After Waking Up, I Inherited a Bookstore 134

Chapter 134: Entering the Bookstore

When Liu Chuxia heard these astronomical figures, she no longer knew what she was feeling. All she knew now was that the money from selling the Blood Pearls was probably not even a fraction of what the Liu family had earned before.

“Are these materials so expensive?” Liu Chuxia asked in a daze.

Liu Junyue chuckled softly. “When you take over the Liu family in the future, you’ll know that this little bit of money is nothing.”

“Then can we only endure it for now? The Zhang family is doing this. We have to have some reaction, right?” Jiang Jiajia said.

“Let’s endure it for now. We’ll settle the score with them later,” Liu Junyue said.

“Alright then,” Jiang Jiajia said, pouting and leaning against Xiao Nian’s embrace, her spirits not very high.

For the whole day, the few humans and ghosts were all preparing various materials. If they didn’t have enough money, they would use their own private funds. The Liu family would reimburse them later anyway.

The next few days were very calm. But on the night the swords were distributed, Xiao Xu said that the yin energy in the bookstore had suddenly increased.

“‘Master’ is preparing to go down to the underworld?” Jiang Jiajia asked.

Liu Chuxia frowned and said, “But the spies haven’t sent any news back. Even if they were discovered, there would have been a message. No, I have to go and see.”

“I’ll go with you,” Li Hanyan said immediately.

Jiang Jiajia said, “We’ll go too.”

Xiao Xu: “We’re going too.”

Bai Fei: “Then we’re going too.”

“I’m just going to check the situation. With so many people, we’ll be exposed,” Liu Chuxia said with some helplessness.

“Let’s go, let’s go. If the ‘Master’ is really going down to the underworld, we can just go and stop her,” Jiang Jiajia said, pushing her out the door.

Just then, they ran into Wang Mian, who had come to report.

“Young Lord, quick. The ‘Master’ is performing a great art. We wanted to stop her, but we couldn’t at all. There are too many ghosts and monsters. We’ve also lost many people.”

Now, Liu Chuxia didn’t need Jiang Jiajia to push her. She reacted quickly and got into the car.

After everyone else had gotten into the car, she immediately started the car and headed for the bookstore.

When they arrived, Liu Chuxia held her sword in her right hand and a talisman in her left. She looked at the bookstore in front of her, which was filled with a pressing yin energy, like a deep abyss, as if it wanted to suck out her soul.

Liu Chuxia steadied her mind and said to the people and ghosts behind her, “We might be separated after we go in. Be careful.”

After hearing everyone’s response, Liu Chuxia walked in with her sword.

She released the Skin-Changing Ghost and ordered, “Help me find the ‘Master’.”

The Skin-Changing Ghost’s eyes were vacant. After hearing Liu Chuxia’s command, its eyes suddenly cleared. It nodded and then disappeared on the spot.

“Is this okay?” Li Hanyan asked.

“It should be fine. The Contract of Fate Art that Xiao Xu improved is even more unfair than the first version. I can clearly feel that she has various restraints on her, and her mind is also controlled. Anyway, it won’t be a big deal. Even if she breaks free, I’ll know where she is in the end. Let’s go.”

With that, Liu Chuxia turned on her flashlight and shone it inside. She found that other than the thick yin energy, there was nothing.

And just as she was about to talk to Jiang Jiajia and the others, she shone the flashlight behind her, but their figures were gone.

“Where are they? How did they disappear so quickly?” But no one answered her.

Liu Chuxia turned her head and saw that Li Hanyan, who had been beside her just now, had also suddenly disappeared.

“So you’re playing this game, are you?”

Liu Chuxia’s eyes sharpened. She took off the fully upgraded Blood Jade, bit her middle finger, and dripped the blood onto the center of the Blood Jade. In an instant, the yin energy beside her lessened a lot.

And Li Hanyan also appeared beside her, but Jiang Jiajia and the others did not.

“A Xia! Are you okay? Something suddenly attacked me just now. By the time I finished fighting and came back, you were gone. Jiajia and the others were also gone. What happened?”

Li Hanyan anxiously held Liu Chuxia’s hand, her face looking like she was about to cry. One could imagine how scared she had been.

“I’m fine. I don’t know where Jiajia and the others went. Let’s go upstairs and see.”

“Mhm, okay.”

But the moment Li Hanyan turned around, Liu Chuxia grabbed her by the neck and forcefully pressed her down. Then she said, “The ‘Master’ really has a lot of things. Two Skin-Changing Ghosts, things that haven’t appeared in hundreds of years, have actually appeared. But your skills are still too shallow, and your acting is also poor.”

After being exposed, the Skin-Changing Ghost shouted, “Why are you standing there like idiots? Come and help!”

But nothing came out to attack Liu Chuxia. The Skin-Changing Ghost panicked. “What’s going on? Where are those stupid things?”

“Hah, you should be more concerned about your own situation,” Liu Chuxia said, grabbing her by the neck and swinging her right hand at her. The Zhenxie Sword flared with a golden light, and the Skin-Changing Ghost’s arm disappeared.

“Hey, what is this thing? Spare my life, Master, spare my life. I was wrong, I was wrong.”

“Then tell me where the ‘Master’ is.”

“I don’t know. How could a small ghost like me possibly see the ‘Master’? Only our big captain has seen her. But we haven’t seen her these past few days. It was that Hong Ji who sent me. It really has nothing to do with me. I was just trying to earn some yang qi.”

Liu Chuxia snorted coldly, threw her to the ground, and stabbed its glabella with her sword. Then its body disappeared, leaving two drops of ghost essence blood lying quietly on the ground.

After picking up the things, Liu Chuxia went to clean up some of the ghost things hiding on the side. After she was done, she went upstairs.

At the same time, outside, Liu Chu had also gathered the various family heads and together they had set up a great yin-suppressing formation.

The ‘Master’ sat in a room, watching the surveillance footage in the bookstore. And on the large screen was none other than Liu Chuxia.

“Interesting,” the ‘Master’ said, staring at Liu Chuxia for a moment.

Hong Ji turned to look at her. “Do you need me to capture her?”

“Mhm, go on. It would be best to get rid of her,”

The ‘Master’ stood up from her seat, walked to a bouquet of flowers, picked up a watering can, and said casually to Hong Ji as she watered them.

“Yes.”

On this side, when Liu Chuxia reached the third floor, she saw Li Hanyan. “Hanyan?”

“A Xia! Are you okay?” Li Hanyan ran over from the other side of the corridor, held Liu Chuxia’s hand, and asked as she checked her.

“I’m fine. What about you?” Liu Chuxia said with a smile, looking at her.

“It’s nothing serious. I just ran into some small ghosts and took care of them. I’ve also searched here and found nothing,” Li Hanyan said with a frown.

“Then let’s go to the fourth floor.”

“Mhm.”

But just as they turned around, Hong Ji, who had been standing behind them for a long time, appeared.

“Hi! Long time no see,” Hong Ji said with a smile, waving at them. It really was like old friends who hadn’t seen each other in years, greeting each other warmly.

The first second Li Hanyan saw her, she stood in front of Liu Chuxia, blocking her.

“Hah, it seems the ‘Master’s’ lair is upstairs. To have even sent you over.”

“Hehe, you’re quite confident. Get past me first!” With that, Hong Ji rushed towards Li Hanyan.

But Li Hanyan dodged to the side with a flash and a quick roll, evading the attack.

And Liu Chuxia behind her was looking at Hong Ji with a wicked smile. She also rushed towards Hong Ji.

Liu Chuxia quickly swung her sword, and Hong Ji could clearly feel her strength suddenly drop by a large margin. She immediately broke away from the fight with Liu Chuxia.

“What’s going on?” After moving away from Liu Chuxia, Hong Ji felt her strength return. She looked at the seemingly weak woman opposite her with some strangeness.