Online Cultivation
episode 26

"Excellent tea ..." Yuan muttered after sipping his tea, feeling a little stronger after just one sip.

“I'm glad you liked this tea, Dear Guest. This was called Phoenix Flower Tea, a spiritual tea made by the Azure Phoenix Sect. Normally, only Elders within the Sect are allowed to enjoy this tea, but Madam Chang specifically wants you to give it a try. ” Na Ying said to her with a smile.

A few minutes later, Madam Chang entered the room and bowed to them.

“Thank you for being patient with this one, Dear Guest. I've just finished arranging your sale. ”

He then placed a ring made of jade and a small red pouch on the table in front of them and continued, “I have reduced by 10% your auction house stock and purchase is worth 550,000 gold of income, so there are 35 million gold and you buy it in the Spatial Ring of a Heaven-class treasure and 540 gold in the Storage Pouch of the monster core.”

“And you can also save Spatial Ring and Storage Pouch. Although there is nothing significant when compared to a Heaven grade treasure, please consider it as a small gift from the Azure Phoenix Sect.”

«Spatial» Ring

«Class: Bumi»

«Mental Strength Required: 5.000»

«Description: The mythical ring that has its own space, allows you to store items in it and retrieve them back with mind.»

«Storage» Bag

«Class: Spirit»

«Mental Strength Required: 500»

«Description: Pouch containing own space. Although there is not much space in it, you can put some watermelon in it.”

Yuan took out a jade ring and a red pouch, and a notification appeared before him.

«35.450.560 gold has been received»

«You have opened Wealth Ranking Board»

"Congratulations! You have reached first place on ‘Wealth Ranking Board’, become the richest player in Cultivation Online»

"Congratulations! You have obtained a unique title ‘Young Master Kaya’!»

«Truth +100»

When Yuan saw that he had become the richest player in Cultivation Online, he did not reveal any surprise. In fact, it would be even more shocking if he was not in the first place!

"Xiao Hua, here, take this."

After receiving the Spatial Ring, he handed it to Xiao Hua, who was looking at him with a puzzled face.

“Why did you give it to me, Brother Yuan? That's your money.”

However, Yuan shook his head and said, "First of all, it's your treasure being sold, and I'll feel bad about receiving this much money when it's not even mine."

“I know, but I still feel bad, getting so much wealth when I do nothing to deserve it. Keep it. But when we really need that money, we can use it.” Yuan insisted on not receiving 35 million gold.

He felt that it was too much money for him at his current level and that it would take away all the fun in the game if he could buy whatever he wanted easily.

In fact, she even felt a little guilty for having an overly strong companion like Xiao Hua by her side.

However, getting a large amount of resources without working for it and getting these resources yourself are two completely different things. Furthermore, as someone who could only rely on others to help him survive for most of his life, he did not want to rely too heavily on Xiao Hua, who was similar to his real little sister, either, that's why he refused gold.

Seeing the stubbornness in Yuan's eyes, Xiao Hua finally nodded her head and received the Spatial Ring and all the money inside.

However, after retrieving the Spatial Ring, he transferred the money inside the Spatial Ring to his own Storage Pouch, before handing the Spatial Ring back to Yuan.

“Brother Yuan, I'll take the money, but you have to keep the Spatial Ring. It will be very convenient for you because you can carry a lot of goods without the burden of carrying such weight.”

Yuan nodded and received the Spatial Ring without much thought, completely unaware of the fact that the Spatial Ring itself was worth several hundred thousand gold.

Meanwhile, outside the Azure Phoenix Action House, a huge notification hung above the clouds with many eyes staring at it.

«Players Yuan has become the first Player to open Wealth Ranking Board by collecting over 1,000,000 gold»

“Someone has earned over a million gold?! How is that possible ?! ”

"Look! The con man's guess, Yuan!”

“Damn it! If you convert that amount of gold into real life money, it is over ten million dollars at the current market price!”

Since Cultivation Online was a very popular ” game video game back then ” obviously there would be people using the game to make a profit in real life by trading in in-game currency for real-life currency, and at the current state of the game, one gold coin is worth about ten dollars in real life.

This type of business is usually called Real World Trade, in short RWT, and is against the terms of service for most online games out there. However, even though it goes against the terms of service, there are many people who would rather use such services to strengthen themselves in the game rather than wasting time and effort to get them fairly.

In addition, this type of business is not limited to just in-game gold, as people also buy in-game treasures and resources for real money.

With all that being said, RWT does not conflict with the Cultivation Online terms of service, as such a requirement never existed from the very beginning, he said, so there are already many players who are using their real life money to buy Cultivation Gold Online and vice versa.

If Yuan turned all the gold in his game into real-life currency, he would have over 350 million dollars by now. But of course, Yuan was unaware of such a business market, so such a thought never crossed his mind.

"If you need to sell something to our Azure Phoenix Auction House, please come again."

Madam Chang gave them a badge with the name of the auction house on it.

«You have got the Azure Phoenix» Auction House Diamond Pass

"As long as you have that permit, you can enter any auction house in this world that belongs to the Azure Phoenix Sect."

"Thank you."

After receiving the permission, Yuan and Xiao Hua left the auction house.