My Years Running a Bookshop in Slay the Gods

Su Chen was dragged into the world of Slay the Gods by an unreliable System and opened a bookstore in the old town of Cangnan City.

The shop was small, just forty square meters, with wooden bookshelves and a glass door. It looked perfectly ordinary.

But the bookstore had one strange quirk: it could draw “kindred spirits” in from anywhere in the world.

Its first customer was Zhao Kongcheng, the “Watcher” of Squad 136, an ordinary man without a Forbidden Ruin. Su Chen lent him a copy of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.

After reading a couple of pages, Zhao Kongcheng felt a connection with Qiao Feng from the novel. Then he gained a new Forbidden Ruin called “Dragon Subduing.”

As time passed, more and more people visited the bookstore.

Night Watchers, gods, even “patients” from a psychiatric hospital. They borrowed different books and gained different powers: peerless martial arts from wuxia novels, heavenly spells from xianxia novels, and forbidden techniques and bloodline limits from manga. All of them could take the form of Forbidden Ruins and become part of their bodies.

And every time he lent out a book, Su Chen could draw a portion of its power for himself.

On the night the Ghost-Faced King attacked, Zhao Kongcheng stood in the streets of Cangnan and struck with his palm. Eighteen golden dragons roared forth.

He turned to Lin Qiye behind him and said, “Kid, watch closely. This palm is way cooler than the slash your Uncle Zhao used back in the day.”

Then he turned around and shouted toward the bookstore on the corner:

“Boss, renew this book for another month!”

Su Chen sat inside the shop, smiled, and made another entry in the ledger.

Outside, the mist churned and the gods watched from the shadows.

The story of this bookstore had only just begun.