The Exiled's Library!

Inside the old bookstore.

The dim light flickered as Chen Ye sat in a chair, rhythmically flipping through the book in his hands.

The atmosphere in this bookstore is very strange; everything from the tables to the bookshelves seems to be a single, integrated whole.

There were some empty shelves, but soon a book appeared on one of them.

Chen Ye glanced at the book that had appeared out of thin air, but didn't pay it any mind.

After a period of experimentation, Chen Ye successfully transformed the giant snake's life form into a library.

Yes, it's not limited to just a bookshelf.

This entire library was transformed from a giant serpent.

The bookstore is called the Exiled's Library.

From the outside, it may look like an ordinary bookstore, but when people try to push open the door, they find that they can't open it no matter what they do.

Perhaps, this library isn't even here.

It may be in Asia today, and in Europe tomorrow. Its location will change constantly, and it may even be in the universe, in the void, or in the sea.

It has no fixed location, and naturally, no fixed entrance.

What's interesting is that even after the life form transforms into a library, the giant snake still retains the ability to split, but the items it splits into can only be books.

These are certainly not ordinary books; they contain certain abilities or characteristics.

For example, the black book that Chen Ye is holding, titled "The Book of the Dead".

Several large, blood-red characters were drawn on the book cover as if poured from lava, scalding hot, yet filled with filth and blasphemy.

The knowledge contained in this book, even just one chapter, is enough for an ordinary person to study for a lifetime.

If the entire book were given to ordinary people, they would not be able to finish reading it even if they spent several generations on it.

This is not only because the knowledge contained within covers the past and future, reveals truths, and is obscure and difficult to understand, but also because reading it is itself an extremely crazy act.

Perhaps just a few lines of text are enough to drive a person to a mental breakdown and madness.

The same books are everywhere in this library.

They not only contain ancient and forbidden knowledge, but also possess the great power of destruction and reconstruction.

"What sleeps eternally is not the dead; in the mysterious eternity, even death itself vanishes."

"Death itself..."

"The final chapter of the Book of the Dead is a power that can even erase death... It seems I've created something extraordinary."

Chen Ye casually pulled out a notebook and wrote down a series of numbers on it.

This is the first new number Chen Ye has written since Angel 023, after several months.

Number 0 24: The Exiled's Library.

It possesses the eternal characteristic of being immortal and indestructible, and is a library with self-awareness.

It forms its own space, and its interior can be extended and expanded infinitely, transforming into an endless corridor without limits.

024 evolved from the new Divider Serpent, retaining its original splitting characteristics, but the items it splits out are books containing mysterious power.

And it can only be books.

024 cannot move itself, but will passively and randomly appear in any corner of the world.

Apart from the original, there are new fissions of 024, ranging from the lowest to the first order and the highest to the fourth order.

This combat power rating is based on the limits of knowledge in different books.

As for 024 itself, it has no combat capabilities, no means of attack, and cannot even move.

Its individual combat strength rating doesn't even reach Tier 1.

That is, an unprecedented zero-order.

On the street.

A middle-aged man was walking down the street when he suddenly noticed a bookstore on the side of the street.

When did this new bookstore open here?

The man stepped forward and tried to pull open the bookstore door, but no matter how hard he pushed or pulled, he couldn't budge it.

Um?

The middle-aged man looked into the store and saw a black-haired man sitting inside, quietly reading a book.

"Hey boss, is your shop door broken?"

The man inside the store didn't react when he heard this, so the middle-aged man shouted a few more times, "Hey, you guys are broken!"

Hearing the middle-aged man's voice, Chen Ye closed his book and drew a line, "This place awaits only the destined one."

After saying that, Chen Ye flicked the line.

The next second, the bookstore in front of them vanished.

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, and then a flowerpot suddenly fell from upstairs and brushed past him.

Am I... hallucinating?

The middle-aged man scratched his head and looked at the flowerpot next to him.

Was there a bookstore here just now?

Europe, the headquarters of the Hand of the Serpent.

Tap tap tap.

A series of rapid footsteps approached, and a group of men in black robes suddenly burst in.

They said nothing, and killed anyone who saw the Hand of the Serpent.

They stormed into the headquarters of the Hand of the Serpent, but found no one in the deepest part of the headquarters.

Li Heng's gaze swept across the area, finding nothing but stone statues.

We're still too late.

Following Vespa's solo intrusion into the Hand of the Serpent headquarters, the Hand of the Serpent deemed their base unsafe and temporarily relocated it.

The Hand of the Serpent members they encountered earlier were Hand of the Serpent personnel responsible for the cleanup and cleanup.

A priest from Dagon stepped forward and said, "There are no Ancient Relic. They took all the Ancient Relic with them."

Seeing this, Li Heng put on his hood and prepared to leave, but just then, a priest suddenly saw a Fishman statue.

"Um?"

"This is..."

Li Heng stopped and turned around, only to see the priest slowly walking towards the Fishman statue.

"The curse of petrification?"

The Fishman Priest took out the frog-skin book and began to peruse it. He quickly found the corresponding Ancient Relic: "Green apple, an Ancient Relic that inflicts a curse on its eater, preventing them from seeing others."

Li Heng stepped forward. "You're saying these statues were cursed and turned into stone statues?"

The priest nodded. "Yes, but you can rest assured, there is a way to lift this curse. The Frogskin Book records the incantation to lift the petrification curse, but it requires some materials..."

What material?

"The snake's tears."

Do snakes shed tears?

"Yes, but people can't see the snake's tears."

"But finding snake tears right now won't be easy, so here's a second way."

"What method?"

"Go find...your brother, um, go find Sea King, horses are the nemesis of curses and diseases."

"As long as there are horses, the petrification curse can be lifted."

Li Heng looked at the Fishman statue in front of him and said, "Take him with you."

The Fishman nodded, and then carried the Fishman statue.

There is only this one Fishman statue here, and a Fishman Priest present knows its origin.

That was Deep One she had personally transformed, a man Vespa Vesper who possessed an extraordinary will to survive.