Recaps

Ma Feifei questioned a masked man who came to complain that Yun Qingyang had misdirected him, then learned she had been on Nine Heavens Mountain. After the man fled, the system announced an enhancement quest to capture an auspicious beast that had entered the Bookstore.

• Ma Feifei invited the masked man inside and served him Enlightenment Tea as he asked to complain about Yun Qingyang.
• The man revealed that Yun Qingyang had sent him toward Dubian Town when he had asked for directions to Zhao State.
• Ma Feifei learned that the man had met Yun Qingyang on the seventh mountain and worried that she had returned to Nine Heavens Mountain because she was angry with him.
• The man became wary of Ma Feifei's shifting moods and hurried out before resolving his complaint.
• The system announced the quest to capture an auspicious beast, and Ma Feifei called for Zhang Yunji to catch the lucky cat.

Ma Feifei captured Ba Jiu, discovered that he was a three-month-old variant Qilin, and wondered how the Mysterious Bookstore had caused his evolution. He offered Ba Jiu a role as the bookstore’s guardian divine pet, and Ba Jiu asked what he would get in return.

• Ma Feifei tied up the man in black and questioned him about his identity and powerful mother.
• The man in black gave his name as Ba Jiu, and Ma Feifei wrote it on the Tianshu Fragment.
• The Tianshu Fragment revealed Ba Jiu was a three-month-old variant Qilin with a fifty-thousand-year lifespan and first-grade divine beast cultivation.
• Ma Feifei speculated that Ba Jiu had evolved through a book in the Mysterious Bookstore, like Yun Qingyang and Luan Feng.
• Ma Feifei asked Ba Jiu to become the Mysterious Bookstore’s guardian divine pet, and Ba Jiu asked what was in it for him.

Ma Feifei welcomed the three-month-old Qilin Ba Jiu into the Mysterious Bookstore after promising to take him sightseeing across the Five Nations of Canglong. Ba Jiu warned that his powerful flood-dragon caretaker would come looking for him, while his arrival boosted the bookstore and triggered a wave of book worlds.

• Ba Jiu asked Ma Feifei to take him to see the sights of the Five Nations of Canglong, and Ma Feifei agreed.
• Ba Jiu explained that a flood dragon who had hatched him drew his blood and could track him with an origin mark, so Ma Feifei promised the Mysterious Bookstore would protect him.
• Ba Jiu moved into the last available room in the bookstore's back courtyard, and the system announced that the Auspicious Omen Quest was complete and bookstore rewards had doubled.
• The bookstore's presence strengthened readers' comprehension, and cultivators triggered worlds including Legend of the Swordsmen of Shu Mountain, Pokémon, The Lotus Lantern, and Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio.
• More cultivators gathered as nearly every book world of Yellow Quality or higher was triggered, and Ma Feifei recognized Yan State Chancellor Yuwen Hongdu entering Han Feizi.

Yuwen Hongdu entered the world inside Han Feizi as King Yan Xi and received a mission to defend Jicheng from Qin. Ma Feifei accepted a real-time confrontation mission and entered the book as the Qin general Wang Jian, leaving him to oppose Yuwen Hongdu.

• Yuwen Hongdu found himself in an ancient palace with his Spiritual Power sealed and learned from a woman that he was King Yan Xi of Yan State.
• Yuwen Hongdu learned that the Qin Army was preparing to attack Jicheng after defeating Yan at the Yi River and received a mission to defend the capital.
• Ma Feifei deduced that Yuwen Hongdu was in the Warring States period and saw the mission appear in the bookstore's projection.
• The system offered Ma Feifei a real-time confrontation mission to join a faction hostile to Yuwen Hongdu, and Ma Feifei accepted.
• Ma Feifei appeared in the Qin Army's camp as Wang Jian, the Qin general leading the advance on Jicheng.

Ma Feifei discovered that his challenge mission offered no reward and that he could not leave until it ended, so he decided to help Yuwen Hongdu hold Jicheng in exchange for payment. Yuwen Hongdu received Ma Feifei’s proposal but suspected it was a trap.

• Ma Feifei learned that he could not exit the rewardless mission and dismissed the Qin generals rather than issue battle orders.
• Ma Feifei decided to let Yuwen Hongdu complete his mission and seek a reward from him in return.
• A Qin envoy delivered Yuwen Hongdu a letter from Wang Jian offering to secretly let Yan hold Jicheng for payment.
• Yuwen Hongdu realized Wang Jian was another Azure Dragon Continent reader and suspected the offer was a trap.

Yuwen Hongdu prepared Jicheng’s outnumbered defenders for the Qin Army’s assault, while Ma Feifei revealed that his cultivation remained intact. As the city’s fire barrier slowed the attack, Ma Feifei summoned clouds and torrential rain.

• Ma Feifei rejected Yuwen Hongdu’s reply, called a council of generals, and ordered the Qin Army to march on Jicheng.
• Readers outside the Bookstore recognized Yuwen Hongdu and discussed his story mission and the danger facing Yan’s capital.
• Yuwen Hongdu ordered Jicheng’s troops onto the walls, had the people prepare timber and an oil-soaked fire barrier, and commanded them to defend the city to the death.
• Wang Jian ordered the Qin Army to attack, and Yuwen Hongdu set the wooden barrier ablaze to halt the assault.
• Ma Feifei revealed that his cultivation had not been sealed and used Summoning Clouds and Bringing Rain to unleash a storm over Jicheng.

Ma Feifei used Divine Abilities and Spells through Wang Jian to extinguish the fire and hinder the Qin Army, forcing Yuwen Hongdu to accept his help in exchange for two billion Spirit Crystals. After the story mission ended, Yuwen Hongdu emerged from Han Feizi having comprehended the Emperor's Aura, then was fined for shouting in the Bookstore.

• Ma Feifei used a sudden downpour to extinguish Yuwen Hongdu's fire, and the cultivators deduced that Ma Feifei was controlling Wang Jian.
• Ma Feifei pressured Yuwen Hongdu with a Qin Army siege, and Yuwen Hongdu sent him a letter offering two billion Spirit Crystals for help holding the Yan capital.
• Ma Feifei accepted Yuwen Hongdu's offer and used four days of rain to turn the roads into mud, preventing the Qin Army from advancing.
• Yuwen Hongdu emerged from Han Feizi after comprehending the Emperor's Aura and paid two million Spirit Crystals after Zhang Yunji fined him for shouting.
• Zhang Yunji reminded Yuwen Hongdu to settle his two-billion-Spirit-Crystal IOU as he left the Mysterious Bookstore.

Ma Feifei gathered Chang Kong, Ba Jiu, and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey to search Nine Heavens Mountain for Yun Qingyang and bring her home. After the Mysterious Bookstore closed, they prepared to depart, while Zhang Yunji stayed behind and began sharing a secret with Luan Feng.

• After learning Yun Qingyang's whereabouts from Ba Jiu, Ma Feifei decided to search Nine Heavens Mountain before she could encounter the ancient flood dragon there.
• Ma Feifei summoned Chang Kong and brought Ba Jiu and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey along, while ordering Zhang Yunji and Luan Feng to keep the bookstore running.
• Ma Feifei told Chang Kong to prepare for a nighttime expedition and refused Zhang Yunji's request to join because he would be a liability.
• When the bookstore closed, Ma Feifei collected its Epic-grade books and headed to the back courtyard to meet the others.
• After Ma Feifei left, Luan Feng suspected he was going to find the divine beast in the Ninth Mountain, and Zhang Yunji leaned close to tell her a secret.

Ma Feifei and his companions traveled into Nine Heavens Mountain, where he watched three Spirit King women struggle to defeat a Crimson Water Scorpion because they kept protecting their young master. As the scorpion lashed out after losing a pincer, Ma Feifei spotted a Tianshu Fragment gleaming on its tail.

• Ma Feifei led his hired fighters toward Nine Heavens Mountain as cultivators discussed reports that spirit beasts across the mountain had grown stronger.
• On the mountain's sixth level, three Spirit King ninth-stage women fought a Crimson Water Scorpion while shielding their Spirit Ancestor ninth-stage young master.
• The young master repeatedly joined the battle and drew the scorpion's attacks, forcing the women to interrupt their own strikes to protect him.
• Ma Feifei watched with Chang Kong, Ba Jiu, and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey, then decided to leave after recognizing how the young master hindered the women.
• One of the women severed the scorpion's pincer, and Ma Feifei noticed a gleam on its tail and identified it as a Tianshu Fragment.

Ma Feifei recognized a Tianshu Fragment embedded in the Crimson Water Scorpion's tail and approached, but a pair of ambushers attacked the adventurers who had killed it. After the attackers wounded Xia He, Qiu Lu, and the young master, Ma Feifei stepped in to stop them from taking the scorpion.

• Ma Feifei spotted the glowing Tianshu Fragment on the Crimson Water Scorpion and walked toward it, while Chang Kong moved ahead of him.
• The woman with the sword blocked Ma Feifei, and the young master claimed the scorpion belonged to their group.
• Two middle-aged men ambushed Xia He and Qiu Lu, then tried to take the Crimson Water Scorpion while the young master summoned an Eighth-tier Spirit Beast Formation.
• The young master charged one of the attackers and was knocked down, leaving the woman with the sword to rush to his aid.
• Ma Feifei approached the scorpion with Chang Kong, the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey, and Ba Jiu, and told the middle-aged man that the beast did not belong to him.

Ma Feifei stopped two men from taking the Crimson Water Scorpion and obtained the Tianshu Fragment embedded in its tail. The system explained that fragments from The Analects had fused with spirit beasts in Nine Heavens Mountain, leaving Ma Feifei puzzled about how they related to his Side Quest reward.

• Ma Feifei confronted two men who had ambushed the team and tried to take the Crimson Water Scorpion, and Chang Kong killed the middle-aged man after Ma Feifei staged an attack.
• The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey killed the middle-aged man's fleeing companion with the Golden Cudgel.
• Ma Feifei found an Orange Tianshu Fragment embedded in the Crimson Water Scorpion's tail and tore it free.
• Ma Feifei asked the system about the fragment and learned that ninety-nine fragments from The Analects had fused with spirit beasts in Nine Heavens Mountain.
• Ma Feifei wondered whether the nine Tianshu Fragments promised by the Book-holding woman Side Quest were unrelated to the nine books of the Four Books and Five Classics.

Ma Feifei and his party crossed Nine Heavens Mountain and reached the Ice Crystal Palace while searching for Yun Qingyang. They found the palace was made entirely of Spirit Crystals and guarded by a powerful formation, which Chang Kong began to inspect.

• Ma Feifei learned that the Tianshu Fragments were hidden on spirit beasts in Nine Heavens Mountain, then left the injured young master and his companions behind.
• The young master asked Chuncan whether she recognized Ma Feifei's group, and she connected the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey to rumors about the Mysterious Bookstore.
• Ma Feifei's party traveled through Nine Heavens Mountain, where Ba Jiu and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey kept the many powerful spirit beasts at bay.
• Ba Jiu guided the group toward the Ice Crystal Palace, explaining that his mother lived nearby and that a Frost Giant Dragon had once lived in the palace.
• Ma Feifei and Chang Kong were astonished to see that the Ice Crystal Palace was carved from Spirit Crystals, and Ba Jiu warned that its formation had injured his mother.
• Ma Feifei asked Chang Kong to examine the palace's formation, and Chang Kong cautiously approached it.

Ma Feifei discovered that his Blood Pact with Yun Qingyang let him pass through the divine-level formation guarding the Ice Crystal Palace. He entered the palace while Chang Kong and the divine beasts waited outside, where Ba Jiu puzzled over a saying he seemed to remember.

• Chang Kong tested the divine-level formation and injured his hand when it struck back.
• Ma Feifei stopped Chang Kong from trying to break the formation and explained that even the ancient flood dragon had failed to overcome it.
• Ma Feifei touched the formation without being repelled, then passed through it and headed toward the Ice Crystal Palace.
• Chang Kong bounced off the formation when he tried to follow, while Ma Feifei told them to wait outside.
• The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey and Ba Jiu discussed Ba Jiu's age and a saying, which Ba Jiu could not remember learning.

Ma Feifei tried to cut down a pillar outside the Ice Crystal Palace, then found Yun Qingyang and urged her to return home. Yun Qingyang rejected his trick question and said he did not understand her.

• Ma Feifei failed to damage the pillar with his cleaver and ninth-tier axe after discovering it had a divine-level formation.
• Ma Feifei struggled to open the palace gates, which opened on their own and left him sprawled across the threshold.
• Yun Qingyang held Ma Feifei back with the Qingshuang Sword when he tried to hug her, then tried to push him outside.
• Ma Feifei refused to leave and said he had come to take Yun Qingyang home because he feared someone would bully her.
• Ma Feifei challenged Yun Qingyang to an intelligence question, but she answered that all 50 Spirit Crystals were hers and said he did not understand her.

Ma Feifei followed Yun Qingyang into the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Ice Cavern, where she revealed that the Ice Crystal Palace was a divine artifact and that she had come to reclaim it. Yun Qingyang used Ma Feifei’s blood to activate the artifact spirit, and as the cavern began to collapse, their blood triggered a mysterious reaction.

• Ma Feifei persuaded Yun Qingyang to leave, but she led him deeper into the Ice Crystal Palace and showed him the pit leading to the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Ice Cavern.
• Yun Qingyang transformed into a blue dragon and carried Ma Feifei down into the cavern, where they found a miniature Ice Crystal Palace held above a platform by nine icicles.
• Yun Qingyang explained that the miniature was the palace’s artifact spirit and that she had returned to reclaim the divine artifact from the flood dragon outside.
• Yun Qingyang cut Ma Feifei’s finger and pressed his blood against the artifact spirit, which began draining his blood; she then added her own blood.
• The artifact spirit glowed and sent out a wave of light as the cavern walls cracked, and Ma Feifei sensed a strange familiarity while Yun Qingyang appeared to endure pain.

Ma Feifei took the golden Ice Crystal Palace from Yun Qingyang after she agreed to rent it to him, triggering a system mission to use it to renovate the Bookstore. The group set off for home, unaware that a mysterious woman with a long tail watched them leave.

• The Ice Crystal Palace absorbed Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang's blood, turned golden, and triggered the system's Bookstore renovation mission.
• The Ten-Thousand-Zhang Ice Cavern collapsed, and Yun Qingyang used the artifact spirit to take the Ice Crystal Palace and bring the group to the surface.
• Ma Feifei offered Yun Qingyang one hundred million Spirit Crystals to borrow the divine artifact, and she agreed to the deal.
• Ma Feifei put the Ice Crystal Palace in his spatial ring and led Yun Qingyang, Chang Kong, Ba Jiu, and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey toward the Bookstore by a detour.
• After the group left, a middle-aged woman with a long tail appeared where the Ice Crystal Palace had stood and watched them go.

After Saint Chu lost his title, people across Chu Kingdom speculated about the Empress’s motives and the kingdom’s future. In Dubian Town, cultivators gathered at the Wantong Trading Market to bid on three divine arts from the Mysterious Bookstore, and the auction began with the Clone Technique.

• Tavern patrons in Yuanfang City debated why Saint Chu had resigned and worried that Chu Kingdom was vulnerable without a Saint.
• A cultivator suggested that Goddess Yin Yue might become Chu Kingdom’s next Saint, prompting speculation about the Empress’s decision.
• Cultivators crowded the Wantong Trading Market in Dubian Town to compete for the three divine arts offered by the Mysterious Bookstore.
• The auctioneer introduced the Clone Technique, described its ability to create thousands of bodies, and opened bidding at ten million Spirit Crystals.

The auctioneer sold the Clone Technique, Invisibility Technique, and Scattering Beans into Soldiers Technique for enormous sums at the Wantong Trading Market. A young man repeatedly drove up the bids before withdrawing, and the chapter ended when someone called Ma Feifei home for dinner.

• The chairman of the Yunteng Chamber of Commerce won the Clone Technique for 110 million Spirit Crystals after the young man bid 100 million and then dropped out.
• The masked figure in black won the Invisibility Technique for 130 million Spirit Crystals after outbidding the young man.
• The young man and Bai Yi bid against each other for the Scattering Beans into Soldiers Technique, and Bai Yi won for 180 million Spirit Crystals.
• After the auctioneer prepared to give his closing remarks, someone called, "Ma Feifei, come home and eat."

Ma Feifei remodeled the Bookstore with the Ice Crystal Palace, transforming its interior and unlocking new reader-related permissions. The remodeling introduced a Comprehension Wall and a system of exclusive titles, while Ma Feifei wondered why his own plaque was missing.

• Ma Feifei returned to the courtyard after his undercover sale at the Wantong Trading Market and joined Yun Qingyang and the others for a meal.
• Zhang Yunji shared his seasoning, and Ma Feifei praised it as everyone prepared and ate the Spirit Bamboo Pig.
• Ma Feifei took the Ice Crystal Palace from his spatial ring and agreed to the system's offer to remodel the Bookstore.
• The remodeling turned the Bookstore's walls and furnishings into ice-crystal-like surfaces, added four pillars and plaques for Gongsun Qiong and Luan Feng, and made the wall facing the street transparent.
• The system announced that the remodeling was complete and granted Ma Feifei Comprehension Wall and Title permissions.

Ma Feifei learned about the bookstore’s new title permissions and unveiled its renovated interior and exterior to the gathered cultivators. He wrote a famous line on the entrance plaques, then realized he had put it on the wrong side.

• The system explained the five book-friend title ranks, their requirements, and the bookstore’s one-way glass walls to Ma Feifei.
• Ma Feifei opened the bookstore and showed the crowd its renovated exterior and brightened interior.
• Ma Feifei asked Yun Qingyang to bring him a stool, then wrote “Within books dwelt a woman with a face like jade” on the right plaque.
• The cultivators speculated that Yan Ruyu was a character in a coming book and copied down the line.
• Ma Feifei moved to write the other half of the couplet, then realized he had written the first line on the wrong plaque.

Ma Feifei finished the Mysterious Bookstore’s couplet, changing its promise of houses of gold to the path to immortality, and the slogan sparked a buying frenzy for exclusive numbers. He then examined the Four Spirit Pillars and asked Yun Qingyang to draw her true form, but she said the paper was too small.

• Ma Feifei wrote the couplet as “Books hold women as beautiful as jade; books hold the path to immortality,” and the system confirmed the plaque and couplet were complete.
• A middle-aged cultivator decided to buy exclusive numbers, and the couplet drove exclusive-number prices above two hundred thousand Spirit Crystals as cultivators rushed to purchase them.
• Ma Feifei studied the Four Spirit Pillars, which required the Four Divine Creatures to draw their forms and leave parts for him to complete.
• Ma Feifei asked Yun Qingyang to draw her true form, and she refused because it would not fit on the paper.

Ma Feifei taught Yun Qingyang, Ba Jiu, and the bookstore staff to sketch while Luan Feng began painting the Fenghuang she would become. The lesson left Ma Feifei impressed by Luan Feng’s dedication to Hong Luan and glancing thoughtfully at Yun Qingyang.

• Ma Feifei failed to teach Yun Qingyang to draw her true form, so he decided to start by teaching sketching.
• Luan Feng said she had studied painting and agreed to paint the Fenghuang; she went home to fetch her elaborate painting tools.
• Ma Feifei set Yun Qingyang and Ba Jiu to drawing lessons, and Liu Ying, Chang Kong, and Zhang Yunji joined them.
• Luan Feng began painting while Ma Feifei taught the others to sketch birds and turtles; Yun Qingyang drew a convincing bird.
• Ma Feifei urged Luan Feng to paint a rough likeness, but she insisted on honoring Hong Luan, her best partner.

Ma Feifei invited Chang Kong and his family to visit the branch store, hoping to get it running and earn more money. The next morning, cultivators crowded into the newly renovated Mysterious Bookstore, where they admired its changes and the gains displayed beneath portraits of Gongsun Qiong and Luan Feng before noticing that reading felt different.

• Ma Feifei invited Chang Kong to accompany him to the branch store the next day, and Chang Kong agreed while Zhang Yunji and Liu Ying showed interest.
• After Chang Kong's family and Luan Feng left, Ma Feifei fell asleep in his rocking chair.
• Cultivators gathered outside the Mysterious Bookstore to admire its new appearance and discuss the disappearance of the White Quality books.
• When the bookstore opened, readers examined the brighter, more spacious interior and saw the gains listed beneath portraits of Gongsun Qiong and Luan Feng.
• After most cultivators began reading, one noticed that reading felt different than before.

The Mysterious Bookstore’s new Frost Crystal Tables and Chairs increased readers’ Spiritual Power when they focused on reading. After Ma Feifei took Chang Kong and Yun Qingyang through the branch portal to the Qin State, a rare visitor arrived outside the Bookstore.

• Cultivators noticed a chill rising from the new tables and stools and discovered it could increase their Spiritual Power while they read attentively.
• Zhang Yunji quieted the readers and advised them to continue reading as they investigated the anomaly.
• Ma Feifei explained that the Frost Crystal Tables and Chairs were made from Spirit Crystals and ice from the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Ice Cavern, and that focused reading strengthened their effect.
• Ma Feifei told the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey to read Journey to the West and instructed Ba Jiu to stay in the Bookstore.
• Ma Feifei led Yun Qingyang and Chang Kong through the branch teleportation portal to the Qin State branch, and a rare visitor arrived outside the Bookstore.

Feng Yiming, the former Saint Chu, waited outside the Mysterious Bookstore to meet its owner, Ma Feifei, after arriving too late to find him. As onlookers speculated that Feng Yiming sought a path to the Immortal Realm, he gave Xiao Yan a ring and watched him leave.

• Feng Yiming arrived at the Mysterious Bookstore and asked Zhang Yunji to notify Ma Feifei, but Zhang Yunji explained that the owner had gone to the branch store.
• Feng Yiming declined a chair and waited outside the bookstore for Ma Feifei to return.
• Cultivators gathered in the street, recognizing Feng Yiming and wondering why he was waiting outside the bookstore without an exclusive number.
• A young cultivator named Xiao Yan said that Feng Yiming wanted to reach the Immortal Realm, and the crowd scattered when Feng Yiming turned toward him.
• Feng Yiming asked Xiao Yan his name, gave him a ring, and told him to continue along the path of cultivation.