyu called out to her and spoke.
The Beautiful Clerk froze when she heard this. She turned around, her beautiful eyes widening slightly as she asked uncertainly,
"Shadow Cat? Sir, you don't mean a Level 1 Intermediate Fierce Beast—the Shadow Cat, do you?"
The Beautiful Clerk sized Li Ziyu up, astonishment flickering in her eyes.
Normally,
when customers came to buy or sell items, she wouldn't ask many questions.
But Li Ziyu was simply too young.
He looked as though he was still in high school, and was several years younger than her.
Yet the Shadow Cat was a Level 1 Intermediate Fierce Beast.
With its astonishing speed, it was considered one of the more difficult types to deal with even among Level 1 Intermediate Fierce Beasts.
Could this young man before her really have hunted a Level 1 Ferocious Beast alone?
Could this young man be a formal Martial Artist?
The Beautiful Clerk's lovely eyes widened as she stared at him, intensely curious.
"Mm."
Li Ziyu nodded.
As he spoke, he reached into the burlap sack and pulled out the corpse of a Shadow Cat roughly the size of a Northeast Tiger.
Fortunately, his vitality value was abundant now, and his strength was great.
Otherwise, the Shadow Cat's weight alone would have been enough to make it impossible for him to carry.
Of course, the specially made burlap sack was also astonishingly durable.
"It really is a Ferocious Beast—the Shadow Cat!"
The moment the Shadow Cat's corpse was taken out,
the Beautiful Clerk's small mouth fell open.
She blinked her beautiful eyes and stared incredulously at the Shadow Cat corpse on the ground, its eyes round and staring. Brilliant colors flickered in her eyes.
Even the way she looked at Li Ziyu changed.
To be able to hunt a Level 1 Ferocious Beast at such a young age—the future of this youth before her was limitless!
"Gasp! That's actually a Level 1 Ferocious Beast, the Shadow Cat?! And it's an adult?"
"To hunt a Level 1 Ferocious Beast alone, could this kid be a formal Martial Artist?"
"A formal Martial Artist this young is rare even in Xujiang City!"
"We all misjudged him. Who would've thought he was an expert?"
The Beautiful Clerk wasn't the only one who was shocked.
The others in the shop also widened their eyes when they saw the pitch-black Shadow Cat corpse lying before Li Ziyu.
Exclamations rose one after another.
Xujiang City was a small city, and the overall strength of its Martial Artists was not high to begin with.
On top of that, many people became Martial Artists simply to find a better way to earn money or collect the Martial Artist Allowance.
Very few truly left the city to fight Ferocious Beasts.
Seeing that Li Ziyu was so young yet had already gone out of the city to hunt a Level 1 Ferocious Beast—
and that it was even a Level 1 Intermediate Fierce Beast—everyone wore looks of astonishment.
"Please wait here. I'll go call our boss!"
"Oh, no. Please come with me to the VIP Room. I'll go call our boss."
The Beautiful Clerk's face was filled with gentleness.
Even her voice softened and became sweet when she spoke to Li Ziyu.
As she led Li Ziyu toward the VIP Room, she deliberately leaned her voluptuous body closer to him.
Li Ziyu could even clearly smell the perfume on the Beautiful Clerk.
It smelled somewhat like roses.
Inside the VIP Room, which was countless times more luxurious than outside, even the tea had been replaced with expensive Spirit Tea.
Li Ziyu sat on a soft genuine-leather sofa, his feet resting on a carpet made of some kind of leather that was clearly worth a fortune.
He took a sip of the faintly fragrant tea and sighed with emotion.
"Yesterday, I was still rushing around trying to figure out where to find a part-time job. Today, I'm already sitting in a VIP Room, enjoying distinguished service and drinking expensive Spirit Tea."
"Is this the change that comes after gaining strength?"
Li Ziyu was deeply moved.
Indeed.
No matter where one was,
with strength, one could enjoy better things.
In his previous life, enjoying these things required money.
Now, enjoying these things required strength.
Li Ziyu didn't have to wait long.
Before long, a series of soft knocks sounded outside the door.
After Li Ziyu called out, the door to the VIP Room was gently pushed open.
A burly middle-aged man in a Tang suit entered.
The middle-aged man had a short beard, and his eyes shone with startling brightness.
When he saw Li Ziyu in the seat, the middle-aged man raised his brows, a trace of surprise faintly appearing in his eyes.
However, he quickly concealed it, smiled, and stepped forward to extend his hand to Li Ziyu:
"Young friend, I'm Tang Xuan, the boss of the Precious Martial Pavilion."
"I've already looked over the goods you wanted to sell. This is the price I'm offering. See if you're satisfied."
As Li Ziyu sized up Tang Xuan, Tang Xuan was sizing him up as well.
He couldn't help feeling secretly astonished.
The clerk had just told him that a youth who looked under eighteen had come to sell the materials of a Level 1 Ferocious Beast, the Shadow Cat.
He hadn't believed it.
He himself was a Martial Artist.
Moreover, he was a Level 2 Intermediate Martial Artist.
He had personally experienced the Shadow Cat's strength.
An ordinary Level 1 Martial Artist was simply no match for it.
How could a youth under eighteen possibly hunt a Shadow Cat alone?
There had to be a team behind him.
But after seeing the other party with his own eyes and sensing the extraordinary vitality within him, Tang Xuan was stunned.
The other party's vitality had definitely reached the level of a Level 1 Martial Artist.
He really was a Level 1 Martial Artist.
And not the kind of Level 1 Martial Artist who possessed only abundant vitality but no practical combat ability!
A genius like this would certainly have boundless prospects in the future!
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