Recaps

Ma Feifei told the hall that he had created the world and its inhabitants, though his claims were made up. Chang Kong gained a stage of cultivation after reaching enlightenment from Ma Feifei’s words, and Ma Feifei began another boast about making living creatures from clay.

• Ma Feifei described creating the world from his own body, leaving Liu Ying and the others amazed.
• Liu Ying asked what had happened to Ma Feifei after creation, and he claimed he would live as long as the world endured.
• Chang Kong entered a state of enlightenment after hearing Ma Feifei’s words, while Ma Feifei worried his boasting might cause harm.
• Chang Kong emerged from enlightenment with his cultivation raised by one stage and thanked Ma Feifei as his teacher.
• The group urged Ma Feifei to continue his story, and he claimed he had made all living creatures out of clay.

Ma Feifei retrieved the ninety-ninth Tianshu Fragment from Ba Jiu, and all ninety-nine fragments assembled into a page that entered Ba Jiu’s brow. Ba Jiu transformed into a Qilin and spat out a glowing Jade Book, leaving Ma Feifei to recognize the omen of a coming sage.

• Ma Feifei searched Ba Jiu for the Tianshu Fragment and learned it had grown into a scale on his tail.
• Ba Jiu transformed into a giant Qilin, and Ma Feifei removed the orange fragment from his tail.
• Ma Feifei brought all ninety-nine Tianshu Fragments together, and they assembled into a page that flew into Ba Jiu’s brow.
• Ba Jiu ascended into the sky, then appeared as a Qilin and spat out a glowing Jade Book toward Ma Feifei.
• Ma Feifei recalled the record that a Qilin’s Jade Book foretold the birth of a sage.

Ma Feifei received a mysterious blank Sacred Book after Ba Jiu transformed and spat out the Jade Book, then dreamed of unifying the Azure Dragon Continent and disappearing after breaking its cultivation Barrier. Yun Qingyang woke him with a slap, and he asked what she wanted.

• Kirin transformed, and Ma Feifei caught the Jade Book Ba Jiu had spat out.
• Ma Feifei recognized the Jade Book’s connection to Confucius, opened it, and found it blank before the system identified it as a Sacred Book.
• Ma Feifei put the Sacred Book away and went to sleep without learning what it did.
• Ma Feifei dreamed that he unified the Azure Dragon Continent, completed the Great Dao, and vanished as everyone celebrated the end of the Barrier to immortality.
• Yun Qingyang woke Ma Feifei with a slap, and he took the Qingshuang Sword from her before asking what she wanted.

Yun Qingyang made Ma Feifei choose a nickname for her book, and he called himself “Dragon Knight” before she beat him and sent him flying. He crashed into the arriving Empress Gongsun Qiong and Zhao Xiaodao, whereupon a Sacred Book emerged from his spatial ring and drifted toward Gongsun Qiong.

• Yun Qingyang asked Ma Feifei to choose a nickname for her book, and he declared himself the “Dragon Knight.”
• Yun Qingyang beat Ma Feifei so badly that he could not steady himself in the air and fell toward the road outside Dubian Town.
• Gongsun Qiong and Zhao Xiaodao stepped out of their carriage when Ma Feifei fell from the sky, and they tried to catch him.
• Ma Feifei crashed into Gongsun Qiong and Zhao Xiaodao, then apologized after realizing he was sitting on their thighs.
• A white light emerged from Ma Feifei’s spatial ring, and he recognized the object as the Sacred Book as it drifted toward Gongsun Qiong.

Gongsun Qiong accepted the Sacred Book, which seemed to recognize the other half of its Book Spirit within her. After she and Zhao Xiaodao arrived in Dubian Town for the Mysterious Bookstore’s anniversary, Ma Feifei cooked for them while an unknown young man entered town from the west.

• The Sacred Book followed Gongsun Qiong until Ma Feifei encouraged her to take it, and it settled happily into her hand.
• Gongsun Qiong told Ma Feifei that she could feel the Sacred Book’s joy but sensed nothing else.
• Zhao Xiaodao explained that she and Gongsun Qiong had come to attend the Mysterious Bookstore’s anniversary celebration.
• Ma Feifei, Gongsun Qiong, and Zhao Xiaodao entered Dubian Town with Zhou Wuji’s escort, and the Empress’s arrival drew little attention.
• Gongsun Qiong and Zhao Xiaodao rejected Ma Feifei’s offer to host a banquet at Yihong Tower and had him cook for them at the Mysterious Bookstore.
• A young man wearing blue and carrying a basket entered Dubian Town from the west.

A young man who could not afford an exclusive number tried to trade homemade pastries for entry to the Mysterious Bookstore. The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey ate the pastries but pretended he had made no deal, leaving the young man outside.

• Exclusive numbers at the Wantong Trading Market had settled at around a hundred thousand Spirit Crystals, and a young man repeatedly asked stall owners to lower their prices.
• The young man offered a stall owner a plate of pastries for an exclusive number, but the stall owner refused and sent him away.
• The young man went to the Mysterious Bookstore, where the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey told him the store was full and that he needed an exclusive number to enter.
• The young man offered the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey his pastries in exchange for entry, and the monkey ate the entire plate.
• When the young man asked to enter, the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey feigned confusion and dozed by the door.

A boy demanded compensation from the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey for eating his pastries, then won permission from Ma Feifei to enter the Mysterious Bookstore after Ma Feifei tasted them. The boy paid to enter and asked Ma Feifei whether the Bookstore had a book about cooking.

• The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey refused to repay the boy for eating his pastries, and the boy demanded a hundred thousand Spirit Crystals or threatened to roll around outside the Bookstore.
• Ma Feifei came out, heard what had happened, and mistook the delicate-looking boy for a young girl.
• The boy offered Ma Feifei another plate of pastries, and Ma Feifei enjoyed one and let him enter the Bookstore for ten Spirit Crystals.
• The boy paid Zhang Yunji and asked Ma Feifei for a book about making good food, and Ma Feifei named Gourmet Food Supplier.

Ma Feifei discovered that the Mysterious Bookstore had no food books on its shelves, but the system shop offered several. He learned that the boy searching for them, Zhang Caicai, dreamed of becoming the greatest God of Cooking on the Azure Dragon Continent, and began checking which books he could provide.

• Ma Feifei offered pastries to Yun Qingyang, Zhang Yunji, and Luan Feng, who each tried them and gave their opinions.
• Ma Feifei told the boy that the shelves had no food books but said he had one available, then led him into the backyard.
• Ma Feifei asked why the boy wanted food books, and Zhang Caicai declared his dream of becoming the greatest God of Cooking on the Azure Dragon Continent.
• Ma Feifei asked the system about food books, and it listed several available titles, including Treasured Food Record and Chuka Ichiban!.

Ma Feifei bought the Epic-grade manga Chuka Ichiban! and offered Zhang Caicai a deal: work as the Bookstore’s cook in exchange for reading it. Zhang Caicai accepted, but when Ma Feifei told him to make lunch, he revealed that he only knew how to cook one dish.

• Ma Feifei bought Chuka Ichiban! from the system for ten million Spirit Crystals and brought it out of the Bookstore.
• Zhang Caicai saw the black-covered Epic-grade manga and eagerly agreed to read it, but could not afford Ma Feifei’s daily fee.
• Ma Feifei offered Zhang Caicai unlimited access to Chuka Ichiban! in exchange for working in the Bookstore kitchen, and promised he could leave if the manga no longer satisfied him.
• Zhang Caicai agreed to the deal, sealed it with a high five, and became a Bookstore employee.
• Ma Feifei gave Zhang Caicai the manga, then asked him to cook lunch, and Zhang Caicai admitted that he only knew how to make one dish.

Ma Feifei reluctantly let Zhang Caicai stay as the Mysterious Bookstore’s kitchen hand, then discovered that Zhang Caicai was a boy who knew only one recipe. Zhang Caicai’s first staff meal turned out to be a dubious-looking dish served in an enormous pot.

• Ma Feifei rejected Zhang Caicai for knowing only one recipe, but Zhang Caicai clung to him and insisted he could learn from Chuka Ichiban!.
• Ma Feifei realized Zhang Caicai was a boy when he tried to carry him, while Yun Qingyang revealed she had noticed because Zhang Caicai had no cooking utensils.
• Zhang Caicai went into the kitchen and caused a racket as he prepared the bookstore’s first staff meal.
• Zhang Caicai brought out a huge pot of dark cuisine and proudly invited everyone to eat.
• Ma Feifei introduced Zhang Caicai as the bookstore’s new cook while the others eyed the meal without appetite.

Zhang Caicai joined the Mysterious Bookstore and impressed Ma Feifei and the others with his unexpectedly delicious stew. Later, Yun Qingyang finished writing a book and demanded to test its rank so she could rewrite it if it scored too low.

• Zhang Caicai introduced his Six-Ranked Stew, and Zhang Yunji and Ma Feifei tasted it and praised its flavor despite its poor appearance.
• Zhang Caicai promised to improve his cooking, and everyone except Yun Qingyang helped finish the pot of stew.
• Zhang Caicai busied himself around the Bookstore, then sat beside Ma Feifei to study recipes in Chuka Ichiban!.
• Yun Qingyang told Ma Feifei she had finished writing her book and asked him to bring out the evaluator so she could test its rank and rewrite it if needed.

Yun Qingyang used Ma Feifei’s evaluator to test the quality of her book, and it rated the book White Quality. The evaluator’s scathing assessment enraged her, leaving the backyard frozen in ice.

• Yun Qingyang placed her finished book in Ma Feifei’s evaluator, which cycled through colors before settling on white.
• Ma Feifei opened the evaluator and found a white-covered book depicting a Frost Giant Dragon facing a masked swordsman.
• Ma Feifei read the evaluator’s assessment, snapped the box shut, and tried to hide the result from Yun Qingyang.
• Yun Qingyang opened the evaluator and read its assessment: “Novel and interesting, as though returning to the days of one's first lessons.”
• Yun Qingyang’s anger spread ice across the backyard as Ma Feifei retreated behind a maple tree and Zhang Caicai watched in bewilderment.

After Yun Qingyang resumed writing, a wounded Lian Yi fled to the Mysterious Bookstore while an attacker pursued her, and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey fought the attacker in the sky. Ma Feifei treated Lian Yi with Ba Jiu’s blood, and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey sent the attacker flying as Lian Yi woke.

• Yun Qingyang stormed into her room, then later returned to the courtyard and continued writing while Ma Feifei rested.
• A bloodied Lian Yi flew toward the Mysterious Bookstore, and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey intercepted the attacker pursuing her.
• The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey and the attacker exchanged powerful blows in the air while Lian Yi collapsed in the rear courtyard.
• Ma Feifei recognized Lian Yi and used a drop of Ba Jiu’s Qilin blood to treat her injuries.
• The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey struck the attacker and sent her flying, and Lian Yi awoke as Ma Feifei looked on.

Ma Feifei learned that a hidden cultivator had reached the Peak of the Ninth Stage of Spirit Saint and discovered why Lian Yi was being hunted by the Vast Academy. Lian Yi revealed that she had stolen six Great Desolation Relic Tokens from the academy, leaving her pursuit unresolved.

• Ma Feifei learned from the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey that Lian Yi's pursuer had reached the Peak of the Ninth Stage of Spirit Saint.
• Lian Yi asked Ma Feifei to protect her and revealed that one of the Vast Academy's Seven Sages had been hunting her.
• Ma Feifei asked why the Vast Academy was pursuing Lian Yi, and she explained that she had taken back her Great Desolation Relic Token.
• Lian Yi told Ma Feifei that Cang Lan had taken her token, so she had sneaked into the Vast Academy's artifact vault to reclaim it.
• Lian Yi revealed that she had stolen six Great Desolation Relic Tokens from the vault before a mechanism stopped her from taking more.

Lian Yi explained how the Clone Technique had helped her escape Vast Academy’s pursuit and asked Ma Feifei to join her in the Great Desolation Relic. She revealed that its Chu River and Han Boundary transformed the relic into a board for a game, leaving Ma Feifei stunned by how familiar the setup sounded.

• Lian Yi told Ma Feifei that the Clone Technique had fooled her pursuer and helped her escape Vast Academy.
• Ma Feifei guessed that Lian Yi had a secret connection to the president of the Yunteng Chamber of Commerce, then reconsidered when he remembered the Book-holding woman had to be a virgin.
• Lian Yi said she had come because Ma Feifei was the only one who could save her and produced six Great Desolation Relic Tokens.
• Lian Yi asked Ma Feifei to team up with her when the Great Desolation Relic opened in two months.
• Lian Yi explained that the Chu River filling the Han Boundary transformed the Great Desolation Relic into a board where token holders became pieces and competed for an immense opportunity.
• Ma Feifei was stunned as he repeated “Chu River, Han Boundary, board, pieces.”

Ma Feifei learned that the Great Desolation Relic was a chessboard contest in which wisdom mattered more than cultivation, and Lian Yi asked him to protect her from Vast Academy. He agreed to enter with her in exchange for five tokens, while Lian Yi left the Mysterious Bookstore after being confronted by a cold young woman.

• Lian Yi explained that the thirty-two token holders became pieces on opposing sides of the Great Desolation Chessboard, where complicated rules determined victory.
• Ma Feifei invited Lian Yi to dinner, and she enthusiastically ate Zhang Caicai's Six-Ranked Stew with the others.
• Lian Yi told Ma Feifei that she had stolen the tokens from Vast Academy and feared its people would ambush her at the relic.
• Lian Yi offered Ma Feifei five Great Desolation Relic Tokens in return for joining her, and he accepted.
• Ma Feifei refused to let Lian Yi stay overnight, and a cold young woman with a black longsword ordered her to leave.
• Lian Yi leaped out of the backyard and vanished.

Ma Feifei copied the first chapter of Investiture of the Gods while considering whether to take the Longevity Pill he had made for Qin Shi Huang. Luan Feng finished drawing the Fenghuang on the Four Spirit Pillars, and Ma Feifei eagerly went to see what effect it would have on the Mysterious Bookstore.

• Ma Feifei began copying the legendary-grade Investiture of the Gods at the bookstore's checkout counter.
• Ma Feifei contemplated keeping the Longevity Pill, but returned it to his storage ring because he did not know what it would do.
• Ma Feifei discovered that copying Investiture of the Gods had no special effect, though it rapidly consumed Spirit Crystals.
• Luan Feng completed the Fenghuang on the Four Spirit Pillars, leaving its tail area blank.
• Luan Feng told Ma Feifei that the Fenghuang was finished, and Ma Feifei hurried over to inspect the pillars.

Ma Feifei completed the Fenghuang's tail on the Four Spirit Pillars, turning the pillar flame red but apparently gaining no benefit. The pillar then engulfed the Mysterious Bookstore in flames and transported everyone to an unfamiliar wilderness, where a Phoenix God Welfare Event began.

• Ma Feifei used Origin Power to paint the Fenghuang's tail, and the Four Spirit Pillars turned flame red as the Fenghuang appeared to come alive.
• Golden characters named the pillar the Phoenix God Pillar and the Four Divine Creatures of the Book of Rites, but Ma Feifei saw no immediate benefit and returned to copying the Investiture of the Gods.
• The Fenghuang on the pillar blinked, then a crimson breath spread through the Bookstore and an enormous fire erupted.
• The Bookstore's defense system suppressed the cultivators' Spiritual Power, and a strange fluctuation transported Ma Feifei, the customers, Luan Feng, and Zhang Yunji to a wilderness.
• A voice announced the Phoenix God Welfare Event, then began a countdown and declared the event underway.

Ma Feifei tried to understand the benefit event surrounding the stone Fenghuang as five virtue-marked feathers appeared and transported contestants into illusions. After learning that the feathers unlocked rewards, he knocked out Lin Fan and took the Wisdom Feather, then ran toward the Fenghuang.

• Ma Feifei discovered his cultivation was sealed and ran toward the platform as five halos appeared, each bearing a feather marked with one of the five constant virtues.
• Ma Feifei failed to take the black feather by force and was sent into a countryside illusion, where he saw a falling leaf before being returned.
• Luan Feng obtained the white righteousness feather and was surrounded by cultivators, while Zhang Yunji obtained the yellow feather and fled from a pursuing crowd.
• A young cultivator named Lin Fan entered the illusion, unlocked the Wisdom Feather, and caught it after a system message announced that whoever claimed it could insert it into the Fenghuang for a reward.
• Ma Feifei struck Lin Fan from behind with a brick, took the Wisdom Feather, and ran toward the stone Fenghuang.

Ma Feifei was surrounded by masked cultivators trying to take his Wisdom Feather, but he discovered that his Dragon God Arm still retained Yun Qingyang’s strength and turned the tables. He forced the attackers to unmask and began demanding compensation, starting with Ping Sanliang, while the struggle for the other feathers continued.

• Masked cultivators surrounded Ma Feifei and demanded that he hand over the Wisdom Feather, while Zhang Yunji was beaten and robbed of his feather.
• Ma Feifei decided to head toward Luan Feng, but a cultivator grabbed his arm and Ma Feifei flung him into a crowd with the strength of his Dragon God Arm.
• Ma Feifei warned the crowd that he was the Mysterious Bookstore’s owner and ordered the cultivators to remove their masks.
• Ma Feifei recognized Ping Sanliang, the master of Shangping Palace, and demanded ten million Spirit Crystals as compensation for the attack.
• Ping Sanliang agreed to pay, and Ma Feifei moved on to question the next unmasked cultivator.

Ma Feifei collected Spirit Crystals from the cultivators who had tried to take the Wisdom Feather, then watched several people receive Phoenix Blood rewards from the stone Fenghuang. After Zhang Yunji used Ma Feifei’s feather to rise to peak ninth stage Spirit Venerable, the Phoenix God Welfare Event ended and everyone returned to the Bookstore.

• Ma Feifei collected three hundred million Spirit Crystals from the people who had tried to snatch the Wisdom Feather.
• Luan Feng inserted her white feather into the stone Fenghuang and received Phoenix Blood, while another cultivator used a cyan feather and broke through to Spirit Saint Second Stage.
• Ma Feifei gave his black feather to Zhang Yunji, who used it to receive Phoenix Blood and rise from the start of the Spirit Venerable realm to peak ninth stage Spirit Venerable.
• The Phoenix God Welfare Event ended, and the cultivators returned to the Bookstore.

On the eve of the Mysterious Bookstore’s first anniversary celebration, cultivators gathered in Dubian Town and argued over the quality of the books they had written. Azi provoked the patrons at the Wantong Grand Tavern, but the confrontation gave way to amazement when rainbow rain began falling at midnight.

• Cultivators packed the Wantong Grand Tavern and discussed the books they had prepared for the Mysterious Bookstore’s anniversary celebration.
• Azi mocked the patrons’ claims about their books’ quality, and Boyan tried to attack her before the tavern’s manager stopped him.
• Azi appeared on the third-floor railing with her companions, and the patrons recognized her as the princess of Qi State who had taken second place in the “Lotus Lantern.”
• Azi told the patrons she had killed a Spirit Saint, while Second Mother reproached her for stirring up trouble.
• At midnight, people outside announced that rainbow rain was falling and that their cultivation was rising, prompting the tavern patrons to rush outside.

The Mysterious Bookstore’s first anniversary began with Seven-Colored Liuli Rain falling across Dubian Town, bringing healing and cultivation gains. Ma Feifei reviewed the celebration’s rewards, then left the others to marvel at the rain and returned to his room to prepare for the day ahead.

• At midnight, Ma Feifei received the system’s anniversary schedule, including the town-wide Seven-Colored Liuli Rain, a book appraisal, a knowledge competition, and free reading at the store.
• The system granted Ma Feifei a ninety percent discount on up to three items, the ability to copy a book in one stroke, and a promised Mythic-grade book, while employees received book gift packages.
• Zhang Caicai called Ma Feifei outside, where he joined Ba Jiu, the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey, and Yun Qingyang to watch the Seven-Colored Liuli Rain fall.
• Cultivators across Dubian Town flew into the sky, and two elders declared the rain a miracle and a possible blessing that could break Azure Dragon’s curse against immortality.
• Ma Feifei told Zhang Caicai that if the rain was a miracle, then he was a god, and went back to his room while Zhang Caicai stood stunned.

Seven-Colored Liuli Rain fell over Dubian Town on the Mysterious Bookstore’s anniversary, strengthening cultivators and prompting Gongsun Qiong and Zhao Xiaodao to suspect the shopkeeper had caused it. As dawn arrived, the crowded bookstore opened for its celebration.

• Gongsun Qiong and Zhao Xiaodao felt the Seven-Colored Liuli Rain strengthen them and wondered whether a powerful person had made it fall.
• Zhao Xiaodao and Gongsun Qiong connected the rain to the Mysterious Bookstore’s September fifteenth anniversary and speculated that the shopkeeper was responsible.
• Zhao Xiaodao asked whether an immortal might appear, and Gongsun Qiong read the Sacred Book’s prophecy that the Empress would become an immortal when the Confucian Way flourished.
• Gongsun Qiong put away the Sacred Book and went to sleep while Zhao Xiaodao and cultivators across Dubian Town stayed out in the rain until dawn.
• The Mysterious Bookstore opened as crowds filled the street for its first anniversary celebration.

Teng Shangqing arrived at the Mysterious Bookstore amid the seven-colored rain and tried to approach Luan Feng. After she warned him to step down and counted to one, an explosion interrupted the confrontation.

• The cultivators debated whether the bookstore’s unexpected weekend opening meant they could read for free or should stay outside in the seven-colored rain.
• Teng Shangqing forced his way through the crowd with his servants, and the cultivators fell silent after learning he was the Seventh Dean of Vast Academy’s son.
• Teng Shangqing stepped out of his sedan chair, greeted the crowd, and walked to the bookstore entrance.
• Teng Shangqing exchanged sarcastic greetings with Zhang Yunji, then approached Luan Feng and asked her name.
• Luan Feng ordered Teng Shangqing to get down from the step and counted to one, when a boom sounded.