After finishing their lunch, Xiao Ying led Sun Zhen to the Clan Gate so she could give him a tour from the beginning to the end.
To his surprise, the place was a market.
Seemed like the clan wanted to have their own economy so they opened a huge trading center at the gate and people from outside could buy the clan products.
"Potions...Weapon...Clothes...Pet...Seem like they sell almost everything here"
Sun Zhen walked pass stores, some of the store owners came out and greeted Xiao Ying.
"Our clan most famous products are potions, we have many kinds of potions but the best one is Qi potion...With Qi potion, you can recover your Qi by drinking it but the taste is so bland that you don't want to drink the 2nd one."
Interested in potions, Sun Zhen asked her where the largest or most success potion shop was.
"I know just the place"
She then led him to a very big shop that had the sign "Xiao Clan Elder Approved Potion".
"That some assure product quality sign there" Sun Zhen thought as he followed her into the shop.
Inside the shop, he saw colorful glass bottles on shelves and the name labels on those bottles.
"Recovery Potion-10 Silver...ManHood Boost-35 Silver...Great Sleep-20 Silver...Man, there are so many"
When he touched a Recovery bottle, 2 new information appeared in his mind.
[Glass/Code:£+#£<...]
[Unnamed liquid-Rename option/Man made Liquid/Code:^+#£32...]
"You learn something new every day" Sun Zhen picked up more bottles while try to rename them based on the labels.
While Sun Zhen was doing his thing, Xiao Ying went to counter and greeted the old employee.
"Uncle Wan, how is the business?" Xiao Ying said.
"It's you again. Please buy the full price potions this time, I can not give you a 99% discount again. The 6th Elder doesn't like his business got ruin"
Uncle Wan was a middle age man with a bald head and had a big belly.
"I am not here to buy potions, I am just here to show my friend your potion shop"
"Hum...Is that your friend? Is he looking for a potion?" He then pointed at Sun Zhen, who used the ladder to reach for potions on a very high shelve.
"Sun Zhen, do you want to buy a potion?"
"I am good, I just try to see the names of the potions" After he finished collecting, he went to the other shelves to collect as much as possible.
"Just be careful, the bottles are very fragile" Uncle Wan said then he took out a potion under his table.
"Your dad wants this Foundation Strengthening potion to be delivered to him before night but you are here so please help me deliver this to him"
She nodded and put the potion into her bag then she waited for Sun Zhen to finish what he was doing.
"The potions are very interesting" After done collecting, he and she moved to new location.
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"This is the clan library" She pointed a five-floor building in front of them.
Based on what she told him before they came here, the library was built about 600 years ago (He still hadn't figured out how many days a year in this world) and some very old knowledge was stored here.
Sadly, this was only a normal library while the Art (Skills for Cultivators) library was forbidden to go in unless you were from Senior class or higher stage than Juqi
The rule applied to everyone and even Xiao Ying couldn't or the Patriarch go against it because it was set by Great Ancestors.
Inside the library, Sun Zhen saw a lot of people coming in and out while some were busy reading books on the long tables.
"There is a lot of people here, and the books on the shelves almost empty" He said.
"The first floor is for commoners and outsider. We can go to the 2nd floor. The books are the same and it is a quiet place but will cost us some fees" Xiao Ying then paid the guard at the stairs to the next floor with 50 Silver (Coin).
She was right, the second floor had the same setup as the first floor but the place was more peaceful and there was a librarian.
"I want to read some books so can you wait?"He asked
"Don't worry, do what you want. I need to rest anyway" She then sat down and closed her eyes a bit.
Sun Zhen then went to the librarian and asked for books about the world or anything related to the country.
"Sorry, Sir but we don't have the books you asked for, only books about 2 nations, sects and cities, including our city"
"That fine"
"Please wait" The librarian left to look for his books.
"So weird, a library with 600 years old, should have books that I asked for. Either the books are collected around here only or the books are being on the different floor"
After waiting for 10 minutes, the librarian came back with 3 books.
"Here the books you asked for"
"Thanks. Another thing I want to ask"
He asked her if the books he wanted were on different floors or not inside the library.
"I am really sorry. I don't know, I only know about the books on the 1st and 2nd floor. As for other floors, I don't have permission to go in"
"Ok thanks"
He would ask Xiao Ying later and the 3 books were enough for now.
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For 1 hour, he read all the books and wrote down the main information onto a paper he created from the Block (Without being seen)
What he learned was quite a lot:
*2 Nations: Wang and Zhou. The nations names were based on the rulers First name.
*238 Sects, from big to small. Some were very famous and more powerful than the nations but they had little interest in 2 nations conflicts.
*Unknown amount of cities...only found info about 8 cities near them.
*The city he was staying in belongs to Wang country and it was the city nearest to the border to other nation.
*Xiao Clan didn't own the city despite the clan took over half of the city, Tower Master was.
*Tower Masters were Wang' Nation Guards that protect the cities and very powerful Cultivators.
That all the main information he gathered from the books.
After giving the books back, he went back to Xiao Ying who was drooling on the table.
"Wake Up Xiao Ying" When he called her, she started to open her eyes.
He was shocked as he found out it wasn't her anymore because the eyes he saw before.
"Xiao Yang?"
"Hello pretty boy, miss me?"
"You are going to risk her secret here. Please change back"
"Don't worry, I just cast a sound-proof wall around us"
Sun Zhen looked around and saw distorted space around them.
"When?... Why are you appear here for?"
"I only appear for 1 reason, the apples"
"...You could have chosen better time"
"Time is priceless to me right now and this is the best time to take over her body"
"I can see that" He saw that she still drooling for some reason and he didn't tell her about it.
"I need you to plant the apples back, the seeds that I got from the apples I ate, these don't grow at all no matter what I do. I water it and used Qi growth but nothing work"
"Really?" Sun Zhen figured out that there must be a bug or error for the seeds when the tree produced.
"The apples recover you right? Okay I will help you, for her sake only" He said.
"You are soft but that what I love about a man like you" She then closed her eyes then fall back onto the table and the distorted space disappear.
Not too long after that, she woke up and it was Xiao Ying as he hurried to wipe the drool on her face when she saw Sun Zhen.
"Are you finished reading?" She asked
"Yeah. Also, your body got taken by Xiao Yang"
"Again?! I shouldn't have sleep"
They left the library and Sun Zhen followed her to new places.
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For the whole afternoon, they visited almost every place inside the clan and Sun Zhen was impressed on how they managed the place.
She also said that after becoming the Patriarch before her dad transformed the clan and the people agreed to his ideas.
"Maybe he was also like me. A modern person from Earth" Sun Zhen thought.
The tour ended with they went back to Sun Zhen's place.
"What do you think of Xiao Clan?" She asked.
"It wasn't like what I think, pretty much better than expected"
"For you, that is normal but not me, I been living here so so long now. I want to go out and explore more, the only time I got out was the time in the forest and I almost got killed"
Sun Zhen knew what she meant, she was just a teen and she wanted to do crazy stuff besides cultivating and study.
"How about someday when I leave the clan, I will help you with that...But we need to get stronger first"
"Promise?"
"Sure that is a promise"
(Note#2: Foreshadowing and The MC isn't dumb about romantic, it is just man sometimes very dense about it)
"Hey your dad is here" Sun Zhen saw Xiao Yun meditating inside the yard
When they came near, Xiao Yun stood up and walked to them.
"How is the school, Sun Zhen?" Xiao Yun asked
"it's nice Sir"
"Glad to hear that. Ying, can you give me the potion in your bag?"
After getting the yellow potion, he opened it and smelled.
"No poison or nothing wrong, the quality is quite good. 6th Elder must have tried his best...
Sun Zhen, come here and drink this. This potion is called Foundation Strengthening and this will improve your body"
As Sun Zhen touched it, new code added and it was a very long code, about 34 lines which were impressive for just a liquid.
"Thank you"
He then drank it and felt warm inside his body.
Soon, he felt that his muscles were getting tougher and bigger than before and it stopped as he finished the whole potion.
"This is what potion can do? It is fcking amazing, I wonder I can drink this type more"
"After this, your body can handle intense training from First Elder. Now you excuse me, Xiao Ying and I have to go"
He then grabbed her shoulder and disappeared like the time they teleported.
"What should I do now? I got the whole night free"