Walking into the teleportation point, Nie Yan teleported back to Calore City. He turned into a small alley, entered Stealth, and after making sure no one was following, he weaved around the alley before finally arriving at Kady's Blacksmith Shop.

Having learned from experience, he would never reveal the location of Kady's Blacksmith Shop.

Nie Yan brought the bat teeth he had collected in batches and sold them to Kady.

More than two hundred stacks sold for four silver coins. In just over half an hour, two silver coins had turned into four, and he had also gained over nine hundred experience points. Nie Yan checked his level; it was already at 5%.

After handing over all the bat teeth, Nie Yan continued back to Modo Town to buy more.

When the players saw Nie Yan arrive as promised, they were afraid he would leave again and rushed up to trade.

Modo Town had become exceptionally lively because of Nie Yan's actions.

"Don't worry, everyone. I'll finish buying this morning, and I'll be back around eight o'clock tonight to buy more," Nie Yan advertised to the players. If they spent the whole day farming, they would definitely be able to get a lot of bat teeth by evening.

He quickly bought more than two hundred stacks, and the volume of transactions gradually decreased. He bought another hundred or so stacks intermittently. When Nie Yan saw that no one else was coming, he teleported back to Calore City.

Two Thieves were suspiciously following Nie Yan. He had bought so many bat teeth at once, and still seemed unsatisfied. It was hard not to attract attention.

Nie Yan noticed he was being followed. He smirked slightly. The Thieves who could track him hadn't been born yet.

Nie Yan turned into an alley, entered Stealth, and quickly disappeared.

When the two Thieves came looking for him, Nie Yan had vanished without a trace.

"Where did that guy go?"

"Can't find him."

"Bro, what do you think that guy is doing buying so many bat teeth?"

"Who the hell knows? It's definitely not for leveling Forging. You don't need that many bat teeth for Forging. He's going to buy more bat teeth this afternoon. We'll see then."

The two Thieves stood at the corner of the wall and said a few words before turning and leaving.

Not far from the two Thieves, against the wall, a figure slowly materialized. It was none other than Nie Yan, who had disappeared into Stealth. Nie Yan was no more than two yards away from the two Thieves, yet they hadn't noticed him at all.

Watching the two Thieves leave, Nie Yan smiled coldly. To try and pry into his secrets was simply wishful thinking. He wouldn't be so idiotic as to expose the advanced blacksmith Kady. He turned and entered the alley.

After trading all three hundred stacks of bat teeth to Kady, the money in Nie Yan's backpack became seven silver coins. At the current level, that much money was considered a fortune.

Nie Yan also ran to Carter Town and Night Charm Town to buy bat teeth, then sold them to Kady, earning twenty-six silver coins.

Nie Yan experienced the meaning of the phrase, "Money rolling in."

"Heh heh, this is awesome."

Early-game money was crucial to a player's future development.

In his past life, the Paladin earned nearly ten gold coins from this transaction. Nie Yan found it incredible at first, but now he understood deeply. The players knew that Nie Yan was buying bat teeth at a high price, so they would definitely no longer sell them to NPCs. He could earn even more money later!

With money, his confidence was different. Nie Yan walked towards the largest auction house in Calore City. What was auctioned there was at least Bronze-grade equipment, as well as various rare skill books and materials. Those who traded there were mostly teams that frequently ran dungeons.

Nie Yan first bought ninety units of fine silk at a slightly lower price on the roadside and stored them in the warehouse, preparing them for quest purposes. He stepped into the auction house lobby.

Calore City's largest auction house was built quite magnificently. Dozens of high pillars in the lobby supported a huge roof. The entire lobby was a hundred yards in diameter, looking like a magnificent temple.

Having been here many times in his past life, Nie Yan found a corner position in the auction house lobby and sat down. He picked up the quotation device and looked at the prices of the various goods on the magic screen in front of him.

Page after page, various types of goods were listed on the magic screen, categorized so that players could easily find what they wanted.

Nie Yan clicked on the Miscellaneous Items option. This section sold things that were common to all classes, such as daggers, small round shields, backpacks, and so on.

Each player could equip five backpacks. The space in the backpacks was divided into sixteen slots, twenty slots, twenty-four slots, twenty-eight slots, and so on. The larger the space, the higher the price.

Each player had a basic twenty-slot backpack, and in the market, a sixteen-slot backpack cost as much as a dozen copper coins. As for a twenty-slot backpack, the price was even higher, but now, money was not a problem for Nie Yan.

Money could be earned back if it was spent. Letting it rot in your pocket was the most worthless thing you could do.

Nie Yan was going to use this money to equip himself with the most perfect gear.

There were only eleven twenty-slot backpacks being auctioned in the huge auction house, and each one had an auction price of about twenty copper coins. Nie Yan bid on four twenty-slot backpacks.

With Nie Yan's pushing, the price of twenty-slot backpacks slowly rose. He finally won four twenty-slot backpacks at a price of twenty-two copper coins each.

"Tailors really make money," Nie Yan couldn't help but think. However, to become a successful life profession player, you had to have connections. You had to join a guild and have the guild constantly provide materials so that they could practice their life skills without worry. The same was true for tailors. Although many combat players would also learn life skills, they were ultimately no match for those professional life profession players.

Nie Yan hadn't fallen to the point of becoming a life profession player.

After spending one and a half silver coins, Nie Yan opened the page dedicated to selling Thief items.

His eyes searched, looking for things that interested him. As long as he could use them, he would buy them without hesitation, even if they were a little expensive.

+3 Agility Bronze Soft Leather Legguards, +2 Strength Bronze Azure Leather Armor, +2 Balance Bronze Horsehide Boots, +3 Strength Bronze Silver Fang Dagger. Nie Yan spent a high price to buy four level 0 Bronze equipment, and his appearance was completely new. All Bronze equipment. Each of these four pieces of equipment was enough to bankrupt an ordinary player. If he hadn't made so much money from that quest, Nie Yan really wouldn't have dared to spend so much money.

After changing into the equipment, he looked at his encumbrance. Sixteen pounds. He was still in a lightly loaded state, which did not affect his movements.

Nie Yan also bought three Thief skill books. The first one was a passive skill, Stealth Enhancement, which granted an additional 3 points to Stealth and Hide. The second was an attack skill, Stun, which stunned the opponent in front of him for 3 seconds. They wouldn't wake up after being attacked. The skill cooldown time was 30 seconds. The third was Sap, which stunned the opponent from behind for six seconds, but they would wake up after being attacked. The skill cooldown time was 60 seconds.

These three skill books were basic Thief skills, but each one had a market price of up to twenty copper coins. Thieves were very poor in the early game, and they could be called brothers in misery with Mages, because buying skill books almost exhausted their money.

Thieves couldn't do without skill books, but each skill book was very expensive. They could only live a hard life, saving money to buy skills, and sometimes they had to wear tattered equipment. Those Thieves who were relatively wealthy in real life had to spend money on the trading platform to buy them.

Only after enduring this hard time and buying skills would the power of Thieves as a control class truly be revealed.

Before his rebirth, Nie Yan had also struggled step by step, but now, he easily crossed this threshold.

After learning the three skill books, his skill bar became much richer. Nie Yan pulled down the skill book page to see if there were any other skill books for sale. A rare skill book caught his eye.

Skill Book: Parry.

Skill Description: Use a dagger to parry an enemy's physical attack.

Skill Activation Requirement: Action (weapon required)

Skill Cooldown Time: Thirty seconds.

User Restriction: Thief, Warrior, Paladin, usable by any faction.

Nie Yan would not forget this skill book that many melee classes dreamed of. It was a treasure for melee classes. No matter when, in battle or PK (player versus player), a parry was almost a life-saving skill.

The Parry skill dropped from demon-type monsters, with a probability of no more than one in one hundred thousand.

In his past life, only one or two out of a hundred level sixty melee classes had learned the Parry skill. Its value was only slightly lower than that of Vital Strike.

No matter what, he had to buy it!

Nie Yan glanced at the auction price, two silver coins, and it was still rising, with a minimum bid increment of 50 copper coins each time.

Most of those bidding on rare skills were wealthy players, or heads of teams or guilds. Many times, they didn't care about a few silver coins for a skill book.

Two silver coins and fifty copper coins, three silver coins, three silver coins and fifty copper coins...

The heated bidding for the Parry skill attracted the attention of the players.

"It's a rare skill!"

"No wonder it's so expensive."

Three silver coins was about the revenue a team earned from clearing a normal level three dungeon, at most about five silver coins.

No one had raised the price for a long time. If no one raised the price in ten minutes, this Parry skill book would belong to the bidder.

"Four silver coins," Nie Yan raised the price once. He was determined to get this Parry skill.

"Four silver coins and fifty copper coins," Someone raised the price again.

Such a price had already made most players daunted.

At this time, it was a competition of who was more willing to spend money. "Five silver coins." Nie Yan raised the price again. Anyway, he had many opportunities to make money, so he didn't care about this little bit of money.

"Damn it, who is so rich? Is it really worth it? It's just a Parry skill book."

The players were already whispering privately. It was terrifying that a Thief skill book could be auctioned for such a price.

"There are so many rich people."

After a long time, no one raised the price. It seemed that guy was scared off by Nie Yan's bid. Ten minutes later, the Parry skill book went into Nie Yan's backpack.

After learning the Parry skill book, Nie Yan also spent thirty copper coins to buy a bottle of poison for Thieves to smear on their daggers, which could be used three times. After being poisoned, the opponent's defense would be reduced by 10%.

With the purchases completed, most of the equipment he had obtained earlier had also been sold. Nie Yan had sixteen silver coins left in his backpack.

With so many new skills added, and with Nie Yan's familiarity with Thief skills, he didn't need to practice at all to be able to use these skills very smoothly. His strength had increased a lot all at once.

Compared to when he first entered the game, Nie Yan was more confident. With his previous life's gaming experience, he could set out his future development path and then follow it.

Nie Yan used the silk in his backpack to make ten bandages in case of emergency. He also bought some bread and other things to restore his stamina. And he prepared a backpack full of low-level instant-recovery potions and slow-recovery potions.

Intermediate Combat Bandage Skill: Skill Proficiency 10500.

Where should he go to level up next? Nie Yan immediately thought of several leveling locations that were very suitable for Thieves.