The hotel owner's eyes flickered with a shrewd light, then he glanced at Yang Tian's indifferent expression, feeling a bit unsure.
Seeing this, Yang Tian naturally knew what the hotel owner was thinking and immediately said, "You name your price. If it's suitable, I'll sell. If not, I'll carry it to the next place."
Hearing this, the hotel owner dared not play any more tricks: "Two hundred gold coins."
Yang Tian looked at the hotel owner's hesitant expression, and without a word, directly hoisted the Flame Lion onto his shoulder: "Not selling!"
The hotel owner immediately grabbed Yang Tian and said with a smile, "Little brother, name your price?"
"Double!" Yang Tian said directly.
The hotel owner was stunned, then gave a bitter smile: "Little brother, you're really ruthless. Three hundred, no more."
Yang Tian walked away directly, and then the hotel owner quickly shouted, "Three hundred and fifty!"
Yang Tian ignored him, and finally, the hotel owner ran in front of Yang Tian: "Four hundred, little brother, you're too ruthless. Leave some profit for me too."
Yang Tian glanced at him: "Check out."
The hotel owner returned to the hotel, took out four money bags, each containing one hundred gold coins.
Yang Tian weighed them, didn't count, and left directly.
It was already late. He planned to find a hotel to stay for a night, then return to Saint Spirit Village. Now that he had four hundred gold coins, it was enough for his expenses and he could also improve Old Jack's life.
At night, Yang Tian took a shower and lay on the bed, opening the system interface, his gaze falling on that Brave-grade Stealing Coupon.
"System, steal!"
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for stealing an unnamed cultivator's Storage Ring!"
Yang Tian raised an eyebrow. This was truly a pillow sent when one was sleepy. He took out the Storage Ring, and according to the instructions, performed the blood recognition ritual. With a slight thought, he entered the Storage Ring space.
The Storage Ring space was over ten meters in length, width, and height, and contained dozens of crystal-clear stones and some herbs and other miscellaneous items.
"This theft isn't just the Storage Ring?" Yang Tian looked at the items in the Storage Ring and only then realized that the Stealing System was about stealing, stealing items that already had an owner!
Since the Storage Ring had an owner, it naturally contained things.
Moreover, all those items were thoughtfully provided with instruction manuals by the system, which was very considerate.
"Spirit Stones, Spirit Herbs, and also a minor divine ability and an immortal cultivation technique. The disparity in items stolen by a Brave-grade theft is a bit large. Is this the difference between the upper and lower limits?"
Lingbo Micro Step, while good, truly couldn't compare to the value of this Storage Ring.
The minor divine ability in the Storage Ring was called Illusory God Palm: palms like a god, movements like an illusion!
And the name of that cultivation technique sounded quite grand.
Innate Spirit Nurturing Art: Absorb the Qi of heaven and earth, nurture the body, nurture the Spirit, nurture the soul, nurture the Spirit!
Without hesitation, anything produced by the system could be directly mastered.
Taking out the Spirit Stones, Yang Tian cultivated overnight and directly broke through from level thirteen to level fourteen. This was also because his Saint Body was a spendthrift; otherwise, Yang Tian felt that the five Spirit Stones he consumed could have allowed him to break through to level twenty.
Host: Yang Tian
Spirit: Green Lotus Core Flame
spirit power: Level Fourteen
Stealing Coupons: None
Backpack: Empty
Mission: Complete studies at Noting Academy.
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Three days later, Old Jack, with great satisfaction, hid the one hundred gold coins that Yang Tian insisted on leaving for him, then tucked the enrolment certificates for Yang Tian and Tang San into his Pregnant, and only then did he take Yang Tian, pick up Tang San, and head to Nuoding City.
Having not paid much attention to Tang San for three months, that boy Tang San had also become much sturdier.
Yang Tian's lips curved slightly. In the past, he had struggled with the idea of clinging to Tang San's leg. Now... hehe, do you believe I'd sleep with your CP?
At Noting Academy, Old Jack, with Yang Tian and Tang San, had just reached the main gate when they were immediately stopped by the young gatekeeper: "What are you doing? Is this a place you country bumpkins can come to?"
Saying that, the young man took a step forward, raised his hand, and was about to shove Old Jack.
However, before the young man could succeed, a somewhat tender but very strong hand grabbed the young man's wrist: "A dog relying on its master's power? You need someone behind you for that!"
Yang Tian's face was cold. He gently pulled the young man's arm, then lightly kicked his foot, directly making the young man fall flat on his face.
Immediately, a system notification sounded in Yang Tian's mind.
"Ding! Gatekeeper lesson mission completed.
Reward: One Normal-grade Stealing Coupon."
Yang Tian paid no attention. Even if the system hadn't given a mission, he would have acted. Old Jack had raised him for six years, how could he watch him be bullied?
"Xiao Tian? You..." Old Jack was touched to see Yang Tian act, but also a little worried, after all, they were from a small village.
Beside them, Tang San spoke: "Grandpa Jack, he wanted to push you, that's why Tian Ge acted. We are in the right, we're not afraid of them."
The gatekeeper never expected that he would fall at the hands of a child. He got up and was about to act again, but was stopped by a deep voice: "Stop!"
The young man paused, turned his head, and immediately his expression changed. He said fawningly and respectfully, "Grandmaster, you've returned."
Grandmaster's face was stern, he gave an expressionless hum, then saw the enrolment certificate in Old Jack's hand and said, "Old sir, may I see the enrolment certificate in your hand?"
Old Jack nodded repeatedly, realizing that Grandmaster must be an important figure at Noting Academy.
Grandmaster took the enrolment certificate, glanced at it, and then said, "The certificate is real, old sir. I apologize to you on behalf of the academy. Let's go in."
After saying that, he glared at the gatekeeper again and said, "If there's a next time, you won't need to be here anymore."
Old Jack was flattered to hear Grandmaster actually apologize to him: "No need, no need, Grandmaster, you're too kind. I won't go in. I'll trouble you to take the two children to enroll."
Grandmaster did not insist. After Old Jack repeatedly urged Yang Tian and Tang San to be obedient before leaving, Grandmaster then took Yang Tian and Tang San into the academy.
And at this moment, Yang Tian received another system notification.
"Ding! Mission released: Refuse to become Grandmaster's disciple.
Mission reward: One Brave-grade Stealing Coupon."
"Ding! Mission released: Question Grandmaster's 'There are no useless Spirits, only useless Spirit Masters'.
Mission reward: One Normal Lottery Coupon."
"There are actually two missions, and one is Brave-grade, not bad." Yang Tian had no intention of becoming Grandmaster's disciple. Although Grandmaster's theories were strong, they were not invincible. Moreover, Grandmaster was cowardly, lacked responsibility, was arrogant, and had double standards... This person was too bad; his only redeeming quality was his rich theoretical knowledge.
Thinking of this, Yang Tian secretly sneered, then spoke: "Teacher, thank you."
Yang Tian directly stole Tang San's line, but Tang San was unaware and merely followed with a thank you.
Grandmaster heard this, shook his head slightly, then forced out an awkward smile: "I am not an academy teacher."
"Not a teacher? Then you just said you represented the academy... Then you must be a very powerful academy leader, right? The kind with extremely strong strength!" Yang Tian's face wore a harmless smile.
Grandmaster's body stiffened, then he chuckled and shook his head: "You're very clever, but you still guessed wrong."