Albert Lee then recited the keyword 'Appraisal' inside his head, whilst looking at one of the items he is holding within his hand.

He had the {Troy Lee Designs 7855 Ultra Protective Body Armour Long Sleeve} appraised by the system, and a blue screen panel then appeared in front of him, displaying the appraised item's stats and additional information.

Ding!

The sound of the system notification as a blue screen panel then appears in front of him, displaying the stats and additional information of the item he just appraised.

Item Screen

Item Name: Troy Lee Designs 7855 Ultra Protective Body Armour Long Sleeve Item Type: Body Armour Item Grade: Uncommon (Green) Item Quality: ★★★ Item Durability: 240/240

When the equipment is worn or equipped:

+14 Defence

+ 6 Dexterity

+ 2 Endurance

+ 70% Physical Resistance to Projectiles (Bullets, Arrows, etc)

Item Description

The Troy Lee Designs 7855 Ultra Protective Body Armour Long Sleeve is a protective body armoured that is manufactured by the Troy Lee Designs company in factories, made from the synthetic fibre material known as kevlar. It is made to fit motorcycle riders, but it can block bullets and incoming projectiles to a certain extent by rapidly distributing the immediate kinetic force that is aimed at them throughout the user's entire body.

'The stats added bonus after equipping the {Troy Lee Designs: 7855 Ultra Protective Body Armour Long Sleeve} seems to be pretty good.' Albert Lee thought so to himself, as he then had his {Revolver Python 357 Magnum Pistol} appraised by the system.

'Appraisal.' He recited the keyword inside of his head once again to activate his appraisal ability to appraise the {Revolver Python 347 Magnum Pistol} in his other hand.

Ding!

The sound of the system notification as a blue screen panel then appears in front of him, displaying the stats and additional information of the item he just appraised.

Item Screen

Item Name: Revolver Python 347 Magnum Pistol Item Type: Firearm Weapon Item Grade: Rare (Blue) Item Quality: ★★ Item Durability: 481/481

When the equipment is worn or equipped:

+ 8 Dexterity

+ 5 Strength

+ 85% Projectile Damage With 30% Increased Penetration Damage

Item Description

The Revolver Python 357 Magnum Pistol is a .357 magnum calibre revolver manufactured by Colt's Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut. It was first introduced in 1955, the same year as Smith's & Wesson's M29 .44 Magnum.

'Stats added bonus after equipping the {Revolver Python 347 Magnum Pistol} aren't half bad, but certainly not better than the {Troy Lee Designs: 7855 Protective Body Armour Long Sleeve}'s equipment stats bonus when equipped.' He thought.

Ding!

The sound of the system notification as a blue screen panel then appears in front of him, detailing the growth in the progress of his skill.

(!) System Notification The skill {Appraisal Lv.1} has reached maxed skill proficiency. The skill has thereby levelled up and become {Appraisal Lv.2}!

'It would seem that using the appraisal skill a couple of times to appraised my items have garnered it enough skill proficiency for it to level up by one minor level.' He thought so to himself.

'The skill level is too low to make that much of a difference, as it already provided me with all the necessary information. So what more could I get out of the appraisal skill.' He thought so to himself and wondered.

After having finished inspecting the two items that he purchased from the System Store. Albert Lee then decided to throw all of the newly acquired items into his inventory space.

He then recited the keyword 'Inventory' inside of his head, as a transparent blue screen panel then appears in front of him. And the moment that Albert Lee put the item through the blue screen panel, it then completely vanishes and one of the miniature square boxes on the big blue screen panel then began to fill up.

It displayed the visual item that he put into the system as a miniature icon, in which he then followed suit to place all of his purchased items from the {System Store}, all into his own inventory space.

An hour or two into the live video group call and conversation, Albert Lee then started to feel slightly tired. Having yarned twice or so into the 2 hours long conversation.

"I'm starting to feel a little bit tired, so I will definitely end the live video group call immediately and take a short nap. So see you guys later then..." Albert Lee said so over the live video group call. "Bye..."

The others' said "Bye" to one after the other before he then exited the live video group call.

The live video group call is then ceased, with the live video feed connection from Albert Lee's end having disconnected.

He then heaved a big sigh of relief, whilst taking a deep breath, strongly inhaling through his mouth, and holding it in for a couple of seconds. Not before exhaling outwards through the same airways, and through the mouth.

'I'm tired.' Albert Lee thought so to himself, as he then gets out of his computer chair and slowly went towards his bed, not so far a distance away.

And once he is near inches away from the outer rim of the bed. He then immediately gives in to his laziness, having free fall onto the bed mattress on his front side.

His head hitting the soft surface of the bed mattress before it was push back by the counter upward force and the bed springs. Afterwards, he then properly crawls into bed. With the blanket wrapped around his entire body up till the tip of his shoulders.

He then readily closes his eyes, as his consciousness slowly drifted away until he completely falls asleep.

'Goodnight!' He thought so to himself.

And on the other side of the house, on the second floor as him, within Albert Lee's father bedroom.

He is seated atop his bed in an oddly weird manner, with one leg over another in a lotus position. His hands resting on top of one another in between his crossed legs.

Ding!

The sound of the system notification as a blue screen then appears in front of Albert Lee's father, but he immediately ignores it without a second thought.

(!) System Notification Through practice meditation, your spiritual power has been increased by 0.1 stat!

The father seems to be meditating, practising cultivation, as he is repeating cycles of inhalation and exhaling in order to stabilize his breathing. And besides his bed, there is a small porcelain vial that contains cultivation pills.

Earlier on, he had purchased a small vial that contains numerous grade 1 cultivation pills, from the {System Store}.

And without a second of thought, he then opens the lid of the small vial and drops out a single grade 1 cultivation pill. The grade 1 cultivation pill wasn't at all that cheap, with the lowest grade cultivation pills being mortal rank, costing at least a hundred system points in total. And that's for just the lowest grade cultivation pill.

For others, a hundred system points can literally buy a person about half a month of food and water, with plenty to spare to buy medical supplies if the user rations their food and water intake properly.

With one cultivation pill in the palm of his hand, he then immediately throws it into his mouth, having made the absolute decision to go through with his actions.

The cultivation pill, the size of a small marble then landed inside of his mouth, softly landed on the surface of the top part of his tongue.

Albert Lee's father then swallows it whole entirely forcing it down his narrow gullet.

The grade 1 cultivation pill then travels down Albert Lee's father's throat and into his stomach. The contents of his stomach, as the strong acidic stomach acids then quickly dissolve through the outer casing of the pill's shell.

And then cracks began to rapidly form on the surface of the cultivation pill, as the pill casing is quickly dissolved. The cultivation pill could no longer contain its own solid shape any longer anymore, it collapses upon itself and imploded, thereby releasing all of the medicinal contents withinside the cultivation pill.

A torrent of spiritual energy is then strongly erupted from withinside Albert Lee's father's body, originating from his stomach abdomen region where the cultivation pill exploded.

A wave of heat then permeates throughout his entire body, as he strongly struggles to contain and stabilize the wild waves of spiritual energy that kept rampaging ruthlessly throughout his entire body.

As heat is rapidly being produced, streaks of steam are thereby released off from his body. With the excess fat being quickly burned away by the extreme temperatures and heat, and slowly converted into extra energy to be used in cultivation.

And the rotten filth and the dirt clogged pores that have been accumulated over the years, in the past few decades. It has strongly affected his own personal health, deteriorating him over the years, not including his hyperactive thyroid problem that also adds to the health problem, thereby worsening his body's condition.

Though it is not life-threatening, it can definitely shorten a person's expected life expectancy by a couple of years or decades.

The filth that is being rapidly expelled from his body then appears in the form of a black substance that sticks to his natural body. It looks a bit unsightly, at the same time, it starts to stink up the whole place.

Ding!

The sound of the system notification as a blue screen panel then appears in front of him, but he immediately ignores it and continues cultivating.

(!) System Notification You have consumed a Grade 1 Cultivation Pill! Your spiritual power attribute stats have been increased by 100 points!

And after a couple of minutes later, the torrents of spiritual energy that is currently flowing throughout Albert Lee's father is now like that of a river. The river streams are constantly flowing at a steady pace, as the spiritual aura that is released off from his body has increased.

Instinctively, Albert Lee's father quickly felt a new change inside of his body, as then manages to successfully breakthrough from the 1st layer of the Qi Condensation Stage to the 2nd Qi Condensation Stage.

Ding!

The sound of the system notification as a blue screen panel then appears in front of him, showing him his immediate growth in progress.

(!) System Notification You have successfully broken through from the 1st Qi Condensation Stage to the 2nd Qi Condensation Stage! All attribute stats have been increased!