Lin Feng felt the need to make a statement.
Taking the Book of Radiant Magic wasn't due to his greed.
He simply felt that such a capable Book of Radiant Magic, left sitting here for centuries without anyone even glancing at it, was a waste of its talent!
It would be much better to follow him on his adventures, achieve great things, and then bring salvation to the world. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
Well, in any case, he would never admit that it was a case of greed upon seeing the treasure.
Lin Feng licked his lips, glanced around furtively, and then secretly tucked the Book of Radiant Magic into his embrace…
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However, in the next second, his face was filled with question marks. He had—
He casually tossed it into his spatial storage and began preparing to read other books.
But just then, the few books of dark magic that had previously retreated far away due to the appearance of the Book of Radiant Magic slowly floated back towards Lin Feng.
It seemed they hadn't given up on Lin Feng yet.
Lin Feng stroked his chin and pondered for a while before directly grabbing one of them.
He couldn't resist the temptation of curiosity and wanted to know what was written inside.
The one Lin Feng took was the very book that had collided with the Book of Radiant Magic earlier.
At that time, all the other dark magic books had kept their distance, yet this one dared to confront it head-on. It must be the most powerful among these dark magic books.
Now, it lay quietly in Lin Feng's palm.
It was about the same size as the Book of Radiant Magic, but the difference was that Lin Feng couldn't understand a single character on it.
The black cover was inlaid with eerie green stripes, and a single glance was enough to make one feel utterly disturbed.
But Lin Feng wasn't flustered. He gently opened the cover and saw the prologue.
The moment he opened it, a plume of black smoke suddenly billowed out from the book and floated into the air.
Lin Feng sneered. He had been constantly on guard against such eerie things. Wasn't that how it always went in movies and novels? Eerie books were always accompanied by eerie entities.
The black smoke quickly transformed into a monstrous, hideous smoke creature, which let out screams and roars at Lin Feng.
Lin Feng watched the smoke with a calm expression, making no move.
In his perception, this smoke had no signs of life, nor was it a soul. Was it a threat? Absolutely not.
As expected, the smoke monster didn't attack Lin Feng. After performing a series of intimidating actions, it retreated back into the book.
Lin Feng tilted his head. He had thought it would actually cause some trouble. He had already prepared his bio-force field and was ready to pull out the Book of Radiant Magic at any moment, but this was all?
It seemed he had expected too much…
However, this action did seem like an attempt to scare away anyone who might try to read this book.
Shaking his head, Lin Feng let out a light chuckle and stopped thinking about such matters, instead focusing on the pages of the book.
They were still filled with incomprehensible symbols, but with his previous experience, Lin Feng wasn't panicked.
He tapped the pages lightly with his finger, and the symbols floated up, transforming into knowledge that Lin Feng could understand.
Lin Feng didn't choose to skim through the dark magic and instead read it word by word.
Who knew what kind of ambushes might still be hidden within? Lin Feng felt that being careful was always the right approach.
Reading this type of book was like watching countless images stitched together.
The scene now unfolding in Lin Feng's mind was a bizarre and gloomy spectacle.
In the image, Lin Feng saw the black smoke from before.
It seemed like an NPC, constantly casting various dark magic spells out of thin air on a swamp-like black expanse.
Above its head, lines of magical annotations appeared.
Lin Feng was amazed by this teaching method.
And as expected of dark magic, the black smoke demonstration involved mostly curse-related spells, as well as sealing techniques of dark magic.
Perhaps fearing that Lin Feng wouldn't understand, after performing a spell, the black smoke conjured several small animals out of thin air, allowing Lin Feng to witness firsthand the effects of these spells.
These dark magic spells were like methods of torture for tormenting people.
After watching for a while, Lin Feng closed the book, no longer interested in reading further.
It was too peculiar, and he didn't need this kind of book…
He tossed it aside and reached out towards the other dark magic books.
Half an hour later, Lin Feng had read through all these dark magic books.
Well, how should he put it? It had truly broadened Lin Feng's horizons.
As expected of magic related to darkness and taboos, not a single one was normal.
Almost all the spells caused damage to one's own soul, a case of "harming the enemy by a thousand and oneself by eight hundred."
Lin Feng even suspected that the smoke that had appeared earlier might have been souls sealed within the books through these very spells…
However, some of them did mention things related to souls that Lin Feng desired.
One of them was similar to what the Dark Strange Doctor had used before: continuously absorbing various mystical creatures to enhance one's physical body and soul strength.
But the price for this was a corrupted soul.
Lin Feng didn't want his soul to be patched with black and white spots.
He directly threw these magic books back onto the shelf. The Book of Radiant Magic was still more reliable…
In the time that followed, Lin Feng's attention turned to ordinary magic books.
He wanted to finish reading them as quickly as possible and leave.
Although the architecture here was unique, there was almost no sound. Lin Feng, while liking quiet, disliked absolute silence.
Lin Feng even set a time limit for himself, to prevent himself from being like the Dark Strange Doctor, who, in the blink of an eye, spent centuries without realizing it.
…
Lin Feng was constantly flipping through books in the Lost Bookstore.
Meanwhile, his clone, who had been sent to retrieve fragments of the Heart of the Universe, had finally, through hard work, achieved the desired result.
It was just as Lin Feng had imagined.
Despite those fragments being ownerless and appearing in seemingly safe locations, as soon as one harbored the thought of obtaining them, countless difficulties would arise.
To obtain these two fragments of the Heart of the Universe, the two clones had been exhausted to the point of delirium.
"How is it? What's the response from the main body?"
The two clones gathered together, and one of them asked.
Lin Feng's main body had given them the order to notify him immediately upon obtaining them.
The other clone replied, "We've made contact. The main body is currently in the Lost Bookstore searching for something. He told us to hold onto them for now and help guard them at another clone's location."