Chapter 191 Mission 017

A cafe in the downtown area quietly closed, and a bookstore called "Baiyun Bookstore" quietly opened.

The bookstore is very large, with three floors. The first and second floors sell various books and teaching materials like ordinary bookstores, but no one has ever entered the third floor, as if everyone who walked from the stairs leading to the third floor automatically ignored it.

The bookstore's business is very good, but there are no clerks, only a shop owner with long hair and wearing Hanfu sitting at the cash register at the door. The owner's extremely handsome appearance is the main reason for attracting customers.

A girl wearing a high school uniform from a nearby school walked into the bookstore and walked around. Finally, she came to the cashier and shyly looked at the handsome young owner who was reading a book: "Hello... Hello, do you have the "Secondary Examination Paper" here?"

Xiao Ying knew the situation in the bookstore very well, and answered without raising his head: "It's in the fourth shelf of the sixth shelf in the second row."

"Ah? Oh... Thank you." This thank you was full of deep disappointment. The girl didn't find the information she wanted to buy, but just wanted to use this opportunity to chat with the beautiful and heart-moving owner. The old customers around who saw this scene were not surprised. There were so many people who were chatted up in this way, and they had never seen anyone who could make the owner look up and take a formal look.

At this time, the door of the bookstore was pushed open again, and the automatic voice "Welcome" sounded, and a pair of brothers and sisters walked in.

The older brother looked very handsome, and strangely, he still had half-long hair, but this only made people look at him a few more times, after all, it was not uncommon for boys to have long hair now; and the younger sister looked like a junior high school student in her teens, with a sweet and cute appearance, and a lively smile.

After the brother and sister entered the door, they were attracted by the handsome shop owner sitting at the cash register at the door. The sister exclaimed: "This big brother is so beautiful!"

Xiao Ying looked up at the brother and sister, but mainly looked at the brother in his twenties.

Although the young man was also shocked by the appearance of the young shop owner, he was not as outspoken as his sister. He apologized to Xiao Ying with a little embarrassment: "My sister is unbelievable, please don't be offended by the shop owner!"

This somewhat literary tone made Xiao Ying raise an eyebrow. It seems that he is a cultivator, and a novice cultivator.

Xiao Ying nodded slightly, said nothing, and lowered his head to read again.

Being ignored, the brother and sister had no choice but to go in and look for the books they wanted to buy.

The two walked from the first floor to the second floor. When they came to a remote corner, they found the staircase leading to the third floor. The sister pointed at the stairs and said to her brother: "I didn't find the book I wanted before. Let's go to the third floor to have a look!"

Then the two went up to the third floor.

The young man stood on the third floor with his sister, looking at the jade slips placed on the ancient rosewood upstairs. He felt that the spiritual energy of the entire floor was many times richer than that of his family's clan land, and he was completely stunned.

When he came to his senses, he walked to a bookshelf and looked at the first jade slip. He subconsciously immersed his spiritual consciousness into the jade slip. A figure whose face could not be seen in the jade slip suddenly flew up and turned into light and shadow. In an instant, he traveled thousands of miles. At the same time, a deep voice sounded: "This method is called the flying method of the gods, which is high-level at the human level and is sold for one thousand spirit stones."

When he heard the word "high-level at the human level", he was immediately excited. The highest-level method in the family was only high-level at the human level, and it was actually sold here!

His spiritual consciousness was still in the jade slip. The figure in the jade slip demonstrated the "flying method of the gods" and asked him if he was willing to buy it. If he wanted to buy it, he would put the spirit stone into the groove under the bookshelf. After buying it, the figure would also demonstrate the way to practice it. However, the buyer must swear in his heart not to pass on the method to others and can only use it himself.

Although this method can only be used by himself, the price is favorable enough. Even a disciple of his family can afford one thousand spirit stones.

However, the young man did not rush to buy the magic formula that moved him. Instead, his spiritual consciousness withdrew from the jade slip and looked at the jade slips on other shelves with green eyes.

The first jade slip was a high-level human-level magic formula, so what about the other jade slips?

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Until the sky darkened and the bookstore was about to close, the customers on the first and second floors had almost left, and the brother and sister on the third floor did not leave. They were already immersed in the endless skills and magic formulas and forgot the time.

‘Da Da Da’ a series of footsteps came, and a light came on in the darkness. The awakened brother and sister hurriedly looked over and saw the owner in Hanfu holding a bronze oil lamp in his hand standing at the door of the third floor. The dim yellow light flickered slightly, reflecting the owner’s handsome face, even in this somewhat gloomy environment, he looked so ethereal.

The owner's deep, magnetic and pleasant voice slowly sounded: "Dear guests, the bookstore is about to close."

The brother and sister also realized how long they had stayed on the third floor of Baiyun Bookstore. The elder brother said awkwardly: "I am Song Zongji, and this is my sister Song Zongmin. Senior, there are too many jade slips here. I haven't finished reading them all until dark. Please forgive me for wasting your time!"

Song Zongji would not think that the owner who sells various skills and spells on the third floor of the bookstore would be an ordinary person. Such a person is either a powerful person or has the support of a powerful person behind him. In short, it is definitely right for him, a rookie, to call him a senior.

Although Song Zongmin had just entered the threshold of cultivation and was still young, she was born in a family of cultivators and knew what these jade slips meant. She followed her brother and saluted the mysterious shop owner.

Xiao Ying was not surprised by the attitude of the two. He had long understood that in the modern society where cultivation was declining, in addition to the lack of spiritual energy, many skills and techniques had been lost and the inheritance was cut off. The skills and techniques he took out were just the human cultivation skills he deduced based on the various cultivation skills he had recorded in the previous worlds he traveled through. Although the cultivation world he traveled through before was not a powerful skill, it was top-notch in this modern world of cultivation.

Now that the plot has not yet begun, he, a fox demon, does not know how to mix into the human cultivator circle to find the heroine Yun Gulong, so he can only seduce some cultivators through the Baiyun Book House to give him a suitable reason to break into this circle.

Xiao Ying did not expect that the first people to visit the third floor of this book house were actually two furry children.

Compared to Xiao Yan, who has traveled through time and space many times and whose psychological age is unknown, and who is also a fox demon of several hundred years old, the siblings Song Zongji and Song Zongmin, who are in their teens and twenties, are indeed children.

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Song Zongmin... Xiao Yan's eyes fell on the little girl behind Song Zongji, and he silently said this name twice in his heart. Suddenly, he remembered that the name Song Zongmin seemed to be the female supporting role in the original work.

Song Zongmin, the female supporting role, is also a vicious female supporting role, but she did not play the role of the vicious female supporting role who separated the male and female protagonists in the original work.

In the original work, Song Zongmin and the female protagonist Yun Gulong became enemies because the female protagonist obtained the inheritance left by a Yuanying stage cultivator in the heyday of cultivation in an unexpected opportunity. Song Zongmin also participated in the test of this inheritance, but in the end he lost to Yun Gulong. In order to win this inheritance opportunity, Song Zongmin used the backstage of the Song family to hunt down the female protagonist for a long time, and the female protagonist narrowly escaped death several times thanks to her.

Song Zongmin is just a junior high school kid now, and there are still more than 20 years before the female cultivator in her 30s or 40s at the beginning of the plot.

Xiao Ying estimated the time when the plot started, and then helplessly found that the heroine Yun Gulong might not be born yet.

The female supporting role's qualifications are certainly not comparable to the heroine's extraordinary qualifications, so in the original plot, the female supporting role's strength realm is one level higher than the heroine, of course, because the female supporting role has practiced for a longer time than the heroine. So when the plot started, the heroine was less than 20 years old, and the female supporting role was already in her 40s. It was also this cultivation setting that made the female supporting role still as beautiful as the heroine in her 40s.

Xiao Ying was a little surprised why the system made him come so early. After all, coming early has its advantages. Many things can be arranged in advance, which is very helpful for completing tasks. And the tasks in this world are clearly punishment rolls, why would the system let him reduce the difficulty? However, Xiao Ying is more inclined to believe that the system has some secret conspiracy waiting for him.

After confirming that the heroine Yun Gulong might not even be an embryo now, Xiao Yan had no patience anymore and treated the Song brothers and sisters coldly: "The store is closed, customers can leave, if you want to buy books, come back tomorrow."

Song Zongji had already read most of the jade slips on the third floor, and felt that every one of them was very attractive to him. If it weren't for the lack of spiritual stones and a little bit of rationality left, he would have wanted to buy them! However, now that he was ordered to leave, he could only rush back to the Song family with his sister in frustration. He had to tell his parents and relatives about this mysterious bookstore.

Good wine needs no bush. Xiao Yan was not worried that the jade slips on the third floor of his bookstore could not be sold. He still sat quietly at the cashier counter at the door every day to read books, and from time to time sent away a flower maniac, and his life was extremely leisurely.

Xiao Ying suddenly said to a big man in a coat who was walking out of the door with empty hands without looking up: "Sir, two books total 123 yuan, please pay before leaving."

The man in the coat stopped awkwardly and looked at Xiao Ying fiercely.

Xiao Ying only looked up and glanced at him lightly, and the big man was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat and quickly paid the bill. After paying the bill, he ran out of the bookstore without looking back.

This man is not the only one who wants to steal books because he is the only owner of the bookstore who doesn't like to take care of things. Although he can't hide it from Xiao Ying, the human scanner, every time, he still feels a little annoyed about it.