The List of Three Thousand Students

The following day, the Mysterious Bookstore opened up the world of the Pokémon book.

After eight hours of competition, more than 800 practitioners successfully captured the sprites.

Perhaps due to the experience gained from the previous two attempts, the death toll was only a dozen or so this time, a record low. The remaining hundred or so were simply unlucky, failing to catch a single Pokémon in eight days and ultimately withdrawing with regret.

Regardless, after three "One Book Multiple Travels" experiences, more than 1,500 Pokémon have been brought out; this should guarantee the number of participants in the Pokémon Championship three months from now.

Ma Feifei can also stop focusing on the Pokémon Championship and start researching other tasks.

The Main Quest is now only missing the "Thief of the Kingdom" part, and it seems that the quest NPC Crown Prince Yan, has not yet arrived in the Chu Kingdom, so Ma Feifei can only continue to wait.

All that's left is the A Saint's Following. This task seems neither difficult nor easy.

The Bookstore now has Epic-grade- quality books, but the key issue is that books can't be listed yet. To list a book, you have to complete a book unlocking task, which is making Ma Feifei a bit annoyed.

Besides this, they also haven't found a suitable candidate for the mission; although Dubian Town has a population of several hundred thousand, cultivators above the Spirit Emperor level are almost nowhere to be seen.

After all, while the Mysterious Bookstore is indeed magical, it hasn't reached the point where the Spirit Emperor would guard it every day.

"I remember Zhang Yunji's master was a Spirit Emperor level expert, wasn't he? I wonder if he's still in Dubian Town." At night, Ma Feifei lay in bed, pondering.

Ma Feifei had heard Zhang Yunji mention Chang Kong's strength; he possessed the cultivation of the Spirit Emperor Eighth Stage, a level that perfectly matched the mission's criteria.

Moreover, it is said that Chang Kong is also a person of exceptional talent, and he is very young, only about a hundred years old, yet he has already achieved the Spirit Emperor realm. In this era, he would be a figure like Xiaoyaozi back then.

"But isn't it a bit inappropriate to bring their whole family to work for you?" Ma Feifei wondered.

Zhang Yunji is now an employee of the Bookstore. If Chang Kong also works for him in the future, wouldn't it mean that the father-in-law and son-in-law are serving the same boss?

"Who cares? It's not even close to being a done deal yet, why think so much? I'd better finish the book unlocking quest first." Ma Feifei turned over, clearing his mind of those distracting thoughts, and began to drift off to sleep.

The Bookstore opened for business the next day.

Early in the morning, Gongsun Qiong arrived at the Mysterious Bookstore and brought Ma Feifei a list of the three thousand students who would be giving the lecture.

Ma Feifei sat on a small stool, flipping through the list.

The list contains very detailed information, including not only the students' names, ages, and academic qualifications, but also their background information.

For example, if Zhang San is from a prominent family, then the record will show which family he belongs to.

Alternatively, when a practitioner enters a sect, their origin and position within that sect will be recorded.

This also allowed Ma Feifei to gain a preliminary understanding of his three thousand students.

"Why is this Spirit Emperor also signing up?" Ma Feifei looked at the first name on the list, somewhat surprised.

Name: Chang Kong, Age: 126, Cultivation: Peak of the Spirit Emperor Eighth Stage, Background: Elder of the Sword Sect, one of the Nine Emperors.

"Chang Kong." This was someone Ma Feifei had been thinking about last night, and unexpectedly, he appeared on this list today.

Gongsun Qiong wore a white mink fur coat and white velvet boots similar to snow boots today, making her look particularly pure and lovely.

Upon hearing Ma Feifei's question, Gongsun Qiong, who was swaying back and forth in her rocking chair, stopped, looked at Ma Feifei, and said, "Taiqing the specifics either. When Elder Chang Kong came, his disciple Liu Ying and his daughter Baili Chuxue were also there. All three of them signed up and passed the second round of testing. They are all on this list."

Ma Feifei was speechless; this time, they had really caught the whole family in one fell swoop.

However, it's good that Chang Kong is here; at least we'll have someone to follow the Saint after we complete the book unlocking quest.

Continuing to look, more than thirty powerful individuals at the Spirit Venerable realm appeared.

More than a thousand people below them were at the Spirit King realm, and Ma Feifei even saw Zhou Zhuling's name among them.

The rest are all at the Spirit Ancestor realm.

Of course, there were also two 'strong' individuals at the Spirit Master realm.

Zhao Xiaodao and Zhou Guanyu.

"These two probably got in through connections, right?" Ma Feifei patted the name on the sign and smiled.

Gongsun Qiong said with a hint of annoyance, "Xiaodao Dao does have talent; she passed the second round of testing on her own merit. As for Zhou Guanyu, the same goes for her. They are both quite young, and their current cultivation level is already very impressive."

Gongsun Qiong was right. Zhao Xiaodao and Zhou Guanyu were both under twenty years old, and their cultivation at the Spirit Master realm could indeed be described as 'genius'.

Especially Zhou Guanyu, who just celebrated the New Year and turned seventeen, his future achievements are bound to be remarkable.

Ma Feifei stared at Gongsun Qiong with a smile and said, "What you said makes sense, but why do I see a name on the list without any cultivation level? Don't tell me she has good talent too?"

Upon hearing this, Gongsun Qiong's expression remained calm, but she dared not look directly at Ma Feifei. Turning her head to look at the bare tree in the courtyard, she said, "This one! She's quite talented too. At such a young age, she can manage such a large chamber of commerce so well. She's very intelligent."

"Oh!" Ma Feifei couldn't help but chuckle, looking down at the last name on the list.

Name: Gongsun Qiong, Age: 31, Cultivation Level: None, Background: Current President of the Great Chu Wantong Chamber of Commerce.

Gongsun Qiong actually participated in the registration and even passed the second round of testing.

How he got through was not important to Ma Feifei.

After storing the list in his spatial bag, Ma Feifei nodded and said, "Alright, that's settled then. Tomorrow and the day after are the weekend, so the Bookstore will be closed. Tell them that classes will officially begin next Monday."

The task timeline is very tight, with only four months available. Although the Analects is not a large book, classical Chinese can sometimes require hundreds of modern Chinese words to translate just a few characters. Getting them to understand its meaning will likely be extremely difficult.

Gongsun Qiong seemed a little embarrassed to stay any longer, so she nodded and got up to leave.

Ma Feifei suddenly remembered something and called out, "Wait a minute."

Ma Feifei got up and went to the door of the room that had been converted into a warehouse by the system. He opened the door, pointed to the three thousand white papers of the Analects inside, and said, "Take these and distribute them to them. They can read them first."

"Is this the Analects?" Gongsun Qiong picked up a book casually, looked at the name on the cover, and his face was full of curiosity.

Ma Feifei nodded and said, "That's right, there are three thousand books in total, one for each person. Everyone must bring them to class every day. Also, anyone who loses one will be responsible for the consequences."

Gongsun Qiong nodded, and with a wave of her hand, three thousand copies of the Analects instantly entered the spatial ring in her hand.

"Tsk tsk, a spatial ring!" Ma Feifei looked at Gongsun Qiong's fair hands with a hint of envy.

"Shopkeeper, then I'll take my leave." Gongsun Qiong bowed and hurriedly left.

Watching Gongsun Qiong's departing figure, Ma Feifei wiped his nose and muttered to himself, "The president of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, huh? Completely clueless. Shouldn't she have taken off her spatial ring and given it to me, the shop owner, at a time like this?"

"Sigh! This little girl still doesn't know how to behave!"