Edited by Elanor and Hanamichi
Three months later…
On this day, Liu Mufeng was sitting in the lounge reading. He saw that a stack of ten books had already been read, but the helper had not sent the next set of books yet. Liu Mufeng frowned. He had no choice but to pick up all the books he had read and walk out of the lounge to the hall.
Arriving in the hall, Liu Mufeng put all the books he had finished reading back on the bookshelf. Then, as he was about to pick up another set of books, he saw a man in white clothes with a silver mask on his face walk in and stop in front of him.
“Give me two books about demon beasts and a map of the North.” The man said calmly, looking at Liu Mufeng. The voice was very pleasant, but there were no emotions in the words spoken. It sounded more like a robot, coldly spoken without any temperature.
“Okay.” Nodding, Liu Mufeng took a look around. He found that the bookstore owner was busy with other customers, and the bookstore’s clerk, Xiao San, was not in the store. Reluctantly walking to the bookshelf, Liu Mufeng immediately found two books about demon beasts that he had read. He then took a map that he had just read last night and handed it to the man.
“How much?” Taking the book and map, the man put them directly into his storage ring.
“The book costs 10 taels of silver each, and the map is also 10 taels of silver. A total of 30 taels of silver.” After staying in this bookstore for three months, Liu Mufeng matured. Not only could he find the books fast, but also, he knew exactly the cost of each book.
“Here, keep the change.” The man threw a 50 taels silver ingot to Liu Mufeng and then walked away.
“Thank you, Lord.” Bowing his head and thanking him, Liu Mufeng called him Lord, imitating Xiao San’s mannerism when dealing with customers. The title was an honorific for ordinary people to greet the cultivators. As Xiao San was an ordinary person, he would call every guest as Lord.
The man ignored Liu Mufeng, walking out of the store very fast. When Liu Mufeng raised his head and looked again, the man had already disappeared.
On the other side of the shop, Liu Mufeng successfully completed his business there. The owner also completed a business order and respectfully sent the guests out of the door.
“Boss, I sold two books introducing demon beasts and a map of the North for you.” After speaking, Liu Mufeng handed over the money to the other party.
“Thank you, Ninth Young Master. I will give you the change of twenty taels of silver as a reward for you.” After taking the silver, the boss smiled and thanked him.
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“No, I also want two maps, so just take these twenty as the payment for the maps.” After speaking, Liu Mufeng took a complete map of the Lingwu Continent and the map of the North from the bookshelf.
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“Ah, Xiao San’s mother is sick, and he asked for a few days off. He won’t be back in a while.” Speaking of this, the boss was also very depressed.
“Oh, that’s it.” Nodding, Liu Mufeng had no choice but to go to the bookshelf to get the books. After taking the books, he walked to the owner and let the other person take a look. “Ten books, please count.”
“Ei, Ninth Young Master, am I still worried? My book isn’t worth a lot of money.” The owner said generously with a smile.
“Okay, then I’ll go back.” Then, holding the book, Liu Mufeng went straight back to the lounge.
Looking at Liu Mufeng’s back, the owner hummed, thinking in his heart, ‘Is this Liu family’s Ninth Young Master a fool? The cultivators like to read Martial Arts, cultivation methods, and books on the inheritance of techniques. However, he was reading idle books here every day. I advised him to look at the demon beasts’ books, and go out to practice so that in the future, he will not be endangered if he knows at least a few demon beasts. After reading books on spiritual plants, he can have more information when he finds the spiritual plants. However, he has been reading about geography. What is the use of history books? Isn’t that just a waste of time?’
After a few days, Liu Mufeng walked out of the lounge. He put the books he had read back on the bookshelf one by one and picked up the last two books in the corner of the bookshelf. These were the last two. After reading these two books, he didn’t need to stay in the bookstore anymore. After all, he had been in the bookstore for ninety-seven days, and it was time to leave.
“Little waste?”
Hearing a woman’s voice behind him, Liu Mufeng couldn’t help frowning and suddenly had a bad premonition. Slowly turning around, he saw someone coming.
There were two people, a man and a woman. The man was wearing a luxurious brocade robe, holding a folding fan in his hand, showing the dignity of a noble young master. This person was none other than the original owner’s eldest cousin, Liu Cheng, the eldest son of the original owner’s uncle. The other was a tall and pretty woman wearing a blue ruffled skirt. This woman’s name was Liu Zhen’er, the fourth cousin of the original owner and the daughter of the original owner’s second uncle.
“Eldest brother, Fourth sister!” Bowing his head, Liu Mufeng respectfully greeted the two of them.
Hearing this, Liu Zhen’er snorted coldly. “Little waste, aren’t you supposed to be in Zhang family Village? So what are you doing here? You’re not thinking about begging Grandpa to let you go back to the family, right?”
Seeing the woman looking at him with such contempt, disdain, and disapproval, as if he was a disgusting cockroach, Liu Mufeng only found it funny. That’s right, the original owner was indeed a waste who had five spiritual roots. Still, this Liu Zhen’er was not so powerful as well, was she? She was just a three-spiritual root cultivator. So was it fascinating for a hundred steps to laugh at the fifty steps?
“No, I came to town to buy some rice. There is no more rice at home.” Bowing his head, Liu Mufeng tried his best to imitate the original owner’s obedient and cowardly appearance when facing these cousins.
“Buy rice? Why did you go to the bookstore to buy rice?” Staring at Liu Mufeng, Liu Zhen’er asked pretentiously.
“Oh, I’m here to buy two books that give more information on the spiritual plants and see what kind of spiritual plants are more profitable for spirit stones.” Looking at Liu Zhen’er, Liu Mufeng still peeked cowardly.
“Hmph, earning spirit stones? It’s not as if what you are planting on that piece of broken land has any value.” Liu Zhen’er looked contemptuous.
“Ninth brother, the world is dangerous, and there are many experts in town. So it’s better that you don’t go out to avoid danger.” Then, Liu Cheng reminded him “kindly” as he looked at his cousin.
“Yes, yes, Eldest Brother said it in time. I’ll buy the book in a while and go back after I buy the rice.” Nodding, Liu Mufeng repeatedly said yes.
“Okay, it’s good that you understand. Father asked you to go to the Zhang family Village to protect you. Your strength is too low, and it is not safe for you to stay in the city.” Looking at Liu Mufeng, Liu Cheng said again and thought to himself, ‘Why didn’t Father send this waste farther? With the Liu family’s fame, this waste hangs around in Shuangyang Town. Isn’t it disgraceful for the family?’
“Okay, I know. Eldest brother, don’t worry, I will definitely cultivate the field and cultivate well. Uncle told me that I will be able to return to the family when I reach the Spiritual Mortal Realm.” Speaking of this, Liu Mufeng showed a silly smile.
Liu Zhen’er laughed as if she had heard some funny joke. “Spiritual Mortal Realm? You? I’m afraid this life is not enough for you to step on that realm.” ‘What a joke, a five-spiritual waste still wanted to advance to the Spiritual Mortal Realm, was he dreaming?’
“Fourth sister!” Looking at Liu Zhen’er, Liu Cheng scolded coldly.
Upon receiving the furious gaze from her eldest brother, Liu Zhen’er immediately restrained the exaggerated smile on her face.
Turning his head, Liu Cheng looked at Liu Mufeng with a pleasant look. “Ninth brother, Eldest brother believes that you will advance to the Spiritual Mortal Realm sooner or later. So, you have to stay in the village well, cultivate well, and farm well, do you understand?”
“Yes, I understand, Eldest brother.” ‘Asshole, how about tricking me like a three-year-old child? Wasn’t it because you’re just afraid that I would run back to the family, cry, make trouble, and hang myself, which would affect the reputation of the Liu family?’
This Liu Cheng, on the surface, was gentle and elegant, but deep inside he was more sinister than anyone else. The original owner had no deep knowledge of the world and would be fooled around by him.
“Eldest Young Master, Fourth Young Miss, what books do you two want to buy?” The bookstore owner ran over respectfully after finishing a business order.
“Oh, I want to buy two books about demon beasts and a map of the North.” Liu Cheng said softly.
“Oh, okay!” Nodding, the owner immediately took the books and the map.
After taking the books and the map, Liu Cheng gave fifty taels of silver to the owner. “The two books in my Ninth brother’s hand are also settled together.”
“Okay, that’s exactly fifty taels.” Nodding, the owner immediately responded.
“En!” Nodding, Liu Cheng glanced at Liu Mufeng again.
“Eldest brother, Fourth sister, walk slowly.” Bowing his head, Liu Mufeng immediately sent them off.
“Ninth brother, how are you going back? Do you want Eldest brother to send you?” Looking at Liu Mufeng, Liu Cheng asked “intimately” but commented in his heart: ‘When will this waste go back?’
“Ah, don’t worry, Eldest brother. There is an ox cart from the village, it will be waiting at the gate of the city, and I will go back in the ox cart.” With a smile, Liu Mufeng replied.
“Okay, then Eldest brother will go first.” Nodding, Liu Cheng left with Liu Zhen’er.
“En!” Nodding, Liu Mufeng smiled and sent the two out of the door of the bookstore.
The bookstore owner saw the Ninth Young Master send off the two out of the shop and later indifferently carried the books back into the lounge without any fluctuation in his mood. He thought to himself, ‘This Ninth Young Master is really good-tempered. He can actually bear it.’
Actually, the owner of the bookstore didn’t know the truth. Liu Mufeng didn’t have a good temper but felt no need to care about those people. He was not the original owner and had nothing to do with those people. In his eyes, Liu Cheng and Liu Zhen’er were nothing more than just irrelevant strangers. They could bark as much as they liked. Anyway, he wouldn’t lose any meat.
Geez, irrelevant people causing trouble and being big mouthed for nothing.🙄
Cousin, that’s not how you treat family!!
I feel so bad for the little cannon fodder character that lived such a miserable life :c
Even the useless leeches think they’re better than him 😭
Hurry up and become amazing, Liu Mufeng!
I wonder if the last sentence shouldn’t be “anyways, he wouldn’t lose meat”? Because there’s this saying that he won’t lose anything (aka meat) if they just speak ill to him because it’s harmless
Thanks dear 🙂 already edited it 🙂
Oh dang, I would love to live in a bookstore 😞💕
Thank you for your hard work and for the update!
Okay so no one’s gonna talk about the silver masked man? With the cold temperament and talks like a robot? I think he’s our ML~
First meeting with his wife😏
thanks for the chapter!
Since he is a cannon fodder.. he must be treated badly by powerful people, what a pity 🙁
Thank you for the chapter ♡
What’s the difference between one spiritual root and five spiritual roots?
Spiritual roots with only one attribute are known as “Heavenly Spiritual Roots”, is pure, five roots it’s a mix of attribute impure ando slow to cultivate 🙂
Well he got two free books out of the interaction 😅
Thanks for the translation ❤