Shi Feng pulled up the search interface and typed in "Sturdy Stone."
Rows of data immediately filled the translucent screen.
A quick glance showed over a hundred listings—plenty of sellers. Seeing some player offering a full stack for one gold coin, Shi Feng mentally tagged them as desperate to the point of madness. He immediately set the display to sort from lowest to highest.
After the adjustment, Sturdy Stones were going for twenty-six copper a stack. Even after the transaction fee, he'd net twenty-five copper—a significant markup compared to what he'd paid before.
But Shi Feng was still willing to buy them all. As long as the price stayed below thirty copper, it was acceptable.
In an instant, more than half the Sturdy Stone listings on the Auction House vanished. The remaining ones were all above thirty copper—no fool would buy those.
After finishing with the Sturdy Stones, Shi Feng casually browsed the miscellaneous section.
His eyes suddenly lit up. Card Decks—and a huge quantity of them. Any monster could drop these Decks, but the drop rate was abysmally low—less than one in ten thousand. Monsters below level twelve would drop cards from twelve different sets. The cards came in two tiers: Bronze and Dark Iron.
The Warrior sets were Steel, Crusader, and Berserker.
The Weapon sets were Chaos, Vengeance, and Tempest.
The Healing sets were Divine, Nature, and Nobility.
The Spell sets were Elemental, Fool, and Demon.
Each of the twelve sets represented a different class. Every set contained nine cards, each bearing a number on the back. Collect a full set, and you could exchange it for a complete gear set corresponding to that class.
Back in his previous life, most players had no idea what these cards were for. The cards themselves had no description text, so people just tossed them into their bags or dumped them on the Auction House. It wasn't until the fifty-man level-10 Normal Dungeon near the city was cleared that players discovered an NPC inside who could exchange the Decks—Bronze tier and Dark Iron tier—for full gear sets.
The set bonuses on those gear pieces were absolutely god-tier. A single Bronze set rivaled a full suit of Dark Iron equipment, while a Dark Iron set could compete with a full set of Mithril gear. Overnight, these once-ignored Card Decks became wildly popular, each one selling for astronomical prices. Even at those rates, guilds went on buying sprees, snatching them up relentlessly.
Yet here, hundreds of Card Decks sat completely unwanted. The highest bid on any of them was seven copper, with most hovering around five.
Without a second thought, Shi Feng swept up every last one. The money meant nothing to him right now—cash sitting idle didn't appreciate. The only way to make money was to use money to generate more.
After collecting the Sturdy Stones and Card Decks, Shi Feng had less than fourteen silver coins remaining.
He then searched for Skill Books. In the Divine Realm, a player's strength was judged not only by their equipment but by the number of skills they possessed. The more skills, the more versatile their combat options. A top-tier Swordsman could typically command over twenty skills, while first-rate experts wielded more than forty—and the pinnacle players, needless to say, had even more.
He was supposedly a first-rate expert, yet he currently had fewer than ten skills. Pathetic…
But Skill Books were rarely listed for sale. Most players kept them for personal use or traded them with others for what they needed.
Shi Feng flipped through more than ten pages, buying every Swordsman skill book he came across. When he reached the last page, he froze.