Recaps

Ma Feifei learned that he could save Li Bieli by making him a Book Slave, but discovered the role would bind Li Bieli to carry books and promote the Mysterious Bookstore until he could be released with an Eternal-grade book. In the arena, Liu Ying tried to persuade Li Bieli to abandon revenge, then conceded when he insisted on fighting.

• Ma Feifei asked the system how to save Li Bieli and learned that the Diamond Sutra could turn him into a Book Slave.
• The system explained that a Book Slave could not be destroyed unless the book burned, but had to carry books and promote the Mysterious Bookstore without rest; Ma Feifei learned that an Eternal-grade Tianshu could release one.
• Ma Feifei returned from Li Bieli's mind as the referee resumed the match and Liu Ying entered the arena.
• Liu Ying recognized Li Bieli, spoke of his mother, and urged him to give up revenge and keep living.
• Li Bieli insisted they fight, so Liu Ying put away her Poké Ball and conceded.

Liu Ying conceded the Pokémon Championship final to Li Bieli, who won the title and received the Yellow Quality book and Sacred Beast-quality Pokémon. Ma Feifei offered Li Bieli a possible cure for his illness, and Li Bieli agreed to visit the Mysterious Bookstore.

• Liu Ying conceded to Li Bieli, giving him the championship while Jiang Yibei placed third.
• Ma Feifei received notice that he had completed the Pokémon Championship side quest and that his rewards were in the drawer.
• The Yellow Quality book Pokémon flew from the Mysterious Bookstore, and a Poké Ball emerged from its pages at the competition grounds.
• Ma Feifei awarded Li Bieli the book and Poké Ball, then offered him a costly way to cure his illness.
• Li Bieli agreed to visit the Mysterious Bookstore and waited for Ma Feifei to finish awarding the remaining prizes.
• Zhao Xiaodao declared the Pokémon Championship a success, completing Ma Feifei's side quest.

After returning safely to the Mysterious Bookstore, Ma Feifei found his rewards: the Epic-grade book "Lotus Lantern" and a Poké Ball. He then offered Li Bieli a way to cure his illness and gain new powers, but warned that it would require a difficult, lengthy sacrifice.

• Ma Feifei and Li Bieli returned to Dubian Town under the protection of their companions, while cultivators who coveted the competition prizes followed the top finishers.
• Ma Feifei checked the quest rewards and found "Lotus Lantern" and a Poké Ball, then stored the Poké Ball and took the "Diamond Sutra" to speak with Li Bieli.
• Ma Feifei asked whether Li Bieli would delay his revenge, explaining that the cure he could offer would leave him unable to seek vengeance for a long time.
• Li Bieli admitted that he knew revenge would take years of cultivation but felt unable to wait, while Ma Feifei revealed that becoming the "Diamond Sutra's" Book Slave could cure him and grant him the book's benefits.

Ma Feifei began engraving the Diamond Sutra onto Li Bieli’s back to make him its Book Slave and save his life. The first character took hold, and the scripture’s lightning began repairing Li Bieli as Ma Feifei continued despite the painful shocks.

• Li Bieli agreed to become the Diamond Sutra’s Book Slave after Ma Feifei explained the conditions.
• Ma Feifei prepared the Ballpoint Pen and Spirit Crystals, and Li Bieli sat with his back exposed while Yun Qingyang watched.
• Ma Feifei pierced Li Bieli’s skin and engraved the character 金 as thunderclouds gathered overhead.
• The Diamond Sutra sent its own 金 character into the engraving, then a lightning strike released a ring of light that enveloped Li Bieli and Ma Feifei.
• Li Bieli’s body began to glow as the lightning repaired it, while Ma Feifei endured the shocks and continued engraving.

Ma Feifei carved the Diamond Sutra into Li Bieli’s back as lightning struck and Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy gathered over the Mysterious Bookstore. The gathering reached a climax when a scripture-covered black pagoda descended into the backyard, filling the onlookers with terror.

• Cultivators in Dubian Town saw the raging Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy converge on the Mysterious Bookstore and crowded outside to witness the disturbance.
• The gathered cultivators speculated that the Saint was breaking through and traded stories about past screams from the Bookstore, unaware that Ma Feifei was enduring lightning inside.
• Ma Feifei carved golden characters into Li Bieli’s back, while matching characters from the Diamond Sutra landed neatly over his work.
• As night fell, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy and thunder went still, and a scripture-covered black pagoda descended into the backyard, overwhelming the onlookers with fear.

Li Bieli emerged from the Mysterious Bookstore transformed into a Carrying Book Slave and set out from Dubian Town toward the Ice Mountain Snowfield. When a Spirit Venerable attacked him, Li Bieli killed him with one palm strike and named the technique from the Diamond Sutra.

• Li Bieli came out of the Bookstore carrying the Diamond Sutra on his back, its golden characters also inscribed across his skin, and holding the Exquisite Pagoda.
• Li Bieli headed north out of Dubian Town while nearly ten thousand cultivators followed, hoping to seize his rewards and the Yellow Quality book.
• Li Bieli continued toward the Ice Mountain Snowfield, intending to complete his journey and later seek revenge on the Jiang Family for his mother.
• A Spirit Venerable attacked Li Bieli, but Li Bieli struck him down with the Prajna Palm and identified it as a technique from the Diamond Sutra.

After Li Bieli’s deadly display left Dubian Town’s cultivators in awe of the Mysterious Bookstore, Ma Feifei opened the shop on a rainy Monday and received a quest to launch the Lotus Lantern world. The quest required visitors to follow the story’s rules and collect Tianshu Fragments, with rewards and penalties enforced by the system.

• Li Bieli left after killing a Spirit Venerable with one palm strike, and the watching cultivators feared the Mysterious Bookstore even more.
• On Monday, Ma Feifei tricked Yun Qingyang into carrying him through the rain, then tried to snatch her spatial ring and was stopped.
• Ma Feifei arrived at the bookstore bruised, resumed copying the Six Secret Teachings, and found the Lotus Lantern still unshelved.
• The system assigned Ma Feifei the Mythological World quest, requiring him to open the Lotus Lantern world, guide book lovers, and collect Tianshu Fragments while enforcing its rules.

Ma Feifei visited Gongsun Qiong after Zhao Xiaodao reported that she had shut herself in her room without food or water for two days. He drew her into a discussion about organizing a Bookstore event, and Gongsun Qiong suggested a venue north of town.

• After the system offered no reward, Ma Feifei entered the world inside the book and returned exhausted.
• Zhao Xiaodao told Ma Feifei that Gongsun Qiong had shut herself in her room for two days without eating or drinking.
• Ma Feifei went with Yun Qingyang to Gongsun Manor and entered Gongsun Qiong's room.
• Ma Feifei explained that the Bookstore planned a reader event with a hundred thousand question papers and asked Gongsun Qiong to help arrange it.
• Gongsun Qiong suggested using a site twenty li north of town as the venue.

Ma Feifei and Gongsun Qiong arranged a Mysterious Bookstore event for June sixth, with a registration fee of one hundred Spirit Crystals. Their business talk eased Gongsun Qiong’s mood, and they shared dinner before Ma Feifei returned to the Bookstore with Yun Qingyang’s help.

• Ma Feifei proposed holding the event in three days, and Gongsun Qiong agreed that June sixth was feasible.
• Ma Feifei suggested charging each participant one hundred Spirit Crystals to screen out people hostile to the Mysterious Bookstore, and Gongsun Qiong accepted the fee.
• Ma Feifei joked that he was hungry, and Gongsun Qiong laughed as he asked Zhao Xiaodao to prepare dinner.
• Ma Feifei invited Gongsun Qiong to dinner, and she accepted; neither mentioned why she had shut herself in her room.
• Gongsun Qiong smiled throughout dinner, while Ma Feifei ate until Yun Qingyang had to help him return to the Bookstore.

The Mysterious Bookstore announced a reader appreciation test offering valuable rewards, drawing a rush of applicants to the venue north of Dubian Town. That night, registered readers began cramming for the test, while Zhao Xiaodao and Gongsun Qiong secretly prepared their own notes.

• The Mysterious Bookstore announced a question-and-answer event with rewards for correct answers, and registration moved from the Wantong Trading Market to the Pokémon Championship venue.
• Liu Ying and Chang Kong registered early after Zhang Yunji warned them, then planned to review the bookstore's history with him.
• Cultivators across Dubian Town debated likely test questions and offered rewards for answers about when the Mysterious Bookstore opened.
• Zhao Xiaodao told Gongsun Qiong that the bookstore opened in September, though she could not recall the exact date.
• Zhao Xiaodao and Gongsun Qiong wrote down possible questions about the bookstore's opening, first book, first customer, and Zhao Xiaodao's six-stage breakthrough.

At Zhang Manor, Zhang Yunji helped Chang Kong and Liu Ying prepare for the Mysterious Bookstore appreciation event by sharing the story of Ma Feifei’s Divine Brush and the bookstore’s origins. He left them convinced that the bookstore first opened on the seventh day of the seventh month, a date associated with beautiful love.

• Chang Kong asked Zhang Yunji to suggest questions for the appreciation event, and Zhang Yunji proposed asking when the Mysterious Bookstore first opened.
• Zhang Yunji told Chang Kong, Liu Ying, and Baili Chuxue that Heaven had guided Ma Feifei to find a Divine Brush that could make his drawings real.
• Zhang Yunji explained that Ma Feifei used the Divine Brush to write miraculous books, hiding their benefits so readers would gain them through their own efforts.
• Zhang Yunji said the Mysterious Bookstore had opened on the seventh day of the seventh month and claimed Ma Feifei had operated other bookstores across the sea for years.
• Chang Kong and Liu Ying recorded the seventh day of the seventh month as the bookstore’s opening date, and Zhang Yunji described it as the Qixi Festival, which symbolized beautiful love.

Ma Feifei summoned the Divine Beast Mew, learned it needed Spirit Crystals to survive, and welcomed it as the Mysterious Bookstore’s first shop-guarding Divine Beast. Yun Qingyang questioned whether she had been overlooked, and Ma Feifei gave her a different title.

• Ma Feifei summoned a Pokémon from the Divine Beast-quality Poké Ball and discovered it was Mew.
• The system warned Ma Feifei that the Pokémon manga would disappear if Mew died or returned to its world.
• Ma Feifei checked Mew’s status and learned it was a first-tier Divine Beast that ate Spirit Crystals and could return home if extremely hungry.
• Ma Feifei fed Mew a Spirit Crystal, and Mew happily flew around before playing with Six-tailed.
• Ma Feifei declared Mew the Mysterious Bookstore’s first shop-guarding Divine Beast, and Yun Qingyang asked whether she had been the first.

Cultivators across Dubian Town tried to uncover facts about the Mysterious Bookstore to prepare for its test, and Zhang Yunji collected Spirit Crystals before presenting his own mock test. He began sharing answers based on his supposed inside knowledge, leaving the crowd eager to copy down more.

• Cultivators investigated Ma Feifei and the Mysterious Bookstore, while some sought out Zhang Yunji for information.
• Zhang Yunji pretended to resist as cultivators filled his pocket with spatial bags of Spirit Crystals, then secretly cleared the bags into his own spatial bag.
• Zhang Yunji revealed a mock test of fifty possible questions and warned the crowd not to tell the owner he had written it.
• Zhang Yunji said the Mysterious Bookstore had opened on the seventh day of the seventh month, contradicting the answer circulating in Dubian Town.
• Zhang Yunji began sharing questions about the bookstore's first customer and first book, claiming his answers came from the owner.

Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang arrived at the Mysterious Bookstore’s reader appreciation event, where Ma Feifei explained the quiz rules and promised extravagant rewards. The event began as Yun Qingyang distributed exam papers to a hundred thousand participants.

• News of Zhang Yunji’s mock exam spread through Dubian Town, and cultivators studied his predicted questions before the event.
• Ma Feifei persuaded Yun Qingyang to accompany him to the venue and paid her ten Spirit Crystals for the walk.
• Ma Feifei met Zhang Yunji, who mistakenly believed the owner’s comments meant he would become famous for helping everyone answer correctly.
• At the venue, Ma Feifei warned participants not to copy others and announced rewards that included divine artifacts and a Divine Beast-quality Pokémon.
• Ma Feifei declared the event open, and Yun Qingyang sent a hundred thousand exam papers onto the participants’ tables.

A quiz about the Mysterious Bookstore began, and contestants trusted Zhang Yunji’s answers even when they conflicted with their own knowledge. His answers repeatedly proved wrong, leaving the contestants to guess for themselves as the quiz grew harder.

• The contestants correctly answered questions about the bookstore owner, its first book, and its hourly rate, while Gongsun Qiong answered that it opened in September and received a green check.
• Most contestants wrote Goddess Yin Yue as the bookstore’s first customer based on Zhang Yunji’s claim, but the correct answer was Zhao Xiaodao.
• The contestants continued trusting Zhang Yunji when their answers differed from his, and they repeatedly received red crosses.
• Chang Kong followed Zhang Yunji’s answer that Li Bieli obtained the first Pokémon, but the correct answer was Liu Changsheng.
• Zhang Yunji dozed through the later questions, and the contestants began guessing for themselves, finding they did better than when they followed his answers.

The Million Book Lovers Appreciation Event quiz ended, and Ma Feifei announced the generous rewards before the cultivators lined up to collect them. As distribution began, Ma Feifei was puzzled when each recipient looked at him with pity.

• Cultivators struggled with the increasingly difficult quiz questions, while many blamed the sleeping Zhang Yunji for leading them into trouble.
• Everyone finished answering the questions after four in the afternoon, and the system reported the event’s rewards to Ma Feifei.
• Ma Feifei sent Yun Qingyang to fetch the rewards, then told the crowd what prizes were available.
• Yun Qingyang returned with the rewards, and Ma Feifei organized a large-scale distribution with Steward Liu.
• Ma Feifei called out the first cultivator’s sixth-tier spirit artifact, then noticed that the recipient and those who followed looked at him with pity.

Ma Feifei and Zhang Yunji handed out rewards to participants, while Zhang Yunji discovered that the answers he had supplied were mostly wrong. Azi earned a ninth-tier Spirit Sword by avoiding the misleading answers, and she suspected Ma Feifei had orchestrated Zhang Yunji’s mistake.

• Zhou Zhuling received an eighth-tier spiritual artifact after getting six questions wrong, and Ma Feifei wondered why people in line seemed upset with him.
• Zhang Yunji criticized participants who earned fifth-tier spiritual artifacts, unaware that his answer key had led them astray.
• After seeing Chang Kong’s fifth-tier reward, Zhang Yunji realized his answers were mostly wrong and asked if he could return the Spirit Crystals; Chang Kong left without taking his reward.
• Azi received a ninth-tier Spirit Sword after getting only four questions wrong, having guessed that Zhang Yunji’s leaked answers were part of a conspiracy.
• Azi accused Ma Feifei of directing Zhang Yunji, and Ma Feifei warned her to keep the suspicion quiet before sending her away with her reward.

After Zhang Yunji was beaten and left unable to get out of bed, Ma Feifei turned to raising Mew so he could advance Pokémon and complete the Quartz League Competition quest. Mew devoured Ma Feifei’s Spirit Crystals without reaching the next tier, and the chapter left Ma Feifei feeding it his entire remaining fortune as its presence grew stronger.

• Ma Feifei returned to the Bookstore without receiving a new quest and learned from Yun Qingyang that attackers had badly beaten Zhang Yunji the previous night.
• Ma Feifei decided to raise Mew’s tier to prepare for the Quartz League Competition quest and help Pokémon break past the fourth tier.
• Ma Feifei gave Mew one, then one hundred, one thousand, and ten thousand Spirit Crystals, but Mew remained at the first tier.
• Ma Feifei feared that Mew’s advancement would bankrupt him, then fed it all the Spirit Crystals left in his spatial bag.
• Mew devoured the million-plus Spirit Crystals, and its presence grew stronger as it continued eating.

Mew advanced to tier two after consuming Ma Feifei’s Spirit Crystals, leaving him worried about how to afford its next advancement. Meanwhile, Dubian Town debated the test’s answer about the Mysterious Bookstore’s mistress, while Yun Qingyang remained focused on reaching the heavens.

• Mew consumed the Spirit Crystals before Ma Feifei, absorbed Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, and advanced from tier one to tier two.
• Ma Feifei found that Mew’s attributes had barely changed and worried that he had no Spirit Crystals left to help it advance again.
• Cultivators in Dubian Town discussed why the question about the Mysterious Bookstore’s mistress had not appeared on the trending list.
• A young man and a middle-aged man said they had guessed Gongsun Qiong and Zhao Xiaodao, while only Azi had answered the question correctly.
• Yun Qingyang ignored the town’s gossip and wondered when she would finally be able to go up to the heavens.

The Mysterious Bookstore announced that its new Epic-grade book, Lotus Lantern, would open the next day to the first thousand exclusive-number holders, sparking a frenzy for entry permits. Lin Fan gave his exclusive number to the Hidden Sword Sect leader after being promised the succession, while the leader privately planned to keep the position for himself.

• Ma Feifei visited the Wantong Trading Market, which announced the Lotus Lantern world-opening event and its rewards and penalties.
• Cultivators bid up the price of eligible exclusive numbers to fifty-five thousand Spirit Crystals, but none of their holders would sell.
• Lin Fan decided to sell his June twelfth exclusive number, but the Hidden Sword Sect leader stopped him and claimed he was one thousand years old and needed the book's world to survive.
• The sect leader promised Lin Fan the leadership of the Hidden Sword Sect in exchange for his exclusive number, and Lin Fan handed it over without payment.
• After leaving, Lin Fan believed he had traded the number for the sect leader's position, while the leader privately admitted he had lied about his age and had no intention of yielding the position soon.

Zhang Yunji believed he had returned the cultivators’ Spirit Crystals, unaware that Chang Kong had kept them and used some to buy Liu Ying a robe. The next morning, cultivators gathered outside the Mysterious Bookstore to speculate about entering the new book’s world before learning its story.

• Baili Chuxue changed Zhang Yunji’s dressing as he complained about his minor injury, and Liu Ying told him the Spirit Crystals were gone because she had paid the cultivators’ claimed losses.
• After Liu Ying left Zhang Yunji’s courtyard, Chang Kong revealed that the cultivators had never received their Spirit Crystals, then gave Liu Ying five million to buy a robe and keep quiet.
• The next morning, cultivators outside the Mysterious Bookstore worried about entering an unfamiliar mythological world without knowing its plot or how to avoid losing points.
• The Mysterious Bookstore opened for business as the crowd continued discussing the new book.

Ma Feifei opened the Lotus Lantern world at the Mysterious Bookstore, while Chang Kong drove off a masked attacker who resembled the Phantom Organization. The thousand selected cultivators entered the book, and the Bookstore’s screen began displaying the world and their points rankings.

• Zhang Yunji arrived to help Ma Feifei prepare the Bookstore, and Ma Feifei wondered why he did not blame him for the trouble caused by Ma Feifei’s exaggerated stories.
• Ma Feifei gathered the first thousand numbered cultivators and warned them not to break the world’s rules or risk punishment for negative points.
• Ma Feifei placed Lotus Lantern on the table, and a masked figure descended toward him as some cultivators eyed the book greedily.
• Chang Kong intercepted the masked figure, fought him in the sky, and forced him to retreat, though Chang Kong appeared injured.
• Ma Feifei opened the book, drawing the thousand cultivators inside as a projection and their points rankings appeared above the Bookstore.

Liu Changsheng entered a book world and crash-landed after his spiritual power was sealed during the system’s one-minute protection period. After recovering, he was confronted by Sun Wukong on Emei Mountain, and the chapter ended as Liu Changsheng prepared to face him.

• Liu Changsheng fell from the sky and smashed into the ground, where he lay twitching in a person-shaped crater.
• Liu Changsheng complained that his spiritual power had been sealed, while Ma Feifei learned that the system’s protection period restricted cultivation for one minute.
• When the seal lifted, Liu Changsheng blasted off the dirt and changed into a clean black robe.
• Sun Wukong appeared and swung the Golden Cudgel at Liu Changsheng, who responded with a scornful remark.

Liu Changsheng fought Sun Wukong and was overwhelmed, but the monkey spared him after discovering he was an outsider with unusual power. Liu Changsheng learned that Sun Wukong had an Orange Fragment and followed him toward Emei Mountain, while onlookers decided the monkey had offered him a mission.

• Liu Changsheng tried to dodge Sun Wukong, then blocked the Golden Cudgel with his Seventh-tier long saber, which shattered as the blow sent him into a crater.
• Sun Wukong asked Liu Changsheng whether he was an outsider and revealed that an Orange Fragment had appeared beside him, though he had thrown it away.
• Liu Changsheng asked for the fragment, and Sun Wukong teased him before warning him not to use his unusual power on Emei Mountain and flying away.
• Cultivators watching the projection debated whether Sun Wukong was a guide and concluded that he had offered Liu Changsheng a mission by asking if he wanted the fragment.
• Liu Changsheng climbed from the crater, brushed off the dirt, and walked toward the direction Sun Wukong had gone.

Liu Changsheng reached Emei Mountain and encountered Chenxiang and Zhu Bajie, then cautiously let them pass before following them. As cultivators watching the projection criticized his conduct, Chang Kong suddenly vomited blood and collapsed.

• Ma Feifei reflected that Liu Changsheng would need to obtain the Lotus Lantern Tianshu Fragment from Sun Wukong, who would retain it even if the world reopened.
• Liu Changsheng reached the foot of Emei Mountain and prepared to climb on foot, following Sun Wukong’s warning not to fly there with spiritual power.
• Zhu Bajie and Chenxiang arrived, and Liu Changsheng stepped aside respectfully as they climbed the mountain together.
• Liu Changsheng followed Chenxiang and Zhu Bajie after their backs disappeared, while cultivators watching the projection argued over whether his caution disgraced their world.
• Chang Kong spat blood, fell backward, and alarmed the cultivators around him.