The Card Cultivation System
CCS-49

After exiting Lian Minjie's shop, Xika walked towards the actual clothing store. He had thought about asking for advice from the clothing store, but he immediately expressed his intention because he was not sure Lian Minjie would give the right advice. He could send Xika to another friend.

So Xika decided to look for a clothing store with her own business.

Several times he asked people, and all of them looked at him cynically for thinking he was about to rob a clothing store, so no one told him.

It took about 1 hour for Xika to find a clothing store.

Yet even after he reached the front of the shop, the shopkeeper was already staring at him cynically and was about to chase him away.

Xika immediately took out a bag of money from under her cloak and said,

"I'm not a beggar. I'm not here to ask for money or a job. I'm here to buy stuff."

Finished saying so, Xika wiggled the money bag in front of her and there was the sound of the clattering of coins.

The shopkeeper did not throw him away and covered his mouth, but still stared at him sharply. It seemed like the shopkeeper thought Xika was getting the money out of dirty things, but Xika was too lazy to think about the matter, so she stepped inside the clothes shop just like that.

Many pairs of eyes stared at him cynically as he entered the shop, but Xika did not care much.

He stepped on one of the clothes racks and asked the waiter,

"How much is this shirt worth?"

"1 silver" said the waiter with an unfriendly face, convinced that Xika had only come to look around and did not buy.

"Wrap this shirt for me."

The waiter looked at Xika with a suspicious look, not sure he could pay for the shirt.

"Why are you quiet?" xika asked while throwing 1 silver coin to pay for the shirt.

The servant hurriedly caught the coin that Xika threw and changed her attitude. He thought the coin Xika threw was for him.

"Ah, good good. What else does the young master need? I will fulfill the wishes of the young master as best I can."

"Don't get me wrong. The coin I threw was not for you. It was to pay for the clothes I saw earlier. I'm just asking you to pay for it."

Instantly the servant's face returned sour, but he did not dare to be disrespectful to Xika after learning that Xika seemed to have an unusual background considering she threw silver coins so easily.

In fact, Xika does not really know about the value of money, or how the economic conditions in a city. For a big city 1 silver coin was nothing, but for a medium city let alone a small town, one silver coin was enough, even extremely valuable.

But Xika never understood such a thing. As a child, his parents had not taught him about the value of money, when he lived with his uncle, nor was he taught the value of money, and when he was with Huo Bing, when he lived with his uncle, there is no doubt that the bird that has been asleep for a long time does not understand anything about the current value of money.

Xika walked around the shop and eventually bought some other clothes. He wanted to keep them in his spatial ring, just in case he would break his clothes again, at least he did not need to be treated as a beggar.

He spent a total of 10 silver coins out of 35 silver. He only has 25 silver. But he wasn't too worried about it. If he was short on money, he could sell some more Spirit Beast parts to Master Qin.

Xika immediately changed clothes and put on the clothes she just bought. After changing clothes, Xika thought about what else she should do.

"Change clothes already. Buying weapons or defense is not necessary because I already have my own, especially there is still a gift from Brother Lian. Maybe I should just go get some food."

Then Huo Bing spoke.x

"Don't forget to find lodging. That's an important thing. By nightfall, the inn usually starts to fill up. You can sleep on the street tonight."

Xika approved Huo Bing's words, so after filling her stomach, she looked for lodging.

He went to several inns to compare their prices and quality.

On the way, he met Lian Minjie again.

"Xika's? What the hell are you doing?"

When Xika told Lian Minjie that she was looking for the best lodging, Lian Minjie immediately said,

"No need to find lodging."

"Eh?"

"You're not going to sleep tonight."

"What does senior mean?"

"Just don't forget, 7 o'clock."

The last words he said in a whisper. After that Lian Minjie patted Xika on the shoulder and stepped away.

Xika scratched her head looking at Lian Minjie who was walking away.

"Even if you don't sleep tonight, you're still going to sleep tomorrow."

Huo Bing reminded Xika.

"Metal as well."

So Xika kept checking out the inn that she thought was most worth renting.

When he finished, it was getting dark, but not too dark. About six o'clock.

Xika is confused. There was nothing else he needed to do. If Lian Minjie had not asked him to come and said that he would not be sleeping tonight, he would have been busy practicing at the inn by now.

So Xika decided to go early to Lian Minjie's shop.

When he reached the front of the shop, he immediately pushed the door because he was sure Lian Minjie would not open the door.

But the door was locked.

Xika tried for a while longer and was finally convinced that the door was completely locked and there was nothing she could do to open it.

After being confused for a while, Xika decided to go to Mr. Qin's shop.

Arriving in front of the shop, the previous guard already did not recognize him anymore.

"I'm sorry, young master. Our shop will be closed soon. Please come tomorrow again if you don't mind."

Xika was silent for a moment in confusion then approached and spoke.

"It's me. Is your master inside? I want to meet him."

"Sorry, I don't understand what the young master is talking about."

"I was the one you thought was a beggar before. I'm the one who's selling the Spirit Beast's body parts."

"ah! Is that really you? You look so different."

"Yes, it's me. Is Master Qin inside? I want to meet him."

"Yes, he's inside. Come inside. Do you want to see him now?"

Xika and the guard walked inside the store.

Then the guard took Xika to meet his master.

He came to the door and knocked.

"Excuse me sir? The boy who was meeting you this afternoon."

"Come in."

Xika walked in while the guard returned to his place.

"What's wrong?"

"Anu, Mr. Qin....."

Right now Master Qin was still using the same appearance as earlier this afternoon.

Xika took out the card that Lian Minjie had given her earlier this afternoon.

"Ah, do I have to call you big brother Qin?"

Master Qin looked at the card that Xika was showing and slightly nodded.

"Ah, yes. Strange Lian told me that."

After saying so, mister Qin's appearance changed. Just like Lian Minjie, he had also become younger.

"My name is Qin Mo. You can call me brother Qin. What's the need?"

"Anu, brother Qin....Brother Lian asked me to come to his shop at 7 and do what I needed to do. Right now there's nothing else I need to do so I intend to go to the store but it turns out that the place is locked. So do you-i mean-you-kak Qin....do you mind if I stay here for a while?"

"No problem.

Jiang Feng's! Take this kid to the room to rest."

"Thank you, sir.eh, Brother Qin."

Qin Mo chuckled when he heard Xika who was still a bit stiff calling out to him.

"Ah, we'll go together."

Xika did not really understand, but she just nodded at Qin Mo.

The shopkeeper who previously came and delivered Xika to a room that was quite spacious.

Xika did not care much about what was in the room, she immediately went in and practiced.

He turned the Space Shifter into a stick then swung it several times.

After that, the Space Shifter he transformed into an axe, a chain, and a knife.

He was still wondering how to use those things correctly. Chains are most difficult to train because they are afraid to damage the walls of the room.

After training for about half an hour, he rested his body.

"Hey Xika's. I have a hunch that you should strengthen the Space Shhifter."

Huo Bing appeared and formed his physical form because there were currently no people, although it was actually fine when there were people, but Huo Bing was quite distracted, instead, so he only appeared when alone with Xika, just in case.

"Why indeed?"

"Eitherway. I suddenly had a feeling."

Xika agreed to Huo Bing's proposal regardless of his not-so-reasonable reason. After all, there was no harm in increasing the strength.

"What do you have? Give me everything."

"Can't be all. I still have to own at least half of this stuff, just in case I'm short on money."

"Whatever. Just give me your spare."

Xika gave some of the hooves and teeth of the space tiger he had collected, then he added the tail of the Black Scorchpion, and now looked at the snake bones that Heiliao had killed before.

"I'm sure that the bone will pretty much strengthen the Space Shifter."

"But this will definitely be worth quite a lot."

"Then cut it. Half you use for Space Shifter, half you keep."

Xika thought for a while then agreed to Huo Bing's proposal.

He gave the bone to Huo Bing for not being able to cut it.

After cutting it, Huo Bing returned the bone to Xika in half, half again he melted along with the other objects.

Then the objects finally fused with the Space Shifter and made it even stronger, especially the snake bones.

This process takes about 30 minutes.

Right after the objects fused with the Space Shifter, Qin Mo's voice sounded outside calling out to him.

"Xika, are you ready?"

"Ah, yes. Wait a minute, brother Qin."

Xika immediately turned the Space Shifter into a bracelet, then exited.

Huo Bing immediately entered back into Xika's dantian.

Xika and Qin Mo walked together towards Lian Minjie's shop.

But before he left Qin Mo's shop, he saw that it looked like a bankrupt store. There's nothing else there. Even the name of the shop does not exist.

"Sister Qin, what happened to your shop?"

He chuckled for a moment and then said,

"You'll know."

"By the way, why did you send me to Lian's store earlier?"

"Hm? Oh, I saw a card from under your cape back then. I think the person who carries the cards everywhere must know the Capsah game and quite master it, or at least, like it."

Xika nodded at Qin Mo's strange explanation.

"Then what are we going to do now?"

"Murprise, of course. That's why I packed up my shop before I left."

"........"