"It's to ensure that we don't need to keep coming to the marketplace again and again. We'll then be able to fully focus on our training and progress quickly."

"But Brother Chen, that doesn't make sense. If we buy them all right now, then they'll rot before we can make use of them completely!" Qin Yao tried to stop him, fully knowing that Yi Chen was capable of doing what he had just said.

"Hmph!" Hearing their conversation, the owner couldn't help but snort in irritation and said, "If you don't want to buy anything, then just go away. I don't want to hear your nonsense."

When he heard their conversation just now, he became sure that they were only trying to play with him. Not wanting to engage with these troublemakers, the owner just tried to shoo them with his rude remarks.

However, Yi Chen didn't even flinch at those words and instead took out a low-grade spirit stone from within his card and slammed it on the wooden counter.

"Will this be enough to buy everything?"

"S-spirit stone?" The owner couldn't help but gawk when his eyes fell on the spirit stone.

Generally, since all his items were for regular consumption, everyone used the Kingdom's currency to buy them, so his reactions were only appropriate.

Although a low-grade spirit stone cost ten gold notes, which was the price set by the Kingdom, if a cultivator was asked to sell their spirit stone for that much, then the chances are that they would outright refuse the majority of the time.

With how valuable the spirit stones were for cultivators above the Elementary Transformation Stage, such a reaction was only natural.

It was for this reason that even though the official exchange price was ten gold, unofficially, the price of a low-grade spirit stone could reach up to fifteen gold notes.

'To think there would be someone crazy enough to pay with spirit stones for my goods…'

"Are you serious?" The owner still couldn't believe that Yi Chen really wanted to buy everything in his store

"You're selling or not? If not, then we'll just go to another vegetable store," Yi Chen stated with a frown and tried to turn away, but was stopped by the owner's next words.

"No, Young Master, don't go! I'm selling! I'm selling!" Not wanting to let go of this opportunity, the owner said the next moment, "Subtracting the total amount of everything in the store from the value of one spirit ston-

"Keep the change. It doesn't matter. In return, I'll be taking all the crates and baskets as well," Yi Chen said the next moment.

"Brother Chen, this isn't-" Seeing how stubborn Yi Chen was acting, Qin Yao tried to stop him, but was cut off by the store owner's excited voice.

"Sure! Young Master can take everything that's available in the shop for that much!" The owner beamed with joy seeing how generous Yi Chen was acting and asked with the intention of helping a few of his friends, "Does the Young Master want help with transporting everything to his residence? If yes, then I know a few people who would be of help to you."

"There's no need," Yi Chen waved his hand dismissively and tapped on a few vegetable baskets in front of him.

The next moment, they vanished completely.

Sensing the items inside his ring, Yi Chen nodded to himself and began doing the same with all the other items in the store.

"!!"

"This…!"

Both Qin Yao and the store owner were completely baffled when they saw this scene.

It was only then that Qin Yao's focus went towards the ring on Yi Chen's hand, and he exclaimed in his mind.

'A storage ring! To think Brother Chen was able to acquire something this expensive…'

Qin Yao had started to realise that the hundred low-grade spirit stones that were given to him were really not much for Yi Chen.

'Just how is Brother Chen so rich…'

From what he knew, Yi Chen was also an orphan like him and had come from a small town in the southern part of the kingdom.

However, before he could think about it any further, Yi Chen had finished cleaning up the shop.

"Then I'll be leaving," Yi Chen addressed the owner, who still had a stupefied expression plastered on his face and turned towards Qin Yao the next moment, "Brother Qin, let's go."

"Y-yes…" Qin Yao answered as he momentarily glanced at the empty store before catching up with Yi Chen, who was already a few steps ahead of him.

"Isn't this nice? Now we can both focus on our cultivation rather than spending an hour and a half just every other day for these items. Ah!" Suddenly thinking of something, Yi Chen exclaimed, "Let's buy all the other consumable items as well, so we don't need to waste our time on them. Brother Qin, what other items are there in the house that need to be restocked?"

From Yi Chen's expression, it was evident that he was looking forward to using his ring once again.

"Well, there is…" Seeing the excited expression on Yi Chen's face, Qin Yao had no choice but answer him, and for the next half an hour, the two of them visited several different shops to buy plenty of stocks of the required items.

"Brother Chen," Qin Yao called with a hesitant voice.

"Yes?" Yi Chen asked curiously.

"Just how are you so rich?" He finally asked the question that had been running around in his mind.

"I once helped a damsel in distress," Yi Chen answered with a meaningful expression on his face.

"Huh? I mean, seriously…" thinking that Yi Chen was joking, Qin Yao asked again.

"This is the most serious I can be," Yi Chen said with a smirk.

"…"

Realising that Yi Chen was deliberately not giving him a proper answer, Qin Yao could only give up.

"Oh, there's the clothes store. I only have white robes, and they tend to get dirty very easily. Since we are already here, I'll buy different ones."

Turning towards Qin Yao, he asked, "Do you also want to buy a new set of robes, Brother Qin?"

"Uhm...I already have enough brother Chen, so I'll just accompany you," Qin Yao answered after a thought.

"Well, alright," Yi Chen didn't insist, and the two of them soon entered the store.

"Greetings, Esteemed Customers," a female staff member who had been waiting inside the store's entrance bowed the moment they entered and asked, "May I know what you are looking for?"

"I'm looking for-" Yi Chen was about to complete his words when he was suddenly interrupted by a high-pitched voice.

"Qin Yao!"

A girl who was a year older than Qin Yao rushed towards him from the side and asked excitedly.

"Are you also looking for new clothes? How about we shop together?"

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