Chapter 273: Chapter 230: The Eye-Opening ’Convenient Spiritual Artifacts

’After activating this Spiritual Artifact, it takes three seconds to produce a flame. Compared to a lighter from Blue Star, this ignition speed is more than just a little bit slow, huh?

But its fuel is Spiritual Energy. Based on that alone, its rarity and novelty are leagues beyond any lighter from Blue Star...’

Lin Li watched the small flame flicker on the Convenient Spiritual Artifact in his hand and muttered under his breath. Then, he blew a puff of air at the tiny flame.

"WHOOSH..."

After the flame was extinguished, Lin Li placed the "Ignition Stick" in his hand back on the shelf and went to look at the other products.

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High-Temperature Oven: Square-shaped, looking a bit like an electric oven from Blue Star. Once activated, it can provide temperatures of around two hundred degrees.

Washing Tub: A small, brown metal bucket, one meter tall and cylindrical in shape. Its function is similar to a washing machine from Blue Star.

Boiling Water Pot: Looks like an ordinary kettle with a 1.5-liter capacity. After pouring water into it and pressing the switch to activate it, it takes about three minutes to boil the water inside.

Refrigerator: A square, black metal plate, one centimeter thick with ten-centimeter sides.

This Spiritual Artifact was the very same one Lin Li had seen on the horse-drawn carriage earlier, the one that functioned like an air conditioner from Blue Star.

And on the shelf next to the Refrigerator was another Convenient Spiritual Artifact for sale, called a "Heater."

Aside from being red, this Spiritual Artifact was identical in size and shape.

One could guess from its name that its function was the opposite of the Refrigerator’s.

The weather was so hot right now that it wasn’t needed. Winter was when this Spiritual Artifact would truly shine.

’Can’t they just combine the cooling and heating functions into a single Spiritual Artifact?’ Lin Li couldn’t help but complain inwardly after looking at the Refrigerator and the Heater.

Next was the last product in the store.

The final item had a very pleasant-sounding name: Continuous Flow.

If you only heard the name without seeing the actual object, you could probably guess what it was for.

Based on the name, you might imagine something high-end, elegant, and sophisticated.

But the reality... was rather anticlimactic.

Lin Li looked at the Convenient Spiritual Artifact called "Continuous Flow" and couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his mouth, muttering to himself with a wry expression.

’Isn’t this just a water faucet? And they call it "Continuous Flow"! The name is certainly refined, I’ll give them that.’

Continuous Flow: Shaped like a water faucet from Blue Star. After pressing the switch to activate, it continuously dispenses potable freshwater. It has a total output of 1,000 liters. Once the Spiritual Energy contained within the Spiritual Artifact is depleted, it is rendered useless and is a disposable item.

The other Convenient Spiritual Artifacts Lin Li had seen could all be recharged with Spiritual Energy and reused.

He hadn’t expected that this last item, the freshwater-producing Convenient Spiritual Artifact called "Continuous Flow," would be disposable.

Looking at the price, it was also the most expensive. This Spiritual Artifact was priced at 3,000 copper, which meant 1,000 liters of water cost 3,000 copper.

At such a price, you could call it "convenient," but it certainly wasn’t "accessible."

Furthermore, based on Lin Li’s observations, Dongwu City had running water pipes, so the residents’ homes should have tap water.

There was simply no need for anyone to buy this Convenient Spiritual Artifact called "Continuous Flow."

Of course, there was one exception: if some residents of Dongwu City didn’t like drinking tap water, they could buy this Convenient Spiritual Artifact to supply their daily drinking water.

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Aside from the faucet-like Convenient Spiritual Artifact, which felt too expensive, the prices for the other six Convenient Spiritual Artifacts seemed quite reasonable.

Ignition Stick: 100 copper, recharge once every five years.

Boiling Water Pot: 300 copper, recharge once every two years.

High-Temperature Oven: 500 copper, recharge once every two years.

Washing Tub: 1,000 copper, recharge once a year.

The Heater and the Refrigerator were the same, both priced at 2,000 copper and needing to be recharged once a year.

As for how to replenish the Spiritual Energy in these Convenient Spiritual Artifacts, the matter was quite simple.

You could either find a Cultivator who specialized in this kind of recharging work or go to a shop that sells Spirit Stones, buy a small Spirit Stone Fragment, and recharge your household’s Convenient Spiritual Artifacts yourself.

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After browsing the store and looking at all the Convenient Spiritual Artifacts, Lin Li decided to buy one of each of the seven types sold in the shop.

Even though there were some he wouldn’t use, he found all these Convenient Spiritual Artifacts quite interesting. It wouldn’t cost much anyway. He’d use the ones he could and keep the rest as souvenirs.

"Sir, the seven Convenient Spiritual Artifacts come to a total of 8,900 copper..." the clerk at the counter said with a smile after calculating the total price of the items Lin Li wanted to buy.

"Sir, since your total purchase exceeds 8,000 copper, our store offers free home delivery..."

Just as the clerk was about to ask Lin Li for his home address so they could arrange for someone to deliver the goods later, Lin Li spoke up first, declining the free home delivery service.

"No need to deliver them. I’ll take these with me."

As a visitor from an Otherworld, Lin Li didn’t have a residence in Dongwu City at all. What home address could he possibly give them?

"Huh?" The clerk was momentarily stunned when he heard Lin Li say he didn’t need their help with delivery.

However, he quickly recovered, thinking to himself, ’He doesn’t need help delivering so many things? This customer must have brought servants with him.’

He had seen quite a few customers like this, who came shopping with their servants.

This type of customer didn’t need the store’s staff for home delivery; they would simply load their purchases onto their own carriage and transport them home.

After this brief interlude, the clerk packed up all the Convenient Spiritual Artifacts Lin Li had bought and placed them in an empty space near the shop’s entrance.

Once everything was ready, the clerk who had packed the items for Lin Li didn’t see any servants coming to carry the goods. Confused, the clerk looked at the customer, whose face was concealed by a bamboo hat.

Lin Li came out of the store and noticed the clerk who had packed his things looking at him with a puzzled expression.

He didn’t offer any explanation. Instead, he walked straight to the packed Convenient Spiritual Artifacts he had purchased and stored them all in the Mysterious Small Island.

"...!?!!" Seeing the pile of items vanish in the blink of an eye, the clerk’s jaw dropped in astonishment.

Although he was just an ordinary person, he wasn’t completely clueless...

Seeing the customer wave his hand and make the items disappear into thin air, he immediately thought of a Storage Spiritual Artifact or a Storage Space Superpower.

After stowing away all his purchases, Lin Li left the shop that sold various Convenient Spiritual Artifacts.

"What are you doing just standing there like an idiot? Get over here and help!" another clerk, who was about to go to the upstairs warehouse to get stock, shouted when he saw his colleague standing dumbfounded outside the door.

The clerk, who had been staring in amazement at Lin Li’s retreating figure, snapped back to his senses when he heard his colleague call him. He nodded immediately and hurried to catch up, heading to the upstairs warehouse with him to get more stock.

"What were you doing standing at the door like a dummy just now?"

"You won’t believe it! A customer just came in who either has a Storage Spiritual Artifact or a Storage Space Superpower."

"A Storage Spiritual Artifact? A Storage Space Superpower?"

"Yeah."

"What would a customer like that be doing in a shop like ours?"

"What else? He was here to buy Convenient Spiritual Artifacts, of course!"

"Uh... Whether they’ve awakened a Storage Space Superpower or possess a Storage Spiritual Artifact, people like that are usually big shots..."

If a big shot like that wanted to buy Convenient Spiritual Artifacts, they would just send a servant to do it.

"It’s really rare for them to personally visit a shop like ours, which caters to ordinary people!"

"Yeah! It’s a shame that customer was wearing a bamboo hat to hide his face. It would have been great to see what he looked like."

The two clerks continued to chat about Lin Li as they headed to the shop’s third-floor warehouse.

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