Recaps

Ma Feifei escaped the ice wall with Mew’s help, discovered Yun Qingyang trapped inside a giant crystal statue, and reassured the crowd that the Mysterious Bookstore would remain in Dubian Town. He announced Pokémon Advancement Pills would be sold the next day, then invited Chang Kong to become a Lantern Holder, which Chang Kong immediately agreed to do.

• Ma Feifei called for help from inside the ice wall, but Zhang Yunji and Chang Kong failed to break through it.
• Ma Feifei summoned Mew, which opened a portal through the ice wall and brought him outside.
• Ma Feifei saw Yun Qingyang inside a giant crystal statue and decided to leave her alone for the time being.
• Ma Feifei told the gathered cultivators that the Mysterious Bookstore would stay in Dubian Town and explained that Yun Qingyang’s statue was for cultivation.
• Ma Feifei announced that the Bookstore would sell Pokémon Advancement Pills at the Wantong Trading Market starting the next day.
• Ma Feifei asked Chang Kong to become a Lantern Holder, and Chang Kong agreed to resign from the Sword Sect and take up the role.

After Ma Feifei found he lacked the funds to buy enough Elementary Advancement Pills for Dubian Town’s Pokémon, he arranged to sell them in batches through the Wantong Trading Market. Zhou Zhuling accepted the first thousand pills and then revealed that her father had a favor to ask.

• Ma Feifei realized that buying five thousand Advancement Pills at one million Spirit Crystals each would cost more than he had.
• Ma Feifei decided to sell the pills in batches so he could use the proceeds to purchase more.
• Ma Feifei visited Zhou Zhuling at the Wantong Trading Market and clarified that he had not written or decided the answers to her test.
• Ma Feifei gave Zhou Zhuling a spatial bag containing a thousand Advancement Pills and instructed her to sell them for one million Spirit Crystals each.
• Zhou Zhuling accepted the pills, then told Ma Feifei that her father had a favor to ask.

Zhou Zhuling told Ma Feifei that Zhou Wuji had wasted money on exclusive Bookstore numbers while trying to find books that could help him reach the Spirit Saint realm. Ma Feifei promised a cultivation-increasing book would arrive soon, then met Luan Feng and presented her with the Epic-grade Six Secret Teachings.

• Zhou Zhuling explained that Zhou Wuji had spent six hundred thousand Spirit Crystals on exclusive numbers but could only read Blue Quality books.
• Zhou Zhuling said Zhou Wuji wanted to know whether the Bookstore had more books like The Analects or The Art of War, and Ma Feifei told her a cultivation-increasing book would arrive in ten days or half a month.
• Ma Feifei returned to the Bookstore and learned from Zhang Yunji that Luan Feng was waiting in private room one.
• Ma Feifei scolded Zhang Yunji for putting Luan Feng in the chargeable room and deducted the cost from his wages.
• Ma Feifei presented Luan Feng with the Epic-grade Six Secret Teachings, claiming he had spent months writing it for her.

Ma Feifei recruited Luan Feng as a Bookstore employee by offering her free access to books, then began choosing a country for the Bookstore’s new branch. He rejected Yan, Qi, and Zhao before deciding on Qin.

• Ma Feifei explained that Luan Feng would need an exclusive number to read the Six Secret Teachings, but offered her a free alternative if she joined the understaffed Bookstore.
• Luan Feng offered her fifty thousand soldiers and agreed to become a Bookstore employee, earning free reading privileges and completing Ma Feifei’s recruitment quest.
• Ma Feifei gave Luan Feng the Six Secret Teachings and hurried away to choose a location for the new branch.
• Ma Feifei studied the Azure Dragon Continent map and rejected Yan, Qi, and Zhao as branch locations.
• Ma Feifei chose Qin as the country where he would build the Bookstore’s branch.

Ma Feifei established a branch of the Mysterious Bookstore in the Qin Imperial Capital, completed the Path of Expansion quest, and triggered a two-day system upgrade that closed the store. While the bookstore was shut, Yan State Chancellor Yuwen Hongdu sought a way inside and arranged to meet Zhang Yunji, who accepted his invitation.

• Ma Feifei chose the Qin Imperial Capital for the branch, named it Mysterious Bookstore Branch Two, and set up a teleportation array.
• Ma Feifei completed the Path of Expansion quest, received access to the supplier warehouse and Peak of the Ninth Stage of Spirit Emperor cultivation, and triggered a two-day system upgrade.
• The Mysterious Bookstore closed during the upgrade, though Ma Feifei continued supplying one thousand Pokémon Advancement Pills daily at the Wantong Trading Market.
• Yuwen Hongdu learned that Zhang Yunji worked at the Mysterious Bookstore and invited him to a banquet at Yihong Tower.
• Zhang Yunji accepted Yuwen Hongdu's invitation while fishing with Baili Chuxue and Liu Ying.

Ma Feifei went to wake Yun Qingyang and became trapped against her ice-crystal statue, which drained his blood while mysterious beams replenished him. As the statue turned dark red before a growing crowd, a final beam struck and a dragon roared across the heavens.

• Ma Feifei found the supplier warehouse unchanged and, feeling lonely without Yun Qingyang, decided to go out for fun.
• Ma Feifei remembered the Phantom Organization's threat and tried to persuade Yun Qingyang to escort him, but touching her statue trapped both his hands.
• The ice-crystal dragon statue drained Ma Feifei's blood until he lost consciousness, while five golden beams from the Bookstore restored him and his blood began staining the statue.
• Cultivators gathered to watch as the statue turned dark red, and three black beams struck Ma Feifei and strengthened its suction.
• A golden beam hit Ma Feifei, a bolt of lightning descended, and the dragon statue let out a roar that shook the heavens.

After a dragon’s roar vanished the Mysterious Bookstore and its owner from Dubian Town, Ma Feifei woke in the backyard and found Yun Qingyang threatening him with Qingshuang Sword. Yun Qingyang had lost her memories and did not recognize him, and the chapter ended with her suspecting he was plotting against her.

• On Huarong Road, Da Niu asked why golden light had come from his master, who said the shopkeeper was in trouble and continued north with him.
• A strange roar knocked cultivators across Dubian Town, then the ice-crystal dragon statue, golden and black light, and the owner of the Mysterious Bookstore disappeared.
• Ma Feifei woke face down in the Bookstore’s backyard and found Yun Qingyang holding Qingshuang Sword to his neck.
• Yun Qingyang asked how Ma Feifei knew her name and accused him of lying when he said they had spent time together in Dubian Town.
• Ma Feifei listed details about Yun Qingyang’s possessions and habits to prove they were close, but Yun Qingyang raised Qingshuang Sword again and accused him of plotting against her.

Ma Feifei discovered that his 1.2 billion Spirit Crystals had vanished while the system was upgrading, leaving him unable to continue selling Elementary Advancement Pills. Meanwhile, Yuwen Hongdu decided to buy an exclusive number for the Mysterious Bookstore’s opening after Zhang Yunji rebuffed his attempt to seek help.

• Ma Feifei let Yun Qingyang return to her room, then wondered why she remembered everything except him and noticed his Power of Faith had grown stronger.
• Ma Feifei found his spatial bag empty of the 1.2 billion Spirit Crystals he had saved and failed to get a response from the upgrading system.
• Yuwen Hongdu brooded over Zhang Yunji’s refusal to help him and considered using the Zhang Clan’s Spirit Crystal mines to teach them a lesson.
• Yuwen Hongdu told his steward to buy an exclusive number for the day the Mysterious Bookstore opened.

Ma Feifei inspected the level-three Bookstore’s upgrades and discovered new owner benefits, employee rewards, and the Book Spirit Protects Master skill. He celebrated his new power and discounts until the system revealed that the skill had already consumed 7.212 billion Spirit Crystals to protect him, leaving him furious.

• Ma Feifei confirmed the upgrade and found the Bookstore expanded to 1,000 square meters with space for 400 readers.
• Ma Feifei reviewed the new profit-sharing plan, cultivation-based Book Emperor discount, employee rewards, recruitment privilege, and Book Spirit Protects Master skill.
• Ma Feifei imagined using books’ abilities to gain extraordinary powers and defeat anyone who threatened him.
• Ma Feifei questioned the system’s claim that it had lent him six billion Spirit Crystals, since he had received none and had spent 1.2 billion of his own.
• The system said books had automatically used Book Spirit Protects Master when Ma Feifei’s life was in danger, consuming 7.212 billion Spirit Crystals for thirty-six minutes.

Ma Feifei opened the upgrade gift pack after the Mysterious Bookstore expanded, adding new books for its increased readership. Yuwen Hongdu left without a Yellow Quality book but sought out the reader holding Han Feizi, which he wanted for its Emperor’s Aura.

• Yun Qingyang opened the Bookstore doors, then shut them again, and Zhang Yunji reopened them for the waiting cultivators.
• Luan Feng noticed the Bookstore’s expanded interior, and Ma Feifei raised the daily reader limit to four hundred.
• Ma Feifei opened the upgrade gift pack and received one thousand Blue Quality books and ten Yellow Quality books.
• Ma Feifei inspected the new Yellow Quality titles, then watched the cultivators scramble for the books on the shelves.
• Yuwen Hongdu declined to fight for a Yellow Quality book and approached the plainly dressed middle-aged man holding Han Feizi.

Yuwen Hongdu visited the Mysterious Bookstore and tried to obtain Han Feizi, but Zhou Wuji and Luan Feng both turned him away. Meanwhile, Ma Feifei sought Spirit Crystals to buy and sell Advancement Pills, only to discover Yun Qingyang remembered his previous loan.

• Yuwen Hongdu offered Zhou Wuji five hundred thousand Spirit Crystals for Han Feizi, but Zhou refused and reminded him to take back his money.
• Yuwen Hongdu approached Luan Feng, who told him to leave the staff area, and he departed the Bookstore in anger.
• Ma Feifei received a system notice demanding repayment of more than seven billion Spirit Crystals within six months and decided he would not repay it.
• Zhang Yunji told Ma Feifei that the Wantong Trading Market was waiting for the Advancement Pills, and Ma Feifei tried unsuccessfully to borrow more from the system.
• Ma Feifei proposed a partnership to Yun Qingyang, but she demanded that he repay her previous five hundred million Spirit Crystal loan, prompting him to flee.

Ma Feifei prepared to open Mysterious Bookstore Branch Two in the Qin State after Chang Kong returned and agreed to become its Lantern Holder. He stepped through the branch’s teleportation portal and triggered a new Main Quest.

• Ma Feifei wondered about Yun Qingyang’s changed bearing and strength while the Bookstore continued operating through the heat.
• Chang Kong returned after resigning from the Sword Sect, and Ma Feifei agreed that he could become the Bookstore’s Lantern Holder the next day.
• Ma Feifei used the Supplier Warehouse to copy the main store’s books into Branch Two.
• Ma Feifei confirmed that the branch offered the same protection as the main store, then stepped through its teleportation portal toward the Qin State.
• The system announced that Ma Feifei had triggered a new Main Quest.

Ma Feifei opened Mysterious Bookstore Branch Two in Tianzhu City, where the streets emptied at night, and discovered that lighting its Lotus Lantern rapidly consumed Spirit Crystals. He left the shop dark after learning he had to pay the lantern’s costs himself, while the system clarified that nighttime business counted as private use.

• Ma Feifei and Chang Kong arrived at the branch on Chang'an Street in Tianzhu City, where no customers were around after nightfall.
• Ma Feifei decided to open the shop and told Chang Kong to light the Lotus Lantern.
• The system warned that the lantern consumed one thousand Spirit Crystals per minute, so Ma Feifei frantically tried to put it out.
• Chang Kong extinguished the Lotus Lantern, leaving the bookstore dark, and Ma Feifei lamented the three thousand Spirit Crystals already spent.
• The system explained that nighttime business was private and that Ma Feifei had to pay the Lotus Lantern’s Spirit Crystal costs himself.

Ma Feifei abandoned plans to open Mysterious Bookstore Branch Two at night after realizing the Lotus Lantern would cost him too much on an empty street. A wounded formation master fleeing masked pursuers reached the shop, and the system assigned Ma Feifei a quest to save him and restore his position in the Heavenly Machine Pavilion.

• Ma Feifei decided not to light the Lotus Lantern because the empty street made the nighttime expense too costly.
• Ma Feifei and Chang Kong noticed a bloodied man arrive at Mysterious Bookstore Branch Two, pursued by three masked men.
• The middle-aged man trapped his pursuers in a formation by dropping a Spirit Crystal, impressing Chang Kong with his skill.
• The man warned Ma Feifei that his appearance foretold great misfortune.
• The system identified the man as Jing Xing, the dismissed head of the Heavenly Machine Pavilion, and tasked Ma Feifei with saving him and restoring Qin Shi Huang's trust.

Ma Feifei rescued Jing Xing from three masked attackers and learned that the disgraced master of the Heavenly Machine Pavilion had failed to bring rain for Great Qin. To help complete his quests, Ma Feifei bought Jing Xing the Book of Great Peace, which could teach him to summon wind and rain, but Jing Xing doubted its value when Ma Feifei demanded a million Spirit Crystals to read it.

• Ma Feifei ordered Chang Kong to strike down three masked men who attacked Jing Xing, and the men retreated after Ma Feifei challenged them.
• Jing Xing warned Ma Feifei of danger and claimed he would grow old and die alone because of kidney deficiency, while Ma Feifei doubted his claims.
• Ma Feifei learned Jing Xing had been dismissed as master of the Heavenly Machine Pavilion after failing to bring rain, and asked whether he wanted his position back.
• Ma Feifei bought the Book of Great Peace from the system shop and offered Jing Xing a chance to learn the art of summoning wind and rain.
• Jing Xing rejected Ma Feifei's million-Spirit-Crystal reading fee as a swindle, and Ma Feifei declared that he would make it rain over Great Qin.

Ma Feifei used the Book of Great Peace to summon wind, thunder, and torrential rain across Great Qin. After witnessing the miracle, Jing Xing followed him into the Bookstore and paid for a chance to read the book.

• Jing Xing doubted Ma Feifei could make it rain, but Chang Kong trusted him and refused to stop him.
• Ma Feifei used the Book of Great Peace’s power, rose into the sky, and called for wind, thunder, and rain.
• Rain swept across Great Qin, and people throughout Tianzhu City celebrated the downpour.
• Jing Xing asked Ma Feifei how he had summoned the rain, and Ma Feifei said the Book of Great Peace held the secret technique.
• Jing Xing entered the Bookstore and offered Ma Feifei one and a half million Spirit Crystals for a chance to read the book.

Ma Feifei opened Mysterious Bookstore Branch Two for the night and began copying the Book of Changes while Jing Xing read the Book of Great Peace. When Qin Prince’s retainers chased a fugitive into the store, its protective force subdued all three, and Jing Xing recognized the retainers.

• Jing Xing became the branch’s first customer, and Ma Feifei decided to use the Lotus Lantern’s copying boost to work on the Book of Changes.
• Ma Feifei copied the book while Chang Kong guarded the quiet store and Jing Xing read.
• Two pursuers drove a wounded fugitive into the store, where the system’s protection mode forced all three intruders to the ground.
• Ma Feifei warned the intruders not to resist and demanded an explanation; a retainer said they served Prince Qin’s Manor and had pursued a fugitive.
• Jing Xing recognized the retainers as Qin Ziying’s men, and they addressed him as Pavilion Master Jing.

Ma Feifei learned that Lian Yi was from Chu Kingdom after she sought his protection with a Great Desolation Relic Token. The system gave him quests to recruit nine women to hold books and establish a Confucian imperial examination system in one of the five states, and Ma Feifei began considering Chu Kingdom as his best option.

• Ma Feifei confirmed that Jing Xing and the Qin household warriors knew nothing of Fusu, then heard them accuse Lian Yi of trying to assassinate the King of Qin while she claimed she had resisted his advances.
• A Qin household warrior tried to seize Lian Yi, but Ma Feifei's power struck him down, and Ma Feifei sent both Qin household warriors flying out of the Bookstore.
• Lian Yi offered Ma Feifei a Great Desolation Relic Token in exchange for his protection, and Chang Kong explained that it allowed its holder to enter an ancient relic.
• The system gave Ma Feifei a side quest to recruit nine women to hold the Four Books and Five Classics, along with a large-scale quest to promote Confucian culture and establish imperial examinations in one state.
• Ma Feifei weighed the difficulty of the quest and decided Chu Kingdom was more suitable than Qin State, then asked Lian Yi whether she came from Chu Kingdom.
• Lian Yi confirmed that she was from Chu Kingdom.

Ma Feifei agreed to protect Lian Yi in exchange for her serving as the Book-holding woman, then drove off Qin Ziying’s men when they attacked the Bookstore. Jing Xing confronted Qin Ziying and claimed Ma Feifei was key to bringing rain, but Ma Feifei stopped Qin Ziying from leaving.

• Ma Feifei offered to save Lian Yi if she agreed to appear when needed and hold a book as instructed, and she accepted.
• Qin Ziying arrived with soldiers and two Spirit Emperor retainers, but the Bookstore’s protection sent him flying and crushed the retainers.
• Qin Ziying threatened to return with more men and spill blood, but Jing Xing stepped outside to confront him.
• Jing Xing said he would seek an audience with the First Emperor to pray for rain and told Qin Ziying that Ma Feifei was key to bringing rain.
• Qin Ziying agreed to meet Jing Xing at Afang Palace the next day and began to leave, but Ma Feifei called after him, asking if he had permission to go.

Ma Feifei forced Qin Ziying to pay five million Spirit Crystals for trespassing and threatening the Bookstore. After Lian Yi left, Jing Xing wondered who Ma Feifei was and what secrets the Bookstore held.

• Ma Feifei demanded compensation from Qin Ziying, who handed over a spatial bag rather than risk fighting him.
• Chang Kong counted five million Spirit Crystals in the bag, and Qin Ziying left Chang'an Street with his soldiers and two Spirit Emperor figures.
• Ma Feifei told Lian Yi he could find her through the system and warned her to remain a virgin until she held a book for him.
• Lian Yi teased Ma Feifei about his own virginity, then left after provoking him again with a parting remark.
• Ma Feifei returned to copying the Book of Changes while Jing Xing considered the Bookstore's formation and wondered who Ma Feifei was.

Jing Xing comprehended Summoning Rain and left to pray for rain in Qin State, while Ma Feifei triggered the Tao Te Ching’s shelving quest. The quest sent Ma Feifei to contemplate beneath a newly appeared plum tree, where he and Yun Qingyang began eating its blossoms.

• Jing Xing told Ma Feifei that he had comprehended Summoning Rain, then left the bookstore to pray for rain.
• Ma Feifei returned to the main Bookstore, opened it for business, and placed the Tao Te Ching on a shelf to trigger its shelving quest.
• The quest instructed Ma Feifei to contemplate the Tao Te Ching beneath a plum tree until it bloomed, and promised comprehension of Daoist Magic as a reward.
• Ma Feifei found the plum tree in the backyard, where Yun Qingyang admired its buds.
• Ma Feifei offered Yun Qingyang a plum blossom to eat, and the two began eating buds from the tree.

Jing Xing asked Qin Shi Huang for another chance to pray for rain and was ordered to perform the ceremony in three days, with death by dismemberment as the penalty for failure. After Jing Xing confronted his enemy Di Heyu, Qin Ziying revealed that an expert from the Mysterious Bookstore Branch Two had helped Jing Xing gain the ability to bring rain.

• Jing Xing asked Qin Shi Huang to let him perform another rain ceremony and staked his life on succeeding.
• Qin Shi Huang ordered Jing Xing to pray for rain at the Heavenly Machine Platform in three days, promising to restore his former post if he succeeded and execute him if he failed.
• Jing Xing exchanged threats with Chancellor Di Heyu, whose son Jing Xing had killed in revenge for his sister.
• Qin Ziying told Di Heyu that Jing Xing had received help from an expert at the Mysterious Bookstore Branch Two in Tianzhu City.
• Di Heyu watched Qin Ziying leave and began thinking about Jing Xing's newfound ability and the expert.

Ma Feifei recited the Tao Te Ching to restore the plum blossoms, and he and Yun Qingyang ate the new buds until their bodies swelled. After Ma Feifei bounced into the air and landed on Yun Qingyang, he discovered a wisp of purple Qi flowing through his body.

• Ma Feifei learned from the system that reciting the Tao Te Ching beneath the plum tree would make its flower buds grow back.
• As Ma Feifei recited, a strange presence emerged from him, and Yun Qingyang recognized it as Origin Power.
• The plum tree regrew its buds, and Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang ate them all again.
• Ma Feifei's belly swelled until he bounced into the air, lost control of his body, and landed on Yun Qingyang.
• Ma Feifei guided a wisp of unfamiliar energy through his body and produced purple Qi in his hand.

Ma Feifei discovered that the Plum Blossom had given him a wisp of Taoism’s Primordial Violet Qi, while Yun Qingyang had gained none. Far away, Gongsun Qiong’s caravan neared the imperial capital, where she planned to face her father, and stopped when someone blocked the road.

• Ma Feifei controlled the violet Qi in his palm and learned from the system that it was Taoism’s Primordial Violet Qi, though the system could not explain its powers.
• Ma Feifei asked Yun Qingyang to check for violet Qi, then told her she should lose weight when she had none.
• Gongsun Qiong asked Zhao Xiaodao how long remained before they reached the imperial capital and admitted she least wanted to go there.
• Zhao Xiaodao recalled that Gongsun Qiong was the ninth princess, daughter of King Chu Heng and Yin Yue, who had fled the palace after battling the king.
• Zhao Xiaodao promised to stay by Gongsun Qiong’s side, and the caravan abruptly stopped because someone blocked the road.

Gongsun Qiong’s caravan was ambushed by a powerful Phantom Organization assassin, who overwhelmed the Thunder Saint and trapped the group with a formation. As the assassin approached the unconscious Gongsun Qiong, purple clouds gathered in the eastern sky.

• Gongsun Qiong recognized the black-clad figure blocking the road as a Phantom Organization assassin and failed to persuade him to abandon his contract.
• The Thunder Saint fought the assassin but was badly injured, while Chu Hongyuan’s attempt to take Gongsun Qiong away was stopped by a formation.
• Gongsun Qiong refused to flee and unleashed a brief, powerful aura before collapsing unconscious.
• The assassin stopped the Thunder Saint from reaching Gongsun Qiong and walked toward her, but a breeze made him notice purple clouds gathering in the east.