Recaps

After only eight Tianshu Fragments reached the Wantong Trading Market, Ma Feifei investigated the brutal killings and learned that the attackers were likely three Great Sacred Beasts from Nine Heavens Mountain. As the spirit beasts began attacking Dubian Town again, Ma Feifei realized the Sacred Beasts had infiltrated the town.

• Zhou Zhuling told Ma Feifei that cultivators carrying Orange Fragments had been killed, and that the crime scenes bore three different auras.
• Ma Feifei suspected the thieves wanted the fragments for spirit beasts and went to inspect the tavern ruins with Yun Qingyang and Ba Jiu.
• Yun Qingyang sensed an aura from her kind, and Ba Jiu identified it as belonging to the Nine Bend Spider King, one of his mother's three Great Sacred Beasts.
• Ma Feifei and Zhou Zhuling realized all three Great Sacred Beasts had entered Dubian Town overnight.
• A crash sounded from the north as the spirit beasts launched another attack on the city.

The Heavy Armored Warriors and cultivators repelled a sixth-rank spirit-beast attack on Dubian Town, and Ma Feifei waited to see whether the Sacred Beasts would strike again. At Luanfeng Manor, Luan Feng refused Crown Prince Yan’s request for help and confronted a white-tailed woman who infiltrated her courtyard.

• The Heavy Armored Warriors fought the sixth-rank spirit beasts until cultivators joined them after spotting an Orange Fragment, and together they drove the beasts back into Nine Heavens Mountain.
• Ma Feifei and Zhou Zhuling discussed the likelihood of seventh-rank spirit beasts attacking, and Ma Feifei returned to the Mysterious Bookstore to wait and see whether the Sacred Beasts would return.
• Yan Gexing delivered five collected fragments to Luan Feng and told her that Crown Prince Yan wanted her to return to Yan State to quell a rebellion, but she refused.
• A white-haired, white-tailed woman appeared on the roof of Luan Feng’s courtyard and asked how Luan Feng had found her.
• The woman vanished and attacked Luan Feng, who answered with a golden-lit strike.

Luan Feng fought a white-tailed Sacred Beast that demanded the fragment from her space pouch, while onlookers mistook the beast and its allies for ninth-rank spirit beasts and rushed to get Ma Feifei. When a spider and a mouse joined the battle, Luan Feng transformed her spear into a blazing phoenix and defeated all three Sacred Beasts.

• Luan Feng grabbed Zhiying and the space pouch as the white-tailed woman’s attacks damaged the residence’s defensive formation.
• Luan Feng and the white-tailed woman fought in the sky while cultivators in Dubian Town mistook the opponent for a ninth-rank spirit beast and hurried to get the shopkeeper.
• Ma Feifei watched from the bookstore roof with three awakened divine beasts and said the fight was nearly over when the white figure fell from the sky.
• A spider and a mouse caught the fallen white-tailed woman, then joined her against Luan Feng as the onlookers feared for the general.
• Luan Feng transformed herself and her spear into a blazing phoenix, struck through all three Sacred Beasts, and sent them crashing to the ground.

Ma Feifei interrogated three captured Sacred Beasts and learned they had attacked Dubian Town to reclaim the Ice Crystal Palace and take Ba Jiu, while planning another siege with powerful spirit beasts. After imprisoning them for the mayor to handle, he was confronted by Yun Qingyang, who asked to see the Ice Crystal Palace.

• Ma Feifei threatened the Nine Bend Spider King until it agreed to explain the attack, and the three Sacred Beasts admitted they wanted the Ice Crystal Palace and Ba Jiu.
• The Sacred Beasts revealed that they had used Orange Fragments to strengthen themselves and handed over their fragments to Ma Feifei.
• Yun Bai Shu explained that the fragments increased a spirit beast's strength by a percentage of its cultivation.
• Gou Yu Hu disclosed plans for an attack the next day involving seventh-tier and eighth-tier spirit beasts, though the Flood Dragon Emperor might revise the plan.
• Ma Feifei left the captured Sacred Beasts for Zhou Wuji to deal with and used Draw a Circle to Make a Prison to keep them confined.
• Yun Qingyang asked Ma Feifei to take out the Ice Crystal Palace he had lent him.

Ma Feifei gathered most of the remaining Tianshu Fragments while waiting for another spirit beast siege, but the attack never came and the Nine Bend Spider escaped after killing Yun Bai Shu and Gou Yu Hu. When Yun Qingyang confronted him about the missing Ice Crystal Palace, she revealed a strange power that briefly lit up the bookstore and asked whether he wanted her to give him something.

• Ma Feifei put off showing Yun Qingyang the Ice Crystal Palace and warned the captive Legendary Beasts not to escape.
• At dawn, Ma Feifei sent Zhou Wuji away with the Legendary Beasts and collected Tianshu Fragments at the Wantong Trading Market until he had eighty.
• Ma Feifei waited all day for a spirit beast siege, but Zhou Wuji reported that the Nine Bend Spider had killed Yun Bai Shu and Gou Yu Hu, absorbed their inner cores, and escaped to Nine Heavens Mountain.
• Ma Feifei returned to the bookstore and admitted to Yun Qingyang that the Ice Crystal Palace was gone.
• Yun Qingyang used her golden blood to illuminate the dark bookstore briefly, then asked Ma Feifei if he wanted her to give him something.

Yun Qingyang gave Ma Feifei the mysterious, heavy Setting Sun Sword and warned him never to lose or give it away. Meanwhile, a serpent woman learned that her followers had died and their fragment had been taken, then headed for Dubian Town as Ba Jiu left the Mysterious Bookstore and Ma Feifei called Yun Qingyang to follow him.

• Yun Qingyang gave Ma Feifei the Setting Sun Sword and solemnly told him to keep it safe and never give it to anyone.
• Ma Feifei examined the heavy wooden sword, found the words “Setting Sun” engraved on it, and failed to awaken any response by channeling his innate violet qi into it.
• The Nine Bend Spider reported that Yun Bai Shu and Gou Yu Hu had died fighting the Mysterious Bookstore’s people and that they had taken the fragment; the serpent woman swallowed the spider in anger.
• The serpent woman revealed that she also possessed a Tianshu Fragment and flew toward Dubian Town, while spirit beasts trembled beneath her aura.
• A thunderclap woke Ba Jiu, who left the Mysterious Bookstore, and Ma Feifei called to Yun Qingyang to come with him.

Ba Jiu refused to return to Nine Heavens Mountain with the jiao who had raised him, and she attacked him before Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang intervened. After fighting Yun Qingyang, the jiao fled, but Ma Feifei intercepted her and was pulled into the black book.

• Ba Jiu told the middle-aged woman that he wanted to stay in the human world, but she attacked him when he refused to go home.
• Yun Qingyang and Ma Feifei arrived, and Yun Qingyang struck at the jiao with Qingshuang Sword as the jiao tried to take Ba Jiu away.
• The jiao and Yun Qingyang fought, and after neither gained an advantage, the jiao retreated toward Nine Heavens Mountain.
• Ma Feifei used Soaring Cloud Riding Mist and Somersault Cloud to block the jiao and attacked her with the black book.
• The jiao transformed into a huge snake and collided with Ma Feifei, after which Ma Feifei found himself inside the book.

Ma Feifei discovered that the flood dragon had been sucked into The Legend of the Righteous Demon, and the system assigned him a quest to subdue and seal it inside the book. Before entering, he announced rewards for Orange Fragments, while cultivators discussed the Mysterious Bookstore’s latest divine-beast capture.

• Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang found an Orange Fragment where the flood dragon had disappeared, then returned to the bookstore to inspect the book that had swallowed it.
• The system gave Ma Feifei the quest to enter The Legend of the Righteous Demon and seal the flood dragon beneath Leifeng Pagoda, warning him he could not use force to subdue it.
• Ma Feifei learned he would be invincible inside the book and decided he could handle the quest safely.
• Ma Feifei went to the Wantong Trading Market, which announced that the Mysterious Bookstore had subdued the Nine Heavens Mountain divine beast and offered increased rewards for Orange Fragments.
• Cultivators debated the announcement, recalling that the Mysterious Bookstore had also subdued the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey and that the Saint had fought a middle-aged woman at the northern entrance.

After the divine beast was subdued, cultivators rushed into Nine Heavens Mountain to seek treasure, while the Mysterious Bookstore began projecting a new story. Ma Feifei entered the world of The Legend of the White Snake as Li Gongfu and hurried to West Lake, where Xu Xian and the two women arrived by boat.

• News that the Mysterious Bookstore had subdued Nine Heavens Mountain’s divine beast spread, drawing cultivators into the mountain and prompting the soldiers near Dubian Town to prepare to withdraw.
• A black book appeared above the Mysterious Bookstore and projected a scene from a new story, drawing the attention of cultivators still in town.
• Ma Feifei discovered he had possessed Li Gongfu and learned from the system that Xu Xian had already met White Lady at West Lake.
• Ma Feifei rushed to Broken Bridge, where a sudden storm cleared the lakeside and Xu Xian arrived by boat with White Lady and the woman in green.
• Ma Feifei restrained himself from using force and decided to treat all the possible snake suspects as flood dragons.

Ma Feifei tried to steer the story toward capturing the flood dragon, then used realgar wine at a banquet to test White Lady and Xiao Qing. The chapter ended with everyone seated and the snakes facing the wine, but neither had yet revealed a true form.

• Ma Feifei disrupted Xu Xian and White Lady's boat ride, and the green and white snakes emerged after the rain stopped and revived the unconscious boatman.
• Ma Feifei decided to let Xu Xian discover the snakes' identities and bring Fahai to capture them, then left West Lake.
• Cultivators outside the projection debated whether Ma Feifei was a cultivator, the protagonist, or simply jealous.
• After Xu Xian married White Lady and brought her and Xiao Qing home, Ma Feifei hosted them at a banquet with Xu Jiaorong.
• Ma Feifei served realgar wine to Xiao Qing, White Lady, and the others, hoping the wine would make the flood dragon reveal its true form.

Ma Feifei used realgar wine to test the White Lady and Xiao Qing, then learned from the system that the White Lady was an ancient jiao healing itself by absorbing Xu Xian’s pure yang energy. He worried that Fahai might not be able to defeat it if it regained its strength, so he hurried to the courtyard to intervene.

• Ma Feifei raised a toast with the White Lady, Xiao Qing, Xu Xian, and Xu Jiaorong, and Xiao Qing struggled to drink the realgar wine.
• After Ma Feifei refilled their bowls, the White Lady grew dizzy and left the banquet with Xu Xian and Xiao Qing.
• Ma Feifei planned to make Xu Xian discover the White Lady’s true form so that he would seek Fahai’s help.
• Ma Feifei asked the system why the jiao had become the White Lady, and the system said it was gravely injured and absorbing Xu Xian’s pure yang energy to heal.
• Fearing the jiao would recover too much for Fahai to defeat, Ma Feifei headed to the courtyard.

Ma Feifei used realgar wine and a fire to try to force the White Snake and Green Snake to reveal their true forms. The White Snake escaped the burning room carrying the unconscious Green Snake, whose huge green tail was exposed before Xu Xian and the watching cultivators.

• Ma Feifei used Thousand-Mile Eyes to look inside the room and saw the snakes in disheveled clothing, but both were still in human form.
• Ma Feifei sent innate purple qi into the room, setting it ablaze and prompting Xu Xian to call for his wife to come out.
• The White Snake failed to extinguish the fire, knocked the Green Snake unconscious, and carried her toward the exit as the heat and realgar wine weakened her.
• The White Snake burst through the door with the Green Snake, whose enormous tail slid out and struck Xu Xian's foot.

Ma Feifei watched Xu Xian faint after seeing Xiao Qing’s snake form, then learned Xu Xian still believed the White Lady was being threatened and asked him for help. Deciding not to rely on Xu Xian, Ma Feifei set out to find Fahai himself and advance the mission.

• Ma Feifei fled before the White Lady emerged, and she carried Xu Xian and the green snake back inside without finding anyone else in the courtyard.
• The cultivators outside the projection speculated that the White Lady and Xiao Qing were snake spirits and suspected Li Gongfu had caused the strange fire.
• Ma Feifei was puzzled when Xu Xian came to dinner with the White Lady and Xiao Qing as though nothing had happened.
• Xu Xian visited Ma Feifei at midnight and asked him to save his wife, claiming Xiao Qing was a snake spirit who held the White Lady under her control.
• Ma Feifei decided to find Fahai himself and left his room to seek him out.

Ma Feifei used the bookstore’s Working Together permission to summon Yun Qingyang into The Legend of the Righteous Demon to help subdue the White Snake. After bringing her back to the Li residence, he tried to persuade her to wait until morning and follow his plan, but she still wanted to hunt the White Snake immediately.

• Ma Feifei discovered that Fahai was away from Golden Mountain Temple and used the Working Together permission to seek help.
• Ma Feifei contacted Yun Qingyang, explained that he needed help subduing the flood dragon, and offered her one million Spirit Crystals.
• Yun Qingyang agreed to enter the book world without taking payment and arrived beside Ma Feifei, determined to confront the flood dragon.
• Ma Feifei brought Yun Qingyang to the Li residence and planned to make the White Snake reveal her true form before Xu Xian the next day.
• Yun Qingyang tried to leave and find the White Snake, so Ma Feifei blurted out, “Can't you sleep with me?”

Ma Feifei mistook Yun Qingyang’s offer to accompany him while he slept for a romantic proposition, then paid her a million Spirit Crystals to keep him company. At dawn, they prepared to trick the dragon into revealing her true form, and Ma Feifei entered Xu Xian’s courtyard with a medicinal herb.

• Ma Feifei asked Yun Qingyang to sleep with him, and she agreed after demanding a million Spirit Crystals.
• Yun Qingyang sat beside the bed with her sword to keep Ma Feifei company while he slept, while he hid under the quilt in embarrassment.
• At dawn, Ma Feifei explained their plan for Yun Qingyang to disguise herself, attack him, and help draw the dragon out.
• Ma Feifei pointed out that Yun Qingyang’s Qingshuang Sword would give her away, so she borrowed his Setting Sun Sword instead.
• Ma Feifei entered Xu Xian’s courtyard holding a medicinal herb and called out, “Hanwen!”

Ma Feifei gave White Lady Azure Grass, prompting Yun Qingyang to attack her for it. White Lady revealed her strength and fought Yun Qingyang in the air while Ma Feifei sensed a powerful aura approaching.

• Ma Feifei visited Xu Xian and offered White Lady a precious Azure Grass disguised as a thousand-year-old lingzhi.
• Yun Qingyang swooped down to seize the Azure Grass, but White Lady took it and dodged her attack.
• White Lady revealed her true strength and clashed with Yun Qingyang after Yun Qingyang trapped her with sword auras.
• Xiao Qing joined the fight, but Yun Qingyang pierced her shoulder and knocked her down.
• Yun Qingyang and White Lady carried their battle into the air as onlookers gathered, and Ma Feifei sensed a powerful aura approaching.

Fahai attacked Yun Qingyang, but Ma Feifei struck him down and escaped with her. Fahai exposed White Lady and Xiao Qing as snake spirits, and as he moved to kill White Lady, she revealed her flood-dragon form.

• Fahai struck the white snake, then turned on Yun Qingyang after recognizing her as a wicked beast.
• Yun Qingyang fought Fahai until his Demon Subduing Bowl struck her, but Ma Feifei hit Fahai and escaped with her.
• Fahai used the bowl to expose White Lady and Xiao Qing as snake spirits, terrifying Xu Xian.
• White Lady broke free of the bowl, swallowed Xu Xian, and faced Fahai with his Sky-Supporting Zen Staff.
• White Lady revealed her dark-blue scales and forehead bumps, transforming into her true flood-dragon form.

The white snake transformed into a flood dragon and overwhelmed Fahai, swallowing him after taking his Vajra. With Yun Qingyang’s cultivation restriction lifted, she prepared to confront the flood dragon while Ma Feifei worried about her safety.

• Fahai recognized the white snake’s flood dragon transformation and urged her to return with him to Golden Mountain Temple.
• The flood dragon attacked Fahai, knocked him down, and forced him to draw his Vajra.
• The flood dragon resisted the Vajra, took it from Fahai, and swallowed him as he tried to flee.
• A system notification told Ma Feifei that the flood dragon’s restored strength had lifted Yun Qingyang’s cultivation restriction.
• Yun Qingyang’s strength returned, and Ma Feifei let her go to join the fight.

Yun Qingyang defeated the middle-aged flood dragon by trapping her with Qi from the Setting Sun Sword, but Ma Feifei stopped Yun Qingyang from killing her and carried the weakened woman to Golden Mountain Temple. Fahai and Xu Xian took charge of suppressing her beneath Leifeng Pagoda, completing Ma Feifei’s task and sending him out of the book’s world.

• Yun Qingyang challenged the middle-aged woman, and Ma Feifei flew up to watch their fight.
• Yun Qingyang’s Setting Sun Sword formed a net of Qi that trapped the woman in flood-dragon form, and Yun Qingyang struck her down into West Lake.
• Ma Feifei pulled the weakened flood dragon ashore and stopped Yun Qingyang from killing her, while Yun Qingyang took the woman’s spatial ring and was teleported away.
• Ma Feifei discovered another life inside the woman and summoned Fahai and Xu Xian at Golden Mountain Temple.
• Fahai carried the woman into Golden Mountain Temple with Xu Xian, and Ma Feifei completed his task and vanished from the book’s world.

With Dubian Town crowded after the Mysterious Bookstore announced its dungeon and anniversary events, Ma Feifei prepared Luan Feng to paint a Fenghuang on the Four Spirit Pillars. As Luan Feng began painting, he checked on Yun Qingyang, who was still guarding the treasures she had taken from the flood dragon.

• The Mysterious Bookstore’s new dungeon and upcoming anniversary drew cultivators to Dubian Town, while Ma Feifei gathered ninety-eight Tianshu Fragments and still lacked the ninety-ninth.
• Ma Feifei brought Luan Feng into the closed bookstore and told her to paint the Fenghuang using her Origin Power.
• Luan Feng began painting steadily, completing two Fenghuang claws as Ma Feifei watched.
• Ma Feifei went to the backyard after hearing noises and found Yun Qingyang sorting treasures from the flood dragon’s spatial ring.
• Yun Qingyang said she had taken Fahai’s Demon Subduing Bowl and Vajra and threatened to smash his mouth if she saw him again.
• Ma Feifei reassured Yun Qingyang that Fahai was only a character in a book and claimed he should have written him to death.

Yun Qingyang decided to write a book with its own world so she could meet the parents she had never known, and Ma Feifei offered to help her. She exposed that he had been secretly throwing away her white-quality books.

• Yun Qingyang pretended to cry until Ma Feifei gave her a million Spirit Crystals, then announced she would enter his original works competition.
• Yun Qingyang said she planned to put Fahai in her book and write him to death, then asked whether a book with a world would let her enter it.
• After Ma Feifei confirmed she could enter such a world, Yun Qingyang said she wanted to write one because she missed her parents.
• Ma Feifei offered to help Yun Qingyang write a book with a world so she could meet her parents.
• Yun Qingyang produced a pile of white-covered books from her space ring and confronted Ma Feifei for secretly throwing them away.

Ma Feifei discovered that Yun Qingyang was writing a book and challenged her to a bet over whether it could reach above Yellow Quality without his help. They sealed the wager, leaving the outcome undecided.

• Ma Feifei checked that The Legend of Bai Jie was still hidden beneath his pillow, then found Luan Feng slowly painting the Fenghuang's talons.
• Ma Feifei searched for Ba Jiu and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey and learned from Yun Qingyang that they had gone to Zhang Yunji's house to share stories for his books.
• Ma Feifei explained that cultivators across Dubian Town were writing books for the Mysterious Bookstore's anniversary event, driving paper prices sharply upward.
• Ma Feifei challenged Yun Qingyang to prove her book could reach above Yellow Quality without his help, wagering that he could look around her spatial ring if he won.
• Yun Qingyang accepted and asked Ma Feifei to promise her one thing if he lost; Ma Feifei agreed, and they sealed the bet with a high five.

Ma Feifei searched for the missing ninety-ninth Tianshu Fragment and suspected it might belong to Yun Qingyang, who was writing a book about her parents. After Yun Qingyang said Ba Jiu had a fragment, Ma Feifei realized he might have the unusually large one and went to find him.

• While plucking a chicken, Ma Feifei wondered where the ninety-ninth Tianshu Fragment was and suspected it belonged to the most powerful being in Nine Heavens Mountain.
• Ma Feifei saw Yun Qingyang writing a book titled “My father, my mother, and me” and considered whether her ancient Divine Beast family could give the story a powerful setting.
• Ma Feifei asked Yun Qingyang if she had a large Tianshu Fragment, but she denied having one and told him that Ba Jiu had a fragment.
• Ma Feifei realized Ba Jiu had been born when the Book Spirit of The Analects scattered across Nine Heavens Mountain, then left for Zhang Yunji’s home to find him.

Liu Ying struggled to find material for her book until Baili Chuxue suggested asking the Mysterious Bookstore’s owner, Ma Feifei. When Ma Feifei joined the Zhang family’s feast and enjoyed the food, he decided to recruit a beautiful cook for the Bookstore.

• Liu Ying grew frustrated as Ba Jiu and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey told boastful stories that she could not use as material for her book.
• Baili Chuxue suggested that Liu Ying seek stories from the store owner, and Liu Ying resolved to visit Ma Feifei.
• The steward announced Ma Feifei’s arrival, and Zhang Yunji and Chang Kong brought him into the hall and seated him at the feast.
• Ma Feifei enjoyed the dishes and decided that the Bookstore needed a beautiful cook.

Ma Feifei invented an ancient origin story for Liu Ying’s book, claiming he had split chaos and created heaven and earth. His listeners were captivated, and he continued describing how his body became the world.

• Liu Ying asked Ma Feifei to share extraordinary experiences as material for her book, while Zhang Yunji and Chang Kong secretly listened for stories to use in their own writing.
• Ma Feifei claimed he had been nurtured in chaos thirty million years ago and had split it with an axe to create heaven and earth.
• He said he had held heaven and earth apart for eighteen thousand years as they grew, then breathed out wind and clouds.
• Ma Feifei described transforming his body into the sun, moon, mountains, rivers, stars, plants, minerals, and spiritual energy, leaving the hall stunned.