Recaps

During the Mysterious Bookstore’s anniversary celebration, Luan Feng struck Teng Shangqing after he ignored a warning, and Zhang Yunji announced the benefits of the Seven-Colored Liuli Rain. Teng Shangqing continued to provoke the bookstore, and Luan Feng ended the chapter by threatening to kill him if he interrupted the celebration again.

• Luan Feng kicked Teng Shangqing after he stepped somewhere he had been warned not to go, and a middle-aged man caught him.
• Zhang Yunji mocked Teng Shangqing and then announced that the Seven-Colored Liuli Rain was the bookstore’s anniversary gift to its book lovers.
• Cultivators praised the bookstore and criticized Teng Shangqing, who shouted at them and interrupted Zhang Yunji.
• Zhang Yunji rebuked Teng Shangqing, but hesitated to escalate matters because Vast Academy stood behind him.
• Luan Feng warned Teng Shangqing that she would kill him if he interfered with the anniversary celebration again.

Luan Feng killed Teng Shangqing for disrupting the Mysterious Bookstore’s anniversary celebration, then fought his father, Vast Academy’s Seventh Dean Teng Chong. When Teng Chong insulted the bookstore, Luan Feng unleashed a sea of flames and a phoenix, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Luan Feng declared that Teng Shangqing deserved death and pierced him with her crimson spear despite a cry telling her to stop.
• Teng Chong arrived and attacked Luan Feng, who met him in the air above Dubian Town as the crowd recognized him as Vast Academy’s Seventh Dean.
• Teng Chong confronted Luan Feng over his son’s death, while she warned him to withdraw or die for disrupting the bookstore’s celebration.
• Teng Chong mocked the Mysterious Bookstore, and Luan Feng filled the sky with flames as a phoenix soared through the heavens.

Luan Feng killed Teng Chong, the Seventh Dean of Vast Academy, putting the Mysterious Bookstore on a collision course with the continent’s foremost power. As the crowd reeled from the bookstore’s strength, Zhang Yunji resumed the anniversary celebration by announcing free reading, while people began moving toward the bookstore and others prepared to recover the fallen deans’ bodies.

• Luan Feng killed Teng Chong, whose body fell into a crater north of town, escalating the conflict between Vast Academy and the Mysterious Bookstore.
• The gathered cultivators recognized the Mysterious Bookstore’s might and felt awe after seeing Luan Feng defeat two members of Vast Academy.
• Azi admired Luan Feng, Empress Gongsun Qiong watched her, and a black-robed figure hoped the fighting would plunge the continent into chaos.
• Zhang Yunji resumed the celebration and announced that the bookstore’s books, except the Seven-Colored Liuli Rain, would be free to read that day.
• The crowd gathered toward the bookstore while people urged Teng Shangqing’s companions to retrieve his body and warned that someone might loot Teng Chong’s corpse.

After Luan Feng killed Teng Chong, the middle-aged man who carried off Teng Shangqing was killed by a group of cultivators beyond Zhenbei, while the crowd focused on the Mysterious Bookstore’s anniversary celebration. Zhang Yunji opened the free reading event, announced an original book contest and a noon knowledge competition, and left the crowd queuing to take part.

• The middle-aged man threatened Luan Feng before flying toward Zhenbei with Teng Shangqing, but he was killed by an unknown group beyond the town, sparking a fight over their spatial rings.
• Zhang Yunji stayed at his post and announced that the Mysterious Bookstore’s free reading event was open, prompting cultivators to crowd the entrance.
• Luan Feng stopped the crowd from using Spiritual Power to shove and ordered them to form a queue for the Bookstore’s limited places.
• Zhang Yunji announced an original book competition, and Ba Jiu brought out an evaluator so authors could submit their works for grading.
• Zhang Yunji announced a noon knowledge competition with rewards ranging from cultivation and artifacts to Literary Examination Qualification Certificates.

The Mysterious Bookstore's anniversary celebration began with a supernatural rain that helped cultivators break through, while Ma Feifei endured the noisy festivities and learned Zhang Caicai had used his name to obtain phoenix blood for breakfast. The chapter left Ma Feifei considering whether to take in the many girls around him.

• Zhang Yunji opened the anniversary celebration, and plum blossoms mixed with Seven-Colored Liuli Rain spread Dharma Power across Dubian Town, helping cultivators advance.
• Ma Feifei complained about the noise and reasoned that Luan Feng had been right to kill Teng Shangqing, the Seventh Dean of Vast Academy, for disrupting the celebration.
• Zhang Caicai served Ma Feifei egg fried rice made with a Griffin Eagle Egg, Crystal Mixed Phoenix Blood Rice, and phoenix blood from Luan Feng.
• Ma Feifei scolded Zhang Caicai for using his name to ask Luan Feng for phoenix blood, then dismissed him and wondered whether to take in the many girls.

Ma Feifei discovered that Yun Qingyang had left early with a book and went to the Mysterious Bookstore during its anniversary celebration. While waiting for her book to be evaluated, Azi was asked to examine a strange volume titled “Justice and Evil: Yun Qingyang Battles Ma Feifei.”

• Ma Feifei found Yun Qingyang’s room empty and learned from Zhang Caicai that she had gone out carrying a book.
• Ma Feifei headed toward the Bookstore to look for Yun Qingyang.
• Azi and Second Mother waited in the long evaluation line as Ba Jiu assessed books at the Mysterious Bookstore.
• Azi mocked Boyan after his book failed to meet the white-cover standard, and Boyan left in anger.
• A black-robed woman asked Azi to look at her book, whose title was “Justice and Evil: Yun Qingyang Battles Ma Feifei.”

Azi read the first chapter of a stranger’s book, which portrayed Ma Feifei as a thief who stole Yun Qingyang from her dragon egg, and warned the woman not to seek an evaluation. The woman went ahead, while the queue’s first Blue Quality result came from Master Wen of Yushu Academy.

• Azi noticed that the stranger’s book used the names Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang and was made from paper like the Mysterious Bookstore’s books.
• Azi read the first chapter and discovered that it depicted Ma Feifei stealing Yun Qingyang from her dragon egg.
• Azi warned the woman that presenting the book for evaluation could bring her trouble, but the woman thanked her and turned away.
• Azi and her companions saw a Blue Quality evaluation and recognized its author as Master Wen of Yushu Academy.

Yun Qingyang disguised herself to submit her book for assessment, and Ma Feifei secretly used the system to raise its quality to Yellow. After the result stunned the crowd, Yun Qingyang revealed herself and rushed into the Mysterious Bookstore to show Ma Feifei.

• Azi watched Master Wen and other writers receive Blue Quality ratings, then nervously awaited the assessment of the disguised Yun Qingyang's book.
• Ba Jiu recognized familiar words in the woman's book and wondered whether he had met her before, while Ma Feifei recognized Yun Qingyang through their Blood Pact.
• When the assessment device began showing White light, Ma Feifei learned the system could revise the book's quality for Spirit Crystals and paid 110 million to upgrade it to Yellow Quality.
• The device released a pillar of yellow light, and the crowd was astonished that an ordinary-looking woman had written a Yellow Quality book.
• Yun Qingyang's disguise vanished, revealing Lady Saint, and she took the book and ran into the Mysterious Bookstore calling for Ma Feifei.

Yun Qingyang’s Yellow Quality book became the first and only book of that level submitted, and Ma Feifei secretly kept it from reaching the shelves. As Question-Answering Rain began across Dubian Town, Yun Qingyang caught a riddle about the wind and sail, and Ma Feifei answered that the heart moved.

• Yun Qingyang showed Ma Feifei her Yellow Quality book, and he asked to keep it because he could not bear to let anyone else read it.
• Ma Feifei agreed to lend Yun Qingyang the book whenever she wanted, while resolving to keep it off the Mysterious Bookstore’s shelves.
• Gongsun Qiong lamented that her book was only Blue Quality, Zhao Xiaodao revealed hers was White Quality, and Zhou Zhuling said hers had not even reached White Quality.
• The Plum Blossoms stopped drifting, and golden characters descended as Question-Answering Rain began across Dubian Town.
• Yun Qingyang caught a golden character bearing the question, “The wind blows, the sail moves. Is it the sail moving, or the wind moving...” and Ma Feifei answered that the heart moved.

Yun Qingyang answered a Buddhist riddle incorrectly, and Ma Feifei slipped away while she questioned the result. The story then shifted to Vast Academy, where Qin Wudao and Yang Chengzhi faced off over a dispute connected to the Mysterious Bookstore.

• Yun Qingyang answered that both the wind and the sail were moving, and the golden text dissolved without granting her a reward.
• Yun Qingyang questioned why her answer was wrong as Ma Feifei sneaked away.
• The narration introduced Vast Academy, its Inner and Outer Courts, and the Martial Arts Field at Two Realms Mountain.
• Students gathered to watch Qin Wudao and Yang Chengzhi face each other on an arena.
• A student told the crowd that the duel had no personal grudge behind it and was caused by the Mysterious Bookstore.

Bai Xiaosheng explained why Qin Wudao held a grudge against Yang Chengzhi, and the two finally began their sparring match. Yang Chengzhi met Qin Wudao’s sword charge with a golden spirit beast formed around his hand, leaving the spectators stunned as their clash began.

• Bai Xiaosheng said Yang Chengzhi’s opportunity at the Mysterious Bookstore had led Qin Wudao to blame him for killing Xiaoyaozi, the rival Qin had hoped to defeat.
• Qin Wudao confirmed Bai Xiaosheng’s explanation, and Yang Chengzhi realized he had become collateral damage in their old rivalry.
• Yang Chengzhi told Qin Wudao he was no match for him, but Qin Wudao rejected the claim and launched a sword attack.
• Yang Chengzhi formed a golden spirit beast around his right hand and pushed it toward Qin Wudao’s incoming sword.

Yang Chengzhi defeated Qin Wudao with a single strike using the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, while the Canglang Bell announced the death of a current dean. At Vast Academy, the Fifth Dean ordered the Seven-Core Teleportation Gate opened to travel to Chu Kingdom’s Dubian Town, where he believed his brother had died.

• Yang Chengzhi defeated Qin Wudao with the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms from The Legend of the Condor Heroes, impressing the students with the Mysterious Bookstore’s martial arts.
• The Canglang Bell rang three times, signaling that a current dean of Vast Academy had died.
• Bai Xiaosheng speculated that the dead dean was Teng Chong and that his son, Teng Shangqing, might have caused his death.
• At the Assembly Hall, the Fifth Dean grew furious that the Grand Dean had not arrived and that one of the Seven-Core Lamps had gone out.
• The Fifth Dean ordered Li Changsheng to open the Seven-Core Teleportation Gate to Chu Kingdom’s Dubian Town.

After the Seventh Dean Teng Chong died in Dubian Town, the Fifth Dean set out for the Mysterious Bookstore despite warnings that its power could surpass Vast Academy's. The Grand Dean, Cang Lan, agreed to go with the Third Dean to see the bookstore for herself.

• The Fifth Dean ordered Li Changsheng to leave, then headed for Dubian Town to confront the force believed to have killed Teng Chong.
• The Third Dean warned the Fifth Dean that the Mysterious Bookstore's strength was beyond their knowledge and tried to follow him.
• Cang Lan entered Vast Academy's meeting hall and dismissed the danger to the Fifth Dean, saying another dean could be recruited if he died.
• Cang Lan changed her mind and joined the Third Dean on his way to Dubian Town.
• Cang Lan vanished from the hall, leaving the grandmasters impressed by her cultivation.

The Fifth Dean, Lie Xingyun, used Vast Academy’s Seven Core Teleportation Array to travel to Dubian Town and confront the owner of the Mysterious Bookstore. As the town celebrated nine worlds appearing from the bookstore, Lie Xingyun arrived and demanded to meet its owner.

• Li Changsheng and six other grandmasters activated the Seven Core Teleportation Array for the Fifth Dean.
• Lie Xingyun entered the array despite the Third Dean and Cang Lan trying to stop him, then vanished in a burst of energy.
• Cang Lan teased Li Changsheng as he and the other grandmasters kept the array stable until Lie Xingyun passed through the spatial rift.
• Nine worlds from books appeared above the Mysterious Bookstore, drawing excitement from the cultivators of Dubian Town.
• Lie Xingyun emerged from a spatial rift south of town, announced himself as Vast Academy’s Fifth Dean, and called for the bookstore’s owner.

Lie Xingyun of Vast Academy arrived at the Mysterious Bookstore, where he demanded to see its owner. After Zhang Caicai dismissed him, Lie Xingyun attacked the boy, and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey intervened.

• Cultivators speculated that Lie Xingyun had come to avenge Teng Chong, while a white-haired elder explained how the Seven Heart Lamp revealed a dean’s death and its location.
• Lie Xingyun entered Dubian Town and found Ba Jiu and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey outside the Mysterious Bookstore, then demanded an audience with the owner.
• Zhang Caicai came out carrying a blackened dish and told Lie Xingyun the owner was busy, then tried to get the others to taste his cooking.
• Lie Xingyun grew furious at Zhang Caicai’s dismissive response and reached out to grab him.
• The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey blocked Lie Xingyun, who unleashed his power and disrupted the book-review event as he prepared to fight.

Lie Xingyun fought the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey while the Mysterious Bookstore’s book evaluation resumed below. Zhen Liang intervened and learned that Teng Chong was dead, but Lie Xingyun still wanted Vast Academy to seek justice, prompting Zhen Liang to question whether he wanted the Grand Dean dead.

• Lie Xingyun clashed with the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey, and the barrier protected the crowd as the book evaluation paused.
• Ba Jiu urged the cultivators to resume evaluating books, and they returned to the Mysterious Bookstore’s entrance.
• Cang Lan and Zhen Liang watched the fight from north of town, and Zhen Liang went to intervene when Cang Lan allowed him to help.
• Zhen Liang introduced himself and assured the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey that Vast Academy had no intention of offending the Mysterious Bookstore.
• The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey confirmed that Teng Chong was dead, and Lie Xingyun called for Vast Academy to seek justice.
• Zhen Liang asked Lie Xingyun whether he wanted the Grand Dean dead.

Cang Lan and Zhen Liang entered Dubian Town to confront the Mysterious Bookstore over Teng Chong’s death. At the bookstore, Cang Lan met its owner Ma Feifei, who realized the Half-Immortal Grand Dean might be more powerful than anyone at the store.

• Zhen Liang defended the Grand Dean’s record and followed Cang Lan into Dubian Town, while Lie Xingyun stayed behind, displeased.
• Cang Lan and Zhen Liang walked through the seven-colored rain as cultivators fled from Cang Lan’s approach.
• Cang Lan caught a golden character and read a Zen saying about the heart and the world, then asked Zhen Liang what it meant.
• Ma Feifei answered Cang Lan’s question about what happens when the heart is moved, and the two men arrived at the bookstore entrance.
• Ma Feifei recognized Cang Lan as the Half-Immortal Grand Dean and worried that the bookstore might have no one strong enough to defeat him.

Cang Lan visited the Mysterious Bookstore and was moved by Ma Feifei's romantic words, then invited him to talk about love and romance. As she began seducing him in the back courtyard, someone threatened to chop off her hands.

• Cang Lan and Zhen Liang greeted Ma Feifei, who charmed Cang Lan by telling her he had encountered a beauty.
• Ma Feifei recited a line from The Return of the Condor Heroes, and Cang Lan became entranced and gave him a grand salute.
• Cang Lan followed Ma Feifei into the bookstore, while Zhen Liang went to the Wantong Grand Tavern to see Fifth.
• In the back courtyard, Cang Lan asked Ma Feifei to ignore worldly affairs and talk only about love and romance.
• Cang Lan touched Ma Feifei's thigh and chest until an unseen person threatened to chop off her hands.

Cang Lan visited the Mysterious Bookstore’s anniversary celebration, teased Ma Feifei, and left him with a whip and an awkward misunderstanding with Yun Qingyang. After she departed, Ma Feifei learned how Yun Qingyang had calculated that Zhang Caicai owed her 21,000 Spirit Crystals.

• Yun Qingyang interrupted Cang Lan’s teasing by freezing the courtyard, and Ma Feifei insisted that Yun Qingyang was his employee, not his wife.
• Cang Lan offered Ma Feifei a whip as a joke about putting his wife in her place, then left after saying she would visit again the next morning.
• Ma Feifei found Yun Qingyang painting with her brush upside down and asked if she was jealous; she denied it and said she only ate Spirit Crystals and plum blossoms.
• Yun Qingyang explained that Zhang Caicai had borrowed 10,000 Spirit Crystals from Luan Feng through her and later repaid her 11,000.
• Yun Qingyang said she had demanded another 11,000 from Zhang Caicai, believing he still owed her that amount, and proudly asked Ma Feifei if she was clever.

After the anniversary celebration ended, Ma Feifei received a Divine Brush and the promised rewards, including book gift packs for seven bookstore employees. Meanwhile, a little girl tried to sell a White Quality book to Cang Lan, who refused and questioned her mistaken address.

• Ma Feifei received the Divine Brush when the anniversary quest concluded, then remembered the remaining quest rewards and collected a Mythic-grade book and seven employee book gift packs.
• Ma Feifei found gift packs for Qingyang, Yunji, Luan Feng, Chang Kong, Ba Jiu, Sky-reaching Ape Monkey, and Zhang Caicai, but none for the bookstore slaves Li Bieli and Feng Yiming.
• As fireworks lit Dubian Town, Cang Lan watched from a tavern while Zhen Liang and Lie Xingyun sat with him.
• A little girl tried to sell a White Quality book to patrons downstairs, but the scene did not reveal whether she made a sale.
• The little girl approached Cang Lan and offered him the book, but he refused, saying he was in a bad mood, then asked why she had called him a ma'am.

Liuli sold Cang Lan a White Quality book, refused an excessive payment, and vanished after telling her to look forward to tomorrow. The book’s cover left Cang Lan visibly shaken, while Zhen Liang and Lie Xingyun suspected Liuli was no ordinary girl and awaited their next meeting.

• Liuli called Cang Lan her big sister, and Cang Lan happily asked her name and offered her a hundred thousand Spirit Crystals for the book.
• Liuli refused the excess payment, explaining that she would accept only the book’s fair price because ill-gotten wealth was unrighteous.
• Cang Lan insisted the book was worth whatever she chose to pay and accepted it from Liuli.
• Cang Lan stared at the words on the book’s cover, then left abruptly after Liuli said they would meet again tomorrow.
• Zhen Liang searched for Liuli with his divine sense but found no trace of her, and he and Lie Xingyun wondered whether she was connected to the Mysterious Bookstore.

Liuli arrived at the Mysterious Bookstore and insisted it was her home, proving her claim by summoning Zhang Caicai’s book. She then greeted Ma Feifei as her father, leaving him stunned.

• Zhang Caicai opened the back gate and tried to stop Liuli from entering the Mysterious Bookstore.
• Liuli said the bookstore was her home and summoned Chuka Ichiban! from Zhang Caicai’s spatial pouch.
• Zhang Caicai ran to Ma Feifei and announced that the rightful owner had arrived.
• Ma Feifei put away the treasure chests he had been trying to open and went to see Liuli.
• Liuli bowed to Ma Feifei, called him Father, and introduced herself as Liuli.

Ma Feifei discovered that Liuli was a Book Immortal, a living being nurtured by the Mysterious Bookstore, and accepted her as his daughter. The system revealed her powers and the dangerous Tribulation Books she could nurture.

• Liuli insisted that Ma Feifei was her father, while Zhang Caicai defended her and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey dragged him away.
• Ma Feifei brought Liuli into his room and questioned her claim that she was his daughter.
• Liuli summoned books from the Mysterious Bookstore, revealing that she could control them.
• The system identified Liuli as a Book Immortal who could command book spirits and nurture Tribulation Books that could lead people to the Immortal Realm or kill those who failed.
• Ma Feifei learned that Liuli was nurtured by the bookstore, embraced her, and declared that she was his daughter.

Ma Feifei learned that Liuli had given Cang Lan the only Tribulation Book, which required his permission to open. Cang Lan visited the Mysterious Bookstore, where Liuli called Ma Feifei her father and claimed she had been born from him.

• Ma Feifei asked Liuli whether she had more Tribulation Books, and she said she had given the only one to a kind mother.
• Liuli told Ma Feifei that the recipient needed his signature to open the Tribulation Book, then pointed out that she had arrived.
• Ma Feifei welcomed Cang Lan into the courtyard, while Zhang Caicai brought Liuli a treasured Honey Crystal Cake.
• Liuli told Cang Lan that she had given her the Tribulation Book and called Ma Feifei her father.
• Cang Lan asked Liuli who her mother was, and Liuli answered that she had been born from her father and had no mother.

Ma Feifei learned that opening Cang Lan’s Tribulation Book would force her to face nine deadly trials, and he asked Liuli what would happen if he refused. Liuli revealed that he could make the book disappear and that raising his level would let Book Spirits leave their books.

• Cang Lan showed Ma Feifei her blank Tribulation Book, which was bound to her and instructed its owner to reach the Mysterious Bookstore within half a month.
• When Ma Feifei opened the book, the system warned that Cang Lan would have to enter its world within a month and either clear nine tribulations to reach the Immortal Realm or perish.
• Ma Feifei realized the Tribulation Book was extremely dangerous and privately asked Liuli what would happen if he refused to sign it.
• Liuli said Ma Feifei could make the book disappear, but Cang Lan would lose her chance to enter its world.
• Liuli showed Ma Feifei that his Mythic-grade book wanted to escape its treasure chest and explained that he needed to raise both his cultivation and the bookstore’s level to release Book Spirits.