First Customer

"Host, please exit the store." the system notified Ye Mo.

Puzzled he asked inquiringly, "What for? Are you trying to look for another host?"

"Don't be paranoid, the store is about to undergo a change, which might take hours and you can't be in the store." the system reasoned.

Ye Mo nodded his head in understanding, he had to be a gentleman, get to know the system better and increase in fighting strength.

A carriage swooshed past him, as about ten brawny men emerged from the carriage, they carried all sort of ancient tools on their hands, as they entered the store, they renovated the store in and out.

Ye Mo stood there stupefied, he began to look at the system in a new light, it had a very deep connection. The brawny men all had powerful auras, they were clearly not to be trifled with.

"You need to train your thoughts, they are just beings made from spiritual energy, I just made them to cover the change happening in the store."

Ye Mo was dumbstruck, "You can make people out of spiritual energy?!"

"Yes, don't ask me how. When you reach that stage you will know." the system cut his question curtly.

Ye Mo choose to remain silent, he scrutinize the changes the store was going through, in his last life, he had visited many shoppers malls and he had a vague idea of how they looked, they contained many departments; clothings, groceries, restaurants and whatnot.

But the system shopping mall was too small, the large expanse of land around the store was more than enough to make the store look like a real shopping mall. Unable to ascertain what was going on in the system mind, he asked, "System, isn't the store too small? There are not many services either."

"The store is currently undergoing a renovation, the store will become a level one store after the renovation, as for the services you are inquiring about, they would be available when the store upgrades. You are the determinant of how far the store can be upgraded."

"What store level will be required to unlock all services?"

"Aren't you getting ahead of yourself, the lowest service require the store to be at level three. It a long way, host." The system chuckled.

Ye Mo began to doubt whether the system was a human being or an intelligent Ai.

It took five hours for the renovation to be completed, looking at the new store, Ye Mo nodded his head, the store name was written in striking bold and vigorous letters, they were writen in runic letters. The pitch black color of the store was replaced with a normal dark color. The size of the store doubled, clearly the shop had been expanded. Ye Mo entered the store, the counter had been expanded, it was made of an ancient wood. Behind the counter were rows of glass shelves that sparkled, there was nothing else. A huge door was in the innermost part of the store, it was like the curtain that seperated the light from darkness. Entering the inner part of the store, the cultivation rooms were on both sides of the hall. Clearly, the hall had just appeared here.

Three horizontal ponds were at the centre of the hall. With a runic barrier surrounding them. The pond on the right contained a very violent energy, they zigzag around the pond splashing unto the solid wall of the pond. The pond on the left contained a sparkling liquid, soothing and peaceful. The pond at the centre contained a deep and dark luster, it had a soul capturing vibe.

He got to their purpose from the system. They were the body, spirit and soul pond respectively.

Standing on the teleportation portal at the end of the hall, Ye Mo found himse itlf in a familiar environment, it was that dark void he entered before. Waves and currents bellowed with the ancient wind in stow.

"Detected that host has entered the Chaotic Realm, please perform your daily strike."

Ye Mo nodded his head solemnly, his prayed for the grace of his ancestors, regulating his breathing, his eyes became sharp as he struck the void, he executed the Mountain Quaking Fist, although he couldn't see the river, since the system had notified him, he just struck out blindly after all everything here was the realm, where the river came from had nothing to do with him.

"Try again tomorrow host." The system beep ended his waiting period.

Ye Mo was dumbfounded, 'what the heck!' after pouring out all his strength, he was met with nothing. He remembered Elder One words that it all came down to luck.

He returned to the counter depressed, he soon fell asleep. The next day was not any better. He returned empty handed. Even though he performed his breathing cycle, clear his state of mind, there was no obvious change in the following days. The luckiest was when he got a piece of metal.

On the fourth day, he got a bottle that contained five pills, the blood clotting pill. It was a type of pill usually used for first aid to stop the bleeding of cultivators.

He opened the store in high hopes, the day was dull and boring. A clamoring came from the front of the store. Ye Mo rose to his feet in delight. A panicky old man barged into the store in a hurry, "Do you have a blood clotting pill?" he asked nervously.

Ye Mo answered with a straight face trying to hid the smile on his face, "Yes."

The old man breathed a sigh of relief, "I need a pill, don't worry about the price, my brother over there just got attacked by a mutated Bony Horned Ape. Hurry." The old man said anxiously pointing at the middle aged man at the other side of the road who was covered in the pool of his own blood.

Ye Mo nodded calmly, "Okay, the pill costs ten spirit stones."

"Okay.. whaaat! Ten spirit stones! Are you nuts?" the old man went wide-eyed for a few seconds.

"No! That's the price, are you buying or not?"

Ye Mo asked calmly.

Seeing his calm face and his brother bloodied body, he gritted his teeth. "Fine. Get it now." He said angrily, his eyes almost spitting fire.

Ye Mo took the spirit stones, placing them on the Steele on the counter that the system had prepared before hand. The stones vanished immediately, Ye Mo shook his head wryly.

"Where is the pill?" The old man questioned angrily after waiting for a while.

Ye Mo pointed at the Steele at the entrance, the old man got the Steele, he stole a look at the young lad inside the store and shook aside the thought of him being a fraudster. The Steele flashed with a grey light and a bottle appeared on it. It contained a pill, grabbing the bottle he ran to his brother and stuffed the pill into his mouth after checking it authenticity. The wound on his brother chest closed rapidly, blood stopped flowing out of his chest. The old man had a blank look on his face, this wasn't the first he bought a blood clotting pill, but the ones that had immediate effect could only be found in large alchemy guild.

Watching from the store, Ye Mo nodded his head in satisfaction. He received a beep earlier from the system that he had earned ten experience points, this made him wonder whether the amount of the item sale was equivalent to the experience points he would get.

The old man took one last look at the black store as he carried his brother for treatment, his mind swirled in happiness as though he had discovered a secret gold mine. It was truly a gold mine, an unidentified store that sold excellent pills at a cheap price, he just wanted to get his brother treated and come back to apologize to the young man for his rude behavior. The young man had a large force behind him, that was his thought while running and sweating.

Ye Mo sold the remaining four pill bottle that had been seperated earlier on. He got a total of fifty experience points. He was in a gloomy mood, all his lucky strikes ended in failure or getting junk materials. He got a huge stone on a particular day, when he asked the system, the reply he got was that the Stone was a stone, he was so angry that he nearly spurted a mouthful of blood, what else could it be other than a stone?

As for Elder One, the old man had not taken a single step out since he entered the cultivation room.

A notification made Ye Mo's heart leap for joy.

"Lucky strike entails a bit of luck and strength. Would the host like to step into the Kung Fu Spirit Realm? If yes, your fifty experience points would be deducted for you to cultivate in the Soul pond."