Recaps

Ma Feifei explained that the Tribulation Book offered Cang Lan a dangerous chance to enter the immortal realm, but she declined to decide immediately. After she left, Ma Feifei worried she might attack him if she became an immortal, and the Bookstore System reassured him that the Book Immortal was far stronger than a newly ascended immortal.

• Ma Feifei confirmed Cang Lan was in the half-immortal realm and explained that surviving the Tribulation Book World could make her an immortal, while failure meant death.
• Cang Lan said she would rather live a few more years and declined the opportunity for now, so Ma Feifei gave her a month to reconsider.
• Cang Lan left the Mysterious Bookstore without discussing Teng Chong’s death, and Ma Feifei concluded she was still tempted by the Tribulation Book.
• Ma Feifei worried that Cang Lan might attack him if she entered the immortal realm, and the Bookstore System said the Book Immortal was at the ninth-grade immortal realm while newly ascended immortals were generally first-grade.

Cang Lan rebuked Lie Xingyun for demanding revenge on the Mysterious Bookstore and attacked him when he challenged the Grand Dean. At the Bookstore, Ma Feifei rewarded its employees with anniversary books, and Zhang Yunji’s chest revealed a book amid golden light and ringing bells.

• Lie Xingyun urged Cang Lan to avenge Teng Chong, but Cang Lan told him to confront the Mysterious Bookstore himself.
• Cang Lan slapped Lie Xingyun into a corner and warned him not to overstep again.
• Lie Xingyun killed two maids in a fit of rage, while Zhen Liang watched and sighed.
• Ma Feifei gathered the Bookstore employees and presented seven named treasure chests, each containing a book as an anniversary gift.
• Zhang Yunji opened his chest, and a book rose into the air in a blaze of golden light.

Zhang Yunji received the Yellow Quality book Tai Xuan Jing, whose Book Spirit appeared as he comprehended it. A Yin Yang Two Forms Diagram descended over him, signaling that he was about to advance from Transcendent to Saint.

• Zhang Yunji's Yellow Quality book dodged his hand, then burst into flames as the Book Spirit emerged.
• The book burned to ashes, revealing the name Tai Xuan Jing, and its golden characters entered Zhang Yunji's forehead.
• Zhang Yunji rose into the air as spiritual energy gathered around him and a Yin Yang Two Forms Diagram formed behind him.
• Lightning repeatedly struck Zhang Yunji, while black and white fish leapt between the holes in the diagram.
• An enormous Yin Yang Two Forms Diagram appeared in the sky, and the cultivators of Dubian Town recognized the heavenly phenomenon as a sign that Zhang Yunji was advancing from Transcendent to Saint.

Zhang Yunji advanced from the Spirit Venerable Sixth Stage to the Spirit Saint First Stage after absorbing the Yin Yang Two Forms Diagram, and thanked Ma Feifei for the Mysterious Bookstore’s support. At Vast Academy, Cang Lan struck Lie Xingyun through a wall after he insulted her and headed after him, while Zhen Liang pursued her.

• The Yin and yang fish entered Zhang Yunji, imprinting the Yin Yang Two Forms Diagram on him as he reached the Spirit Saint realm.
• Zhen Liang recognized Zhang Yunji’s breakthrough and urged Lie Xingyun to stop challenging the Mysterious Bookstore and Cang Lan.
• Lie Xingyun insulted Cang Lan, who appeared and punched him through a wall and a defensive formation.
• Cang Lan said she would take Lie Xingyun to her babies, and Zhen Liang hurried after her.
• Zhang Yunji thanked Ma Feifei for nurturing him, and Ma Feifei told him he had earned his breakthrough.
• Chang Kong congratulated Zhang Yunji, who celebrated reaching the Spirit Saint realm before Ma Feifei urged everyone to continue.

The Mysterious Bookstore employees opened their anniversary treasure chests, and Yun Qingyang received an Epic-grade skill book, Cute Painting Master Techniques, despite trying to avoid its blessing. After sending everyone away, Ma Feifei prepared to open his Mythic-grade chest.

• Chang Kong, Zhang Caicai, Ba Jiu, and the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey received blue-quality books, while Luan Feng received the yellow-quality Taibai Yin Jing but could not absorb its Book Spirit because she already had one of the same quality.
• Yun Qingyang put away her chest until Ma Feifei offered to buy its contents, then opened it and revealed an Epic-grade book.
• The book burst into flames, and Yun Qingyang failed to extinguish them with water or ice.
• The book burned up and left golden characters reading Cute Painting Master Techniques, which chased down Yun Qingyang and delivered its reward.
• After the employees received their gifts, Ma Feifei sent them away and went inside to open his Mythic-grade chest.

Ma Feifei obtained the Mythic-grade Classic of Mountains and Seas: Great Wilderness East and an Eternal-grade Sage's Robe, but learned he could not enter the book until he reached the Immortal Realm and raised the system to LV4. He then rushed to the Bookstore after hearing Qingyang was painting a dragon on a pillar.

• Ma Feifei opened the treasure chest and received the Classic of Mountains and Seas: Great Wilderness East, earning the Sage's Robe as the Bookstore's first Mythic-grade book appeared.
• Ma Feifei put on the Sage's Robe and learned it increased his mental strength and could withstand attacks below the Eternal Realm.
• Ma Feifei discovered the book contained the Mythic quest Legend of Yinglong, but the system barred him from entering it until he reached the Immortal Realm and raised the system to LV4.
• Ma Feifei found Zhang Caicai carrying a hot chicken and learned that Qingyang was painting a dragon on a pillar while everyone watched.
• Ma Feifei hurried into the Bookstore, calling out to Qingyang not to do anything rash.

Yun Qingyang painted a tiny, chubby Cute Dragon on a Spirit Pillar at the Mysterious Bookstore, and Ma Feifei joined in to finish its eyes. Meanwhile, Cang Lan, Zhen Liang, and Lie Xingyun returned to Two Realms Mountain, where Bai Xiaosheng foresaw that the Grand Dean was in danger.

• Yun Qingyang taught the Mysterious Bookstore employees her cute painting techniques as she sketched a small, round dragon on a Spirit Pillar.
• Yun Qingyang asked Ma Feifei to add the dragon’s eyes, and he cheerfully accepted the Cute Dragon.
• Cang Lan, Zhen Liang, and Lie Xingyun flew toward Two Realms Mountain after buying Plum Blossom and Soaring Cloud Riding Mist in Dubian Town.
• Outer Court students spotted the three deans arriving at Twin Peaks.
• Bai Xiaosheng formed hand seals, read an omen of great calamity, and warned that Cang Lan was in danger.

Lie Xingyun entered Nine Abyss to visit his father, former Fifth Dean Lie Huang, and complained that Grand Dean Cang Lan had harmed him and the Seventh Dean. Lie Huang began examining him and sent a streak of flame into his body.

• Lie Xingyun parted from Cang Lan and Zhen Liang, then went to Nine Abyss to visit his father.
• Zhen Liang followed Lie Xingyun into Nine Abyss, saying he wanted to find the Second Dean.
• Lie Xingyun crossed into Nine Abyss’s fifth layer, a world filled with fire-type Qi, and reached Lie Huang’s stone house.
• Lie Xingyun complained that Cang Lan had joined outsiders to harm the Seventh Dean and had left him unable to perform as a man.
• Lie Huang asked why Lie Xingyun kept fighting with Cang Lan, examined him, and sent a streak of red flame into his body.

Lie Huang warned Lie Xingyun that Shui Changjiang was more powerful than any other dean and urged him to stop challenging Cang Lan. When Zhen Liang and Lie Xingyun entered Shui Changjiang’s secluded world, they found it empty except for the Second Dean’s abandoned jade pendant.

• Lie Huang told Lie Xingyun that Shui Changjiang had defeated him in a spar a hundred years earlier and might be able to break Azure Dragon’s curse against immortality.
• Lie Huang warned Lie Xingyun not to provoke Cang Lan because of Shui Changjiang’s relationship with her, but Lie Xingyun left to seek the Second Dean himself.
• Zhen Liang entered the Eighth Abyss and found Shui Changjiang’s small world empty, with the Second Dean’s jade pendant lying in the grass.
• Lie Xingyun arrived, saw the pendant in Zhen Liang’s hand, and suspected that something had happened to Shui Changjiang.

Lie Xingyun suspected Zhen Liang had joined Cang Lan and plunged into Nine Abyss, vowing to kill her. At the Mysterious Bookstore, Ma Feifei went to taste Zhang Caicai’s roast suckling pig, where Zhang Caicai asked about his Sage's Robe.

• Lie Xingyun left Zhen Liang and wondered why he had been near Shui Changjiang’s secluded cultivation site.
• Lie Xingyun feared Zhen Liang had sided with Cang Lan, then vowed she would die and plunged into the depths of Nine Abyss.
• Ma Feifei regretted that Yun Qingyang’s Cute Dragon painting had triggered no special event, while Liuli invited him to taste Zhang Caicai’s roast suckling pig.
• Ma Feifei joined Liuli, Yun Qingyang, and Ba Jiu in the backyard as Zhang Caicai prepared the pig.
• Zhang Caicai asked Ma Feifei where he had gotten his Sage's Robe.

Zhang Caicai told Ma Feifei that a god who claimed to have created him wore clothes resembling Ma Feifei’s, but Ma Feifei punished him after learning he had seen the god in a dream. After Ma Feifei left, Zhang Caicai discovered a broken token engraved with the character “Seal” in his hand.

• Zhang Caicai served roast suckling pig to Ma Feifei, Liuli, Yun Qingyang, and Ba Jiu, then said he had seen someone wearing clothes similar to Ma Feifei’s.
• Zhang Caicai claimed that the man had called himself a god who created him and promised to take him away from the world, but said he had seen him in a dream.
• Ma Feifei beat Zhang Caicai and left him hanging upside down from a tree while Ba Jiu kept watch.
• Ma Feifei went to shelve the Investiture of the Gods, Yun Qingyang stood by the bookstore entrance, and Liuli disappeared in a streak of light.
• Zhang Caicai argued with Ba Jiu about dreams and his debt to Yun Qingyang, then found a broken token engraved with “Seal” in his hand.

Ma Feifei received a shelving quest for Investiture of the Gods that required him to catch a marine creature in the Qiong Sea. After finding the system’s fishing equipment, he accidentally snapped the rod and learned he would have to buy a replacement.

• Ma Feifei placed Investiture of the Gods on the shelf and triggered a quest to catch a marine creature in the Qiong Sea using the system’s fishing equipment.
• Ma Feifei accepted the quest, stored the book in his spatial ring, and went to the warehouse to inspect the equipment.
• Ma Feifei asked Zhang Caicai where Liuli had gone, and Zhang Caicai said she had disappeared in a streak of light to go play.
• Ma Feifei found a fishing rod, fishing line, fish basket, and straw hat in the warehouse, but no hook or bait.
• Ma Feifei snapped the fishing rod with ordinary strength, and the system told him he could purchase a new one.

Ma Feifei freed Zhang Caicai, whose mysterious black token dissolved after he questioned where it came from. At the Vast Academy, the Canglang Bell rang three times and a sudden catastrophe struck as spiritual energy surged toward the Twin Peaks and an unknown voice announced its return to the light of day.

• Ma Feifei warned Zhang Caicai not to deceive him again, then left to ask Gongsun Qiong and Zhao Xiaodao about the Confucian Dao Academy’s progress.
• Zhang Caicai told Ba Jiu that he could not remember how he obtained a black token, but it dissolved into black water and vanished.
• The Canglang Bell rang three times at the Vast Academy, and students speculated that a prominent academy figure had been killed.
• Bai Xiaosheng sensed danger and urged the students to flee, but they did not believe him.
• The sky darkened, the ground shook, and the grandmasters tried to calm the students as spiritual energy rushed toward the Twin Peaks.
• An unseen voice laughed and declared that it had finally seen the light of day again.

A black-robed man emerged from Nine Abyss and drained the Spiritual Power of everyone at Vast Academy until Cang Lan confronted him. After learning that the former dean Qing Cang had died, the man celebrated having outlived him.

• A black figure burst from Nine Abyss, drawing in Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy and draining the Spiritual Power of students and grandmasters across the Martial Arts Field.
• A figure flew from Twin Peaks and clashed with the black figure, while Vast Academy's protective grand formation shielded its buildings and the suction stopped.
• Cang Lan faced the black figure in the sky as students cheered for her, but Bai Xiaosheng told Yang Chengzhi that Cang Lan was no match for him and ran away.
• The black mist vanished, revealing a black-robed man who asked Cang Lan where Qing Cang was.
• Cang Lan told the man that Qing Cang had died, and he laughed and celebrated having outlived his old rival.

The black-robed man revealed his connection to Qing Cang and overwhelmed Grand Dean Cang Lan in battle. As Third Dean Zhen Liang defended the people below, he identified the attacker as Mo Xie, the Demon Cult Leader, and ordered help from the old deans beneath Nine Abyss.

• Cang Lan attacked the black-robed man after he mentioned Qing Cang, but the man dodged and mocked her.
• Cang Lan and the black-robed man exchanged attacks, and he trapped her in a dome of black mist before emerging unharmed while she was badly weakened.
• The black-robed man struck Cang Lan with a giant palm of black mist, and Zhen Liang dispersed the attack before it could hit the fleeing students and grandmasters.
• Zhen Liang ordered a grandmaster to go beneath Nine Abyss and summon the old deans, revealing that the black-robed man was Mo Xie, the Demon Cult Leader.
• Zhen Liang turned into a gust of wind and rushed into the sky to join the battle.

Cang Lan and Vast Academy's elders fought Mo Xie until Ma Feifei and Liuli suddenly appeared and stopped the combatants with a golden barrier. Liuli prepared to give Mo Xie a Tribulation Book, warning Ma Feifei that touching it would make it his own tribulation.

• Cang Lan fell injured after fighting Mo Xie, and Zhen Liang said he had sent for the old deans of Nine Abyss.
• Lie Huang and the previous Fourth and Sixth Deans confronted Mo Xie, who revealed and killed Lie Xingyun, provoking Lie Huang to attack.
• Ma Feifei and Liuli appeared between Mo Xie and Lie Huang, and Liuli's golden barrier stopped both attacks.
• Yang Chengzhi identified Ma Feifei as the owner of the Mysterious Bookstore, while Liuli told her father she had come to deliver a Tribulation Book.
• Liuli warned Ma Feifei that touching the book would make it his tribulation, then floated toward Mo Xie.

Liuli subdued Mo Xie and offered him a chance to become an immortal, but he refused and asked Ma Feifei and Liuli to speak somewhere private. The chapter left them suspended above Vast Academy, with the crowd watching and Mo Xie still unwilling to accept the opportunity.

• Mo Xie tried to flee when Liuli shouted at him, but she caught him and beat him with the Tribulation Book.
• Ma Feifei used a Mysterious Bookstore divine ability to stay aloft, while the people at Vast Academy watched Liuli overpower the Demon Cult Leader.
• Liuli made Mo Xie take the book, explaining that it was a fortuitous opportunity to become an immortal, but Mo Xie refused and backed out of her golden barrier.
• Ma Feifei caught Mo Xie on a cloud after he fell, and Mo Xie begged them to let him go because he did not want to become an immortal.
• Mo Xie questioned whether Ma Feifei and Liuli were immortals, then asked them to find a private place to talk because the crowd below was watching.

Ma Feifei questioned Mo Xie about refusing immortality, and Mo Xie explained that an immortal in Vast Academy had warned him that ascending meant becoming a god’s slave. The chapter left Ma Feifei learning that a god existed in the world and claimed immortals as Book Slaves.

• After Ma Feifei took Mo Xie from Vast Academy, Bai Xiaosheng told Yang Chengzhi that his prediction had said Grand Dean Cang Lan should have died.
• In a canyon, Ma Feifei asked Mo Xie why he did not want to become an immortal, and Mo Xie said he could not.
• Mo Xie revealed that he was the Demon Cult Leader, who had survived the battle with Vast Academy five hundred years earlier and been suppressed beneath Nine Abyss.
• Mo Xie explained that an old monster in Vast Academy had defeated and imprisoned him, but had also taught him that entering the Immortal Realm meant becoming a slave.
• Mo Xie told Ma Feifei that a god sensed anyone who entered the Immortal Realm and made them a Book Slave.

Ma Feifei learned that an immortal Book Slave might be hiding at Vast Academy, so he and Mo Xie went there to find him. Cang Lan agreed to take Ma Feifei and Liuli to the artifact repository, despite the academy’s tense standoff with Mo Xie.

• Mo Xie told Ma Feifei that an old immortal had been at Vast Academy five hundred years earlier and offered to lead him there.
• Ma Feifei, Liuli, and Mo Xie reached Vast Academy, where students hid and hundreds of grandmasters gathered to confront them.
• Lie Huang demanded permission to fight Mo Xie, who taunted him over his dead son, but Cang Lan focused on Ma Feifei’s purpose.
• Mo Xie identified the target as the old man who swept the artifact repository, though Zhen Liang said he had never heard of such a person.
• Cang Lan agreed to take Ma Feifei and Liuli to the artifact repository, and Mo Xie followed her first.

Ma Feifei learned from Liuli that a Thousand Leaf Tree behind Vast Academy’s Artifact Repository could improve books and Book Spirits when made into pages. He discovered the tree and realized the Mysterious Bookstore’s free pages were the lowest grade, leaving him to question how much better his books might become with higher-quality paper.

• Liuli told Ma Feifei that a Thousand Leaf Tree stood behind the Artifact Repository and could nourish Book Spirits through pages made from its leaves.
• Ma Feifei led Cang Lan, Mo Xie, and the others around the repository to find the tree.
• Liuli explained that the tree had a thousand leaves and was a medium-grade material for making book pages.
• Ma Feifei learned that pages made from the tree could raise the quality of books below yellow quality and improve the Book Spirits in higher-quality books.
• Ma Feifei realized the Mysterious Bookstore’s pages were the lowest grade and blamed the paper for his original books’ white quality.

Ma Feifei and his companions entered the abandoned Thousand Leaf Garden, where Liuli explained that its five-thousand-year-old Thousand Leaf Tree could be used to make book pages. When Ma Feifei tried to take it, a white-haired elder emerged and forbade him, leaving Ma Feifei, Liuli, and Mo Xie alone with the elder after the others departed.

• Ma Feifei carried Liuli to the Thousand Leaf Garden, and Mo Xie entered the courtyard ahead of the group.
• Ma Feifei examined the Thousand Leaf Tree, and Liuli explained that only its mature lower section could make medium-quality book pages.
• Ma Feifei asked Liuli whether he could take the tree, and she said it could be cut down without harm.
• A white-haired elder emerged from the hut and warned Ma Feifei not to touch the tree, then ordered the outsiders to leave.
• Ma Feifei signaled Cang Lan, and Cang Lan, Zhen Liang, and Lie Huang departed, leaving Ma Feifei, Liuli, Mo Xie, and the elder in the garden.

Cang Lan and the other deans wondered whether the mysterious white-haired old man was an immortal who had served Vast Academy for more than two thousand years. At the Thousand Leaf Garden, the old man confirmed he had entered the First-Grade Immortal Realm and told Ma Feifei he had been waiting for him.

• Cang Lan asked Zhen Liang and Lie Huang about the old man, and Lie Huang recalled seeing him with the Wind Cloud Two Saints more than two thousand years earlier.
• Lie Huang suggested the old man might be an immortal, exciting Zhen Liang while Cang Lan remained troubled.
• At the Thousand Leaf Garden, Mo Xie served Ma Feifei as Ma Feifei questioned the old man about reaching the Immortal Realm despite the Azure Dragon Continent's flawed Great Dao.
• The old man confirmed he had reached the First-Grade Immortal Realm and said he would tell Ma Feifei everything.
• The old man told Ma Feifei that he had been waiting for him all along.

Ma Feifei met a white-haired old man who revealed that a god had made him a Book-Nurturing Slave, forcing him to nurture hundreds of Book Essences. The revelation left Ma Feifei suspecting the god was his adversary.

• The white-haired old man greeted Ma Feifei as the owner of the Mysterious Bookstore and showed him a copy of My Fair Princess.
• The old man burned the book and revealed its Book Essence, explaining how its stump and carved characters represented the book.
• Ma Feifei questioned the old man's identity, while Mo Xie knocked himself unconscious after understanding the old man's hint.
• The old man revealed that a young man claiming to be the world's creator had helped him enter the Immortal Realm in exchange for becoming his slave.
• The old man showed Ma Feifei three hundred and fifty Book Essences and explained that the god had put them inside him to nurture them into Book Spirits.

Ma Feifei learned that the white-haired elder had become a Book-Nurturing Slave, sacrificing his life force to nourish Book Essences, and believed Ma Feifei could help free him. The elder revealed that a god had claimed the Azure Dragon Continent was a world inside his book, but Ma Feifei doubted the story and planned to ask his system about it.

• Ma Feifei learned that Book-Nurturing Slaves used their Origin Power to nourish Book Essences and that the process was draining the white-haired elder's life.
• The white-haired elder said Ma Feifei could save him because he could write books of Book Essence and Book Spirit quality.
• The elder explained that a god had offered him immortality in a dream, then controlled him as a puppet, though the god could not enter this world.
• The white-haired elder claimed the Azure Dragon Continent was a world created inside the god's book and its inhabitants were characters written by him.
• Ma Feifei doubted the claim, noting that he had transmigrated from another world, and decided to ask his system about it later.
• The white-haired elder said he did not believe the world-in-a-book claim either and revealed that the god had not contacted him for nearly a thousand years.

Ma Feifei agreed to help Wan Jianshan escape his book-nurturing role in exchange for the Thousand Leaf Tree, then learned from the system about the book-author profession behind Wan Jianshan’s mysterious benefactor. Back at the bookstore, Ma Feifei received Gongsun Qiong’s request to inspect the Confucian Dao Academies and agreed to let Liu Ying work at the branch store.

• Wan Jianshan told Ma Feifei that comprehending a Yellow Quality Book Spirit could free him from the three hundred and fifty book essences draining his Origin Power, but he could not leave Vast Academy because of the Thousand Leaf Tree.
• Ma Feifei agreed to help Wan Jianshan in exchange for the Thousand Leaf Tree, learned that the elder was Vast Academy’s founding patriarch, and left with Liuli and Mo Xie after Mo Xie accepted his Tribulation Book.
• Ma Feifei asked the system whether another Mysterious Bookstore System existed and learned that a book author could create wondrous worlds and powers through books.
• Ma Feifei concluded that a book author had made Wan Jianshan a book-nurturing slave to protect the book essences and Thousand Leaf Tree, then wondered if his own writing made him a book author too.
• Zhang Yunji relayed Gongsun Qiong’s request for Ma Feifei to inspect the Confucian Dao Academies, and Ma Feifei agreed to let Liu Ying help at the branch store.