Chapter 106: Qigong

As Xiao Fen pushed open the shop door, the wind chime at the door made a crisp sound. However, the owner of this shop was obviously a bit slack. Xiao Fen didn’t hear any welcome sound at all.

When he walked into this small shop, he found that the entire room actually only had goods, but the selling owner didn’t know where they had gone.

He looked left and right. Before he could determine if there was any trap here, the shop door behind him was pushed open again. Then, a female voice that sounded a bit hoarse sounded behind him, “Sorry, I was chatting in the shop next door. If you want anything, look and choose yourself. We have some old things here, and the price is absolutely fair.”

Xiao Fen turned his head. The female behind him looked short. Her original appearance might have been beautiful, but the black eyepatch on her right eye and the deep scar on her left eye and cheek completely destroyed this beauty.

Black wavy long hair was loosely draped over her left shoulder, roughly tied with a red silk handkerchief. Such a combination looked uncoordinated, but it also revealed an indescribable sense of temptation.

Xiao Fen took a step back without leaving a trace, slightly distancing himself from this shop owner who couldn’t be called beautiful. He smiled and said, “Sorry, I am very interested in this shop name, so I came in to take a look.”

“As you wish, feel free. However, your face looks really strange. New here?”

Xiao Fen nodded and took another step back. Only then did he discover that this woman’s feet in front of him actually only had bones. The flesh and skin were completely gone. It looked like a skeleton walking up from the ground.

Seeing Xiao Fen’s somewhat surprised gaze, the woman laughed. She deliberately pulled up the long skirt she was wearing to let Xiao Fen see her calf part. It was all bones there. The pale bones made Xiao Fen’s eyes jump.

“Don’t be nervous. This is the result of the Trial World. After being bitten by two strange creatures, my legs couldn’t grow any muscle or skin below the knee joints. And I was eliminated from the Trialist team.”

Xiao Fen shrugged and silently turned his head to look at those shelves. Many things in this world didn’t need him to lament.

This small shop wasn’t big, but there were quite a lot of things. Most of them had a layer of floating dust, just like this shop owner said, they were some old things.

Xiao Fen flipped through them casually. His main purpose was still those crafting scrolls. However, such scrolls didn’t look like good goods. Having Fine quality crafting, Xiao Fen really didn’t have much interest in ordinary Excellent crafting scrolls.

“Are there no Potion crafting scrolls? Any kind will do.”

Xiao Fen suddenly asked. His main target was still these Potion crafting. In the Trial World, increasing 10 attributes often meant a completely different person appearing in the next second. Although he had the ring, he still hoped for attribute improvement.

“Potion scrolls are not something my small shop can sell. Only the auction house in the city center has them, and the price is not low. Young man, you can look at our prices here and know that our main customers are not rich merchants.”

Xiao Fen gave a bitter smile. As a newcomer, he still had too many things he didn’t understand. He looked left and right again. There really wasn’t anything special that could attract his attention. Those equipment looked very old too and indeed couldn’t attract his interest.

However, that special feeling from before had been making him care. There should be something in this shop that was very useful to him, he just hadn’t found it yet.

“Any special recommendations?”

Xiao Fen asked casually.

The female shop owner looked at Xiao Fen meaningfully and asked, “Sounds like these things aren’t enough for you. You don’t even need weapon crafting scrolls. Looks like you have better choices. So, what do you need?”

Xiao Fen rubbed his brow and said in a low voice, “If there could be something like a Skill, that would be great.”

“Skill?” The female shop owner whistled like a pirate, turned her head and shouted upward, “Old man, your customer is here. This guy is more interested in Skills.”

Xiao Fen froze for a moment. At the same time, a hidden compartment opened in the roof above his head. A white-haired old man looked down at Xiao Fen and asked alertly, “Not one of those guys from the Council of Elders, right?”

“I’m very accurate at judging people, old man. This guy hasn’t joined the Council of Elders to become a running dog for those bastards. He doesn’t have that stench on him. I believe, in the future, this little guy won’t either. Am I right? Young man?”

Xiao Fen smiled awkwardly and didn’t speak.

The old man above looked at Xiao Fen again, reached out and made a motion. A light ladder extended down from him.

Then the old man waved at Xiao Fen and said, “Come up quickly, don’t let those Council of Elders guys discover me. I am a wanted criminal of theirs.”

Xiao Fen rubbed his nose and walked up with complicated feelings.

Compared to the shop on the first floor, the Space on the second floor was even narrower. Besides a small bed, there was only a not-large shelf actually visiting goods. On this shelf, there were only a total of ten or so scrolls.

“The Council of Elders controls all Skill Scroll sales and strictly forbids private trading of Skill Scrolls. Little guy, it’s your luck to meet me. On this street, there aren’t many shops that can secretly give you these things.”

The old man stared seriously at Xiao Fen’s every move, afraid that Xiao Fen would secretly take away those scrolls. He said while speaking, “Choose quickly, choose quickly. I don’t have much time to accompany you. It’s too unsafe here. That big-mouthed girl Weilan will sell me out sooner or later.”

Xiao Fen swept his eyes over them. His eyes finally stopped on a dust-covered scroll on the upper left of the shelf.

“Qigong Skill, Primary”

This was a good scroll. The problem was, these words were written in Ancient Greek.

The concept of Qigong belonging to the East was actually written in Ancient Greek. This sense of incongruity made Xiao Fen not know whether to laugh or cry for a moment. Considering that the World Tree wouldn’t make mistakes in basic history, this Skill Scroll indeed appeared in the Greece Trial World.

Okay, Ancient Greek Qigong, this really is a good match.

Xiao Fen pointed at this scroll, turned his head, and asked, “How many Gene Points does this require?”

The old man glanced at it and asked, “Are you sure you want this Skill?”

Xiao Fen nodded with a bitter smile and asked, “Is there anything inappropriate?”

“As an honest businessman, I must remind you that that skill is an incomplete skill.”

“Incomplete? What does that mean?”

“It means that unless you find another skill, this skill cannot be upgraded to the Intermediate level, even if you have the Intermediate scroll for this skill.”