In the following period, Su Yan kept up with his classmates' morning exercises.
There was nothing special about the content of the exercises.
It was just push-ups, sit-ups, weighted squats, pull-ups, and so on.
One set followed by another of high-intensity training, adding more until it was enough.
The training method was very simple and brutal.
Just in one morning, Su Yan's Qi and Blood Value was shooting up.
Considering his Qi and Blood Value alone, Su Yan's Creature Level could already be equated with that of Rare creatures.
The only shortfall was that his Creature Spirit Strength wasn't up to par. He was still a long way off from evolving into a Rare creature.
Up till now, Su Yan still hadn't figured out how exactly to increase spiritual power.
For this reason, he specifically searched for related information on an online encyclopedia.
It turned out that the majority of creatures, if they wished to increase their spiritual power, had only one option: consuming Exotic Flower Fruits.
And Exotic Flower Fruits, those are heavenly treasures with insurmountable value, rarely coming to market.
How could ordinary families afford them?
With this thought, Su Yan was quite troubled!
He had already been in this world for several days, but the only time his spiritual power had increased was the moment before the System appeared: Spirit+1.
It seems the two Soul Beads in my System Backpack cannot be sold; I'll have to keep them for myself to Devour and increase my spiritual power...
Thinking of this, the morning exercise had already ended.
At this moment, every student in the training hall was drenched in sweat, and they all scattered at the dismissal order of the team leader.
They all rushed to the training hall's shower room in a race against each other, as the feeling of being soaked in sweat was simply too uncomfortable.
Su Yan didn't rush to shower, but found a corner to sneak into and hide, then he took out the two Soul Beads from his System Backpack.
[Ordinary Soul Bead]: Contains a small amount of spiritual power, commonly used to make low-level Soul-return Pills.
[Advanced Level Soul Bead]: Contains a large amount of spiritual power, commonly used to make advanced level Soul-return Pills.
Soon after, new prompt messages popped up in the depths of Su Yan's mind.
[Solitary Ghost Soul Bead detected]
[Do you choose to Devour?]
[Option 1]: Yes
[Option 2]: No
[Devouring will increase spiritual power]
Su Yan chose yes without hesitation, directly Devouring the two Soul Beads in his hand.
Then quickly, familiar numerical information began to flood out.
Spirit+1+1+1+1+1...
Spirit+4+3+9+6+7...
At this moment, Su Yan felt his entire mind become much clearer.
Memory, computational ability, spatial imagination, logical thinking ability, and more...
All received a significant boost, and he seemed much wiser than before.
Is this the benefit of increased spiritual power... truly loving it!
Su Yan felt very exhilarated.
He was thinking, if he could take his current self back to his previous life for a crushingly dominant move.
Then admission to Tsinghua and Peking University would be a cinch, and even the IMO would be a walkover.
The feeling after the increase in spiritual power was just too awesome, and Su Yan wanted to experience it again.
So, he hurried to the shower room for a bath, skipping the next two biology evolution theory classes.
He quickly dashed out of the school, taking two steps at a time.
He wanted to take this little bit of time before registration to find a trading firm outside.
He was keen to see how much money he could get for the Fox tail stored in his System Backpack.
If the price was decent, he would sell it for money, then use that money to buy Exotic Flower Fruits that could increase his spiritual power.
If the price was too low, he would keep it for himself to Devour and increase his Attribute.
Soon after, with the precise navigation of the unscrupulous map, Su Yan swiftly boarded a bus on route 404 heading towards the merchant quarter.
Once on the bus, Su Yan felt the driver's proficiency.
This damn driver, the passengers had barely boarded and weren't even seated yet, and he just slammed the door shut and floored the accelerator.
The entire set of actions was done in one go, leaving Su Yan, an experienced driver, in awe.
The bus sped quickly, almost constantly catching green lights. After not too long, Su Yan got off at his stop.
After disembarking, Su Yan took out his phone and opened the unscrupulous map again, then searched for the specific location of the target trading firm.
After a brief search, Su Yan found that right across the street, there was a commerce establishment that bought and sold goods.
From some photos attached to the unscrupulous map, this Liu Family's Business Line seemed to be quite large in scale.
Therefore, to maintain a certain industry reputation, this business line probably wouldn't cheat people.
After crossing the street, Su Yan went straight through the doors of the business line and stopped in front of a signboard with a map printed on it.
From the map on the signboard, he quickly understood that Liu Family's Business Line was mainly divided into three purchasing and selling areas.
These were arranged in order of the floors:
The Elixir Area on the first floor;
The Foreign Beast Area on the second floor;
The Exotic Fruits Area on the third floor.
Something like a fox tail should be considered merchandise for the Foreign Beast Area, right?
With that thought, Su Yan took the fox tail out of his backpack and held it in his hand, then took the escalator to the second floor's Foreign Beast Area.
No sooner had he arrived on the second floor than a female employee of the business line with sharp eyes saw the fox tail in Su Yan's hand.
She came over with a professional smile and cheerfully asked, "Welcome, sir, are you looking to sell the mythical beast tail you're holding?"
"Yes, I am," Su Yan responded politely with a nod.
"Great, sir, please follow me this way," the female employee said sweetly.
Then, she took the lead and guided Su Yan deeper into the second floor.
Along the way, the products displayed in the booths on both sides caught Su Yan's attention.
The left booth displayed various creature parts, such as tiger teeth, elephant legs, Kirin's arm, Dragon Scales, and Phoenix Feather, offering quite a variety.
The right booth, on the other hand, displayed living Foreign Beasts, with tags explaining that they included fighting fish, Ancient Giant Chicken, Colorful-bearded Whale, and other strange creatures.
Soon, the female employee led Su Yan to a counter ahead and shouted to an elderly man who was busy inside, "Uncle Liu, this gentleman has a mythical beast tail he wishes to sell, could you please appraise it for him?"
The man known as Uncle Liu turned to them upon hearing her, adjusted his glasses, and then focused his gaze on the fox tail in Su Yan's hand.
"Sir, may I take a look at that tail to appraise it?" he asked.
"Sure!"
Without hesitation, Su Yan handed over the fox tail.
Uncle Liu took the fox tail and studied it closely after adjusting his glasses, then touched and squeezed it, appearing very professional.
About half a minute later, Uncle Liu habitually adjusted his glasses again.
He then looked up at Su Yan and said, "Based on my years of experience in appraisal, the owner of this tail should be an Advanced Level Nine-tailed Fox Demon."
"All things considered, I can offer you 43,967 yuan for this Nine-tailed Fox tail!"
"If you find my offer agreeable, you can proceed to counter number 7 on the right to settle the transaction."
43,967 yuan?
Su Yan was taken aback and quite surprised by this.
He had initially thought that the fox tail might fetch around ten thousand yuan at most; instead, it was worth a whopping 43,967 yuan!
After all, without the cheat 'Super Double,' the tail was at best a material for an elixir, so how much could it be worth?
It seemed he had underestimated its value.
Since the tail could sell for over forty thousand, there was no need to hesitate; he'd sell it and use the money to buy Exotic Flower Fruits to quickly enhance his strength. After all, life wasn't valuable when one was weak. It was more cost-effective to have strength, especially now that he already had two lives. With more strength, he could bring himself more returns in a shorter period. For instance, become a Monster Hunter. For him at this phase, this was far more valuable than having one more life.
Seeing Su Yan fall silent, Uncle Liu thought he might find the price too low and frowned, saying, "Customer, the prices at the Liu Family's Business Line are very fair. If you don't believe me, you're free to compare with other places."
"I believe it, I believe it. I think the price you offered is very reasonable. I'll go settle up now."
Saying that, Su Yan took the fox tail and walked towards counter number 7 on the right.
About ten minutes later, the money from selling the fox tail was transferred to Su Yan's account.
After receiving the money, he found a random place to sit down on the second floor.
Then, by himself, he silently stared at the 43,967 yuan in his messenger app, falling into a daze...
He had thought upon first crossing over that he might use his memories from his past life to be a copyist or something to get rich. But looking at his situation now, what the heck was he doing thinking about being a copyist! Dammit, he might as well go home and train intensively for twenty-four hours a day to quickly increase his physical level. Later, he could become a Monster Hunter that specifically hunted down monsters and ghosts to sell to trading firms for money. Wouldn't that be splendid?
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