Chapter 167 Moonlake City Library
After having her ears blown around the whole way, Yu Xunge felt her ears were completely numb when she arrived at the library.
After climbing several hundred steps, Yu Xunge stopped in front of the library gate. Two three-tailed moon fox guards stood on either side of the gate, and a four-tailed moon fox was pacing back and forth nearby. Upon seeing Yu Xunge, all three moon foxes came over.
Then Yu Xunge had his ears blown three more times.
The four-tailed moon fox asked, "Which clan's moon fox are you?"
Yu Xunge: "Frost Tail."
There are a total of 72 clans in the Moon Fox clan. If a clan produces a Nine-Tailed Moon Emperor, that clan will automatically be promoted to the royal family. Conversely, if the Moon Emperor of that clan falls, that clan must erase the runes representing the royal family from its face.
The Frosttail Clan's headquarters are in Moonforest City. Although the moon foxes often communicate with each other, there are at least tens of thousands of six-tailed moon foxes. Even the city lord may not know them all. According to the information collected by Hedgehog, the Frosttail Clan has the most six-tailed moon foxes.
The four-tailed moon fox took out a golden fox tail, held it in both hands, and presented it to Yu Xunge: "The moon goddess protects all moon foxes."
It's unclear how long Hufflepuff had coveted Moonfox's potion book, but she knew all the details and told Yu Xunge about them.
Moon foxes with six or more tails are qualified to enter the library to study at will, but they need to leave a drop of blood before entering, preferably from the tip of their ear.
Yu Xunge reached out and pinched her earlobe, taking a drop of blood and pressing it onto the fox tail.
The four-tailed moon fox took a step back, and two three-tailed moon fox guards pushed open the library door, which was about five meters high, for Yu Xunge.
Yu Xunge calmly walked inside.
The door closed behind her with a dull thud.
Yu Xunge wandered among the bookshelves as if walking through a rainforest, with a starry sky overhead and a full moon hanging in the sky. The moon's light was gentle and bright, allowing her to clearly see the names of the books.
She felt as if she had entered a maze, with bookshelves as walls. She looked around and saw bookshelves filled with books in all directions. Fortunately, the passageways between the bookshelves were about 3 meters wide, and starlight was floating in the air.
These starlight sometimes drift together and link into various magical symbols, which represent the category of the books in the current area.
Yu Xunge spent so many days preparing, memorizing etiquette and maps, and also memorizing these magical characters exclusive to the Moon Fox Clan.
These starlight not only dispelled the oppressive feeling of the layout, but also filled it with mystery and beauty.
Yu Xunge planned to find the book Hedgehog wanted first, locate it, and then take it all at once.
This is the most basic professional quality of a master thief—scout the location first, then take the goods.
Yu Xunge always kept in mind the cooldown time of her disguise skill. Ever since she started using the disguise skill to travel on Zelan Star, she had tied a small timer to her wrist. This timer could be set by herself, and it would start to vibrate slightly when the time was up. The sound was very faint, but it could be perceived by the human body.
In the past, in order to make the most of her disguise time, she was used to timing herself at 55 minutes, leaving herself plenty of time to prepare, whether it was to return to Earth or to transform into a cat in advance.
Today, Yu Xunge set the time a little longer, to 59 minutes. She wanted to try and reach the limit to save herself a few potions to reset skill cooldowns.
To this end, she repackaged half of the potions in edible form—she even went to Hufflepuff to confirm that she had used a material that wouldn't affect the potion's efficacy—and then she put that portion of the potion into the magician's dentures, just in case.
What if she's in a situation where it's inconvenient to get the potion at the exact moment she urgently needs it? She could then extract the potion from the magician's dentures and swallow it directly.
Actually, she had considered saving the potions and using skill crystals instead, but Hufflepuff said that once she got the book, he would teach her how to brew this potion that resets cooldown time. Moreover, according to Hufflepuff, the difficulty of brewing this potion lies in the technique, and the ingredients are not expensive, so she didn't bother to spend the effort to get skill crystals.
For some reason, the control over blank skill crystals has become increasingly strict recently, and the Special Affairs Bureau has to record the ones it issues to her every month.
In addition, she also divided the 50-year-old daughter's red wine into several 3ml portions and put them in her dentures for emergency use.
Yu Xunge walked past row after row of bookshelves, each section containing sections on language, history, literature, magic, martial arts, physical training, cooking, and fragrance.
Hmm? As Yu Xunge walked, she stopped in the area labeled "fragrance". She found that fragrance occupied a full ten rows of bookshelves. The bookshelves here were taller than the library entrance, and each row would take Yu Xunge ten minutes to walk at her pace.
Ten rows? This scale is comparable to the history of the Moon Fox.
Moreover, this place is particularly lively, with a moon fox holding a book standing almost every few meters, some with six or seven tails.
Yu Xunge couldn't resist her curiosity and went in to take a look. She found that the bookshelves were filled with descriptions of fragrances, and half of them were about the scents created by the famous foxes in Moon Fox.
There are just too many categories of how to make fragrances.
According to the category of fragrance, there are liquid fragrances, solid fragrances, bath fragrances, magical fragrances, etc.
Organized by fragrance function, there are several rows of bookshelves: courtship, healing, mystery, aggression, prayer, curse, tracking, and so on...
Yu Xunge was like a country bumpkin entering the city.
ah?
Wow?
—Ah, Seven-tailed Fox, smell your ears!
Is this even allowed?
—Ah, Seven-Tailed Fox! Quickly, lean in again and sniff its ears to say hello!
The incense burns well...
Is this aroma even real?!
—Ah, another seven-tailed fox! Smell it, smell it!
Yu Xunge reasonably suspected that in the Moon Fox Clan, if a Moon Fox smelled bad, it was guilty of a capital offense.
She even suspected that the Moon Fox sniffed the ears not to tell the superior about its magical aura, but to smell whether the other person's fragrance was high-class or not.
A vibration came from her wrist, and Yu Xunge immediately took out a potion that resets the cooldown time and drank it. Then she used the disguise skill again. Her appearance did not change, but the 59 minutes of disguise time she had consumed was refreshed.
I can't shop anymore...
Yu Xunge left the fragrance area, glancing back every few steps, and continued walking further in.
However, it was precisely because she saw this area that Yu Xunge decided that it would be better for her to use the Escape Gem given to her by Hedgehog to leave after she got the book.
Before coming, she specifically asked Zhao Shuying to buy a skill crystal that could be crushed and teleported directly back to Blue Star, thinking that if the situation wasn't urgent, she could save the escape gem as well.
But now she feels that she knows far too little about the alien races. Recently, it has been a sensitive time for the alien races to discover that there are Blue Star people on Zelan Star. She should be more cautious, lest she end up saving so little that she loses her people.
Shortly after drinking the second potion that resets cooldown time, Yu Xunge found the potion section of the alchemy area. The number of books there revealed what Moon Fox valued more; compared to the ten rows of bookshelves for fragrance, alchemy only had two.
In Hufflepuff's eyes, the Moonfoxes are a race that doesn't know how to cherish their own talents. They clearly possess the alchemical secrets bestowed upon them by the Moonfoxes, yet they insist on researching fragrances. Hufflepuff feels it is her duty to help the Moonfoxes revive their alchemical glory.
Yu Xunge: Well, even the sun of Zhelan has spoken, who dares to object?
As Hufflepuff's apprentice, she was already there, so of course she had to help out, however much she could... no, however much she could help.
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