"Ding! The host has killed a Tier 5 Redflame Tiger. Congratulations to the host for obtaining 100 System Coins."
"Ding! The System Shop has been unlocked."
Hearing the voice in his mind, Jiang Feng was dazed for a moment. He only snapped back to his senses after Jiang Xinran waved a hand in front of his eyes.
"Let's drag this Redflame Tiger back and sell it."
Jiang Feng shouldered his dual swords and spoke to the three of them.
"Alright." Wang Da and Wang Er answered in unison.
Wang Da laughed. "This Redflame Tiger is a peak Tier 5 magical beast, and it looks pretty close to Tier 6. We can at least sell it for five hundred gold coins."
Wang Er shook his head and said, "I think we can sell it for eight hundred gold coins. After all, Tier 5 magical beasts are quite rare on the market, and ours even has a magic crystal. Haha, we're going to make a fortune this time! I never imagined we'd actually be able to hunt down a peak Tier 5 magical beast."
"I wouldn't dare claim that killing this Redflame Tiger was thanks to us. If Jiang Feng hadn't suddenly exploded with power, we'd be lucky just to have escaped," Jiang Xinran said with a smile.
Hearing this, Jiang Feng quickly said, "Let's not talk about that. Being able to kill this Redflame Tiger is everyone's achievement. Once we sell it, we'll split the proceeds evenly."
Jiang Feng's words won the approval of everyone. After all, aside from Jiang Xinran, the other three could hardly be called wealthy.
What was more, the four of them were a team who had completed multiple missions together, and the bonds between them were worth far more than just a few hundred gold coins.
Jiang Xinran stepped forward and placed the entire Redflame Tiger into her storage ring. Among the four present, she was the only one who possessed a storage ring.
The four of them walked toward the outer perimeter of the forest.
Watching the three of them chat and laugh away, Jiang Feng muttered inwardly, System, open the shop.
Immediately, a screen of light appeared in Jiang Feng's mind.
The System Shop had two main interfaces: one for skills, and another for items.
Jiang Feng opened the item interface, and the dazzling array of items upon it left him in awe, making him feel all the more that the system was truly formidable.
"Storage Ring: Exclusive to the host, infinite spatial capacity, limited to storing inanimate objects. Price: 1000 System Coins."
"Alchemy Furnace: As long as medicinal materials and recipes are provided, pills can be automatically generated. Price: 1000 System Coins."
"Demon Dragon Soul: The divine soul of a Primordial Demon Dragon. Price: 10000 System Coins."
"..."
Jiang Feng had naturally seen a storage ring before, as Jiang Xinran held one in her possession.
Yet even the cheapest, smallest storage ring sold for five hundred gold coins, an expense Jiang Feng had always begrudged because all his money went toward purchasing equipment.
The light armor and pair of knight's longswords on Jiang Feng's body were both low-level magical equipment, with a complete set coming close to a thousand gold coins. This was all the wealth he had saved up from doing missions over the past two years.
Before the system awakened, his combat strength relied heavily on equipment. Without its help, he would have found it difficult to achieve victory against magical beasts of the same cultivation rank.
Moreover, as a low-tier knight, if he didn't even have a sword, he wouldn't even be able to release skills.
Yet nowadays, Jiang Feng's need for armor was not particularly great. Although the Magic Level light armor he wore had been ruined, his current defensive power was not much inferior to Magic Level armor anymore.
He believed that before long, his physical defense would be able to completely rival magical equipment.
It was also time to purchase a storage ring, because having one would be far more convenient, and when going out he would no longer encounter the awkward predicament Jiang Feng faced right now.
There was a large hole blown into the back of his clothes, leaving him barely covered.
Jiang Feng decided that after heading back to tidy up, he would continue taking on adventurer missions to earn 1000 System Coins as quickly as possible and purchase the storage ring.
Opening the skill interface, Jiang Feng browsed through it, his shock beyond description.
Skills were divided into active skills and passive skills.
Active skills required the consumption of Spiritual Power to release, while passive skills triggered under specific circumstances and required no consumption of Spiritual Power.
"Glory Aura lv1 (Passive): Activated when the host acts as team commander. Teammates gain Glory Aura, increasing Spiritual Power recovery speed by ten percent. Price: 5000 System Coins."
"Divine Protection lv1 (Passive): Activated when the host acts as team commander. Teammates gain a shield. Cooldown time once the shield is shattered is fifteen seconds. Price: 5000 System Coins."
"Forced Fifty-Fifty (Passive): When the host encounters an opponent whose cultivation exceeds their own by five Fifth Orders, forcefully elevate combat power to a level of stalemate. Price: 100000 System Coins."
"Blink (Active) lv1: Instantly move to a designated direction, maximum range 10 meters. Price: 5000 System Coins."
"..."
"Hiss..."
Jiang Feng couldn't help but curse inwardly-this System Shop was simply too overpowered!
The skills available to learn in the shop had never appeared in the Divine Throne world before. If he could learn all of these skills, it was hard to imagine just how powerful Jiang Feng would ultimately become.
Even learning just a single skill could vastly elevate Jiang Feng's strength.
Especially the passive skills, which didn't even require the consumption of Spiritual Power; learning however many there were simply posed zero pressure.
Glory Aura and Divine Protection were quite simply exceptional support skills for team combat, capable of enhancing the longevity of group operations.
Jiang Feng made up his mind that once he formed a Demon Hunt Squad in the future, these two skills were absolute must-learns.
Yet what on earth was this "Forced Fifty-Fifty"?
Could it mean that with his current cultivation, after learning the fifty-fifty skill, he would be able to challenge a Tier 8 powerhouse beyond his rank?
This was too much of a bug!
Turbulent waves churned in Jiang Feng's heart as he imagined whether, once he broke through to Tier 4, he could rely on this skill to go toe-to-toe with the Demon God Emperor at peak Tier 9.
However, Jiang Feng quickly reacted: the fifty-fifty skill had a restrictive requirement that it could only trigger when encountering an opponent whose cultivation exceeded his own by five tiers. That meant once Jiang Feng's cultivation broke through to Tier 5, this skill would become completely useless.
Because on the Holy Demon Continent, Tier 10 did not seem to exist; to transcend Tier 9 was to reach the divine level, and achieving divinity meant to be omnipresent yet non-existent.
To put it simply, the divine level meant dissipating into nothingness, using oneself to nurture heaven and earth.
Viewed this way, this skill wouldn't be used at all.
Because Jiang Feng currently had no contact whatsoever with professionals or enemies whose cultivation was five Fifth Orders higher than his own, and even if he did come into contact with them, he currently lacked sufficient System Coins to learn this passive skill.
What was more, once Jiang Feng stepped onto the battlefield of the demon race, his cultivation would surely have already broken through Tier 5. At that time, where on earth would he find an opponent whose cultivation exceeded his by five tiers? There simply wouldn't be any.
Unless that opponent was Austin Griffin.
Jiang Feng had originally felt regret over this skill, but at this moment he suddenly realized that this skill might unleash unimaginable utility in the future.
In Jiang Feng's memory, the ultimate big boss of Divine Throne wasn't the Demon God Emperor, but Long Haochen's mount and companion, Haoyue-the God of Calamity, the Nine-Headed Chimera.
Yet Long Haochen had awakened Haoyue's consciousness with love, thereby eliminating the Head of Destruction and resolving the apocalypse crisis.
Now, however, Jiang Feng had come to this world. Who knew whether the final outcome would change, just in case Long Haochen failed to awaken Haoyue's consciousness?
Jiang Feng's gaze grew solemn, and he became fully invested in the importance of this skill.
"Jiang Feng, the Demon Hunt Squad selection tournament is starting in two years. Do you have the confidence to break through to Tier 4 within two years?"
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