"Sir, how many Mystic Water Pills would you like to purchase? Our rules limit each person to three!"
The Xuanming Sect disciple wore a friendly expression, his hands clasped behind his back.
Mystic Water Pills were a precious resource of the Xuanming Sect, with limited production. Ordinary nobles could not afford them, while commoners had no access to purchasing channels at all, so purchases were limited to three per person.
"I'll buy ten Mystic Water Pills! And I'll pay three thousand Gold Soul Coins above market price for each one!"
Huo Tian took a bronze token from inside his clothes. The character for "mystic" was engraved at the top, and patterns of the divine beast Black Tortoise adorned its surface.
This was none other than a token belonging to the Xuanming Sect's direct bloodline, something incomparably precious.
Before setting off to travel the continent, Huo Tian had sought out Xu Sanshi to borrow his token. Since Huo Tian wanted to buy a few extra Mystic Water Pills, he could only do so through his connection with Xu Sanshi.
Xu Sanshi had met Huo Tian through Bei Bei. The two were also as close as iron, so Xu Sanshi had lent Huo Tian the token without hesitation.
Huo Tian's words left the Xuanming Sect disciple stunned. He had been about to refuse, but his heart tightened when he saw the token in Huo Tian's hand.
"Please wait here. I'll prepare them right away!"
The Xuanming Sect disciple turned and headed toward the dispensary. He had not expected the youth before him to be a friend of the young sect master, and a very close one at that.
"Master! Why does your token have a turtle on it too?"
Huo Yutong took the Black Tortoise token from Huo Tian and played with it in her palm. Huo Tian laid his large hand on her head and rubbed it.
"Customer! Your Mystic Water Pills are all here. That comes to one hundred and thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins!"
The Xuanming Sect disciple soon emerged from the dispensary, holding a medicine bottle that gave off wafts of medicinal fragrance. He gently set it on the table.
After paying, Huo Tian put the bottle of Mystic Water Pills into his Storage Soul Tool. He took Huo Yutong's fair little hand, and she sprang up and followed at his side.
The two walked shoulder to shoulder out of the Xuanming Sect's medicine hall. Huo Yutong raised her head as though she wanted to say something, then lowered it again.
Huo Tian brought Huo Yutong to an upscale hotel. They climbed the stairs all the way to room 403.
Huo Tian pushed the door open and entered. The interior was lavishly decorated, with flooring made of fine golden-thread nanmu wood...
"So comfortable!"
Huo Yutong jogged over to the bed and flung herself onto the warm, soft mattress. A blush rose on her fair little face.
Such fine silk was something Huo Yutong had never dared to enjoy before.
"Little Yutong, cultivate first!"
Huo Tian took out a Mystic Water Pill and tossed it toward Huo Yutong beside him. She caught it carefully and swallowed it whole with practiced ease.
As soon as the Mystic Water Pill entered her stomach, the dantian inside Huo Yutong began operating on its own. She sat cross-legged on the bed, circulating the medicinal effects through her meridians into every limb and bone.
Huo Tian stepped onto the balcony and stretched as he gazed at the boundless starry sky. He rested both hands on the railing and propped up his chin.
Huo Tian opened the system panel to see what the ten thousand points rewarded for his last completed mission could buy in the system shop.
"Damn! So expensive!"
Huo Tian's fingers trembled as he stared helplessly at the system shop. His ten thousand system points could only buy an ordinary Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone.
There were prize wheels at the top of the system shop, divided into bronze, silver, gold... The bronze wheel cost one hundred points per draw, and each successive wheel multiplied the cost per draw by ten.
"I can draw a hundred times on bronze, ten times on silver, and once on gold..."
"The bronze prize wheel is full of trash. Silver is a little better!"
"Hopefully I'll get something good!"
Huo Tian pressed his palms together and rubbed them, his finger frantically tapping the draw button on the system panel.
[First draw: Hundred Year Wild Dog Left Arm Bone] [Second draw: Class 2 Defensive Soul Tool]
"Fuck, what the hell are these things you're giving me? This damned system isn't scamming me, is it?"
Huo Tian looked at the trash inside the system space. Even giving him this trash only made him resent the space it occupied. He exchanged nine pieces of trash for two thousand points.
The trash he had drawn with nine thousand points ultimately fetched two thousand points. Huo Tian did not know whether to laugh or cry, and finally made three consecutive draws.
The first two of those final draws still yielded trash. Huo Tian had given up all hope, but the last one triggered a hard pity and drew a golden legendary.
"Hahaha!"
"Hard pity finally showed up!"
"Even computers freeze sometimes!"
Huo Tian broke into a brilliant smile as he watched the dazzling golden light shining from the system panel. He stuck out his tongue and licked his lips.
The final draw yielded a pill streaked with blue and silver-a Martial Soul Evolution Pill. Buying this pill in the shop required one million points.
The Martial Soul Evolution Pill dropped from the system panel into his palm, giving off a faint blue glow. This Evolution Pill was only a First-Tier Evolution Pill, the lowest tier in the system shop.
Evolution Pills came in four tiers, from first to fourth. A First-Tier Evolution Pill had a 30% chance of evolving a martial soul, a second-tier pill had a 60% chance, a third-tier pill had a 90% chance, and a fourth-tier pill guaranteed successful evolution.
"Fuck, after all that! This pill's evolution chance is so low."
Huo Tian pinched the Martial Soul Evolution Pill in his palm and looked at it with disdain. Still, having one was better than having none.
Huo Tian had no use for the Martial Soul Evolution Pill himself. His martial soul was already at the ceiling of the Douluo Continent, so he decided to let Huo Yutong's martial soul evolve.
Huo Yutong was someone blessed with great fortune to begin with. Huo Tian firmly believed her martial soul would definitely evolve, and he also wanted to know what the Spirit Eyes would look like after evolving.
The night slipped quietly past. Roosters crowed throughout the city, and a reddish streak of fish-belly white appeared on the horizon.
The natural energy gathered around Huo Yutong gradually dispersed into the air. She felt that the Soul Power in her dantian had grown more substantial.
An auntie smile appeared on Huo Yutong's fair face. She opened her large, limpid eyes, and under the effects of her Spirit Eyes martial soul, her vision became clearer.
"Master~ Is there something dirty on Tongtong's face?"
Huo Tian's eyes had remained fixed on Huo Yutong's little face. She asked her question with her head tilted, her long blue hair veiling her face.
"Your master thinks Tongtong is getting cuter and cuter!"
Huo Tian raised a hand and pinched the fair, tender skin of Huo Yutong's face. She did not resist; instead, she looked as though she enjoyed it.
"Little Yutong, your master has a Martial Soul Evolution Pill here. Do you want your martial soul to evolve?"
Huo Tian opened his palm to show Huo Yutong the Martial Soul Evolution Pill. She gazed at it curiously.
"As long as Master gives it to Tongtong, Tongtong will eat it!"
To Huo Yutong, Martial Soul Evolution meant growing stronger. Any price was acceptable.
"The process of Martial Soul Evolution will be very painful. Little Yutong, you must hold on."
"Mm."
Huo Yutong listened obediently, nodding her little head.