Ninth class citizen

Chapter 340 Night Reading
"Haha, junior, you misunderstood. I just wanted to remind you that you can take the exam when you have time—but there's really no need for it right now."

The senior student quickly logged the information provided by Nan Rong into a light screen.

"Don't worry, junior, I will personally follow up and supervise to ensure that the whole process is completed as quickly as possible!"
"How fast? Is an afternoon enough?" Nan Rong asked anxiously.

She desperately needed a large amount of spiritual energy and wanted to reserve the doll before returning to the smaller plane.

“Definitely not.” The senior student said with difficulty, “The previous procedures are fine, but if you want to open a pharmacy, you need to report to the college committee for approval. This process can take anywhere from a few months to several decades.”

“You don’t need to worry about that.” Nan Rong immediately contacted Coach Zhou.

The latter chuckled: "It's nothing, just you wait."

Within minutes, the senior received a communication. Although Nan Rong couldn't hear what the other person was saying through the badge, she could guess what it was from the cold sweat that appeared on the senior's forehead and his increasingly respectful and enthusiastic attitude.

Before evening, Nan Rong's shop opened for business.

Shop No. 9999 in Zone A. This shop was specially reserved by the authorities after the previous tenant moved out, and it has now been rented to Nanrong at the average price for shops in Zone A.

The store name is still "Truly Reliable Pharmacy".

The physical store and online store were launched simultaneously, and they even spent money to buy a mechanical puppet to serve as a waiter.

Mechanical puppets are much cheaper than dolls because they are simply a machine with a program from a technological plane transplanted into the body of a metal puppet, making them essentially an old-fashioned robot—but more than enough for just looking after a shop.

There were thousands of different kinds of potions in the solidified space. Nan Rong kept a few of each kind as spares and handed the rest over to the mechanical puppets to replenish and deliver the goods on their own.

The medicine was as popular as ever, and it was snapped up as soon as it hit the shelves.

Within half an hour of the online store opening, Nan Rong's account linked to the store had gained an additional ten million spirit coins.

Only then did she feel confident enough to step into the doll shop at No. 8888, Zone A.

The shop owner, Iredes, was a handsome young man with a small, bright red mole at the corner of his eye and a charming smile.

“So it was you.” He recognized Nan Rong: “Given the courage and wisdom you displayed yesterday, I can give you a 10% discount on the doll you ordered.”

"But Coach Zhou said that if I mention his name, you can give me a 30% discount."

"You were introduced by Zhou Jinjin?" Iredes raised an eyebrow and said reluctantly, "Then let's go with a 30% discount."

"Zhou Jinjin?" Nan Rong was surprised. "Is that Coach Zhou's name?"

“Of course not.” Iredes curled his lip. “He’s just a petty, stingy, and calculating person. You haven’t known him for long, so you don’t know him well. You’d better be careful in the future, lest you be fooled by him!”

Nan Rong handed over all the materials to Iredes and paid 15 million spirit coins as a deposit.

During the time she was in the store, her account balance increased by another five million, just enough to reach the minimum deposit requirement.

After signing the agreement, Iredes asked many more detailed questions, including Melissa's personal habits. Nan Rong didn't know much about these things either, so she could only give her understanding before asking about the Doll's Heart: "If better materials become available in the future, can we replace them?"

“That’s possible.” Iredes put on gloves and carefully picked up the Heavenly Water Jade. “But this is already the highest grade material. You don’t really still have your eye on the Five Realms Exquisite Heart, do you?”

"It's good that we can exchange it." Nan Rong didn't say anything more.

The "Complete Book of Universe Materials" does mention the Five Realms Exquisite Stone, but only briefly, stating that it was created by a powerful being and took shape only after collecting spiritual energy from more than five planes.

At the Cosmic Heritage Academy, everyone above the senior level can be respectfully called a powerful being, but Nan Rong does not believe that they have the ability to create products.

And the person most likely to possess this ability is waiting for her in her own dimension.

Nan Rong spent the rest of the time, plus the whole night, in the library.

The new librarian was a middle-aged man with a friendly smile.

He didn't actively interfere with the students; he simply sat quietly behind a large wooden desk, brewing tea and reading. He never refused anyone who came to ask for tea, a stark contrast to the previous instructor, Mr. Sun.

The library has a vast collection of books, but you can only read them on your own. You can't directly imprint them into your brain with the help of jelly dumplings like you used to.

However, Nan Rong's memory and comprehension at this moment are more than a thousand times stronger than before, and she can remember the contents perfectly even when flipping through the pages quickly.

But there are just too many books here. From the outside, the building appears to be only seven stories high, but each floor actually contains millions of square meters of space. If you wanted to read every single book, it would take a thousand or even ten thousand years.

Moreover, most of these books require certain standards to be met before they can be read; they cannot be memorized simply by reading them.

The first and second floors are mostly filled with the notes of students from various dimensions. They record the customs, traditions, and rare treasures of many dimensions.

Nan Rong's focus was on the unique skills of each dimension. She read many related reference books and acquired a lot of strange and wonderful new skills.

The third and fourth layers mainly consist of combat-related content. Only the most outstanding combat skills unique to each plane can be selected for these two layers, which focus more on the combat application of the universe's primordial energy.

Life and battle are inseparable, and the content of these two layers is undeniably important, but Nan Rong stopped reading as she looked at it.

She found that most of these books bore the marks of deliberate manipulation; no matter how flowery the synopsis was, it couldn't escape the taste of sensationalism.

It should be that the underlying principles remain the same despite all the variations. Many applications of energy don't need to be this complicated.

She found the content uninteresting, but the other trainees were completely oblivious.

Having finally gotten the chance to read to their hearts' content, countless students flocked into the library, reading voraciously and occasionally clapping their hands in admiration, making Nan Rong seem somewhat out of place.

In the middle of the night, she went up to the fifth floor, the place where the so-called "advanced materials" such as the "Complete Book of Universe Materials" were previously stored.

Besides a wealth of rare and detailed information about the core space of the universe, this place also contains various kinds of basic teaching materials.

This includes, but is not limited to, teaching materials for new students to enhance their soul bodies in order to cross smaller planes and enter higher-dimensional spaces, textbooks on how to shape the body and train the soul body and physical strength in the later stages, and how to absorb and utilize higher-dimensional energy, as well as some low-level skill books.