The Qilin Spits Out a "Jade Book"

As night fell, in the backyard of the Mysterious Bookstore, Ma Feifei lay on a rocking chair gazing at the moon. His expression shifted between serious and ambiguous, before he finally couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Oh no, oh no, this is really a huge overstatement. He's about to become a creator god." Ma Feifei shook his head and laughed helplessly, even his thick skin blushed.

He actually incorporated all the mythological stories of Pangu Creation of Heaven and Earth and Nuwa Creates Humans into his own person; that's truly something else.

Ma Feifei even thought about what he would do if the Mysterious Bookstore started selling ancient myths in the future, and how he would explain it to Zhang Yunji's family.

"Sigh, drinking leads to trouble, drinking leads to trouble!" Ma Feifei sighed. Alcohol is something you really shouldn't drink; it easily leads to letting your true nature out of control.

Putting everything else aside, drinking really caused trouble, because Ma Feifei forgot the purpose of his trip, and as a result, he still doesn't know whether Ba Jiu has any Tianshu Fragment.

Upon realizing the existence of the Tianshu Fragment, Ma Feifei called out towards Ba Jiu's room, "Ba Jiu, come out for a moment."

"Crunch~"

The door opened, Ba Jiu darted out, instantly appearing beside Ma Feifei. Curious, he asked, "Shopkeeper, you were looking for me?"

Ma Feifei nodded and stood up from the rocking chair. "Open your arms."

Ba Jiu didn't understand, but he still obediently opened his arms.

Ma Feifei circled around Ba Jiu, looking up and down, left and right, but found no trace of the Tianshu Fragment.

"Would you mind taking your clothes off?" Ma Feifei asked after a moment's hesitation.

To be honest, this request is a bit unreasonable. Although Ba Jiu and Ma Feifei have an employee-owner relationship, employees also have human rights. In other words, Ba Jiu could have easily refused the request. However, what surprised Ma Feifei was...

"Oh, okay." Without the slightest hesitation, Ba Jiu took off his clothes and stood naked in front of Ma Feifei, his face showing no sign of anything unusual, completely at ease.

This surprised Ma Feifei for a moment, but then she remembered that Ma Feifei Ba Jiu was only four months old and still a baby, so it was normal that he didn't understand these things.

However, Ma Feifei was too embarrassed to look at a male body, so she used her divine sense to sense it for a moment, glanced at it, and nodded, saying, "Alright, put it on. But you can't take off your clothes casually in the future, even if someone tells you to, and you absolutely can't do this kind of thing in front of girls, understand?"

Now that Jiao is imprisoned in Leifeng Pagoda and has become a dungeon, Ba Jiu has become the Divine Beast of the Mysterious Bookstore, Ma Feifei feels obligated to teach Ba Jiu, to give him a correct worldview, and to teach him manners and a sense of shame.

"Oh..." Ba Jiu replied, seemingly understanding but not quite. He didn't know what Ma Feifei meant, but since he had followed Ma Feifei, Ba Jiu understood one thing: listening to the shop owner was the right thing to do, as it would save him trouble and eliminate any worries.

Ma Feifei knew that these things had to be done slowly, so he wasn't in a hurry. The most important thing right now was the Tianshu Fragment of the Heavenly Book on Ba Jiu's body. However, what puzzled Ma Feifei was that he hadn't found the Tianshu Fragment on Ba Jiu's body earlier, which made him a little confused.

However, Yun Qingyang clearly stated that Ba Jiu possessed a Tianshu Fragment. Ma Feifei was quite skeptical of Yun Qingyang's words because she had no reason to deceive her. Moreover, based on the timeline, it was highly likely that Ba Jiu possessed Tianshu Fragment.

"Ba Jiu, do you have an orange fragment on you?" Ma Feifei thought for a moment and decided to ask him first, just in case Ba Jiu had hidden the Tianshu Fragment.

"Orange Fragment?" Ba Jiu thought for a moment, then seemed to remember something and nodded, saying, "It seems there's a scale of a different color on my tail."

Upon hearing this, Ma Feifei was overjoyed and said, "Then can you give it to me?"

Upon hearing this, Ba Jiu hesitated, which puzzled Ma Feifei. Could this fragment be of great use to Ba Jiu?

Before Ma Feifei could even ask, Ba Jiu said, "It's possible, but that thing seems to be embedded in the flesh; pulling it out would probably hurt a lot."

Ma Feifei almost burst out laughing when he heard this. He hadn't expected that Ba Jiu's hesitation was due to fear of pain, so he immediately reassured him, "Don't worry, it won't hurt."

Ma Feifei wasn't lying. When removing the fragments, all that was needed was to briefly paralyze the tail's connection to the brain's central nervous system, just like an anesthetic. Although there were no anesthetics in this world, any cultivator could do this. It's just that no one realized this, and since they were all cultivators who frequently traveled in this fantasy world, being cut was a basic skill for them. They got used to it over time, and the pain became less important.

"Alright then." After hearing this, Ba Jiu hesitated for a moment, then his body began to emit dark-colored gas that surrounded him. Then, Ba Jiu leaped upwards.

"Phew~~"

A sudden gust of wind arose, and the weather, like a young girl's mood, changed in an instant, forcing Ma Feifei to create a light shield to protect herself.

"Boom~"

A sound, neither too loud nor too soft, rang out, and a huge Qilin appeared in the sky above the Bookstore. Ma Feifei estimated that the Qilin was about forty meters long, which was very large. Its whole body was ink-colored, with a lion's head, deer antlers, tiger eyes, deer body, dragon scales, and ox tail. At the tip of its tail was a lump of flesh covered with dark scales, among which orange light shimmered.

"Tianshu Fragment!" Ma Feifei stared at the Tianshu Fragment on the tail, his heart filled with joy. He leaped up and stood directly on the back of the Qilin.

"Ba Jiu, wag your tail over here." Ma Feifei had his back to Ba Jiu and his face towards the tail. As long as Ba Jiu swung his tail over, Ma Feifei could get the Tianshu Fragment.

"Whoosh~" Ba Jiu didn't answer, but instead flicked its tail.

"Snap~" The tail was also particularly thick, Ma Feifei couldn't hold it with one hand at all. He could only activate his Innate Purple Qi to transform it into a large hand to hold the tail, turn the tail around, and make the Tianshu Fragment face Ma Feifei.

"It really is Tianshu Fragment." Ma Feifei looked at the orange dot in the dark scales and smiled. This Tianshu Fragment was larger than the other ninety-eight, and it was exactly the same as the Tianshu Fragment dropped by the Thousand-Year Tree Demon in "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio". Obviously, this was the ninety-ninth Tianshu Fragment.

Without hesitation, Ma Feifei controlled the palm formed by the Innate Purple Qi with one hand, and shot out a wisp of purple energy with the other, directly Shed Tail. Then, he quickly grabbed the Tianshu Fragment and tore it off.

"Pfft~"

The Tianshu Fragment fell to the ground with a thud, and a small fleshy bun, which was covered with dense scales, developed a crack, from which ink could be faintly seen flowing out.

That's the blood of Qilin.

However, before Ma Feifei could treat it, the ink that had flowed out solidified and formed a new scale, perfectly connecting with the position of the Tianshu Fragment.

Seeing that the scales had grown back, Ma Feifei breathed a sigh of relief and jumped off the Qilin's back.

"Phew~"

A whirlwind swept by, the Qilin in mid-air disappeared, and Ba Jiu fell down from above.

"It really doesn't hurt!" Ba Jiu checked his body and didn't feel any pain, which made him very happy.

"Would the shopkeeper lie to you?" Ma Feifei was very happy to have obtained the ninety-ninth Tianshu Fragment. He opened his palm, and his spatial ring flashed, revealing the remaining ninety-eight Tianshu Fragment in front of him.

"Buzz~"

The ninety-nine Tianshu Fragment appeared together and responded automatically. They began to gather without Ma Feifei having to lift a finger, eventually piecing together a brand new Tianshu Fragment.

"Ding ding ding~"

Suddenly, a strange phenomenon occurred: the intact Tianshu Fragment began to jingle. Ma Feifei realized something was wrong and reached out to grab them.

But the Tianshu Fragment seemed to have come to life, transforming into a streak of light that shot into Ba Jiu's brow, so fast that neither of them could react.

"This..." Ma Feifei was a little confused. What did this mean? How could the Tianshu Fragment just disappear like that?

"Whoosh!" With a long howl, Ba Jiu ink and rose straight up into the sky.

"Whoosh~"

In the darkness, a beam of light pierced through the clouds, struck the Mysterious Bookstore, and shone upon Ma Feifei.

"Ugh~"

A giant, ink-colored Qilin rode in on the clouds and opened its mouth towards Ma Feifei.

"Ding ding ding~"

A book gleaming with light slowly emerged from the Qilin's mouth. The book's color was not blue, gold, black, or red, but clear and bright, the same color as jade.

Ma Feifei stared blankly at the 'Jade Book' slowly floating towards him, then looked at the Qilin floating in front of him, and suddenly remembered something.

The Records of Gleanings states. "In the twenty-first year of King Ling of Zhou, Confucius born during the reign of Duke Xiang of Lu. One night, two Azure Dragon descended from the sky and came to Zhengzai. Confucius was born from this dream."

Two goddesses descended from the sky, carrying fragrant dew, to bathe the Zhengzai.

The Heavenly Emperor played the music of the Heavenly Realm, which was then placed in the room of the Yan family.

A sound came from the sky, saying that Heaven had sent down a holy son, and thus bestowed upon him harmonious music, different from that of the mortal world. Also, five elders were lined up in the courtyard of the Zhengzai, who were the spirits of the five planets.

Before Confucius was born, a unicorn appeared and spat out Jade Book from the "Mengua" (a divination text), which read, "The son of the water spirit will succeed the declining Zhou dynasty as an uncrowned king."

Therefore, two dragons circled the room, and five planets descended upon the courtyard. This Zhengzai a wise and virtuous person, who knows it to be a divine miracle...

The unicorn spits out Jade Book, for a sage will appear!