Stan opened the system shop and waited as the interface loaded.
The catalog had refreshed. The clean, empty display he had glimpsed earlier had expanded into a far more extensive inventory, neatly organized into layered categories. Every item was accompanied by a brief description, a summary of its intended use, and a price listed in system points.
He started reading through the entries.
[SYSTEM SHOP]
[Cultivation Manuals]
The first category was, predictably, the largest.
The system had stocked an extensive collection of cultivation techniques drawn, if the descriptions were to be believed, from the libraries of ancient sects. The catalog was neatly organized according to traditional classifications, ranging from relatively common manuals to techniques of extraordinary rarity.
Stan scrolled through them with the careful attention of a man less interested in buying than in understanding the scope of what the system was offering.
