Nie Yan smiled wryly and said, "Aren't you being silly?"

Seeing Yao Yao accept Nie Yan's gift, Yue'er and Fei Yun were incredibly astonished. They both knew Yao Yao's personality; she usually didn't accept things from others. Even on her birthday, she only accepted greeting cards and small trinkets. The fact that she would accept the golden equipment Nie Yan gave her today definitely meant there was more to it!

"Yao Yao, what is he to you?" Yue'er asked Yao Yao privately.

"He's a good friend of mine," Yao Yao replied, sounding slightly guilty.

"Just a good friend?" Yue'er looked at Yao Yao teasingly, her face clearly conveying disbelief.

"Really, just a good friend," Yao Yao said stubbornly, afraid Yue'er would ask too many questions. She couldn't deny that she had some feelings for Nie Yan, but they weren't anything deep.

After all, Yao Yao didn't understand her position in Nie Yan's heart. The events of his past life were buried deep, but they weren't so easily erased.

"Alright, let's say he's a good friend then," Yue'er said with a smile. She seemed to have figured something out.

"Yue'er, Yao Yao, I have something to do, so I'll be leaving first." Fei Yun was ignored by Nie Yan, and Yue'er and Yao Yao were chatting privately, so she felt bored and got up to leave.

"Goodbye, Fei Yun," Yue'er waved.

Yao Yao simply acted like she didn't care.

Nie Yan completely ignored her existence. His cold attitude made Fei Yun furious, and she left resentfully.

Yue'er and Yao Yao bought some things at the auction house.

"Nie Yan, we're going to level up. Sister Yu Lan is urging us to hurry over," Yao Yao said to Nie Yan after checking the chat log.

"Okay, let's talk another day," Nie Yan replied, saying goodbye to Yao Yao and Yue'er.

Nie Yan looked at the system notifications.

System: Your Gleaming Dust has been sold, earning you 2 Silver and 10 Copper.

System: Your Gleaming Dust has been sold, earning you 2 Silver and 5 Copper.

System: Your Polymorph Scroll has been sold, earning you 5 Silver and 20 Copper.

...

The money in Nie Yan's bag increased rapidly. Gleaming Dust, Webbing Scrolls, and Polymorph Scrolls were all released in limited quantities, which allowed him to sell them for a good price. If too many of a single item appeared on the market, the price wouldn't go up. If he sold too much, the market would slowly become saturated.

By the time the game was about to shut down, Nie Yan had sold eight portions of Gleaming Dust, six Webbing Scrolls, and five Polymorph Scrolls, earning about fifty silver. During the auction, Nie Yan went to those small towns to buy bat teeth, but he found that not many people were willing to sell them to him at a low price anymore. The news that the Advanced Blacksmith Kady was buying bat teeth had somehow leaked out, and the players were selling all the bat teeth they had to the Advanced Blacksmith Kady. Since there was no money to be made, he decided to let it go. After all, he had found two other ways to make money.

Nie Yan could temporarily sell Gleaming Dust, Webbing, and Polymorph Scrolls. When the price of Black Phoenix Potions went up, Nie Yan would gradually release the Black Phoenix Potions into the market.

Before logging off, Nie Yan bought up all the raw materials, finished products, and recipes related to Black Phoenix Potions on the market. He calculated that he currently had eight hundred bottles of Black Phoenix Potions, three thousand two hundred portions of raw materials for Black Phoenix Potions, and more than two hundred and twenty Black Phoenix Potion recipes. Due to Nie Yan's frantic purchases, there were almost no Black Phoenix Potions on the market. The price had risen slightly, but since no one was competing with Nie Yan for Black Phoenix Potions for the time being, the auction price wasn't high, so Nie Yan's purchase prices weren't high either.

The key was the more than two hundred and twenty Black Phoenix Potion recipes, which were enough to influence the future market price of Black Phoenix Potions. In his past life, the price of Black Phoenix Potion recipes wasn't high at the beginning. Once Soothsill Valley opened, the pharmacists discovered the market for Black Phoenix Potions and bought the recipes to produce and sell Black Phoenix Potions. Even so, the Black Phoenix Potions produced by the pharmacists still couldn't meet the needs of so many guild's dungeon elite teams. With such huge demand, the price of Black Phoenix Potions rose steadily. The price of Black Phoenix Potion recipes also rose accordingly.

But now, more than two hundred and twenty Black Phoenix Potion recipes had disappeared from the market out of thin air, which meant that there would be more than two hundred and twenty fewer pharmacists who could continuously produce Black Phoenix Potions in the future. With a huge supply gap, the price increase of Black Phoenix Potions would definitely be higher than in his previous life.

In this way, Nie Yan would definitely be able to make a fortune through Black Phoenix Potions in the future.

Half a month after the opening of Soothsill Valley, the Level 5 dungeon, Medusa's Lair, would open. Those guilds that wanted to seize the advantage of development would definitely flock to the Level 5 dungeon like a tide. Medusa's attacks had a petrification effect, so as soon as the dungeon opened, the price of anti-petrification equipment, potions, etc., would also skyrocket. He could slowly hoard anti-petrification equipment and potions now.

Nie Yan looked at his bag. Currently, he had one gold and sixty-three silver in his bag. This was remarkable in the early stages of the game, when he was only Level 7. Because under the current circumstances, the purchasing power of one silver was quite astonishing. The most expensive piece of gold equipment on the market was only thirty or forty silver.

Nie Yan sorted out his bag and personal warehouse. Rows of Black Phoenix Potion raw materials and potions were neatly arranged in the personal warehouse, which was quite spectacular. The basic space of the personal warehouse was two hundred slots, which didn't require any rent. For every two hundred slots opened, he had to pay one copper coin of rent per day. Nie Yan opened more than five thousand slots of personal warehouse space before it was barely enough, but this amount of money was almost negligible for Nie Yan.

After finishing all the things in the game, Nie Yan logged out of the game when the game was about to close.

Nie Yan found a tube of nutrient solution from the refrigerator, sat at the dining table, and drank it. He glanced at the dilapidated old house. From the somewhat old wallpaper on the walls to the oil-stained chandelier, there was a familiar and intimate feeling.

He hadn't heard from his parents for a long time, but Nie Yan, who understood the truth, no longer blamed them. His parents risked their lives to go to the border for him to have better living conditions. What right did he have to blame them?

If Nie Yan's parents risked contacting Nie Yan, what awaited them might be death. Nie Yan could only be patient and wait for their news.

After drinking the nutrient solution, Nie Yan continued his daily exercise, training his agility, reaction speed, and strength.

Playing games with a helmet had one advantage: the helmet would release bio-currents to stimulate people's nerves, keeping the muscle groups in an active state. The results of human daytime exercise would not disappear due to nighttime sleep. Exercising for one day was equivalent to the effects of exercising for ten days in the past.

In addition, Nie Yan's exercise methods had been appropriate these past few days, and his nutrition was good. In a few days, he had developed thick muscle groups, and his figure was rapidly growing taller and stronger. Eighteen- and nineteen-year-olds were at the age when their bodies were growing, and he was changing almost every day.

Dong dong dong, a burst of rapid knocking sounded.

Nie Yan stopped. The soundproofing of the door wasn't very good. Judging from the chaotic footsteps outside the door, there were at least five or six people coming.