Recaps

Ma Feifei discovered that the plum grove had become a Daochang that enhanced comprehension when he lectured there. As Yun Qingyang began sensing his thoughts, Ma Feifei struggled to name the Daochang.

• Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang admired the plum grove, and Yun Qingyang displayed a beautifully sculpted ice lotus.
• Mist gathered around the trees, and the system told Ma Feifei that he had obtained a comprehension-enhancing Daochang.
• Ma Feifei realized the Daochang could boost listeners' comprehension and privately compared Yun Qingyang to an idiot.
• Yun Qingyang sensed that Ma Feifei had insulted her, bit his arm, and then let the matter drop after his denial.
• The system urged Ma Feifei to name the Daochang, but he rejected several ideas and remained unable to choose one.

Ma Feifei named the plum grove the Mysterious Daochang, and a powerful formation sealed it off from the cultivators outside. As Ma Feifei admired the transformed Pokémon venue, the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey charged toward him, leaving the cultivators to wonder whether it had come for revenge.

• Ma Feifei named the plum grove the Mysterious Daochang, and a divine-level formation appeared, ejecting the cultivators and sealing the grove.
• Ma Feifei sensed that he could control the Daochang and admired how its mist and plum blossoms transformed the Pokémon venue.
• A rumble and roar announced the arrival of the enormous Sky-reaching Ape Monkey, whose physical body was said to be invincible.
• The cultivators recognized the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey as a descendant of the ancient Stone Monkey and speculated that it had come to take revenge on Ma Feifei.

Ma Feifei triggered a mission to subdue the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey and make him the Mysterious Bookstore’s gatekeeping Divine Beast. After Yun Qingyang threw him at the monkey, Ma Feifei met its strike with his Dragon God Arm and sent it flying, though he recognized how formidable its physical strength was.

• Ma Feifei hid behind Yun Qingyang as the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey charged, then tried to persuade her to act as his first line of defense.
• Yun Qingyang threw Ma Feifei toward the monkey while nearby cultivators gathered to witness the fight.
• The system assigned Ma Feifei the Gatekeeping Beast mission and offered the Golden Fillet as a reward for subduing the monkey.
• Ma Feifei reinforced his Dragon God Arm with innate Purple Qi and collided with the monkey’s palm, unleashing a shockwave that swept through the surrounding cultivators.
• The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey roared in pain and flew hundreds of meters backward, while Ma Feifei noted that the beast’s physical strength nearly matched his own.

Ma Feifei overwhelmed the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey in a fistfight, then used the Three Character Classic to subdue him when his Power of Faith ran out. The golden characters pinned the Divine Beast beneath their immense weight.

• Ma Feifei repeatedly punched the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey while onlookers concluded that he was invincible below the Immortal Realm.
• Saint Chu watched Ma Feifei defeat the monkey and reconsidered his plans because the princess had befriended him.
• Ma Feifei ran out of Power of Faith, tried to signal Yun Qingyang for help, and was accidentally blown back toward the monkey.
• Ma Feifei restored his Power of Faith with the Three Character Classic and stood on the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey's head while reciting it.
• The golden characters struck the monkey, forced him to his knees, and pressed him flat against the ground, each character weighing ten thousand jin.

Ma Feifei subdued the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey but left him without demanding his submission, while the onlookers grew more confident in the coming sermon. Back at the Mysterious Bookstore, Ma Feifei prepared for the sermon and reflected on the enormous profit he had made by admitting more cultivators.

• Ma Feifei used the Book Spirit Protects Master skill to defeat the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey, then asked him to submit; when the beast refused, Ma Feifei walked away.
• The watching important figures decided they could not risk trying to claim the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey and became more confident that Ma Feifei's sermon might offer a path to immortality.
• Ma Feifei revealed that he had secretly sold 700 additional sermon seats to Spirit Emperor-level cultivators and above for five million Spirit Crystals each.
• Ma Feifei counted his 3.5 billion Spirit Crystal earnings and dismissed any concern that the sermon might not make its listeners immortal, reasoning that he could keep giving it regularly.

Ma Feifei preached the Dao to 3,700 cultivators in the plum grove as nearly a million watched. His sermon awakened signs of heavenly wonder, leaving the gathering surrounded by falling Great Dao flowers and blooming golden lotuses.

• Nearly a million cultivators gathered around the plum grove to witness Ma Feifei's sermon and the chance to comprehend immortality.
• At nine o'clock, the barrier opened and 3,700 cultivators entered the plum grove; 3,000 proceeded into the Pokémon competition venue as clouds formed a stairway to heaven.
• Ma Feifei arrived in a white robe and rose onto a cloud above the venue, while Yun Qingyang shouted at him from below.
• Ma Feifei lifted the 3,700 cultivators on solidified clouds, instructed them to sit, and began preaching the Tao Te Ching to the silent crowd.
• As Ma Feifei preached, Spiritual Energy gathered around him, Great Dao flowers fell from the sky, and golden lotuses sprang from the earth.

Ma Feifei’s recitation of the Tao Te Ching spread the Sound of the Great Dao across the wilderness, enriching the cultivators and awakening the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey’s spiritual intelligence. As the 3,700 listeners rose on their clouds, their differing progress revealed that some had reached the limit of their comprehension.

• The Sound of the Great Dao merged mysterious Qi into the cultivators outside the plum grove and drew them into quiet contemplation.
• The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey broke free of the golden characters on his back and listened eagerly, while Yun Qingyang suspected the Tao Te Ching was awakening his spiritual intelligence.
• The clouds beneath the 3,700 listeners rose repeatedly as golden Qi divided around them, while the outside cultivators watched.
• At the next breeze, only 2,700 clouds rose, and the remaining 1,000 stayed still, leading observers to conclude those listeners had reached their limit of comprehension.

The clouds rewarded cultivators according to how far their comprehension of the Tao Te Ching carried them, granting breakthroughs to those whose ascent ended. Ma Feifei deepened his comprehension as only three clouds continued upward, while ten others received cultivation advances.

• The thousand prominent figures who could climb no farther absorbed golden Qi and broke through, with many regaining their youth as their lifespans increased.
• The clouds rose until only thirteen cultivators remained, including Lingyun Fairy, Thunder Saint, and three masked figures in black.
• Ma Feifei focused on the Tao Te Ching as the Power of Faith and Innate Purple Qi formed a rotating yin-yang diagram in his dantian, changing the Sound of the Great Dao.
• Saint Chu, General Luanfeng, and one masked figure in black continued ascending, while the other ten clouds stopped and their occupants gained cultivation breakthroughs.
• Thunder Saint advanced two stages, and Zhou Wuji rose from the Spirit Emperor realm to the peak of the Spirit Saint First Stage.
• Yuwen Hongdu advanced from the Spirit Emperor Second Stage to the Sixth Stage and sighed that he wished he had comprehended Emperor's Aura.

After nine days of Dao lectures, Luan Feng’s battle pet Hong Luan evolved into a Fenghuang, while Ma Feifei secretly stole the Great Dao Qi gathered by the masked person in black. A new breeze and rosy light then gathered around Saint Chu, suggesting he might be on the verge of entering the Immortal Realm.

• The cultivators waited nine days for Saint Chu to advance as the Dao lecture continued.
• Luan Feng rose into the sky with Hong Luan, which transformed into a Fenghuang as sweet dew fell and springs burst from the ground.
• Ma Feifei realized Hong Luan had become a Fenghuang and saw that Luan Feng’s gains surpassed everyone else’s.
• Ma Feifei recognized the masked person in black as a member of the Phantom Organization and secretly drained the person’s gathered Great Dao Qi.
• A breeze passed Saint Chu as the Sound of the Great Dao rang out and rosy light shone on him.

Saint Chu nearly entered the Immortal Realm when a heavenly omen appeared, but the light vanished and his breakthrough failed. The sermon ended with cultivators grieving their lost hope, while Ma Feifei dismissed a masked listener who had gained nothing.

• Radiant light appeared over Saint Chu, but it shrank away, and he chased it into the clouds as his attempt to become an immortal failed.
• A prominent Spirit Saint eighth stage peak cultivator named Jiu You died after losing hope, and his body scattered into specks of light.
• Ma Feifei saw that Saint Chu had gained strength from hearing the Tao Te Ching, though he had not entered the Immortal Realm.
• A masked man in black told Ma Feifei that he had gained nothing, and Ma Feifei told him to accept his fate before Zhang Yunji ended the sermon.
• The plum grove expelled everyone, and the masked man in black angrily mistook two other masked men for thieves after they asked whether he belonged to their organization.

Ma Feifei unlocked the Spell Shop and bought numerous divine abilities as the spiritually awakened Sky-reaching Ape Monkey entered Dubian Town. The ape reached the Mysterious Bookstore, where it paused at the open entrance as Saint Chu and the town’s cultivators watched.

• Ma Feifei unlocked the Spell Shop and purchased several divine abilities, including transformations and cloud-riding spells.
• The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey entered Dubian Town, prompting a government officer to alert the Limitless Spirit Emperor and nearby cultivators to gather defensively.
• Saint Chu told Zhou Wuji that the ape descended from the Stone Monkey and appeared to have awakened its sealed spiritual intelligence and divinity.
• The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey walked through town and stopped at the entrance of the Mysterious Bookstore, while the crowd watched tensely.

The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey came to the Mysterious Bookstore and agreed to become its guardian Divine Beast if Ma Feifei met one condition. Yun Qingyang interpreted the monkey’s request for a weapon, helmet, battle armor, and shoes.

• Zhang Yunji spotted the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey at the Bookstore entrance, and Luan Feng told it the Bookstore was closed.
• The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey borrowed a cultivator’s robe and imitated Ma Feifei’s pose, embarrassing Luan Feng.
• Ma Feifei went to meet the monkey after Luan Feng told him it had come looking for him.
• The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey agreed to become the Bookstore’s guardian Divine Beast, but Yun Qingyang explained that it wanted proper gear first.

Ma Feifei realized the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey’s arrival was pushing him to buy Journey to the West, but first discovered that Yun Qingyang had absorbed all the divine ability and spell cards he had bought. The chapter ended with Yun Qingyang demonstrating her new powers as Ma Feifei’s anger faded.

• Ma Feifei connected the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey’s appearance and his request to the System Shop’s newly available Journey to the West, though he balked at its billion-Spirit-Crystal price.
• Ma Feifei agreed to the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey’s request to return the next morning, and the monkey left town while the crowd and Saint Chu departed.
• Ma Feifei went to the backyard to retrieve his cards and angrily confronted Yun Qingyang after learning she had taken them all.
• Yun Qingyang explained that the cards had entered her body and taught her abilities, then demonstrated Soaring Cloud Riding Mist and Thirty-six Heavenly Spirits Transformations.
• Ma Feifei watched Yun Qingyang transform into several animals, and his anger gradually gave way to a slight smile.

Ma Feifei bought the Legendary-grade Journey to the West and prepared to enter its world to obtain the Great Sage Set. He announced a public viewing for the next day, leaving cultivators in Dubian Town speculating about the new book’s power.

• Ma Feifei bought Journey to the West and learned that rewards from it came with a forty percent discount or a share of book friends’ earnings.
• Ma Feifei decided to enter Journey to the West himself to search the East Sea Dragon Palace for the Great Sage Set, fearing the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey might not find it.
• Ma Feifei packed Epic-grade books, borrowed Yun Qingyang’s Qingshuang Sword, and had Chang Kong reinforce a complete ninth-tier spirit armor set with defensive formations.
• Ma Feifei arranged for the Wantong Trading Market to announce that the Mysterious Bookstore would sell divine ability techniques and host a viewing of a new-grade book the following day.
• Cultivators at the trading market guessed that the new book ranked above Epic-grade and might surpass the Tao Te Ching; news spread through Dubian Town.

Ma Feifei opened the Legendary-grade Journey to the West before a huge crowd, revealing that he had entered it to seek the Great Sage Set. A masked cultivator then claimed that god artifacts had grades beyond what the crowd knew, leaving the powerful observers puzzled about his identity.

• Hundreds of thousands of cultivators gathered outside the Mysterious Bookstore to watch the new book’s release.
• Ma Feifei opened Journey to the West, and the projection identified it as a Legendary-grade masterwork of gods and demons whose plot involved seeking the Great Sage Set.
• The crowd debated whether the Great Sage Set contained god artifacts and wondered whether anything ranked above them existed.
• A masked man in black declared that grades above god artifacts existed, drawing recognition from some spectators and scrutiny from Saint Chu and Sage Qi.
• The masked man explained that god artifacts ranged from lower-grade through middle-grade, upper-grade, supreme-grade, and eternal-grade.

Ma Feifei explored Flower-Fruit Mountain and discovered Water Curtain Cave before Sun Wukong had arrived. He left for the East Sea Dragon Palace to obtain the Great Sage Set and used the Water Splitting Technique to descend beneath the waterfall.

• Ma Feifei recognized the mountainside as Flower-Fruit Mountain and followed the sound of waves to the sea.
• He spotted the waterfall, entered Water Curtain Cave, and found it empty, concluding that Sun Wukong had not yet been born or discovered it.
• Ma Feifei decided not to search for the stone and left the cave to head for the Dragon Palace.
• He plunged into the river beneath the waterfall and used the Water Splitting Technique to part the water as he descended.

Ma Feifei crossed the East Sea and found the Dragon Palace, where he used Sun Wukong’s claim of being a born sage to secure a welcome from the East Sea Dragon King. Outside the projection, cultivators speculated about the meaning of sages, dragons, and immortals, while Spirit Saint dignitaries concluded that the book’s world was likely more powerful than the world of Lotus Lantern.

• Ma Feifei struggled to sustain the Water Splitting Technique as he searched the vast East Sea for the Dragon Palace.
• Ma Feifei sensed an energy barrier, passed through it, and found himself in a sea where he could breathe freely, with the Dragon Palace nearby.
• A patrolling Yaksha questioned Ma Feifei, who introduced himself as the born sage of Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• The Yaksha led Ma Feifei to the Dragon Palace, and the East Sea Dragon King came out with his retinue to welcome him.
• Cultivators discussed Ma Feifei’s titles and the Dragon King, while Spirit Saint dignitaries judged that the book’s world surpassed that of Lotus Lantern.

Ma Feifei followed Journey to the West’s story to obtain the Ruyi Golden Cudgel from the Dragon Palace, while wondering whether taking it would disrupt the book’s events. The chapter ended with the observers marveling at the cudgel’s ability to shrink and at the power of the world within the Legendary-grade book.

• Ma Feifei imitated Sun Wukong’s request for a weapon, and the Dragon King’s family suggested giving him the divine iron from the sea treasury.
• The Dragon King led Ma Feifei into the treasury, where he found the Ruyi Golden Cudgel, and Ma Feifei took it despite worrying that Sun Wukong might later need it.
• Ma Feifei made the Ruyi Golden Cudgel shrink to needle size and tucked it into his ear.
• The cultivators debated the cudgel’s weight, while the Spirit Saints marveled at its size-changing ability and reflected on the world of Journey to the West.

Ma Feifei took the Great Sage Set from the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas, causing Sun Wukong to disappear from Journey to the West. After returning to the Bookstore and learning that the altered plot could still be completed, Ma Feifei accepted a task to find a replacement and retrace the Great Sage’s path.

• Ma Feifei threatened the East Sea Dragon King until the Four Seas Dragon Kings gave him the Great Sage Set.
• The system warned Ma Feifei that taking the set had removed the Great Sage Equal to Heaven from Journey to the West.
• Ma Feifei returned to Flower-Fruit Mountain, troubled that his actions had erased Sun Wukong’s story.
• Ma Feifei emerged from the book and learned that the Great Sage Set had left him with an 8.1-billion-Spirit-Crystal loan.
• Ma Feifei accepted the shelving task to find an incarnation capable of replacing Sun Wukong and complete the plot tasks from chapters one through fifty-seven.

Ma Feifei assigned the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey to replace Sun Wukong in the first fifty-seven chapters of Journey to the West, then gave him the Great Sage Set and Golden Cudgel. As strange weather darkened the sky, a masked figure hiding near a house in Dubian Town heard that a baby boy had been born.

• Ma Feifei questioned why the system's plot task stopped at chapter fifty-seven, and the system refused to explain.
• Ma Feifei chose the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey to replace Sun Wukong and asked Zhang Yunji to bring him to the rear courtyard.
• The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey snatched the Great Sage Set, and the system rewarded Ma Feifei with the Golden Fillet and its Tight-Fillet Spell.
• Ma Feifei withheld the Golden Fillet, gave the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey the Golden Cudgel, and tried unsuccessfully to divine the cause of the strange weather.
• A masked figure in black hid near a courtyard house in Dubian Town as a baby's cries sounded and someone announced the birth of a boy.

Saint Chu told Sage Qi that he had less than half a year to live and urged him to prevent Qin Shi Huang from conquering the Azure Dragon Continent. He planned to give up his title as the Chu Kingdom’s Conferred Saint and make amends with Ma Feifei before risking everything in a final gamble.

• A masked figure called Jiu'er was stopped by her mother and taken home as the darkness over Dubian Town cleared.
• Ma Feifei discovered the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey could not read and left Yun Qingyang to teach him with Journey to the West.
• Saint Chu explained that the Benevolent Sword’s blessing had no effect on him because it was his fourth, leaving him less than half a year to live.
• Saint Chu warned Sage Qi that Qin Shi Huang might attack after his death and told him to kill King Qi Wen to break the alliance between Qi and Qin.
• Saint Chu asked Sage Qi to rescue Shadow Saint, then said he would surrender his Conferred Saint title and personally take the employer to Ma Feifei to seek forgiveness.

Saint Chu urged Sage Qi to help the Phantom Organization reconcile with the Mysterious Bookstore, while Ma Feifei investigated how Buddhism’s Power of Faith and Taoism’s Innate Purple Qi had fused within him. The bookstore remained busy, but Journey to the West and the sale of divine abilities and spells were still unavailable.

• Saint Chu proposed Zhou Wuji as a successor among the Phantom Organization’s five heads because he could help ease relations with the Mysterious Bookstore.
• Saint Chu warned Sage Qi that the Phantom Organization had to stop treating the bookstore as an enemy, and Sage Qi said the other Saints would have to decide.
• Cultivators in Dubian Town watched the busy bookstore and waited for Journey to the West to appear again.
• Cultivators who had gained Dharma Power grew frustrated when the bookstore did not begin selling divine abilities and spells.
• Ma Feifei set aside those sales because he still owed the system 8.1 billion and studied the fusion of Innate Purple Qi and Power of Faith.
• Ma Feifei concluded that Innate Purple Qi represented Taoism and Power of Faith represented Buddhism, and wondered whether he could benefit from both.

Ma Feifei considered his unfinished quests before investigating a fight between Yun Qingyang and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey. After stopping them, he learned Yun Qingyang accused the monkey of trying to eat her, while the monkey denied it.

• Ma Feifei reviewed his cultural invasion, Journey to the West, Book-holding women, and Main Quests, then decided to visit Jing Xing at the branch store.
• Ma Feifei went to the back courtyard after hearing an impact and found Yun Qingyang fighting the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey.
• The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey summoned his Golden Cudgel and attacked Yun Qingyang, who dodged his strike and kicked him away.
• Ma Feifei restrained the monkey and scolded him, then asked what had caused the fight.
• Yun Qingyang said the monkey had wanted to eat her, while the monkey denied it, and Liu Ying, Luan Feng, Zhang Yunji, and Chang Kong watched from the Bookstore.

After Yun Qingyang ran away from home, Ma Feifei grew despondent while she traveled through Nine Heavens Mountain. There, she mistook a masked stranger for an assassin and fought him until they recognized each other as a frost giant dragon and the son of a flood dragon.

• Zhang Yunji told Ma Feifei that Yun Qingyang had transformed into a peach, which the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey picked and ate, prompting her to kick him and start a fight.
• Ma Feifei explained to the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey that he needed permission before taking things, then discovered Yun Qingyang had disappeared.
• Ma Feifei spent the next day missing Yun Qingyang while the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey quietly read Journey to the West.
• In Nine Heavens Mountain, a masked man decided to travel to Zhao State and approached Yun Qingyang to ask for directions.
• Yun Qingyang attacked the masked man, believing he belonged to the Phantom Organization, and the two exchanged powerful blows.
• The masked man removed his mask and revealed that his mother, a flood dragon, had told him about Yun Qingyang.

Yun Qingyang returned to Nine Heavens Mountain and mistakenly sent a masked man in black toward Zhao State, so he went to the Mysterious Bookstore to complain about one of its employees. Ma Feifei brought him into a private room to hear the complaint, leaving Zhang Yunji fearing for his job and promised reward.

• Yun Qingyang told the man in black that Zhao State lay to his right, then watched him leave while doubting her directions.
• The man in black reached Dubian Town, realized Yun Qingyang had sent him the wrong way, and headed to the Mysterious Bookstore to report her.
• Zhang Yunji told Ma Feifei that an aggressive masked man wanted an explanation from him, and Ma Feifei went to meet the visitor.
• The man in black accused a Bookstore employee of deceiving a customer, and Ma Feifei invited him into private room one.
• Zhang Yunji worried that the complaint concerned him and might cost him his job or the promised reward, while Luan Feng tried to reassure him.