"What's wrong, sir?" Wu Feng asked with a smile.
"Ahem, it's nothing, nothing." Sun Wukong's monkey face reddened.
Chapter Two: The Aggrieved Sun Wukong
"Sir, if you want to try something from the General Store, you'll need to pay a certain number of Exchange Points before you can touch it," Wu Feng explained.
"Exchange Points?" Sun Wukong froze.
Exchange Points? What were those?
"I don't have any Exchange Points." Sun Wukong shook his head. "And what exactly are Exchange Points?"
"To a certain extent, Exchange Points are the General Store's currency. If you want to obtain them, you can exchange relevant cultivation arts, spiritual treasures, spiritual roots, and so on," Wu Feng explained.
"Oh, that's rather interesting." Sun Wukong laughed.
At this point, he naturally no longer regarded Wu Feng as an ordinary person.
Just now, he had tried to use his own strength, but he truly couldn't pick up the object on the cabinet. He possessed the power of an immortal, after all.
"Of course, even if you have Exchange Points, they aren't always useful. Sometimes, the items here also depend on fate. Without the proper affinity, you won't be able to take them away. So, sir, you'll have to look carefully," Wu Feng said.
"It can work that way too?" Sun Wukong pondered for a moment, then his eyes moved. "Shopkeeper, why don't you introduce me to the item that has the greatest affinity with me?"
As the owner of this General Store,
in Sun Wukong's understanding, everything here should belong to Wu Feng. Therefore, the shopkeeper ought to know which item suited him best.
In fact, Sun Wukong had really misunderstood this point. The items in the General Store currently did not belong to Wu Feng, but to the system.
Even Wu Feng himself couldn't obtain the items on the cabinets. Otherwise, he could have taken some of the cultivation arts up there, and he wouldn't still be an ordinary mortal.
Only after a customer obtained an item through Exchange Points could Wu Feng receive a portion of the Exchange Points, along with the relevant treasure.
"The one with the greatest affinity?" Wu Feng pointed toward a cabinet. "That book is pretty good. I think it has a great deal of affinity with you."
"A book?" Sun Wukong looked toward the cabinet and frowned. It was a somewhat battered-looking book, and written on it were the words Journey to the West.
For some reason, the moment he saw the book, an inexplicable desire arose in his heart. He absolutely had to obtain it.
Could it be that he truly was fated to have this book?
Aside from that answer, Sun Wukong couldn't think of any other explanation.
"This is a spiritual treasure I obtained from the East Sea Dragon Palace in the past. Is it enough?" Sun Wukong took out a bead flashing with white light and tossed it to Wu Feng.
"System, exchange it," Wu Feng said as he held the treasure bead.
"Ding! An ordinary spiritual treasure can be exchanged for twenty Exchange Points." The system's voice rang out.
"Well, sir, you now have twenty Exchange Points. Viewing one treasure costs only ten Exchange Points, so you can pick up that Journey to the West," Wu Feng said with narrowed eyes and a smile.
For Wu Feng, this was only the beginning.
As his first customer, Sun Wukong had to be squeezed properly, no matter what.
"Fine..." Sun Wukong nodded and placed his hand on Journey to the West. This time, he successfully picked up the book.
"Journey to the West. It's somewhat similar to my name." Sun Wukong muttered to himself.
He slowly opened Journey to the West, and Sun Wukong soon became immersed in it.
There was also a Sun Wukong in this book. He seemed to be traveling west to obtain the Buddhist scriptures, following someone named Tang Monk...
"Rustle, rustle..."
Before much time had passed, the book vanished directly from Sun Wukong's hands and landed back on the cabinet.
"This..." Sun Wukong was dumbfounded. "Shopkeeper, what's going on?"
"Sir, you only paid ten Exchange Points, so you can only read this much," Wu Feng said. "If you want to continue reading, you'll need to pay more Exchange Points."
"More?" Sun Wukong frowned and exhaled. "Shopkeeper, about how many Exchange Points will I need to finish this book?"
"About one thousand," Wu Feng said calmly.
"One thousand?" Sun Wukong shouted. "Are you robbing me?"
The spiritual treasure he had taken out just now was worth only twenty points.
One thousand meant he would need fifty treasures of similar value.
"I'm not robbing you. The price is clearly marked." Wu Feng shrugged. "Sir, if you don't want to read it, you can leave."
"I..." Sun Wukong opened and closed his mouth.
How could he not want to read it?
For some reason, he felt that the Sun Wukong in Journey to the West was connected to him.
Moreover, the story in the book seemed to have reached a very critical moment.
How could Sun Wukong give up?
"Once I capture you, everything here will belong to me." Sun Wukong gripped the Golden Cudgel and spoke with a vicious expression.
Who was he? He was the renowned Sun Wukong.
"You can try, but don't regret it," Wu Feng said, shaking his head.
"Take this!" Sun Wukong gripped the Golden Cudgel and charged forward.
"Power Seal," Wu Feng said lightly.
As soon as his voice fell, a strange force flowed into Sun Wukong's body. His surging immortal power instantly became empty, vanishing without a trace.
"How is this possible?" Sun Wukong stared in disbelief. His strength had actually been sealed in an instant.
Even the legendary Grand Unity Golden Immortal shouldn't have been capable of this.
"Now then..." Wearing a sinister smile, Wu Feng walked toward Sun Wukong.
Within the General Store, he was invincible. At this moment, Sun Wukong completely understood that.
At that moment, Sun Wukong was like a little girl about to be bullied.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
"Shopkeeper, spare my life! Spare my life! I won't dare do it again, I really won't!"
Inside the room, screams rose and fell one after another.
A moment later, Sun Wukong, sporting two black eyes, remained in the General Store with an aggrieved expression.
At this point, he was thoroughly convinced by Wu Feng.
The other party's strength was far beyond his own.
He had been completely incapable of fighting back.
"Shopkeeper, I'm convinced. Truly convinced." Sun Wukong hurriedly spoke.
"Hmm. Sun Wukong, do you still want to read the book?" Wu Feng asked.
"Read it, of course I want to read it." Sun Wukong nodded repeatedly. He then rummaged around himself for a long while and took out several spiritual treasures, but his Exchange Points were still insufficient.
"Shopkeeper, how do I give you cultivation arts and secret manuals?"
"Just think of them in your mind, and the secret manuals will appear in your hands."
Chapter Three: When Will You Pull Down the Gods and Buddhas?
"Oh, oh..." Sun Wukong hurriedly nodded.
The cultivation arts he had learned from Patriarch Bodhi flashed through his mind one after another.
As for the matter of passing the cultivation arts on to others, Sun Wukong didn't care about it.
His master, Bodhi, had never seemed to forbid it. He had only told Sun Wukong not to mention his name.
Right now, the most important thing to Sun Wukong was reading Journey to the West.
If Patriarch Bodhi knew what Sun Wukong was thinking, who knew whether he would vomit blood.
"Great Celestial Immortal Art..."
"Dharma Appearance Heaven and Earth..."
"Somersault Cloud..."
"Seventy-Two Transformations..."
One secret manual after another appeared in Sun Wukong's hands.
It could be said that Sun Wukong had manifested everything he had learned from Patriarch Bodhi this time.
"Shopkeeper, see if these are enough." Sun Wukong placed all the cultivation arts in his hands into Wu Feng's hands.
"Let me take a look." Wu Feng smiled.
These cultivation arts and secret manuals he had obtained could also become part of the General Store.
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