Seized by the System

Chapter 396: The Older, The Wiser

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Right now, not far off a tropical town somewhere in Southern Asia.

Vigilante A suppressed a wave of demonic beasts that attacked a human village, he received many fruit offerings…

In the atmosphere of cheerings from the high-spirited, small commoners, he was about to leave, then he suddenly blanked out a while.

Confused, Fang Ning asked, “Sir, did anything happen?”

Sir System said with uncertainty, “Mmm, my instinct tells me that somebody is thinking about my money…”

Fang Ning quickly shook his head. “That person is not me for sure.”

It was rare that Sir System did not suspect Fang Ning, it said, “My instinct tells me that it’s probably not you too, after all, I think about your money every day, you won’t be able to think about mine.”

“Heh, is that so?” Fang Ning was instantly at a loss for words.

Vigilante flew towards the Divine Gate directly, which made Fang Ning even more doubtful.

“Why are you heading towards that direction? We’ve done our part, Ren Ruofeng will notify us if anything happens.”

“I have a natural feeling that the person who is thinking of my money is at that direction, this feeling is too strong, I’ll have to go take a look. Besides, I have another feeling that somebody in that direction wants to give me money.”

Fang Ning thought for a while then came to a sudden realization.

Previously, after sir climbed the stairway and handed things over to Ren Ruofeng, it rushed away to farm experience.

Sir definitely had no idea, as the first to successfully reach the top, how much would this experience be worth?

Most importantly, the market was too huge. In a way, a group of people with the strongest consuming ability on earth now were gathered outside the Divine Gate, both good and evil.

When Fang Ning thought about that, he could not help but feel ashamed. As expected, a wise man who considered little would make mistakes… Since he kept thinking about playing games and reading novels, he forgot about something good.

He quickly said admirably, “Sir, you’re really awesome. If I’m guessing it right, there must be many people there who want to spend money to buy the experience of climbing the stairway. Are you about to unfold a new system skill? You could actually predict something like that.”

“Uh, Mr. Rich Boss, you guessed it right. Recently, I’ve been cultivating True Bodhi Tactics very closely and achieved a tiny apperception. Hence, my intuition towards my weal or woe has become much sharper.” Sir System said casually.

“Hehe, a tiny apperception? The intellect is being so humble.”

Fang Ning was hit hard, thus he returned to the System Cyber Cafe to numb himself with novels.

A brief moment later, Vigilante A descended from the sky with his sword and landed where the Divine Gate was.

After not being here for a couple of days, it was already packed with huge crowds.

Powerhouses from various clans were assessing and exchanging opinions of the stairway.

The problem of “how Vigilante A broke through all levels and climbed all nine steps” became the focus of their discussions.

This was in stark contrast to the remaining ten plus heroes who were still stuck at the first step, and even America’s secret weapon the robotic cop that actually failed to enter the gate.

These few days, everyone had already been puzzled even after much thought.

Therefore, when people noticed Vigilante A flying down from the sky, they immediately surrounded him and quoted prices without wasting any time.

A resolute person would know very well the Venerable Dragon God’s disposition!

“Boss, I’m willing to give a hundred kilograms of top-grade vitality herbs, please give me pointers on how to pass each stage.”

“Sir Venerable Dragon, America is willing to pay one billion just so you will give us some pointers…”

“Move aside, who still wants your useless money now! Boss, Europe and the other countries are willing to give five hundred tonnes of various rare vitality minerals and thirty bizarre beasts, in exchange for your stairway experience.”

“Eh, my instinct has no problems indeed, you made a right guess too, Mr. Rich Boss, there’s really a whole lot of people wanting to give me money,” Sir System was excited upon hearing all of the offers, it was confused afterward. “I wonder, which fellow is going against the tide and still dares to think about my money?”

Fang Ning knew very well, it had been a long while since there had been a massive stream income, as those were mostly conventional restaurant proceeds. As compared to the current consumption, it was already inadequate, on top of that, their main proceeds came from the mysterious online shop that Butler Zheng managed, which sold all sorts of secret Dragon Clan products.

This time, they could finally have a good harvest.

Of course, it was impossible to have such a high offer, if it exceeded the profit from climbing the stairway, these sprites would not make the offer.

Ren Ruofeng smiled bitterly, he had thought about this from the beginning.

It was just that the Venerable One left too hastily, so he had no chance to bring it up, fortunately, too many people were already relaying the message for him. He was just waiting for them to set a rough bid and to give him a good deal.

He was very clear of one thing, which was to not rely on a good relationship and to not gain any advantage from another party in terms of benefits no matter what. This was because they would certainly turn into enemies, and there were countless similar cases in the past, whether it was an individual or a country.

As Vigilante A waved his hand, everyone became dead silent, they looked at him with glimmering eyes.

“Everybody, you can just discuss this with my butler. Knowledge is priceless, but as long as the fee is suitable, I will definitely not keep it to myself and will surely pass the knowledge to you selflessly.”

Indeed, it was just as what everyone else had expected it to be.

That would be an easy job. Soon enough, their target became Butler Zheng.

After all, they were not insensible, with their IQ at stake, they could not annoy the hero now.

Zheng Dao quickly ordered the black and yellow dogs to keep watch and to maintain order,?he then lent some helping hands from Ren Ruofeng to hold an auction on the spot.

There were at least over ten clans present at the scene, some were wealthy while some were poor. There were even some who offered nothing, for example, the representative of Octopus Clan who was still playing tug-of-war in the Divine Gate.

“There are three rules for the auction. One, the highest bidder wins; second, an auction will be held every three days repeatedly; third, whoever obtains the knowledge can’t transfer it to someone else in private.” Butler Zheng said with a powerful voice.

After a year plus of experience, he was already extremely familiar with these miscellaneous matters.

As he had the Dragon God as a pillar, everyone had to show due respect as long as they were not immensely evil beings.

Upon hearing him, the crowd pondered for a moment before they agreed one after another.

Obviously, the one with the highest bid in the first round would have three extra days to think, and these three days were crucial.

In the one month’s time of climbing the stairway, after taking everything into account, seven days had passed, leaving only a little more than three weeks’ time.

Over here, about ten clans were gathered, thus the competition was rather serious.

Being imparted to three days earlier meant that one could have three more days to research, to look for manpower, to train members, and to increase the success rate to reach the top.

After realizing that, all the clans immediately became passionate about the auction.

Followed by the selection of bidding representatives from each clan, the auction immediately began.

All in all, climbing the stairway waits for no one, every minute and second wasted would likely cause the clans to achieve much lesser cultivating resources in the next season.

Vigilante A nodded expressionlessly, he then flew to one side to cultivate.

At this moment, a voice was heard.

“Brother Dragon, we haven’t met for some time, how have you been?”

When Vigilante A opened his eyes to look, he saw Spirit King Bodhisattva who was looking and smiling at him with an earnest look.

“Oh, it’s him, he’s the one thinking about my money.” Sir System suddenly said firmly.

Fang Ning was truly surprised as Sir’s skill was really awesome. According to its deduction, Spirit King Bodhisattva was quite the kind who would borrow money.

Therefore, Vigilante A said calmly, “Bodhisattva, is there anything I can help you with?”

“Uh…” It was not appropriate for monks to speak about money, besides he had yet repaid much of his kindness, and he had not found a suitable item as a reward for the Infernal Realm.

As Spirit King Bodhisattva thought about this, he instantly hesitated.

Though it was just a matter as trivial as borrowing some pills, lots of emotions were filling his mind.

In the upper realm, he was above everyone else as he was the noble bodhisattva, since when he needed to worry about these issues?

Back then he had innumerable followers, and had all the people to do work for him.

Now that his spiritual sense descended to start a new path, everything had to start from zero again.

He had to redevelop through the hardship and had to suffer all the misfortunes that he had once been through.

Once upon a time before he achieved Buddhahood, he was discriminated when he went out to beg, and there were numerous times when he was treated like a beggar.

Moreover, many knowledgeable members among the people had also looked at them as useless vermins in the society, which caused a great many times of acts to exterminate Buddhism…

He had never debated about this, but instead cultivated seriously, in search of a path to reach common ground with the world.

While Spirit King Bodhisattva hesitated, the great green insect who was flying behind him could not help but ran in front and said, “Great Azure Dragon, it’s a simple matter, Father Chong is now so poor that he can’t afford my appearance fee, so he wants to borrow two batches of pills from you.”

“Just as I’ve expected, Bodhisattva still owes us our big gift from before, he hasn’t even thanked us yet and now he wants to borrow pills…” Sir System became stingy instantly.

“Hold your horses, let’s just lend him first. If you don’t help him with his turnover, he won’t be able to give us any gifts in the future.” Fang Ning advised.

“Eh, why do I feel that this is like transfusing blood to those loss-making enterprises, the one in debt becomes the boss.” Sir System said with dissatisfaction.

“It’s a different situation, this is a great opportunity to bargain-hunt. Bodhisattva is a figure from the upper realm, it’s a rare occasion that he encounters financial difficulties, he’ll repay our kindness in hundred and thousandfold. As a system, you can’t just set your eye on money, you won’t earn anything from doing that.”

“Hmph, that’s just what your boss is tricking you with. Since you don’t set your eyes on the money, you haven’t earned anything after working for many years, whereas I’m rich now because I’m fixated on money.” Sir System said convincingly.

“Alright, alright, you’re rich, it’s up to you then, I’m not going to care.” Fang Ning could not be bothered.

“We still have to lend him, if we don’t and he goes bankrupt, I won’t be able to collect those debts from before.” Sir System gritted its teeth then took out around ten big jade bottles.

“Here’s two hundred Dragon Clan Honey-flavored Pills, I’ll lend them to you for your turnover, Bodhisattva, they’re all priceless treasures.” Vigilante A purposely emphasized on that.

“Thank you for your generosity, Brother Dragon.” Bodhisattva smiled bitterly as he thought to himself, ‘Eh, in the legends of this realm, Buddhist disciples do sell scriptures in exchange for gold, there’s no need for me to feel embarrassed.’

Upon seeing that, the great green insect flew forward excitedly and retrieved all of the bottles.

“Alright, Father Chong, I can go climb the stairway now.” The great green insect flew towards the Divine Gate in high spirits.

“Wait up,” Spirit King Bodhisattva called out to it then said with a strange smile, “Daqing, I’ve already given you your appearance fee, if you fail, you’ll have to return it, so it’s best that you purchase Brother Dragon’s experience in climbing the stairway…”

“Ah, his experiences seem to be quite expensive,” The great green insect was startled when it heard that, it then took out the ten over bottles from its jade bracelet and said with a crying face,” Are these enough?”

“Hehe, it’s enough.” Vigilante A nodded and collected those bottles back.

Sir System was surprised yet confused. “What was that?”

Fang Ning was speechless. “Bodhisattva owes you two hundred pills while the great green insect is working for Bodhisattva for nothing again. Sure enough, the older, the wiser.”