Chapter 19: Like a Boss

After exchanging names, Jia Yuan left the Black Wing Merchant

Guild Hall and walked back toward the secondary city gate. After walking out of

said gates, he look around and found a desolate alleyway.

He walked into the alleyway and quickly changed into his

usual slave attire. After doing so, he left the alleyway and made his way back

to the pot shop that he had been more or less kicked out of earlier in the day.

The owner of the pot store sat in front of his shop with a

rather wistful face. It was nearing nighttime, and he was about to close shop.

“Ahh, how am I going to be able to keep feeding my family? I

haven’t been able to sell a pot in days… what will we do?”

At this time, he saw the destitute looking boy he had kicked

out of his store earlier in the day.

“What do you want, kid?”

Jia Yuan ignored him and asked, “How much is the combined

worth of all of the pots in your store?”

The store owner glanced at him with a dry expression and

responded, “A little less than three hundred small fire shards, why?”

Jia Yuan looked around the street. Seeing that all of the

other store owners were busy closing up their own stores and weren’t paying

attention to what happened at the pot store, he said, “I’ll take everything.”

Without further explanation, he raised his hand and absorbed

all of the pots in the store into his ring.

He then took out two large fire shards from his ring, and

threw them at the pot store owner.

“That should be more than enough, yeah?”

And with that, Jia Yuan continued walking down the street in

search for a place to stay the night.

The pot store owner quickly ran off and bought what steel he could. After a week, he sold the steel for a profit of over 100 small fire shards. He and his family then moved to the countryside and lived the easy life with their small fortune. From time to time, he would think back to the young child who had given him such an opportunity...

After roaming the streets of the city for a few minutes, Jia Yuan found a tavern and walked in. Inside, there was a counter with a man standing

behind it.

Jia Yuan walked up to the counter and asked, “Hello sir, how

much for a bed for one night?”

“1 small fire shard will do.”

“Right-o.” Jia Yuan confidently took his last small fire shard

out of his pocket and flipped it toward the man behind the counter, who

snatched it out of the air.”

The man examined the shard, and after a few seconds, nodded. “Go

up the stairs, third door on the right.”

Jia Yuan went up the stairs and opened the third door on the

right as instructed. As promised, there was a small bed in the room.

He walked toward the bed and collapsed onto it. Even though

it was quite a poor bed, it would still be the first bed that Jia Yuan had ever

slept it for an entire night.

As Jia Yuan laid on the bed, he recounted everything that

had happened that day.

“Today, I came to the city, bought new clothes, received a

priceless weapon for free, and even received some special card that can hold

currency and even will give me large discounts. I even managed to show up that

pot store owner hahaha… Although he must be happy he finally sold his wares.”

It had truly been a dreamlike day for him.

Immersed in this state of happiness, he drifted off into a

night full of happy dreams.

Back at the merchant guild, Guo Huo was laying down the room

next to the one Jia Yuan had fought him in. This room yet again had massive

golden double doors leading into it. But instead of a single table in the

middle of the room, it had a small bed crammed into the corner of the room.

Guo Huo was currently thinking about the interesting young man who

he had fought earlier in the day. When they had fought, Guo Huo had clearly

felt the power of Jia Yuan’s Song. It even surpassed the strength of his high

level Song, which to Guo Huo, meant that the Song Jia Yuan practiced in was

either at the peak of the high level, or was at the heavenly level.

Guo Huo was a fairly meticulous fellow. As such, everything

he had done during his meeting was done with purpose.