Douluo Continent: Becoming a God of Magic Starting with Your Martial Soul

Shrek City, as one of the largest cities on the continent, has a permanent population of several million.

After a week of intense and fulfilling classes and training, Lu Yi plans to take a short break today.

More importantly, he wanted to take this opportunity to buy some medicinal herbs and see if there were any other good things that could help with cultivation.

Walking through the bustling streets, the buildings on both sides exude a sense of history, with colorful signs hanging on their facades.

This unusual combination gave Lu Yi a strange illusion, as if he were in the oldest neighborhood in the Fog City, or as if he had returned to the commercial street of a county town in his hometown. This was exactly the feeling that Shrek City gave him.

However, the streets in Shrek City were fairly well-planned. After walking for a short while, Lu Yi saw a uniquely shaped building in the distance.

This building has only four floors, but its total height is over twenty meters. The entire exterior is decorated with gold paint, and combined with its shape resembling a treasure basin, it truly looks like a giant treasure basin.

This is the Treasure Pavilion, one of Shrek Academy's important industries in Shrek City.

Lu Yi did not comment on the building's appearance because he was too exhausted to even bother criticizing it.

Perhaps it was built with good intentions, but the way this shape is applied to a building, along with its golden exterior, is just too ugly.

Turning our attention back to the main entrance of Jubaoge, several young women dressed in uniform were standing inside as greeters.

They were all around seventeen or eighteen years old, with excellent looks and figures. Against the backdrop of the magnificent setting, they were even more dazzling and captivating.

Even passersby, regardless of gender, would frequently glance at her, eager to catch a glimpse of her beauty.

Lu Yi paused outside the door to confirm the signboard before stepping inside. Without him having to lift a finger, someone opened the door for him.

As Lu Yi stepped inside, two rows of hostesses leaned forward slightly and called out in unison in sweet voices, "Welcome, distinguished guest!" giving Lu Yi the feeling of entering a high-end club.

Just then, a girl in a yellow high-slit skirt came forward from the back of the line, stopped in front of Lu Yi, and said respectfully, "Respected guest, welcome to Jubao Pavilion. I am a sales assistant here. Please feel free to tell me what you need."

"I'd like to purchase items to aid my cultivation, but before that, I'd like to pawn a storage soul tool. I wonder if your store offers this service?"

Lu Yi explained the purpose of his visit, and the young saleswoman, seeing that he was not just browsing, smiled and said, "Please rest assured, esteemed guest, Jubao Pavilion covers almost all services related to Soul Masters. Please follow me."

Lu Yi nodded upon hearing this and followed her to an area.

This is clearly the area responsible for appraising items. After different items are appraised here, their approximate prices are estimated, and they are classified into different categories and grades before being put on shelves or stored in the warehouse. Soul tools are also handled by dedicated personnel.

After being introduced by the sales assistant, Lu Yi took off the storage bracelet on his wrist and handed it to the middle-aged man wearing glasses in front of him.

Before arriving here, Lu Yi had already taken out all his belongings and piled them up in the dormitory, while locking the more valuable items in a cabinet.

After all, this is Shrek Academy. Few people would pick up silver soul coins if they fell on the ground, and no one would care about his little bit of stuff.

The middle-aged man took the storage bracelet and didn't even need to check it carefully; he could tell it wasn't a cheap product just by touching it.

When he examined the materials used in the core and the soul guidance array engraved on it, he smiled.

"High-quality goods!" the middle-aged appraiser exclaimed, putting down his bracelet and magnifying glass and looking up. "How much are you asking for?"

Just as Lu Yi was about to explain, the sales assistant next to him said, "The customer wants to pawn the item for money and will come back to redeem it in the future."

Upon hearing this, the appraiser nodded slightly and immediately took out a form to fill out: "Since it's a mortgage, the price will be lower."

Once the form was completed, it was handed over to Lu Yi for signature and confirmation.

Lu Yi's expression changed as he looked at the information recorded on it.

The eight-cubic-meter storage bracelet was worth 80,000 gold soul coins, which far exceeded his expectations. However, the amount he could use as collateral was 30,000 less, only 50,000 gold soul coins.

As for the price he needs to redeem, it is 60,000 gold soul coins within one year, and then 10,000 gold soul coins for each additional year, with a three-year limit. If the time limit is exceeded, Jubaoge has the right to deal with it.

Lu Yi did a quick calculation and concluded that overall it wasn't exactly shady, but it wasn't exactly ethical either. However, considering that Shrek Academy was a large and powerful organization, it was already quite good that they didn't bully their customers.

Just as Lu Yi was about to sign his name, the appraiser, seeing that Lu Yi was wearing the Shrek Academy freshman uniform, couldn't help but remind him, "You're a Shrek Academy freshman now, right? Once you become a formal student at Shrek Academy, the interest rate will be reduced by 10%, and you can redeem it before graduation. If you become a core disciple of the outer academy, the interest will be completely waived."

This was undoubtedly good news. Lu Yi nodded respectfully, thanked the other party, then lightly touched the pen to write his name and pressed his handprint.

The mortgage procedures were officially completed, and soon Lu Yi received a yellow card containing a total of 50,000 gold soul coins.

With a large sum of money in his pocket, Lu Yi immediately went to the merchandise area of ​​Jubao Pavilion.

Inside the luxurious store, ordinary goods were displayed on the shelves in a dazzling array.

These are all relatively inexpensive items, ranging from tens to thousands of gold soul coins, so they don't deserve to be displayed in a special showcase.

As he strolled around, Lu Yi noticed that the same storage soul tool that Bei Bei had given to Huo Yuhao was displayed in the best-selling section.

The replica of the Twenty-Four Bridges Under the Moonlit Night features twenty-four independent storage spaces. The basic model has each compartment with a side length of half a meter and a volume of one-eighth of a cubic meter. It is priced at 1,200 Gold Soul Coins.

This price means that each space with a side length of half a meter costs only fifty gold soul coins.

Those storage rings generally have a single cubic meter of space, but their price is almost the same as that of the Twenty-Four Bridges Under the Moonlit Night, reaching nearly a thousand gold soul coins.

However, the storage bracelet that Lu Yi had just mortgaged was a gift from Zhang Lexuan. It was two meters long on each side, but its price reached 80,000 gold soul coins.

Lu Yi had considered that the value of storage soul tools might vary greatly, but he never expected it to be this disparate.

He finally understood why Zhang Lexuan had said those things to him after discovering his handbag.

He hadn't calculated the volume of his handbag, but just the area inside was roughly equivalent to a three-bedroom apartment, with a total space of several hundred cubic meters.

If he wanted, he could even crawl inside and live there himself.

In that case, it's no wonder Zhang Lexuan specifically reminded him.

But it was precisely because of this that Lu Yi became even more determined to quickly master the Seamless Stretch Spell in the future.

He wants to single-handedly drive down the price of storage soul tools.