I open a bookstore in the human world

Song Lan came back alone, and the ghost clerks saw that Xie Daonian was not around, and saw that Song Lan was unhappy, even though they had thousands of doubts in their hearts, they didn't dare to ask him in front of him, they could only speculate privately——

"Brother Xie, something happened in the underworld, right?" Xiao Dan's face turned pale, and he tightly hugged the little cactus that Xie Daonian gave her back then, with tears rolling in his eyes, with a pitiful look on the verge of weeping .

Mao Shi hurriedly comforted the little girl and said: "Don't think too much, brother Xie is a lucky man, he didn't have a car accident last time, so how could something happen so easily?"

That being said, in fact, he has no idea: everyone knows that Song Lan led Xie Daonian back to the underworld, saying that there is an urgent matter, but no one knows what the urgent matter is, let alone why Brother Song came back, Brother Xie But nowhere to be found.

Lin Se pushed his glasses and looked thoughtful: "I heard from my friends in the underworld that the entire underworld was heavily guarded before, and they were not allowed to go out and walk around without necessary reasons, especially not to go to the area of ​​​​the hell. Tell me, Brother Song and the others are going back to the underworld." , is it related to this matter?"

As soon as this remark came out, all the ghosts were startled, especially the coward Xiao Dan, the tears that had been rolling in his eyes suddenly burst out like a volcanic eruption, and he couldn't stop it.

After all, for ghosts, "Infernal Hell" represents endless torture and pain, especially if all the ghosts present here are deeply afraid of this place.

"Brother Xie won't be imprisoned in the endless hell, right?" Qin Shi got a shudder from Zuiyue and two big white eyes on his head as soon as he said those words.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Brother Xie is not a vicious ghost, how could he be imprisoned in the endless hell?" Zuiyue has never been lenient when dealing with her boyfriend.

"However, I seem to have heard that the underworld is not very peaceful recently," Kaixin muttered in a low voice. He likes to visit the Voice of Hell forum.

All the ghosts here were discussing enthusiastically and didn't care about work, but Song Lan was just the opposite, devoting himself to the busy work, the lights in the office were on all night and all night, working harder than ever before.

Even Liang Hong, a recognized workaholic, was frightened by his desperate attitude, and tried to persuade him many times, but was prevaricated by Song Lan. After many times, he had to give up.

Now everyone in the bookstore knows that Boss Song has lost his love, so he has to use his work to relieve his worries.

Poor, really poor.

Song Lan didn't know that in the eyes of everyone, he had become synonymous with poor children. He only cared about one thing: the overseas development of Shadow Bookstore.

Only by expanding the bookstore's influence can we collect Xie Daonian's soul fragments. At present, there are only three or five overseas chain stores of Shadow Bookstore, which is far from reaching the level of spreading all over the world.

Too slow, or too slow.Song Lan frowned, her face was gloomy, and the manager next to her was sweating profusely. She didn't know what made the big boss so unhappy.In his opinion, it is very good that the Shadow Bookstore can achieve this level in a short period of time. Song Lan has no reason to be unhappy, right?

No one could understand why Song Lan was so anxious to expand her global business, except for Xia Lan who had returned to the human world.

Over the past few years, Xia Lan has gotten to know the ghostly clerks of the Shadow Bookstore very well. Hearing them talking about Song Lan's recent series of weird behaviors, I feel very uncomfortable. After much deliberation, I finally made up my mind to find Song Lan. , told him the cruel truth——

"It's useless, no matter how hard you try now, it's too late." Xia Lan's tone was calm, but what she said was chilling.

"What do you mean?" Song Lan finally stopped the work at hand, looked up from behind the desk full of documents, stared blankly at the uninvited guest in front of him, a trace of bewilderment and fragility flashed in his eyes.

Xia Lan bit her lips, and with a heartbroken heart, she still told the truth: "Actually, the third prince did this not only because of too much power. There was a little accident when strengthening the seal, and the third prince was killed by the abyss." The monster attacked, and his soul was severely injured. If he was at his original level, this injury would not be a big deal, but he strengthened the seal when his soul was not fully condensed. It can be said that his soul is already unstable. With such a blow, it has reached the brink of complete collapse."

Xia Lan thought that Song Lan would be overwhelmed after hearing this, but he didn't expect him to act extremely calm. "What do you mean by saying that what I did was useless?" He asked blankly.

Xia Lan sighed softly: "The soul has been injured for the second time, and the original method of relying on the human world to recuperate slowly to gather the soul is useless, even if you open the shadow bookstore to every corner of the world, even if you take the third prince There is nothing to make up for the lost soul fragments one by one. Unless..."

"Unless what?" Song Lan's eyelashes trembled slightly.

"Unless you find something." Xia Lan said slowly, "Soul Condensation Orb."

Song Lan calmly listened to Xia Lan's introduction of the Condensed Soul Orb: "The Condensed Soul Orb is an innate magic weapon for concentrating the soul. No matter what kind of soul, even if there is only half a fragment left, it can condense a whole soul. However, The orb has not been seen since it was last seen 3000 years ago."

"Historical records show that the last time the Soul Condensation Orb appeared was in the endless sea at the end of the sky. Back then, the two races of witches and witches competed for the Soul Condensation Orb. As a result, this orb fell into the endless sea and never saw the light of day."

Song Lan couldn't help frowning: He had heard of the endless sea. It is said that this is a dead water area. in.

The Soul Condensation Orb is an innate treasure. Although it will not be dissolved by sea water, no one dares to go to the sea to salvage it.

No, to be precise, in the first few years, there were still some daring gods or demons with high skills who tried to go to the sea to find the whereabouts of the Soul Condensation Orb, but none of them came back with the orb—the best one was empty-handed. After all, most of them even lost their lives in the endless sea.As time passed, no one dared to go to the sea to find the treasure even if they knew that there was an innate treasure hidden in the sea.

After learning that Xie Daonian could only be repaired with Soul Condensation Beads, the Emperor of Heaven also ordered the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to go to the sea to salvage the Soul Condensation Pearls. However, the sea water was too overbearing and the beads were too small. Many Heavenly Soldiers and Generals were injured, but found nothing.Because of this, there were quite criticisms inside and outside the heavenly court. The emperor of heaven had no choice but to withdraw his soldiers and find another way.

"Do you know where the endless sea is?" Song Lan asked calmly.

Xia Lan was taken aback: "You want to go to the sea to find orbs? Are you crazy? Are you looking for death?"

Since ancient times, it is not that there are no foolish and bold people who challenged the endless sea, and all of them returned home without a feather. The better ones were at most disabled or something, and the weaker ones were directly dissolved in the sea water on the spot, and even the bones were found. Not coming back.Over the years, the number of people who have successfully swam in the sea and returned safely can be counted on one hand.

With Song Lan's ability, if he goes into the sea for less than a quarter of an hour, he will be corroded by the sea water immediately, and there will be no hair left.

At this time, Song Lan actually still had the heart to joke: "Strictly speaking, I'm already in a state of death."

Xia Lan's face darkened immediately: Can this be the same?If it is really dissolved by sea water, it means that the soul will be scattered, even if you really find the Soul Condensation Orb, you will not be able to save it!

Xia Lan: "...No, the endless sea is too dangerous. Before leaving, the third prince told me to take good care of you. I can't take you there."

She began to regret why she told Song Lan about this.This kid is really stupid, doesn't he know how weak he is, to dare to challenge the sea of ​​death that even Yan Luo dare not approach easily, isn't this pure courting death?

"The Heaven Realm is already looking for other ways." Xia Lan racked her brains to persuade him to dispel this idea. "It doesn't have to be the Soul Condensation Orb. Maybe we can find other ways to condense the third prince's soul soon."

Song Lan looked at Xia Lan closely, and insisted: "If you don't take me with you, I will find a way to go by myself."

Xia Lan: "..." Why is this brat so stubborn?

However, even if he really took him to the Endless Sea, after he truly saw how terrifying it was, he would probably be so frightened that he wanted to come back, right?

"Okay," Xia Lan finally let go, "I can take you there, but you have to promise me, don't do anything stupid."

***

Maybe it's because the description about the endless sea in the legend is too scary, but Song Lan didn't feel much before reaching the endless sea, even a little disappointed.

This is the endless sea?Probably everyone who comes here for the first time will think so.The reason is simple: the sea in front of me looks too normal, too ordinary.If it wasn't for Xia Lan's swearing promise, Song Lan would have thought she had been cheated.

It's hard to believe that the blue water in front of you is the legendary sea of ​​death.Before coming here, Song Lan thought that the sea water would at least be red.

"Don't think things are too simple." As if guessing what Song Lan was thinking, Xia Lan said calmly, picked up a stone from the ground, swung it hard, and the stone fell into the sea.

There was no expected "dong" sound, Song Lan watched helplessly as the heavy stone did not sink, but disintegrated little by little in the almost transparent water until it disappeared.

"Did you see it?" Xia Lan shrugged, "This is the horror of the endless sea. No matter how hard it is, as long as it is contaminated with sea water, it will have the same fate."

Song Lan remained silent, quietly looking at the calm sea, wondering what she was thinking.

"I heard from Jiudian that the Taishang Laojun is already researching a new method, which may be useful." Xia Lan continued to babble, "Don't be too impatient. With the Emperor of Heaven and the others around, the third prince will not be here for a while. Something will happen, you don't have to find the Soul Condensation Bead. Besides, even if the bead is really in this sea, it has been soaked for 3000 years, and it must have melted into slag..."

Before she finished speaking, Xia Lan only saw a black shadow flashing in front of her eyes, and the people around her disappeared instantly.

Her gaze moved down, her eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets - she saw a small splash of water blooming on the originally calm sea, if it wasn't for the wrong occasion, she would have wanted to say "beautiful".

"..." She still kept her mouth half-open, and it took her a while to react, and she let out a scream that didn't match her appearance.

Her voice echoed above the sea, but there was no response other than the sound of the waves beating against the rocks.

Xia Lan's mind was in a mess, her face was blank, and she didn't know what to do for a while.

After all, in her long years of being a ghost, she has never seen such a freak who is rushing to death.

But no matter how weird the other party is, she brought it here. If something happened to Song Lan, how would she explain to the third prince...

With Song Lan's ability, although it won't be dissolved in an instant like that stone, it definitely won't last for a quarter of an hour.If you don't find him in time, I'm afraid that this kid's life will be explained here.

Just like the mermaid princess described by Andersen, it turned into a bubble.Not to mention people, even a soul and a half can't be found.

Thinking of this, Xia Lan's expression changed drastically.